31 DEC 2005 - 1610 CST
To Our Board Family:
It was originally not my desire to post this message about the spelling
of
my last name to the ODV reflector. Instead, I posted it directly to
various ARRL staff members. However, in recent direct email and
mail correspondence
I have noticed the misspelling of my last name by some of you who have,
up
to now, been correctly spelling it. I have appended my previous
message on this topic below. If you have already seen it, I
apologize for the duplication. But if this is news to you, I
earnestly ask you to read and heed.
Happy New Year to all of you and your families!
73 - Dick, W9GIG
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Subject: QST Improvement?
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10 DEC, 2005 - 1450 CST
To All Whom It Should Concern:
I don't always look at the QST page that lists the officers,
directors
and staff. But in view of the format changes in the January 2006
issue
of QST, I looked at this page... and, for the first time, I found
my last
name spelled WRONG! I was first listed as an ARRL director in the
January 2001 issue of QST and my last name was correctly spelled
and it has been
since that issue until now.
I have been aware of errors in the spelling of my last name in some
headquarters staff correspondence and in some of the mailing labels used
to send material to me over the last five years. However, my last
name
in the QST directors' listing (up to now), the name on my ARRL
expense reimbursement checks, and virtually all of the QST
articles where my name
has been mentioned, has been correctly spelled. Up to now, I have
not made
these occasional errors an issue because they have been confined to
in-
house communications. The QST screw-up changes
this.
Please verify the spelling of my last name in all the various ARRL
data-
bases is ISELY , not Isley or some other
variant. If it will help
ARRL staff to spell my last name correctly, please write the word
"WISELY"
and then erase the "W". That is what my father told me -
over 50 years
ago - to tell people who messed up the family name. Better yet,
make sure everybody's word-processing dictionary has
ISELY listed. Then their
computers will flag and hopefully auto-correct the error.
I make it a point (barring a rare un-caught typo) to correctly spell
names.
It shows I am careful and interested in and respect my
correspondents. Hopefully, this will be 100 percent reciprocated in
the future within the
ARRL headquarters family.
BTW, I do like the new appearance of QST. :)
73 - George R. (Dick) ISELY, W9GIG
ARRL Central Division Director
630-584-3510
w9gig@arrl.org
dick@pobox.com