Progress Report, March, 2002
The Magnificent Seven were granted the authority and responsibility to complete two tasks.
1 - Select and supervise the planning and organization of the 2002 reunion.
2 - Organize a the ships company into a working association.
Selecting and supervising the 2002 reunion became quite a learning exercise with a few bumps in the road. We are still learning as we go along and we are documenting the solutions we agreed to in order to make it easier for the next Magnificent Seven Cruise Representatives. This is a listing of the resolutions the majority of the Magnificent Seven agreed to relative to selecting and supervising the 2002 reunion and the following reunions. For reunion site selection we completed:
1 - Development of the first draft of the reunion selection criteria
2 - Developed the overall reunion proposal process
To implement the site selection process we completed:
1 - Selected Portland, Oregon as the 2002 reunion site
2 - Provided funding for the 2002 reunion deposit requirements
3 - Began the supervision of the Portland, Oregon reunion
4 - Defined the overall process for review and evaluation of the reunion proposals submitted by our shipmates.
While working on the reunion site selection and implementation we also worked, in parallel, on the By Laws document that would provide a description of our association, officers required, duties and responsibilities, and administrative tasks. This document will provide the authority for future Magnificent Seven members to make decisions in the name of the ships company. when it has been approved by the ships company at the Portland reunion. We have completed:
1 - Completed the first draft of the By Laws
2 - Elected the Officers of the Ships Company.
3 - Appointed a Chaplain and Public Relations Officer
4 - Established and funded a Ships Company Treasury
5 - Staggered Mag 7 terms of service
6 - Revision of By Laws - Mag 7 Responsibilities
7 - Addition of Committee Responsibilities to the By Laws
8 - Development of Reunion Process Guidelines
As you can imagine the work to date and the work yet to be done requires a lot of meetings. Several objectives were completed to make our meetings productive and effecient. They are:
1 - Established an on-line scheduled meeting facility
2 - Established an on-line Special Meetings procedure
3 - Established a majority vote rule
4 - Developed a reunion Business Meeting Agenda and defined Tasks to be completed.
NOTE -- It has become clear to the Magnificent Seven that having on line capability is a necessity for every member. Communication at meetings and discussion of problems and their resolution, between members is too big a problem without this capability.
In addition, it should be recognized that becoming a member of the Magnificent Seven carries a lot of responsibility for our shipmates and entails a lot of work. A decision to serve as a member of this group requires time and effort, so if you want to do a good job representing your shipmates give this decisision the consideration it deserves.
In order to make the information of our newly formed association available to our shipmates we have completed:
1 -- Established a Magnificent Seven page on our web site for those that are on line.
2 - Contributed information to the Ichi Ichi Go Ku publication for distribution to our shipmates that are not on line.
We are making good progress so the Magnificent Seven is confident that the work in process will be completed before the 2002 reunion.
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