Senior Fairboard

The many boards that make up a successful county fair for Allen County have much to be proud of. I have worked with the Junior Fairboard in a meeting setting twice now, but tonight was the first chance I had to work with the Senior Fairboard. I had met a few of the members through the Farm Discovery Days, and other 4-H events but I was interested to see how their meetings went compared to other Senior Fairboard meetings I have been a part of.
The meeting lasted about an hour, and I felt that it was about as productive as possible. I never really realized until Mark said something that the reason many meetings take as long as they do, is the fact that people don't get to see each other very often, and then usually try to catch up during a monthly meeting with one another. I think this is true often with most organizations. I even see it happen with organizations that meet once a week in college.
I think that the biggest downfall to the meeting was that we were part of an outside circle, and therefore the meeting was quite boring. I think that it would be hard to attend these meetings on a regular basis as a non-member.