My response to the article and editorial about the Evergreen Conference is one of tears and sadness. My memories of the five summers I spent on the staff of that conference are precious to me. I love to tell the stories of my "growing up" there (I was 17 my first year, 23 my last), meeting many people directly involved with the music of our church.

One of my most precious memoirs is a small, hand-painted picture of the cabin where I lived for four of my five summers there: "Tent House." (The artist was Mr. H. Groome, a member of the faculty then.) I loved returning to the grounds and walking around when I've had the chance to return to my home state of Colorado.

I would add a few more names to the list TLC gave of former faculty connected to that conference. Thomas Matthews, Benjamin Harrison, Alastair Cassels-Brown, and Bishop Chilton Powell. (Prof. Cassels-Brown and his family were kind enough to allow a friend and I to camp in their back yard in Cambridge, Mass., on my first trip east in '71.) The call I felt then to the ordained ministry was strengthened in many ways during my time there.

Yet most of all, what I will always cherish is having had the chance to be a very small part of the history of our 20th-century church music.

(The Rev.) W. Joseph Leigh

St. Clement's Church

Belford, N.J.