Word: albums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John L. Dampeer '38 has been elected to the chairmanship of the Class Album for next year, it was announced last night by Neil G. Melone '37, chairman of this year's committee...
...This page ' printed by permission of the senior Album Committee...
Featuring the 1937 book is an etching frontispiece, executed in drypoint by Charles Blessing of Boston. Another highspot in art-work is the Album's departure from the usual reprinting of familiar college scenes. Replacing these is a series of lithographs from unusual pencil sketches of the Houses--the WORK of the Russian artist, Constantin A. Pertzoff...
Last winter Victor repressed a series of early jazz masterpieces, sold them as the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Album. The late great Trumpet Player Leon Bismarck ("Bix") Beiderbecke's effortless glissando, accompanied by various old bands, was to be heard sprinkling graceful, spontaneous melody through all twelve sides of the set. Two non-commercial enterprises, the Hot Club of France and the New York Hot Club, have repressed a few scarce swing classics for their members. But the commercial record companies are chiefly interested in making and selling new records, and the hot clubs are composed of amateurs uninterested...
Plans are now under way to include pictures and biographies of the entire teaching staff and student body in the album scheduled to appear late in November. Brief paragraphs on each graduate will contain his college, fraternity, and local activities...