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Re: [AGA-mcm] It's that time again -- Or - It's friggin' mid-October already? Yikes!



I'm happy to contact Amano & Tomoko once we have dates.

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Lampert" <l_lampert@yahoo.com>
To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] It's that time again -- Or - It's friggin' 
mid-October already? Yikes!


>I contacted the Airport Marriott in Atlanta on Friday.
> The event manager and I have exchanged voice mails.
>
> I am hoping to get a more detailed proposal from them
> this time around. I do think that we are going to have
> to revisit the costs. Hotels have raised rates for
> eerything the last few years. They also seem less
> inclined to deal on things.
>
> I really would like to have someone try to get a hold
> of Amano and of course Tomoko to see if they would be
> interested in speaking. This will have to wait until
> we get some dates though.
>
> I think you have the banner or at least you did and I
> just did jury duty two weeks ago so I guess I am all
> out of excuses ;-).
>
> Regards,
> Larry
> --- "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I know you're all getting ready to put on your
>> OshKosh Bib overalls and steel-toed Wolverines and
>> warm up the John Deere to begin the pumpkin harvest
>> and then turnover the fields so they will be ready
>> for planting again when the spring thaw arrives. And
>> you just got started, finally, on that household
>> repair that you've been "planning" getting around to
>> for four or five years. Nonetheless, it's time again
>> to start thinking about producing an AGA convention.
>> By our own standards, "We recommended that a draft
>> proposal, including at least the names of the
>> committee heads, anticipated location and date, and
>> possible speakers, be submitted not later than 12
>> months before the proposed Convention start date."
>> Assuming we would have the 2008 convention again in
>> November, well, you do the math.
>>
>> So start thinking up places, potential speakers,
>> tasks you've been aching to undertake, folks that we
>> can bring on board to be part of the production
>> crew, trying to remember who the heck has the
>> convention banner, begin political maneuvering to
>> not [backspace backspace backspace] get appointed as
>> convention chair, and start writing up that crib
>> sheet of all the reasons why you can't do this that
>> or the other convention chore (maybe you have one
>> left over from the last time you got a jury-duty
>> notice).
>>
>>
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