Golden Memories 
Brazos Barbershoppers
 Chapters
Harry Lipscomb, Fred Maddox, Bob Marcotte, Guy McShan, David Miles, Tom Tarver, and Bob Wattenbarger. The quartets were very flexible and when one of the group couldn't make a performance, a quick call got someone else to fill in.
Local TV show "Home Front News" emcee Marilyn McBee came to a chapter meeting in June and interviewed Dennis Driscoll, Bo Allen, and Guy McShan. She taped several chorus songs and used those tapes along with her comments on television several times over the next three weeks.
In August the Brazos Barbershoppers manned the phones for the "Keep America Singing" production on PBS. It was a great production and it raised the most money of any production done on our local PBS station during that donation drive.
We gave our yearly performance at the Bryan Library. Not only did we have a good chorus representation, but our third chorus quartet, Four Men and a Melody (Don Lewis, Tom Tarver, Harry Jones, David Miles) made an outstanding presentation.
We decided with school out and some of the people in our chorus leaving for three months, we would take a vacation during June, July and August. It was a pretty good rest time for us and we are going to consider that every year. We did get together for one performance during that time for the wedding of Shoshanna Marcotte and Michael Everett. Shoshanna is the daughter of our great tenor Bob Marcotte.
Four of our board members, Bob Wattenbarger, Harry Jones, Norman Homburg, and John Vittrup, attended the chapter officer's training seminar in Dallas. They came back with some great ideas and we intend to get more of our board there every year.
The chorus and the quartets  made  23 Christmas performances in December, our busiest season yet.		   1995

Bo Allen was reelected president for 1995. John Schneider from Houston came up to install our board and brought us up-to-date on things happening in the Society. Arrangement, a quartet from Houston, provided some great singing for all the barbershoppers, our families and friends.
We decided to enter the 1995 Small Chorus Contest in Dallas. Roy Prichard and Lloyd Erickson came up from Houston on two occasions to coach our chorus. They did a great job; we should have been using them for the last five years. Our contest numbers were Shtne on Harvest Moon and Aura leel Love Me Tender Medley.
The chorus took a three month summer vacation and then picked up with several performances in October and then started Christmas music in December. Chorus and quartets had 27 Christmas performances.
Bob Wattenbarger, Greg Economides, Norman Homburg, and Don Bray attended COTh in Dallas. We plan to send representatives every year.
At the end of 1995 we had eighteen active and 3 inactive members. Nine of the active members have been with us since our charter in 1989.

1996

Bob Wattenbarger is our president for the year. His staff includes: two membership vice presidents
- Greg Economides and David Miles, program vice president - Don Bray, music vice president - Harry Jones, secretary/treasurer - Norman Homburg. The Senior Statesmen quartet from Houston Tidelanders will install our new board on January 16, 1996.



 
 
 


Previous
Page
Table of
Contents
Next 
Page
Sections:
How It All Began   Chapters    Chapter  Histories   International Quartet Champions   ChorusesAdministration
Contests and Conventions   Registered Quartets   Publications  Recognitions  In Conclusion