State Executive Director Report
By Silvia( Sam) Moore-Young, mainemmeaexecdirector @ gmail. com
MEMBERSHIP Centennial membership is up and running. This is open to new members or those whose membership has lapsed 3 years or more. Go to mainemmea. org; click on forms; scroll down to Centennial Membership. Download the form, fill it out, and mail it to ME along with a check for $ 100 made out to MMEA. Address is Silvia Moore-Young 97 Torrey Hill Road Turner, ME 04282 If you have questions, I can be reached at home 224-7349 or mainemmeaexecdirector @ gmail. com This celebration offer expires May 2017.
Regular membership needs to be kept current, especially if you have students participating in All State and want to nominate them for future Eastern or National BOCJ Festivals.
INSTITUTIONAL FEE I am still receiving forms and checks for institutional fees. Keep in mind that it is usually cheaper to pay the fee than to pay the event fee for each audition or festival. The event fee per district and state events is $ 100.
DID YOU KNOW? If not for the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, NAfME, and its predecessor names, might never have been organized. The National Educators Conference was scheduled for San Francisco but was cancelled due to the earthquake. The music supervisors who were going to take part in 1906 arranged to meet the following year, 1907, in Keokuk, Iowa.“ Beginning with a small meeting of 104 music supervisors in Keokuk, Iowa, the organization grew to include music educators at all levels from prekindergarten to university, college students preparing to become music teachers, high school music honor society members, music industry representatives, music supervisors, and parents and community members who support our cause. With more than 130,000 members, what was once known as MENC is now known as NAfME, and it remains the world’ s largest arts education