What you should do...
Norm Saunders (osprey@ARI.Net)
Fri, 20 Feb 1998 23:25:51 -0500
Dave Mozurkewich writes:
> Rick, if MOS continues to claim that we support TWW because we are
> members of MOS, what should we do?
Thank you for this opening, David. I'm on a roll so don't stop me
now!
The MOS Board listened to a presentation about TWW about 4 years ago
and they were convinced that this was worth MOS supporting it. This
was so noted in the minutes of the board meeting published in MD
Yellowthroat. I've published material about the TWW in the
Yellowthroat three or four times over the past four years. I attend
the monthly meetings of the TWW MD Coalition as a representative of
the MOS and regularly report on what is going on to the MOS Board of
Directors. In all this time and with all the opportunities for
people to object that MOS is not carrying out the will of the
membership, ONE person has approached me (rather pugnaciously, I
might add) and told me that he didn't agree. I discussed our
differences, tried to answer those that I could, and then invited him
to submit something to the Yellowthroat, so that he could share his
views with the rest of the membership. That was two years ago...and
I'm still waiting. I have no vested interest in hiding the diverse
views of our membership--I, quite literally, publish everything
that is submitted to me for the Yellowthroat.
If you have a serious objection to the State MOS organization (and
virtually all of the Chapters, as well) supporting this initiative,
then you have an obligation to tell your Chapter board members, to
write letters to the MD Yellowthroat, to attend Board Meetings, to do
whatever you need to do to get your opinion in front of the MOS
decision-makers.
This is what you should do.
Best,
Norm
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Norm Saunders
Colesville, MD
osprey@ari.net