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Tags and Swipes, Fall 2018

From our Regional Administrative Director

Dear Region One, executive directors, is to find new leaders. Your
active participation in regional activities allows us
Welcome to September and a busy time of year that opportunity.
for all of our choruses and quartets!
I recently sent an email to all chorus leaders looking

In just a few weeks we will be cheering on our for names of members they would recommend to add

International competitors in St. Louis. How proud to our regional leadership team, or to volunteer to

we are of Saffron, Boston Accent and VOCE work on an Appointments Advisory Committee to

who will sparkle and shine on the International help us search for new leaders. Please think about

stage. Coastline Show Chorus will wow the how you could offer your strengths to the region, big

audience with their spectacular sound and energy. or small, short term or long term.

Region One wishes our competitors good luck and
we send our positive energy as they step on stage. My role as the Regional Administrative Director is

primarily as a facilitator for the Regional Executive

The Regional Executive Committee (REC) is in Committee and a liaison to Sweet Adelines

the last stretch of the pilot project. As of International. Currently, the Administrative Resource

December 30, all of the regions using the pilot team, includes Communications, Finance, Marketing

will vote on its future. In each region, the RMT and Regional and Chorus Bylaws and Rules. We

that was in place at the beginning of the pilot will have Skype meetings and stay in touch via email,

be participating in the vote. We have discovered members of this resource team may join in on Skype

new ways of making decisions, communicating meetings with the REC as required. So things like

with one another, but the biggest difference we the Budget, Regional Directory, International

have noted is the involvement of more people. Communications, Marketing, website, Facebook and

We have also been able to reduce our expenses, a of course keeping up on your chorus bylaws etc

big help to the budget! As a pilot project we have would fall under the supervision of our resource
been able to make recommendations to the Task team. This year Marketing has been very busy with
Force overseeing the pilot and to what we feels the new website (Wow, isn’t it fantastic?) and has
works best and what could be improved. The expanded the Marketing team. You have probably
REC’s of each pilot will be meeting in St. Louis to noticed our social media presence has increased
discuss future possibilities. significantly and we have been able to offer more
marketing guidance to the choruses. So in a nutshell,
This coming weekend all the Region One that is what our resource team does. Want to join us?
Resource Teams will be meeting together to do
some creative brainstorming and planning under We need you…I would love to chat with you at
the guidance of Therese Antonini, International Regional. What can you do for Region One?
Board member and Chair of the Regional
Governance Task Force.

Each Director of the REC, has a Resource Team
and we have developed these teams with the
involvement of several new faces. Within the
resource teams, some of the coordinators have
developed additional ‘woman power” for their
committees. Hurray! Within that network, the Wendy Davies
Directors have had opportunities to see new
people in action and discover potential future w.davies@sympatico.ca
leaders. That is one of our main purposes as your Regional Administrative Director,
Regional Executive Committee
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