Mini’s April 24th

Hello everyone! WOW I can’t believe these are my last minutes! It has been such a pleasure being able to serve as your Recording Secretary and I have had a wonderful time writing these silly little minutes for you guys every couple of weeks. I truly love this chapter so much and I’m so excited to see the direction we will go next year. So, without further ado, read on for our very last mini’s of the semester!

Chapter Minutes

• Everyone who helped with spring game yesterday!
• Everyone who came to service committee meeting today
• Everyone who performed or helped with a reception in the last few weeks!
• Nik for doing librarian for spring game!
• Everyone who came to field day for brohood!
• Chelsea and Anika S for spontaneously running for music chair!

Alex, the next brohood event should definitely include frisbee dogs

• Give back your MC pins!
• Xi 3rd degree (after concert) and concert (7pm) april 29th (reading day)
• Retreat counts for some hours and an Itinerary is coming soon
• Ramp is getting built over summer! 
• MC fundraiser at coldstone on the 28th (this Thursday)
• IF YOU DIDN’T DO REPSITAL SUBMIT A VIDEO!
• Rockies: dates for trainings and chapter attendances will come out soon soon with a group chat

I know nothing about sports, this is how you do it right?

After Jovani’s Parliamentarian officer report, we moved onto elections. A huge congratulations to all of our new officers!

• Curtis Schneider as Alumni Secretary
• Lexi Nigro as Historian
• Sammy Rees as Sergeant at Arms
• Chelsea Eakins as Music Chair
• Alex Rasmussen as Brotherhood Chair

Closing Announcements

• Do your transition meetings!
• Digitization this week on Thursday from 2-5
• Check out the hymn recording from today!

Next, we officially did the new officer swearing in! Congrats to everyone, and I’m very excited for this new chapter in our chapter!

Again, thank you to you all for such a fantastic couple of years. I know it’s going to be just as amazing next semester! Good luck on your finals and have a lovely summer!! Calm some finals stress with some cute animals below 😊 Now, all that being said, I hand the curser off to Anika Hagen. I know you’re going to do a fantastic job 😉

MLITB,

Ella💕

Mini’s 4/10

Hi guys! Thank you all for making it out to such an important meeting, and sticking out the entirety of it!! As the semester comes to a close, I come to cherish every moment with every one of you. Since this meeting was elections, these won’t be too long, so read on to refresh yourself on what happened!

Full Chapter Minutes (no exec meeting for the rest of the semester)

• Anika the younger for showing up to every single MC service project meeting
• Grace, Curtis, and Harmony for coming to todays service meeting
• Sammy R for cleaning practice rooms
• Jeremy for doing symphonic band reception
• Everyone who came to bowling, especially jake
• Recent MC’s for officially completing MEP’s! (one of us…one of us!)
• Everyone who performed in concert/campus band concerts!

• Give your MC pins back thank youuuu
• Officially changed requirement for hours to 10
• Repsital on Saturday! Send video here
• Xi 3rd degree and concert April 29th (reading day)
• Thank you for everyone who came to digitization! We broke another box! TH/F 2-5 this week
• Folk music april 21 N1B08 
• Retreat in sand dunes!!! May 7-9th in a 15 person cabin. $45 per person if all 15 go. Sign up here
• Coldstone 28th and modmarket 17th are a go!
• Rockies: Fill out the google form for when you’re going to be in town
• Sign up for minutes email!

I’m definitely looking forward to Coldstone lol

Next, we went through elections for President, VPM, VPS, Recording Secretary, and Co-Treasurers! Congratulations to all who were elected!! Here is a list of the new team:

• Adam Richling as President
• Ella Schigur as VPM
• Tycho Cinquini as VPS
• Anika Hagan as Recording Secretary
• Grace Ptak and Nik Kauffman as Co- Treasurers

We will continue with elections for the rest of the team (Alumni Secretary, Historian, Sergeant at Arms, Music Chair, and Brotherhood chair) next week on the 24th. This will also be our last meeting!

Closing Announcements

• Fill out rockies form 
• Talk to chieri for reimbursements
• Contact adam with family trees
• Service committee meeting next Sunday 3 pm 
• Pick up graduation cords if you are graduating in the spring!
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM A!!!

I love you all!! I can’t believe we’re almost done with this year! I know you all will finish strong, but if you need more encouragement, here are some cute animal pics (:

AEA,

Ella

Mini’s April 3rd

Hi guys! Thank you all for coming out to such a full and important meeting. It was nice to see all your lovely faces. Read on for some updates!

Exec minutes

Chapter minutes

• Kass for going back to say that all of us plus the line were with kappa!
• Byron, nik, jeremy for attending music committee
• Jeremy delegating MWD
• Curtis for chairing noms at convention
• Everyone who came to digitization!
• Everyone who came to service meeting
• Adam for starting cataloging
• Brandon’s concert!
• Everyone who supported xi’s second degree
• Everyone who came to football hangout
• Everyone who came to motomaki
• All yall who came to GBMB leadership meeting! Sko buffs!
• Lauren, Abbey, and adam for winning awards at convention!
• Sammy R for cleaning practice rooms by themselves!

Whew, that was a lot of shoutouts!

• Committee and Events Hours Spreadsheet
• Xi 3rd Degree and concert April 29th (Reading day, plz come) 

Next, we had a little chat about family culture. Long story short, please be respectful of your brothers and use your family to get to know more people.

Membership 

• Last MEP this week (4/10)! Actives: please come, especially if you need hours!

Service

• Meetings: noon on sundays in person doing cataloging at the same time
• Reach out if you worked extra shifts for honor band!

Fundraising

• We are planning 2 more fundraisers (17th – modern market) and (28- coldstone)
• Fill out Rockies form to decide which days we can go as a group!
• Do rockies to build the ramp cause we kinda broke rn ):

Music

• Sign up for the last 3 receptions, especially concert band (april 11)
• NEED SOMEONE TO RUN RECEPTION APRIL 13
• Vote in discord for folk music days!

Brotherhood

• Retreat may 7th!! Leaning towards going to the sand dunes

gorgeous gorgeous pspeople go on retreat with their brothers!

Scrapbook

• Thank you to everyone who came to digitization!!!
• Thursday 2-5, Friday 2-4

Communications and Outreach

• Brother of the week over summer
• Start getting things together to update outreach video. Reach out to Abby P with ideas!

After this, we approved updates to our constitution and will continue next week! Check out the full minutes for details on the slate!

This lead into a panel talking about district convention. We had a group of 6 brothers offer their advice and experiences with convention in hope of having a large turnout for next conventions! All the Q&A’s are in the full minutes 😊

FINALLY, we moved onto nominations!! Congrats to all who were nominated and good luck putting together your platforms!

Closing Announcements

• Elections Pt. 1 in ONE week (4/10)
• Elections Pt. 2 on 4/24 (Last Meeting)
• Please sign up for repsital! April 16th, you can submit a video too (due the 16th)
• If you are graduating, dm Jake your email to be put in the newsletter
• Get cords from Jeremy
• Fill out interest form for Rockies
• Bowling this week Thursday at 7pm

You all are so amazing and I hope you all are recovering from the “first week back from spring break slump!” We are so close to the end of the semester and I KNOW you all will carry on strong. I will see you all back again on Sunday for elections part 1!

AEA,

Ella

Mini’s March 20th

Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a lovely and relaxing spring break! Thank you all for your time spent filling out and reflecting on the Mid Semester Check In!

Exec Minutes

Chapter Minutes

• Byron and Lexi for digitization, and Byron for coming to exec
• Everyone who came to see Batman!
• Everyone who filled out mid semester check in
• Anika for giving lexi a ride
• All of us for making it to spring break
• Adam for making a suggestions channel

• Remind Jeremy if you are graduating this semester or next semester so you can get Kappa cords! 
• Next meeting is nominations, SUPER important
• Add your songs to the District Convention playlist if you’re going!

Membership 

• Last MEP april 10th – present portfolio projects

Service

• Haven’t done much since band and going to the hospital ://
• After spring break – meeting for band library organization

Fundraising

• Motomaki March 29th, 4-9 pm

Music

• Repsital april 16th noon-12 S134
• Conducting clinic april 9th

Brotherhood

• Vote on May 7th for Retreat in the brotherhood channel!

Okay this is what comes up when you type “retreat” into giphy and I couldn’t resist 😂

Ritual

• Congrats to everyone for 3rd degree!!
• Recording ritual music in april

Scrapbook

• Board finished last friday!
• Awards finished and scrapbook received
• Digitizations will continue for the rest of the semester – great way to get hours

Us receiving our (inevitable) awards at District Convention 😉

Next, we went over the Mid Semester Check In. I won’t put everything here, so check out the full minutes for more details and discussion, and read on for some important caveats!

• Please reach out to brothers if you need ANY support!
• PLEASE send suggestions if you have ideas on how to improve hour requirements!
• Committee heads need to improve communication and structure. Meetings will be put in kappa calendar.
  • We talked about having designated committee meeting times to help improve the structure
• Outside meetings: 
  • “Ask for applause not permission” – Anna 
  • Discord categories was discussed heavily and it looks like there is a subcommittee forming to help with Discord stuff!!
  • Mental health sub committee!!

Us reacting to the formation of new committees 💕

• Exec:
  • More balance between committee meetings and reports
  • More delegation
• Relationship to bands
  • Attend concerts as groups!

Closing Announcements

• Next meeting (NOMINATIONS) in 2 weeks, April 3rd
• Reach out to current exec if you are interested for running for positions
• Have a wonderful and relaxing break, thank you SO MUCH for being here!
• Alto sectional pleaseeee
• Sign up for reception

As the semester end starts to come into view, I hope you all are surviving okay! Please reach out if you need any support at all!

AEA,

-Ella

check out the #random channel for context lmao

Mini’s March 13

Hello everyone! It was so amazing to see all your lovely faces this past weekend. A HUGE shoutout goes to the MC’s who made it through 3rd degree and are now ACTIVE MEMBERS!!! I’m so proud of each and every one of you and I can’t wait to see you blossom as actives in the chapter ❤

Exec Minutes

Chapter Minutes

• Jeremy for having an amazing recital and EATING IT UP with their outfit!
• Jeremy for helping with rehearsals
• Southwest for losing baggage 😬
• Treasurers for helping with district convention!
• Adam for preparing for districts!

• Mid semester check in! Please have it done by NEXT FRIDAY. All responses are anonymous, so please fill this out with as much specificity as possible! MC’s can fill it out now too.
• Next chapter meeting NEXT WEEK

Membership

• 7th MEP today!! The MC’s are doing great!

Service

• Service meeting weekend at end of spring break combined with cataloging 
• WE WILL HAVE A RAMP FOR 3RD DEGREE!!!!!
• Kappa beach party

Fundraising

• Selling kappa merch!!! Buy here for $35
• Motomaki on the 29th
• Rockies: 
  • Take alcohol training
  • Hold Rockies Party Days over the summer once a month to make sure we have brothers to go with!
• MC’s pay dues!!

(Okay this one is cute but the average hot dog gif is low-key disturbing, I don’t recommend looking it up)

Music

• Sign up for receptions if you haven’t done one!
• Repsital: 
  • Saturday April 16th, 12-4 pm in S134
  • Video submission option if you can’t make it
• Sight Reading together (when to meet)
• Help Lexi out for the April 13th reception

Brotherhood

• See Batman, vote in brotherhood channel

Ritual

• Record new recordings of ritual music soon

Scrapbook

• Digitization this week TH 2-5 in band library
• Finishing display board Friday 2-5 band library

After brief discussions on the Mid Semester Check In and Rockies, we completed MC class voting! All the MC’s were voted in and are now actives!

Here, we took a break and showed some love to our brothers! This was super fun and adorable and I love you all so much! 💕

Closing Announcements

• Meeting NEXT WEEK
• Graduating people, please remind Jeremy so we can get you cords
• MC’s send email to Ella please 
• Sign up for repsital and receptions!

Flying into this week ready for spring break!

I hope you all are doing alright! Stay strong for break! I will see you all this Friday for our next chapter meeting!

MLITB,

-Ella

Mini’s February 20th

Hello everyone! I hope you all are faring well throughout the midst of the semester and that Kappa is a good way to get away from the flurry of assignments. A quick shoutout goes out to Jeremy for helping me with attendance and minutes this week since I was out of town! If you need a refresher (like me) of what happened last weekend, read on!

Exec Minutes

Chapter Minutes

• Adam for snacks
• Joel for carrying cheese balls for Grace
• All bros for sending out messages
• All Bros who recovered from the rona recently!

• 2nd degree happened Sunday night!
• CU Honor Band
  • Please Sign Up (you have to also lol) – this is linked in the discord
• if you signed up for Friday’s reception you need to sign up for another spot

Next, we discussed CU Honor Band. It is less than a week away!!! For details, check out the full minutes, but here is the signup! You may also text or call Jeremy if any issues arise 😊

Membership

• Second degree tonight and 4th MEP today!
• Please come to next week’s MEP to teach the hymn!

I wish Adele would sing the hymn with us

Service

• Please volunteer for CU Honor band!
• Measurements for ramp are happening!
• Digitization of marching band music soon

Fundraising

• 2 restaurant fundraisers in March!
• Headshot photo session planning in the works!

Music

• Sign up for different time – not reception- for CU Honor band 
• Next monday reception 

Brotherhood

• Brotherhood event thursday – laser tag? 👀

Ritual

• We did second degree!! Congrats to all the MC’s who completed it and thank you to all the brothers who helped put it on!

Scrapbook

• Digitizations back TH/F 2-5 with as many people as want to come. Please bring a laptop!
• Scrapbook and display board work next Sunday morning if anyone wants to come and help Adam

C&O 

• Keep sending pics in drive so Abby can update insta
• Footage for new recruitment video 

After the break, we discussed District Convention, which is approaching fast! Check out the full minutes for specifics but some important dates are listed here:

• Tentative numbers are due March 6th
• Submit registration by March 13th
  • Cost is $65 (not sure how much of this we will be able to cover) 
• Hotel registration closes on March 11th

How I imagine our bros look driving to Lincoln, Nebraska!

Next, we met with committees. I hope this time was super productive, especially as we all get busier in the semester!

Closing Announcements 

• 3 weeks til next meeting, be a little extra on top of discord communication
• Get membership cards and pins
• Chieri is really happy to be here and has a lot of love for everyone here (it was super cute and sweet wow) 

You all are the best part of my week and I love you all. I know y’all will rock your midterms, be on time to all your appointments, and eat very good food in the 3 weeks(😢) before we get to see each other next!

MLITB,

Ella

Mini’s February 6th

Hello everyone! We had a very long and productive chapter meeting this past week, and got lots of things worked through. Thank you to Steven and Grace for making it to this meeting! If you couldn’t make it or need a refresher on what we talked about, read on!

Exec Minutes 2/4

Chapter Minutes 2/6

• Everyone who came to the first brohood session!
• All the bros who helped Curtis through death
• Curtis to giving his all to pskiing
• Emma, Steven, and Kassie for reception and Anna for subbing for Lexi
• Curtis for destroying his helmet
• Steven and Grace for being at this meeting!
• Curtis’s helmet
• Everyone who helped with digitizations
• Adam for his progress in digitizations!

• Make-up 1st Degree (2/13). Please come support Kass!
• CU Honor Band is coming up fast!!
• Congratulations to Abby Presutti for being appointed as PR Chair!

Next, Chieri and Anika gave a presentation of the semester’s budget. Check out this link if you would like to see it again!

After that, we discussed CU Honor Band. It is coming up FAST!! Here is the link to the Tentative Schedule, but we will mostly need help with general setup and tear down, and with Lunch on Saturday. MC help is greatly appreciated!

Next, we moved onto Awards Packet Voting. These were the results:

• Outstanding New brother: Lexi Nigro
• Striving for the Highest Scholarship: Adam Richling
• New Alumni Award: Abbey Beaton
• Outstanding Musicianship Award: Lauren Reynolds

Congratulations to these four brothers!

(In honor of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Call me if you want to discuss ice skating lol)

Finally, we moved on to Committee Reports.

Membership

• Dr. D and Adam will present next MEP
• Derek and Zach will speak at future MEP’s too
• Reach out if you would like to speak!

Service

• Check out service channel for polls and input. Vote for meeting times!

Fundraising 

• We put together the budget!

Music

• First reception went well and hot chocolate is very popular!
• Teach lessons to kids in area – need volunteers to teach
• Lexi needs someone to fill Symphonic Band receptions

Brotherhood

• Great 1st brohood event!
• Chili’s Thursday this week

(In honor of PsGains)

Ritual

• Sign up to go through 2nd degree on February 20th
• Sign up to help with 2nd degree – NEED SPEAKERS AND MUSICIANS
• Meeting Friday at 3 

Scrapbook

• When to meet in discord to meet for scrapbook – needs to be done by the end of February!!!!
• Display board
• Send photos – pinned in discord
• Digitizations TH/F 2-5p

Communications and Outreach 

• Sign up for brother of the week – in general channel

Before closing announcements, we voted on Abbey Beaton’s conditional letter. Shoutout to her for starting her student teaching!

Closing Announcements

• Make-up 1st Degree reminder – Feb 13th (arrive at 4pm)
• Get your membership cards
• Fill out all when to meets

Thank you all for sitting though such a hefty meeting! I know you all are excelling in your classes, but peep the cute animals for some stress relief (:

MLITB,

Ella

Mini Minutes 1/23

Exec minutes 1/21

Chapter minutes

• Anna for being amazing with the MC’s
• Everyone who came to Pskate!
• Alex for planning pskate
• All bigs (and everyone who have become bigs recently!)
• Adam for discord mastery!
• Jeremy for being an amazing president!
• Tycho wants to be chieri??

• Update on Jazz
  • John Guenther is on sabbatical but he is super JAZZED about this!
  • Receptions, setup, take downs, just need dates
• Conditional Letters due by 2nd chapter meeting (2/6). THIS IS A HARD DEADLINE. Needs reason for going conditional and intent to come back.
• PR Chair Applications 
  • Appointed 1 semester position. Send Jeremy a quick blurb about why you think you would be a good person and past experience
  • Runs social media (insta, FB) and makes people aware of us!

Next, we discussed the requirements for membership for this semester. The main change is that the hours requirement is now 15 hours. Check out the link or the full minutes for the full list!

After this, we moved onto discussing the general semester calendar. Jeremy made the google calendar public to all so it should be viewable. Check the full minutes for some caveats, or check out the website for all dates!

• Membership
  • Welcoming 11 MC’s!
  • Helping run MEP’s 
  • CMEP discussions in the middle of chapter meetings
• Service
  • CU Honor Band is the main event this semester
  • Collab with music committee to get instrument donations for fire victims

• Fundraising
  • Fundraising to send people to districts and helping with CU Honor bands
  • Reach out to Chieri and Anika with creative fundraising ideas!
• Music
  • Receptions and recitals (click on the link to sign up)
  • Offer free lessons to underprivileged students
  • sightread together
  • Instrument donations for fire victims 

• Brohood
  • Retreat planning is in the works
  • Get some more events run by members 

• Ritual
  • Make degree music easy to read for musicians
  • Planning second and third degrees for our lovely MC’s!
• Scrapbook
  • Help adam make display board, awards packet, and scrapbook
  • Digitizations

Don’t forget to sign up for committees if you haven’t already!

Next, we voted for our district Delegates. Thank you to all who ran and all who wants to do to districts! Our delegates will be Curtis, Tycho, and Sammy.

Closing Announcements 

• District Communication and Involvement
  • Sign up for the listserv
• Digitizations 2-5 Thursday and Friday
• Signup to help with reception on Feb 3rd!

Thank you for the large attendance at this first meeting! I am so excited for all the projects we will undertake and for the process of getting to know all the new MC’s!

AEA,

Ella

Mini’s 12/5

Wow, what an end to the semester! Congratulations on (almost) making it through!! This was our last, and a very important, chapter meeting of 2021, so if you couldn’t make it, read on for important updates (this one is short, I promise).

Exec Minutes

Chapter Minutes

• Everyone who did MC interviews!
• Jeremy for running Holiday Fest things for Tycho!
• Laura for keeping us sane during holiday fest
• Anna for running MC things!
• Curtis and Adam for having over 60 hours in kappa – WOW!
• Hot soup for having most hours… hmmmm seems a little sus to me…

• Thank you all for your work this semester!
• 3rd degree after this meeting
  • Xi will be here from Mines
• Repsital Dec 7th (Tuesday) 7:30 pm in our regular meeting room
• Submit pics to scrapbook (link also pinned in scrapbook-archives channel)

Membership

• Interviews finished last week, and we are voting in MC’s today!

Service

• No more meetings this semester, good job on making your hours!

Fundraising

• Tshirts all handed out
• Paid late fees!

Music

• Come to repsital! And Reception! And the concert band concert!

Brotherhood

• Staycation Thursday through reading day at Chandler’s
• Can come and go whenever
• Card and board games will be available!

Ritual

• Come to 3rd degree!!

Digitization

• Finished another box!! 6 more hours available this week if you still need hours

Next, we completed PMC voting! If you would like to read more on each MC, there are short notes in the full minutes. EVERYONE who applied were approved by the chapter, and we are so excited to welcome them into the Road of Wisdom!!

After a short break, we then completed Spring 2022 Music and Brotherhood Chair elections. Please welcome Lexi Nigro as Music Chair and Alex Rasmussen as Brotherhood Chair!

Closing Announcements

• If you have any feedback for exec and/or the direction of how you would like spring 22 to go please contact Jeremy!!
• 3rd degree happened!
• Come support people in repsital
• Thank you for your flexibility this semester!!
• Come to exec meetings over break
• Good luck on finals!
• Thank you Jeremy for your work this semester!!

Please enjoy a Holiday Hog and a Christmas Dog to lift your spirits going into finals!

A MASSIVE thank you to all of you for this semester. You all have made it so much more manageable and I am so happy to know you all! I am looking forward to next semester with our new class of MC’s and continuing to improve our chapter. Good luck in finals, and have a very happy holiday break!

Much Love In The Bonds,

Ella

Mini Minutes 11/21

Hello everyone! I hope you all are enjoying your break and relaxing a bit. Thank you to everyone who came to our meeting on Sunday despite its unfortunate timing, and if you couldn’t make it, no worries! Read on for some updates.

Exec Minutes

Chapter Minutes

• The chapter for helping with band banquet!
• Tycho for everything he did with banquet!
• The buffs for winning!
• The gbmb!
• Nick, Lexie, Jovani, Jeremy, Curtis for all helping with conducting clinic!
• Chandler for the slideshow!
• Anna for recruitment!
• Everyone who helped with the shirt fundraiser!
• Mo and Sammy for coming with Anna to get pizookies!
• Everyone who came to recruitment events!
• Everyone coming to digitizations!
• Curtis for ordering banquet supplies!

• Thank you for being here!
• Holiday fest signups – need some people to help out with unloading refreshments
• Signups for uniform check-in going out after this meeting (Monday the 29th)
• 3rd degree is Dec 5th after the chapter meeting. The Xi chapter is invited as well!
• MC interviews
  • Because of Nationals interviews are pushed back to the week we come back from break 

This week, we presented Officer Reports instead of Committee Reports. If you are interested in reading any of these, they are linked in the full Chapter Minutes.

Next, we did Music and Brotherhood Chair nominations. Look out for an email if you were nominated, and we will have Elections at our next (and final) meeting!

Closing Announcements

• Thank you all for making the chapter what it is now! You are all greatly appreciated.
• Have a fantastic break and safe travels!
• Reach out if you wanna chat!

“NICE!!” – Jeremy Salgado 2021

Have a wonderful break everyone! I will see you all December 5th for our last meeting.

AEA,

Ella