Quote Originally Posted by WacoJoe View Post
Absolutely fantastic post Ron, and spot-on. Organizations need to evolve. Nothing stays the same. If it does, it dies. A friend of mind used to say "you gotta keep moving ahead, because if you're not moving ahead you're standing still. And if you're standing still you're falling behind, because everyone else is moving ahead." That's the way the world works. And when it comes to the "big tent" that is EAA, both Paul and Tom always asked "who do you tell not to come."

Sure, we all (or at least all of us who were there) lament the passing of the "good old days", but if the organization never changed and evolved it would have gradually died, and where would be be then?
The US constitution comes to mind. We amend it but never change it. The same should hold try for the EAA's missions statement...IMHO