>A few thoughts: A few more thoughts: > >Too frugal to pay yearly dues for dues would strain a tight budget, >priorities. And those dues are most certainly needed. > >Proximity to a chapter to attend meetings > 3 hours in bumper to bumper really sucks. >No desire for social interaction > No, I don't want to talk about my last golf game. >No need for Guild association for advertising purposes yearly membership fee vs. $9.00 newspaper ad during the slow month of the year - you make the choice > >No place to store the accumulating journals :-) > No need either, you can find a very informative database on the PTG archives online. : ) However, I am sending my application to the Boston Chapter tomorrow. > >Regards, > >Jon Page > > > >At 07:59 AM 7/18/99 -0500, you wrote: > >> >> List: >> >> The piano chairperson of a prestigious music school was in Dallas this past >> week and gave a recital in our auditorium. I had a delightful conversation >> with her about schools, pianos, etc. She asked if I knew the head tech at >> her school. I didn't. I looked in our directory, and he is not a PTG >> member. >> >> Have we made any real effort to ascertain why some obviously good >> technicians have not found membership in PTG to be important? I'm not >> talking about the accusatory "why are you not a member?" but something more >> like "Is there something about PTG that keeps you from wanting to join?" I >> really think we could learn a lot about ourselves and our organization if we >> asked some prominent non-members why they aren't in PTG. >> >> dave >> _______________________________________________ >> >> David M. Porritt, RPT >> Meadows School of the Arts >> Southern Methodist University >> Dallas, Texas >> dporritt@swbell.net >> _______________________________________________ > > > > >Jon Page, Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jpage@capecod.net >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >
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