And even though there are more than 12 a cappella groups currently on campus, that seemingly daunting figure didn’t stop the Fallen Angels from emerging on the a cappella scene a year-and-a-half ago.

Current president Sarah Calkins ’04 says the group is continuing to grow and expects that it won’t disappear anytime soon.

“I look forward to coming back for our reunion concert,” Calkins says.

Calkins says that Fallen Angels’ all-female membership and specialty in contemporary music distinguish it from its competitors.

“I think we’re the most radically different a cappella group that has formed in the past 10 to 15 years,” Calkins says.

Karen C. Kwok ’05, a member of the Radcliffe Pitches, says that while she thinks there are too many co-ed a cappella groups on campus, the College could use even more single-sex groups.

“I don’t feel like there’s a shortage of people,” she says.

But Illingworth says that even with the different specialties of each group, he’s concerned that, at some point, quality begins to suffer.

“With a cappella groups there are many styles of music, [but] in a sense I worry about stretching the musical talent too thin,” Illingworth says.

As for the survival of his public services groups, Smith says he imagines “some will [last], some won’t and some will probably change over time.”

Lauren E. Bonner ’04, current president of Har’d Corps, says the organization is continuing to grow, despite Smith’s absence.

The group still sponsored its First Year Day of Service last Saturday and, for the first time, collaborated with PBHA to expand the event.

“I think Har’d Corps may be taking different directions than it has in the past, but that’s proven to be the nature of it. It sort of reinvents itself,” Bonner says.

Hyde says she is already taking steps to make sure that volunteers for Strong Women, Strong Girls will be able to run the group after her graduation.

She says she gives the volunteers a planned curriculum to use with the elementary school students during the first 10 weeks of the program and then lets the volunteers create their own curricula for the last six weeks.