The First Choir

poses in the woods north of Christ Church with their choirmaster Cecil

Wray Wilson, the musically gifted son of the Rev. Epiphanius Wilson.

Cecil Wilson served as a choirmaster from 1902 to 1909.

The Choir

is standing on the steps of the first Christ Church (where the columbarium

is today) in 1916. The rector, the Rev. Albert Daniels Willson, and his

assistant, the Rev. Charles W. Robinson, stand side by side in the back

row. To the right of the flag, behind the flag bearer, is George Matthew, choirmaster

from 1920 to 1937. The young choir boy on the far left is Markham Rollins, founder

of the Rollins Agency, still a flourishing family insurance business in the Bronxville

area. Mrs. Walden Laskey, the organist, sits in the front row. The picture is

also unusual for a father-son combination: Frederick W.B. Fowler is in the

back row on the left and his son Roger is the small blond boy seated in the

front row.

Robert G. Owen

is seated at the console of the newly dedicated Aeolian Skinner organ in

1949.  According to the local newspaper, 800 people, including the Presiding

Bishop of the Episcopal Church, attended Owen's opening recital on Trinity

Sunday, June 12, 1949. Over the years Robert Owen achieved fame as a recitalist

and recording artist and teacher.