JIM JECKER IS RECOGNIZED FOR "A JOB WELL DONE" BY WES WILSON (FORMER NHB PRESIDENT) AND THE BAND MEMBERS

The NEW HORIZONS CONCERT BAND of Dallas, (NHBD), presently having 54 members and growing, develops a new slate of officers every two years. Mr. Jim Jecker (Trombone and Tuba player) has been President in 2005 and 2006 and must be recognized for having done a wonderful job! Jim has made the band grow from about 30 to 54 members, has created excellent band exposure through the press, helped gain a professional conductor who in turn has made the band a much higher quality musical organization, has created our new status as a 501-c3 organization, (which encourages sponsors to help us pay our expenses), also has enhanced the band website: http://www.nhbd.org/; to make it more user-friendly and offer more category details, and most difficult of all, Jim kept the all volunteer band running smoothly through numerous free concerts and weekly practices! The NHBD salutes and thanks Mr. Jim Jecker as a star performer!

WALTER DEAN IS ELECTED AS OUR NEW PRESIDENT

Jim passes the presidency to Walt.








New President Walt Dean is in the center of our two past presidents: Left is Wes Wilson and on the right is Jim Jecker.

CONCERT BAND'S OFFICERS

FRONT ROW: WALTER DEAN -PRESIDENT, JUDY STASER-TREASURER, TOTSY CUNNINGHAM-SOCIAL, CARYN KORSHIN-HISTORIAN,
JOANN AUKES-SCRAPBOOK
BACK ROW: FRANK BRAY-VICK PRESIDENT/SCHEDULING, WES WILSON-PAST PRESIDENT, ROBERT SIMS-LIBRARIAN AND JACK PARKER-VICE PRESIDENT/OPERATIONS
NOT IN PICTURE IS DON KUNZE-ASST. TREASURER AND MARY KILGORE-PHOTOGRAPHER

OUR MEMBER WINS THE ROYCE FRANZONI AWARD

Our Member Jimmie Stewart Wins the Royce Franzoni Award.

One of our multi talented members, Jimmie Stewart, won the Royce Franzoni Award.
Jimmie not only plays Bass Clarinet in our Concert Band, Tenor Sax in the UP SWING Band (along with Bb Clarinet when needed) he races cars.

Jimmie has enjoyed being a racecar driver for many years and wins most of the time.

This recent award is given in the honor of Royce Franzoni, who was a retired Lt. Colonel from the Paratroopers, and an auto crosser. He was a very humble, selfless individual, and it was his desire to establish an award in honor of a friend of his, whom he considered to be even more humble etc. Royce was always going out of his way to assist others. Unfortunately Royce developed cancer of the brain and passed away very quickly before the award was established. The Equipe Rapide Sports Car Club decided to establish an award in his name and present it each year, by a vote of the board of directors, to the individual whom they felt was the most deserving of it.

The criteria for this award are:
You must run all 10 events in 2006.
You must finish 1st in your class.
The board of directors must vote you eligible for it.

In addition to running with this club, Jimmie also competed in the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America), where he finished 1st in the point standings. You will see two different numbers on the cars in the pictures. He ran #7 with ER and #167 with SCCA
Way to go Jimmie !!!!