We send you our wishes for a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year! In considering what we should include in our eGreeting for 2023, we are filled with thanksgiving. At 86 and 85 years of age and having been married for more than 65 years, we have a wonderful family and friends and feel blessed to have so many of both near and far. We are healthy and happy and still feel relatively young "at heart."

We also are fortunate to have learned so much from our beloved teachers – perhaps the greatest of these teachers are our former students who have taught us so much about music, life, and living. These former students are major leaders (both within the music profession and non-musical careers.) We consider their accomplishments to be among our greatest joys. Thank you.

Holiday Wishes

The following video is of a British Broadcasting Corporation recording of music performed by the Stanford Chorale in 1985 at Manger Square in Bethlethm on Christmas Eve with soloists, Andrew Arrow and Henry Shead. Although recorded nearly 40 years ago, the music and the message remains relative today.

Stanford Chorale at Bethlehem, December 24, 1985

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas Holiday, and wish you, and those dear to you, health and happiness. May Peace and Concord come to our troubled world, and may your lives be filled with Harmonious Accord, and Joyous Melody.

What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give Him; give my heart.

 

WE WISH YOU ALL A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A JOYOUS NEW YEAR!
Phyllis & Bill Ramsey
595 Juneberry Lane
Okemos, MI 48864-4127
517-347-7517 (home) 517-974-3193 (mobile)