On Track With National

From the From the From the From the From the Executive Director… Executive Director… Executive Director… Executive Director… Executive Director…

Lt Col Alan L Bonner USAF (Ret ) National Executive Director

Is that a great photo on the cover or what??? If you have not heard about the film “Drumline,” you will soon! I received a call from Twentieth Century Fox last fall asking for the assistance of both Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma with a new movie they were going to shoot in Atlanta. They had learned from the bands with which they were working about ΚΚΨ’s and ΤΒΣ’s service and involvement in university bands, and they felt it important to include us in the movie. They were asking permission to use our names and letters in the movie. Both National Councils agreed and the collaboration began.

The National Councils were having their annual Winter Meeting in Atlanta in January, and ΚΚΨ Board of Trustees Chair, Andy Mullin, and ΚΚΨ National President, Kirk Randazzo, actually were guests of the movie makers on the set for nearly a day. According to them, it was very exciting!

There have been a number of our bands, chapters, and members who have been able to participate in various ways, and all-in-all, it appears that “Drumline” may be to the marching band world as the movie “Fame” was to the entertainment world! We have compiled more information about the movie inside this issue of The PODIUM, and I understand it is scheduled for release this fall.

More great things are going on with the National Commissioning Project and composer Donald Grantham. A plan has been put together for premieres this fall in September and October to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, D.C. Six university bands, one in each district, have been selected, and the National Council will be making the announcement in the near future as to whom was selected.

District Convention season is looking very exciting and will be well under way by the time you read this. I look forward to meeting with many of you at the districts I will be able to attend.

I encourage all of you to continue to look for opportunities for growth and expansion of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma. Many of you have friends at other universities where we are not established, so pass the word to them about how much ΚΚΨ and ΤΒΣ means to you and your band program. We are all here to serve… what a great thing to be able to say! }

CALENDAR

April 2002

1 Chapter Summary Report form mailed to Chapters 5-7 North Central District Convention Western District Convention 12 Final NIMB installment due 12-14 Midwest District Convention 19-21 Southwest District Convention

May 2002

1 Deadline for fall 2002 PODIUM submissions

June 2002

1 Deadline for Chapter Summary Report

July 2002

24 National Council meetings begin 26 District Leadership Conference begins

September 2002

30 Postmark deadline for chaper fees and member dues

Now is the time for a fund raiser to make sure Now is the time for a fund raiser to make sure Now is the time for a fund raiser to make sure Now is the time for a fund raiser to make sure Now is the time for a fund raiser to make sure your chapter has money for Band Camp your chapter has money for Band Camp your chapter has money for Band Camp your chapter has money for Band Camp your chapter has money for Band Camp activities as well as your chapter fee and activities as well as your chapter fee and activities as well as your chapter fee and activities as well as your chapter fee and activities as well as your chapter fee and member dues! member dues! member dues! member dues! member dues!