1961

Our class won an Alumni Fund Award for the fiscal year ending in June. The award was the Andrew J. Scarlett '10 Award for achieving the greatest increase in dollars contributed by a non-reunion class. Kudos to our classmates and the key Alumni Fund class leaders who made this happen, led by Pete Stuart, our head class agent. Enter into your calendar April 14-17, 2013, the dates for the next '61 mini-reunion away from Hanover, this one in Charleston, South Carolina. Dave Prewitt, mini-reunion chair, and his cohorts have put together what appears to be a fantastic weekend at a very reasonable cost. This is an ideal time of the year to be in South Carolina. Fifty rooms at the Mills House Hotel have been reserved for our class at a discounted rate of $179/night, as long as reservations are made before March 15, 2013. For those of you who didn't receive or misplaced the e-mail sent to our classmates, contact Dave Prewitt at prewitt(®bbs-law.com for further information. By now the Tanzi license plate plaque should have moved on and been delivered by John Henry to Bob Naegele for the year ending June 30, 2013.1 hope the transfer has already taken place. Our class has for many years provided annual stipends of from $1,000 to $1,500 to each of two or three students at the College: a student doing research in an academic area, a student athlete, a student artist. Now that classes no longer have to fund DartmouthAlumni Magazine and assuming that dues remain stable at their current levels, the class will have additional funds each year to help fund various College-related or class-related projects. How would you like to see the funds spent? You can let me, as your class secretary, know or you can contact our class president (Denny Denniston), class vice president (Ken DeHaven) or class treasurer (ivar Jozus). Your input is important. The Hopkins Center for the Arts is currently celebrating its 50th-year anniversary and the College will be celebrating a "Year of the Arts" during the 2012-13 academic year. The class of '61 has been an important part of the Hop's recent success as a result of the Class of 1961 Legacy: The American Tradition in Performance, a class project unique to Dartmouth begun more than a decade ago. During that period the class has supported the performing arts (music, theater, dance) at the Hop to the benefit and enrichment of the Dartmouth family of students, faculty and administration as well as to the larger Hanover and surrounding community. For this it has received several commendations from the College and numerous recognitions and credits from the Hop. As of June, after substantial contributions to the presentation of more than 40 performance events at the Hop, the legacy fund totaled approximately $870,000. With an extra effort, it is entirely possible that we could achieve our decade goal of deriving $1,000,000 for the fund, which would make the project's originators, Oscar Arslanian, David Birney and others, extremely happy. Please consider a contribution during the current year to this significant ongoing class project. 5 Red Ground Road, Old Westbury, NY 11568; victor.rich@rsmi.com