Looking Back on the Feb.
28th Chapter Meeting
When most of the members arrived at Durant this week, there were
chairs set up in the hall (on the lobby end of the room) for the special
presentation.
Also there were a lot Harmo things free for the taking – they had
been removed from the storage units and any not taken by members were gonna be
tossed like Harmo LPs from the past and
glass Harmo mugs. For the record, here are the folks who helped with the
move to the new storage facility on Saturday, Feb.25: Ken Fess, Ken Henderson, Dean Sherick, Terry Reynolds, Don Harrington,
Steve Murane, Robyn Murane, Clyde Crusenberry, Gary Fuller, Bob Blair, Matt
Donniger, Tom Kern and Jack Pitzer.
Two huge storage units were completely emptied and then lots of stuff
discarded, donated or purged in order to put what was left into one new less expensive
rental unit.
Director Joe Cerutti
did a brief warm up and had us sing thru the three songs we will sing Sunday
evening when we host the Whiffenpoofs at Convergence. Call time is 6 pm.
Uniform – black suite with thin black tie.
Executive director Terry
Reynolds conducted a chapter meeting early. He thanked Dean Rust for preparing the grant request to submit to the City of
Alexandria.
Reed Livergood, producer of the Aca Challenge on March 25th,
asked for some responses about singers plans including meal time. He asked guys
to speak with Robyn Murane to fill
jobs needed to be done by non-singers.
Chapter secretary Chris
Buechler presented membership renewal cards to Jerry Foil for 1 year; Bob
Rhome for 16 years; Ken Henderson
for 13 years, and Bob Wachter for 65
years! Alan Kousen was presented his 9th Man of Note for
bringing Jerry into the chapter.
Clyde Crusenberry is taking reservations for the Little Theater
of Alexandria performance of “The Fabulous Lipitones” on April 29th. Tickets are $22 ea. Tell Clyde
if you want them.
Then Joe introduced
guest presenter and fellow M-AD chorus friend/director for the Brothers in
Harmony, Jack Pinto. Jack spoke to us
about an invitation to go to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2018. His audiovisual slides will be sent to all
members. We would sing two or three
concerts there with other a cappella performers. Joe confirmed that there would be a minimum number of singers who
must sign up for us to go.
After the presentation, the whole chapter and all guests adjourned
to Old Town to Vola’s Dockside Grill in the Torpedo Factory. Joe
picked up the first round and everyone ordered food. The chapter will earn a return of 20% of all tabs
as part of our participation in Alexandria’s Spring2Action program. The place
was packed and lots of fun. DA CAPO sang several songs for us too.
Until next time – editorjack!
(This message is prepared for your review if you
were there, for your information if you had to miss, and as a historical record
of the great things going on each week during the 68th year of the
Alexandria Harmonizer Chapter. —YeEd
