Hello All, Thank you for taking the time to read this important email. I consideryou all my friends and want to tell you that I will be heading back...
Here's another interesting question: Adding a district will increase the number of guaranteed chorus berths to international. Will the society simply reduce...
11/18/09 Scott Bryant <sbryant58@...> Hi Scott See two messages below, yours and Shelley Herman's. I downloaded the 2 MB :"Chapter 5" PDF file from the...
On the topic of adding districts...how about combining some districts? Now I know that I'll probably get arguments of distance and how some barbershoppers...
Hi All: Even though Halloween is over, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for Halloween Songs? What about any parodies written to other bbshop...
Hey Shawn, I posted a while back on this subject, before any of us had heard about a "Carolinas District." Here's what I wrote then: Couple points: Are the...
There is certainly something to be said for exploring the concept of Regional, rather than district, conventions, wherever it might be possible---particularly...
It seems to me that the logistical problems for districts relate to distances, not population. MAD and CAR co-exist just fine. The problem is chapters being...
Tuesday's (11/17) Wall Street Journal had a full page story in the Personal Journal Section on how Alzheimer's patients responded to music that they had known,...
by alaska district I'm sure you mean evergreen ;) and I can't remember the last time I was able to drive to any district and I'm in the center of the district...
There is a small community in Kalamazoo Amber Way for Alzheimer patients. We sang there for Christmas with our quartet and then with a chorus. Sometimes it is...
Does the Society limit how much non-singing fundraising our chapter can do each year? For example, no more than ten percent of the chapter's budget can be...
Fun stuff for we arrangers is to take an old chestnut that everyone has sung to death and create a who new song. I have done this to "Wait till the sun shines...
I'd say this is a myth. I've never been a treasurer, but as far as I know, you could concievably support 100% of your chapter budget through bingo and have...
Last year we missed the deadline for the holiday season, but Atlanta Vocal Project's Christmas CD is now listed in the new BHS catalog that probably just...
I think I would have agree with Rick Word on the raising of money for the chapter. Several decades ago one of the big money making affairs in the Illinois ...
Hi all, I have two lists going in Twitter - one for barbershoppers and one for choruses. If you would like to be on either list, send me your Twitter name and...
Being in PIO district, I would welcome combining with another district. It would increase the number of chapters we would encounter and raise the competitive...
Let's not forget that districts do a bunch of things besides holding competitions and sending folks to International. They also: -Hold District schools/Harmony...
11/19/09 "Phil Richards" <pcr@...> Hi Phil Yes, my Century Notes quartet [the Bari is 100] sang many times for the Alzheimer's Facility. We noticed a...
Society policies restrict earnings from fundraising through non-music related activities to 1/3 of the chapter's budget. You may find this in the Society's...
It is my understanding tat the Carolina Initiative is not a combining of districts but the division of the Dixie District. In a message dated 11/19/2009...
Hi Ev, My chapter enjoys strong financial health; in fact, on 11/7 we staged our
our most successful annual show ever. Most of our yearly income comes from...
Here's a new arrangement by Joe Johnson which he did for this rousing hymn, Men of God. Great stuff, especially the bass line...wow! Hope y'all like it....
Doug- I think Ev was specifically addressing someone's comments regarding "bingo" or other fundraising events of that nature. Correct me if I'm wrong, Ev. ...
We are looking for some new fundraising projects. We recently heard about a wine tasting and auction in which members donated a bottle of a favorite wine...
... district. It would increase the number of chapters we would encounter and raise the competitive bar. Isn't meeting new people and making new friendships...
One of my "advance planning" friends is asking questions about men's Internationals this summer in Philly. Her parents and grown daughter are coming out from...
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