Norwescon 11 Post-Con Report

Norwescon 11

The post-con report for Norwescon 11, excerpted from Westwind 140 (May/June 1989).

NWSFS

May/June 1989

Mark Ogilvie

English

Norwescon 11 Post-Con Report

Chairman's Corner

by Elizabeth Warren

I am hearing rumors that Norwescon 11 went pretty well. I was kind of busy, so I have to take your word for it. I really like this job better than hospitality, thank you Debbie Tutarek for taking over and doing such a great job.

I want to use this opportunity to tell you the truth, the whole truth and all that. It's not my fault! Norwescon went well due to the efforts of a lot of committed people. Each Norwescon takes about 18 months worth of planning and the committee works very hard during that time. They all deserve the highest praise, they have done a wonderful job. I join you in thanking them for a wonderful weekend.

Thank you all for coming and sharing the fun. Thank you especially to those of you who gave an hour or 30 in the service of Norwescon, you really are the backbone of the convention.

LOCS

All dear Norwescon people,

Just let me send you this naive childish scrawl to thank vou for having me as Special Guest Writer-on-Wheels, 1989.

I enjoyed myself and in particular appreciated the door-to-door transportation by Mr. Suryan. On being suddenly informed by the hotel at 5 after 4 that I should have left at 4, I accepted Dave Hall's ride back to Bremerton rather than interrupt the schedule(s) of the busy official con people, wasn't that considerate of me? Sorry I did not eat the Brunch Banquet food but for me to have had a heart attack on the spot would have been counter-productive and questionably attractive. Thank you again for all favors and I will recommend you - plural to all my friends.

Very yoursly yours,
Avram Davidson

Norwescon XI Con Com:

Thanks for your hard work and its good results. As Always, I wish I'd had time and energy for all the potentially interesting bits.

Having hotel staff handle the elevators may have helped a little, but let's face it - that hotel is undersupplied with elevators (just imagine the hellish torments due hotel designers and builders who skimp on things like elevators.

It was good to have Hospitality where elevators weren't needed to reach it, but next year could it be in a more aesthetically pleasing area? Thousands of thanks for having it non-smoking.

I heard wishes expressed that the Dealers Room had more space and more/wider range of dealers.

The KidCon programming was a great idea-some of it would've interested older folks too. Thanks for thinking of the under 12 people.

Overall, congrats and thanks again.

Elisabeth Eldred

To the Norwescon 11 Convention Committee:

Thanks again for a fun Norwescon. As in past years, it provided me with not only a needed break from the ordinary, but with a boost in creative energy as well.

I particularly enjoyed the masquerade (of course), despite its occasional confusion, and would like to thank Keith Johnson and Michael Citrak for their incredible patience and invaluable mid-performance assistance. You can't do it without the sound and lights, folks. Special thanks go, also, to Nora Hogoboom for her quick-thinking solution to the mixup in the awards announcements. The contestants were great and put on a fine show. I thought the turtles and chickens all terrific.

Best wishes to the entire convention staff. Your many hours of work are most appreciated.

Aloha!
Carol Severance

Gaming Department

by Craig Bowie

This year gaming was a big success in a small place. Gaming had a 200% increase in space available and we managed to fill it quite easily. I was quite pleased to see a high level of skill in the tournament game masters and we had quite a good group of gamers as well.

There will be some changes made for next year, the sign up sheets for games will go up only 1/2 day before the game is played, and there will be a registration for all game masters including the "open gaming". We had very few times the rooms were not full and there were many times they were too full. We learned some things this year that will help us more efficiently use what space we have available to us. If you are interested in running a tournament or game at Norwescon 12, contact me by February 1, 1990:
Craig Bowie
Norwescon 12 Gaming
(redacted)
Auburn, WA 98002

Many thanks are to go to Steve Jackson for running Darwinopoly (a game where the better breeder wins) and Brian Underhill for running GURPS: Clifhangers (an adventure system based in the pulp novel era). They gave us a chance to try games that hadn't been released yet.

I would also like to thank the following Game Masters for getting a hold of me before Norwesoon and putting in their time and effort, I received compliments about all of them for the job they did;

Guy "Battlemaster" Girone
Robert Moshell
Kris Gould
Cecily Burke
Matt "Just one more game" Hyra
Todd "Gurps? Who me?" Smith
Rick Bligh

Here is the mt of winners and special awards:

Uno

1st Mark "Madsax" DeLoura
2nd Jim Lane
3rd Robert "Nicklepede" DeLoura

TOPGUN

1st Tony Burdett
2nd RayCurrie
3rd Mark "Madsax" DeLoura

Diplomacy

1st (tie) Paul "Head Embezzaler" Randles
1st (tie) Coy "Solitaire" Kearney

Battletech

1st James "Rambo" Wilson
2nd Joseph Imfeld
3rd Aaron "Random" Clements

AD&D

1st Brian Funk
2nd John "Presto Castaspella" Jacobson
3rd Josh E. Wright

Ghostbusters

1st Jeff Jorgenson
2nd Julie "Sister Chaos" Larson
3rd (tie) Keith "Chie Don Ford" Larson
3rd (tie) Damond "Ronin" Crump

Traveller

1st Robert Mosbell
2nd Stephen Terrenzio
3rd Craig McKinney

Gurps: Clifhangers

1st Thomas Sherer
2nd Tun "The Evil Doctor" Tozer
3rd Thane Walkup

Special Awards

"Going down in Flames" Brian Funk
"Strongest position in 1904" Dave Lawson
"Biggest Blunder" Walfei "Caz" Perera-Casainoua
"Unluckiest Battletecher" Tanis Dragon
"Worst Die Roll" Julie Elwick
"Worst Recon" Robert Smith
"John Wayne" Stephen Terrenzio
"Politest Gamer" Betty "Larina" Claar
"Most Helpful Volunteer" Gaetano "Guy" Girone
"Kid Kon gamer" Chris Benson
"Hitpoint Hitman" Mark Richardson

Green Room Report

by Dora Shirk

The Green Room ran very well this year. We had a few small problems (emphasis small), but this year was so much smoother and 'together' than last year. I know, you're saying this sounds like a re-run of the report I gave last year (if you remember that one), and it is very similar, but there were oh, so many, differences.

This year we knew who was supposed to come, even tho' many didn't (due to the combined facts that we are still in Tacoma, it was Easter, and there were four cons that weekend).

The only thing that we did not have this year that we normally do have, was a bulletin board for the panel discussion sheets. We missed it at some moments and didn't miss it most of the time. I want to send out a very large "THANK YOU" to Hospitality for the way they kept us stocked. The pros were extremely happy and commented often that it was nice to be able to have this available without fighting a crowd. Thanks Debbie.

If all goes as it should we will be in the same location next year. It works well. It is accessible to all panel locations and the ability to separate the pre-panels into different rooms makes it much better for avoiding two pre-panels joining together (which makes for a mess).

All in all things went well, especially since it is "our" volunteer that will be next years Volunteer GoH -- Yeah Joe

!

We had good volunteers and hopefully they will all be back next year. There is one out there whose initials are RB that will probably hear from us before the year is over.

I will take up no more room -- end of Green Room Report.

Hospitality

by Debbie Tatarek, Dragonette

Well we made it through another year again.

Thanks for all your patience in our new location. It did pose some interesting problems and some wonderful benefits. Thanks for stopping by the hospitality suite for something to eat or drink, to meet someone or just a little conversation. For my first year solo, I think it went pretty dam good.

I want to thank all of you who volunteered your time, effort, and energy to hospitality. Without your help there wouldn't have been a hospitality. Thank you!

I want to make some special thanks:

Matt Winkleman: for all your time and especially the mornings.

Eric Jones: for time above and beyond the duty, plus Beer Roulette.

Joanne Welty and Dick O'Shea: for all your years of devoted service.

Brittany Bell: for volunteering her truck.

C.J. Minnekin and James West: for helping to pack and set up on Wednesday night.

Tom Smith and Denise Karnovan: for hours and hours of service.

And thanks to all the res of you for everything: Snake, Catherine Melissa, Eric Fellows, Mike West, Sharree Sledge, Gina Disteldorf, Joanne Fry, Mike Bomber, Mona Reece, Nancy Boden, Bruce McPeek, Edward Martin, Irene Lewis, Beth Moursand, Erika Sauby, Chuch VanderLinden, Peter Horvath, Carol Zebold, Dottie nelson, Kathy Hunter, Jay Karnoven, Joe Jagar, Yvonne Stevens, Robert Grimes, John Holdrew, Herby Fairbanks, Raw, Q, Penny Lane Ruhl, Judy Wheat.

I take no responsibility for any names written wrong or right. This is what you wrote on my lists or didn't write if you didn't sign up.

Now for the volunteers who volunteered their souls to me for the convention, my seconds Debbie Stine and Janice Paulsen, Thank you both from the bottom of my heart. I really appreciated your help.

Our donations were down and the Kitty went a little hungry. However, a special thanks to all who did donate. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! your donations helped buy the extra supplies that kept us going through the weekend. Which brings me to the annual "what did we consume at Norwescon" report. Well, let me tell you we consumed a lot!

The List!

295 cases of pop
69 cases of beer
1 case of champagne
48 liters of wine
56 boxes of cookies
30 boxes of crackers
4 loafs of bread
20 dozen bagels
20 loafs of banana bread
50 pounds of vegetables
154 pounds of meat and cheese
38 bags of chips
18 pounds of coffee
20 pounds of sour cream
24 pounds of cream cheese
assorted teas
2 cases of oranges
1 case of apples
30 liters of apple juice
20 liters of orange juice

Masquerade

by Judy Swanson

Judy Swanson, Masquerade director, would like to thank all the volunteers for this year's Masquerade. The Masquerade could not function without all their time and effort.

JUDGES:

John Barnes
Astrid Anderson Bear
Kathleen Cogswell
Marie Cooley
Dave Maddingly
Dameon Willich

JUDGES ASSISTANTS:

Virgil Buell
Norah Hogoboom
Scott Swanson

STAGE MANAGER/NINJA MASTER

Tony Ferucci

STAGE NINJAS/SPOTTERS

Ken
Pippin
Spike
Elisabeth Eldred
Payne Fifield
Gail Glass
Douglas Taylor

DENMOMS/DEN DADS

Alphonse
Marni Cowen
D'Artagnan
Lenore Kobayashi
Annette Mercier

USHERS

Mark Richardson
Team Cyclone
The Persecutors

CAMERAS

Thom Walls
Vicki Glover
Becky Sukavati
Ken

DISASTER CREW

Marie Cooley
Chris Fuhr

ASSISTANTS TO THE DIRECTOR

Spencer
Carole Carr
Keith Mears
Greg Sardo

Thank you to anyone whose name I forgot, or who volunteered anomynously.

MASQUERADE WINNERS

CHILD:

Best Television Recreation - Bert Metz III - Rapheal, Mutant Teenage Ninja Turtle
Best Performance - Autumn J. Grieve - Autumn, Stringer of Flux
Best Comic Recreation - "Roo" Warren - Desert Peach's Foot Maiden
Best Movie Recreation - "Eddie" Butler - Roger Rabbit
Best Use of Materials - Heather Metz - The Latest in the Recyclo-botics Spring Fashion Line
Shirley Temple Award - Angela Suryan - Fairy Princess
Best Group Presentation - Lissa Fuhr, T.T. Fuhr

TECHNICAL MERIT

Best Multi-Media - Frank Teele - Sir Black
Best Dyeing Effects - JoAnne Kirley - The Phantom's Masquerade
Best Soft Sculpture - Sally Berkland, Lorne Counter
Best Tailoring - Joanna McCoy - Dr. Crusher
Best Millinery - JoAnne Kirley, Kathleen Greco - The Phantom's Masquerade
Best Design for a Specialty Function - Julie A Zetterberg - Beneath the Opera House
Honorable Mention for Mask Work - Richard Perry - Lord Sarnath

COSTUME

Journeyman Runner-up - Joanna McCoy - Dr. Crusher
Master Runner-up- Julie A Zetterberg- Beneath the Opera House
Best Novice - Darth Vagrant
Best Journeyman - The Capt., Randy D. Gordon - Captain Commie and Buckinski
Best Master - JoAnne Kirley, Dragon, T. Brian Wagner, Traper Graves, Wolf, Van Kirk - The Phantom's Masquerade

PERFORMANCE

Journeyman Runner-up - Hans Meier, Mike West
Best Novice - Kirge Vestal Overton - Klingon Instructor
Best Journeyman - Lisa M. Gordon - Traci, The Space Cadet

JUDGES' CHOICE

Integrated Presentation - Frank Teele - Sir Black
Most Humorous - Aash Bazbo
Best Costume in the Performance Category - Tahia Alibeck
Special Thanks - Susan Taubeneck, Betty Bigelow, David Bigelow - The Awakening
Best of Show - The Phantom's Masquerade

SITE SERVICES

SECURITY

The reports from both Rover and Watch Divisions indicate a very quiet convention, with (quite literally) only one or two exceptions. One or two bad apples in a barrel of nearly 2300 is pretty good. Several people commented that they'd hardly noticed the Security volunteers. That's one of the nicest compliments we received. Security was there, doing their work so quietly and efficiently that some people didn't even notice them. That says a lot for the caliber of people who volunteered for Security this year. They did a great job! A big thank you to everyone in Security, both Rover and Watch.

Our biggest problem was beer that wandered past the alcohol boundary into the lobby and ballroom areas. Security is there to remind you where the alcohol boundary is, but they depend on your cooperation. This year the hotel threatened to shut down the dance if any more beer was found in the ballroom. In the future the result could be that Hospitality willserve only soft drinks.

PEACEBONDING

Again, peacebonding reported no major problems. Almost everyone who came to the convention seemed to be informed about the weapons policy and knew that peacebonding was required. There were only one or two objections. (Gee, they were the same one or two exceptions that Security saw. Does that mean something?) Peacebonding was available in Operations, in the Security Office, and from all Rovers as well as the table in the Registration area. When you consider all the costumes that include weapons, it's plain that our peacebonders are truly dedicated -- and they got a real close-up view of some fantastic weapons.

Thank you!

MAINTENANCE

No, you haven't all learned to pick up after yourselves, but the litter critters were out there, carrying their little bags. They reported that some areas, especially Hospitality, were not as messy as in past years. The improvement was mostly due to the nice big garbage cans. Other areas, notably Gaming, looked a lot like your room at home. Thanks to the Maintenance volunteers who got there before the hotel did.

Technical Services

Thank yous

Keith Johnson
Pat Oros
Becky Fallis
Peter Kafka D'Anglemont
Paul Wocken
Jesse A Welch
Bob Grieve
Robert Johns
Mark Anaker
Chad Barden
Brittany Bell
Chy Claton
Cliff Cooper
Robert Damey
Dawnella Douglas
Karen Downing
Alisan Farrell
Autmn Grieve
Debbie Johns
Dan Levine
David Ludke
L Pierce Ludke
Edward Martin
Hans P. Meire
C.J. Minneker
John Marrison
Beth Moursund
Lindy Pangan
Claudia Quate
Paul Stratton
Dave Valentine
John Valentine
Kim Valentine
LuAnn Valentine
Chuck van der Linden

Eighty-four Hours of Fun

by Yvonne V. Richardson

From Thursday noon to Sunday midnight was 84 hours. For some people, it was but a few short moments; for others it was a lifetime. For the Norwescon Programming Staff it was BOTH -- but it was worth missing the winter of 1988 (and half the summer too) to create the marathon of Norwescon fun.

People still seem to think that programming is magic, that it appears at the drop of a hat and disappears with a snap of the fingers. Well, as any knowledgeable gamer could tell you, magic costs -- and the better the magic, the more it costs. Here's an estimate of how much your eighty-four hours of fun cost this shaman and cohorts:

23 gallons of Maalox
14 weeks of sleep
2.346 friendships
75 gallons of gasoline
0.287 jobs (we think)
16 medium-sized trees, only 2 of which had been previously recycled
617 brain cells
3.293 vacations
1 tax return
a partridge in a pear tree

What sort of spell was required, using these ingredients, to produce your 84 hours of fun? Putting together a convention as large as Norwescon is an exercise involving both halves of the brain. Looking at my own mathematical/musical background, the incantation used was the following:

1. Generate 200 equations with 200 unknowns.
2. Optimize it.
3. Stuff the resultant data back into your computer.
4. Produce a musical score for a 175-piece orchestra. Instrumentation includes bagpipes, synthesizers, fish, gumi bears and Neanderthal trombones as well as the standard 20th century instruments.
5. Hand out the parts to the various attending pros, panel participants, and assorted fans.
6. Give the command to start the musical piece: EVERYBODY JAM!

And jam we did! Once again, about 150 pros arrived to do approximately 200 panels, despite the fact that this year's Norwescon had to compete with Easter and four other conventions that weekend. Of course, I'm not mentioning conflicts such as the Florida convention the previous weekend and World Fantasy Con in the fall. I'm not saying anything aboutthe race with time either -- would the Pavilion renovation be completed before we moved in? In one of my last few coherent moments before THE WEEKEND, I dimly remember getting the news and my response was, "ALRIGHT! The airwalls are in...OH NO! The airwalls are in!"

Somewhere between March 3rd and March 23rd commenced the final struggle to get everyone and everything back in order without trashing the previous six months' work. It isn't easy to work 12 to 16 hours a day and retain the mental/physical/emotional facilities necessary to do the job, regardless of rain, snow, gloom of night, hotel remodeling, stuff like that. Nevertheless, fans, pros, and staff alike got together on the last weekend of March to do All That Jazz, scifi style. People were searching all over the hotel for fun, each other, fun, Easter Eggs, and still more fun. Since I worked all through the convention and followed that up with a month's worth of overtime, I have to rely on YOU to let me know how much fun you found -- please drop a note to the P. 0. Box to let me know what you thought was terrific, what you thought was not so terrific, what you saw this year that you particularly enjoyed, and what you didn't see that you would like to see next year.

Despite the fog that descended upon me in October and did not lift until nearly May, I do have a few impressions of my own. As usual, the convention was well attended. This year's auctions, both the Clarion West auction and the Art Show, beat the records they set last year. For that matter, the Art Show sold works before the auction, during the auction, and even after the auction. Of course, in order to buy anything after the auction, you would have had to have been in the hotel at 2:00 a.m. Monday morning when we were told that the NCAA Championship folks were to move into the hotel by 8:00 a.m. -- which meant we had to be out. Did we panic? No! We were too busy having fun! What kind of fun? Be an emergency volunteer next year and find out!. (Sneak preview [? postview?] of some of the emergency fun in the Rumor column ...)

People approved of the dance-every-night format, and the few panels we repeated from last year. Some new panels, such as After Challenger and Build a Better Mouse, packed some rooms to bursting; other panels fizzed (they held them in the bar) due to lack of PR and/or being scheduled opposite other fantastic events. Decisions, decisions -- by trying to offer something for everyone, we ended up with nine solid tracks of programming, not including gaming, the Art Show, the Dealers' Room, and the programming I wasn't supposed to put in the Fanzine Room. Needless to say, that's a bit much. Some panels may not have gotten the expected amount of attendance because there was too much to do. But as for lack of PR, you didn't read your program book! It's full of lots of important information -- it's not just another pretty face!

As always, attendees have last-minute changes in plans, and many were kind enough to inform me beforehand of cancellations. We missed you this year, and hope things will work out such that you will be able to appear next year.

Speaking of next year, I have been blackmailed into being volunteered to be next year's Program Director, and I will try to take some of the wishful thinking I've heard into consideration for Norwescon 12 programming. However, be forewarned: as with all other magics, sometimes getting what you wish for can be a dangerous thing. I've heard there should be both more and less gaming, filking, science, business, writing and costuming panels, and that there should be more quality and less quantity. Your wish is my command! Which wish? You figure it out.

Special thanks to:

Assistant Program Director: Marybeth Zele.
The Norwescon Programming Staff: Kristi Austin, Doug Booze, Jeannine Gray, Karen Hill, Andrea Hunt, Jerry "I said I wasn't going to do this" Kaufman, Casey Leichter, and Marci Malinowycz.
Computing Services: James Lane, Richard Wright.
Fannish Olympics: Mark Richardson.
Larer Tag: Alan Smith.
Media Crew: Walter Jung, Chris McDonnell.
Counted Others: John Brautlacht, Bruce and Trish Byfield, John G. Cramer, Russell Galen, A.P. McQuiddy.
Countless Others: all you folks who had fun!

Dr. Grant D. Callin. Even though the SF community likes to think of itself as a family, it doesn't compete with quality time with one's "real-time" family -- especially on holidays and other special occasions. Special thanks for coming all the way to Norwescon on Thursday evening to say that you couldn't attend due to family commitments. Thanks also to David Deitrick, Ru Emerson, Lita Smith-Gharett, and others who were kind enough to call as soon as they knew they could not attend.

Apologies to:

Avram Davidson: I don't know how our little secret got out. I'll make sure no signs are put up next year.

Several friends: I didn't realize just how stressed out I was until someone mentioned that I seemed to still have my composure and I replied, "I keep it in a jar on my desk."

The Society for Creative Anachronism: I'm sorry I hadn't seen the room before I scheduled you in it -- my apologies for providing ten times the audience you expected. I'll try to do better next time.

YOU JUST HAD TO BE THERE

by Snebl Bebletz

And now for all those situations where You Just Had to Be There. If you weren't, but you know people who were, have them explain it to you -- or better yet, make up your own explanations -- they may be far more fun.

Rumor: The Blood Drive was cancelled because Bram Stoker couldn't make it to the convention this year.
Fact: The Blood Drive was cancelled because Blood Bank volunteers don't work on Saturdays.

Rumor: I'm taking program suggestions, panel ideas, and names & addresses of prospective panelists for next year.
Fact: I'm not taking program suggestions, etc., for next year. Send them to the Norwescon P. O. Box, PLEASE -- when it comes to sorting through Norwescon mail, it's far more efficient than I am. (Sorry for calling you an "it", Lauraine, but I'm making a point.) A good portion of the mail that eventually winds up in Programming's hands goes to other departments as well; it's far wiser for YOU to send it to our distribution point and avoid any delays I may cause by having too much to do and not enough time in which to do it.

Rumor: Wesley Crusher was going to be at Norwescon this year.
Fact: His mother said no.

Rumor: Norwescon employs a full-time staff year round in order to put on the March convention. The salary and fringe benefits are incredible -- which allows Norwescon staff to devote 40 hours a week to convention planning, and even more for "that personal touch".
Fact: I, like all the rest of the Norwescon staff, only work on Norwescon in my spare time. Even though I quadrupled my Norwescon salary, four times nothing is still nothing, so I have a real job to pay all those real bills. The "personal touches" which make Norwescon programming an intricate fugue are supplied by the panelists, my staff, and some really crazy senses of humor. Working until 3 or 4 in the morning doesn't hurt, either.

Rumor: Somewhere in the hotel, a pair of Middle-aged Mutant Sumo Somethings are still waltzing away, while one of the Norwescon Crisis Crews congas off into the sunrise, singing Day-o! Day-o! Daylight comin' and me wanna go home..."
Fact: ???

Personal Notes:

Max, the Dendarii mercenary: Thanks for the on-the-spot volunteering. It was help I sorely needed -- as well as a reminder that fans out front DO remember that there are real people behind the curtains trying to make things work. Now if only Toto and the howling dogs would leave the curtain alone...

Karen Hill: The howling dogs were discovered in an enclosed location from which they could not have escaped. They have since been rescued and returned to their rightful owners. No, they didn't go to Kansas with Toto.

Bob, Jim, and Kristi: I ate the steak without anyone having to cut it up for me. It was far easier to finish it without the vulture impressions.

The Fan from Hell: Thank you very much for buying your membership this year. There's hope for you yet.

Casey Leichter: You have our deepest sympathies. Your new cat is in the mail.

Judy Suryan: You have your wish. I don't know how you managed it, but my room at V-Con was the light sweatbox. Where did you find the magician who did that? We may need him next year if my own spells run out.

NORWESCON 11'S VOLUNTEERS

We, the Norwescon committee, have always said that the convention we all love so dearly would never have gone beyond a twinkle in a few eyes if it were not for the hard work done by the volunteer staff of each one of the Norwescons. So we list below the names of those hardy souls who bravely put their bodies on the line to make Norwescon run better for everyone.

As usual this list is not only incomplete but is probably rife with misspellings. So, if we missed or misspelled your name here or elsewhere in this issue, feel free to drop us a note and we will certainly give credit where credit is due. We also hope that you will all return next year (same Bat time, same Bat Channel) to do it all again. And if your not one of the people on this list take a chance. We think you'll enjoy it. A lot of new things were put in place at Norwescon 11 for the enjoyment of our volunteer staff and since they worked out so well this time we will be doing it all again even better next year. All the volunteer staff hope that you will join the team.

Last but definitely not least, we want to give a very special thanks to Bonnie Baker and the whole staff at the Shearton Tacoma Hotel for helping to make our 5 day stay there a very enjoyable one. Working with a hotel staff that has it's clients needs in mind at the same time as meeting it's own interests and then working to see that BOTH needs are met is very refreshing and makes things a whole lot easier. We haven't got all the bugs worked out yet but with this kind of teamwork I'm sure we will.

AGAIN...THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

[Volunteer list not transcribed here.]