A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT

Dear Palo Alto Branch Members,

As summer is drawing near its end, we are all finding ourselves busy working on our teaching schedules, trying to fit our students in conveniently amidst seemingly impossible constraints, planning repertoire for them, perusing new materials and getting ready for another year of teaching and music making. During these summer months, next year's Board and Branch meetings as well as Branch activities have been planned out, membership lists and addresses compiled, various documents revised, our website refreshed, and a new 2009-10 Yearbook edited and printed for your convenience.

A big thank you to Olga de Maine for countless hours of meticulous work on the Yearbook! Many thanks to Mr. Alfred Leung who has been graciously working on our website! And to Marta Schermerhorn, our Membership Secretary and Lydia McCool, thank you for working to keep track of our database and compile our membership and mailing lists!

I call on all of you to participate actively in our Branch activities and contribute of your time and talents to help run its programs. Please refer to State and Branch Codes of Ethics as well as Standing Rules in the Yearbook.

I would like to extend a special welcome to our new members and I hope to see all of you at our first Branch meeting on October 13th, at my home.