The Clapper

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

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

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• Minutes of the 1979 AGM in Brewster
• Annual Reports of Officers
• Report of CCCBR meeting in Penzance 1979
• Dedication of Berkeley Carillon
• Bells in Colorado
• "St. Martin's (Philadelphia) Orders its Bells"
• Area Reports

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

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

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• Letter from the Secretary-Treasurer
• April Showers in February
• New Activity at Christ Church Boston
• Planning for Victoria AGM
• "Plain Speaker"
• Letters to the Editor
• Report of the New Castle Annual Dinner
• Area Reports
• Practice Times
• A Reasonable Facsimile of English Beer

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

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

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• The Hendersonville Ring
• Edward Whitaker Izard Obituary
• "The Pilgrim's Progress"
• Letters from the Secretary-Treasurer & the Editors
• "New Ring for Washington?'
• Announcement, information, and forms for 1978 AGM in Chicago
• "Plain Speaker"
• Report of Bell Fund Committee
• Area Reports

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• Letters from Secretary-Treasurer & the Editors
• Proposal for a monthly Clapper
• "Plain Speaker" article
• Quarter Peal analysis
• Area Reports
• "A New Class of Minor Methods?"

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• Letter from the Secretary-Treasurer
• First peal on the Advent bells, Boston
• Letter from the Editors
• Announcement of a NAG pamphlet
• "Philadelphia, Vancouver, and Recruiting"
• Area Reports
• Announcement of 1978 AGM in Chicago
• Cartoon Caption Contest

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• Report & Minutes of Vancouver/Victoria AGM
• Announcement of a new ring for Washington, DC
• Annual Reports of Officers, Budget & Book Service
• Area Reports
• Report of First Peal in North America, Reprinted from 1916 RW
• News of NAG Bellhanger in Britain
• News of Prince Charles' visit to Chicago tower

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• Information about upcoming AGM in Victoria/Vancouver
• Message from the Secretary-Treasurer
• Proposal for a NAG Bell Fund
• Area Reports
• Voting & Registration forms for AGM
• Proposed amendments to the Constitution

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• "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

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

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• 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"

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• 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