Fred Waring and the PennsylvaniansFamous American, chorus leader, showman, glee club pioneer, golf tournament host, and entrepreneur all that, and he taught America how to sing! Fred Waring held together a major musical organization for sixty seven years. He was a man at ease on stage but reluctant to sit through meetings, a man so earnest in his patriotism that by the 1980s, many considered him an anachronism. Virginia Waring, his wife of thirty years, chronicles Fred Waring's many