Reporter Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, TX
HiHo! by Lori Thies sen
The Beta Zeta chapter of Tau Beta Sigma greets you all with a HiHo from the piney woods of east Texas. A winning football team at SF ASU kept the Lumberjack Band and TBL: very busy during the fall semester. Our activities included serving water at rehearsals, and Cokes and hot chocolate to band members at games. Tau Beta apartment floors were often covered with spirit banners drying the night before a game, and other members repaired our purple-andwhite HiHo spirit sign. Our more artistic sisters spent many hours painting a scale reproduction of the American flag, and nimble fingers sewed up a costume for rhe Lumberjack Band's Superman extravaganza at Homecoming. Homecoming 1979 was a time of hard work for the band and TBL:, but members joined our brothers of Kappa Kappa Psi and visiting alumni for a dance following the game. Tau Beta Sigma also helped make SFA Parent's Day a little more special this year by hosting and catering a chicken supper especially for Lumberjack Band members and their families. Service projects for the band apart from games were also quite plentiful. Tau Beta's re-covered all of the band bulletin boards, and worked as photographer's helpers when the marching hand had its first composite picture made in November. One of the most important service functions of Beta Zeta to SFA's band department last semester was the half hour per week each member gave of her time to assist in the band office. This assistance included running errands, stuffing envelopes, and updating mailing lists. The service was so successful that the chapter plans to make it a regular project each semester.
Our chapter's purse also became a little fatter last semester. Our candy drive netted over $750.00, and several smaller projects raised $245.00. Ten percent of all our funds have been set aside to send Beta Zeta delegates and members to the 1981 Tau Beta Sigma/ Kappa Kappa Psi National Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. In December, the Lumberjack Band spread a little of its spirit to the USSR Ladies Olympic Basketball Team when the Soviets met the SFA Lady jacks for an exhibition game. The band and flag corps, which included our entire chapter, performed during the game breaks and at halftime. Before the last grueling week of finals, both TB:': and KK'lr took time out from studying to go Christmas caroling at the home of our band director/ sponsor, Mr. Mel Montgomery. A party followed to warm up our cold, wet bodies and have a bit of fun together before the Christmas holidays. In between January registration and specially called Symphonic Band rehearsals, we found time to plan activities for the new semester, and start our snowball rolling (or perhaps raindrop fits our
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locale better!). At any rate, we hosted the Area C tryouts for the Texas All-State Bands the first weekend of the new term. Our duties included monitoring auditions, typing results, and running a concession stand. All Concession profits were used to support the Precinct 4 convention in February. Later in January, the chapter hosted a progressive dinner for all bandswomen to acquaint them better with the purposes of Tau Beta Sigma and its members at SFASU. We were very pleased to pledge 12 young women during the First Degree ritual on February 3. Beta Zeta is also excited to announce the addition of Michael A. Pierce to its roster as an honorary member. Mr. Pierce is currently Associate Director of Bands and Instructor of Horn and Low Brass at SFA. Members of the chapter who perform in the Symphonic Band are anxiously awaiting their annual winter tour February 12-15, which culminates with the performance of the opening concert for the Texas Music Educators Association convention in San Antonio. We are proud of the band, and of the new black concert
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