<VV> Life is a Banquet - don't starve

[Bob Dunahugh]

Yes, we had some banquet problems. My wife set up how it was to be done. And some people didn't follow their instructions. No one got heart, and no one died. That kind of stuff happens at every convention. We're not professionals at it. We're volunteers, that are trying to make everyone happy.
And I understand that a lot of people went away happy including Corsa. I personally raised $5,000 on my own, and the Iowa and Minn. clubs gave up their half of the convention profits to Corsa. How many other clubs have done THAT. I personally never bash anyone that works a convention no  matter what happens. All conventions are perfect to me. I'm just so grateful that they did it for all the rest of us.  Bob Dunahugh Convention Chair.


> From: Sethracer at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:45:53 -0400
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: <VV> Life is a Banquet - don't starve
> 
> Okay - I, too, am sorry that Carl suffered the whims of a Denver door 
> keeper that was told to check for tickets. He has received apologies, and 
> offers. I am not sure where this turned into bash the Corsa Board or officers. 
> As Bob D's repeated complaints illustrate, the Corsa Board has very little to 
> do with how the banquet is conducted. The 2010 banquet was a good example. 
> The awards were a disorganized mess. Example -The 2010 local autocross 
> chair was a nice guy, but "didn't do banquets" and no real results listing was 
> available at the banquet. The slides taken at the autocross were placed in 
> order of the trophies to be awarded, and displayed to everyone - as they 
> were awarded, with no times or car types available. As the fill-in 
> announcer, I had to do some guessing when the car pictures came up. Denver, on the 
> other hand, was very well organized with all the needed info available to 
> the announcers for each event. I was impressed.
> 
> I will air one complaint I have about the awards. A few years ago, with the 
> goal of saving time, a decision was made to bring all of the competitors 
> in an event up front, hand out awards to each of the winners, thank all the 
> remaining folks (losers?) still standing there, and send everyone back to 
> their seats. It did save the time of each winner strolling up from the back 
> corner of the banquet hall to receive their award. But it made a bunch of 
> folks feel awkward going up front to, what, applaud? Anyway, we were told 
> that this year, each chairmen/announcer would call out the names of all award 
> winners, everyone would come up as a group and each would receive their 
> award. It was the first time for this, and, except for a few award winners 
> who didn't attend the banquet, it worked "okay". Rally winners came up and 
> got their awards, Econorun winners came up and got their awards, Model car 
> display winners came up and got their awards, Autocross winners came up and 
> got their awards. And then, each Concours participant was called out, by 
> name, individually, to wend their way up to the front and pick up their 
> award, one at a time. Say, what? Since, it seemed to me, every one who entered a 
> car in the Concours received some award, it would be the perfect group to 
> bring up, en mass, and hand out the Bronze, Silver and Gold ribbons, 
> building up to the Senior class awards, announcing scores as the awards were 
> presented. Over the years, I have sat through my share of midnight-plus 
> banquets so I understand the goal of a reasonable time constraint. But I think a 
> more even-handed approach would be appreciated. I have already communicated 
> this to the appropriate Corsa folks.
> 
> I had fun in Iowa, I had fun in Denver, I will have fun in Sturbridge next 
> year! You can too!
> 
> -Seth Emerson 
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