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Show combined. Offcers of the Salt Lake chapter chap-ter , SPEBSQSA are president, George Young; vice president, Amos Bronson; secretary," Dee Reid, and treasurer, Art Dangerfield. Some 600-odd quartet parades are produced each year in the United States and Canada to raise money for local charities. In 15 years of activity the society has never had an unsuccessful parade. BARBERSHOP 4S SLATE NOV. 22 MEET Combining local quartets with important champions and a 32-voice 32-voice chorus, the Salt Lake chap-. chap-. tor of the Society for the Preservation Preser-vation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in American will stage its fourth anniversary an-niversary parade of quartets on Saturday evening, November 22 at South high school. Proceeds will go to the YMCA building fund. The San Diejo Serenadors, fourth place winners in the International Quartet championship finals last June, along with Reedie Wright of Los Angeles, far western district president of SPEBSQSA, will fly by chartered plane to donate their services to the fund-raising show. Mr. 'Wright will emcee the event. Wasatch ward quartet, one of two groups rated superior in the LDS quartet competition last year, will appear on the program. This group is, of course, a Sugar House outfit. Reid Johnson sings first tenor, Neil Larsen. second tenor, Shirl Cornwall, baritone and Darro Glissmeyer, bass. They will sing a novelty number, "Backseat driving." driv-ing." Johnson composed both music and lyrics for this song. They will also sing a serious piece, "Sweet Sixteen." Another local quartet, the Bonneville Bon-neville Clippers, is scheduled on the program. The Clippers won seventh sev-enth place in the regional SPEBSQSA contest at Whittier, California earlier this year. Organized Or-ganized two years ago, the quartet includes David Moffatt, base; Dee Reid, tenor from Muray ; Max Lloyd, lead, and George Young, baritone. The Sweet Adelines, one of the few ladies' barbershop quarets, will sing in the parade. Exactly half of the Adelines are Sugar House residents. Director and secand alto, Pat Ellerton, and vice president . and second soprano Mary Lou McDonald Mc-Donald both live here. President md first alto Jan Hunter and secretary-treasurer and first soprano Mary Gail Stark complete the foursome. Also planned on the parade program pro-gram are the Laramie Boomerangs, Wyoming's ony barbershop quartet; quar-tet; the Beehive Statesmen; the comedy quartet, the Toni-chords and two foursomes from East high school. The 32-voice Salt Lake Close Harmony chorus, directed by Mun-son Mun-son B. Hinman, Jr., will open the festivities. Roger Freund, executive execu-tive secretary of the YMCA will conduct community singing. The finale will feature all quartets |