[DeTomaso] Profiles

Mon Dec 17 09:12:40 EST 2012

There is absolutely no need for an organization, such as ours to be torn  
apart by such direct and excessive negative critic of a fellow club member. 
It  serves no real purpose to attempt to poison all the others because of the 
views  of a few, be it accurate or not. I caution us all to be careful of 
our  words as they all to often become our actions and our actions define our 
 character. In short, Charles is right on as he stated in this post.

JP-Texas

In a message dated 12/17/2012 3:16:23 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
charlesmccall at gmail.com writes:

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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