[Ansteorra] question for the ladys

[michael young]

I come from a college shire and when I started in the group ALL our officers 
were under 25 and most were under 23.  I think getting the younger people in 
positions of responsibility is a GREAT way to keep them around.

Of course back when I started we had a Minister of Dinosaurs.

Uther


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>Your Grace is so right,
>I was looking at the younger bunch the other day and thinking about  the 
>same
>think. I started when I was 19 and in College. I had people that  would 
>take
>me under their wing and teach me how to do things. I learned  how to sew 
>and
>cook from Baroness Ann Louise and Lady  Elaine.  A lot of the core ideas I 
>hold
>true in the SCA and  in Life came from the early teaching in the SCA.
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>Well Said your Grace.
>HL Donnel
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>In a message dated 10/24/2006 3:50:14 A.M. Central Standard Time,
>culn97 at yahoo.com writes:
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>willowdewisp at juno.com" <willowdewisp at juno.com>  wrote:
>I was wondering if we could offer discounts for  Students. A couple of
>dollars. It wouldn't make that much difference,  but it would say "We are 
>interested
>in college students." Sometimes we  come off so old and stuffy that we seem
>to reject them. We also need to  give them more respect. And pay attention 
>when
>our underage people  become 21 and older. Recently a young person turned 21
>and the person  had been around since he was 15 and when he entered a
>competition  recently he was given the youth prize. This didn't bother him, 
>but it
>made his friends very upset for him. I joined when I was 18 doing events  
>when I
>was 19 and running groups when I was 20. I was major player in  Ansteorra 
>at
>26. Master Edwin and his household were one of the best  groups in the 
>Steppes
>when they were 15. As we get older people look so  young but we weren't 
>much
>older when we were building Ansteorra. We need  to judge individuals on 
>their
>abilities not their age. Master Edwin was  one of the best
>senechale S
>teppes e
>ver had before he was 18.  I think we will be pleasantly surprised if we 
>put
>our faith in our 20 to  27 year olds.
>We also need to educate more. In early Ansteorra we  had a theory that
>newcomers needed to given lots of data. We had 101  classes but we had 201, 
>301 on
>up classes. We talked about the duties of  peers and nobles long before 
>anyone
>got to be a peer or noble. We  thought if we told people what would be
>expected of them in the  beginning they were more likely to live up to the
>expectations when they  got to be in charge. We used historical ideals. We 
>stressed
>studying  history and told people to look to the highest Ideals of our time
>periods as a touchstone. people new to the SCA, no matter what their  age, 
>will
>make mistakes if they are not given data.We stressed giving  data to 
>everybody
>because you never know who will be teaching who in 5  years.
>Willow
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