I must agree. A lot of other people have done much for SLAS that did not get involved in ALCON.
A gift of some sort to all ALCON volunteers or some kind of diner seems more palatable, however this would be a first if we compensated volunteers. Do they cease to be volunteers? On 1/21/12, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
What about the people who worked for ALCON subsidizing the enjoyment of the others in SLAS by the donation we earned? How do we work that? Do you propose that we buy an "ALCON scope" that can only be used by those of us who volunteered time at ALCON? Siegfried can use it because he was there helping, but Patrick can't?
Do you extend that concept to those who worked for the ZAP grants? Those who get donations for holding star-parties? Those who make unsolicited private donations?
I've always assumed that volunteer work is simply that. Volunteer. People do public service for the warm fuzzy, not for any kind of material compensation.
I think Ziggy has a valid point.
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