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Vol. 52 No. 1, Winter 2025

  • Becoming a Bellringer: By Chance During a Walk - André Pelletier (Québec)
  • Save the Date:  Seven Towers Course and Festival, May 1-4, 2025
  • Pictures from around the NAGCR
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Vol. 51 No. 4, Autumn, 2024

  • 2024 NAGCR AGM Report - John Solomon
  • 2024 NAGCR AGM Minutes
  • 2024 Ringing World AGM Report - Christian Haller
  • 2025 ART Awards nomination announcement - Haley Barnett
  • 2024 Central Council AGM Report - Christian Haller
  • Mission (British Columbia) Weekend Report - Yolande Hasselo
  • Taylor's Bell Maintenance Tour - Tom Farthing
  • Barnes Tower Tower 2024 - A Countryside Candy Store - Yolande Hasselo
  • Trinity Shield Competition Returns to New York - Kira Chase
  • Obituaries: Alan Henry Batten (by Faith Magwood), Phil Rogerson (by Helen Haller)
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Vol. 51 No. 3, Summer, 2024

  • Report from your Recruitment & Retention Support Team (2023-24) - Yolande Hasselo
  • The Seven Towers Festival, Texarkana, April 18-21, 2024 - Alan Regin
  • Quebec May Ringing Weekend, 2024 - Yolande Hasselo
  • Fifty Years of Quebec Weekends - Helen Haller
  • Intertwined Ringing Journeys: Micah Walter and Hannah Desrosiers
  • Obituaries: Alan Hetherington Durfee, Judith Hunt, Hardy Cole, Theresa Glab, Alan Donald Trumpler - by Leland Reimer, Madeleine Cheesman, Rosemary Cole, Brian Zook, Eric Trumpler
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Vol. 51 No. 2, Spring, 2024

  • Bells & Beacons to Mark D-Day - Donna McEwen, Yolande Hasselo, Tina Stoecklin
  • Recruitment & Retention: Proactive Publicity - Tom Farthing
  • On Teaching: Slow or Delay? - David Smith
  • The Second Annual Bruce Butler Memorial Ringing Weekend - Eileen Butler
  • First Peal of Chandler’s 23 Rung by a North American Band - Kira Chase
  • Interest and Stability Key to First Peal - Micah Walter
  • Houston January Bell Bash /Allen Nunley’s 50th Anniversary of Ringing - Allen Nunley
  • Invitation to 2024 AGM - Sewanee
  • Update on Milwuakee - Seth Raymond
  • Obituaries: Peter Trotman (by Beverly Faber), George Van Kirk Waldron (by Allen Nunley)
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Vol. 51 No. 1, Winter, 2024

  • Tackling the “Wicked Problem” of Recruitment & Retention - Yolande Hassel
  • Déjà vu - New Castle - Eileen Butler
  • Creating Double Beryl - Josh Burson
  • Thoughts from a Change Ringer When Asked: Interview of Carl Classen - Peggy Raish
  • Seven Towers Festival 2024 Registration Form
  • From “A Gal in Kalamazoo” - Yolande Hasselo
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Vol 50 No. 4, Autumn, 2023

  • Minutes of 2023 Annual General Meeting
  • Returning to Toronto: The Annual General Meeting, 2023 - Josh Burson
  • Central Council of Church Bell Ringers - Annual General Meeting 2023 - Beverly Faber
  • Dedication of New Bells for Chicago's Mitchell Tower - Helen Haller
  • The Other Westminster Abbey (Canada): An Extraordinary Love Story (reprinted from The Ringing World) - Yolande Hasselo
  • NAGCR Support in Recruitment & Retention - Yolande Hasselo
  • Sixty Years Ago (in Washington) - Rick Dirksen
  • Kent Area Meeting: A Photo Collage
  • Ringing Learner's Report - Hannah Desrosiers
  • Veterans Day: Anniversary of NAGCR Record Long Length of Erin Caters - John W. King
  • David Smith Visits North America - Josh Burson
  • Obituary: Robert Francis McDonald, 1943-2023 - Sue Clopper
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Vol. 50 No. 3, Summer, 2023

  • Dorothy Meacham obituary - Rosalie Crouch
  • Madeline Reeder obituary - Stuart Piper
  • Taming the Jumping Rope - Yolande Hasselo
  • Martial Arts and Bell Ringing: Cross Training - Nenad (Ned) Rava
  • No Need to Bolt the Door - Charles Rumford
  • The First All-North-American Peal of 41 Spliced Surprise Minor - Leland Reimer
  • Handbell Ringing in Orleans: Zero to 1260 in Two Hours - Ed Futcher
  • A Little Bit on Learning to Ring - Maisy Hoffman
  • The Seven Towers Festival: Tuneful Tutelage At Trinity - Sandy Miller Hays
  • The 11th Annual Illinois Tower Bell Bash:A Newbie’s Perspective - Haley Barnett
  • Quebec Ringing Weekend (May 26—29) - Josh Burson & John Bihn
  • Handbells in Anchorage (a.k.a. far, far Northwest Houston) - Lynsey Slavonic
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Vol. 50 No. 2, Spring, 2023

  • NAGCR Support in Recruitment - Yolande Hasselo
  • Bruce Butler Memorial Ringing Weekend Report - Miriam Dixon & Laveita Brinson
  • Kalamazoo Ringing Weekend Report - In memory of Linda Woodford - Kit Almy
  • Our Foreign Correspondents - Jay Laedlein
  • Announcement: Westminster Abbey Ringing Weekend
  • Bells, Ringing, Cemeteries: Ringing-Inspired Haiku in Québec - Donna McEwen
  • Peal, Officer, & Area Reports
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Vol. 50 No. 1, Winter, 2023

  • Nominations open for Jeff Smith Memorial Young Ringer Awrd
  • Update on Ringing Education in North America - REDD Team
  • Update on the Trumplers - Mark Trumpler
  • Westminster Abbey Ringing Weekend Announcement - Brother Joshua Rosario
  • Area Reports and Officer Updates
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Vol. 49 No. 4, Autumn, 2022

  • 50th Anniversary Congratulations from Central Council - Simon Linford
  • Minutes of 51st Annual General Meeting, Raleigh, NC
  • Letters from founding members on occaision of the 50th anniversary of the Guild
  • List of founding members
  • 50th Anniversary AGM Report - Raleigh Ringers
  • Officer reports
  • Brief Summary of Ringing Education in North America Survey
  • Report of Central Council Represenatives of CCCBR Annual General Meeting, 2022 - Eileen Butler, Beverly Faber, Chris Haller
  • Rambling Ringers Tour reports - Michael Tartell, Sue O'Neill
  • Ringing for the Queen, Washington Old Post Office Tower, Spring, 1991 - John W. King
  • Belfrey Upkeep - a new online resource by the CCCBR - Allen Nunley
  • Ringing for Two Monarchs - Alan H. Batten
  • Tom Farthing (and friends) Visit Quebec: A Photo Essay - Donna McEwen, photos by D. McEwen, D. Mendel, and L. Ward
  • Peals and Other Performances
  • Area Reports
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Vol. 49 No. 3, Summer, 2022

  • A New Method of Bell Ringing: Using Mathematica to Discover Wolf Wrap - Stan Wagon
  • AGM Ringing Course Announcement
  • Bringing a Little Aloha to Hereford - Patrick Nguyen & Richard Harris
  • Ringing Education in North America - Survey Status Update
  • The Journey of the Bells - Background on a possible new tower in Wisconsin - Canon Joseph A. Kucharski
  • A Grand Day Out - Smith Area Meeting, May 28 - Katrina Whimsy!
  • Indianapolis Ringfest 2022: A Photo Essay - Bill Cummings
  • Time for a Change - Calling up or down - John Mabe
  • Officer Reports
  • Peal Reports
  • Area Reports
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Vol. 49 No. 2, Spring, 2022

  • Bruce Butler Obituary, by B. Zook, A. Leeves, C. Wichowski, H. Haller, G. Myles, and J. Burson
  • Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus, In Praise of Bruce Butler, by Elizabeth Wein
  • Bruce Butler: A Remembrance, by Eileen Butler
  • Bruce Butler, Tour Leader Extraordinaire, by Helen D. Haller
  • Bruce Butler Memorial Weekend, by Josh Burson
  • George Walton Williams Obituary
  • Gordon Stuart Peek Obituary
  • Fred E. Dukes International Bell Fund Favors Christ Church (Raleigh) Project, by Ed Futcher
  • Ringing Education in North America -- Looking Forward
  • Area Reports
  • Officer Reports
  • Performances
  • Tale Ends
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Vol. 49 No. 1, January, 2022

  • In Memory of Bruce Butler (Brian Zook)
  • Three-Person Tower Tour (Bill Cummings)
  • Steeple Keeper's Diary (Katarina Whimsey! and Josh Burson)
  • Save the date: 2022 AGM Oct. 8, 2022
  • The Awkward Path to Publicity in the Chicago Tribune (Tom Farthing)
  • Need Some Money for your Bell Project? (Allen Nunley)
  • Officer Reports
  • Peal Reports
  • Area Reports
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Vol. 48 No. 4, October, 2021

  • Report and Minutes of the 2021 NAGCR AGM
  • Report from the 2021 Central Council AGM
  • Obituaries: Constance (Connie) Black Engle, David Henry, John Wilson Price, Tom Graf
  • Officer Reports
  • Area Reports
  • Proposal to Award Honorary Life Membership to Diane Amison-Loring
  • Proposed By-Law Amendments concerning timing of ballots
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Vol. 48 No. 3, July, 2021

  • Alan Ellis, Obituary
  • Sally Cook, obituary
  • New Website for NAGCR
  • 2021 Hybrid AGM Announcement
  • 40th +1 Anniversary of St Martin's bells
  • Celebrating Two Retirements
  • Bells and the 4th of July
  • Officers' Reports
  • Peals and Quarters
  • Area Reports
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Vol. 48 No. 2, April, 2021

  • Obituaries of Linda Woodford, Roland Perschon, Ken Ballou, Geoff Bagley, William Wakeland, Sue Thompson, and Alan Ellis
  • My Road to 100 Peals, by John W. King
  • Celebrating 30 years of change ringing at St. Andrews Cathedral in Honolulu, by Sasha Bley-Vroman
  • Ascension Church's (Rochester) Ringing Room Tapestry, by Helen Haller
  • Ringing Podcasts, by Matthew Austin
  • Report of the 2021 Seven Towers Festival (Online), by Allen Nunley
  • Area Reports
  • Peal and Quarter Peal Records
  • The return of the Tale Ends column
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Vol. 48 No. 1, January, 2021

  • Nominations solicited for Jeff Smith Memorial Young Ringer Award
  • Online Resources on Ringing, by Quilla Roth
  • Butlers' Virtual Tour Reunion, by Nancy Pichiotino
  • Obituaries: Sister Elise, Sidney Woodcock, Edna Farthing
  • Photos from Days Gone By
  • Officers' Reports
  • Area Reports
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
  • Ringing Cartoons
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Vol. 47 No. 4, October, 2020

  • 2020 AGM minutes
  • AGM report - virtual meeting
  • Central Council AGM Report
  • Roll of Honor
  • Jeff Smith Memorial Young Ringer Award
  • Officers' Interims and other reports
  • The Bells That Never Were
  • Area Reports
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
  • Ringing Cartoons
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Vol. 47 No. 3, July, 2020

  • 2020 AGM
  • Lost Rings Around North America
  • Return to Ringing
  • Susan Fera Assman - Obituary
  • Officers' Reports
  • Area Reports
  • Exec Committee Proposal
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Vol. 47 No. 2, April, 2020

  • Roger Savory Obituary
  • Introducing the Ringing Room
  • Philadelphia Quarter Peal Weekend
  • Why should i get an ART Teaching Accrediation?
  • Lost Rings of North America - Frederickton, NB
  • Officers' Reports
  • Peal and Quarter Peal Reports
  • Area Reports
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Vol. 47 No. 1, January, 2020

  • Officers' Reports
  • Peal and Quarter Peal Reports
  • Area Reports
  • Why You Should Visit Honolulu in October
  • Spring Dinner Registration Form - Philadelphia
  • Towers' Festival - Little Rock
  • Tower Bash - Chicago
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Vol. 46 No. 4, October, 2019

  • 2019 AGM Report
  • Minutes of the Boston AGM
  • Bob Mead's Obituary
  • The Butlers' East Anglia Tour
  • Officers' Interim Reports
  • Area Reports
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
  • Philly Quarter Peal Weekend Registration
  • Honorary Life Citation- Ed Futcher
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Vol. 46 No. 3, July, 2019

  • AGM Information - Boston
  • Event Reports
  • 7 Towers Festival - Shreveport
  • BBBQ Bash - Philadelphia
  • University of Chicago - Art and Science Exposition
  • Obituaries - TJ Smith and Ron Draus
  • Officers' Reports
  • Peal and Quarter Peal Reports
  • Area Reports
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Vol. 46 No. 2, April, 2019

  • Boston AGM preliminary information
  • Steeplekeeper's Dilemma follow-up
  • Quarter Peal Wekend in Philly
  • Vernal Equinox aka Spring Dinner
  • Rochester Open Day
  • Officers' Reports
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
  • Area Reports
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Vol. 46 No. 1, January, 2019

  • Steeplekeeper's Diary
  • Butler OHEK Tour Report
  • Officers Reports
  • Area Reports
  • Registration information for Spring Dinner Weekend in Philadelphia, 7 Towers Festival in Shreveport and Bell Tower Bash in Illinois
  • Peals, Quarter Peals
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Vol. 45 No. 4, October, 2018

  • Highlights in this issue include:
  • The NAGCR AGM in Hendersonville
  • Minutes of the AGM
  • Proposal for Honorary Life Membership for Derek Wilsden
  • Fifty Years of Ringing at Smith College
  • Trinity Shield Striking Competition Report
  • Interim Reports from the Officers
  • Area Reports
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
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Vol. 45 No. 3, July, 2018

  • Central Council Lancashire Meeting Report
  • Ringing Excursion to Cape Cod
  • Lillian Rorie - Obituary
  • The Butlers' "NW2" Tour
  • Hendersonville AGM details and registration link
  • Bells' Birthday Bash Report
  • Officer Reports, Peal and Quarter Peal Reports and Area Reports
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Vol. 45 No. 2, April, 2018

  • Annual Quarter Peal Weekend in Philadelphia
  • Association of Ringing Teachers Module 1 workshop in Washington, DC.
  • Stedman workshop in Marietta
  • Area Meeting in Boston and Groton
  • Peals and Quarter Peals, Area reports and Officers' reports
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Vol. 45 No. 1, January, 2018

  • Officer Reports
  • Area Reports
  • Registration information for Spring Dinner Weekend in Philadelphia, 7 Towers Festival in Texarkana
  • Peals, Quarter Peals
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Vol. 44 No. 4, October, 2017

  • Highlights of the AGM in Toronto.
  • Minutes of the 2017 NAGCR's AGM
  • Executive Committee Actions
  • Reports of the Officers
  • Bell Festival in Moscow, Russia
  • Area Reports
  • Ringing World Diary and Calendar order form
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Vol. 44 No. 3, July, 2017

  • Paul Windels and Ruth Smith Obituaries
  • 7 Towers Festival Report
  • Central Council Meeting Report
  • Kent School's Quarter Peal
  • Toronto AGM Information
  • Event Reports
  • Officer Reports
  • Area Reports
  • Plus more
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Vol. 44 No. 2, April, 2017

  • Tom Miller Obituary
  • Kent School's Trip to England
  • On Chiming
  • Using Abel
  • NCS Whitechapel Guild Anniversary
  • Event Reports
  • Officer Reports
  • Area Reports
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Vol. 44 No. 1, January, 2017

  • Ground Breaking at Nashotah House
  • Quarter Peal Analysis for 2016
  • Results of the Ballot
  • Changes to Electronic Reporting of Peals and Quarter Peals
  • Registration information on upcoming events at Philadelphia, Little Rock, Chicago and New Castle
  • Officer Reports, Area Reports and much more
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Vol. 43 No. 4, October, 2016

  • Highlights of the AGM in Victoria.
  • Minutes of the 2016 NAGCR's AGM
  • Executive Committee Actions
  • Interim Reports of the Officers
  • Pittsburgh Ringing Course
  • New Handbell Group - Winter Haven, FL
  • New American Bellfoundry
  • Area Reports
  • Ringing World Diary and Calendar order form
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Vol. 43 No. 3, July, 2016

  • Julie Hall obituary
  • Central Council Report
  • Double Adventures
  • Area Reports
  • Officers' Reports
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
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Vol. 43 No. 2, April, 2016

  • Bob Coughlin Obituary
  • Victoria AGM Invitation and Registration Information
  • St Simon's Doubles, Part 3
  • Event Reports
  • Area Reports
  • Officers' Reports
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Vol. 43 No. 1, January, 2016

  • Rochester's Dedication of the Bells
  • Memories of Beryl Nelson
  • First Peal Stories and First Peal Accounting - 2015
  • Slow Course Doubles Methods
  • Twenty-three Spliced Major Peal History
  • And much more including Area Reports, Officer's Reports
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Vol. 42 No. 4, October, 2015

  • Virginia Theological Seminary
  • Minutes of the Annual General Meeting in Shreveport
  • Report and Photos from Shreveport
  • Interim Reports of Officers
  • NAGCR's First Pealers
  • Area Reports
  • and so much more
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Vol. 42 No. 3, July, 2015

  • Shreveport AGM registration information
  • Central Council Report
  • Ringing Weekend Reports including - Seven Towers' Festival, Quebec's Annual Weekend and Philly's BBQ Bash
  • Officers' Nominations Announcement
  • St Simon's Bob Doubles
  • Area Reports
  • Officers' Reports
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
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Vol. 42 No. 2, April, 2015

  • Area Reports
  • Officers' Reports
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
  • Tower Etiquette
  • Ring a New Method
  • Paul Windels English Trip
  • Event Reports from Philadelphia
  • First Peals
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Vol. 42 No. 1, January, 2015

  • Area Reports
  • Place Notation #5
  • Officers' Reports
  • Butlers' Roadshow Tour #2
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
  • Vernal Equinox Registration Form
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Vol. 41 No. 4, October, 2014

  • Obituary - Kathryn Elaine Tucker
  • Carroll Lentz
  • Minutes and Report of the 2014 AGM in Washington
  • Part 4 Place Notations
  • 2014 Ringing Road Show
  • Pittsburgh Course and ITTS Course
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
  • Area Reports
  • Ballot
  • 2015 Calendar
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Vol. 41 No. 3, July, 2014

  • In this Issue:
  • Obituary - Lynn Jackson
  • 250 Peals at The Advent
  • Washington National Cathedral 50th Anniversary
  • Proposed Bylaw Amendment
  • Officer Nominations
  • Officer Reports
  • . . . and much more
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Vol. 41 No. 2, April, 2014

  • Obituaries: Thomas Arkell
  • Captain E. G. (Jeff) White
  • Officers' Reports
  • More on Place Notations
  • Ring Around Charleston
  • Vernal Equinox Weekend
  • Peals and Quarters
  • many Area Reports
  • . . . and much more
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Vol. 41 No. 1, January, 2014

  • Obituaries: Barbara Knight
  • Marion Ainsworth
  • Eddie Martin
  • Officers' Reports
  • Place Notations - more explained
  • Out and About in the UK
  • Peals and Quarters
  • and much more
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Vol. 40 No. 4, October, 2013

  • Alice Herring obituary
  • Minutes of the 41st AGM
  • Six Towers in a Week, by Tom Roast
  • Place Notation for Everyone, Part 1, by Don Morrison
  • Report from the Pittsburgh Ringing Course, by Alice Heilker
  • Report from the Buters' Isle of Man Ringing Tour, by James L. Snyder
  • Quarter Peal Weekend 2014 registration form
  • Press Release on the Nashotah House ring
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Vol. 40 No. 3, July, 2013

  • The Paul Engsberg Room - Dedication
  • Obituaries: Ron Warford, Dick Waterman
  • Report on the 2013 Central Council meeting
  • If its Memorial Day, It Must be Quebec
  • and much much more
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Vol. 40 No. 2, April, 2013

  • Obituary - S. Harrison "Harry" Carter Jr.
  • How to Organize and Ringing Course
  • Out and About in the UK
  • 7 Towers Festival
  • Peals and Quarter Peals
  • Executive Reports
  • and much more
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Vol. 40 No. 1, January, 2013

  • Peweukee Tower News
  • Obituary - Errett Van Hook
  • The Butler Tour of Buckinghamshire
  • Communication in the Ringing Room
  • Clapper Bushings - what every Steeple Keeper should know
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Vol. 39 No. 4, October, 2012

  • 40th Anniversary AGM at Smith College
  • Obituary - Mark Rizzo
  • Peals and Quarters
  • Tower Reports
  • Executive Committee Interim Reports