· Membership & Development - re membership: Tim Wilson accepted, Walt Thomas has application, D. J. Grant needs follow up. Society gained 170 new members (11 in JAD).
· Music & Performance - Joe Veltre expressed that we need to audition new members.
· Program - Joe DeFilippo and Bob Cavanaugh to work together.
· Marketing & PR - Tom Koch to continue to pursue advertising on TV community bulletin boards.
New Business:
Considerable discussion took place on the pros and cons of hiring Ron Brooks as director. Proposals and counter-proposals were evaluated. A motion was made and passed to offer Ron a six month contract, including the annual show, after which time the contract will be re-negotiated. [Ron Brooks has subsequently accepted this contract.]
JABS needs you
Jake Mandator, chair of the Johnny Appleseed Barbershop Singers (JABS) has contacted bulletin editors throughout JAD and asked if the article below could be included. I was happy to oblidge.
BE A PART OF JABS
The Johnny Appleseed Barbershop Singers (JABS) is a barbershop chorus which was organized in 1978 for the purpose of promulgating barbershop singing on an international basis. Previous trips have included the countries of Romania, Germany, Iceland, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, The Czech Republic, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and ltaIy.
Plans are currently underway to tour and sing in Greece and the Greek Islands in the fall of 2006. Previous travelers are given priority but new singers are being actively sought for this tour, ESPECIALLY TENORS. Reservations will be limited to full bus loads. Payments are made in stages and are refundable up to the point that we can retrieve your deposits made with airlines, hotels, etc.
For more information you can go to website www.harmonize.com/jabs or contact Jake Mandator at (mandator@sssnet.com) 1739 Raddiff NW, Massillon, OH, 44646, or phone 330-832-8240. The website is new so keep watching it for additional material and pictures of previous trips. Although the initial signup date is past, we will continue to take reservations. We already have thirty-eight people signed up and we haven't even got our itinerary yet. As more details are known they will be posted on our website, the Cider Press and to those that have made their initial deposit.
(editor note to Greater Pittsburgh members - another source of information for us would be to talk with Bill Martin as he is a member of JABS and has been on some of these trips.]
Voices Change As We Age?
By Sue Linville in Discovery Magazine Oct., 'O5
Submitted by Jay Garber
Voices change between young adulthood and old age because of anatomical changes in the larynx (voice box), respiratory system, mouth, and tissues of the throat. Some of those changes include atrophy of muscles, increased stiffness of tissues, and drying of membranes. There is also evidence that facial bones continue to grow during this period, although the magnitude of the growth is small. These physical changes affect your voice by increasing the instability of vocal chord vibration, altering the pitch level and reducing the amount of air available in a single breath when speaking. Aging also affects the manner in which the voice resonates as it travels from the vocal chords to the lips and those resonance changes affect voice quality.
Age related voice changes are different for men and women, with men tending to show more dramatic changes. In men, speaking pitch lowers from young adulthood to middle age and then rises after middle age. By age 80, a man can expect that his speaking pitch will be at the highest level of his adult life. In women, the speaking pitch remains relatively unchanged from young adulthood to middle age. Pitch lowers slightly at menopause and then remains relatively steady into old age. Other age-related voice and speech changes in both men and women include a slower speaking rate and the restriction of pitch range.
Hey, remember those old Burma Shave signs along the roadside? If not, you are such a child. If so, you are older than dirt like most of us.
Car in ditch - Driver in tree - The moon was full - And so was he. Burma Shave
Brother speeder - Let's rehearse - All together - Good morning nurse. Burma Shave
At intersections - Look each way - A harp sound nice
- But it's hard to play. Burma Shave
Don't lose your head - To gain a minute - You need your head - Your brains are in it. Burma Shave