Members may join any number of chapters. Chapters, Newsletter, Editor, Mem_b,rship umes Founding Date & Annual Dues lnq Boston Organ Club Alan Laufman 1965, '76 OHS Charter Box 10!1 Harrisville,NH 03450 Central New York, The Coupler, Phil Williams BoxF 1976 Cullie Mowers, $5 Remsen, NY 13438 Chicago Midwest, The Stopt Diapason, Julie Stephens 1980 FBFAM@AOL COM 10 South Catherine Fred Beal & La Grange, IL 60525 Robert Voves, $ I 5 jstephens@megsinct,com Eastern Iowa, 1982 Newsletter, August Knoll Box 486 Dennis U ngs, $7.50 Wheatland, IA52777 The Organ Historical Society Florida, 1998 The Rackboard David C. Scribner Post Office Box 26811, Richmond, Virginia23261 HenryVollenweider, $8 4775 Balmoral Dr www.ohs-florida.org Pensacola,FL 32504 (804)353-9226 FAX(80 4)353-9266 [email protected] e-mail: TRACKER@ORGANSOCIETY,ORG web: WWW. ORGANSOCIETY ORG Greater New York Alan Laufman City, 1969 Box l()'l on line catalog: WWW.OHSCATALOG.ORG Harrisville, NH 03450 Greater St. Louis, The Cypher, Eliza- John D. Phillippe 1975 beth Schmitt, $5 3901 Triple Crown Dr, The National Council Columbia, MO 652012-4814 TERM Officers and Councillors EXPIRES Harmony Society Clariana, The Rev. John Walt Adkins (Western PA & Ohio Cawkins, $5 476 First St. Jonathan Ambrosino .. , .. ,,, ................. , .............President (2001) Heidelberg, PA 15106 620 Chrisrian Street, #IC, Philadelphia, PA 19147 JAMBROSINO@AOLCOM Valley), 1990 Scot Huntington ....• • , ..., ............... .........Vice-Pr esident (2001) Hilbus (Washington­ Where the TrackerAction ls, Ruth Charters 34 Summer St, Westerly, RI02891 Baltimore), 1970 Gerald Lolmaugh, $8 6617 Brawner St. Stephen J. Schnurr, Jr.. ,,,,, ............................... Secretary (2003) McLean, VA 22l02 S� Paul Catholic Church, P. O. 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Hook op. 466 has arrived, restored, at the Fol/en Church in Lexington, Massachusetts, where it will be heard during the OHS National Convention based in Boston, August 16- THE TRACI<ER 23. John Bishop writes about the organ and its interesting history on JOURNAL OF THE. ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY page 18. Photo by William T. Van Pelt. stantial donation to OHS. He executed this plan by placing funds in St. Bernard's Church, Watertown, Wisconsin: a Certificate of Deposit, naming OHS as the beneficiary. John was Its Music, Musicians, and Organs concerned that his gift would serve OHS long and well, and he em­ & Richard W. Jackson, Organbuilder. 9 braced the concept of an endowment.At its meeting on November A Bu iness Machine Magnate Serves Music & The Church 6, Council directed that John's bequest be applied to the OHS En­ Th Story of a Wisconsin Parish Told by Richard Weber dowment Fund. Now and through the coming months, we have the opportunity The Stoneham Organ . 18 to control the future. John has started us along the path to improv­ The Story of Two Churches and One Hook ing the financial lot of OHS.The sooner our OHS Endowment Fund Organ, Told by John Bishop grows to five, then ten, then twenty times its current size, the Review .... 7 sooner we can count on substantial income every year to supple­