I thought some of you might be interested in the makeup of the membership regarding type of membership, and where the members reside.
To determine this information, I maintain a database of the membership information provided on the cards filled out whenever a membership is paid. The first year of the database was for 2000-2001. It contains the membership card number and the current “paid through” year. When a member pays dues and is already a member, I just check that the personal data is still current, change the expiration date to the new year, and enter the card number. If the person is not in the database, I enter the complete information from the card.
Once a person is in the database they remain. Thus, I have the names of everyone who has paid dues for any year since 2000-2001. And whenever someone renews, I can see when they last paid dues. People seem to come and go, here for one year, not back for a year or more. As it shows below, if everybody paid every year, we would have over a thousand members! Don’t believe it? Come take a look at the database.
I last did these calculations in 2000, and now have done it for 2004.
The numbers -----
|
Membership as of |
|
|
Total membership on record |
494 |
|
Number of life members |
80 |
|
Regular members |
404 |
|
Junior Members |
10 |
|
Renewed for 2000 |
311 |
|
Have not renewed yet |
103 |
|
Residential demographics |
|
|
State of |
472 |
|
|
184 |
|
|
135 |
|
Tyrone addresses (all) |
109 |
|
All other |
44 |
|
State of |
1 |
|
State of |
1 |
|
State of |
2 |
|
State of |
1 |
|
State of |
1 |
|
No address provided by member |
16 |
The numbers -----
|
Membership at close of 2003-2004 year |
|
|
Total names on file in database |
1023 |
|
Number of life members |
78 |
|
Regular members |
351 |
|
Junior Members |
4 |
|
Renewed for 2003-2004 |
355 |
|
Paid in 2002-2003, but not 2003-2004 |
156 !!! |
|
Residential demographics for 2003-2004 |
|
|
State of |
353 |
|
|
160 |
|
|
79 |
|
Tyrone addresses (16686 ZIP) |
64 |
|
All other |
50 |
|
State of |
1 |
|
State of |
1 |
|
No address provided by member |
13 (Life members) |
Information compiled and published by Walt Lysinger on