Hi Everyone,
Quite a few members have made some very nice comments to me regarding my help in getting out the January newsletter at the last moment. Ron Sturgill called me at 7:30 pm Monday night to ask for help.
However, I want everyone to know that it was a TEAM EFFORT.
Monday night Ron Sturgill telephoned the request for help, provided the birthday list, and information on the January 27 Thursday general membership meeting. President Brian and I worked together, by telephone from Willard, Ohio, on his expanding his already completed President's column. Joy, Brian's wife, emailed me his photo and some data from her Maumee location. I obtained the calendar of events from Tony Kirk via the chapter web site, and updated the Chapter Officer and Board of Director information from Brian, again via telephone.
Leeann at Kinko's on Bancroft Street received the completed newsletter from me, via email, at 10:30 pm just three hours after Ron called. It was only 30 minutes to closing but Leeann needed 30 minutes to print a proof copy and email it back to me. After I approved it, with a few changes, Leeann then worked 30 minutes past her 11:00 pm closing, completely alone, all by herself, to ensure the newsletter would be ready for Ron to pick it up Tuesday morning.
IT WAS TEAM WORK THAT COMPLETED A FOUR PAGE NEWSLETTER IN THREE HOURS.
Ron had already printed the banquet insert and Tuesday morning he inserted it into the newsletter, folded, addressed, stamped, stapled, and mailed 116 copies of the newsletter by himself.
All these people deserve our appreciation. This is our chapter members working as a team when the chips were down. This it what it takes to create and mail a newsletter. Team work. Every month, not just in an emergency.
I would ask each of you to consider supporting Shannon as she comes on board as the new EAA Chapter 582 Newsletter Editor and not leave her on her own. It's too much work for one person. If we want to maintain our quality award winning newsletter each month, and continue our quality web page each month, all of us must offer our support by sharing news of our aviation activity even if it is just getting together for breakfast.
It's personal sharing that allows the assembled team to function effectively.
Remember, motivation follows goal, or goal leads motivation. If you want to maintain and ensure the goal of the newsletter editor and their supporting team, to provide the membership with a monthly quality newsletter and web page, you the member must be part of the motivation. You do that by sharing your aviation activities, concerns and thoughts, WHATEVER they may be, from travel, to building, your technical interests, to part failures, tool purchase requests, breakfast meetings, ideas on how to improve the chapter, classified ads to sell your junk (treasure) etc. etc.
If you want it to work you have to be part of it.
You can easily do that by just sharing your thoughts via email, US Postal letter, a telephone, tell a friend or any other way you can think of to get the info to the editor.
Just do it.
Sincerely,
Randall Reihing
NLE 1993 - 2004