February 2003                                                 InCider Press                                                             Page 5

Clay Center Show Well Received

The Chorus at final rehearsal before the show under the direction of  Ken Lang ("Mr. Animation")

The ringing chords of barbershop harmony were heard once again in Clay Center at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 2, as the Little Apple Chorus performed in the Martyn-Snodgrass Auditorium at Clay Center Community High School. 

Under the direction of Ken Lang, a long-time Clay Center resident and vocal music teacher at the high school, the near capacity audience was treated to the Chorus's rendition of a number of old-time favorites plus a "taste" of what is in store for them when they attend the Spring show, Juke Box Saturday Night, in Manhattan on April 12. 

Emotions ran high after the narrator, Myron Calhoun, ex

plained that Rick Husband, commander of the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle, had been a barbershopper and that the next song, "I'll Fly Away", would be done in his honor. 

Rounding out the show were stellar performances by the quartets: Manhattan Music Machine, Charades, and Apple Core-Tet. 

To the residents of the Clay Center Community:  Thank you for your support to barbershop singing, especially for a very talented director and many loyal members over the years.

It's a Small World

By Bill Bunyan, Treasurer

It really is a small world!  Our son attended Junior High School with Willie McCool, the Columbia shuttle pilot.  Willie's wife is the daughter of friends still living on Guam.

We received an e-mail from a retired Guam teacher, Anne Rhodes.  Her daughter was the editor of a Junior High Newspaper way back in 1974-75.  Attached was a poem (as follows) written for the Dededo Beep! Beep! Roadrunner Newspaper by Willie McCool.

         I came to an island in the middle of the sea,

        It was so nice that I jumped for glee.

        There are palm trees, coconuts, and bananas too,

        Plus birds and fish so unbelievable but true.

        It is so nice that no one can complain.

        But he who does must be insane.

        This is such a nice and beautiful place,

        You'd think it was heaven--or outer space.

-- Submitted by Janet Rhodes Arnold, former school newspaper editor, found in her Memento box while cleaning out her garage on Saturday, February 1, 2003.

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