& News From Our Division Chairs &
groups, but there is no final decision yet. All the decisions are being made with the students in mind. Thank you so much to Keith Hodgson and the NJMEA Executive Board for working so hard to try to keep the All-State experience intact for these students. Thank you to Coordi- nator Joe Cantaffa for your efforts to work with everyone to make the best decision. Thank you also to the All-State Orchestra staff for all of your hard work through this difficult time: managers Mike Kallimanis and Laura Kearney and percussion coordinator Chris Janney. Thank you also to our conductor, Maestro John Yaffé for rehearsing these students so well, and being so understanding throughout this time. Now we look forward to the New Year and new All-State groups coming together. This year the orchestra auditions will be held on Satur-
day, March 16. I am looking forward to seeing all of the orchestra directors there as usual! After the auditions, we will have the new All-State Orchestra and All State Intermediate Orchestra selected. I’m sure we are all looking forward to hearing the 2013 All State Orchestras!
Retired Music Educators Christine Sezer
570-756-2961
drcsezer@gmail.com
Best Wishes to all for a Happy and Heathy New Year!
In spite of a very difficult November due to the hardships suffered by many as a result of hurricane Sandy, I hope all your holidays were still filled with peace and special times with friends and family. The mentoring program that we began last year continues - it gives us the unique opportunity to share all our years of knowledge, talent and experience and off advice with educators who may seek it -especially the young teachers who often times are at a loss when faced with certain situations or problems they don’t know how to cope with or just need advice or help. There are a variety of catagories listed on our website - if you are interested in being part of the mentoring program (and you certainly should be, your expertise and knowledge is really important and very valuable) please contact me with the catagories you would like to mentor. Your name, phone number and email will be added to the catorgories listed on our website. Teachers would contact mentors listed on our website and discuss their situations/problems/ needs for advice with the mentors. I think we could make a difference in assisting many teachers. Many times experience is the best way to solve unique situations and problems that may arise in the life and times of a music educator. I’m sure with all of our many years of teaching we have all had our share of those “unique situations” that we had to solve with no one to help us or advise us. so please become a part of our mentoring program! You may contact me by phone (570)756-2729; (570)756-2961 or email
drcsezer@gmail.com to let me know the catagories you would like to mentor- I need your name, phone number and email for our website. We would like to thank Bill Workinger for his many dedicated years of service on the NJRMEA Executive Committee. We sincerely
appreciate his sharing his time, knowledge, experience and expertise. We would also like most sincerely thank Altha Morton for her years of sharing her time, talent and experience and dedicated service as NJRMEA Secretary. Both Bill and Altha will remain as mentors on our mentoring catagory listing. We welcome Kathy Spadafino as our next NJRMEA President-Elect and also our new Secretary. Kathy has many years of much knowledge, expertise and experience and she and Beverly Robinovitz, our next NJRMEA President will certainly make a great team (my term will end July 1st). Hopefully we will see you at our General Membership meeting at the NJMEA Conference on Friday February 22, 2013. The meeting is usually 10:15 a.m. Check your conference booklet for exact time and place. We will also have our “2013 Master Music Teacher Award” presented at the luncheon to Tom Voorhis. As always Marie Malara has planned a GREAT conference -so please don’t miss it! Other dates to put on your calendar are: Wednesday , March 6, 2013 at12 noon which is an executive board meeting at the Seville Diner,
in East Brunswick; and Wednesday, May 15th which is a general membership meeting at 10:00 a.m at the House-by-the-Sea; Ocean Grove. I look forward to seeing you in East Brunswick at our NJMEA State Conference!
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