Philadelphia
SINCE our Annual Dinner Meeting on March sixth we have had a great deal of pleasant excitement down here in Philadelphia with the Dartmouth College Glee Club including this city on its spring tour.
Sunday afternoon, March 30, forty men piled out of a Greyhound bus at the Bala Cynwyd Methodist Church and were sent off in pairs to various alumni and church members' homes for dinner. At eight o'clock that evening the Glee Club put on a splendid sacred concert at the church followed by a "social hour" given by the young people's organization under the direction of Dr. Franklin Duncombe. It is also rumored that JohnHeston '28 held an open house for the Glee Club members where much informal singing took place.
On Monday evening at 8:00 P.M. the Glee Club rendered an excellent concert in the Rose Room of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, singing before a crowd of some 400. Every group of numbers was well applauded and the surprise ending of the concert put everyone in excellent humor for the dancing and party that followed. Aside from the bar closing at midnight and the fact that it took hours to get a microphone installed for the girl vocalist, everything went off very smoothly.
The club is indebted to the following men who provided lodging and meals plus dates for the Glee Club members: John C. Heston '28, Earnest A. Wright III '28, Robert H. Shertz '36, Henry B. King Jr. '33, James W. Hathaway '37, Charles L. Levesque '34, Robert Mayo '45, Frederic S. Balch 'l9, John E. Flanagan Jr. '28, Richard W. Hardt '34, Howard T. Levis '27, William R. MacKinney '32, S. S. Rutherford 'OB, Herbert N. Heston '34, Cornwall Miller '39.
We hope the eight Glee Club members who missed the bus to Washington and gave an impromptu concert at Trefethen's Bar for coffee and doughnuts were reimbursed for their train travel to catch up with their fellows in our nation's capitol.
Remember informal luncheons are held every Tuesday noon at the Princeton Club, between lath & 13th Sts. on Locust St., and for those who care to make carfare home, bridge sessions follow.
