ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION of the 1929-1973
Northern
Conservatory of Music
Vol. 4
Number 1
Newsletter
April, 2002
Greetings
to all:
Just
a few short notes from me and then a letter from our president, Lou Harper.
The
lifetime membership drive was a partial success. While not all 86 members signed up for the lifetime
membership option, many did. Here
are the numbers.
86
NCM
Alumni with valid addresses (everyone on this list could/should be a paying
member)
33
Paid
Members for the calendar year 2001
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11 Paid
Members for the calendar year 2002
14
Paid
Life Members
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25
Life
& 2002 paid members
So what happened to the rest of you? Let’s get that money in so that we can
report that to the group in August.
The sooner we get the funds the sooner we can start the scholarship.
There
will be a 1 hour meeting of the Alumni Association on Friday May 24, 2002 during
the annual All-State Music Festival which is being held at the University of
Maine in Orono. The meeting will
be held at 5:30 p.m. Check your
All-State booklet for room assignment.
Hope to see you there.
Doretta NCMalumni@adelphia.net
P.S.
If
you are receiving this by snail-mail and expected it by e-mail, then the e-mail
that I sent to you got returned and I am now resorting to paper and postage.
Anyone
who can supply me an e-mail address will save the Association the cost of
postage and me valuable time. Please send me your e-mail address.
Dear Alumni and friends of Northern Conservatory of Music: April 2002
As we approach 30 years since the Conservatory closed, we look ahead as we look back. That sentence sounds like a few sermons that I have preached. Let’s try that again.
Since we are all too old to do anything else, and we have raised all the deviltry that our old decrepit bodies can stand, we have little else that we can do than to reminisce and offer words of encouragement to the next generations.
On Saturday, August 17, at 3:00 p.m. at Symphony House, now called the Isaac Farrar Mansion, many of us will gather to do the business of the Alumni Association of the 1929-1973 Northern Conservatory of Music and reflect on the past 30 years.
I sincerely hope that you will join me there. I mentioned last year, and led by example a couple of times in revitalizing the original Northern Conservatory Brass Quintet, circa 1968-1972, about a musical experience. I hope that some of you will realize that, as graduates, remembering that we could “all be selling shoes” if we had not passed Solfeggio class, (I am not even sure that this is the correct spelling since I tried so hard to forget that root-canal-like experience). I hope you will consider bringing horns, music, and voices and organizing (yes, we are teachers), an impromptu musical experience.
But before we do that, at our Annual Meeting, I am writing to you reminding you of the May meeting at All-State. It is unlikely that I will be there, so in my absence, our trusted vice-president, Bruce Brown, will chair the meeting, at the University of Maine
Lou
Membership Application 2002 Calendar Year
NAME
____________________________________ TEL ________________
Mailing
Address _____________________Town _____________St. ___ Zip ________
E-mail
Address _________________________________
Annual
Dues $ 20
Lifetime
Dues $200
Dues
Enclosed ____________________________________
Contribution
to Scholarship Fund _____________________
Total Enclosed
_____________________
Make check payable to:
Please send your check with
this application form to:
Everett
Simpson
88
Pleasant Vale Road
Corinna,
Maine 04928