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<p>Please see message about the Louis Potter Cello Competition -</p>
<p>Thanks - janis<br>
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<div id="Signature">Janis Shier Peterson, President
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Laurie Psarianos <psarviol@sbcglobal.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 28, 2017 7:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> janispeterson@hotmail.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Louis Potter Cello Competition</font>
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<b id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490736326332_15691"><span id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490736326332_15692" style="color:black">We are very happy to announce that our 2017 Louis Potter Cello Competition will be taking place on Monday, May 1st at 7:00 p.m.
at First Baptist Church of Troy, which is located on John R road between Big Beaver and Maple roads. All applications are due by Monday, April 24th. The following attachment contains the application and all of the information and guidelines concerning this
cello competition which is a MASTA competition. This competition is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors in High School.</span></b></div>
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<b id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490736326332_15696"><span id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490736326332_15697" style="color:black">We hope you may have an applicable student or students whom would like to participate. Please forward this to anyone you think
would be interested in participating.</span></b></div>
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<span id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17254"><font id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17255" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><strong id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17256">Dear Janis,</strong></font></span><font id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17257" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">
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<font id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17264" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><b id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17265"><span id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17266">I got your contact information from Diane Winder
who has been involved with this cello competition from it's inception. </span></b></font></div>
<div id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490736326332_9430" dir="ltr" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; text-align:left; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif; font-size:24px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left">
<font id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490736326332_9429" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><b id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490736326332_9428"><span id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490736326332_9427">We are currently in the process of promoting our Louis
Potter Cello Competition which will be taking place on Monday, May 1st at 7:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Troy. This cello competition is a MASTA competition. In the past, MASTA has done a mass email to all of their members, which has been extremely helpful
in recruiting applicants. We would really appreciate if you could do that for us once again!</span></b></font></div>
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<b id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17271"><span id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17272"><font id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17273" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">There is a letter attached at the bottom that I will
forward to you in an email that can easily be forwarded to your members. I will also attach the application with the competition's information and guidelines to that email.</font></span></b></div>
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<span id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490725045564_18176"><font id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490725045564_18175" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><strong id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490725045564_18274">Scholarships are provided to the winning recipient
through MASTA. In the fall, we send a check to the MASTA Treasurer, who then forwards the monies to the winners college specifying that it be applied to their first year tuition. At your convenience
</strong><strong id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490725045564_18275">could</strong><strong id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490725045564_18276"> you give us the current contact information of the MASTA Treasurer?</strong></font></span></div>
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<b id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17276"><span id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17277"><font id="yiv1452951531yui_3_16_0_1_1490716645910_17278" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Please confirm that you received this email and I thank
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