Or, maybe the TSA could do something really unique and progressive like sending free digital issues of The TEXAS CAVER to those NSS members not already subscribed--no membership committee, no procrastination, no hassles. See how many of them pick up the ball and join the TSA. Then those people would know something about the TSA, would be getting a free and valuable service from the TSA (perhaps for the first time in their caving careers), and just might figure that what they are getting could be worth joining the TSA for. Everybody wins. FREE. Nobody looses anything. Also FREE. --Ediger
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Terry Holsinger <tr...@sprynet.com> wrote: > Maybe someone on the TSA's Membership committee should write to the non > members in the NSS and invite them to join or let us know why they are not > interested. Is that not what the TSA has a memberships committee for? > > Terry H. > > Gill Edigar wrote: > >> Mixon-- >> Philosophically speaking: Did you check to see how many of those 488 Texas >> NSS members were among the fewer than 200 TSA members? Did you wonder why or >> why not? How many do you think would subscribe to a free digital TEXAS >> CAVER? And then be willing to join TSA afterwards? Maybe a hundred, huh? >> Might be worth trying even if they just got 50, huh? Would that be good for >> The CAVER? Would that be good for the TSA? Would that be good for Texas >> caving? Would that be good for me or you? --Ediger >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com<mailto: >> bmixon...@austin.rr.com>> wrote: >> >> The annual NSS membership list has just been distributed (about five >> months late). There are interesting statistics about NSS membership >> on pages 65-67, worth calling to your attention, because I suspect >> most members never look at the miscellaneous stuff in the front of >> the book. Among other things, 787xx (Austin) is in the top ten >> three-digit ZIPs in NSS membership, with 92 NSS members. Top in the >> list is 300xx, with 220. That would be Atlanta and vicinity. (300 >> seems to cover a lot of suburbs of Atlanta, whereas all the 787 >> addresses are actually Austin.) Eight-five NSS members have listed >> the UT Grotto as their "primary affiliation.". This is for purposes >> of allocating votes in the Congress of Grottos at NSS conventions, >> although so far as I know the UTG has never participated in living >> memory. There are twelve NSS groups with more NSS members than UTG >> (the Cave Diving Section has 1,022!), but many of them require NSS >> membership of their members. The lowest NSS number of a Texas NSS >> member is 509. Texas is among the top ten states, with 488 NSS members. >> >> This year's membership list is sorted by states, which makes it >> relatively easy for a group to see who in its area might need to be >> contacted with information about the club. One thing I was struck by >> when looking through Texas is the number of names with 787xx that I >> don't recognize. Of course, that doesn't mean I wouldn't recognize >> the faces; there is unfortunately little opportunity to learn >> peoples' names at meetings of fifty or events of four hundred. I'm >> bad about remembering names, too. Name tags seem Mickey Mouse, but.... >> --Mixon >> ---------------------------------------- >> May the last lawyer be strangled with the entrails of the last priest. >> ---------------------------------------- >> You may "reply" to the address this message >> came from, but for long-term use, save: >> Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu <mailto: >> bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu> >> AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org <mailto:edi...@amcs-pubs.org> or >> sa...@amcs-pubs.org <mailto:sa...@amcs-pubs.org> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Visit our website: http://texascavers.com >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com >> <mailto:texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com> >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com >> <mailto:texascavers-h...@texascavers.com> >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com > >
