Visitors
Sharon joined Sweet Adelines with a vengeance just two short years ago. She’s a go-getter and has proven to be a definite asset to the chorus. Her exuberant personality, shock of blond hair and ever-present smile make her stand out on the risers. When she’s not on the risers she probably has a camera affixed to her face as the chorus’ official photographer. The scrapbooks she has created for the chorus are unbelievably impressive. Even people from other choruses envy us our talented artist.
When she first joined, Sharon tried Bari but she admits that she “flunked”. She then moved to the lead section where she has been very comfortable with its familiarity. However, she says she would like to try some harmony at various regional events. Her favorite Adeline songs are “Thank You, Dear Lord”, “We’ll Meet Again”, and “What a Wonderful World”.
Sharon’s been singing since high school where she sang in both High School Chorus and a community chorus. In college she sang on Sundays in a trio. They once went to a community that was without a pastor for a period of time. They provided the music ministry and another college student preached for them. After college to the present she has sung with various church choirs. She is a self-proclaimed “hummer”; she hums all the time. Music is always going through her head. Now she hums Sweet Adeline music. “I find myself singing in my head the songs we are working on as I go to sleep and it’s still there when I wake up.”
Sharon and her husband celebrated their 30th anniversary this summer. Their children consist of two very spoiled cats who think they are people. Between them they are very close to 13 nieces and nephews, 18 grand nieces and nephews and 2 great grand nieces.
Her husband works for Electrolux, but Sharon has done just about everything you can imagine as far as jobs are concerned. She’s currently (and deservedly, I might add) retired. She says, “I’m a jack of many trades, master of, I hope, at least a couple.” As a pre-teen she picked strawberries, and in high school she detassled corn (We Midwesterners understand detassling.). She waitressed to pay her own way through college while majoring in biology with double minors in education and psychology. After college she was a substitute teacher until she got she could get her own “gig”, which was teaching junior high science. While teaching she lifeguarded, taught swimming and taught summer school. After a couple of years she decided to break away from teaching and try something else. She worked as an independent decorator and also sold home décor accessories. She then decided to go back to school to become a certified medical lab technician and worked in a florist shop at the same time. Then, as she and her husband moved from town to town, she worked as a lab tech, a director of Christian education in a large church and was secretary to a captain of the Savannah Police Department.
WHEW!!!!!!!!!
Now that she’s retired she has time for just plain fun! She volunteers some at church and is very active in the Augusta Newcomers Club where she’s been in charge of the two auctions for the last eight years, raising an average of $3000 a year for a designated charity (two years of which was St. Vincent DePaul…Sr. Fran’s charity). She enjoys playing cards and Mah Jong. She loves watching old black and white movies, “Starting Over” and the Food Network on Tivo. She spends some time traveling and dabbles in arts and crafts (murals, flower arranging, making headboards and bedspreads, and of course, making FABULOUS scrapbooks).
Then there’s Sweet Adelines. Since Doris Hammond recruited her she’s been spending a lot of her time doing the “hardest job I’ve ever had.”
About Sweet Adelines Sharon says, “Music is sooooo uplifting and it’s so nice to be around other ladies that feel the same way. I’ve made some wonderful friends through SA. I’ve learned sooooooo much through them and through the instructions of Stacy and Becky in sectionals and just singing every week.”