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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This month, in this space, we are proud to unveil our new Database Enhancement Program designed to radically revitalize your Society.
How does it work? Simplicity itself. Every one of our 600 members will send out 10 letters to friends and acquaintances asking them to send $12.50 to join the Society. With 100% cooperation we should gain 6,000 new members. Carrying this forward one step, if every one of the 6,000 new members writes to 10 other individuals asking them to send $12.50 to one of the original 600 members we will have 600 new historical societies each with 100 members.
Beyond this the math gets kind of difficult, but the implications are staggering. With 66,600 active historians in the area, setting up and scheduling meetings could become a problem. However, on the plus side, the Covered Wagon would start to look like the National Geographic, Viacom would show nothing but the History Channel, and no doubt we would pick up at least 20 more volunteers.
OK, gang, you have caught the vision, so let's whip out those ball-point pens and start writing our friends and neighbors.
--BTW
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