Hello Guild Members,

You should have received your guild rosters in the mail within the
last few days (if you have paid your dues!) Organizing the rosters
with membership cards for the right people in the right envelopes is a
bigger job than you might think and big thanks go our to our
treasurer, Valerie Nelson, for this task.

Included in the mailing was a questionnaire about the guild. Thanks
also to those who have already filled out and sent in their copy.
Those who haven't yet, please take a moment to do so. It is quick and
easy. One respondent to the questionnaire said it would be easier to
complete if he/she knew the stated purpose of the guild, so I am
including that below in the copy of the email that I sent out
previously (only two people responded to that email, so if you were
not one of them, you still have a chance now!)

Thanks.
See you at the guild holiday bash and the Sonoma Puppetry Festival
(and if you don't know about these great January events, read your
newsletter!)
Michael Nelson
President, SFBAPG

PREVIOUS EMAIL WITH GUILD PURPOSE AS STATED IN THE BYLAWS:

In order to help your board better serve the membership of SFBAPG I
would like to use this email list as a forum, as I think that
currently this is the best way to reach the most guild members. I
hope you will help me by responding either by replying to this list
(so that your response is readable by all of the email list
subscribers) or by responding to me personally if you do not wish all
list subscribers to read your response (at mail magicalmoonshine dot org -
I will take your responses into account but respect your wishes as to
how to use or share the response.)

The following is from the Constitution and Bylaws:
SECTION 2. PURPOSE - The purpose of this organization is to encourage
and promote puppetry as a means of communication, as a performing art;
to enhance the proficiency of the art of puppetry, both professional
and amateur, by publications, workshops, conventions, meetings,
lectures, advisory services, and any and all other means and methods.

QUESTION: Do you feel that this description is still relevant to
SFBAPG (is this an accurate description of what the guild should be
doing?) Does it need to be revised, updated (if so, how?
Suggestions?) Would you add anything? Remove anything? Where do you
think the guild should be focusing its attentions, efforts? Are we
serving puppetry and our members as best we can?

RELATED QUESTION: Why did you join the guild? Is the guild what you
wanted it to be or what you think it should be? Is it doing what you
think it should be doing? Areas of improvement? How can we bring the
guild into the new millennium, make it relevant to now?