Re: AGA memorial fund for Vicki Costley

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

I may be missing something but when have we honored a non-AGA member before?

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: AGA memorial fund for Vicki Costley


> 
> --- 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> S. Hieber
> 
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.
> http://photos.yahoo.com/
>   ------------------
>   To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com
>   with "unsubscribe aga-sc" in the body of the message.
>   Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-sc
>   When asked, log in as username is "aga-sc", and password "incorp".
> 
> 

  ------------------
  To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com
  with "unsubscribe aga-sc" in the body of the message.
  Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-sc
  When asked, log in as username is "aga-sc", and password "incorp".