DARTMOUTH ROLL OF HONOR

The following list contains the names, arranged by classes, of all Dartmouth men who have died in the service of their country since the beginning of the Great War, and whose deaths have been reported to the Secretary of the Alumni Association. In every case where it is known, the date of death is also given. Those names which are starred have not been reported in any previous number of the MAGAZINE.

'93 Med.

Lieut. James Brown Griswold, October 25, 1917.

'00

*Major Henry Reuben Weston, Novem- ber 27, 1918.

'06

Conrad Philip Hazen, February 11, 1918.

Ex-'09

*James Andrew Turner, October, 1918.

Capt. Lester Sherwood Wass, July 18, 1918.

'10

Lieut. Sturgis Pishon, October 26, 1918.

Ex-'10

Raymond Whiton Thompson, September 12, 1918.

'11

Capt. Edward Franklin Chase, August 31, 1918.

Capt. Frederick Whidden Grant, October 7, 1918.

William Thomas Stillman, August 13, 1918.

Ex-'11

Charles Henry Ayer, October 16, 1918.

'12

Howard Burchard Lines, December, 1916.

'13

Sergt. Earle Cushing Stanley, July 2, 1918.

Ex-'13

Curtis Melvin Parkhurst, February 20, 1918.

'14

Lieut. Guy Edson Fuller, May 31, 1918. Phillips Haskell, September 29, 1918. Robert Turner Kelly, October 16, 1918. *Ralph Henry Kelsey, October 16, 1918. Lieut. George Francis Watkins, July 24, 1918.

'14 Med.

Lieut. William Edward Emery, June 11, 1918.

'15

*Charles Edward Bishop, October 4, 1918. Sergt. Frederick Drew Day, January, 1918. Richard Nelville Hall, December 25, 1915. Lieut. William Henry Townsend, April 23, 1918.

*Lieut. Alan Frederick Waite, September 29, 1918.

Ex-'15

James Lloyd Churchell, August 29, 1918.

'16

Lieut. Lawrence Sanderson Ayer, April 20, 1918.

Frederick Olncy Garrison, October 23, 1917.

Charles Raymond Janes, September 13, 1918.

Louis Frank Pfingstag, April 6, 1918.

Lieut. Charles Albert Pudrith, May 3, 1918.

Harold Bridgeman Stedman, October 9, 1918.

Lieut. Ellsworth Olmstead Strong, August 25, 1918.

Ex-'16

Lieut. Karl Eugene Dimick, September 19, 1918.

*Corp. Cecil Winfield Fogg, July 21, 1918. Vernon Kellogg Penny, July 24, 1918.

*Ensign Russell Dexter Tibbitts, October 14, 1918.

'l7

*Clark Aaron Goudie, August 5, 1918. Lieut. Joseph Welch Emery, Jr., July 18, 1918.

Sergt. Winfield Skidmore Knowles, April 3, 1918.

Paul Gannett Osborn, June 25, 1917.

Sergt. Afton Eugene Wheeler, September, 1918.

Ex-'17

Thomas Brown McGuire, January 15, 1918.

*Herman Stockman Robinson, November 24, 1918.

Maurice Gordon Smith, April 10, 1918.

'18

*Sergt. Rodney Donnell Brown, October 26, 1918.

*Sergt. William Wendell Drabble, October 10, 1918.

Lieut. Harold Field Eadie, March, 1918.

Lloyd Franklin Emerson, September 25, 1918.

Stanley Hill, August 14, 1918.

Ensign Eugene Francis Tirrell, October 1, 1918.

Ex-'18

Lieut. George Minot Cavis, October 7, 1918.

*Lester Lord Horton, September, 1918.

'19

Frederic Cook Gilpatric, Jr., October, 1918.

Lieut. Ernest Armand Giroux, May 22, 1918.

Lieut. Warren Tucker Hobbs, June 26, 1918.

Lieut. Frederick Plant McCreery, May 11, 1918.

Donald Mansfield McMahon, October 14, 1918.

Charles Enos Tayntor, October 3, 1918.

DeWitt G'ifford Wilcox, August 29, 1918.

Ex-'19

*Ensign Philip Bernard Frothingham, September, 1918.

Wainwright Merrill, October 6, 1917.

Lieut. Thomas Cushman Nathan, March 20, 1918.

'20

Corp. Gordon Bartlett, September 17, 1918. Joseph John Fenton, Jr., August 13, 1918.

*Robert Augustus Hatch, October 5, 1918. Lieut. Benjamin Hiestand, June 10, 1918. Charles Alexander Hopkins, January 30, 1918.

*George Ouray Kane, November 21, 1918.

Ex-'20

Lieut. Stafford Leighton Brown, October 7, 1918.

Edward Louis Stephenson, May 1, 1918.

'21

Spencer Wallace Slawson, October 9, 1918.

LIEUTENANT E. A. GIROUX '19

Lieutenant Ernest Armand Giroux '19 was killed in action on the morning of May 22, when his airplane was driven down behind the German lines. He and five other American airmen pursued eight German planes over the enemy lines, when the enemy machines, reinforced by other planes that suddenly swooped down, turned and gave battle to the Americans. Two of the American machines, one of them Lieut. Giroux's, fell, and the brave young fellow was killed.

Lieutenant Giroux was born in Boston, December 4, 1895. He prepared for college in the Somerville High School, and entered Dartmouth in the class of 1919. In college he made friends easily and quickly won popularity among his classmates. He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

He joined the first Dartmouth Ambulance Unit, and sailed for France in April of 1917. On arriving there, however, he felt that the need for men was more urgent in the Camion Service than in the Ambulance Service, and he therefore enlisted in T. M. U. 526, serving until August. He was soon made a sergeant and placed in charge of a hundred trucks. For bravery in unloading under heavy fire, he was granted the privilege of attending the Officers' School at Meaux, but the first United States forces arriving in France at this time, he chos-e instead to transfer to the American Aviation Service. He completed his training most successfully, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in February. So skilful a flyer was he, that he was one of ten selected to do exhibition flying for General Pershing and Secretary Baker when the latter visited the front. On April 7 he received assignment to the Lafayette Escadrille (193rd aerial pursuit squadron) under the direction of Major William Thaw, and he was serving in this branch when he met his death. Major Thaw writes of him: "In the short time he was with us, we had all come to consider him a good pal, and to admire him for his energetic courage." His own letters to his mother during the year that he was in service reveal throughout his noble courage, his high sense of responsibility, and his complete willingness to make any sacrifice of himself that would be necessary.

He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Haley of Somerville, Mass., and his brother, Archie R. Giroux, who. went abroad for Ambulance Service with Lieutenant Giroux, and who is now a member of the Royal Flying Corps.

LIEUTENANT BENJAMIN HIESTAND '20

Lieutenant Benjamin Hiestand '20 was killed in an airplane at Dorr Field, Arcadia, Florida, on the morning of June 10. He was serving as an instructor aviator at the Field, and another flyer whom he was training was seriously hurt in the accident which caused Lieutenant Hiestand's death.

Lieutenant Hiestand, whose home was in Marietta, Pa., was born August 11, 1897. He came to college in the fall of 1916, but enlisted in March of his freshman year as a radio operator in the Naval Reserve. Later he transferred to the Aviation Service, and was sent for his training to the ground school at Austin, Texas, and then to the flying school at Kelly Field No. 2, San Antonio, Texas. From this school he was sent as an instructor aviator with the rank of second lieutenant to Dorr Field.

He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Hiestand of Marietta, and by his brother, Fitzgerald Hiestand, U. S. N. R. F. In college he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

LIEUTENANT W. T. HOBBS '19

Lieutenant Warren Tucker Hobbs '19 was shot down by German anti-aircraft guns on the western front on June 26. He fell within the British lines and was buried by the British with military honors.

Lieutenant Hobbs was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilber W. Hobbs of Worcester, Mass., and was born in Worcester, November 3, 1895. He prepared for college at the Worcester Classical High School and at Worcester Academy, distinguishing himself at both places by his excellence in track athletics. He entered Dartmouth in the class of 1919 and at once took rank as a prominent and popular undergraduate. He became noted for his work in the hurdles and the jumps. In Philadelphia, March 10, 1917, he broke the world's record for the fifty-yard indoor hurdle race, making the distance in 6 4-5 seconds in competition against Harvard, Yale, and Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

He went to France in May, 1917, with the Dartmouth Ambulance Unit, and served until August 1 in T. M. U. 526, as a motor transport driver. Then he entered the Air Service, becoming a member of the celebrated Lafayette Escadrille under Major Thaw. He had tried to enlist in the United States as an aviator, but had been rejected on account of his weight and size, for he stood six feet one and a half inches in his stocking feet and weighed 188 pounds. The French, however, with their stronger and more powerful battle planes, accepted him readily for service. He first went to the front on December 8, 1917, in a French "escadrille de chasse." On January 23, 1918, he was mustered into the American Aviation Service, and was commissioned a first lieutenant on March 1. He saw active service almost continuously until the time of his death, and had at least one very narrow escape, when he ran out of gasoline for his machine, with the result that it fell in a very rough spot in the French trenches, overturning as it landed. Luckily he suffered at that time only a seven-inch gash in his head, and was soon able to return to his flying.

The following quotation from a letter written by Lieutenant Hobbs to his mother on June 7, only two weeks before he died, shows well his attitude toward the great enterprise in which he was engaged: "Two of the Lafayette flyers were killed in this last offensive. They were both good friends of mine having been in the schools with me. Just the same, though, you can't help thinking what a wonderful way it is to die, and I know there is nothing too good in the world beyond for a man who dies 'game' fighting for the right. Really, Mother, there are so many heroes nowadays that it is impossible to count them. Their names would fill volumes; I often used to wonder whether our easy-going life of today with all its modern conveniences was not making our men soft, less courageous, less chivalrous, but this war has shown conclusively that we still have red-blooded men, men of mettle, fearless men, and in my opinion the heroes of today far eclipse the heroes of the past. In fact, I don't think I shall ever care to read again the histories of famous warriors which used to thrill me. This war is so different from former wars. The things that are done are almost unbelievable; you have to see them with your own eyes to realize the magnitude of them." These are the words of a man who himself died "game."

Lieutenant Hobbs is survived by his parents and three sisters.

CAPTAIN L. S. WASS, EX-'09

Captain Lester Sherwood Wass, ex-'09, of the United States Marine Corps, was killed on the morning of July 18 in the first of the American drive at Soissons. The hardest of the morning's fighting was over, when Captain Wass was struck by a piece of shrapnel, wounding him so severely that he died almost immediately afterwards at the dressing station. He lies buried in a field near the road between Vierzy and Chadun, two small villages just to the southeast of Soissons.

Captain Wass was a native of Gloucester, Mass., the son of Lorenzo A. and the late Elizabeth (Cook) Wass. He prepared for college in the Gloucester High School, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1905. In college he was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. At the end of sophomore year he withdrew from college and in 1909 passed a competitive examination and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Marines by Secretary of the Navy Von Meyer. After being commissioned, he was sent to Port Royal, S. C., where he' attended the Marine school; later he was transferred to the Navy Yard Barracks at Portsmouth, N. H.; and in the spring of 1910 he was ordered to Honolulu. This was the beginning of a long tour of foreign service, which lasted practically continuously until his death. He served in the Philippines, China, Haiti, San Domingo, and Mexico. He landed with the Marine expeditionary force that went to Vera Cruz in 1914, and was under fire at that time. He was commended for bravery and efficiency in handling a machine gun in action at that time, and shortly afterwards was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. In Haiti he was for a time commanding officer in charge of both the civilian and military forces. He received his captaincy shortly before going to France, and at the time of his death was in line for promotion to a majority.

One of his fellow-officers in France writes of him: "When I got back to the company on July 2, everyone was singing the praises of the. Captain. His bravery under fire at Chateau-Thierry was the talk of the place. His absolute disregard of his own safety, his coolness and daring made several say he deserved the Medal of Honor, not merely the D. S. C. While in reserve before going into the last fight, the Captain and I shared rooms. He was as happy and contented as could be, knowing full well the dangers, but being satisfied that he was doing his duty. All through that last fight, in which he was wounded, he displayed that same courage which had given him such a name. Men were hit all around him, but he seemed to have a charmed life Far away in the United States you can hardly realize the sorrow to the men when they heard that their Captain had gone West. If you could realize it, perhaps it would help to comfort you. He died bravely; he was an example to us all."

The following genuine testimony of Captain Wass's popularity comes from the pen of one of the men under his command: "Was orderly for our old Captain, who was Lester S. Wass, of Gloucester, until he got killed, and believe me he was some man. Just a little bit of a shrimp about five feet five, but he sure could fight. You ought to see him leading this bunch across after Fritz. There wasn't a yellow streak in him, and when he got started something had to give and believe me Fritz gave mighty 'pronto'. He got 'bunked off leading us after Fritz, and believe me, we all miss him. I didn't know but you might know some of his folks seeing how you came from his home town, and if you do just tell them for the boys that there wasn't a better liked and grittier and braver man in the outfit, and as I said before he was leading the men when he died. I was his orderly and knew him as well as anyone in the company and believe me he was some scrapper."

Captain Wass was thirty-two years old. He is survived by his father, three sisters, and a brother, all of Gloucester, Mass.

SERGEANT E. C. STANLEY '13

Sergeant Earle Cushing Stanley '13 died of typhoid fever at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla., on July 2. Sergeant Stanley took the quartermasters' course in the Tuck School in the summer of 1917, and at the close of it enlisted in the Quartermasters' Corps, U. S. A. In December he was sent from Chicago to Camp Johnston. His training there led to his being given a position as instructor in the Officers' School, and at the time of his death he was engaged in writing and giving lectures to a large body of men. He had been made a sergeant while at Camp Johnston, and his captain writes of him: "I recommended him for his commission, and he was due to come up for his physical examination while he was ill in the hospital. He would certainly have been immediately commissioned, had he lived." He, however, contracted typhoid fever and passed away after a very brief illness.

Sergt. Stanley was born in Rochester, N. H., and prepared for college at the Rochester High School. He came to Dartmouth in the fall of 1909. In college he was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. After graduation, he went to Chicago, where he was engaged in business until the time of his entry into the service. He is survived by his mother and a brother, Edwin G. Stanley '18, of Rochester.

LIEUTENANT J. W. EMERY, JR., '17

Lieutenant Joseph Welch Emery, Jr., '17, was killed in action on the Western front on July 18. Lieut. Emery left college in May of his senior year to attend the first O. T. C. at Plattsburg. There he was one of thirty-two men in his company to apply for commissions in the regular army; this commission he received with a grading of 97 per cent, standing next to the highest in his class. A second lieutenant, he was assigned to the 9th U. S. Infantry, and ordered to report for duty at Syracuse, N. Y., on August 29, 1917. On September 6 he sailed for France. Early in April of this year he was promoted to a first lieutenancy, with his commission dated back to October 26 of last year. He was in action with the American troops northwest of Chateau-Thierry in the July drive, and there met his death on the 18th.

Lieut. Emery was born in Quincy, Ill January 12, 1896, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Emery. He prepared for college in the Quincy High School, where he made for himself an honorable record. At Dartmouth he distinguished himself in many ways, and became one of the most respected and best liked men of his class. He was on the Honor List for the last three years of his course, and received his degree of A.B. cumlaude. He was allowed to come to Hanover from Plattsburg on Commencement Day to receive his diploma. In athletics he won his "D" in football, playing brilliantly in the position of half back, and also in track, making his points in pole vaulting. He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and of the Sphinx Senior Society.

Lieut. Emery is survived by his parents and a sister, all of Quincy, Ill.

CORPORAL C. W. FOGG, EX-'16

Corporal Cecil Winfield Fogg, ex-'16, died of wounds in France on July 21. Corporal Fogg was a member of Company E, 101st Engineers enlisting in April, 1917, and going across in October of that year. In the fighting about Chateau-Thierry on July 18, the section of engineers to which he belonged joined the infantry in the attack. He was struck by a shell fragment, and died on July 21, as a result of his injuries.

Corp. Fogg was born in Hyde Park, Mass., August 28, 1892, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Fogg. He prepared for college in the Hyde Park School, where he was captain of one of the companies in the High School Battalion. He entered college with the class of 1916, but withdrew at the end of his sophomore year. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, and played in the Mandolin Club. After leaving college, he was employed as a bank clerk by the Metropolitan Trust Company of Boston until his enlistment. He is survived by his parents and by a brother, George L. Fogg, now serving in an Ambulance Corps in France.

LIEUTENANT G. F. WATKINS '14

Lieutenant George Francis Watkins '14 was killed in action July 29, while leading his company in a charge across the Ourcq River. Lieut. Watkins was a graduate of the first Plattsburg O. T. C., and was assigned first to Camp Devens. He was soon transferred, however, to Camp Mills, with Co. L, 165 th Infantry. With this company he went across in November of last year, and with it had seen almost continuous active service since his arrival. A fellow officer writes as follows of his brave end: "At the head of his men he charged against the most terrible machine gun fire, over the Ourcq, and up a hill on the other side, thus making it possible for the others to come up behind. It was when he reached the top of the hill that a bullet pierced his heart, and he died instantly. His body was found in the position in which it fell—ahead of his men, many of whom fell with him. No one could have died a more glorious death; every one of us is proud of him—in many respects we envy him—and we feel as though we have lost a part of our own selves, so much did we love, admire, and respect George."

Lieut. Watkins, who was born in Boston twenty-five years ago, prepared for college at Brewster Academy. In college he was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, played 011 the football squad during his junior and senior years, and won departmental honors in French in his junior year. After his graduation in 1914, he went to Springfield, Mass., where he was employed by the Strathmore Paper Company until the time of his enlistment. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. F. M. Watkins of Springfield, and by a brother, Corp. Maurice C. Watkins of the 120 th Aviation Squadron, A. E. F.

V. K. PENNY, Ex-'16

Private Vernon Kellogg Penny, ex-'16, was killed in France on July 24 by a bomb dropped from a German airplane. Private Penny enlisted in June, 1917, and when killed was serving with the Headquarters Troop of the 27th Division. At the time of his death he was scheduled for transfer to the aviation service.

Private Penny was born in Lawrence, Kansas, twenty-six years ago, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Penny. His father was then the Director of Music in the University of Kansas. Penny came to college from Rochester, N. Y., whither his parents had moved, in the fall of 1912, but left college during his sophomore year. While here he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. Upon withdrawal from college, he engaged in newspaper work, first as a member of the advertising staff of the Brooklyn Eagle, and later of the New York Times. He went to the Mexican border with the New York guardsmen, and while there was advertising manager of the guardsmen's newspaper, the Rio Grande Rattler. Besides his parents, he leaves a brother, Carl P. Penny of the NewYork Times.

C. A. GOUDIE '17

Private Clark Aaron Goudie '17 died in a hospital in Paris on August 5 of acute ulcerative colitis. Private Goudie enlisted in October, 1917, in Company A, 29th Engineers, Topographical Division, and went across soon after. He was engaged in responsible and interesting work in France, and made a success of all he undertook.

Private Goudie was born in Lisbon, N. H., September 11, 1895, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Goudie. He prepared for college in the Lisbon High School, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1913. He played 011 his freshman basketball team. He took a scientific course, and at the time of his enlistment was a member of the second-year class in the Thayer School, engaged in surveying the state line between Vermont and New Hampshire.

STANLEY HILL '18

Stanley Hill '18, U. S. A. A. S., died in a hospital at La Veuve, France, on August 14, as a result of wounds received on the night of July 15, at the beginning of the second battle of the Marne. Hill left college in May, 1917, to go across with the first Dartmouth Ambulance Unit. He was assigned to S. S. U. 28, and served with that section until October 1, when he enlisted in the United States Ambulance Service, and con-tin tinued to serve with the same section, now renumbered 640. At about midnight, July 25, 1918, he was driving an ambulance with four wounded in it through a town that was being shelled, when a fragment of shell struck him and factured his skull. He lost control of his machine, which then ran into an iron fence. He was taken to a hospital and given every care, but meningitis set in after a time and he was not strong enough to recover from it. On July 25, ten days after he was wounded, he was awarded the croix de guerre with palm, by the French army, with the approval of General Pershing. At this time General Petain presented him with a leather pocketbook. His brother, Converse Hill, Cornell '18, who is a member of the same Ambulance Section, wrote thus of Stanley's death to his parents: "It may not be the consolation to you that it is to me to think of how Stan performed his duty on the front with no regard for anyone but his blesses. His own safety or comforts were things not to be considered when there was work to be done. He had probably driven about a hundred miles that day over roads and through villages that were being shelled and bombed at night by planes, not continuously, it is true, but yet very frequently at one point or another. He had just come in from a trip and had finished a late supper when a call came in for three cars. The other boys were getting a little rest or were on the road; so Stan's was the first car to start out from the camp to the hospital. He was nearly there when wounded in a town far behind the lines, full of civilians, which had been badly shelled the preceding twenty-four hours, and which he knew was a very dangerous place. Stan died game, and if he ever had any thoughts of dying while in the hospital he never mentioned them to me, but if he did you may rest assured he had no fear of death and was perfectly willing to go if it was his turn."

Hill was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Hill, and was born in Somerville, Mass., December 18, 1896, but had lived in Lexington since 1905. He was graduated from the Lexington High School in 1914, and entered Dartmouth that fall. He was a hard-working, conscientious student in college, who felt the call of duty when it was first sounded. He is survived by his parents, a brother, and a sister. .

J. J. FENTON '20

Joseph John Fenton, Jr., '20, was drowned in a hydroplane accident at Pensacola, Fla., on the evening of August 13. He had nearly completed his course of training as a hydroplane flyer and was getting night practice. His plane turned turtle as he struck the water, and the boats that went to his assistance were unable to right it for an hour, it was then too late to resuscitate the young aviator, although attempts were made with the aid of a pulmotor.

Fenton was born in Bellows tails, Vt., May 7, 1897. the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Fenton. He prepared for college at the Bellows Falls High School and St. John s School, Danvers, Mass. In March of his freshman year at Dartmouth he enlisted in the Naval Reserve Force, and spent the summer of 1917 on duty at Newport, R. 1., as a third-class quartermaster. In the fall, when the government urged all naval reservists of college age to return to their studies, Fenton went to the Catholic University at Washington, but in March applied for transfer to the Naval Air Service. He was then sent to the Naval Aviation Training School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated on May 25. He received his training in flying at Key West, Miami, and finally Pensacola, Fla.

In college Fenton was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

W. T. STILLMAN '11

William Thomas Stillman '11, United States Cadet, was killed when the oil tanker Frederick R. Kellogg was torpedoed off Barnegat, N. J., August 13. Three weeks after the fatality, his body was picked up three miles out to sea off Long Branch, N. J., and was brought to Shelton, Conn., for interment. He had been on the tanker but a short time, and following a course in seamanship was soon to have been transferred to the Naval Reserve Officers' Traning School at Pelham Bay.

Cadet Stillman was born in Bridgeport. Conn., August 3, 1888. He was graduated from the Bridgeport High School in 1907 and from Dartmouth in 1911. In college he was extremely popular with his classmates and held class office frequently. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After graduation from college, he entered the employ of the American Surety Company of New York, and served them as a bond salesman with headquarters at Hartford, Conn. In 1916 he was promoted to the position of manager of the Providence office of the company, a position which he still held when he enlisted in April of this year. October 20, 1913, he was married to Helena Radcliffe of Shelton, Conn., who survives him, as do his mother, Mrs. Franklin P. Stillman, and his brother, Roy W. Stillman, both of Bridgeport.

LIEUTENANT E. O. STRONG '16

Lieutenant Ellsworth Olmstead Strong '16 was killed in action on the western front August 25. Lieut. Strong was commissioned at the end of the first Plattsburg O. T. C. in the summer of 1917, and was assigned to Camp Upton. He went across with Battery A, 305 th Field Artillery. How bravely he met his death is best told in the words of Captain Anderson Dana of Lieut. Strong's JBattery: "He was the most popular and readily-obeyed officer in the battery. The men worshipped him and—l say this in all reverence—would have followed or gone through hell for him. On August 24 he was detailed to go forward to the infantry line as a representative of the artillery. The former representative had just been killed, and it was acknowledged to be a dangerous mission. He accepted the detail calmly and without hesitation. The party waited at battalion headquarters until dusk, as it was impossible to travel the last part of the journey by daylight, and then set out to their destination, which was the command post of the front-line infantry company. No sooner had he reached that point than the Germans opened a terrific artillery fire upon it. It was during this bombardment that Ellsworth was hit and instantly killed. He is buried where he fell, and the battery have erected a cross upon the spot."

Lieut. Strong was born in Beverly, Mass., twenty-four years ago, the son of the Reverend William E. Strong, D.D., and Mrs. Strong. His father is the secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and is a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1882. He has resided for several years past in Newtonville, Mass., and it was in Newton that Lieut. Strong prepared for college. In college he was a good student, popular among his fellows, and active in such organizations as the Dramatic Association, the Christian Association, and the Press Club. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After his graduation, he was employed as a reporter on the BostonTranscript. His engagement to Miss Ruth Montgomery of Montclair, N. J., had been announced. He is survived by his parents, two sisters, and a brother.

CAPTAIN E. F. CHASE '11

Captain Edward Franklin Chase '11 dropped dead from heart disease at Fort Andrews, Mass., on the afternoon of August 31. Capt. Chase had been active in military affairs since his high school days, when he was battalion adjutant of the school cadets of the Lynn English High School. After his graduation from college he joined the First Corps of Cadets of Boston, remaining with them for two years and then transferring to the Coast Artillery Corps with the rank of first lieutenant. In December, 1916, he went to Fort Monroe, Va., for advanced study in Coast Artillery, remaining there until the United States declared war, when he was transferred to Fort Andrews. Here he served as adjutant for a year. In July, 1917, he passed the examination for the regular U. S. service, in four months rising to the rank of captain.

Capt. Chase was born in Lynn, Mass., January 14, 1887, the son of the late Franklin L. Chase and Mrs. Mary E. Chase. He was graduated from the Lynn English High School in 1907 and from Dartmouth in 1911. In college he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and played for four years in the Mandolin Club. After graduation he was engaged in the insurance business, and for a time was employed in the store of A. Shuman and Company of Boston. January 15, 1913, he was married to Miss Alice, Merritt of Milton, Mass. A son, Nathan Merritt Chase, was born to them on February 7, 1914. His mother, wife, and son survive him.

D. G. WILCOX '19

DeWitt Gifford Wilcox '19 was killed at Pensacola, Fla., in a seaplane accident on the evening of August 29. At the time of the accident he was making a trial flight in company with another student aviator, J. L. Churchell, ex-'15, and Flight Instructor Anthony Feher, U. S. N„ when the plane went into a tail spin, became unmanageable, and crashed into Pensacola Bay. Rescue boats and a wrecking barge proceeded immediately to the- wreck, and heroic efforts were made to save the lives of the crew, but Wilcox and Churchell were both killed and Feher was injured. The body of Wilcox was not recovered, probably being carried far out to sea by the strong undercurrents in the bay.

D. Gifford Wilcox was the youngest of four children of Dr. and Mrs. DeWitt G. Wilcox, and was born in Buffalo, N. Y., December 31, 1896. He attended the public schools in Buffalo until 1909 when he removed with his parents to Brookline, Mass.; here he prepared for college in the Brookline High School, entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1915. His parents now reside in Newton, Mass. In April, 1917, he enlisted in the Naval Coast Reserve Corps, and was assigned to the Portsmouth Naval Training Ship. On June 30 he was transferred to Bumkin Island. He made good progress in his naval training, but his heart was set on aviation. Since a small boy he had studied the air plane, and his chief enjoyment as a boy of twelve or fourteen was making models of flying machines, which with an elastic band propeller were made to fly. While at Bumpkin Island, consequently, he made an application for entrance into the Naval Aviation Corps. In October, following the advice of the Navy Department, he returned to college, where he remained until March. He then received his commission as Student Naval Aviator and was sent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for instruction. In June he was sent to Bay Shore for his actual flying instruction. Shortly afterwards he was transferred to Pensacola where he was receiving his last instruction prior to overseas service. At the time of his death he was within three weeks of receiving his commission as Ensign. Authority for granting him the commission up-on satisfactory completion of his course had already been received at Pensacola from the Bureau of Navigation at Washington.

Wilcox was a boy who enjoyed life to the fullest, being interested in all healthful and clean sports, yet being of s rather serious turn of mind. He was baptized into the Buffalo Baptist Church when ten years old by Dr. Gifford, whose namesake he was, and kept his church relationships and activities later in Brookline and Newton. His thoughtfulness and generosity toward others seems to have left an impression upon all who came in contact with him. In college he was prominent and popular among his fellows. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and at the time of leaving college was assistant manager of the Musical Clubs.

He is survived by his parents, two sisters, and a brother, Assistant Surgeon (Junior Grade) John M. Wilcox, U. S. N., a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1915.

J. L. CHURCHELL, EX-'15

James Lloyd Churchell, ex-'15, who lost his life in the same seaplane accident in which D. G. Wilcox 'l9 was killed, at Pensacola, Fla., on August 29, was a member of the class of 1915 only during his freshman year. He had served in the Naval Reserve at Newport and Brooklyn in 1917, and was transferred in April of this year to the Naval Aviation Corps, receiving his training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Pensacola. He came to college from Syracuse, N. Y., and was still a resident of that city at the time of his enlistment.

LIEUTENANT R. W. THOMPSON, Ex-'10

Lieutenant Raymond Whiton Thompson, ex-'10, Q. M. C., U. S. A., died at the Lancaster Hospital, Brookline, Mass., September 12, of pneumonia, following influenza.

Lieut. Thompson was born in Concord, N. H., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis D. Thompson of that city. He prepared for college at Lawrenceville Academy, and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1910, but withdrew at the end of his sophomore year. He had been for several years associated with his father in business in Concord. Besides his parents, he leaves a wife and a brother, W. D. Thompson, Jr., who is in the Aviation Service.

LIEUTENANT C. R. JANES '16

Lieutenant Charles Raymond Janes '16, was instantly killed in an accident at Fort Worth, Texas, September 13, when his airplane crashed to the earth in a spin. An enlisted man who was in his machine with him was so badly injured that he died shortly after the accident.

Lieut. Janes was a resident of Chicago, coming to college from that city in the fall of 1912. He prepared in the Francis W. Parker School of Chicago. In college he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He was a good student, being on the Honor List of the College in his senior year, and receiving his degree of A.B. cum laude.

LIEUTENANT K. E. DIMICK, EX-'16

Lieutenant Karl Eugene Dimick, ex-'16, died in France September 19, as a result of wounds received in action on the western front. Lieut. Dimick received the commission of second lieutenant at the close of the first Plattsburg O. T. C., and was detailed to Camp Dix, N. J., where he was attached to the 309 th Infantry. He remained there with his regiment until May of this year, when it was sent overseas. In France his regiment continued its training until early in August, when it went into active service. Lieut. Dimick acted as billeting officer of the regiment in France.

Lieut. Dimick was born in East Boston on April 26, 1894, the son of the late Judge Frank E. Dimick and Mrs. Dimick. He was a member of the class of 1916 for only one year, leaving Dartmouth to enter McGill University in Montreal to study medicine. He was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity at Dartmouth.

Just before sailing for France, Lieut. Dimick was married to Miss Beatrice O. Passingham of Montreal, to whom he had been engaged for some time.

CORPORAL GORDON BARTLETT '20

Corporal Gordon Bartlett '20 died just after midnight on September 17, from wounds received the afternoon before in the St. Mihiel drive. Few military records of men so young as Corp. Bartlett show such daring courage and unselfish devotion to the cause he was engaged in as does his. A freshman in Dartmouth at the time of the declaration of war by the United States, he felt at once the imperative necessity of action; he consequently set out to make arrangements to go over to France with the first Dartmouth Ambulance Unit, but when he reached New York, he found that there were more applicants for that Unit than there were openings; he therefore gave up his place to another, and himself made up a party of three who should go at the same time with the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps. His unit in France was the 61st Ambulance Corps, which went into action, after several weeks of delay, before Verdun. Here in August young Bartlett received Army Corps citation for the croix de guerre with a star, for two specified occasions of extreme bravery, one of rescuing a comrade in sudden and unaccustomed danger the first night of service, and the other of protracted attention to very diverse and dangerous duties during six hours of peril, when he is declared by the citation to have "rescued all the dangerously wounded in his district, all by himself."

When the United States took over the ambulance service, he gave a week of volunteer work in instructing new men. Then he started for home, but was detained in Paris by the illness of his "bunkie." Meantime the call to service became so important to him that he cabled home his intention of enlisting and staying over for the rest of the war. He enlisted November 23, 1917, in the Field Artillery, and was assigned to Battery D, 17th Regiment, Ist Army Division. He served for a time as orderly and chauffeur to the major-general in the headquarters company of the Ist Army Division. His own regiment, the 17th Field Artillery, was in the very heaviest of the summer's fighting, and Corp. Bartlett saw a great deal of action in a short time. They were with the Marines at the famous battle of Belleau Woods in June; in the second battle of the Marne, where Corp. Bartlett was set to watch and report on the very opening; and in the St. Mihiel drive, from which he was borne mortally wounded on September 16, to pass away a few hours later.

Corp. Bartlett had shown in his earlier life the same characteristics of unselfishness, earnestness, and devotion to ideals that made him so good a soldier. He was born March 12, 1898, in the little city of Tottori, Japan, the son of the Reverend Samuel C. Bartlett 'B7 and Mrs. Fanny S. (Gordon) Bartlett. One of his grandfathers was President Samuel C. Bartlett '36, and the other, for whom he was named, was the Reverend M. L. Gordon, M.D., D.D., who served through the entire Civil War, and remained a patriotic American throughout his life, the last thirty years of which were spent as a missionary in Japan. In Japan Corp. Bartlett learned to speak English, French, and Japanese. At the age of fourteen he came alone across the Pacific and the American continent to enter Phillips Andover Academy, from which he was graduated in 1916. He entered Dartmouth that fall and at once took a prominent place in his college class because of his good nature, generous interests, and excellent scholarship. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and his name was on the Honor List of the college for the one year which he spent here.

Corp. Bartlett is survived by his parents, now resident in Peace Dale, R. I., and by three brothers, the eldest of whom, Robert L. Bartlett, is now a freshman at Dartmouth.

L. F. EMERSON '18

Lloyd Franklin Emerson '18, a cook in the 301 st Field Corps Battalion, died of spinal meningitis in France September 20. Emerson enlisted in the early summer of 1917, and spent nearly a year as cook at Camp Devens before his battalion was sent across. He was allowed leave last May to return to Hanover to receive his diploma on Commencement Day.

He was born in Lebanon, N. H., twenty-three years ago, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Emerson, and prepared for college at the Lebanon High School. In college he was much interested in all the activities of the Dramatic Association, and won distinction as one of the cleverest impersonators of female roles that the College has had in recent years. He will be especialty remembered for his rendering of dowager roles in the Prom shows of his freshman and sophomore vears.

He is survived by his parents, three brothers, all of whom are in the service, and a sister.

PHILLIPS HASKELL '14

Phillips Haskell '14, died at the NavalHos Hospital, Gallup's Island, Boston Harbor. September 29, of influenza-pneumonia. Haskell enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve Force on December 6, 1917, but was not called into service until April 4, 1918. He had been since that time at the Naval Training Station at Hingham, Mass.

Haskell was born in Gloucester, Mass., April 30, 1892. He prepared for college in the Wakefield High School and at Hebron Academy. In college he was active in dramatics, and was a member of the Gamma Delta Epsilon fraternity. After graduation, he held a position as assistant superintendent in the Russia Cement Company works in Gloucester, and later went into business for himself as owner and manager of the Sterling Manufacturing Company of Glouceste., engaged in the manufacture of rubber substitute. He was married on October 24, 1917, to Miss ,Ruth Ellery Bradley of Gloucester, who survives him.

LIEUTENANT A. F. WAITE '15

Lieutenant Alan Frederick Waite '15, the son of Judge Byron S. Waite and Mrs. Waite of Yonkers, N. Y., was killed in action in France on September 29. No details of his death have been received by the MAGAZINE. The following account of his life and tribute to his character is taken from an obituary notice written by Arthur L. Livermore '88 for a Yonkers newspaper:

"Lieutenant Waite was born June 13, 1895, at Menominee, Michigan, and had lived in Yonkers for more than fifteen years. He was graduated from No. 6 School, the Yonkers High Sehool, and from Dartmouth College, where he received the degree of A.B. in the class of 1915. He was about completing his second year in the Columbia Law School when the United States entered the war. He immediately gave up his studies and entered the first officers' training camp at Plattsburg, where he received his commission of Second Lieutenant of Infantry. His first assignment was to Camp Wadsworth, at Spartanburg. From there he was assigned to Newport News, where he was promoted to a First Lieutenancy and made Battalion Adjutant with the 372nd Regiment of Infantry.

"Last March, Lieutenant Waite went to France with his regiment and lemained with it up to a few weeks [before his death]. More recently he had been serving as a liaison officer. He was recommended for a Captain's Commission on September 20, but it is not known whether the Commission had been received by him before his death or not.

''He was one of three brothers fighting across the sea for humanity. . . . He was conspicuous for his fine, manly qualities and his lovable and genial nature. His scholarship and high moral character distinguished him in college, as is attested by the fact that he was frequently chosen to represent his class in various college activities. In his senior year he was President of the Dartmouth Chapter of Theta Delta Chi, his college fraternity.

"Lieutenant Waite was the boyhood companion of my sons, and the classmate and roommate of one of them at college. His character, convictions and ambitions were well known to me. No finer, cleaner, braver type of our young American manhood existed. True to our best traditions, and true to the blood he bore in his veins, he was among the first to go with good cheer and with a smile to help win God's battle in the great struggle upwards from the breast.

"It was a rare privilege to have known him and to have had his confidence."

L. L. HORTON, EX-'18

Lester Lord Horton, ex-'18, died of influenza at Camp Colt, Gettysburg, Pa., in the latter part of September. He was a member of the Tank Corps in training there, and would probably have gone across in a short time if he had lived.

Horton, who came to college from Leominster, Mass., was a member of his class for but two years. His fraternity was Kappa Sigma.

ENSIGN P. B. FROTHINGHAM, Ex-T9

Ensign Philip Bernard Frothingham, ex-'19, was killed in an airplane accident while serving with a British bombing squadron at Dunkirk, France, in September, and has been buried in the Calais military cemetery. Ensign Frothingham volunteered for service at the beginning of the war, and was assigned to the aviation section of the United States Navy, but was later transferred to land aviation. He received his training at fields in Canada and Texas. When sent overseas, he was put on patrol duty in England, where he made many successful flights. He was then sent to France where he continued on active duty, participating in several aerial engagements, and in the late summer was sent to Italy on a special mission. On his return he flew across the Alps from Italy to France.

Ensign Frothingham was born in Portland, Me., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Frothingham. He prepared for college at the Portland High School and at Hebron Academy, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1915, but withdrew at the end of his freshman year. He was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. His sister writes of him: "I know that his year at Dartmouth helped him to be ready and eager to make the supreme sacrifice."

SERGEANT A. E. WHEELER '17

Sergeant Afton Eugene Wheeler '17 died by accident in France between September 7 and September 10. The exact manner in which he met his death is thus described by Lieut. Norman McCulloch '17: "We were camped in a field close to a wood, so that the trees sheltered our tents from view from the air. There was a big pile of abandoned German ammunition left at the edge of the woods quite near the tents, and everyone was leaving it strictly alone. One afternoon a fire started in the woods and gradually spread to little heaps of powder, thus increasing in size rapidly. Aft and another fellow ran to the spot and tried to beat out the flames with blankets and brush, for they realized the great danger to the men camped there if the fire reached the ammunition. Soon the flames did reach the pile of shells, but the two men still worked on, though men in the vicinity ran for cover, crying out the danger. The wicker baskets in which the ammunition was stored caught fire and soon the shells themselves began to glow with the heat, but Aft and his comrade were determined to avert the impending accident. The inevitable explosion was terrific, and killed them, and severely wounded five others who had tried to seek a safe place. The commanding officer of the two men has recommended that they be given citations in recognition of their work."

Sergt. Wheeler was born in Cambridge, Mass., August 19, 1894, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Wheeler. He was graduated from the Cambridge Latin School in 1913, and from Dartmouth in 1917 with the degree of B.S. He had taken the first year's course in the Tuck School, and entered the first quartermasters' course given by the Tuck School in the summer of 1917. At the close of it he enlisted in the Q. M. C. of the United States Army, and was sent for advanced training for six weeks at the Watertown Arsenal and for two weeks at the Watervliet Arsenal. He was then sent overseas with Salvage Squad No. 1, Q. M. C. He was a young man of exemplary character and was held in the highest esteem in college; his fine qualities he impressed strongly upon his comrades in service, and in his brave death to save the lives of others he showed the supreme nobility of generous sacrifice.

ENSIGN E. C. TIRRELL '18

Ensign Eugene Charles Tirrell '18 of the U. S. S. Martha Washington died of pneumonia in France on October 1. Ensign Tirrell was born in Chelsea, Mass., twenty-two years ago, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Tirrell. He prepared for college in the Chelsea High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He was a junior in college when, on April 13, 1917, he enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve Force at Portsmouth, N. H. He was transferred to Bumkin Island and thence to the Officer-Material School at Harvard. In July of this year he was assigned to the Martha Washington, on which he made several trips. Besides his parents, Ensign Tirrell leaves a sister and a brother, Albert F. Tirrell, who is in France in the Naval Aviation Service.

C. E. TAYNTOR '19

Private (first class) Charles Enos Tayntor '19 died in France on October 3 of double pneumonia, following an attack of la grippe. Pvt. Tayntor was a member of the Medical Corps, Base Hospital Unit 83, A. E. F. He was called into the service June 24, 1918, and went first to Camp Upton, L. I., then to Camp Greenleaf, Ga., and finally to Camp Pike, Ark. He sailed for France on September 1, and as he landed first in England, he can have been in France but a few days before his death.

Pvt. Tayntor was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., February IS, 1896, the son of the late Charles Enos Tayntor and Mary (Hutchins) Tayntor. His father was one of the foremost mausoleum and monument makers in America, and was also one of the crack rifle shots of the world. Young Tayntor prepared for college at the Polytechnic Preparatory School in Brooklyn, from which he was graduated with honors in 1915. At Dartmouth he was on the Honor List of the college. His fraternity was Sigma Phi Epsilon. His affection for his college is shown by a sentence from a letter to his mother in August: "If anything happens to me and the (Brooklyn) Eagle notices me, have them say that I was a Dartmouth man." He is survived by his mother, a sister, and a brother, Harold H. Tayntor, who is a freshman at Dartmouth.

C. E. BISHOP '15

Private Charles Edward Bishop '15, Company C, 5th Limited Service Regiment, died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, Ill., on October 4. He had been in the service only since September 10 of this year.

Bishop was born August IS, 1893, at Baldwinville, Mass., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Bishop. He prepared for college at the Templeton High School. At Dartmouth he was on the Honor List, and after graduation he engaged in teaching at Saxton's River, Vt. The summer of 1916 he spent in graduate study at the University of Chicago, and the following year served as principal of the High School at Ligonier, Ind. He left teaching the next year, however, to take a position as clerk in the First Trust and Savings Bank of Elkhart, Ind. He was married on September 3, a week before entering the service, to Marjorie A. Henry of Ligonier, Ind.

R. A. HATCH '20

Robert Augustus Hatch '20 died in France October 5 from wounds received in action. No details of the engagement in which he was wounded have been received, but it is known that he had been in several severe battles during the fall. He was a member of Company 47, 3rd Battalion, sth Regimen., United States Marine Corps.

Hatch was born in San Diego, Cal., August 21, 1897, the son of Mr. Henry Lee Hatch '84 and Mrs. Hatch. He prepared for college at the High School in Randolph, Vt., and was a member of the sophomore class at the time of his enlistment. In college he belonged to the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in Boston on April 18 of this year and went into training at the Marine Corps training camp at Paris Island, S. C. While there he showed aptitude with the rifle, qualifying as an expert rifleman, and was offered a position in the rifle training department, but about June 20 was transferred to Quantico, Va. July 1 he sailed for France, and soon after arrival overseas was assigned to the 5th Regiment; because of his good "baseball arm" he was made a grenadier.

Hatch was a young man of fine ideals, quick perception, and cordial manner that made him a. favorite among all who knew him. He is survived by his parents, four sisters, and a brother, Harry C. Hatch, serving as a sergeant-chauffeur in France.

CAPTAIN F. W. GRANT '11

Captain Frederick Whidden Grant '11 died of influenza at Camp Meade, Md., on October 7.

Captain Grant was born in Lowell, Mass., thirty-one years ago, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Grant. He was a graduate of the Winchester High School and of Dartmouth in the class of 1911. In college he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. After graduation, Capt. Grant entered the employ of the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company, and served as commercial manager in several of its centers. At the time the United States entered the war, he was plant manager of the company with headquarters at San Antonio, Texas, and had much to do with the wiring of the Texan military camps. Last year he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Signal Corps, and in August of this year was promoted to a captaincy and transferred to Camp Meade.

He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Dollie Thompson of Marshall, Texas; a seven months old daughter; his parents, who reside in Winchester, Mass.; a sister; and a brother, Kenneth Grant '15, who is in the Coast Artillery Corps.

LIEUTENANT G. M. CAVIS, EX-'18

Lieutenant George Minot Cavis, ex-'18, died of influenza-pneumonia at the home of his parents in Bristol, N. H., on October 7. He had been stationed at Fort Andrews, Boston, and, because of illness, was sent to his home about a week before his death. Lieut. Cavis was born in Bristol, December 10, 1896, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Karl G. Cavis. He was a member of the class of 1918 during his freshman and sophomore years. His fraternity was Sigma Chi. He enlisted in February of this year in the Coast Artillery Corps, and received his training at Fortress Monroe, Va.

LIEUTENANT S. L. BROWN, EX-'19

Lieutenant Stafford Leighton Brown, ex'19, was killed in an airplane accident October 7. He was piloting his monoplane over a village near Nantes, France, when the machine fell in a park. He was carried into a chateau near by, and died without regaining consciousness.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Brown of Newton Center, Mass., Lieut. Brown was born in Newton twenty-two years ago. He graduated from the Newton High School in 1915 and entered Dartmouth the following autumn. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After leaving Dartmouth in his sophomore year, he went to the University of Vermont. In April, 1917, he left Vermont to go to France as an ambulance driver. He served for six months in the ambulance division; then he enrolled in the Lafayette Escadrille. Upon the entrance of the United States into the war, he was transferred to the American forces. He is survived by his parents.

H. B. STEADMAN '16

Private Harold Bridgeman Stedman '16 died of pneumonia at Fort Slocum, N. Y., on October 9. Pvt. Stedman had been in the regular service but about three weeks and was about to be transferred to Washington when he was taken ill. He went into Red Triangle work last spring and was connected with the Y. M. C. A. up to the time he entered limited service at Fort Slocum.

Pvt. Stedman was born in Holyoke, Mass., twenty-four years ago, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Stedman, and had spent all except his college days in that city. He was graduated from the Holyoke High School in 1912. At Dartmouth he was distinguished for his excellent scholarship, receiving honorable mention in French and Latin in his sophomore year, and departmental honors in French in his junior year. He received his degree of A.B. magna cum laude, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After leaving college, he was employed for a time by the Crocker-McElwain Shoe Company of Holyoke, and later was in business with his father.

Besides his parents, he leaves a brother, W. S. Stedman, Jr., who is in service in France.

S. W. SLAWSON '21

Spencer Wallace Slawson '21 died at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover of influenza-pneumonia on October 9. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Slawson of Greenwich, Conn. During his freshman year he enlisted in the Naval Reserve Force, and was stationed at Pelham Bay, N. V. This fall he was ordered to return to Dartmouth for training with the Naval Unit here. He is survived by his parents, a brother, and a sister, all of Greenwich, Conn.

SERGT. W. W. DRABBLE '18

Sergeant William Wendell Drabble 18 died on October 10 in a French Casualty Clearing Station of serious wounds in the chest received several days before. Sergt. Drabble was a member of the 107th Infantry (formerly the New York National Guards), and his regiment had been engaged in some of the severest fighting sustained by the American troops in August and September. He left college in the spring of his junior year to enlist, and was sent across last year.

Sergt. Drabble was born twenty-three years ago, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Drabble of Summit, N. J., He was a graduate of the Barringer High School, where he won state interscholastic honors as a crosscountry runner. At Dartmouth he was a member of his freshman cross-country team and his freshman track team; in sophomore and juniors years he was a varsity cross-country runner. He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

He is survived by his parents and a brother, Corporal Philip Drabble, who is attached to the same division as that to which Sergt. Drabble belonged.

ENSIGN R. D. TIBBITTS, EX-'16

Ensign Russell Dexter Tibbitts, ex-'16, was lost at sea October IS. He left the Naval Aviation Station at Cape May, N. J., in a hydroplane on patrol duty on that day, and no trace of him has ever been found since. Ensign Tibbitts entered the service last March; after receiving ground school training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he completed his flying course at Pensacola, Fla., and was ordered to Cape May.

He was born in Washington, D. C., in 1892, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Tibbitts. He was graduated from the Central High School in Washington, and spent one year at Dartmouth. In June, 1918, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Beacom of Greensburg, Pa., who, with his mother and sister, survives him.

D. M. MCMAHON '19

Seaman Donald Mansfield McMahon '19, died at Bar Harbor, Me., on October 14, of pneumonia following influenza. Seaman McMahon enlisted last June and was stationed at Hingham and Wakefield, Mass., and early in September was transferred to Bar Harbor.

McMahon was born in Stowe, Vt., October 18, 1896, the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. McMahon. He prepared for college in the Stowe High School, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1915. In college he was prominent in many ways. He was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and last spring was elected to Round Robin, the senior literary society. During his freshman year he took part in dramatics and played in the freshman mandolin club. He was a member of the College Mandolin Club during his sophomore and junior years, and of the College Orchestra throughout his course. Besides his parents, he leaves two brothers and a sister.

R. T. KELLY '14

Robert Turner Kelly '14 died in Atlanta, Ga., on October 16 of influenza. He entered the service on May 2 of this year and was sent to Camp McPherson, Ala., but after about six weeks he was taken, on account of illness, to the Psychopathic Hospital in Atlanta, and on August 23 was granted hon- orable discharge from the service for physical disability. He was unable to improve beyond the need of hospital treatment, however, and was still in Atlanta when stricken by influenza.

Kelly was born in Woodstock, Vt., twenty-nine years ago, and came to college from the Woodstock High School. After graduation, he became a construction engineer and at the time of his enlistment held a responsible position with the New York Central Railroad. He is survived by his parents, a sister, and four brothers, three of whom are now in the service.

R. H. KELSEY '14

Private Ralph Henry Kelsey '14 was killed in action on the western front on October 16. Pvt. Kelsey was called in the draft last April and went to Camp Dix, N. J., where he remained for only a month before being sent overseas. He was trained in camps in France until he went into action with the 309 th Machine Gun Division.

Pvt. Kelsey was born in Claremont, N. H., twenty-seven years ago, and prepared for college at the Stevens High School. In college he was a member of the Glee Club for two years, sang in the college choir during all four years, and was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. Last April he married Miss Edith Lyons of Binghamton, N. Y., who, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Kelsey of Claremont, survives him.

C. H. AYER, Ex-'11

Private Charles Henry Ayer, ex-'11, was killed in action on October 16, probably in the same engagement in which Kelsey '14 lost his life. Pvt. Ayer also was a resident of Claremont, N. H., and was called in the draft on March 29 of this year. He was sent first to Camp Devens, Mass., and then to Camp Upton, L. I.; he went overseas April 8, receiving practically all of his training in France. He was a member of Company A, 325 th Infantry.

Pvt. Ayer was born in Claremont, October 12, 1887. He was graduated from the Stevens High School in 1907, and entered Dartmouth that fall, remaining but two years. At the time he was drafted, he was engaged in conducting the Pony Lunch in Claremont. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Delia Ayer.

LIEUTENANT STURGIS PISHON '10

Lieutenant Sturgis Pishon '10 was killed in an airplane accident at St. Jean de Monts, France, on October 26. Lieut. Pishon enlisted August 8, 1917, in the Army Aviation Ground School at Cornell. He was graduated with special recommendation to the War Department, and in October, 1917, was sent to Issoudun, France. After four months there he was transferred to Foggia, Italy, where he was one of the first detachment of American aviators to train with Italian officers. After completing his course of instruction at Foggia, he returned to Issoudun, France, and received his commission as first lieutenant in May. He was later sent to St. Jean de Monts for training in aerial gunnery, and it was there that he was killed.

Lieut. Pishon was born at Las Vegas, New Mexico, May 30, 1888. While he was still a boy, his family moved to Roxbury, Mass., and he attended the Robert G. Shaw grammar school and the Boston English High School, from which he was graduated in 1906 as a Franklin Medal Scholar. He came to Dartmouth that fall, and soon became the most prominent and most respected. man in college in his time. There was hardly a phase of college activity in which he did not excel. In athletics he made his class football team in his freshman year, his class baseball and hockey teams in his sophomore year, the varsity football squad in his sophomore year, and the varsity football team in his junior and senior years. His rise in football was phenomenal; when he was graduated, he was universally recognized as one of the greatest quarterbacks of his time in the country. In musical ways he was also prominent, playing important roles in the Prom shows of his day, and singing in the choir throughout his course. He was one of the actors in "Oedipus Tyrannous" when that play was presented in the original Greek in his senior year, and he was a member of the Dramatic Association for the last two years of his course. In scholarship he stood among the highest: he was on the Honor List of the college throughout his course, and in his senior year was a Rufus Choate Scholar. He received his B.S. degree at graduation magna cumlaude, and was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, He was a member also of the Cercle Frangais, the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, and the Casque and Gauntlet Senior society. After graduation, he engaged in business in Boston, and was always active in all matters relating to Dartmouth. He was the permanent secretary of his class, a leader in the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston, and chorister at all local Dartmouth gatherings.

"Spuddy" Pishon, as he was affectionately called, was the best type of Dartmouth man. Clean, brilliant, gifted, he was notably an "all-round" man. In personality he was generous, happy, and charitable: all who knew him loved and respected him. Hardly any ether man of his generation among Dartmouth men would be so keenly and sorrowfully missed as will Lieut. Pishon.

He is survived by his father, Mr. Josiah S. Pishon, a sister, and a brother. Lieutenant Emmett Pishon '13, now an instructor of the S, A, T. C. at Miami College, Ohio.

SERGEANT R. D. BROWN '18

Sergeant Rodney Donnell Brown '18 died at Base Hospital No. 51, A. E. F., on October 26 of pneumonia following influenza. He enlisted in the Ordnance Department, U. S. A., over a year ago, was stationed first at the Watertown 'Arsenal, and was then transferred to Headquarters Company of the 301 st Engineers at Camp Devens, Mass. He went to France last spring with the 76th Division, and had been on the firing line several times this fall.

Sergt. Brown was born in Gloucester, Mass., August 6, 1896, the only son of Senator Charles D. and Helen M. (Dennis) Brown. He was graduated from the Gloucester High School in 1914, and was a junior at Dartmouth at the time of his enlistment. He received his degree with the other men in service last June.

J. A. TURNER, Ex-'09

James Andrew Turner, ex-'09, was killed in action in France on November 4. Turner was a resident of Chicago at the time of his entry into the service. Although at Dartmouth but two years, he made himself known by his skill in football, playing end. He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. After leaving Dartmouth, he entered Northwestern University, where he played end and quarterback. After graduation from the latter institution, he coached the University of Vermont football team for two years.

F. C. GILPATRIC, JR., '19

Frederick Cook Gilpatric, Jr., '19, died of influenza at Petersburg, Va., about October 1. He enlisted in September, and after a few days at Camp Devens, Mass., was sent to the Officers' Training Camp at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va.

Gilpatric was born in Milton, Mass., on March 8, 1897, the only son of Attorney and Mrs. Frederick C. Gilpatric. He prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1915, being a senior at the time of his death. He was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

H. S. ROBINSON, Ex-'17

Herman Stedman Robinson, ex-'17, died of pneumonia at the Naval Hospital, Brooklyn Navy Yard, on November 24. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve Force in January, 1918, and was assigned to the armed guard on the U. S. S. Ziuerdyzk, on which he made several trips across the Atlantic. He had been recommended for entrance to an ensign school, and at the time of his death was assigned to the Brooklyn Barracks to await further instructions.

Robinson was born in Gloucester, Mass., twenty-five years ago, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Robinson. He prepared for college in the Gloucester High School, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1913, but remained here for only two years. He was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. After leaving college, he accepted a position with the United States Rubber Company in New York, but more recently had been employed by the Remington Arms Company in New Haven.

He is survived by his parents, a sister, and two brothers.

GEORGE OURAY KANE '20, (Ex-18)

Private George Ouray Kane '20, of the S. A. T. C. Unit at Dartmouth died at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital on November 21 of hemorrhage of the lungs. Pvt. Kane entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1914 and was a member of the class of 1918 for two years; he then remained out of college for two years, reentering this fall in the class of 1920, and taking the medical course.

Pvt. Kane was born in Carterville, Mo., July 1, 1897, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Kane. He early removed with his family to Joplin, Mo., whence he came to college, obtaining his preparation at the Kemper Military School. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

MAJOR H. R. WESTON '00

As THE MAGAZINE goes to press, we learn of the death at Windsor, Vt., on November 27, of Major Henry Reuben Weston '00. An extended notice of him will be printed next month.