Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:16:05 -0500
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: New list (was Re: This list is... )
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike B. wrote:

>  At 2/12/2006 07:17 PM, Barry L. Newton wrote:
>
> > Two Maryland meetings would be just fine with me.
>
>  I think there's a bylaw problem with that...but again, research (i.e
>  reading them) would be needed to confirm. I know that two meetings
>  are mandated, but I'm only vaguely remembering something about one
>  being in Maryland and one in Virginia. If my memory is right, it's
>  not just a tradition, and a good idea, it's a requirement, short of a
>  bylaw change.

Unless the bylaws have been modified since 1970, there are no such
requirements.  The first meeting I ever attended was in Georgetown.  The
next six months or so were in Arlington, just outside Rosslyn.  Then we
moved to Wheaton, Maryland, where we were until moving back to DC to
Elizabeth Cullin's, on Beach Drive.  I lost track of the meeting moves
after the mid-'60s (they were still at Miz Cullin's in 1964) but as of
late 1970 they were being held at the Gillilands' place on Pennsylvania
Avenue, near Washington Circle.  I think it was when the Gillilands
moved to Arlington that "counter" meetings were scheduled for Maryland,
and that this was the first time alternating sites were used.

--Ted White