Ron Green

   

A few words on what has been happening the past few weeks:

We have a new W&W newsletter editor, Keith Mathiowetz (AKA 3rd gear Keith). Keith was the editor of Old Cars Weekly and is a professional automotive writer, and has an Amphi. Keith is currently working on getting a newsletter (issue #134) out within the next 2 weeks. It promises to be a great issue with Celina information, etc included. There will be 6 newsletters issued per year starting immediately.

A IAOC 2008 membership roster is ready to mail tomorrow to all 2007 and 2008 members. There are 111 members (07) who have not yet renewed.

The board is currently in the process of updating the club bylaws and all should be complete approximately the end of April. Also the next newsletter will included info on IAOC swim in donations that have been implemented within the past few weeks, etc.

The year end gift has been bought and in hand since December and will be mailed out in the very near future.

Ron Green
Interim IAOC President

DrNoose

   

Keith was the editor of Old Cars Weekly? When did that change?

Dan
'64 Das Boot

Ron Green wrote:

Dan
AKA DrNoose

1964 Amphicar
AKA Das Boot

Midwest Amphicar

   

Looking forward to an updated roster. Very useful in putting a swim in together. I think the Club is going to have a very good year. I have already seen the positive changes. Keep up the hard work! Later Dave the Wave

cigarman

   

Thank you Dave on behalf of the Board.
We are all working very hard to get everything in order so all members can be proud...

Mt Tavares (Dora) was a blast and Victor You were a riot at the dinner!!!

John Capone IAOC Treasurer

Midwest Amphicar

   

Ron two problems with roster. One is I now know where You live. Two , what happened to all of the ILLINOIS amphi owners? Did they all move to Michigan?!! Thanks for getting this together. Cigar guy said You spent many hours getting info together. I immediately put it to use contacting members for the Sabula swim. The list really helps!

amphigr66n

   

I'm not on it and the check was cashed Dec 31st. Amphigr66n

Midwest Amphicar <> wrote: Ron two problems with roster. One is I now know where You live. Two , what happened to all of the ILLINOIS amphi owners? Did they all move to Michigan?!! Thanks for getting this together. Cigar guy said You spent many hours getting info together. I immediately put it to use contacting members for the Sabula swim. The list really helps!

Ron Green

   

The roster has something like 355 members listed on it even though there are currently only approximately 242 members in IAOC. The difference being it was sent to all 07 members with hope they would renew.

Amphigr66n, if you are not in the roster then there is a problem. Either you didn't fill in the ok to use your name and address or something is amiss. I was the one that deposited your check in Dec and forwarded the info to the keeper of the roster. Please email me (click on my name) your name and info and I will research and send you a email off list.

Dave, The Illinois amphi owners are the same ones that have been listed since 2005. Are you sure your not scaring them out of the state?

Midwest Amphicar

   

2005? I think that was the last time I paid My dues!

SplitPersonality

   

One trouble with the new Amphicar group format that bothers me and I expect
others too is that so many
e-mails are unsigned and often are intended as a reply to a particular
member or refer to a particular member. E.G. - the e-mail I just read said
something like "I believe I last paid my dues in 2005." The letter as I received
it was unsigned and not only can nobody tell who sent it, but to whom it was
intended. The intended recipient may very well recognize that it was
intended for him or her, but for all the rest of us, it is just a meaningless
e-mail to be opened, read, puzzled over maybe, and deleted.

Mike - do you think this is a valid observation ? Would it not be sensible
to put the sender's e-mail address at the beginning of the e-mails. Doing
so would still maintain a degree of anonymity if the writer desired such. I
know that _Amphicarlovers@amhicar770.com_
(mailto:Amphicarlovers@amhicar770.com) is not the origin for all of these anonymous
e-mails which have no meaning or value to 99% of the recipients, but we all
still need to open such e-mails up to discover that they are useless and
meaningless to everyone but probably one recipient.
Vic Nelson near Daytona



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SplitPersonality

   

Ron -

Several years ago, a single sheet was appended to the roster listing the
states alphabetically in order above the members of that state listed
alphabetically. Since all the rest of the pertinent information concerning each member
( i.e. - the address, telephone, e-mail address, etc ) is already in the
roster, such a list need only have the State name and under it the names of the
Members from that state. This can all easily be done on one single sheet of
paper appended to the end of the Roster, but is was and again would be
extremely useful to e.g. hosts of Swim-Ins when trying to come up with an
appropriate list of people to contact who are near by as well as probably for other
purposes as well. Vic Nelson



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