Musicians of Barnes’ THSO (1949-1970)
David Chapman | July 17, 2026 | history@thso.org
Photo of the THSO published in its 1969-1970 season brochure — Barnes’ last as conductor.
It’s vacation week for me, and I will be on a small hiatus for the next two weeks — no new blog post on Friday, July 24! In the meantime, please enjoy this list of musicians known to have performed in the THSO during the directorship of Jim Barnes.
As before, we do not have access to a complete record of personnel from these years, relying on whatever programs and newspapers articles exist and are accessible. So if you know a name that does not appear here, tell us! We eventually plan to have a page on our THSO.org website with a list of all musician names from our entire century of existence, so your help in correcting this list is necessary and much appreciated!
Quite a few musicians here also played other instruments, and not just the more typical in-section doublings like flutes playing piccolo or oboists playing English horn! I have listed people by the instrument they appeared to play the most, then noted their secondary (or even tertiary) instruments in parentheses.
Conductor/Director: James Barnes
Concertmaster:
Kenneth Jenkins (term: 1950-1952)
Unknown! (1952-1955)
Jerome Fougerousse (terms: 1955-1957)
Earle Melendy (term: 1957-1970)
Violin:
Nancy Allender
George Allyn
Ann Anderson
Kay Baker
Leroy Baker
Virginia Barrett
Philip Baum
Mary Baysinger
Hazel (Moss) Beasley (founding member; played for first concert December 4, 1926; retired in 1966)
Mary Lou Becker
Mary Beeman
Judith Bell
Bruce Berg
Herman Berg (also viola)
Patience Berg
Paul Biss
Joyce Elaine Bosse
Marriett/Harriett Brenneman
Jill Brewer
Gary Brown
Gloria Bryan
Charles Buckley
Josephine "Jo" Bunch (also viola)
Jean Bunger
John Calabrese
John Campbell
Martha Carr
Dennis Cleveland
Hal Cleveland
Clarice Cohee
Kerry Compton
Dinos Constantindes
Jean Cook (also viola)
Pauline Cork (also viola)
Joan Cornell
Virginia Cox
Steve Csik (also viola)
John Edward Daily
Victor Danek (keep an eye on this guy — he’s the next conductor!)
Richard Dennis
Herman A. Diekoff
Herman H. Diekoff
Herman M. Diekoff
Lois Dobson
Marcia Eckert
Fred Edgington
Mark Ejork
John Enyart
Joseph Fafard
Susan Farker
Stephanie Farrell
Marion Fitzjarrald
Jerome Fougerousse
Marjory Fritz
Jim Fulper
Suzanne Gentry
Coralie Gerlitz
Annette Gigone
Frieda Goble
Carl Gorodetzky
Elizabeth L. (Miller) Gray
Suzanne Guynn
Carl Haas
Carol Habermeier
Jeanette Hacker
Stanley Hamilton
Sarah Hansert
Dixie Harmon
Richard Hartman
Genevieve Hasse
Noel Hayashi
Cassandra "Sandy/Sandra" Haynes
Ruth Nell (Carnes) Hayward
Carolyn Heady
Jeanette Heady
Al Hester
Bonnie Hill
Janet Hill
John Hitchings
Martha Holloway
Priscilla Howker
Janet Huber
Ann Hudson
Louisa Jacobson
Christopher Jakowich
Kenneth Jenkins (founding member; played for first concert December 4, 1926; still playing in 1970 when Barnes retired!)
Carol Jewell
Myron Juble Johnson
Edwin Johonott
Linda Just
Lena Kell
Barbara Kelshaw
Judy Ketcham
Eugene Kilinski
Kyong Kim
Leslie Klein
Kathleen Klimko
Brenda Kline
Paul Kling
Joseph Koob
Thomas Kornacker
Nancy Kozak
Jane Kuykendall
William Henry Lackey
Linda Laderach
Marjory Latham
William Legate (also viola)
Kay Liddil
Elza Linn
Joe Loesy
Hazel Loewenstein
Joseph Lohse
Sister Mary Lourdes
Jeanne Lowe
Patrick McGarvey
Marjory McHarg
Earle Melendy
Mary J. Miller
Sharilyn Miller
Fred Moore
Mary Alice Morton
Shirley Myers
Margaret Nickel
Sister Carol Nolan
Norman Nunamaker
Tina Olton
Sally O'Reilly
Kathryn Owens
Rose Pell
Shirley Poe
Helen Pollock
Constantine Poulimas
Randy Price
Vicki Rea
Wayland Richardson
Kathi Riggins
Gwen Roberts
Rosemary Roe
Rosemary Rogers
William Rohm
Mary Rusch
Isidor Saslov
Ruth Schnuck/Schmuck
Barbara Scholl
Katherine/Catherine Scott
Mary Seller(s)
Marylyn Sexton
Rosemary Shavlaske
Joe Shoemaker
Steve Sibrell
Eleanor Smith
Elizabeth Smith
Ganette Smith
Helen Smith
Marietta Smith
Dorothy Snautz
Donna Snidow
James Stanford
Albert Stevens
Thelma Stevenson
David Stonehill
Wayne Stout
Richard Strawn
Nancy Strunk
Soon-Chung Suh
Patricia Sunderman
Paul A. Tarabek
Rosemary Tatlock
Ann Taylor
Rebecca "Becky" Taylor
Joyce Tedrow
Sue Thompson
Joan Troxel
Rosalie Ulrich (also viola)
James Vaught
Marilyn Walwik
Dorothy Wampler
Marcia Wendt
Martha White
Samuel Wilkinson
Irma Willis
William Willis
Lou Wilson
Jeane Wilt (also viola)
Marjory Wimmer
Kyung Soo Won
Dan Woodford
Susan Ylitalo
Kathryn Younger
Michael Zaitzeff
Viola:
Clarabelle Altvater (also violin)
Mary Arlin
Becky Barnes
Raymond Bassett
Judy Bastian
Terry Bech
Carol Beck
Katherine Louise Becker
Margaret Booher
Richard Bowie
Jill Brewer (also violin)
James Bunnell
Hugh Carter
Janet Clark
James Clausen
Fred Clem
Carol Cohan
Richard Cole
Russell Colton
Rex Conner
Arlie Cramer
James Dailey
Bonnie Darling
Margaret Davis
William Diekhoff
Lawrence Eberl
Susan Farquhar (also violin)
Norma Sue Fremder (also violin)
James Fulper (also violin)
Suzanne Gentry
Martha Gray
Thomas Gray
Carole Grimes (also violin)
Robert Harbin
Arthur DeWitt Hill Jr.
Rhoda Hoff
Hillary Hollis (also violin)
Deborah Holtz/Holst
Judy Horton
Mary Alice Hughes (also violin)
Gerald Hunter
Ronald Hurwitz
Grace Jackson
Martha Jacobson
Myra Janzen
Rhea Kittinger (also violin)
Judy Koby
Janis/Jan Kracht
Frank Lidral
John Mac Lean
Rex Magner
John Mooney
Linda Nelson
Donna Nolte
Tina Olton
Judy Ornduff
Susan Parks
Hugh Partridge
Marie Phillips
Elizabeth Richey
Sally Ricketts
Karol Ruby
Robert Shamo
James Shurr
Eleanor Siewert
Herbert Snavely (also violin)
Douglas Spurlock
Charles Stites
Robert Swan
Paul Tarabek
Clayton Taylor
Donald Thompson
Louis Timberlake
Sally Trembly
Rudolph Voica
Katherine Warner
Jacqueline Weaver
Helen Webster
Ilse Wells
Martha Wendt (also violin)
Marcia Williams (also violin)
Jane Woods
Yvonne Yates (also violin)
Cello:
Allen Barkus
Fern Barnhart
Van Bistrow
Raymond Brandes
Emma Ann Clem
Carole Cole
Robert Coppedge
Linda Crone
Rachel Daniels
David Darling
Maria De Macedo
Tom Dick
Robert Dix
Richard Elmore
Margery Enix
Joe Enyart
Alvin Evanovitch
Douglas Gatton
John Gentry (and double bass)
Cassell Grubb
Helen Hasse
Mary Ann Hayward
James Higgins
Marie Hopper
Virginia Ireland
Carolyn Irwin
Marilyn Irwin
Lorene Jeffers
Allen Keathley
Linda Klump/Krump
Paul Kosower
Charles Kramer
Elise Lidral
Brenda Logan
Delores Long
Dennis McCafferty
Naomi Millender
June Miller
Virginia Miller
Don Moline
Robert Montgomery
Patricia Myers
Jennifer Norris
Carolyn Oldham
Shirley Owens
Lou Petrulis
Lorene (Jeffers) Ray
Myrna Reynolds
Henry Roberts
Daniel Rothmüller
Clarence Schnabel
James Schnabel
Helen Schrohe
Morganna Schwing
Werner Selge
Robert Shaw
Eugenia Slezak
Priscilla Smith
Morganna Snyder
Peter Spurbeek
Janet Storm
Nancy Teal
Gordon Temple
Debbie Terrell
Phylis Thornburg
Nancy Troxel
Dianne Wakeman
Charles Wendt
Charles Willis
Charles Frederick Woerner
Lyle Wolfrom
Double Bass:
James Anderson
Michael Ard
Warren Bandy
Robert Bunning
Allen Byers
Jerry or Larry Byers (also tuba)
James Camp
William Caniff
Fred Capps
William Cox
Larry Crabbs
Debbie Culp
Thomas Davis
Edward Deckard
Lois Dix
Dean Duncan
Gary Edwards
Lee Eubank
Mary Farrand
Bernard Firks
Murray Grodner
William Hall
Howard Hambrock
Louise Hansen
Joseph Hary
William Hatt
Jean Heidenreich
Robert Jamison
James Johnston
David Jones
William Kennedy
W. David Koile
Douglas Langley
William Livingtson
Harlen McGrew
Richard McKinney
Pamela Miller
Jackie Peiffer
David Potter
Melvin Riggs
James Rivers
Carole Sayles
Kenneth Schultz
Douglas Shear
Christy Slater
Jean Smith
Dale Spurlock
George Stahl
Charles Steuver
Dan Swaim
Shirley Swaim
Harold Tatman
Keith Thomas
John Thompson
Dave Timmerman
Richard Troxel
Lizette Tulley
Deborah Van der Voohrt
John Webster
John Wittenbraker
William York
Flute:
Lynn Barnes
Verna Helen Barrett
Herbert Nylen Beasley
Almeda Boatright
Hilda Boatright
David Boyer (also piccolo)
Kay Brose (also piccolo)
Louise Clark (also piccolo)
Jane (Adams) Conner
Mary Dobson (also piccolo)
Sidney Flack
Wayne French (piccolo only)
Ernalou Hambrock
Jill Hill
Robert Klein
Joann Lemke
Pollee Lloyd (also piccolo)
Barbara Nutter
George Obenchain (also piccolo)
Susan Ring
Paula Schubert (also piccolo)
Elizabeth Tatman (also piccolo)
Helen Taylor
Joyce Wilson
John Winegar
Douglas Wray (also piccolo)
Oboe/English Horn:
Iva Lee Boatright
Evelyn Clark
John Curtis (English horn only)
Sharon Daly (also English horn)
Eric Delp
William Denton
Susan Doehrman
Kenneth Holm (English horn only)
Ed Kuhns
Nels Leonard
Jean Martin
Cheryl Mefford
Jeanne Newport (English horn only)
John O'Bannon
Susan Parks
Nelson Reeds
Evelyn Rentz
Marcia Rothweiler (English horn only)
Russell Ruby (also English horn)
Nancy Rust (also English horn)
Hal Rynerson
Darle Lou Simmons
Deborah Smith
Thomas Snider (also English horn)
Darie Lou Tranbarger (also English horn)
David Wilkinson (also English horn)
Sharon Wright (also English horn)
Clarinet:
Charles Bay
Jerry Daly
Jane Dobson
Joann Durham
Carl Fulk
Harry Gee (also flute and bassoon)
James Gibson
John Ginther (bass clarinet only)
Joe Guth
Linda Hoagland
Carol Hughes
Mark Jacobs (bass clarinet only)
William Jaeckel
Kenneth Korb
Paul McDaniel
Henry Elmer Meurer (also bass clarinet and oboe)
Albert Francis Owens
Robert Pagos
Keith Skelton
John Spicknall
George Swindle
Travis Towle
Marvin Valentine (also bass clarinet)
Don Williams (also bass clarinet)
Bassoon:
William Allgood
Marc Apfelstadt
Elizabeth Arnold
Sue Bielawski
Thomas "Tom" Bishop
Jerald Dawson
Carole Ewart
Bruce Hoagland (also contrabassoon)
Julie Hoover (also contrabassoon)
Roy Houser
David Kaiserman
Delbert Keiffner (also double bass)
Ray Keller (also contrabassoon)
Dave/Daniel Kessler
Jerry Kinder
Jack Kitts
Ronald Klimko
James Long (also double bass)
Jack Metz
Earl Miley
Jeanine Pearcey
Stanley Petrulis
Judy Rader
Linda Sims
Larry Stunkel
Oland Summers
David Voyles
Saxophone:
Jane Cripe
Kathy Manter
Horn:
Eric Apfelstadt
Larry Barnes
Lee Ann Bennett
Helen Bigora
Tony Boots
Joan Boyd
Charles Chinn
Richard Cole
Lee Ann Everly
Jon Florek
Patty Friedlein
Elmabeth Hemenway
Carolyn Larimer
Richard Lawrence
Richard Lemke
Robert Liddil (also percussion and double bass)
Sheri Luke
Sandra Martz
Don McFall
Lena Meurer
Barbara Miller
Michael Morrow
John Parshall (also percussion)
Garry Puckett
Don Robertson
William Sidenbender (founding member; played for first concert December 4, 1926; played only one concert under Barnes)
Ted Stafford
Ralph Templeton
Bruce Thompson
Marilyn Voorhees
Robert Wallace
David Watkins
Nancy Watkins
Charles Yalowitz
Cornet/Trumpet:
James Aitken (also double bass)
Gordon Bennett
John Blevins
Davin Boone
Justin Bradbury (also French horn)
Ernest Brueggeman
Jerry Busiere
James Church
Ralph Conn
Wayne Cook
Sam Cox (cornet only)
Gordon Curtis
Donald Gamble (also cornet and French horn)
David Graesch
Jane Harlan
Martha Hendrickson
Norman Isbell
Pete Kessell
Herman Matlock (also French horn)
Larry May
Lee McCool
Carolyn Moseman
Arthur Motycka
Grant Newman
David Sapp
Todd Sappington
Louis Scott
James Sermersheim
Frederick Sills (also French horn)
Kaye Simpson
Mark A. Smith
Robert Sunkel
Jack Thrapp
John Waltter
Donald Weil
Donald Willhite
Donald R. Williams
Trombone:
Jack Armstrong
Royce Armstrong
Garnet Borror
James Brugh
Charles Burgess (also bass trombone)
Ersel Burgess (also bass trombone)
Gene Burns
Carroll Cecil
Raymond Cox
Jack Cunningham
Glen Daum
Fred Dimbro
Fred Domrow
Don Dudine
Georgia Guynn
Jack Hamilton
Jack Henager
Allan Horney
Charlotte Ingersoll
Charlotte Jones
Verle Jones
Norman Klumpp
Robert Lewis
Mike Marquess
Robert Elmer Meurer
Theodora Oakey
H. Joseph "Joe" Owens
Donald Peltier
Earl Prout
Richard Purlee
Stephen Robey
Donald Schwing
Donald Seifres
Hal Sharpe
Robert Smith
James Van Laningham
Sandford Watts
Carl Williams
Dwight Winenger
Gresham Lee Yeager
Tuba:
Robert Boyd (also cello and double bass)
Dennis Cristy
David Jones
Robert Keenan
Tony MacDonald
Gary Olinger
Gerald Stitt
Percussion:
Walter Anslinger
James Axman
David Bennett
Ronald Bratton
Don Canedy
Jean Carter
William Cox
William Decker
Melinda Dolan
Peter Ekstrom
Dorothy Farmer
Neal Fluegel
James Ganduglia
Roger Garvin
Herb Hardt
Dave Hibben
David Hollar
William Jaeckel
Carol James
Warren Jernstadt
Robert Keese
Jim Lisanti
Edward Lucas
Richard Markus
Jacqueline Meyer
Bonnie Miller
Gary Myers
Burdette Phillips
Scott Prebys
Jack Pulver
Billy Ray or Bill Roderick
George Scott
Phil Shields
William Smith
Phyllis Snow
Barbara Turner
Ivan Webster
Warren Wooldridge
Harp:
Joan Cralle
Bernice Grubb
Linda Hudson
Ruth Loewenstein
Roslyn Rensch
Lois Schmidt
Ann Wall
Margaret White
Piano and Celesta:
Albert Huetteman (piano only)
Stella Virginia Tatlock