Horrace
You really make it hard to ignore your posts.
I once suggested that you would like Koranda and should call him. You responded that he could call you. Really an unfortunate attitude, in my opinion.
Tony Stillman has pretty well told you what happened with Koranda. Red gave you the sanitized version from the AMA in a post. I guess I will add some older information that I got directly from Koranda at the AMA convention back in January. I asked Koranda how it came to pass that he was ED. He said he was approached by Doug Holland. You have posted that you have some clandestine information as to where I got that information and implied it was wrong, or supplied in some nefarious manner. All you ever had to do was ask Koranda. He never ducked questions.
In that same conversation he stated that he had all the power he needed over the staff. He could have made changes at will, according to him. He also intimated that the contract he had with the AMA was for one year. That was at his choosing. You see, there was another force at play in behind the scenes that he told me about. His wife works for the feds and is stationed in DC. For that year his marriage was to be a long distance relationship. Was that the only reason he is no longer with the AMA? I don’t believe so, although I don’t know for a fact. Did it play a part? Very likely, in my opinion.
All this from talking to the guy, Horrace. No need to look for codes.
Now I will throw in my conjecture, based on nothing more than what Tony and Red posted here and the information gleaned by asking questions of the man. If his management style was going to have to change, in conjunction with his long distance relationship, it was not worth it. Again, from what I have seen, and without asking further questions, I am convinced that if Don had been willing to make a relatively minor compromise he would still be ED.
Sorry to interrupt your perusal of the space between the lines.
JR
ORIGINAL: Hossfly
Have you read Koranda's last message in the Nov. issue of AMA's Model Aviation? In addition to that article, I have recently reviewed over most of his other articles since his first.
While I had some contentions about the use of his "marketing AMA" I think I may have jumped the gun a bit there. I related to such as the DVD things more-so than such items as now really bringing AMA to the forefront in the magazine.
Now I still have questions; Koranda remained at the 'back-of-the-book' while such as Bob Hunt remains in the forefront almost as an AMA policy maker, and dictation of what it is time for everyone to do (p. 160, middle col.)
However the real question in my mind is this: Is there a CODE in Koranda's final message? He relates a number of challenging issues. Did he foresee the end? Was he telling us that there was far too much disarray within the AMA hierarchy for a man with vision and experience to get by individual EC/MA-staff personal goals so as to accomplish AMA Bylaws' objectives?
I think Koranda was probably used to more operational lattitude than he found at AMA. He seemed to have the problems identified, yet was refused the authority to get to the meat of those problems. That is further saddened since increasing the membership plus making people aware of the sport was frequently mentioned in his articles.
It's too bad that a man, with the problems identified, and an objective of increasing the membership had to be a salaried employee, subject to the whims of a few entrenched self-serving individuals rather than a national member-elected, hard-***** personality that is focused on those same problem areas.
Have you broken the code?
edit: spelling / wrong words plus an addition.