Meeting #3 took place on Friday, April 7, 2000 in the west sideyard of 35-D Edgewater Park for the Spring 2000 Presidential Election.
Inception
With the club having been renamed the Pokémon Trainers' Club, it now had a new purpose that involved the interests of its members. With the club alive again, it needed some way of keeping itself that way. Nick Phillips knew what that was. The way to perpetuate the club was to hold club meetings and actually continue the tradition that the Fire-Breathing Dragons Club had set: presidential election. He appointed himself the duty of being the one to schedule club meetings, since he knew no one else would do it. Teddy Phillips, the president, had never initiated any club meetings, so Nick knew he had to be the one.
Communication
Until this time, the only form of communication between members was word of mouth; that is how the first two meetings had come together. Nick had tried to start a club newsletter a few months before, but its advocating of the club name's abbreviation was deemed obscene by the Hostomsky parents. But it gave Nick an idea: the way to easily inform everyone about club meetings was through the written word—a literary style known as the letter.
So Nick knew what he had to do: name himself the one who schedules club meetings ("Scheduler of Meetings," soon to be known as the "secretary"), set a date for the next presidential election, and send letters notifying all the club members.
And so it was.
So Nick knew what he had to do: name himself the one who schedules club meetings ("Scheduler of Meetings," soon to be known as the "secretary"), set a date for the next presidential election, and send letters notifying all the club members.
And so it was.
The Meeting
The meeting took place on Friday, April 7, 2000. (This was the first meeting about which the word "meeting" was used.) With the meeting occurring in the yard west of 35-D Edgewater Park, the three members Nick Phillips, Teddy Phillips, and Rich Falantano were present.
Once again, they held a presidential election—the second ever to take place. However, it might as well have not taken place. Because of the low attendance, only one candidate was nominated: Teddy Phillips (it takes two members to nominate a single candidate). Since they could not nominate anyone else, there was no opposing candidate, causing Teddy Phillips to win the election by default.
Once again, they held a presidential election—the second ever to take place. However, it might as well have not taken place. Because of the low attendance, only one candidate was nominated: Teddy Phillips (it takes two members to nominate a single candidate). Since they could not nominate anyone else, there was no opposing candidate, causing Teddy Phillips to win the election by default.
Conclusion
Teddy Phillips's time as the first president, which had endured almost a year, would last almost another year.
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