[Ansteorra] question for the ladys

[DonnelShaw at aol.com]

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. 
 
Well Said your Grace. 
HL Donnel
 
In a message dated 10/24/2006 3:50:14 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
culn97 at yahoo.com writes:

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