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Membership<br />
by Teresa Gretton<br />
Director of Membership<br />
gretton@verizon.net<br />
While spring has sprung<br />
and many clown activities<br />
are coming back to life from<br />
the winter months, it will be<br />
summer before you know<br />
it; but there is still time to<br />
prepare for International<br />
Clown Week (ICW)<br />
recognized August 1 – 7.<br />
With that note, I would like<br />
to thank Barbara “Nuzzles”<br />
Waters-Riddle for her time,<br />
talent, and untiring efforts<br />
in chairing the Clown Week<br />
committee over the past<br />
few years. I have asked Bob<br />
“Bunky” Gretton to fill in<br />
as the interim chair for the<br />
upcoming year. Bob has been<br />
chairman in the past. See his<br />
article on page 59. He looks<br />
forward to reclaiming his old<br />
position.<br />
Congratulations to Alley<br />
#6, Kapitol Klowns, in<br />
winning last year’s Alley<br />
CHARLIE Award, and to<br />
John “Splash” Sullivan<br />
for the Individual Award.<br />
Both participated in many<br />
activities for International<br />
Clown Week 2011.<br />
Hopefully, you and your<br />
alley have plans for an active<br />
Clown Week in <strong>2012</strong>. Please<br />
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remember one important<br />
element of Clown Week—to<br />
obtain public awareness. You<br />
can do this by scheduling a<br />
visit to your local or state<br />
government to request they<br />
issue a proclamation. If you<br />
do vie for the CHARLIE<br />
award, please make sure<br />
you have at least one<br />
proclamation.<br />
When planning to submit<br />
nominations for any awards,<br />
(as a nominator) please<br />
carefully read all of the<br />
criteria. The committees for<br />
the different awards must<br />
follow the criteria. I ask that<br />
you do so as well. Please<br />
double check the website<br />
www.coai.org under the<br />
specific award. If it’s easier,<br />
copy the information, break<br />
it down, highlight it, etc., to<br />
make sure you have followed<br />
the rules. I would also like<br />
to see some Excellence In<br />
Clowning applications. It has<br />
been a couple of years since<br />
any have been submitted.<br />
Criteria updates are<br />
in the process of being<br />
implemented. Please follow<br />
the criteria on the website,<br />
and then check back with the<br />
website before you submit,<br />
just to make sure no criteria<br />
changes have occurred.<br />
The COAI Board is<br />
delighted to announce that<br />
we began a new membership<br />
drive on May 1, <strong>2012</strong>. While<br />
the previous membership<br />
drive/contest has ended,<br />
the new drive will proceed<br />
until December 31, <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
For every new member that<br />
YOU, as a sponsor, sign up,<br />
two months will be added<br />
onto YOUR membership.<br />
Sign up six and you have<br />
a whole year of added<br />
membership.<br />
The Membership Drive<br />
and Contest that ended on<br />
April 1, was won by Charlene<br />
Link. Congratulations<br />
Charlene and thank you for<br />
the seven new members!<br />
She recently moved from<br />
New York to Florida and<br />
decided she needed to start<br />
a new COAI alley in her<br />
area. She took advantage<br />
of the membership drive<br />
contest and signed up more<br />
than enough new members<br />
to form an alley. Way to go<br />
Charlene! Look for more<br />
information on the contest<br />
and an up close and personal<br />
interview with Charlene in an<br />
upcoming issue the The New<br />
Calliope.<br />
If you are instructing<br />
clown classes, include the<br />
COAI membership as part of<br />
the class fee, automatically<br />
registering each student. This<br />
has been a very successful<br />
endeavor for others. What a<br />
great educational benefit!<br />
Kudos to each and every<br />
member who attended the<br />
COAI Convention in Kansas<br />
City.<br />
The convention was<br />
fantastic with much<br />
entertainment and tremendous<br />
education.<br />
Congratulations<br />
to all who received awards<br />
for competing in the different<br />
categories. I know that<br />
everyone benefitted by the<br />
competitions as they are<br />
a significant value in the<br />
educational process.<br />
Congratulations are in<br />
order for Kynisha Jarreau<br />
who won the Convention<br />
Best in Clown Award for<br />
competing in single skit,<br />
single parade-ability,<br />
character makeup, single<br />
balloon, multiple balloon,<br />
balloon arrangement, as<br />
well as cheek and full-face<br />
painting. She earned top ten<br />
awards in all competitions,<br />
and medaled in third place<br />
in cheek art, second place in<br />
character makeup, and first<br />
place in full face painting and<br />
single balloon twisting.<br />
New Calliope editor, Tom<br />
Newton, awarded Glenn<br />
Kohlberger, the Editor’s<br />
Choice Award for his<br />
assistance and dedication to<br />
the New Calliope magazine.<br />
He also awarded the Best of<br />
Press Award to the Rose City<br />
Clown Alley 196 for their<br />
great alley publication.<br />
Everyone is already<br />
looking ahead to Richmond,<br />
VA, where the 2013 COAI<br />
Convention will take place,<br />
hosted by Virginia Clowns,<br />
Alley 3.<br />
Continue to support the<br />
membership drive in <strong>2012</strong><br />
and bring in new clowns<br />
everywhere.<br />
Don’t forget the “gifting”<br />
opportunity that can apply to<br />
the membership drive as well.<br />
l l l<br />
The New Calliope
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