Sue Trenchard

Sue Trenchard has been barbershopping since 1981 when she joined the Orchard Park Sweet Adeline chapter. She was involved in the creation of the Buffalo Gateway Sweet Adeline Chapter. In 1987, she co-founded a Harmony, Inc. Chapter, Niagara Frontier Chord Authority. She has sung lead in “IMAGES” since 1987, and is proud to be an International Harmony Queen. “IMAGES” received Harmony, Inc.’s International Chris Scott Memorial Service Award twice. Many of her activities are done with her quartet, so she shares the honor of the Kay DeLong Memorial Award with them. Sue is co-director of NFCA, along with Ron Mason. She has served many offices on the NFCA Board and has been an Area 3 Council member since 1987 (first as NFCA president, then as quartet promotion coordinator, and currently, parliamentarian). She served as an advisor to Harmony Inc.’s International Board of Directors as Quartet Chairman from 1995 - 1999. She has organized two Area 3 Discover Harmony Days (Ohio and Olean, NY), and created the Harmony, Inc. guideline for Discover Harmony Days for all areas to use. In 2006, Sue was the first recipient of the newly created Area 3 Service Award. Sue enjoys coaching quartets and choruses (male and female), helping them reach their emotional best with any song they choose to sing. Most of all, Sue has always been anxious and proud to spread the spirit of Harmony to everyone, because Harmony, Inc. is such a huge part of her life. It doesn’t get any better than the combination of music, love, and friendship that spreads from coast to coast.

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Ron Mason

Ron’s career in barbershop started when the family moved from Ohio to the Buffalo area where he joined the Buffalo Chapter, SPEBSQSA. He was in a quartet before he joined and has been in quartets almost continuously since that time. Quartets that he has sung with that are District Champions and/or International competitors are Empire Express, Entertainment Committee, Front Row Center (with son David), By Design, Union Station, Destiny and Foreign Agreement. By Design and Union Station were both quartets in the Canadian Ontario District. He has competed on the International stage 27 times in quartets, eleven times in the top 20 and finishing as high as 11th in 1981. He has also sang in three Senior International competitions and was a 5th place International medalist with AARP Angels in 1996.

Ron began his directing career with the East Aurora Friends of Harmony in 1984. He directed FOH for 9 years to 3 District Championships and 4 International appearances, finishing as high as 10th in 1986. He has also directed the Batavia, NY Chapter Holland Land Harmonizers and recently, The Vocal Agenda to 3 District Championships and 4 International appearances. In 2001, he joined the Toronto Northern Lights Chorus and won five International Silver Medals with that chorus from 2001-2005.

He was at the first meeting of NFCA in 1987 and has been their Director or Co-Director since that time.

In 1996 at their 50th Anniversary, Ron was named to the Ontario District "Top 50 Quartetters Of The Half Century" and in 2004, he was elected to the Seneca Land District Hall of Fame.

Ron has coached several quartets and choruses, including IMAGES & Mystique and has been on the staff at HELP Day for many years.