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Looking back

August 5, 2010
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10 years ago in the August 2000 issue of The Diapason
Cover: Wicks, First Baptist Church, Ocala, Florida
Kyle Johnson appointed assistant professor of music, Missouri Valley College
Janet Kaltenbach appointed general manager, The American Boychoir
Ralph Mills appointed organist and director of choirs, First United Methodist Church, Charlottesville, Virginia
Christa Rakich appointed director of music, Church of the Immaculate Conception, Boston
Camilla Jarnot is recipient of the first Margaret Power Biggs Research Grant
Charles W. McManis honored on the occasion of his 87th birthday
Lawrence Schreiber named minister of music emeritus, National City Christian Church, where he served since 1960
Charles Burks wins first prize, Gruenstein Memorial Organ Competition
Leslie Spelman died May 28 at age 97
“20th-Century Church Music in Germany: An Overview,” by Martin West
“Monumental Organs in Monumental Churches: The Brick Gothic Phenomenon in Northern Germany,” by Aldo J. Baggia
New organs: Jaeckel, B. Rule & Company, Charles M. Ruggles

25 years ago, August 1985
Cover: Robert L. Sipe, University Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, NC
Lee Dettra appointed organist and choirmaster, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Jared Jacobsen appointed director of liturgy and music, St. Leander Roman Catholic Church, San Leandro, CA
Robert Parkins appointed artist-in-residence and chapel organist, Duke University
Michelle Lothringer named winner, Gruenstein Memorial Contest
“Catharine Crozier at Illinois College,” by Anita E. Werling and Ted Gibboney
“Organ Planning for Architects,” by Pieter A. Visser
“Bach’s Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel Hoch: Text and Context—Part 2,” by Gwen E. Adams
New organs: Gratian Organ Builders, Lee Organs

50 years ago, August 1960
All Saints Chapel of the University of the South, Sewanee, TN, contracted for a new Casavant organ of three manuals plus a nave division
Paul Lindsley Thomas appointed organist and choirmaster, St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas, TX
John S. Tremaine appointed minister of music, Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church, Detroit, MI
Richard Westenburg appointed director of music, First Unitarian Church, Worcester, MA
Dr. Clarence Dickinson retired from New York’s Brick Presbyterian Church June 12
People: Edward Berryman, Marshall Bidwell, Herbert Bruening, Margaret Whitney Dow, Virgil Fox, Charlotte Garden, George Markey, Janice Milburn, Frederick Swann, C. Albert Tufts, Elizabeth Van Horne
“Are Organists Psychic,” by Herbert D. White
“The Small Organ: Mutations and Other Trifles,” by Harold Frederic
Organs: Aeolian-Skinner, Austin, Gress-Miles, Hillgreen, Lane and Co., Möller, Reuter, Schantz, Schlicker, Tellers, Wicks

75 years ago, August 1935
People: Roma E. Angel, E. Power Biggs, William C. Carl, Winslow Cheney, Ralph Downes, Edward Eigenschenk, George H. Fairclough, Virgil Fox, Franklin Glynn, Charlotte Lockwood, Alexander McCurdy, Homer Nearing, Carlos Francis Newman, T. Tertius Noble, Herbert Peabody, Arthur Poister, Hugh Porter, Barrett Spach, William C. Steere, Helen Searles Westbrook, Julian R. Williams,
Organs: Casavant, Hook & Hastings, Kilgen, Kimball, Möller, Pilcher, Reuter, Wicks