Fun Center Chordsmen

A brief history of the Presidents of our chapter and the Directors of our chorus

Year	Past President	Year	Past President	The Mansfield Chapter was officially licensed as a chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) on February 4, 1974. Our first meeting place was the old Elks Club at the corner of Mulberry and West Third Streets. For six months prior to this, a group of men had been meeting there and singing under the direction of barbershopper Lou Mau of Elyria and Glen Fischer, a music teacher in Mansfield Under licensure status, the President was Tom Hunter and Dave Kracker was the chorus Director. The group was chartered in September 1974 and held our first show in February, 1975 at Malabar High School. Today we are known as the Mansfield Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. The chorus is the Fun Center Chordsmen.
1975	Hugh Clingan *	1995	Bill Wolfe
1976	Jim Smith *	1996	Mike McCormic & Ray Pryor *
1977	Bruce Smith	1997	Norb Bruns & Ray Pryor *
1978	Ernie Eddy	1998	Frank DeWitt
1979	Dick Witchey	1999	Ray Helbert
1980	Tom Nixon	2000	Jim Smith *
1981	Roger Humbert	2001	Jim Smith *
1982	Gene Clingan *	2002	Bill Roberts
1983	Jim Shaum	2003	Bob Crowl
1984	John Adams *	2004	Bob Crowl
1985	John Adams *	2005	Bob Crowl
1986	Ray Pryor *	2006	Rusty Cates
1987	Terry Loughman	2007	Rusty Cates
1988	Ron Stake	2008	Dan Strader
1989	Ed Hoffmann	2009	Dan Strader
1990	Dick Kerr *	2010	Dan Strader
1991	Dick Meister *
1992	Joe Stuckert
1993	John Maurer
1994	Norb Bruns	*	Deceased

The Fun Center Chordsmen have been fortunate
to have a short but distinctive line of highly talented directors
during the 33 years of our existence.

Chorus Directors	Year
Dave Kracker	1975 to 1994
Dave Kracker - Don Ketner and Keith Herdman	1995
Mike Banish	Sept 1995 to Oct 1998
Dave Kracker	Oct 1998 to Sept 1999
Mark Blake	Sept 1999 to April 2001
Steve Kovach	Jan 2001 to current

Dave Kracker is the baritone of "Home Edition"
Mike Banish is the tenor of "The Boardmen"
Mark Blake was the lead of the 1997 Gold Champion Quartert "Yesteryear"
Steve Kovach is currently the baritone of the 2008 Johnny Appleseed District Champion quartet, "Cadillac Jack" and is the former baritone of the 2001/2002 Silver Medalist Quartet "Uptown Sound."