ARTICLE II – SEAL
SECTION 1. — The Club shall have a Club Seal, which shall be a scene consisting of, a mountain with snow on top and a Helicopter below rounded over the top with the words Sierra Rotorcraft Club. It will appear on a blue background with white border. The Seal will be included at the heading of the front page of the by-laws as featured on the cover page of the Club newsletter.
Changes I would like to see made below
ARTICLE II – SEAL
SECTION 1 – Club Seal
(a) The Club shall have a Club Seal, which shall be a scene consisting of, a mountain with snow on top and a Helicopter below rounded over the top with the words Sierra Rotorcraft Club. It will appear on a blue background with white border.
(b) On Paper – The Seal will be included at the heading of the front page of the by-laws as featured on the cover page of the Club newsletter.
(c) On Website – If the Seal does not look present a good look to the design of the website header, then it can be omitted. But the headers well make it very clear that the site is about Sierra RotorCraft Club.
(d) On Electronic Medium – If the newsletter in by e-mail then the seal may be left off do to the complexity of adding it to email.
(e) On Website Post – The Seal may be left off any post that the webmaster or newsletter editor feels is too complex to add. This is especially true for short post as the Seal would overwhelm the post itself.
The last time I saw the seal was back in 2000 when I took over the newsletter. But around 2002, when I volunteered to stay on as editor, I said I would only do it by e-mail and everyone at the time said OK.
But what I found was that the Seal was to much of a pain in the ass to try and get it on to every newsletter. For one I couldn’t get a good scan of the seal, so in the newsletter it looked like crap, so I changed the seal to SRC and used that for years. But overtime, it too was dropped from the newsletters.
In the last couple of years I have been using WordPress as my website format. With this new website, the old and new seals did not look right in the header so the seal(s) were left off.
As for the newsletter, it is automated. The program I use is Aweber and goes to the website every Monday night and gathers all the post for that week. It then sends those posts to the email list.
Putting a seal on every post in the website is very inconvenient and would over whelm the post. If anyone has a problem with this, please note that I’ve been open for 8 years now for anyone to take over the newsletter.
However I think it would be ok on our banner.
As you said it’ so much of a hassle to stick the seal on every single club notice. Unless someone wants to start with a clean sheet and design a PC friendly design for the future a remark like DOES NOT APPLE TO THE CURRENT OPERATION STATUS TILL FURTHER NOTICE added to the section of (SEAL)
I also think the sign should be referred to as the current (SEAL) of the SRC, due to the rebuilding stage we are in and I don’t see the need for a seal unless we have a meeting area set up like at someones hanger for instance.