The Croix Chordsmen thank our chorus Sponsors that are listed below. Our sponsors support us and our activities throughout the St. Croix Valley. This support enables us to provide quality musical experiences to our audiences and to provide music education for young people in our schools.

Our goal, as with the Barbershop Harmony Society, is to “Keep the Whole World Singing”.

Please consider being customers of the businesses represented here. Many of the names listed are a link to their own website and/or location.

PREMIER SPONSOR

Our Premier Sponsor is Lorena Kennedy of Shreveport, Louisiana.  A cousin (second cousin once-removed) of Cliff Turnbull, she is a mother and grandmother, businesswoman of 40 years, and caregiver for her 104-year-old mother, Pearl Roediger.

Lorena and her husband founded Red Ball Oxygen Co. Inc. in 1969 and built it from a local 8-person operation in Shreveport, to its current operation serving customers in 6 states, and employing 162 people.  Red Ball Oxygen supplies a variety of industrial, medical, and other bottled gases to numerous markets.

Lorena dedicates her sponsorship to her mother Pearl, who turned 104 on December 18, 2010.  Pearl was born in Kansas in 1906, and has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression and now the Great Recession.  She was born in a world where the only cars on the road were owned by rich people, there was no electricity in houses in rural America, the Wright Brothers got their first patent, women couldn't vote, zippers hadn't been invented, there were no ballpoint pens, no penicillin, and football's forward pass had just been legalized.

Lorena has lived a fruitful and productive life, and has chosen to share some of her rewards with the Croix Chordsmen.

SILVER SPONSORS