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<DIV><SPAN class=343475014-30072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Amen
Eric! </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Henderson,Eric
[mailto:Eric.Henderson@gartner.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 30, 2003
7:51 AM<BR><B>To:</B> discussion@nsrca.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: new
concepts-Pattern is HARD!!! Darn It!<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=276573613-30072003>Ref,
" </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2>Pattern is hard and that
does scare the average club schmoe. In an effort to entice newbies into
pattern you gotta look for the right guy at the right time.<SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=276573613-30072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>I am in and have been
in clubs with 200 and 300 members. Held a pretty low key fun fly and got six
entrants and 10 plus for the picnic. Most folks just don't like to compete
WITH their aeroplanes. Do rough math and you soon see how small the
pool is of potential pattern pilots. Just relying on few great guys to find
and cultivate the potential pilots is not a strong formula for
success.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=276573613-30072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>The whole point
of writing my Monday notes was to prod for ideas to address the
three R's of pattern, Recruit , Retain and Rejuvenate.</FONT> <FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>If you can accept that the NSRCA is a Society
and not a ruling body, you soon get into what the society should be doing.
Many of us give thousands of personal hours to encouraging others. But what do
we have in the form of tools to help us reach
out.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN class=276573613-30072003><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=276573613-30072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>It is very easy to get
completely wrapped up in what it takes to run contests and keep track of
rules changes and needs etc, but without NSRCA promotion and
recruitment</FONT> <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>efforts we go the way
of the Dodo bird!</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=276573613-30072003>Twenty or less at local contests that used to be 30
-40. A hundred at the Nat's where the only "healthy' class was Masters.
That scares me!</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=276573613-30072003><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><SPAN
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color=#0000ff>Eric.</FONT> </SPAN><BR><SPAN
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