Welcome to our 2004-2005 season. Hopefully everyone had a good summer and is looking forward to resuming their Mu Phi activities.

Cynthia's Notes

Can you believe that summer is almost over and we have had only a few 100-degree days? We should all be ready for greeting friends at Mu Phi meetings, making music for each other and enjoying the Sunday concerts at the library.  Not the usual blasé feelings after a typical hot summer in Dallas. 

Our first meeting will be Saturday, September 18 at 2 PM at the home of Martha Peak.  As has been the custom for several years now the Mu Chi chapter at SMU and the Epsilon Epsilon chapter at TCU will provide the program.  We enjoy so much hearing these talented young people perform in Martha's lovely home. 

Our dues to the International Executive Office are due on September 15.  The due date was changed from October 15 at the convention last summer.  This is before our first meeting, so if you have not paid your dues, please send them to Sharon Kraus.  The amount and address are elsewhere in this newsletter.

Susan Poelchau and Julie Schmitt have planned varied and interesting programs for our meetings.  I know you won't want to miss any of them.  The October 17 meeting will be at the library before the concert of Katy Freiberger's music.  Put this date on your calendar and support Katy and the other Mu Phi performers

Those of you who have e-mail will receive a notice before each meeting.  All others will get a personal phone call.  It may be left on your answering machine, if you are not at home.  If you do not want to be called, tell Pat Suitt, telephone chair.  

Let us look forward to a great year.  See you on September 18.

Cynthia  

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Fall Meetings

Saturday, September 18 at 2:00 PM at Martha Peak's house

Program: We will be treated to beautiful music by the collegiates from SMU Mu Chi Chapter and the Epsilon Epsilon chapter at TCU

Co-hostesses: Pat Hill, Becky Corley, Frances Stuart, Sharon Kraus, and Sandra McMillan

Year's Meeting Schedule (7:30 pm)

Monday, November 8 – home of Sylvia Lerch  

Program: 

Julie Schmitt and Susan Poelchau - Two piano

Ellen Stamelos, theory  lecture and demonstration

Frances Pearson

Singer from Highland Park

Monday, December 13 – home of Judy Dardaganian 

Program: 

Julie and Allan Schmitt – Recorder and horn

Women’s Chorus directed by Phyllis Wilson

Monday, February 14  - Highland Park Presbyterian Church Sanctuary          

Program: 

Chris Brunt, organ

Paralee Curry (SAI )

Sadie Rowe, organ

SAI Chorale

Virginia Kassel, organ (SAI)

Monday, March 14  - home of Pat Suitt      

Program: 

Kay Newman: Mozart Fantasia

Pat Suitt and Katie Freiberger:

Mozart Sonata in D major
Sylvia Taylor Lerch: Haydn lecture and sonata

Pat Suitt and Gretchen Nichols - cello sonata

Monday, April 11 – home of Mary Beth Johnson      

Program:

Susan Poelchau, Julie Schmitt and  Mary Beth Johnson: 

   Bach three-piano music

Ellen Vanderslice

Anne Stone, violin

Les Amis Ensemble – Frances Estes, Ruth Reed, Gretchen Nichols and Pat Suitt

Saturday, May 14  - home of Pat Hill               

Program: Romantic Waltzes  

Pat Suitt

Karen Glosserman

Sylvia Taylor Lerch - Chopin Waltz in Eb

Plus some other performers (please volunteer)

Chapter News

The nominating committee composed of Sadie Rowe, Susan Poelchau and Kay Newman presented the following slate of officers at the May meeting and they were elected by acclamation:

Officers

President: Cynthia Wadley

Vice-presidents: Susan Poelchau & Julie Schmitt

Secretary: Fran Pearson

Treasurer: Sharon Kraus

Historian: Kay Newman

Chaplain: Sadie Rowe

Chorister: Phyllis Wilson

Committees

Program: Susan Poelchau & Julie Schmitt 

Social: Sadie Rowe

Library Concert Series: Claudia Jameson and Melanie Priest, Chairs

       Cherie Bell, Sylvia Taylor Lerch, Kay Newman, Edie Pfautsch, 

       Frances Stuart, Mary Williams

Finance: Zelda Hantz

Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation: Ruth Reed

Newsletter/Webmaster: Mary Williams

Notification: Pat Suitt, Chair

       Karen Glosserman, JoAnn Turrentine, Ruth Reed, Mary Ann Taylor

Patrons: Frances Stuart & Pat Hill

Sunshine: Frances Estes

Yearbook: Tena Hehn

Mu Chi Chapter Adviser: Sandra McMillen

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SERV hours

Thank you for sending in your SERV(ice) hours to help Cynthia complete our chapter’s yearly report.  This is how we did:

Total hours to community service projects – 2843+

Total hours to education project – 6

Total hours to resource project – 1402

Keep track this year as you go, and give your hours to Sandra McMillen in May.

Sunday Concert Series

Please volunteer to introduce a program at the library on a Sunday afternoon this year.  Take some schedules (available at the first meeting) and give them to friends and students, put them up at church, etc. so people know about our wonderful concerts. And come!!!  

Click here to see the Sunday Concert Series schedule and biographies of performers.

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Dues and Funds

If you have not paid your dues for 2004-2005, you can just make it! We now have to pay them in September. To join, please send your check to Mu Phi Epsilon Dallas Chapter to Sharon Kraus.

            Regular membership            $59.00 

            Members with a Life

               Triangle Subscription        $49.00

            Patrons                             $25.00

Our “non-event” fundraiser to raise money for the International bank balance netted $100. You can still send your deficit donation to Sharon. [Contact the webmaster for address.]

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Member News

Sadly we announce:  

Dorothy Henderson, a lovely former member and pianist, died May 18, 2004.  This obituary appeared in the Dallas Morning News:

Dorothy Hagard Henderson was born to Rev. Luther Guy Hagard and Florence Hagard in Bridgeport, Texas on May 25, 1919. She died peacefully in Dallas on May 18, 2004 following a long illness with Parkinson’s Disease. As the daughter of a Methodist minister, she spent her childhood in various Texas towns. She received a B.A. in Piano Performance from Texas Wesleyan College and an M.A. in Music Education from S.M.U. She married Dr. Hodgie C. Henderson, Jr. on June 29, 1946 and was the beloved mother of Ellen and Cynthia Henderson. She is survived by her loyal and beloved husband, her daughter Cindy Henderson Morriss, her husband, Jim, and their three children, Lauren, Katherine, and Matthew; sister-in-law Ernestine Ulmer Hagard, four nieces, cousin Mildred McClenny, and many extended family members and friends. Private burial service. Memorial service at First United Methodist church, Dallas, date to be announced. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be sent to the Organ Fund, First United Methodist Church, 1928 Ross Ave., Dallas TX  75201.

Pat Suitt's mother, Mina Shockley, died May 17, 2004.  The service was May 21 at Gaston Oaks Baptist Church. Pat is busy now trying to sell her mother’s house.

Kay Newman had some surgery this summer and will have several weeks of radiation. She says she is doing fine.

Sharon Kraus’ mom is doing better and is now in her new apartment in a retirement center that her folks moved in to on August 2.  Unfortunately, her dad had a stroke on August 11 and passed away on August 17th.  She is now getting all of the paper work taken care of from the sale of their house, lawyers, doctors, etc.

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Good news:

We appreciate Brian Lengel’s gift of CDs of Tennie Legel's playing and of her memorial service.  Cynthia will be happy to share them with others in the chapter.

Katherine Riddle celebrated her 100^th birthday Celia Riddle Millemon. [Contact the webmaster for address.]

Cynthia Wadley visited her this past week. She says: “Katherine did not know me and only knew that someone was there.  She is almost deaf.  She was asleep in a chair when I got there and I had a hard time waking her.  I was there about 30 minutes and she went back to sleep.  She smiled a lot, but very little other response.”

Susan Poelchau visited Germany and Italy this summer and returns Sept 6.

Sharon Kraus has been named Woman of the Year by the Vanguard Chapter of the American Business Womens Association. Yeah Sharon!

June Tighe is still living at her son’s house in Frisco.

If you haven’t figured out why e-mails to Tena Hehn keep coming back, change her address to tenahehn@sbcglobal.net.  

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Past Meetings

May Meeting

Edie Pfautsch was again the gracious host at our spring luncheon. Our wonderful program was presented by Claudia Jameson - soprano and Pat Suitt – piano 

and by a trio of Jennifer Bryan – violin, Kathleen Berry – flute, and Barbara Jackson – piano.

Hostess Edie Pfautsch and member Kay Newman chat in the kitchen.

The buffet table is always good when members bring the food.

Interview

See an Interview with Katherine (Katy) Freiberger in our continuing series of interviews.  

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