Re: AIS sections (was SIGNA mem.)
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- Subject: Re: AIS sections (was SIGNA mem.)
- From: C* M* <c*@tiac.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:48:07 -0700 (MST)
At 09:26 AM 3/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
> Will P. wrote:
>
>>Article III of the SIGNA By Laws states that:
>>"Regular Members" shall be those dues paying members who are members of
>>the American Iris Society.
>>
>>This means that AIS membership is required to be a member of SIGNA.
>
> Not to add more mix to the stew but some of the other sections that
> I belong to have the same sort of clause in their by-laws *but* their
> are folks that I know of that belong to these sections and they are not
> AIS members. The robins are another story...supposedly there is an
> AIS membership requirement but who asks? There are folks on the
> Siberian email robin that are not AIS members. I am not going to
> kick them off. It is akin to shooting yourself in the foot, IMO.
>
> Ellen
I'll mix Ellen's stew a bit more and ask: why SHOULD membership in AIS be
prerequisite to joining one of the sections? I am a Life member of AIS so I
am not trying to avoid membership, but I don't think anyone's arm should be
twisted into joining an organization that they would otherwise not chose to
join.
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Kathy Marble
Harvard, MA zone 5
c*@tiac.net
