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SED NatCon Takeover!!

SED!

If you didn’t get Belinda’s e-mail, it’s included below.
Please remember to go and leave your information at the link below if you are interested in attending National Convention and partaking with the SED NatCon Package! Pay attention to all deadlines!!

If you are interested in any way in traveling with and staying with the SED for National Convention this summer in Springfield, Massachusetts, please continue reading this email. If you are not at all interested, please still read this email and forward it to the rest of your chapter!!!

Your TBSigma and KKPsi SED Councils have been considering our options in order to have the largest possible SED representation in Springfield. We concluded that we need to offer an opportunity to travel in style and comfort (more affordable too!).

We have investigated prices to find the most affordable option for all of us. This is what we came up with:

 
SED Takeover NatCon!

For approx $300-450 per person, we are looking into chartering a bus (or busses, depending on interest) and booking a block of rooms for the SED to stay in at convention. (This price is pending until we have an accurate number of people interested, however, it will not be above $450.)

This $300-450 will get you to Springfield and back, via charter bus, with several stops along the way AND hotel for 4 nights (Tuesday-Friday).

TRAVEL- Our loose itinerary right now is for the bus(ses) to originally depart from Birmingham, AL on Monday, July 22 and arrive in Springfield on Tuesday, July 23. The drive is about 17 hours, but with stops in ATL, GA; Charlotte and Greensboro, NC; dinner and restroom breaks, we are looking at a 20 hour trip.

*If you want to board the bus(ses) at our later stops, no problem! However, your price will be the same as everyone else’s and you MUST be on time to our scheduled stop, we will not wait for you!*

Leaving convention, our plan is to leave Springfield on Saturday, July 27 after banquet that night and drive through the night, arriving back on Sunday, July 28.

LODGING- Our intention is to book rooms in the host hotel, it is a reasonable fee per night, however split between 5 people in each, it will be absolutely affordable! Rooms will not be assigned to you by the District Councils, we will send out a form later for people to sign up as chapters/individuals/etc.

PAYMENT PROCESS- The money and funding from this trip do still come from you. However, if you consider hotel and gas prices driving individually or flying, paying $300-450 for both travel AND lodging is an opportunity that we should not pass up!

This trip’s payments will run similar to every band trip you’ve ever been on: we will have a deposit date (most likely at the end of May), where you will be required to mail us a stated amount (non-refundable), so that we can officially book the bus(ses) and hotel. Then, the final payment of the remaining amount will be due probably a month or so later (end of May ish). All payments will have to be on time, unless previously discussed with trip coordinators. This is NOT, by any means, a district fundraiser, we are merely serving as the mediator to get as many SED-ers as possible to National Convention!

I know this has been a long email, but this is the best method possible to relay all the correct information to as many of you as possible! 

So, if you are interested in attending NatCon with the SED, we need to know! Please take a min. to send us your information via this form—

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE INFORMATION FORM

YOUR RESPONSE NEEDS TO BE IN BY WEDNESDAY, MAY 1ST. The reason for this haste is so that we can poll you, then begin to make official travel arrangements for the number who are seriously interested.

To attend NatCon with the SED, we NEED your responses on this form, so that we will have an accurate number of bodies for the bus(ses).

I hope to hear from as many of you as possible! Please forward this on to as !any SED sisters and brothers, we want everyone to have this opportunity!

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Greetings SED,

Just a couple of important announcements:

First, DLC is THIS WEEKEND!  It’s free, so if you haven’t gone over to www.kkpsipi.org to register, do it NOW! 

At DLC we will be working on a book of cards for Wava.  Please bring with you photos, markers, colored pencils, glue, scissors, and again PHOTOS, to put in the cards.  Once the book is completed, we will be sending it to her family!  Make sure you come prepared to participate as I will not be able to provide enough supplies for everyone! 

SEDVPSP Highlights from Shells: 

If you have any photos of your chapter that you’d like to be featured on the blog or on the SED website, please send them to me, stating what chapter and a brief description of the photo.  Part of the reason why I created the blog was to recognize the chapters that are doing outstanding service, so please be sure to send items in!

The service database has been around for a while, but hasn’t been utilized recently. It contains service projects from chapters all over the district is an opportunity for you all to do that year-round.  So I introduce the “2012 Service Database Challenge”.  The chapter that submits the most original ideas to the database will win a brick in the “Walk of Fame” leading up to our National Headquarters at Stillwater Station.  This is a really great way for your chapter to be recognized and to be a part of National Headquarters. The rules are as follows:

1)All submissions to the database must be submitted via the SED Website: www.kkytbs.org/sed/tbs/index.html
            – Click on “Programs” at the top of the page
            – To submit, click “Contribute to database” and fill out the form
            – To view the current database, click “Current Projects Database”
            – All submissions are automatically sent to my email
            – DO NOT SEND DIRECTLY TO MY EMAIL OR IT WILL NOT COUNT!
2) DO NOT send the same project/idea more than once.  It will not count more than once.
3) The chapter with the MOST submissions will win
4) It DOES NOT matter when the project was completed
5) The DEADLINE for all submissions for the challenge are due by midnight, Wednesday March 14th.

In other news, as decided at the 2011 National Convention, the new deadline for several scholarships and awards is MARCH 1st!  You can view all of those by visiting www.tbsigma.org. Feel free to email your National Vice President for Communication and Recognition, Jonathan Markowski – jonathanmarkowski@tbsimga.org, for more information.

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Neither Jazz nor Ragtime: The 2nd installment of the TBS SED BHM series

(Sorry for all those abbreviations in the title!!)

Composer and pianist Eubie BlEurope and members of his bandake referred to James Resse Europe as the “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of music”.  Mr. Europe was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1881 but was raised in Washington DC where he learned to play violin and piano.  He moved to New York City in 1904 and became a professional pianist.  While in NYC , he networked with many professionals in the black musical theatre industry.  Eventually one of his songs appeared in the 1906 productions of Shoe-Fly Regiment. 

Mr. Europe formed the Clef Club in 1910, an organization serving as a union and talent agency for black musicians, and eventually a Harlem concert hall.  He served as its president and even formed an orchestra and chorus, which performed “A Concert of Negro Music” at Carnegie Hall in 1912, a performance that had a huge impact on the history of jazz.  It is to be noted, however, that the band was not a jazz band, but a symphonic band.  “The 125-man orchestra included a large contingent of banjos and mandolins and presented music by exclusively black composers. By this time, Europe believed that although black musicians respected white music of quality, they did not need to play or imitate it. Instead they had their own music to play which people of all races would want to hear.”


After leaving the Clef Club in 1913, Mr. Europe went on to form the Tempo Club, an organization very similar to its predecessor.   A year later he worked with dancers Vernon and Irene Castle, inventing dances like the turkey-trot and fox-trot.  In 1914 he began recording a unique style of music, unlike the jazz and ragtime that were popular during the era.

Mr. Europe enlisted during World War I where he put together a band of great musicians and they became the 369th Regiment, or the Hell Fighters.  The band travelled all over Europe, garnering praise from the many natives.  In 1919, the United States welcomed as a hero.  He began a tour with the Hell Fighters across the country, starting in New York City.  However, before the next show in Boston, Mr. Europe was killed by one of his percussionists after a disagreement.  Mr. Europe was known for his booming personality and for being the most popular black bandleader of the early 1900s.

sources: Library of Congress, Oxford African American Studies Center 

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TBS Road Trip: Route 5 and 8 – Second Stop: Intellectual Potential

“Recognition and development of your intellectual potential”

The second Quality to be observed by Tau Beta Sigma Members is a relatively simple yet deep statement.  Part of the reason Tau Beta Sigma was formed was to foster intellectual, spiritual, and personal growth through our time in college and to provide us with the tools to continue or development in these areas for the remainder of our lives.

Let’s start with recognition.  I wouldn’t consider myself to be arrogant…most of the time…but I know that I am intelligent and bright.  I know that I enjoy learning and have the ability to pick up certain skills easily and quickly.  However, recognizing your intellectual potential is more than just knowing that you’re intelligent.  To me, it means not placing boundaries on your mind and believing in your capabilities.  Learning is a process that we’ll continue for the rest of our lives.  We will continue to be exposed to the unknown until the day we die.  ”Recognition…of your intellectual potential” is understanding that, as they say, the world is yours for the taking.

To develop your intellectual potential is to go once step further.  Knowing that you are capable of seizing opportunity, but then letting it pass you by is worse than not having the opportunity at all.  Take the time to allow yourself to grow.  Walk  through doors that may have been closed for you once before.  Explore the unknown.  Add new experiences to your library of knowledge.   Recognizing and developing your intellectual potential will allow your mind to expand, creating opportunities unseen to you before.  If you seize these opportunities and feed your mind as set forth by the teachings of Tau Beta Sigma, you will be led to a life of insatiable fulfillment**

**insatiable fulfillment – phrase that I made up that I’m not sure makes sense. definition: being fulfilled by all that you have achieved in life, yet forever maintaining a desire to seek more knowledge and opportunity.

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In other news, my past post for this series was about good health and bodily perfection.  Well, I am pleased to say that I have lost around 15lbs and I am still going.  I feel healthier and I have more energy!  I encourage everyone to strive to be the best versions of themselves physically and mentally!  😀