Solicitors Start Charities Appeal

Some 130 solicitors for the Combined Charities will start the week-long drive for funds this evening. A goal of $12,000, well above last year's total contributions of $8,285, has been set.

"The drive can be successful if everyone remembers this is a community project," Peter J. Solomon '60, co-chairman of the appeal, commented last night. Entry solicitors will appeal for funds from 10 p.m. to midnight, starting tonight and continuing through Friday, and will try to reach every student.

Phillips Brooks House, the United Fund, Salzburg Seminar, the American Friends Service Committee, and the emergency fund for the University Band have been included as recommended charities. However, students may designate their money for any other charity, while the Student Council will distribute undesignated funds to the recommended list.

To spur gifts, the Coop has offered a prize of books or records to the library of the House with the largest per capita contribution.