Editor’s Note: I found this poem in the February 1983 issue of the Forum, and, as I’d just finished entering all the membership updates, thought it would be a good one to share. If anyone has a print version of the December 1983 issue, I’d be grateful if you’d send it to me at the ACB national office. I’m also looking for print versions for March, August, November and December of 1984, and all issues from 1985-1989, plus 1980-1981, the 1960s and the 1970s.
Thoughts on Membership
(Author unknown)
Are you an active member
The kind that would be missed?
Or are you just content
That your name is on the list?
Do you attend our meetings
And mingle with the flock?
Or do you just stay at home
And criticize and knock?
Do you take an active part
To help the work along?
Or, are you satisfied
To just belong?
Do you work with fellow members
And get right in and mix?
Or leave the work to just a few,
And complain about the cliques?
Think this over, members.
You know right from wrong.
Are you an active member?
Or do you just belong???