[Ansteorra] pay and play

ecrouchet at austin.rr.com ecrouchet at austin.rr.com
Thu Jul 25 10:59:12 PDT 2002


You can contact our Kingdom representative to the BOD and ask him to
pass the suggestion to the BOD. His name is Rhodry(sp) I believe.

Does anyone have contact info for him or know of a better avenue to
approach this?

Now I am curious too.

Claire

On 25 Jul 2002 at 13:31, Cleek, James M. wrote:

> Exactly how would I do that?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecrouchet at austin.rr.com [mailto:ecrouchet at austin.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:09 PM
> To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] pay and play
>
>
> I think I like it and it is not much more difficult than collecting
> the surcharge anyway. Since we apparently have to do it anyway, this
> approach to it would make the best of it. Have you considered
> suggesting and explaining this to the BOD?
>
> Claire
> On 25 Jul 2002 at 11:50, Cleek, James M. wrote:
>
> > When I was heavily involved in an organized waterski team. We had
> > similar issues in that to recruite people we wanted to get them on
> > the water but you could not put them on an approved and sanctioned
> > site with out USA WS membership and the insurance it provided. What
> > they did have though, and this worked quite well, is daily
> > insurance. You would pay your $5.00 and be allowed to ski with the
> > team at a sanctioned practice or in a competition for the event. The
> > best part is that the payments would apply to your membership so if
> > you came to 7 practices or contests your $35.00 membership would be
> > paid and you would soon get a membership card and the quarterly
> > magazine in the mail. This worked out very well for those who had a
> > tighter budget yet still wanted to participate. Yes their initial
> > cost per event was higher but if they enjoyed it and continued to
> > play soon they would be members with all the rights associated with
> > membership. Yes it was a bit of a pain to collect the money and send
> > it in and track the number of payments etc. but our local membership
> > grew because of it and the national membership grew. Everybody wins.
> > Iames
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nancy Wederstrandt [mailto:nweders at mail.utexas.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:00 AM
> > To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> > Subject: [Ansteorra] pay and play
> >
> >
> > Well, I have to say that the pay and play 3.00 surcharge is not
> > surprising since it is the easy way out.  The Board doesn't have to
> > stretch it's legs and go look for an alternative way of getting
> > money.
> >  It's far easier to tax it's participants than it is to go find
> >  grants
> > and awards for groups.
> >
> > Having taken several classes in grant writing for my mundane job as
> > well as having a number of friends who work at various schools and
> > museums, I am astonished at the amount of grants and loans that the
> > SCA could solicit and perhaps achieve.  But the Board would rather
> > do the "easy" thing and penalize people who for one reason or
> > another are not members but are often times some of our hardest
> > workers.
> >
> > At a time when a weekend event costs 10 to sometimes 15. dollars and
> > having an additional 3.00 tacked on it might make new people more
> > hesitate about joining or seeing if they would like the group.
> > Perhaps the Board is looking to reduce membership and make a more
> > elitist SCA for people who can afford it.
> >
> >
> > Clare who is quite jaded at the SCA at the moment.
> >
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