<VV> membership

[henry kaczmarek]

Roger
I've seen that as well.  Mike has said a mouthful.  Some chapters have taken 
steps.
Tidewater Corvair assigns a mentor to each new member. Helps to get them 
into the group, and they have a go-to person for advice, etc.

But if you can't mandate that by Joining a CORSA sanctioned chapter and 
becoming a member of CORSA is optional (which sounds more stupid  every time 
I write it), how could you mandate something like assigning a mentor,

as Ned pointed out---"Corvair Owners don't like being told what to do".

In my experience, grown folks who "don't like being told what to do" aren't 
very grown, regardless of chronological age.

How many times a day does each of us do things we'd rather not do, but do 
them because it's the right thing to do?

When I sit in a Marine Corps League meeting, whether there are 14 members or 
1400, every one of them has paid dues to MCL national headquarters, and 
their local detachment gets a portion of that money to keep.  If they are 
Life members, the local detachment gets an annual stipend from the interest 
of the life dues they paid, which is based on age, not an arbitrary figure 
like 900.00.
Even the youngest members pay only 450.00 for life dues, which includes a 
bi-monthly magazine.

Take note: The Marine Corps League is the only Veteran's organization in the 
USA that is experiencing true growth in membership.  in 2007 the DAV checked 
their member list against the Social Security Death list, and "lost" 2200 
members in one day.

Perhaps that's another reason not to join a CORSA chapter.  Lots of whining 
that paying national dues to belong to a chapter of a national car club is 
just too much of an intrusion into the personal independence of a Corvair 
Owner.   Why does that sound stupid too?

Maybe I missed it, but there are about 2500 LESS members now than 20 years 
ago. Let's let a whole bunch of the ones that are left belong without paying 
dues to fix our financial problems. That's a sure fix to the problem, eh?

With that logic, perhaps the club should spend several thousand dollars of 
money it doesn't have to try increase membership, while its chapters have 
possibly hundreds of members who pay no CORSA Dues.

 Will that be the next decision coming down the pike?


Hank

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Gault" <r.gault at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Corvair List" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> membership


> Very insightful.
> Mike has explained why I'm not a member of my local club, and why I've 
> only
> been to one HOT meet.
>
> Not whining, or asking for phone calls, just agreeing,
> Roger
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Jacobi" <mvjacobi at comcast.net>
> To: "virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 5:44 PM
> Subject: <VV> membership
>
>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> One of the major impediments to club and / or CORSA membership iis one
> that
>> challenges all organizations.  When we do get someone to visit our
> meetings
>> or inquire about membership or actually take a leap of faith and join us,
> we
>> fail to engage them in club activities and shortly afterward, lost them.
>>