Well, friend, the point is made!  Again! and Again!  Appearances are the
reality of most organizations or we wouldn't have a White House worrying
that Bubba is sitting a couple of inches lower than Boris Yeltsin!

Let's get back to the thread.  In the museum field, what is the appropriate
distance between board and professional staff -- what latitude is
appropriate?  Why do we still countenance the idea of having board members
sign all checks?  Are we mistrusted by stereotype?  An IMS-GOS grant
reviewer once gigged us for not requiring that a board member sign
checks....Wow!

Ross Weeks

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> From: Hodcarry <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Ethics question on election of Board of Directors
> Date: Wednesday, April 02, 1997 9:43 AM
>
> I don't want to beat this into the ground but:
> !. While the very large cash gift to the United Way's director was
> probably legal, it was a PR nightmare.  The Director had promised to run
a
> tight lean organization and so on.  After the story broke the board did
> all sorts of sorts of stuff to try and deal with the story-which only
made
> it worse.  Sometime the appearance ofwrong doing is as damaging as actual
> misdeeds.
> 2.  While the legal relationship between local and national UA may exist
> under the same laws and codes as say- AAM, the locals operate under
fairly
> rigid rules-They use the trademark and copyrighted material under very
> strict rules and support the national at a much higher level than most
> trade groups.  But I guess my point is-if we are looking for models at
> least choose successful ones.