March 2004
Roaming the Region
by
(aka Gloater), RVC Region 3
My apologies to the editors with the early deadlines. I’m
several days late in submitting this and am actually writing it while at the
Dayton RG (a great RG by the way for those of you that missed it). March was a
heck of a month for me. I wrapped up a great LDW; moved offices at work (with
all associated files and junk) and found out I had a project revision where I
need to have five iterations crammed down into a two iteration bag; and moved
into a new condo on a day that it decided to snow 5 inches. Throw into that
mess an extended weekend in Virginia for the quarterly AMC meeting…. Anyway,
sorry I’m late. Some of you may not be reading this because of it.
The good news is that I’ll probably not be pestering asking
you to submit your proxies anymore. At the end of March, the numbers dropped to
reflect the current actual membership and the proxies associated with it. As
most of us had anticipated, the ratio was in our favor. Regionally we fell from
5217 members to 4193. While that seems like a lot, we still had the best
retention percentage. (Now you see why I sent out that reminder email; even so,
some of you still procrastinated and may also not be reading this because of
it.) The proxies, on the other hand, only dropped from 3157 to a current 2852.
So we are now at 68%. (We kicked Proxy butt.)
Nationally, we fell from 52,398 members to 40,856 and
proxies from about 26,870 to 24,460. Bottom line is we are now just under 60%.
If we get 8,000 new members before the annual business meeting and none
of them submit their proxy, we still have over 50%. Way to go Mensa.
One last topic I’d like to address is that we have 8 groups
in our region that have not yet submitted candidates for the National Nominating
Committee. If anyone out there is interested in getting more involved in Mensa
and would like to serve on this committee, please contact your Local Secretary
or myself for further information.
Got to go now, it’s time for the Hearts tournament. Have a
nice April.
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05/11/2005
