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General Membership Meeting – 21 June 2006

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General Membership Meeting – Wednesday evening, 21 June 2006 at 7:30 pm at the Abuja Horse Park

We invited all those who might be interested, via Abuja Briefs, Abuja Expats, and View from the Rock to come and to become members of the Nigerian Field Society at this meeting. For complete details about the society, please click: www.nigerianfield.org. We met at the Horse Park just outside Abuja, and, despite the rain, had a decent turnout of over 20 persons. Very kindly, the Park has volunteered to host our meetings indefinitely! Roland provided food and drinks, though in the future such meetings will be pot-luck (each attendee brings a home-made dish), with drinks purchasable from the Park. Alan introduced and chaired the meeting, and Russell provided the background, purpose, goals, and general workings of the Society. I added some comments about the NFSAbuja Yahoo! e-mail distribution Group, about our web site (currently and temporarily liked via the Group, but in the near future accessible directly via the main Society web site above), and about the workings of the membership and fees. There were only a few questions in the Q&A portion, and them we chatted for awhile with each other.

Almost all attendees decided to join the Society right there, with a few taking the applications with them to be returned at a later date. We are very pleased with the meeting, the number of new members (two trips, and possibly a third came out of it, too – see the Calendar of Events), and the fact that our members are interested in leading trips and telling others about us.

Thank you for attending!

Roman