[DeTomaso] Profiles

[Charles McCall]

Dear Judy

Your views regarding Mike and the timeliness of the magazine have been made
more than clear on many occasions. 

Everyone would like to see 4 timely issues published per year - POCA
members, the board, you, me, and probably more than anyone, Mike. 

I'm reminded of the message of the POCA president over the past few months -
if you don't like something about the club, do something about it besides
just complain. 

It's easy to sit on the sidelines and criticize the work of those who are
dedicating their free time for the benefit of the club. Think you can do
better? Run for office. Demonstrate that you can do better. Maybe it isn't
as easy as it seems...

Mike has run unopposed for the past zillion years, as apparently there are
exactly zero volunteers willing to do the work for the same pay (?!) I wish
the magazines were more timely, but I am unable/unwilling to take over the
job and see if I could do better so I am thankful that Mike does what he
does. (I'm also thankful for the work that Jack does)

As I am unwilling to take the bull by the horns, I do what I can to help
make his job easier by contributing when I think that there is something
newsworthy. 

I'd humbly urge all members to do something similar. Don't like something
about the club? Instead of criticizing from your living room, run for
office. Perhaps you may find that being in charge isn't as easy as it
appears. 

Don't want to run for office? What can you do to help make the club a better
place to live? Write an article. Have you participated in an event? Take
pictures. Find a volunteer among the participants to write something.
Contribute positively instead of simply criticizing those who are doing
their best. 

Just my point of view. 

Charles McCall
Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323


-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at poca.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf
Of fastgrandma
Sent: viernes, 14 de diciembre de 2012 19:13
To: mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk; detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Profiles

I'm only going to comment that all of this should've been published in 2011.
A sad thing is that we haven't and will not have any 2012 Profiles which
actually you all should've been reading #4 by now according to POCA Bylaws.
Also sad to have the number of typos as well as a misspelling of one
contributor's name; likely won't get anything more from him.


The other sad thing in publishing this monstrosity is it cost POCA a great
deal of money due first to size which necessitated larger envelopes, and the
weight.  The only good thing out of that was that our very great printing
company pushed themselves to get it out in the time they did; this effort
was great and we're really appreciative to them in their effort to have the
Newsletter in your hands pretty close to the usual date.



I do want to point out that Drew really should not have mentioned Jack's
name in his sorry sounding editorial as it IN NO WAY reflects Jack's
feelings on being Editor of the POCA Newsletter.  Jack enjoys publishing a
monthly edition and has never slacked off due to anything over the last
many, many years including vacations.


Judy










-----Original Message-----
From: Mikael <mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk>
To: detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
Sent: Fri, Dec 14, 2012 6:18 am
Subject: [DeTomaso] Profiles


...has arrived! Thicker than ever. And together with the Newsletter. Is
there no limit to the happiness of being a DeTomaso owner??? :-)

Funnily enough my four favorite cars are all pictured in Profiles: Panteras
(obviously), Longchamp (mine!), 60s Camaro and a Ferrari 365 GTC/4 (almost
bought one instead of my first Pantera!)

Great work Mike, Lori, Ross, Russ, Chris and all the other contributors.
It's going to be difficult to get my attention this weekend...

Mikael

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