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From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] Lower Library
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 10:57:29 +0100
In-Reply-To: <004001c0eb9f$d55c5760$d701010a@eor>


In message <004001c0eb9f$d55c5760$>, The Stevens Family
<> writes
>Perhaps, the SOG should be thinking about recruiting some more volunteers,
>together with a supply of cast off bits of computer, so that they can do a
>similar sort of thing. It's hard work and very time consuming (does not leave
>much time for your own FH) but when I see the joy that our visitors get from the
>computers you realise that it has all been worthwhile.
>
Thanks for this update. You have done a very comprehensive and excellent
job in Berkshire - I may even be tempted to join the Berks FHS and cross
the border from Bucks; although as an avowed Republican I may be barred
from crossing the Thames into a Royal county...
As you know the SoG has a good and loyal band of volunteers. Those
with the necessary skills in the computing and IT arena are however
sadly depleted in number due to the disloyalty and downright rudeness of
the Society in abolishing the Computers Committee and not even writing
to the members thereof to inform them that that Committee was disbanded
and their services were no longer needed. It was strange to receive a
letter from the former Director thanking me for volunteering and
welcoming me to the Computers Committee then nothing but silence from
the present Director on its abolition. If you see the Society limping
along it is probably something to do with the .45 calibre holes in its
feet. What you suggest the Society does is praiseworthy and would have
been just the type of challenge the Computers Committee would have risen
to.
--
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake
(who started volunteering again at the SoG Fair, but is starting to wonder
why...)

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