30 DAYS HAS SEPTEMBER, APRIL, JUNE AND NOVEMBER...
EXCEPT IF YOU ARE THE APTA

By Charles E. Vasoll

The Men’s League team on which I play got to the post season playoffs and wound up with two away matches at the Huntington Country Club. I was perusing the bulletin board in their "chalet" (warm-up hut) when my eyes fell upon an APTA calendar for 2004. For some reason, I started to thumb through it and I only went one month when I noted that the calendar had 31 days in April. That, in itself, was an error that could have been easily overlooked but on that 31st day of April was also the notation "Annual BOD Meeting". Fortunately, by the time that April 30th rolls around, no one is looking at the calendar in the platform tennis warm-up hut so I don’t expect this error will cause any real confusion. I do, however, have one other concern about the Annual Meeting.

The proxy ballot that is published in the February issue of Platform Tennis Magazine. It fails to indicate the members of the Board who are not being re-nominated or who are not eligible for another term. Before a recent amendment to the by-laws the entire Board was up for election each year and all of the Director’s names were on the ballot. Under the current system, it is important to know who is being retained and who is being replaced. The ballot fails to make this information available. I believe this information should be disclosed to the membership in the course of the voting procedure.

The Annual Meeting, scheduled for 7:30 P.M. at the Beacon Hill Club on April 30th, is usually a "routine affair" but with all the changes that have taken place in the past few months, this could be the meeting at which "routine" changes into "challenging".

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