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October 17, 1981

Dear Adrian,

I’m sorry to be slow on informing the Board members about the election results, but I got bogged down in other things. In the only race, Arian Cyr won. There were no write-in candidates for unfilled jobs. Therefore, the Board will at first consist of Adrian and Jennie, Jere and Eden, and John. Maybe someone from another region will come to the meeting wishing a seat.

I am enclosing a copy of the Bylaws (that’s who the dictionary spaces it) which I found in the material I received in January and will have more copies at the meeting. These don’t have the amendments from last year’s business meeting about election procedures and I was told we also did away with the People’s Assembly. Does anyone have a copy of that material? I’ll see what Doug Barnett, who was the secretary in 1980, has–but maybe not before the meeting. Perhaps someone in Houston could check in with Steve Caldwell, who sent out the ballots, to see if he has any copies of just what they said. Obviously they all got returned to him.

It looks to me from the way the Bylaws are written that we could seat anyone in a vacant position regardless of geography. Obviously that isn’t the intent but it is the wording–the qualifications seem only to apply to nominees.

I am hoping to send out another newsletter right after the Board meeting, before the postal rates go up on November 1. Though Jere will be gone, he’s been addressing the envelopes. He also keeps up the membership list, and I hope to have the figures for the meeting, but in spite of maybe 20 or more renewals, along with the election ($350) I fear that our membership is going to total less than 100 who have renewed since July 26, 1980.

Because this is a time tight schedule, I would appreciate very much if the people frm [sic] Houston and El Paso could bring to the meeting anything that they consider of general interest, all written up, ready to go into that newsletter. I have a number of things more or less ready for it, but believe that this kind of local news can bae [sic] very interesting to others. Someone in Denton is scanning TWT, but local ideas of what is important may be more useful.

We didn’t say who should set up the agenda for the meeting, and so this isn’t an official one obviously, but we do need something to go by. The items I can think of include:

A. Officers and Committees: Reports
1. Minutes of the last Board meeting–we didn’t keep minutes, all being exhausted. Shall we consider what was in the newsletter as minutes and approve or amend those?
2. Report on finances and on membership. (Bogle)
3. Committee report on conference (Willingter?)
4. Other?