VOLUME 12, NO. 3     MAY 1999

Endowment will keep the music alive

In its most recent performance, the WPI Glee Club helps launch The Campaign for WPI at Mechanics Hall on April 22.

he WPI Glee Club, the University's oldest student organization, will remain in full voice well into the 21st century thanks to an endowment initiative recently established by a group of dedicated alumni.

Founded in 1874, the organization performs more than 20 times each year in Alden Memorial and in concert halls and cathedrals throughout the world. In recent years the group has toured Austria, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic. Its repertoire ranges from Mozart, Stravinsky and Schubert to contemporary music. Louis Curran, associate professor of music, has directed the Glee Club since 1966.

"The endowment will help ensure that future members have the opportunity to experience that same sense of joy as their predecessors in this select group of college minstrels," says Theodore L. "Ted" Dysart '94, a Glee Club alumnus who is spearheading the endowment effort. "Those of us who are helping to establish this fund are doing so because we understand the connection between the pleasure the Glee Club historically has given to its members and its audiences and the impact of this group's traditions and activities on the quality of campus life in the next millennium."

For more information, contact dysart@alum.wpi.edu. Contributions may be sent to the WPI Glee Club Endowment Fund, Office of Development and University Relations, WPI, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609-2280.