Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 14:34:01 -0500
From: mittle@watson.ibm.com (Joshua Mittleman)
Message-Id: <9403101934.AA23683@blinn.watson.ibm.com>
To: antir@kwantlen.bc.ca, sca-west@ecst.csuchico.edu,
        carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu, calontir@unl.edu,
        nordmark@ludd.luth.se, northshield@stolaf.edu, e5@uriacc.uri.edu,
        sca-reform@MIT.EDU, jaymin@maths.tcd.ie, lgrant@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie,
        rgoff@mcimail.com, 71233.3035@compuserve.com, MMS6824@tntech.edu
Cc: mittle@watson.ibm.com
Subject: The recent past and the near future
Comments: Please forward to all SCA bboards and mailing lists
Reply-To: mittle@watson.ibm.com


Greetings from Arval!

As most of you know, three directors resigned last week: the chairman, Tir
Moran, and Victoria Teasdale and Karen Hatten.  Three directors were named
at the special meeting earlier this week to replace them: Duke John
Bearkiller (John Fulton, Meridies), Duchess Ysabeau Cameron (Elizabeth
Johnson, Atlantia, past chairman of the Board), and Count Cire of Greymoor
(Eric Mohr, An Tir, past director).  They have all expressed interest in
hearing from the populace; their addresses are given at the end of this
note.

I expect that everyone hopes that the past week's resignation and
replacements mark the beginning of the end of the present crisis; that is
certainly my sincere hope.  However, I must point out that nothing has
changed.  The Board is still not accountable to the membership nor
representative of its interests.  The Estrella documents signed by the
Crowns are unanswered.  The Board made no special effort to consult the
Crowns or the general populace in appointing new directors; indeed, it is
hard not to see their rush to fill these vacancies and their choice of past
directors rather than new nominees to provide new perspectives as a repeat
of the mistakes of 22 January.  All the offending policies stand:
compulsory membership, pay-to-fight, the membership fee hike, the
restriction of Board minutes, the new exchequer reporting policies, the
SCAM, renting the mailing list, etc.  We all hope that the new directors
will heed the protest that has brought them to office and move quickly and
decisively to establish a new relationship between the corporation and the
Society it exists to serve, but we must make it absolutely clear that we
require real change.

Therefore, I ask you each to sit down today and write another letter to the
Board, and to send a copy to your Crown.  Continue to collect signautres
for impeachment and if you have some signatures already, please send them
_today_ to one of the addresses on the petition form; the petition is our
best means to demonstrate widespread support for real change.  Even though
it is partly out-of-date, a successful petition drive will send a message
that cannot be mistaken.

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Replacement directors:

Elizabeth Johnson, 7875 Wintercross Lane, Springfield, VA 22152

Eric Mohr, PO Box 59821, Renton, WA  98058

John Fulton, 2494 Hollins, Memphis, TN 38112

Previous directors:

A. J. Riviezzo, 2323 South Troy #210-D, Aurora, CO 80014

L. Jane Richards, 2925 South 7th Street West, Missoula, MT 59801-2021

Randall Tatro, 164 Everest Road, Milton, VT 05468


Please remember to send a copy of any letter to a director to the corporate
office:

   The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.
   Renee Signorotti, Corporate Secretary
   P.O. Box 360743
   Milpitas, CA 95036-0743