| There is good news to report about the Orlando Show! We are going
ahead with our joint efforts toward combining the force of our numbers with
the overall Guild intentions of providing service and Iiaison functions. Several
new opportunities will await you at the show. We are making an effort this year to add a new dimension to Honorary Membership by asking YOU to PREREGISTER for the show. Why? To give us all a guage of participation, the meeting-room size required, and to qualify all of you for drawings for custom knives (donated by Honorary members). We hope that four or six pieces will be given at various times during the show, including some early-bird specials, and others just before closing each day. There will be a general meeting for us held Saturday so that we can continue our mutual dialog, organize, exchange informaion, and make plans for the future. It is our hope that we can make this a positive thinking endeavor, which requires your interest and talent. Either is required to gripe! In the future, we do hope to have some formal means of addressing sincere and legitimate issues about which we, as well as the Guild Board, are vitally concerned. I would point out that a glacier moves slowly, but generally leaves an earthly seedbed suitable for the raising of many fruitful crops. If we are to seed it to your will for the future, then we need to join together now and determine what areas to cultivate. Should we be so politically incorrect as to ignore this opportunity, who knows what the future may hold! Many of us have expressed various views about what we may think the Board should or should not do. This does not come under our purview, as we are not in the business of producing a product of actual and artistic value which we intend to sell for a livelihood. |
A web site for Honorary members will soon be available, as a part
of the Guild site:
http://www.knifemakersguild.com/honorary
I may now be found at:
mnmarsh@bellsouth.net
May I hear from you soon?
Sincerely,
Milton N. Marshall