The Red And Black - 2001 (Dec. Edition)

Sinfonia’s Accomplishments Dear Brothers: It is a tremendous pleasure to have this opportunity to “speak” with you in this issue of The Red & Black. I want to wish you the very best for a safe and happy holiday. I wish you safe travels and a happy New Year! This is an exciting time for our great Order, and I want to share with you some of our collective accomplishments.

Growth and Expansion As you are reading this, you should take pride in knowing that there are 206 active collegiate chapters of Sinfonia from coast-to-coast. Our Fraternity is now larger than it has been in several decades, and we all should take a bow for this achievement.

It takes a great deal of work, organization, spirit and support for a colony to become a chapter, and it is clear that the light of Sinfonia is shining brightly on our colonies and new chapters.

THE NEW CHAPTERS STILL NEED YOUR SUPPORT! The first couple years of a new chapter can be the most difficult. If there is a new chapter in your province, please offer your support as they grow and develop! Additionally, please contact Ryan Ripperton at the National Headquarters if you know of a school in your area that could support a chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

The Ossian E. Mills Music Mission It is only fitting that the project designed to carry on the “Flower Missions” of Father Mills has swept the nation as a vital aspect of our Order! The MMM is possibly the best and most accurate means

for Sinfonians to express, in a tangible way, the mission of Sinfonia - the uplift of mankind.

Whether your chapter is regularly scheduling Missions or you are planning one for the first time, it is very important that your chapter sends a report of your Mission to the National Headquarters. We have dedicated space in our publications to report your Missions, and we want to fill those pages with your good news!

The Initiation Ritual The Fraternity leadership has dedicated a great deal of energy and time on ritual education over the course of the past several years. The increase in our collective level of understanding and knowledge of the Initiation Ritual is paying great dividends.

As I travel the country, I am so pleased to see that the attention being paid to detail is significant, and our newly initiated brothers are reaping the benefit of excellently prepared rituals. However, we cannot relax and consider this a completed project. We must keep in mind that a chapter’s collective understanding of the Initiation Ritual and fraternal education in general is only as strong as the chapter’s efforts to educate the newest members on a regular basis.

This is a NEVER-ENDING effort, and we must remain committed to ongoing ritual and fraternal education.

It has been a great fall. I wish you and your families the very best, and I look for-

ward to reporting continued growth and success in the coming year. Until then, I remain…

Fraternally yours, In ΦMA,

James P. Morris Executive Director

Happy Holidays!

The National Staff and National Executive Committee wish you and yours a happy and safe holiday season! So let it be for Sinfonia!

December 2001

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Fraternity Matters Email signatures more than just a trite thought Everyday, the Lyrecrest staff members receive hundreds of emails from brothers all around the country. Many people choose a favorite quotation to include in their email signature, but Sinfonians seem to have selected some particularly moving, insightful, and fraternal sayings. Where the ordinary person often chooses a sarcastic or humorous selection, Sinfonians seem to have grasped that even something as seemingly insignificant as an email signature can change a person’s life, and have therefore chosen to try to make something out of the opportunity to share an inspirational thought.

The quotations below have been collected over the last few months from actual email messages received from brothers. It is our hope that they will inspire you, and perhaps you will even see one that you will want to include in your email signature!

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity Generating men with a strong social conscience and a deep understanding of the effects of their art upon others.

-Unknown

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

-Albert Einstein

20 years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Discover.

-Mark Twain

The friend is another self.

-attributed to Pythagoras What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us, what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

-Albert Pike You cannot wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.

-Latin American Proverb Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.

-Sri Ramakrishna One good thing about Music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

-Unknown Before enlightenment, you chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood and carry water.

-taken from a Buddhist saying

Every man dies, not every man really lives.

-Unknown What we do in our lifetime, echoes in eternity.

-Unknown The sun and moon shine on everyone alike.

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Sir, of all the men in the world, None are equal to brothers.

Brothers may quarrel within the walls, But stand united against insult from without.

When even the best of friends would not fight for them.

-Unknown It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

-Jeseph Joubert Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you’ve held.

-Milton Hall Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

-Mark Twain

There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

-F. Albrecht No one could tell me where my soul might be; I searched for God but He eluded me; I sought my brother out, and found all three.

-Ernest Howard Crosby There are no boundaries beyond those perceived by the senses and arranged into reality by the mind.

-Unknown I am nothing that I do not allow myself to be.

-Unknown Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

-L. Carte There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

-Chinese Proverb Whether you think you can or you cannot, you are always right.

- Napoleon Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

- Mark Twain Only the flint of a man’s soul can strike fire in music.

-Ludwig van Beethoven The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

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News From Campus Beta Delta

Beta Iota

Upsilon Phi

Pittsburg State University Pittsburg, Kansas

Albion College Albion, Michigan

Truman State University Kirksville, Missouri

Beta Delta has a long tradition here at The brothers of Beta Iota at Albion Pittsburg State University. A chapter that College had a great year of brotherhood and excelled at meeting the high standards estabmusic during 2000-01. One great source of lished by the Fraternity, it unfortunately went pride for our chapter is our newly initiated proinactive in the 1970s. However, in March bationary class. These nine new members show 2001, the Beta Delta Colony was officially a great amount of promise and will be instruadmitted into Phase I of the Colony Program mental in making Beta Iota the best it can be. and began a new era of excellence within the As a probationary class, they decided to take Fraternity. on the Mills Music Mission as their class project. With the added voices of some of the Shortly after becoming a Phase I colony, a active members, they sang at a local nursing number of probationary members and brothers home. Though at first it was difficult for many left with the Pittsburg State University band to of us to perform our best for people who had perform in Maastricht, The Netherlands. For the entire spring break vacation, these ambassa- limited capabilities to respond to us, we truly had to trust in the beauty and power of music dors from the U.S. saw beautiful scenery, to do good in people’s lives. attended concerts of the highest standards, and After several years of absence, Beta Iota enjoyed the local day-to-day life. Even a bit of was asked to assist with Songfest during our Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia was seen on this trip, as they performed “A Serenade to a Girl” to a few college’s Greek Week. Though we were not competing, we had the opportunity to share lucky ladies who were celebrating their birthour musical gifts with our fellow students. This day in Amsterdam and to the female tour was exciting because often the only chances we guide. have to do so are limited to the National To show that everyone was ready for the Anthem, a few sing-a-long Christmas carols at challenge laid before them, members began the college tree lighting, and the serenades that selling candy bars to raise money for the finanwe perform for beautiful ladies on Sweetest cial obligations ahead. Numerous service Day and Valentine’s Day. opportunities were attendWe have also set many high ed, including Scouting for goals for the 2001-02 acaFood (Boy Scouts of demic year. Our outdated web America food drive), helpsite is in the midst of a total ing with the Jazz Festival rebuild and should be operatand other events held by ing fully in the fall. Our new Pittsburg State University historian is making plans for a music department, and setnew digital scrapbook that ting up the American will be stored on compact Music Festival and other disc. After two years of hard performances by its probaThe new (and old) brothers work by our historians and tionary members and of Beta Delta. alumni correspondents, we alumni brothers. A number have an email distribution list of performances were also for chapter alumni reaching back to some held throughout our community and campus, brothers who graduated in the 50s. This list as the Beta Delta Colony serenaded a sorority should allow us to communicate more effechouse and performed “The Star-Spangled tively with our alumni and hopefully encourage Banner” at a home football game this season. greater alumni involvement in chapter activiThe National Anthem performance was so well ties. We will also be looking to increase cooperreceived that Beta Delta has a standing invitaation with our local chapter of SAI in hopes tion to perform every year at Homecoming. that with our combined resources we can more With 21 members and a number of faculty effectively instill in Albion’s college and comSinfonians guiding and helping, the Beta Delta munity the importance of music.

Colony is beginning to make new strides and is These are just a few of the exciting things showing how a determined group can show the that Beta Iota has been doing and is hoping to true meaning of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. ~JR DeLaney, Historian do in the future. Our best wishes in all of your fraternal activities.

Editor’s Note: Beta Delta was reactivated ~Matt Linden, Historian as a collegiate chapter on Sunday, November 4, 2001.

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The Upsilon Phi Chapter has had a long and wonderful 2000-01 year. It started off with a bang, holding rush functions and getting our name out to the new students. One of the first events we held was our annual Composer in Residence program. We changed it slightly from last year, but the changes were well worth it, as it was one of our most successful projects.

We also had other activities going on such as campus serenades before weekly meetings, dance band functions, and brass caroling around Christmas season. We also spent much time raising funds for the spring semester as well as continuing rush functions.

Soon after the spring semester started, we began our probationary membership season.

Our probationary member class consisted of eight men, all of whom will be great contributions to this chapter. One event that we were not able to hold this year was our High School Honor Band. Because of scheduling problems, both within our school and with area high schools, we could not find a date that would work. While we were not able to hold the Honor Band, we had a very successful JazzFest 33. Saxophonist Bobby Watson came to perform and give master classes. The weekend was a massive project for the chapter and went extremely well.

New officers were installed near the end of the spring semester and they have new and exciting ideas that we are looking forward to seeing put into action this upcoming year. We have been looking into doing a fall probationary membership period for the first time since 1996. We would like to wish all of the chapters of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia good luck with the upcoming year. OAS, AAS. LLS!

~John P. Martinez, Historian

Submit news and photos of your chapter’s activities to: editor@sinfonia.org

Ossian Everett Mills Music Mission Province 25 continues positive work with MMM

Requesting flower donations

Province 25 never ceases to amaze me. The province had a fruitful spring semester at Spring Fling and the installation of our newest chapter at Bellarmine University. This great enthusiasm has carried over to this semester and was present during the Mills Music Mission that took place during our annual Province Workshop.

On the beautiful campus of the University of Kentucky, our brothers at Alpha Gamma hosted this year’s Province Workshop during the weekend of September 15-16. On Saturday, National Historian John Mongiovi inspired us with his dynamic presentation on the Ritual. On behalf of Province 25, thank you, John, for a superior presentation.

Following his presentation, the brothers prepared and set off for a Mills Music Mission at Samaritan Hospital. After a short hike and two elevator loads, we began “uplifting human spirits through the power of music.” Every time I participate in the MMM, I observe at least one or two memorable moments. The most memorable moment that I have was at the very end of the experience. Half of the brothers had already taken the first elevator down to the lobby, while the rest of us waited for the next one. From behind us, a gentleman grabbed our Lance Schwartz (right) and other attention and asked us to return Province 25 brothers prepare and sing for his wife. She was for the MMM. bed-ridden and unable to hear us very well in the hallway earlier.

Naturally, we spun around and crowded into her room with her husband and sang “A Serenade to a Girl.” As we sang, I watched her look around at all of us and then at her husband as if to say with watery eyes, “I am a little embarrassed, but thank you.” Truly a heartwarming moment.

One other memorable moment occurred while serenading the female medical staff. They kept asking which of us were single because one of their colleagues was single — and quite good looking I might add! As we sang to this beauty, you could see in her facial expressions that she loved it. I do not know what type of day she had been having, but our singing brought out a smile. And if a smile is the least we get in return from those we are singing to, playing for, giving flowers to, or smiling at, it is all worth it. For every person we smile at as we pass them in the streets, there is one more ounce of happiness and good in this world that we have shared with someone else.

In a final show of goodwill during our business meeting on Sunday, the province unanimously voted in favor of donating $150 to both the Salvation Army and the American Red Cross in support of the victims of the September 11 attacks. What an opportunity and challenge we now have to uplift and enrich the human spirit through the power of music. ~Lance E. Schwartz, CPR 25

Chapters that have been able to purchase or receive donated flowers for distribution during their Mills Missions have found that it gives an extra smile to the patients and leaves them with a beautiful remembrance of the brothers’ music. Often chapters believe that getting local florists to donate flowers is too time consuming to make it worth the effort. However, it is actually very simple, and the sample letter below is intended to aid you in approaching florists for donations.

It is important to keep in mind that this letter ideally should not be mailed, but rather it should be hand-delivered to the florist shops by a member of the chapter. Most effective is to ask to speak with the owner or manager and then discuss the possibility of their donation with him/her face-to-face. The letter then serves only as further information and perhaps more importantly as a written record of the cause to which they have donated for their tax and financial records.

The next time your chapter participates in the Mills Music Mission, try taking some flowers along to distribute. Your efforts will certainly pay off in the smiles of the patients.

PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA FRATERNITY December 1, 2001 <Store Name> <Address> <City, State Zip> Dear Sir or Madam: I am writing to request your assistance in a charitable project by the Gamma Gamma Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, a 103-year-old men’s music fraternity. On December 15, 2001, the brothers of our chapter will be visiting the Brentwood Nursing Home to sing many holiday, patriotic and other well-known songs for the residents, and we are requesting the donation of flowers to distribute to the residents as an additional gift of good cheer.

This event is part of a national project developed by our Fraternity to continue the charitable work of our founder, Ossian Everett Mills. In 1886, “Father Mills” began taking music and flowers to residents of the Boston hospitals on Easter and Christmas day with a small group of young men and women. Our founder’s work to take music and flowers to the patients is the foundation of our Fraternity’s philosophy that we must seek to develop our art of music, not for our own interest and entertainment, but as a means to uplift our fellow man.

It is this belief that has led us to organize this event. During the afternoon of December 15, we will be visiting the Brentwood Home, singing songs and spending time with the patients of these facilities. It is our hope that you will be able to aid us in our goal of enriching the lives of others by donating a modest supply of flowers for distribution to those in need of their cheerfulness.

I genuinely hope that the inherent value of such a charitable project is clearly visible and that it will encourage you to aid our efforts with the donation of flowers for these patients. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Sincerely, Joe G. Sinfonian President, Gamma Gamma Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity (373) 555-1234 jgsinfonian@email.com

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Operational Update Chapter Information as of November 19, 2001

Number of Chapters: 204 Number of Alumni Associations: 3 Dallas/Ft. Worth Philadelphia Washington, D.C.

Number of Colonies: 12 Delta Eta (Youngstown State University) Zeta Omega (University of Hartford) Theta Kappa (Mississippi College) Lambda Xi (University of Mississippi) Lambda Pi (Boston Conservatory) Nu Epsilon (University of Arkansas-Monticello) Xi Tau (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville) Pi Chi (Texas A&M University-Kingsville) Phi Chi (Georgia State University) Alabama Beta (University of Alabama-Birmingham) Maryland Alpha (Morgan State University) Oklahoma Beta (Langston University)

Chapters on Probation for not filing their Fall 2001 personnel report: Alpha Gamma (University of Kentucky) Alpha Delta (Iowa State University) Alpha Zeta (Pennsylvania State University) Alpha Theta (Miami University) Beta Theta (Millikin University) Beta Lambda (Muskingum College) Beta Xi (Ohio State University) Beta Tau (University of Miami) Gamma Zeta (Lawrence University) Gamma Tau (Indiana University) Delta Zeta (Oklahoma City University) Epsilon Delta (University of South Alabama) Epsilon Eta (University of Puget Sound) Epsilon Pi (Hartwick College) Zeta Gamma (Valdosta State University) Eta-Omicron (University of Cincinnati) Theta Upsilon (Delta State University) Iota Tau (Old Dominion University) Kappa Eta (Arkansas Tech University) Nu Upsilon (Hillsdale College) Xi Delta (University of Nevada) Xi Theta (Radford University) Omicron Beta (Nicholls State University) Omicron Theta (New Jersey City University) Omicron Mu (Clarion University of Pennsylvania) Pi Alpha (East Texas Baptist University) Pi Tau (Oklahoma Baptist University)

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SINFONIA.NET provides free internet services to chapters and provinces Do your chapter and province use the FREE internet services offered at SINFONIA.NET? These services are managed by the Lyrecrest Staff and housed at the National Headquarters, so there are no hassles with outside companies or the risk of terminated services. These services are 100% FREE and offered straight from Lyrecrest!

SINFONIA.NET provides the following free services to chapters and provinces: • Conveniently named webspace with FTP and FrontPage access: http://www.sinfonia.net/<chaptername>/ or http://www.sinfonia.net/province<#>/ • Web forwarding for sites with their own web host • E-mail listserve: <chaptername>@sinfonia.net or province<#>@sinfonia.net • Web-based listserve management tools Additionally, individual members can get a custom e-mail alias which forwards mail to their actual mailbox. Use of an easily remembered alias can make sharing your email address faster, and can also enable you to seamlessly switch to a new email service or change your email address should the need ever arise.

For more information and to request activation of a SINFONIA.NET service, visit www.sinfonia.net.

News You Can Use Turnover of Fraternity Services position As of December 12, Art Fuerte, Omicron Pi ’93, will be leaving the Lyrecrest Staff to relocate to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Art will be pursuing opportunities as a freelance bass trombonist and private studio instructor, and his long-time girlfriend, Shelly Stannard (ΜΦΕ), will be the new Assistant Artistic Administrator for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Art has served as Fraternity Services Associate since September 1999 and his jovial and friendly personality will be missed. Good luck, Art! Replacing Art as Fraternity Services Associate is Kamie Kelley, a 29-year-old native of Princeton, Indiana. Kamie has been working with Art for sevKamie Kelley, Lyrecrest’s new eral weeks learning the “tricks Fraternity Services Associate, with of the trade” in the Lyrecrest her predecessor, Art Fuerte. shipping department. Kamie is a self-described sports fanatic, with particular interest in baseball and basketball.

We are sad to see Art go, but we are excited to welcome Kamie to the staff! Please feel free to contact Kamie at ext. 21 for all of your merchandise and shipping questions.

Sinfonia to be represented at upcoming music conventions Are you planning to attend the upcoming Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic or the Texas Music Educators’ Association Convention? In addition to visiting Sinfonia’s booth, there are large gatherings of Sinfonians at both events that you won’t want to miss!

Midwest Band & Orchestra Chicago, IL December 19-2 22, 2001 Annual Sinfonia reception on Friday evening, December 21.

Texas Music Ed. Assoc. (TMEA) San Antonio, TX February 20-2 23, 2002 The annual Sinfonia Sing at TMEA is the largest annual gathering of collegiate Sinfonians! Last year’s attendance topped 250! Check your program for scheduling information.

Corrections In the October 2001 issue, the Delta Zeta Chapter was incorrectly defined as Oklahoma State University, rather than Oklahoma City University.

In the November 2001 issue, the Alpha Omicron Chapter (University of Arkansas) was mistakenly omitted as 2nd Place winner of the Fall 2001 Run for the Gold.

President Ramsey receives award from Carson-Newman Carson-Newman College recently honored Dr. Darhyl S. Ramsey, Sinfonia’s National President and a Carson-Newman alumnus, during a special ceremony as part of the College’s 150th anniversary. Dr. Ramsey was one of two recipients of CarsonNewman’s Sesquicentennial Alumni Awards for Teaching and Research. The other recipient, Dr. Herman Saatkamp, is a professor at Indiana University and Purdue University at Indianapolis. The following excerpt is taken from CarsonNewman’s press release for the event: A chair of the Masters of National President Dr. Darhyl Ramsey and Dr. Herman Saatkamp received Music Education Program at Alumni Awards for Teaching the University of North and Research.

Texas, Ramsey earned his bachelor’s degree from Carson-Newman in 1970. Following graduation he attended the University of Iowa, earning dual degrees and becoming involved in instrumental music education research.

He continued to develop an expertise in band, music education history, band history and a presence in music circles.

Ramsey’s love of music led him to teach at Penn State University and the University of Texas at San Antonio before earning a professorship at North Texas. His interest in musical history served him well as he was selected to research and write the history of the United States Air Force Band and of its conductors. His dedication to his field has earned him four faculty research grants while at North Texas. He is the author of several publications, the presenter of various research papers and a sought after conductor.

“In addition to his teaching and scholarly activities,” said Dr. Giacomo Oliva, who serves as professor and director of the University of Florida’s School of Music, “Darhyl has maintained a focus on providing service to the profession in way that has led to the strengthening of music teaching in the schools as well as teacher preparation programs in higher education.” The UF colleague also commended Ramsey’s teaching style. “He has had the foresight and courage to advance fresh approaches to teaching and research.”

Both Ramsey and Saatkamp were chosen from an incredibly qualified pool according to Sesquicentennial Academic Committee Chair Dr. Carey Herring. “The job was much harder than we envisioned because we were overwhelmed by the high quality of the alumni submitted,” said the C-N mathematics professor. “We were looking for people who have been exemplary in their careers of research and teaching.” Herring said that narrowing the choices down was a daunting task. “The ones not chosen had sterling credentials.”

Herring championed the recipients for their abilities referring to them as “great” teachers, administrators, researchers and writers. “These two individuals were selected because they seemed to excel in just about every category we could think of.”

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Calendar

Publication Information

Maryland Alpha installation

December 8, 2001

Winter holiday (Lyrecrest closed)

December 24-25, 2001

CPR Convocation

December 27-30, 2001

New Year’s holiday (Lyrecrest closed)

January 1, 2002

COS Winter Meeting

January 11-13, 2002

Martin Luther King holiday (Lyrecrest closed)

January 21, 2002

NEC Winter Meeting

January 25-27, 2002

The Red & Black is published as an informational newsletter for the Fraternity’s chapters, colonies, faculty advisors, governors, committeemen, and national officers.

The Red & Black is printed monthly - September to April.

Photographs and articles from your chapter are highly encouraged for upcoming issues of The Red & Black. Please send the articles and photographs to <editor@sinfonia.org>. If you are unable to send these items via email, simply mail them to Lyrecrest for inclusion in the next available issue. The deadline for the February issue is January 5, 2002.

Editor: Layout / Design:

Ryan T. Ripperton, Alpha Rho Jeremy A. Korba, Epsilon Upsilon

The Lyrecrest Staff James P. Morris, Alpha Iota Ryan T. Ripperton, Alpha Rho Jeremy A. Korba, Epsilon Upsilon Cheri F. Spicer Kamie M. Kelley Danielle L. Suder (ΣAI) Debra L. Celuch

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