RE: Newsletter update!

["Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>]

Erika,

Thank you so much for putting the newsletter together.  Sorry you had some
difficulties, but, hopefully next month will be easier.  I was looking at
the budget we put together for this year and the budget from last year and
we allocated $1000 to "Mailings"......so, if we stay within our budget I
think we are fine.  I will leave it up to you to help make sure we stay
within budget......ok?

Clay

-----Original Message-----
From: Charter [mailto:charter@charter-terminal.com]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:03 AM
To: gsas-board@thekrib.com
Subject: Newsletter update!


Well, I am nicotine-stained, twitchy from coffee overconsumption, and (okay)

a little puffy-eyed from an "emotional outburst" earlier in the evening, but

the newsletter is finally ready for the mail!  All of the little newsletters

are rubber-banded tidily into sections and tucked carefully away inside a 
plastic bag in the laundry room, where the cats can't get to them.  Now I 
just have to wait for the postoffice to open, and this month's newsletter 
will be out of my hands! 

A few notes on the minor problems, just so no one is surprised: 

 - A comedy* of errors with regards to office equipment created a cascade of

circumstances, the upshot of which is that this issue is in black and white,

and the pictures look like crap.  Really, REALLY like crap.  In fact, my 
next task is to send Sandy Gibson a personal apology.  But it couldn't be 
helped, so all I can say is I'm really sorry.  These problems should be 
ironed out for the next issue, so picture quality will improve, I promise. 

 - Slight glitch on the first page.  Kind of a font mismatch.  Should have 
caught it before it went to print.  Or before I'd center-stapled 120 
newsletters and labelled half of them.  Caught it too late.  Sparked 
aforementioned emotional outburst.  It's too late to fix it, so again... 
err... sorry. 

 - Renewal notice cards were inserted into applicable newsletters.  I also 
inserted samples into all of the board members' newsletters, so that you can

see what's up and offer feedback on the format.  Except for Rick Rose, whose

renewal is due. 

 - Printing cost was ~$40, plus ~$10 for mailing labels.  (The labels are a 
one-time fee - I bought plenty!)  I hope this isn't too much.  I dimly 
recall Erik saying that Kinko's should be avoided in favor of Office Max for

price reasons, but unfortunately Kinko's suits my schedule much better.  Let

me know if this price isn't acceptable in the future, and I will make more 
of an effort to wake up early to get somewhere cheaper before they close. 

Other notes will be sent to specific persons as applicable - these are just 
the ones that apply to everyone.  Overall, I thought it went pretty 
smoothly, and I'm happy with the layout and general design.  Wish the end 
result could have been less crappy, but there you are. 

Everyone have fun at the next meeting!!!  :) 

 - Erika 

* "Comedy" in the Shakespearean sense, meaning that it isn't exactly funny, 
but no one died.
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