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Palm-Mensa
Palm Beach County Mensa Newsletter
November, 2005
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Notes from the Underground
by Barry Karas
ELECTION. We will be having an election soon, and it is time to think of who'll you want for leadership of your chapter of Mensa. I thoroughly enjoy what I am doing and I intend to run again.
BYE BYE STEVARINO. Louis Nye, who made famous the phrase "Hi Ho Stevarino" on the old Steve Allen TV show just died. I usually don't pay attention to obits, but the phrase was so prevalent when I went to junior high school. Pity any guy of about 60-62 with the first name of Stephen or Steven -- the rest of us said, "Hi Ho..." when we ran into them.
E-MAIL. Many of us have e-mail. Some of us receive a lot of messages. I have a program which lists the sender and the subject. The program also allows me to view the entire message if I am unsure of the sender [which it lists also] and/or the subject matter.
SPIES? There was a rumor in London during the blitz in 1940 that German spies were dressed as nuns. Can you imagine -- normally reserved Brits looking askance at every nun? If this is true, someone somewhere had a sense of humour [the Brit way of spelling it] or that person was warped. I would believe the latter.
RVC Column
By Maggie Truelove
Inspired by the offer of free evaluation of prior evidence during August, I sponsored a competition based on which group in Region 10 gained the most new members during August and September. Congratulations to Tampa Bay Mensa for gaining 14 new members during the competition! This was double what the second place group, Central Florida Mensa, gained. Tampa Bay receives the $100 prize.
I am pleased to announce that the fledgling Region 10 website is up and running. Hopefully, starting with the November issues of the newsletters, the editors will send me their newsletters in PDF form, and the newsletters of the region will be available to all of us to read each month on the website. This is only the beginning; hopefully, the website will grow to meet the needs of Region 10. Website address is www.region10.us.mensa.org
There have been member concerns recently that the AMC was planning to "outlaw" ride sharing and roommate matching based on risk management issues. Based on these concerns, the AMC voted to strongly recommend that websites of local groups and websites of local/regional/national gatherings direct members to the site's "bulletin board" or "forum" area for members to make their own event-specific ride-sharing or room-sharing needs known and worked out. This removes American Mensa, Ltd. (AML) from direct involvement in this process.
Also at the September meeting, a motion failed that would have amended the host contract for Annual Gatherings, Colloquia, and Mind Games to have the national office handle advance registration processing, online registration, financial accounting (receivables and payables), and oversight of onsite registration, exclusive of providing non-staff volunteers to man onsite registration. The national office will continue to offer these services, if requested to do so by the host group.
At the request of the WG06 chair, Elissa Rudolph, I announce in this column when there are positions that need to be filled for the World Gathering. Last month it was for someone to be in charge of stuffing the goodie bags, as well as for volunteers to help with this effort. This month we are also searching for someone to be responsible for signage. If you have attended an Annual Gathering, you have seen signs by each door, showing which program is in that room. The person we are looking for is the one who will make all those signs. To volunteer for ANYTHING for the WG, email: volunteers@WG06.us.mensa.org
Maggie Truelove, RVC10
RVC10@us.mensa.org
RVC10@cfl.rr.com
Member News
Palm Beach County Mensa ended October with 333 members. We gained 10 brand new, renewing or moving into our area. Welcome or welcome back to: Matthew Laskowski, Catherine A. Riccio, and Arthur J. Blyden. Come on out to an event (the First Friday is an event favorite), organize one yourself, or write an article for this newsletter.
Happenings at the Palm Beach County Library System
Happenings at the Palm Beach County Library System
Definitely check this out!!
http://www.pbclibrary.org/nov05Happenings.pdf
Andy Ritchason
mensa@ritchason.net
23053 Old Inlet Bridge Dr
Boca Raton. FL
Note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors and DO NOT reflect opinions of Palm Beach County Mensa, its officers, or of American Mensa, Ltd., which holds NO opinions.
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