Jim I have to agree. Actually I've looked at the SOSUS Facebook page and the IUSSCAA message boards as one and the same. I just figured that's where everything is posted now. Two other things I've kind of noticed as well are:
1. Young people are not joiners in traditional organizations as us Boomers. Everything has suffered as a result from bowling leagues to the Fleet Reserve Association.
2. People in the Pacific Northwest and the Norfolk area do seem to hold the advantage in participation simply because of location. Having more frequent togethers unfortunately isn't going to do anything for those of us outside of Virginia and Washington State.
To be frank, I rarely check this site as most of my updates germane to “the system” I get from Facebook. In several IUSS groups. Along those lines, I joined this organization twice now over the last few years and have been removed from the membership list both times. I see folks on that listing who haven’t updated or made any contribution in almost a decade. Not sure how that’s happens but I’d be lying if I said this hasnt soared me in joining or contributing.
I checked the database and I found you in the archive members table with a membership expiration of 2010. I do not know why you were moved to archive. It definitely has nothing to do with your activity level on the board.
The only thing I can think of is that the association tried to contact you when your membership expired in order to get you to renew and that contact failed. The attempt would have been made multiple times. There is a note on the record from June 2009 indicating an invalid email address. I do not know if attempts were being made by snail mail still in 2010 or not. I was involved with the association back then but I was not the webmaster or the record keeper.
I do apologize for the association if you were moved to the archives and should not have been.
For the past couple of years, the association has not had a dues requirement. There is no longer an expiration date associated with a member.
I have sent an email request to Mike Kilpatrick, our current database wizard to please move you from the archives to the active rolls. That should happen with this month's update.
Please go to the membership update form at http://www.iusscaa.org/mcuform.htm to update any details that may have changed, such as email or home address.
Again, my apologies on behalf of the association. I hope you continue to use the board and website.
