Service Projects

For Greater Bands

Tau Beta Sigma

Below is a brief description of the service projects we currently facilitate and new projects that we have been working on.

Service projects

Gamma Mu ushers all of the recitals, concerts, and auditions in Presser Recital hall and hosts receptions in Presser lobby upon request. Chapter members also help maintain the appearance of the recital hall.

Ushering

Before classes begin, chapter members collaborate to fill music folders with music that instrumentalists will play throughout the course of the year.

Ensemble Folders

TBS helps in a variety of aspects with respect to Marching Band. Projects involve aiding in marching band members and alumni mailings, registration and move-in, planning social events during band camp, providing water during practice, hemming and tailoring uniforms, providing post half-time snacks for the band for home games, logistical and financial support for the marching band’s international travel, survival kits for any trip, registration for Alumni band Homecoming weekend, support during the high school ‘Spend a Day with the ONU Marching Band,’ as well as numerous other day to day logistical support.

Marching Band

Service to ONU Music Department

Chapter members help to maintain the order and cleanliness of the ONU Instrumental Music Library.

Music Library

Chapter members help facilitate the University’s Green Direction by monitoring and maintaining the recycling bins throughout Presser Hall, the music building.

ONU Recycles

Every spring the music department hosts Spring Band Festival, a concert featuring a high school honors band comprised of students from around the area. TBS supports this event by preparing mailings, planning the weekend schedule, providing overnight housing for high school students for the weekend, facilitating an on campus social event for visiting students, setting the band stage for all ensembles during rehearsals and the concert, preparing high school meals over the course of the weekend, and further logistical support.

Spring Band Festival

Service to ONU Campus and Community

During the football and basketball seasons, Sisters organize a traveling pep band of ONU band members to visit and support local high school music programs at various athletic venues.

Traveling Pep Band

Every year, Ada High School hosts a music festival featuring high school jazz bands and show choirs. Sisters assist with the event in a variety of different ways.

Ada Music Fest

Every year Gamma Mu sponsors a Girl Scout Music Badge Clinic that allows Brownie Troops from around the area to come to ONU for a day and fulfill the requirements for their Music Badge.

Girl Scout Music Badge Clinic

Sisters maintain two miles of local highway through the Adopt-a-Highway program. Maintenance trash pick-ups are organized multiple times throughout the year.

Adopt-a-Highway

Sisters support various events of the local hospice service by means of logistic support, ushering, and publicity.

Ada Visiting Nurses

During the Holiday Season, Gamma Mu supports the Kappa Phi Sing-a-Thon and shares the joy of music with campus and community members.

Sing-a-Thon

In addition to Presser Hall, Sisters usher various campus events including the annual Honors Day Convocation.

Ushering

New Projects

Gamma Mu is building a CD music library to begin a music outreach program for local elderly and shut-in through Ada Visiting Nurses.

Music for Healing

TBS is collaborating with the Ada High School Music Department to plan and facilitate an annual High School Marching Band Festival.

High School Marching Band Festival

Sisters have worked to establish a scholarship for a local high school senior woman planning to major in music during her college career.

Women in Music Scholarship

The chapter is finalizing plans for a Women in Music Recital featuring female majors and staff members of the ONU Music Department.

Women in Music Recital