[Ansteorra-archery] The new award

[Bob Dewart]

Do we have a copy of the new constitution?  Did I just miss it in all these
postings?

Gilli
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From: "Duke, Wes" <WDuke at aegonusa.com>
To: <ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: RE: [Ansteorra-archery] The new award


> While there are indeed holders of the Kings Archer that should be
considered
> for this award, I don't think it would be a good idea to just say that
> everyone is ready for this award. That in my opinion would be like saying
> everyone that has a Queens Rapier, or a Sable Falcon is ready for a White
> Scarf or a Centurion's Cloak.  Personally while I am honored to have been
> selected as one of the principles of this order, I don't have all the
> characteristics that are embodied in the Constitution. But as I have been
> told that one of our past Kings said when he was to be Knighted,  ' If I
am
> not ready I need to get there as fast as I can.' This is my intention.
This
> order like everything else will evolve and change as time passes. What we
as
> members of this Order does with this is up to us to influence the
perception
> of this Order. If we seek to be seen in the same light as the Dons and
> Centurions, then we need to act like we want to be seen that way.
>
> HL Fearghus MacKenna
> CAM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Dewart [SMTP:gilli at seacove.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:58 AM
> To: ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Ansteorra-archery] The new award
>
> Greetings and Hi There,
>
> It is indeed a grand and glorious time we, as archers, live in.  And
> yet,
> there is so much more to be done.  HL Fearghus, the two yet named on
> this
> list (wonder who they could be, hummmmm) and the Crown will have a
> mighty
> task before them.  And that task is, "Who will be #4, 5, 6, etc?".
>
> How do you pick?  One logical step is to select folks from those who
> have a
> Kings Archer.  But many worthy people have yet to recieve that
> award.  If it
> were up to me, I'd waive a majic wand and make all those who have
> the Kings
> Archer, it's been given out with more or less the same frequency as
> a Grant
> award, members of the new order.  But I can't do that, can I?
>
> If you look through the marvolously organized mass of information HE
> Rumil
> has provided us in the OP (I'm still amazed at that thing, GOOD
> JOB), you'll
> see a wide range of amounts of the various awards given in any given
> year.
> It ranges from just one for both the WSA and the Iris in the first
> year of
> the Kingdom (also 83, 87, 91, 97 for the WSA) to the maximum of 36
> Iris
> given in 1995. If you look at the info yourself, you can do whatever
> statisical analiyis you wish.
>
> Anyway, let me put an end to this rambling of mine, got to get ready
> for
> work.  For some whatever the pace is will seem excruciatingly slow;
> for
> others too swift.  The award is for us archers.  Sooner or later,
> the books
> will come into balance.  In the mean time, shoot more arrows, you're
> bound
> to hit something.
>
> Gilli
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