[Ansteorra] Group Status Changes

[Hugh Killingbury]

I have been in the same group for almost 10 years, in this period of time I have watched a small Canton become a large Canton and now a very healthy Shire. Our Shire seems to always have at least one regional officer of one sort or another and is very active within the kingdom archery community, Kingdom\Regional Marshals etc. We have seen good times and bad but in all of my almost 10 years with this group we have never been called down to answer for indiscretion's whether they be real or perceived. Is three years of dotting I's and crossing T's that inconceivable? For someone that is willing to go that extra mile for their group's success, I think not. 

I do not take the liberty of asking why such and such is happening, many do. When I start to publicly doubt the leadership of My Kingdom I will no longer play, until then they serve by leading and I serve in any way I can to further the dream.

YIS,
Lord Hugh Killingbury
Steward Gate's Edge Harvest End
Stargate Baronial Waterbearer


--- On Sun, 7/13/08, DonPieter at aol.com <DonPieter at aol.com> wrote:

> From: DonPieter at aol.com <DonPieter at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Group Status Changes
> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 11:29 PM
> In a message dated 7/13/2008 10:43:20 P.M. Central Daylight
> Time,  
> estarkey at camalott.com writes:
> 
> The  non-response from Master Pug of specifics of what
> Mendersham did wrong,  
> and the punitive "plan" he came up with is found
> to be not only  
> counterproductive, but insulting.  Zero tolerance for any
> mistake for  3 
> years, you gotta be kidding.  I was in this for fun, and
> this has  ceased to 
> be fun.
> 
> Much of what he claimed we did wrong is purely 
> speculative, jumping to 
> erroneous conclusions and "discovered" after he 
> and the great officers 
> decided to trash the groups of the Western  Region.
> 
> Is there any positve to this?  Well, I'm positive that
> I  will never hold 
> another office in the SCA.  I am positive that I will  not
> renew my 
> membership of 20 years.  I am positive that people who  are
> interested in the 
> historical reinactment of the middle ages will not  find
> the SCA in the 
> Abilene area.  And I am positive that fixing  fence and
> cutting brush in the 
> hot West Texas summer is more fun and  fulfilling.
> 
> AmaRyah
> 
> 
> I hate to ask this but bitter much? I have a hard time
> believing that being  
> asked to make sure that as officers that you have all your
> ducks in a row for 
> 3  years is asking to much. Perhaps it is because I work in
> a field that has a 
> zero  tolerance for any mistakes. In my field a mistake
> kills a patient, in 
> this case  a mistake kills a group. The mistake I see being
> made here is not 
> trying. Those  that rather give up and cry evil big bully
> foul without even 
> trying to do the  right thing shows no respect to oneself,
> ones group, or ones 
> love of this game.  It is better to have loved and lost
> then to never have loved 
> at all it has been  said. Also nothing ventured nothing
> gained. Nothing is 
> being ventured so noting  is being gained, only lost. I am
> sorry that it will now 
> take people in Abilene  who wish to find the SCA to do an
> internet search and 
> find us in a town down the  road and not there. But those
> people in the 
> future who have to find us in  different places, who have
> to travel to join in at 
> events, perhaps they will  rebuild the group there and will
> be told going into 
> it that as a NEW group they  will be required to learn
> their jobs as officers 
> and make no mistakes so that  one day THEY will be able to
> spread the dream of 
> the SCA to the local masses and  learn from the mistakes of
> those that gave 
> up and drifted away.
>  
> Don Pieter Rausch
> SoS
> 
> 
> 
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