Joel, et al, RE: Rich Moseson's Most Recent Editorial My first reaction to this editorial was disappointment and disgust. Then I stepped back a bit, took a couple of deep breaths and tried to view it from the "other" side. I still found it very disappointing and disgusting; however, I also thought of what we might do to avoid such criticisms in the future. To this end, I think we might be a bit more gratuitously open with our members. Don't get me wrong. I don't think we are a secret society, but I believe that in this day of immediate communication and expectation of immediate communication, we can be smarter in what we do and how we do it. To play around with a couple of thoughts, how do we really defend not having a "visitors' gallery" of any sort at our meetings? Even in the Marriott, we could put a row or two of chairs (enough for a dozen or so spectators) in the Board room. We could also take our second meetings to different venues around the country and welcome locals to our attitude adjustment sessions -- Dutch treat, of course. This would let them see that none of us of tails and horns, and don't even carry pitch forks. Just a couple of thoughts to play with. We are certainly resourceful folks or we wouldn't be directors. This means we as a Board can come up with a couple of means for making our members know we freely exchange information with them. And, yes, I know we as individual directors rub elbows with our own members, but this does not seem to be enough any more. To play on the time-honored axiom, we not only need to do things properly but we need to be viewed as doing things properly. FWIW. Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je@arrl.org; Tel.: 513-459-0142 ARRL - The Reason Amateur Radio Is! Members - The Reason ARRL Is! -----Original Message----- From: Joel Harrison [mailto:w5zn@arrl.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:30 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:15596] Secret Society? I don't think I have seen this specific editorial, although I did read one he sent out concerning RM-11306 that pretty disheartening to see coming from Rich. All I can say is if I were Rich and was sitting back watching the League grow with a considerable amount of positive attitude from radio amateurs nationwide and my magazine subscriptions weren't keeping pace, I'd be a little sour as well. Too bad, as Rich is on the ARRL Public Relations Committee! 73 Joel W5ZN p.s. Yea, Coy, it didn't chap my jaws but it sure chapped the front to back ratio of my body! -----Original Message----- From: Coy Day [mailto:n5ok@arrl.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:36 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:15596] Secret Society? Hi All, I just read Rich Moseson's editorial about the ARRL being a secret society. His comment about "saying one thing while doing another" really chapped my jaws! Coy -- Coy Day, N5OK 20685 SW 29 Union City, OK 73090 405-483-5632