From the Executive Director...
An Outstanding Conference Garry Taylor, Executive Director, AMEA
My first AMEA Conference as your Executive Director was quite an experience! Months and months of emails, letters, phone calls, faxes, per- sonal visits, and meetings led to a schedule crammed full of clinics, board meetings, general meetings, panel discussions, mixers, breakfasts, luncheons, reading sessions, receptions, rehearsals, warm-ups, and performances. Combine that with an exhibition hall full of music stores, fund raising companies, pub- lishers, tour companies, uniform companies, photog- raphers, colleges, universities and more. Throw in the FAME (Future Alabama Music Educators) pro- gram, which enjoyed a terrific inaugural year and the National Anthem Project Road Show, parked right outside our conference door.
Add the invaluable
resource of networking with colleagues between ses- sions and after hours, and what do you get? An out- standing in-service conference. That’s what! My hat goes off to AMEA President Becky
Rodgers, Vice-President John Baker, Past President Tony Pike, Treasurer Cindy Pass, Recording Secretary Allen Bailey, and the Division Presidents who assembled the outstanding cast of clinicians and performing groups and worked so hard to make the conference a success. They are already working to make next year’s conference even better. Heartfelt thanks go to the University of Alabama Department of Music and Director Dr. Skip Snead for hosting the conference. A special thank you to Dr. Ken Ozzello and the UACMENC for coor-
dinating the student workers; Joyce Grant and Alexis Clark in Music Services for all their help; Larry Batchelor and Rob Lyda for serving as site coordina- tors; Tim Brannon and Hillcrest High School for loaning us music stands; and finally Lisa Latham for her valuable advice, suggestions, and moral support. Congratulations to Darry Pilkington for receiving the Barbara Odom Distinguished Service Award and William Denison the Outstanding Administrator Award.
Both are well deserved!
In this issue of the ala breve you’ll find nom- ination froms for next year’s Barbara Odom Award, Outstanding Administrator and Outstanding Music Educator Awards. Also in this issue are the session proposal form and performance application for the 2007 conference. I would like to encourage each of you to nominate a deserving colleague for an award, submit a session proposal or apply to perform at next year’s conference. The 2007 conference will be held at the University of Alabama on January 18-20. The Nominating Committee has presented excellent candidates for the offices of President- Elect, Secretary, and Treasurer. In this issue are pho- tos and biographies of each of the candidates. Ballots will be mailed in a few weeks. Please exercise your right and your responsibility to vote. Music education is alive and well in Alabama.
Let’s keep it that way! Plan Ahead!
The 2007 AMEA Conference will be held at the University of Alabama on January 18-20.
We will achieve FAME* again in 2007!
Nominate 11th and 12th graders who have expressed an interest in music education.
Look for the nomination form in the August ala breve. *Future Alabama Music Educators
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