Please take survey today!

Dear AGO Leader,

On Thursday morning, November 19, the AGO Task Force on Long-Range Planning distributed a survey by blast email to all members of the American Guild of Organists. All members of the AGO with e-mail addresses on file at National Headquarters have received invitations to take exactly the same electronic survey as you. Within just a few hours of its release, more than 1,000 members completed that form and submitted their results! To take the survey, please consult the email you received on November 19th.

The Task Force has been working for many months to develop and to refine this survey. Results from this survey will be strategic as we shape the vision and create plans for the important work of the AGO in the second decade of the 21st century. To optimize the value of this process, it will be vitally important that all AGO members complete and submit this survey in a timely manner. We hope to analyze the results of this survey and communicate that information to our entire membership during the early months of 2010.

Will you please assist us with this project by encouraging all AGO members within your constituency to spend the estimated 15-20 minutes to complete and submit this survey? We hope for every member, every chapter, and every region of the AGO to be fully represented in this process. The deadline for all submissions is December 31, but the best time to complete this survey is now!

On behalf of all members of the Task Force on Long-Range Planning and all members of the National Council, I extend our sincere appreciation to you for helping us to maximize the success of this strategic planning process. My best greetings to you for the upcoming holidays!

Cordially,

John Walker, FAGO, DMA
Vice President

AGO 2010 National Convention news

Dear Friends,

I am sending this to those of you whom I thought might be interested in purchasing advertising or exhibit space at the 2010 National AGO Convention in Washington DC, to be held next year July 4-8.

Please visit our website and click on the "Advertise/Exhibit/Sponsor" link in the upper-left-hand corner. Spaces are selling out, and the best locations are already almost gone; be sure to act soon to reserve your spot!

Registration for the general public will be opening within the next week (projected opening is November 1st), so keep checking our website! Please forward this information to anyone who you think might be interested, and remember that we have many special incentives for students, including a low registration fee, low cost alternative housing, and a special workshop "track". If you have students interested in attending, have them write to me. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in Washington!

Sincerely,

Nicholas Russotto
STOPList Coordinator
DC AGO 2010 National Convention
Washington, D.C.

2010 Pipe Organ Encounters

Pipe Organ Encounter
Missouri, Fontbonne University (St Louis Chapter), June 13-18
South Carolina, Univ. of South Carolina (Greater Columbia Chapter), June 13-18
Indiana, Indiana University (Bloomington Chapter), June 21-26
Connecticut, Sacred Heart University (Greater Bridgeport Chapter), June 27-July 2
Wisconsin, Carroll University (Milwaukee Chapter), July 18-23
Texas, Texas Christian University (Ft Worth Chapter), July 25-29
California, Concordia University (Orange County Chapter), July 25-31

Pipe Organ Encounter + (for the adult pianist or organist)
Oregon, Univ. of Oregon (Eugene Chapter), July 26-31
Virginia, Shenandoah University (Winchester Chapter), August 9-13

Pipe Organ Encounter Advanced (for the advanced teenager)
New York, St Thomas Choir School (New York City Chapter), July 18-23

Pipe Organ Encounter Technical (for those 16-23 years old interested in organ building)
To be announced soon