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FOUNDER-PRESIDENT STEPS DOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n

ALPS Founder-President Guido Saliba has stepped down at the
\n end of the Association\u2019s 10th anniversary celebrations.
\n Over the past months he had only kept his post in deference
\n to the wishes of the vast majority of ALPS members, who wanted
\n to see him preside over this landmark in the life of the \u201cbaby\u201d
\n he delivered in 1994. <\/p>\n

The Council of Administration unanimously thanked Guido for
\n all he has done and appointed Deputy President George Stagno
\n Navarra as Acting President until the next AGM. Dr Saliba
\n was appointed Honorary President for Life, and in the interests
\n of continuity accepted to act as Deputy President for the
\n rest of 2004.<\/p>\n

WHAT A MONTH THAT WAS!<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 2004 was a month that will go down in the annals of
\n the Association of Lyceum Past Students not only as its 10th
\n anniversary month but also as one that will remain hard to
\n beat for the success achieved in the activities organised
\n to celebrate that anniversary. <\/p>\n

People who went to the Concert of Compositions by Charles
\n Camilleri at the Corinthia Palace Hotel, Attard, on 4th March
\n are still talking about what a huge success it was. And well
\n they may. Going by the size of audiences at previous editions
\n of the \u201cWindows on Music\u201d series, organised by
\n the Manoel Theatre Management Committee and the Faculty of
\n Mediterranean Studies at the University of Malta and sponsored
\n by the Malta Tourism Authority, the Corinthia laid on a much
\n larger number of chairs for the concert, conscious of the
\n publicity that it had been given both by the organisers themselves
\n and by the Association of Lyceum Past Students, whose 10th
\n anniversary the concert was also meant to celebrate.<\/p>\n

Oh, how gratifying it was to find, well before the established
\n time of 7.30 p.m., that parking space all around the hotel
\n was at a premium, and to see hotel staff scrambling to bring
\n out almost as many more chairs as had already been arranged
\n around the large Chameleon Lounge of the Corinthia Palace
\n Hotel. When there was no more space to put chairs in, people
\n still kept coming, some of them ending up sitting on the edge
\n of the stage! That puts the size of the audience somewhere
\n between 500 and 600 people \u2013 unprecedented and very,
\n very hard to beat!<\/p>\n

The concert and the organisers were honoured with the presence
\n throughout \u2013 and closing address \u2013 of President
\n of Malta Guido de Marco.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, besides the usual fair amount of publicity for
\n \u201cWindows on Music\u201d evenings, this one had had
\n the benefit of publicity across a good cross-section of the
\n local media, aided no doubt by the news conference given by
\n the ALPS Council of Administration the week before. A word
\n of thanks goes to all the media that lent us some of their
\n valuable space, including the \u201cMeander\u201d cultural
\n programme on Public Broadcasting Services.<\/p>\n

The programme presented soloist trumpeter Sigmund Mifsud
\n with the Strings Orchestra of the Johann Strauss School of
\n Music, Sarah Spiteri on the violin, Eric Azzopardi on the
\n pianoforte, clarinetist Godfrey Mifsud and world-renowned
\n clarinetist David Campbell, whose performance was sponsored
\n by international music publishers Boosey & Hawkes and
\n whose flights from London and back were sponsored by Air Malta.<\/p>\n

Mezzo-soprano Claire Massa, accompanied on the pianoforte
\n by Davinia Galea, gave a sterling premi\u00e8re performance
\n of \u201cIconi di Donna\u201d, penned by Prof. Peter Serracino
\n Inglott and put to music by Prof. Charles Camilleri specifically
\n for this concert.<\/p>\n

The Corinthia Palace Hotel very nicely added to the occasion
\n with a reception in the foyer at the end of the concert.<\/p>\n

WELCOME TO THE A.L.P.S. WEBSITE<\/strong><\/p>\n

If ever a sentence had a double entendre, this one was it.
\n It meant not only welcoming the new, long-expected ALPS website
\n into existence but also welcoming members and friends to the
\n website.<\/p>\n

Founder-President Guido Saliba officially inaugurated the
\n website during the Anniversary Celebration Dinner at the Radisson
\n SAS Bay Point Resort on Saturday 20th March. The event attracted
\n unprecedented interest from ALPS members, including those
\n who have been fully-paid-up members since 1994 and who received
\n a Certificate of Continuous Membership to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n

The Radisson\u2019s Clermont Room was packed with ALPS members
\n and their spouses or partners for a pre-dinner Thanksgiving
\n Mass concelebrated by Spiritual Director Fr William Bartolo
\n and Fr Albert Felice Pace OP, a Lyceum Past Student who was
\n visiting from the USA. The dinner was attended by just under
\n 200 persons in the Carlson Suite.<\/p>\n

Specially invited guests at the head table included Mr Winston
\n V. Zahra, whom the ALPS Council of Administration had unanimously
\n elected the first Honorary Life Member for his continuous
\n support in ALPS activities; Mr Stephen d\u2019Alessandro,
\n sponsor of the ALPS website; Mr Karl Fiorini, undisputed main
\n organiser of the Concert of Compositions by Charles Camilleri;
\n and Fr Bartolo. Dr Saliba presented Mr Zahra with a crystal
\n decanter engraved with the ALPS anniversary logo, while Deputy
\n President George Stagno Navarra in turn presented Dr Saliba
\n with a plate hand-painted with the same logo. Throughout the
\n rest of the evening the guests were entertained by Kevin Callus
\n on the synthesiser and vocalist Natalie Vella.<\/p>\n

WELL DONE BICYCLE MARATHON!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Providentially, the revived Lyceum Bicycle Marathon was held
\n at The Lyceum on the last weekend of March, with the willing
\n assistance of ALPS in the organisation. This effectively made
\n the marathon the last fixture of this very successful 10th
\n anniversary \u2013 and a fitting finale it was, too, with
\n ALPS presenting a sponsorship of Lm100 towards the final astounding
\n figure of over Lm14,000 which the marathon raised for the
\n Community Chest Fund. Well done all, indeed! <\/p>\n

THINKING AHEAD TO THE SPIRITUAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Day of Spiritual Retreat will be held at
\n Manresa House outside Victoria, Gozo, on Saturday 26th June
\n and will again be led by Mr John Formosa of the MUSEUM. <\/p>\n

As the attendees of previous Days of Retreat will know, space
\n is very limited, so all those wishing to participate please
\n phone Secretary-General Alex Borg on 21 386812 or e-mail on
\n studiomoda@global.net.mt. The price for the full day, including
\n breakfast, lunch and dinner, will be Lm9 per person.<\/p>\n

MORE E-MAIL ADDRESSES NEEDED<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although it is an open secret that both the paid-up and active
\n membership lists of the Association of Lyceum Past Students
\n could and should be much longer than they are, it is just
\n as obvious that a large majority of the current membership
\n hold e-mail addresses that they could let Secretary-General
\n Alex Borg have in order to cut down on the costs of mailing
\n ALPS News in hard copy. How about it?<\/p>\n

NEW MEMBERSHIP DRIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n

At one of its latest meetings the Administrative Council
\n decided to renew efforts for a new membership drive. The aim
\n is not only to increase the number of past Lyceum students
\n who enrol and dutifully pay their annual or lifetime membership
\n fees, but more importantly to increase the number of members
\n who actively support the Association\u2019s efforts and activities
\n by actually attending them and enticing others to do likewise.<\/p>\n

Every current ALPS member is sure to know and still be in
\n frequent or occasional contact with at least six other former
\n classmates. If each member could only entice one other to
\n join ALPS, that would automatically mean double the membership.
\n The Council is sure that most current members can do even
\n better than that. <\/p>\n

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