[Ansteorra] question for the ladys
michael young
uther42 at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 24 15:53:49 PDT 2006
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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