<CORSA Chapters> Newsletter Question

Thu Jan 3 15:37:34 EST 2019

Hi,

I will put my two cents in too. The official address of a club should be that of your Newsletter Editor as this person must know every member personally and know all that goes on in the club by going to all meetings and printing the minutes of the meeting for all to read. As newsletter editor of the Chronic Corvair, I do  my newsletter like Gary. It is basically just a PC and I use 1993 Word. I am not online and have no way to save to a PDF.  I have been the editor of the West Florida Corvair Club for about 28 years and not by choice. Every year my job is up for grabs and nobody wants to do it. One of our members gave me a computer years ago and we have been putting new memory into it from time to time and the club does not pay for any programs. My monitor is fairly new, but my keyboard is just like I like it and I can type 90 words a minute on it. All my pictures are stored in Paint. My newsletter is simple and it's content is based upon an article I read in Old Cars Weekly that listed all of the things you need to put into a club newsletter. Because we have a small club and only about 15 Corvair owners who participate in our activities, I found out early that the same Corvairs were pictured in every issue and began writing more about our members and what they were doing. CORSA does not like posting the same Corvairs over and over either.  We have a gallery of pictues of our Corvairs so I try to take group pictures and use individual pictures when I talk about a member in the newsletter.  Color Ink is very expensive so I try not to put a lot of pictures in my newsletter. (Yes, I still send out a hardcopy newsletter to some members.) I have several sections in each newsletter: 1. Minutes of the last meeting.  2. What is expected of our Members? (Here I tell them about Dues are due or what activity we will have that month, etc.) 3. The Wonders of Technology. (Here I list different web pages like Old Cars Weekly, email addresses, or online articles.)  4.  How Corvair Lovers Celebrate Living. (Here I put something personal that our members are doing like building a new garage or new engine.) 5. Did you know? (Here I put fun facts about club members or Corvairs.)  6.  Happy Birthday and Anniversary.  7.  Tech Tips or Article.  8.  Chit Chat (Here is where I have a following as I talk about this or that and feel that I am personally talking to each member.)  9.  Club Stores Items For Sale.  10:  Coming Events (I list upcoming Car Shows in our area and of the Southeast area and Activities such as going to a Glenn Miller Concert at the National Naval Museum on NAS Pensacola.)  11.  For Sale. (I list Corvairs or parts for sale.)  12. Club information and How to Contact Us.(At the end of my newsletter along with the names of our officers with their names and telephone numbers and at the bottom a Mailing Face Sheet with a Corvair Drawing on it.)  After doing this job for so long, I just fill in each section with new material and can do a newsletter in no time.  A newsletter is information about members and the more name dropping you do the better. I love all of our members and I think they all know it.  

June Bug Lindsay
Newsletter Editor "the Chronic Corvair"
West Florida Corvair Club

----- Original Message -----
From: DAVE MCCHESNEY via Chapters <chapters at corvair.org>
To: gswiatowy at rochester.rr.com, Gary Swiatowy; Niagra Falls via Chapters <chapters at corvair.org>, David Brown <corvair69 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:51:37 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: <CORSA Chapters> Newsletter Question

As Editor of the Rear Engine Review, the newsletter for the Inland Northwest Corvair Club, I work in much the same manner as Gary.  The working copy is in Microsoft Word and is updated for each issue.  It is then converted to PDF to be sent out. (I print copies from the Word Doc. to send by way of USPS.)  When working with Word, there are a number of options as far as formatting... columns, font, spacing, etc. I also keep past issues on file as PDFs.  They usually take up less memory space than the working docx file, especially if it has a lot of photos in it.
I probably take most of the pics seen in the RER.  I do not get a lot of submissions for things to be included in the newsletter, either.
I also do a newsletter for a writers group I belong to and follow many of the same procedures... someone looking at both would instantly see the simularity.
I don't see a need to have special software to produce a club newsletter. I don't use anything special in writing my age of sail/sci-fi stories either... just Microsoft Word.
Dave McChesney

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> On January 2, 2019 at 10:59 AM "Gary Swiatowy; Niagra Falls via Chapters" <chapters at corvair.org> wrote:
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> I have been doing the Niagara Frontier Corvair Club's newsletter for more years than I can remember.
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> All I use is Microsoft Word. (convert to PDF for mailing)
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> I don't expect to win any newsletter awards, but I think I do pretty well.
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> I start with the previous month's newsletter and delete what I need to and edit upcoming events.
> There are certain items which remain constant.
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> I do a lot of photography, and have pictures of events I attend alone or with club members.
> Our club has a facebook page, I copy whatever I can that may be of interest to members.
> I also have used links found on Corvair Center to interesting articles.
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> I very seldom get input from other club members.
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> I've never asked the club to purchase any new software, then I would have to learn how to use it.
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> Gary SWiatowy
> NFCC
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> ---- David Brown via Chapters <chapters at corvair.org> wrote: 
> > Hi Chapters ,
> 
> I assume/hope this is going to many/most who also help with their Club’s newsletters (if not, please forward).  I want to upgrade our LSCC (Austin Corvairs) newsletter & would like suggestions/options on what other clubs are using.  I see 10-15 each month (from this ‘Chapters list’) & not only enjoy most, if not all of them, but also send them out to select folks in our club who are interested.  HOWEVER, ours is sadly lacking in quality, pictures & content and I would very much like to revamp it.  I know some/many are using older purchased software (no longer available or supported), and I hate the idea of spending club money for on-line subscriptions (the only apparent option?).  Are there any decent software options that are being used that I could adapt/purchase (other than MS Word?).  I am not super computer savvy, but can work through most programs.  Any suggestions are welcome!
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
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> David Brown
> 713-410-9595
> corvair69 at gmail.com
> Sect. LoneStar Corvair Cliub
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