The Clapper

In this issue:

Well Struck? (Cover Article)
AGM 2010 Information
Butlers' Ringing Tour
A First for Orleans
30th Anniversary of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Officers Columns
Area Reports
Peals & Quarter Peals

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The Clapper is the journal of the North American Guild of  Change Ringers. It is published quarterly and distributed to all members. The cut-off dates for submissions are January 8, April 8, July 8 and October 8.  The Newsletter Editor will hold space for a specific article if given reasonable notice. Items for publication should be sent to the Editor at .

The Clapper archives

Full Circle (Shreveport)
Stedman, Revisited
Philly Weekend
Officers Columns
Area Reports
Peals & Quarter Peals

Studying Stedman
2010 Butler Tour (Cornwall)
Officers Columns
Area Reports
Peals & Quarter Peals
10th Anniversary of St. Marks' (Philadelphia)

NYC AGM Report & Photos
Obituaries: Bob Stokes & Paul Cattermole
Name the Place
Butler Tour 2009
Post Your News While It's New
Ringing in Cape Cod

Remembering Bill Jackson
Five Towers Festival 2009
Yale Update
The First Steel City Ringing Festival
Toronto Twelve Weekend 2009
Thoughts and Wandering in Worcester
Kalamazoo's Silver Anniversary Peal

US Presidential Inauguration Ringing in DC and elsewhere
Bill Jackson Remembered
Surprise Workshop
Quarter Peal Weekend
Spring Dinner
NYC AGM Update

"A True 5040" -- Trumpler Golden Anniversary
First Local Peal at Trinity NYC
Bell Ringing at Smith College
"A Picture is Truly Worth 2009 Changes"
Surprise Weekend at Brewster
"Teamwork in the Belfry" -- New Clappers for the Advent

"The Little Tower that Could" -- Miami AGM
"Improving Ringing Skills"
Getting Acquainted with Russian Bells and Ringers
Pittsburgh Ringing Course
Arthur Nichols' & Change Ringing in Boston
New Website Preview

A Day in Old New Castle
6th Annual Minnesota Handbell Weekend
Butler Tour 2008
Education Survey Analysis
NCS Rings Around the UK
View of Seattle's Bells

Seattle Ring in Process
"Start Spreading the News" -- SRCY in NYC
25th Anniversary of Old North Rehanging
Vernal Equinox Weekend in Philadelphia
The NorthEast Towers
Five Towers Festival Report

"Treble's Gone" -- 2007 Striking Competition
The Towers of the SouthWest
Birmingham's First Quarter Peal
St. Martin's in the Field's 500th QP
20th Anniversary of Raleigh Bells

2007 NoGA AGM Report
Report of the Constitution Committee
Statement of Financial Position
Proposed Constitution Committee
"The Bells of Stetson Chapel Reach 500"
"It Was Awesome"

Seventeen Years of Butler Tours
Proposed Budget for 2008
Butler 'WAGOS' Tour Report
"All's Well that Ends Well"
"St. Louis University Ringing"

Thirty Years of Ringing Together n Victoria
DVD Review: "Craft of Bellringing"
Report of the southeastern Palm Sunday Workshop
Report of Philadelphia events
"When we are Four"

The English Ringer of the 'Boston Guild'
Appeal for Clapper Archives
Ringing for funeral of Gerald Ford
Bells of Old North history
Report of 2007 Flying Pig Festival in Houston
Name the Ringers

Report of AGM in British Columbia
"Learning to Ring Derek Sawyer's Way"
"Ringing a la Mode"
Report of the Peal Books Project Team
"Turn Around When Possible" -- Butler Tour Report

Obituary of Derek Miles Sawyer
The Bells of Birmingham
Fourth Annual Minnesota Handbell Weekend Report
"To Strengthen Ringing in North America"
Five Towers Ringing Festival Report
Random Access

The Church of the Good Shepard -- Wilde Bells
Report of the Constitution Committee
Philadelphia Quarter Peal Weekend 2006
Random Access
Obituary of J. Arthur Izard
Obituary of Dr. Robert Alan Verrey

The Bells of Holy Rosary Cathedral
NAGCR Election Results
Yesteryear in the Clapper
Upcoming Events
Ring Around Charleston Announcement

"Go Houston"
Book Review: "Coonducting and Coursing Order"
First Annual Individual Striking Competition, Kalamazoo
Don Trumpler's Western Canada Peal Band Tour
The 2005 Butler Tour
Constitution Committee Report

Toronto 12-Bell Weekend Report
Constitution Committee Report
Four Towers Festival 2005 Poem
Phiiadelphia Bells Barbeque Birthday Bash
Washington Three Tower Tour
Random Access

A Celebration of the Vernal Equinox
A Quarter Peal Weekend in the Grand Tradition"
"Undersea Ringing: An Octopus Surfaces"
Random Access
The Fortune Cookie Game

A Dream Comes True in Sewanee
Report of Dedication of Augusta Bells
Toronto to the Max: First Peal on Twelve by NA Band in Toronto
Raleigh Striking Competition
Official NAG Chat Group
Random Access

Ringing the Red Line in Washington DC
Quebec City Peal Weekend
Central Council Report
Announcement of NAG Chat Group
A Virginia Gentleman in Bruce Butler's Bus
AGM photos

Three Cheers for the Four Towers Festival
Way Down Upon the Sewanee Tower
Remembrance of Shirley Harris
First Peal for Pittsburgh
Calgary Homecoming: 50 Years of Bells in Calgary
Peach of a New Ring in Georgia
Four Towers Festival Report

Impressions of Ring Around Charleston
Obituary of Martyn W. Harbott
The Old Post Office Tower: Not Your Average Ring of Bells
Guidelines to Tower Etiquette
Thoughts on the Striking Competitions
Of Headstocks, Gudgeons, Clapper Joints, of Stays and Twiddle Pins
Dear Diary: A Guild to the Ringer's Diary

Striking Competition 2003
Thoughts on Bell Control
Conductor's Corner: Calling Extents of Stedman Doubles
Second Spring in Australia
Handbell Book Reviews
The Clapper Survey (Early Results)
Top Ten Reasons to Ignore Your Ringing Friends' Good Ideas

25th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Bells at St. James, Hendersonville
Letters to the Editor: Catching the Sally with the Tail around the Back
AGM Kalamazoo 2003
Ringing Roadshow 2003
Perspectives from the Other Side of the Atlantic
Conductor's Corner: A Quarter Peal of Grandsire Triples
Innocents Abroad -- A Ringing Tale: Or Why Would You Go to Wantage to Learn to Ring?

Memories of a '43er
A Course of Ringing in Kent, or, Cue the Queen's Quarter
Augmentation to 6 of the 3 at St. James, Dallas
Circling the Cathedral
2003 Three Towers Festival and Course in Houston
A Ringer's Fate: A Poem by Aileen Murphy
Conductors' Corner: An Alternative Approach to Calling Stedman Triplesr

The Surprise Weekend
A Useful Next Step for Doubles Bands
Not Just a Plain Course
My First Quarter Peal Weekend
New Castle Dinner 2002
If the Bells Won't Come to You, You'll Have to Go to the Bells
From The Clapper

2002 Striking Competition
Officer Columns
Anniversary Celebrations in Miami
Hells Bells
Dolphins Break Surface, Hold 1st World Tour
The Pinx Tour

The Bells of Southminster
The Cumberlands' Country Meeting
In Loving Memory: Ethel Margaret Izard Twining
David Cyril Bertram Mills: A Tribute Delivered at the Memorial Service
High Times on the Downs
The Keele Ringing Course
Notes from the Back of the Bus

The Carmel Campanile
Calgary's Memorial to the Queen Mother
Victoria Day Weekend 2002 Report
If This is Tuesday . . . The Trumpler Tour
The Morrison Tour
The Bells' Birthday Barbeque Bash
Quebec Weekend 2002

Obituary of David C.B. Mills
And Did Bare Feet in Ancient Time: A Poem by David Wiedner
David Mills: A Tribute to a Friend
Westminster Abbey, Mission City, Meeting
Amphibian Ringing Society: Fact or Fiction? Coming to a Sleazy Network Near You!!!
Ring of One Follows the Sun: The Tale of the New Castle Cow Bell -- A Poem by Sue Clopper

New Cathedral Eight in Charleston
Emily Takes Charleston
Christ Church Raleigh Restoration Complete
Two Yanks at Sparsholt
A Love Story
The Twoer Bells of Trinity Episcopal CAthedral

Ring Toronto: The 2001 AGM
Condolences: The Ringing Community Responds
99 Peals +1
In Philadelphia, Spring Came Late This Year
Touring the North of England
A Holiday with Some Ringing in the Southern States
The Tower Bells of Trinity Espiscopal Cathedral

Perpetual Peal Panic: Saint Martin's 20th Anniversary Peal
The Tower Bells of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Listening to Ringing
Honolulu's Tenth Anniversary
Bells in Literature
Arkansas Tower Linked to Marietta
Grace Church Ringers Tour the UK

Tower Maintenance in Charleston
Quarter Peal Weekend
Surprise Major Weekend
The Tower Bells of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
The Lost Rings of America: Baltimore

NAGCR Striking Competition 2000: Two Views
Dedication Weekend -- Atlanta
Conducting for New Conductors
The Tower Bells of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Part IV
Announcement of Toronto 12-bell Weekend

NAGCR Annual Meeting 2000
Where Are We to Get Our Ringers
What I Did at Bell Camp
The Tower Bells of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Little Rock
A Kalamazoo Weekend: Why the Queen Mum Will Have to Wait Another Year
The Eagle Screamed
10th Annual Butler Tour: A Squirrel's View

St. Luke's Bell Tower Nears Completion
Alice W. Shurcliffe Obituary
Bell's Birthday Barbecue Bash
College Youths' Country Meeting: Canada 2000
A Visit to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Philadelphia Party Patrol Invades New England
St. Neot 1999: An Exile's View

In Memoriam: J. MIchael Simpson
GCNA Website Supports NAGCR
Ringing in the Millennium
Philadelphia Spring Dinner
Sallies Retire to Honolulu
Diary of a Clapper
Ringers' Excuses: It's Not My Fault, Really

ASCY Canada 2000 Tour
Report of Charleston AGM 1999
Obituary of Ernest Edwin (Ted) Lee
Conducting One's First Quarter Peal
Visiting Abilene
The Bells of St. Mark's Philadelphia

Striking Competition in Hendersonville
When Sound Meets Symbol: A Day of Change Ringing and Mathematics at Kalamazoo
The Bruce and Eileen Butler 9th Annual Tour -- The Shires
St. Mark's Rededication Weekend

Plain Bob's Almanac: Repairing Bob Doubles
Venimus Tinnimus Vincimus, or The Marietta Surprise Workshop
St. Mark's Bells: The Grit, the Grime, and the Glory
Birthday Bash Weekend
All Local Band First Peal (Marietta)
Central Council Report

"A Ringer Departs" -- Remembering Wendell Blake
The Three Towers Festival Report
Philadelphia Spring Ringing: QP Weekend Report
"How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Scenes from Marietta Surprise Weekend

Dangerous BC Bells
Plain Bob's Almanac: Ringing Jargon
20 Tons of Bell Metal and Not an Ounce of Change
Of Mushroom Clouds, Quasimodo and the Efforts of Mere Mortals
A Neophyte Rings at York Minster
A Charleston Peal
1998 Striking Competition: Stella Maris

Exhilaration in Victoria: 1998 AGM
Shamrocks and Haggis: 1998 Butlers' WISE Tour
Recruitment: How Is It Going?
Change Ringing in America Circa 1946

500 Quarters at the Advent
Quebec Weekend 1998
Derek Wilsden Honored
Philadelphia Bells Come of Age
Three Towers Festival
"The Tower Handbook" -- A Book Review
Our Men in Ireland

Remembering John G. "Jack" Fanfani
The Bells of Trivitte Memorial Church: A Lost Ring Found
St. Mark's Church Votes to Restore Bells
A Vancouver Peal of Plain Bob Triples
Observations of a First-Timer at a Quarter Peal Weekend
Marietta Surprise Major Weekend
Three Towers Festival Report

DC Band Wins NAG Striking Competition
Victoria AGM Report
The British Columbia Association of Change Ringers
Charleston's First Ringing Weekend
St. Andrew's Honolulu Tower Outing

Notes from Northampton: Report of the 1997 AGM
NAGCR AGM: One Person's Perspective
Report of Smith College AGM Ringing Course
Letters to the Editor
Remembrance of Sally Coad
Seventh Annual Butler Tour Report
NCS Whitechapel Guild Trip to Devon and Cornwall

Dedication of North America's First Twelve
Victoria Day Weekend Report
Seeds Sprouting Quebec!
Ninth Annual Three Towers Festival (and Ringing Course)
Review of New Teaching Aids from the Central Council
Bells and Ringing in Boston at the Turn of the Century in Boston
Review of "The Bellcaster's Apprentice"

Toronto Cathedral Bells Are Installed and Ringing
Spring Again! Vernal Equinox Dinner in Philadelphia
Philly Quarter Peal Weekend '97
Old York Twelve Chronology
Looking Back
Review of "There Was Life Before NAG"

Bells with Wine in California
Toronto Twelve Update
Looking Back
Name Change for The Clapper
Ringing on Bodies

Report of Miami AGM
Veronese System of Bell Ringing
Celebration of the Bells, Victoria BC
Ringing in the North
Tower Grabbing -- A Poem by Chet Ham

Three Towers Festival inTexarkana
Calling Plain Bob "By the Clock"
Charleston Young Ringers Guild
Announcement of Ring of Twelve to be Installed in Toronto
Don Taylor Meets John Taylor: Bells for Dallas
Life Before NAG: Calgary Chapter

First Tower Bells Rung in Georgia -- Bell Dedication in Marietta
An Unexpected Visitor
Life Before NAG: Hingham Chapter
Traveling Nuptials
Report of Vernal Equinox Ringing
Stedman Made Easy: A Review of "The Printer's Devil" by Chico Kid
Centennial Celebrations

Where Are Our Ringers to Come From?
Thanks to Will Harwin and Jill Kirby
Go in Peace! -- a Poem by Chet Ham
Washington's Dave Brown Dies
Life Before NAG; Part 3

1995 AGM in Boston: Demiquinquecentennial of the Old North Bells, but We Spend More Time at Advent
Tower Integrity at Hingham
North American Ringers Sighted in UK!
Quebec: Remembrance of Things Past
Life Before NAG -- Part II

New Bells Dedicated on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
"Life Before NAG"
A Tribute to the Ellis Family
NCS Ringers Tour British Isles
Conducting Grandsire Doubles

"Part of the Pattern"
Obituary of Bill Crichton
"The Blessing"
Philadelphia Spring Dinner Report
Philadelphia Quarter Peal Weekend Report
"Ringing Rounds: The Second Time Around

Conducting Plain Bob Doubles (for Everyone)
Summary Minutes of the Executive Committee Meeting 1/14/95
Obituary of Albert Mostone
Book Service Offerings
A Double Surprise

AGM Returns to Kalamazoo
Summary Minutes of the Executive Committee Meeting
"Learning the Ropes"
Change Ringing in Flatland

Silent and Unconducted at Riverside
Unwaned 37 Cwt Twelve -- Former Bull Ring Bells
"Quebec: David Flies, Lynn Doesn't, and Sally Unwinds in Chet's Arms"
"A Name on a Lost Peal Board"
An Enjoyable Exercise
"Classical Music and Change Ringing Music

Three Decades of Devotion
Announcement of 1994 AGM Plans
"A Sparkling Weekend in Philadelphia"
Report of Vernal Equinox Weekend
Obituary of Geddes
Acrostic by MT

"First in Maryland"
Announcement of NAG Tutorial Program
Three Towers Festival Announcement
Vernal Equinox Weekend Announcement
"How to Make Friends with, and Influence, the Bell

AGM in Calgary Report
A View of the AGM from Two Visitors
If It's Sunday, It must be Victoria
25th Anniversary of the Bells at Smith College
Contribution Guidelines
"HOG Tour"

"Surprise! Methods"
"Quebec Pilgrimage"
Peal Ringing in England
Hands On in Ithaca
Dedication in Charleston
A Distant Country Meeting

St Michael's, Charleston, Bells Cross the Sea
Raleigh Peal Dedicates Augmented Eight
Book Review: "Change Ringing: The History of an English Art"
"Number Crunching at the National Cathedral"
"Meredith Morris Elected Pope? or, Awkansawyers Ring in the Presidential Inauguration of a "Man from Hope"
"Saturday Dawned Bright and Sunny"

"The Year of the Simulator -- Concluded"
Raleigh Dedicates New Eight
Philadelphia Hosts Striking Competition
Obituary for Rt. Rev. Allen Goodings
Vernal Equinox Weekend Announcement
"Were You Invited"

Kent-Brewster Hosts 1992 AGM
Expansion Proposal Approved for Ballot
Executive Committee Action
Bruce & Eileen's Bellringing Tour
Re-Visiting Royalty
"A New Ring of Twelve for Minneapolis-St Paul"

The Lost Ring of Holy Trinity Cathedral, New Westminster
Obituary of William Theobald
News from Abroad: The Update from Oxford
The Year of the Ringing Simulator
Headstock Hiatus at Houston

Learning Surprise Methods
Sound Out the Spring Song
NAG Role of Honor Established
Honolulu Update

Restoration Progress at St Mary's, Burlington
Burlington Work Weekend: "A Wonderful, Terrible Time"
1991 Striking Competition: First Place Tie
"Meditation, Reminder"

"Labor Day in the Sweet Sunny (?) South"
Minutes of the 1991 AGM in Little Rock
Consecration of Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria
"The First Ithaca Handbell Gorge"
"Belfries, Beds, Baths, and Breakfast"

St. Andrew's Honolulu Dedicated
International Striking Competition
Ringing for the Queen (And Then Some)
Old North Peal Lottery Announcment
USA '91 (If It's Tuesday It Must Be Texas)

"Building a Belfry, or EXPO Moves to Riverside"
"Little Rock Welcomes AGM"
"Learning Surprise Methods: Cambridge"
Striking Competition Announcement
"Equinoctial Revelry"
Ringers Songs

"The Bells of Abilene Are Ringing Changes"
"A Minute and Distorted Look at North American Ringing"
Cumberlands at Kalamazoo
"A Trip to Abilene, or: A Tour of Eight Towers"
Book Review: "Campanological Archaeology"

Report of 1990 AGM in Philadelphia
Washington Celebrates Consecration of National Cathedral
Database Design for Quarter Peals
EXPO Rings for Crown Princess
"Thanksgiving"

Report of Philadelphia AGM
Report of Three Towers Festival
Report of Raleigh Striking Competition
Philadelphia's Ten-Year Anniversary
Quebec City Weekend Report
!990 Handbell Bash Report

Cathedral of the Holy Rosary -- A Short History
Plans for Philadelphia AGM
"Rutland: An Exercise in Surprise Major Composition"
"A Ringing Network???"
Remembrance of Ben Schwarzs

A Stedman Primer
Ringing Tour of Northern Ireland
Survey of Scottish Towers -- II
"Pulling Off Bells"
"Ringers' Test"

"Post-AGM Syndrome Afflicts Flow Chart Queen, or Warm Welcome in Houston"
Minutes of the 1989 AGM
"A Passion for Bells -- Part 3"
"Three Towers in a Week"

NAGCR's First Live Striking Competition
Abilene Update
"Eight Ringers in a Boat"
"E Maurice Atkins: A Treat of Major for the New Conductor"
Quebec City Ringing Weekend Report
American Ringers North of the Severn: Tour '89

Arthur Nichols: A Passion for Bells
"Toward Better Striking"
"Computers and Composition"
"Fun, Surf, and Sun -- Almost"
Revised 1988 Peal Analysis

The Bells of St. Michael's, Charleston
Survey of Towers in Scotland & Renegade Americans in Scotland
"OK Things to Think about during Peals & Things Not to Think about during Peals"
Striking Competition Announcement
Bicentennial Peal Boards in Place at Last
Announcement of First Three Towers Festival

Advent Scores 100th Peal
A "Delight" to Remember, Or, 5 Englishmen Go Mad in Houston
"A Real Ringing Weekend: Farthing-Stibal Wedding"
In Memory of Alice Dickinson
Muncians Meander Down Under
Editorial Mailbag

"St. Mark's, Philadelphia: Bells on Trial
Old North Peal Lottery Announcement
Transvaal and Zimbabwe Guilds Welcomed
Quebec City Ringing Weekend Report

"Award to Ringer"
"Things Overheard"
Plans for Quebec AGM
Popular Peal Compositions: Stedman Caters

Raleigh Peal Dedicated
Letter from the President
NAG Tour Report
Letters to the Editor

Ringing Tours Highlight NAG Summer
MIdwest Group Brings "Grand Cicadas" Tour East
Ringers, Chocaholics Converge on Boston; Madcap Weekend Ensues
Proposal for HLM of Martyn Harbott
"NAGing GOSSIP"

Plans for the Kalamazoo AGM
Report of Quebec City Weekend
"A Visit Down Under"
Report of CCCBR Meeting
NAG Scores Long Length of Double Dublin
"The Twisted Grapevine"

Historical Account of 1894 Restoration at Old North
Erin Triples Long Length Attempt
"Heard in the Tower"
"Ringing on Bodies"
Wakeland to Do Tower History
"Ancient Society Established in America"

NAG Band Rings Record Length of Erin Caters
"Martin on Cambridge"
CCCBR PR Committee Report

AGM Photos & Report
CCCBR Report
Middleton's Cambridge
"Belfrymanship" Reprinted from 1977

First Local Peal at Kalamazoo
AGM in Victoria Details
Old North Peal Lottery
Photos & Report of Quebec City Weekend
Doubles Ringing Continued with Compositions & Table of Names

“Doubles Ringing”
Plans for Quebec City Weekend
Proposal to Purchase a Computer to Produce The Clapper
Report from CCCBR PR Committee
Striking Competition Details

“A Mid-(& Trans-) Atlantic Tower Grab”
Announcement of Striking Competition
Plans for AGM in Victoria in late August
Maps & Directions to Smith College tower

Report & Photos of AGM in Boston
“Abilene Revisited”
Report of the Quebec City Weekend
Australian BiCentennial Planning for 1988

"It's William Again"
"Measuring Odd-Struck Bells"
About Founders and Foundries
Member Profile: Don Morrison
Proposal for Dues Change

Miami bells dedicated
Obituary of Bill Risinger
"Teaching Change Ringing to the Masses"
Charts for ringing simple methods
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Composing PB Major"
Complete List of Bells of North America

Dedication of Texarkana bells
Update on proposed Texas rings
Plans for 1985 AGM in Boston
Bell Fund Concert for Cambridge MA
Schedule for Quebec City Weekend

Handbell Census Form
"Beryl's Travels"
"Go Grandsire Caters"
Last Chance Puzzle
List of all NA Towers

First Peal at Kalamazoo
"Date Quarters and Round Blocks"
Washington Bells: 20 Year Perspective

Dedication of the bells of Kalamazoo College
Statements Introducing new officers
Proposed new Constitution & ByLaws

Tenth Anniversary of Melrose Bells
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" by James R. Lawson
The Riverside Carillon
"Closet Catholic, Anyone?"
Little Grandsire Caters
Sound Insulation in Belfries

"New Ringers Learn the Ropes"
Name Change for "The Clapper"?
Dedication of the Ditchley Bells, Old PO Building, DC
"Little Grandsire"
"The Origins of Our Art"
"On Conducting: Plain Courses of Plain Bob"

Washington DC Post Office Ring -- History, Dedication
"Queen's Birthday Frolics"
Little Grandsire Caters
"On Conducting -- Part Two"
New Constitution and ByLaws

Victoria Bells Dedicated
St. Michael's Bells, Charleston
"Alice's Adversaries in the Belfry" reprinted from 1956 RW
Ditchley Gift of Bells to the US Congress
New Ring in Abilene
Little Grandsire Triples

Obituaries for Fred Price and A. Patrick Cannon
"Rabbit's Guild Fears Victimisation"
Plain Bob Minor Discussion
"William!"

"The Rabbit's Guild"
"From Here to Here and In -Between"
"Bells are Instruments, Ringers are Musicians"
"Synergisms"
"On Conducting"
"Points to Ponder"

Local Peal at Victoria, B.C.
More letters about conflict over Guild purpose and means
"Ringing Logistics" by WJ Kollar
"It's William Again"
"Starting Surprise"
Proposals to amend the Constitution

First Peal at Old North
Replies on the matter of the meaning & means of the NAGCR
"Will's Wit"
Profile of William Theobald
Progress at Immanuel Church

Plea for dues payment
Standing Committees of the NAGCR
"Too Proud to Snool?"
"Will Ragland Rite Again"
Questionnaire about NAG purposes and activities

Report of Hendersonville AGM
AGM Course Questionnaire Results
Geoff Davies Declines HLM and outlines future tasks for the Guild
"Excerpts from the Diary of a Texas Ringer"
"A Ring of Bells"

Philadelphia Ringing Weekend
Early History of Immanuel Church, New Castle
"There and Back -- The Journey of 2 Bellringers"
First ringers meeting in Laramie, Wyoming
"The First Peal in Canada: Story of Vancouver's Bells" (RW, 1916)

Reprint from Harper's Weekly
"Two from Boston, Or How I Learned to Love Maggie"
"Bell Ringing by Computer"
Response to "Carter's Principle"
"Xenomania Surprise Major"
Plans for the restoration of Immanuel Church, New Castle

First peal on the Mitchell Ten
"Heaviest and Lightest Pealed in a Day"
AGM Site Selection Article
"The Method Column -- Carter's Triples"
"Belfrymanship"
NAG Constitution

Minutes of AGM on August 31 in Houston
Annual Report of NAGCR from June 1979-June 1980
"The Practice of Change Ringing in the United States"
Obituary for Fred J. Westlake
Advisory Committee formed for ring of bells at St. John the Divine in NYC

Announcement of St. James Guild Annual Dinner, Hendersonville
Announcement of NAGCR Peal Record Reference Service
Call for more PR materials for Guild Scrapbook

St. Martin's Philadelphia bells installed -- 14th in the U.S.A.
Old North ringing on Walter Cronkite's Evening News
Proposed amendments to the Constitution

Exchange regarding political situation in Quebec and ringing
"Plain Bob, Variable Hunt
E.W. Izard Memorial Fund

Minutes of the 1979 AGM in Brewster
Dedication of Berkeley Carillon
Bells in Colorado
"St. Martin's (Philadelphia) Orders its Bells"

Philadelphia Bell Fund
AGM Hendersonville Report
Statement of NAG membership requirements
Import Tariff on Cast Bells
"Treble and Tenor"

Announcement of next AGM at Kent
Letter from the Editors
"Plain Speaker"
"Stedman Trips without Too Many Tears (2)

Letter from the Secretary-Treasurer
April Showers in February
New Activity at Christ Church Boston
"Plain Speaker"
Report of the New Castle Annual Dinner
A Reasonable Facsimile of English Beer

New Castle's Annual Dinner Report
"Plain Speaker"
Letter to and from the Editors
Recipe for New Castle Cheese Soup

Report and Minutes of Chicago AGM
"Plain Speaker"
"North American Ringers in England"
"Don Morrison, Expo Bells, and Confusion at a Steam Festival"
"Stedman Triples without Too Many Tears"

The Hendersonville Ring
Edward Whitaker Izard Obituary
"The Pilgrim's Progress"
"New Ring for Washington?'
"Plain Speaker"
Report of Bell Fund Committee

Proposal for a monthly Clapper
"Plain Speaker" article
Quarter Peal analysis
"A New Class of Minor Methods?"

First peal on the Advent bells, Boston
Announcement of a NAG pamphlet
"Philadelphia, Vancouver, and Recruiting"
Announcement of 1978 AGM in Chicago
Cartoon Caption Contest

Report & Minutes of Vancouver/Victoria AGM
Annual Reports of Officers, Budget & Book Service
Announcement of a new ring for Washington, DC
Report of First Peal in North America, Reprinted from 1916 RW
News of NAG Bellhanger in Britain

Information about upcoming AGM in Victoria/Vancouver
Proposal for a NAG Bell Fund
Proposed amendments to the Constitution

"A Bellhanger's Winter Complaint" -- a poem by LCW
Announcement of NAG Book Service -- "Rapid Ringing Books"
Message from the Secretary-Treasurer
Forms related to upcoming AGM
Annual Quarter Peal Report

Report of First Peal at Brewster
"From the Horse's Mouth"
Brief History of Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria
Letter from the Secretary-Treasurer
Belfry Gossip

Report of NAG Tour to England
"Mysteries of the Art" -- A Guide for Non-Ringers, poem by Ann Martin
Minutes of the Groton AGM
Report of the Boston AGM
Note about role of Area Reps
Proposal for New England peal week

Bicentennial ringing
Quebec City Weekend report
Announcement of upcoming Boston AGM Agenda
"From the Horse's Mouth"

Special Report of Philadelphia ringing
Reports from other areas
Proposed amendment to the Constitution
"From the Horse's Mouth" -- N.A.G. Notes

Ringing commences at Melrose School, Brewster
Area Reports in depth as usual

Report & Minutes of Washington AGM
Article about Marie Cross teaching in Houston
Details of planned 1976 ringing tour of England
"Belfry Gossip" column

AGM location change
AGM Agenda & Motions
Paul Revere Bicentennial Reprint from RW
John Buchholz obituary
Report of the Quebec City weekend

Formation of the MIT Guild
Area Reports
"Rapidly Sinking Old Men" column

Calgary AGM photos
Submission instructions from the Clapper Editor
AGM Reports & Minutes
More extensive News & Letters to the Editor than in previous issues

Report of Williams Peal Band Tour
News from Advent Tower
HLMs named
170 ringers in Tobin Tour visit Boston
AGM report
Public Relations 1974

Kent-Groton Exchange Visits
Wilfred Williams Peal Band comes to Boston
AGM Motions
Letter from Tony Collins on NAG policies

Grotties Take Trip to England
Ringers Honor 'Pop' Izzard
Quebec City Hosts Ringing Weekend

Silent Bells in the Boston Area
What is This?
To England Again