Mandatory Travel Meeting
Thursday, October 4 at 6:30p in the Concert Hall!
Dear DSAO Parents and Students,
It’s time to start planning our trip to Albuquerque for the 2019 ASTA conference and National Orchestra Festival! To get started on the planning process and update all families about our travel plans, we are asking parents to please attend a mandatory travel meeting this Thursday, October 4, at 6:30 in the concert hall. We recognize this is late notice, and apologize profusely, but we hope you understand that the delay was unavoidable and that you will nevertheless make every effort to attend the meeting.
A few important details about the trip we wanted to get out to you as quickly as possible:
1) Trip Dates: We plan to depart Denver, Wednesday, March 6, and return to Denver, Sunday, March 10.
2) Hotel: We will be staying at the Doubletree Hotel, which is within walking distance of the Albuquerque Convention Center,where the ASTA conference will be held.
3) Payment Schedule: The orchestra’s first payment to ASTA is due Monday, October 15. In order to have funds available to make this payment, we must collect a first installment payment from families by Friday, October 12. We anticipate the following payment schedule. This does not include costs of any other activities that may become available for students.
ASTA Albuquerque, NM
Payment Schedule
High School
10/12/18 230.00
11/12/18 230.00
12/12/18 230.00
1/12/19 230.00
Total 920.00
$125 to be brought for food
Middle School
10/12/18 222.00
11/12/18 222.00
12/12/18 222.00
1/12/19 222.00
Total 888.00
$125 to be brought for food
Although not all the trip details have been confirmed at this time, we will convey as much additional information at the meeting Thursday as is possible. Hopefully, many of your questions will be answered, but we will do our utmost to answer any additional questions you may have.
We look forward to seeing you there!
DSAO Travel Committee,
Suzi Erickson
Sharon Felser
Heidi Martin
Laurie Ivy
and
Dr. L, Terrie Tyree, and Alenka Han |