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TIMBRE Quarterly Newsletter of the Evergreen District of the Barbershop Harmony Society

March 15, 2018 ”With One Voice” Volume 70, Number 1

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President Charlie’s Commentary / Vision & Mission Statements Cover District Officers / Editor’s Notes / LOPT - What is it all about ? 2 Supercharging Your Chapter / Eugene Cascade Chorus at OMEA 3 Division I & Division II Convention plans 4 Division III & Division IV Convention plans 5 Division V & Fall Evergreen District Convention plans 6 Standing Ovation Program / Story Teller Project / Bud Leabo Fund 7 Evergreen District Historian’s Highlights 8 Historian’s Highlights continued / BOTY Nominations Call / Matt Mercier 9 Greater Portland Sings To Veterans / Calgary Food Bank Donation 10 Idaho Youth Vocal Contest / Balladtown U.S.A. 11 Selling Your Chorus (or Quartet) / Evergreen Facebook Page Admin 12 Financial Filing Requirements / ASCAP Reporting For Chapters 13 News From QCED - What The Heck is QCED ?, By Mel Knight 14 Membership News, By Bob Thomas / 50 Year Member Jim Cochrane 15 Harmony Explosion Needs Support / WHS Supports Harmony Explosion 16 Harmony College Northwest for 2018 Registration Now Open 17 Workshops : Supercharge Your Chapter and The Arrangers’ Workshop 18 Calendar of Events / Resources Links / Advertising Rates / Last Word 19

Charlie’s Commentary Dear Chapters of Evergreen,

The Evergreen District has a goal for 2018. Our goal is to increase communications between ourselves and District Chapters. We need to talk more, in both directions, so that we can provide the services to chapters that you want or need to enhance your own success! We want to listen, not tell. When we tell you what we think you need, the response is often underwhelming, and understandably so!

In barbershop, it's the chapter's job to decide how you want to improve and then articulate goals that will achieve your wishes. After that, plans can be devised to create the progress your chapter wants. Chapters that wish to stay the same, can do so, but that describes stagnation and stagnation is not an attractive state for many. It's hard to get new members to sign on to stagnation. There's not enough excitement or intention in it.

Some chapters would really like to have a more vibrant quartetting program. That can be exciting! Some chapters want to seek out grants to help improve the school music programs in their community! Sounds very satisfying to make that happen! Some chapters want to sing a wider variety of songs. Some want to sing better to more audiences. Some want to be funnier, more inspiring, serve more elderly people who know and like their music! There are so many possibilities! And there is life, growth, enthusiasm, and a sense of purpose in any of these possibilities for the group that wants that future.

Our Society sums it all up by saying we're all after "Everyone in Harmony". That works very well as a slogan but only suggests a general di-rection. Chapters need to get specific about their direction. That's fun! That's exciting! And, it gives you more success and more satisfaction!

You should know that the District Board and Operations Teams can find resources to help you with any of these goals. We'll work very hard to do so. And that's where the communication comes in. We need to talk to you, and you need to talk to us. We can write letters and posts that go to all of you, but only you can tell us what your chapter wants.

Board members are calling you and calling on you. Operations Team members are doing much the same. Tell us how to spend the money you have paid the District in dues! Tell us how we can spend our volunteer time on your behalf. You tell us what you want to do, and we'll help you do it with the resources we can find.

Create your goals! Plan to make them happen! Let others give you a helping hand. It's fellowship and the spirit of barbershop in action!

Charlie Metzger, Evergreen President

PS. Please join the Facebook Page: Evergreen District of the Barbershop Harmony Society I check there most days and would love to hear about your chapter's hopes and wishes. They can become your own inspiring goals! CM

EVERGREEN - VISION & MISSION STATEMENTS

VISION: “The Evergreen District provides excellence through sing-ing, leadership, fellowship and service.” MISSION: “The Evergreen District will support the goals of the chapter, by providing opportunity for enriching vocal music partici-pation, training leaders for today and tomorrow, creating memora-ble experiences at all gatherings, and taking the initiative to actively participate in the community.”

BHS - VISION & MISSION STATEMENTS

VISION: “To be the premier membership organization for men who

love to sing”

MISSION: “The Barbershop Harmony Society brings men together

in harmony and fellowship to enrich lives through singing”

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Timbre Official QUARTERLY Publication of Evergreen District, BHS

2018 District Officers

District President Charles Metzger [email protected]

Executive Vice President John Rettenmayer [email protected]

Treasurer Don Thorn Secretary Paul Graves Immediate Past President Rob Macdonald [email protected] Board Members at Large Ken Leonard Rob Nits Glenn Hayes Society Board Member Liaison Matt Mercier

2018 District Operations (OPS) Team

Director of Communications Bob Robson Director of Contest & Judging Jimbob Kahlke Director of District Support Bobby Huber

Director of Education John Rettenmayer

Director of Events Don Cain

Director of Membership Bob Thomas

TIMBRE Editors

Content: Bob Robson — Layout: Jeff Billo 403-286-3357 403-970-3451 [email protected] [email protected]

TIMBRE is an official publication of Evergreen District, BHS, published electronically on, or about, the fifteenth day of every third month (March, June, September and December), on the evgsings.org web site.

To go to the 2017 (and prior years) newsletters: click here

All articles, photographs and other information herein are provided by BHS members, for BHS members, patrons and others interested in barbershop harmony singing in Evergreen District.

NOTES FROM THE EDITORS

This is the tenth issue of a revised Timbre newsletter under new editors, Bob Robson (content) and Jeff Billo (layout). If you find some of your favorite features from previous issues missing, please let us know. The calen-dar of current events, the lists of previous year contest winners and hall of Fame members have been dropped in favor of links to the online Evergreen district calen-dar, and online honorees lists at EVGADMIN.ORG ..

TIMBRE 2018 Production Schedule

Issue # Ad/Copy Deadline Publishing Date 2018 #1 (TIMBRE) Feb. 28 , 2018 March 15, 2018

2018 #2 (TIMBRE) May 31, 2018 June 15, 2018

2018 #3 (TIMBRE) August 31, 2018 September 15, 2018

2018 #4 (TIMBRE) November 30, 2018 December 15, 2018

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LOPT - What is it all about?

The BHS Leadership Operations Project Team

Have you heard about the Healthy Chapter Initiative? How about the LOPT (the Lead-ership Operations Project Team)? I have been a member of the LOPT for 4 years, one of 6 volunteers that work with Antonio Lombardi (Education: Chapters and Lead-ership) in Nashville’s Harmony Hall.

The LOPT believes the difference between thriving chapters and surviving chapters is Leadership. While chapters have to operate well to be compliant as non-profit enti-ties, they also need leaders who can help shape the future; responding to the chal-lenges that impact their chapter.

We believe the essence of leadership can be summarized by two statements: Lead-ers have a vision about the future of the organization. Leaders can translate that vision into reality. No small order! This suggests Leaders need to build teams that have trust, dialogue, commitment and accountability to achieve results.

LOPT is dedicated to creating resources for chapter leaders, found in the Healthy Chapter Initiative web pages. They include:

THINK! – a process to help chapters define their WHY – their identity, WHAT – the musical (and others) products and HOW – the investment of time, money and expertise. Over 10% of BHS chapters have engaged in THINK!, and have set new goals as a result.

Chapter Assessment – a 104 questions that ask about 6 areas of chapter life: Membership, Music, Performance, Board & Governance, Finance and Out-reach & Community. The Chapter Assessment helps chapters identify their current status and create some urgency about their next chosen steps.

Leadership Curriculum – by HCNW and HU 2018, there will be 20, 1-hour topics on Leadership Development that chapters can access through District Leadership Academies, HCNW and HU. These topics include Leadership principles and practices, effective teams, communication, leadership tools, processes, goals and strategy.

Facilitators – a cadre of Facilitators, now 15 strong throughout BHS, able to facilitate all of the above. We are fortunate in EVG to have Charlie Metz-ger, Bob Cox and myself as Leadership Facilitators.

These resources will build as needs are identified and Leadership experts share their expertise.If you believe, as we do, that Leaders exist at every level of a chapter, and that we need good leaders to achieve success in the future, then Leadership Devel-opment should be a priority investment in your chapter.

Take advantage of the growing resources in the Healthy Chapter Initiative! Contact [email protected] for more information.

Rob Macdonald,

Immediate Past President, EVG District

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Supercharging Your Chapter by John Rettenmayer

Because many of our chapters are struggling with declining or stagnant membership, your Evergreen District Board has decided to invest in a proven educational event specifically designed to help you and your fellow chapter members understand how to Supercharge Your Chapter with Turbo Growth.

On Friday, June 15th, Paul Ellinger will present an all-day workshop by that title on the campus of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. If that location sounds familiar, and it should to Evergreen barbershoppers, it is because the workshop will be from 8:30-4:30 on the day that Harmony College Northwest starts. The District is picking up the cost of the workshop, but at-tendees must pay a $25 fee to UPS for use of the campus and a generous, delicious lunch from their food court, in addition to travel costs. The university charge for a dorm room for Thursday night, including Thursday dinner and Friday breakfast, is $80.

Paul Ellinger has been working with great success with the Seattle chapter. I encourage you to contact them if you want first-hand information about the efficacy of the Supercharging Your Chapter program.

The District Board strongly encourages chapters, particularly smaller, outlying ones, to send as large a contingent as possible to attend Paul’s workshop, which is highly interactive and participative. You will have many opportunities to develop your individual recruiting pitch and to practice it with others. The more who attend from a chapter, the better; this workshop prepares every man to participate in growing the chapter.

Of course, once you are on campus you might as well, if time permits, stay for Harmony College Northwest (http://www.harmonycollege.org), the best weekend barbershop education event in our Society!

You can see a 4 minute introduction and/or a 55 minute overview of SYC on YouTube just by searching for Supercharging Your Chapter! However, experience has shown that simply watching the video is not sufficient — getting a full immersion in the ideas and techniques is vitally important.

Registration for the SYC workshop will be available through the HCNW registration system in early March. However, SYC is not a part of HCNW, so if you want to attend both you will have to use the system twice.

John Rettenmayer, Evergreen District Executive Vice President [email protected]

THE EUGENE CHAPTER REACHES OUT TO OREGON MUSIC EDUCATORS By Donald Thorn

The Cascade Chorus had a booth for this year’s Oregon Music Education Association (OMEA) Conference held in Eugene (January 11-13). This was the sec-ond time we have sponsored a booth, the first time being in 2016. The Conference is held annually in Eugene. It draws teachers from different levels (elementary through university). Although most of the participants were from public schools, there were others from parochial and private schools. A myriad of seminars were offered. Music education in Oregon has suffered through decreased funding, but there remain a very dedicated group of people who do a tremendous job bringing music into the lives of our students.

For both the 2016 and 2018 booths, we received a generous grant from the Bud Leabo Fund. This enabled us to pay for the booth, signage and a variety of materials. We also received materials from the Outreach people at BHS.

More than a dozen Chorus members pitched in to make our booth a success. They helped set the booth up and answer questions from the OMEA attendees. We had DVD clips which we played to stir up interest in Harmony College Northwest, Harmony Explosion and Harmony University. We offered forms that could be completed to request materials or information.

On Friday afternoon, our 4 C Sons Quartet provided some songs in the Barbershop style which were very appreciated. Our Chorus members had chances to attend some of the seminars which were offered. We were heartened by the level of expertise demonstrated by a variety of school groups.

Next year the OMEA Conference is being held in Portland. Should any of the choruses in that area be interested in taking part, you would find it a worthwhile pursuit. Feel free to contact Hugh Turn-bull ([email protected]) who was our Cascade Chorus organizer for this event.

The 4 C Sons at the OMEA booth


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Director - Ken Potter

DIVISION I CONVENTION SET FOR NANAIMO ON APRIL 27-28, 2018

As the Convention Chair it is my privilege to outline some of the thoughts we have put together to make this contest / convention memorable and unique.

The convention host chapter, the Nanaimo Tidesmen, made a decision a year ago to take up the challenge of putting together a very special contest / con-vention for the Division 1 choruses and quartets. The distance and time required to make the journey to ’come play in our house’ presented us with the goal to encourage barbershoppers everywhere to make the commitment and sign up to attend. We would make their efforts worthwhile by offering quali-ty accommodations, pick up at the ferry terminal for walk on travellers plus a unique sense of adventure when they arrive. That experience was to include a “themed” weekend based far more broadly around the Barbershop experience and not just a contest. One of the highlights was to be a Show of Champi-ons promoted to the public with a high level stage production in its own right.

We have done exactly that. We have a theme that is meant to highlight what barbershoppers recognize as part of the barbershop experience - that sense of family. The barbershop fraternity is an organization that competes internally and yet honors, respects and wants success for each member of that fra-ternity. Even at the International level of competition, it is a fact that coaching by the very top quartets occurs to directly competing quartets on the same stage in order to enhance everyone’s performance to its maximum possible level. There are very few other organizations that operate in a competitive environment with a sense of mutual benefit to each competitor; both for the good of the organization and the audience that wants to watch those perfor-mances. It is truly a sense of brotherhood and family. “This is us - Experience the Barbershop Family” is our proactive theme meant to highlight the over-arching barbershop sense of fraternity in the midst of competing to do ones’ very best. Our 2018 Division I convention will acknowledge more of that “family” sense to the contest participants and to let the audience see it as well. The Show of Champions has a comedy quartet that will MC the show (yes the entire quartet will act as MC!) ... the much beloved Social Insecurity Evergreen seniors champs. There are several venues around the city that have been booked for choruses to come and sing out after the contest portion is over. And the afterglow promises to be an amazing event with a “tag along with us” theme also hosted by a quartet. The Division I contest / convention host chapter is determined to have every participant leave with a smile on his face and a warm sense of barbershop family in his heart. It’s not just a contest experience – it’s an experience of the Barbershop family!

See all the details on the events page at www.evgsings.org or on the Nanaimo Chapter website www.tidesmen.com

Jay Cousins, Division 1 Contest Chair

DIVISION I AND II CONVENTIONS FOR 2018

GO TO FEDERAL WAY FOR THE DIVISION II AND PRE-LIMS CONVENTION – APRIL 20-21, 2018

The Evergreen District International Prelims Quartet Contest will be a part of the Division II Contest in Federal Way, Washington this year and the entire event is shaping up to be a great experience for everyone involved. We are expecting the best quartets in the district to share the stage with around 20-25 quartets from the Division II in the first half of the contest on Friday Evening. Prelims will continue at the Show of Champions on Saturday evening.

Saturday afternoon will once again feature a High School A Cappella Contest with significant financial prizes for the music programs of the winning schools. This was a popular feature of our contests several years ago, but it was discontinued last year because of scheduling conflicts for some of the schools. They can complete with any style of a cappella music, but an additional $250 bonus prize will be given to the best presentation of a barbershop arrange-ment.

It is fun for everyone to get them to ring a few barbershop tags with us after the contest. If you know of a high school or junior high school chorus or quar-tet that would like to compete please have them contact Lanny Gleason ([email protected]). Division II Venue Journey Church 701 S 320th St. Federal Way, WA 98003 Friday, April 20, 2018 4:00 PM - Registration Open at Journey Church 6:00 PM - Division II Quartet Contest & First Session of International Prelims 11:00 PM - 1:00 AM Quartet Evaluation Sessions Saturday, April 21, 2018 8:00 AM - Registration Open at Journey Church 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Chorus Contest 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM Chorus Evaluation Sessions 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Additional QT Evaluation Sessions if needed at the Clarion 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM High School A Cappella Contest 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM International Prelim QT Finals 8:15 PM - 10:00 PM Show of Champions 10:30 PM - 1:00 AM Afterglow at Billy McHales Restaurant, 1320--324th St, Federal Way, WA Hotel Accomodations: The Host Hotel is the Clarion Hotel, 31611 Pete Von Reichbauer Way (20th Ave S., just north from 320th Street), Federal Way, WA 98003. For reservations call 253-941-6000. Advise them you are with the Barbershop Harmony Group for the discounted rate of $99/night.

Register for the contest at the events section of evgsings.org or directly at http://whitedaisy.com/event/division2convention/ The early-bird discount is available until March 20th.

Division II Convention Chair – Jim Burbidge

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DIVISION III AND IV CONVENTIONS FOR 2018

CALGARY IS THE PLACE TO BE FOR DIVISION III – MAY 25-26, 2018

On Saturday, May 26, 2018 Western Hospitality Singers will be hosting the annual Evergreen District Division III Convention and Contest in Calgary. In recent years attendance has been waning somewhat at our Division Convention and in the spirit of supporting Bar-bershop in Alberta and also encouraging youth singing, this year we are trying a different approach.

The event will feature a mix of 3 things: our traditional Division Convention and Contest, our chorus annual spring show, and an A Cappella Festival aimed at high school and college aged a cappella vocal ensembles. We are calling the event ‘An A Cappella Celebration’.

The Division Convention will kick off on Friday, May 25 with an Icebreaker Reception. Registrants will attend the Icebreaker and also pick up their Registration packages and nametags that evening. The Headquarters Hotel will be the Grey Eagle Resort Hotel in southwest Calgary. The contest events will be held at the Bethany Chapel near Mount Royal University, which has an 800 seat auditorium, good parking, plenty of warm-up rooms and a gym for serving lunch. It will be an excellent venue.

Saturday, May 26 will be contest day! The chorus contest in the morning will include several ensemble choruses from Calgary high schools who will 'compete' in the contest along with the barbershop chorus representatives from our province. After the contest, both the a cappella choirs and the barbershop choruses will have coaching and evaluation sessions with the judges and additional guest m usic spe-cialists from the District. In the afternoon the quartet contest will be joined by small ensemble a cappella groups in what will be a wonderful contest. This session will also be followed by review sessions with the judges and special guests.

The evening show, traditionally a Show of Champions, will feature performances by the BHS medal winners and the champion and runner- up a cappella ensembles, plus a massed chorus sing. But this year the second part of the show will feature a guest quartet, HI-FIDELITY, 2005 Far Western District Quartet Champions and 2006 Harmony Sweepstakes National A Cappella Champions . (Some of the judging panel are members of this guest quartet). Western Hospitality Singers will also have a feature spot to perform in the second half as host chorus, and in lieu of our normal spring show.

Cash Prizes will be awarded to the champion and runner-up a cappella youth ensembles in each of 2 categories. With a March 15 dead-line for registering for the event we have already received registrations to fill our slate of a cappella festival spots for the event.

This will be a hallmark event of our year for Western Hospitality Singers and Division III. By trying a new approach we hope to test another way that future conventions can be organized and can attract some younger singers to see what this wonderful hobby of ours is all about.

The event is only part of our chapter’s youth outreach focus in Alberta which includes exhibiting at conferences attended by music educa-tors, our annual Barbershop Challenge to schools which is growing each year, and our Randy Peters Memorial Scholarship to sen d a music educator to Harmony University in Nashville. We look forward to an exciting celebration of a cappella singing this year in Calgary.

You can register and obtain your early-bird passes for members and guests here, at whsings.eventbrite.ca

For additional details go to our website www.sing4fun.ca. The details will also soon be on the www.evgsings.org website.

Doug Gardner and Shaun Ennis, Convention Co-Chairs

Evergreen District – Division IV 2018 Convention & Competition April 6 – 7, 2018 – Eugene, OR Hosted by the Cascade Chorus

The Cascade Chorus is very excited to be hosting the Division IV convention and competition this year. We look forward

to a day of great singing and much excitement as there will be some non BHS groups joining us on the stage. We hope you

will have a chance to come and enjoy what Eugene has to offer, make new friends and reacquaint yourself with old ones.

We look forward to some inspiring performances from the best that Division IV has to offer. This convention is open to any

group who wants to participate, whether all men, women or mixed. Please let your non BHS friends know they can be involved!

There is no one specific headquarters hotel this year. There is a list of local hotels available on the Cascade Chorus website. We encourage you to book

early as there are other events occurring in Eugene on that Saturday and rooms are sure to fill up quickly. All hotels are only a short drive to both the Friday

evening/Afterglow site at Our Redeemer Lutheran church and to Sheldon High School.

Friday evening activities at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church include the chapter presidents meet and greet and a barbershop scavenger hunt. Also happening

at the church is the All-Comers Mic Tester chorus rehearsal. Both men and women are invited to join this chorus to sing a couple of pole-cat songs and then

will begin the contest on Saturday morning.

This year all competition events will be happening on one day at Sheldon High School with the choruses taking the stage in the morning, and the quartets in

the afternoon. The highlight of the day will be the evening show featuring the top choruses and quartets as well as other non BHS groups including one from

Sheldon High School. Pick-up of registration packets will be available at the church beginning at 5 PM on Friday. Remember that there is a $15 on-site

registration fee to register on Friday or Saturday so register early! Photos will be taken of each group immediately after their performance. Order forms are

available on the website.

Please feel free to e-mail me with questions. On behalf of the Cascade Chorus, we look forward to seeing all of you in Eugene in April!

Get all the details at www.cascadechorus.org or on the www.evgsings.org website under the events tab.

Sincerely,

Deena Wolfe

Deena Wolfe, BHS Associate

Convention chair, Registration chair [email protected]

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Gorgeous surroundings

Tagging into the wee small hours

DIVISION V CONVENTION FOR 2018

THE DIVISION 5 CONVENTION WEEKEND HAPPENS IN MISSOULA, MONTANA

May 18-19, 2018

The Missoula Chapter and the Rocky Mountainaires Chorus is looking forward to hosting the 2018 Division V Convention and A Cappella Festival on May 18-19. The convention hotel is Ruby’s Inn and Convention Center, 4825 North Reserve Street. For room reservations ($89 and $99), call the hotel directly at 406-721-0990 and tell them you are with the barbershop convention. If you prefer another hotel chain, there are 12 motels within a block of Ruby’s Inn, as well as 10 eateries. If you want to be closer to the contest venue, both the Double Tree and the Downtown Holiday Inn are right across the river from campus.

If you prefer to get those wonderful barbershop chords directly from the singers’ mouths to your ears, as I do, then this is your chance. The Music Recital Hall at the University of Montana was designed, as the name suggests, specifically for recitals of all kinds, so it has wonderful acoustics. From every one of the 400 seats you can hear perfectly the softest sound from the stage.

While there are many things to do around Missoula, a great way to get some exercise, as well as a grand overview of town and the valley, is to hike the switchbacks to the big, white “M” on Mount Sentinel that start at the edge of campus, about 2 blocks from the Recital Hall. Round trip will probably take you an hour to an hour and a half. Unfortunately, mid-May brings the beginning of high water straight out of the mountain snowfields, so floating the Clark Fork through town is probably something you’ll have to save for a return trip later in the summer.

Convention registration is not quite ready yet, but will be on Eventbrite.com soon. In the meantime, your chorus or quartet can register for the contest at barberscore.com.

John Rettenmayer, Convention Chair

Spokane, WA Chapter – Pages of Harmony Chorus

Cordially Invites Everyone To The

2018 Evergreen District Fall Convention/Contest

26-27 October, 2018

Headquarters Hotel: DoubleTree City Center

Spencer’S Steak HouSe

Contest Venue: Spokane Convention Center

You can expect all of the usual activities:

Harmony Platoon Quartet Contest Chorus Contest

Tag Singing Woodshedding QCED Afterglow Hospitality Suites

Alternative hotels nearby: Hotel RL (formerly Red Lion)

Davenport Grand Best Western (formerly Travel Lodge)

Several restaurants within walking distance

We look forward to seeing you all in Spokane

Evergreen District Fall Convention and Contest 26-27 October, 2018

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Could you please tell us what you are up to?

What has your chapter been doing lately? Your TIMBRE is an excellent media vehicle to share news about your chap-ter with the other chapters in Evergreen, and beyond, be-

cause we share the TIMBRE with other districts throughout the Society. We want to know and share your successes! Have you had a successful visitation, sing-out, membership recruitment drive, received an honor, highlights of honored members, or the passing of a member? Don’t hesitate to contact the editor or division news digest-er to promote an upcoming show or event. We’ll help you get the word out to the entire membership, plus our pa-trons and subscribers. Keep those cards and letters coming! Email: Bob Robson


SUPPORT...

STANDING OVATION PROGRAM

BY BOBBY HUBER, CHAIRMAN OF THE EVERGREEN STANDING OVATION PROGRAM

About the S. O. P. Program – What is it? How does it work? Who do I contact?

Well it is real easy and real simple and real cheap!! The STANDING OVATION PROGRAM EVALUATION goes like this. When you get your CHAPTER SHOW APPROVAL DATE from the Evergreen District Secretary, it will have a request for you to contact me ([email protected]) if you are interested in the process. A trained Evaluator will come to your Show / Activity and all it costs your Chapter (or Quartet) is the price of a couple tickets. The rest of the expenses are borne by the Evergreen District. The Evaluator will get in touch with your contact person and set up a time prior to the activity (same day) to go over what needs to be understood and what needs to be done by both parties. The Evaluator will do an evaluation of your show and will give only encouragement and positive feedback on what he sees / hears on the show and will offer suggestions for potential improvements and evaluations on some “missed opportunities” that will help in the next performances of the Chapter / Quartet.

The only responsibility of the Chapter / Quartet is to fill out a form on the activities of the Evaluator and then return it to me. The Evaluator will either review his evaluation forms or write a separate wrap-up of the activity and present it to whomever asked him be at the activity. The District does not get a copy, the Society does not get a copy and the Chairman (me) only gets a note from the Evaluator and the Chap-ter / Quartet as to when the activity took place and an evaluation was done. The report is between the Chapter / Quartet and the Evaluator – how simple is that?

And it is a GREAT tool for helping you get that elusive “STANDING OVATION” and help educate the public on our art form and artistry in the A Cappella music genre. This is such an easy and simple way to get good feedback from an experienced Barbershopper who sits in the au-dience and tells you what he knows will help you get even better next time!! What a program – and FREE too!!

Call me (425-337-0805 or cell 206-953-3864) or email me if your Chapter (or Quartet) wants to take advantage of this marvelous program for improvement. You just can’t go wrong.

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Evergreen District Historian’s Highlights

It’s hard to TOP this … by Jim Betteley This little post takes us back to the 1970’s. The Mt. Baker Toppers invited us all to the 1970 Evergreen District International Pre-liminary Quartet Elimination and Convention to be held on Saturday April 11, 1970. The invitation was published in the February Timbre that same year. Room rates were $8.50-9.50 for a single, $14.00 for a double and $15.00 for a twin. Adult tickets were $3.00. Oh, those were the days! Awards were presented at a banquet in the Leopold Inn’s Regency Room. Finals were on Saturday night and the top 8 competed to qualify for district and international. In the end it was published Chapter President Chet Jaworski and his Mt. Baker Toppers came through with another excellent bit for the International Prelims. This time they were not to be denied. This friendly city extended its open arms to barber shoppers. The Mayor, County Commissioners, and Chamber of Commerce helped promote the event. Belling-

ham was “on fire.” Their new chorus director who was a Dr. of Music a W.W.S.U. became interested in barbershop when he heard the M.E.N.C. record. From a membership of about 25 slightly over a year ago (1969) they grew to over 40 members after hosting the event. At the time, Chet and Ron Forsyth, Div., I Vice President predicted the chapter would grow to 50 or more by years end. The Mt. Baker Toppers may have been one of the first chorus’s in Evergreen to promote YMIH. Ray Heller published a piece in the Timbre (May-June, 1975). He said the Mt. Baker chapter has become the first in Division I of the EVG District to successfully embark upon a Young Men In Harmony program. The first half of Mt. Baker’s 1975 show consisted of a high-school quartet contest in which seven teenage foursomes participated. Their music teachers participated with the chapter, with the help of a local business firm. $600 was given to high school music departments represented by the three highest scoring quartets. As it was then, so it is today. The Mt. Baker Toppers have a rich history. They are still active today. Ray said it best when he wrote, “The Toppers feel that the YMIH program, perhaps more than any other; emphasizes the “E” in SPEBSQSA. Have a story or historical tidbit you’d like to see published/

archived. Please contact me directly. [email protected]

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Preservation of our past directly correlates with the strong and healthy future of our hobby. Believe it or not, these things are accomplished in big part by historians, and are key aspects in retaining current members and also in attracting new ones.

Jim Betteley Evergreen District Historian

Evergreen District Historian’s Highlights, continued

NOMINATIONS FOR EVERGREEN DISTRICT BARBERSHOPPER OF THE YEAR FOR 2017

MARCH 23rd is the last day to submit a nomination for the District Barbershopper of the Year via a resume to me, Chairman of the Committee. Some of the guidelines for this award include: 5 years as a member of Evergreen; outstanding activities at the chapter, Division and District levels; an active leader; respected member of our District; and be a worthy recipient of the award. Send it to me via e- mail ASAP, please.

Bobby Huber [email protected] Chairman, BOTY Committee

GREETINGS FROM OUR BHS INTERNATIONAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE, Matt Mercier

Hello my EVG Brethren! There’s a ton of stuff going on at the Board and Staff level of our organization:

The Board and staff are committed to making things happen out of the strategic planning survey. More on that soon…

We’re holding a retreat for a few days in Nashville starting on March 10 (recognizing that you may be reading this after the retreat)

There have been some staffing changes at the office. I’ll refer you to staff for the details on that

There’s a brand new hotel right next to HQ (on the mural side) for when you next plan a trip there!

The midwinter, held in Costa Mesa California, was fabulous. The Westin (HQ) Hotel was amazing and the performance hall was more so. We were so close to Disneyland that a couple of us took an Uber over and enjoyed the parks for a day.

The absolute highlight of my week at Mid-Winter was a lunch with Brother John Rettenmayer, your new EVG Executive Vice President !

Keep singing! Matt.

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BUD LEABO MEMORIAL FUND - WHAT’S HAPPENING? by Ken Galloway; President BLMF

Question: Our chapter wants to try something new (at least for us) – is there a chance the BLMF could help with some “seed money?”

Answer: Absolutely! Go to the BLMF website (www.budleabo.com ) and click on the button “Apply for a Grant.”

Question: How can I help BLMF support barbershop activities within the Evergreen District?

Answer: Easy! A gift of any size can be mailed directly to Finance Director, Don Thorn, 33838 E. River Dr., #43, Creswell, OR; 97426. Don will send you a thank you, along with a receipt.

The current trustees include:

President Ken Galloway (Columbia Gorge), Treasurer Don Thorn (Eugene), Secretary Keith Eckhardt (Bellingham), Kendall Williams (Bellevue), Don Craig (Calgary), John Burri (Portland Metro), Jusy Galloway ( Harmony of the Gorge)

Bud Leabo Memorial Fund

The Christmas Season of 2017 was busy for WESTERN HOSPITALITY SINGERS of the Calgary Foothills Chapter. First came the Christmas Show preparations, which included welcoming upwards of 20 guests with visions of being part of our Christmas Chorus dancing in their heads. Our afternoon and evening shows on Saturday, December 2 were highly successful and well attended.

Then came our annual hospice visits – over 3 nights, a total of 6 hospices were included in this event, sponsored by the Bearspaw Lions Club. Throw in sing-ing for the appreciation lunch for Meals on Wheels drivers, and performing for a senior Jet-Setters group, to round out a very busy Christmas season.

Over the past two years Western Hospitality Singers has developed a strong relationship with the Calgary Food Bank. This is the largest food bank in south-ern Alberta and requires well over 100 volunteers per day of operation. Fre-quent volunteer days at the food bank will find up to 12 of our members putting in a three hour shift preparing hampers or sorting food along the con-veyor belt. A highlight for the singers as well the staff and other volunteers is the singing we do during the mid-afternoon break.

On January 11, 2018, at our first volunteer shift of the New Year, we were very proud to present a check to the Calgary Food Bank. The net proceeds from our 2017 Christmas Show were dedicated to the Food Bank, and the staff attending were very grateful for the $ 11,000.00 check we presented.

Our greatest joy is certainly singing and performing, but when it helps others in the community as well, it becomes a win-win situation for all.

Prepared by Bob Robson of Western Hospitality Singers, Calgary Foothills

The Greater Portland Chapter (The Rose City Timberliners) was asked to sing at Portland International Airport on Monday morning, October 16, to the WWII and Korean War veterans travel-ing by Honor Flight to Washington D.C.

There they would visit the various war memorials in the nation's capital and be hon-ored in ceremonies for their service to our country. It was a thrill just to be there to meet these men and women who served the U.S.A. so valiantly. One of those so honored by our chorus and the Honor Flight personnel was Dick Lennox, a 94-year-old lead singer in our chorus and a Marine pilot who taught men to fly at Corpus Christi, Tex-as, near the beginning of WWII. Dick sang with our chorus to all of the other vets, "God Bless America" and "The Battle Hymn of The Republic” before leaving for the flight to Washington D.C. with the other veterans.

The response was a standing ovation by hundreds of travelers touched by the moment, followed by handshakes and hugs as the vets headed for security on the way to their flight.

Our chorus was asked last year to sing for the first time. I guess someone liked it enough to invite us back. On that visit, Senator Ron Wyden, who was passing through on his way to a flight, was impressed with our service to the vets and cheered us on. Norman Lawson, member, Greater Portland Chapter

We Sing - We Serve - Calgary Christmas

Dick Lennox & Mary Hayden

Portland Sings to Veterans at Airport

WHS Volunteers present $ 11,000 check to the Calgary Food Bank

We strongly encourage all members to support these organizations in the

excellent work they do to promote music education and encourage youth involvement.

Click on the logos below to go to the web sites.

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Idaho Youth Vocal Contest 2018

The Boise Chordsmen held its 6th Annual Idaho Youth Vocal Contest

on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. Eight groups, all quartets this year, made the finals for the evening program at the Morrison Center. Total prize money was $2,100 with 1st place earning $1,000!

The idea for the contest came directly from the Idaho Youth Barber-shop Festival, sponsored by the Boise Chordsmen, which is in its 10th year, and brings together roughly 1,000 vocal students.

Rules for the Vocal Contest include the stipulations that each group must be student-led, songs must be a cappella, and any genre can be sung. Judging was handled by Emily Godfrey, Meridian High Chorus Director; Ian Kelly, Boise Chordsmen’s Director; and Dr. James Jirak, Artistic Director for the Boise Philharmonic Master Chorale.

Several barbershop arrangements were sung, such as “Sh-Boom,” “Come Fly With Me,” and “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” The Boise Chordsmen started off the evening singing “Hooked on a Feeling,” “You Raise Me Up” and “Swing Down Chariot.”

In first place, and with the prize of $1,000 was “Last Minute,” repre-senting Timberline High. Kyle, Spencer, Lincoln and Jeremiah won with their rendition of “Come Fly With Me.”

In an impromptu performance by the quartets “Last Minute” and “MaleStrom, ” they combined in a stirring rendition of “MLK,” bringing the house down with a standing ovation! What a way to end a fantas-tic evening of camaraderie and competition!

Dennis Berg, Boise Chordsmen February 7, 2018 Photos by Chris Wethered

Balladtown, U. S. A.

Boise Chordsmen

Last Minute

A Brief History of the All-Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest

In 1946 a group of fellows were sitting around Don Parson's Barbershop talking about this new thing: four fellows singing some of the old songs in Barbershop style, whatever that was. Since Ralph Schumm had read that a barbershop contest had been held in the east, he thought we should give it a try here in in Forest Grove, Oregon.

Under the direction of Hap 'Ace' Hingston, the first show was held in the old high school (not the current old high school, but the one where St Antho-ny's Catholic Church now stands.) The first show was a huge success. The winner was The Four Flats from Newburg. These four guys could actually sing! The fun was started.

Since that beginning, Balladtown U.S.A. was born. Competition was ex-panded. Parades, costume, beard, and window contests were added along with a fiddle contest, gem show, and many other activities. Over the years the city of Forest Grove adopted the motto “Balladtown USA”. The Barber-shop Harmony Society then know as “The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America” has been most supportive. After years at Pacific University, the contest has come full circle, back to Forest Grove High School (although in its third building).

In recent times the city and community have moved on but Balladtown U.S.A. is alive and well. The hearts of all Barbershoppers beat proud in March. Recently we have added quartets from Sweet Adelines International and Mixed Quartets. This has been the only place the boys and the girls compete against each other. That is now changing nationally.

This year will be the 72nd annual Barbershop Ballad Contest known as Bal-ladtown U.S.A. Who would have known in 1946 that we would be still do-ing this show in 2018?

Compiled by Butch Berquist Credits to George Horner

Selling Your Chorus (or Quartet) by Larry Osterman, Evergreen Communications Team

One of the ongoing challenges for choruses is how to increase community engagement – basically, how do you let your community know you exist. If your chorus isn’t the kind of chorus that can easily sell out a 1000 seat venue for your shows, it can be a bit of a challenge to figure out how to let the communi-ty know about you.

And why does letting the community know matter? Well, that’s where you get your members. And that’s where you get your customers (whether they be for your shows, Singing Valentines, or whatever).

Paul Ellinger’s “Supercharging your Chapter” talk discusses several ways of improving community engagement. One of the easiest (and least expensive) is to simply sing in public. Seriously. Here’s a simple example of something that can be quite effective: We’re getting close to the time of year when local farmers markets start cropping up in communities. Send a quartet that you feel represents the quality of your chorus to your local farmers market – do it every week so people become accustomed to your product. Or see if the organizers of the market have a community stage you can perform on (many do).

One caveat for this kind of performance: Your job is to engage your audience and that means that it’s probably best to stick to songs that are likely to be familiar to the audience – “barbershop standards” aren’t nearly as likely to be appreciated as something from the 60s, 70s or 80s. Similarly, how your group presents itself at these gigs may be as important as the music you sing. If your group intentionally choses to present as an old school barbershop group (like the Dapper Dans, Main Street, and EVG’s own Squares), that sends a message about the kind of experience customers can expect from your group (this is also why Main Street’s “Pop Song Medley” has been so successful – it plays against those stereotypes). So does appearing in tuxedos or more casual attire.

For Singing Valentines this year, one of the SeaChordsmen quartets spent 2 hours strolling through Magnolia Village in Seattle singing in a number of shops (one of the quartet members worked with the shop owners ahead of time to confirm it was ok with them). There were mixed results – some venues were too busy for the group to be heard (Starbucks for example) but others were phenomenal (a local pastry shop). And as a result of that 2 hours of perform-ing, the group got four confirmed Singing Valentines orders (and at least two people who said they’d show up to a SeaChordsmen rehearsal).

Another way to improve community engagement involves a bit more work but can be incredibly rewarding: volunteer as a chorus at local community or-ganizations. For instance, this holiday season, the Seattle SeaChordsmen worked as cashiers at a local Christmas tree lot run by the Boy Scouts (full disclo-sure: the chorus was compensated for its time, but the members volunteered their time). This got the chorus HOURS of face time with the community as they were purchasing Christmas trees. And a valuable opportunity to plug both the chorus and our upcoming holiday show.

And it should go without saying - whatever it is you do to reach out to the community, make sure you have promotional material at hand – pocket sized flyers for upcoming events, posters, show tickets, etc. People won’t remember you once you are gone unless they have a tangible reminder of who you are.

The bottom line is: If you want to increase your community engagement, the best way is to get out into the community. Let yourselves be seen. And do what we do best: sing.

One final thought: If you are interested in a deep dive into topics related to community engagement, it turns out that there are several classes being taught at Harmony College Northwest this year (from June 15th to the 17th). Among the classes being taught which are on point for this topic are:

Jim Clark: “Chorus Outreach” – How do you increase engagement in the community.

Paul Ellinger and Ted Chamberlain: “Supercharging your Chapter: Student and Teacher” –putting Ellinger’s “Supercharging your Chapter” techniques into practice.

Duncan Gilman: “Social Media Marketing for Choruses and Quartets” – a brief introduction to social media tools. Chris Rimple: 4 different classes on growing your chapter, audience and improving your community involvement.

Registration for Harmony College opens in early March at www.harmonycollege.org

And as always, let me know what you’re thinking – does your chapter have any things that they do to engage the community beyond these? Let me know at [email protected].


Chapter Marketing - by Larry Osterman

SHARING FROM OUR FACEBOOK PAGE ADMINISTRATOR The EVG communications team welcomes an additional Facebook contributor, our District President Charlie Metzger. Charlie has jumped right in to our digital communications strategy, and you'll see him posting once a week or so.

Do you have something to share on the page? You don't have to be district president. You can add content directly to the Community section by posting at the top of the page. Or you can click the "Send Message" button and include all the details, and we'll do the posting for you. By the way, go ahead and like/follow the page if you haven't already. Not only is it the best way to stay up-to-date, but we're also only 17 likes away from catching up to our friends in the Far Western District! Get started here: facebook.com/EVGDistrict

Thanks!

Duncan Gilman

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FINANCIAL FILING REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL CHAPTERS

by Don Thorn, Evergreen District Treasurer

Required annually for all BHS Chapters (yes, including Canadian chapters), a reviewer or reviewers submit to your chapter board of direc-

tors for review. After completion and a review by your chapter board of directors, the form should be uploaded to your chapter profile in

Member Center under “Financial Filings”.

A financial review validates the accuracy of the financial information maintained by the treasurer. THIS IS NOT AN AUDIT. The financial re-

view will not be as rigorous, nor as complete as a true audit.

The reviewer(s) should verify the numbers are accurate and assess procedures. For example, does the treasurer have a matching receipt for

all expenditures?

The newest version of the form is available in the Documents section of the BHS website. Go to the Business and Finance area, select the

Chapter Treasurer Tools & Documents section and scroll down for the Chapter Financial Review Form. It is available as a PDF (printable, but

not fillable) or as a fillable Excel file. I can offer a fillable PDF which, now exists, but does NO math for you. I’m still working on it.

If you need assistance contact the District Treasurer (Don Thorn) or our District Secretary (Paul Graves). We will be happy to get you past

any bumps in the road.

To all Chapters: the following direction has been issued by BHS for compliance by all Chapters.

The 2018 ASCAP Reporting Form is available now online to download for U.S. Chapters. Ever-green District encourages chapters NOT to file their 2018 form right away. In reality, chapters may not know if they are going to produce a show for the year. We encourage chapters to wait until at least September or October to file.

The Barbershop Harmony Society has a blanket agreement with ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) to pay significantly reduced licensing fees for all U.S. chapters and ensuring their legal compliance for public performances of the songs represented by ASCAP.

As a friendly reminder, all U.S. Chapters and Districts must complete an annual ASCAP Reporting Form and submit that information (with corresponding payment, if applicable) at the end of each year.

If you have not submitted your 2017 ASCAP Form and applicable payment, please be sure to do so as soon as possible. If you are a Canadian Chapter or District, you are not required to submit an ASCAP annual report, however, SOCAN reporting requirements still need to be satisfied.

The 2018 ASCAP Reporting form and information can now be downloaded from the BHS Website by CLICKING HERE.

Chapters should send their ASCAP reporting forms and applicable payments to Barbershop Harmony Society HQ directly:

Barbershop Harmony Society c/o ASCAP Reporting Forms 110 7th Avenue N Nashville, TN 37073

or by email* to [email protected]

*Please only email if no payment is applicable. Payment and Form should be mailed together.

If your chapter did not produce, and will not produce, any shows (free, benefit or ticketed) with performances during the year 2017 or 2018 an ASCAP reporting form is still required, by completing Section A, only. Districts that hosted or produced a show as a part of their convention, or perhaps had a show as a part of a youth event, are liable for an ASCAP report and applicable fee. Otherwise, only Section A need be com-

pleted.

PLEASE NOTE: BMI/SESAC Show Clearance Forms will still be sent to districts for processing. SOCAN (for Canadian Chapters) Forms will continue to follow their current process.

Please contact the BHS Manager of Copyright & Licensing ([email protected]) or the BHS Customer Service team at [email protected] if you or your chapter have further questions or need further information.

Submitted by Evergreen District Secretary, Paul K Graves

ALL CHAPTERS - ASCAP REPORTING - 2017 & 2018 - By Paul K. Graves

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What the Heck is QCED? Most of you probably know that QCED stands for “Quartet Champions of Evergreen District.” I suspect there are those who think it’s just about a bunch of ex-district quartet champions hanging out together. In a way that’s true, but QCED is so much more. Let me tell you a bit about the organization.

Back in the 1970’s several District Champion quartets got together at the Islander Resort on Lopez Island for a weekend of fun, camaraderie and to put on a show for those at the resort. This went on throughout the ‘70s with each new district champion invited to the event where they were initiated into the group.

In 1985 QCED moved its annual meeting to Seaside, Oregon where the late, great Bob Swanson worked out an agreement with the Seaside Chamber of Commerce to co-sponsor the event and put on a show. At this point the direction and goals of QCED changed. It was decided that any funds from the show, along with additional funds earned at a similar show at each Evergreen District Convention be used to support coaching opportunities for other quartets throughout the district and to generally help upgrade the caliber of performance of Evergreen District quartets.

Here are some things I’ll bet you don’t know: Because the district has no funds to support our quartets competing at International, QCED has provided thousands of dollars over the years to help

underwrite the expenses of competing Evergreen quartets. A QCED Endowment Fund (QEF) was established which has provided financial support (without any District funds) to support coaching weekends for

aspiring quartets throughout the district. These coaching sessions use QCED member-coaches who volunteer their time and talents without any financial remuneration.

Over the last several years, QCED has sponsored an a cappella contest in conjunction with its annual concert in Seaside to provide encouragement and yes, prize money for young college and high school groups that participate.

QCED produced two recordings and all the money generated by the sale of these has been used by the QCED Endowment Fund for the education and coaching of District quartets.

The Aliens Quartet donated all sales of their now-famous “Saturday Night Special” DVD to the QEF for the benefit of quartet education and coaching.

So, what has this got to do with you? Well, QCED could use your support. First of all, by spreading the word about the good things the organization has done in the past and will continue to do in the future supporting District quartets at all levels. Secondly, through your financial assistance. QCED, for one reason or another is not involved in an Afterglow/Show at the District Convention, so part of that financial base is now missing. Your donations to the QEF or QCED are encouraged if they are to continue their good work for the Evergreen District. These can be made through any of the QEF Board Members: [email protected] , [email protected] or any QCED member. You could purchase one of the QCED recordings as well.

Finally, you should check out the quartet coaching available, which provides weekend coaching at no expense to the chapter or quartets. Ask Boise or Spokane or Anchorage or Calgary or any number of chapters who have used this service if it wasn’t one of the best things they ever did for their quartets. Applications are available on the QCED website. For more information, contact the 3rd QEF Board Member Steve Barclay at [email protected]. I’ve been on the QEF Board for 6 years now, and it’s time for me to rotate off and leave the work to the next group. I truly hope you will support QCED and the good work they have done and will continue to do for the Evergreen District. It’s been a wonderful experience for me to work with chapters, quartets and the fine coaches we have provided.

Happy Singing - Mel Knight, Evergreen Education Operations Team

NEWS FROM QCED - WHAT THE HECK IS QCED ?

I’ll bet you didn’t know that Over Time, 2000 International Senior Quartet Champion are still together! Better yet, we are still booking shows! We have some new songs that we’re sure will tickle your audience’s fancy: gospel, up tunes, ballads and comedy. You’ll hear songs from us you won’t hear anywhere else!

Our fee? Forget it. We’d just like to perform on your show and will be happy to appear for expenses only. Or even a small honorarium if you insist and we’ll donate it to the QCED Endowment Fund, which promotes coaching and development of quartets in the Evergreen District. You can’t beat the price! On top of that, we’d be willing to put on a quartet workshop or do some coaching prior to the show. If we haven’t sung on your show for a while, now’s the time for a repeat performance. If we have never appeared on your show in the past, we think the time has come.

Contact: Mel Knight 503-590-1646 [email protected] 14897 SW Osprey Ct Beaverton, OR 97007

We look forward to hearing from you soon!

Over TimeOver Time

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NEWS FROM QCED (QUARTET CHAMPS EVERGREEN DISTRICT) by Charlie Boon, QCED President.

QCED has some news! As a group we had a fantastic meeting about what we want to do as a group. We have had a very successful run at Seaside Oregon through the last many years and with changes in our hobby and society as well as different changes in the Chambers activi-ties - our Seaside run is under a total review. We are polling the group to see if we wish to stay at Seaside, keep the new acapella contest, keep coaching quartets etc etc. The chances of us continuing to put on a show are very high with some possible long term change of loca-tion. So stay tuned and we will update you as we go forward to the future in these changing times. We love our hobby and the audiences that we entertain and we look forward to providing quality shows for you in the future! Our support for Quartets to International as well as coaching

opportunities provided by your participation in our events spur us on to continue and we give you all a big Thank You!

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WORDS OF WISDOM – FROM OUR DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP – BOB THOMAS

Gentlemen, Let’s talk about sharing. Each chapter has its strengths and its weaknesses, successes and failures. Why not share those successes with other chapters and with the entire District? Not to brag, but to set an example of what worked for you. Obviously, for me, I would love to hear stories related to successes regarding recruiting, orientation and retention of chapter members. However, this sharing applies to everything. For example:

Some chapters manage to sell thousands of ads for their show program

Some have systems in place on how to treat a guest from their first night through their first year after joining.

Some chapters are marvelous at community outreach.

Some are excellent at raising funds (food booth at a fair, Christmas tree sales, auctions, grant monies, etc)

Some are great at performing regularly in public.

Some have great relationships with the local schools. We have numerous ways to share your stories: the Timbre, the Greensheet, the Harmonizer, email and Facebook. We also have a District storyteller, Rob-erta Miller. What is your chapter really good at? Let’s hear about your success, in detail. In detail so we get most of what you did and how you did it. If another chapter is sincerely interested, they can contact your chapter for the real fine nuts and bolts. I realize that every chapter may not be able to replicate your success, for whatever reason, but if it inspires them, that’s the payoff. They may make modifications to your method, so that it will work for them. Let’s share and accentuate the positive. We are all in this together. Let’s act like it. Bob Thomas, Evergreen Director of Membership PS: We are now two months into 2018. Is your chapter growing? What are you doing about that? Be thinking about membership all of the time, not just for the two weeks before a guest night. Share this great hobby of ours with others. Let’s all get some new riser mates. It starts with bringing some guests.


MEMBERSHIP NEWS

Spruce Grove Chapter Honors 50 year member Jim Cochrane

JIM COCHRANE - 50 Years of Harmony

There are some events that occur only once in a lifetime and need to be celebrated. The members of Spruce Grove Chapter were privileged to be part of a once-in-a-lifetime event on January 10th when they celebrated with their fellow member, Jim Cochrane, as he received his 50-Year Barbershop Harmony Society membership renewal.

Jim Cochrane, a member of the Royal Canadian Airforce at the time, was stationed in France during the late ‘50’s where he came across the record Mills Brothers Sing Barbershop. That was the trigger; he was hooked on the barbershop sound.

Some years later, while stationed in Vancouver, he noticed an airforce officer with an SPEBSQSA pin on the lapel of his jacket. This led to a conversation about barbershop singing and about the society. As a result, Jim joined the Capilano Chorus in 1963. Except for three years when he was stationed in Germany where there was no chapter, he’s held continuous Barbershop Harmony Society membership ever since.

In 1965, Jim became president of the Capilano Chorus and spearheaded an intense recruitment drive that resulted in a problem many chapters would just love to have today. They recruited so many new members that the chapter had difficulty integrating them all and it took about a year of hard work for the chorus to suc-cessfully accommodate them.

Jim was reposted overseas in 1967 leaving his new bride, Kathryn, behind in Vancouver. As there was not a large military group in Vancouver at that time, it was the barbershoppers that supported her during his time away. For that support, Jim has been eternally grateful. Following that overseas posting, Jim was transferred to Ottawa where he became part of the chorus there. Then came a posting to Germany followed by a final transfer to Edmonton where he joined his third chorus, the Klondike Chordsmen, in 1973. From there, he became a charter member of the Spruce Grove Chapter in 1992.

Except for two years when he sang tenor, Jim has always been a baritone. During his 50 years, he has been part of numerous pick-up quar-tets and about seven “serious” foursomes. However, his last quartet, of which he was part for 16 years, was his only registered quartet.

Jim has always regarded the Barbershop Harmony Society as his service club. In addition to being a big part of his musical life, he values the many friends that he has made through barbershop.

During the chapter celebration, Jim was presented with an 8 by 10 copy of his 50-Year membership card and a ‘barbershop style’ gin decant-er. A sheet cake with his picture on it was shared by all. The chorus then sang one of Jim’s favorite songs, Shine On Me. The song ended with Jim doing his solo tag of, “I wonder if the light will shine on me”.

Yes, Jim. The barbershop light has shone on you for the past 50 years. It is the sincere wish of all of your barbershop friends that it continues to shine on you for many years to come.

Submitted by Dave Jackson, Spruce Grove Chapter


HARMONY EXPLOSION NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

Western Hospitality Singers Support Harmony Explosion

We challenge other EVG chapters to donate and

support the Harmony Explosion Youth Camps.

The Harmony Explosion organizers in Evergreen District have been struggling to meet their financial goals to keep their youth camps go-ing. They made a request for donations to members of the District to help them sustain their program.

Before Christmas our Board approved a $375 donation (~ $500 Cdn) on behalf of our chorus, in support of their youth efforts.

Shown at left is a thank you letter from the Petersons on behalf of their Harmony Explosion camps.

Doug Gardner, President Calgary Foothills Chapter aka Western Hospitality Singers

Life, Community, and Song by Jamie Peterson

I received a Harmony Explosion scholarship application the other day from a student who was at last year’s camp. The student loved camp, all the positive support, and the feeling of family, and would love to come back. However, the student’s Mom doesn’t live with them, in fact she’s homeless. Dad works very long hours just to get by, so the student hardly ever sees him.

You probably know by now that my Dad died when I was 13 (I’ve mentioned it several times before), and I was in a similar situation. Mom was working swing and graveyard shifts at a minimum wage job, so I spent a lot of time alone. I was lucky, back then the phrase “It takes a village” still meant something. Several of the neighbors would look in on me and make sure I was okay. In addition, I had 40 dads from my chorus family to support me and make sure I could continue to sing barbershop. Hmm, I kind of sound like my grandpa there, saying “Back in my day, things were different.” Well, they were. Changes happen every generation, some good and some bad. For the most part, kids these days don’t have those support systems to keep them on the right track. There are many kids out there who will never know what it’s like to sing, play sports, dance, or have any group activities in their lives that can teach them how to work as a team, and how to trust their teammates when they are needed. We certainly can’t count on our school systems to supply these activities, they keep cut-ting more and more from their budgets just to meet the minimum state and federal requirements. Who will be their role model? The cool kid down the street who sells drugs? Maybe people on the internet? How will they know how to be a good citizen, by watching our political figures? How will our communities survive when more and more kids think it is okay to hurt other peo-ple, both physically and emotionally? Yes, this camp is about showing kids the joys of barbershop harmony, but it is so much more. We all know the power of harmony, but we tend to take for granted the value of the positive social interaction we receive each week from our chorus mates. We also forget how powerful a chorus can be. For example, there is a young chorus member in great need right now, and his family from three different choruses are doing everything they can to lift him up, give him hope, and show they care about him and his wellbeing. Where would he be if it weren’t for them? So, who will be the one to step up and show our scholarship applicant the joy of barbershop harmony, and all that goes with it? Who will be the one to give the student an opportunity to meet positive role models, to meet new friends who may become their source of inspiration and community, and to give them confidence to choose the right path in life? You can make a difference. You won’t be giving to some national organization, you will be giving to your barbershop community. You will even be able to see the results by coming to our Celebration Show on July 21st. This is your opportunity. Please go to www.harmonyexplosion.com and use the PayPal button to donate. Any amount is greatly appreciated. The kids thank you so much for your continued support ! Your Harmony Explosion Staff

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