Re: AIS Checklists,World of Iris etc.

Clarence M, Kathy G, Marilyn H,

Can any of you shed some further light on this?

John                     | "There be dragons here"
                         |  Annotation used by ancient cartographers
                         |  to indicate the edge of the known world.

zebra@chcs.com wrote:
> 
> I spoke to my dad, who attended the recent AIS Board meeting at the
> convention. He says that Jerry Gifford has officially resigned. One person
> volunteered to take his place, but there are a couple problems with that.
> Jerry Gifford lives in Tennessee, and the proposed replacement lives in
> California. There is a lot of heavy material (books, medals, etc.) stored
> in TN, which would be extremely costly to move to CA.
> 
> It was not clear to me whether or not the California volunteer was
> officially accepted by the Board. It sounded like there will be a brief
> search for someone closer to TN. In any event, I suspect the Board does not
> want to make to hasty a choice after the fiasco with Jerry Gifford. It was
> also not clear if Jerry Gifford will continue to operate the AIS Store in
> the interim, or if it will simply shut down until a replacement takes over.
> I believe we will be omitting the AIS Storefront page from the next issue
> of the Bulletin, and anticipate its return in the October issue.
> 
> Speaking for myself, I would not order anything until a new person is in
> place and all of the inventory has been shipped to the new location (a
> minimum of a couple weeks, and more likely a couple months). In the mean
> time, you might be able to survive by finding some kind soul in your local
> society to share their checklists, etc, with you until the AIS Store is
> operating properly again.
> 
> Scott.
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