InCider Press, August 2004, page 4

The show, a hilarious comedy, kept the audience roaring with laughter as every imaginable technical difficulty was experienced during their technical rehearsal. Rounding out the Saturday night show was an inspiring performance by the quartet, Power Play.

After the Saturday night show ended we had one last chance for ice cream sundaes and a few tags and then the colleges were officially ended. A group of approximately 700 men and women who were for the most part complete strangers at the beginning of the week left the campus on Sunday morning as brothers (and sisters) in harmony.

Now for some comments, from the four of us, that I haven't worked into the article thus far.

Bill Bunyan predicted that it would take an entire week for him to come down from the "high" experienced at the college. Bill also found resonance in his voice that he didn't realize he had. He says that seeing, hearing and experiencing the sound of gold medalists highlighted a whole week of fun.

Myron Calhoun was amazed to see the 50 young people on stage singing barbershop and is wondering where our young people were. He was surprised at the increase of female students compared to the number that attended in 1990 (his first time.) He found it interesting to learn that many barbershoppers have attended Harmony College/Director's College numerous times; many had attended 10 to 20 years and at least one had attended 30 years. He's wondering why each of our members doesn't attend at least once when other barbershoppers see the need to attend repeatedly. Even though Myron wore a beanie during his first Harmony College he's glad to see them gone; if you wanted to wear a beanie and now won't be able to do so, blame it on our new CEO.

Richard Jackson says he learned how to manage air flow, to sing with a relaxed mouth and to sing an "eee" with a big "aaay." Richard also feels that the seeds of barbershop have been implanted in him. He now understands minor thirds, perfect fifths, etc. The earliest Richard went to bed was 2:00 a.m.; he wouldn't tell us the latest time.

And I, Bart, will find it fascinating to be able to put a face and a personality with the composers and arrangers of many of the songs that we sing. I think going back to Harmony College as part of a quartet would be an absolutely fantastic experience. I was totally amazed how the old timers would work with us newcomers.

All four of us strongly encourage each of you to attend Harmony/Directors college as soon as you can.