[JMS] Membership Levels? (or Society Update Partial)

[ronnie.hull]

Personally, I think this is a bad idea. Just my .02

Ronnie



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From: "Don Buska" <D.Buska at Advantest.com>
To: <james_millen_society at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:17:07 -0700
Subject: [JMS] Membership Levels? (or Society Update Partial)

> Greeting JMS Members,
> 
> I was wondering if the JMS should establish some form of membership
> levels?
> 
> Is this to elitists?  My thoughts are that for people who have 
> stepped up beyond the call and have exemplified the advancement of 
> group and/or National-Millen in general.
> 
> Basically it could be modeled after the Radio Club of America and
> consist of two levels above "member".  Those being Senior and 
> Fellow.  I will look up the requirements for both in some of my RCA 
> documents and reword and model them to be relative to the JMS. 
>  Actually our current "sponsored" membership was already modeled 
> after the RCA and early AWA. I cherish my AWA membership letter that 
> is signed by the late Bruce Kelly as a sponsor!  As always this 
> change would be documented and put out for an email vote to the 
> membership via this reflector.  It would be added as a change to our 
> current Document of Organization.
> 
> Simplistically the Senior member would be someone who has advanced 
> the society and  our purpose as outlined in our Document of 
> Organization.  A Fellow member would essentially be a Senior member 
> who has done the same type of work over a longer period of time. 
>  Thus Fellows would normally require a longer timeframe of service 
> to the group.  
> 
> These type of nominations would come from the membership and require
> detailed reasons for the nomination. Thus one or more nomination letters
> would be required.  As we are a small group a simple majority vote could
> be used to vote on the nominations.
> 
> Just an idea.  What say you all?  Comments please.  I feel it is a good
> way to recognize those who have given a great deal of time to our
> success.  The JMS is recognized as a professional and knowledgeable
> group of radio enthusiasts and perhaps this expansion of membership
> levels will further advance such legitimacy.
> 
> 73
> 
> Don Buska, N9OO
> President - The James Millen Society
> 
> P.S.  Instead of new Membership Certificate being issued some nicely
> printed silver and gold level stickers would be produced to add to 
> the existing certificate.
> 
> P.S.S.  Read the Document of Organization on the JMS website and put
> forth other ideas.  Do we need a Board of Directors?  Officer Elections
> (get rid of those dictatorial, older than wood, Presidents, hi hi)?
> More officers?
> 
> P.S.S.S.  Let use the W1HRX call more on the air for events.  Idea's?
> It's been a few years now since we did the big W1HRX AWA Conference
> event.  That was great fun!  Maybe the AWA crew can do the W1HRX 
> thing during one of the AWA contests.  It was a real treat working 
> Ed Gable on the big Millen transmitter during the last AWA AM contest.
> 
> P.S.S.S.S  Hey maybe I should have made this a "Society Update" 
> since I haven't done one of those in awhile.  Still looking for 
> ideas on a QSL design for W1HRX operations that could be used by any 
> member, or group of members, for special events.  Maybe modeled 
> after Millen's old card at 
http://www.isquare.com/millen/bio_rem/paradise.html
> 
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