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Gregory A. Dorsainville '02, the station's general manager, is heading up one of WHRB's latest projects to encourage more Harvard students to listen. The station is producing a compilation compact disc of Harvard music--the greatest hits of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Mozart Society Orchestra, a handful of Harvard a cappella groups and the Kuumba singers--that Dorsainville hopes to send to incoming students the summer before their first year at Harvard...
...supplement the effort, the station is enlisting the help of a penguin to win over Harvard listeners. The WHRB board (or 'whirrbees' as they call themselves) voted recently to change the WHRB mascot from a chicken to a penguin...
...plan is for the new mascot--tentatively named Herbie--to make appearances in front of the Science Center or at sports events to promote WHRB's ongoing 60th anniversary concert series...
...station's compers agree that a push to increase the WHRB profile is necessary...
...Anybody who's serious about classical music in the Boston area considers WHRB the best--and not just during orgy period when lots of wild and wonderful things happen," says Robert D. Levin '68, the Robinson professor of music at Harvard and an alumnus of the station...