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EDITORIAL COMMENTS
As mentioned elsewhere in this issue, A.C.E. meetings will be
returning to the Stelco Auditorium in Hamilton, beginning in April.
The Oakville location which we have been using for the past few
meetings was excellent in almost every respect, but unfortunately,
turnout at these meetings has been rather poor -consistently so, and
so we felt that if we were getting fewer members out to meetings,
then apparently the membership in this area generally prefer the old
location. If there are any who have not been coming out because of
the move to Oakville, we hope to see you again starting with the
April 8 meeting (starting time 7:30 P.M.).
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As noted on the back cover, we are now entirely sold out of
back issues 1-12, so please do not send in any further orders for
them. Work is currently in progress on our collection of the best
material from these issues, and this collection, tentatively titled
'De Facto', should be available before too long.
We cannot yet
specify the exact price (this will depend on a number of factors,
such as number of pages that we wind up with), or the exact date of
availability, so please do not send in orders at this time. We hope
to be able to supply this information before too long -- in issue 18
at the latest. 'De Facto' will be sold as loose leaf pages, with
3-hole punch, a cardboard cover, and plastic wrapping so that it
will survive the rigors of travelling through the postal system.
This format will, among other advantages, keep the cost at a
minimum, and make it fairly straight-forward to supply supplementary
volumes for issues beyond number 12 at a later date.
We have received two offers to serve as Education Co-ordinator,
and hope to feature material from one or both of these people in
upcoming issues.
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The annual meeting is still a couple of months away, but it is
not too soon to start thinking about candidates for next year's for
next year's executive. In particular, the position(s) associated
with editing of the club newsletter may prove very difficult to
fill. The success of Ipso Facto, and its consequent growth from a
small newsletter into a more substantial publication, has brought
with it new problems, in that producing it can no longer be handled
by one person as it was originally. Availability of word-processing
equipment, or similar automatic e qi.t pmen t is almost a necessity for
producing it at its present size -- hand-typing a manuscript of this
size for each issue would keep a typist busy for a long time.
A
recent executive meeting addressed this problem without any definite
solution, after considering a number of ideas, such as assigning
responsibility for each issue to a different group of people. Ideas
on how we can keep Ipso Facto going -at its present level, in terms
of both quantity and quality, would be much appreciated. Even
better would be offers to take part in this unde~taking.
Please
give it some thought.
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