Re: AGA memorial fund for Vicki Costley

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

--- Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com> wrote:
> Well, at first I sort of went with Scott, but now I think
> I go with 
> Kathy's point. The fact is Vicki wasn't an AGA member.
> That doesn't 
> make her a bad person, but it does make it awkward for
> the AGA to 
> administrate this award.

My point wasn't that the AGA issue isn't relevent -- if
that's how some are reading it -- but that it's a reason
likely to engender ill will. And that we had enough reasons
without mentioning that one.

> I mean, isn't that a major driving force behind this
> whole discussion? 
> Why on earth would anyone ask us to do this when she had
> no connection 
> to AGA? Makes no sense.

I thought it had more to do with what the person's done for
the hobby. Merril a lot; this one, not so much. If someone
wanted to establish an AGA award for excellence in
something in honor of Merril, and they could put up the
money -- I'd go for that if I had to do all the work
myself.

And I think honoring non-AGA members does make some sense.
Given the purpose of the AGA, membership isn't necessarily
a criteria for recognition. While, I don't think Vicki
deserves special recognition by AGA, others might think she
does and consider the Not-AGA reason as somewhat parochial
given the goals of the AGA. I can easily imagine someone
saying, "AHA's have recognized non-AGA folks before, but
not with something as big as a formal prize. So it's a
matter of degree only?" It's hard to stand on a principle
and have it support you if it's already been bent. And I
fear that that is how this will appear to some of the folks
interested in Vicki -- and I know some of these folks spend
a lot of time on AB and other forums.

sh




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S. Hieber

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