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Essentials in
History
Happy Birthday to us
Executive Director Ed Watson takes a moment to reflect on our birthday.
Updated: 4/11/2006 1:58:16 PM
Permit me a moment of your day to celebrate the 68th birthday of The Society for the Preservation and Propagation of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, as it was originally known. I sometimes wonder how hard it was to change that to Encouragement? As the Barbershop Harmony Society staff partakes of birthday cake in the break room (sorry, fellas, you’ll have to get your own) I think it appropriate to laud and enjoy all the achievements and progress the Society has enjoyed over those many years. Yes, we can always improve and we’re all working hard to do that, but we must not let that enthusiasm for change cloud an appreciation of what we enjoy today
Congratulations to all the members, the quartets and the choruses that have chosen to sing, to enrich lives through singing. They have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy, a hobby that stretches from the Bartlesville Barflies to Realtime; that includes OC Cash, Rupert Hall, Sean Divine, Charlie Metzger and Joe Barbershopper; that involves Dick Van Dyke and Norman Rockwell, Jim Henry and Tom Neal; that requires countless hours of dedication and volunteer work; that brings smiles to faces and joy to hearts; that engages the best aspects of humanity; that increases in complexity the more it is studied; and that will continue as long as people enjoy singing.
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