I certainly agree with and applaud the
idea of using LMs to show support of the League. Even though I bought mine at
about the third level of cost for them, my Life Membership was in large part
because of my desire to show my firm support.
Jim
Jim Weaver, K8JE,
Director
ARRL
E-mail: k8je@arrl.org; Tel.: 513-459-0142
ARRL -
The Reason Amateur Radio Is!
Members -
The Reason ARRL Is!
From: w3kd@aol.com
[mailto:w3kd@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:22
AM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:16876] Re: Life
Memberships
This is WAY outside
anything I ought to be commenting on, but my mentor, Bob Booth, W3PS, always
told me that ARRL life membership was not an investment, it was a way of
showing support for the organization, and that explained why, quite
frequently, very old people become life members for the first time.
So perhaps it is best to look at this as Greg does.
73, Chris W3KD
Christopher D. Imlay
BOOTH, FRERET, IMLAY & TEPPER, P.C.
(301) 384-5525 telephone
(301) 384-6384 facsimile
W3KD@ARRL.ORG
-----Original Message-----
From: G.P. Widin <gpwidin@comcast.net>
To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org>
Cc: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org>
Sent: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 8:28 pm
Subject: [arrl-odv:16869] Re: Life Memberships
dick@pobox.com wrote:
> I cannot, with a clear conscience, sell our current (25 x annual) life
> membership to a person who is over 50-55 years old. It's great >
revenue for
> the ARRL, but it's not a good investment for these people.
I got my life membership when I was in my late 40s--who knows if I've got 25
years left? But my rationale is, there's no other organization I'd rather
"over-pay" to than ARRL. So, if the League benefits by my not
achieving the full 25 I "paid for", at least I know it's in a cause I
believe in.
I don't know if you'd have trouble selling that, but that's the way I sold
myself. ;-)
-- 73,
Greg, KØGW
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