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  February 10, 1998 Previous TMN Issues Review issues of Tuesday Morning CraftNet News from weeks pastIAPHC MidYear Meeting Report I wanted to offer my sincere thanks for your concerned and careful response to the urgent need for crafting a plan to move our Association forward. I felt in my heart that you would respond with support and with creativity. You exceeded those expectations. I also meant what I said several times -- that upon your return to your busy schedules it is only natural that your weekend focus will recede a bit.Therefore, without meaning to be a pest I'd like to recapitulate a few of the weekend highlights and also to remind you of the areas where we must all try to retain energy and focus in order to return the IAPHC to better footing.4 New Platinum Members! Our thanks to Cathy Hatfield of Greater Lexington; Rick Salberg of North Shore; Karen Schuetz of Seattle and Dave Simas of East Bay for emphasizing their pride and passion for Craftsmanship by becoming Platinum members. Dave asked us to bill him and we will do so. Again, if you would like us to send anyone in your club a Platinum subscriber invoice, we would be delighted.As we said, Platinum members are those who voluntarily show their support for the ideals of Craftsmanship by contributing $100. Platinum members expect nothing in return for their generous support other than the expectation that Craftsmanship will continue to benefit future generations of members.Rochester Pins, Shirts and Pre-Registrations 46 of you ordered Rochester Convention pins. Teresa has just finished boxing up each order and they will be going in the mail tomorrow. We may not make a lot of money on each pin, but as you know, every dollar helps! If you would like to obtain more pins to sell at your Club or District functions, just let us know. We also sold our first dozen Rochester Convention t-shirts ... spring is coming, can summer be far behind? Get you t-shirts right here, right now!Lastly we thank Dave Simas for the commitment to pre-register four East Bay Club members for the Rochester Convention; and Patti Wolf for an identical commitment for the Sierra-Nevada Club; and Heinz Hofmann of the Diablo Club who called today to pre-register as well. Like the $1,000 pledge from the Seattle Club for the incoming Chairman's reception in Rochester, all these items help our cash flow and help the Rochester Convention planning process too.CraftNet Challenge II We wanted to again thank several of you for the generous contributions to CraftNet Challenge II which was begun with an initial funding by our Chairman Larry Nelson. Larry Nelson $500 Grand Rapids Club $1,000 North Jersey Club $500 Triangle Club $200 Sierra-Nevada Club $200 We hope that other individual members, Clubs and Districts will be able to join with the above contributors in funding the continued development of CraftNet.Our 24 hour a day, Craftsmen's Club in Cyberspace.International Gallery Commitments I told you about the commitment from Merle Christner with regard the 80 International Gallery entries which will be forthcoming from the Wichita and Mid-Kansas Clubs; and I mentioned the nearly 60 coming from the Portland Club. You heard from Al Forrester of the Yosemite Area Club, and today, Third District Governor Len Petitti called to report that the Buffalo Club has committed to 80 entries. Dave Holman, do you have any early feel for the Detroit entry count? Vicki Crow or Don Davidson or Brenda Millard can you start tracking down Des Moines entries? Diane Graham can you bird-dog the Central Minnesota 18? (Entries that is!) Paula and Tom Steenson can you work on Omaha entries please? In addition, of course, to doing a wonderful job of coordinating the Rochester Convention! And our thanks must also go to Lesley Addy for her determined International Gallery marketing campaign in Ottawa as well as the eastern provinces of Canada.International Gallery Duplicate Orders Today's mail brought 7 duplicate orders from the Central Minnesota Club; and a check for $440 from Alan Grossberg of Grossberg Tyler Lithographers (Color Graphics) in Seattle for 11 International Gallery duplicates; plus other duplicate orders from the 3rd, 8th and 11th Districts. Video Orders Today we received a faxed video order from my one-time secretary Becky Ellefloot. She and her husband Bill now run a very successful printing business in Idaho. I sent them a mailing which included a no-obligation Membership-at-Large invoice (the check for which is in the mail, says Becky) and in which I also included an order form for Elliott King's video "The Professional Guide to Graphic Design and Commercial Printing." Ninth District Governor Shane Hart asked me to fax him the order form and I've done so. On Friday while we were in meetings, the post office attempted to deliver the first batch of six tapes ordered by members including one ordered by Secretary-Treasurer Tony Sarubbi. Again, our margin on these tapes isn't huge, but every dollar of revenue is appreciated and necessary. Speaking of members-at-large In addition to the story I related to you of former East Bay member Judy Cochrane becoming a member-at-large for three years at $120; we received checks from Roger and Nancy Banks of Waco, Texas (3 year renewal) and Galen Bicking of St. Michael, Minnesota (3 year renewal) and of course Bill and Becky Ellefloot. All of them are personal friends of mine.If you know someone in the printing business who is located in an area where we have no club, we would be happy to send them a no-obligation MAL invoice as well!Just get us the name and address, and we'll do the rest. This works, as Jeanann Georgianna, your Vice-Chairman and Frieda Sarubbi your International Printing Week Chair can attest -- we have members in areas without Clubs because Jeanann and Frieda asked us to ask for the order!Membership It was wonderful to hear the ceaseless determination of Lou Woods and Ed Levy in their never ending drive to recruit another member. And I was very impressed by new IAPHC Membership Chair Tony Roraback's suggestion that we ask prospective members for their support of the mission of the IAPHC by becoming members instead of uttering the dreaded 'join' word. There are two things I want to remind you of in the membership area. I agree completely with the comments made by Bill Van Jura, president of the North Jersey Club on behalf of Ed Levy when he reminded us Sunday morning how important it is that we set membership increase goals.1) During the CraftNet meeting on Friday our Webmaster Dan Millsip asked that we give him one sentence testimonials of the value of Craftsmen membership to you. He will then post these testimonials on the soon-to-be expanded membership recruitment section of CraftNet.This is one of those 'do it now' projects. If you could write an e-mail to Dan Millsip with your brief membership testimonial and copy Tony Roraback it would be much appreciated. Dan's e-mail is webmaster@iaphc.org and Tony's e-mail is tonyprint1@aol.comAs an example, the testimonial might say "The networking and Sharing of Knowledge that I receive through my Craftsmen membership has enormously benefited my career in the graphic arts."2) I told you on several occasions of my belief that 8 out of 10 graphic arts professionals have never heard of us. Today I received a call from Bill Zimmerman of Holly Printing in Pulaski Tennessee. He saw the IAPHC logo as one of the sponsoring organizations in the brochure describing the National Skill Standards project. He said he wanted IAPHC membership info and felt that out logo was the most striking of all the organizations listed in the Skill Standards brochure. He also said he had never heard of us!Sponsorships If you have leads for Corporate Sponsorships whether of the International Gallery, CraftNet or the Rochester Convention, please forward them to me or one of the IAPHC Executive Officers. As we all agreed, this is a powerful opportunity which can be maximized by getting to the right person through your assistance. E-Mail Addresses One last plea. I received e-mail addresses from Tom Gross of the Charlotte Club and Dave Simas of East Bay and Jan Johnson of Sierra-Nevada because I asked for them. (You can see in the address block of this message how many of our weekend warriors have e-mail!) Anything you can do to help get more e- mail addresses from your Club is very helpful. Please ask for them at your next meeting. If you would like to print out this IAPHC Mid Year Meeting report and share it with other members of your Club who could not be with us this past weekend, please feel free, and thank you again for your caring for Craftsmanship.Yours in Craftsmanship, Kevin Keane IAPHC Previous TMN Issues Review issues of Tuesday Morning CraftNet News from weeks pastNavigation Tip: Click on the large TMN graphic to return to the most current version of TMN. 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