| ALL pictures are thumb nailed! Click on them to enlarge!! |
| Brett and Tom Getzen hosted BAA coventioneers on Friday morning! Brass plays seeing horns being created is always a treat! Tom treated the whole bus load to lunch as well! Someone wanted to hear them played so Tom asked me to test drive them for the group. Wisconsin Bugler Ken Gleesing ended up purchasing the Silver AHFT that Tom is holding! We joked later about me testing it for him!!! |
| After the Echo Taps seminar everyone grabbed their horns and headed for the front of the hotel! You can see a small glimpse of the pond that we encircled for Convention Echo Taps rendition. We gathered for a group sounding and photo Op. |
| Here's MI Director Ross Medos and I. I've traded many an Email with Ross and was very excited to finally meet him in person! |
| The head table included Committee Members Ron Glazer, Earl Fahnestock, Sean Smith and guest Emily Knowles, at the podium is Jeff "Twister" Brown from the Patriot Guard Riders. |
| Next to the podium is Julie Day, Tom Day, bag piper Jeremy Olisar , Brigadier General John Nicholson, Gerald Pallesen and Matt Bierman. |
| Convention Quartet: David Geffen, David Burhhardt, Alecia Rider and Bill Hall |
| Sean Smith our Convention Chairman |
| Here is the 2006 Presidents Award winner Les Hampton. Les helped to create the Echo Taps program in NY. |
| The 2006 Bugler of The Year award went to Ed Crobie. Ed has played thousands of funeral services! |
| Tom gathered the troops Sunday morning and talked about the Past, Present and Future of BAA |
| We had 4 representatives from the state of Wisconsin at this years convention! Above you'll see a sharp dressed Sailor! That's WI Assistant state director Scott Lawrence. |
| Here we see WI bugler Ken Gleesing and his wife Bonnie. With them is Alecia Rider who was part of the Convention Quartet and is also a WI Bugler! |