From Tom Marquardt:

I met Dale in Kindergarten at Lincoln School in Lombard about 1950 and minus one year where I went away to school after high school graduation we attended school together through our junior year in college at Elmhurst College.  When I returned to Lombard after a year at Drake, I told my dad that I needed a car to go to Elmhurst and he, never a fan of the automobile, assured me that I could take the Northwestern RR from Lombard to Elmhurst and walk to classes from there.  That was not an appealing idea to me and Dale, along with Jon Hart and my brother Rog made sure that I made it to classes and back with them rather than take the train.  I recall that Dale had a Triumph TR3 and Jon an MG which were perhaps a bit challenged for heat in the winter, but to avoid the train I felt like I was living large.  That ended when my dad relented, and I bought my first car in April, 1965.  Dale and I kept our friendship even after I moved to Washington DC in 1966, and he and Bill Lewis drove down to see me and tour the area.  Beer was consumed.  I do recall Dale asking me, when he had to go out of town, to drive his 1960 Pontiac as it needed to be driven, and he said that I could keep it at my folk’s house.  I later referred to it as the “Pontiac Valdez” due to the oil slick it left on our driveway (much to my father’s dismay).  While we were going to Elmhurst, Dale was running the Swank Cue Club on Roosevelt Road in Glen Ellyn.  I spent many a Friday and Saturday night attempting to improve my billiards skills and then when Dale closed up, it was off to King Edwards on Roosevelt Road in Lombard for a hamburger.  Some of the stories shared there were even true or based on true stories. Many of the things that occurred with Dale also involved Bill Lewis, Jim Iversen, and Bill Brynjolfsson.  All great guys that have left us now.  I always marveled that Dale, minus his military service and a couple of other brief stops was still living in the house that his grandmother had owned when I met him at Lincoln.  All told, he spent about 79 years in the same house.  Dale had a great sense of humor and was always there if you needed something.  I will miss him.