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Lead the Chapter
You Don't Have to Compete to Be a Successful Chapter
Some great ideas on having fun - from a very successful chapter.
Updated: 11/25/2003 5:20:00 PM
You Don't Have to Compete to Be a Successful Chapter
Submitted by Alan Langley, Marketing & PR VP for the Golf Capital Chorus, Pinehurst, North Carolina
When I read the Harmonizer, I wonder how many other chapters around the country are like ours, The Golf Capital Chorus, in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
We sing for fun, companionship and the love of barbershop music. We currently have nearly 70 members, many of whom do not read music and the average age of members is over 67. Although we have been incorporated since 1981, we do not sing competitively at all and until recently, only had one active quartet.
This doesn't mean we do not take our singing seriously, however. We have a dedicated, talented director, who after many years of trying has finally succeeded in introducing an intra-chapter quartet competition each year which has led to the forming of six new quartets. This has improved the quality of singing of the chorus and has led to the increased in the number of paid singouts we perform to raise money for charity.
We recently sang before 1,000 people at a corporate meeting. We also give many free performances at nursing homes and medical facilities, especially during the Christmas period. Our annual show in 1998, attracted almost 1400 people, had Chordiac Arrest as the guest quartet and grossed $23,000 from ticket sales and local businesses buying ads in the show program. In 1999 our guest quartet will be Acoustix and we are looking for ways to accommodate a larger audience in coming years.
We raise money in several ways; our annual show, our singouts, our annual garage sale, and one of our members raise over $1,000 each year selling used golf balls. These activities in 1998 enabled us to support several charities:
We gave $4,000 to our local charity, a non-profit children's center, which cares for children ages birth to five years who have development disabilities. (We have committed to give $20,000 over a five-year period to this organization.)
- We gave $500 to our area Coalition for Human Care.
- During the Christmas period we gave funds to help house a needy family.
Our local high school allows us to use its auditorium for our annual show for a nominal rent. In appreciation we gave it $1,500 to purchase communication equipment for its drama department.
- We gave $4,000 to another charity.
. In 1998 our charity giving averaged $142 per member.
As you can see there are many ways to be part of our barbershop family and introduce the music we love to new audiences.
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