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Margaret Barclay

b. 1923 Translator of "Sing praise and thanksgiving, let all creatures living" in Together in Song Date of birth verified by letter from The Pilgrim Press to Jean Woodward Steele, 4 January, 1967. DNAH Archives

Omer Westendorf

1916 - 1997 Person Name: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997 Author of "We Gather Together" in One in Faith Omer Westendorf, one of the earliest lyricists for Roman Catholic liturgical music in English, died on October 22, 1997, at the age of eighty-one. Born on February 24, 1916, Omer got his start in music publishing after World War II, when he brought home for his parish choir in Cincinnati some of the Mass settings he had discovered in Holland. Interest in the new music being published in Europe led to his creation of the World Library of Sacred Music, initially a music-importing firm that brought much of this new European repertoire to U.S. parishes. Operating out of a garage in those early years, Omer often joked about the surprised expressions of visitors who stopped by and found a wide range of sheet music in various states of “storage” (read disarray). Later, as World Library Publications, the company began publishing some of its own music, including new works with English texts by some of those same Dutch composers, for example, Jan Vermulst. In 1955 World Library published the first edition of The Peoples Hymnal, which would become the People's Mass Book in 1964, one of the first hymnals to reflect the liturgical reforms proposed by Vatican II. Omer also introduced the music of Lucien Deiss to Catholic parishes through the two volumes of Biblical Hymns and Psalms. Using his own name and several pen names, Omer composed numerous compositions for liturgical use, though his best-known works may be the texts for the hymns “Where Charity and Love Prevail,” “Sent Forth by God’s Blessing,” and especially “Gift of Finest Wheat.” As he lay dying, his family and friends gathered around his bed to sing his text “Shepherd of Souls, in Love, Come, Feed Us.” NPM honored Omer as its Pastoral Musician of the Year in 1985. --liturgicalleaders.blogspot.com/2008 =========================== Pseudonyms: Paul Francis Mark Evans J. Clifford Evers --Letter from Tom Smith, Executive Director of The Hymn Society, to Leonard Ellinwood, 6 February 1980. DNAH Archives.

Walton J. Brown

1913 - 2001 Person Name: Walton J. Brown (1913-2001) Vers. esp. of "Aquí reunidos" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día Used pseudonym Juan Marrón. Walton John Brown was the education director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide. He worked in the United States, Argentina, Brazil and Cuba. Dianne Shapiro from obituary

Eduard Kremser

1838 - 1914 Adapter of "KREMSER" in Voices Together Eduard Kremser was born 10 October 1838 in Vienna and died 26 November 1914 in Vienna. He was a choir director, conductor, composer and musicologist. He was the arranger of the music for male voices in Sechs altniederländische Volkslieder, a collection of six Dutch folk songs from Adriaan Valerius' collection Nederlandtsche gedenck-clanck. From this collection comes the tune which is named after him and is sung with the English text "We Gather Together." He also edited and arranged a 3 volume set of German and Austrian folk music: Wiener Lieder und Tänze: im Auftrage der Gemeindevertretimg der Stadt Wien (published 1912-1925) as well as other volumes of folk music. Dianne Shapiro

Katharine H. Annin

1893 - 1993 Person Name: Katherine Huntington Author of "The Lord, in His Righteousness, Judges the People" in Christian Youth Hymnal Birth: Flushing, Long Island, N.Y. June 10, 1893. Education: graduated from Miss Fine's School, Princeton, N.J. 1910, and from Bryn Mawr College in the class of 1914. Studied music with Angela Diller and Elizabeth Quaile in New York City, & at the Thomas Whitney Surette summer Music School in Concord, Mass. Marriage and family: married William Stuart Annin, class of 1917, Princeton, on Oct. 15, 1920. Three children. Interests: Moved in 1924 to the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts, where Mr. Annin raised Guernsey purebred cattle. He later joined the editorial staff of the Berkshire Eagle, a daily newspaper in Pittsfield, Mass. I taught elementary grades in private schools, and was librarian for the Richmond Public Library for 11 years, and director of the Richmond Congregational Church choir for many years. Have always been interested in gardening, bird-watching and all aspects of conservation, and am active in church and town activities. Publications: 1. In 1920, in collaboration with Elizabeth Robinson (now deceased), was compiler of the "Concord Hymnal for Day School, Sunday School and Home." Still available from E.C. Schirmer Music Co., Boston, Mass., who published it as No. 10 in the Concord Series. 2. From 1957 to the present, have been weekly (recently bi-weekly) columnists for the Berkshire Eagle under its heading "Our Berkshires." 3. Author of "Richmond, Massachusetts. The Story of a Berkshire Town and its People 1765-1965." Sponsored by the Richmond Civic Association. Winner of a Certificate of Commendation from the American Society for State and Local History. --Letter from Katharine H. Annin to Leonard Ellinwood, 6 June 1980. DNAH Archives

Julia Buckley Cady

Person Name: Julia Bulkley Cady Author of "We Praise Thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator" in The Mennonite Hymnary, published by the Board of Publication of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America See Cory, Julia C.

Flossette Du Pasquier

Translator (French) of "Wilt heden nu treden voor God den Heere" in Cantate Domino

M. Louise Baum

1867 - 1941 Person Name: Maria Louise Baum Author of "Put on the whole armor of pure consecration" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Baum, Maria Louise. ( --1941, Boston, Massachusetts). Joined the Christian Science Church in 1900. She thereafter resided in Boston, Mass., and worked for The Christian Science Monitor through part of that time. --Joan E. Wilson, DNAH Archives

David Regier

Person Name: David P. Regier Author of "Forever Your Word Is Established" in Psalms of Grace

Hendrik Arie de Hoog

1910 - 2001 Person Name: H. A. de Hoog Translator (in part) of "Kun preĝo al Reĝo de l' reĝoj ni venas" in Adoru H. A. de Hoog (authorities differ as to whether his surname should be alphabetized under d or under H) was a Dutch Esperantist and a member of the Esperanto Academy, head of its grammar section beginning in 1972, president of KELI (the main international association of Protestant Esperantists) and of its Dutch section, author of several books in Esperanto, and a member of the editorial committee that produced Adoru kantante (1971), in which he had fifteen hymn translations; thirteen texts in Adoru (2001).