<CORSA Chapters> Member participation

[gswiatowy at rochester.rr.com]

You are not alone. My last chapter meeting had 3 members in attendance, 3 officers.
Seems a lot of out other members always have conflicts with other activities. On occasion we do maybe 10 members at a meeting, but that is the exception. Mostly we see 5-6 at a meeting out of a membership of 40 or so. Many of us though are scattered, 3 plus hours away. Some are only members to get the newsletter and we may never meet them. Age and health issues do not help either. We do have a few younger members and I hope some day to get more.

This is not unique to corvair clubs either. I have been a member of other Marque clubs, and general car clubs. Life sometimes gets in the way of things like car club meetings. And it has been my "experience" with other car clubs that personality clashes can drive memmbers away, as well as cliques.

Gary Swiatowy




---- Ned Madsen via Chapters <chapters at corvair.org> wrote: 
> I was just wondering about club participation in other chapters. Here in Wichita we have about 30 dues paying members. Some of these folks, I've never seen in my 15+ years in the club. We regularly get about 10 members at monthly meetings. We might get that many to participate in a road trip event. We only get about 5 or less to go to near by events outside our club. It doesn't sound like much, until you look at the percentage.
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> I'm wondering how other clubs do? Do you get 30% of your members to show up at meetings or events? Is 17% a big number to travel to other events?
> Do we have a problem or are we just a small club?
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> Inquiring minds want to know,
> Ned
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