Current and Past Club Members,
In years past we have tried to operate as a free club, but with that choice came limited resources and options. Those same limited resources and options has caused some past and current club members to stop coming. This year we have been working hard to make changes to increase and maintain interest in our club. We have many plans to continue to make this a successful club including more seminars, workshops and field trips.
This year we are implementing a membership cost which will help us bring you more. By implementing the club membership we were able to become partner members with the Hutchinson Center for the Arts. With this partner membership we will have a new home at the Center for the Arts , which is located on Main Street. This move will officially take place at our March meeting. Since our
club will now be members of the Hutchinson Center for the Arts, it will open up new doors for us and help grow our club to provide even more benefits to you. The biggest door that this partner membership opens is the help with writing grants, grants that can be used to purchase equipment and help bring in speakers to do seminars or workshops.
As part of the new membership drive we will be cleaning up the web site and mailing lists too. We have many past members that have moved away and we don’t have accurate numbers for our club. Some of our partner memberships invoice our club on a per member basis and without accurate numbers we may be getting charged additional money for past members. As part of the clean up, effective April 1st, 2012, we will be removing non-member galleries, links to non-member web sites, and other areas reserved for club members. To determine past or non-members we will be using the membership fee to determine who is active members and who is past members.
I encourage you to become active members and help grow our club into something great. A place where we can come to learn about the world of photography and meet fun exciting people just like you. For more information on our Club or the new membership please check out our web site.
Thanks,
Timm Hagen
President
Hutchinson Photography Club