RE: Mission Statement

[cheryl deaton <region15kids@hotmail.com>]

Why limit the Mission Statement to "the gardening community" - shouldn't we be
providing education, exchange of information, preservation and cultivation of
the genus iris ?

Cheryl Deaton

> From: irislynn@willitsonline.com
> To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> Subject: RE: [AISdiscuss] Mission Statement
> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:25:22 -0800
>
> Hi Dennis,
>
> I am not on this committee, but I agree that providing a network for...is
> too limiting. How about "...to provide the gardening community the eduction
> and exchange of information about irises..."
>
> Lynn Williams
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
> On Behalf Of R. Dennis Hager
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 5:24 PM
> To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Mission Statement
>
>
> Thanks, Jim--and back to the mission statement.
>
> "The mission of the American Iris Society is to provide the gardening
> community a network for the education and exchange of information about
> irises, their appreciation, conservation, registration, culture and
> science."
>
> I find this draft of the mission statement lacking in substance. The AIS
> should do more than provide a network. It should take an ACTIVE role in the
> study, protection and promotion of the genus.
>
> Dennis Hager
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <MORRISJE1@aol.com>
> To: <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 6:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Decline is not innevitable
>
>
> > In a message dated 8/2/2009 9:05:26 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> > hager@aredee.com writes:
> >
> > The
> > food has to fit the dish. When you order a 16 ounce rib-eye, you
> > expect it to arrive on a platter--not a salad plate.
> >
> >
> >
> > Quite humorous! But we should sell the sizzle, the size of the
> > platter doesn't matter. The famous restaurant Durgin-Park in Boston
> > serves hubcap sized prime rib on regular sized plates. I like my
> > prime rib hanging over the plate.
> >
> > While all this conversation is interesting, fun even, we should be
> > spending
> > time on a meaningful mission statement (only two people commented) and
> > setting attainable goals first before we make changes just to be making
> > changes.
> >
> > If pictures are worth a thousand words (our movement to more pictures
> > and more color pictures and a website redesign speaks to that), then
> > blooming iris plants are worth ten thousand words, and grass roots
> > affiliates speak to that with their programs, shows, garden tours and
> > sales/auctions. There are many good irisarians in clubs who will
> > never become AIS members and anything we do probably won't change
> > that.
> >
> > In Region 18 we started with a newspaper type bulletin in 1947,
> > converted in Dr. Hugo Wall's term as RVP in 1959 to a "bulletin" size.
> > That was maintained until the "Fall" 1988 issue converted back to
> > 8-1/2 x 11" size. This lasted until the "Fall" 1990 issue which came
> > out in the "winter" and by which time the uproar of protest at the
> > publication size crescendoed and resulted in firing of the editor and
> > a reversion back to "bulletin" size. When I had become Region 18
> > editor in 1982, I was so brash as to change the
> > cover in 1983 and never heard the end of it. The new editor in 1984
> > reverted back to the old cover which held until we conducted a design
> > contest and
> > changed to the current cover in "Spring" 1999. Change is hard to foster
> > in
> > any organization, liberal or conservative.
> >
> > I agree with Clarence Mahan, Terry Aitken and Hal Stahley, three wise
> > past presidents of AIS who have all been through this many times. But
> > meaningful change based on goals and plans is good and something to
> > be attained. Bob Pries has done a fine job of bringing new thoughts
> > and proposed actions
> > to the attention of the Board. That has been exciting. I know we
> > haven't
> > made as many changes as he would like or maybe that we need, but there
> > have
> > been more in the past five years than I can remember in any comparable
> > period. Gosh, just think back when RVPs weren't even invited to attend
> > Board
> > meetings until 1972! The general membership wasn't encouraged to speak
> > until much later. Keep plugging Bob. Decline is not inevitable.
> >
> > Jim
> >
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