Just go through the above reviews. The blog is referenced as, ” The Hall Of Infamy”. Most of the blogs do not agree with the process or procedures. Personally, I do not agree with your position and as a result cannot see your side period. Look at it this way. A group of grown individuals getting together around a table and the conversation begins by, how can we raise some money. I know, let’s switch the picture plaques that everyone can readily identify without a name and has no cost involved to the recipient, to a modified bust that no one can recognize without a name at the bottom and then charge $2,000. Great idea, let’s go with it. Question, who is going to pay for it. Oh, they will pay because most of them are dead and the family or friends will pay.

Does the term extortion come to mind? A thumbnail defination of extortion is, the act of getting money by the misuse of authority. This procedure mirrors this definition whether intentional or not. When you have all the adjectives in the above blogs to define this procedure, can’t even you get the picture? Read what one individual said when they found out that somone close to them was left hanging in the deadbeat category. “I was embarrased”. Does that sound like someone that loves this procedure?

What boils my integrity blood, is that you still, a no name face, involved with a no name group, takes the time to go to a no name SGMA telephone person and come back with a no name opinion to validate your no name position and then have the audacity to call me pathetic. And I suggest you not respond, like you infer in your last statement, because you will never win in a public opinion forum on this subject.

You say you don’t have much money, but yet you state you paid for two plaques. I would be interested in knowing whose plaques you paid for. Or are they noname recipients.

And by the way, when they removed my mother’s picture plaque, they had the gall to offer it to me, the first in line, for a $100. price tag. Selling my own mother to me for the price of $100. Now that is pathetic.

Yes, I have a life, and it is spent doing what I love, preserving a herigate by supporting it with all I can. Being in Gospel music, I don’t make much money, but I love this industry and want to help promote and preserve it as much as I can. I urge others to do the same. Why not join and support the SGMA? I wasn’t trying to do your investigating. I just saw 40 posts putting the SGMA down for this, so I thought I’d try an approach of actually asking their side. Why is that wrong? I guess they lied to me.

Let’s agree to disagree. From what I understand, you are upset that they are requesting a $2000 donation to help with their costs of the plaque, and it upsets you so much that you want them to remove the honor.

My outlook happens to be different. I am sorry that I don’t mind supporting the SGMA and wouldn’t be offended in their asking to help, and nobody could upset me enough no matter what they did that would cause me to ask them to remove my family member from the Hall of Fame. I truly and honestly am not trying to disrespent anything to do with love of a family member, honestly. I just can’t comprehend how the request would make that big of a deal for you. I’m far from rich, and even though $2k isn’t required from you or me, I know I’d show my support before advising them to remove her.

Obviously we’ll never agree, and it doesn’t matter. I do see how you’d think it is tacky to send a bill. But can you honestly not see my side of the story at all? If you or anyone on here can really say that you don’t then there’s nothing more for me to say.

Maybe, if SGMA wants to continue to notify families of the honor bestowed, and the cost of the placque, they should look at the letter they’re sending, and try to figure out what they can change to make it not be misinterpreted as an invoice.

Oh, and with all due respect… If my mother or father were in the hall of fame, and IF I DID RECIEVE A BILL… There’s no way in the world that I’d ask to remove them from the HOF. If it is a true invoice, sure, I’ll agree it is tacky… but asking for a loved one (especially your mother) to be removed, that is the utmost in tacky!! Honestly, all you posters, no matter what the circumstance, would you do that to your parents?

That’s well and good, sir. But does it generate enough $$ to cover the cost of 9 or 10 bronze plaques at $2K each?

Wait!! That may be part of the problem… Perhaps they should limit the number of incoming honorees to, say 2 or 3 per year… Then, they may could, indeed safely pay the fee for the plaques.

But as it stands, placing 9 or 10 folks in per year is gonna run around $20K for plaques. I’m thinking that there would need to be at least two or three more fundraising events to raise that kind of money. Of course, anything proceeds over and beyond that could go toward the normal administration costs of running the museum.

Is that such a preposterous suggestion? I’m curious as to what others think about that idea. It seems to be a common sense thing, to me, at least.