Summary of the last Music Booster Meeting

Hi Everyone, Here is a brief summary of the music booster(MB) meeting from last night: * Jodi Walbring will be treasurer * The MB voted to pay for drum major camp for Jordan and Ashley and percussion clinic for Kris and Brad * The Marching Cougars are in need of at least 20 people to be their field crew. Duties include moving instruments, setting up tarps and backdrops and whatever else is needed. Anyone interested please contact Ms Galus or myself. * Denice Tuholski will be in charge of the concession stand this year. We have 4 home games and need people to work. Please contact Denice to sign up at dtuholski@frontier.com. * A BBQ cook-off will be held August 9th, same day as our Blue Debut. As of now we have Andy Walbring and Dean Tulhoski cooking. We are looking for more people to join them. We will be looking for people to help make side dishes, desserts and bring drinks. Jodi and Denice will be helping to organize this. More details to follow. Mark the date. * Raffle tickets will be going home with students Friday. Prizes this year are-- pair of ND tickets, keurig coffee maker, metal butterfly sculpture and an origami locket. All students are urged to participate, student selling the most tickets will get to throw a pie in Ms G's face. Instructions will be with the tickets. More tickets available when students turn in the stubs and money they have sold. The money made from the raffle will go towards the purchase of concert blacks. * Friday is the last day for parents to submit art work for the t-shirts. * The Haunt at Fischer's last year but a big success. Ms G would like to do it again this year but is looking for someone to take over the planning. She has all the information needed. Please contact her if you are interested. * Snacks and drinks will be needed for Marching Band Camp starting 7/29. We still need someone to supply drinks for 8/3, 8/6 and 8/8. There are 85 band and color guards kids. Ms G would like snacks and drinks to be there at noon. Please contact me to sign up. If getting them is a problem, you can bring them to me and my kids would be more than happy to take them in the morning when they go. * Parade Walkers. Brement parade, July 2, needs 4 more walkers. Walkerton parade, July 3, needs 3 walkers. LaPorte parade, July 4, needs 5 people. If someone would like to take charge of the parade walkers I would appreciate it. Duties would be to make sure coolers are filled with ice & bottled water for after the parades. Filled the round coolers with ice water, have the water bottles and misty sprayers ready to go. Have everything loaded into the wagons and put on the buses. Call the parade walkers to remind them of the time they needed to be there and find replacements if needed. And at the end of the night/day unload the coolers and clean everything up. Please let me know if you are interested in helping with this. ***** Next Music Booster meeting will be July 22nd at 7pm in the choir room. **********

Tiffany Galus selected as quarterfinalist for Grammy Music Educator Award!

Yes, that's right!  Tiffany Galus is up for a GRAMMY!  She has been announced as one of the 217 quarterfinalists for the first-ever Grammy Music Educator award.  The quarterfinalists were selected from over 30,000 applicants submitted from all 50 states.

The Music Educator Award was established to recognize current educators (kindergarten – college, public and private schools) who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education and who demonstrate a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools.

One recipient will be selected from 10 finalists and will be recognized for his/her remarkable impact on students' lives. The winner will be flown to Los Angeles to accept the award, attend the GRAMMY Awards ceremony and receive a $10,000 honorarium. The nine finalists will receive a $1,000 honorarium and the schools of all 10 finalists will receive matching grants.

Read more about it at the links below:
South Bend Tribune
Grammy website

Good luck, Ms Galus!  Say hello to Gotye for us!