Minutes of Sacred Harp Singings

The 21st session of the Maine All-Day Singing was held on the Saturday before the fourth Sunday in July. Patty McNerney called the class to order leading 48t. Robert Stoddard offered a prayer.

Leaders: Elizabeth Stoddard 32t; Eric Sandberg 67; Pleasance Crawford 350; Ethan McNerney 497; Joanne Fuller 107; Pete Sandberg 298; Nick Pappas 145t; Sara Sandberg 276; Chuck Crawford 300; Donna Carlson 294; Owen Stoddard 129; Margaret Hughes 72t; George Sigut 72b; Sue Peters 59; Stuart Jackson 511; Joan Nagy 86; Tim Gregg 92; Susan Mampre 102; Jesse Vear 99; Chris Hodges 492; Barbara Swetman 542.

RECESS

The class was brought back to order by Nick Pappas leading 128. Leaders: Philou 48b; Erin Fulton 538; Jesse Flynn-Jambeck 384; Rachel Farber 558; Eric Sandberg 68b; John Hughes 280; Elsa Phemayotin 335; Kerry Cullinan 269; Liz Cantrell 31b; Felix Chéster-Trudel 288; Anne Kazlauskas 447; Em Ekelund 523.

Kathe Pilbosian remembered the sick and shut-ins and led 70t for RuthAnn Bryant, Corrone Bryant, Bobbie Goodell, Hollie, Sherry Mitchell and her mother, Mike Hinton, Pat Callahan, Cindy Bean, Jim Bean, Dan Phemayotin, Mary McIllwraith, Laura Ayotte, Amy Frankel, Inez Benikasa, and Tom Waggener.

Chris Holley conducted the memorial lesson and led 146 in memory of the following deceased: Tom Tucker—Pennsylvania; Charlotte Ehrman—New York; Heather Wood—New York; Curtis Cook—Indiana; Tom Wolski—New York; P. Dan Brittain—Arkansas; Chloe Webb—Texas; Eva Striebeck—Germany; Joan Sheldon—Maine; Frank T. Hill, Jr., Henry Guthery, Tommie Spurlock, Gaston White, Joan Wilks, Earl Ballinger, and Norma Ivey Green—Alabama; Cora Beasley Jones—Tennessee; Lydia Lewellen and Scott Swanton—North Carolina; Wanda Pilié and Gratien Chabot—Quebec; Laura Martin—Washington; Joe Fineman—Massachusetts; Beverly Taylor and Dan Nelson—Maryland; Bill Fellinger—Vermont.

Leaders: Anabel Gravel Chabot 340; Ian Quinn 352; Rachel Speer 200; Glenn Wright 299; indigo miccichè 168; Sunny Doyle 142; Jonathan Spencer 385t; Pippa Stoddard 512; Charles Biada 298; Esther Wade 500; Bill Holt 436. Robbert Stoddard offered grace before lunch.

LUNCH

The class was brought back to order by Elizabeth Stoddard leading 399b. Leaders: Carol Huang 228; Philippe Doyle-Gosselin 434; Dean Jens 424; Gwen Gethner 133; Stuart Jackson 426t; Joan Nagy 504; Alex Makris-Shaw 418; Tim Gregg 272; Rachel Farber 274t; Robert Stoddard 318; Quasar Phoenix and Kendall Phoenix 178 (Kendall proposed marriage to Quasar and Quasar accepted); Joanne Fuller 179; Martin Hamilton 42; Joan Frankel 143; John Hughes 339; Barbara Swetman 365; Glenn Wright 474; Liz Cantrell 475; Jonathan Spencer 260.

RECESS

The class was brought back to order by G. Patrick Foley leading 82t. Leaders: Sunny Doyle 313b; Charles Biada 371; Anabel Gravel Chabot 101t; Susan Mampre 180; Donna Carlson 496; Margaret Hughes 65; Philou 472; Pleasance Crawford 301; Pete Sandberg 285t; Rachel Speer 302; Elsa Phemayotin 445; Esther Wade 394; Gwen Gethner 89; Owen Stoddard 103; indigo miccichè 319; Philippe Doyle-Gosselin 423; Ian Quinn 315; Carol Huang 203; Em Ekelund 290; Chris Hodges 218; Erin Fulton 69b; Dean Jens 377; Anne Kazlauskas 26; Sue Peters 415; Bill Holt 455.

Patty McNerney, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Eric Sandberg led 62 as the closing song. Robert Stoddard dismissed the class with prayer.

Chairperson—Patty McNerney; Treasurer—Eric Sandberg; Secretary—Sara Sandberg