<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Point of information:  The 2005 PTG Convention and Institute is scheduled = for Salt Lake City, UT with the unparalleled Joel Jones, RPT as = Institute Director.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> Allan Allan L. Gilreath, RPT Director - = TEAM2002 June 26-30, 2002 - Chicago, IL agilreath@mindspring.com <A = target=_blank href="http://www.ptg.org/conv.htm">http://www.ptg.org/conv.htm</A> A= ssistant Directors: Gary Neie, RPT - Claude Harding, RPT - Joel Jones, RPT - = Laura Olsen, RPT </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----Original Message----- From: = owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Billbrpt@AOL.COM Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:56 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Chicago = convention naming (was timing) </DIV>In a message dated 7/25/01 1:39:25 AM Central Daylight Time, sckline@home.com (Susan Kline) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE">Hmmmm, better be careful calling it the "National", = hmmmmmm. Well, I don't know why a good majority of the rest of the = Guild calls it the "National", but I, at least, call it the National = to differentiate it from the various Regionals. It's no use calling = the National the Annual, since all the Regionals are Annuals as = well. As for the implied but missing "Convention", what other National = occurrence are members of the PTG likely to be talking about, when asking each = other if they are going to attend something next year? Also, of = course, we could agree to call it the National because of the large = numbers of people from various Nations attending it ... = </BLOCKQUOTE> I propose then, to bow deeply to Susan's and apparently the majority of = Member's habits and logic, that the Bylaws be changed to call the Annual Convention,  "The National".  Every reference = thereafter, either in speech or in writing to that convention must be changed to the = words, "The National". I can see it now:  Wally Brooks RPT, = Director of the 2005 PTG National in Atlantic City, NJ.  No room for any = classes on "how to tune a piano out of tune" but 10 classes on player = pianos. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>