While the great “O” (Oscar Arslanian) and Nyla run Hollywood, or at least Hollywood Magazine, they are still involved with managing various members of the seniors rock-and-roll circuit: Fabian, Brian Hyland, Chris Montez, Johnny Tillotson and others. In addition to the management segment, Oscar also sets up Golden Oldies concerts around the country. If any of you get the opportunity, and can still stay up that late, you may want to catch one of the shows when it comes to your town or city.


The Tanzi Plaque is on the move once again. During June it has gone from John King to Vic Rich, where it will remain for a year before being passed onto Gerry Kaminsky for its final year during its five-year life cycle before a new set of classmates get a chance in June of 2016 to bid on safeguarding it for the next five-year term between our regularly scheduled reunions held on campus. For those of you who may not recall, Harry Tanzi (1897-1990) owned the highly popular package goods (including beer) store in Hanover prior to, during and subsequent to our tenure at Dartmouth. On or about 1970 Harry presented his 1969 New Hampshire green-and-white license plate, “TANZI,” “to the class of ’61 with the provisio that it be used to raise funds for the College.” As a result, the class attached the license plate to a plaque and auctions off to classmates at our regularly scheduled five-year reunions the right to hold and display the plaque for one-year periods. The funds raised from the auction of the Tanzi Plaque are then added to the funds raised by the class for the Dartmouth College Fund during that year. In this way the class keeps the memory of our friend Harry Tanzi alive through the decades. The inscription on the plaque states in part that, “Harry Tanzi was a generous man. He gave his time, wit and wisdom to thousands of Dartmouth students. His legacy continues.” 


The ongoing multi-year (seven) history of Dartmouth skiing project, which began with a book, Passion for Skiing, and ended with a documentary film, Passion for Snow, has apparently reached a conclusion. Although the primary person behind the entire project was Steve Waterhouse ’65, Tu’67, one of the key people involved in the entire project at various levels was Art Kelton. The apparent final accolade for the project was the recent award as one of seven finalist nominations for the 2014 Emmy Award for Best Documentary Film shown on television in the year 2013.


Hank Eberhardt, class head agent, reports that as of June 23 the class has received nearly 87 percent of its Dartmouth College Fund contribution goal and approximately 71 percent of its donors goal for the fiscal year ending June 30. By the time you read this article I hope we will have reached, or exceeded, both class goals.


—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; victor.rich@mcgladrey.com