Letter to the BOD and Members
Hi Jack, just one point I’d like to respond to. You asked where Airmail content will come from without B Jan. Every issue is full of tech day reports , ride reports and other stuff *of interest to all of us*, contributed by members.
I think B Jan does a good job putting together the magazine. Some of us merely object to paying for his monthly soapbox for his personal opinions and biker fiction. If he would stay as editor, continuing to assemble and collate the contributions from the members, I think most people would be happy.
The rest of the contentious BOD issues don’t really matter much to me.
Eric Zwicky
13780
Richmond VA
So, were the three BoD’s working behind the other’s back in hiring the new editing company? You say there is no power grab but the actions of you three say differently. You guys have lost the confidence of a large percentage of the membership it seems. I don’t know how you’re going to pull this club out of the hole you three have dug, but you’ve spiked my curiosity.
Doug
#17074
@5542 Your reply above….
“The Board of Directors meets by a Zoom type platform. We have enough problems maintaining order with 5. With the full membership it would be impossible. The minutes of the meeting are posted in the Airmail magazine. ”
I call BS. As an active Board member of a non profit for many years, and hosting monthly zoom meetings with our members, is NOT impossible.
The fact (surprising fact) that this BoD’s meetings are hard to control is insightful. But including members to view with muting inplace to avoid disruptions is easy to do and the Zoom platform has options for the meeting ‘host’ to set this up. So denying access to members due to things being uncontrollable is not true.
Getting the month old synopsis/minutes of the monthly meeting does no good and sheds no light on what is going on to cause the contentiousness we currently have going on.
I agree about the bs part. I received an email from the nh Airmarshal containing the latest bod letter. Nothing but spin and distortions. The only director I know is hille and I am not impressed with him. He bans members from “his” tech days and camp outs. He proclaims that members who are not vaccinated are not welcome. Not allowing for members personal, medical, moral or religious beliefs. Sounds like a dictator to me. The “vaccines” did not protect people from infection, nor did they stop the spread of infection. There should be no place in the ABC for a director or Air Marshal to ostracize other members based on said directors’ personal beliefs’.
I vote for the duo and B. Jans’ reinstatement.
The ABC should not allow cancel culture or the opinions of a few to decide the future of the club.
The trinity should be removed from office.
John Lucas 15393
This feels like the Joe Cuda fiasco all over again!!! Only worse.
Posted by: @jarthurRather than complain about content, provide your own contribution to an editor. It most likely will be welcome and well received.
Jack, This has not been my experience with BJan. I've had articles published in other magazines and am a fair writer. I have never received any feedback from Jan, or even acknowledgement that an article had been submitted. For 12 or more years I have coordinated monthly barley therapy in SE Michigan during the winter. Jan never seemed to want to post the notice in Airmail and I just gave up. I have on occasion written a "letter to the editor" of Airmail. No acknowledgement. No appearance in print. Perhaps there was only so much stuff he could fit in on any given month. Understood.
I personally like Jan's "fictional" stories. Nevertheless, I'm sure Jan and I have voted differently in elections. So what? Club Cannons. But, he was a relatively unresponsive editor who produced a magazine that looked like my high school newspaper. ABC can do better!
John Deikis
ABC #5556
I support the removal of B. Jan as editor. His political/social commentary (Luddite Creed) have been a problem for some for as long as I can remember (>20ys) I suspect a person’s feelings about B. Jan have more to do with one’s own political/social opinions than with their love of airheads. I believe this should not even be an issue in Airmail, and if it is, remove the cause. I have written several letters to the editor criticizing some of his comments. None have been published. W.M. 5059
@13780 Editors voice their opinions and not everyone agrees with them. But I get it. I know people who quit taking newspapers over an editorial comment.
Editors voice their opinions and not everyone agrees with them. But I get it. I know people who quit taking newspapers over an editorial comment.Posted by: @bret
I keep seeing comments like this and it doesn't really apply here. The Airmail is a newletter for enthusiasts. It's not a newspaper or journal where the editors / opinion writers are expected to write about politics and the world around us.
The only job an editor of a hobbyist newsletter should be doing is managing the layout, checking submissions for spelling, editing them for style and form, etc.
There's no reason we should have to pay $30 a year to give one guy a soapbox for his political and social views which clearly do not represent all of the club membership. And he clearly doesn't (didn't), as evidenced by the complaints we have read in this forum.
@13780 "The Airmail is a newletter for enthusiasts."
It quit being a newsletter when it became a propaganda outlet with redacted content.
"And he clearly doesn't (didn't), as evidenced by the complaints we have read in this forum."
Cherry picked complaints. There is a lot of disgust over this firing of a club founder and the dishonorable way it was done.
Publish content to support a preordained outcome. See propaganda comment above.
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