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Elections and "No Sleep" SteelGuitar Music & Fun In Joliet!
You'll get the FULL story and pictures in the Winter Quarterly, but for now, here's a glimpse of activities, October 1,2,3 at the HSGA Joliet convention. Mahalo nui loa to all HSGA members who mailed in election ballots or voted at convention during the Annual Meeting. HSGA is mandated by its Bylaws to have a minimum of 25% of the Members in Good Standing (meaning "current year's dues paid") participate in Annual Meeting Elections, in order for the election to be valid. You who voted made it happen. 1998-2000 Directors ElectedAll of the nominated Directors were elected, along with HSGA's newest Director, Greg Sardinha. Directors were presented with their new HSGA T-shirts, imprinted "1998-2000". Thanks to Duke Ching for that fine job. At the Board of Directors meeting following the Annual Meeting, the Board elected the following officers: President, Alan L. Akaka; Vice President, Don Weber; Secretary-Treasurer, Edward Punua. Standing Committee Chairmen re-appointed were: Mike Scott, Membership; Bernie Endaya, Scholarship; Doug Smith, Internet. Greg Sardinha was appointed Concert Logistics Chairman/Honolulu. In this capacity, he will make sure we have the right amount of amplifiers, mics and all other stage equipment and their transportation needed for HSGA "HOT LIX" and other concerts, and HSGA steel "play days" in Hawai`i. You'll be seeing a lot of Greg next May, during HSGA's Honolulu convention. He's already got his committee in mind, so watch out Casey and Bobby! "No Sleep" Jam Sessions Starring Duke Ching!They didn't break any all-night-steel-jam records in the Holiday Inn this year. "Early one I see," the all-night Security Guard was heard to remark, when the "late show" gang quit on Thursday at 3:30 a.m.. And we're told the latest Duke, Alan, Greg and others played to a select after-hours audience was 4:30 a.m., Friday night. Quitters! "Don't you ever stop?" Greg asked Duke Ching, with a groan, at the second "no sleep" jam session. No, Greg, he doesn't! Both Duke and Alan are veterans of these late date steel gigs. Da kine are truly "men of steel". But tell me, did you ever see them come down for breakfast at 8 am?? No? You were sleeping? Unnnhuh. For more about the fun steel frolic in Joliet, see Part One of the Joliet Foto Feature in this issue. 
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