Event Reports
Details of peals and quarters rung in North America that have been reported in September 2010.
Details of peals and quarters peals rung in North America in approximately the last two weeks.
Eight students and eleven helpers gather in Pittsburgh to explore the delights (and pitfalls) of Surprise Major!
Article with You tube video links of the Philadelphia Guild of Change Ringers trip to the Boston Area July 9-12, 2010.
Kalamazoo celebrated Jeff Smith's eightieth birthday with a handbell peal in which Jeff rang, and further ringing, in both hand and tower.
The weekend of 16–18 April 2010 seven Toronto ringers, joined by two from elsewhere, journeyed to Pittsburgh for three days of ringing, including practicing Cornwall, ringing one peal, and five quarters.
Two 12-bell peals were scored in Toronto for the 2009 SRCY Peal Weekend.
Rob Bannister and Rick DuPuy ring their first peal together.
The Miami Guild of Change Ringers focuses on Grandsire Doubles during a 4-day training led by Bruce and Eileen Butler. The training comes shortly after a visit from Worcester Catheral ringer Bernard Taylor who helped set the Miami ringers up with a simulator.
A band of Society of Royal Cumberland Youths was recently visiting the Charleston area and provided the opportunities for three of our ringers to have “firsts” in peal ringing:
Eve Gentieu rang her first peal, ringing the treble to plain bob major at the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul, Steve Collins rang his first peal of treble bob as the treble to Belfast Surprise Major at Stella Maris, and Noah Smith rang his first peal of surprise, ringing the 4th bell in Cambridge Major at Grace. Congratulations to all three of them.
The Boston Ringers again rang a touch of 350 Grandsire Triples in support of the international day of action to promote awareness of the dangerous levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
An unabridged accounting of the Butler tour to South Africa this past summer written by one of the participants along with quarter peal details.
The Annual Pittsburgh Ringing Course, which this year focused on basic methods on 7 & 8 bells, was low-key and highly productive.
A Round Table discussion of Recruiting & Retention was held at the AGM among seven ringers who began learning five or fewer years ago. In the hope that their perspectives would be most revealing about the current situation in North America, they were encouraged to discuss how they first heard of and came to ringing, what got them back the second time, and what has kept them coming in the years since. They also discussed reasons they thought others who began with them had dropped out. Their comments provide substantial grist for the Recruiting & Retention effort in North America.
The Nine Tailors and a Memorial Quarter Peal were rung at Old North Church in Boston in the days immediately following the death of Edward M. Kennedy who represented the people of Massachusetts in the US Senate for 47 years.
Peal of Double Norwich rung to celebrate 25th anniversary of dedication of Kalamazoo College bells.
