This is a call for applicants for the Astronomical League's Horkheimer and Sterns Awards. Time is getting short to apply for these two League awards. The...
Greetings fellow stargazers! If the weatherman is right, it looks like there will be more than the bottom side of clouds to look at Friday night, March 7, for...
A project thought up by myself and the folks at the Yahoo Group amateurastronomyonline, is now online. It is meant as a one-stop resource center for everything...
Greetings to all! The Lux Astrae Web Site (http://www.luxastrae.tk) has been updated to include the new question, for March 6, 2003. Last week's question was a...
Steve, I'm a renegade too, but I have gone to Netscape 7.0 and it is a vast improvement. The tabbed browsing feature is worth the price (free). One window,...
Hello, all! I have just signed back up on the astro-officers list after being gone for a while. I have a few questions but I will try not to flood the list...
You can be sued by anyone for any reason, whether they have a case or not. It's part of our society, and we just have to live with it. The best way to deal...
OK Astro-officers: here's the deal- I just joined this group - got the confirmation yesterday. While I find it appropriate to discuss this issue, it feels...
S M MOE, JEAN GRENDLER
moegren@...
Mar 17, 2003 5:07 pm
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The last two posts on this topic offer good advise. The best advise is to get your organization incorporated in such a way that the members, be they board,...
Lathes responses have all been very good. Let me just add that a person who is on a Board of a club would also do well to get an umbrella policy on their...
Hi, Dawn -- This is Jackie Beucher, Exec. Sec. of the Astronomical League. As you may know, we offer a liability policy to our member clubs -- but it is JUST...
Jackie Beucher
m31@...
Mar 18, 2003 2:57 am
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Jean -- You ended up with the same insurance company that the League uses -- Safeco. Our agent company, Seabury and Smith is alive and well, and have not...
Jackie Beucher
m31@...
Mar 18, 2003 2:57 am
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Hi All, Thanks for your input. Just for some more background: our club was founded in 1945 and we are a 501 (c) 3 organization. We do carry insurance and we...
Okay, Next question. Our club has had a serious lack of clear direction in recent years and I am working with the V.P. and Past President to create a business...
We are not yet a 501 c 3. We have insurance from the AL that covers the board members except in the case of willful negligence. Sue Rose, Pres Amateur...
502c3 status has nothing to do with liability. It relates ONLY to tax exempt status, such that someone making a donation to your club may deduct the ...
Sue, over the years I have seen a number of these types of websites. I
feel that they are nothing but a ploy to solicit monies from people who are
enamored...
The Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers' League (NEKAAL), is building a new telescope for Farpoint Observatory (MPC Code 734). This will be a folded Newtonian...
I find two things funny about this. First, this foundation wants to preserve human relics on the Moon. Why? There's no one about to go there and the objects...
Hello Graham, Why request replies offline? The selection of mounts for research telescopes is an on-going topic of consideration for two clubs where I am a...
There were two reasons for requesting comments off list, neither of which may be valid. The specifics for the scope are rather specific, and mounts supporting...
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