I was looking through some old wedding day pics of me and my wife, forty-one years ago tomorrow btw, and I came across this one. How many of you recognize the item hanging on the wall in the background?
DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS?
by MYOHNSEPH 11 Replies latest jw friends
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garybuss
Wall chart! Oh yes! We had two later on, one for the East Unit and one for the West Unit. One Service Meeting a month was devoted to looking at the chart and the Company Servant pointed to lines with a wood dowell. It was the activity and distribution record of a distribution center of a book publishing company. Ghosts and gods???? . . . . rubbish!
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BluesBrother
Yes, Yes, Yes !
The Publishers records were stuck up for all to see. It dominated not only visually, but also the thinking of the "Brothers". Fogures, quotas , percentage increases were paramount to the faithfull
individuals were urged to meeet their quota of 10 hours, 10 magazines and 5 back calls per month. Congs strove to get a 10% increase in publishers every April, or was it May? Woe betide you if you had not reported That month!
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Shutterbug
I can remember those things from the early fifties when I was a teenager. I can also remember those folding chairs and no carpet on the floors, were all halls alike back then as they seem to be now ?? Sitting on those chairs for two or more hours was pure hell for a teenager and, I suppose, small children. It was also difficult to sleep in them.
Thanks for the memories, Bug
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MYOHNSEPH
So if you did not get your quota in, it would be a name and shame chart?!
No, no individual names. For each month, it just gave the total number of publishers reporting, hours of field service, bible studies, etc. Kind of a field service report for the whole congregation. Of course, every good dub would do their part to keep the numbers up, especially when the "Circuit Servant" - as they were called back then - was due for a visit!
Aaahhh! The good old days!