Well, thank you Laurie P for "coming clean" on that. I was wondering if the ATC was going say anything about this - seeing as how my posting of that very same picture on the ATC Facebook page never seemed to get past the administrator
, and no response seemed to be forthcoming from the Grand Pooh-Bah of the ATC, Ron Tipton, either. There's just sooooooo many more important things to do than deal with the peasants. There's fund-raising, for chris'sake!
Just for the RECORD, I objected to that photo in writing when the magazine was published - in a letter to the editor of
Journeys, that (surprise, surprise) never got printed. It might serve
Journeys - and the ATC itself - better, if they engaged in honest, candid conversation with members instead of trying to put an unctuous Madison Ave happy-spin on everything. So when someone takes issue with an issue (or anything else), print the damn letter, and own up to the lack of good judgment right then and there, instead of having it snap back at you six years later in a most unwelcoming and embarrassing way.