Val Hicks was a former director of our chapter. He taught at the Santa Rosa Junior College for nineteen years. You can see Val with Ray, Dan and Mike as the North Bay Harmony Society quartet from 1988 in our Way Back When gallery.

     Dr. Val Hicks became a member of SPEBSQSA at the age of eighteen. He sang, directed choruses (including the Redwood Chordsmen), coached quartets and served as an international judge. He was invited by the Smithsonian Institute to create a special music section on Barbershop quartet singing. He composed many songs and arranged 'thousands'. His arrangement of the Star-Spangled Banner has been performed at the Super Bowl and countless other venues.

     Val was arranger, coach and adviser to the Dapper Dans of Disneyland and worked with the Osmond Brothers among others.