Glee Club Heads West This Spring

A DARTMOUTH GLEE CLUB trip to the Pacific Coast, discussed for some years and often urged by alumni leaders in the Far West, will definitely take place this spring. The trip will be the first that Dartmouth's "singing ambassadors" have ever taken all the way across the country.

By chartered plane, fifty members of the Glee Club, Director Paul R. Zeller, and Edward C. Lathem '51, representing the College administration, will take off from New York on the morning of March 31. That night, in Omaha, the Club will give the first concert in the series of nine that will take it also to Denver, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston. The full itinerary is printed on this page, together with the names and addresses of the local alumni chairmen from whom ticket information can be obtained.

The trip will begin during the College's spring recess, which runs from March 24 to April 9. The Glee Club will fly from Houston to Boston at the end of its tour and will get back to classes on Monday, April 16, one week later than the rest of the College. Textbooks will be taken along by the undergraduate songsters, but the formal concerts are only one part of the tour and studying time may be extremely limited. Informal gatherings with secondary school students interested in Dartmouth and quartet and octet performances before schools and other groups, and possibly on radio and TV, not to mention sightseeing, alumni hospitality and the social whirl, will keep the two-week period filled to the brim. Professor Zeller, as director, will shepherd his green-jacketed flock through this busy tour and will have the support, moral at least, of Mr. Lathem, Baker Library's director of special collections, who will make the full trip as the College's representative for enrollment, admission and public relations activities.

Immensely successful as a singing group and as student ambassadors to the alumni and public, the Dartmouth Glee Club has filled the College mail basket with floods of complimentary letters after every tour in recent years. Following the joint concert with Columbia and Pennsylvania in Carnegie Hall, New York, on December 2, a Columbia graduate wrote to Professor Zeller:

"I wish to say as an interested listener to many forms of music that the Dartmouth Glee Club seemed to me to be outstanding in tonal quality, pitch, expressiveness, balance, poise, confidence and stage decorum. ... Your club succeeded in giving immense satisfaction to the listener who immediately felt that confidence which comes from a quick observation of the evidence of sound and imaginative training.... Your approach in vocal training and development of repertory is a lesson for all college conductors to give heed to."

The Itinerary

Date City March 31 Omaha Concert April 1 Arrive Denver April 2 Denver Concert April 3 Portland Concert April 4 Tacoma Concert April 5 Seattle Concert April 6 Arrive San Francisco April 7 San Francisco Concert April 8 Arrive Los Angeles April 9 Los Angeles Concert April 10 In Los Angeles April 11 Arrive Dallas April is Dallas Concert April 13 Arrive Houston April 14 Houston Concert

Local Chairman

A.W. Gordon '41, 24 Seward St.

R.L. Rickenbaugh '28, 777 Broadway S.H. Martin '27, 610 Pacific Bldg. F.P. Haley '38 3018 N. Puget Sound G.S. Brown '42, 1719 26th Ave., No.

R.C. Smith '26, 430 Main St.

E.L. Ramsey '35, 8480 Beverly Blvd.

E. Fain '27, 1510 First Natl. Bank Bldg.

R.C. Stanwood '39, 3100 Travis St.

Director Paul R. Zeller

The Injunaires, whose spirituals and barber shop ballads are a lively and unfailingly successful part of every Glee Club concert.

Professor Zeller directs rehearsal in Rollins Chapel three nights a week.

John Wheatley '56 (right), Glee Club president, and Edward Bixby'57, manager, with the high-fidelity tape recorder which the Clubregularly uses at rehearsals to perfect its choral work.