Overtones

The monthly e-newsletter of the North Shore Chapter AGO

Treasurer’s Corner

Our chapter’s financials for end of 2024 and YTD for 2025 are available for review. Thank you for your faithful support.

	End of 2024	YTD 2025
Checking	2522.94	3,524.82
Scholarship	6890.21	6,323.84
Savings	18923.16	15,924.72
Total Balance	28336.31	25773.38

If you have not done so already, please be sure to renew your membership in our North Shore chapter. Membership dues along with your generous donations allow our events to be free and open to the public. If you have any questions about membership, please email registrar@teal-ostrich-479748.hostingersite.com

NSAGO Members as of November 2025

(alphabetically by Last name)

Alm
Anderson
Bartolomeo
Baumgarten
Betancourt
Bolthouse
Brieschke
Brown, E.
Brown, J.
Buzard
Carpenter
Cerabona
Cho
Clemmitt
de la Pena
Donegan
Doran
DuVall
Felland
Gagne
Gresick
Handley
Hommerding
Hopkins
Hunt

Janossy
Ju
Kehe
Kemper
Kim
Kloeckner
Kohl
Konchan
Kraemer
Lee
Lillis
Lincoln
Lornson
Luzwick
MacKey
Mason
Massello
McPeek
Mellema
Mize
Molenaar
Morey
Naegele
Ng
Nickels
Peterson, J.

Peterson, S.
Phibbs
Radosavljevic
Renkosik
Robak
Robinson-Fole
Rowley
Schoettler
Scholten
Schrader
Shanahan-Richards
Shibuya
Shull
Song
Spantikow
Spears
Stutzman
Sundberg
Sutton
Synnestvedt
Tindall
Urban
Vander Weele
Vasiljevic
Ward
Wendt
Woodworth

Chapter Friends

Donovan
Eckhardt
Fiedler
Johnson
Phillips

Dean’s Column | November 2025

Snow has fallen and Advent and Christmas will soon be here. Wishing you all a successful holiday season with the added services and concerts that come with it. In the aftermath of it all, we invite you to join us on Tuesday, January 6 at 6:30pm for our annual NSAGO Epiphany party. This year will be the last Epiphany party at the Handleys since Andrea will be moving to Pasadena, CA this coming summer, along with her husband, Dave. They will be living in a lovely retirement community for retired Presbyterian pastors, and will be located 20 minutes from their daughter and grandchildren who live in Altadena. We’re thankful for Andrea’s leadership as NSAGO Dean, Chair of the 2023 Regional Convention, and host of our Epiphany party for over a decade!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Jonathan Ryan’s concert in Arlington Heights in October and to Chris Urban for hosting. Our next event will be a members recital in February featuring music in observance of Black History Month. I encourage you to continue to explore this repertoire through collections like GIA’s “King of Kings” and MorningStar’s “African-American Organ Music Anthology.” Our Sub-Dean Marianne Kim is coordinating this program and I encourage you to reach out to her as with your interest. We will share the date and venue with you once it is finalized.

Since this is our last newsletter for 2025, I encourage you to review the various reports included in this issue including our Treasurer’s report, scholarship awards, and membership. If you do not see your name listed on the membership listing, then you will no longer receive our email communications in the new year. We encourage you to renew your membership to support our programming and stay connected. If you’re unable to join us in membership, we encourage you to make a gift and join us as a chapter friend. I look forward to seeing many of you at our Epiphany party in January!