The Projector: a newsletter for PSA Member Organizations

Summer 2008
The Projector: a newsletter for PSA Member Organizations

Sharp’s Word
by Sharp Todd

Greetings to all PSA member camera clubs, councils, and camera club associations. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I am Sharp Todd, APSA, PPSA, the PSA Vice President of Chapters, Clubs, and Councils. I also want to introduce you to the first edition of the new camera club newsletter. We are calling it "the Projector." Peter Manzelli will be the Editor and Publisher of "the Projector." He came up with the name and designed and created the logotype in a matter of a few days after accepting the job, and said we are ready to fly. I want to thank Pete for accepting the job. We plan on publishing three or four newsletters each year. I hope you share this with your club and council members and especially your board members. If you would forward this newsletter to them, it would be much appreciated.

I want to invite those who are planning to attend the PSA Conference in Portland, Oregon, to attend some of the meetings and activities for clubs and councils. The first item that most would be interested in is the results of the Councils Challenge. It will be Wednesday morning, 8:30—9:30. The second item is a meeting for the PSA camera club representatives. This meeting is Thursday at 12:45—1:30 pm. We will be discussing some of the benefits of being a PSA member organization. We will also hear any issues that your organizations are having and open a forum to try to address them. If your club or organization’s representative is not attending, anyone is welcome to attend to represent your club. Also on Thursday at 1:30—2:30 pm is the Camera Club Newsletter & Web Editors meeting. Winding up Thursday will be the Council Representatives Meeting at 5:15—6:00. This will have the same format as the Camera Club Representatives Meeting. Anyone can represent your council and take the information back to the council board.

For those who have not ventured to the PSA website, or have not been to it lately, I would like to invite you visit the site. It has a wealth of information about PSA, it’s activities, and photography in general, Click here: Photographic Society of America. http://www.psa-photo.org/

I especially invite you to go to the PSA Camera Club Committee page, Click here: PSA Camera Club Committee. http://www.psa-photo.org/resourcePageDisplay.asp?DivID=8&menuID=6&pageID=385

It has information pertaining to camera clubs and councils. In later issues of "the Projector," we will be investigating in detail the information on the Camera Club Committee page. On this page you can see who the members of the Camera Club Committee are and what they do. Take a look at it!