[SEL] Just how do you feel about your club?

[Dave Mayfield]

Peter, to me the answer is clear and simple. If I were in a club that went
from a somewhat classy name badge to a cheep hunk of paper. I would run
right out to the name badge store and have myself the best engraved tag the
had to offer made up just to make a point.  Then go about showing it off,
unless your club has some law stopping you from this action.

What can it cost $12 $15. bucks

J. Dave Mayfield
www.w9wrl.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "peter ogborne" <jopeter at omninet.net.au>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 6:35 AM
Subject: [SEL] Just how do you feel about your club?


> I would like to know how other club members approach a situation that
arose
> the other night.
> I attended the annual general meeting, I travelled 400 km to do so but
> that's my choice.
> Our club is the oldest club in West Australia and has some history. In the
> early days each member had a distinctive club badge . Even though it was
an
> engraved plastic material ,it did have the club emblem  and the members
> name. A recent move in the name of cost cutting has been to issue members
a
> new '' badge ''. I prefer to call it a name tag......it is laminated
> cardboard with the members name printed, no engraving as in the old one.
> This move to the cheap name tag was instigated by a very small majority
who
> did it as far as i am aware in an undemocratic way. I along with some like
> thinking fellow members raised our objections to this cheap and tawdry
> excuse for a Club Badge. It was put to the vote and we lost
> .............possibly we are considered Left Wingers!
> My feeling, along with some others feel that as a matter of pride we
should
> wear something better than a bloody cardboard name tag.
> WE are not giving up on this and will continue the fight.
> As an aside the majority of members wear a club shirt at shows
............i
> along with others refuse to do so. My reason, either you get the grease
and
> oil from your own engine or some ones else's over these shirts and of
course
> that really looks shithouse. So i wear overalls.
> I would like to hear what others think about this issue.
> Peter Ogborne
> Little Grove ,Albany
> West Australia
> ''Heart of the Rainbow Coast ''
> jopeter at omninet.net.au
>
>
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