Raymond H. Haan attended Calvin College and the University of Michigan. He scrambled through thirty-nine years of teaching English, simultaneously pursuing his passion for church music by serving as organist and director of music and by publishing much choral, organ, and instrumental music for worship. Since retiring from teaching and active music-making, he has written a light-hearted book of serious grammar instruction and has produced miscellaneous prose and a good helping of poetry, including Singing the Gamut, Word Songs and Whimsies, and Alphabetical Frolic, published by Wipf and Stock. Raymond Haan lives in Cutlerville, Michigan, within a few miles of his four children and a goodly quiverful of grandchildren.
