by Helen Gagel | Mar 18, 2025 | Singer Profile
Soprano, Social Worker & Blues Cruiser At the tender age of 11, few of us know what we want to be when we grow up. Betty Dayron is the exception: she knew she wanted to be a social worker, and she went on to fulfill her dream in a 43-year career with the agency...
by Helen Gagel | Nov 19, 2024 | Singer Profile
Skydiver, Life Coach, Mover and Shaker If the term “mover and shaker” didn’t already exist, it would have to be coined to describe Lois Hobart. To put it simply, she is a person who gets things done. She and her husband, Jim, were among the first residents to move...
by Helen Gagel | Oct 7, 2024 | Singer Profile
Singing in Sounds Good’s Good Memories Choir is just one way Elspeth Revere and Bruce Calder continue to expand their skills, interests, and friendships. As some of us age into our seventh and eighth decades, one wish that many of us share is that we’ve done...
by Helen Gagel | Sep 3, 2024 | Singer Profile
Ron Hadsall: Pop culture guru, historian and music collector If all you know about Ron Hadsall is that he sings bass-baritone with the Sounds Good Choir in Arlington Heights and the Skokie Community Choir, you don’t know the half of it. This former math teacher is a...
by Helen Gagel | Jul 30, 2024 | Singer Profile
As a senior at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, Margaret Huyck (formerly Hellie) pondered her college choices and decided that “I would go somewhere no one else went.” She’s been forging new pathways ever since, most notably through her scholarship and...
by Helen Gagel | Apr 22, 2024 | Singer Profile
If the Sounds Good Choir were a baseball team, Tom Wolff would be a utility infielder—the guy who shifts between shortstop and second base and plays both positions well. In choral parlance, Tom might be called a utility vocalist. That’s because he can come into the...
