MEMORANDUM

TO: Persons who have from time to time floated toward the surface of CLAW

FROM: Executive Committee, Local 53703

RE: The need for a Transition Team

DATE: 10 December 1980

While burrowing across the top of his desk one day recently, the Chairman of the Executive Committee, CLAW Local 53703, gnawed into one of his least favorite piles, that pertaining to the general subject of T-Shirts. After washing the vile taste from his mouth with a substance from the ^"D" drawer of the filing cabinet, he called an emergency meeting of the Ex Comm.

We do not wish to bore you with all of the hideous details of the several unsuccessful attempts to make good on past promises to deliver T-Shirts (the favorite being the time the supplier moved to Florida, absconding with the art work,) but we would like to announce the major action taken by the Ex Comm:

THE MIDWEST OFFICE OF THE SIERRA CLUB IS GETTING OUT OF THE T-SHIRT BUSINESS,!!!

Moreover, we suggest the establishment of a Transition Team to formulate by-laws, appoint a new T-Shirt Committee, suggest disciplinary action for the old T-Shirt Committee, and conduct whatever other business might be thought desirable.

Needless to say, CLAW Local 53703 will remain available to take on odd tasks requested of it by any new Board of Directors that may he constituted by the Transition Team.

For further details, see the complete resolution, over.

WHEREAS the Midwest Office of the Sierra Club has long and justly been recognized as the most overworked branch of that organization; and

WHEREAS the procurement of CLAW T-Shirts of a proper color, size, and style in Madison, Wisconsin, has been a royal pain in the ass something of a nuisance; and

WHEREAS the initiation of three members of the Member Services Department into Claw, while an act worthy on its own merits, has cast great ambiguity on the question of who is qualified to be a member of CLAW; and

WHEREAS the afore mentioned ambiguity raises the specter of dozens -- nay, hundreds, maybe thousands -- of orders for CLAW T-Shirts, such specter being more than sufficient to extend pre-Christmas Depression into permanent catatonia;

Now Therefore Be It

RESOLVED that the Midwest Office of the Sierra Club shall truck no more in T-Shirts; and be it further

RESOLVED that a Transition Team be established to regularize CLAW in such fashion as it shall deem proper; and be it further

RESOLVED that such Transition Team shall assemble: in circumstances of fluid hospitality in or around the city of Washington, D.C., not earlier than February 7, 1981, and not later than February 13, 1981; and be it further

RESOLVED that said Transition Team shall be comprised of:

Mahoney, because in a memo of May. 13, 1980, he described himself as "Grand exalted lizard, Poobah most reverential, 33rd degree K of C + T-Shirt ex officio" of CLAW;

Calkin, Because in a memo received in this office on November 20, 1978, he described himself as "Grand Exhausted Rooster" of CLAW;

Dagle, because her endless years of incessant bitching on the subject of T-Shirts have awarded her the privilege of getting off her ass and doing some work for CLAW;

Blomquist, because he has become the loudest mouth in the organization;

Ela, because of his invaluable expertise and his disinclination to miss a good party;

Elder (subspecies Jane), for the same reasons, plus she is very good at this sort of thing; and

Whosoever else wishes to participate.

Moved, Seconded and Passed Unanimously
This 10th Day of December, 1981 Anno Domini

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CLAW - Local 53703