Author: FSUMCA Board of Directors

I hope this message finds you well and you had a wonderful Spring Break with family and friends. On March 28th and 29th, 2019 we have an opportunity to help a number of Marching Chiefs reach their goal of going to Normandy France for the 75th anniversary of D-Day Invasion. The Chiefs will be representing not only FSU and the State of Florida, but also representing the United States on this amazing celebration. If you haven’t seen Dr. Patrick Dunnigan’s Facebook page, he’s received a number of messages from students telling him it will be difficult for them to participate in the event due to overall cost to participate and may have to drop out of the trip altogether. The average cost per student is $3500.  This is where the Marching Chiefs Alumni come in. During this year’s Great Give one of the projects from the College of Music is the Marching Chiefs 75th D-Day Normandy fund. We would like as many Alumni as possible to give so these students the opportunity to attend. Our Board will be posting links for the Great Give as the event draws closer, but I am asking if you have never participated in this event please do so. No amount is too small. Every dollar raised goes to an amazing adventure, so let’s get as many of our Marching Chiefs to Normandy as we can.  The goal is to try to raise $75,000 dollars as there is an anonymous donor that will match all money raised during the Great Give, up to $75,000!! The donation button on the link below will go live as soon as the Great Give starts at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday:  http://spark.fsu.edu/Project/548/Marching-Chiefs–D-Day-75-Parade-in-Normandy There are also numerous incentives offered during specific windows during the great give.  We have done very well in the past, winning several of the bonus awards.  This year, we are targeting the $3000 bonus for the Final Sunset, given for the most dollars raised during the final 2 hours of the Great Give on Friday March 29, 7 PM – 9 PM EDT. If we are fortunate again this year, with your generous assistance, we will be in contention for the $3500 Seminole Spirit Award given for the most DOLLARS raised during the 36 hour Great Give event. https://greatgive.fsu.edu/incentives If you would like to target other bonus periods, please visit the link above.  Please be sure to set an alarm or reminder on your phone, so you can make your donation during one of the bonus periods. Thank you. Michael T. Staden Executive Director-FSU Marching Chiefs Alumni

Alumni… Let me apologize for the email you received Tuesday evening. We are using a new system to handle the voting of the board and Executive Positions. As we were loading the email addresses of the membership that attended Homecoming as the baseline, but the software thought this was the official listing and started the voting process before we had finished beta testing. Because of that you received a ballot that wasn’t ready for release. I take full responsibility for this and I wanted to let you know that the official voting for new Board Members and Executive Positions will start on Thursday November 8, 2018 and run for one week. If you did not attend Homecoming and would like to vote, please email fsumca@gmail.com and we’ll make sure you get a UserID and Code. Again, my sincere apologizes for the confusion this has caused. Michael T. Staden Executive Director – FSU Marching Chiefs Alumni

First I want to say we have the best Alumni, Students, Parents, Staff and Supporters. We have a few hours to go in the Great Give this year.       Please consider making a donation before 9:00 p.m. E.D.T. today, March 23, 2018. Your tax-deductible gift will ensure that our students have the best percussion and brass instruments available to keep the War Chant loud and proud in Doak Campbell Stadium Please go to the FSU Great Give online and contribute to the WALL OF SOUND 2018 Project at: http://spark.fsu.edu/Project/371/WALL-OF-SOUND-2018   MCATDT!

Fellow Marching Chiefs Alumni, We would like to bring to your attention, the Annual FSU Great Give. It runs from 9:00 AM EDT, March 22, 2018 through 9:00 PM EDT Friday March 23, 2018.  This 36-hour event helps showcase various fund-raising projects at FSU. The Marching Chiefs Alumni’s mission is to promote the FSU band program and, this year, the College of Music Wall of Sound project (http://spark.fsu.edu/Project/371/WALL-OF-SOUND-2018) to help with the School provided instruments for the Marching Chiefs.   Your tax-deductible gift will ensure that our students have the best percussion and brass instruments available to keep the War Chant loud and proud in Doak Campbell Stadium. During the 36-hour event, there are several bonuses available.  These bonuses are awarded based on either the greatest number of donors or greatest dollar amount raised during a given time. We would like to repeat last year’s efforts and earn the Wall of Sound Project some of these bonuses.  Last year, Dr. Dunnigan reported that we won $5000 in bonus money for the most money raised during the event.  We hope that we can target this goal again and win the $7500 bonus that will be awarded this year. With our proud Chiefs Alumni base, we can also win a targeted bonus window that awards the highest number of donors over a 2-hour window. We are Targeting the Lunch Brunch incentive of $1000 awarded to the project with the greatest number of donors on Friday March 23, 2018 from 12 – 2 PM EDT. If you can donate to the Chiefs during the Great Give, we ask that you target this donation window on Friday March 23, 2018 from 12-2 PM EDT.  If you cannot donate during that window, but still want to donate this year, please make your donation when you can.  You will still be helping towards the Grand Prize incentive. For more information about the Great Give 2018, go to: http://greatgive.fsu.edu/ We would encourage you to share this event with fellow Alums, family and friends that might not be connected directly to us. We thank you in advance for your generosity. MCATDT Your Marching Chiefs Alumni  www.fsumca.com