Original sentence: All were members of the Chorus of the Chesapeake in Dundalk, Maryland, and three weeks after their first rehearsal they won the Dundalk Open and later the Chesapeake Bay Open.Bass Don Stratton came along in 1957, and tenor Bob Welzenbach joined in 1958.In Atlantic City in 1970, they finally won the competition.The beginning of the Oriole Four, 1970 International champion quartet, was in 1951 outside a Baltimore high school when students Fred King and Jim Grant first met, discovered they had a mutual fondness for harmony and sang an impromptu duet.The quartet, with occasional personnel changes, still met occasionally after its members had graduated, and in 1956 the name was changed to the Oriole Four.They joined SPEBSQSA a couple of years later, found two other students who liked to harmonize and formed the Deacon Four, with Grant on lead and King on baritone
Edited sentence: All were members of the Chorus of the Chesapeake in Dundalk, Maryland, and three weeks after their  first rehearsal they won the Dundalk Open and later the Chesapeake Bay Open.Bass Don Stratton came along in 1957; tenor Bob Welzenbach joined the others in 1958, and a winning combination was solidified.But the next year, in Atlantic City, 12 years of work and dedication paid off, and the Oriole Four were the new champs.But then the hills got steeper.That's when students Fred King and Jim Grant first met, discovered they had a mutual fondness for harmony and sang an impromptu duet.The quartet, with occasional personnel changes, was still getting together now and then after its members had graduated, and in 1956 the name was changed to the Oriole Four.The real beginning of the Oriole Four, 1970 International champion quartet, was in 1951 outside a Baltimore high school - although no one, of course, knew it at the time.They joined SPEBSQSA a couple of years later, found two other students who liked to harmonize and formed the Deacon Four, with Jim on lead and Fred on baritone