[22769] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Section borders questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mariza Shavelle)
Thu Jul 11 17:19:04 2002
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:17:17 -0400
Reply-To: Mariza Shavelle <shavelle@MISTY.COM>
From: Mariza Shavelle <shavelle@MISTY.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.1020711161000.538979374U-100000@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
Quoting Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Packy Anderson wrote:
>
> > According to what I've been told by Craig Muckle (R2 director), the
> > National office likes section boundries to be defined by county lines,
> > which is why there are chapters on the "wrong side" of I-81. The
> > rationale I heard was that county lines would move less easily than
> > interstates. The line dividing 91 and 92 was drawn arbitrarily between
> two
> > chapters to even out the number of chapters between them at the time.
> Then they must love the section 82 split. :) Though meridians are even
> less likely to move than county boundaries. As for 91/92 any idea what the
> county in question is?
I would have to assume that the boundary in question with 91/92 would be
somewhere between Reading and Allentown. I don't have any knowledge more
specific than that however....
Mariza
shavelle@misty.com
