TB: TBIS News
- To: iris-talk
- Subject: TB: TBIS News
- From: D* B*
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:04:35 -0600
From: Dana Brown <ddbro@llano.net>
I took the liberty of forwarding some of the news and questions about
the TBIS to a friend of mine, Ramona Howard, who is on the Board of the
TBIS. She sent this back to me and asked if I would post it back to
iris-talk.
> What many persons who were not at the board meeting in Denver do
> not know and evidently the AIS board doesn't want them to know is that > we made every effort to have a meeting with the AIS board and they
> wouldn't EVEN discuss meeting with the board members of TBIS and
> officers in Denver. Instead, they chose to have a secret meeting most
> of the night and come up with all those items that they wanted TBIS to
> agree to before they would even consider whether they would accept
> TBIS as a cooperating society or Section of AIS. The way it was
> proposed was that even if TBIS agreed to all those stipulations, which
> meant changing our by-laws, among other items, they still might not
> agree to accept us as any part of AIS. We could have done everything
> they asked for and that still didn't guarantee our being accepted in
> any capacity. AIS officers and board members assumed many things and
> ran scared before they knew any of the objectives of TBIS. It has not
> been nor will not be in the future the objective of TBIS to interfere
> in any of the workings of AIS, nor did we say that we would EVER have
> a convention at the same time as AIS. This was an assumption that
> someone had and had no basis in fact. The fact that many persons
> wanted to have a society that promoted Tall Bearded irises was the
> only reason the society was ever formed. We had every intention of
> working with AIS and encouraging our members to join and be a part of
> AIS. It is the same as any section or cooperating society of AIS.
> Nothing more or less.
>
> There seems to be some sort of paranoia about the organization(TBIS)
> which comes from some members of AIS on the board and some of its
> officers without really knowing anything about it. They are going on
> inuendo and misinformation and spreading it around like wildfire. Ron
> Mullin stated that the reason TBIS applied to AIS to be a cooperating
> society is because the sections are SUPPOSED to require that their
> members be AIS members before they become members of that certain
> section of AIS, however it is common knowledge that many of the
> members of those sections are in fact NOT members of AIS and AIS has
> no way to police their membership. TBIS, not wanting to be in the
> same position of really not abiding by AIS rules, decided it would be
> better to be a cooperating society in order to get persons to belong
> to the Tall bearded society and then encourage them to become members
> of AIS. He also stated that in the ENGLISH language the word
> "cooperating" actually means working together and that was exactly
> what we had in mind for TBIS and AIS.
>
> It was the AIS board and officers that seemed to read other intentions
> into our starting the TBIS. No where in our by-laws did we state that
> we would EVER hold a convention in conflict with AIS and it is not our
> desire to do so. The only thing that was in the by-laws that the AIS
> board misconstrued was the statement that in the event at some later
> date many years from now, IF AIS should NOT HOLD an AIS convention,
> for whatever reason, the TBIS could still meet. We don't know what
> may happen in the future anymore than the AIS board does, so that was
> just a way out in that situation should it ever occur. We have no
> intention of having a separate convention and trying to draw persons
> away from our annual AIS convention. TBIS was begun by persons who
> love tall bearded irises and want to enjoy growing them and sharing
> that with others who may have the same interest. There was already a
> society or section for every other type of iris, why not have one
> specifically for the TB's. This society was not begun maliciously or
> for any other reason. We want to have fun in the organization and not
> be bogged down in the politics of it. This organization is not about
> the board or the officers, but for the members. We want to have
> something to give our members and one of the great things that has
> come out of it has been our excellent TALL TALK newsletter, which
> offers such good information. Some of the AIS board members were
> saying that if persons were asked to be members of TBIS then they
> wouldn't want to pay to be a member of AIS. That doesn't seem to stop
> them from being members of AIS when they belong to the other sections
> and societies. If anything, it causes them to be more aware of the
> national organization. It has not been the TBIS that was unwilling to
> work together to be a part of AIS, it has been the other way around. > They are paranoid that IF there is a TBIS we will destroy AIS.
>
> They believe that the two organizations cannot work together because
> most of the members of AIS are only interested in tall bearded irises
> anyway and there is no need for the Tall bearded society. Nothing
> could be further from the truth. There has been nothing offered
> through AIS for those persons in a very long time. AIS has become
> bogged down with personalities, wanting to be on the board, wanting
> their friends on the board, seeing that the same people hold the same
> offices for as long as possible, instead of being concerned about what
> they are giving their members. The members are no longer important
> to them and most of the AIS members don't really care about the
> politics and all the fussing and fighting and back biting that goes
> on. They belong to the organization because they love the iris flower
> and enjoy growing it and seeing it bloom. AIS needs to get back to
> the basics and remember why the organization was started in the first
> place, then they wouldn't feel so threatened by an organization that
> only wants to promote irises and help people know about them, how to
> grow them and enjoy them.
>
> This comes from Ramona Howard who is a board member of TBIS and
> knows about the motives and intentions of the organization. Other
> persons answering questions about TBIS with answers that are
> diametrically opposed to TBIS and have no idea what the organization
> is all about has no right to present their slanted view points as
> having any basis in fact.
--
d*@llano.net
Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7 Usda, Zone 10 Sunset
Average: rainfall of 17.76", wind speed of 12.5 mph, 164 days
of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Help support ONElist, while generating interest in your product or
service. ONElist has a variety of advertising packages. Visit
http://www.onelist.com/advert.html for more information.
