Northshoremen
Weekly Bulletin
November 27, 2002
Editor: Ernie Viens
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Northshoremen Editor: Ernie Viens |
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HAPPY
THANKSGIVING!
From your chapter officers and members, a very happy holiday to each and every member. May we all be grateful for the bountiful gifts that the good Lord has bestowed on all of us. One of the gifts that makes me thankful is the return to health of our chapter members, CHARLIE CRAWFORD, DICK WHITE, and CHET SOUNDIS. It would have been a very sad day if these gentlemen were not with us anymore, and for this I’m very grateful.
GLOUCESTER
REHEARSAL A
REAL SUCCESS! We
had eight guests at the Gloucester
visit, with a possibility of at
least three of them interested in becoming members.
Let’s hope we see these gentlemen coming back for return visits.
Please
remember,
we are now in a mentor program for new members, so if you are asked,
please continue to help your new guest for as long as he needs your help.
Our guest were from Gloucester, BOB
HORNE, BRUCE MUENZNER, JOHN ANDERSON, RED
MACNEIL, CHUCK EVERETT, and ED
HIGGINS.
Also, from Salisbury, back for his fourth visit BOB ROBERGE, while from Salem comes JIM’S dad, ED HEGNER.
It was a pleasure to have these gentlemen with us and may they continue
to visit with us in the future.
PLEASE
REMEMBER, WE NEED SINGER
BRINGERS. We are all members of the membership committee
CHAPTER
CALENDAR:
MONDAY,
DECEMBER 2nd The last
E-Board meeting for this year. This is the meeting where both the present and
next year's incoming board members should be in attendance. All chapter members
are invited to attend also.
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 4th The AL POOLE jamboree.
Please get together with your quartet and work on your presentation.
See all of you there.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14th Our annual high school quartet super bowl at the Higgins Middle School in Peabody. Jack Dowd announces that we have eleven quartets that have signed up to perform. It promises to be a real great time with everyone's cooperation
2003
CALENDAR:
JANUARY 10th to 12th Cots school in Falmouth, MA for incoming officers and anyone else who would be interested.
SUNDAY,
JANUARY 19th
A tentative date for a special coaching session with STEVE
JAMISON.
MARCH
14th to 16th
We are the host chapter for the spring pre-lims at the
Peabody high school. Our own
LEON PELLETIER is the
chairperson of this event and will need all chapter member's help to make this
event a huge success. This is also our chapter spring contest
where we sing to qualify for next year's district contest. When Leon taps
you on the shoulder, answer YES
I CAN HELP.
SATURDAY,
MAY 10th
The date of annual show which
provides the major portion of the funds needed to operate the chapter for the
year. Now is not too early to start
selling ads or for getting your ticket list in order. Our feature quartet this
year will be FREELANCERS, who ranked
thirteenth at this years international convention.
SOME
QUESTIONS:
Has a competition package been settled on, and will it be ready for the January coaching session
with STEVE JAMISON ?
Has a decision been made on our annual show,
one or two performances and at what location, and what are the ticket
prices.?
Will our show music be
performance ready in time. Are the
chapter members doing their share of learning their music to be ready for
this important performance?
For our chapter members, we are in a big membership push mode and TONY DiIANNI has done a great job in procuring guests. Are we as chapter members ready to do our part by acting as mentors for our incoming new members?
PERSONAL COMMENT: I know that I have been hounding away in this bulletin for several weeks now about membership, but please remember, that new members are the lifeblood of any organization, and ours is no different, maybe more so than others. You are probably sick and tired of reading about this, and my two publishers keep yelling at me not to editorialize, but it is really frustrating when a few are working their butts off while others sit on theirs and make stupid comments. We need all of you for the good of OUR CHAPTER.