1951: BROMLEY'S BETHEL LUTHERAN CHOIR

THANKS TO ALICE SCHMIDT MULLEN, MY CLASSMATE FROM HAMILTON HIGH'S CLASS OF '51 ("THE CLASS WITH CLASS!") FOR THIS GREAT PHOTO OF BETHEL'S CHOIR. I KNOW MANY OF THE MEMBERS IN THE PHOTO, AND I ESPECIALLY APPRECIATE THE PHOTO OF JEAN AND MRS. WILLARD GRIMM, WEBB GRIMM'S MOTHER. WEBB IS AN OLD FAMILY FRIEND DATING BACK TO THE 1930'S WHEN HE AND MY BROTHER LED A BOY SCOUT "TROOP 9" (?) IN A LITTLE GROUP CALLED THE "LYNX CLUB." I SEE WEBB AND JEAN REGULARLY WHEN I SING FOR THEIR "HAPPY HEARTS" SENIOR CITIZEN GROUP. ADDITIONALLY, I SANG WITH BILL BAGGOTT BACK AT HHS AS PART OF A BARBERSHOP GROUP. BILL COULD HAVE BEEN A METROPOLITAN OPERA SINGER. HIS VOICE WAS COMPLETELY ETHEREAL.

THANKS SO MUCH ALICE, YOU'RE THE BEST!
(ALICE EXPRESSED CONCERNS THAT NAMES MIGHT BE MIS-SPELLED. IF
ANY VIEWER(s) SEE MIS-SPELLING, PLEASE EMAIL ME AND I WILL CORRECT THE ERROR (thomglo@verizon.net)

Front row: Peggy Petry, Eileen Webber, Barbara Baggott (Bill's sister), Alice Schmidt, Betty Yeager, Joanne Slaboda, Gail Spitz, Doris Roth, and Grace Schmidt (No relation to me.)

Second row: Starting with the girl behind Barbara Baggott: Joan Harvie, Betty Kauffman, Edith McGowan (her family owned Mrs. McGowan's pies on Whitehead Road, next to Thermoid), Mrs. Grimm (Webster's mother), Mrs. Petersen, Jean Grimm (Webster's wife and with child), and Mrs. Butterfoss. (She had a son, Eddie, and a daughter, Louellen.)

Third row: Isabelle Bair, Eugene Roth, Bill Baggott, Keith Kauffman, Walter Illian, Webster Grimm, Henry Kauffman, Bill Jennings, and Mrs. Symanski.