What Sherry had to say above may have been true for last year, but it sure wasn&#039;t true for the Jan/Feb issue for 2000. At that time she was 3 issues behind on the magazine. I believe the so called Jan/Feb 2000 issue didn&#039;t come out till sometime after the Winter Get Together in March that year. And then it wasn&#039;t even a real magazine it was just the HPOCA Membership Directory for 2000. Kind of a freebie given to her by the board, who at the time were more sympathetic to her than the current board, to help her get back on schedule, not a real magazine at all. 

At that time our friends out in Iowa were getting ready to host the National Winter Get Together at the largest facility that one of these had been held at up to that time. The banquet room could seat up to 1000 people, unfortunately less than 400 were there because the magazine was 3 issues behind and only the inner circle of the HPOCA even knew that there was a Winter Get Together going on.

A few months later, Sherry and her guardian angel Bob Tallman convinced the board to make the editor&#039;s job a full time position. I don&#039;t know what your working experience has been, but in most cases I have seen, if you allow yourself to get 6 months behind in your work your boss doesn&#039;t give you a promotion you get fired!

About a year later we find out that the reason Sherry was so far behind in the magazine was that she was busy writing her own Oliver book and busy meeting deadlines for that instead of meeting deadlines for the HPOCA Collector which should have been her main focus at that time.

I have sat back for the last 2 months reading all this garbage about Sherry and the magazine and finally decided that at least part of the record should be set straight.

I hope you all give Chris &amp;amp; Becky Losey a chance to show what they can do as editors for the magazine &amp;amp; the club before passing final judgement.