Mixon-- Philosophically speaking: Did you check to see how many of those 488 Texas NSS members were among the fewer than 200 TSA members? Did you wonder why or why not? How many do you think would subscribe to a free digital TEXAS CAVER? And then be willing to join TSA afterwards? Maybe a hundred, huh? Might be worth trying even if they just got 50, huh? Would that be good for The CAVER? Would that be good for the TSA? Would that be good for Texas caving? Would that be good for me or you? --Ediger
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Mixon Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > The annual NSS membership list has just been distributed (about five months > late). There are interesting statistics about NSS membership on pages 65-67, > worth calling to your attention, because I suspect most members never look > at the miscellaneous stuff in the front of the book. Among other things, > 787xx (Austin) is in the top ten three-digit ZIPs in NSS membership, with 92 > NSS members. Top in the list is 300xx, with 220. That would be Atlanta and > vicinity. (300 seems to cover a lot of suburbs of Atlanta, whereas all the > 787 addresses are actually Austin.) Eight-five NSS members have listed the > UT Grotto as their "primary affiliation.". This is for purposes of > allocating votes in the Congress of Grottos at NSS conventions, although so > far as I know the UTG has never participated in living memory. There are > twelve NSS groups with more NSS members than UTG (the Cave Diving Section > has 1,022!), but many of them require NSS membership of their members. The > lowest NSS number of a Texas NSS member is 509. Texas is among the top ten > states, with 488 NSS members. > > This year's membership list is sorted by states, which makes it relatively > easy for a group to see who in its area might need to be contacted with > information about the club. One thing I was struck by when looking through > Texas is the number of names with 787xx that I don't recognize. Of course, > that doesn't mean I wouldn't recognize the faces; there is unfortunately > little opportunity to learn peoples' names at meetings of fifty or events of > four hundred. I'm bad about remembering names, too. Name tags seem Mickey > Mouse, but.... > --Mixon > ---------------------------------------- > May the last lawyer be strangled with the entrails of the last priest. > ---------------------------------------- > You may "reply" to the address this message > came from, but for long-term use, save: > Personal: [email protected] > AMCS: [email protected] or [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
