Re: [GSAS-board] [GSAS-Announce] GSAS June 2006 Meeting Reminder - Tuesday, June 13 , 2006

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Rick Rose wrote:

> It seems like we have so little time to actually "talk fish" with each other
> when we bring in a high-profile speaker.

This was another thing that hit me while I was finishing up the DVD -- boy 
this was a winner year for big speakers (thanks Bob!).  It occured to me 
that some of the new folks on the board might not realize that five big 
speakers is pretty unusual for a season... when Kathy was arranging the 
speakers, we only pulled off five speakers for one year (her last), and it 
darned near killed us hosting them all.

Most of the years we only had budget (and connections) to fly in one or 
two people of this calibre.  Of the ten meetings, we'd usually do 
"show-n-tell/we're-not-ready" in September, the Christmas party, the two 
auctions, one or two big-name folks, and then we'd dig up four or five 
club members to talk the rest of the time.  It will be OK next year. 
Just start working on those talks. :)

Also of note: Assuming the June issue comes out, Steev will have completed 
the first full 10-issue run of newsletters GSAS since the 1998-1999 
season---someone give him a FAAS medallion!

   - Erik

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Erik Olson
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