Jim, since you are organizing this proposed chapter, I have a few questions that possibly you can answer. Some were asked previously but are way down on the board so I though I might just reiterate them once again. As was stated down the line, most people are afraid to come forward with their questions and are just keeping quite for their own reasons.

Believe it or not, I have yet to take a firm position one way or the other as yet so please don’t take these questions as a personal negative reaction.

1. If we do have a chapter, can people not belonging to the new club attend the annual trade session at the convention as we were able to do in this last convention. If one must be a member, then I believe we are excluding many people who would otherwise like to participate in the cards/key trading sessions. And if one doesn’t have to be a member, then why should one become one.

During this last convention, I attended trading sessions all day Wednesday, and every morning and evening (except Thursday evening) from Thursday through Saturday. Please tell me what belonging to the new chapter is going to be able to do for me that we can’t do now.

I am not limiting this questioning just for cards and keys. Although I am not a silver strike collector, I can’t see the reason for that chapter either. But in any case, we are miles ahead of the silver strikers. We have our own Bulletin Board thanx to Mike; we have our own newsletter thanx to Pat; we have our own price guide books thanx to both you and Pat and your co-authors and we have our combined trading sessions at the convention thanx to the board of directors ( and as Bob or someone else said, for less than $10.00 we could have our own suite for trading if necessary.

Different chapters of the CC>CC are necessary so that area groups can get together during the rest of the year to trade, buy and sell. I know that both the Southern California and Northern California chapters welcome us slot card people as I suppose do other chapters.

If we didn’t have such a thing as the CC>CC, then I definitely see a need for a slot club, but since we do have the CC>CC, I do not yet see any additional benefit.

2. Why to we need by-laws or officers. This is assuming such would be the case if a chapter was established. Most of us know each other on a personal basis by this time and I don’t remember any confrontation occurring that needed a intermediary. On the large part, most of the cards and keys sell for a modest amount and I don’t believe anyone ever really got hurt by a bad transaction.

3. What will the dues be used for? If there is a specific purpose for them, then let us know about it.

I suppose I should ask Nate why he approached you and Pat during the convention and asked that you set up a special chapter. Do you know the reason and if so, can you tell us? I hope the Board is not considering disallowing slot cards to be traded in the future. I saw many dealers selling cards at the convention and that certainly would curtail sales if that was the case. Saturday nights trading session was evenly split between Silver strike collectors, card collectors and chip collectors.

It’s almost midnight and I’m getting tired and even though I have more questions, I must finish for the night as this old man is getting tired. Bottom line is, that if a chapter is to be formed, I will join it, but at the moment I can’t see the reason or the benefit of it. Please enlighten me and the rest of the silent persons so that if we are going to join, I can start saving up for the dues.