Attending a Dartmouth gathering honoring Eddie Jeremiah’s hockey era were Seaver Peters, Dave Thielscher, Bob Price, Dan McCarthy, John Titus, Jack Donahue and Dick Leary.


Kudos to Shel Woolf for a most successful College Fund year. The class exceeded its money goal by 16.2 percent; 74 percent of all classmates participated. (Our level of participation exceeded every Dartmouth class including reunion classes.)


Our adopted classmate Carrie Pelzel retired and was honored at a dinner. Dick Page reports: On June 14 more than 100 friends and colleagues gathered in Hanover to honor Senior Vice President Carrie Pelzel as she retired after 15 years of outstanding service. The program featured presentations by President Jim Kim and the board of trustees chair, Steve Mandel ’78. The class was represented by Dick Page and Bob Adnopoz, who presented Carrie with a 1954 Class Award. The citation, which is printed in full in the summer newsletter, recited her many achievements at Dartmouth, professional accomplishments and involvement with the class, most notably procuring the College’s permission to install the Dave McLaughlin bust in Goldstein Hall.


Steve Mullins keeps swimming. In June he competed at the World Swimming Championships in Riccione, Italy. He took a silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley (IM) and a bronze in the 3,000-meter open swim in the 80-plus age group. Then during the July National Championships in Omaha, Nebraska, in the same pool as the Olympic trials, he took two golds (400-meter IM and 800-meter freestyle) and two silvers (200-meter backstroke and 400-meter freestyle).


Jon Moore reports on the awarding of the Milton Simms Kramer ’54 Prize: This year’s prize was awarded to the Dartmouth Food Connection, which “seeks to enable Dartmouth community members to interact meaningfully with food as a medium.” Food insecurity and hunger are major problems in the Upper Valley, and the Dartmouth Food Connection works with the administration, Dartmouth Dining Services and Tucker Foundation to address this need primarily through a series of food awareness and food-donation programs. More about the Kramer Prize in the next ’54 column. 


—Don Berlin, 7 Hamilton Drive, Washington Valley, Morristown, NJ 07960-3311; (973) 267-8122; berlin1954@aol.com