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'DE. Convention for Several Years Now VOLUtE IS; lISlE 55 'DE. convention for several years now. I threw my hat in for '95. I purposefully stepped out of the running for '96 because I felt that TO: ARISIA, Inc., Executive Board after Jim Belfiore and Shelia FROM: Patrick McConnack Oranch, H would be better for the organization to have a "young turk" RE: Application for Convention take the lead for a year. I feel it is Chair '97 important that we show the newer fans that it doesn't take a 10+ year Briefly, I started working commHment before they have a conventions the year of the great chance to do the big jobs. I now ~>:;:;';:::;~. ~ Boskone blOW-up. I did LogiStics and want r. iycraCk atitte see if tcan Security work for them that year. The ameliorate some of the continuing ~-~-- next con I worked was Noreascon 3 on problems we have in our the Technical Crew in the main concomm. ballroom. Then I got involved with If selected, the "theme" of ARISIA, at what I believe was the first the concomm will be "The Iron or second general meeting. The first Boot of Tyranny". The first major two years I ran Logistics, as well as plank in my platfonn will be this: dOing work with Technical and "We need to lighten up about the As of June 5th, the following Operations. The next year I worked little things." Frankly, there isn't a persons have passed in time Technical and Operations. The fourth lot of whimsy left in our view of sheets for work at ARISIA '95. year, I was Con Services Division ourselves. We all need to learn to No further infonnation has been Head (and babysitting was the biggest laugh about unimportant things provided to the corporation. pain to supervise, let me tell you.), as again. The Staff T-shirt is already Members who believe addHional well as being corporate preSident. The designed with this in mind. It will persons worked the approbriate fifth year, I took a year off and only did show a large boot crushing a little hours at con should speak with work at con with Technical and person. The shirt will read "The Sheila Oranch, Convention Operations. And last year I ended up Few, The Proud, The Oppressed'" Chainnan for ARISIA '95. running Operations by default until F.ridayevening. I also ran Opening But the "Iron Boot" isn't all Ceremonies for years 2-5, come to just a joke. The flip side of the first statement is that there are too Jeremy Brown, Martin Carter, think of it. Interspersed with the many people treating the really Tsulian Chinsen-Lee, Scott ARISIA stuff, I have worked with important matters as trivial or Cobb, David Coniveau, Ed Technofandom crew at Lunacon, ignorable. There are three major Council, Bob Dean, Edward Balticon, & Philcon, and lent a hand at areas where I think the Dooley, Jill Eastlake, Marshall Concept. organization would benefit from Ellis, Ken Elwell, Rob Fairbairn, I have wanted to chair our (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 3) Ii. Ba...... et 02/16/96 BOSHonE. 33: SOH: Lois rncrnast.e... Fu...IDIl - BttBYLOIl 5 Bujold firDCe Lee Whitney frDfTllnghDm, rnA ktobiCOke. Onta...lo, Canada 07/04/96 COfiIHABLOI nE.Cf;lOnornlcon 2: WE.STE.Rcon 49: 06123/9511RCHOO 19: GOH: Jach Williamson SOH: James P. Blayloch SOH: HowDrd Weldrop dGOH: Doug AGOH: BNKI W. foster 08/24/9 Collinsville, E.IPm;o,TK InTE.RSl:CTlOIl: 53 ... dWorl Science fiction 08/29/96 L.A. COO HI Convention 54th WO...ld Science fiction Glasgow Convention Scotland GOH: James White rnGOH: Roge... Corman ARmADILLocon 17: Special Guest: JQ~hn ~. flJs~!!", GOH: AleKam:ier Jsblohov­ E.lsie Wollheim Po...tland, OR AGOH: Vincent DIVate Anaheim, CA 07113/95 DRAGoncon: AUSTIn, TK Atlanta,GA nOT JUST /28/95 COIlFLUE.nCE.: AnOTHE.R con 11: John Ba...nes GOH: Judith Ta...... Hara Dalhey AGOH: Courtney Shlnner Amherst,rnA /95 SrnOFCOn '95: Austin, TK Aa....kIRU.CA 01/12/96 ARlSIA '96: E.mma Bull e TORonTO TRE.H 9: Will Shetterly ....~nl.l. Lissanne Lahe rbun; Rob Bazemo...e Aube...jonois ­ ST:DS9 Boston,rnA CONCHAIR APPLICATION (From page 1) someone taking a strong stance and making everyone tow the line. •President: The first of these areas is Joel Herda PCOMING communication, both intemal and 17 Creighton St VENTS, extemal. Communication has ONVENTION always been one of our cambridge, ORNER, and organization's biggest failings MA02140 ENTOR, when you talk about the actual hould be nuts and bolts of the concomm. (117) 814-0171 ..... "" ... " .. ubmitted the People inside don't know what . ""' ".,' ,'::,,:-:'''' - '.'" :' .. -:::::: ":.:::,::::::. -::::.';" HURSDAY everyone else is doing. People who would like to join up and help O&i06l{f5MEN1'OR55 Vice­ EFOREthe PRESS bATE·· RESSDATE can't make the initial connection -:::: --, '::.:' :.,::::.="-: :',:.:::'.:::.:,,:' ,:'.':-: .... :: .. President: isted for the with someone "in the know." Fans 06I08l95ARISIA '96ConCOl'll· and guests can't get prompt ·Meetingatth~thOme Jim Stevenson ENTOR ·ofPalricla ........•..........•... replies to their queries. A lot of Vandenberg .............. &I kIIeweIl St. this confusion could be lessened ••· .... A....,Kelltin with a single level of redundancy in . At1ington. ...• •..... Weymouth, our communications network, 06110/95···SQdget.COmrlllttee MA02188 embers are combined with some Meetingat2PMat eminded that accountability. The redundancy .11 IT;81d.g66 . (617) 336-4406 II reports, can be had by making the Asst Rm168·· .... ConChair act as an Ombudsman otions, and 06118195 AfllSIAC0rPon,lte nnouncements for the committee. The key . Meeting ......• Ireasurer: "before con" work loads know that . -- -.". hould be Tme:·.3:30 .PM Dale·Farmer ubmitted, in they will be expected to tum in .. _ ..:.: : .--:---::._ . riting to periodic, written reports on all . Place: MlT.BIdg66~ 48 GreenhUI Rd . -, ··.·... .• RoOm1U···" ... - .... nsure proper decisions and work their Sudbury. eporting . department has done so far. These written report. in the hand MA01776 of the ConCh air and the (108) 443-2802 "Ombudsman", will.provide a safety net when someone drops out of touch. making sure CLERK: someone is capable of giving at least semi-coherent answers in Ed Dooley their stead. 37 MortonSt The second area is Waltham, adherence to budgets. If communications is a disaster area, MA02184 the way some people have treated (817) 884-4863 the budget makes it a toxic waste dump. I made the threat during my year as President that anyone who overran their budget would be thanked for their contribution. The following Eboard didn't back up the threat, unfortunately. The threat has been made several times since then, but never given teeth. (Continued on page 3) 2 CONCHAIR APPLICATION (From Strict adherence to these few rules should greatly onChair '95: page 2) reduce the number of incidents which cause upset to Sheila Oranch If selected, I will make sure all of us. If there are no problems, it makes it hard to everyone who accepts a position get into arguements over whose fautt something is 41 Chrhltopher and who could have done it better. If we could on the concomm which will give Road them access to money will know manage to have a year where the important things what the procedures are by which are strictly observed and we got to laugh at the little· HollIston, things, I think we would seta standard for future they can spend money, and, that if MA01748 years. they circumvent those procedures, I will not reimburse them unless (108,428-4301 directed by the corporation to do so. HOURS (From page 1) ,nChair ,.6: The third and final area which needs to feel the "Iron Boot" Glen GOodwin, Richard Hamel, Joanne Handweger, Nlchola& Chris Hanson, Joel Herda, S. Catherine Holder, is at once the place where it needs Shectman Kyle HOllingsworth, Dave Kharas, George to be applied most forcefully and Kokinogenis, Cindy Lazzaro, John MaGuire, Sally PO Box 2467 with the most caution. I am speaking of course, of the culture Martin, Patrick McCormack, Erik John Meyer, Cambridge, of attack politics which has thrived Katerina Meyer, Tom Murphy, Scott Nickles, Joe MA02238 within our oganization for the past Oldham, Kathleen Oldham, Prisca Ong, Christine couple of years. A lot of us have Palmer, Aliza Pantz, John Preston, Scott Robinson, '817) 481-8683 William Scammell. PatriCia Silva. Deborah Smith, had a taste of this, and a lot of our Michael Sprague. Charlene Tenner, Carsten Tumer, E-MAIL: founding members are with us John Wilkwire, Brian Youmans, Anna Young because of it. I understand that, in phI.frank, the real world, we will never be !arvard.edu conlplet~ly free of politics and This list is based on the timesheets given to the cliques. There are line, however, clerk at ARISIA '95 by the Convention Chainnan. that should never be crossed. Forty-five persons. Per corporate policy Arguements and politicking, individuals who volunteer and work in excess of COMMITTEE without the attached emotional 18 hours, as reported to the corporation by the baggage, when people have CHAIRMEN: convention. earn a complementary membership differing views of how something which is paid for by the corporate organization. should be done is one thing. Individuals who believe that they earned worked When political skullduggery has no the required time should talk to Sheila Oranch as root soon as possibleI beyond wanting to "get" a particular person or group, it has to onnac:k be stopped hard. Everyone who EXECUTIVE 80AAD M€ETNG signs on to my concomm would be told that if they engage in this sort of activity, they will be thrown off 05/17/95 the concomm for the rest of my PRESENT: Joel Herda, President; Jim Stevenson, tenure as conchair. This is not a Vice-President; Dale Farmer, Treasurer; Ed Dooley, promise of an immediate purge Clerk; Nicholas Shectman, A '96 ConChair; Also should I take the reins for '97.
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