1961

Good news about the acknowledged star of our 15th reunion dinner: Oscar Arslanian has been named director of press and artist relations at Capitol Records.

It's the kind of job your teen-aged kids would drool over. He's responsible for all corporate and artist publicity nationally, as well as for something the press release calls "artist image and career development." He'll be based at Capitol's main offices in Hollywood.

Previously, Oscar's been in sales, most recently as national sales manager for Capitol Magnetics, and prior to that, with Memorex as eastern, then western sales manager in the consumer division. His family is artistic, too. Wife Nyla is on the board of the Hollywood Arts Council and in local theater groups. Fifteenyear-old son Aram has his own rock band.

Mailbag: Tony Horan writes from New York that he's now a Fifth Avenue urologist, having moved his offices from elsewhere in the city. He says he also continues his research work on "cryosurgery of the prostate for cancer" (for us laymen, that's destruction of tissue using extremely cold temperatures) and the "use of silicone polymers for urologic patients." (Let's not try to translate that.)

But Tony's also got an artistic side, which was amply demonstrated back when we were in school by his work as editorial-page editor of The Dartmouth and with the Dartmouth Players. Today, he's expressing that artistic interest in painting. He writes that during summer vacation, "I did some experimental paintings in acrylic at the Chattaugua Institute. The paintings explore the possibility of reproducing some of the brilliance of water-color technique in a medium that is usually thought of as opaque."

Notes: Tony reports John Starr has returned to the East Coast to pursue a political science career. Tony and John, of course, are Alpha Theta brothers. ... Pat Walsh has been named director, finance and administration, of the North Latin America division of Pepsi-Cola in Caracas, Venezuela. ... In case you missed it, Ron Heinemann represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of Josiah Bunting III as president of Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden- Sydney, Va., and Dave Prewitt did the honors at the inauguration of Robert Booking Steves as president of Haverford.

Reliving senior year: Noted from the front pages of October 1960 issues of The Dartmouth... Art Latimer's judiciary committee issuing letters of censure to four men who had dates in their rooms beyond the midnight cutoff. ... Princeton bans smoking in classrooms and lec- ture halls, joining Harvard and Yale. ... JohnManske, announcing the Prohibition theme for our senior Winter Carnival: "We like the era and feel the whole campus, especially fraternity social life, will revolve around the theme. ... We anticipate a rejuvenation of the Prohibition atmosphere which prevailed in the late 19205." Art Kelton, then president of the Young Republicans, predicts on October 26, "My confidence in the Nixon-Lodge ticket is not shaken, and we confidently plan a large victory rally for the Republicans on November 8. ..." Sam Bell noting proudly that a meeting of the Undergraduate Council had adjourned in "less than an hour," after a couple of reports and a discussion of the sandwich concession. . . . And that's the ghost of Dartmouth past.

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