As a Director of the club, my advice is to be very very cautious in dealing with Skip Carden. If he gets any inclination that you may become more popular or powerful than he, you'll be boycotted. When I took over as Director of Region 11, I was warned of this by MANY people from throughout the country. It started when Skip called me to tell me I was elected. He HAD to mention that there was never another election where so many folks participated. The prophets were right! Communication was drastically cut off, people were told that I was never available and you didn't see a damn thing about the fly-in we had in 1997 that drew more Ercoupes than the previous two national conventions. I even sent pictures and letters from local officials, etc. thanking us for bringing the event to the community.
If you want to truly advance the Ercoupe, take a tip from the Luscombe Foundation. They did it right without the type club's involvement. Heck, the type club begged to get in bed with them a few years back. Sorry to sound so pissy, but I have a lot of ideas, made a bunch of promises to the folks out here, made lots of headway and got the wind knocked out of my sails very quickly. If there comes a time when a bunch of folks want to do it right, without a profiteer at the helm, call me, I'll be there with both time and money. (And if you do call me, all you need to do is leave a message and I'll call back. My number is in the latest Capers.) As I feel now, I'll not run for Director again, nor renew my membership or support the organization unless some drastic changes are made. Al Tom Laird-McConnell wrote: > The coupers list has been growing weekly, and now has over 30 members! > > Thanks to Mi Vida Loca and Charles McKinnie for creating links on their > ercoupe pages to the coupers alias! (Also nice web page Charles!) > > Now we just need to get a listing in the lastest Coupe Capers...does anyone > know if Skip has an email alias? > > I was also thinking that it might be cool for us to gather up the most > interesting questions and answers for the previous month and submit them to > the Coupe Capers for publication each month, as a sort of Q & A sort of > thing. > > Whaddya guys think? > > Your humble servant, > > -Tom Laird-McConnell > Keeper of the Coupers
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