Lee-
 
You seem to have a lot of knowledge about the person who had to sleep on
the park bench and was arrested for vagrancy.  Was that you?
 
By the way, I enjoyed seeing you at the Southeast Regional meeting this
past weekend.  This was my first regional and I was very impressed by the
way the regional was organized and the quality of the papers presented.
 
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, lreed wrote:
 
> When I began going to our nat'l meetings in 1974, the attendees stayed
> in dormitories. I remember in Reno when one of our free-spirited members
> missed the 1:00 a.m. curfew and got locked out of the dorm, decided to sleep
> on a nearby parkbench, and was arrested for vagrancy. Then we began staying
> in proper hotels. Some of our members felt sure attendance would decline
> because of the expense. Instead, attendance rose dramatically. More families
> began to accompany members. I don't think that we should seek out the
> Ritz, but I am all for avoiding Motel 8. Dormitories are a no-no, believe me.
>