87-year-old HOA charter restored
| Type of post: | Chorus news item |
| Sub-type: | No sub-type |
| Posted By: | John Braden |
| Status: | Current |
| Date Posted: | Mon, Jan 20 2025 |
Many HOA members know the story of the Kansas City Chapter receiving the SPEBSQSA No. 2 Chapter charter (second only to Tulsa) back in 1938 from a Society founder. Most have not really thought: Where is it?
The question was answered at the January Installation Banquet, when the rustically framed charter was put on display after restoration by Chorus Manager and former President Mike Schumacher.
O.C. Cash, co-founder of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (with fellow Tulsan Rupert Hall) came to Kansas City in 1938 on the heels of founding the Society in Tulsa. Only a few months before, Kansas City had been the place where he and Hall had run into each other in the Hotel Muehlebach lobby. They had found two other guys to sing barbershop with, then went home to found the Society.
Cash, who was self-titled the Third Assistant Temporary Vice Chairman, personally presented the assembled Kansas City men the charter for Chapter No. 2, which appears to be hand lettered and drawn, depicting a barberpole, a lyre, four men singing, a shaving mug and brush, and musical notes.
The question was answered at the January Installation Banquet, when the rustically framed charter was put on display after restoration by Chorus Manager and former President Mike Schumacher.
O.C. Cash, co-founder of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (with fellow Tulsan Rupert Hall) came to Kansas City in 1938 on the heels of founding the Society in Tulsa. Only a few months before, Kansas City had been the place where he and Hall had run into each other in the Hotel Muehlebach lobby. They had found two other guys to sing barbershop with, then went home to found the Society.Cash, who was self-titled the Third Assistant Temporary Vice Chairman, personally presented the assembled Kansas City men the charter for Chapter No. 2, which appears to be hand lettered and drawn, depicting a barberpole, a lyre, four men singing, a shaving mug and brush, and musical notes.
