Re: AIS: July Bulletin?

In a message dated 8/4/2007 9:00:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
irisgrower@cableone.net writes:

To whom  ever checks this sort of thing,

I'm wondering if I'm on list.
I'm  fairly a new member back in Feb. I think.
I have not received any  bulletin.


Linda, isn't this the second time you have said something about this  here?
 
If you have not heard from Rita Gormley yet, and I expect you have, do drop  
her a note for Tom, her husband, who is the AIS Membership Secretary. 
 
If you paid AIS dues and your check has cleared you should certainly have  
had several instances of contact from AIS at the national and the Regional level 
 by now. 
 
Meanwhile, see if you can run down the check, assuming that is what you  
tendered. You and Tom will want to confirm that it was, in fact, made to AIS,  and 
that it has not gone astray.
 
It is probably just a simple case of something falling in a crack  somewhere, 
or an honest human error, or some minor misunderstanding--are  you sure it 
was AIS dues you paid and not some local thing?---but you do  need to get to the 
bottom of this so you can get what is coming to  you. Aside from the 
Bulletin, so far as I am aware we are still  sending each new member a nice 
interesting welcome packet. You certainly  should have seen that within three weeks of 
your dues being received 
  
That said, stuff has been known to happen. When I was AIS  Membership 
Secretary it was terribly difficult to impress upon some  people the critical 
necessity of welcoming new members promptly and  generously. People at the local 
level would sit on folk's checks for weeks or  months before forwarding them, 
which made AIS look bad because the new  member heard nothing, and their check dd 
not clear. I had a couple of  Iris nurseries whose prinicpals held very high 
AIS office who were among the  very worst offenders in this regard. I was 
mortified in some cases at the  delays. I wrote personal letters to the new members 
trying to reassure  them that contrary to appearances they were not, in fact, 
being treated  shabbily, but the problem was nothing other  than people who 
should have known better, and cared more about  AIS, being chronically 
trifling. 
 
All this sort of nonsense impacts membership renewals, of course. I  mean, 
duh.
 
Cordially,
 
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA



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