Model Forum / General / Models / December 2005

While I strongly suspect I am wasting my time, I do have a bit to waste so
here goes;

Do you KNOW that they have not met in the past seven months?  Just because
the minutes have not been made public
is not proof they have not met.

effort to do something about  it.

What is your source for this claim?  How do you know membership is dropping
every day?

cover the losses.

What losses?  The dues were recently raised for the first time in several
years.  The last financial report I saw clearly showed a pretty healthy
reserve.  The last convention was a booming success both financially and in
attendance.

one guy said, this isn't an official IPMS/USA forum.

Aw come on!  Get brave!  Put down the proof that you are really a dues
paying member of IPMS USA.

Yep, I do.  And have since the very beginning.  IPMS number is 146.

We've been around since the early 1960's and I am sure there are no "do
nothing types" in the current e-board.  While we have indeed had some slow
times, and these are not times of rapid growth in the model industry, I
really doubt if we will be disappearing any time soon.

OK here is my bottom line;  Since you appear to be mostly just BS and
innuendo, if you really care about this issue why don't you drop Dave (IPMS
USA President) an email dmorrissette@comcast.net and ask him these burning
questions.  Then be sure to report back to us with what he has to say.

Until you have some facts, I will no longer waste any more time with this
silliness.

Norm

What's your IPMS member number, Skip?

   skippy1> Why the hub bub? I simply believe the E-board needs to
   skippy1> meet far more often than every 7 months.  As membership
   skippy1> is dropping everyday, they should be meeting weekly in an
   skippy1> effort to do something about it.  After all, they seem to
   skippy1> raise the rates everytime they get together to cover the
   skippy1> losses.  And last, I see no reason to post my IPMS/USA
   skippy1> membership number, as the one guy said, this isn't an
   skippy1> official IPMS/USA forum.

   skippy1> Remember, you pay due's, if the leadership consists of do
   skippy1> nothing types, then the IPMS/USA will certainly fail.

The idea of IPMS/USA failing sounds so ludicrous, I cannot believe it
is not a fantasy! Seriously though, if there is a core membership
distributed throughout clubs, then how can the body itself fail? After
all, IPMS is so loosely bound that clubs have a lot of leeway in how
they structure themselves and relate to their peers. This implies that
go-getters in those clubs will find each other and organize something,
merely so as not to be embarassed by national attempts. And guess
what? Other members will be attracted to those go-getters. From r.m.s
postings alone it is clear there are plenty of active and enthusiastic
members. And I have not heard of any nationals being called
'failures'. As for disagreements, well sure, any organization greater
than 150 people that still tries to run as a single body is in for
loads of fan-spat excrement. :-)

Skip:

We have had two E-board meetings (July and Sept as required by the
Bylaws and one other meeting) and our Secretary has just now typed the
minutes. That is our mistake and it got lost in the shuffle. They
should be up in the next week. Not much going on except for the
upcoming new officers.

As for failing- what a laugh! Membership is going up. Convention was
the largest ever any where in the world, things are great all the way
around.

Dave Morrissette
President,  IPMS/USA