Iris Sale, Membership ?s

Hello, friends!
	Our Fredericksburg Area Iris Society (FAIS) iris sale this past 
Saturday was quite successful!!!  We always take in a lot of money - but this 
time we took in a lot of new members as well!!!
	Gleaning from some suggestions here on how to GET and KEEP members 
(thanks Bill Smoot, Carolyn Schaffner, et al...), I asked that FAIS do 
something to get some of our iris customers to join the AIS. Our eventual 
plan was to meet the new members halfway on the cost of membership by 
allowing them to pick $10 IN FREE IRIS WITH A PAID $18 MEMBERSHIP.  Not sure 
of the exact final tally, but we got 20 some new members!!! (Most sales in 
recent years have produced very few new members.)
	Now, a SERIOUS question:
	Is it really true that there is no provision for pro-rating the cost 
of AIS membership in place? Please, tell me it ain't so!!! In Toastmasters 
International, for example, the membership cost for a new member is different 
according to what month the person joins. If you join with 3 months of the 
current year left, then you pay for only three months. When dues are 
collected for the next year - 3 months later - that person pays for a full 
years membership. 
	Before I get on the "soap box", I just wanted to ask for some 
feedback on this issue. Perhaps it is not true... I can't believe that there 
is a system in place whereby we will have to ask these new folks for dues 
again in just a few months. And I am fearful that we may have mislead them by 
saying "a one year membership is only $18" vice "a less than 1/2 year 
membership is going to run you $18." Please, tell me it ain't so!!
Jim Schroetter
Fredericksburg, VA
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