Fred, The Piano Technicians Guild has a Board of Directors that includes contract College techs as the President and Secretary-Treasurer and a University Staff technician as the Vice President. Most of the Regional Vice Presidents and the Immediate Past President work as contract technicians for various institutions. Council has charged the CAUT committee, under the direction of the Executive Board, to: College and University Technicians - There shall be a College and University Technicians Committee whose principal duty shall be to promote the particular interests of college and university technicians. This committee shall maintain an updated list of college and university technicians. Additional activities may include a regular newsletter, educational opportunities, and/or other special projects. So, we have members of PTG who join and pay dues and we have a committee of the organization charged to do these items with the resources of the Piano Technicians Guild Board, Institute, Home Office, Council, Membership, etc. and I see no reason why these events, programs, publications, etc. can't be accomplished as a committee or why there would be reason to assume there would be an argument. There is always interest in new ideas and I look forward to seeing those ideas brought forth for the Board and the membership to see, buy into and then can reap the benefits. I remain, respectfully, Allan Allan Gilreath, RPT Registered Piano Technician President - Piano Technicians Guild pres at ptg.org <mailto:pres at ptg.org> www.ptg.org <http://www.ptg.org> phone - 706 602-7667 On 5/11/2010 11:04 PM, Fred Sturm wrote: > On May 11, 2010, at 7:56 PM, tnrwim at aol.com <mailto:tnrwim at aol.com> wrote: > >> Has the idea of having a CAUT weekend seminar ever been discussed? >> (Kinda like regional, but geared totally toward CAUT classes, as >> mentioned above, taught by CAUT's, for CAUTS) >> WIm > > It's been discussed. The intensive seminar idea is somewhat like that, > with a notion of a four day weekend. In any case, putting on something > like that requires a structure. As a PTG committee, we are pretty > limited in what we can do. Yes, we could come up with a plan and > submit it to the board asking for a budget. We would have to argue why > money should be spent for the benefit of this little elite portion of > the organization and the like. > But it would be far better to have an independent entity to put on > events, either along the lines of a regional body or a sort of > "at-large" chapter. Either type of entity would require a by-laws > change, as I read the by-laws. Essentially there needs to be an > autonomous body capable of collecting money and spending it, in order > to make things happen. Preferably a body that people could "join and > pay dues" to build up a kitty. > I am convinced there is demand for such training. Whether or not there > is enough energy and will to make it happen remains to be seen. > Regards, > Fred Sturm > fssturm at unm.edu <mailto:fssturm at unm.edu> > "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Twain > -- PK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100512/66b58547/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 2007-RPT-Logo-Web.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 13287 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100512/66b58547/attachment-0001.jpg>
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