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All-California Sacred Harp Singing Convention

Online

Saturday, January 16, 2021

The 2021 All-California Sacred Harp Singing Convention, scheduled for the third Sunday and Saturday before in January, could not be held in person this year due to Covid-related health restrictions. Instead, singers met online via Zoom for a two-hour memorial session and socializing.

The class was called to order by Leigh Cooper leading 59. Aisha Morgan offered the morning prayer. Leigh Cooper spoke about the losses that have occurred in the past year and dedicated this singing to the people we have lost.

Leaders: Leigh Cooper 31t (for Grace Hirsch and Dave Oertel); Pat Coghlan 73t (for Stephen O’Leary); Don Bowen 146 (for Richard DeLong and Charlene Wallace); Peter Stenshoel 163b (for Rev. Don Haines); Gillian Inksetter 30b (for her mother, Judy Toole); Katie White 547 (for Helen Peter and all who have died of COVID); Esther Morgan-Ellis 284 (for her grandmother); Aisha Morgan 441 (for Raymond Sigrist); Claire Singleton 168 (for Norma Ruptier); Julia Smith 63 (for her father, Rev. Ed Hoffman); Karen Stingle 47b (for Martha Sherwood and Mary Lou Goertzen); Lena Strayhorn 65 (for James Walls); Carla Smith 522 (for Richard DeLong); Ginny Landgraf 117 (for Janet Miller).

RECESS

Leaders: Carolyn Deacy 330b (for Steve Edwards); Bob Schinske 528 (for Steve Helwig and Tony Schinske); David and Susan Fetcho 312t (for David’s mother, Dorothy Zimmerman); Lisa Bennett and David Smead 50b (for David Grant); Ann Riley 178 (for Kenneth Sundberg); Lois Hurt 551 (for Tim Field); Lena Strayhorn 300 (for Bunny Martin Cardona); Mark Godfrey 183 (for Steve Helwig); Gerry Hoffman 335 (in honor of Judy Clum); Ginny Landgraf 86 (for Nick Pasqual and Bill Beverly); Lisa Bennett 128 (for Harry Eskew and Glenna Lipper); Jerry Schreiber 148 (for Norma Ruptier); Tony and Ann Parkinson 299 (for Rollo Woods); Don Bowen 283 (for his father, E.C. Bowen); Karen Turner 448b (for Mary Hallford and Peter Macdonald); Susan Fetcho 297 (for Dominic Ziegler); Jeri Segal 539 (for Mary Jean Scheuer).

Leigh Cooper read the names of other people to be memorialized. Mark Godfrey led 347 as the closing song. Aisha Morgan offered the closing prayer. About sixty singers attended from eleven states and three foreign nations.

Chairperson and Zoom Host—Leigh Cooper; Vice Chairperson and DJ—Mark Godfrey; Secretary—Sue Lindner