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About Diana

Diana Ross is not the famous Supremes singer, but she does have big hair. Working in both Membership and Operations departments, she does a little bit of everything, including administering this website. You can contact her at dross@bccc.edu.

Mar. 07 2025

Winter Member Drive wrap-up!

By Diana Ross | Posted in Membership, WBJC News | Comments Off on Winter Member Drive wrap-up!

Wowza!! What a great drive! We decided to be a bit experimental and try a drive without monetary goals, just appealing to new and rejoining members to help beef up the membership numbers. We started out with a conservative goal of 200 members, and started out the month-long drive with short messaging here and there […]

Feb. 06 2025

February is New Member Month!

By Diana Ross | Posted in Membership, WBJC News | Comments Off on February is New Member Month!

February is New Member Month! WBJC is appealing to those who have never joined WBJC’s membership ranks to do so in the month of February! We have a goal of 200 NEW members before the end of the month, and we are feeling pretty confident that there are 200 listeners who will step up. We […]

Dec. 06 2024

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts 2024-2025 season

By Diana Ross | Posted in Host Blogs, Met Opera, Operafest | Comments Off on Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts 2024-2025 season

THE ROBERT K. JOHNSON FOUNDATION–METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK 2024-25 SATURDAY MATINEE BROADCAST SEASON All broadcasts at 1 PM Eastern Time except as noted December 7 Strauss: DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Elza van den Heever (Empress), Lise Lindstrom (Dyer’s Wife), Nina Stemme (Nurse), Michael Volle (Barak), Russell Thomas (Emperor), Ryan Speedo Green (Spirit Messenger) […]

Nov. 11 2024

Fall Drive gift delays – UPDATE

By Diana Ross | Posted in Membership, WBJC News | Comments Off on Fall Drive gift delays – UPDATE

1/6/25 – the fulfillment company is starting to receive the finished thank you gifts and should begin shipping as they come in! Again, our apologies for this extreme and unanticipated delay! ——– There have been some unforeseen production delays and we anticipate being able to send the Thank You gifts out in December rather than […]

Oct. 31 2024

Fall Drive wrap up!

By Diana Ross | Posted in Membership | Comments Off on Fall Drive wrap up!

We had such an outstanding pledge drive! Thank you each and every one of you who made this a success. Now the numbers: total goal: $120,000 total pledge dollars: $134,266 Total matching Challenge dollars: $16,750 (not counted in drive totals) Total pledges: 749 total NEW members: 146!! 42% of you donated online, while the rest […]

Oct. 15 2024

Thank You Gifts FY25 list

By Diana Ross | Posted in Membership, WBJC News | Comments Off on Thank You Gifts FY25 list

Aug. 02 2024

WBJC Operafest 9/14/24 – 11/30/24

By Diana Ross | Posted in Met Opera, Operafest | Comments Off on WBJC Operafest 9/14/24 – 11/30/24

LA Opera  September 14, 2024 Double Bill: Highway 1, USA & The Dwarf William Grant Still & Alexander Zemlinsky September 21, 2024 Turandot Giacomo Puccini Bayreuth Festival September 28, 2024 Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner Aix-en-Provence Festival October 5, 2024 Madama Butterfly Giacomo Puccini October 12, 2024 La clemenza di Tito Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart October […]

Jun. 07 2024

WBJC Operafest 6/15/24 – 9/07/24

By Diana Ross | Posted in Met Opera, Operafest | Comments Off on WBJC Operafest 6/15/24 – 9/07/24

Vienna State Opera (Austria) JUNE 15  Guillaume Tell / Gioachino Rossini JUNE 22  Die Frau ohne Schatten / Richard Strauss   Utrecht Early Music Festival (Netherlands) JUNE 29  The Fairy Queen / Henry Purcell   Opéra de Lille (France) JULY 6  Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Royal Opera House (London) JULY 13  Das […]

May. 24 2024

Spring Pledge Drive Success!

By Diana Ross | Posted in Membership, WBJC News | Comments Off on Spring Pledge Drive Success!

Thank you each and everyone who made our last drive of Fiscal Year 24 a resounding success! From the people who gave during the Drive, the Buyback donors in the weeks before who shortened the pitching, the volunteers who answered the phones, the food donors (and the hard work of Jennifer LaFleur to get that […]

Apr. 05 2024

YOU’VE RECLAIMED A SECOND DAY FROM THE SPRING DRIVE!

By Diana Ross | Posted in Membership, WBJC News | Comments Off on YOU’VE RECLAIMED A SECOND DAY FROM THE SPRING DRIVE!

5/20 EVENING UPDATE – with the lockbox (mail-in pledges) as well as those who donated online today, we have made the goal to chop a second day from the Spring Drive! CONGRATS!! 5/20 UPDATE – we are in the home stretch!! as of 9am, we need only $7k to chop off Thursday pitching and play […]

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