X-Message-Number: 676 Date: 23 Mar 92 09:19:47 EST From: "Russell E. Whitaker" <> Subject: Alcor UK "February" meeting minutes Minutes of the Alcor UK meeting, Sunday 26 Jan 1992, held at the Alcor UK Ltd. facility in Eastbourne, England This is the "February" meeting, held one week early to accommodate the schedules of several members. Present were: Russell E. Whitaker Michael Clive Price Stephen Whitrow Andrew Clifford Steve Strong Alan Sinclair Meeting started at 1110 1.) Discussion of the minutes of the December meeting, which had not been posted to members not on email services. Mike Price will give Steve Whitrow a postal mailing list for mailing copies, as Mike does not have access to a printer at the moment. 2.) Discussion of funds: our Girobank account is no longer active, but will be held in reserve, should the occasion arise that we need it. Our primary account will be moved to another bank after changing the account name; see #6 below. 3.) Andrew Clifford noted that members should keep records of expenditures paid out by individuals to cover Alcor UK expenses, for possible future reimbursement, should future operating revenues allow for this. Noted by Treasurer. 4.) Stephen Whitrow will landmail out these and the last minutes. 5.) Mike Price will email the local postal distribution list of members to Stephen Whitrow and Russell Whitaker. 6.) There was some discussion on the financial and tax structure of the Human Organ Preservation Research Society, the organization set up to handle certain classes of expenses for the local Alcor membership. 7.) Russell Whitaker received a list of UK Alcor members, and a much longer list of those who have received Alcor literature, given him by Joe Hovey at Alcor Life Extension Foundation, on his recent visit to the United States. He will type the names into an ASCII file, and distribute the resulting list to Alcor UK officers, preferentially by electronic mail; other officers will receive the list via fax and/or post. 8.) Garret Smyth volunteered to get back in touch with the person in the Midlands who recently did some research into Alcor-favorable insurance companies and agents. 9.) Several people in the Midlands region have expressed interest in Alcor; information has been sent to them, and a followup will be needed later. 10.) It was agreed that once #7, above, is completed, that we would send out notes to the local membership, and prospects, reminding people we hadn't forgotten about them, and would welcome their participation. 11.) Russell Whitaker mentioned some Continental prospects, in Germany, Switzerland, and France, who had expressed interest in Alcor, and who subsequently have been sent information packs from Alcor in the U.S. 12.) We have received no feedback from Carlos Mondragon about the projected shipping costs of the A-9000 storage dewar previously offered to us. 13.) 2300 pounds is still claimed owed by Alan Sinclair, to Alcor US, but a recent conversation between Carlos Mondragon and Russell Whitaker indicates this may not be the case. 14.) Announcements for Alcor UK monthly now appear regularly in *Cryonics* magazine, as the result of Mike Price's recent email of a text template to Alcor in Riverside. 15.) There was some discussion of recruitment via JANET email in the UK; Steve Strong will send JANET addresses and newsgroup info to Russell, and both will mount an email campaign to spread Alcor information, including invitations to attend local meetings. 16.) There was some discussion of how Steve Strong found out about cryonics through email. Steve commented that he might not have discovered it, otherwise, though he considers himself to be quite well-read. It is worth noting that Steve had never heard of cryonics in the UK before, which shows that media coverage could be much greater than it currently is, with a corresponding increase in new propects. 17.) Russell Whitaker will finish the local Alcor newsletter, and will incorporate the recent article written by Steve Whitrow. 18.) Andrew Clifford expressed interest in picking up a CompuServe account, in order to keep up with Kevin Brown's cryonet news; Russell Whitaker will have CompuServe send him signup information from their office in Bristol. 19.) There was some discussion on Russell Whitaker's recent efforts to find relatively inexpensive pagers for local "on-call" transport team members. His recent trip to Los Angeles revealed that basic pagers were, indeed, far less expensive to purchase, but that a frequency crystal conversion to the UK standard of 454.825 MHz would increase the price enormously, negating the advantages of that option against the alternative of simply buying or renting pagers locally. He will continue his search locally. 20.) Copies of the lab keys are still needed for local officers. Mike Price will make 4 copies for local distribution, and 1 copy will be sent to Alcor in Riverside. 21.) Alan Sinclair resigned as President, but will still send out information packs to those who request. The new President is Andrew Clifford. The office of Vice President is now optional, and will remain unfilled until needed. 22.) Russell Whitaker asked about the status of the the "Scarfe on Death" BBC programme filmed in December at the facility, and inquired if Gerald Scarfe had followed through on his promise to keep us informed of progress in its production. No one has yet been contacted. 23.) We need copies of the facility ownership paperwork from the solicitor involved in the transfer and apportionment, showing individual financial interests. 24.) Andrew Clifford suggested that individual members present replenish our working bank account with a couple of hundred pounds each. 25.) Alan Sinclair will change the name on the electricity billing from Alcor UK to Human Organ Preservation Research Society. 26.) There was some discussion of a local undertaker who is interested in offering cryonics as a "funeral" option. Meeting ended at 1315 Respectfully submitted, Russell Earl Whitaker Recording secretary [With some amendments and corrections added by Mike Price 22 Mar 92 - REW] Distribution: CryoNetUK cryonet Alcor Life Extension Foundation, email Alan Sinclair, fax Post to local membership Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=676