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Loft until the new music regimes came along. Having no regard or nostalgia for the wedding of music and outreach into one space, they quickly grabbed it for their own music use. Sad. But on with 1993. As I seem to have started including food stats, the figures for 1993 are 1451 bags feeding 2779 people.
Gerald Jaggers had been the editor of the Calvary Charge (newsletter) for many years, but his health was declining and he died in 1993. I had been writing a column for him called FAMILY MATTERS, and so it was logical that I take over as editor since communications was part of my job description. But of course Calvary didn’t think I should have that powerful a title so a newsletter committee was formed with me as chair, and we had to meet every month to determine what all I had to do. John Cunningham had a friend design a terrific logo and it became the CALVARY CONNECTION, a name that has stuck to this day, miraculously, although the logo is no longer used for the newsletter! I edited the CC until the fateful 2012, at which point they discovered how really much work editing that epistle took! Although the printed product was very good looking, the assembly and painful process of mailing took hours, so I formed a jovial group we named the ASSEMBLY LINE. They labeled, folded, stapled, and zip coded it all, and then Walt Morris took it to the post office, where we always had trepidation that they would find something wrong and refuse to accept it. That DID HAPPEN A COUPLE OF TIMES! For the first part of 1993, we worked under the shadow of Ben being considered as Bishop of Kentucky, a long process that he made through until almost the very end. We were all so relieved when he was not chosen, although I think he was very interested in it. Mary really wanted to be the Bishop’s wife too. He would claim he wasn’t interested however, so I will leave it at that.
And then there was the wedding of our Michelle and John Curley! That did not take place at Calvary, but rather at Our Savior Episcopal in Cincinnati, (Paula Jackson’s church), which made much more sense because they both had been living there and most all their friends were there. Melvin and I had so much wanted to be married in Frankfort at his Church of the
Ascension, but Mrs. Leupold threw such a humongous fit that we had to give in for the sake of peace and be married in the Zanesville EUB Church with Paul Brink manning the record player with music by Helmut Walcha! As with Maria, Michelle wanted me to play the organ for her wedding, and the organ was (is) an historic Hook and Hastings that today is being restored to its original state (with a little help from my pocketbook). (This tradition of me playing for relatives’ weddings continued with Erin, and is projected for Lindsey this coming July, Covid permitting.) But in 1993 (February) the Our Savior organ was on its last legs.
The processional was THE trumpet Tune (short aisle) and as I struck the first D, it ciphered!!! I managed to unstick the key and played the rest of the processional down an octave. Wedding pictures were taken after the ceremony in front of the stained glass window that said BE NOT AFRAID. There was snow everywhere, but all the relatives made it. (!) The reception was held on two different floors of the same building, one floor had classical music in honor of Melvin, and the other had music played by bands of the ilk of the