Video tribute
A silent, 7 minute video remembering AVT
Oral history: Alvin Tollestrup interview
An interview of AVT was conducted on November 23, 1987. Below is the 1.5-hour interview in four MP3 tracks.
Track 1 – Track 2 – Track 3 – Track 4
Scanned photos from Janine Tollestrup
Janine scanned hundreds of film images from Alvin’s life. Dive in and let nostalgia take over. See those images here.
We have also made a shorter summary of this set of images, containing about 75 images of Alvin, on this page.
Preparing for the 2002 “Tollestrup Xmas” party, we decided to emphasize Alvin’s role in the ongoing Tevatron effort and came out with a poster which was a remake of the famous “Uncle Sam: I want you for the US Army”. There “Uncle Sam” points an accusing finger of moral responsibility in a recruitment poster for the American forces during World War I. In the “Uncle Alvin” version, we had a smiling Alvin and – on the sides – applications of photos of various Fermilab people doing something useful for the collider. It took us and our two (then little) kids Misha and Liza one evening with a lot of fun to make it, find proper photos, cut them with scissors, glue them to the board. Alvin, with his always joyful character was happy as a kid, too – as depicted on the photo on the right.
From Moses Chung
From Rakshya Khatiwada
These photos were taken exactly a month before his passing
From Pier Oddone
Tollestrup’s high school portrait. Contributed by Dave Harding.
Fermilab 2014 Users Meeting honors Alvin Tollestrup
https://indico.fnal.gov/event/8126/timetable/?view=standard
URA Tollestrup Award recipients
The Tollestrup award is given every year during the Fermilab Users’ Meeting. A listing all of the recipients is at the URA website.