I just completed the survey from National. I am a survey writer. I thought that it was not a really good survey. I really think that it had a bias based what seemed ot me to be a preconcieved notion that we all drive and own a car. I do neither. Why didn't the survey ask if any other mode of transportation was used to get to meets? I've actually taken more trains to get to meets than any other form of transportation.
Two parts really bothered me Part C, question 30-30 and Part D, questions 1-3.
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Former Member
I also took the survey. When I was first alerted to this, as a member of the Communications Committee, I was nervous that it might not let me say exactly why I'm a member of USMS, but I thought it did allow that.
Now that I'm coming out of the closet, I'll make the shameless admission that the only thing that USMS offers to me is the competition. If it were not for that, I wouldn't be a member. I trained in the 1970s alone before I became aware of USMS and would continue to do so today if the organization did not exist.
However, I do like the organization and have donated my time in kind as coach, meet director, webmaster, LMSC Chair, LMSC Top Ten Chair, Chairman of the Current Top Times database project and other things to repay an organization that has done a lot of good for me.
-- mel
I also took the survey. When I was first alerted to this, as a member of the Communications Committee, I was nervous that it might not let me say exactly why I'm a member of USMS, but I thought it did allow that.
Now that I'm coming out of the closet, I'll make the shameless admission that the only thing that USMS offers to me is the competition. If it were not for that, I wouldn't be a member. I trained in the 1970s alone before I became aware of USMS and would continue to do so today if the organization did not exist.
However, I do like the organization and have donated my time in kind as coach, meet director, webmaster, LMSC Chair, LMSC Top Ten Chair, Chairman of the Current Top Times database project and other things to repay an organization that has done a lot of good for me.
-- mel
