First of all how do I contact ARMA? And what page do I go to to see the different branches of ARMA? I could not find it on the main website.
How does one contact the ARMA Headquarters (not the branches?).
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Now to get to the real point of this post:
My name is Miss Jacqueline Deane Roberts.
E-mail: DeaneRenata@KJVMail.com
About two weeks ago I e-mailed the Portland, Oregon branch of ARMA telling them I wanted to join and I also asked them what the annual fee was. I also asked them for their address so I could Mapquest them and come out to where they are. I never got a reply back so within a week's time I sent them another e-mail and another week has passed and I have not gotten a reply. So its been a total of two weeks or more and I have never gotten even 1 e-mail back from them and I want to know why. It's like its silent on the other end.
Since I live in Vancouver City they are the nearest branch of ARMA. I am not that far away from Portland.
I really really wanted to join if the head of the Portland branch just knows about this and can answer my questions: if anyone is a member of that branch I would like them to talk to me on here. How can the Portland Branch of ARMA be contacted to know I want to join if they won't even answer my own e-mails? Are they not getting through or something? Can you please tell them for me?
I am talking about these guys: http://studygroups.thearma.org/~portland/
But they don't answer me through their e-mail of armapdx@yahoo.com which is the Study Group Leader Geoffrey Gagner. The website has no other contacts like a phone number which would have been very helpful to me but they don't have their own facility do they?
I would be a beginner since I have never held a sword. I wanted to join a Group, not as a single individual. I wanted to learn how to use the sword as well as study.
I would also be available only on Saturdays and Sundays since I will most likely be working a full-time job as well. I assume some of you work jobs as well because if I didn't I would have no steady income and I would not survive.
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I heard about the ARMA on Sword Forum International: http://swordforum.com/
I post over there a lot with high traffic and my screen-name is JacquelineDeane over there in case you want to read my posts. My focus is on European swords and somebody recommended I eventually take German Longsword to me since I liked long and not-so-skinny blades but that I would have to learn some Fencing first before I graduate to any German Longsword.
As of now I have been studying and reading the European-swords-related material they have been giving to me over there including Oakeshott's Typology of the Medieval Sword: http://www.albion-swords.com/articles/o ... pology.htm
