A few thoughts: Too frugal to pay yearly dues for dues would strain a tight budget, priorities. Proximity to a chapter to attend meetings No desire for social interaction No need for Guild association for advertising purposes No place to store the accumulating journals :-) However, I am sending my application to the Boston Chapter tomorrow. Regards, Jon Page At 07:59 AM 7/18/99 -0500, you wrote: > > List: > > The piano chairperson of a prestigious music school was in Dallas this past > week and gave a recital in our auditorium. I had a delightful conversation > with her about schools, pianos, etc. She asked if I knew the head tech at > her school. I didn't. I looked in our directory, and he is not a PTG > member. > > Have we made any real effort to ascertain why some obviously good > technicians have not found membership in PTG to be important? I'm not > talking about the accusatory "why are you not a member?" but something more > like "Is there something about PTG that keeps you from wanting to join?" I > really think we could learn a lot about ourselves and our organization if we > asked some prominent non-members why they aren't in PTG. > > dave > _______________________________________________ > > David M. Porritt, RPT > Meadows School of the Arts > Southern Methodist University > Dallas, Texas > dporritt@swbell.net > _______________________________________________ Jon Page, Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jpage@capecod.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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