The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
B BOYS WILL GO
 TO PACIFIC COAST ON CONCERT TOUR
Glee Club Of Birmingham Southern Leaves Next
 Sunday

Thirty-five happy young collegians, members of the Birmingham-Southern college glee club. will leave June 15 on a concert tour that will carry them all | the way to the Pacific Coast. The itinerary includes seven states and a trip to Catalina Islands. off the California coast. Gordon Erickson. club director. says this will be one of the longest tours yet made by a college organization. The club will, travel in private Pullman and will be away 16 days.
 Prof. Keith Powlison of the college faculty has just recturned from a trip to the west coast, during which he completed arrangements for the tour. MT. Erickson had been at work on the details for more than year.
 Il am glad to tour was arranged in year when the club has such a wealth of unusual talent" said MT. Erickson.
 Other Tours Planned
 The prime purpose is to create a closer relationship between the large colleges of the west and Birmingham Southern. The tour, it is believed, will be the forerunner of more extensive tour next fall
 The club will give concerts in Shreve- port, La. Dallas, Forth Worth and Abilene, Tex, Tuscon, Ariz.. Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; Lari- mo, Wyo.; Denver, Col, and Pomona, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cal. Other cities, not yet announced, will be visited
 The boys will render three types of program: Typical glee club programs. sacred and classical performances. In a number of cities, they will appear at luncheons of civic clubs.
 All along the route. plans already are under way to give the club members rousing reception. They will be en- tertained at banquets, dances and with side tours to famous places of interest.
 Boost For Birmingham
 Mir. Erickson and college officials be- lieve the tour will be big boost for Birmingham, as we'll as for the col lege. D. E. McLendon. president of the city commission, will send letters to the mayors of all cities on the route, containing Birminghan1's official greet ings and setting forth some of the city's peculiar advantages.
 Praising this years glee club as the best in Birmingham-Southern history, Mir. Erickson is entirely confident the
 
 clubs in the leading colleges of the ter ritorx to be toured.
 The special trip to the Catalina islands will be made from Los Angeles. On the island. the boys will stage a con cert at one of the famous hotels, where hundreds of the worlds most prominent people gather at this time of the year.
 Requests have been received by the glee club management to have the con certs broadcast over radio. As soon as dates and hours are definitely de- termined, full details of this feature will be published. Thus, many friends of the boys back home can hear them do their stuff thousands of miles away.
 First Trip West
 Most of the, glee club members are native Alabamians. Some of them will be taking their first trip to the great western country. # s
 Although Birmingham-Southe may be unknown to the west. there are doubtless many former Alabamians liv- ing in the various cities to be visited Birmingham people who know former citizens of the state now in the west are urged by the glee club management to write them of the tour, so they may greet the boys on their arrival and as sist in their entertainment. In re- turn, the club members will do quite bit of entertaining themselves. Brick son promises.
 The tour will start at 10 80 o'clock next Sunday night from the Terminal station and Shreveport, La, will be the first stop.