From: shanleyl@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re:      Starter kits and other topics
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:21:41 GMT

In article <9301201935.AA28020@sandman.caltech.edu>,         Jeffrey Alan Foust <jafoust@CCO.CALTECH.EDU> writes:
>         Paul:  If you're looking for a starter kit, I've put one in the
> mail (along with a chapter registration form), compliments of the national
> co-headquarters here at Caltech.  

Hey JaFoust :) ,

What a beautiful thing it is to just open my mouth (aaahhhhhh [A#]) and 
wallah!  results.  Y'know, I am beginning to like SEDS-L,  it's the right
thing to do.  While I am at it (I like to push my luck...it makes me feel like
a man), do you or anybody you knowhave some good slides of shuttle shots/space
shots etc. for a Space Talk presentation?  I lent all of my best ones to a man
down in Florida for a travelling private school recruitment show and I don't 
believe I will get them back in time for the presentation I am to make to a
K-12 academy on February 12.  I only have 30 minutes to "present" (which means 
I'll get through one slide and the answer to "How do go to the bathroom in
spa...?  well, I'm sure you've been through it but it would be nice to have 
some nice lauch shots and some good EVA or (AND) earth shots.  Pretty please.


Of course, this doesn't address the issue
> of getting a response from the national permenant headquarters at MIT.
> I am as concerned as anyone about the lack of responsiveness from the MIT
> office - it seems to be downright difficult to nearly impossible.  Case in
> point: Irwin Horowitz has been unable to pursue his efforts to help
> SEDS-USA regain its non-profit 501(c)3 status - an effort vital to our
> future - because he has been absolutely unable to get any financial statements
> from the MIT HQ, 

I can only imagine how frustrating that is.  I of course, hope that MIT will be
able to provide I. Horowitz with the information he needs.  It is obvious that 
the 501 status is a huge (and as you said it) and vital part of the SEDS org-
anization.  Are there any reasons given for not offering up the financial
status of SEDS National or has it been pretty quiet?  I hope it changes soon
whatever the hold-up.



despite several months of effort.  This is NOT a slam against
> any person or persons at the national headquarters at MIT, and certainly not
> against any member of the MIT chapter, it's just a statement of what I (and
> several other people) have experienced.


>It didn't sound like a slam and I appreciate you putting it in this way. 
Instead of escalating "conversations" occurring on the "L" because of a slam,
this might (I know I am dreaming but it's might fantasy, let me live it out!)
actually help things along.

 
>         The lawsuit being referred to was one threatened by the Sheraton Hotel
> in Albuquerque against the UNM SEDS chapter, over debts from the 1991
> International conference.  People at UNM have made arrangements to handle it
> out of court, though, so no further legal action (to the best of my knowledge)
> has been carried out.


 Good. 


>         As for all the talk about impeachment, the way we are going to solve
> the 
problems facing SEDS is not by blaming on another but by STATING what
> our problems our and DETERMINING what the best possible solutions are.
> If people think that impeaching board member X is a solution to a problem or
> problems we face, then explain why! (Or, for that matter, explain why if
> board member X is impeached, board members A, B, C, and D should be impeached
> as well).
> 

Thanks for the consistant tone of your reply.  I believe I am able to
understand things a little better and have a reasonable hope that this might
all be worth it.
> 
> Ad astra,
> Jeff

 ad astra per Mylanta
 Paul


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