President — Skip Chaples, skipchaples@cox.net, (703) 644-1311
Vice President/Treasurer — Betsy Stone, Betsy.Stone@baesystems.com
Secretary — Gloria Dawson, www.biasstudios.com

The GnG VA state officers are currently operating this chapter. If you would like to replace one of us at the chapter level so we can focus more on the state effort, we’d love to hear from you.

GnG VA will be represented at the following events. We’ll be passing out information about our program as well as selling chapter t-shirts and raffle tickets for a new Epiphone AJ-100 guitar with hard case. If you’re in the area please stop by and lend your support to our program.

Fall 2007 — Resume Level 1 & 2 fall class session’s at all five GnG locations.

Fall 2007 — Open a new sixth class location in the Falls Church area.

GnG Classes Continue!
We conducted successful summer classes at a new location, the Alexandria Boys & Girls Club Payne Street, and at the Vienna Community Center. This fall we’ll be conducting classes at six locations; two Alexandria Boys & Girls Clubs, the Falls Church Boys & Girls Club, the Sacramento and Herndon Neighborhood Centers, and the Vienna Community Center. We served 74 deserving children during our first year and will be adding many more this fall. The following pictures are of some of the volunteers and students at these locations.
Alexandria: From left to right back row are Assistant Teacher Kevin, Teacher Stephen Curtin, Assistant Teacher Marian, Kelly, and class Monitor Jeff Brown; front row are students Brenee, William, Sheldon, Barionn, Michael and Davon.		Ft. Belvoir: From left to right in the back row are Class Monitor Lauren Walker, Teacher Jack Webb, and Teaching Assistant Kevin; middle row students Xavier, Kyle, Patrice, and Edwin; and front row students Hannah, Kendasia, D’nay-sha, and Miya. Missing is student Kameko.
Herndon: From left to right back row are Teacher Dirk Johnson, students Maria, Jazmin, Gaby and Diana, and class monitor Patti Weixler; front row are students Claudia, Fabiola, Fiorella, and Elizabeth.		Vienna: From left to right are teachers Bill McGinness and Ford Jones in background with their students. Not all students were present for the photo.

Thanks to Our Volunteers!
We extend our sincerest thanks to all our volunteers who made our first year such a success. Whether your role was in administration, fundraising or advising it was an important part of our program and we are grateful for your time and expertise. Bringing Guitars Not Guns to Virginia was not an easy task and each of you rose to the occasion.
We’d like to personnally recognize those who stood before the students in our classrooms. Each of these people demonstrated the character, flexibility and patience necessary to develop our program and make it work for the children.

Alexandria Boys & Girls Club Essex House — Jeff Brown, Stephen Curtin, Ford Jones, Julie Kehuli, Marian McLaughlin, Kevin Pons, and Justin Webb

Alexandria Boys & Girls Club Payne Street — Julie Kehuli, Roger Taylor, and Justin Webb

Falls Church Boys & Girls Club — Ford Jones

Herndon Neighborhood Center — Jennifer Ackerman, Hank Brown, Khrystyna Chekhlata, Dirk Johnson, Kathy Leader, and Patti Weixler

Sacramento Neighborhood Center — Rik Corwin, Daniel Dziuban, Bill Mcginness, Dan Telfer, Lauren Walker, and Jack Webb

Vienna Community Center — Dante Ashby, Renee Fontenot, Ford Jones, Bill McGinness, and Mike Sobel

Volunteer Opportunities
If you would like to help at any of these locations or start a class in another location click on “Volunteers” under the "Virginia Chapter Menu" on the left to see positions available.