*** Source: Trinity Church, San Jose, California: Advent, 1860, to Easter, 1903. San Jose, Calif.: Trinity Parish Guild, 1903. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 20--- One of the most active parish organizations at this time was St. Mary's Guild, composed of young women who showed boundless zeal in devising means for realizing any prospective improvements in the church buildings proposed by the rector. It was through the energy of this guild that the little English porch was built, and the guild rooms added to the Parish House. With the aid of the Sunday School, St. Mary's Guild furnished the Parish House with seats and gas fixtures. It was during Rev. John B. Wakefield's administration, in 1890, that the vested choir of men and boys was inau- gurated under the direction of Clarence T. Urmy as organist and choirmaster. The first boy to offer his services was Adrian Machefert. The other boys who were members of the choir during the first year of its organization were: Anthony Du Brutz, Hal Hathaway, Seymour Montgomery, Arthur Caldwell, Albert Stephens, William White, Charles York, Edwin Dorsey, Herbert Edwards, Percy Johnson, Loui King, Frank King, Edward Whitney, Henry Plate, Leslie Harkness, Carl Crichton, Leverage Lenham, Harry Wishaar, Lloyd Parmenter, Senior Gohranson, Henry Bretherton, Fred Perrin, Raymond Perkins. There were six men in the choir during this first year: Marcus T. Brower, Charles W. Knox, Wallace O. Avery, J. J. Hendricks, F. C. W. Thompson, Stephen Maynard. Only those who attended Trinity Church before the days of the vested choir can realize how much it has helped, through all these years, to bring out the beauty of the church service; and only those who have been present at choir rehearsals can have a faint appreciation of the devotion of the choirmaster to his work. By April, 1895, the old church debt of about four thousand dollars, had all been paid. A new debt, how- ever, of two thousand dollars, had been incurred for street improvement. *** end ***