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Northern States Missionary Chorus
By Clive Bradford and Wendell D. Hart

IN A three weeks' good will tour through Indiana and Ohio recently, the Mormon Male Chorus of the Northern States Mission, presided over by President Leo J. Muir, presented forty-five programs before service clubs, churches, schools, conventions, and other organized groups, and appeared on nine radio programs as well. Fifteen thousand people heard them in Dayton alone, where the chorus was featured on the opening program of the summer series of concerts sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.

The Midwest Management Conference, where insurance executives from fourteen states were gathered, was the occasion for their first appearance in Indianapolis. Toastmaster of the evening, Mr. E. A. Crane, President of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, said, "If everyone lived by the ideals of these young men, life insurance rates would be considerably lower."

Two assembly programs were given at Arsenal Tech High School, which has an enrollment of 7,000 students, the largest technical high school in the United States.

A prominent visitor to the Indianapolis Speedway classic was Salt Lake's famed racing mayor, Ab Jenkins, who, at a Lions' Club luncheon, also attended by the Elders, defended the Word of Wisdom as "essentially the same health advice that would today be prescribed by the Mayo clinic."

In the "Hall of Mirrors" of Cincinnati's beautiful Netherlands Plaza Hotel, the chorus sang for the Kiwanis Club. Here they were asked to sing "Oh, My Father" by a man who explained that he had been deeply moved at the singing of this hymn by the Tabernacle Choir in its weekly broadcasts.

At the Cincinnati Rotary Club, the chorus evoked the response from the chairman for the day that "As long as we have young men like these singers who will give two years of voluntary service for their religious convictions, America need have no fear."

At Patterson Field near Dayton the members of the chorus were the guests of Major Robert W. Stewart of the U. S. Army Air Corps, who presented them in a special concert for the commanding officers stationed there. Here the chorus sang ten numbers on their regular program and received eleven encores.

The chorus completed the tour in Columbus, Ohio, singing for the delegates to the National Lumber Sales Convention, attended by lumbermen from all parts of the United States.