Please help us reach our
potential as one of the best small
student orchestras in the Fairfax
County area. Your contribution
assists us in providing a
well-rounded comprehensive
musical education for our
students.
Please Give!

Performances and classroom
needs
Our orchestra is a performing art
and as such, the greatest
experience and confidence our
students gain is through
performances outside of the
classroom. These great
opportunities for outside
performances are unfortunately
not without a price tag. Your
contribution will assist us in
maintaining a high level of quality
by helping us purchase much
needed equipment for our
orchestra at school. We need
sheet music, replacement strings
and accessories, new
instruments, orchestra
equipment, preparation and
distribution of our newsletter,
concert programs and fliers. It will
also help defray the costs of our
annual class trip (a performance
opportunity and fun for the
students). Last year we went to
Hershey Park.  Some of our
orchestra students may not be
able to afford this kind of trip
without your contribution.
Be a patron of
the Carl
Sandburg Middle
School Panther
Orchestras!
Click
here for more
information
Latoya Lamons
Director
Orchestra Room
Voice Mail
(703) 799-6225

LCLamonsSloc@fcps.edu
The orchestra
needs new
instruments
-
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details
Booster Contacts
Officers
Concert Coordinators
Fundraising Coordinators
©  2009-2010
The Carl Sandburg
Orchestra Boosters
Booster Notes
More info

We are looking for incoming and current parents whose children will be/are attending Carl
Sandburg Middle School to volunteer with the Carl Sandburg Orchestra Middle School
Boosters.

We have 3 orchestras (String Ensemble, Concert, or Symphonic Orchestra) and about 85
orchestras students.

Budget cuts have made the orchestra boosters even more important to the orchestra.
Boosters help raise money for trips and events, instruments, music, and enrich the
program. Parent participation makes the program successful.

Officers:
President:
OPEN
Make it all happen.
Vice President: OPEN
(Fundraising): Establish fundraisers, dates and help the coordinator of the events.
Treasurer: OPEN
Bookkeeping to include deposit checks, pay expenses (write checks) and prepare
orchestra funds summaries (reports).                
Volunteer Coordinator: Debra Lane (debra_lane@yahoo.com or 703.765.1930)
Solicit volunteers for events (drivers, receptions, etc.)
Website/E-mailer: Cindy Martin (martin.cindy@gmail.com)
Maintain the orchestra website and email parents for the director and boosters.
    
Administrative:
Copiers:
 Make copies of music, etc., week before school begins and on ad hoc basis
during year.
Orchestra Data Base: Establish/maintain an orchestra database and work with
Website/Emailer to establish the e-mail list(s).        
Uniforms: Uniform fittings, maintain uniform database, pack and inventory at end of year.
Photography: Take pictures at concerts and other events.  Work with webmaster to post
on website.
Publicity: Publicize concerts about school and to the community.  Articles for local papers,
etc.
            
Concert Support:
Concert Programs
: Prepare program for each concert.        
Tuners: Tune ensembles before concerts.
Videography: Video tape concerts.        
Concert Lighting: Do lighting for concerts.        
Reception Coordinator: Come up with ideas for theme and food for reception, then
coordinate the volunteers.        
    
Fund Raising Coordinators:
Parent/Corporate Patrons:
Solicit parent and corporate parents at beginning of year,
maintain database of donors.
Mum Sale (Back-to-School Night)
Pie Sale (October): Funds Spring Festival Trip (Hershey).        
Restaurant Night (November):  Try Primos at Belleview Shopping Center
Candy Sale (Winter):  Funds Spring Festival Trip (Hershey).                
Plant Sale (Day of Pantherlon)        
Spring Car Wash: (Mid May)
Orchestra Photo Sale:
Other:  Ideas and volunteers welcomed.

For more information, contact:

Director, Carl Sandburg Orchestras
Latoya Lamons
(703) 799-6225
LCLamonsSloc@fcps.edu
Writing a check to the
orchestra? Please write all
checks to the orchestra
payable to 'Carl Sandburg
Orchestra'

If checks are not written
correctly the bank will not
accept them.