Page 3 - Fall 2017 Tags and Swipes Newsletter

Tags and Swipes, Fall 2017

From our Regional Administrative Director

Dear Region One, Zacchera and Membership Director Deb Richard.
(pictured from left to right in photo below).
This has been an exciting year for our region, our
musicians and our administrators, so much
success, excitement and change!

First of all, congratulations to all on a successful
competition in May. Region One is awesome,
the judges’ comments were so encouraging, we
are singing a such a high level across the board.
Yeah for us! Congratulations to Coastline Show
Chorus and Boston Accent on their first place
wins this year!

Good Luck and best wishes to our competitors in
Las Vegas, Harmony on the Sound, Farmington
Valley, Boston Accent and VOCE. All of Region
One is proud of your accomplishments and we
look forward to seeing you on stage.

Congratulations to our YWIH quartets who Each member of the Executive Committee works
represented Region One at the Rising Star contest with a resource team and staff. The Resource
at IES! Amazing performances by both Leo and Teams and staffs are listed separately in this Tags
Adrenaline, and……. Adrenaline proudly wears and Swipes and in the Directory. We are
first place ribbons! Region One is so proud of our discovering our way with the new system, do not
young competitors. hesitate to ask us about the new governance, we

will try to keep you up to date.
The Region One Management Team decided to

step outside the box this year and try out a pilot IES was an amazing experience for all who
program for regional governance along with a attended. It was “sold out” with 750 attendees
number of other regions.
and many of them were from Region One. The

education classes were of the highest caliber and

The titles will be different, all the services and we were engaged and involved from early
education for the region will be the same and morning until late at night. “My brain was on
better, and the involvement of different members overload!” Those who attended have so much to
will be greater. The participants (of the pilot share, you are going to hear more about “Vision
program) from all the regions met at IES and we vs Mission”, “Developing your Chorus Culture”,
were able to share our experiences to date and “Recruitment and Retention”, “Developing your
discuss the benefits and challenges of a different
system. The pilot will continue until December Artistic style”, “Building an Effective Visual
2018, at which time the RMTs will vote as to Team”, etc, etc……

whether we want keep it as a form of governance. One of the classes that I attended that really

struck home for me was “Our Future belongs to

The Regional Executive Committee (REC) Us” and it was all about creating “Ambassadors

includes Chair and Administrative Director, for Sweet Adelines”. And that would be YOU!

Wendy Davies, Education Director, Heidi 3

North Atlantic Region 1 Sweet Adelines