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GIRA DIRECTOR'S MEETING ATLANTA REUNION AUGUST
11, 2001
President Bud Guntner
opened the meeting at 8:00 A. M.
Present at this meeting:
Bud Guntner, Homer Gibson, Bill Yount, Bill Anderson, Bob Thornton, Ed
Wilder, who served as proxy for JJ Ward, John Dziekan, who served as proxy
for Gene Harp, William Fogleman and Lee Schultz, who served as proxy for Bill
Wittkowski
After explaining that it
takes about four months or so after an election for the installation of the
officers and directors of the Association and there is not enough time for
the current starting date of the first of the calendar year for the terms of
offices to begin, Bud asked for a motion to change Article VI, Section 1 to
read: "The starting date of the term of the Officers and Directors of
the Association shall be during the month following the annual reunion”.
Motion made by Ed Wilder
and seconded by John Dziekan. Motion carried.
Bud discussed the fact
that the By-Laws state that the election of the three officers of the
Association shall be conducted at the annual reunion. He then explained that
we have tried to get nominations for the election of the three officers of
the Association and since we have been unsuccessful he then asked for a
motion to postpone the election and to allow the election of the three
officers of the Association to be conducted by mail and voted on by the
Regional Directors at the earliest time following this meeting, no more than
thirty days following the reunion, as provided by Article VII, Section 3 of
the By-Laws of the Association. The Directors elect the three National
officers.
Motion made by Bill Yount
and seconded by Bill Anderson. Motion carried.
Bud then discussed the
fact that we have in the past, tried to set up the place for the reunions two
years in advance, but since then, things have changed. We are all getting
older and are subject to changes in health, as we found out on this reunion,
and hotels and tour groups do not like to make arrangements two years in
advance. The cancellation terms are getting tighter and tighter and we have
to make sizable deposits, which we might not be able to get back, in case we
are forced to cancel. He then asked for a motion to select the place for our
national reunions only one year in advance instead of the two years that we
have been doing in the past.
Motion made by Bill
Anderson and seconded by Lee Schultz. Motion carried.
Bill Yount started a
discussion concerning alternating the place of the reunions between the West
coast and the East coast. Bud explained that the Membership had voted to
have the reunion in 2000 back in Boston, because that was the 60th
anniversary of the school at Gallups Island. During the discussion, Las
Vegas came up and Bud gave an explanation of the events that led to the
cancellation of the reunion that had been planned for Las Vegas for 2001 and
how the reunion in Atlanta came about. Bud mentioned that he had several
letters proposing the location of our next reunion, such as, Oklahoma City,
Atlantic City, Pittsburgh and San Diego. After a short discussion on these
locations, it was decided that the next reunion needed to be held on the West
coast, since the past three had been held in the East. Ed Wilder gave a
report on the preliminary legwork that he had done on holding the reunion in
2002 in San Diego. The Directors voted unanimously to hold the next reunion in
San Diego.
The Secretary/Treasurer,
Homer Gibson, made the suggestion that anyone interested in hosting a reunion
in the future could do some preliminary legwork on their selected site
without making any sort of commitments, and then present his findings at the
next Director's meeting. The Directors would then vote on the various sites
proposed. He also asked that all information that would be published in the
"Spark Gap" be submitted to him before being submitted to JJ Ward
for publication, so that he could make sure that all information that needs
to be included is in fact included. For instance, for the Atlanta reunion,
there was no time allotted for our Director's Meeting or the General
membership Meeting on Saturday morning. Instead, there were two tours
scheduled on the registration form in the Spark Gap, both starting at 9 A.M.
on Saturday morning. The only mention for the cancellation policy was a
statement in bold print that "Individuals may cancel up to 24 hours
prior to their arrival date". This was meant for the canceling of hotel
rooms, not the reunion as a whole. A separate cancellation date should have
been stated on the registration form pertaining to the reunion as a whole,
since the contract with the Tour people stated that they wanted a 50% deposit
by July 12th with final payment due 15 days prior to the starting
date of the reunion (July 25th). Also, a deadline date for
submitting the registration form needs to be on the registration form. The
tour people want a final count for each tour, so that they can make their
reservations and arrangements for the size of buses, etc. Once they get that
final count, that is what you pay for, regardless if you have that many
people or not. This is also true with the banquet meals with the hotel. If
the minimum number of people set for the buses is 35, you pay for 35 people,
even if you only have 15 or 20. When Homer Gibson "inherited" the
Atlanta reunion, on or about July 10th, there were only 8 or 10 confirmed
registrations in hand. On July 11th the hotel taxed him a list of
people who had made hotel reservations. At that time there were only 20
rooms reserved by potential participants. But the reunion registration forms
were not yet in. When these people were called to cocnfirm what they were
planning as far as tours and banquet selections, some of them said that they
thought that they could make those selections once they arrived at Atlanta.
But it does not work that way. Homer was still getting registrations and
cancellations as late as August 10th.
Bud adjourned the meeting
at 9 A. M.
A General Membership
Meeting was held immediately following the Director's Meeting and all actions
taken by the Directors in the Director's Meeting were ratified by the
Membership.
Respectfully submitted
Homer N. Gibson
Secretary/Treasurer
GIRA REUNION 2001 Atlanta,
Georgia August 9 - 11 2001
Adams, Al & Kay Ester R-68
Albers, Ralph & Birdie R-9
Anderson, Bill & Marge R-72
Banks, William & Dixie R-117
Buckles, Nelson &
Zelda R-7
Calderwood, David R-1
Clifford, Ernest R-59
Cruse, Tom R-50
Deck, George & Mary R-84
Devoe, Bill R-19
Dixon, Rion & Ann R-17
Dziekan, John & Rose R-108
Evans, Bill & Terry R-113
Ferguson, Scotty &
Evelyn Ventola R-19
Geiselman, Pat &
Barbara R-72
Gibson, Homer R-51
Guntner, Bud & Arby R-72
Havens, Charles &
Jessie R-77
Hucke, Sam & Marjorie R-15
Hudson, Robert &
Cecelia R- ?
Jaworski, Bill R-99
Jensen, Dennis, Steve
& Jay R-50
Kauder, Eugene, Elizabeth,
Rae Marie R-106
Kilgore, Jack R-63
Lonis, Maynard, Mary,
Robert, Shelia R-61
Marrs, Clyde & Barbara R-40
Mayhew, Robert & Nina
Lombardo R-61
Miller, Walter R-14
Moore, Harrison &
Martha Friend
Opalka, William &
Lotte R-50
Ozbun, Paul & Dorothy R-65
Pearson, Everett R-34
Peterson, Ed & Mary
Ann R-77
Pollitt, Robert & June R-
14
Schultz, Leland &
Maxine R-15
Surina, John & Elaine R-7
Thornton, Bob & Bess R-57
Wilder, Edward &
Delores R-19
Yount, William, Christine
& Saundra R-77
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