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B. F. White

1800 - 1879 Person Name: B. F. White, 1800-1879 , Composer (attributed to) of "BEACH SPRING" in Worship and Rejoice Benjamin F. White (b. Spartanburg, SC, 1800; d. Atlanta, GA, 1879), was coeditor of The Sacred Harp (1844). He came from a family of fourteen children and was largely self-taught. Eventually White became a popular singing-school teacher and editor of the weekly Harris County newspaper. Bert Polman

Eva B. Lloyd

1912 - 2006 Author of "Come, All Christians, Be Committed " in Celebrating Grace Hymnal Born: March 9, 1912, Jameson, Missouri. Died: August 26, 2006, Parkdale Manor, Maryville, Missouri. Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Maryville, Missouri. Lloyd was educated at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville (BS) and the University of Missouri Kansas City (MA). She taught in Missouri elementary and secondary schools, and English literature 15 years at Northwest Missouri State University. She also directed the Women’s Mission Union. Sources: Hustad, p. 274 Lyrics: Come, All Christians, Be Committed http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/l/o/lloyd_eb.htm

Melvin West

1930 - 2019 Person Name: Melvin West (1930-2019) Arranger of "BEACH SPRING" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal

Bruce Greer

Arranger (last st. setting) of "BEACH SPRING" in Baptist Hymnal 2008

A. Royce Eckhardt

b. 1937 Person Name: A. Royce Eckhardt, 1937- Arranger of "BEACH SPRING" in The Covenant Hymnal Royce Eckhardt has served as a director of music, organist, conductor, composer, arranger, hymnal editor, teacher, and hymnologist for over fifty years. He has served Evangelical Covenant churches as minister of music and organist in Seattle, New Britain (CT), Winnetka, and Hinsdale, Illinois, and also the Winnetka Presbyterian Church. Mr. Eckhardt earned a Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance in 1960 from North Park College, Chicago, and a Master of Music degree in liturgical music at Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford in 1972. Royce joined the music faculty at Seattle Pacific College in 1961, teaching organ, music theory and literature courses and directing small choral ensembles. He served as adjunct professor of church music at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, specializing in hymnology and also serving as chapel organist. Mr. Eckhardt was a member of the Covenant Hymnal Commission that produced The Covenant Hymnal (1973). In 1990 he was appointed to the Special Hymnal Commission that compiled and published The Covenant Hymnal: A Worshipbook (1996), serving as music editor. He is represented in the hymnal with 47 arrangements, original tunes, and descants. His many hymn arrangements, harmonizations and tunes appear in eight American hymnals. Royce also served as music director of the Covenant Ministers Chorus from 1985 to 2005, leading the Chorus on a concert tour to Sweden and Germany in 1990 and on a second concert tour in 2001 to Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Germany. He has led many workshops and seminars throughout the country on worship and church music related topics, is a published composer of organ and choral works, a board member of North Shore American Guild of Organists, board member of The Bach Week Festival, and a member of The Hymn Society. Royce Eckhardt

James Wood

1921 - 2003 Person Name: James H. Wood Arranger of "BEACH SPRING" in The Worshiping Church James Wood was born April 14, 1921, in Rochester, Minn. He was a teacher of music and a concert singer, a choral conductor and composer In later life, he published a book of poems titled, "Songs Without Melodies." Dianne Shapiro

Lyndell Leatherman

Person Name: Lyndell Leatherman, 10th century Arranger of "BEACH SPRING" in CPWI Hymnal Lyndell Leatherman was born into a Nazarene parsonage in southeast Kansas in 1953. He began piano lessons at age eight, studying with his mother Wilma, a piano teacher and church musician (and still today—as an active octogenarian—organist in her local church in Eureka, Illinois). By the age of thirteen he was playing regularly in the Green Rock (now Colona), Illinos church where his father was then pastoring. While attending Olivet Nazarene University, Kankakee, Illinois, he was privileged to study piano with Stephen Nielson and organ with Ovid Young, two keyboard artists who comprise the renowned duo known worldwide as Nielson and Young. After earning a degree in church and choral music at ONU, he continued his education with graduate studies in music theory and composition at Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, where his composition professor was Panamanian-born Roque Cordero. Since 1977 Lyndell has been immersed in sacred and educational music publishing—as an editor, composer, arranger, orchestrator, and engraver. He has concurrently served in local churches as a minister of music, orchestra director, organist, or pianist...and, since 1993, accompanist and staff arranger at First Church of the Nazarene of Kansas City, Missouri. In addition, he enjoys assisting in school and community musical theatre productions. His family includes his wife, Barbara—also a musician as well as an artist and quilter—and three grown children and their families. Used by permission of Lyndell Leatherman