President's Message Spring 2016
Your ARS Board is made up entirely of volunteers who give their time and energy to ARS because we love our instrument and its music. We are all about strengthening the recorder community, which is the source of so many of the pleasures we enjoy both as members and non-members.
Right now, we could use your participation in our recorder community. If you are as passionate about the recorder and its future as we are, please consider volunteering your time and talents to our organization. Better yet, how about serving on the Board? Although this is an election year (please cast your vote for the candidates featured in the
ARS Newsletter!), we also have appointed Board positions open
now.
As an appointed member of the Board, these are the kinds of things you could work on:
- Increasing the benefits of membership for current members: amateur and professional players, chapters, consorts, orchestras and business partners
- Communicating the organization’s benefits to non-members face-to-face, through social media, in our newsletter and by other means possible
- Providing support to educators who reach and teach the future generation of players
- Fundraising, including reaching out to potential non-member donors
Not able to serve on the Board, but still want to help? Here are a few volunteer opportunities (some of which can be done from the comfort of your own home), and the person to contact.
We especially need:
If you are interested in helping, simply reach out to the Board member listed, or e-mail me at
dpodeschiars@gmail.com.
In closing, as with every election, five elected board positions will be open this year. In the upcoming Spring
ARS Newsletter is a short bio on each of the candidates plus a ballot for use in voting. These folks are willing to serve the organization and to work on increasing the size and vitality of our recorder community.
Please take a moment to read the bios and cast your vote. Please also vote on proposed changes to our
Bylaws, also described in the Spring newsletter which will be available online or in your mailbox the first week of March.
- David Podeschi
Prosper, TX
