Rex has always been involved in vocal music. His first exposure to Barbershop was in High School, Longmont, CO ( 1953-56). He joined SPEBSQSA in 1971 in Greeley, CO, and held all chapter offices except Treasurer. He served several years as Area Counselor in the Central States District. He was on the Steering Committee for the formation of the Rocky Mountain District, 1976 -77, held several District level offices in RMD including District President, 1981-82. He was an International Board Member 1983-84. He served on the COTS faculty for RMD in the District Leadership class. He founded the Loveland, CO chapter in 1982, and held several offices including 3 terms as President, including Music Director for 2 years. He has been an AHSOW member since 1979. Rex has sung in several quartets over the years, a few competed at District level. He is now the Vice President of the BQPA, Barbershop Quartet Preservation Association, a full subsidiary of the Barbershop Harmony Society. The BQPA is an International organization devoted to quartet singing and the preservation of the traditional Barbershop style. He also is Chairman of the Spring Convention of BQPA in Phoenix, April, 2009.

Scott did some a capella singing with his fraternity in college but his musical experience was primarily with band, starting with piano at age five. He took lessons until he was 18. By then he could play trombone, baritone, and bass horn. On a Friday night in the fall of 1963 he attended a Phoenix chorus show where LLoyd Steinkamp was directing, and as a result , accepted his invitation to visit the chorus meeting at the Knights of Columbus hall on the following Friday night. He was hooked. Scott was on stage when they won their first Gold medal at Atlanta and was a quartet tenor at that time in the quartet “The Prospectors of Note”, with Terry Aramian, Ralph Smith, and Jack Payne. The quartet was marginal but had a good time. He dropped out in the mid-seventies after the quartet folded, with two small kids at home, and a wife who was in Sweet Adelines as a member of the Scottsdale Chorus, a quartet, and a Showmanship judge. In 1979 Lloyd Steinkamp again called Scott to ask if he would help re-organizing the Scottsdale chapter music library. Well, within a month he was music VP and remained so for nearly five years. That's about the time that the first configuration of the quartet, “Seems Like Old Times”, was formed with Dan Ryan on lead, Dale Weatherford on Tenor, Martin Fredstrom on bass and Scott on Baritone. With several personnel changes, the quartet went on for many years. Scott went back to the Phoenix chorus in the late 80's and stayed there until 2006 when he joined the Arizona Quartet Chapter with dual membership. With Frank Fliszar on bass, Chuck Nickeloff on tenor, Scott on Baritone, they convinced another Bari, Gordon Hamlin, into singing lead to form the quartet, “Extended Warranty”, which lasted nearly five years of lots of fun. After that, Scott was active at the Arizona Quartet chapter and Friday Harmony For Lunch Bunch since then. He became interested in BQPA in the spring of 2009 and attended his first convention with them. There was so much fun, he followed up by attending their fall gathering in Chicago and is looking to the BQPA spring festival for 2010. Scott enjoys his 45th year of four-part harmony, and looks forward to many more.

Jim started his barbershop career in 1978 in Albuquerque with the New Mexichords directed by Bill Biffle. In 1980, he moved to San Antonio and sang with the New Braunfels chorus directed by V.J.Lowrance and Mo Rector. In 1986, he moved to Phoenix and sang with the Phoenicians for 4 years, under the batons of Lou Laurel and Gary Steinkamp. He then sang with the Scottsdale chorus under Lloyd Steinkamp, and in 1993 sang with the Paradise Valley chorus directed by Stu Willcox. Jim attended Harmony College in 1984, and joined AHSOW in 1988. Always a baritone, he has quartetted with the YUCCA FLATS, CHORD STREET and FOUR EVER YOUNG, and currently with HOSPITALITY. He can be found at the Phoenix Harmony For Lunch Bunch every Friday, where he woodsheds all parts with great enthusiasm. His interests are in quartets, coaching, some arranging, and mostly encouraging quartets. He was one of the three men who rescued the charter of the failing Scottsdale chapter in 1999, forming the Arizona Quartet chapter, and serving as Secretary / Treasurer. He also is the chapter webmaster.

Treasurer

David Lyman

Dave started singing with the Scottsdale Copperstatesmen in 1992 and really fell in love with the barbershop style of music. He presently sings with the Paradise Valley Cactus Chordsmen as well as the Arizona Quartet Chapter. He has been involved with instrumental music, and has had a few music theory classes, but says he has found nothing better than the sound of four part vocal harmony. Dave has been AZQC Treasurer since 2002.

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Past President

Dick Cornwell

Dick Cornwell bought tickets to the Minnetonka Clippers Barbershop Chorus show in Minneapolis in 1978 . The guest quartet was the Boston Common and Dick was so enthused he visited the next chorus rehearsal. He joined the chorus and was asked to sing in a quartet called Something Else. In 1983 he moved to Phoenix and visited the Phoenicians the week after they returned from winning the gold medal in Seattle. It was an exciting night and Dick joined the Phoenician chorus as soon as he could pass the audition. He sang in a quartet called Backstage and several other pickup quartets. In 1987 he married Phyl Bristol's sister, Gerry, and started going back to MN for the summer. He had started singing with Just for Fun Four with Bob Crosley, Marv Peterson, and Mel Turner. He was replaced because the quartet didn't want to take a recess during the summer months. He is presently trying to reorganize Four Every Young quartet because he is interested in singing regularly in a quartet. After joining the Pride of Phx chorus for 2 years and then the Spirit of Phx, Dick decided not to participate in the perfroming chorus and will have time now to visit the AZ Quartet chapter and Harmony for Lunch.