Knight, Karras, Minkin and Herman are no longer eligible for Instructor Discounts

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stentech1 wrote:

Perhaps we should do what other clubs do and have the Execs pay $0000.00 for DE. It is interesting that the people that contribute nothing are the first to gripe about these petty things. If you are just to poor to afford normal DE rates and would like to get a discount on DE get involved run for office and put in the time required to make these club activities happen. If that is not the solution perhaps go back to school get a better paying job. I have a customer that runs a cosmetology school and they have openings for next years classes. If you would like I can get you their phone number.

Steve Meenan

Steve,

We all determine where, when and to whom we devote our free time. Personally, I devote my free time as an unpaid volunteer to my state professional organization as President, and to my synegogue as a member of the Board of Directors, Chairman of a committee and a member of a second committee. In my opinion, both of these organization provide more important services (other than MAW and the ALS fundraisers) to the general public. As President of my professional organization, I organize and lobby to have services and funding provided for children. I work to educate those in my profession, and those who work along side my profession. In additon to those responsibilities there are many others, and the phone calls are emails are never ending. In my positions at my synegogue, I am there to work hard and help our synegogue provide the services needed by our congregation. Between the two organizations, I am at meetings or am working on related items no less than two nights a week. For all of this work, I receive nothing. No pay, no discounts. I generally pay for expenses incurred in this work out of my own pocket. I do it for the greater good.

I do care about RTR, but due to my other responsibilities I do not currently have the time to be an officer. If I had the time to properly fullfill the responsibilites of a position I would gladly run for a position. At any RTR event that I attend, I always offer to help.

I do feel the club and those who were just elected are not leading the club in the proper direction. When I see something that I feel is improper, as a member of the club, I call attention to it so that it may be corrected. The issue with the discounts has been improperly dealt with.