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> On 29 Nov 2004 03:12:55 GMT, parrthenon@cs.com (Parrthenon) wrote:
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> This is an important post which answers some questions I had been
> asking.
>
> Tony Cottell last attended a USCF Delegate's meeting in Framingham,
> Massachusetts in 2001. Before that, he was a regular and served two
> three year terms as USCF Treasurer. It was while Cottell was treasurer
> that the USCF build up a reserve in the LMA of $2 million.
>
> Cottell did not come to the 2002 meeting in Cherry Hill NJ even though
> he lives nearby in New Jersey. At this meting, motions were passed
> weakening the LMA and Cottell would have been screaming had he been
> there.
>
> It it true that Cottell was disliked and unpopular. It it also true
> that had not Cottell done some unpopular things, the USCF would have
> been out of business years ago. Had Cottell not been defeated when he
> ran again for treasurer, the USCF would still have $2 million in the
> bank and would still own the building in New Windsor.
>
> Anthony Cottell, please come back! We need you now!
>
> Sam Sloan