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Well, my tounge in cheek remark was not meant to disparage you in any way or the job you're doing. IMHO I don't care for the new Journal logo, but hey that's just me. My take is on the way the Society handled the IPMS/USA FB page controversy concerning the so-called cheating event at the San Marcos convention and decisions put into place resulting in many longtime head judgers resigning their position and......... so on and on. I'll leave it there ...... really no point in rehashing all that. This fiasco is what prompted my remark of older members being put out to pasture.

Bert, No one is being put out to pasture. I am 60+ myself. On the design team are some 60+ members. The idea, in general, is to embrace anyone who enjoys building models. In the 60's, 70's, & 80's most of those builders were men who built planes and tanks. If the IPMS/USA wants to grow beyond that (which I hear from members all the time) this will mean being open to new builders and genres. This does not mean leaving what the core members like behind, it means adding new genres to it. There will always be armor, cars, and aircraft. When I joined the IPMS, sci fi was still a tiny contingent, now it has grown and more accepted. This is happening with Gundam now, because if we want to be relevant to all builders, then we need to make a spot for them and offer something to them. It takes good ideas, time and work to do this. So, for example, I work with the NCC to help them understand Gundam, so that it can be properly included in the nationals. This takes time-understanding the genre, writing up stuff, working with people to implement it. I am rambling a bit. To quote Gil "that doesn't necessarily mean their silence is anything nefarious." I can tell you that my "so called silence" (if you want to characterize it that way) has everything to do with all the tasks that I need to get done. Right now I am filling in as a designer of the IPMS/USA Journal to assemble the magazine (on the Nov/Dec issue, in case you are wondering, the sooner I get it wrapped, the sooner it goes to the printer and the sooner we get back onto schedule). This is actual work and takes real time. So, I may not get back to someone or post on the forum simply because I really need to get the magazine done. Writing this stuff does not come naturally to me. The magazine is not the only thing I need to do...there is other IPMS business and all the stuff that happens in real life. This is more or less true for everyone who volunteers for the organization. We tend to be busy just trying to get stuff done. So, while it is important to post updates here and/or on Face Book, it also means not doing something else. And honestly, I have never relished writing stuff for social media. It is stressful and takes time.