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Harmony Local
THE BRYN MAWR, PA CHAPTER OF THE MID-ATLANTIC DISTRICT BRINGS YOU
HARMONY
LOCAL

VOLUME XX NUMBER 3
APRIL 2003


HOT NEWS!

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SHOW HAS A BING CROSBY THEME
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UPTOWN SOUND FEATURED QUARTET
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CHAPTER QUARTETS AT PRELIMS
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REUNION NIGHT, WITH PICTURES
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RULES FOR REHEARSAL HALL
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REGULAR FEATURES
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BARBERSHOPPER OF THE MONTH
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LEWS VIEWS
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RECENT BOARD ACTION
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PERSONALS
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WHAT HAPPENED THAT YEAR?


Spring show a tribute
to Bing Crosby


The Mainliners spring show, Moments to
Remember, features a tribute to crooner Bing
Crosby who, had he lived, would have been 100
years old this year.

The show opens with a birthday
celebration for Bing (played by John McComb)
and his best buddy Bob Hope (Alan Mennig). This
musical pair reminisces about the past hundred
years as only Bob and Bing could do. Recalling the
familiar Road movies that starred Bing and Bob,
the chorus will sing some of Bings classics.

The show will also feature the international
medalist quartet Uptown Sound and the award-
winning mixed quartet Philharmonix, with Bryn
Mawrs Rick Serpico as its bass singer. In addition,
five chapter quartets will lend their harmonies:





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Calendar of
Events



ST. RAPHAELA SOCIETY
Drexel Hill
April 6, 2003

SPRING SHOW
Radnor High School, Radnor
April 25 26

ROSEMONT PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGE
Rosemont
April 29

ATLANTIC DIVISION CONTEST
Smyrna, DE
May 16 - 17

MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
Wayne
May 26

FREEDOM VILLAGE
Coatesville
June 25

SPEBSQSA INTERNATIONALS
Montreal, Canada
June 29 July 6











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ORGANIZATION:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President.....................................................................Jim Lewis
VP, Music & Performance........................................ Tom Peck
VP, Membership...............................................John Carpenter
VP, Marketing & PR............................................ Dick Watson
VP, Program ...........................................................Bob Werner
Secretary..............................................................Bob Murdock
Treasurer........................................... Bill Pyle / Dave Helfrich
Immediate Past President..............................Howard Fetterolf
AT LARGE BOARD MEMBERS

Frank Cianciulli
Ron Noll

John Fielding
Bill Leininger

MUSIC LEADERSHIP TEAM
VP. Music & Performance........................................ Tom Peck
Music Director.......................................................Rick Serpico
Associate Director............................................Bill Oppenheim
Associate Director...................................................Doug Pratt
Vocal Coach ...............................................Ron Knickerbocker
Production Team Leader................................... John McComb
Section Leaders
Tenor.................................. Brett Thomas
Lead ....................................... Tony Petro
Baritone ................................ Jim Frazier
Bass..............Steve Haas, Roy Roseberry
Visual Entertainment............................................ Ernie Kirsch
Music Librarian...................................................... Al Forsythe
Learning Tapes........................................Joe Levis, Bill Swan,
............................................................................Mark Richman
Quartet Promotion.............................Lloyd Perry, Steve Haas
Wardrobe ..........................................................John Carpenter
Makeup ......................................................................<vacant>

CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Vice President....................................................... Dick Watson
Chorus Agent............................................................Ed Ostrom
Contest Chairman................................................John Fielding
Program Manager...................................................Bob Werner
Transportation/Supply Manager.............................Art Donato
Youth Outreach ..........................Joe DeLue, Dwight Florence
Database Manager...........................................Joe Spampinato
Section Leaders
Tenors.......................................Bill Swan
Leads......................................... Joe Levis
Baritones.......................... John McComb
Basses ................................Bill Leininger
Harmony Local Editor ..............................................Art Miller
Asst Editors ........................Matt Dellarco, Gerry O'Halloran

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Moonlighting, Main Line Chord Company, Center
Ring, Autumn Gold, and Harmony Springs.

Business manager for the show is Ron Noll
with the artistic side being jointly directed by Bob
Donecker and Tom Peck. The script for the
birthday party was written by Wayne Woodward
who also serves as master of ceremonies for the
evening.

Stage manager is Bill Whitaker and set
design is by Ron Spicer, assisted by Tom Walker.
Sound and lighting is being handled by Dave
Stephenson and the Radnor high school crew. The
show program has been put together by Roy
Roseberry, John Davidson and Bob Maleno.

Our Stokers partners will be busy in the
auditorium and lobby, ushering and carrying out
their sales effort on behalf of the Mainliners.
Tickets can be purchased on line at
www.mainliners.org
or by calling your favorite
Mainliner.

Uptown Sound will
light up the show


This Ohio-based quartet came home with the
second place silver medal at Internationals in 2001,
after winning the bronze medal for third place in
2000. The foursome has been together since 1995
and are all members of the Alliance of Greater
Central Ohio chapter of the Johnny Appleseed
District. The quartet was district champion in 1996.

Its repertoire includes barbershop, gospel,
Sixties Pop, Big Band era and even zany comedy
songs.

Jeff Archer (tenor) began singing
barbershop while attending Bowling Green State
University, as did two others in the quartet. He has
sung with many JAD quartets including the Varsity
Lettermen and GQ. Jeff is a real estate investor and
works with Financial Savers Association Inc. as a
mortgage planner in Akron.

David Calland (lead) is the director of the












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Alliance chorus. Dave, like Jeff, attended Bowling
Green. His quartet experience includes singing with
Which Wayz Up and with a 1995 international
quarterfinalist quartet, Ace in the Hole. He works as
a computer systems consultant with Franklin
Computer Services Group in Columbus.

Steve Kovach (baritone) says his nickname
Phil describes his baritone duty to fill the chords.
He has sung with Which Wayz Up and The Ring
Leaders and is a section leader of the Alliance.
Steve works as an appraiser for Medina County,
Ohio.

Steve Denino (bass) started singing
barbershop harmony with his father and two
brothers in Deninos Home Grown Harmony when
he was 12. He has also sung with the 1989 JAD
quartet champions Bowery Boys and with Ace in the
Hole (with Dave). Steve attended Ohio State and is
a bass section leader with the chorus. Like Calland,
he works as a computer systems consultant with the
Franklin Computer Services Group in Columbus.

George Ehrgott, a new
face on the risers


New member George Ehrgotts interest in
barbershopping began when he heard a quartet sing
to the patients at Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Center
one day in Goshen. He and a friend were visiting
the friends wife at the rehab. Enthused by what he
heard, his friend immediately joined the West
Chester Chordbusters. That was enough for George.
He joined too.

Hes no stranger to singing. In addition to
singing more than five years with the Chordbusters
until that chapter recently disbanded, he has also
sung with the Exton Chorale and at his church. At
one point he played guitar and sang at several of the
church services.

A 1957 graduate of Manhattan College in
electrical engineering, he worked for many years for
General Electric, mostly at its huge Valley Forge
office complex in King of Prussia (now occupied by

Lockheed Martin). Arriving in the area in 1961, he
specialized in the design and launching of satellites
such as weather, navigational and GPS satellites. He
retired from GE in 1998.

His wife Judy retired from a teaching
position with the Chester County Intermediate Unit,
also in 1998. She was a reading specialist. The
Ehrgotts have four grown children --- George Jr.,
Mic