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The Home Ranch:
©Photo by Jim Argo
©Photo by Jim Argo
Headquarters for
Westerners International, known as the Home Ranch, is
located in an office at the National Cowboy & Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. We like people to
know we have an "actual office" with desks, bookcases,
storage closet, typewriter, file cabinets, computers,
telephone, answering machine and Xerox machine because
now and then a caller will just suddenly blurt out, "Is
this an actual office or is this just the corner of
someone's dining room?" It is an actual office in the
basement at the hall. It is in a good location--close to
the room with the coffee machine, microwave,
©Photo
by Jim Argo
and cola and snack machines. Right next door is a meeting room with a large table,
comfy chairs, and book shelves holding the WI library
collection.
Most weeks out of the year there is someone in the
office almost all day on Tuesdays and for awhile on
Thursdays. Usually there is Mary Marvel,
who keeps the computer mail files up to date and
the checkbook in order as assistant treasurer.
©Photo
by Jim Argo
With Mary
is Burnis Argo, who
is the editor of the Buckskin Bulletin, composer of
various forms, cards and other printed matter used by WI
as well as answerer of letters and E-mails, except
when she can talk Mary into doing it.
©Photo
by Jim Argo
©Photo
by Jim Argo
Joining the ladies is
Kent
McInnis,
Chairman of the Board of Directors
and, along with his wife Cheryl, cyberslinger for this
website. We all three make photocopies and answer the telephone.
From time to time we are joined by local Westerners who
come in to work on special projects that need doing
around the office, and Don Reeves, WI secretary
and taker of minutes at the executive and full board
meetings, who sticks his head in the door at least once
a week and asks to be fired. He is very, very busy as
the museum curator of collections, but how much time
could writing down minutes take?
If you can't catch us in the office, telephone us at
(800) 541-4650. Please leave your message on the
answering machine and someone will call you back or take
care of whatever it is you need us to do. You can also
leave an e-mail message for the Home Ranch Bunch at
WIHomeRanch@aol.com.
Coming to Oklahoma City? Call and let us know and we
will try to be sure someone is in the office on that day
to "meet and greet" you, offer you a coffee, and show
you around.
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Upcoming
Events:
Western History Association
2008 Meeting
October 22-25
Salt Lake City Marriott
City Center Hotel
WI Executive Board Meetings
Lunch at Noon
Meeting over by 1:00 p.m.
January
March
May
July
September
November
Always the second Tuesday every other month.
Any WI member is welcome to attend.
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Oklahoma City, OK |
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