Radcliffe Utilizes Crimson Band for 70th's Fund Drive

Music soothes the savage beast. Radcliffe will use this principle, in the person of the Crimson Band, to try to soothe some donations out of their not-so-savage alumnae at Symphony Hall, Boston, on December 5.

Radcliffe's Seventieth Anniversary Fund, with a goal of $800,000, has also employed the talents of Susan Reed in an effort to meet the June, 1949, deadline.

With hopes that the band concert will bring University undergraduates in to the contribution ranks, Mrs. Brewer. Blackall, national chairman of the fund, announced, "If the Harvard Band's box-office appeal is what I expect, we will follow it up with another concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City shortly after the first of the year."

Wide Scope of Operations

More than one-sixth of the total has been raised already and under the direction of the Radcliffe Enterprises, no stone--at least none with a rich vein in it--is being left unturned.

Included in the long list are Ann Radcliffe dresses at proletariate prices, designed for children after the costume of a lady Ann Radcliffe portrait; kerchiefs stenciled with the college shield; hand-knitted argyle socks; baby booties; painted trays; Radcliffe table linen; chocolates; and game-of-chance equipment.

Money in Publishing

The campaign has also resulted in the establishment of a new publishing house, the Apple Tree Press at Hancock, New Hampshire, which has already published one volume and is on the lookout for other 'Cliffe alumnae manuscripts.