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Originally posted by "Big Mike"
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FIRST, then i think that we would bring in more people, but other than that showing somthing during nats, doesnt help much, but maybe what team need to do is somthing like what team 25 did, we sent letters to famous peopleCOLOR]
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Mike is talking about a project we did in 2001. Somewhere we found a book of hundreds of celebrity contacts and we made a mass mailing to just about every celebrity involved with sci fi movies, CEOs of all the major companies and people who just came across as cool choices. We mailed out over 200 letters, many personally addressed to the celebrity, explaining what FIRST was and why the celebrity might want to be a part of it.
Of the pile of letters we got over a hundred "returned to sender" because the addresses had changed or the mail was refused. We did get three interesting ones:
Donald Trump sent us a nice autographed photo and letter telling us to keep up the good work
Playboy Enterprises told us that they didn't support groups involving minors as it was inappropriate. It was a shot....
Majel Barrett Roddenberry's former agent (Star Trek fame) wrote us a hand written response encouraging our team to keep trying.
Would any of these letters have interested some big name celebrity in FIRST? Who knows? But we gave it a shot, got the FIRST name out there and maybe planted a few seeds.
WC
