In This Issue

• New District Secretaries
• Coaching offer to Registered Quartets
• High School Quartet Contest
• Contest Registration
• District Spring Prelims and NE Division Convention
• Classes at Reno
• Division Conventions
• Go For The Gold
• Harmony College West 2010
• Get Westunes early and in color
• Inquiring Minds Want To Know
• Heard Over The Back Fence
• Chapter Leader Monthly To Do
• Calendar and Important Links

New District Secretaries

I regret to inform the membership of the Far Western District that Dick Girvin has resigned his position as District Secretary. Due to family obligations Dick is no longer able to attend Board meetings, an important requirement of the job. In Dick's place, the Board has appointed Past President Peter Feeney to be our District Secretary until such time as a successor is elected.

I am happy to report, however, that Dick has agreed to assume the newly created position of Corresponding Secretary. In this position Dick will continue to attend to the many administrative matters for the District in the very capable way that he has for years. I am grateful that Dick has agreed to accept this new position and we hope to continue to benefit from his wisdom and experience for many years.

Bernard Priceman
Far Western District President

Coaching offer to Registered Quartets

On behalf of the AFWDC, Association of Far Western District Champions, I want you to know that we have a one time, no fee, coaching session available to you by a District Champion in your area. There is no fee, but we expect you to pay expenses. If the coach lives in your back yard, there will be no expense. Expenses generally are a possible meal and gas money.

If you are interested in this program, please contact me at pastchamps@cox.net. I will then forward you a list of coaches , along with their expertise, and you can make your decision and contact the coach directly. Please advise me of the coach upon confirmation of the coaching session. Remember the length of the coaching session can be a weekday night, or a day session on the weekend. That is up to you and the coach you select.

Any further coaching between your quartet and the coach is up to you, and you will be responsible for any expenses or fees. Remember, the majority of our champs, who do coaching, charge no fees.

We hope that you take advantage of this program, and we know it will benefit your quartet and its' members.

Thanks, and good singing. -- Bill Tieberg, Baritone
SFSD&WOCo. 1975-76 Far Western District Champion
AFWDC Board Member
Marketing
pastchamps@cox.net

Editor's Note: Quartets may register on the BHS ebiz site. Just login and click on Register a New Quartet. Quartet members must be active society members.

High School Quartet Contest

It's not too late to get a high school quartet signed up for the Saturday contest at Reno.

The quartets sign up online at HS Quartet Contest.

Contest Registration

Registration is now open for all Spring contests on the Society's ebiz site. Go to BHS ebusiness and log in. Then click Contest Entry and follow the instructions.

The deadline to register for the contests in Reno is March 5 so you need to act immediately.

District Spring Prelims and NE Division Convention at Reno

It's just three weekends to this dual event. If you haven't pre-registered, you can register on-site so that you won't miss out.

All meetings are at Harrahs. All contests are at the Pioneer Auditorium.

Below is a summary of events or you can see the Detailed Events Schedule.

Board of Directors Meeting

Thursday, 2pm. District members are welcome to observe.

Chapter Presidents meet with the District President and board

Friday,10:30am. It's a time to get connected with your district leaders.

Harmony For Lunch Bunch

Friday, 11:30am Wild River Grille

Classes

Friday, 1pm through 4pm. See the Class Schedule for details and class times.

House of Delegates

Friday, 2pm. Chapter delegates learn what is happening in the society and the district. Important matters are presented for voting on by the chapters.

Quartet Contest, Northeast Division and Prelims Semi-Final

Friday Evening, Pioneer Auditorium, Doors open at 6:00pm, Contest starts at 6:45pm, seats are reserved

Northeast Division Chorus Contest

Saturday Morning, Pioneer Auditorium. Doors open at 10am, contest starts at 10:45am, seats are reserved

High School Quartet Contest

Saturday, 2:3opm, open seating. You really don't want to miss this.

Prelims Quartets Finals

Saturday Evening, Pioneer Auditorium, doors open at 6pm, contest starts at 6:45pm

Show of Champions and Awards

Saturday evening right after the Prelims quartet contest

Barbershopper's Shop

All day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning

AHSOW Woodshedding

All day Friday and Saturday. Come learn how OC Cash and friends sang barbershop.

Impromptu Singing

In lobbies, hallways, meeting rooms, sidewalks, utility closets, nooks, crannies, and any other place the four parts find each other. No time limits have been specified.

Classes at Reno

There will be two tracks of classes on Friday afternoon at Reno. They'll start at 1pm and be over by 4pm to give you plenty of time to find some dinner. One track is well defined, but the second one awaits some responses from instructors. It may be Tag Singing Marathon hosted by three different leaders.

Time	Track 1	Track 2
1:00pm	Beginning Woodshedding Learn how OC Cash and friends sang barbershop	Tag Singing with Tagmeister Jim Crowley
2:00pm	Form quartets for a contest. Find three others, choose a song, choose a name.
2:30pm		Music Reading with Jim Crowley. Please register by sending your Name, Chapter, and Singing part to enews@bhsfwd.org.
3:00pm	Impromptu Quartet Contest

The Impromptu Quartet Contest at 3pm is always a fun time. Quartet singers arrive at 2pm to find the other parts, choose a wild quartet name, then register. At 3pm they sing one song for the specially assembled judges—the audience. Come join us for the fun.

Watch for the March 1 issue of eNews for the final list of classes.

Division Conventions

It's time to register for your division conventions and contests. You can find all the information you need at our Far Western District Conventions website.

Go For The Gold

In just a short 16 weeks, the Association of Far Western District Champions will be having their annual Go For the Gold show. June 19, 2010, Plummer Auditorium, 201 E. Chapman Avenue, Fullerton, California. In addition to the FWD quartets that qualify this year in Reno, there will be a surprise or two, just like last year. For just $20.00 you will see a really great show. (I sound a touch like Ed Sullivan, don't cha think?)

All the proceeds from this show go to the qualifying quartets for their trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the first week of July, 2010. Please put this date on your calendar. We will advise when tickets go on sale. Hope to see you all in Reno this coming March 19th thru March 21st for the FWD International Prelims Contest. It is going to be a GREAT time.

Kindest regards,

Bill Tieberg, Bari
SFSD&WOCo. 1975-76 District Quartet Champion
Board Member, AFWDC
Marketing

Harmony College West 2010

Put July 16-18 on your calendar now and plan on attending Harmony College West in Redlands this summer. You'll find terrific quartet coaching and a lot of excellent classes to choose from. Share the HCW 2010 Flyer with your chapter members.

Get Westunes Early and in Color

Four times a year you get the latest issue of Westunes in your mail box. About a week before that you can go to the FWD website and read that same issue in color. The 2010 Spring issue is about to show up in your mail, or right now you can read the color version at Westunes Spring 2010.

Inquiring Minds Want To Know

How do I temporarily stop barbershop email traffic?

Both the society and the district use the email address in your profile on the ebiz site. If you remove your email address from your profile, you will not be sent any messages from these two sources. Simply restore your email address when you are ready to hear from us again.

Send all questions to Keith Eckhardt, FWD Webmaster, at webmaster@spebsqsafwd.org.

Heard Over The Back Fence

Hey, add Rich Brunner to the list of men that have been a FWD quartet champ three times.

Masterpiece announces the selection of Patrick Haedtler as their new lead singer, replacing Mark Hale. Patrick is President of the Westminster chapter and was the lead singer in The Crush quartet.

The Crush would like to officially announce that the new lead of The Crush will be Josh Szolomayer. Josh's pure musical tone, smart musicianship, his positive attitude and overall excitement and energy will be a great addition to The Crush.

Friends of Milt Rhea will be pleased to hear that Milt is recovering nicely from a stroke on New Year's Eve. Milt and Ruby attended his chapter's installation luncheon where Milt sang with his old quartet, Four on the Richter Scale.

Keep those rumors and random data flowing to enews@spebsqsafwd.org.

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