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Department of Performing Arts
Concert Choir Tour: Important Payment Information
Christmas Concert 2012--Join us on December 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM for this year's concert!
Concert Choir Tour First Payment Due, Please!

Dear Parents,
     This is just a friendly reminder about the first tour payment being due on this Friday, November 30.  Here are the details, as I presented them in my past letter to you:
 
      Obviously, there is substantial cost involved for our tour. The cost for each student is $865. This is just $15 more than last year's cost.   We are sending this letter now, because we are offering the possibility of paying in three payments of $288.33 each: The first due on November 30, the second on January 15 and the third on February 15. This will include all tour costs except for spending money and two "fast food" type meals while we are on the town (we are providing most meals). For "Wendy's," "Roy Rodgers" or the like, I would estimate that the total cost for meals would be about $40 or less (that is about how much I think that I would need; some students eat more, some less). Most students would probably like to have a little spending money in addition to this, but I would recommend that students not be given more than about $100 each. This amount should be all that they need. Checks for the amounts listed above made out to Pope John Paul II High School can be written and mailed to my attention, please. If you choose to pay in one lump sum, please have the payment to me by January 15.

     In addition to this, the Concert Choir Officers and I have worked to develop fundraising for this tour. Our primary fundraising medium is our raffle, which (if a student works to sell at least 11 tickets) can reduce the cost of the tour by $100 or more (if more than 11 tickets are sold, of course). Last year, for example, one girl in the choir sold 8 books of tickets, and she therefore paid $25 for the tour! This fundraising endeavor, along with other modest outside work by our students, should help this tour to be reasonable in cost.  The raffle will be held during our Christmas Concert on December 13, so students should be selling raffle tickets currently.  The school has already incurred significant costs for this tour, as we have been blessed to obtain tickets for "Les Miserables" and "Pippin" on Broadway!
 
       If you are paying through this "three payment method," then please have your check to me by tomorrow, or Monday at the latest.  If you plan to pay by lump sum in January or there are any issues or concerns, would you please e-mail me by then?  It is, to be honest, a very awkward thing for me to have to contact parents about this if I don't hear from you, so I ask for your attention to this matter this week, please.
 
        If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at rfish@pjp2hs.org, and I'll do my best to help you.  In the meantime, I look forward to seeing you in person at our Advent/Christmas Concert on December 13 at 7:00 PM.
 
       I'm already excited about the way the Concert Choir is beginning to sound.   I can't wait to take them ON TOUR!!!
 
In Christ,
Richard Fish, Jr.
Director of Performing Arts
 
   

Tour Payment #1 Due Nov. 30

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Pope John Paul II High School,  Department of Performing Arts