Gil, I seem to remember you making that statement within the last year or so, about the $100 donation. I also seem to remark about matching that, and I'll stand by it. I'll donate $100 as well.
Charles On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Gill Edigar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:35 PM, John P. > Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I want to save the TSA from financial ruin....I will go digital if Ediger >> renews his membership. Anyone else willing to make that commitment? > > Ediger will renew his lapsed TSA membership and donate $100 to the TSA > within seconds of The TEXAS CAVER being made a free publication to any caver > who wants to sign up for a free subscription. Subscribing non-TSA members > should be solicited to join TSA but membership should not be a requirement > for receiving all the good caving information aimed at bettering the cause > of caving in Texas. As a caver and TSA member I, personally, would want > every caver in Texas to be reading TSA promotional material, safety > information, articles about equipment and techniques, cave science, upcoming > events which they can support by attending, trip and cave reports, and > participating personally by attending TSA conventions and contributing > articles to The TEXAS CAVER themselves, all of which will also benefit ME. I > am selfish. I want all of these non-TSA members to read The TEXAS CAVER > because I will benefit from them being more informed and better cavers. They > do not have to be TSA members to be better cavers. But they can be better > cavers, and well qualified and participating members of the Texas caving > community, if they simply read and contribute to The TEXAS CAVER. And their > participation is good for me, it is good for you, and it is good for Texas > caving. That is probably the most valuable service the TSA can provide to > cavers and caving in Texas--keeping EVERYONE informed so they can be a > better participant in Texas caving. > I coined a phrase in 1969, "As The TEXAS CAVER goes, so goes the TSA." I > think that is still true today. If The TEXAS CAVER is made available to all > Texas cavers digitally and free then we will see a much better informed > group of Texas cavers taking the bait to become members of the TSA and > helping it reach it's selfish aims and purposes--a major part of which is > promoting Texas caving--for ALL of us, not just the few. The time has > finally come, my fellow Texas cavers, to do something for our selfish > selves. It costs the TSA nothing to give The TEXAS CAVER away digitally. It > costs the TSA and Texas caving a lot not to. If you want to do something > selfish for yourself and for all the other Texas cavers vote at your > earliest opportunity to separate The CAVER from TSA membership, to make it > free to any digital subscriber. Otherwise, we're just preaching to the > choir. > Yours in Texas caving (for nearly 43 years now), > --Ediger > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:35 PM, John P. Brooks <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I want to save the TSA from financial ruin....I will go digital if Ediger >> renews his membership. Anyone else willing to make that commitment? >> >> >> On 12/14/09 1:14 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> Welcome back, Karen! >> >> Now, if we could only get Ediger to rejoin! >> >> > >
