Minutes of Sacred Harp Singings

Aaron Lewis opened the twenty-first annual session of this singing with prayer promptly at 3:00 p.m., following which Jim Thobaben invited Ron Pen to explain the shapes and gamut for the benefit of our visitors. Song selections were from The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition and The Southern Harmony. Leaders: Ron Pen 73b; Raphael Finkel 86; Tim Gregg 68b; Amy Pemberton 159; Don Waggener 39t (SoH); Donna Kwon 82t; Joy R. Dunn 361; Ray Turner 551; Jonathan Powers and Esther Peters 312b; Ron Pen 128 (by request of Jim Thobaben); Ron Pen 455; Erin Fulton 292 (SoH) (in honor of Tom Waggener); Randy Webber “Morton” (his own composition, named for attendee Tim Morton, who assisted leading); Tim Morton and Ted Steinbock 45t. Announcements of upcoming singings were solicited.

RECESS

Leaders: Robbie Couston 31t; Tim Gregg 16 (SoH) (by request of Marcie Thobaben); Shelby Fiske and Ron Pen 117; Tom Morton 313b (in memory of P. Dan Brittain); Greta Turner 148; Marcie Thobaben and Tim Morton 47b; Jonathan Powers, Aimee Dirig, and Noah Dirig 81t; Joy R. Dunn and Don Waggener 58; Ray Turner 92t (SoH); Greta Turner 200 (in memory of Larry Olszewski); Erin Fulton 35b (SoH); Ron Pen 322 (SoH). Andi Wallace offered a prayer over the meal. Jim Thobaben led 267 as the class of fifty-eight singers took the parting hand and were dismissed to a soup supper prepared by the church members, as well as to enjoy a display of nineteenth and twentieth-century shape-note books shared by Louisville visitor Ted Steinbock.

Chairman—Jim Thobaben; Secretary—Erin Fulton