From: whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Subject: Re: Registering w/ SCA
Reply-To: whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Distribution: austin
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:43:54 GMT
Keywords: A lurker at last brave....

In article <1992Aug17.220509.10072@novell.com> mlinda@novell.com (M'Linda Taylor) writes:
>In article <77833@ut-emx.uucp> clueless@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Huh?) writes:
>>    I would like some info on 1) the local Austin group
>>                              2) Registering w/ SCA
>>                              3) Starting up a new group ("House" isn't it?)
>
>Please post the information for I'm certain there are others
>who lack the bravery to make a request.  (Such as I who couldn't until
>another posted first).
>
>How does one become involved....and educated.

Ask, and ye shall receive . . .  (And I'll get signed for misusing the
language.  Ah, well.)

I'm not going to address Austin directly, or even Texas.  Since we've
got two requests here, I'll make it a bit more general.

You get involved by finding (or starting) a group near you and, well .
. . getting involved.  Go to meetings and events.  EVents are more
formal than meetings--you're expected to be wearing 'some attempt at
garb in styles worn prior to 1600 AD'.  Note the 'some attempt'.  How
much you're into sewing (or have friends who are) may determin what
that first attempt looks like.  This is another good reason to go to
meetings first--you can get advice on garb.

Educated?  Take classes.  Read books.  Do research.  Ask questions,
and listen to the answers.  It's the same methods that got you the
education you have now, though I think the SCA hopes for better
average results than entirely too many school systems seem to be
striving for.  (Don't mind me--I'm middle aged and cynical.)

By now the question you *really* want answered is "just how *do* I
find my local group."  Aside from someone out here sending you a name,
address, and phone number--which should be for the Senschal (think
'president') of your local branch, you may get the data on the
Senschal of some higher organizational unit--usually kingdom.  (The
SCA is divided into kingdoms.  Texas is part of Ansteorra.)  Failing
*that*, here's the contact data for the Society as a whole:

Office of the Registry
Renee di Calabria
(Renee Signorotti)
P. O. Box 360743
Milpitas, CA 95036
(408) 263-9305

If you write a letter of inquiry, the Registry will send you some
basic info on the  Society and a copy of your Kingdom newsletter.  The
newslette will have a list of local branches and who to call.

In the mean time, if you (those of you who are currently making these
inquiries *or* any of the rest of you out there who are too shy to
post) have any more questions, feel free to send e-mail.  If you're
afraid to bother someone closer to wher you live--you can send the
mail to me.  I'll try to answer in a reasonable amount of time.  What
is reasonable will be determined by how much I've just bitten off. . .

(Did I just volunteer to the Rialto Chatelaine?  I hope not . . .)

	--Hal

        Hal Ravn, Province of the Mists, West Kingdom
        Wilson H. Heydt, Jr.,  Albany, CA 94706,  510/524-8321 (home)
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