Derek and I were very happy to attend the Crescent Operatic Society's 50th anniversary celebration at the Wickwood Country Club, near Albourne, on Saturday, October 19.

Actually, the first formation of the Crescent was Mixed Spice in 1951.

It was good to see and talk to old friends who helped to make the society what is was and is today.

It is hard to keep a group of people together but if we can't help singing, why not?

We remember all the comradeship and pleasure the society has given to a great variety of people, performers, helpers and audiences through the years.

My parents, George and Dorothy Parsons, would have been so very proud.

-Mrs M Sheila Brown, Middleton Avenue, Hove