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Greetings all,<BR>I think that Vigdis makes a great point here. It is everyone's responsibility to be hospitaler's for the SCA so if you know someone who used to play and hasn't been around in a while or someone who thought of playing but didn't ever quite join, call them. Invite them to Medfaire. Invite them to Beltaine. Let's see if we can generate some interest. <BR>YIS,<BR>HE Caterina<BR> <BR> <BR>Message: 5<br>Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:49:52 -0600<br>From: Cynthia Teague <cmt1708@gmail.com><br>To: Barony of Namron Mailing List <namron@lists.ansteorra.org><br>Subject: [Namron] Growing the Barony<br>Message-ID:<br> <CABC=HykLBqaNj8pTp40EuWrkiQUCLUCTxH4u4mSJrjkkt=9cqg@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br> <br>Greetings, all. This evening I listened to His Majesty's presentation which<br>was essentially the same as the one he gave at Red Tape last weekend. It's<br>somewhat disheartening to look at the numbers -- event attendance and<br>number of groups both down by a third over the last six or seven years.<br> <br>But it did get me thinking about possible steps. I know many people are<br>thinking about Gulf War right now, but after that comes Med Fair and the<br>spring eventing season - prime time to cultivate new or returning members.<br>What if we made a special effort before Med Fair to reach out to people<br>with whom we've had contact -- prospective members who never quite joined,<br>or members who have drifted away from the barony -- and invited them to<br>join us there, to watch the fighting and hang out for a while? And then we<br>could encourage them to come to Beltane .... Surely each of can think of a<br>person or two to contact. Whaddya think? I've already sent out a couple of<br>"hey, haven't seen you for a while" messages which might or might not bear<br>fruit. (And if this sort of thing happens already, cool. )<br> <br>Vigdis<BR> </div></body>
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