...because I can...

[herveus]

I'm reading the President's report of the most recent meeting of the SCA Board of Directors.

Heraldic stuff

The Laurel Queen of Arms had one item to bring to the attention of the board:

Ms. Mohr commended Tanzos Istvan (Lewis Tanzos), Blue Tyger Herald, East Kingdom for his work on the OSCAR system.

That would be fosveny who was singled out for notice...

Yes, fosveny, you are SO scrod... :)

New Chirurgeon titles

Hmmm.... continuing onward through the minutes, I see where the Society Chirurgeon General presented a new slate of titles for the ranks. The board adopted a new set that are supposed to be reflected in paperwork by October.

Chirurgeon-in-training
Chirurgeon
Mentor Chirurgeon

No more "Master"...

What did they step in?

...and in other "interesting" items, I wonder what Pieter and Nan Astrid did to get Exiled From The (Mid)Realm (and Investigated).

...and the board declines to take on that alligator

The king of An Tir last Pennsic happened to be a resident of the West Kingdom. The previous king had permitted him to fight in Crown (for a five-time queen of An Tir).

Recently, a people from An Tir petitioned the BoD to change Corpora to require that the King and Queen be resident in the kingdom they rule over. The board declined to act on that petition, without even laying it before the SCA for comment. I first heard about this in an article at SCA Today (http://scatoday.net/node/6794). Some of the comments cited in that article were quaint and picturesque. Duke Skeggi, the King who allowed Uther to enter Crown, sounded particularly puffed up, claiming "A select few have taken it upon themselves to decide that the king’s word is not law within the lands of An Tir..." and went on to claim that people who want to change the way the game is played should become King to do that. How convenient to implicitly dismiss the validity of petitioning the board (which, by implication, should have no business telling the Crown what they may and may not do, I guess). Most of the comments came across to me as reasoned viewpoints, and they were not unanimous on the issue.

I guess they needed to give one of the principals a voice, and he felt the need to bloviate.

Comments

[technomage.livejournal.com]

If you've got a free heraldic breath could you take a look at this (http://technomage.livejournal.com/122308.html?thread=392132#t392132) and see if you could offer an opinion? I'd appreciate it... Magnus
BTW, see you at war!

[sue-n-julia.livejournal.com]

When we moved to An Tir, we met a very lovely lady who was having some difficulty with the group's outgoing baron and baroness. Not because of anything she said or did, but because of something someone else claimed she said. *good grief* It was very much a surprise to her that oaths of fealty went not only from the swearer to the baron or king but also were to returned in honor from the baron or king. And if not, not. That, I think, has been our biggest cultural shock to us.

I have talked to individuals here who thought that the first king of Aethelmearc actually had the right of it to have his laws read at first coronation rather than the laws that the law committee developed -- regardless of what Corpora said. These individuals think the BoD should only concern itself with matters that affect the SCA as a whole and leave things that only affect a single kingdom to that kingdom regardless of what it is.

S