Geometric Model by Dick Holl, a Student of A.Harry Wheeler, Dodecadodecahedron

In this model, the twelve faces of a dodecahedron are replaced by twelve stars. Below and parallel to each of the stars is a regular pentagon. Only five rhombuses from the corners of a pentagon show beneath each star. The pentagons intersect one another.

This model is cut and folded from tan paper. One star face and one three-sided dimple are shaded with pencil. A paper sticker gives Wheeler’s number for the model, 340. Another mark reads: Holl (/) Mar 23, 1934. A third mark reads: Dick (/) Holl (/) 34.

Richard B. Holl of Worcester, Massachusetts, is listed in U.S. Census records for 1920 and 1930, with a birth date of about 1917. Richard Bernhardt Holl (1916–1985) is listed in Masonic records as born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and dying in Waltham, Massachusetts. Richard Bernhardt Holl also is listed in the 1934 yearbook of North High School in Worcester, and his daughter confirms that he graduated from high school in 1934. She reports that he then attended Tufts College in Medford Massachusetts, majoring in physics and graduating with an engineering degree. Following his education, he went to work for Raytheon Company, working there for his entire career. WhileHoll was active in many social and community affairs, much of his work was classified and therefore not available for public presentation.

Compare MA.304723.186 and MA.304723.163.

References:

Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p.112.

A. H. Wheeler, Catalog of Models, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History.

Ancestry Library Edition, accessed January 23, 2015.

Personal Communication, Liz (Holl) Michalenoick, May 8, 2020.

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