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***IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PATTI FOY, SCMEA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR***

Dear SCMEA Members,

Please forgive yet another message of concern, but we're not doing very well on luncheon ticket purchases for the conference this year...we've sold only 80 tickets and we normally sell 175. In the economic times we face, it is understandable that people aren't anxious to spend $15 on a lunch. However, anybody who purchases the lunch buffet in the hotel is going to pay $13 for that experience, so $2 more is not very much, especially considering the difference in quality between the two.
In order to qualify for the prices we get on conference rooms, SCMEA has to guarantee it will spend $12,500 on "catered" food (not the restaurant), and if we don't honor the minimum, our contract states that we will be charged that much anyway. The luncheon goes a long way toward helping us meet our food minimum. While we must give a final number of lunches to the hotel before next week, I can take additional lunch reservations until this coming Friday (Jan 29). I urge you to attend the luncheon and encourage your colleagues to attend as well. It is a good meal, and provides an excellent opportunity to visit with fellow music teachers. An added bonus will be the opportunity to hear from Dr. Jim Rex, State Superintendent of Education!
There are a lot of fixed costs associated with running a conference and it is likely our revenues from this year's conference are not going to cover the expenses. Please help us to increase our revenues by urging our colleagues to purchase lunch tickets. Again, I can reserve them until Friday, Jan. 29, if people will e-mail me with the request.

Looking forward to seeing you in Charleston!

Patricia S. Foy, Ph.D.
Asst. Dean, Assoc. Professor of Music Education
Petrie School of Music
Executive Director, SC Music Educators Association
Telephone: 864-596-9172
Email: Patti.Foy@Converse.edu
 

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CHORAL DIVISION EVENTS:

Friday, February 5

8:00 - "Choir Builders"  Dr. Rolo Dilwroth, Clinician

9:30 - "Using Technology in the Chorus Classroom"  Eric Wilkinson, Clinician

2:00 - "A Spiritual Renaissance: A Practical Approach to Teaching Negro Spirituals to Secondary Choral Students"  Isaiah McGee, Clinician

4:00 - Choral Division Committee Meetings

Saturday, February 6

8:00 - "Making M.U.S.I.C. in the Choral Rehearsal"  Rollo Dilwroth, Clinician

9:30 - "Practical Conducting Techniques for Artistry"  Don Campbell, Clinician

3:30 - Choral Division Business Meeting

CLINICIAN INFORMATION

 Don Campbell

Don Campbell is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Southern Wesleyan University. Prior to his appointment at SWU in 1998, he taught vocal music for 20 years at Redwood High School in Visalia, California—building the program to 300 students in five choirs. Dr. Campbell received his Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from California State University, Fullerton, his Master of Arts degree in choral conducting from California State University, Fresno, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from Arizona State University. In demand as a choral clinician, Dr. Campbell has traveled to fourteen states and Canada to conduct choirs and festival choruses and present choral clinics. He is recipient of the first Ken Dickens Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2003 and Southern Wesleyan University’s Faculty Member of the Year for 2003-4.