IMPRESSIVE SERVICES FOR DARTMOUTH'S FORMER PRESIDENT
Funeral services for the late President Emeritus of Dartmouth, Dr. William Jewett Tucker, were held in Hanover Sunday morning, October 3. A family service at the Tucker home on Occom Ridge was conducted by the Reverend Frank L. Janeway, of the Westminster Church, Buffalo, N. Y., formerly a pastor of the Church of Christ in Hanover and later a chaplain of the College. Following this a commemorative service was conducted in Rollins Chapel by the Reverend Roy B. Chamberlin, present pastor of the Church of Christ and Chapel Director of the College. In this service
the other clergymen and the Dean of the College assisted. The burial service in the cemetery was read by the Right Reverend John T. Dallas, D.D., formerly rector of St. Thomas Church, Hanover.
Honorary pall bearers for Dr. Tucker were the Honorable John G. VVinant, governor of New Hampshire; Mr. Lewis Parkhurst, senior member of the Board of Trustees; Thomas W. D. Worthen, emeritus-professor of mathematics; Edwin J. Bartlett, emeritus-professor of chemistry; James F. Colby, emeritus-professor of law and political science; Robert Fletcher, emeritus-director of the Thayer School; Lemuel S. Hastings, one-time professor of rhetoric; Charles D. Adams, professor of Greek; William Patten, professor of Biology; Herbert D. Foster, professor of History; George D. Lord, professor of Classical Archeology; Dr. Gilman D. Frost, professor in the Medical School; Dr. Percy Bartlett, professor in the Medical School; Dr. John W. Bowler, professor of Physical Education; Mr. Perley R. Bugbee, President of the Dartmouth National Bank; and Mr. Adna D. Storrs, prominent Hanover merchant.
The actual pall bearers were: Frank H. Dixon, professor of Economics at Princeton University (son-in-law) ; the Honorable Nelson P. Brown, judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts (son-in-law) ; Frank W. Cushwa, professor of English at Phillips-Exeter Academy (son-in-law); Colin Wells (nephew) ; William Tucker Dixon (grandson) ; President Ernest M. Hopkins (intimately associated with Dr. Tucker for the past 25 years).
During the commemorative service in Rollins Chapel Craven Laycock, Dean of the College, read the following appreciation of Dr. Tucker;
"This is neither the time nor the place to essay an appraisal of the life and work of Presiident Tucker, and those who have been nearest to him particularly desire that no such attempt should be made at this time. But we must pause just a moment in contemplation ere all that was mortal of our departed leader is borne by loving hands to its last resting place.
"Members of the Dartmouth fellowship, here in the body or in spirit, do not come as those who mourn. Rather is there the spirit of rejoicing for the great and good life that is ended.
"Truly a great King in the Dartmouth Israel has fallen. But while we pay our respect and express our veneration in these last rites, we shall above all keep in mind the great man that he was, and the great deeds that he did.
"A generation ago he came to us in the full tide of his mature years! He saw great visions ; he dreamed marvelous dreams; and he was spared long enough to see those visions become realities and his dreams come true. And unto the God of all goodness we will give the praise."
