The 2010 Midwest Clinic

It's Saturday and I'm just about packed up and ready to head out from the hotel. I have a few minutes before I check out so I thought I would give a quick overview of a long, but fantastic, week.

The Fraternity's booth was in a new spot. A little out of the way, but we had two things going for us:

1. We were on a far row of the exhibit hall and had nothing behind us...no instruments, no speakers...nothing. It was nice.
2. Even better, we had a corner which allowed us to rearrange our tables/materials and open our booth on two sides which gave visitors more space to check out what we brought with us.

Over the course of the three days, I figure we had about 375 Sinfonians stop by to visit. We gave some colony information to a professor working at a school in North Dakota. Coincidentally, we had an alum ask about alumni association information for that same area.

The highlight of the event was our reception where we presented the Fraternity's National Citation to TubaChristmas. We presented the award to Carol Phillips, the widow of the late Harvey Phillips, who founded of the event over 30 years ago. We got to meet a number of Carol's family members who also came in for the award presentation.

The event went very well. She was very appreciative of the award and spoke highly of everything the Harvey was able to accomplish in his lifetime. At the end of the event, the brothers gathered for some singing and serenaded Mrs. Phillips...as well as some of other female guests.

Overall, it was a very enjoyable week. Still, I'm looking forward to get home.