MAA
Secretary **
Web Page
address: www.md-archery.org Email: MCGOWANCOL@AOL.COM
MAA NEWSLETTER
To: MAA Club Presidents and MAA Club
Directors
MAA BOARD MEETING REMINDER
Location – Twelfth Precinct Archers –
(See the archery guide for directions)
If you cannot attend the semi
annual MAA Board meeting at Twelfth Precinct Archers, you can email
(MCGOWANCOL@aol.com or fax (703) 476-1755), your clubs official response to
these agenda items to the MAA President, Colleen McGowan. They will be given to
an MAA officer who will serve as your club’s representative. Please note that
they will only be able to vote as you direct them in your correspondence. It
is better to have your club’s vote counted as such rather than your club’s
voice not is heard on important matters.
*** General Information/Reminders
***
Club Shoot Cancellations
Please
remember that when canceling a scheduled tournament that you must, according to
the MAA By-laws, do so 30 days in advance of the date, unless it is because of
some un-foreseen emergency.
Please
contact the VP of Tournaments, Sue Blickenstaff, sueb@carr.org or (410) 346-6727. She can
send out an email to all of the club Presidents/Representative or club contact
person. Also, please contact, Alex
Dodin, the MAA Website Manager (www.md-archery.org), at adodin@yahoo.com.
He will put it up on the website. If you prefer to contact the clubs yourself,
please ask for an email list from Sue Blickenstaff and she will send it to you.
Please make sure that you “CC”, the VP of Tournaments and the MAA President
when sending each cancellation notice out on your own.
Unless the
VP of Tournaments, or the President, Colleen McGowan has heard about the change
or cancellation of a shoot, it will not be official. There were several times
this year that there were rumors of cancelled shoots that were incorrect and
unconfirmed.
MAA Manual and Charity fees
According to V. Administration, D,1,e. Each club is to pay annually, a
Manual Fee of $5.00, which is used to distribute the new version of the MAA
Constitution and By-Laws each year to each club. There is also a Charity Fee of $3.00, which is
to be added to the funds collected towards the appointed charity sponsored by
the MAA each year. Prior to the NFAA billing clubs directly for their NFAA/MAA
charter fees, each club was sent a bill for these fees along with their charter
renewal papers each year by the MAA Treasurer.
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fee con’t from prior page.
Attached is
a bill form for these fees for the year 2006, the due date is
2007 – 2008 MAA Shooting Schedule
The
scheduling meeting held on August 26th at the Outdoor State Field Championships
went very well. The final schedule will be given one last going over at the MAA
Fall meeting. Please remember that there will be only changes of: type of
round, times or cancellation of shoots at this meeting. If you have any
questions about the schedule you have already received from the VP of
Scheduling, Bob Sales, they must be addressed with him PRIOR to the
meeting. We will be voting on the FINAL
schedule the night of the meeting only.
MAA Officers – Representatives and
Contact Personnel
Most
Clubs will have their election of officers within the next couple of months.
Please send a current copy of your club officers, along with address, phone
numbers and email addresses, to the MAA Secretary as soon as they are
available. Remember this is also the same information that is listed next to
the maps in the Archery Guide for a full year. So please send this list ASAP to
the MAA Secretary Colleen McGowan - acting Sec. –(MCGOWANCOL@AOL.com),
Judy Specht, (rspecht@shore.intercom.net) the Archery
Guide Editor and Alex Dodin the Website Admin. (ADodin@ciena.com).
Newsletters via Email
Starting with the January newsletter
to the general membership, all newsletters will be send via email to everyone
unless they do not have email (please note that does not mean those who do not
want to give out their email). Between printing and postage cost continuing to
rise and the fact that email does not cost the MAA anything, we will start
emailing out newsletters to the general membership, as we now do to the club
representatives. Anyone that does not do
email will get one mailed. A notice will be sent out to all membership for them
to email the President/Secretary with their email address with in an email
along with identifying themselves for file. This email list will not be passed
along to anyone. An will be send under a blind copy so members email address
will not show up on everyone actual copy of their email. Once this notice goes
out, anyone who does not contact the President/Secretary (Colleen McGowan, MCGOWANCOL@AOL.COM)
with their email address or that they do not actually participate in email at
all will NOT get a newsletter. Lack of information contact between the MAA and
that member will be solely placed on the members shoulders. In this day of
internet correspondence there is not reason for spending a lot of money on
postage/printing or the time it takes to physically print the newsletter,
shuffle the paper, postage and mail it out. Please pass this along to you
members. And forward also the MAA many thanks for their cooperation.
MAA Guide 2007/2008
CALL FOR ADS
2007
Please
be thinking about your ads and what you want to put in them.
We will be contacting all our current club and commercial advertisers in
the upcoming weeks. If you need
information right now, contact Winnie Paris or Barb Cavelius. If you know of ANYONE new who may be
interested in advertising in the 2007 Guide, please either approach them for us
or give us the information and we will approach them. We can ALWAYS use more advertisers.
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If you have
any photos taken this year that would be suitable for the
Guide, Mike Pettrey would love to see them for possible
inclusion. As always, questions or
comments and suggestions are most welcome.
Thanks for
helping!!!
Mike Pettrey, Barb Cavelius, Larry
Worrill, Faye Wise, Winnie Paris, Vicki Clem, & Judy Specht
Mike
Pettrey: MPettrey@comcast.net - photos
Barb
Cavelius: bcavelius@verison.net - ads
Larry
Worrill Lworr@comcast.net - graphics
Faye Wise: MONF39@aol.com - state scores/records &
national scores
Winnie
Paris: WPRBP@cs.com -
club ads & info
Vicki Clem:
Vclem@adelphia.net - proofreading
Judy Specht:
rspecht@shore.intercom.net - proofreading
State
Officers and Appointed Positions
Nomination for annual MAA Executive Board Positions:
VP of Awards - George Light Jr. – Incumbent
VP of Tournaments - Sue Blickenstaff – incumbent
VP of Scheduling - Bob Sales - incumbent
MAA Secretary - Open
MAA
Treasurer - Mike Pettrey - appointed
State Championship Bids for 2007/2008
FITA Indoor - Mayberry Archers
NFAA Indoor -
3D Challenge -
NFAA Outdoor -
Anne
Arundel Archers
FITA Field - Vingt Neuf Bowman
NFAA Animal - Mayberry
Archers (with contingency)
FITA Target - Oriole
Archers
Charity Shoot -
NFAA RANGE INSPECTIONS:
All clubs must maintain a current range
inspection through our NFAA Direction, Ron West. Any club that have expired range inspections,
please contact Ron immediately to schedule an inspection. NFAA Range Inspection forms maybe obtained
either directly from NFAA or through their website. If you Clubs’ range does not have a current
inspection, regardless of the insurance you have, anyone shooting records
scores, robinhoods or qualifying for 20 pins will not qualify for NFAA
awards. These clubs are also not
eligible to host State Tournaments. Any
questions on this, please contact Colleen or Ron direct.
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Agenda Items
1.
Agenda Item: page 4 – III –
Executive Committee and Duties, E.
Add the submitting of state run
tournament scores to the MAA Website Administrator to the MAA Website
administrator after each tournament to the VP of Tournaments Job description.
Reason: The VP of Tournament’s duties are the running
of each of the state run tournaments. This includes all of the state
championships, the 3D Challenge and the annual Charity Shoot. Since the VP of
Tournaments is responsible for the processing of the scores for each of these
tournaments and they are currently responsible for forwarding the results to
all MAA Officers, and Club representatives. Then it would seem that the natural
progression of the processing of state tournament results would be to also
forward the tournaments results to the MAA Website Administrator.
The
section would read as follows:
E.
MAA Vice President of Tournaments: It shall be the duty of the Vice President
of Tournaments: Be responsible for state tournament registration, including
obtaining necessary help, verifying an archer’s eligibility, recording scores,
determining winners and new records, and maintaining the scoreboard. Receive
and preprocess State Championship tournaments registration forms and fees and
process late registration at the tournaments. Forward Tournament registration
fees to the MAA Treasurer. Prepare score cards and tournament sheets for state
tournaments with the name and style of each shooter. Provide the Vice President
of Awards with a list of the tournaments pre-registered classifications for
preparation of awards. Prepare and forward tournament results to all MAA
Council members, clubs and the MAA Website Administrator with all places
numbered. Keep state records up to date. Maintain Supplies, Score cards and
etc. pertaining to the running of any of the state run tournaments.
Submitted
by: Colleen McGowan, President MAA
*****Exec.
Board Agrees
______YES
______NO ______ABSTAIN
2. Agenda Item:
CHARITY SHOOT FORMAT CHANGE
At
the November 2005 MAA meeting it was discussed, voted on and passed to use the
below noted format for the 2006 Charity shoot. If this one time format change for the 2006
Charity shoot was successful, an agenda item will be submitted for a vote at
the May 2006 MAA Board of Directors meeting for permanent change.
This
permanent agenda item change was forgotten by the current MAA
President/Secretary for the May 2006 meeting. And they apologize for that. To
update and correct that error the following agenda is now being put forward for
permanent change in format.
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It
was reported by the Chairperson of the annual Charity shoot, Bob Sales after
poling those who attended that the new format was a great success and that
everyone appreciated the Dot shooters and the 3D shooters getting done at the
same time so the raffles and action could get started at an earlier time. It
has been recommended by the Charity Shoot Chairperson to make format used and
noted below at the 2006 Charity shoot a permanent format change.
3-D Participation –
3D shooters will shoot the standard amount
of targets (15 or 20), whatever the host club can provide.
Dot shooters – will shoot a 14
target Expert Round will be shot.
A regular Field Face (no special target needed) will be used; the only
difference is that each ring is scored.
The scoring is 5-4-3-2-1.
Submitted by Colleen McGowan, MAA President
& Bob Sales, Charity Shoot Chairman.
*****Exec. Board Agrees
______YES ______NO ______ABSTAIN
3 Agenda Item:
To
return the State held 3-D Challenge - 3D marked and unmarked back to the
NFAA/MAA State Championship shoot using current NFAA/MAA equipment rules,
styles and divisions. Keep the IBO side
of the tournament as is, using IBO equipment rules and styles for competing.
Reason:
Those who like to shoot both marked and unmarked 3-D targets in the MAA would
like to have it returned to State championship Status. While leaving the IBO
side of the tournament as is. The tournament would still pull in the IBO
participants who like to shoot under IBO equipment rules and Styles and not
NFAA/MAA’s. In its 1st year
the
3-D
Challenge had 20 NFAA/MAA participants and 23 IBO participants.
Submitted by Harford
Bowmen
*****Exec. Board Agrees
______YES ______NO ______ABSTAIN
Question; should the awards for the NFAA/MAA side of
this tournament return to being a state plaque or should it remain what was
given in 2006. An MAA shirt with the 3-D Challenge Champion on it stitched on it?
Many liked the shirts. MAA can continue to supply all awards at the income
split used in 2006. Or the club holding the tournament can provide the awards
for the IBO side and State Championship awards can be given for the NFAA/MAA
side of this event.
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4. Agenda Item:
Combine/Add
the State Animal Championship to the State Outdoor Field Championship.
This would eliminate the current State Animal Championship. Aprox. attendance of the current State Animal
35 to 40.
State
Outdoor Championship Format would be as follows:
Shoot
- 28 Field Targets and then 14 NFAA Official Animal Targets directly afterwards
(14 Targets being an Official NFAA round) on Saturday. Then shoot 28 Hunter
Targets on Sunday.
Reason:
Currently we are shooting a version of this type of format at our Mid-Atlantic
Sectional. Many archers like to shoot
the Animal round and shoot it at the outdoor Nationals. We eliminate the State
Animal Championship and buy doing so save money on championship plaques and
pins and bring the number of state championships down to 6 or 7 depending on
the outcome of the agenda item requesting the state 3-D Challenge NFAA/MAA
competition be returned to State Championship status.
Submitted by Harford
Bowmen
Exec. Board Agrees
______YES ______NO ______ABSTAIN
5.
Agenda Item:
Change
By-Law; ( Bolded item )
Section V, D:
3. Current dues in effect (
MAA
Adult See Attachment 6.
Independent
Youth See Attachment 6
Family
Youth (under age 18) See
Attachment 6
Life
Membership 15 times
adult annual dues
>> Free
life membership if 65 years or over and a MAA member for at least the past 10
years.
Reason:
Currently
our membership application reflects as also our MAA By-laws states that current
members that are 65 years or older and have been a current member of the MAA
for at least 10 consecutive years their MAA membership becomes FREE.
Unfortunately, considering the average age
of the NFAA/MAA member is 50 or so at the currant rate that we are moving
towards the more than a third of our membership in the next 5 years will be
paying no MAA dues. That will eventually become one half. The MAA unfortunately
cannot continue in that direction. We will at some point have very little state
dues income.
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65 or
over membership dues – con’t
My proposal is this:
Change
the fees for members that are 65 years or older and has at least 10 consecutive
years of MAA membership to pay $15.00 and this category of dues shall always be
at least $5.00 less than the general Adult membership (much like our tournament
fee are done). This will be
grandfathered. Current members that are on this plan will remain as the
application states currently and as with all by-law changes it will go into
effect as of
Note: Any member already falling into this
category and wishing to continue to pay MAA dues at the new rate would be
allowed to do so and the MAA would be extremely appreciative to them.
Submitted
by Colleen McGowan, President MAA
****Exec.
Board Agrees
______YES ______NO ______ABSTAIN
DISCUSSION
ITEMS
1. Discussion Item:
Change the State Championship pin to a
smaller size so that people can put them on their quivers, etc. without taking
up so much space.
Suggestion
1:
Use the current 1st (since they
already say “State Champion” on them) and create a different pin for the flight
pins.
Suggestion
2:
Since we are getting low on Championship
pins and will need to order next year, we could take the current pin design but
make it smaller size, suggesting no more than 1 and ½ or 2 inches in dimension.
Which would make them a large hat pin size, eventually making all Award pins
this same larger hat pin size? It would most likely save the MAA money and
everyone winning a Championship, 1st, 2nd or 3rd
pin would be able to wear their award pins on their quiver, hats or
jackets. We could get actual cost
figures and represent them to the Board prior to needed to order.
Submitted
by Vicki Clem and endorsed by Colleen McGowan, Pres. MAA
Exec. Board Agrees - VP of Awards will
have quote on cost.
_____ YES _______ NO _______ ABSTAIN
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2. Discussion Item;
Switching the weekend dates of the
Reasoning: – To promote MD Archery and more
attendance to the FITA Target with a current similar format to the MD State
Senior Olympics (which is a qualifier for the National Senior Olympics). After
looking over the
Additional
Info: A new MAA Logo T-shirt has been used as the guest award at both the FITA
Field and the FITA Target and it has been received very well by the recipients.
The cost to the Host club is the price of the T-shirt of which .05 over the
purchase price.
3. Discussion Item:
Do we want to
continue to collection of local Club shoot results?
Exec. Board Agrees
____ Yes ______
NO _______ Abstain
Respectfully submitted,
Colleen McGowan-
Acting, MAA Secretary
Please advise by return email that
this has been received – thank you.
Attached: Manual Fee & Charity Shoot Fee Bill
MAA Application – will be forward after
membership dues vote
2007-2008 Final Schedule for Vote