2 THE HARMONIZER VISION OF THE FUTURE nIL: .r; My vision of the Society in years to come is that of an fRi.\~iL~~ll~ organization made up of more than 50,000 members with o£vOt£O TO Hie ,Nre<>U.1S 0" a thousand or more Chapters scattered in every State in. ~_S>lO"QUIl.QT£": H~ll~ the Uniorr. Many of these Chapters will be located at Publifihed quarterly by the National Officers and the other members Colleges and Universities. National Officers arrd Direc· of tbe Notional Board 01 Directors of the Society lor the Preserva­ tors will be elected annually by a House of Delegates rep­ tiOD, Qnd Encouragement oj Barbe: Shop Quartet Singing in America, IDC" for free di.ttributiOD to the melnbers of the Society. resenting each Chapter. National Headquarters will be managed by a permanent paid National Secretary who will VOLUME II MAY, 1943 NO.4 be selected on the basis of ability by the National Board. He will be resporrsible for the conduct of Society business. Canoll P. Adams-Editor and BUlinesl Manager 19220 Cainsborougb Road. Detroit. Michigan under the supervision of the President and the Board of Directors. 1942-43 District Associations will cover the United States. These NATIONAL OFFICERS will be headed by District Officers who will become an in­ Harold B. Staab. President. Eastem Soles MQnager. Wm. & Harvey tegral part of a National Plan of Organization. Each Dis' RowllI.Dd. Inc.. 40 Roe Ave.• Northampton. Mass. trict will have its own Convention and Quartet Contest, Phil EatbUTT. Vice-Prllsident. Pre5ident Embury Mfg. Co.. Warsaw. N. Y. the climax of the year being the National Convention and £. V. (Cy) Pelkins. Vice-Pr.aident. We.tern Mill. "Th. Petroleum Quartet Contest at which National Officers will be elected EDgineer". 330 So. Wells St•• Chicago, 01. arrd the championship quartet will be crowned. A wurrd Mallrie. E. Reugan. Vice-President. Electrictll EDgineer. WestiulJhoule E&M Co•• East Pittsbul9h. Pti. movie of the National Corrvention and Contest will be Joseph P. WoW. Vice·President. Commissioner of BuildiD9s cmd Safety provided, and the anrrual showing of this movie will be a EDgineerin9. 8491 E. Outer Drive. Detroit. Mieb. gala event for each Chapter. National Officers will call Carroll P. AdaIZa. Secrettlry- Treasurer. Slron9. Ctirlillie & Hammond in many Districts and on many Chapters durirrg the year. Co. 19220 Gainsborough Road. Detroit. Michigan. There will be a National Council of District Presidents Claret1ce Eddy. Master 01 Ceremonies. Music. SIS GraCe St.. F1int. Mich. who will meet at the time of the National Corrvention and Damon Xerby. Director oj Publicity. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Mo. collaborate with the National Board of Directors. There C. T. (Detlc) Mtlrtin. Hilltoricm. Publicist. BusineslI Writer. Union Com· will be arr association of Past National Presiderrts who will merce Bldg•• Clevelt1nd. Ohio. remain corrtinually active irr a consulting capacity especial­ O. C. Cash. Founder t1nd Permanet1t Third Asllistat1t Temporary Vice­ lyon problems of the future. There will be corrfererrces Chtlirman. Attorney. Tax Commissioner. Stanolind Pipe LiDe Co.. Box 591. Tulstl. Okltl. of Chapter Secretaries at which mutual problems will be discussed. Constructive bulletins and pamphlets of as­ BOARD OF DIRECTORS sistance to Chapters will be published regularly by the Na­ The Ten Officers and tional Office. Barber Shop Quartet arrangements of hun­ Roscoe D. BeDDelt, Sportll Editor. G. R. Press. Grtlnd Rapids. Mich. R. Harry Brown. Officitll Court Reporter. 3403 Madison St., Wilmin9ton, dreds of songs will be available for every member. Deltlware. There will be a resurgence of barber shop quartet sing­ Sieve Cady. Motel Operator. 616 Kelton. Westwood Village. W. Los Angeles. Cal. ing all over America. Recording companies will become Ralph L. Carr. Governor of Colorado. State Capitol. Denver. Colo. mOre Barber Shop conscious and will produce records of Denver N. Damon. Supreme Court Justice, Oklahoma City. Okla. our top flight quartets. Recordings will be made each Lieut. Ray W. Granger. U.S.N.R•• Security Office. Navy Yard, Mare Island. California, year at our National Contest, arrd will be available to all Fred D. Graves. Th. National Supply Co.. Tulsa, Okl(tbom(t. members. Our quartets will often be heard over the radio, John Hauson. Salesll:lan. 216 Ashton Ave.• Peoria. Dl. and our National Contest will be listerred to by milliorlS R. J. HeiDea.. Ctlshier. Farmers Savings Bank. Halbur. Iowa. over a National hook-up and seerr by millions by means of Verne M. Lc;ring. Lawyer. 124 Fourth National B(tnk Bldg.. Wichita. Ken. television. The Society will become one of the most GleDD O. Laws. Building MaDager. 1123 Hales Building. Oklahoma City. OkJabom(t. favorably known Service Orgarrizatiorrs in the rration. Our Clarence R. Mtlrlowe. Asst. Commissioner. Dept. Health. 10 N. Bemis· Founder, O. C. Cash, will become as well known as is ton. ClaytoD. Mo. Fr(tnk C. Morse. President. Browne Morse Co.. Muskegon. Michigan. Harris of Rotary and Prince of Kiwanis. The Society for Mtlrk S. Nelson. M.D.. 28 West E1In St.. C(tnton. JIlinois. the Preservatiorr arrd Encouragement of Barber..Shop Dr. Norman F. Rathert. Dentist. 936 Arc(tde Bldg.• St. Louis. Mo. Quartet Singing irr America will have reached its zenith J. Fr(tnk Rice. Cities Service Gas Co.• 4tb and Dewey Sts., Bartlesville. Old(tboma. orrly wherr these things have been accomplished. Henry Stanley. Spocictl Representative, Chicago Association 01 Com­ My vision is not only a vision, it 1S a prophecy. If we merce. 48 E. Chicago Ave.. Chicago. III. love our Society enough. we will reach the heights. JOleph E. Stem, Realtor. 200 Temple Bldg.• Ktlnsas City. Mo. R. H. (Dick) Sturges. OUldoor Advertising. Box 1128. Atlanta. Ga. HAL STAAB, National President. Frank H. Thorne. Vice·President, National Aluminate Corp.. 6216 W. 66th Place. Chicago. SONG ARRANGEMENTS JOleph E. Wodiclca. Tobey Fine Papefll, 1006 Clark Ave.. St. Louis. Mo. Inserted in this issue of the Harmonizer are two STANDING NATIONAL COMMITTEES songs arranged by our National Song Arrange­ Finance-Staab (Chtlirmtln) Adams. Calb, Stern ments Committee. The Committee. consisting of Rulel & Regulations-Thome (Cbairman) Brown, Embury Chairman Phil Embury of Warsaw, N. Y.. Deac Community Service-Mofll8 (Chairman) Sturgis, Wodiek(t Marlin of Cleveland. Maurice Reagan of Pilts· Extension-Perkins (Cbairman) Cady. Graves:. Laws. Rothert burgh. and Frank Thome of Chicago. has done Chapter Ways & Me(tn.s-Marlowo (Cbainn(tn) Rice. Stern an outstanding job this year. Inter-Chtlpter Relt1tions-Hanson (Cbairman) Nelson. WoUJ Publicity-Kerby (Chairmtln) Bennett. Granger n is our intention to include two real barber Song Arr(tngementa-Embury (Chairman) Martin. Re(tgan. Tborne shop song arrangements in each future issue. OUf Achievement Awards-Eddy (Chairman) Heinen. Martin hope is that the distribution of these arrangements RelolutiollS-Laing (CbClirmlXD) DavisoD. Carr will stimulate the formation of more quartets. 1943 National Convention-Stanley (Chairman) THE HARMONIZER Our New Chapters Since the last Harmonizer, Connecticut, Arizona, New world ahout the oril!in of the Society. At our last meet­ York, Illinois and Michigan have added new chapters. ing we had an envoy from the local Elks Lodge with an invitation to make their Home our permanent meet­ Binghamton. New York ing place. which proposal was voted upon and accepted . With National President Hal Staab and National Vice by the Chapter. So. from now on. we will meet the President Phil Embury on hand as guests of honor, the first and third Monday of each month at the Elks. All special meetings will be ~t the Armory. We are arrang­ new Binghamton Chapter was launched early in March, il~C a big Floor Show and DanciC to be held at the with Edward Vincent as President, John Parry, Vice Armory, May 21, under the auspices of the Society at President, William Beddoe, Treasurer, and Reeve B. Long· whi~h we hope to entertain our ladies and swell our coy, 28 Holmes Place, as Secretary. The sixteen charter membership as well as our Treasury. I am sending a Unit of Barber-shoppers out to two camps next Satur­ members immediately caught the spirit of our Society by day night-Luke's Field and Thunderbird Field. They entertaining at several civic and community affairs of a are having Easter parties ~t both camps:' patriotic nature. Binghamton is a hot bed of men who Pontiac. Michigcm love to sing so just watch this Chapter grow. The Pontiac Chapter reports through Chapter Secretary Charlevoix. Michigcm Tom Doyle and Treasurer Bill Pascher that the twenty· Drawing for its membership from several communities six charter members were joined with fourteen new mem' within a radius of twenty-five miles. a Chapter was fonned bers at the second meeting on April 30th. This Chapter in Charlevoix on March 31st, with Dr. D. C. Nettleton has set as its goal, one hundred and four members by next as President, Dean Davenport as Vice President, and Dal­ fall, so as to step ahead of Muskegon, which now has one las Henry as Secretary-Treasurer. The Chapter had four­ hundred and three. teen charter members, with seventeen applicants now wait­ Tecumseh. Michigcm ing to be taken into membership at the next meeting. Sec~ This Chapter was organized in March with nine charter retary Henry reports thus of the organization night party: members. President Neil DePuy recently wrote as f61· "Now a bit about our March 315t party. There were lows: about one hundred and twenty-five invited guests here. "Now Carroll, we are one of the newest chapters The Traverse City Chapter brought two quartets, a and we are having one swell time. Our Secretary will girls sextette, which was marvelous, two soloists and a have his April reports ready soon, but we all are on pianist.