[Archers] Marshal Nomenclature

[Chip Miles]

As a former Captain of Archers in Atenveldt, I kinda liked the office name.
The title and $3.50 would get me a cup of coffee.
But it denoted me as the Baronial Officer in charge of Archery. But we also
had to do officer reports, and I don't miss that.

YIS
Ursus


On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 8:32 PM GEORGE <jaynardone at comcast.net> wrote:

> Lord Mungo you are always thinking, I like that about you. Yes, please
> remember this for our next DEM and lets bring it up to them again. In the
> meantime if your local group has a web presence or Facebook presence there
> is no reason you cant be listed as the “TAM” for your local group with your
> contact info.
>
> In service
>
> Janyn
>
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> ------ Original Message ------
>
> From: Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
> To: archers at atlantia.sca.org
> Sent: April 22, 2019 at 6:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [Archers] Marshal Nomenclature
>
> Lord Janyn, and Friends;
>
> Thank you all for your thoughts on this question. I hope this discussion
> was profitable, and I'm pleased to see that I wasn't the first to think
> about this. Perhaps our next DEM will find a way to address the question.
> From now on I will not use "Captain of Archers" or any other designator,
> until there is official action.
>
> Nobody addressed the second point, and that was whether a star [*] or some
> other designator could be added in the Marshal List to help us find who is
> in charge for TA business purposes.
>
> Yours Aye,
>
> Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 1:12 PM JAY NARDONE <jaynardone at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Lord Mungo, I held this discussion when I was DEM. It was one of those
>> things that was brought to curia but never actually made it to curia along
>> with the 3 or 4 other items I wanted to officially have changed. While I am
>> not and have never been in favor of us just willy nilly just affording
>> ourselves made up titles, I see your point. That is why I suggested that in
>> all local groups the lead marshal should be called and named the "TAM."
>> There are still groups within our kingdom today that do not have official
>> TAMs identified.
>>
>> I think it will become very confusing if all of a sudden we now have
>> Archer General, Captain of the archers, Lieutenant of the archers, etc...
>> There is no need for this and in my eyes it is pompous for a group that was
>> never that way.
>>
>> Just my 2 cents...
>>
>> Master Janyn Fletcher
>>
>> On April 20, 2019 at 6:05 AM Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <
>> mallardlodge1000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Noble Friends of the Bow,
>>
>> I would like to spark a discussion about what we as Target Archery
>> Marshals who are in charge of a sub-group's archers call ourselves.
>>
>> As I understand the way our title is stated as officers of the kingdom,
>> we are simply called "[Name of subgroup] Target Archery Marshal". That
>> applies to all the TA marshals of that group, so there is no way to tell
>> the difference between the gentles who file the quarterly reports and "run
>> the shop" from their subordinates. No problem when I was the only TA
>> Marshal in Isenfir, but now we have six active TA marshals.
>>
>> For a while I used the handle "Target Archery Marshal In Charge", but was
>> told is an official designation only for a TA who is running an event, and
>> that using it at the group level was incorrect.
>>
>> Since then I have informally called myself "Captain of Archers" on
>> correspondence, which seems to be an accurate description (see signature
>> below). I know this might sound a bit haughty, but it is a useful
>> differentiation, especially as I am sometimes the point-of-contact for
>> inquiries from potential new members, outside groups that want an archery
>> demo/speaker, etc.
>>
>> I recognize that, if official, such a designation would need Kingdom
>> approval. Maybe this is something upon which we could agree upon and ask
>> TRMs for official recognition through our next DEM. Does anyone know if
>> other kingdoms use such at title that could serve as a guide?
>>
>> Another purely practical idea: If we need to do business with the TA
>> Marshal of another group, it would be handy to know which TA to contact.
>> Perhaps a star [*] or some other mark could be added to listings on the
>> marshals' roster page to show who is in charge. This would be an easy
>> programming fix, and completely separate from any question about titles.
>>
>> Any other ideas? Is this a tempest in a teapot?
>>
>> Yours Aye,
>>
>> Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆
>> Captain of Archers, Shire of Isenfir
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