Terry: 

I&#039;m now more confused than before.  your post states that at the board meeting (I presume the one on the 8th of Nov) if you&#039;d have known Sherry was still present you would have attempted a notification in person.  A few posts earlier Sherry indicates says that there had been no contact between her and the board since Penfield.

I realize she is not a member of the board and would not have necessarily attended the meeting.  But, I would like to know where the meeting was held and why by chance the board and she were in the same location at the same time but evidently, if Sherry&#039;s post is correct, not talking to each other.  

From  my point of view, if on Nov 8 the board was still unhappy with her performance as the editor of the magazine and she was in the area it was an opportune time to ask her to &amp;quot;step into the meeting&amp;quot; and discuss matters as they stood at that time.   I will accept what you say about not knowing she had not left and then finding out she had just left so you had to notify her in writing to comply with the contract.  By the way if I were you I would forego further references to the fact she wrote the contract.  After the board accepted it in Penfield it became &amp;quot;the contract&amp;quot; regardless of who wrote it.

Now even though I accept what you say it is with a big grain of salt.  You should have known this was going to be a big deal and if any of you guys knew she was there you should have busted a gut to make sure you talked to her that day.  That to me would only have been fair, your post sounds a little bit like the board took the easy way out.  Even if she was gone that day you or someone else from the board could probably have asked to meet with her the next day.  As I&#039;m finding out Illinois is not so big that it would take a long time to get from Abingdon, Claremont or N. Henderson to Nokomis.

I think that this board is the format for notification to the members as to what went on and why you and the rest of the board took the actions you did.  Since only members can post to the board you will only get members inputs and you won&#039;t have a situation like on Yesterdays Tractors.  Then the club can start to &amp;quot;move on&amp;quot; sooner rather than later.  You can even give Sherry an opportunity to state her case at the same time the board&#039;s reasons are posted.  Waiting 2 months will be a disaster public relations wise for the board and the club.