James Winn
All Good Children
"James directed All Good Children from ’71 through ’74 including all four of our appearances at Spring Sing. His death is a big loss to academe and music—and to friendship." —George Bassett, All Good Children & Cahoots (Obituary taken from the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Class…
Betsy Morris Rosen
The Works
Betsy Lynn Morris Rosen of Wellesley, Mass. left us on March 29, 2019, after a year-long battle with stomach cancer. She was an amazing wife, mother, sister, and friend. As a clinical social worker, she made a significant difference in the lives of her clients.
Mary Stewart
Spring Sing Midwife, Opposite Sextet
Mary Elizabeth Pitcher Stewart of Kensington, Maryland, died on January 5, 2019, at the age of 95. She was born in Albany, NY, on December 13, 1923, to Mabel Tynan Pitcher and Ralph Morgan Pitcher. Later the family moved to Buffalo where Mary attended the…
David George Birkic
Off Sounders
Dave Birkic passed away on August 1 at Connecticut Hospice in Branford. He was 77 years old, and a long-time Greenwich resident who recently retired to Old Lyme, CT. David was born to Mary and George Birkic in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 28,1940. He played…
Roxanne Twitchell Sly
Opposite Sextet, All Good Children
BROOKLIN — Roxanne Twitchell Sly died Sunday, June 4, surrounded by her family in Brooklin. She passed peacefully and, as with everything in her life, accompanied by the music that she loved so dearly. Roxanne (Rig to her family and friends) was always grounded in…
Nancy Trowbridge Holmes
Augmented 8 Midwife
Nancy Trowbridge Holmes July 25, 1926 - March 20, 2017 Died peacefully on Monday, March 20, 2017. Born in New York City, NY she grew up in Washington, DC, where she attended the Potomac and Madeira schools. She graduated from Smith College in 1948. Two…
Ed Wolff
New Wizard Oil Combination
Edwin Lynn Wolff came to the end of his life's adventures on February 23, 2017, aged 92. He died comfortably at his home at The Academy in Boulder, Colorado. He was born in New York City on November 26, 1924 to Samuel Edwin Wolff and…
Len Karabell
The Counterparts
Born in Yeadon PA, resided in Havertown PA, died on February 15, 2017, at the age of 69. He is survived by his beloved wife, Ginny (nee Raffel); his brother, Richard (Paula); his children, Jacob (Annie) and Laura (Oscar); and his granddaughter, Rebekah. Len's home…
Bill Jeffery
The Two by Fours
JEFFERY, William Wallace Jr. 93, of Nashua, NH, died peacefully at The Huntington on September 3, 2016, surrounded by his family. Born on April 20, 1923 in Keene, NH. Beloved son of the late William Wallace Jeffery, Sr. and Mabel Elizabeth (nee Vaughan). Devoted husband…
Bill Gard
The Grunyons
William Young Gard, a tooling manufacturing company executive, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. He was a longtime Grosse Pointe resident. He was born June 10, 1927, in Detroit, to Paul Drown and Martha Young Gard and graduated from Detroit University School in 1944. From 1945…
Wolcott Ely
Off Sounders
After a long and fulfilling life, Wolcott Griswold Ely passed away at his home on September 21, 2012. Born on April 19, 1923, the son of Matthew G. Ely and Marion Collins, he descended from an old and distinguished CT family. He grew up in…
Lew Kimball
Two by Fours, Augmented 8
CHATHAM - Lewis E. Kimball, Jr., of Chatham died peacefully August 16[2012] at Cape Cod Hospital from complications of Parkinson's disease. Lew was an active leader in Chatham, and was a founding member and a president of Friends of Chatham Waterways, where a scholarship program…
Jim Leese
The Grunyons
LEESE JAMES REED, Age 86, of Birmingham, passed away suddenly on May 5, 2012 in Mystic, CT. Jim was born in York, Pennsylvania on May 20, 1925 to Reed O. and Mary Loucks Leese. At age four, his family moved to Detroit and he graduated…
George Holmes
Augmented 8
Died peacefully on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at his home in Washington, DC. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, he simultaneously entered Yale University and the U.S. Navy's officers training program in 1942. He served in the Navy throughout World War II, attaining the rank of…
William “Wat” Stewart
Augmented 8, Suburban Squires, Palmer Squares
William "Wat" Stewart, a retired manager at Acacia Mutual Life Insurance who was passionate about promoting a cappella singing, died Jan. 22 [2011] at his home in Kensington of congestive heart failure. He was 88. Mr. Stewart was a human resources training manager at Acacia…
Jay Tracey
New Wizard Oil Combination
It’s not often the world-famous Whippenpoofs of Yale get the chance to learn the fight song of a small Colorado town. But Jay Tracey, an alum of the famed men’s a cappella group, taught the singers there the fight song of the Meloneers of Rocky…
Jack Winder, Jr.
The Augmented 8
John Small Winder Jr., 59, national coordinator of the Environmental Protection Agency's office of site remediation enforcement, died of cardiac arrest Aug. 13, 2002 at his home in Potomac. Mr. Winder spent 28 years in law and management positions at the EPA, mostly working on…