ORIGINAL: AERORICH

Fellows: I guess the real question about this directory is did the AMA go with this idea of advancing the Academy nationwide, help the membership find lost buddies, OR MONEY. So far there has been no discussion what the AMA received for passing the membership list to Harris. If monies were received by the AMA, what program is going to benefit this added income? Does anyone remember the credit card offer? Now we have this Directory Offer. Yes, I can find my name on the internet with info about me, and I did not personally give it out; so we all could be listed somewhere with more personal information than we want, but this is the new information gathering frontier we face in todays world. Seems to me that there is no need to add any more of our personal information through this directory. Now who knows if the AMA will share in the $90.- collected from each directory sales, and if so where is this money going. All the members are already on file at the headquarters, and if there was a thought about listing all members by state and city in a publication for the members to purchase, this could have been offered prior to printing without having to get a different business to do it for $90.- a copy. No further personal information is really needed than what is on file already.

It would really be interesting to learn where the monies are going.

Rich S.