[15952] in APO-L
Re: Region III-Nationals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Costa)
Mon Jan 6 13:22:51 1997
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:21:27 -0500
Reply-To: Laura Costa <lcosta@RUNET.EDU>
From: Laura Costa <lcosta@RUNET.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199701061809.NAA18887@ruacad.runet.edu>
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997 SarahKeim@AOL.COM wrote:
> Norfolk couldn't hold a convention for 2700 people?!?!? I beg to differ.
Sorry. I'm not at all familiar with that part of the state. My parents
live in Fairfax county and I go to school in southwest Virginia. I have
been to Williamsburg and that's basically where I get my impression of
that part of the state from.
> Norfolk itself is headquarters to the U.S. Navy. Little old Williamsburg
> recently hosted the convention for all the U.S. governors and their
> entourages and Williamsburg itself has more hotels than cities many, mnay
> times its size.
Didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
Norfolk is part of the Tidewater area, which means that it
> is directly adjoining to Hampton, Newport News, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake,
> Suffolk, and several other cities, as well as near to Williamsburg and
> Richmond. Norfolk and Va Beach alone have about 700,000 residents.
That's about 10 times as many people as I thought there were in that part
of the Old Dominion.
I can't
> believe that people think Charlotte could do it, but Tidewater couldn't.
> Nothing against Charlotte, I think it would be great there. :) (Region
> III rules!) People tend to forget about or don't know how big and fun-filled
> the Tidewater area is. I'm getting a headache...it's too early for me to be
> thinking about such things and I'm graduating anyway. My chapter's got a
> regional conference to be thinking about...
>
> Good luck for the start of a new semester everyone! :)
Sounds like Region 3 has a lot to do. There are 3 places within the
region who would like to bid on the convention.
In LFS,
Laura
