Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:30 pm
I was a member of the Ohio State Men's Glee Club. On football Saturdays, we would get together to go 'tailgating' which started at the faculty club (for a few songs paid for with sandwiches), then out to the stadium where we were paid in beer for singing (a man named the BurgerMeister alwasy had a case set aside for us). We would sing, eat drink (me mostly diet coke...I was boring that way), and have a great time. Then we would head to the rotunda at the top of the Horse-shoe, sing the Alma Mater, and get inside to watch the game. Mostly it was about 16 guys, but sometimes as many as 35. The whole group was 90 and it was a great wall of sound which a year after I left went to Wales to win the Choir of the Year contest.