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(erielack) ELHS Board

I'm hearing complaints about the board, but I don't see anyone stepping out 
and telling us how they would do thing, the hours they would put in, and the 
effort they would give to the society, if they were elected to the board.  I 
don't see anyone sending around a petition to be on a ballot, I just hear 
complaints.
Well, if you want complaints, try joining a society that has a magazine that 
isn't day, weeks or months, but years late!, has a fantastic collection that 
is tended by members and is unavailable to the great unwashed membership,has 
an annual meeting that makes the ELHS Convention look like the Oscars and 
has 6 different mailing list, with the sum of activity less than this one 
list.
Then there is the non-society - a Historical Society that even had a museum 
that is now closed, has morphed into a modelers society, of sorts and hasn't 
seen a publication in almost a decade.  Archives?  What archives?  Annual 
meeting?  Of what?  Mailing list?  Someone has one, and it has been used 
this year...correction, that was last year.
Ok, so the ELHS is not perfect.  OK, so some of the ELHS members are very 
particular about the archives, information disseminated by the society and 
the reputation of the society.  The only other societies that come close to 
the ELHS are the Pennsy, Santa Fe and UP groups, and look  at the difference 
in the prototypes - think there is message in that comparison?!
Ok, the archives issue is not an easy one, and what sometimes looks simple 
really is not, once you get into all of the ramifications and meeting all of 
the diverse needs of a society that represents so many different facets of 
not just one but three railroads.
OK, so for all of you who know you can do better, I"m waiting to see your 
platform - your campaign material for how you are going to provide us the 
the 'right' solution.

Respectfully submitted,
Bruce Alcock

Living far enough away from New Jersey that I can say this :)

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