Southern York County School District
Band Boosters Meeting
April 5, 2010
Attendees: Chris Poole, Tina Pelensky, Angela Mays, Donna Schriver, Donette Yeilding, Brodie Dunkin, Cheryl Dunkin-Yost, Sherry Soltes, Tammy Simmons, Deb Auberger, Brian Furio, Lynne Hood, Jackie Walker, Rose Beall, Jill Sechrist, Jere Sechrist, Kim Nace
Secretary’s Report Minutes from March meeting approved.
Treasurer’s Report There is currently $7681.09 in the general account and $7,661.02 in the student accounts.
Director’s Report We just finished a really successful indoor percussion and guard season. The Championships at Southwestern last week made for a very long day but a good one. Championships will be at the Farm Show next year. Drum line came in first, Indoor Guard came in 5th. All seem to agree that they deserved better than 5th—they did great. Both groups made our district proud.
PSSA testing starts soon, which takes a lot of time out of practice for the concert band. We will, however, prepare for our Spring concert.
Marching Band preview night will be held on Tues, April 27. Rehearsal for percussion and colorguard begin soon afterward and we will be into a new marching season already!
I am really enjoying working with Mr. Quay on Jazz Fest. We will also work together on York Revolution day.
4th quarter requirements for band students are tougher, especially for seniors. Please encourage your students to get started on them early.
We’re working on Arabesque……an .Arabian-sounding, very interesting piece of music, very challenging. Marisa Silva will be conducting “ The Typewriter”, a LeRoy Anderson piece of music. Brooke Silverman will be playing her clarinet concerto. A Sousa march will also be included. The Spring concert should be a good one!
Old Business:
Indoor Percussion and Indoor Guard Both groups grew this year, both did very well. We really appreciated the athletic dept. working with us on practice times/locations.
It’s still not perfect, but we’re making progress.
K.I.D.A. Angela Mays and Tedd Wheeler will be attending a meeting on 4/18 and putting our contract in for next year.
Pellman Sale Sold 451cakes and pies. That number includes what we bought for Jazz Fest. We have about $5700.00 in sales from the students (not including what we bought for Jazz Fest.) Profit is being figured.
End of Year Banquet Fri, May 14, 2010 Donette Yeilding is working on this. We’re starting with Grace UM Church because it’s been a good facility in the past. Kim Nace will need help with the food. We need volunteers to pull together an audio-visual presentation. We will get together with the seniors to discuss themes, menu, etc. Mr. Poole could use help getting awards together. Deb Auberger has volunteered for this already! Thanks Deb J It’s only 5 weeks away—we need to get started! Engraving last year was done at T&J in York—Angela felt prices were reasonable. Jere Sechrist suggested checking with Ken Zampier at Alexander’s Jewelers—he is local and does a lot for the community.
Elementary Level Jazz Clinic Mr. McGarvey is working with Curt Sipe on this. We are hoping to pull this off this year for the first time ever. A few elementary students have been invited to Friday’s jam session. We hope to expand on this next year.
New Business:
Band Trip to Tampa: 2010-2011 Planning meeting for this will be April 19th, 6:30pm
Percussion Concert: Sat, May 8 2:00pm in the SHS auditorium
Spring Concert: May 12, 7pm in the SHS auditorium
New Freedom Yard Sale: May 15 This could be a potential mini-fundrasier.
York Revolution Day: May 16, we can sell tickets, band will play National Anthem for the 1:00 game, arrive at 11:30 Alumni are invited.
Glen Rock Sesquisentennial Parade, June 12 This is in place of the Memorial Day Parade. We need a good showing—seniors are encouraged to come out. This presents a challenge as far as uniform cleaning. Black pants and band polos were suggested. Uniforms will be discussed and decided upon.
Exec Committee Mtg. April 12, start budget process for next year. An audit committee will be forming. Work on 501c3 status will be starting soon—Tedd has experience.
Slate of Officer Nominees:
President: Cheryl Dunkin-Yost
1st VP of Ways & Means: Tedd Wheeler
2nd VP of Ways & Means: Sherry Soltes
Treasurer: Angela Mays
Recording Secretary: Lynne Hood
Immediate Past President: Tina Pelensky
Other Critical Roles:
Uniform Master: Sherry Soltes
Head Chaperone: Michelle Spurlock
Candygram Coordinator: Janet Hagel
Food/Meal Coordinator: Tedd Wheeler—need another person
Prop Captain: Charlie Carroll
PR Person: Advertising, Public Relations, etc.—Tina Pelensky
Elections will be held at the May meeting. Any interested parties are welcome to come forward between now and then.
Newsflash! The Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble from Oklahoma Christian University will be performing at St. Matthew Lutheran Church at 839 W. Market St. in York on May 6. The students will perform at the church as a stop on their trip to New York City. The performance will feature our very own recent graduate, Julia Yeilding! Please come out to see them.
Market Day—Wed, April 7 is due date, next Tues, April 13is pick-up date. We are not reaching our 20% , we really need people participate in this easy and ongoing fundraiser. The food is good and convenient!
Jazz Fest Details for our 10th Annual Jazz Fest were ironed out. Highlights:
§ Mallet Quintet will perform in lobby (Matt Schriver, Sam Hittie, Shannon and Sean Slattery, Matt Renzi)
§ The food for Fri. night set-up/jam session has been ordered.
§ Approximately 10 elementary band students have been invited to the jam session.
§ Brian Furio has worked out all details with Mike from Ship-to-Shore Coffee. Brian will make sure we have menus for the tables.
§ Judges’ kits ready to go, Jere has added a thumb drive with details for next year to the judges’ box. Jill has made the signs for the warm-up rooms.
§ Tina and Donette will both bring umbrella stands.
§ Decoration committee feels more than ready.
§ The Senns will deliver their “kiosk” to Shrews. Elementary on Thurs. evening. We are free to decorate it as we like.
§ Brian Schriver will be at SHS Fri. afternoon to help load and pull the trailer. He will make sure the tablecloths get on the trailer.
§ All are asked to bring scotch tape, duct tape, markers, etc. for decorating on Fri. evening.
§ Donna Schriver has the program almost ready—a few details were added—it looks great!
§ Mr. Poole will remind wait staff to arrive on Sat. at 5:30. Kim Nace will give them a crash course on waiting tables.
§ Mr. Poole will badger (I mean politely request!) Curt Sipe for info for program and find some bio info on Jeff Stabley.
§ The jam session will begin at 6:00.
§ Grant Graybill has volunteered to run the lights for us.
§ We are very happy to have one of our own recent grads, Ethan Walker, returning to our stage with the York College Jazz Ensemble.
§ Kitchen volunteers: Cheryl Dunkin-Yost will finalize a list of volunteers.
§ Speaking points can be emailed to Cheryl at Cheryl.yost@comcast.net She will see to it that Brodie gets them.
§ Brodie will compile info in whatever format works best for him. He will familiarize himself with the information and he will practice on Fri. evening at set-up. Mr. Quay will work well with Brodie.
§ On Fri. at set-up we will assign our seniors to present banners to each band/ensemble.
§ The SMS jazz band will be performing at the Empty Bowls event at SMS on April 22—Brodie will mention this.
§ Megan Strott will iron out details with art/photography teachers.
§ Deb Auberger will have the senior posters ready.
§ Remind your family and friends to get their tickets now.
§ Thank you to every person mentioned above and all of you who are working behind the scenes. Band Boosters are great people to work with!
§ We will see you all at Shrews. El on Fri. at 4:00 (or when you can get there) for set-up.
§ Thank you for staying after on Sat. evening for clean-up.
Next meeting: Mon, May 3 at 7pm in the SHS band room. Elections will be held.