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Dear Members of the NYFMC:

Our next meeting of the NYFMC board and general membership meeting will be on Saturday, April 21st at 1:00 p.m. at Denton Cottier and Daniels in the Piano Works Mall 349 West Commercial St. East Rochester, NY 14445 (585)-586-3020. I hope that all officers and board members will make every effort to attend this very important meeting to discuss how we can energize our organization. 

As the newly elected president of NYFMC, I have already been putting into motion some very important first steps to help us re-organize our federation on the state level. I attended the fall convention for NFMC and have learned a great deal about our organization and the many opportunities that are available to us.

One of our first steps is to improve our communication with the members through out the state. I have completed work with a web designer to establish the new website for NYFMC which can be used as a vehicle for information exchange. At our meeting, we will be evaluating this new websites progress and attempt to make the website work for us as a source of current information as well as a marketing tool to recruit new members to the organization.

Another important first step in improving our communication is the creation of a new database of current members of the organization which will include phone numbers and email addresses. You all will be receiving an updated membership form which will be asking for these contact items. Please have the members of your club fill out the information in its entirety.

From our last meeting in Geneva, it was clear to me that we need to establish some new procedures for Junior Festival. While at the fall convention I made contact with the Ohio federation president who will be giving us a computer program that will track all of the student entries into Junior Festival. This program will automatically tabulate and record on the necessary forms of NFMC and we should be able to make this available to all of the Festival centers to record their students.

As you can see there is a lot of work to be done, but I am hopeful and excited about the possibilities of making NYFMC a stronger and more “user friendly” organization.
Thank you,

Mr. Troy Slocum
President NYFMC
Phone: 315-521-4647
Email: TroySlocum3@aol.com