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In article <1990Sep28.152920.3299@bony1.uucp> billg@bony1.UUCP (Bill W. Gripp) writes:
>Why is the Spring DECUS always in the South (it seems to be usually
>Atlanta and occasionally New Orleans)?  If it has to be in the south
>there are other options.  What's wrong with ORLANDO, they have
>conventions there and DISNEY WORLD too =:^).  How about Nashville or
>Dallas or Houston or Williamsburg or...  Then there's always New York,
>Boston or Cleveland =:^).  Toronto or Montreal would be nice.  I know,
>let's make it in Halifax so we can all get some really good LOX =:^}.

Spring Symposia have not always been in the South.  For MANY years it
was almost exclusively in Boston.  Currently the problem is size of
convention facilities and availability of hotel rooms within
reasonable distance.  The fact that we must book dates MANY years in
advance does not help.  Soon the Orlando Convention Center expansion
will be completed and added to the east coast city list.  The problem
with Dallas is the distance of most hotel rooms from the Convention
Center.  Boston will be back on the list when the construction of
their new expressway is completed.  Currently it is not possible to
run the DECUS hotel bus service there in a reasonable way.  New York
and Chicago are eliminated because of cost.  Miami has reasonable
facilities but will probably never be considered again because of the
trouble the society had there last time.

>Then there's the fall (winter?) DECUS.  Hey I like Anaheim (DISNEY LAND
>is great) but howabout San Diego, Seattle (nice town), Vancover BC,
>Denver or Salt Lake City once in a while?

Currently Anaheim and Las Vegas are the only west coast cities able to
handle Symposia.  Both San Francisco (sp?) and San Diego are expanding
their convention centers and will be added to the host city list.
Vancover BC is not in the US.  I don't know about Denver and Salt Lake
City but I suspect they do not meet one or more criteria.

>All this talk about ATLANTA as the only suitable site is really bogus.
>And with all the bad rap about 'A' on the net, who really wants to go
>there anyway?

Despite all the mumbling about Atlanta, it was a good place for our
meetings. 

I am NOT on the Symposia Committee, so the above is not "official" but
I do believe it to be reasonably accurate.

ctp
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