Meet the President and Director


Doug Vestal, President 
Doug Vestal, President

Doug Vestal is our current president.  He has been President for four years and was reelected for the 2012 calendar year.  Doug has been a member of the chapter for seven years.  He has experience singing with various college, church and civic groups.  He got his start directing a co-ed choir during his college days. He is a Folsom assistant director and sings bass in the chorus.  

Doug worked for the Sacramento Regional Transit District as an Analyst in the Procurement Department, retiring in November 2010. This was his second career; he previously worked for Pacific Bell Telephone as a Power Engineer where he took early retirement.

Doug is married to Ronda, lives in Citrus Heights and has three adult sons; two are in college and the third is an actor in living in North Hollywood.


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Kent Borrowdale, Director
Kent Borrowdale has been our director since 2003.  In January 2011, he was awarded Barbershopper of the Year (B.O.T.Y.) for 2010.  He has been a member of the society for more than thirty years.  He started singing with the Sacramento Chapter in 1975 and was an assistant director for several years. He was then appointed front-line director of the Davis-Woodland Chapter in 1993 and then assistant director after they merged with the Vacaville Chapter in 2000.  He has been a chapter president of Sacramento and Davis-Vacaville chapters and was an Area Counselor for several years, supervising and advising many of the chapters in Northern California.

Kent sang baritone in the Capitol Countrymen quartet for fifteen years.  He sang lead in the High Rollers, a Davis-based quartet that sang together for eighteen years.  He is currently the lead in TBDL, a quartet from the Folsom Chapter.  (Please visit our Chapter Quartet page.)  He has also sung in mixed quartets and currently sings in Delta Breeze, a mixed group that performs professionally in the Sacramento area at Christmastime.

Kent is married to Soni, has three grown boys and two grandchildren, ages 14 and 10. Both grandchildren sing and play the piano.

Last updated: 12/23/11
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