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...Villanova 52; 2. Texas-El Paso 51; 3. Auburn 27; 4. (tie) Tennessee and Kansas 24; 6. Maryland 22; 7. Harvard 16; 8 (tie) Dartmouth, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana 14; 12. Texas A&M 12 3/5; 13. (tie) Houston, Southern lllinois, Nebraska 12; 16. Washington 11 3/5; 17 (tie) Florida, Mississippi College, Prairie View A&M 10; 20 (tie) Middle Tennessee, Eastern Michigan...
...Club's North American tour last summer, a tour that celebrated the group's 120th anniversary. Club members were also saying farewell to their conductor of the past eight years, F. John Adams. In a controversial decision, the position of director of choral activities had been passed to Jameson M. Marvin, former director of choral activities at Vassar College. The transition leaves the Glee Club troubled, as senior members try to guide the group through a difficult passage...
...North American tour last summer, the Glee Club performed in 24 cities in the U.S. and Canada over an eight-week period. Traveling mainly by bus, the club gave 32 concerts before an estimated 60,000 people and spent $55,000, a figure that William M. Gorjance '79, summer tour manager, said "was a relatively low budget compared to other tours--I was conscious of transportation costs...
...Last spring, Dean Rosovsky established a student search committee composed of members of the Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Collegium Musicum to find a successor to Adams. After narrowing the field and inviting the frontrunners to Cambridge to conduct the three groups, the committee chose Jameson M. Marvin, who was then offered the position by the Music Department. Adams is presently studying conducting in Germany...
Club executives estimate 15 people have left the organization since Marvin took over in September. "Statistically, the number is higher than ever," Adam M. Finkel '79, Glee Club secretary, said. "We've personally tried hard to find everyone's reasons for dropping out... We're not in any trouble, though, and we're not hurting for people." Wheadon, however, said the number of dropouts this year is not excessive. "We generally accept a certain number of people keeping in mind that by spring tour we want to have a group of about 50," he explained...