[Artemisia] Kingdom Traditions (Long)

[LadyPDC at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/8/2004 12:35:46 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
sgibson at edulog.com writes:
If there were a lot of
relatively minor competitions, perhaps awards could be given elsewhere, and
the winners announced in court.  That would be much quicker than having
everyone come forward.  
I have seen presentations in other kingdoms and in other organizations where 
all who participated were called forward at the same time so they could be 
seen and publicly thanked for participating.  Then the announcement is made that 
a complete list of winners is either available directly following court or 
will be printed in an upcoming newsletter.  This allows the participants to be 
seen and publicly thanked for their activity without taking up too much time in 
court.  

I have seen too much attention being paid to winning and not enough to the 
act of participating.  Without participants you can have no winners.  In fact, 
without participants all you have is a name of an inactive organization.  

But taking the time to thank all participants as a group need not take the 
inordinate amount of time that calling each up individually has done in the 
past, nor does it give the impression of favoritism that has colored some peoples 
impression of some courts.

Of course, since I have been unable to participate in the recent past and 
have chosen not to participate in the near future, my opinion is probably not 
worth the 2 pence and five minutes it took to write this missive.





Lady Constance de la Rose