Announcements Archive

Its not too late to sign up to join us in Orleans on May 11th. We are holding an Area Meeting at the Bell Tower of the Church of the Transfiguration on Rock Harbor. If you still would like to come and have not yet contacted us, please do so by Sunday, May 5th. Come and ring in a beautiful setting, on a wonderful ring of 10.

It is with great sadness that I learnt today that Ron Warford passed away this morning. Details as yet unknown.

Ron was a great supporter of ringing here in North America, Charleston, in particular.

Earlier this week, Washington National Cathedral shared the news that they have been selected to take part in the 2013 "Partners in Preservation" program administered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a competition between 25 historic sites in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for historic preservation grants. The Cathedral seeks a top grant of $100,000 to enable work that will lead to the removal of the black debris netting in the nave.

I encourage you to watch the short video on the project featuring Mason Foreman Joe Alonso, and share it with your friends, family, and contacts. Register and vote now on the official Partners in Preservation voting site!

Each person can register on the site via Facebook or email address to cast a vote for the Cathedral once per day, every day, from April 24 to May 10. Extra points will be awarded for registered voters who check in at the Cathedral on Foursquare or spread the word with hashtag #wncathedral on Twitter and Instagram. This amazing opportunity enables the whole Close community to join with the public to bring about visible and significant restoration to the National Cathedral's earthquake damage.

Let's all help support the Cathedral!

The seventh annual Pittsburgh ringing course will be held at Southminster Presbyterian Church, 2 to 4 August 2013.

The course will be aimed at helping students develop the skills required by the transition from simple, plain hunt dominated methods such as Plain Bob and Grandsire, to methods with more frequent dodging and place making, such as Kent Treble Bob and Stedman. Ringing may be on six or eight bells, depending upon the students experience and needs; for sufficiently experienced students we may also work some on Cambridge Surprise Minor. However, the emphasis is not on complexity, or the particular methods rung during the course, but rather on acquiring the skills necessary to ring well at this level.

Students should have successfully rung at least three tower bell quarter peals on an inside bell (not just the treble or cover) to some method.

The course is limited to a maximum of six students.

Further information can be read at Pittsburgh Ringing Course.

Over the past few years we have had inquiries from members asking if the Guild would accept payments on-line. The Executive Committee decided that we should now explore this option.

In January and February we conducted an on-line poll asking anyone who thought he or she would like to pay on-line to respond. The poll asked if the member would prefer to use 1) Google Wallet, 2) PayPal, 3) don’t care if the member uses either one, or – if none of those – 4) some other e-commerce facility that the member could name.

There were 82 answers to the survey. Overwhelmingly, people voted for PayPal, as you can see from the results below.

1. I prefer Google Wallet 6 (7.32%)

2. I prefer PayPal 52 (63.41%)

3. Either Google Wallet or PayPal is fine with me 19 (23.17%)

4. I prefer Other: (Please specify) 5 (6.10%)

The “Other” preferences were stated as follows:

§ Visa

§ Sqare

§ ANYTHING to get on-line payment part of the NAG reality. And fold the costs into the purchase price. It truly is a cost of doing business!

§ or

§ But I''m sure I could get and use a google wallet account

To reassure our members who do not plan on using the e-commerce option, the NAGCR will also continue to receive dues in the traditional manner by checks, money orders, or cash.

The plan is to implement the e-commerce option, using PayPal; we will be working with the webmaster to develop and test the new option and hope to go 'live' starting this Autumn.

Please share the information below with ringers you know and encourage attendance.

Greetings from Hendersonville, we very much look forward to hosting the 2013 AGM. The course will be Wednesday, Sept 25 to noon Friday, Sept 27. The AGM will start at noon on Friday and last through Sunday. We are still developing costs and other information for registration, but we anticipate a modest cost comparable to last year at Smith. In addition to the ringing and camaraderie our area of Western North Carolina provides many activities and much beauty to enjoy. While hard to estimate we should be early in the season of fall colors. The web site http://www.historichendersonville.org/ provides extensive information about the area and the wide variety of accommodations.

We do have early information on very good rates at two excellent B&Bs which are directly across from St James Episcopal Church, have parking, and are within very easy walking distance to downtown. While they both have a number of rooms we advise early booking if you want to use either B&B. There are numerous other accommodations as listed on the website.

From the Claddagh: Our corporate rate is $80.00 ($89.40 including tax). Full breakfast is included each day as well as a social hour in the afternoon with wine and cheese. We look forward to having the Ringers as guests at the Claddagh Inn. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you should need any other information.

Thank you, Tina and the Claddagh Staff

http://claddaghinn.com/

During the hour-long C-span3 show about Old North on Sunday, there will be a few seconds of ringing

and views of the bells themselves (down), at approximately 8 minutes in, according to the producer.

see: http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/American-Artifacts-Old-North-Church/10737437852/

For those of you who are planning to attend the Seven Towers Festival in Dallas, April 5-7, this is a note to let you know that we did not manage to set up online payment. Please send us a cheque along with your registration form! Thanks!

I have just read the following and wanted to share with our ringing community. Many NAGCR members knew Roger Bailey and rang with him over the years. He will be sorely missed.

At 07:49:24 on Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Suzanne Daniels wrote:
>Roger died in the early hours of this morning. He spent his last days 
>in the Pembridge Hospice at St Charles' Hospital, where he had the very 
>best care. I was able to stay with him most of the time due to the 
>immense kindness of Peter (Blight), Prudence (Fay), Muffie (King) and 
>Judith (Gilbert) who stayed with him while I rested, so that he was 
>never alone.
>
>He was so pleased, and quite overwhelmed, by all the visits and 
>messages, this helped him through such a difficult time.
>
>The funeral arrangements will follow soon.
>
>Susie

On Sunday, January 6, a group of New Yorkers rang handbells in the church for the opening of Trinity's 11:15 a.m. service.

Because Trinity videotapes services, this performance is now publicly available on Trinity's website, for viewing and listening. We thought others might be interested to see it here.

It's just some plain hunt on 8, but we feel it is a good beginning, and bodes well for future performances of this kind.

From left to right the ringers are Arthur Crumlish, Jeremy Bates, Chapman Knott, and Tigger Benford.

Many thanks to Martha Partridge for organizing this performance and for giving cues during it.

Sandy Hook Bells - Across the nation, church bells will ring 26 times at 9:30 a.m. Friday to mark the the one-week anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

The National Council of Churches said many of its 100,000 congregations plan to participate in the bell-ringing during a minute of silence that Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy called for earlier in the week.

"I'm asking that Friday, Dec. 21, at 9:30 a.m., exactly one week after the horror began to unfold in Newtown, that the entire state observe a moment of silence," Malloy said at a Monday press conference.

"I'd like to ask those houses of worship or other buildings that have the ability to play bells to do so as well — 26 bells for the beautiful children and six wonderful adults who were killed at school that day."

The 2013 NAGCR calendar which print subscribers received with their latest Clapper is now available as a PDF on the website that may be printed. This is the usual one page listing of ringing events that many find convenient to plan out their ringing year.

At the suggestion of a long-time member of the NAG, I am offering members a new choice to opt out of receiving a membership card upon renewal of their membership.

The argument against the card is that many people just put them away in a drawer and forget about them, and that the production of the card and mailing expense is a cost to the NAG that can be avoided by eliminating the membership card.

Any member may opt out of receiving the card simply by letting me know. I will put an indicator in the member’s record that will suppress production of that member’s membership card in future, unless rescinded by the member.

I have set up this feature and am ready to process any and all requests from members to eliminate their membership cards. This is not a one-time option, but can be exercised and rescinded at any time.

If you do nothing you will continue to receive your membership card when you renew your membership.

Tom Miller, Membership Secretary

More information on December's Mid-Atlantic Area Meeting.

Message from Kate Flavell, Central Council President

Please can you and/or Madeleine convey my very best wishes to all towers and

ringers who have been affected by this awful storm/hurricane. As you may know,

Paul & I (with others) toured down your East coast back in 2004 and I feel that

many of the towers where we rang are likely to have been affected to some

degree. I do hope so much that everyone is safe, the bells are all safe and the

churches have not suffered any serious damage. We have all been quite horrified

to hear about it all - there has been extensive media coverage here.

With warmest good wishes,

Kate

Kate Flavell

President, Central Council of Church Bell Ringers

Registered Charity Number 270036

020 8942 1662

07768 798395

(Copied to Central Council Officers and NAG CC members)

Due to a variety of reasons , ringing at OPOT has been cancelled. However, we will ring at the Cathedral from 11:00 am. Lunch will be provided by the WRS If arriving before 12:30 use the West End, After, please use the South transept elevator and make sure you pull the gate closed!

The October 8th deadline is fast approaching.

If you have any reports/photos/articles for this issue, please send them along to the editor's mailbox.

Thank you.

Very sad news, Mark Rizzo

I know that many of you will be as shocked as I am to read this news..... I am sure Tom will not mind that I forwarded this to the NAGCR website. Bruce Butler

Mark Rizzo passed away suddenly last week. Mark learned ring in the early 1980's at Kalamazoo College. In addition to being an active ringer, he served the guild as membership secretary for several years. He was elected to membership in the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths. Mark was a good ringer and a good guy. He will be missed.

There will be a memorial reception on Friday, October 5th from 3pm to 6pm at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. There is an obituary for Mark at http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/

Tom Farthing

George Bodarky hosts the "Cityscape" program on WFUV (Fordham U). He recently visited Trinity Wall Street, and this morning he gave this report (start at 13:04).

Once again the Guild's Book Service will be ordering Ringing World Diaries and Calendars for members. Please take advantage of this service. You may email me your order and then put a check in the mail

The Ringing World Diary 2013: contains quick reference pages for methods, touches, quarters and contacts. Content updated for 2013; latest CCCBR and association contact details, First Peals, Record Lengths and Notable Events, revised Doubles, Triples and Caters methods and touches, pages of hints and tips.

Cheers, Bruce

Ringing World Diary 2013

To obtain a 2013 Ringing World Diary please send a check in US or CDN funds

payable to NAGCR Book Service to:

Bruce Butler

829 North 25th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19130

Standard – USD or CDN $11.50

Standard with Pencil in spine – USD or CDN $12.00

Leather – USD or CDN $19.50

Name

Address

Quantity/Which kind?

Ringing World Calendar 2013

This year the calendar features the calendar features a selection of works from the art exhibition Inspired by Bells which was held at the ROA Gallery during the Ringing World Centenary celebrations in March 2011.

To obtain a 2013 Ringing World Calendar please send a check for $12.50 in US or CDN funds payable to NAGCR Book Service to:

Bruce Butler

829 North 25th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19130

Name

Address

Quantity

Add USD $2.50- CDN $2.50 for each item if you wish airmail (not really necessary at this time – October)

Total Amount Enclosed $

At Trinity Wall Street we were visited in December 2009 by Brooklyn-based choreographer/musician/artist Nancy Garcia.

Nancy has now posted on YouTube a lovely 10-minute video of her visit. It's here.

Most remarkably, Nancy chose to emphasize the visual. There is no sound to this video. Check it out for an artist's visual impression of what we do!

I have also posted this to the albums/videos section.

(Nancy's website is www.nancygarcia.org)

2011 ANNUAL REPORT now posted here.

Members who subscribe to The Clapper in print will receive the Report in print by snail mail. E-members may view and download the PDF version here, both at "Guild Documents" and at "Member Discussions".

NAGCR's 40th Anniversary at Smith College. Please see the details and the registration form on the calendar. Deadline is July 15.

Officer nominations

The nominations period for 2012 officers opens July 20, and includes the offices of

president, treasurer, secretary (membership), newsletter editor, peal secretary, education

officer and public relations officer. All nominations should consist of a simple statement

(who is nominated, by whom, and for which office) in writing to the president and should

include both the signed consent of the nominee and his/her statement of candidacy.

Nominations close on September 17

Currently a term of office is for one year only. Please consider serving your fellow

ringers by standing for office!

Candidate eligibility

Pursuant to the 2007 amendment of the Guild Constitution, candidates for Guild office

must be and have been Resident Members of the Guild for a minimum of two (2) years

continuously and immediately prior to standing for election.

Voter eligibility

Any Resident Member whose membership is active on August 31 is eligible to vote in the

annual election of the NAGCR. Eligibility is determined as of the close of the day August

31. Members who join or renew after August 31 are not eligible to vote in the current

year’s election. Dues are considered timely if postmarked no later than August 31.

Please contact the Guild secretary (membership) with questions about your specific

situation. Associate Members are not eligible to vote.

Madeleine Cheesman

President

Richard Graves, Founding Member and Honorary Life Member, died Tuesday, June 12. He was 86.

A memorial service is currently planned for 11 a.m., Saturday, June 23, at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Houston with a reception to follow.

There will be ringing with the service.

Yes, I know that we have just had an issue, but the deadline for the next issue is July 8th. The current Guild bylaws mandate four issues a year.

Please will people start to pull together their reports (photos, too) so that everything is ready to go come the week of July 8th?

With regard to photos. If you use a High Resolution stop on your camera, then your picture can be enlarged without blurring. This is very important if the picture might be used for cover art.

If any of you have an article that you might like to include, please let me know so I can allocate space for it in the magazine.

Thank you.

Happy 153rd Birthday to Big Ben's clock! A rare look inside the tower at The Great Bell . . .

June 7th is the estimated mailing date for the Spring issue of The Clapper. In case you haven't noticed, the current issue is posted on the website. We put it up early because of the Jubilee Bells notice in it.

I have been putting together the quarter peal report, with some help from Rick DePuy. Please, when posting qp's to Campanophile, will you be sure to put the North American Guild on that top line?

That way you can be sure that your postings will make it into the Clapper without a hitch.

I have responded to one tower that I've picked up their qp's. Are there any others out there who might not have included the North American Guild in their listing? Please email the editor ASAP. You have another day or two before the qp's go into the master document.

Thank you for your patience this first time round for me as editor.

Diane Amison-Loring

Bells' BBQ Bash - Philly Saturday, June 9 for ringing and celebrating the bells' birthdays. Please join us. RSVP by June 1.

Please join us in Orleans, MA at the Bell Tower of the Church of the Transfiguration on May 12th! This is a New England Area Meeting - but of course anyone is more than welcome. It will be a day of Open ringing - in the Open air! Cape Cod is beautiful, and not too hot this time of year.We lok forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones, so please save the day and come ring our wonderful 10 bells!

Here is a basic schedule for the day:

10am - noon Ringing (coffee and snacks provided)
12-1 lunch Lunch provided (donations gladly accepted)
1- 2:30 Ringing
2:30 - 2:45 Break w/refreshments 2:45 - 5 Choral Evensong is at 5:15 which anyone is very welcome to attend

Please let me know by May 5th if you plan to come, so we can be sure of the count for lunch. thanks!

The Clapper deadline is approaching, and can be somewhat flexible for those towers with area meetings in April.

Please will all area representatives send me your information if you haven't done so already? Let's make this issue a great one! Photos are welcome. Please identify any people in the photos.

If any of you are working on articles and need research help, please let me know how I can help you.

Thanks.

Dove's Guide is available to download from the App Store. This is a free app which became available on March 10, 2012 for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users.

North American peals and quarters are now displayed on nagcr.org!

Recent performances show up in a new widget on the home page, and as a new box on the mobile version. From there you can click through to the index of all performances by month, or to a page giving details of all of the performances reported last week. You can also go straight to the monthly index at the easy-to-remember http://nagcr.org/p.

We're getting our data from submissions through the NAG form over at Campanophile. We don't want to rush your submissions, so you have a three-day grace period: every Wednesday night, we'll automatically publish a new weekly report covering performances through the previous Sunday. Any submissions recived after Wednesday will be in the following week's report.

If you're subscribed to the RSS feed (or you get emails from Feed My Inbox), then you'll see the weekly report show up already--no need to subscribe to anything new. Hope you enjoy it!

The April deadline for the next issue is rapidly approaching.

Tower captains/representatives, please start to put together your news/pictures/anecdotes.

Who is working on an article for The Clapper? Please will you let me know so I can set aside the space in the coming issue?

Many thanks. I will send out more reminders as the deadline gets closer.

And, yes, I was once known as "the ringing nun"...

With sadness Steve Smith reports the unexpected and untimely death of Tim Hanna, a ringer at Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, BC. Tim's obituary can be found at this link: http://www.mccallbros.com/timothy-james-hanna/

Our sympathies go out to the ringers of Christ Church Cathedral for their loss.

Ringing at the Old Post Office - Keep Calm, It Carries On!

Like others in the ringing community, Washington ringers were excited to hear earlier this month that the Federal Government’s General Services Administration (GSA) had selected an organization to redevelop the Old Post Office where the Congress Bells are housed. For some years we had monitored the ups and downs of GSA’s efforts to find a developer to turn the wonderful old building into a profitable enterprise.

Finally, last spring GSA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP). The bells and the Clock Tower where they are located were very minor items in the RFP. The bells were mentioned in the “Exhibits” section of the RFP, and the RFP specified that the developer must maintain “public access for the Clock Tower.” Proposals were submitted in July, and GSA announced the winning bidder, Trump Hotel Collection, on February 7^th.

During the proposal period, WRS met with GSA and provided both our concerns about how the redevelopment would affect the bells and ringing and our view that improvements in public access to the tower coupled with some bell-related modifications could result in making the site a more significant public attraction. Since the selection, Katie Emmons, the WRS Ringing Master, has talked with GSA’s Project Manager for the redevelopment. He supports our involvement as plans for the Clock Tower development move forward, and we’re working with him to arrange a meeting of all the parties after things settle a bit.

While we have concerns about the effect the redevelopment will have on our ringing at the Old Post Office, we believe that it can be an opportunity to highlight the Congress Bells and change ringing. We appreciate the NAG and wider ringing community's interest and concern, and we'll try to keep NAG informed as things progress.

Something to note is that construction is not scheduled to start until spring of 2014, so we don’t expect to see changes in the ringing schedule at the Old Post Office for some time. So do come visit!

Katie Emmons

Here is another way to celebrate Her Majesty`s Jubilee:

Pageant bellringers hope they won’t be sunk by floating belfry challenge

Valentine Low

February 16 2012 12:01AM

The bells that will peal out from the Thames for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee are being cast tomorrow, and the man in charge of ringing them is doing his best to sound confident. “I think the whole idea is totally bonkers,” Dickon Love said. “That is partly why I like it.”

If he is sounding nervous, it is for good reason: no one has ever tried ringing church bells from a floating belfry on the river before, a challenging exercise made more nerve-racking by the fact that the bells do not belong to the pageant at all, but to a church in the City of London . The £180,000 bells were commissioned by St James Garlickhythe, which has agreed to lend them before they are installed.

“If they end up at the bottom of the Thames , someone somewhere will have to provide the church with a new lot,” Mr Love said. “But they won’t end up at the bottom of the Thames ,”he added swiftly. “It is a very big boat.”

At the moment all that exists of the bells is a few large lumps of sand, clay, goat hair and horse manure. That is how the moulds for bells have been made for centuries: sand and clay to make the shape and take the heat of the molten metal, goat hair and manure to burn away and provide a network of tiny air passages so that the gases from the hot metal can escape.

This week, Nigel Taylor, head tuner at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, has been applying the finishing touches to the moulds, stamping the inscriptions that will go on the outside of the bells letter by letter. There will be eight bells, the largest weighing almost half a tonne, and each one named after a member of the Royal Family: Elizabeth, Philip, Charles, Anne, Andrew, Edward, William and Henry.

The foundry has been in Whitechapel since 1570 and, before that, can trace its ancestry to a foundry run in Aldgate by one Robert Chamberlain since 1420.

Despite this heritage, no one has any idea of what it takes to ring eight bells on a floating platform. The boat will be as steady as they can make it. An Olympic-class barge called the Ursula Catherine, capable of carrying 250 tonnes, it will be pushed by a tug at the head of the flotilla of 1,000 boats taking part in the pageant on June 3.

However, Mr Love, a former master of the Ancient Society of College Youths, a bellringing society founded in 1637, said: “Our bellringers can detect movements in a belltower of a few millimetres. It upsets the movement of the bells. They will have to be very skilled in order to manage it. But you have to be able to take risks sometimes. Whoever thought this up is quite visionary. It is so English, so London . It will be something to behold.”

Sad news from Robert Lewis, about Harold Rogers. Many North American ringers knew Harold, and his late wife Olive. Harold had continued to lead a vibrant life, continuing to ring peals regularly, until his health started failing about a year ago.

From: Robert Lewis:

I am very sorry to have to tell you that Harold W.Rogers of Isleworth has died, aged 95, today (Friday, 17th February). His son Chris has asked me to pass on the sad news. He tells me that Harold passed away peacefully in the early hours of the morning.

Funeral details, once known, will be published in The Ringing World and elsewhere.

Washington Post column spotlights Trumping of OPOT bells!

Here's a talk about change ringing in Spartanburg, South Carolina. You'll have to scroll down a page or two to get to it. Sadly I suppose this is equally inconvenient for those in Charleston, Atlanta, Hendersonville and Raleigh, but maybe someone can make the drive. Does anyone know Caren Diefenderfer, who doesn't appear to be a NAGCR member?

While not named in this article, the coordination of the thirty towers ringing was arranged by Nick Jones, who used to ring in Atlanta and Marietta.

Bonnie Armstrong died on 3 Febrary, after a long battle with cancer. Bonnie was quite active in ringing in Hingham and Boston in the 1970s and 80s, and rang in the first peal on the bells at The Church of the Advent.

Here's an obituary from the Hingham Journal.

Intriguing news about the Old Post Office in Washington

http://tinyurl.com/8xcpvn9

Due to the annual ringing weekend held in Quebec May 25-28, we have changed the date of the Area Meeting planned here in Orleans at the Church of the Transfiguration. It was scheduled for the 26th and will now be May 12th instead. Hope to see lots of you here!

Winter issue of The Clapper now available.

Many thanks to Margaret Ketchen for producing this issue.

Click here to open the winter 2012 issue of The Clapper

News report about change ringing in hand in Ontario: http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3445337.

Campanophile is back!

From Tony Parry: "The e-mail service is restored. It appears that the most recent Microsoft automatic security update managed to prevent the mailserver from restarting properly. Apologies for the prolonged downtown -- I was spending an internet-free week with my family in the UK."

Please note that the February 11 Area Meeting venue has been changed from DC to Trinity, NY.

More details on calendar listing.

Change-ringers chat list reports Campanophile temporarily down, and launch of "BellBoard" by Ringing World.

For those members who only get the electronic version of The Clapper you would not have received the green insert. This is the 2012 NAGCR Calendar of Events which is now available for downloading. This can be found in the calendar section of the website.

http://www.nagcr.org/meetings/2012.pdf

UPDATE - 7-TOWERS Ringing Festival APRIL 13-15, 2012

A couple of additional items:

• We've contacted a couple of fairly nearby hotels and obtained some generally competitive rates. They are:
  • LaQuinta Downtown Little Rock

617 South Broadway
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-374-9000, 1-800-753-3757, lq.com
Rate of US$65.00/night
(For those of you who attended our AGM, recall: NO BAR.)

• • Wyndham Riverfront

2 Riverfront Place
North Little Rock, AR 72114
501-371-9000, 1-877-999-3223, wyndham.com/hotels/LITNO/main.wnt
Rate of US$85.95/night
(Good bar - ostensibly convenient shuttle.)

• In either case, mention "Trinity Ringing Society" for the rate.

• We shall also be offering the always unique 7-Towers Festival polo in all the usual sizes. Please contact Mary Wilson (below) regarding your sartorial requirements.

The twenty-something iteration hosted this year by the inimitable Trinity-Little Rock ringers. Depending on the registration/interest, actual ringing will begin with our usual Wednesday (April 11) practice at 6:30 PM continuing through noon Friday (April 13) when the "actual" event begins.

Registration forms are now available at this website, with hard copies coming in the next issue of 'The Clapper.'

In the meantime, feel free to contact Mary Wilson or Porter Brownlee for additional information.

We look forward to seeing you!

Contact: Mary Wilson

Get automatic notices of news posted here at our website via "FeedMyInbox" . . .

See Dianne Cermak's easy to follow directions in our "Articles" section.

Seattle 2012 Anniversary Weekend moved to weekend of June 9th. This is later than our usual --

to fit better with the University of Washington schedule. Details to follow nearer the time. Contact TC Rebecca Woodgate for more information.

New "Fall" issue of The Clapper now available here.

Much gratitude to Sally Cook for stepping up again as Interim Editor for this issue!

If you need help accessing The Clapper at this website or opening the PDF, please let us know:

January 13-16, 2012. Please join us in Philadelphia

Ring around Charleston, February 24 - 26, 2012.

4 towers, all levels, please join us!