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A "keeper" posting from the An Tir all-peers list, 26 May XLI/2006:

Greetings from E.B.

Anne-Marie Rousseau <[address deleted to preserve privacy]> wrote on 25/05/2006 02:24:13 PM:
[...]
> so who are these unrecognized masses? where are they, and how, with
> everything that
> we're doing, are they being missed?
[...]
> --Anne-Marie

I suspect that the unrecognized masses aren't really as unrecognized as some folks might think.

Here's what I think may be happening:

Lady Jane sees Lord Joe DoesCoolStuff autocrating events, holding offices, and generally being a good service mavin. She recommends Lord Joe for a Pelican because he has a Goutte already. And nothing happens...

At least nothing happens from her point of view.

What's really happened is that her recommendation went to the principality/regional Pelican circle. They already had Lord Joe on their radar and added Lady Jane's recommendation to his file. They discuss Lord Joe and reach essentially the same conclusion that they reached six months ago when they discussed him last (just after he got his Goutte) -- he's well on his way on the Pelican track, but he's only been in the Society for four years, he hasn't autocratted anything but very small local events or held any but local shire offices, he hasn't learned how to delegate yet, and he's hardly known by anyone outside of his local branch.

But now the regional Pelicans know his name. And the next time one of them runs into Lord Joe around the campfire, Joe ends up in a conversation with them about the tips and tricks of running a larger event. And someone makes sure that he hears about a opening in a principality office that he might be suited for. Or his branch is solicited to host a principality event next summer with him as autocrat. Heck, the Pel from NextShireOver might even be making protege overtures in his direction.

Has Lord Joe gone unrecognized? Not at all. No, he hasn't gotten any awards based on Lady Jane's recommendation, but we're cultivating him like crazy.

Yes, I'm playing with the two meanings of "recognition". But just because they haven't received the recognition of a Peerage (or any other award), doesn't mean that they have been entirely missed, overlooked, ignored, or unrecognized.

Mistress Elizabeth "E.B." Braidwood

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