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sai-national.org • FALL 2015 • PAN PIPES 45 2015 Fraternity Awards Annelle Chandler McAdams Alumnae Service Project Award Category 1 (1-20 members) Midland Alumnae Alpha C, Region V e Midland Alumnae Chapter chose to support the Midland Public Schools' "Celebrate Choirs" Festival for their service project. ey were initially going to donate $500 to the festival, but decided to also volunteer their time. ey agreed this would be more in the spirit of supporting music education in their community. Both middle and high school choral groups were represented at the festival. e groups first performed for two judges and all the groups played a final concert at the end of the day. e chapter members provided room monitors for three rooms, a go-to assistant in the main room where groups performed before judges, and accompanists. ey also supplied the judges and clinicians with three crock-pot entrees and provided baguettes, fruit, brownies, and beverages. Lunch was very well received! ese sisters spread the SAI word by wearing SAI red and badges. e Midland Alumnae Chapter really did "Celebrate Choirs" at the local area schools vocal music festival. Category II (21-35 members) Boulder Alumnae Xi C, Region I Members of the Boulder Alumnae Chapter are spread over a huge area of northern Colorado (up to 55 miles apart), and one member lives in the state of Vermont! ey live in nine different cities. It was their goal to encourage all members to volunteer in their communities by doing service that promoted music. ey created the online SAIs Care Service Bank. Members were asked to log in their hours monthly. Examples of service activities were: presenting musicales at nursing or retirement homes and community organization meetings, assisting at music festivals or competitions, helping with public school music programs (by accompanying and mentoring a young teacher), volunteer conducting of local music groups, participating in community ensembles, and support their local university SAI chapter with its fundraising efforts. eir project, entitled the SAIs Care Service Bank: WE HELP OUT IN OUR COMMUNITIES, was very successful. Approximately 75% of their members participated, logging in 441.5 hours! Category III (36+ members) Evansville Alumnae Beta A, Region V e Evansville Alumnae Chapter's project helped a local Girl Scout troop earn their musician badge at Making Music Together. Scouts began the aernoon with a concert by members of the Evansville Alumnae and Beta Epsilon chapters. ey then were broken up into groups and rotated through three activity stations: Instrument Making, Instrument Petting Zoo, and Composer Information. Instruments were made from every day items, including ocean drums from envelopes, jingle bell stickers from dowel rods, harmonicas from popsicle sticks and wax paper, shakers from paper plates, and pan pipes from straws. Both alumnae and college SAIs helped the scouts play a variety of band, string, and percussion instruments, including some world percussion. At the Composer Information table, scouts answered questions about six female composers with information from posters created by the alumnae chapter. ree composers' profiles were American and two had ties to SAI (one initiated member and one Friend of the Arts). e aernoon ended with a local music therapist and alumnae chapter member leading the Girl Scouts in creating music with the instruments they made earlier in the day. e SAIs also shared e Whistle Song and the Chorale with the Girl Scouts and their leaders. It was a great day of shared sisterhood with alumnae members, collegiate sisters, and one distinguished member participating. Members of the Evansville Alumnae Chapter help students at Making Music Together.

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