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Albany-Skidmore Singers
The Albany-Skidmore Singers, shown last week in the Azalea Garden by the Biology Building, will arrive in Venice on May 18, where they will perform at the Chiesa di Santa Maria Elisabetta. In Ravenna the chorus will sing 6 p.m. mass at the San Francesco Church, which dates back to the 4th Century, and holds the tomb of the writer Dante Alighieri. The joint choir will then have dinner in Ravenna that evening before proceeding on to Florence and then Pisa. The 11-day tour, designed by its choir director, the Department of Music�s David Griggs-Janower (seen at far right, middle row), concludes in Milan on May 28 before the trip back to the U.S. the next day. The group gave a Bon Voyage Concert on campus May 9.
Presidential Honor Society
About 35 undergraduates who are members of the Presidential Honor Society recently spent Saturday, April 18, trudging down to Indian Lake to clean up the pond between the Indian Quad parking lot and Western Avenue.
As part of their community service work, the students asked Gary Gossen, director of honors programs and associate dean of Undergraduate Studies, to organize a clean-up. The students picked up 30 truckloads of garbage. "We concluded the day at my house with dinner. It was a roaring success," said Gossen. Biology professor George Robinson was also involved. "He and I have a great interest in the wild areas around the campus for aesthetic and teaching purposes," Gossen said. "George uses the wooded areas by the pond to teach biology." Gossen said the student work was a "wonderful contribution."
Spring Clean Up Day
Chuck Snow of the Plant Department, right, checks out a blister earned clearing leaves off the sidewalk by the Downtown Campus during Spring Clean-Up �98 on April 16.Lawn work is handled outside Draper Hall by, above left to right, Jane Ausfeld of Plant Department ground maintenance, Roy Elk of Rockefeller College�s Provost Office, and Joe Natale of Plant Department ground maintenance. More than two dozen employees helped out downtown and then the next day, April 17, nearly 50 more participated in the Uptown Campus clean-up, aided by numerous members of the football team.
