The Clapper ~ 1980-1989

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

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• 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

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

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• Letter of Transition from PR Officer to Secretary-Treasurer
• Minutes of AGM on August 31 in Houston
• Annual Report of NAGCR from June 1979-June 1980
• Notes of CCCBR meeting taken from the RW
• Review of AGM
• Letters to the Editor
• "The Practice of Change Ringing in the United States: The Historical Record" by Robert E. Coughlin
• Obituary for Fred J. Westlake
• Announcement of Christmas Card fund drive for Church of the Advent, Boston
• CCCBR Public Relations Report
• Advisory Committee formed for ring of bells at St. John the Divine in NYC

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• First peal on the Mitchell Ten
• Letters from Officers
• Area Reports
• "Heaviest and Lightest Pealed in a Day"
• AGM Site Selection Article
• "The Method Column -- Carter's Triples"
• "Tale Ends"
• Area Reports
• "Belfrymanship"
• NAG Constitution
• Letter from Bishop of Quebec

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• Reprint from Harper's Weekly
• Area Reports
• "Two from Boston, Or How I Learned to Love Maggie"
• Exchange of letters about relative role of Canadian ringers in the Guild
• "Tale Ends"
• "Bell Ringing by Computer"
• Response to "Carter's Principle"
• "Xenomania Surprise Major"
• Review of Bob Smith's "Standard Methods"
• Discussion of plans for the restoration of Immanuel Church, New Castle
• Plans for AGM in Hendersonville

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• Philadelphia Ringing Weekend
• Early History of Immanuel Church, New Castle
• Area Reports
• "There and Back -- The Journey of 2 Bellringers"
• First ringers meeting in Laramie, Wyoming
• Notice of Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon at the Riverside Church, NYC
• "The First Peal in Canada: Story of Vancouver's Bells" condensed from RW article of 1916
• Agenda for upcoming AGM

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• Report of Hendersonville AGM
• AGM Course Questionnaire Results
• Minutes of the AGM
• Geoff Davies Declines HLM and outlines future tasks for the Guild
• Letters from Officers
• Review of "Strike Twelve '78" tape
• "Excerpts from the Diary of a Texas Ringer"
• "Tale Ends"
• Fund Drive for Immanuel Church and the offer of the clappers of the old ring
• "A Ring of Bells"
• Area Reports

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Report of AGM & Philadelphia's 10th anniversary
• Minutes of the AGM
• Peal Tour Song Book & Report
• "The Rabbit's Guild"
• "Bells for Peace across the World"
• "From Here to Here and In -Between"
• "Bells are Instruments, Ringers are Musicians"
• "Synergisms"
• "On Conducting"
• "Points to Ponder"

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

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• 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

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

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• AGM in Calgary Report & Photos
• AGM 1983 Minutes
• "New Ringers Learn the Ropes"
• Name Change for "The Clapper"?
• Dedication of the Ditchley Bells, Old PO Building, DC
• Area Reports
• Letters to the Editor
• "Little Grandsire"
• "Tale Ends"
• "The Origins of Our Art"
• "On Conducting: Plain Courses of Plain Bob"

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• Tenth Anniversary of Melrose Bells
• Area Reports
• "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" by James R. Lawson
• The Riverside Carillon
• "Ring Out Wild Bells" by A. Tennyson
• Puzzle #3
• Tale Ends
• Boston Ringing Weekend
• "Closet Catholic, Anyone?"
• Future Ringing Events
• Little Grandsire Caters
• Sound Insulation in Belfries

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• Dedication of the bells of Kalamazoo College
• Area Reports
• Peals & Quarter Peals
• Tale Ends
• Statements Introducing new officers
• Proposed new Constitution & ByLaws
• AGM Ringing Course Survey Form

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• First Peal at Kalamazoo
• Area Reports
• Tale Ends
• Puzzle #5
• "Date Quarters and Round Blocks"
• Washington Bells: 20 Year Perspective
• Peals & QPs
• Letters to the Editor
• CCCBR report

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• Report & Photos of DC AGM
• Minutes of 1984 AGM
• Membership Certificate offered
• Handbell Census Form
• Letters to the Editor
• "Beryl's Travels"
• Tale Ends
• "Go Grandsire Caters"
• Last Chance Puzzle
• Peals & QPs
• List of all NA Towers

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

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• Miami bells dedicated
• Area Reports
• Obituary of Bill Risinger
• "Teaching Change Ringing to the Masses"
• Tale Ends
• Charts for ringing simple methods
• "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Composing PB Major"
• NAG Striking Competition Announcement
• Peals & QPs
• Complete List of Bells of North America

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• Area Reports
• "It's William Again"
• "Measuring Odd-Struck Bells"
• About Founders and Foundries
• Member Profile: Don Morrison
• Letter from the President
• Proposal for Dues Change
• Upcoming Events
• Central Council Minutes
• Peals & QPs
• Tale Ends

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• Report & Photos of AGM in Boston
• Minutes of 1985 AGM
• Area Reports
• Tale Ends
• Officer Candidate Statements
• “Abilene Revisited”
• Report of the Quebec City Weekend
• Australian BiCentennial Planning for 1988
• Peals & QPs

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• Letter from the President
• Tale Ends
• Area Reports
• “A Mid-(& Trans-) Atlantic Tower Grab”
• Announcement of Striking Competition
• Plans for AGM in Victoria in late August
• Maps & Directions to Smith College tower
• Peals & QPs

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• Area Reports
• Peals & QPs
• “Doubles Ringing”
• Plans for Quebec City Weekend
• Letters to the Editor
• Proposal to Purchase a Computer to Produce The Clapper
• Report from CCCBR PR Committee
• Striking Competition Details
• AGM Course Plans

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• First Local Peal at Kalamazoo
• Letter from the President
• AGM in Victoria Details
• Old North Peal Lottery
• Area Reports
• Photos & Report of
• Quebec City Weekend
• Report from CCCBR PR Committee
• Doubles Ringing Continued with Compositions & Table of Names
• Peals & QPs

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• Letter from the President
• AGM Photos & Report
• Minutes of 1986 AGM
• CCCBR Report
• Area Reports
• Peals & QPs
• Middleton's Cambridge
• "Belfrymanship" Reprinted from 1977

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• NAG Band Rings Record Length of Erin Caters
• Area Reports
• Peals & QPs
• Letters to and from Editor
• Tale Ends
• "Martin on Cambridge"
• CCCBR PR Committee Report

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• Historical Account of 1894 Restoration at Old North
• Tale Ends
• Area Reports
• Peals & QPs
• Letters to the Editor
• Letters from Officers
• "Dutch Change Ringers?"
• Erin Triples Long Length Attempt
• "Stoecklin Wins Fellowship"
• "Heard in the Tower"
• "Ringing on Bodies"
• Wakeland to Do Tower History
• "Ancient Society Established in America"
• CCCBR PR Report
• Plans for Kalamazoo AGM

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• Plans for the Kalamazoo AGM
• Area Reports
• Peals & QPs
• Report of Quebec City Weekend
• Report of 1986 Striking Competition
• Notice of Old North Peal Lottery
• "A Visit Down Under"
• Report of CCCBR Meeting
• NAG Scores Long Length of Double Dublin
• "The Twisted Grapevine"
• "Tale Ends"
• Notices
• Report of CCCBR PR Committe

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• Ringing Tours Highlight NAG Summer
• MIdwest Group Brings "Grand Cicadas" Tour East
• Ringers, Chocaholics Converge on Boston; Madcap Weekend Ensues
• Area Reports
• Peals & QPs
• 1987 AGM Report
• Proposal for HLM of Martyn Harbott
• Officers' Reports
• "NAGing GOSSIP"
• Notices

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• Raleigh Peal Dedicated
• Letter from the President
• Area Reports
• Peals & QPs
• NAG Tour Report
• Letters to the Editor
• CCCBR PR Committee Report

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• Area Reports
• Letter from the President
• Peals & QPs
• "Award to Ringer"
• "Things Overheard"
• Plans for Quebec AGM
• Popular Peal Compositions: Stedman Caters

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• "St. Mark's, Philadelphia: Bells on Trial
• Area Reports
• Quebec City AGM Details
• Old North Peal Lottery Announcement
• Transvaal and Zimbabwe Guilds Welcomed
• Quebec City Ringing Weekend Report
• Peals & QPs

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• Advent Scores 100th Peal
• A "Delight" to Remember, Or, 5 Englishmen Go Mad in Houston
• Report of Quebec City AGM
• Minutes of the 1988 AGM
• Minutes of the 1987 AGM
• Officers' Reports
• Area Reports
• "A Real Ringing Weekend: Farthing-Stibal Wedding"
• Peals & QPs
• In Memory of Alice Dickinson
• Muncians Meander Down Under
• Editorial Mailbag

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• The Bells of St. Michael's, Charleston
• Letters
• Survey of Towers in Scotland
• Renegade Americans in Scotland
• Area Reports
• "OK Things to Think about during Peals"
• "Things Not to Think about during Peals"
• Essex Association Tours North America
• Striking Competition Announcement
• Bicentennial Peal Boards in Place at Last
• Letters
• Announcement of First Three Towers Festival
• Peals & QPs

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• Arthur Nichols: A Passion for Bells
• From the President
• From the Overseas Liaison
• Contributor Guildelines
• Houston AGM Plans
• "Toward Better Striking"
• "Computers and Composition"
• Area Reports
• "Fun, Surf, and Sun -- Almost"
• Revised 1988 Peal Analysis
• Peals & QPs
• Hursley Restoration Appeal

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• NAGCR's First Live Striking Competition
• Three Towers Festival at Little Rock
• Letters
• Houston AGM Details
• Abilene Update
• "Eight Ringers in a Boat"
• "E Maurice Atkins: A Treat of Major for the New Conductor"
• "Arthur Howard Nichols -- A Passion for Bells -- Part 2
• Area Reports
• Contributor Guidelines
• Old North Peal Lottery
• Quebec City Ringing Weekend Report
• American Ringers North of the Severn: Tour '89
• Peals & QPs
• Back Issues Available

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• "Post-AGM Syndrome Afflicts Flow Chart Queen, or Warm Welcome in Houston"
• Letters
• Minutes of the 1989 AGM
• Candidate Statements
• Officers' Reports
• "A Passion for Bells -- Part 3"
• Area Reports
• Peals & QPs
• "Three Towers in a Week"

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