Hi Doug, I'm really have a difficulty with your logic for giving.... like this statement:

"The reason Life Members are being asked is that many of us have paid less than it costs the club to operate (especially those who beccame life members for $300 mor less."

If what you say is the reason "to give" to the "Life Member Challenge" then perhaps Honorary Life Members should be asked to donate a considerable larger sum since it did not cost them any money for their membership. You see Doug, logical justification for this type of giving, like you listed above, just doesn't make any sense to me.In my opinion, you are defending something that is not rational nor does it stimulate a sound reason to give.Making someone feel they should give because they got a better deal then someone else is hardlly a "good" reason to ask them for more money. Perhaps this reasoning is perfectly logical to Trimble, but that would make me wonder about it in the first place.

Jim