GERALD G. HOTCHKISS has sung in Christian and Jewish choirs, choruses, in octets, quartets, duets, barbershop, madrigals and Broadway reviews under many of the finest conductors in the United States as an amateur for more than sixty years. He is also the author of ""Life Begins at Seventy"" and the children's books ""Emily in Khara Koto,"" ""Claire at the Crocker Farm,"" and ""Zoe and the Pirate Ship Revenge,"" all from Sunstone Press.