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Schoenstein & Co., Benicia, California, has announced its new leadership plan as the firm celebrates its 146th anniversary. Jack Bethards assumes the role of chairman and tonal advisor. Vice president Louis Patterson becomes president, managing all aspects of the company. And Bryan Dunnewald becomes tonal director, working with Bethards to continue and execute the company’s musical vision.

Former executive director and longtime lesbian leader Leslie Ewing will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Center for Human Growth at the nonprofit’s upcoming 50th anniversary celebration.

Bryan Dunnewald is appointed assistant to tonal director Jack Bethards at Schoenstein & Co. Pipe Organ Builders, Benicia, California, where his work will focus on voicing, tonal design, and client relations.

Introduction During their seventy-plus-year history it was customary for organs built by the Skinner Organ Company and the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company to contain an ivory nameplate bearing the firm’s name on the console, usually on the keyslip, although there was a brief period in the early 1960s when the company name was stenciled in gold letters in a way similar to that on pianos. Astute aficionados can sometimes even determine the era in which the organ was built by carefully examining th...

2 Shares The Pleasant View R-6 Board of Education approved providers for the district’s insurance and trash removal service on the evening of December 8 th. The Missouri United School Insurance Council will be the insurance provider. WCA of Chillicothe will be the trash removal service provider. The board also approved the 2019-2020 financial audit and the Title 9 Policy and a bid on a drain tile project was discussed, but no action was taken. Superintendent Rebecca Steinhoff gave a COVID-19 ...