Re: Lurkers Out of Closet
Masfw@aol.com wrote:
>
> Greetings from Keith and Margaret Ann Smith who have been hanging around for
> several months now and have been content to lurk.
Welcome! While there is nothing wrong with lurking, we prefer participants.
> We grow about 500 bearded
> irises in our flower beds...as opposed to a garden with rows. We are
> members of the Fort Worth Iris Society for years and count that as one of
> the joys of our lives....quite an assortment of people who really came
> together and put on a great national convention in 1993...complete with buses
> from hell.
The Bus from Hell, complete with bottomless loo, will be remembered
for a lifetime--along with the F.W. Botanic Garden and others.
> Our club meets monthly and we have to agree that we became
> involved because several others took us under their wing and made us feel
> welcome...and then put us to work.
>
> Our meetings usually number 40 to 50 members. A good club newsletter is
> another major factor in keeping members informed and thank goodness for
> printed minutes in those as they helped some of the rest of us check back on
> club policies, practices, etc. So therein lies my soapbox - continue to
> publish every word of the AIS minutes as some of us refer back to them for
> years to come.
>
Our club (San Fernando Valley Iris Society) is about the same size
(at least in attendance). We have never had minutes (either membership
meeting or executive board) in the Irisarian (which has been under my
editorship for just over 4 years), but we do discuss major decisions.
I was starting to feel guilty about requesting that the Bulletin print
the complete minutes, but I decided I did not need to. Local events are
_much_ more accessable to members who are curious.
Gerry, who happily spent $123 at Thursday's club auction for beauties like
Skywalker, Elainealope, Aura Light, and Monty's Sweet Blue.
