Southwestern Region Cavers! The 50th anniversary of the Region will be observed at the regularly scheduled Memorial Day 2012 regional meeting, May 26-28, 2012. This will occur at Fort Stanton Cave, near Capitan NM.
Other details will follow as the date approaches, but this is your notice to submit information about what you and your grottos have done in the last 25 years. The content and quality will depend entirely on what you submit. Folks, while we want your information as soon as possible, it absolutely must be submitted not later than April 1, 2012, otherwise it's unlikely to get included. It would be helpful to get the bulk of your data in soon, and you can then provide a last-minute update if necessary in accordance with the deadline above. Individuals and grottos that contributed to the 25th anniversary book have been sent extracts of those submissions for updating. Grottos that came into existence after 1987 will have to start at the beginning. Here's a list of the kinds of things we'd like to have from you.... a) An accounting from each grotto of history and activities, and members (member lists by year are preferred) for the last 25 years, 1988 to 2012. However, if you start with 1987 we can cover any events of note in that year after the 25th anniversary book was created. Use the 25th anniversary format or newly create as you wish; just get us the info. b) There is a perplexing omission from the 1987 book. Absolutely no mention of the 1986 Tularosa NSS Convention. Someone involved with running that event should prepare an account, please. Clearly a piece of SWR history that should not be overlooked even though outside our time frame. c) Submissions from leaders of important events/projects. Each person having held a leadership role should contribute. At a minimum this would include the Fort Stanton Cave Study Project, High Guads Restoration Project, GypKaP, ElMap, Manhole, etc. You get the idea. If you led or were more than casually involved in managing any group functioning in the region, we want you to tell the story. d) Submissions from EVERY regional chairperson serving in the last 25 years to highlight accomplishments, controversies and activities. A paragraph or two probably would suffice but send whatever you feel is important. To assist memory, those folks are... 1988 Mike Goar 1989-1990 Carol Belski 1991 Terry Bolger 1991-1992 Kathy Peerman 1993 Jeff Lory 1994 Anita Pape 1995-1996 Chris Lee 1997-1998 Stephen Fleming 1999-2000 John Lyles 2001-2002 Bob Rodgers 2003-2004 Jennifer Foote 2005-2006 Kenny Stabinsky 2007-2008 Allen Wright 2009-2010 Ken Harrington 2011 Aaron Stockton e) If you held an NSS position, or received an NSS honor/award during this time, tell us about it. f) If there is a category we failed to mention, tell us about it and submit something. g) Photographs, maps, charts, graphs, drawings (all high resolution only, please, so we can resize as necessary) are welcome. Keep in mind the potential for a huge document to result and please be sparing but representative within this category. It's not meant to be a photo album but memorable documentation certainly should be submitted. All graphical media should indicate ownership for credit, and submission will constitute permission to reproduce/distribute for non-profit purposes. The 50th anniversary book will display an overall document copyright for the SWR and also note that individual copyrights are held by contributors who have given permission for non-profit, non-commercial reproduction/distribution. h) All submissions must be digital and may be made in any graphical or word processing format commonly used on PCs (no Appleworks or Clarisworks files as they cannot easily be converted, presumed superiority notwithstanding). Word/OpenOffice documents and TIF/BMP images are preferred. If you have some enormous file that won't email, contact us and we'll figure it out. i) Lastly, and VERY IMPORTANT, we aren't going to dun you for submissions. This notice will be posted via the SWR listserver on or around the first of each month until March 2012. A condensed reminder will run in the next 5 Southwestern Cavers. That's it. Submissions received will be acknowledged so you know they didn't skip off into the ether. You may ask questions of anyone on the 50th anniversary committee: Carol Belski, [email protected] Mike Bilbo, [email protected] Stephen Fleming, [email protected] Kathy Peerman, [email protected] Wayne Walker, [email protected] Send all submissions via email to [email protected] or mail digital media to Stephen Fleming, 16 Debonair Dr, Los Lunas NM 87031. Thank you. Your 50th anniversary committee. -- ____________________________________________ Stephen Fleming ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ *Fear is the Thief of Dreams. -- Unknown*
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