Becoming a member of the Friends of the East Broad Top
AN INVITATION TO ASSIST
The Friends of the East Broad Top, Inc. needs your help
to continue our preservation and restoration efforts. The East
Broad Top Railroad is a unique treasure. Quite rightly, this priceless historic
resource, located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, has been designated a U. S.
National Historic Landmark.
AN INVITATION TO JOIN
We welcome all who share our enthusiasm for the East Broad Top Railroad.
Our membership is nationwide and international. We invite you to join us
by printing out and mailing a completed membership
application linked to this page. Benefits of FEBT membership include
a subscription to our award-winning quarterly magazine, the
Timber Transfer, periodic newsletters, and the opportunity to engage in
hands-on restoration work. (A brief description of
membership classifications and benefits can be found below.) By
joining FEBT, you will also share in these advantages of membership:
We actively encourage the continuing
dialog within the community of government, industry, public, and private groups
interested in protecting, preserving, and restoring the East Broad Top Railroad.
Our magazine, the Timber Transfer,
provides a lively forum for articles and information concerning the history,
modeling, preservation, and restoration of the EBT. Many drawings and photos
in the Timber Transfer are published
there for the first time!
Our C.R. Wilburn Library contains a growing archive of EBT historical
material. Our museum collection is starting to accumulate important historic
artifacts related to the EBT.
Our Company Store Plan Service provides copies of drawings in the
possession of FEBT or contributed by our members. The FEBT Kit
Program develops and produces kits and lettering for EBT rolling
stock in popular modeling scales. FEBT also cooperates with model
railroad manufacturers to promote production of heretofore unavailable
models and modeling supplies for EBT prototypes.
MEMBERSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS & BENEFITS
Individual Members
The following membership classifications define categories of
individual members of Friends of the East Broad Top, Inc., as
specified in the Corporate Bylaws. Members in good standing
holding memberships of these types are thus eligible to vote in
elections of directors under provisions established by the FEBT
Nominations and Elections Policy.
Regular Membership, Annual Dues: $30
(A $5.00 surcharge for foreign members applies.)
Regular members receive all issues of the Timber Transfer and
newsletters
published during the twelve month membership period, a 15% discount on
items purchased from the FEBT Company Store of FEBT Museum, and reduced
member-rates at FEBT-sponsored fee events.
Family Membership, Annual Dues: $35
($5.00 surcharge for foreign members applies.)
Family members receive the benefits of Regular Membership PLUS reduced member
rates for spouses and dependent children at FEBT-sponsored fee events.
Sustaining Membership, Annual Dues: $60
(Of this amount $25.00 represents a tax-deductible donation to Friends of the East Broad Top.)
Sustaining members provide additional financial support for
the operations of Friends of the East Broad Top; they receive the
benefits of Family Membership.
Associate Membership, Annual Dues: $100
(Of this amount $65.00 represents a tax-deductible donation to Friends of the East Broad Top.)
Associate members provide significant additional financial
support for the operations of Friends of the East Broad Top;
they receive benefits of Family Membership PLUS annual recognition
in the Timber Transfer and/or annual report.
Life Membership, One-Time Payment: $500
(Note that no part of this payment qualifies as a tax-deductible donation to Friends of the East Broad Top.)
Life members receive the benefits of Family Membership during the
member's lifetime.
Student/Senior Membership, Annual dues: $25
(A $5.00 surcharge for foreign members applies.)
Full-time students between the ages of 14 and 21 and persons 65
years of age or older may receive the benefits of Regular Membership
at a special reduced rate.
Other Members
The following membership classifications define categories of
other members of Friends of the East Broad Top, Inc., as
specified in the Corporate Bylaws. Members holding memberships
of these types are thus not eligible to vote in elections of directors.
Commercial/Institutional Memberships, Annual dues: $100.00
Businesses and other organizations who share our goals and interests
provide significant additional financial support for the operations
of Friends of the East Broad Top as commercial/institutional members;
they receive all issues of the Timber Transfer and
newsletters
published during the twelve-month membership period PLUS annual
recognition in the Timber Transfer and/or annual report.
Reciprocal Membership
Historical organizations, museums, and other organizations who
share our goals and interests may receive the benefits of
Commercial/Institutional Membership on an exchange basis as reciprocal
members. No payment; formal approval by the board of directors of
Friends of the East Broad Top required.
Surcharge for Foreign Members
To help defray costs of postage, members with mailing addresses
outside the United States holding Regular, Family, or Student/Senior
Memberships must include an additional payment of $5.00 with each
annual membership payment. Thus for these members, the effective
annual dues for Regular, Family, and Student/Senior Membership are
respectively $35.00, $40.00, and $30.00.
Membership Year
The membership year for all members is determined by the calendar
quarter in which initial dues payments were received, following the
policy adopted by the board of directors on 7 December 1996. These
memberships extend through the end of the same calendar quarter of
the following year as the quarter in which the initial dues were
paid. That is, the membership year of a member who joins Friends of
the East Broad Top in January, February, or March will end on 31
March of the following year; the membership year of a member who
joins in April, May, or June will end on 30 June of the following
year; the membership year of a member who joins in July, August,
or September will end on 30 September of the following year; and
the membership year of a member who joins in October, November,
or December will end on 31 December of the following year.
Continuously renewed memberships will maintain this pattern.
Membership Year and FEBT Publications
Regardless of when a FEBT member's membership year starts and
ends, he or she will receive all issues of the Timber Transfer,
all newsletters, and any other mailings issued during the twelve-month
period of membership.
Complimentary Mailings
Individuals and organizations who receive Friends of the East
Broad Top publications and other mailings on a complimentary
basis are not members of Friends of the East Broad Top, and thus
these individuals and organizations do not qualify for any
membership-based perquisites. Organizations with whom cooperative
promotion agreements are in effect receive FEBT publications and
other mailings on a complimentary basis but do not qualify for
any membership-based perquisites.
If you have any questions on membership issues, please
e-mail or write our Membership Office.
Please join us in our efforts to preserve and restore the
East Broad Top Railroad.
FEBT Membership Office
c/o Peter A. Clarke
10428 Carlyn Ridge Road
Damascus, MD 20872
To join download the FEBT Membership Application
and mail it to the address on the application, along with the appropriate dues.
