This window is between Noon and 2:00 PM each Sunday. During this period the server may be periodically unavailable. Email will be queued upstream (so no email will be lost.)

If you have any questions please contact me at rberry@jamahome.org.

Thanks -- Bob

24 November 2008 - JAMA and MCCGA announce color guard judges training!!

The Judges Association of Mid America (JAMA) has finalized the training session sponsored by the Mid Continent Color Guard Association (MCCGA) for color guard judges for the upcoming 2009 season. We are excited to announce that on December 13, at Truman High School in Independence, Missouri, Robert Solomon and Paul Lampkin will be training JAMA judges for another season serving the over 75 color guard units in MCCGA.

Mr. Lampkin will be focusing on General Effect and Ensemble Analysis while Mr. Solomon will delve into the downstairs Equipment and Movement captions. Both will work together covering changes for the 2009 season and general judging topics. Following the terrific clinic last year with Kristen O’Melia and Eric Kitchenman, these two judges will bring even more insight to the judging process and will help us to develop our skills to an even higher level. Exposure to these two clinicians and the skills our judges will learn and hone will serve to make MCCGA’s membership even stronger.

As always, we are looking for qualified judges, so if you know of anyone interested, please ask them to contact JAMA to get a spot reserved in this upcoming clinic. This will certainly be an exciting season of color guard and JAMA is looking forward to raising the bar for our judges while MCCGA’s members do the same with their performances!

JAMA is entering its 9th season providing judges to color guard & percussion circuits across the country as well as marching band contest in the Midwest. Questions relating to JAMA can be forwarded to Susan Johnson, President, at sjohnson@jamahome.org or you can visit JAMA’s website at www.jamahome.org.

The Mid Continent Color Guard Association (MCCGA) is entering its 16th season serving independent and scholastic guards and percussion units in the Midwest, including Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Iowa. Information regarding MCCGA can be found at its website, www.mccga.org.

04 November 2008 - Server Migrated To New Hardware

As you may have noticed, the www.jamahome.org server was down again today. Only one mail message was bounced (and I forwarded it to the people involved.) The www.jamahome.org server has been migrated to a new PC (it's actually running in a virtual machine, so I should be able to migrate it quickly in the case of future problems.).

31 October 2008 - Emergency server maintenance this weekend

The server that hosts the JAMAHome.org website and email has developed hardware problems resulting in unplanned downtime this past week. I will migrate the site to a new server between Noon and 4:00PM on Sunday, November 2nd. During this time, mail will queue but be unavailable. No data will be lost.

27 October 2008 - JAMA Announces Percussion Training

The Judges Association of Mid America (JAMA) has finalized the training session sponsored by the Mid Continent Color Guard Association (MCCGA) for percussion judges for the upcoming 2009 season. We are excited to announce that on December 13, at Truman High School in Independence, Missouri, Julie Davila and Ron Hardin will be training JAMA judges for another season serving the over 30 percussion units in MCCGA.

Mrs. Davila will be focusing on Performance Analysis and the concert classes while Mr. Hardin will delve into the visual caption. Both will work together covering effect and general judging topics. Following the terrific clinic last year with Dennis DeLucia, these two judges will bring even more insight to the judging process and will help us to develop our skills to an even higher level. Exposure to these two clinicians and the skills our judges will learn and hone will serve to make MCCGA’s membership even stronger.

As always, we are looking for qualified judges, so if you know of anyone interested, please ask them to contact JAMA to get a spot reserved in this upcoming clinic. This will certainly be an exciting season of percussion and JAMA is looking forward to raising the bar for our judges while MCCGA’s members do the same with their performances!

JAMA is entering its 9th season providing judges to color guard & percussion circuits across the country as well as marching band contest in the Midwest. Questions relating to JAMA can be forwarded to Susan Johnson, President, at sjohnson@jamahome.org.

22 January 2008 - Website and Email changes!!

Hi All. There are several changes taking place at the JAMA website. First, there's a member's only site now available. If you're a JAMA member, you should receive an email with the details for accessing this new site. If you haven't received this email by Thursday, January 24th, please contact Bob Berry at berry@jamahome.org.

Another change is that we have too many members!! We had several name collisions, so I had to change everyone's email address. Your JAMA emails address now includes your first initial. So John Doe who used to be just, doe@jamahome.org, is now jdoe@jamahome.org. If you use the web portal, your password has not changed. Also, if you were on the board previously, your last name will suffice for now (since we had published those addresses before.) At some point, I would like to eliminate those "last name only" addresses as well to cut down on spam.

If you have any questions, please contact Bob at the address above.

22 January 2008 - Website down for maintenance this weekend!!

Hi All. The server that hosts the JAMA website has had a hard disk fail. This coming weekend, I will migrate the site to another server. The Site will be down Saturday, January 26th from Noon to 4:00PM. (Most of you should be working, so the impact should be minimal.) Until then, I'm making frequent backups, but if the site should disappear, it is because of a second hard drive failure.

While I'm migrating the site, I will be updating the operating system as well, so the site may have a slightly different look (especially the web email portal.)

30 October 2007 - JAMA announces MCCGA judges training session!

JAMA has finalized the training session for percussion and color guard judges for the upcoming season and is excited to announce that on December 15 & 16, at Truman High School in Independence, Missouri, the following WGI judges will be training our JAMA judges:

- Dennis DeLucia (WGI Percussion judge and steering committee member)

- Kristin O'Melia (WGI Equipment judge and steering committee member)

- Eric Kitchenman (WGI EA judge)

We are thrilled to have our first combined session with both percussion and guard judges, but it is even more thrilling knowing the quality of training our judges will receive this year. Each of these clinicians brings tremendous experience and exposure to our local judges which in turn will help to make MCCGA's membership stronger.

As always, we are looking for qualified judges (guard & percussion), so if you know of anyone, please ask them to contact me to get a spot reserved in this upcoming clinic. This will certainly be an exciting season of color guard and percussion and JAMA is looking forward to raising the bar for our judges while MCCGA's members do the same with their performances!

Best of luck to you this winter and please travel safely,

Chris Putnam

27 July 2007 - Fall training this weekend.

JAMA Fall training will be held this weekend at the Mizzou Band Hall Google Maps Link from 12:30PM until approximately 5:00PM.

The clinicians this year are Dallas Neimeyer, the DCI Brass caption head, and Sal Adamo, DCI Visual and WGI judge.

Unlike previous years, tickets for the evening's show are not included in the training. Good seats are still available, and we might be able to organize a short trip to the box office to purchase group seats at some point during the day. If you have any questions, please contact Brad Simon.

30 June 2007 - Group Ticket Offer Has Been Mailed.

Hi All. Several of you have expressed interest in sitting together at BOA and/or WGI. I sent an email today with the details of an offer to put together a group purchase. If you didn't get the email, please contact me at: berry@jamahome.org.

31 January 2007 - Schedule Has Been Mailed.

Hi All. The schedule has been emailed. Please contact me ASAP if you didn't receive it. I've spent a lot of time trying to get everybody to all the regions we serve. If a date doesn't work for you, please try to work it out with one of your peers (but try to keep the geographical parity in mind.) Thanks for you patience.

29 January 2007 - Schedule Update.

Really, I've been working on the schedule. Chris and Kevin have had a lot of helpful input and we're very nearly finished. You should have the schedule for February in your email by Wednesday, January 31st. If you don't receive it by then, please let me know ASAP since we might have an email problem. Thanks, Bob.

20 December 2006 - Test emails have went out.

Hi all. I've sent out the test emails, but I've not received very many receipts. So either you're not getting the emails or your mailers are configured not to send receipts. If you haven't received a test email, please contact me at webmaster@jamahome.org ASAP.

05 December 2006 - Winter Guard training this weekend

December training is this weekend (12/09-12/10) at Hickman Mills High School. Saturday 9:00AM-9:00PM and Sunday 10:00AM-1:00PM.

20 July 2006 - JAMA Regional Championships applications now online

Application forms (both Word and PDF format) are now available in the downloads section.

23 January 2006 - Hotel reservations for this weekend

JAMA is making the reservations at the Residence Inn in Springfield for this weekend. There will be no pre-show meeting on Friday night. Report time Saturday morning is 8:00, please be on time!!

23 January 2006 - Judges for MSU announced.

The following judges are at the MSU festival this weekend: Hudson, Sadler, Putnam, Kuchinski, Oliphant, Smith, Kessinger, Kerr, Berry, Mahoney, Estelle, and Maben.

19 January 2006 - 6 Shopping days until the MSU Show!!

Now's the time to be practicing your running commentary, going over the notes from the December training, and practicing numbers off video if possible.

19 January 2006 - Test emails have started going out.

If you haven't received a test email by Friday night (the 19th) please let me know ASAP at berry@jamahome.org. Thanks, Bob.

18 January 2006 - New site is FINALLY up!!

After several rounds with the DNS registrar, I finally figured out why the DNS wasn't updating. Hopefully you are now all seeing this page and have received your "all-judges" email.

22 December 2005 - Links to WGI training materials posted

I've posted the links to WGI's training materials on the Training materials page.

07 December 2005 - Training this weekend!!

This weekend JAMA will hold training at Hickman Mills HS starting at 9:30AM. Our clinicians are Sal Adamo and Eric Kitchenman. Make sure you attend for the latest training!!

21 September 2005 - The new JAMA website is up and available

We're just starting, so there's not much content right now, but we're planning on adding things frequently. Please send any contributions to the webmaster.

20 September 2005 - Updated recap from OTHS contest now available

Because of tabulating problems at both shows, the scores from the contests were read incorrectly. The corrected recap from OTHS is here.

17 September 2005 - The band season is underway

JAMA judges were used at two area contests on the weekend of the 17th. Thanks to Farmington and O'Fallon for using JAMA Judges.