Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History
Sauer, Anne
Branco, Jessica
Bennett, John
Crowley, Zachary
2000
Evening Party Association, ca. 1860 - ca. 1940
The Evening Party Association, one of Tufts' earliest organizations, hosted an annual series of winter formals held in Goddard Gymnasium. Purely a social group, its membership was composed of one senior from each of Tufts' fraternities. | |
Portraits of the Association reveal dapper young men in white ties and tails. Each year, the members of the organization would appoint a successor from within his fraternity, an important tradition. In 1927, a plaintive request from the Tufts Weekly for the group to arrange the winter dances highlights the valuable role played by The Evening Party Association. | |
The organization faded away as World War II approached and its last known dance occurred the second week of December, 1940.It was to be a 'gala affair' with music from Ted Marks, a man heralded as "second only to Gene Krupa in the skin-beating industry," - and all that for only $1.50. | |
Source: TW: UP056/-001/#002, UP056/-018/#001, UP056/-018/#003; CRI UP053/-004 | |
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