Re: Getting amateurs to visit DARK sites...

From: Michael Barlow (mikeba_at_rochester.rr.com)
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 21:38:56 GMT

    I've only been a member of the local club for "almost" two years. I've
been a member of a motorcycle club and a boy scout many years ago. The
Boyscouts I lost interest in because we didn't do much. The Motorcycle club
was great but we only did a few poker runs a year so I quite. This
Astronomy club is more then I had thought a club could ever be so I'm going
to stick around and support all it's activities until such a day when there
are few activities like the other clubs listed above. Hopefully that will
never happen!

    I'm not an expert of any kind but from my experience, to hold a club
together and to get people to participate more often you have to have many
activities and a wide variety of different activities. Also I would imagine
there will be years when membership drops and years when membership expands
wickedly. As long as the activities are there and they are interesting.....

Rob is right though, I've notice a core group at every event and rarely see
the others. and last point; I drive an hour for the meetings and an hour
for some of the star parties. I'm just hoping that some will see this and
take a chance at that hour (1/2 hour for the majority of the members) drive
this way in September when I have "my" Local star party. 

-- 
Michael A. Barlow
"Rod Mollise" <rmollise@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040821150846.29625.00003316@mb-m16.aol.com...
> >Any other folks have this kinda of experience? Or were our club members
just
> >more homebound than usual?
> >
>
> Hi:
>
> I've belonged to a number of clubs over the last 40 years, and believe me,
this
> is quite typical. My experience is that you can usually depend on
> maybe..._maybe_ 10% of the club members to be interested in observing.
>
> Peace,
> Rod Mollise
> Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
> Like SCTs and MCTs?
> Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
> Goto <http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html>

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