[VAL] SURVEY+++++

[BCLIVING@xxxxxxx]

Personally, I have garnered some great information from this list in the past 
year or so.  I am a WBCCI member with a token trailer and another brand of 
motor home.  Some of the best friends I have in the world came via the WBCCI.  
My wife is an officer of our local unit. (The above is background)
In the past couple of years, I have been involved with more than one meeting 
regarding recruiting and retaining new members for the WBCCI.  I don't think 
that there is or ever will be a quick and easy answer.  The bottow line is that 
attrition and evolution will change it.  For the most part, a lot of our 
members live in the past and by no fault of their own, just don't understand the 
younger generation.  
I personally think that if the Blue Beret had allowed editorial comment over 
the past years, this issue would be much closer to solution than it is.  The 
Club has it's place as a rally point for those of common interest, it is not 
however a religion as some appear to feel. 
In part the WBCCI is one of Thor's best marketing tools.  Other major brands 
have tried it and not succeeded to the extent that Thor has developed it.
Nothing is prettier than meeting a caravan on Route 66.  It will always make 
my heart beat a little faster.
Nothing is uglier than a rally that I once attended where a 94 year old 
member was not welcome because her children showed up in another brand. 

I feel sure that the WBCCI will survive and prosper but the future is sure to 
be quite different from the past.........and such is all of life.

Clay Livingston #2623 64 Overlander