Get Jazzed About New Orleans in 2008
Irvin Mayfield, a world-traveling jazz performer and cultural ambassador for New Orleans and Louisiana once stated that, “jazz is improvising, developing themes, motifs and ideas.” Analogous to the evolving practice of cytology, the challenge for jazz musicians is to take what you’ve got and make something better out of it. You come up with individualistic ideas, yet you have to leave enough space so others can come up with their own ideas and do it together at the same exact time or it doesn’t sound good.
As a professional society we likewise have to be a group and each an individual simultaneously. Thus, the SAC educational opportunities of current and emerging topics in the field of cytopathology will be second to none in offerings, and everyone will find something of interest and applicability at this year’s exchange in the Crescent City.
Jazz was born out of a funeral. All early jazz songs are slow church songs played on the way to the graveyard. The first-line (the family of the deceased person and everyone close to them) stays behind. Everybody else (the second-line) joins in the jazz processional away from the graveyard. They celebrate the person going to a better place.
Think about the irony of that joy coming out of one of the most tragic experiences in life and consider, perhaps, that life is about what we do when the mourning happens. Jazz is a fundamental resource that serves as a tool for healing and rebuilding, economically, culturally, spiritually, and professionally.
The time is now for you to plan on taking your place in the “second-line” of our celebration during the 2008 SAC meeting scheduled for July 24th through 26th at the historic Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans and experience first-hand the rebuilding of a culture and a transformation of your career.
more information to come
MESSAGE FROM THE SAC SECRETARY
Please send me a current e-mail address so that I can add to the SAC database and potentially be able to send out messages via e-mail. Also, please remember to send me name changes and address changes so that I am able to keep the database updated. You can use the SAC website to submit changes by clicking on ADD or CHANGE your CONTACT INFO (above) or use my personal e-mail address, plschubert@bellsouth.net, please type SAC in the subject line.
Dues reminder cards will be mailed out in early April.
To save SAC the postage on mailing your dues reminder card -
You may submit your annual dues of $25.00 directly to:
Ms. Keisha Brooks
Treasurer, Southern Association of Cytotechnologists
5097 Wyndance Drive
Memphis, TN. 38135
All new or returning SAC members may print out an application and mail with your dues check to me, the Secretary. Your dues check will be forwarded to the SAC Treasurer, and your member information will be added or updated.
Thank you,
P. Lynn Schubert
Secretary, Southern Association of Cytotechnologists
1900 Richard Jones Road
Townhouse #V2
Nashville, TN. 37215
