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Yes, please! An amazing resource to augment the Archives, but best hurry.

Grant Carpenter

On 4/27/2015 12:06 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Get all the steam experiences of surviving retired N & W employees 
> possible ! Ron H
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> On Sunday, April 26, 2015 6:31 PM, NW Mailing List 
> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> The following candidate for NWHS Board of Directors did not get 
> included on the ballot.
> Dean has agreed to run as a write-in candidate.
> _________________________________________________________
> Candidates for Election to the Board of Directors
> The Norfolk and Western Historical Society, Inc.
>
> Candidate Name: *_Dean Taylor_*
> 1. Describe briefly the skills and experience you would provide to the 
> Society if elected to serve on the Board of Directors.
> I have been involved in fundraising for several projects for other 
> historical societies. I have been a teamleader and lead by example and 
> have a can-do spirit.
> 2. What are the goals, programs and activities you would like to have 
> the Society undertake or improve upon during your term?
> One of the major goals I feel that needs to be accomplished is improve 
> fellowship among the members, which should also lead to an increase in 
> membership. The members need to feel connected and be encouranged to 
> bring in additional people. While the conventions are good activities, 
> they require a great deal of work, and overall may not be appealing to 
> a wide enough base of members to bring a good attendance. Perhaps a 
> major convention every other year with some mini-conventions or more 
> social activities such as Strasburg with 475, or 611 may bring in more 
> folks.
> 3. What ways would you suggest that the Society could improve its 
> operations and the archive?
> *The magazine needs to be brought back in house and produce 6-8 issues 
> in a year. To some members, only four issues seems to be disconnected 
> with the organization. The board needs to have some form of monthly 
> newsletter (electronic) that is emailed out to show the members that 
> the management is interested.Not a over large publication, but just 
> some communication that is emailed direct, not strictly a download. *
> **
> *Perhaps to increase interest in the archives might be have a featured 
> drawing or several drawings that have not been published previously 
> with a small description or explantion as to what makes it 
> interesting. That is a fairly simple task for someone to undertake. It 
> can be a wide variety of material, that applied to history or 
> modeling. Then a feature on the archives itself to make people more 
> aware of what can be seen.*
> 4. What should the Society do, in your opinion to sustain its 
> membership base and continue to be a viable and an effective 
> organization?
> Members need to feel welcome, perhaps some folks who are more outgoing 
> can be appointed as “ambassadors” for lack of a better term, to make 
> new folks at the archive or any event welcome. Making the magazine 
> more than a total rehash of technical articles with is difficult when 
> people are not willing to write or have been discouraged in submitting 
> material.
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