RE: Mailing, and latest meeting "notes"

[*1st Bde Surgeon CPT Cartwright <1bdsurgeon@lewis.army.mil>]

Thanks Erik!!!
Primum est non nocere.
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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Erik Olson [SMTP:erik@thekrib.com]
        Sent:   Sunday, October 31, 1999 4:59 PM
        To:     gsas-board@gsas.org
        Subject:        Mailing, and latest meeting "notes"

        Hi guys,

        I'm going to send out a postcard again this month.  Scott was real
good
        and sent me a real meaty article he'd written a few years back on
planted
        aquaria, but I'm just too darn pooped out (between moving
mother-in-law's
        stuff, celebrating Kathy's new job, jet lag, and editing video from
the NJ
        meeting) to get it out on time. So I'm going to do the postcard
thing, and
        next month publish a newsletter with at least 2 articles in it (I
will be
        writing a "travelling aquarist" article about my recent jaunts to
New
        Jersey and Portland). This will also give us one more chance to
regroup
        (with more than four people at the board meeting) before the next
mailing.

        I can recap the meeting fairly easily without notes: Steve (A) was
back,
        and has offered to help.  Scott was there, and has offered to take
on more
        of the president's jobs too.  Dave was there (it was his home), and
really
        wants to see the newsletter survive. Sandy was there (because I
announced
        the meeting as an open fishroom night), and was a total pain as
usual...
        she is, however, on her own initiative, getting our meeting
announced in
        several newspapers' calendar sections, which is more than I or the
rest of
        us have ever done.  (We'll see if it matters worth a whit.)  We came
up
        with some ideas for articles that may appeal to the membership and
might
        be fun to write.  Elsewhere in our booming aquaria mecca of the
Pacific
        Northwest, Dave noted the Kitsap club may be going under due to lack
of a
        board.  Also, GPAS is had some big trouble with their recent show
(there
        is a pretty ranting article on it in the latest Fish Flash).  Though
the
        mood was rather down, Dave noted that we'll probably weather this
        particular downswing as the club has done in the past.

          - Your secretary

        -- 
        Erik Olson
        erik at thekrib dot com