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Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: AGA Convention
Hello Karen...........................Will pop the check in the
mail today, to David Lass.
AGA Flyer sounds good. We can print them out
on this end and don't need reimbursement for printing. Our club development
grant can handle this.
TAG copies: I'm considering purchasing a one year
subscription of 20, for distribution to our membership. Some will go ahead and
get their own subscription. Then, a number of issues can be diverted to the
store, to be associated with the AGA flier. The club
development grant can afford this. A minor goal of the club is
outreach.
I'm working on a detailed document summarizing our last club
meeting. After 3/4 year history, it is time to pause, reflect and define a
vision for the coming year. I'll send this to you.
Hi John,
Your donation will be gratefully accepted! The best thing to
do would be to make it out to the AGA, then send it to our
treasurer:
David Lass
19 Phillips Rd.
Nahant, MA 01908
I
have cc'd the steering committee with this letter, so he will know that it is
coming.
It sounds like you've been going great guns with your club. We
do not print enough extra issues of TAG to provide regular complimentary
issues to pet stores. (they are expensive to print!!!) OTOH, I know that we
have quite a few back issues available. I will ask the sterring committee
whether we could forward a few of these to you as sample copies to be used at
your discretion.
For on-going placement in local stores, we have an
AGA flyer in Microsoft WORD format that I could send to you to print out
locally. David Lass will reimbusre you for printing expenses if you send the
receipts to him. We have found that this is a better method than centrally
printing large quantites and then shipping them to people. First, of course,
people can decide exactly how many they need. Secondly, when we have printed
large numbers of brochures in the past, we have found that information needs
to be changed before we use them up. With the WORD document, it is very easy
to make changes.
With you coming to the conference from the Madison
group, Dave G. from the SF group, and a few other people from regional "hot"
areas of interest in aquatic gardening, perhaps we should see if there is a
time that these folks could meet and do a little brainstorming. It might be
fun to share ideas for encouraging local interest as well as how best these
local groups could interface with AGA.
I have mentioned before to local
groups that the AGA actively encourages reports from local groups, either to
publicize up-coming plant related events, or to report to the larger AGA
membership what their local group is doing. So far, we haven't actually got
anyone doing this! Maybe this conference could be a catalyst to get that
moving!
Karen
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From: <mailto:jglaeser@facstaff.wisc.edu>John
Glaeser
To: <mailto:krandall@world.std.com>Karen
Randall
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 12:13
PM
Subject: Re: AGA Convention
Hello Karen,
I am
pleased to donate $1000 to the AGA, to help make the convention a success. If
tapes can be provided for our club, this would be appreciated. I'll make the
check to AGA, attention to your name?
Our Madison Aquatic Gardeners
Club has developed a vibrancy that has pleased us, indeed! Our roster has 35
plus. Average monthly attendance is 22. And, we get one or two new members
each month. Folks are from all sorts of backgrounds. Truly eclectic! A supreme
delight is to see the spontaneous synergy, the comfort they all have when
coming together. To quote one of our members, Thomas Givnish, Professor of
Botany and the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin:
"OUTSTANDING MEETING last night!!!!! What a wonderful tank - and such
wonderful people! The tank referred to is an exquisitely arranged, fully
planted 150 gallon aquarium in Annie's Bed and Breakfast, where we had our
meeting last Thursday.
For our next meeting, Wim van Drongelen, a club
member originally for the Netherlands, is giving a presentation on the Dutch
Aquarium Style. In a recent business trip to Europe, he accumulated lots of
historic material relating to the hobby in Holland. Plus, he made arrangements
for us to get 20 color slides from Frans Maas, Publicist, Aquariumfotografie
en Diavoordrachten. These will be current images of the very best from the
Netherlands. Our club will meet on October 24, in the Botany Lab at the
University of Wisconsin, where Professor Givnish has a power point projection
arrangement we can use.
My volunteer work at the Aquatic Specialties
Store continues. The store has become the place to come, for great looking
plants and solid information about planted aquaria. Just a thought here,
Karen: What an outreach it would be, to have TAG issues on display in this
location. Many coming in here, have never heard of AGA. They are new to the
planted aquaria niche and are getting a great start here. AGA, might consider
having TAG available in a few, very selective sites. Grass roots outreach?
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