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2007 - YEAR IN REVIEW
Newsletter Account:
The following account is reprinted with permission from THE STARSHIP EXPRESS Copyright 2008 Philip J De Parto:
2007: The Year in Review:
2007: The Club Year in Review (Part One)
It is very hard to come to an objective assessment of this past year for the Association. The bad news is that membership in the group and attendance at S F A B C functions continued to decline. In addition, the publishing schedule of THE STARSHIP EXPRESS was haphazard.
On the plus side of the ledger, programming was very strong with a group of interesting and eclectic speakers. We have done a major upgrade on our website <sfaabc.org>, and have undertaken a number of web based inititiatives including a pair of Google discussion groups. We are doing more publicity than at any time in many years. Unfortunately, effort does not necessarily insure success. It will take at least a year to determine if these projects have borne fruit.
Programs and Attendance:
Membership continued its years long decline throughout the year. The year opened with 55 members and shrunk to our current total of 41. The months of July and August killed us and were the two lowest attended months of the year.
A list of our Year 2007 speakers appears below, along with the Attendance Totals of the past five years. Note that figures are for officially attending adults. It does not include children, people who left before the meeting was officially called to order or arrived after the meeting had officially concluded. The total includes the speaker and any guest (s) brought.
Date Type Speaker/Program Attendance
(A=Artist, C=Critic, F=Film Maker, V=Video, W=Writer)
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
01/13/07.....W....Paul Witcover 14 22 25 29 36
02/19/07.....V.....Doctor Who/Torchwood/Omega 19 14 36 31 30
03/10/07.....A.....William O' Connor 17 28 36 36 28
04/14/07.....V.....,The Specials / Red Green 21 34 30 34 31
05/12/07.....W.....Joe Lennox 18 24 32 32 36
06/09/07.....W.....Sarah Micklem 19 29 25 22 25
07/14/07...W/A....M Gallagher / D Manak 12 15 20 19 30
08/11/07.....C.....Dennis Seuling 12 14 19 21 24
09/08/07.....W,,,,,Barbara Campbell 16 19 35 34 33
10/13/07.....W.....Mary SanGiovanni 20 21 26 30 38
11/10/07....W/F....J T Petty 22 18 27 35 37
12/08/07.....V.....Just Visiting/Holiday Party 18 12 16 26 25
Total: 208 250 349 349 373
Per Meeting Average: 17.3 20.8 29.0 29.0 31.0
2007: The Club Year in Review (Part Two):
The official attendance of the Association's Special Interest Groups appears below. As is customary, we do not list the pre meeting events of the S F A B C in this section. Cancelled events are indicated with an "X."
The weakest of our events is That's Science Fiction, Part Two!, our movie viewing group. It is also the easiest to run, so it will continue as an activity.
Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Final Frontier 4 4 6 4 5 5 4 2 4 5 3 X
Month End Book Group 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 3 5 4 4
Monsters of Horror 2 6 4 5 3 6 4 3 4 4 5 4
Special Activity 2 3 12 5 5 5 3 3 6 33 5 4
That's SF, Part Two! 3 X 2 3 5 3 2 2 3 2 3 3
Topic Discussion X 8 7 X 7 9 8 7 10 8 5 X
Writers of the Weird 4 4 X 7/6 5 7 6 7 5 6 8 5