Newsletter Feb 2004

FEBRUARY MEETING – JOINT MEETING OF MU PHI AND SAI

Monday, February 17 at 7:30 PM at Highland Park United Methodist Church

HPUMC is located on the NE corner of Hillcrest Ave. and Mockingbird Lane.

Driving from either direction on Mockingbird, turn north on Bishop Blvd., entering

the SMU campus. At the first street on the right, turn and go left into the underground parking garage of the SMU Meadows Museum. After parking, exit the garage and

cross the street to the church sanctuary. Please DO NOT park on the north parking

lot adjacent to the church. Towing is enforced

Program – Sadie Rowe, organ

Mary Ann Taylor, flute and Jerry Taylor, piano

Chris Brunt, organ (Chris is the organist at HPUMC and a new member of our chapter)

plus performers from SAI

Co-hostesses – the SAIs

MARCH MEETING – MEMBERS GO BAROQUE

Monday, March 8 at 7:30 PM at the home of Pat Hill

Program – Sylvia Taylor Lerch, piano

Anne Stone, violin

Sadie Rowe, piano

Les Amis:

Frances Estes, oboe

Gretchen Nichols, cello

Ruth Reed, violin

Pat Suitt, piano

More performers are welcome. Call Sadie Rowe if you wish to participate.

Co-hostesses – Frances Estes (chair), Priscilla Long, Fran Pearson and

Ruth Reed

Please change dates with someone if you cannot participate that night

PAST MEETINGS

November Meeting

The November Founders Day Ceremony had special meaning as November 13, 2003 was the 100th anniversary of Mu Phi Epsilon's founding. We had our largest attendance of the fall. Sylvia Taylor Lerch provided her home and she plus co-hostesses Mary Williams, Cherie Bell, Karen Glosserman, Melanie Priest and Phyllis Wilson provided the goodies.

A delightful program was provided by violinist Emily Priest, a Junior at SMU and daughter of Melanie Priest who played two

Beethoven Romances, with Kristi Janacek at the piano. Allen Schmitt played the Rondo from Mozart‘s Concerto #4 for Horn with his wife Julie, piano, Donna Spillers, flute and Susan Poelchau, reader. Sylvia Taylor Lerch and Karen Schoenrock, duo-pianists played Frescobaldi and Bach. Isn’t it great that family members of Mu Phis share their talents with us?

December Meeting

The December 8^th meeting was held at Katie Freiberger’s new townhome. Katie and hostesses Sue Hewitt, Sue Johnson, Zelda Hantz and Mary Ann Taylor provided a wonderful holiday buffet.

Julie Schmitt accompanied her daughter Laura, who sang “O Come Little Children,” “Breath of Heaven,” and a medley of Christmas favorites that included “Let if Snow,” Silver Bells,” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

Julie played and sang three of her own fine compositions using words of old carols: “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” “A Babe Lies in a Cradle,” and “Gentle Mary.”

Cynthia Wadley played a recording of two movements from the work for orchestra and chorus commissioned for and performed by Mu Phis at the 100^th International Convention last summer: “Celebration Symphony” by Crawford Gates. She played the second movement, which was based on our song, “The Triangle,” (using the original words) and the third movement

CLUB NEWS

Treasurer Sharon Kraus presented a proposed budget for the year. Sharon is looking for a bank that won’t charge us a monthly service fee.

The club voted to give a $50 memorial in memory of member Ruth Rutherford to our scholarship fund for SMU students, and a $25 memorial in memory of patron and husband of member Edie Pfautsch, Lloyd Pfautsch.

Remember to send Sandra McMillen your SERV (service) hours on a monthly basis; keep track of any volunteering you do for the chapter or our community. Our chapter gets “points” for our volunteer work

Changes to Yearbook:

Theresa Dobbs: theresadobbs@yahoo.com

Sadie Rowe: serowe01@mailstation.com

Cathy Hargrave: Please contact general information for new address and phone number.

Welcome New Member:

Chris Brunt: cbrunt7@netzero.net. Please contact general information for new address and phone number.

Newsletter/Webpage

Thanks to all contributors to this newsletter. The deadline for the next newsletter is March 28. Please send your news to Mary Williams - txtravel@flash.net.

Sunday Concert Series

Our concert series has been changed and then changed some more and then changed again. This is where we are right now. Please let Claudia Jameson know if you can introduce a program and come to hear these great performers.

All concerts are at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library Auditorium,

1515 Young Street, Dallas TX

Sundays at 3:00 PM

Concerts are FREE and open to the public

Please see our Spring schedule by clicking here: Sunday Concert Series.

Check out performers' vitas by clicking on: More about our 2003-2004 performers.

Help publicize our series to your friends, schools and other organizations

Phyllis Wilson became a grandmother in September with the birth of a boy to her daughter Pam.

Greg Hehn returned home two days before Christmas. Modifications have been made to their home to accommodate his wheelchair. Tena says: “We are done--they finished Dec. 17--only 13 days...and it really looks great. We just put the "faux finish" on the one wall and are rehanging pictures. We wanted to "live in it" for awhile to see how things should be arranged and what other additions might be needed. Takes awhile because we have so many pictures and still so much stuff AND since we have the time to plan and think about it, we want to do it "just right"! Greg can do more than I thought, but the back of our house (where he must hang out) still seems small with a wheelchair… He is thrilled to be home--he hopes to get back to serious rehab by end of Feb. or first of March, so they can start seeing about a prosthesis. Who knows? “

June Tighe says that she is doing well and will be moving into an apartment in Frisco when she leaves her son's home. She plans to continue teaching.

The Suitts were eating breakfast recently when a plane crashed into a house across the street and five houses down. That was excitement not wished for. Pat's mother has recovered from having shingles, but is now in Baylor Hospital, hopefully for a short stay. She celebrated her 100^th birthday in December.

Mary Williams and Kay Newman are leaving Feb 9 for a 2½ week Elderhostel in Spain. They will visit Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, and the islands of Majorca and Ibiza. The study topic is Mediterranean history and they hope to be first-hand experts when they return on the 26^th. They have traveled together before – to Eastern Europe – and were in Budapest on 9/11.

CYNTHIA’S NOTES

Dear Mu Phi members,

With the holidays behind us and all of the hustle and bustle with them, we can now look forward to the second half of our year. Some exiting and varied programs are planned for our meetings. The fellowship we enjoy before and after the meetings mean so much to me. Mu Phi friends are special. The spring concert series at the library is complete. I hope all of us will make an effort to attend many of them

Because we will not have a business meeting until March, you may be interested in several motions that were passed in December. The "non-event" fundraiser is discussed below. Memorials will be given in memory of member Ruth Rutherford and patron Lloyd Pfautsch to our own scholarship fund.

At our March meeting be prepared for a business ceremony: handshake, password and The Triangle with the newer words (1995 really isn't so new). All of these things were done at each business meeting at convention. We need to do this so as not to forget the procedure and it only takes a few minutes.

Valentine wishes to all of you who will not be able to attend the February meeting. Some of you don't go out at night and others have a conflict with the Monday date. We will miss you.

Spring is on the way with sunshine and warmer weather to warm our bodies. May music continue to warm our hearts and minds.

Cynthia

FOUR CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS PASSED
Change in standing rules:

Due to high cost of printing and mailing the Triangle the following amendment passed:

Unaffiliated members with a Life subscription have four options, of which the first three will continue the subscription:

1) Affiliate with a chapter or pay international dues.

2) Request Emeritus status for those over eighty years of age.

3) Pay $10.00 for annual subscription.

4) Discontinue subscription.

Changes in by-laws:

1) Allowing District Directors to serve without a Bachelor’s degree with the approval of the International Executive Board,

2) Changed date when international dues are to be paid from October 15 to September 15.

3) Added furnishing a copy of the record of proceedings of each International Convention to each "Chairman of a Standing Committee.