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Kappa Kappa Psi
& Tau Beta Sigma
Electronic Newsletter
Volume 2, Number 14
June 7, 2001
IN THIS ISSUE:
• ***FLASH*** Omni
Hotel Room Block FULL
• NIB Selection List Revisions
1. Omni Hotel Reports the
2001 KKPsi & TBS National Convention is SOLD
OUT!
by Lt Col Alan Bonner, National
Executive Director
As of June 7, 2001 we have exceeded
our room block by over 38%. That's good news and
bad news! Good in that we should have a record
attendance this summer, and bad because we are
getting calls from members who are still trying
to make reservations.
The hotel is willing to go above and beyond to
help us! Here is what you can do to help them
help us:
A. If your chapter has blocked more rooms than
you need, please, immediately call the hotel to
cancel what you do not need. Call direct to
361-886-3576 (Diana McWilliams) or 361-886-3578
(Teresa Ramirez), and be sure to identify
yourself as an attendee of the KKPsi & TBS
National Convention. Diana & Teresa will hold
any rooms you cancel for others who still need
them!
B. If you call the hotel reservations and are
informed that the hotel is sold out, call Ms.
McWilliams or Ramirez directly and request that
they put you on a standby list for any
cancellations.
Traditionally, we have about a 15% attrition in
cancellations, so there should be a quite a few
rooms that free up. I will also work with the
hotel to identify other hotel properties in the
area that may be able to accommodate those still
needing rooms.
For those of you who might feel that we didn't
block enough rooms, please know that in 1999, we
filled less than our room block at the St Louis
National Convention, primarily due to late
cancellations of rooms, and the lack of any
process to preserve those rooms for our members.
Our room block for Corpus Christi is over 1,100
room nights for the entire week. Those rooms are
fully reserved at the Omni Bayfront, plus they
have extended another 425 rooms to us. As of
today, all 1,525 rooms are reserved! If you
really don't need all of the rooms your chapter
reserved, I appeal to you to call those phone
numbers listed above immediately and release the
rooms so that others might attend! I know they
will appreciate you for doing so!
2. National Intercollegiate
Band Participants Updates!
I am pleased to add the following
performers to the 2001 National Intercollegiate
Band selection list.
Dave Day -- Trombone -- Virginia Tech University
Nicholas Nerren -- Clarinet -- Oklahoma State
University
Michelle Holguin -- Clarinet -- Arizona State
University
ATTN:
District Governors/Counselors/Officers/Chapter
Presidents...Please ensure widest possible
delivery to all chapters & members in your
respective districts! All NewsNotes On-Line
issues are available on-line at
http://www.kkytbs.org/newsnotes.html.
Many thanks,
Lt Col Alan Bonner, USAF (Ret.)
National Executive Director
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