SOUTHWEST IOWA BANDMASTER
Fall Meeting
September 8. 2003
Red Coach Inn, Red Oak Iowa

Meeting was called to order by Dan Schoening at 7:10 p.m.

Introductions were made.

Minutes were read and approved.

Treasurers report was read and approved.

The following committee reports were given:

Elementary Affairs: none
Middle School Affairs: none
Concert Band Affairs: Dave Clark. Meets later this month. Focus of the year is possible solo/ensemble changes coming. Dave will keep us posted.
Marching Band Affairs: Mike Peters. Still working on new ballots.
SW HS Honor Band: Stacy Lendt. Dec. 13 auditions in Red Oak. Jan 19 festival date. Oct. 31 is thre registration deadline. Rod Chestnut is the 11-12 director. 9-10 is yet to be decided. Be sure to sign up to help judge. The shuttle system that was used for lunch last year will be used again and expanded to include the dinner hour.
SW MS Honor Band: Patti Bekkerus -Nov. 1 auditions in Clarninda. Nov. 14 festival @ Lewis Central. 7th director is Dan Schoening. 8th director is Randy Atkinson. Oct. 3 is the registration deadline. Oboe requirements for 7th grade oboe will be emailed out soon. Please sign up to help judge.
SWIHMB: Dave Clark. New Asst. Director is Jeff Schoening. An explanation of it’s purpose was made. Auditoiins are in May this year and the trip is next year. Displays will be at all district events this year. There are 3 openings on the director board: tpt, tuba and percussion.
College Affairs: Al Sergal retires this year from Nortwest Missouri. He’s been a good support to our Iowa programs.
Mentorship: Joe Tacket. Welcome to all of our new directors.
R&D: Nate Simons. A survey was handed out. Return it to Nate. For those not at the meeting it will be available on-line.
Jazz Affairs: Terry Hanzlik. Registrations for contest were available at the meeting. Class 3A performs at IWCC this year. Give jedges name ideas to Terry.
Major Landers: Byron Tinder-Scholarships are available for a senior, going to an Iowa college and majoring in music education. Auditions for this take place at the SWIBA honor band in January.
Public Relations: Ruben Newell. Dates were added to the calendar. Be sure to get program info to Ruben for the IBA magazine. Let Ruben know of anything you want on the website and check it often. It contains a lot of useful info.
Student Affairs: Eric, Jeremy and David will work on finding a candidate.
Presidents report: IBA conference in May, make plans now to attend. Show your administration it’s value. It’s May 13-15
Stay on top of deadlines for registrations.
IBA & SWIBA dues must be paid to participate in honor bands.
If you’re retiring or have 30+years of teaching let Dan know.

Old Business

Commissioned piece: It was moved by Pete Jacobus, 2nd by Byron Tinder to commission a piece for the 9-10 honor band and have that composer conduct the 9-10 band, up to $2500 was aproved. Motion carried. Several area and Iowa composers were discussed as good options to do this. Pete Jacobus moved, Tracy Ryan 2nd to select Gavin Lendt as our composer and conductor. If he can’t, the honor band chair will come up with plan B.
New teacher to district scholarship for IBA: tabled until the winter meeting. Basically NWIBA provides $200 to first year directors to their district to help cover expenses of attending IBA. Tracie will contact NWIBA to get more information about their program.
Calendar of Events: Handed out. Check the website too.
IAAE SWIBA will send them a $250 donation. moved by Dave Clark 2nd by Carol Cason. Approved

New Business

Endowment Fund: Gaylin gave us an update. The purpose is to manage IBA funds that aren’t needed in the general fund. This will be Gaylin’s last year if someone else would be interested in taking over.
Term Changes: term dates were set by IBA. They are listed on the 9-8-03 agenda.
IBA Pres. Elect-Jeff Schoening moved, Pete Jacobus 2nd Patti Bekkerus as our nominee. Approved.
Karl King (Active)Pete moved, Tracie 2nd Jeff Schoening as our nominee. approved
Karl King (retired) Lee Nelson moved, Pete 2nd Steve Lawson as our nominee. aprroved
IBA hall of Fame. Pete moved, Tracy Ryan 2nd Vic Wood as our nominee. approved
IBA Treasurer. SWIBA will continue to support Leonard Upham as treasurer.
Studnet Affairs. IWCC and SWCC will work to fill this position.

Other Cocnerns

Get director info. to John ASAP.
Check into Major Landers scholarship amounts for other districts
SWCC starts it’s concert band season on Sept 11. Come join if you can.
It’d be nice to have clinics at the honor band days again.
We need to remember to hire a professional sound operator for the jazz festival.
The jazz schedule needs to be set to ensure that all classes rotate to perform at IWCC
Door Prizes were awarded.....fun, fun fun.

Meeting Adjourned at 8:45 p.m.
Respectfully,

Tracie Hawley
SWIBA secretary/treasurer