Re: Bulletin changes

In a message dated 2/11/2006 6:52:17 AM Central Standard Time, 
Autmirislvr@aol.com writes:
In a message dated 2/10/2006 8:50:42 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
flatnflashy@yahoo.com writes:

<<Anyway, I suppose getting the business stuff on cheaper paper  is all fine 
and good, but if you're bleeding memberships.... well, the perks  gotta be 
worth the dues.>>
Golly, I wasn't going to take time to chime in on this but . . . there are  
many reasons why people are members of AIS.  Just as there are many reasons  
why people grow irises.  All of these needs have to be addressed in the one  
publication.  What is boring to one is delightful to another.  

Here are my reasons:
I've been an AIS member since 1985 with no breaks in membership.  But  there 
are several years worth of Bulletins setting on the shelf that I've not  
read. 
Some are pristine, right off the press, while others are tagged,  creased 
and dog eared.  This represents different phases of my life during  the past 
20 
years.  

I would have let my membership expire at times if not for the  Bulletin.  I 
see it as research material!  <vbg>  Of the  ones I've read, some issues are 
of 
relatively small value to me while  others contain gold.  

The membership continues, in part, because I am a judge.   I became a judge 
because I am a hybridizer, and to give back to the  iris community.  These 
are 
the same reasons I clerked at iris shows.  Artist know thy craft . . . sorta! 
 

But my interests don't reflect those of many in the society.  

If it would be cheaper and free up pages for more articles?  I vote to  put 
the business stuff on less expensive paper.  

Don't forget to email Bruce with your opinion.  Writing here isn't  enough! 

****Perhaps that is part of the reason.  I am what I would call an average 
gardener with an affinity for TB Iris.  I do not hybridize or show, I just love 
them.  I have always felt that the 
AIS was more geared to those who leaned more towarded the 'professional' than 
to people like me.  If I were to receive this publication, it sounds as if 
the articles would be way over my interestsor capabilities.  Pehaps I am wrong. 
<vbg>


Connie Eggen
Warsaw, MO zone 5+

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