Newsletter

The next meeting of the American Guitar Society will take place on Saturday, August 2 at 8:00 p.m. in Music 105, Cal State Northridge. If you would like to perform, please telephone Carolyn Kassian (818-758-0089) by Wednesday, July 30.

Reservations for the 85th Anniversary celebration continue to trickle in. We encourage you to send in your reservations as soon as you can so it doesn't become panic time (for us) just before the deadline, which is August 22.

AGS President, Gregory Newton, and Professor David Grimes of Cal State Fullerton are on tour this summer in Bulgaria and Greece. They're performing, teaching, judging at competitions and participating in guitar festivals.

You will be pleased to learn that AGS recently received a grant in the amount of $5,307 from the Augustine Foundation to cover the expenses of the 2007-2008 concert series. We are grateful for this help and will furnish the required accounting of how the money was spent. We will apply for a grant covering the upcoming series and hope it is approved.

Longtime AGS member Bud Lesser passed away recently. For about a year, he had been in an assisted living facility near his son and family in the San Francisco area. Bud joined AGS in 1994, when we were meeting in a temporary building on the CSUN campus after the 1994 earthquake. He was retired, but JPL wanted his engineering skills, so he continued to work long past the age when most people say "Enough." He and his wife Jean, who died a couple of years ago, were active, enthusiastic members. We miss them.