1961

Oscar Arslanian sends results from the Tanzi Plate reunion project. Winners are Tom Conger, Noel Kuhrt, and Mike Murphy. They'll each display the plate for one year. The raffle, conducted at reunion, raised $885. The class treasury matched that amount for a total of $1,770. Friends of Dartmouth Football received $1,327.50, and Dartmouth's solar racing team got $442.50 in the name of the Class of 1961. The Tanzi Plate, you'll recall, is the 1969 "Tanzi" license plate that the late Harry Tanzi presented during our 25th Reunion to be used to raise funds for Dartmouth. Writes Oscar, "The Tanzi Plate and the spirit behind it will add immeasurably to our experience of reunion and to the coffers of such worthy causes."

Administrative budget cuts of more than $300,000 have severely affected the football Erogram, and Friends of Dartmouth Footall is offsetting these losses. Oscar wrote Charlie Chapman, who is heading up the Friends of Dartmouth Football (his son Pete is this year's team co-captain): "Thanks so much for taking responsibility for the cause and giving me the incentive to direct the monies to it."

Henry Eberhardt is leaving as director of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund after 11 years to become vice president for Development, Alumni Affairs and Public Relations at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ever since he returned to Hanover, Henry has been our Hanover anchor, looking after class needs in addition to his duties for the College. Thanks, Henry, for all you have done for us. Henry's liaison responsibilities now fall on the 12 other classmates living in and around Hanover. Could we have a volunteer?

Class President Art Kelton wasn't about to let Henry get away from the Alumni Fund completely—he persuaded Henry to take over as our head agent, adding, "Although slightly inexperienced, I am confident he will grow with the job." Art said our reunion campaign raised $321,061 with a participation rate of more than 69 percent—our second highest total.

Mike Gazzaniga, Andrew Thomson Professor of Psychiatry at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, has won a $2.2 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health for the Program for Cognitive Neuroscience which he heads. Gazzaniga explains that the research focuses on examining how the brain manages a variety of perceptual and cognitive activities. The research team studies people with damaged brains—those who have had strokes or brain injuries, or been operated on for epilepsy—to determine how the normal brain works. Last year, Mike's program won designation as one of eight centers for the development of cognitive neuroscience, and support from the James S. McDonnell Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

According to a clipping from the Valley News, Frank Mahady is recovering from intestinal cancer at his home in Essex Junction, Vt. A malignant tumor was removed from his small intestine, and he is undergoing followup treatment. Frank is a Vermont District Court judge and a former justice of the Vermont supreme court.

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