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Singing Out
Volume 10 Issue 1
What’s been happening at H4S?
The year 2009 was a difficuly year for your trustees. Although our total donations were excellent considering the economic conditions of the time, we were down in total by 24.5% from 2008.
This has a significant impact on funding, particularly to those who depend on us each year for part of their funding requirements. This was mentioned in the H4S report delivered to the Leadership Academy on January 9 at Geneva Park, north of Orillia, Ontario.
The totals in funding in 2009 by category follows:
Universities and Colleges $37,891.51 28.2%
Hospitals $ 6,500.00 4.9%
Clinics, schools, etc. $80,086.00 59.7%
S/L Conferences $ 8,422.00 6.3%
Administration $ 1,326.35 1.0%
TOTAL FUNDING $134,225.86 100%
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Living Memorials
Doris Cowls Clare Robinson Don Broadbent
Nancy Elizabeth Knapp Ruth Isobel Kirby Bob Margison
May Ann Voicey David Robert Duell John Parker
William "Bill" Knight Roy Cunningham Ken Smith
Beatrice Benjamin Barbara Robertson Ed McLean
Edward Douglass Gordon Stacey
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A Tip of the Hat to ………
…. the following chapters in Ontario District for their total chapter donations to the Harmonize For Speech Fund and setting significant total donations since the inception of the fund.
East York chapter surpassed $400.000.00
Kitchener/Waterloo chapter surpassed $300.00.00
Sarnia chapter surpassed $100,000.00
Peterborough chapter surpassed $75,000.00
Quinte Regional chapter surpassed $75,000.00
St. Thomas chapter surpassed $75,000.00
Owen Sound chapter surpassed 40,000.00
Seaforth chapter surpassed $40,000.00
Strathroy chapter surpassed $35,000.00
The Ontario District chapters collectively have donated a total in excess of $4,634,000.00 to our fund.
….. the following quartets, octets and seniors’ choruses which have supported the Harmonize For Speech Fund with donations this year in excess of $10,000.00.
Back In Time Quartet (St. Thomas) Vocal Maturity Seniors' Chorus (Barrie)
Second Career Octet (Kitchener/Waterloo) Polaris Quartet (Ottawa)
Amour Quartet (Kitchener/Waterloo) Play It Again Quartet (Ottawa)
Suburbanaires Seniors Chorus (Markham) CRASH Quartet (Oakville)
Classic Chordsmen Quartet (Kitchener/Waterloo) Rural Roots Quartet (Strathroy)
The Barons of Barbershop (Scarborough) LAMAJANO Quartet (Oakville)
Sounds Exciting Quartet (Sarnia) Tri City Gospel Chorus (Toronto)
Common Interest Quartet (Ottawa) Four Parts Quartet (Oakville)
In-Four-Mation Quartet (Quinte Regional) U4ia Quartet (Barrie and Mount Forest)
The Octones Octet (London)
Formed in 1989 under the name "The Eight Notes", this group competed at the international level in Wayne, Michigan and were proud to bring home the first place trophy two years in a row. Some of the faces have changed over the years but their principles and love of singing barbershop music has remained the same. They strongly support the official Ontario District service project , the Harmonize For Speech Fund. They are also dedicated to the community by working with and assisting various service groups as well as their love of entertaining and interacting with seniors wherever these needs may take them. They have a large repertoire that covers just about every occasion. For more information, contact George Harris at 519-455-1899 oe email g.p.harris@sympatico.ca 
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Singing Valentines at work
A Kingston chapter quartet ready to deliver Singing Valentines
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Our Funding At Work
Adult Recreation Therapy Centre, Brantford, Ontario
Thanks to a grant of $5,000.00 from the Harmonize For Speech Fund, a very successful Aphasia Camp was held at Tim Horton Onondaga Farms near Brantford on Sept. 18 - 20, 2009. It was a tremendous success!
The speech programs of Brantford and Haldimand-Norfolk have enjoyed a lon affiliation with the barbershoppers, notably with the Simcoe Gentlemen of Harmony. Participants at Aphasia Camp 2009 were entertained by "Take Note", a quartet from Simcoe who provided music and laughs Saturday evening during camp. The majority of campers were aware of Harmonize For Speech, and we are all grateful that you found Aphasia Camp to be a project worthy of Harmonize For Speech funds.
Jan Roadhouse, MSLP, Reg. CASLPO
Speech-Language Pathologist
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Pathways Health Centre for Children - Sarnia
Members of the Sarnia chapter, the Bluewater Chordsmen present a cheque for $2,000.00 from the Hamonize For Speech Fund and the Sarnia chapter for the purchase of PODD Communication devices.
University of Toronto
I am delighted to thank the Harmonize For Speech Fund Ontario District SPEBSQSA for its recent payment of $10,000.00 towards its pledge of $50,000.00 fo the GSEF-Harmonize For Speech Graduate Scholarship in Speech-Language Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine.
Your generosity continues to have a major impact on the University of Toronto community. Our strength is derived from the quality of our students and faculty, and your gift is an investment in our most promising minds.
On behalf of the University, thank you again for your commitment to our pursuit of excellence. Your thoughtful gift is deeply appreciated.
Rivi Frankle,
Assistant Vice-President, Alumni and Stakeholder Relations
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A quartet of Speech-Language Pathology students from the University of Toronto wowed the participants at the Leadership Academy in January and received a standing ovation
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The Speech and Stuttering Institute, Toronto, Ontario.
On behalf of all of us at the Speech and Stuttering Institute, I would like to express my sincere thanks to you and all of the barbershoppers for your most generous gift of $10,000.00 and your kind invitation to make a presentation at your conference on Saturday. Seeing all of your colleagues being so positive and singing so beautifully was truly inspirational and confirmed once again how precious our association is with you and your group. Thank you also for allowing me to invite my little client Jonathan and his family. They were so impressed by the Happening and it was such a great experience for Jonathan.
As I said on Saturday, you can be sure that your gift will be put to good use, making the lives of our kids that much better and providing them with a bit more fun while they are on the road to fluency.
Robert Kroll, M.Sc (A), Ph.D., Reg CASLPO
Executive Director
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Grand River Hospital Foundation, Kitchener, Ontario
On behalf of Grand River Hospital, I want to extend my personal thanks for your donation of $3,000.00. Your support of the hospital shows how each of us can help make a difference to the care received by GRH patients.
Your gift to the Medicapture system will allow our staff to provide high-quality video and instant viewing of quality images for our patients, for the use of swallowing studies.
Your support means that our caregivers have the tools they need. I sincerely thank the Twin City Harmonizers and the Harmonize For Speech Fund for giving a gift that will have a lasting impact on the residents of our community who count on our services.
Theresa Fischer,
Chair, Board of Directors
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University of Western Ontario, London
Thank you, Pat (Pat Moauro of the London chapter), for attending our pizza and pop luncheon on December 9, 2009 to present the textbooks that the barbershop singers donated to our in-coming students in audiology and speech-language pathology. As you know, 53 copies of the text book titled Terminology of Communication Disorders - Speech-Language-Hearing, 5th Edition, written by Lucille Nicolosi, Elizabeth Harryman and Janet Kresheck were distributed to our new students.
Thank you again to the barbershop singers and to the Harmonize For Speech Fund for the timeless commitment to our students and to our programs.
J. B. Orange, PhD
Associate Professor and Director,
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Back in Time Quartet appearing for the 7th time at Elborn College, University of Western Ontario performing at the graduation ceremonies. Bass Gord Stacey (2nd from right) will be missed.
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Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre Foundation
On behalf of all the children we serve, thank you for the generous support you have provided to the Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre. Your gift of $2,000.00 is sincerely appreciated.
As per our proposal, the funds will be used for the purchase of a Springboard Lite voice output machine, which will benefit approximately 150 young children, clients of the OCTC, who suffer from speech and language disorders.
Last night, Brian McGurrin and the members of the Capital City Chorus welcomed me at their rehearsal. There they presented me with the cheque mentioned above. I took the opportunity to bring a voice output machine programmed with a brief "thank you" message and played this for the chorus members. Everyone applauded and seemed most interested. Members came up to me afterwards to talk and one man has a son of 26 who was an OCTC client as a young child.
In giving to the OCTC, you set an example of generosity and help our young clients "reach for the stars" and achieve their full potential. I hope that you will continue as a member of our donor family and thank you for your kindness and commitment.
Patricia Shapiro, Director
OCTC Foundation
Ottawa Chapter Harmonize For Speech Chairman Brian McGurrin presenting Patricia Shapiro with a cheque for $2,000.00 to purchase a Springboard Lite voice output machine.
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Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity, Uxbridge, Ontario.
On behalf of the Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity, thank you so much to the Harmonize For Speech Fund for your recent grant of $2,500.00 towards speech therapy.
We will, of course, report to you in a timely fashion with respect to the details of how your funds were expended once this has occurred.
Once again, please accept our sincere gratitude for your support. We look forward to partnering with you in providing much needed speech therapy to Ontario children in need.
Mary-Anne Herrema,
Volunteer Coordinator and Administrative Assistant
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Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
On behalf of the students, faculty and staff at Wilfrid Laurier University, I would like to thank you for your pledge of support of Wilfrid Laurier University's Faculty of Music through the creation of a new scholarship opportunity for our Masters of Music Therapy students. Your first gift towards this new scholarship opportunity is truly appreciated.
We look forward om working with you on establishing the criteria for this award, and we are very grateful that you have chosen to invest in our graduate students and provide financial assistance towards completion of their degree.
Thank you again for making your first gift to support the Faculty of Music at WLU.
Dr. Charles D. Morrison,
Dean, Faculty of Music
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Did You Know……..
…. that there are 32 chapters in Ontario of the Barbershop Harmony Society comprising over 1,300 members from Sarnia to Ottawa and North Bay to Toronto?
…. that there are many quartets in Ontario District that would love to sing for your group or organization? All you need to do is ask. Search out a chapter near you in our main menu under “About Us”. Then click on the chapter contacts or web sites.
…. that you can make an online donation to the Harmonize For Speech Fund on our secure web site through our association with CanadaHelps.org which is a not-for-profit organization set up to collect donations for virtually every Canadian charity at a very small cost to the charity. Tax receipts are issued immediately on line after the transaction is completed. See the link on our main menu under Donations. If you wish to make a donation directly to the Harmonize For Speech Fund, a PDF form can be downloaded from the same location on our web site. Just click on the PDF donation.
.... that you can designate the Harmonize For Speech Fund as a recipient for some of your charitable donations through United Way payroll deductions or as a direct donation to United Way? Use Registration Number 88923 2443 RR0002 when filling out the donation form.
Please send information of your event pertaining to Harmonize For Speech for inclusion in the next issue to info@harmonize4speech.org .
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