In answer to Jim O'Connor's question on the previous blog, following are some of those who joined Herman Foster in the early 1980s on the Budd Glee Club, actually the "Christmas Choir," at Troy Corporate.
Mary Ann Paris, KurtMoilanen, Lou Drapeau, Barbara (Haggard) King, Dawn Riege, Dorothy Strefling, Christa Tews-Albrecht, Julie (Craig) Barthold, Donna Tomlinson. The perennial Glee Club director was Lynne Wikarski.
Other performers of note: Paul Sichert as Santa Claus. Jim Quinn as Scrooge. Alvin (Mark Gordon) and the Chipmunks (Don Fairchild and Greg Burdick), directed by David Seville (Walter Young). Elves were Gloria Armstrong, Kathy (Daugherty) Grimaldi, Margarita (Barczak) Smith.
There was a lot of talent at Budd Troy.
The Choir was resurrected more than 20 years later in 2005 by, among others, Deborah K. Harris, Lori Mason, Sue Ting-Wang, Linda Stout and Nancy Rough.
