[SEL] RE: SEL Club bullshit!!

[Andy Glines]

>Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:22:39 -0400
>From: Judge Tommy Turner <lcjudge at scrtc.com>
>Subject: Re: [SEL] Club bullshit!!
>To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>Message-ID: <42F0468F.8090502 at scrtc.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
>Jeff,
>
>     Make every effort to get on the Board of Directors.  If there are
>several club members that feel as you do and you stick together, you can
>get some new blood running the show.  I've seen this have to happen in
>the past in order to "right the course" for some clubs.
>
>Tommy Turner
>Magnolia, KY
>
>
>
>Jeff Allen wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Am I alone or is this common. I just got an e-mail about a show that
> > has gone on for years, but is not in the newsletter, and I wondered
> > why. Seems the all knowing board of directors didn't seem it fitting
> > to include in the newsletter or inform me to put it on the website.
> > It's there now on the front page and I hope to make it out there.
> > Short trip for me and I need some input on the bullshit that is going
> > on. I don't think I am the only unhappy member and it is time for
> > change. Running the web site does have some advantages. The piss and
> > moan mail comes to me now and there is plenty. Hope all of us can make
> > the club better, but I'm not to sure it is possible. Sad.
> >
> > Jeff Allen
Tommy has the right idea here!  You will certainly find serving on your 
clubs's board of directors to be an educational experience.  I have served 
on the board of my club for 3 years & 2 as Chairman.  The experience has 
been pretty enjoyable and I've gotten the opportunity to work with a lot of 
great folks.  I don't know the dynamics of your club.  Don't be to quick to 
assume that the board was intentionally excluding you from information that 
you needed.  Could it be that it was a simple oversight?  In my, albeit 
short, tenure as a director I have made this very mistake a few times.  You 
will probably find that your directors are a group of folks who care about 
the club and are doing the best that they know how.   Anytime that you bring 
a group of people to form a club there will be diversity in personalities 
and ideas.  The diversity is what makes the club work and it brings with it 
a certain level of bullshit.  You can't have a club without it!  Don't get 
mad, don't get discouraged just dig in and try to help steer the group in 
the direction that you think is best.  Most importantly, when the group 
decides to go a different direction DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY!