It’s really happening! The Glee Club departs for Buenos Aires on March 4th. CLICK HERE to check out the tour concert schedule and read more below about our planning progress!
Across the Virginia Glee Club’s 145-year history, only seven tours have been completed outside the U.S. This is the first tour to occur since the Tour de France in 2000 and is the first ever tour to the southern hemisphere. To say the least, we’re really excited.
We are also humbled and deeply grateful to be the beneficiaries of enormous generosity from our alumni, our fans, our families and someone called “Anonymous.” You have supported this tour, its expenses and its painstaking planning, across three seasons and three VGC executive committees and we are eager to thank you for making this tour a reality.
We are proud to say our fiscal diligence and your generosity over the past three years have paid off, and our tour fundraising is a success! While some expenses are still ahead of us (“variable charges that will be billed after tour concludes,” reads the contract from the tour company), the essential tour costs are now paid, including full and partial fee waivers for five guys, and we’re still in the black. Members of the Club have paid $2500 to participate in the tour, and continued gifts to the tour fund will enable us to lower the individual costs to each member in the form of a rebate after all remaining invoices from the tour company are settled.
We’ll be eager to share details from our trip when we return and encourage all our alumni and friends to attend the 145th Anniversary Reunion Weekend April 22-14, 2016. At the banquet on that Saturday evening, the Club will perform tour concert repertoire, show photos and video, and share presentable-in-polite-company stories of the tour.
Experiences like these are somewhat addictive, and you bet we’ll be doing this again one day soon. Thank you for your faith in us and for your continued support as we write a new chapter in the story of the Virginia Glee Club.
THANK YOU
to our International Tour Sponsors
SPECIAL GIFTS
Anonymous
Classical Movements
VERY MERRY HIGHLY LOVABLE BENEFACTOR
(gifts of $2500 and above)
Lloyd F. Stamy, Jr. ’73
& Shadyside Presbyterian Church
John R. ’72 & Christine S. Wood
BUS TO THE AIRPORT FOR PARTY OF 45
($1000-2499)
Raheem Choudhry ’06
Elliot G. Freier ’83
Stanley A. & Dorothy E. Stringer
PRESIDENT’S VALLEY ROAD CLUB
($505-999)
Anonymous
R. William Bayliss, III ’74
David Chen
Margaret K. Doyle
Jeffrey L. Reider ’74 & Charles F. Otis
James J. & Laurie W. Wheaton
WE’RE NAMING A BUS SEAT AFTER YOU
($250-504)
James E. Ballowe, Jr. ’78
Reuben A. Basantes ’92
Biltmore Grill
Matthew M. Bond ’14
William S. Cudlipp, III ’62
Michael R. Cunningham & Anita P. Barbee Cunningham
Keith A. & Cindy Davis
Timothy O. Jarrett ’94
R. Wayne Jones ’84
Robert V. Jones ’77
Robert A. Lacy, Jr.
Samuel R. Jr. ’55 & Elizabeth Marney
David S. Rainey
James B. Robertson ’02
Ann H. Sullivan
H. Ruffin & Catherine S. Tyler
James L. & Kay H. Windsor
Christopher John DiBiagio Wood ’00
FEELING THE LOVE FROM FOSSILS AND FANS
(all other gifts)
Anonymous
Christopher S. Ambrose ’97
Willie A. Andersen ’66
Mark D. ’79 & Paula A. Bateman
Richard J. Bennett ’64
Richard Burgess Block ’10
in honor of Frank S. Albinder
Martin J. Boo ’90
Daniel C. Brown ’10
Nathan K. Brown ’00
Kevin X. C. Chen ’17
Coupe DeVille’s
Andy Drennan
Jimmie K. ’58 & Rebecca L. Crowder
Thomas M. Deal ’03
Claude E., Jr. ’75 & Margaret J. Denton
Andrew I. ’90 & Inga R. Erickson
Bonnie J. Ford
Betsy Garfinkel
Patrick L. Garner ’72
Joseph Gregorio
Benjamin L. Grosz ’03
Kerry R. Haber ’77
Bobbi Halpin
Jeffrey & Adrianne Hamilton
William D. ’72 & Phyllis G. Hasty
Jonathan T. Hine, Jr.
B. Kirk Holman ’72
James M. & Judith B. Jaeger
Susan S. Jones
Frederick M. Kaspick ’73
Matthew R. ’80 & Katherine W. Koch
Martin J. Kopser ’84
R. Edward Kothmann
M. Louise Largiader
Douglass Wm. List ’77
Heather Lister
Little John’s
Patricia A. Lloyd
Donald G. & Anne R. Loach
Andrea Lytle
Richard W. McBride ’63
Bruce MacDougal ’68
Seth McChesney ’15
Terence P. McGovern ’73
James A. McLendon ’73
Marsha R. Musser
Diana Patriquin
Wilson S. Pillow ’13
Raising Cane’s
Jim Shaffran
Daniel Shomaker ’99
Jeffrey H. Stark ’83
Ralph J. Stoudt, Jr. ’59
Ludvik Z. & Katherine H. Svoboda
Bruce K. Tammen
Norris M. Tollefson ’77
Steve Toth
John S. Wadlington ’84
William C. Wheaton
Kathleen Whittle
James E. Wiser ’92
Joseph & Lisa Wright
George Wu ’12
Douglas H. & Diana Zanzot
