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3/9/10: Well, we had our Ladies' Appreciation and Officer Installation and it was pretty good. Terry Jordan was the officiator and he was quite serious about membership. However, Erich was drafted as the new librarian! Jim Christie, a fairly new member, was designated our Barbershopper of the Year!!! Congratulations, Jim!

3/4/10: BIG NEWS!!! Downloads are available from the Repertoire page menu bar! If you go to the Rep page and don't see Downloads on the menu bar, press F5 and it should show up.

3/2/10: Format changeover complete. When you load the home page, press F5. Go to each page on the website and press F5 (it may be different on a MAC. I wouldn't know and don't care.). Pressing F5 reloads the page from the ISP to get the latest version.

3/2/10: The BHS Music Catalog is now available on the Repertoire page menu bar. Fox News and the Weather Channel are now menu pics on the home page. You can customize the Weather Channel page to show your zip code. Click on "Customize" in the upper right hand corner of the weather channel home page.

3/1/10: Progress: Working on getting SV photos up; Format changeover done except for photo pages. New link on the link page to BHS' Livewire archive. If you don't subscribe, you can go to past issues at this link.

2/28/10: If you haven't done so lately, explore the BHS website. It is much better than it used to be and it is so much more user-friendly. There is free music available there.

2/27/10: New Singout!! Check the events page.

2/23/10: Last night, we worked on the songs scheduled from last week, "The Chordbuster March" (Al), "Down By The Riverside" (Al), "Thanks for The Memory" (Rex), and "That Tumbledown Shack in Athlone" (Rex). Kinter wasn't there because he moved his office from one location to another yesterday and didn't get home until late. Glenn worked us with "After You've Gone," "Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do," and "I Told Them All About You."

Next week: We will work on "Amazing Grace" (Al), "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (Rex), "When I'm 64" (Rex), and "Shenandoah" (Kinter). This is good because we are making sure that over a five week period or so, we will review all of our current repertoire.

Our new material is "I Believe" (Al) with Sectionals on "After You've Gone," and "Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do." As Al said in his email, those two are getting very close. Dick needs ideas for activities. It's time for the music committee to get together and choose some more new material!!

Sho'N'Off (Rex) announced that Dick is learning the Tenor part and Martin needs stronger glasses. Marty has glaucoma.

Dick tried to qualify for the PoleCat pin but missed a couple of places along the way.

2/22/10: Still working on changing the format of the pages. Also working on getting missing photos up for 2009 and 2010.

2/19/10: A new look is coming to the website! Probably next week!! In a nod to the changing format and sizes of monitors, website pages will be reduced from three columns to two with all the quartet icons on the left with the BRT photo, and the icons for BHS and M-AD.

The real value for this is that for older monitors, you won't have to scroll right and left to see all the webpage content. You will still have to scroll up and down but that's to be expected.

Also, in case you haven't noticed, the length of this page has been reduced by moving old material to an archive page. Since it's all text, it will still load but this page will not be so unwieldy. Comments are valued and appreciated.

2/17/10: Last night we reviewed “The Star-Spangled Banner,“ directed by Rex, “Heart,” directed by Kinter, “Let The Rest Of The World Go By,” directed by Kinter, and “Sentimental Journey,” directed by Al.

New material worked on was “I Believe,” directed by Al, “After You’ve Gone,” directed by Glenn, and “Breakin’ Up Is Hard To Do,” directed by Glenn. We were going to work on “I Found a Million Dollar Baby” but ran out of time.”

Next week, we will review “That Tumble-Down Shack in Athlone,” directed by Kinter, “Thanks for the Memory,” directed by Rex, “The Chordbuster March,” directed by Al, and “Down By The Riverside,” directed by Al. We will also work on the new material again including sectionals. Listen to the learning media.

Business: The Ladies’ Appreciation Dinner, originally scheduled for 1/30/10, was cancelled because of snow and it appears that a weekend reprise isn’t going to happen so we might have a catered affair on a Tuesday night instead with Terry Jordan officiating at the installation officers.
Al Elkins asked for some help in trying to get more bookings.
At this point, it appears that four or perhaps five individuals will be going to Philadelphia for the convention.
After the business meeting, we worked on the two contest songs with motions. The motions are not starting or ending together and not everyone is doing them. Hugh and Eric need the document. Kinter is going to email the soft copy to Jim Christie who will email it to them. The sound on both songs, however, was good. Still too loud on “That’s an Irish Lullaby.”

We sang two tags and then adjourned for the evening.

2/15/10: We had a small number of Singing Valentines this year, but despite the small numbers, we had a great time!

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