I get the feeling that Ellie doesn't want to discuss this anymore. I think it should be discussed at the Winter meeting. If you aren't a current member, come to the meeting, sign up and voice your opinion :)
Charles On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:44 PM, ellie :) <[email protected]> wrote: > The TSA Chair second, third, and forthed Charles Goldsmiths motion to "to > table this discussion and refer it to the Free Texas Caver committee to be > discussed at the January 10th TSA meeting where > registered members present can vote for a majority." > > It will not be decided on till then. You can continue and continue and > continue to make unfounded, pious rants and raves and bitch and cry but NO > decision will be made until the January 10th TSA winter meeting. > > At the meeting we will discuss two-tier memberships, free membership > options, and scholarships but again, NO decision will be made until the > January 10th TSA winter meeting. None. Nada. > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Terry Holsinger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Maybe someone on the TSA's Membership committee should write to the non >> members in the NSS and invite them to join or let us know why they are not >> interested. Is that not what the TSA has a memberships committee for? >> >> Terry H. >> >> Gill Edigar wrote: >>> >>> 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] >>> <mailto:[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] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> AMCS: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> or >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Visit our website: http://texascavers.com >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Visit our website: http://texascavers.com >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > >
