So you can understand the differences ....

So you understand the differences….

Posted on TOSC May 29^th, 2002

by Bill Pearson

 

 

I know sometimes people comment on how much i know. Truth be told, way more than most understand is the real resource behind it all is my good friend Ben Roloff. He doesn't post on this site or others for that matter. He writes articles for the Independent, for SCHOA and has given an untold number of speeches. We go to coffee often and talk about Sun City, past, present and future. It's one of my happy places.

 

Ben sent me two emails this past week and said, share them with whomever.

 They are so good, i decided TOSC was the proper place to post them. I often talk about the good old days when the RCSC trusted the membership to help shape the community. In this case, it was before they became the Recreation Centers of Sun City in 1972. It was however after the merger of the three centers, and were called the Sun City Community Association that was formed in 1968.

 

What's Right with Sun City, Parts 6 - 10

 By Bill Pearson

Originally posted on Talk of Sun City (Posted as written)

 4.21 Part 6

Over the years i have taken hundreds of visitors through the Museum. Whenever i start to tell the John Meeker salvation story, the question invariably becomes, "what did he do?" The challenge is, there isn't one thing. It was a paradigm shift in thinking that started with that policy of non-involvement. We read above how the members took ownership of the governance aspect, the reality was, much of the rest of it, needed a financial boost to get things moving.

What's Right With Sun City?

If you know Bill Pearson, you know he loves to write.  For 15 years or more, Bill has been pecking out prolific missives about his favorite topic - Sun City.  It seems like you either love him or dislike him; but whichever, you've got to admit he knows his history.  I find it fascinating to read his "stories" about the past, and I long to see Sun City go "a little bit backwards" to capture that commitment, resolve, and sense of community. If you share my feelings, you will enjoy this. 

We will be sharing a 15 part series that Bill recently posted on Talk of Sun City. 

Here are the first 5. (Copied exactly as written.)

Jean Totten, Advisory Panel

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Part Two

Too much cash is not always a good thing

One of the biggest challenges over the years has been for board members and RCSC management to overcome the idea that we are a not-for-profit organization. Most often those hired and elected have come out of for-profit businesses. Two wholly different and complete animals. Some have done better than others. Some who have come out of education and others who have worked for non-profits more easily adapt to our environment. Others steeped in the secrecy of for-profit companies look at transparency with