Dear FEAST,

I wrote to David Schrader, and this is what he had to say.  I'm sure  
he won't mind my forwarding it to you:

> Thank you for your note.  Some conversation on this has already  
> been forwarded to me.  Right now the issue of security question is  
> arising in the context of our changeover to our new on-line  
> system.  As I have been told by staff, the “mother’s maiden name”  
> question has been in use for years and is thus the one in our  
> current membership database.  Once the new system is fully up and  
> running Nikki Szymanski, our Computing Coordinator, will work with  
> Janet Sample, our Membership Coordinator, to rectify this issue.  I  
> surely appreciate your concerns, most immediately as a security  
> concern as you have noted.  We will plan to move to other forms of  
> security question, while recognizing that we have no choice but to  
> work from the current membership database as a starting point.   
> Please bear with us in this process as we work to make the  
> necessary changes in our system.
>

I'm glad to see that people are asking fathers' first names, but I  
can see how that might be... awkward in some situations.  I like High  
School mascot as a security question, personally.

Cheers,

Azzurra