The Vinyl Record Club celebrated sophomore and treasurer Connie Krane’s birthday on Oct. 8 with a presentation about the British Invasion in music.

“I felt very grateful,” Krane said. “So many people came to tell me happy birthday.”

Krane chose the British theme to reflect her British heritage. She was born in Cambridge, England, and lived there until she was 5 years old.

“England has had such a big influence in music,” Krane said. “It’s something that can really be celebrated.”

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Officers Violet Bradley, Tigerlily Eltzschig, and Connie Krane prepare to start their presentation on the British Invasion. The meeting was mainly to celebrate Krane's birthday with a theme that she chose.

The meeting consisted of a slideshow about the British Invasion, which explained in detail the extreme popularity of bands like the Beatles and also provided information about the “Battle of Britpop” between bands Oasis and Blur.

Vice president and sophomore Violet Bradley is the club’s vice president, and she helped Krane choose the theme for the meeting.

“It was originally going to just be about the British Invasion of the ‘60s,” Bradley said. “It evolved into making it about popular British music around that time.”

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Members of the Vinyl Record Club celebrate with a birthday cake. The cake was kept a surprise from Krane, and was revealed to have been signed by her close friends.

Sophomore and secretary Tigerlily Eltzschig surprised members with a birthday cake and had all of Krane’s closest friends sign the cake container.

“I felt like the meeting was a fun way to celebrate our friend and her culture,” Bradley said. “When [Eltzschig] brought cake, I thought it was a sweet thing for her to do.”

Eltzschig gave Krane the cake with the handwritten messages at the end of the meeting.

“I felt really happy about the meeting because we got to celebrate [Krane], one of my friends,” Eltzschig said.

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