[Texascavers] brochure
In the mid-'90s I produced a tri-fold brochure for the UT Grotto entitled: *So you want to go caving? *It was designed to go into the 'Gimmee' slots provided for clubs and outfitters and such at places like REI, Whole Earth PC, Academy, climbing gyms, or just handing out to new cavers at City of Austin Cave Day, etc. They were black-on-yellow as I recall. It was primarily designed to attract new or potential cavers to contact the UTG or attend their meetings. It is my opinion that if every town with a Grotto is not pursuing such a minimal course of recruitment they are doing a disservice to cavers, wannabe cavers, the Grotto, the TSA, the NSS, and themselves--at least. As a local publication it lists several local caves and who to contact to get some instruction and how to join the local cavers. Other Texas Grottos should have similar brochures for similar distribution and larger posters for posting on each and every local college campus at the beginning of each semester. I intended to get started on republishing it for UTG about a month ago but so far haven't located the original file. The final layout was done in PageMaker 4 on a 3-1/2 floppy so hope I can still open it. At any rate, it's not so extensive that it couldn't all be OCRed or reset during the updating process. I will supply a file to anybody that wants to adapt one to their local conditions as soon as I can find and extract it. There are many 1st- or 2nd-time cavers who show up at Colorado Bend or other projects who have no idea what caving life looks like outside of their own Grotto or group of caving friends. A similar TSA information brochure that shows the caving hierarchy (with general description and contact info) from Independent Caver to caving club or Texas Grotto, to TSA (and other Texas organizations), to NSS, to various international caving groups, clubs, expeditions, etc would, I think, educate a lot of new cavers (and some older ones) to many additional opportunities available to cavers and encourage them to join some of those other organizations. As an added incentive, new cavers should be sent a couple of complimentary copies (digital would be OK) of The TEXAS CAVER to further hustle them along. What else? --Ediger
[Texascavers] brochure
In the mid-'90s I produced a tri-fold brochure for the UT Grotto entitled: *So you want to go caving? *It was designed to go into the 'Gimmee' slots provided for clubs and outfitters and such at places like REI, Whole Earth PC, Academy, climbing gyms, or just handing out to new cavers at City of Austin Cave Day, etc. They were black-on-yellow as I recall. It was primarily designed to attract new or potential cavers to contact the UTG or attend their meetings. It is my opinion that if every town with a Grotto is not pursuing such a minimal course of recruitment they are doing a disservice to cavers, wannabe cavers, the Grotto, the TSA, the NSS, and themselves--at least. As a local publication it lists several local caves and who to contact to get some instruction and how to join the local cavers. Other Texas Grottos should have similar brochures for similar distribution and larger posters for posting on each and every local college campus at the beginning of each semester. I intended to get started on republishing it for UTG about a month ago but so far haven't located the original file. The final layout was done in PageMaker 4 on a 3-1/2 floppy so hope I can still open it. At any rate, it's not so extensive that it couldn't all be OCRed or reset during the updating process. I will supply a file to anybody that wants to adapt one to their local conditions as soon as I can find and extract it. There are many 1st- or 2nd-time cavers who show up at Colorado Bend or other projects who have no idea what caving life looks like outside of their own Grotto or group of caving friends. A similar TSA information brochure that shows the caving hierarchy (with general description and contact info) from Independent Caver to caving club or Texas Grotto, to TSA (and other Texas organizations), to NSS, to various international caving groups, clubs, expeditions, etc would, I think, educate a lot of new cavers (and some older ones) to many additional opportunities available to cavers and encourage them to join some of those other organizations. As an added incentive, new cavers should be sent a couple of complimentary copies (digital would be OK) of The TEXAS CAVER to further hustle them along. What else? --Ediger
[Texascavers] brochure
In the mid-'90s I produced a tri-fold brochure for the UT Grotto entitled: *So you want to go caving? *It was designed to go into the 'Gimmee' slots provided for clubs and outfitters and such at places like REI, Whole Earth PC, Academy, climbing gyms, or just handing out to new cavers at City of Austin Cave Day, etc. They were black-on-yellow as I recall. It was primarily designed to attract new or potential cavers to contact the UTG or attend their meetings. It is my opinion that if every town with a Grotto is not pursuing such a minimal course of recruitment they are doing a disservice to cavers, wannabe cavers, the Grotto, the TSA, the NSS, and themselves--at least. As a local publication it lists several local caves and who to contact to get some instruction and how to join the local cavers. Other Texas Grottos should have similar brochures for similar distribution and larger posters for posting on each and every local college campus at the beginning of each semester. I intended to get started on republishing it for UTG about a month ago but so far haven't located the original file. The final layout was done in PageMaker 4 on a 3-1/2 floppy so hope I can still open it. At any rate, it's not so extensive that it couldn't all be OCRed or reset during the updating process. I will supply a file to anybody that wants to adapt one to their local conditions as soon as I can find and extract it. There are many 1st- or 2nd-time cavers who show up at Colorado Bend or other projects who have no idea what caving life looks like outside of their own Grotto or group of caving friends. A similar TSA information brochure that shows the caving hierarchy (with general description and contact info) from Independent Caver to caving club or Texas Grotto, to TSA (and other Texas organizations), to NSS, to various international caving groups, clubs, expeditions, etc would, I think, educate a lot of new cavers (and some older ones) to many additional opportunities available to cavers and encourage them to join some of those other organizations. As an added incentive, new cavers should be sent a couple of complimentary copies (digital would be OK) of The TEXAS CAVER to further hustle them along. What else? --Ediger
