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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Choir,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please let me take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful Holiday season and to thank you for the outstanding work that you have done this fall. Ingrid and I would also like to thank you for the good wishes that many of you have individually extended to us. We are deeply appreciative of all that you are doing to make CSC the wonderful and accomplished organization that it is.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David Lee, who is in charge of our fall pledge campaign has asked me to send you the following;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY HOLIDAYS HAPPY HANUKKAH HAPPY KWANZA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you are like me, you are doing some last minute gift buying. As you are checking off those on your list, please consider a gift to the pledge campaign. All gifts are taxed deductible and you have until December 31, 2010 to make a gift and have it count as a 2010 tax deduction. You can give your gift directly to me, Don Cariss or Katie O’Brien or mail to Concert Singers of Cary, P. O. Box 1921, Cary, NC 27512. Checks should be made payable to Concert Singers of Cary with pledge campaign in the memo section.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, for those who work for companies that have matching grants those forms for most companies have to be in by December 31. Check with your Human Resources Department for more information if you are not sure.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wish everyone a happy and joyous holiday season. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David Lee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2010 Pledge Campaign Chairperson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PS: If you do not know me, just look for the short, bald, black guy in the Bass Section<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>Lawrence Speakman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>Artistic Director and Conductor</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#984806'><img width=121 height=122 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CBA366.44511FB0" alt="CSC_final_logo"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>The Concert Singers of Cary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>www.concertsingers.org<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>www.speakmanvocalarts.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>919-249-6421<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#984806'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#984806'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>