Rochester

The Dartmouth Club of Rochester has just completed another successful appearance by the Dartmouth Glee Club Saturday evening, March 28, at Strong Auditorium on the University of Rochester campus. Attendance totaled 664 people. Twenty-four high school students in the Rochester area attended the concert at a special student rate of one dollar.

Proceeds from the event, about $1000 after expenses, go to the Dartmouth Rochester Regional Scholarship, which is given once every four years to an outstanding student from the area. Currently, it is held by Robert L. Savage of 55 Knoll Top Drive, who is completing his freshman year.

Robert D. Van Reypen '47 headed the Glee Club committee and was aided by some twenty committee members. John L. Greisberger '46, secretary of the club, coordinated ticket sales, assisted by Pete Shedden '39 and Carl Shineman '33.

Publicity efforts for the Glee Club resulted in eight advance news stories in the Democrat & Chronicle and the Rochester Times Union, an appearance by the Injunaires on WHEC-TV at 5:30 Saturday afternoon, a radio interview, and the playing of Glee Club recordings by disc jockeys on five Rochester radio stations.

Other news concerns the efforts William B. Hale III '44, president, is making to land Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller '30 for the club's annual meeting and banquet in early May when the governor is on his post-legislative tour of upstate New York.

Harry A. Holmlund '24 headed the special gifts section of the Capital Gifts Campaign, which was recently completed in the Rochester area. Bob Patterson '36 was in charge of the general solicitation.

John Osborn '45 and Ed Leene '43 report that 38 completed applications, a larger number than last year, for the next freshman class at Dartmouth were filed by students from Rochester. Substantially all of them have had an alumni interview, and two have received early acceptances by the College. The club is aiming for ten boys from the Rochester region at Dartmouth next fall. In 1958, eight of fourteen students accepted by the college in the vicinity entered Dartmouth, an average that is thought to top all other Ivy schools here. In Osborn's words, echoed by many new Dartmouth parents in the area, "We just outwork 'em." Chet Barry '40 is in charge of alumni interviewing.

Forthcoming club activities include the intercollegiate rowing regatta at Syracuse and the annual summer picnic.

Secretary, 100 Rowland Parkway, Rochester 10, N. Y.