RE: AIS membership year
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- Subject: RE: AIS membership year
- From: p*@psu.edu (Paul and Heather Bruhn)
- Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:27:50 -0600 (MDT)
Hi Everyone!
I wrote Marilyn Harlow a while ago about AIS membership and got the
following answer. I hope this clears up any questions about when to
subscribe, what you get, etc., etc.
Heather
>Date: 01 May 97 09:34:01 EDT
>X-PH: V4.1@r02n07
>From: "Marilyn R. Harlow" <103262.1512@CompuServe.COM>
>To: Paul and Heather Bruhn <plb123@psu.edu>
>Subject: RE: AIS membership year
>
>Dear Heather, Thanks for writing to me with your question regarding how
the AIS
>membership year is figured. It is always best to get your advice from the
>horse's mouth so to speak!
>AIS membership is on a CALENDAR YEAR basis. That means if you join anytime
>(meaning you pay dues, whether to me, or taking advantage of the Aitken offer)
>between January 1 and September 30th, the membership year BEGINS AS OF JANUARY
>1, 1997. If one joins between October 1 and December 31, then the new
>membership year begins as of January 1, 1998. I think the issue with most
>prospective new members is whether or not you get everything you are
supposed to
>get BEFORE you get a dues notice for 1998. The answer is YES, YOU DO. I have
>most of the excess published bulletins here in my office. When I get your
dues,
>I immediately send you a new member packet, which includes the Basic Iris
>Culture booklet, plus whatever bulletins have been published up to the time you
>join. In other words, if you send me your money right now (or send it to
>Aitken), as soon as I get it and get it posted, the January Bulletin will be
>sent to you ASAP. Since the April Bulletin was quite late in getting mailed
>from the printer in Tennessee, and I do not yet have my supply, I would be
>mailing that particular issue to you later, as soon as I receive them. The
next
>two bulletins would come to you via the regular channels from the
printer--those
>being July and October. In November, I would mail you an invoice for dues for
>1998. In other words, you paid for a years worth of AIS bulletins (four
issues)
>and you would have received ALL of them before you receive a dues notice.
>There was a great deal of discussion about the calendar year membership and it
>was duly noted in the board meeting that almost all of the other hort type
>societies have a calendar year membership. From my viewpoint, the new member
>has received everything BEFORE I do the invoicing in mid-November.
>Unfortunately, the new member most likely remembers when he/she sent me her
>check and is counting MONTHS, not what they have RECEIVED. If I can answer any
>further questions, please advise. Sincerely, Marilyn R. Harlow
>
>
>
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Paul L. Bruhn plb123@psu.edu Heather McCune Bruhn
State College, Pennsylvania, zone 5 (almost zone 6 but not quite!)
