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Eldridge Schoolhouse Singing

Leipsic Community Center, Orleans, Indiana

Saturday, December 9, 2023

The 17th annual Eldridge Schoolhouse Singing was called to order by Adrian Eldridge leading 32t. Jim Herr offering a blessing. Selections were generally from The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition.

Leaders: Erin Fulton 148; Tim Morton 273; Jim Herr 310 (SoH); Beth Garfinkel 149; Geo Colvard and Sarah Lynne Gershon 455; Sarah Lynne Gershon 106; Tim Gregg 68b; Clara Herr 105; Jubal Bayer 228; Enoch Hollandbeck 323b; Sarah Ward 155; Ray Rechenberg 40; Thomas L. Koehnline 532; Shannon Tibbs 107; Rob Tibbs and Shannon Tibbs 74b; Keith Seidel 102; Andrew Shaffer 284.

RECESS

Adrian Eldridge called the class back to order by leading 285t. Leaders: Adrian Eldridge 547 (in memory of P. Dan Brittain); Sarah Ward and Rob Tibbs 186; Jubal Bayer 168; Tim Gregg 81b; Thomas Koehnline 178; Shannon Tibbs 535; Jim Herr 546; Tim Morton 464; Erin Fulton 490; Enoch Hollandbeck 272; Keith Seidel 112; Beth Garfinkel 551; Andrew Shaffer 63; Clara Herr 313b; Sarah Lynne Gershon 306; Tim Gregg 522; Adrian Eldridge 354b (by request of Steve Boyles); Erin Fulton 145t; Jubal Bayer 485; Beth Garfinkel 344; Rob Tibbs and Shannon Tibbs 114; Sarah Ward 504; Tim Morton 187; Clara Herr 348b; Jim Herr 556; Sarah Lynne Gershon 349; Keith Seidel 270; Enoch Hollandbeck 271t; Shannon Tibbs 42; Andrew Shaffer 276. Adrian Eldridge asked a blessing on the meal and a particular favor towards our friend, Ed Walton, who had become ill and needed to leave the singing unexpectedly. The class adjourned to dinner.

LUNCH

Erin Fulton called the class back to order by leading 16 (SoH) (in honor of Bill Hayes and Katherine Eldridge). Leaders: Erin Fulton 71; Thomas Koehnline 86 (in memory of his late uncle, Peter Frank); Sarah Ward 142; Adrian Eldridge and Sarah Ward 440; Jubal Bayer 442; Tim Gregg 515 (in honor of Brenda Waters); Geo Colvard and Sarah Lynne Gershon 419; Sarah Lynne Gershon 245; Keith Seidel 214; Clara Herr 501; Erin Fulton and Adrian Eldridge 418; Beth Garfinkel 189; Jim Herr 131t; Tim Morton and Jim Herr 182; Andrew Shaffer 122; Shannon Tibbs 47t; Rob Tibbs 117 (his first unassisted lead, much hailed by his mother and the class at large); Geo Colvard and Sarah Lynne Gershon 181; Timothy Morton 384; Tim Gregg 426b; Thomas Koehnline 338; Jubal Bayer 44; Sarah Lynne Gershon 48b; Keith Siedel 458; Enoch Hollandbeck and Shannon Tibbs 126; Beth Garfinkel 58; Jim Herr 49b; Shannon Tibbs 277; Clara Herr 65. Announcements were solicited.

The secretary reported a class comprised of singers from Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Ohio, of whom eighteen leaders led a total of eighty selections. Beth Garfinkel closed the singing by leading 146, and Adrian Eldridge offered a final prayer.

Chairman—Adrian Eldridge; Secretaries—Erin Fulton and Tim Gregg