<VV> Chapter member - where?

[Robby]

My idea of joining a chapter isn't for the newsletter or the listing of
events the chapter may have but it is about the ability to form friendships
within the Corvair community.  My nearest chapter is 90 miles away.  That
measn for me to attend a meeting (or any event they have), I have to leave
90-120 minutes prior to the event and get home 90-120 minutes after it is
over with.  So for example I attend a chapter meeting that begins at 7PM, i
have to leave my house around 5 (to ensure I don't have traffic issues) and
if the meeting lasts until 8:30PM, it is near 10:30 before I get home.  So
in reality I have spent 5 1/2 hours to attend a meeting not to mention the
cost of fuel to go, etc.  In my personal opinion, it isn't worth it.  And if
I were "forced" to join, I would simply drop my CORSA membership.  Afterall,
the same theory applies to the chapter as to the national, if I can't find
value in it, I won't send my dues.

Robby

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Vairtec Corporation
<Vairtec at optonline.net>wrote:

> Bruce wrote:
> > Could someone tell me which chapter I should join, that is within 200
> miles of my location , Mitchell, SD 57301?
> >
>
> Yes.
>
> The chapter of your choice.
>
> It could be the closest one, even if it is a long way away, or any other
> chapter of your choice.
>
> After all, where is a chapter located?
>
> Is it where the chapter address is?  If so, my local chapter is located
> inside a small PO Box 40 miles from where it holds it meetings.
>
> Is it where the chapter holds its meetings?  If so, my local chapter is
> located inside a small restaurant.
>
> No, a chapter is located across the broad region in which its membership
> lives.
>
> Through the years, chapters have come and gone, and chapters have
> altered their geographic base depending on where the members live.  My
> local chapter has, over the past 30 years, migrated northward in within
> its home state.
>
> By joining a chapter, you WILL receive membership benefits, even if you
> are not able to attend meetings.  You will receive the chapter's
> newsletter and other communications.  You will learn of events and
> activities throughout the region.  You will perhaps discover that while
> the chapter may not be based within 200 miles of Mitchell, SD, a number
> of its members -- like you --live closer to Mitchell.  You and these
> members will begin to interact more closely as a result of having been
> drawn together by common chapter membership.
>
> A great example of this is CORSA's Special Interest Groups, which are
> very much like chapters except that they are not tied to geography.  By
> having been a member of Corvanatics, the group serving those with an
> interest in Corvair 95 models, I have connected with like-minded people
> nationwide.  Many of them I have never met, while others I see only when
> I attend a CORSA convention -- and we are like old friends, because we
> have made that connection through the club.
>
> The idea of requiring CORSA members to join a local chapter is, in my
> view, inextricably tied to the debate about requiring chapter members to
> join CORSA.  It absolutely should work both ways.
>
> Choose a chapter and join it!
>
> --Bob Marlow
>
>
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