Today, I will introduce you to the Executive of the York Region Community Choir for the 2011/2012 Choir Year. We elect the Executive every year at our Annual General Meeting, AGM, in June. The Executive works together with the Director and Accompanist, and the Reading Committee to choose music, decide when and where we sing, and make sure people are there to sing and to hear us sing, and take care of our equipment and music library.
First of all, our President is Heather Vickers (hvickers@rogers.com). She took over from Steve Loweth, of Mayfair Music, who is hoping to be a very active Past President. Heather is responsible for everything happening.
Our Vice-President is Lauren Solar (laurensolar@gmail.com). She'll be there to help Heather and anyone else on the executive when they need a hand.
Sandra Winters (s_winters@bell.net) has stepped into the gap that Heather left, and is our new Public Relations Committee Chair. She's the one you need to contact if you'd like us to sing for you or if you'd like to give us a free advertising spot. Contact Sandra if you'd like to join us and want more information.
Michele Horton (michelehorton@hotmail.com) is our Secretary/Treasurer, and she does all kinds of wonderful things for us besides taking notes at meetings and keeping track of our money. She is presently the longest-standing member of the Executive.
Trix Verge (trix.verge@gmail.com) is our Music Librarian. She has our music collection in her basement and makes sure we all have music to sing every Monday, and has extra binders made up for guests, or people who are checking us out. If you have a binder of music that belongs to us and want to know how to get it back to us, contact Trix.
Carol Ford and Debbie Hood are the Registrars. They make sure the membership list is up-to-date and coordinate our Coffee/Social hours, among other things. Debbie's had our coffee (and tea) equipment and supplies in her basement for many years. She buys good Decaf.
We have a Reading Committe which is not elected, but appointed. They are Heather Vickers, Teija Cumming and Enid Maize. They help choose music and order it from the publishers. They are chosen for their ability to read music and knowledge of our strengths and weaknesses.
Our roles are not all very well defined because we mostly work together, brainstorming and planning at meetings, and sometimes at the beginning or end of our Monday evenings. Being on the Executive is fun and rewarding. From time to time, we work really hard, and then we sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labours with pride.
We'll be getting together next week to make sure everything is in place for September 12th. It's only a bit more than a week away! Can't wait to see everyone!
Yours in harmony,
Renate
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