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News => The Hoosier Line Magazine - A publication of the MRHTS => Topic started by: Mark Johnson on August 29, 2020, 08:39:03 am

Title: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: Mark Johnson on August 29, 2020, 08:39:03 am

Once again, a high-quality issue has graced my mailbox. The centerfold shot of 3 C628's at M Tower in Louisville is one of the best Monon prints I have in my collection...

A hint to the Board and the Editor: I would pay for a clean, rolled-not-folded copy of that picture (without staples, suitable for framing) if it were to be offered. Just let me know where to send the check.

Mark Johnson
Columbia, MO
MRRHTS #349 - what year did I join, anyway? Must have been around 1984 but I can't remember.

Title: Re: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: George Lortz on August 29, 2020, 12:38:49 pm

Mark,

Thanks for your kind comments about the August THL.  The Monon membership database doesn't record your starting year of membership, but as a guideline, member #376 has a starting year of 1983.  The membership years are assigned in chronological order unless there was an interruption in membership for a person.

George Lortz

Title: Re: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: Mark Johnson on September 05, 2020, 08:42:42 am

Thanks, George...I knew I had joined somewhere about that time - by 1986 I was writing for THL, you may recall.

Pray tell, what is our current 'highest' membership number and how many active, current members do we have? [I know folks come and go, so the latest member number is likely to be way higher than the count. Another organization I belong to, in existence just over 62 years, currently has 7700 members and our latest membership number is around 108000 or so. For the record, I joined in 1969 and am #14025 there.]

Mark J
Columbia MO
I spent my teen years riding 2-cylinder John Deere tractors along the Monon near Leipsic. What kid could ask for better?

Title: Re: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: George Lortz on September 08, 2020, 09:41:09 pm

Mark,

Currently, 2044 is the highest number we have in the active membership database and I suspect that we haven't assigned anything higher.  We do purge members that become inactive.  A good measure of the  number of active members is how many THLs we mail and that number is in the low 400s.

George L.

Title: Re: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: Mark Johnson on September 11, 2020, 08:05:52 am

George:

Thanks for the info. Our membership numbers tell me we are a healthy special-interest historical society - nearly the same number of 'registered Monon fans' as there were Monon employees on merger day in 1971  :D :D

Mark J

Title: Re: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: Ryan Rybarczyk on September 18, 2020, 08:34:56 am

I have not yet received my issue of THL.

Title: Re: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: Steve Dolzall on September 18, 2020, 04:28:33 pm

WRP has been advised of THL delivery issues this month and will contact the USPS about the problem.

Steve

Title: Re: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: Ryan Rybarczyk on September 19, 2020, 03:26:20 pm

Thank you!

Title: Re: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: Vern Sargent on October 02, 2020, 02:56:54 pm

Arrived at Greencastle, IN. today, 10-02-20.

Title: Re: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: Ryan Rybarczyk on October 03, 2020, 02:25:22 pm

Still nothing in Westfield.

Title: Re: August 2020 Issue Arrived
Post by: Ryan Rybarczyk on October 07, 2020, 03:43:10 pm

Arrived in Westfield, IN yesterday (10/6/2020).