Glee Club Seeks Additional Funds To Tour Europe

Three thousand alumni of the Glee Club soon will receive appeals to make up the final $15,000 needed for the concert tour of Europe next summer, the first since 1921, Carlton P. Fuller '19, president of the Glee Club Foundation, revealed last night.

In letters sent yesterday to all former Glee Club singers, Fuller was joined by former and present conductors in asking for funds and in pointing out that Club members have already raised $20,000 for the European tour.

G. Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor and James Edward Ditson professor of Music, and Archibald T. Davison '06, conductor of the 1921 trip and James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, emeritus, wrote to the alumni: "You know us well enough to appreciate that this trip is not planned as a holiday--we expect it to make musical history for Harvard and all the countries concerned."

Club officers last night announced that seven countries are included on a tentative itinerary. Tht tour will begin on June 17 with a concert at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. From there, the Club will go to Belgium, five cities in France, seven in Italy, two in Austria, eight in Germany, and a final week in England. The six-week tour will end July 31.

Tentative concerts include, among others, appearances at London's Westminster Abbey, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, in Rome, and the Plazzo Vecchio in Florence.