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Memo to Dave Remine from
Guy Conti |
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Exhibit A cover sheet |
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Exhibit A: Letter dated 11/8/02 from Pam
Donahoo to Al Heigl |
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Exhibit B cover sheet |
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Exhibit B: Letter dated 12/27/04 from Pam
Donahoo (& DeDe Tredinnick) to Al Heigl |
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Exhibit C cover sheet |
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Exhibit C: Draft letter dated 6/__/04
from Andrew Price to Al Heigl |
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Exhibit D cover sheet |
| Pages 13-19 |
Exhibit D: E-mail dated 6/23/04 from
Andrew Price to Pam Donahoo |
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Exhibit E cover sheet |
| Pages 21-26 |
Exhibit E: E-mail dated 7/19/05 from
Clifton McCann to Pam Donahoo |
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Exhibit F cover sheet |
| Pages 28-29 |
Exhibit F: Printout of Minnesota Mensa
website home page printed on 4/7/2006, 12:10 PM |
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Exhibit G cover sheet |
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Exhibit G: Printout of table of relevant
board meetings printed on 4/7/2006, 12:00 PM |
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Exhibit H cover sheet |
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Exhibit H: Printout of scan of 8/10/02
signed, written settlement agreement between
Minnesota Mensa and me, reinstating me as Webmaster, printed on
4/7/2006, 12:19 PM |
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Exhibit I cover sheet |
Original Charges:
Commentary on the
Exhibits
Rebuttals to the charges
Hearing Charges:
Letter from Dave
Remine listing the four chosen charges (MS Word - 22KB)
The
Minnesota Mensa Webmaster's formal response (MS Word - 233 KB)
To summarize (again), after Minnesota Mensa
and I signed a Written Settlement Agreement on 8/10/2002 reinstating
me as Minnesota Mensa Webmaster, I was subsequently charged as
follows:
- That I "did
and is illegally using Mensa's trademark and AML copyrighted
material" on the Minnesota Mensa website. (I'll bet some
other Local Group Webmasters are doing exactly the same thing.)
- That I am "illegally using members'
copyrighted material from Mensa publications" on the Minnesota
Mensa website. (Seems to me that our website is a
Mensa publication, and I can hardly believe that I am the only
Local Group Webmaster using printed newsletter material as
source material for a Local Group website.)
- That I have "wrongfully held forth
that his website is the official website of Minnesota Mensa."
(It's not "my" website, it's Minnesota Mensa's website, and I
hold forth on that because of the Signed Written Settlement
Agreement reinstating me as Webmaster.)
- That my "illegal actions regarding the
mnmensa.org (sic) domain name cost American Mensa a considerable
amount of money." (It was actually the minnesotamensa.org
domain name, and what this charge refers to is that somebody
within American Mensa apparently blew around $17,000 of our dues
money on a WIPO action in which American Mensa ended up suing
itself (really!) to confiscate a Local Group's domain name —
over which it already had control — and park it, thus forcing
everybody to change their bookmarks to get to the new domain
name for our website.)
You may want to express your opinions on
this to
some of the people involved:
Hearings Committee:
Dave Remine
4 Gander lane
Manalapan, NJ 07726-4202
"Dave Remine"
<hearings@us.mensa.org>
"Dave Remine"
<dremine@optonline.net>
Jean
Becker
2699 Jennifer Dr.
Brighton, MI 48114-8938
"Jean Becker"
<pastchair@us.mensa.org>
Bob
Beatty
3755 Wenwood Dr.
Hilliard, OH 43026-2489
"Bob Beatty"
<pastpastchairman@us.mensa.org>
"Bob Beatty"
<bobbeatty@columbus.rr.com>
Mensa Advocate:
Guy Conti
c/o Barr, Anhut & Associates, P.C.
105 Pearl Street
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
"Guy Conti" <Advocate@us.mensa.org>
"Guy Conti" <gconti@gmail.com>
Mensa Ombudsman:
Eldon Romney
"'Eldon Romney'"
<Ombudsman@us.mensa.org>
"Eldon Romney"
<eldon@rrenviro.com>
Since growing publicity about expelling a
member for the crime of serving as a Local Group Webmaster can be
reasonably projected to have a serious negative effect on volunteer
recruitment and retention (as well as Mensa recruitment and
retention), you might also want to make your feelings known to:
AMC Membership Officer
Heather Miller
"Heather Miller"
<membership@us.mensa.org>
Mensa Membership Director
Paige Faulkner
817/607-0060 ext. 5521
"Paige Faulkner" <MembershipDirector@americanmensa.org>
Two things to remember --
One - If they can do this sort of thing to me, they can
do it to you.
Two - the famous quote:
First they came for the Jews and I did not
speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then
they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for
me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
What if you're a Local Group
volunteer, and they come after you?
Please speak out.
(Diversion: read what Isaac Asimov had to say
about Mensa.
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