Ron, my statement above, "And so it goes, just like we did it forty, fifty years ago. The only difference is that now we are geezers" was apparently misleading, for which I apologize. The fact is that what we do remains essentially the same, but there have been considerable changes in personnel. Walt Robertson, Stan James, and John Dwyer are no longer with us. Many of what might be considered "the original crew" no longer live in Seattle. Sandy Paton left in the early 1950s. Patti McLaughlin remarried and moved to California. People come, people go, and life goes on. When it comes down to it, the "old geezers" that are still going seem to have dwindled to Bob Nelson, plus Moose (Bob Tomson), Gary and Molly Oberbillig when they can get into town, and a few others.

But don't think that our gatherings are dwindling. Far from it. From the original Seattle Song Circle of the late 1970s and very briefly into the 1980s (and I reiterate that I was one of the charter members of SSC) there were a substantial number of defectors when it morphed into a "singing out of a book" group. They now get together with the somewhat irregular gatherings of "us geezers," and also go to monthly sessions that Stewart hosts (which most of us do also).

Don Firth