1961

Alan Orschel, who has served so ably as regional chairman in our class campaign for the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, has agreed to be editor of our 25th yearbook.

The announcement came at a meeting of the 1961 executive committee on June 26 in New York at, of all places, the Princeton Club, just a few days after the class of 1960 had completed their 25th reunion.

As regional chairman, Alan has been at several executive committee meetings, hearing reunion chairman Ron Wybranowski and class president Dave Prewitt talk about the need to find someone to produce the book.

It is hoped Alan will get lots of help from the rest of you Pete Palin, ParkerBorg, Bill "Fig" Figilis, Marshall Ledger, and Bob' Rosier already have agreed to help. Alan needs more help, particularly in contacting classmates who have not answered the special class questionnaire. That yearbook questionnaire is different from the reunion questionnaire from alumni records. You need to fill out both, Alan stresses.

The one defect in the books of the other classes I've looked at are skimpy entries for classmates who for one reason or another failed to return the yearbook questionnaire. Alan is concerned about that, too. "Please encourage people to return it." We're trying.

Dave's also looking for help, and at our meeting in New York, we authorized Dave to expand the executive committee to include anyone who was helping our class: the entire alumni fund campaign cabinet for our class, those who take chairs for various aspects of our reunion, and those who are helping in other ways.

Fourteen of us were present for the New York meeting Alan, Dave, Wybro, Jay Torok, Larry Levy, Ron Boss,Rick Foster, Henry Eberhardt, Bob McIndoe, Gerry Kaminsky, Vic Rich, BertRowley, and me for a short time.

Wybro said Jeff Conn had agreed to be reunion treasurer. He's looking for chairs for publicity, meals, entertainment, children's program, women's program, sports, memorial services, and several other committees.

He's also outlined a tentative program for Thursday-Sunday, June 12-15, with some ideas of what to do before and after those basic reunion dates for those of you who want to be in the area for more than four days. One possibility: a recreation of our freshman trip.

Besides formal programs, Wybro is deliberately building in a lot of what he's calling "quiet time," when we can get to talk with each other, get involved in outdoor activities, or just plain wander around the Hanover Plain, seeing what is new about Dartmouth as well as seeing the Dartmouth we remember.

Henry Eberhardt brought along programs from the 1960 reunion. That group had 43 percent of their class make it to reunion 290 classmates with total attendance exceeding 900 persons. Their reunion was on Tuck Mall, the likely site of ours, with people housed in the Gold Coast dorms of Gile, Streeter, Lord, and Butterfield. And the weather was good throughout.

The New York meeting also was aimed at planning our reunion giving campaign, about which you'll be hearing in the near future. But head agent Ron Boss talked also about our strong 1985 campaign. At last word, we had exceeded our goal of $145,000 by $9,000.

Effective with the end of the 1985 campaign, Ron took on a new job, as reunion giving chairman, while Art Kelton became head agent. Art was fraternity chairman in the 1985 campaign. He'll be filling the open slots in our campaign cabinet.

We're also looking at the possibility of fund-raising incentives, which we have not used before, to entice gifts that are substantially larger than the normal annual gift, because the 25th reunion is a special time.

Other reports indicated the state of the class is in good shape. Vic Rich reported the treasury was solid. You should be receiving a fresh class directory for your use in planning attendance at this year's mini-reunions and at next year's big one.

Other news: Gerry Kaminsky has joined Cowen and Company at One Battery Park Plaza in New York as senior vice president. Oscar Arslanian was honored recently as business person of the year by the American Business Alliance of California, according to a report in the Hollywood Independent. The president of the organization, Larklo Der Sarkisian, said, "Mr. Arslanian exemplifies the true spirit of an Armenian businessman who is making a difference in his community. His many accomplishments in the business world and his unselfish contributions to Hollywood and the Armenian community make him the perfect business person of the year."

Report from Charlie Buffon on the 1961 Fellows: "This year's Class of 1961 Fellows, Cartter Frierson and Ron Wybranowski, were in Hanover participating in the program April 17-19. Following are excepts from a letter from Cartter to me describing what was obviously a very successful and timely program:

'On Thursday, April 18, we talked about developing trends in the computer industry and in business computing with Professor Tom Barthold's Economics 55 class called "Risk in the Modern Corporation." There was plenty of student interest, and we adjourned to a nearby lounge for an additional hour of discussion with a handful of students.

'That evening at 8:00 p.m., we had one of those thrilling interchanges with an excited group of listeners that made the entire trip worthwhile the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Society. This undergraduate group was keenly interested in our experiences as entrepreneurs as much as our use of personal computers in our own businesses, and the janitor had to throw us out at 11:00 p.m!

The next morning, we conducted a two-hour open house discussion in the Morrison Lounge at Rockefeller Hall with a group of faculty members and master's level students, talking as much about consulting as about computing and with a lot of very interesting interchange with faculty members who are doing some consulting.

'At noon, we had lunch with the faculty of the Computer and Information Science Program in the Hanover Inn. Assistant Professor Gerard Learmonth was the leader of this small group, and we had an interesting discussion concerning the challenges they face in getting a master's level program built up to a larger enrollment. Ron and I had a number of practical suggestions. . . .

'In the afternoon, we lectured to our largest audience, some 120 students and a good number of visiting parents, in the large lecture room in the math building. This was Professor Don Krieder's "Introduction to Computer Science" course. Our main focus in this class was the value of a liberal arts education for business professionals and the value of a college that, gives students exposure to how computing can best be employed as a tool in all the academic departments. We had a stimulating discussion with a handful of students after this class.' "

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