There were no objections to the proposed slate of officers, so the slate is elected by acclamation.
Please welcome Sheila Bristow as dean, and Cheryl Drewes as subdean, both in new positions. Sandra Tietjen will continue as treasurer, and I (Thomas Clark) will continue as secretary and webmaster.
Michael Menne joins the board as an at-large member along with continuing members David Dahl and Satya Jaech.
Noel Channon is moving from Lynnwood to Bremerton and has recently joined the Tacoma Chapter. Noel holds BA and MA degrees in organ from New Mexico Highlands University. He is currently the organist at Messiah Lutheran in Seattle where he also teaches organ lessons.
He notes that his house in Bremerton will have two grand pianos, a harpsichord, and a virginal. That sounds like an offer to host a party in the post-COVID world!
Please extend a welcome to Noel when the opportunity arises. We are happy that he has joined and look forward to his participation.
Our September meeting will feature our own Dr. Wyatt Smith discussing Bach’s Clavier-Übung III followed by a group question-answer session.
Because of COVID-19 restrictions, this meeting will be by Zoom on September 21 at 7:00 PM. Closer to the meeting time we will send an announcement that contains a Zoom link. The Zoom link will be added to the online calendar at the same time.
As required by our bylaws, the August newsletter published a slate of proposed officers and board members as follows:
Because it is unlikely that we will have any in-person meetings in the next several months, your board has opted to manage the election on our website (hopefully without any Russian interference!).
In order to vote, you MUST log in to our website using the login form at the bottom of the menu column on the left. If you have not previously established a password, please follow the instructions.
Once you have a password, use the email address that you used to join at the AGO national site, and you password, to login. After logging in, you will see a ballot on the right column of the main page under the calendar. In the interest of simplicity, we are presenting the entire slate for a yes or no vote. In the unlikely event that a majority of members disagrees with the slate, we will repeat the election with a checkbox for each candidate.
The election will be open for two weeks. Please vote! We need a quorum to make it official.
After facing an extended period of deferred maintenance on the Parish’s building and grounds, the community of Saint John’s Episcopal Church has embarked on an ambitious capital campaign to address those identified needs. As part of that campaign, lighting will be installed in one of the parking lots, the bathrooms will become handicap accessible and the narthex of the building will be demolished and rebuilt. In rethinking the entrance to the church via an extended new narthex, it was decided that area in the nearly back half of the Sanctuary could become a flexible space for Baptism, gathering and fellowship. To open this space up, it was necessary to remove the current pipe organ. Hence, the desire to find a new home for the instrument at NO CHARGE whatsoever. Not as part of the Capital Campaign, a donor has come forward to provide a different and fine, instrument for the space. Once the contract is signed, information on the new instrument will be announced! Stay tuned!
A description of the current organ, including stop list, is attached.
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