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- Subject: Re: Starter kits and other topics
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:21:41 GMT
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- In article <9301201935.AA28020@sandman.caltech.edu>, Jeffrey Alan Foust <jafoust@CCO.CALTECH.EDU> writes:
- > Paul: If you're looking for a starter kit, I've put one in the
- > mail (along with a chapter registration form), compliments of the national
- > co-headquarters here at Caltech.
-
- Hey JaFoust :) ,
-
- What a beautiful thing it is to just open my mouth (aaahhhhhh [A#]) and
- wallah! results. Y'know, I am beginning to like SEDS-L, it's the right
- thing to do. While I am at it (I like to push my luck...it makes me feel like
- a man), do you or anybody you knowhave some good slides of shuttle shots/space
- shots etc. for a Space Talk presentation? I lent all of my best ones to a man
- down in Florida for a travelling private school recruitment show and I don't
- believe I will get them back in time for the presentation I am to make to a
- K-12 academy on February 12. I only have 30 minutes to "present" (which means
- I'll get through one slide and the answer to "How do go to the bathroom in
- spa...? well, I'm sure you've been through it but it would be nice to have
- some nice lauch shots and some good EVA or (AND) earth shots. Pretty please.
-
-
- Of course, this doesn't address the issue
- > of getting a response from the national permenant headquarters at MIT.
- > I am as concerned as anyone about the lack of responsiveness from the MIT
- > office - it seems to be downright difficult to nearly impossible. Case in
- > point: Irwin Horowitz has been unable to pursue his efforts to help
- > SEDS-USA regain its non-profit 501(c)3 status - an effort vital to our
- > future - because he has been absolutely unable to get any financial statements
- > from the MIT HQ,
-
- I can only imagine how frustrating that is. I of course, hope that MIT will be
- able to provide I. Horowitz with the information he needs. It is obvious that
- the 501 status is a huge (and as you said it) and vital part of the SEDS org-
- anization. Are there any reasons given for not offering up the financial
- status of SEDS National or has it been pretty quiet? I hope it changes soon
- whatever the hold-up.
-
-
-
- despite several months of effort. This is NOT a slam against
- > any person or persons at the national headquarters at MIT, and certainly not
- > against any member of the MIT chapter, it's just a statement of what I (and
- > several other people) have experienced.
-
-
- >It didn't sound like a slam and I appreciate you putting it in this way.
- Instead of escalating "conversations" occurring on the "L" because of a slam,
- this might (I know I am dreaming but it's might fantasy, let me live it out!)
- actually help things along.
-
-
- > The lawsuit being referred to was one threatened by the Sheraton Hotel
- > in Albuquerque against the UNM SEDS chapter, over debts from the 1991
- > International conference. People at UNM have made arrangements to handle it
- > out of court, though, so no further legal action (to the best of my knowledge)
- > has been carried out.
-
-
- Good.
-
-
- > As for all the talk about impeachment, the way we are going to solve
- > the
- problems facing SEDS is not by blaming on another but by STATING what
- > our problems our and DETERMINING what the best possible solutions are.
- > If people think that impeaching board member X is a solution to a problem or
- > problems we face, then explain why! (Or, for that matter, explain why if
- > board member X is impeached, board members A, B, C, and D should be impeached
- > as well).
- >
-
- Thanks for the consistant tone of your reply. I believe I am able to
- understand things a little better and have a reasonable hope that this might
- all be worth it.
- >
- > Ad astra,
- > Jeff
-
- ad astra per Mylanta
- Paul
-
-
-