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WESTUNES, established in 1951, is the official publication of the Far Western District Association of Chapters in the Society for the PWreservation and EnEcouragement oSf BarberShTop Quartet SUinging in AmericaN, Inc. MEagS azine Volume 57 Fall 2007 Number 3 2007 International Champion Chorus Westminster, CA Photo by Homer Rail, Placerville Chapter 2nd OC Times College Qt 2nd The Crush File Photo Photo by Homer Rail, Placerville Chapter The FAR WESTERN DISTRICT includes Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and Southern Utah WESTUNES, established in 1951, is the official publication of the Far Western District Association of Chapters in the Society for the PWreservation and EnEcouragement oSf BarberShTop Quartet SUinging in AmericaN, Inc. MEagS azine WESTUNES Staff Far Western District VIPs Table of Contents Editor President Bill Cale Features Ray S. Rhymer 9951 River View Cir Stockton, CA 95209-4165 4339 Whispering Oaks Circle Granite Bay, CA 95746 209-473-2326 E: [email protected] 3 Presentation Category UPDATE 916-791-2134 E: [email protected] Executive Vice President Bob Lally for FALL Contest 1357 School House Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93108 10 Mr. BarberPole Cat Division 1 SCW Editor 805-969-9701 E: [email protected] 11 FWD Quartet Champions - Late Show Mike Martin Immediate Past President Peter Feeney 12 Denver Score Summary 13 FWD Chorus Champions - Westminster 2262 Bagley Ave Los Angeles, CA 90034-1109 5320 Coral Gables Dr Las Vegas, NV 89130-2025 14 Did You Know? 310-558-4949 E: [email protected] 702-655-9064 E: [email protected] Secretary Dick Girvin 16 FWD Hall of Fame Members 20 Southern Arizona YIN Festival Division 2 SCE Editor 34888 Lyn Ave Hemet, CA 92545 951-926-8644 E: [email protected] 23 Youth Harmony Camp Dick Girvin 36 Who Is Frank Thorne? 34888 Lyn Ave Hemet, CA 92545 Treasurer Jim Sherman 951-926-8644 E: [email protected] 2853 Lexford Ave San Jose, CA 95124 408-265-9034 E: [email protected] 2007 Board of Directors & Div Dig Division 3 NCWH Editor Society Board Member: FWD/EVG John Heather Lou Benedict 2 President Bill Cale 1058 Celilo Dr Sunnyvale CA, 94087-4004 121 N. Upas Escondido, CA 92025 760-747-3736 C: 760-271-6777 E: [email protected] 408-732-3276 E: [email protected] 4 Executive Vice President Bob Lally Division 4 NCENN Editor Division Vice Presidents 6-9 District Management Team Articles Roger Perkins Division 1 SCW Bernard Priceman 5150 Avenida Hacienda Tarzana, CA 91356 11493 Sherwood Way Auburn, CA 95602 24-36 Division DVP Articles & Division Digests 818-345-4125 E: [email protected] 530-823-0339 E: [email protected] Division 2 SCE Gene Clements 21725 Esmalte Mission Viejo, CA 92692-1029 Ads Division 5 ASNSU Editor 949-581-5544 E: [email protected] Phil Smith Division 3 NCWH Steve Sammonds IFC South Bay 1682 W. Campbell Phoenix, AZ 85015 1128 Beaumont Drive San Jose, CA 95129 4 Sidewinders CD 602-274-9158 E: [email protected] 408-252-4093 E: [email protected] 4 Sacramento Show Division 4 NCENN Dick Whitten 15 Sacramento Valley Show, SAI 7022 Cinnamon Drive Sparks, NV 89436 17 The Perfect Gentlemen WebMaster 775-626-5433 E: [email protected] Keith Eckhardt Division 5 ASNSU Ivan Jensen 5449 Robert Rd Pollock Pines, CA 95726 9172 N. Brave Drive Tucson, AZ. 85743 District Notices 530-644-4151 E: [email protected] 520-572-2347 [email protected] FWD Webpage: http://www.spebsqsafwd.org/ 2 20076 SSr Quartet Champions Correction to WESTUNES and FWD data continuously updated. FWD District Management Team Harmony.com [See articles for complete contact information] 3 Presentation Category Update Chair: Chapter Support/Leadership Training 10 Official Call to House of Delegates Meeting Subscriptions: David Updegraff E: [email protected] 16 Phoenix Order of Appearance Domestic $15/yr Chair: Chorus Director Development 18 Phoenix information Foreign $20/yr Jim Crowley E: [email protected] 19 Phoenix Contest Registration Chair: Contest & Judging 20 Lloyd B. Steinkamp Standing “O” Award Advertising rates per issue: Russ Young E: [email protected] Ad Size 1 issue 2 issues 4 issues Chair: Convention Activities 1 - Page $150 $140 $130 Keith Eckhardt E: [email protected] 1/2 - Page 100 90 80 Chair: Events Chuck Leavitt E: [email protected] 1/4 - Page 50 45 40 Submittal Chapter News Submittal Bus. Card 30 25 20 Chair : Marketing & Public Relations Kevin Smith E: [email protected] Issue Deadline to Div Editor Deadline Chair : Member Services Winter 1 Nov 25 Oct 1- Page: Inside Front Cover or Inside Back Cover Spring 1 Feb 25 Jan $200 per issue, one or more issues Clark Abrahamson E: [email protected] Chair : Music & Performance Summer 1 May 25 Apr Fall 1 Aug 25 Jul Contact Westunes Editor [Above] for all ads Jerry Fairchild E: [email protected] Chair : Young Men In Harmony These are new dates for the new and subscriptions. John Krizek E: [email protected] Quarterly publication schedule Send all articles and photographs to: Send change of address to: WESTUNES Editor by email VP - Financial Development Harmony SPEBSQSA, Inc • Articles: use MS Word or PDF files [embed fonts] Foundation 7930 Sheridan Road • Photographs: use high resolution JPEG. David Haedtler E: [email protected] Kenosha, WI 53143 Please identify people in photos clearly. or use the secure Society website login FWD Official Address https://secure.spebsqsa.org/members/login.asp 34888 Lyn Ave Hemet, CA 92545 951-926-8644 E: [email protected] Fall 2007 • WES T UNES 1 youth festivals, and scholarships to Harmony University and District President Directors College, among other things. Please, when you make your contributions, specify that 30% be allocated to the FWD or your chapter. Then we get to decide exactly how that money is Bill Cale to be spent. 9951 River View Circle Stockton, CA 95209 This issue of WESTUNES should reach you before District 209-473-2326 Convention in Phoenix so I have the opportunity to implore you [email protected] to attend and make sure your chapter is represented at the House of Delegates. The Long Range Planning Committee has presented the BOD with a number of key proposals and the HOD will be asked to comment on some of them. If you haven't Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own done it yet, please log on to the FWD website and download the aristocracy based on excellence of performance. HOD brochure. You might be surprised at how much informa - James Bryant Conant tion is there. The Far Western District currently has quite an aristocracy in Once again, my congratulations to all our competitors in place for 2007 as a result of the various competitions held by the Denver. You certainly made the entire FWD proud. And, thanks Barbershop Harmony Society: for the memories. Chorus Gold: Westminster Quartet Silver: O C Times Collegiate Silver: The Crush Senior Silver: Vintage Gold Editor Correction: In an attempt to get last minute, up-to-date Excellent performances all. The youth movement took Denver information in the Summer issue of Westunes, I went to the by storm. (Maybe Westminster could consider making Vintage website that was not up-to-date, which I did not recognize, and Gold honorary members so those old guys wouldn't feel so old.) published We’re 296 And Counting as SSrQT Champions. To represent this district at various meetings in Denver was My apologies to them and CONGRATULATIONS to indeed a privilege for me. It was difficult to be humble; so I was - n't. I just had to point out to all, that three silver medallists are Harmony.com looking forward to 2008 in Nashville who are in fact the as well as the MOH will be back in Motto: action in chorus competition. And 2007 FWD Super Senior Quartet Champion “Thanks for don't overlook VIH, who just missed a medal in their first effort. There's the no doubt in my mind five or six medals could be brought back to the Memories” FWD in 2008. Dare we even think how many will be gold? Start planning on attending COTS. Info should be available else - FWD Sunshine Chairman where in this issue. One will be near you as we are having four of them this year. One will be in NorCal, one in Socal, one in the Jim Holder Vegas area and one in Arizona. They will be one-day, nine to five, and at a real bargain price. 560 W. Groverdale St Covina, CA 91722 We all have our favorite charities, and I hope we do our best to 626-339-943 support them financially. One that should be on the top of all our lists is Harmony Foundation. HF helps support youth camps, [email protected] FWD Fall Convention in Phoenix September 27-30, 2007 Letʼs Get Our Conventions Singing Again REMEMBER THE FWD Come Join in the FUN! YOUTH EDUCATION FUND 2 WES T UNES • Fall 2007 ATTENTION ALL COMPETITORS! Russ Young, DDC&J The following letter from Joe Hunter, Presentation Category Specialist, is to clarify any misconceptions regarding the "talking Additionally, we determined that it would be appropriate to rule". Please read carefully, as the rules will be followed more penalize and list as penalties on our sheets any violations of this closely starting this Fall. rule. The penalty is, as all penalties seem to be, "up to and _________________________________ including forfeiture" and shall be determined by the judge when weighing the severity of the infraction. This penalty is to In our ongoing initiative to add reality and relevance to our con - be applied "on top of / in addition to" of any score lowering of test performances, three years ago we came to the realization the performance that resulted from the rule violation / act cre - that a "two-song ˆ no-talk" performance had a plastic and unre - ating interference or causing a "detriment" to the overall impact alistic feel about it.
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