Ohio NATS Membership Meeting
October 31, 2020
Zoom
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Approval of minutes from last fall
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Chad Payton moved to approve
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Norma Codispoti second
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All present voted to approve
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Dates
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Great Lakes regional auditions will now be held virtually
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First weekend of March – specific info to come
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Spring Chapter Meeting April 10, 2021 – virtually
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Teaching trans voices
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Nominations for board positions
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President
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VP
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4 board positions
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There will be a nominating committee formed
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If you’d like to submit someone for nomination, reach out to committee once it’s formed
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Tracy Grady
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Membership is currently at 151 – on par for where we typically are
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Treasury is at about $9300
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Norma Codispoti: NATS Foundation
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Funds
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NATSAA
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Interns
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Emerging Leaders award
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You can make an individual contribution when you renew your membership, or just by going to nats.org
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Tracy moved to donate $200
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Alison Acord second
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All present approved
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Alison Acord: AIMS Scholarships
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Will continue to give $2500 scholarships to upper level winners
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Service to NATS, except highest levels, is purely voluntary
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Ohio Honors Its Own (OHIO Award) has been established by our board to honor extraordinary service to our chapter
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Congratulations to Stephanie Henkle as the inaugural recipient of this award
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Beth Cram Porter, our VP and Auditions Coordinator
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186 singers entered this year
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You’ve gotten attachments – they are on the Ohio NATS website
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Nov 2-11 is judging period (the earlier the better, please!)
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Please watch each video in its entirety
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Rep has been vetted and everything in compliance
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Each video has been checked to make sure links work
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All judges are equal!
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It’s ok to judge a colleague’s student
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You will be able to view your judging schedule through the NATS website
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Click your email at the top of the nats.org to take you to your member page
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Click to go to auditionware
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View adjudicator schedule
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Will take you to your list of singers
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Please watch videos to the end!
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There is an 18m video created by the national office – please watch this before you judge!
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Click on “add” to enter your comments
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Will show you the comment sheet you are familiar with!
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You can click and drag the blue box for the scoring
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Comments in boxes
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THERE ARE NO RANKINGS from judges, but the SCORES will automatically rank students in the category
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You can adjust score and comments by going back to edit
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SUBMIT equals SAVE, and can be changed
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You can access your students’ comments sheets in your member homepage and click on My Account (pdf); students will not have access until you distribute directly to them
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Winners checks and certificates will be mailed to teachers
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If you need to update your address, please do so ASAP!
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We will send to your “Shipping Address”
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Ohionats.org gives you judging info
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Results will post at 6:30pm on ohionats.org, Nov 14
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Winners’ recital posted on Nov 14 @ 7:00 – there will be a google file for you to vote for the Miller award
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We did not combine categories this year
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Categories with 3-4 entrants will have only first and second place
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Categories with 5+ will have all three places, 4th with 8+ singers
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Beth will send out a spreadsheet of who is judging what
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You might be judging more than one category
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Linda Snyder
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Univ. Dayton was going to host 2020 intern program – is now happening end of May 2021
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Thank you to our member hosts!
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Perhaps some of the events will be streamed – more to come on that
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There is another intern program at Georgia Southern University around the same time – they are still accepting applications
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National: Carol Blankenship is our president!
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Dues renewal time!
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Giving time!
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There is a COVID – related resource page
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Winter workshop
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NATS Chats
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YouTube channel: official nats
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FB Page
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National category: Negro Spiritual, has been added
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December 1 is giving Tuesday, if you would be interested; there is a matching challenge!!
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Meeting adjourned by President Tim Culver