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Robert Edwin “Bob” Hack passed away peacefully on August 2nd 2021 in The Villages, Florida. He was born on January 26, 1938, in Superior Wisconsin to Clarence ‘Mike” and Leola “Snooks” Hack. Bob had three siblings, Mary Alice, Pat and John. Bob attended Cathedral High School and was a star basketball player there before graduating in 1956. He attended Superior State College where he met Charlene Sather. They married on December 13, 1958. Soon after he began working for Great Northern Railroad which took Bob and Char to Spokane, WA where they raised their three children, Linda, Gr...

NATS Foundation 2021 Voice Pedagogy Award goes to Lisa Sain Odom posted on 2:49 PM, March 11, 2021 The prize is awarded annually to a NATS member for the purpose of studying voice pedagogy and/or voice science. Lisa Sain Odom Congratulations to Lisa Sain Odom, the 2021 recipient of the Voice Pedagogy Award from the NATS Foundation. The $500 prize is awarded annually to a candidate who is a member of NATS for the purpose of study at a seminar or workshop on voice pedagogy and/or voice science. The selection was made by a committee of NATS Foundation board members. The award will be applied to...

Virginia Eloise Johnson Charboneau (“Weezie”), age 96, was born on October 2, 1924, in Haskell, Texas to Alice Pearl Mitchell & Otis Jack Johnson and passed away at 11:45PM on January 21, 2021 due to Alzheimer’s disease exacerbated by COVID-19. She was the oldest of four siblings and as the eldest, she cared for her sister Rosanne and her brothers Sonny & Jerry while her parents worked hard to provide for their family during the combined crises of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl when jobs were practically non-existent and even the most basic of life’s necessities we...