tri-m music honor society Tri-M in Wisconsin:
A Confession and a Request Steve Kurr, WMEA State Chair, Tri-M Music Honor Society
I I admit it. I am as guilty as anyone.
At some point in the past, I registered my school to create a Tri-M Music Honor Society chapter, but then failed to follow through on actually starting the group. It has been several years since this hap- pened (six? seven?) and I am at a loss as to exactly why. Maybe it was a casualty of busy schedules, budget crises, differences of opinion, lack of student interest or all of the above.
So when WMEA President Rich Tengowski asked me to join the WMEA Council as Tri-M delegate, I came clean. The council did not need a negligent advisor as its Tri-M representative, I explained. After
some discussion, however, we decided that perhaps the perspective of a derelict advisor might be compelling: who better to investigate the reasons why we allow our Tri-M chapters to fall into inactive status than one who has done it himself?
Unfortunately, I am not alone. While the roster the state has sent me contains 16 active chapters in Wisconsin (congratu- lations to those schools!), there are 35 chapters whose status has lapsed into inactive at some point in the last six years and 77 chapters that have no active date listed. This could mean that chapter either dropped from the active rolls before 2005 or that the chapter never really came to fruition, like at my school. In other words,
only 16 of the total 128 chapters on the roster are active, or 12.5 percent. And then, of course, there are the schools that have no chapter history at all.
According to the Tri-M web site (http://
www.menc.org/resources/view/tri-m- music-honor-society), this is what Tri-M is about:
The Tri-M Music Honor Society is the international music honor society for middle/junior high and high school students. It is designed to recognize students for their academic and musical achievements, reward them for their accomplishments and service activities, and to inspire other students to excel at music and leadership.
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