[20014] in APO-L
Re: Summer vs Winter Nationals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Dean)
Tue Jan 26 19:53:40 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:53:00 -0600
Reply-To: Robert Dean <deanrl@GTE.NET>
From: Robert Dean <deanrl@GTE.NET>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Richard Edward Vehlow wrote:
[snip]
> But for the staff who you elect to serve you, they have to
> sacrifice a lions share of this week year after year after year (many regions
> have conventions in the xmas weeks in between Nationals) andmost of these
> older folks have families, most members of whom are NOT APO members. For the
> love of the fraternity, they will probably never complain to you. And even if
> you always have Christmas week free, wouldn't you want to leave some of your
> Christmas holidays free to do other varied activities? Believe me, painful as
> it was at times to not go to Nationals this past year, this was only the
[snip]
This is the best reason to keep it at Christmastime. Having to
coordinate vacation schedules over the summer months, so that all the
various alumni staff can attend, would be a LOT harder than trying to
coordinate over Christmastime, which more of us get off (except for
accountants dealing in Fiscal Year = Calendar Year).
Measured against each other, the summer conference is a bigger
imposition than a Christmas conference for most brothers...*especially*
the alumni who help implement the by-laws which the active members have
ratified.
Besides, if you moved it to the summer, how could you celebrate the new
year with gobs and gobs of brothers from across the country??
LFS,
Robert Dean
Omega Epsilon '93
Section 48 Communications Chair
Theta Epsilon Chapter Advisory Chair
