RE: January 2003 Meeting Topic Suggestions

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

Erik,

Great breakdown of the options!!  

Board,

I think any of them would be great and the members would certainly enjoy
them.  At the last meeting I had someone ask for a live food presentation.
I know there are some saltwater folks out there, but, am unsure what all
they do with the saltwater clubs that are out there.  A behind the scenes
tour of the aquarium and the rest of the aquarium too, I think would be a
fun night.  Considering what we have paid for guest speakers in the past,
paying $10/person, if we had 30 people show it would be similar to some of
our past speaker costs.  But, I am unsure what it costs to get in the
aquarium in this format, it may be more than $10/person.  Does anyone know
the exact cost?  I have had many folks ask about plant presentations
too.....so, that is always a desired talk.  We did show the video on
planting tanks not too long ago though.

Just my thoughts, how about the rest of you?

Clay


-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Olson [mailto:erik@thekrib.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 10:52 AM
To: GSAS Board
Subject: Re: January 2003 Meeting Topic Suggestions


On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Rick Rose wrote:

> Per Erik's request that we begin discussion on alternative January 2003
> meeting topics, I have come up with the following possibilities...
>
>  1.. saltwater presentation
>  2.. roundtable live food
>  3.. Aquarium tour
>  4.. Erik's recycled talk on plant photography

These are all great ideas Rick! (no comment on #4 though).

Given that Paul's out of coverage right now, I am assuming he isn't going
to be able to do any of this legwork, right?

The BEST, in my opinion, is #3, but it requires the most prepwork with the
Aquarium folks.  I think our relationship with them has gotten kinda sour
over the last few years, probably starting when we stopped donating a
portion of our proceeds from our auction.  Clay could probably tell you
about the time when GSAS used to actually hold the Christmas party IN the
aquarium (before it was reserved for groups who would pay $10 per person
for that privelege).  The last time we got to use the aquarium was in 1995
when I ran a photography workshop -- the 1st half was a talk and the 2nd
half we went down into the exhibits with a bunch of different cameras.  
And we DID have to pay admission for every member present that night.  
The aquarium night watchman guy (Wieman -- a great guy) undercounted the
few that did show up, so we actually didn't pay too much.

#1 is interesting.  Tell us more about the "saltwater group"?  Is that the 
Puget Sound Aquarium Society (that keeps coming and going), or someone 
else?

#2 is easy, requires the least work on all our parts.  We've done live
food roundtables or workshops every few years, and they're always
well-received.  Perhaps if #3 or #1 cannot be arranged in time for January
(but perhaps for March?  I keep forgetting what March's meeting topic is), 
we could opt for #2.

#4 is what we have called a "trump card" presentation, which is to be used
when all other ideas fail and we have no topic and it's one week before
the meeting.  Dave had a killifish talk that we used as a trump card a few
times (I still have the sucker loaded up on my laptop!).  But I'm thinking
that we have already played my Amano Video trump card.  It would seem a
bit premature to use another, so similar in subject matter (aquascaping
and such).  I talked on the subject (AGA, aquascaping, photography) back
in early 2001.

Don't forget the Portland connection.  There are several folks down there 
we could probably get up on reasonably short notice.

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com


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