[sac-forum] Re: The good news, SAC returns to astronomy
- From: "Steve Coe" <stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:27:56 -0700
Thomas;
I agree completely and I hope with all my heart that all of this comes to
nothing.
Jeff, I know the nice person that you are. I have set up next to you at
public events and watched you enjoy showing the sky to eager children, I
have watched you at the ATM meeting helping another club member with a
project. I listened to your presentation to the club and learned about
taking photometric readings of the sky.
I hope you will see that taking out your frustrations on SAC will not yield
the result you want. Please, either stop attends SAC gatherings or just
don't attend the Messier Marathon and enjoy the rest of what we have to
offer. Continuing to think that after a vote of 24 to 3 we are gong to do
anything different about this issue is not the way life in SAC is going to
be.
Steve Coe
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Subject: [sac-forum] Re: The good news, SAC returns to astronomy
Steve, I am new this club, this being my first year. We got outvoted, That
is a fact. I don't feel that any board member or AJ or any-one of the club
members have any mal intent to do harm to any of us. Every one of them have
a good heart, try to teach there fellows astronomers, and make this a fun
thing to do. Please let's drop this and get back to astronomy, and don't
hold hard feeling because we were on the losing side of the vote. Lets be on
the winning side of astronomy and this hobby.
Sincerely
Thomas Hilton
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Sent: 09/17/2005 9:47 AM
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Subject: [sac-forum] Re: The good news, SAC returns to astronomy
A sad day for SAC!
Do the SAC members really believe star parties are dangerous and thus
require waivers?
To me star parties are no more dangerous than life itself. I feel
SAC is shrinking from responsibility by requiring waivers and is very
childlike. What is also sad is I did not see even one good reason for
the waivers.
The key now seems to be not to be a SAC member and then when
attending SAC events just retain your rights and do not sign any
waiver. Since there is nothing SAC can do if you are not a member
that would seem to be the best approach. I'm sure this will come back
to bite SAC. I used to have respect for SAC.
Jeff
At 02:32 -0700 9/17/05, Steve Coe wrote:
Well, the vote has been taken and the Saguaro Astronomy Club has
decided to amend the constitution so that a waiver can be put in
place for the Messier Marathon.
I am happy that both sides got to say what they wanted and that the
vote was finally taken.
So, as I said earlier, let's get back to astronomy. I think we have
beat this horse far too often and I think that SAC needs to return to
what it does best-set up some telescopes and look at the sky.
Looking forward to Cherry Road for next Saturday night;
Steve Coe
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