Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] Membership changes
Dear Eric:
Our next board meeting is Tuesday the 17th at Margie's house near the Husky
Stadium. I think we have enough server based issues to benefit from a quick
run down. Would you be able to join us?
So membership is a many faceted thing with Steev as newsletter (generate
list of addresses for active users), myself as prez (with periodic purge
(not actually that many to purge)) and membership to handle payment and new
users. It looks like Phil will also be bulking up the 'stores' with email
for donors so that they see the newsletter.
So on Tuesday lets clearly identify the new membership chair and make sure
mail address, DB access, membership cards, and paypal all work. I would
like to thank Susan for all that she has done as membership with her was
always prompt and seamless.
-Paul
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Erik Olson wrote:
> Guys, when the smoke clears, let me know what the address should be to
mail
> membership forms to, and I will update the website accordingly. Right now
it is
> listed as:
>
> Susan Welenofsky
> 13510 Northcreek Drive, # E405
> Mill Creek, WA 98012
>
> in this file:
http://www.gsas.org/member.html>
> - Erik
>
>
> Likewise, I'd be happy to do a runthrough of the database functions at a
board
> meeting.
>
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Susan Welenofsky wrote:
>
>>
>> You really can’t screw up PayPal unless you try to change the banking
>> account info, which you
>> would not be able to do anyway. I’m concerned that the members don’t
>> know who to renew with.
>> There are people that like to mail their checks instead of PayPal, like
the
>> one I got yesterday
>> for my OLD address. Then there’s the problem that they don’t know who to
>> renew with at meetings
>> if they missed the announcement.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m just wondering why no one bothered to tell me at the last board
>> meeting, especially
>> Christine, when she was clearly exacerbated when I was trying to make
sure
>> she understood
>> everything. That would have been the time to tell me that I needed to
make
>> sure you knew how to
>> do it as well, but no one said anything!
>>
>>
>>
>> Susan
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Margaret Cashman [mailto:
drmcashman@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 1:26 PM
>> To: Susan Welenofsky
>> Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] Membership changes
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Susan,
>>
>>
>>
>> Yikes! Don't do anything rash.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is how I recall events:
>>
>> I'd mumbled something about feeling like I really don't do that much yet
on
>> the Board, and Paul
>> asked, why don't you be the membership chair. I said, OK. I need to be
>> taught what to do, such
>> as how to access the database, etc. I didn't hear anything more. Then
right
>> before the plant
>> auction, I got an e-mail listing the expired members -- this was cc'd to
>> Christina. I e-mailed
>> Erik and asked to get access to the database and he worked that out. And
>> I've had one guy e-mail
>> me that he had renewed but hadn't gotten a card yet. I told him via
e-mail
>> that I was still
>> trying to get the cards, etc. but that he was in the database as paid so
>> everything appeared
>> copacetic. I just received the cards at last Tuesday's meeting.
>>
>> It's all been pretty disorganized.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christina did not generate this "Why don't you do membership?" thing,
Paul
>> did. And I am not
>> sure if this was thought out as well as it might. I will be happy to not
do
>> membership or to do
>> membership, it does not really matter to me. I was just feeling I should
do
>> something concrete
>> to help out the club. I'm not highly interested in getting PayPal access,
>> since I have yet to
>> get PayPal to work for me personally so I suspect I'd have a high risk of
>> screwing up the club's
>> finances.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does this explain anything? So you can understand that none of this
should
>> in any way be taken
>> personally?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cordially -- really --
>>
>>
>>
>> Margie C.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Susan Welenofsky
<
welenofsky@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Well, it’s really redundant to enter info in twice. The membership person
>> is supposed to have
>> access to the database, so all you need is the person’s name if they have
>> been entered into the
>> system and I’ve already done that. It would have been nice if Paul
>> informed me at the last
>> meeting who is going to do membership now. I guess I was schooling the
wrong
>> person. You might
>> as well take over the PayPal system, that way you can check and make sure
>> address is correct on
>> the PayPal site vs. Christine repeating all that in an email. I’m
assuming
>> that Christine
>> doesn’t want to have anything to do with my offer to help out with
>> membership when she is absent
>> and would rather work with you which is fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> I might as well drop off the board altogether.
>>
>>
>>
>> Susan
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Margaret Cashman [mailto:
drmcashman@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:45 AM
>> To: Welenofsky, Susan
>> Cc: Paul Wallace
>> Subject: Membership changes
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Susan,
>>
>> Paul asked me to take on membership chair at the board meeting before
last.
>> What I've worked out
>> so far with Christina is to have her remain the PayPal czar but for her
to
>> send me an e-mail
>> with the address, name, date info so I'll update the membership database
and
>> send the person the
>> membership card. In other words, it's an experiment in off-loading one of
>> the treasurer's 10,000
>> chores. I would also take on issuing reminders and that sort of thing.
So,
>> would you send me the
>> info? Thanks.
>>
>> Cordially,
>>
>> Margie C.
>>
>>
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>> Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, General Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders
Medicine
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>> Seattle, WA 98112-2607
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>>
>>
>
> --
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
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