Help Wanted (October 1992)

This post is part of a series of editorials written by Bert Walsh during his tenure as president and past president of the Shasta Historical Society. Readers are advised that his humor is often irreverent and rarely politically correct. 

Click here for the table of contents for the entire collection of his editorials.

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Every time we ask for help in some Society activity, we end up talking to some really nice people. This is kind of uplifting, so we are asking for help again in several areas. If you can meet our exacting requirements, please phone Callie or Bert. The opportunities for advancement are unlimited.

• Serve refreshments from time to time at meetings and Pioneer Plaque receptions. Requires clean fingernails--we can build on that.
• Selling publications at County Fair and Art Faire. Join an elite group in sitting on hard chairs. Must be able to make change.
• Publication distribution. Must be able to count books and make out legible bills. Ability to collect bills is a definite plus.
• Office/clerical grunt work. Involves some exposure to Apple computer and historical trivia. Much exposure to Callie Quint.*
• Cemetery Book, locating pioneer burials from obscure clues. Dealing with irate pot farmers and people who think you are some kind of nut. Some graves require permanent markers, but we can get to that later.
• Proof readers/fact checkers for Covered Wagon articles. Must be infallible and persistent. This offer does not apply to employees of John P. Scripps newspapers or this sheet.

If you see some other area where we should be doing something and are willing to help. please get in touch. I guess that the point of this is that most of the work that keeps your Society going is pretty routine stuff. But we have a lot of fun at it and would like to share all this fun with vou! 

--BTW

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*Callie Quint was an exuberant key volunteer--and early adopter of Macintosh computers--for the Shasta Historical Society from the 1970s to well into the 1990s. An article outlining her contributions to are featured in the Society's annual publication, The Covered Wagon 1999, pp 8-13. The publication is available for purchase from the Shasta Historical Society.

"Close friends and admirers of Callie Quint (she was named California but has always preferred to be known by her nickname) told her that they thought the record of her important contributions to the Shasta Historical Society should be preserved in the pages of The Covered Wagon, rather than entrusting to the fleeting memories of those with whom she had worked. The following is her response."

Callie and her beloved Mac in 1999