Minutes of Sacred Harp Singings

The 10th New Haven All-Day Singing was held in Rosenfeld Hall on the campus of Yale University. Michaela Natal called the class to order leading 38t. Tarik Wareh offered an opening invocation.

Leaders: Ian Quinn 150; Charles Biada 52b; Gwen Gethner 131b; LaRee Delahunt and Charles Biada 34b; Rachel Adelstein 107; Ernest Chamberlain 56b; Emily Hale-Sills 99; Al McCready 227; Crispin Youngberg 163t; Jasmine Mendoza 42; Tarik Wareh 490; Kevin Beirne 385t; Magdalena Zapendowska 228; Christina Foley 475; Quinn Ross 168; Liam Francis 95; Will Harron 72b.

RECESS

Kit Walsh called the class to order leading 157. Leaders: Ian Davis 354t; Kerry Cullinan 236; Michael Natal and Michaela Natal 45t; Wendy Sibbison 456; Jacob Stebley 300; Tim Leonard 474; Lu Zeng 504; Stina Soderling 196; Gideon Dresdner 30b; Laura Clampitt 94.

Rachel Hall led 30b after speaking for the following sick and shut-ins: Tommie Spurlock, Don Youngberg, Hannah Land, Ruth Anne Bryant, Corrone Bryant, Jesse Vear, Linda Shea, Denise Kania, Mary Ellen Wilkinson, and Louise Culver Hurwitz.

Erin Fulton led 434 after speaking for the following deceased: Annie Joyce Williams Belcher, Norma Sue Ivey Latham Green, Hubert C. Nall, Barbara Owen, Boyd Scott, and Claudene Wootten Townson—Alabama; Paul Heyman—Connecticut; Rebecca Over—England; Philip Denney—Georgia; Ted Mercer—Illinois; Alison Rieke, Ronnie L. Troxtell, and Mary Troxtel—Kentucky; Michael Clarke—New York; Lydia Lewallen—North Carolina; Cheryl Ann Foreman—Texas; Graham DeZarn—Virginia; Richard Bingham and Pete Sutherland—Vermont; Laurel Tannenbaum; Samuel Tannenbaum. Tarik Wareh closed the memorial lesson with prayer.

Leaders: Jason Steidl Jack 277; Jeremy Galvagni 479; Mary Skidmore 280; Gary Ryan 271t; Miriam Delirium 235; Nancy Mandel 371. Tarik Wareh offered an invocation before lunch.

LUNCH

Ian Quinn called the class to order leading 501. Leaders: William Schuller 411; Carol Huang 500; Margaret Youngberg 362; Rachel Hall 396; Larry Bingham 122; Matthew Leger-Small 438; Sophie Sokolov 394; Allison Steel 345b; Lu Zeng 312b; Tristan Gordon 447; Marie Brandis 212; Sam Dembling, Hayley Earnest, and Sara Lott 47b; Kit Walsh 142; Magdalena Zapendowska 218; Erin Fulton 327; Will Harron 63; Jasmine Mendoza 442; Keillor Mose 482; Sara Lott 564; Christina Foley 326; Gwen Gethner and Emily Hale-Sills 430.

RECESS

Matthew Leger-Small called the class to order leading 73t. Leaders: Crispin Youngberg 172; Joel Rosen 36b; Stina Soderling 558; Chris Adams and Michaela Natal 48t; Tarik Wareh 516; Wendy Sibbison 548; Calvin Robertson and Ernest Chamberlain 81t; Tim Leonard 217; Quinn Ross 528; Liam Francis 29t; Laura Clampitt 114; Kevin Beirne 428; Kerry Cullinan 70t; Jacob Stebley 547; Miriam Delirium 285t; Nancy Mandel, Jason Steidl Jack, and Gideon Dresdner 569t.

Reports were given and announcements made. Sixty-nine participants registered from seven states. Michaela Natal, Charles Biada, and Gwen Gethner led 62, and the class took the parting hand. Jason Steidl Jack offered the closing invocation, and the class was dismissed.

Chairman—Michaela Natal; Secretary—Charles Biada