<VV> Complaints WAS Buffalo's legacy

[Ken Pepke]

Take a look back and you will find few complains about the Buffalo CORSA Convention ... and lots of support for the Convention and the host group.  The complaints voiced were based upon circumstances leading to, and surrounding the presentation, of the Convention, by persons in the know.  The troubles that group went through were NOT just 'gnats.'  Perhaps five years is too long to feel bad about all the hurt feelings and broken friendships.  Those that lived through all of it will taste the bitterness for the rest of their lives.  If they need to talk about it, I will listen.

The bottom line is there is no longer a line of local clubs bidding to host a CORSA Convention.  

Ken P
Wyandotte, MI
Worry looks around; Sorry looks back, Faith looks up.

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> From: Wrsssatty at aol.com
> Date: July 8, 2011 1:39:05 PM EDT
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> Buffalo's legacy
> 
> I can't believe it's five years later and folks are still complaining about 
> the Buffalo convention.  I have been a supporter of Buffalo and its people 
> since 1982 when I did a summer internship there with the U.S. Department 
> of  Justice.  Buffalo is a beautiful, historic city with world class museums  
> and art galleries, historic architecture,near perfect weather in the  
> summer and some of the nicest people I've met outside of my native West  
> Virginia.  As for the host hotel, well, some time later I returned to  Buffalo for 
> the dedication of Corvair items being donated or lent for exhibit to  the 
> Buffalo Transportation Museum and guess where I CHOSE to stay--the former  host 
> hotel of the convention!  I thought that the events surrounding the  
> convention, especially the once in a lifetime opportunity to tour the engine  
> plant where all Corvair engines had been assembled, were great.  As for the  
> good folks of the local clubs who volunteered for the thankless job of putting  
> on the convention, I again thank and congratulate you on a job well done.
> 
> No convention goes off without a hitch but I would never complain on a  
> public forum about the efforts of anyone who has volunteered more for all of us 
> than I ever will.  That said, and without naming names, I have been to  
> conventions that, in my opinion, had much less to recommend them than the  
> Buffalo convention yet there was nary a peep from the usual nay sayers  
> afterward.  I think folks have choked on the gnat of problems at the  Buffalo 
> convention and swallowed the camel of problems at some other  conventions.
> 
> ~Bill Stanley
>  NJ