4 PM Curfew Quartet Members

The Quartet

The members of 4 PM Curfew are:

John Zimmerman — Tenor

John’s a Lancaster County native, born and raised in Reinholds, Pa. He either knows someone in the audience, or is related to them. John is retired from Case New Holland, where he worked as a Payroll Specialist for 41 years. He and his wife Dee live in Lancaster. John has sung in many quartets; the first being a gospel quartet that he began singing with at age 15. He still sings with a gospel quartet, the Conestoga Four, and has sung with several other barbershop quartets. While living in Wisconsin on a work assignment, he sang with the Midwest Vocal Express, where he won two international medals. John has several classic cars and thinks waxing autos is fun.

Jim Herrick — Lead

Born extraordinarily young our Lead singer had much to learn but claims unique intellectual skills explain why he now knows it all. He was delighted when his boss announced that as a “know-it-all” Jim had become “overqualified” for every job in the business and promoted Jim to being unemployed or, as Jim calls it, retired. Jim‘s first professional singing job was while he was in high school when his then barbershop quartet performed for a corporate holiday party for the fee of $5. While that was the high water mark of his musical career he has continued singing throughout his life. Travelling and living around the world during his 30-year Air Force career gave him the opportunity to sing in many Barbershop Harmony Society chapter choruses and quartets. He sang with the Alexandria Virginia Harmonizers for several years including their International Chorus Championship year in 1998. He also competed with Hawaii’s Aloha Chorus in Auckland, New Zealand. He was the director of Air Force’s Randolph Blue Notes in the mid-1980s who once sang for a Charles Lindbergh Foundation fund raising event with Jimmy Doolittle and most of the Mercury Astronauts attending. He was in a quartet that sang that National Anthem at a Baltimore Ravens game that many say was a better performance than Roseanne Barr gave in San Diego some years prior. John Glenn took a CD that Jim participated in recording on his historic return to space. This is the source of Jim’s claim that his music has been out of this world, but others say that, unfortunately, it also came back. Jim has an odd hobby of flying his powered parachute. You may have seen him up in the sky around Lancaster as it doesn’t go very fast and he can’t get it very high either. Jim and his wife Roxanne, who also is retired from a career in the US Air Force, have lived in the Lancaster area since 2003.

Larry Lamberth — Bass

Larry Lamberth, our Bass, hails originally from Texas, but lived in Hawaii 28 years before moving to Lancaster. Jim (Lead) and Larry sang together when Jim was in Hawaii, so Larry thought he should move here to continue “making music”. Larry has performed with quartets since first joining the Aloha Chapter of SPEBSQSA in 1991 and performed with the Sounds of Aloha Chorus in Honolulu. Larry started his Barbershop career singing Baritone, moved to Tenor for about 5 years, and then moved to Bass. Larry is an Engineer by profession, but retired early from the Hawaiian Telephone Company to join his wife, Addie, in her tax preparation practice. Now with the tax practice closed, he is in full retirement and spends more time enjoying life.

Steve Sturgis — Baritone

Steve’s our junior member (though not by much). Despite his relative youth, he’s already sung with three quartets—Keynote Address, Phenomena, and 4 PM Curfew. Steve is a licensed Professional Engineer, and occasionally does consulting work, but not enough that it interferes with singing, which is far more important! In 2005, he retired from his job as an Industrial Engineer for M&M/Mars. He’s currently volunteering at the Donegal Middle School, tutoring Mathematics. He’s also the Director of Music for Donegal Presbyterian Church. Steve lives in Mount Joy with his wife Debbie and daughter Beth.