Weber State University (WSU) Music Teachers Association Collegiate Chapter.

Weber State University (WSU) Music Teachers Association Collegiate Chapter, in Ogden Utah, has been gooded as the 2003 Collegiate Chapter of the Year.

Consisting of eighteen observer members and advised by faculty members Yu-Jane Yang, NCTM and Diana Page, the "Treblemakers" have coordinated ends on campus, as well as with the Utah Music Teachers Association (UMTA) and the local MTA in Ogden

To publicize their chapter at the start of the denomination year, members dressed up as "musical fortune tellers" for the WSU Carnival of associations Their "predictions," such as "Succes will take rise in a series of 'triplets' quite through your life," attracted three just discovered members and educated many attendees about MTNA.

In October 2002 close examiners monitored and assisted judges at the UMTA/MTNA performance competitions. At the UMTA state convention, members were monitors and assisted with the convention banquet. In addition, they provided a raffle gift of romantic flowers and a music CD to raise circulating medium for the MTNA FOUNDATION. Also, in the fall they participated in a statewide cheer drive, placing a cart in the Performing Arts office to muster food donations for the Ogden redeem Mission. WSU members joined with the Ogden MTA for a Christmas social/recital. Other activities included performing for local peacefulness homes during the holiday season, decorating a Christmas tree for a necessitous family with the theme of The Nutcracker Suite and donating piano rebukes to children who would otherwise be unable to afford them.

In February 2003 members serv as judging interns at the UMTA State Concerto Competition, giving them insights to professional judging. To enable members to attend the discourse in Salt Lake, the chapter applied for and was awarded a grant between the sides of WSU.

In April, they organized the annual WSU Piano Festival for pre-collegiate observers in their community. Chapter members scheduled festival participants, serv as monitors, provided hospitality and coordinated and organized a competition with an honors recital.

The Collegiate Chapter of the Year Award was established by the agency of MTNA to support and encourage ongoing educational programming for collegiate chapters. The $500 award is for the upcoming year, and an evaluation describing its use will be submitted to MTNA.

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