SR - office titles, Treasurer

[Lori Campbell]

I don't really think there is a "period" word that covers everything 
our financial officers do.  After all, they didn't have to deal with 
IRS regulations in period (though I'm sure they had their 
equivalent).  Much as we'd like to think otherwise, many of our 
offices exist primarily to allow us to function within the mundane 
world.  The "period" sounding titles we assign just make them less 
intrusive to us.  To the rest of the world, "president", "athletic 
director" (yeah, I laughed when I heard that one, too), and 
"treasurer"  are the only versions they would understand.

> (I dimly recall the Board Minutes talking about "exchequer"
> as a *proposal*, but I should really re-check it.)

I have to admit, I haven't read Board Minutes in a *long* time.  I 
guess that'll have to change...  I was only relaying the title used 
in the Corporate "Chancellor of the Exchequer's" Handbook which,
by SCA standards, is a fairly new document.  (i.e. printed within the 
last few years)

> Please don't change Ansteorran practice -- or at least get
> someone to actually research it (more than my five minute's
> looking in the OED) before changing!

I certainly don't think there is going to be any rush on changing 
what we call our financial officers.  It took a very long time 
before "reeve" began to disappear and it's still a *long* way from 
gone... You may or may not have noticed by now, but this crew tends 
to resist change.  I can say that, cause I'm just as bad about it as 
everyone else!  :-)

>  Daniel

HRH Kat
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Lori Campbell
lcampbel at ossm.edu
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