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NEWS AND NOTES

2008 PIMBA Schedule Set

PIMBA directors set their 10-show 2008 schedule, which appears below:

September 6 - Kiski Area
September 13 - Norwin
September 20 - Gateway/West Allegheny
September 27 - Elizabeth Forward
October 4 - Mars Area/Woodland Hills
October 11 - Open
October 18 - Beaver Area/East Allegheny
October 25 - 2008 PIMBA Championships @ Gateway

2007 PIMBA SEASON CONCLUDES WITH TERRIFIC CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW!

Congratulations to EACH of the 24 member bands that participated in the 2007 PIMBA Championships held on Saturday, October 27, at Elizabeth Forward High School! A beautiful fall day, only marred by some unexpected rainfall mid-evening, enabled the bands to perform at their best for an enthusiastic audience that strongly cheered each band's efforts. The bands were evaluated by a panel of seven judges from the PA Federation of Contest Judges (PFCJ) who crowned three new class champions. Two class champions (AAAA and National) repeated from 2006.

BRAVO to all the student involved as instructors, directors and parent supporters, including the 2007 Class Champions:

	Class A		Beaver Area HS - Carl Newyear, Director
	(up to 48 musicians)
	Class AA		Blackhawk HS - Bob Barthen, Director
	(49-64 musicians)
	Class AAA		Gateway HS - Bob Read, Director
	(65-86 musicians)
	Class AAAA		Trinity HS - Bill Galvin, Director
	(87 or more musicians)
	National Class		Kiski Area HS - Shawn Pityk, Director
	(Finished in the top 5 at a BOA Regional in 2006 or by choice of the director)

CHAMPIONSHIP PHOTOS AVAILABLE

Candid and group photos taken by Jolesch Photography at the 2007 PIMBA Championship are available for preview and purchase at the Jolesch website.

PIMBA IS NOW INCORPORATED

We are pleased to announce that PIMBA can now be formally known as PIMBA, Inc. This move in legal status reflects PIMBA's ongoing growth as an organization with a sophisticated infrastructure and a defined system of policies and procedures that combine to function efficiently within the overriding philosophical foundation of striving to best meet the educational needs of its participating bands and student members.

The goals of PIMBA remain: to promote participation in marching band field events; to promote the art form of competitive marching band based on fundamental principles of music education; and, to promote cooperation and respect among all bands, directors, staffs, student members, parents, parent organizations, adjudicators and all others affiliated with the organization.

Having just concluded its twelfth season, PIMBA is a marching band circuit structured, administrated, implemented and monitored by its member Directors for the direct educational benefit of the students involved in its twenty-nine member Bands.