& News From Our Division Chairs
There will be something new this year for orchestras! This winter, NJMEA will be sponsoring two orchestra festivals: one for middle school, and one for high school. The dates are tentatively set for Friday, January 23rd and Friday, February 6th. More information will be available soon! As you are settling into your new school year, if you are interested in getting involved with the All-State Orchestras or the orchestra fes- tivals, please let me know. We would love to see some new faces!
Retired Music Educators Beverly Robinovitz
732-271-4245
beviewgr@aol.com
Welcome back to the school year. I hope you are all off to a great but busy start. We retirees are doing our thing in a different direction; not necessarily in a school building. It’s amazing how busy so many of us are, still keeping our hands in the music field. It’s difficult to do oth- erwise when it has been our life. Many still have bands and choruses, church jobs, working for colleges, instrument repairs, and, still singing and playing gigs. “I don’t know how I had time for work.”, is a line I often hear. The Master Music Teacher Committee elected the NJMEA Master Music Teacher(s) for 2015 this past spring. We will announce
our Master Music Teacher(s) in the next issue of TEMPO. Please take the time now to think about nominating a NJMEA music educator who is truly an outstanding teacher next March 2015, for the 2016 Master Music Teacher. Put it on your calendar of things to do so that you are ready for the March 15th nomination due date. The nomination form may be found on the
njmea.org website under AWARDS> Various>Master Music Teacher Award. The last General Membership Meeting of the year was held on May 14th at 10:15 a.m. at the “House-By-The-Sea” in Ocean Grove. Our host was once again, Alyn Heim. Across the street is the ocean! We had an informative meeting with Roma Oster as our guest speaker, an at- torney who specializes in wills, estate planning, probate, trusts, powers of attorney, elder law, and guardianships. We had plenty of questions which Roma handled beautifully; and patiently! Our next Board meeting is October 8th at 10:00 am. If you are interested in being on the Board of Directors of NJRMEA, please contact
me for further information. Our 1st General meeting will be in February at the NJMEA State Conference in East Brunswick.
Summer Workshop Joe Akinskas
JoeA_NJMEA@comcast.net Summer Workshop Coordinator
NJMEA Summer Workshop VII August 5, 2014
The seventh annual summer workshop was held on the delightful campus of The College of New Jersey in Ewing, in the Arts and In-
structional Media building. As in past years, the workshop addressed six Music Education content areas that included: Choral Music, Instrumental Music, Technology Applications, Classroom Music Techniques and Strategies, Special Education implica- tions in Music Instruction, and an SGO support and triage room staffed by Tom Maliszewski and Lisa Vartanian.
OCTOBER 2014 15 TEMPO
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