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...committee organizing the undergraduate 350th celebration received a grant of $5000 from BayBanks Trust Wednesday to help fund the three-day gala weekend in October...
Coletta said that since there was "no huge event" on Thursday, a dance "would be a nice way to open the weekend." The undergraduate celebration was planned because only about a quarter of the College will be attending the University gala in September...
...closing gala that night, Wolper will stage a kind of macro-Ed Sullivan show. The production calls for a 20-tier stage, waterfalls, lasers and a cast of 12,000, not counting the thousands in the audience who will participate in a flashlight stunt. Performers include the Statue of Liberty All-American Marching Band, a 476-member consortium from 92 colleges and universities that will have 40 sousaphones and 76 trombones; 300 banjo and fiddle players; an 800-voice chorus; a 250-voice gospel choir; an 850-member drill team; 300 jazzercize dancers; 200 square dancers and 300 tap dancers...
This will not be part of the ritz and glitz surrounding the University's 350th. This will be an intimate celebration for about 6400 students. It is the College's version of the 350th anniversary. And throughout the week-long festival, the gala celebrants will be treated to educational symposia, house dinners with alumni and concerts...
Though some 30,000 alumni and friends of the University will descend upon Cambridge to take part in the gala festivities planned for this September, less than 6000 of Harvard's 190,000 living alumni will be class representatives, serving as official participants of the four-day extravaganza...