TMEA Membership Renewal and Fall Meetings While we are on the topic of renewal, be sure to take time to renew your TMEA membership at www.tmea.org or via mail/ fax if your school is paying. You must be a current TMEA member to enter your students in the TMEA All-State process. In addition, while you are online be sure to renew your liability insurance and preregister for the February 2015 TMEA Clinic/ Convention. Please consider serving TMEA at the convention by entering your information online at www.tmea.org/bandvolunteer. Also, please take note of your fall Region meeting and make plans to attend this important local function (see page 2 for details). Consider serving as a mentor for educators new to the profession or new to your area. Band Division Updates Congratulations go to the recent recipients of the Pat McNallen scholarship awarded to Band Division members to help them fund their graduate studies: Jo Ann Champion, Hutto MS Nachel Konemann, Irons MS Michael Misko, Southside HS Janice Motl, South Belton MS Diane Shelton, Elysian Fields MS Derek Stoughton, McKinney Boyd HS Olivia Tucker, Medlin MS Ryan Zysk, Anderson HS The TMEA All-State Band audition etudes are posted on the website along with performance guides and errata. Please note that the website is the only official posting of those items and that September 1 is the new deadline for errata submissions to the State Band Chair. Thanks go to the etude selectors and presenters at the TBA convention. Additional thanks go to the Board of Directors of the Texas Bandmasters Association for presenting what I’m sure you remember as an exciting and educationally rewarding slate of clinics at the TBA Convention (held just as this issue was being mailed). Thanks also goes to those dedicated educators who served as judges, contest chairs, contest hosts, and room monitors for the entire summer-long TMEA Honor Band process. We’ll highlight the TMEA Honor Band results in next month’s SOUTHWESTERN MUSICIAN.
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