The William Baker Choral Foundation in Georgia Through the Sponsorship of Alice & Jorge Blanco Presents

Candlelight & Carols With the Festival Singers

The Lynn Swanson Festival Singers The William Baker Festival Singers

The Festival Brass Dr. Patrick Scott, organ

The Forsyth County High School Chamber Chorus, Lisa Belk, Director

Saturday Evening, 6 December 2014 St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church

Smyrna, Georgia

Sunday Afternoon, 7 December 2014 Grace United Methodist Church

Atlanta, Georgia

Never the Morning Star so radiant Followed His course o’er eastern skies.

What is this Light so fair, so tender Breaking upon our wondering eyes?

Come in, ye kings, and kiss the feet of God!

SOLI DEO GLORIA What wondrous love is this, O my soul?

The 2014-2015 Festival Singers

William O. Baker, DMA

Founder & Music Director

Lynn Swanson, MME

LSFS Music Director & Conductor

WBCF Executive Associate Music Director

Dorothy Goodson, MBA, CPA

Development Associate

Christine Freeman, MME

Associate Music Director/Senior Vocal Coach

Scott C. Smith

Choral Associate & Administrator, Atlanta

Jamea Sale, MME

Choral Assistant, Kansas City

Amy Thropp

Director, Zimria Festivale Atlanta

Charles Nelson

Director, Northwest Georgia Summer Singers

Thomas Sheets

Assistant Conductor,

Lynn Swanson Festival Singers

Chris Barnard

Administrator, Kansas City

R. Douglas Helvering, DMA

Contributing Editor, Amber Waves Music

Leanne Elmer Herrmann

Steven McDonald, DMA

Ivy Belk Pirl

Rosanne St. Clair

O. Wayne Smith, DMA

Steve Thropp

Staff Accompanists

The William Baker Choral Foundation, Inc.

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Terrell Abney ‘07 Sarah Means ‘10

Karin Banks ‘10 Marcia Mein ‘10

Pam Barton ‘89 Jenny Munro ‘07

David Beckers ‘02 Carol Nelson ‘12

Lisa Belk ‘13 Charles Nelson ‘11

Jorge Blanco ‘98 David Nieland ‘12

Kristen Boyle ‘14 Yolanda Phillips ‘03

Steve Brailsford ‘14 Susan Pierce ‘13

Wayne Burdette ‘87 LaDonna Pitts ‘14

Albert Clark ‘14 Rebekah N. Plowman ‘14

Candace Dixon ‘12 Julianne Reeves ‘14

William Dreyfoos ‘00 Carol Rogers Reiser ‘09

Vince Evans ‘14 Eddie Ross ‘09

Marla Franks ‘03 Sarah Sambol ‘14

Gerald Freeman ‘14 Charles St. Clair ‘11

Scott Smith ‘94 Justin Scott ‘11

Dorothy Goodson ‘03 Mary Selano ‘11

John Goodson ‘03 Thomas Sheets ‘10

Harley Granville ‘14 Jessica Shepherd ‘09

Johnny Gravley ‘12 Ann Stoskopf ‘14

Kristen Hampton ‘13 Lynn Swanson ‘08

Victoria Harkins ‘13 Amy Thropp ‘13

John Harr ‘14 Leslie Truman ‘09

Felicia Hernandez ‘04 Ann Vines ‘09

Ellen Hicks ‘10 Jack Walker ‘14

Susan Hinesley ‘11 Michael Warrick ‘09

Lexann Johnson ‘10 Nancy Warrick ‘10

Judy Feasel Jones ‘12 Nicole Winney ‘14

Mark Kagika ‘14 Jack Worrill ‘10

Bambi Kendrick ‘09 Laura Youngblood ‘07

Jody Kershner ‘09 Alan Zaring ‘14

Alexis LaSalle ‘10 Wallace Ziprik III ‘14

Susan Lawton ‘14

The Board of Trustees

David Barker, Belton, Missouri, ChairMary Puetz, Sioux Center, Iowa, Vice Chair

Ann Stoskopf, Marietta, Georgia, Treasurer/CFO

David Chastain, Acworth, GeorgiaJoseph Ferst, Marietta, Georgia

John Schaefer, Kansas City, MissouriRoss Kimbrough, Overland Park, Kansas

Greg Wegst, Mission, Kansas

Trustees EmeritusWilliam W. Dreyfoos, Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Michael S. McGarry, Atlanta, GeorgiaRoss Malme, Atlanta, Georgia

Brad Piroutek, Spring Hill, KansasScott Smith, Atlanta, Georgia

The Festival Singers On February 26, 1985, Music Director William Baker and his associate Janis M. Lane gathered 21 singers in the basement of a Norcross church for the first rehearsal of The Gwinnett Festival Singers. Based in one of the fastest growing communities in the United States, the chorus quickly grew to a membership of fifty voices, becoming known almost immediately for its diversity of repertoire and quality of performances. Specializing in sacred a cappella classics and spirituals, along with performances of annual choral-orchestral masterworks, the Festival Singers were credited with the first Gwinnett-area performances of many classical standards. The first season ended with a performance of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, a work that has been featured in numerous anniversary celebrations for the ensemble.

Many triumphs came in the early white-hot years of artistic growth, including an acclaimed 1988 tour of Great Britain that saw performances at the Bristol Festival, the Canterbury Cathedral Concert Series, and in many historic venues in the United Kingdom. In 1989, the chorus performed for the first time at Charleston’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival, where they have been hailed by capacity audiences almost every year since. In 1995, the response was so great that an encore performance was held before a second capacity audience minutes after the conclusion of the scheduled performance.

The Choral Foundation was created in 1990, leading to the development of additional ensembles. In 1998, the name of the chorus was changed to the William Baker Festival Singers of Atlanta, and a second ensemble, the William Baker Festival Singers of Kansas City, was created. The Choral Foundation has grown to a large-scale arts organization that now sponsors ten performing ensembles based in three states, a music publishing house, a continuing education program for aspiring choral leaders at the master’s and doctoral levels, and a new initiative called The Institute for Healthy Singing. In 2008, Lynn Swanson was appointed to the staff of the Choral Foundation as director of the Northside Young Singers and the Cobb Summer Singers. In 2009 she created the Lynn Swanson Festival Singers, and became Associate Music Director for the William Baker Festival Singers and the Summer Singers of Atlanta. In 2011, she was appointed as Executive Associate Music Director of the William Baker Choral Foundation. With the creation of Zimria Festivale Atlanta in 2014 under the leadership of Amy Thropp, the Choral Foundation now offers four Festival Singers ensembles, three in the Atlanta area. The Festival Singers have enjoyed three decades of success, including tour performances in New York City, Chicago, Austin, San Antonio, New Orleans, St. Louis, Omaha, Des Moines, Princeton, Knoxville, Birmingham, Charlotte, and many other cities. The Festival Singers have produced 20 recordings, many of which are now available on CD and iTunes. The choirs have been heard on national radio programs including The Sounds of Majesty, The First Art, and Performance Today, in addition to television appearances in Atlanta, Kansas City, New Orleans, Savannah and Knoxville. The William Baker Festival Singers of Atlanta and the Lynn Swanson Festival Singers have joined in the performance of Candlelight & Carols with the Festival Singers since 2013. For information regarding auditions and upcoming performances by each of the ensembles, please visit www.FestivalSingers.org or contact the Atlanta office of the William Baker Choral Foundation at 404-909-8357.

Dr. William O. Baker, Music Director & Conductor

William O. Baker has earned a reputation as an entrepreneurial conductor and creator of choral organizations. He founded the DeKalb Choral Guild in 1978 at the age of 19. By the age of 21 he had conducted Brahms’ German Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Schubert’s Mass in G, and Handel’s Messiah with professional orchestras, launching a career of ambitious artistic leadership that now has extended over thirty-seven years. In the last few years he has conducted the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor of Bach, and the Sacred Service of Ernest Bloch, at the time of performances the only Kansas City-based conductor to lead the works in over a quarter-century.

Baker created the Atlanta-based William Baker Festival Singers, originally called “Gwinnett” Festival Singers, in 1985, and established the William Baker Choral Foundation in 1990. In 1998 the conductor moved his home to the Kansas City area and created the Kansas City ensemble of the Festival Singers. The Choral Foundation has created over a dozen ensembles based in three states, involving hundreds of singers in the course of any year. His choirs have performed for numerous conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, the National Association for Music Education, and the American Guild of Organists, in addition to the 1982 World’s Fair and music festivals in the United States and Great Britain, most notably annual appearances before capacity audiences at Charleston’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival since 1989. He has led the Festival Singers in the production of 19 nationally released recordings, and in television and radio appearances across the nation, including The First Art, The Sounds of Majesty and National Public Radio’s Performance Today. No stranger to the orchestral podium, William Baker created the Mountain Park Wind Symphony in 1994, and the Kansas City Wind Symphony in 1998. Recent orchestral performances have included Vivaldi: The Seasons, Sibelius: Finlandia, Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Bizet: Suite L’Alesienne, Haydn: Symphony No. 59 “Fire,” Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 and Symphony No. 9. Choral collaborations have included projects with members of the Kansas City Symphony, the Kazanetti Chamber Orchestra, the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, the Baton Rouge Symphony, the Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra, and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. He is Founder & Music Director of the Atlanta-based Orchestra of the American Heartland. Dr. Baker served as Minister of Music for a number of significant Lutheran, Presbyterian and United Methodist congregations across the South and the Midwest. Major appointments have included the historic Grace United Methodist Church in Midtown Atlanta and The Village Church in suburban Kansas City, the nation’s second largest Presbyterian congregation. Presently, he serves as director of The Cathedral Chorale, the choir for Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas City’s 8:00 AM Eucharist. He is the author of Hearts & Hands & Voices: Weekly Reflections on Music and the Church, published by Amber Waves Music. An Atlanta native, Dr. Baker studied voice and choral conducting at Mercer University and the University of Georgia before culminating his formal education at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting. The Baker family makes their home in northeastern Kansas. Dr. Baker commutes weekly to serve conducting responsibilities in Georgia, Kansas and Missouri. His accomplishments have been recognized in his native state through proclamations by two Georgia Governors, Joe Frank Harris and Sonny Purdue, and United States Congressman Phil Gingrey. In 2012 he was honored for his lifetime contributions to the cultural life of his hometown by the Pro-Mozart Society of Atlanta. In 2014 he was named Music Director Emeritus of The DeKalb Choral Guild.

Lynn Swanson, Music Director & Conductor

Lynn Swanson, Music Director and Conductor, is a native of Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. A life-long resident of the area, she has served the north metro community as a leader in the musical arts for nearly 30 years. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance from Shorter University in Rome, Georgia, and the Master of Music Education in Choral Pedagogy at the University of Kansas. She studied conducting with Dr. William Baker, Dr. James Daugherty, and Alexander Mickelthwaite. She has served as Music Director for several Greater Atlanta churches, building strong and diverse music programs in each. She was appointed Music Director & Organist for the St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church in Smyrna, Georgia in August 2011. In less than six months she created a children’s music ministry in the young and rapidly growing congregation, and led an acclaimed performance of Handel’s Messiah with the 70-voice choir and chamber orchestra before a standing-room-only audience

from the parish and the wider community. Ms. Swanson is the Founder of the Northside Young Singers, the Lynn Swanson Festival Singers, and the Cobb Summer Singers, in addition to her service as Associate Director and Vocal Coach of the William Baker Festival Singers in Atlanta. She serves as Executive Associate Music Director of the William Baker Choral Foundation. Recent choral/orchestral masterworks have included Handel’s Messiah; Mozart’s Solemn Vespers; Faure’s Requiem; Schubert’s Mass in G; Haydn’s Te Deum, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Vivaldi’s Beatus Vir, in addition to Bernstein: Chichester Psalms & Missa Brevis; Brahms: A German Requiem; Handel: Dettingen Te Deum & Water Music Suite, Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate, Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Coronation Mass; Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F, Cantata No. 51 “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen,” and Magnificat. Her choral ensembles have been featured recently as headline performers at the Christmas Atlanta Festival, Arts International, and appear annually at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dr. Patrick Scott, Guest Organist

Patrick A. Scott is Assistant Organist-Choirmaster at the Cathedral of Saint Philip in Atlanta. A native of Picayune, Mississippi, he holds the Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance from Birmingham-Southern College where he studied with Dr. James Cook. As a student of world-renowned organists, Drs. Judith and Gerre Hancock, Patrick earned the Master of Music in Organ Performance and Sacred Music and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Organ Performance, both from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Scott is quickly becoming one of the nation’s prominent young organists having been awarded the first prize as well as the audience prize in the

American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation held at the 2014 AGO National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. While in Boston, he was also awarded second prize in the Schoenstein Hymn Playing Competition, making him the only organist to be a finalist in multiple competitions at one convention. These concert constitute Dr. Scott’s first appearance with the ensembles of the William Baker Choral Foundation.

Candlelight & Carols With the Festival SingersSaturday Evening, 6 December 2014, St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church, Smyrna, Georgia

Sunday Afternoon, 7 December 2014, Grace United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia

The William Baker Festival Singers The Lynn Swanson Festival Singers

(Saturday) The Forsyth County High School Chamber Chorus, Lisa Belk, Director

The Festival Brass Dr. Patrick Scott, organ

Dr. William O. Baker & Lynn Swanson, conducting

Please Refrain from the Use of Cell Phones, Text Messaging and Flash Photography

Please Silence All Electronic Devices Please Refrain from Applause until Following the Retiring Procession

Today’s Concert Is Made Possible by a Grant from Alice & Jorge Blanco

*FANFARE from Christus Natalis Z. Randall STROOPE, Born 1953

Introit: LOST IN THE NIGHT Finnish Folk Hymn arranged by F. Melius Christiansen

Jenny Munro, soloist

*PROCESSION “O Come All Ye Faithful” ADESTE FIDELES

Audience Please Stand On Cue and Join in the Singing of the Carol

O come, all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem;

Come and behold Him, Born the King of Angels;

O come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.

The highest, Most Holy, Light of Light eternal, Born of a Virgin a mortal He comes.

Son of the Father, Now in flesh appearing;

O come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.

Sing, choirs of angels, Sing in exultation, Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above.

Glory to God, Glory in the highest;

O come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.

NARRATION In the night I cry to You, O Lord

*MY SONG IN THE NIGHT American Folk Hymn arranged by Paul Christiansen

*ARISE, YOUR LIGHT HAS COME German Chorale arranged by David Danner

Terrell Abney & Ann Stoskopf, handbells

NARRATION The days are coming says the Lord

(Saturday) O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM Tomas Luis de VICTORIA, 1558-1611

O great mystery and wondrous Sacrament that even the animals should see the new-born Lord lying in a manger.

Blessed is the Virgin whose womb was worthy to bear Christ the Lord! Amen.

ONE SMALL CHILD David MEECE

DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW John LEAVITT

The Forsyth County High School Chamber Chorus, Lisa Belk, director

(Sunday) O COME, O COME EMMANUEL Plainchant arranged by Alice Parker

NARRATION Seek the Lord while He may be found

*A FESTIVAL FOR CHRISTMAS R. Douglas HELVERING, Born 1977

“A Festival for Christmas” was commissioned and premiered by the William Baker Festival Singers in 2007

Angels We Have Heard On High, Personent Hodie, Of the Father’s Love Begotten,

O Holy Night & Joy to the World

The audience will stand on cue and join in the singing of “Joy to the World”

Joy to the world, the Lord is come. Let earth receive her King.

Let every heart prepare Him room, and heaven and nature sing.

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove

The glories of His righteousness, and wonders of His love.

NARRATION My soul magnifies the Lord

*JESUS CHRIST THE APPLE TREE Elizabeth POSTEN, arranged by Georann Whitman

*AVE MARIA Franz BIEBL, 1906-2001

The angel of the Lord announced to Mary and she conceived by the Holy Spirit.

Behold the handmaiden of the Lord, do to me according to Your Word. Hail Mary! Holy Mary!

And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

Terrell Abney, John Harr & Wayne Burdette, soloists

NARRATION And there were shepherds abiding in the field

CHRISTMAS CANTATA (I & III) Daniel PINKHAM, 1923-2006

Whom do you see? Shepherds, tell us! Proclaim to us: Who has appeared on the earth?

We saw the newborn Child and the angels praising the Lord.

Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth to men of good will.

O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands; serve the Lord with gladness and come into His presence with a song.

Be ye sure that Lord He is God: It is He that hath made us and not we ourselves. Alleluia!

NARRATION In the beginning was the Word

*O GLADSOME LIGHT Alexander GRETCHANINOV, 1864-1956

NARRATION How beautiful upon the mountains

*PRAISE TO THE LORD German Hymn arranged by F. Melius Christiansen

*RETIRING PROCESSION “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” MENDELSSOHN

Audience Please Stand On Cue and Join in the Singing of the Carol

Hark, the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”

Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.

Joyful all ye nations rise, join the triumph of the skies.

With angelic hosts proclaim, “Christ is born in Bethlehem!”

Hark, the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”

Christ by highest heaven adored, Christ the everlasting Lord,

Late in time behold Him come, offspring of the Virgin’s womb.

Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the Incarnate Diety!

Pleased as Man with men to dwell, Jesus our Emmanuel.

Hark, the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”

Hail, the heaven born Prince of Peace, Hail the Son of Righteousness!

Light and life to all He brings; Risen with healing in His wings.

Mild He lays His glories by; Born that Man no more may die.

Born to raise the sons of earth; Born to give them second birth.

Hark, the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”

*Recordings of these selections by the Festival Singers are now available on CD and DVD

from Amber Waves Sound Recordings, and through iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby & Spotify

Please enjoy over one hundred performances of the Festival Singers on our YouTube channel: WBakerCF

The Festival Brass

Trumpet Horn Trombone

John Bryant Russell Williamson Mark Boehm

Kevin Lyons Helen Werling Hollie Lawing

Douglas Lindsey Richard Williams Tom Gibson

Alex Rodiak

Tuba Percussion

Bill Pritchard Scott Douglas

MID-SEASON AUDITIONS FOR THE FESTIVAL SINGERS

The William Baker Festival Singers 30th Anniversary Concert Season

Rehearsals Sunday Evenings, 6:00-8:30, in Sandy SpringsDelighting Capacity Audiences at Charleston’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival Since 1989

Performing Johannes Brahms EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM

Celebrating Dr. William Baker’s Final Season as Music Director

The Lynn Swanson Festival Singers 6th Concert Season

Rehearsals Tuesday Evenings, 7:00-9:15, in SmyrnaDelighting Capacity Audiences at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival Since 2011

Performing Bernstein’s CHICHESTER PSALMS with Zimria Festivale Atlanta

and the Orchestra of the American Heartland

OPENINGS IN ALL SECTIONS BY AUDITION

To Schedule Your Appointment: Mail@FestivalSingers.org

www.FestivalSingers.org

The Forsyth County High School Chamber Chorus

Performing in Saturday’s Concert

LISA BELK, Director Lisa Belk, Director, is a graduate of Harrison High School in Cobb County and Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia. She won appointment to the Governor’s Honors Program in Voice while at Harrison High, and was a member of the Georgia All-State Chorus for four years. Her undergraduate degree is in Music Education with an emphasis in voice and a minor in piano. She presently serves as Director of Choral Activities at Forsyth Central High School in Cumming. She previously served as Choral Assistant at the St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church in Smyrna. She has been a member of the Cobb Summer Singers since 2008, and the Lynn Swanson Festival Singers since 2013. She served as the William Baker Choral Foundation’s Student Intern for the Cobb

Summer Singers and the Lynn Swanson Festival Singers for the 2013-2014 concert season.

CONVOCATION 2015

Celebrating Thirty Years of Festival Singers Tradition in Two Gala Performances

Saturday Evening, 21 February 2015 at 7:00 PM St. John United Methodist Church, 550 Mount Paran Road, Atlanta, GA 30327

The William Baker Festival Singers of Atlanta, The William Baker Festival Singers of Kansas City, The Lynn Swanson Festival Singers, The Gwinnett Young Singers, Lynn Urda, Music Director,

and The DeKalb Choral Guild, Mary Root, Music Director, join in a performance of diverse and glorious music.

Reception Following the Concert Celebrating 30 Years of Festival Singers Tradition

and the Retirement of Dr. William O. Baker as Music Director of the WBFS-Atlanta

Sunday Afternoon, 22 February 2015 at 3:00 PM Grace United Methodist Church, 458 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30308

The William Baker Festival Singers of Atlanta, The William Baker Festival Singers of Kansas City, The Lynn Swanson Festival Singers & The Orchestra of the American Heartland

Arietha Lockhart, soprano Stephen Ozcomert, bass

JOHANNES BRAHMS: EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM

Admission $20; $15 students & +65; under 12 free; at the door or online www.Festival Singers.org

ZIMRIA FESTIVALE ATLANTA The Newest Ensemble of the William Baker Choral Foundation

Celebrating Jewish Heritage & Music First Public Performance

The First Night of Chanukah, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 6:00 Performance Free to the Public

Chanukah Party to Follow: $10 adults; $7 children 11 and under

Congregation Beth Shalom 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, GA 30360

The William Baker Choral Foundation

5450 Buena Vista Street, Suite 100, Roeland Park, KS 66205 Kansas City/Lee’s Summit: 913.403.9223 Atlanta: 404.909.8357 Cobb/Cartersville: 678-787-9189

The William Baker Festival Singers, Midtown Atlanta, 1985, and Prairie Village, Kansas, 1998

Created in 1985 by William O. Baker and Janis M. Lane as The Gwinnett Festival Singers

The Summer Singers of Atlanta, Midtown Atlanta, 1990

William O. Baker, DMA, Music Director & Conductor

The Cobb Summer Singers, Smyrna, Georgia, 2006

The Lynn Swanson Festival Singers, Smyrna, Georgia, 2009 Lynn Swanson, Music Director & Conductor

Zimria Festivale Atlanta, Dunwoody, Georgia, 2014

Amy Thropp, Music Director & Conductor

The Summer Singers of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, 1999

William O. Baker, DMA, Music Director & Conductor

The Summer Singers of Lee’s Summit, Lee’s Summit, Missouri, 2014

Lynn Swanson & William O. Baker, DMA, Co-Music Directors

The Northwest Georgia Summer Singers, Cartersville, Georgia, 2010, 2014

Charles Nelson, Music Director & Conductor

The Institute for Healthy Singing, Roeland Park, Kansas, Opening 2015 Lynn Swanson, Founder & Director

Amber Waves Music Publishing

William O. Baker, DMA, President Dr. R. Douglas Helvering, Contributing Editor www.AmberWavesPublishing.com

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is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the WBCF, Inc.

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