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LEADERSHIP FORUM 2014
Leadership by digging around in the riverbank
This year's annual Leadership Forum looked a little different from past editions. For starters, part of it took place in a river bottom.
"Rather than just jamming our national leadership team in a conference room for a weekend of PowerPoints and buffet suppers, we wanted to broadcast our energies into our community," said Donny Rose, Director of Harmony University. Under a theme of "We sing, we serve," the 75 district officers and staff split into two groups. One went to sing in popular tourist destinations in the heart of Nashville. The other team joined volunteers cleaning up a waterway still littered with trash from the 2010 floods that wrought havoc on Nashville.
The result? A great fraternal experience for all, and a chance to live one of the Society's guiding purposes: "to initiate, promote and participate in charitable projects."
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MIDWINTER CONVENTION | January 6-11, 2015 All-Chapter Chorus coming to Midwinter
Suppose you could build a chorus from scratch, and you could pick your core music team?
Donny Rose dreamed big when asked to come up with a unique chorus experience for the 2015 Midwinter Convention, and we think he did all right.
Meet your director:
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We promised this chorus would be cool.
Sign-ups coming soon!
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Bittle elected to Society Board
Ed Bittle of Des Moines, Iowa, has been elected to the Society Board of Directors, filling out the term vacated by Skipp Kropp, who last summer was elected as Society Executive Vice President.
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Sweet Adelines webcast runs through Saturday
Watch our sisters in harmony compete for the crowns this week. Full details at www.sweetadswebcast.com. And take a look at the nifty daily wrap-ups, produced by BHS staffer Jeremy K. Gover, on loan to SAI for the event. Sharing resources and expertise makes all barbershop organizations stronger! |
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FOUR CHAMPS | FOUR ERAS | SAME SONG
"Without A Song" stays fresh through the years
Walter Latzko's Without a Song is classic roots 'shop in many ways. Like As Time Goes By, surprise, another Latzko, it's a timeless arrangement sung by multiple champ quartets. Mike Slamka, a champka from Power Play and Crossroads, put together this awesome YouTube video, merging recordings from The Buffalo Bills, The Suntones, Bluegrass Student Union, and Keepsake to make barbershop magic. Warning, this video might become a weekly listening exercise in awesomeness.
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Without a Song - 4 Generations
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Grants now being evaluated
With the October 31 deadline now passed, Director of Outreach Joe Cerutti proudly reports that we have already exceeded the goal of one hundred applications for grants for 2015 -- and there will be a second window of opportunity next year!
The team of evaluators will work through November, carefully assessing the completeness and viability of the requests, with awards to be announced in December.
If your chapter has a great idea for outreach in 2015, get to work now on dreaming, planning, and preparing an application for the next application window, which will run from March 1 through May 15, 2015.
Full details are at barbershop.org/grants
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DEPT. OF GAGS & MEMES
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Ask your teen son about the first line,
and your tween daughter about the second. |
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HARMONY PLATOON AT MIDWINTER | January 6-11, 2015 
Sing the hottest charts with people who actually know them
Make your New Orleans Midwinter Convention experience better than ever by signing up for the Harmony Platoon, a quality quartet experience that is challenging, exciting, and fun. Platoon registrations for Midwinter are due November 15. Questions: Don Salz, don@rosye.com (916) 813-2959 or www.harmonyplatoon.org
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