Deaths
Alumni Notes
NECROLOGY
CLASS OF 1863
BARTON FISK BLAKE died at his home in Merion, Pa., August 1, 1931.
He was born in Holliston, Mass., October 20, 1841, his parents being Warren and Ophelia Adeline (Barton) Blake, and prepared for college at the high school of Hopkinton, Mass., whence he came to college. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.
After the custom of the time, he taught winters during his college course. For the first year after graduation he taught at North Middleboro, Mass., and from 1864 to 1866 was principal of the high school in Walpole, Mass. Under medical advice he gave up a plan to prepare for the ministry and entered upon a business life. In 1866 he went to New York and engaged as salesman for a wholesale feather house, in which he later became a partner. In 1874 he left this business and became connected with J. M. Bradstreet and Son, first in Boston, then in New York, and then from 1878 as superintendent for that company in Philadelphia. His subsequent business connections were in the last named city, where he became financial manager of the John Wanamaker store and a partner in Hood, Foulkrod, and Company. From 1902 until his retirement from business three years ago he was treasurer of Wanamaker and Brown.
Mr. Blake was a member of the New England Society of Pennsylvania, the City Club, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He was actively connected with the Central Congregational church of Philadelphia, being for many years a deacon, and was for many years a member of the board of managers and at one time president of the American Sunday School Union.
November 16, 1871, he was married to Mary Elizabeth Manning of Jamaica Plain (now in Boston), Mass., who survives him. They had four children: Harriet Manning (A.B. Wellesley, 1894, Ph.D. Univ. Pa.) was at the time of her death in July, 1929, head of the department of English in the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Sue Avis (A.B. Bryn Mawr 1897, A.M. Bryn Mawr 1900) has been many years a member of the department of physics at Bryn Mawr College; Warren Barton (A.B. Harvard 1904, A.M. Harvard 1907) at his death in 1918 was on the editorial staff of Collier's Weekly; Ruth Manning has been the home-maker for her father and mother in their declining years. A surviving sister of Mr. Blake is Mrs. MarJon Blake Kinsley of New Haven, Conn., widow of Thomas P. Kinsley, Dartmouth 1866.
CLASS OF 1865
WILLIAM BURNHAM STEVENS, who has acted as secretary of this class for the last few years, died at his home in Stoneham, Mass., July 15, 1931.
He was born in Stoneham, March 23, 1843, his parents being Dr. William Flint (D.M.S. 1827) and Mary Jane Gould (Burnham) Stevens, and prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
September 19, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, 50th Massachusetts Volunteers, was promoted to corporal, and served through the term of enlistment, being mustered out August 24, 1863. The service of this regiment was in the Department of the Gulf, including the siege of Port Hudson.
After graduation he entered upon the study of law in the office of Sweetser and Gardner of Boston, studying also at Harvard Law School in 1866-7, and being admitted to the bar in 1867. He began practice at once, having offices in both Boston and Stoneham, and soon attained high standing in his profession. From 1880 to 1890 he was district attorney for the Northern District of the state. In April, 1898, he was appointed a justice of the Superior Court, and held that position until his retirement in 1917.
He took an active interest in all local matters, and was president of the Stoneham Five Cents Savings Bank and a director of the Stoneham National Bank. He was a member of the Massachusetts and Middlesex Bar Associations and of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. He was the author of a history of the 50th Massachusetts Regiment.
October 20, 1868, Judge Stevens was mar- ried to Amelia Josephine Hill of Stoneham, who died December 22, 1869. September 30, 1873, he was married to Mary Willjamine Green of Stoneham, who died March 3, 1931. Judge Stevens is survived by three daughters, Mrs. John Ayer of West Medford, Mass., Mrs. Guy C. Hawkins of Wilmington, Vt., and Mrs. Kenneth S. May of Newton Highlands, Mass., and by seven grandchildren.
DR. CHARLES CARROLL ARMS died of old age at his home in Ocala, Fla., August 4, 1931.
He was born in Waterbury, Vt., July 6, 1840, his parents being Dr. Charles C. and Lucia (Mills) Arms. His father died when the gon was thirteen years old, and he prepared himself for college by individual study, with the assistance of his mother. From June 14 to October 2, 1862, he served in Company B, 7th Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry (the "College Cavaliers").
After graduation he studied medicine, graduating from Jefferson Medical College in 1868. From 1868 to 1873 he served with the United States Army as a contract surgeon during Indian campaigns in the West. He was for a time with Custer's regiment. He then established himself in practice in Cleve- land, Ohio, and was for many years from 1882 professor of anatomy in the Medical School of Wooster University, located in Cleveland. In his later years he devoted himself largely to life insurance work, where his proficiency in physical diagnosis made him a recognized authority in this field. In 1925 he retired from practice and removed to Ocala, Fla. He enjoyed good health until about a year ago.
October 16, 1890, Dr. Arms was married to Elizabeth Sarah, daughter of Dr. Thomas Taylor and Sarah (Scott) Seelye of Cleveland, who survives him, with their two sons, Cha,rles Seelye Arms of Philadelphia and Major Thomas S. Arms of Port Benning, Ga.
CLASS OF 1866
HENRY WHITTEMORE, seventh of the twelve children of Jonathan and Caroline (Hyde) Whittemore, was born at Hopkinton, Mass., July 23, 1843.
He prepared for college at Hopkinton High School, teaching in the same school to earn his way. As was not unusual in those days, the boys challenged the young teacher's authority and obliged him to prove his physical prowess, which he did promptly and adequately.
He entered college with advanced standing, "owing," as he was wont to say, "to the kindness and courtesy of the faculty." This must have been some time in the year 1862-3, as he joined the class of 1866. His course was interrupted by his enlistment July 16, 1864, in Company C, sth Massachusetts Infantry. He served three months at Fort McHenry as captain's orderly, and on his discharge November 16, 1864, returned to college. In spite of a further interruption due to an attack of typhoid fever, he graduated with his class, serving at Commencement as first marshal. He always preserved with other college mementos the white rosette badge of this office. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.
After graduation he entered upon the study of medicine with physicians at Manchester, N. H., and at Bowdoin Medical School, but overwork, due to his attempt to pay his way by teaching while pursuing his medical studies, led to another serious illness, and he was warned by his physicians that he would never have the physical strength to endure the life of a physician. While recuperating from this illness, he visited a brother, then teaching music in the schools of Chicago.
In 1874 he returned to Massachusetts to be principal of the high school of Westboro, and the following year was given the combined position of superintendent and principal. July 27 of that year (1875) he was married to Miss Clara Foss of Saco, Me., whom he had first met during his sojourn in Chicago. In 1883 he resigned at Westboro to become superintendent of the schools of Waltham, where he served for fifteen years. He soon became prominent in what was then a new profession, and he helped to set its standards. His wrath was hot against anything he considered unprofessional.
He took an active part in all professional associations. Not much given to speechmaking, he had a droll way of interjecting punctuating questions or comments into a discussion, which were usually humorous, always interesting, and often illuminating. He was president of the New England Asso- ciation of School Superintendents in 1888. Sometime in the nineties a group of school men gathered around him formed what was known as the Whittemore Club, which for many years held a dinner, meeting about once a month with no set program, discussing informally whatever educational problem happened to be uppermost. He had a friendly understanding way with younger men which endeared him to them, and enabled him in later years, when the ranks of his contem- poraries began to thin, to find companionship among them. It was so with the Club. As older men dropped off younger men were recruited, but he was still in the midst.
In 1898 he resigned at Waltham to accept the principalship of the Framingham Normal School, the oldest state normal school in this country. About this time the estate of Mary Hemenway was offering to the Commonwealth the training school for teachers of domestic science which that philanthropist had founded and maintained, and because of the confidence of some of the Hemenway trustees in his sanity and progressive spirit they directed their influence to its incorporation as a department of the Framingham school, where it has played a large part in the expansion of that institution and in shaping its curriculum along scientific lines.
At Framingham, as at Waltham, Mr. Whittemore attached students and faculty to himself in a very personal way, working in season and out for their welfare. He was never far from his office even in summer vacation. For nineteen years the school was his life, and then, after forty-three years of continuous service to Massachusetts education, he retired in 1917 from public service, setting an example of graceful and dignified retirement for the encouragement of those of his juniors who look forward with trepidation to the age limit. He and his good wife returned to Waltham to renew old associations and establish new. Surrounded by former teachers, pupils, and neighbors, all loyal to him, with children and grandchildren close at hand, he continued his useful activity. He enjoyed working with his hands to assist in his son's business of floriculture. He still served the Normal School as president of the Alumnae Association, in which he was held in high honor. Last October, when a new principal was installed, his bright and happy speech representing the Association was acclaimed as one of the high lights of the occasion.
As quartermaster and adjutant of his Grand Army Post he cheered his comrades on their way by his optimism and fun, which was always at ready command, directing their gatherings and visiting them in their illnesses.
For the past twenty-five years he had served his college class as its secretary, and had attended quite regularly the annual meeting of the Secretaries Association at Hanover. He was there this year with Mrs. Whittemore as usual, and was looking forward to the observance of the sixty-fifth anniversary of his class in June. He saluted old acquaintances in his always boyish fashion and participated in the meeting in his usual buoyant way. After adjournment he planned to linger a day or two with Mrs. Whittemore.
Friends leaving on Saturday, after bidding the pair good-bye, remarked upon their fine spirits and their youthful ways as they mingled with old and young. On Sunday they walked over to the cemetery to visit Dr. Tucker's tomb. On the way back he had an attack of indigestion, and Mrs. Whittemore requisitioned a student's room in one of the dormitories where he might rest for a little, after which, refusing a proffered ride, he walked back to the Inn and thought himself better. But as his strength seemed to wane his son and daughter were summoned, and with wife and children at his side he sank peacefully away, breathing his last on Tuesday morning, May 5, amid scenes of early life and happy memories.
His classmate, Dr. J. A. Spalding of Portland, Me., writes: "I trust that in writing a notice of his career for the DARTMOUTH MAGAZINE you will chronicle exactly what happened in the afternoon and evening of his sudden death, for I doubt if it ever occurred before in the history of the College that any graduate should have gone back to represent his class, and then ceased to live while doing it." And Dr. Spalding adds, referring to Mr. Whittemore's relinquishment of a medical career, "Whenever I think of him I always say, 'What a physician was lost to the community.' He would have been the very man to save and prolong the lives of many patients by his simple vitality, his love of living, his power of encouraging others to go on, to keep agoing, not to give in, but to live long for their own good and the good of others. It was a loss, I repeat, to medicine that such a man should not have been a practitioner."
Notable honors came to him in his lifetime, which he always accepted graciously and without apparent self-consciousness. In 1921 there was dedicated upon the Normal School grounds a memorial gate with the inscription "Henry Whittemore Memorial, erected by the classes of 1917, 1918, 1919." In 1926 the school committee of Waltham voted to erect a new 32-room school "to be named the Henry Whittemore School, in honor of Henry Whittemore, soldier, educator, public spirited citizen of Waltham, honored and beloved by the people of our city." When the school was dedicated his professional associates from near and far attended, and he was the center of interest. His portrait graces its walls.
He is survived by Mrs. Whittemore, a daughter Winifred, now the wife of Arthur P. Teele, a lawyer of Boston, a son, Harvey Foss, ('O6) a florist in Waltham, and four grandchildren.
The end came as he would have wished it. He finished strong, active in body and mind, happy in his family, happy in a long and useful career and in his many friendships; happy also in the brief and gentle twilight of his passing.
CLASS OF 1874
DR. ROBERT GATES REED died of heart disease at his home in Woonsocket, R. 1., August 22, 1931, after an illness of several weeks.
He was born in Lonsdale, R. 1., November 10, 1851, his parents being Joseph and Ann J. (Howard) Reed. He removed with his parents to New Bedford, Mass., at the age of six months, and graduated from the high school of that city in 1870. During his junior winter in college he taught at Berlin, Mass. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
After graduation he studied medicine at Boston University, graduating as M.D. in 1877. For three years he practiced his profession in New Bedford, and then for a few months at Millville, Mass., coming to Woonsocket in the spring of 1881. Here he was engaged in busy and successful practice, holding a high rank in his profession, until the end of life.
At New Bedford he was a member of the City Council. He was appointed medical examiner for Woonsocket soon after coming there, and held this office until his death. For 23 years he was a member of the school board, of which he was for a time chairman. For 25 years he was a member of the Woonsocket Park Commission, serving at first as its secretary and later as chairman. He was prominent in many Masonic and medical organizations, attaining the 32d degree in Masonry. He had been chairman of the staff of Woonsocket Hospital since its organization, and was a member of the staff of Providence Homeopathic Hospital. His religious affiliation was with the Universalist church.
October 10, 1880, Dr. Reed was married to Eudora C. Libby of New Bedford, who died June 11, 1921. They had no children. The only surviving near relative is a sister, Miss Elizabeth J. Reed, who is a teacher of sewing in the Woonsocket schools.
A serious physical deformity handicapped Dr. Reed from childhood, but did not prevent his substantial success both in college and in later life.
The following is taken from resolutions passed by the Rhode Island Dartmouth Association :
"Those of us who knew him well had learned to respect his ability and to cherish his unfailing kindness and courtesy. There was inspiration in his friendship; respect for his strong and sound judgment; and envy for his sterling, incorruptible integrity. To few men is it given to live so long—fewer still contribute so much and so well to their fellow men."
CLASS OF 1875
CLARENCE EDGAR CARR died August 7, 1931, at his home in Andover, N. H., after an illness of several months.
He was born in Enfield, N. H., January 31, 1853, his parents being John P. and Emily A. (Cochran) Carr. When he was ten years old the family removed to Andover, which was his home for the rest of his life. He prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Colby Academy and Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).
After graduation he began the study of law in the office of John M. Shirley of Andover, and was admitted to the bar in 1878, entering into partnership with Mr. Shirley. From considerations of health he gave up practice in 1882, and the next year engaged in manufacturing with his father and elder brother, continuing with success until his retirement in 1912.
He entered actively into politics with the Democratic party, representing his town in the legislatures of 1878 and 1879, presiding over the state convention in 1902, being chairman of the state committee from 1902 to 1908, and the unsuccessful candidate of the party for governor in 190S and 1910.
Mr. Carr was a Unitarian in his religious convictions, serving officially in the local church, being for twelve years president of the New Hampshire Unitarian Conference, from 1906 to 1912 a director of the American Unitarian Association, and a vice-president since 1912. He was a trustee and treasurer of Proctor Academy. During the period of the war he was president of the New Hampshire Defense League, and state director of the United States Public Service Reserve, an emergency unit set up by President Wilson to provide workmen for munitions and shipbuilding centers.
Mr. Carr was the first president of the United Life and Accident Insurance Company of Concord, and was recently chairman of its directors and executive committee. He was a trustee of the John H. Pearson Fund and of the Franklin Bank, and a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society and of the local Masonic lodge and grange.
He was first married to Ella, daughter of Rev. Thompson Barron, who died in 1876, leaving a daughter, Ella. In 1879 he was married to Carrie, daughter of Amos and Emeline M. Proctor, who survives him, with two sons, Proctor and John P.
A personal letter in the Concord MonitorPatriot pays this tribute to Mr. Carr: "He stood for what he believed without counting the cost to himself. He was variously honored, but in ways carrying greater honor than political office. After all, his greatest reward is that highest of all rewards, the love of his fellow men for a life of unselfish service."
CLASS OF 1878
DR. JOHN JAY STILL, physician and surgeon of Los Angeles, Cal., died August 22, 1931.
He was born November 3, 1854, in Macon County, Mo., son of Dr. Edward Cox and Mary Susan (Powell) Still. He was prepared for college by a private tutor. He was a modest, gentlemanly fellow, a good student, and regret was general when he left college in 1875 to pursue the study of medicine. He obtained the degree of M.D. at Bellevue Hospital Medical College and began practice in Arvonia, Kans., whence he reported in 1880: "I am still pursuing the art of Aesculapius, and have had fair success. I am delighted with the profession, and of course have had some interesting experiences in this little western town. I am thinking of going to New Mexico next year. That territory is attracting much interest at present. Am not married. Girls are scarce in the West, but the quality is unexcelled."
He did not go to New Mexico, but was still at Arvonia in 1882, when lie wrote: "I failed to report last year, so it may not be generally known to '78 that I have been compelled to furnish a house. I was married on February 23, 1881, to Miss Margaret Jones."
He must have continued at Arvonia until about 1886, when he moved to Los Angeles, for in 1925 he reported that he had been practicing medicine for forty-eight years, thirty-nine in Los Angeles. Here he served as associate professor of surgery in the University of Southern California, and on the staff of the Comity Hospital.
He is survived by Mrs. Still and two daughters, Annie and Gladys. The latter was married in 1913 to Mr. Clair Wyman Ward, a graduate of Stanford. In 1913 Still reported three grandchildren.
As to politics and religion, quoting from his report of 1913, "Have been Republican, but voted for Wilson. Voted for Bryan when he first began running for president. Whole family members of Congregational church. Regret exceedingly that I cannot be present at reunion. No friendship so warm as mine for the boys of '78."
In 1928 he had a very serious illness, in reporting which his daughter says: "He has had a large practice and an office down town until his very sudden illness. He would vote for Hoover this year. He is absolutely for prohibition, for the League of Nations and the World Court. He is very much interested in the class and wishes you a happy reunion."
Early in the present year Mrs. Still wrote Harlow, who had called on Still on a western trip, "For the past three years he has been unable to practice, but is cosy to be at home and enjoy the evening of life after fifty years of practicing his profession."
CLASS OF 1879
THOMAS WILLIAM PROCTOR died at his home, 9 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Mass., June 30, 1931, after a critical illness of about two months from heart trouble with complications For several years he had suffered at times from severe attacks of rheumatism, but had kept at work whenever at all possible, often beyond his strength.
William Thomas Proctor,—as the name appears in the college catalogues of his student days,—was born November 20, 1858, the son of Thomas and Susan R. (Pool) Proctor, in Hollis, N. H., where the ancestral residence had been since 1740. His father was a moderately prosperous farmer, and young Proctor had the experiences common to New England country boys of limited means.
He attended the common schools of his native town until 15 years of age. He then went to Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., for two years, graduating in 1875 in the class with J. Richardson Smith, also of Hollis, his classmate and roommate at Dartmouth during the next four years. During his last winter at the Academy he taught a district school in Shirley, Mass., being then sixteen years old and receiving $9 a week as wages of which he paid $5 a week for board.
Entering Dartmouth College in September, 1875, with the class of 1879, only two of the 114 members of the class were younger than he. A ready scholar, full of boyish enthusiasm he quickly took a prominent place in the class, entered whole-heartedly into the various activities of college life, and became one of the most popular men of his day. He joined the Kappa Sigma Epsilon freshman society and the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He sang in the college choir, played on the varsity nine, was active in the football practice of the period, and served on the editorial board of The Dartmouth the last half of senior year. At graduation he delivered an English oration and was admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa society.
His resources for meeting college bills being limited, he worked every college summer vacation in White Mountain hotels, and continued to do so for five summers afterward. The first winter after graduation, he taught a district school in Londonderry, N. H., "boarding 'round" in part payment for his services. The following spring he was principal of the high school in Groton, Mass.
In the autumn of 1880, Proctor began the study of law in the office of John H. Hardy, Dartmouth '7O, himself a native of Hollis. Of that first year in Boston he has written: "That year was not pleasant for lack of means." The next two years he sustained himself by teaching mathematics in the Boston Evening High School under the principalship of E. C. Carrigan, Dartmouth '77, so well known to all Dartmouth men of the period. After two years in Hardy's office, he attended the Boston University Law School for a year, and in May, 1883, passed successfully the examinations for admission to the bar. In 1913, he received from the University the degree of LL.B. as of the class of 1884.
Working during the summer for the last time at the Profile House in the White Mountains, in the autumn he began the practice of law, having a desk in the outer office of Mr. Hardy and continuing his teaching in the Evening High School. He has recorded the fact that his law business during the first year brought in the sum of $2OO.
In 1884, for a few months he served as indictment clerk in the district attorney's office, after which he became a member of the law firm of Hardy, Elder, and Proctor. But in the fall of 1886 he had an opportunity to become second assistant district attorney, and the following year first assistant, a position which gave him much valuable experience in the trial of criminal cases. In May, 1891, he became an assistant city solicitor, remaining in that position for nearly three years, thus gaining experience in the trial of civil suits. After that in 1894 he formed a partnership with Robert W. Nason, which continued uninterruptedly until his death. The firm of Nasorf and Proctor came to be one of the oldest and most respected law firms in Boston.
During his long legal career, Mr. Proctor rose to a position of honor and very high regard in his profession. Several years ago a prominent Boston lawyer wrote:
"Proctor's training . . . especially well fitted him for the trial of cases before the court and juries, where he has been eminently successful."
Another wrote: "Proctor is recognized as one of the leading members of his profession and one of the best citizens of his city, and he has the affection as well as the respect of all who know him."
The Boston Post in its obituary notice said:
"One of Proctor's outstanding characteristics was his modesty. Although he received many honors and performed diligently many public offices, little was ever heard about him except in conversation about town wherever legal men gathered.
"His knowledge of law and his kindliness and fairness won him the respect and goodwill of fellow members of the bar, judges, and juries alike, and it was his particularly successful way in impressing a jury with the merits of his case that drew and held the attention of men in high places.
"He was a stickler for legal ethics, and all admired him for that, calling him after a while 'The Family Lawyer.' Partially this title was won because other lawyers frequently sought him for opinions and advice. But whether he won or lost a case he was equally well balanced personally, and stories are still told to illustrate some circumstance illustrating that."
And the Boston Transcript in a leading editorial said:
"In the death of Thomas W. Proctor, the Massachusetts bar loses one of its most distinguished members, and the city of Boston a man whose great capacity for disinterested public service was matched by an earnest readiness to perform that service. Mr. Proctor has been president of both the state bar association and the city bar association—a double honor seldom conferred and a measure therefore of the respect in which he was held by the lawyers of the Commonwealth. Both positions he with conspicuous success, and the standards of the bar are the better for his influence and his efforts.
"In all his dealings with his fellow men— whether as prosecuting attorney, corporation counsel, or lawyer—Mr. Proctor was preeminently fair. One thing he never would do, and that was to stoop to meanness or trickery. Juries knew this and so did opposing counsel. As a result, he had almost no enemies. Even those men who found themselves on the other side of the legal fence were quick to recognize and pay tribute to his character and integrity. Gifted with a kindly disposition and keen sense of humor which he utilized on every possible occasion, Mr. Proctor had a legion of friends in all walks of life. A sound lawyer and good citizen, he will be sorely missed by city and state."
"Tom" Proctor, as he was familiarly called by his college friends, was deeply interested in everything pertaining to the welfare of Dartmouth, and especially in the activities of his own class, of which he had been president continuously since 1889. He was a libera contributor to the Alumni Fund from year to year. He was one of the founders and until his death president of the Dartmouth Educational Association, "a corporation organized for the purpose of assisting needy students pursuing courses of study at Dartmouth College."
His last meeting with his class was at the fiftieth anniversary reunion in June, 1929. His wife had died less than three weeks before, and he showed the marks of his recent sorrow. But he entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion and represented the class at the alumni dinner. In a letter to the class secretary immediately afterward, President Hopkins wrote:
"I have never known the representative of the fifty-year class to make so graceful and altogether fitting a speech at the alumni dinner as Mr. Proctor did in his gracious appearance there yesterday. I was proud to have our distinguished guests see him and hear him and to have them know that he was representative of Dartmouth's own."
At the commencement in 1930, the College conferred the degree of LL.D. upon Mr. Proctor. In bestowing the honor, President Hopkins said in part:
"Prominent in the undergraduate life of your time, among your fellows and early contemporaries, as a member of the community to whom responsibilities could be intrusted with assurance that they would be met, the promise of those days has since been fulfilled continuously in the larger communities wherewith you have identified yourself and to whose concerns you have addressed yourself in public and in private life. High in repute among your professional associates, as indicated by election to the respective presidencies of bar associations of city and state; beloved among your personal friends; widely respected for your qualities as a citizen; representative of the ideals of culture in your tastes and in your affiliations; today the College reiterates its claim to you as one of its very own."
Proctor was a member of a long list of clubs and organizations, among which may be mentioned in addition to the several bar associations with which he was connected, the Algonquin Club, Boston; Country Club, Brookline; Beacon Society, Boston; Longwood Cricket Club; Brookline Thursday Club. He was for many years a trustee of the Newton Savings Bank and of the Newton Free Library. He often acted as special master by the appointment of state and federal courts in cases involving large sums of money. For a number of years he gave the lectures on evidence in the Boston University Law School.
In August, 1930, Mr. Proctor gave an address at the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the settlement of his native town, which was printed in pamphlet form, and in which he sketched briefly the early history of the town. It was a rather interesting circumstance that fifty years earlier as a young college graduate he had been one of the speakers at the celebration of the same event.
March 20,1895, Mr. Proctor married Anne Louise White of Boston, who died May 29, 1929. To them were born three children, all of whom live in or near Boston; two sons, Thomas W., Dartmouth 'lB, a civil engineer, and Robert, Dartmouth 'l9, a lawyer, both of them Phi Beta Kappa men; and a daugh- ter, Mary, who graduated at Vassar in 1522 with honors, and who married William F. King and resides in West Newton.
Writing a sketch of his own life for his classmates in 1924, Proctor said in conclusion:
"I gratefully say that as I look back upon the years, I have up to now had a good time. I have had some serious attacks of rheumatism. That is said to be a healthy man's disease. Generally I have had wonderful health and have not known what it was to be tired. I have enjoyed my work and have had plenty. I have played too, and have enjoyed that to the full. I have had and have a dear family. My friends, that are not few, have been very good to me."
The funeral service was held at the Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hills, on Thursday, July 2, Rev. John S. Holmes, rector of the church, officiating. Frank A. Newell of Boston represented the class of '79. Burial was in Newton Cemetery.
CLIFFORD H. SMITH
CLASS OF 1883
HENRY WILSON FELKER died at his home in Rochester, N. H., May 10, 1931, of angina pectoris. He had been unwell for several months, but his last sickness was of short duration.
The son of William Henry and Deborah A. (Demeritt) Felker, he was born in Rochester, October 29, 1861. He attended the public schools of Rochester, and graduated from New Hampton Institution in 1879. Samuel D. Felker '82 and Charles S. Felker '84 (the latter now deceased) were brothers.
He has been engaged since graduation in the lumber business in his native town. About thirty years ago he and his brother Ex-Governor Samuel D. Felker purchased the Rochester Lumber Company, and he was closely connected with this company until his death.
October 26, 1909, he was married to Grace Arianna, daughter of John W. and Arianna (Canney) Berry, who survives him, with their only son, Charles Henry Felker '3l.
CLASS OF 1889
CHESTER BICKFORD CURTIS died of heart disease in St. Louis, June 18, 1931. He had received warning, a few months before, that his circulation showed signs of strain and that he should restrict his activities somewhat. This he had done, but was able to carry on his most important duties. The end came suddenly. As he was leaving the lunch room in the store, he collapsed, and death was almost instantaneous.
He was born June 15, 1866, at New Castle, N. EL, the son of Howard Moody and Lucretia (Vennard) Curtis. He prepared for college at Portsmouth (N. H.) High School, entered and graduated (8.L.) with our class. The ten years following were divided between teaching and graduate study at Dartmouth and Cornell. He taught mathematics in the Holderness School for Boys, Plymouth, N. H., for three years, and physics and chemistry in the Shattuck School, Pairbault, Minn., for three years. He also combined teaching with his studies, both in Hanover and Ithaca. In 1899 he went to the Central High School, St. Louis, as teacher of physics and chemistry. In 1908 he was made principal of the school, and continued in that position until February, 1920, when he became personnel director of the Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney department store in St. Louis. As such he was a member of the executive board, "whose function is the direct active management of the business in all its phases," and four years later he was elected chairman of the board.
The abrupt change from principal of a large city high school to director of personnel and of research in personnel problems and then to a responsible position in managing the entire business of a large retail store was not as great as it appears at first thought, Chester believed that "the function of the school is the production of good citizenship." In the store his first duties were concerned with the human element of an industrial organization, and his aim was to make it more efficient, more loyal, more contented, a part of a better citizenship.
In the civic and religious activities of his city Chester had an influential share. He was the first president of the safe and sane Fourth of July movement in St. Louis. During the War he was vice-president of the Junior Red Cross, which accomplished much in material aid for soldiers, sailors, and orphaned French children, and even more in developing and strengthening practical patriotism. For the Red Cross his school, in 1919, produced the "Greek Games," a beautiful spectacle given by 500 girls in the out-door municipal theater. He was long a member of the Boy Scout Court of Honor for St. Louis. For several years he was dean of the Community Training School for Sunday School Teachers. This school was composed of about 500 teachers, representing 25 denominations and over 100 churches. It had a strong faculty and a two years' course of study. He was a leading member, and for one year president, of the New England Society of St. Louis. His interests and active labors were not restricted by city limits. He was a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, representing 2000 institutions in 20 states. In 1916, as president of the Association, he gave a noteworthy address on "Secondary School Science." While prepared for teachers, the article contains much of interest and practical suggestion for parents of growing boys. For ten years he was a member of the board of directors of the Chicago Theological Seminary, of which our classmate, Ozora Davis, was president. During these ten years the Seminary had a phenomenal growth and expansion.
That the generations of students who passed through the Central High School during the years from 1899 to 1920 still hold their teacher and principal in high esteem and affection was abundantly demonstrated at the time of his death. Funeral services were held in the Pilgrim Congregational church on June 20.
Chester held a rather unusual record in our class of attending 13 consecutive Commencements after graduation. He was present at every class reunion until our "fortieth," when illness in his family and a business emergency kept him away. For 30 years he was president of the class, but declined re-election in 1919 He served a short term of membership in the Alumni Council. At our quarter-centennial reunion his Alma Mater conferred on him the honorary degree of A.M.
On June 20, 1900, at Sioux City, lowa, Curtis married Miss Mary Middlekauf, who survives him, as does his only brother, Alvah (Dartmouth '94), who lives in Detroit.
CLASS OF 1890
REV. WILLLAM AUGUSTUS BACON died suddenly in Saugus, Mass., July 28, 1931. Eight years before he had a prolonged and serious illness, and although his recovery was apparently complete, his circulation was left in a precarious condition, subject to the formation of a clot at any time. The end came instantaneously and without warning, as he was returning on a local bus from a brief vacation trip.
He was bom in Amesbury, Mass., October 11, 1869, the son of Rev. William F. and Mary W. (Beal) Bacon. He graduated from Williston Seminary in 1886. He roomed in Dartmouth Hall throughout his course, a large part of the time with W. T. Abbott, Jay Benton, and Ozora Davis, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. He was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
During his senior year he preached regularly at the Congregational church at Vershire, Vt., and the first year after graduation he had charge of the Nute Chapel near Milton, N. H. The next year he entered Hartford Theological Seminary, and graduated in 1894.
He had pastorates in the following Congregational churches: Washington Street church, Beverly, MassShelburneFalls, Mass., Park church, Springfield, Mass., Canning Town church, London, England, Littleton, N. H., Lyndonville, Yt., and at the time of his death was in active service as pastor of the Mystic Side Congregational church in Maiden, Mass. His principal charge was at Littleton, N. H., where he was pastor for seventeen years, during which time he became well acquainted with the Congregational churches of Northern New Hampshire and greatly interested in their work.
He was twice married. His first wife was Sarah Mahoney of Millers Falls, Mass., who lived only about a year after their marriage. His second wife was Annette Stebbins of Shelburne Falls, Mass., who survives him, together with their three children: Lawrence E. Bacon, a teacher in Unadilla, N. Y., a graduate of Middlebury College in the class of 1927; Mary Annette Winchell of Maiden, Mass., and Marshall W. Bacon, a junior in Boston University. There are three grandchildren.
Three brothers who are Dartmouth graduates survive: George P. '87 and Theodore H. and Arthur A. '97.
WILLIS MCDUFFEE
CLASS OF 1893
WILLIAM COLLINS PHELPS was born in Claremont, N. H., December 19, 1867, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 17, 1931. He had been ill but a short time, and his death was sudden and unexpected. The cause was cardiac dilatation. He prepared for college at Stevens High School, Claremont, and graduated from the Chandler Scientific Department in 1893, with the degree of 8.5., and from the Thayer School, with the degree of C.E., in 1895. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and was class president in 1891. In the same year he won first prize in mathematical drawing.
For four years following graduation lie was employed on river surveys for the United States Government; structural work in Virginia and Washington; and a year with the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of New York on the 96th St. power station. From April, 1899, to September, 1901, he was with the Manhattan Railway Company in charge of structural work on its 74th St.
power station and eight substations. For the next 17 years he was with the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company and the Interborough in charge of structural work on the 59th St. power station and nine substations; resident engineer on the 96th St. improvements (1908); and later working on plans, estimates and construction of new subway lines. From 1918 to 1923 he was in New Jersey most of the time, engaged in private, independent work.
In 1923 he entered the employ of Post and McCore, being engaged in structural layouts, and for a year was checker on the steelwork for the new Edison power station at 14th St. From that position he went with H. G. Balcom, consulting engineer, and there remained until his death, working upon advanced and interesting engineering projects such as the steel structure of the new Department of Commerce building in Washington.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, from 1907, and of the Thayer Society of Engineers; also of the Prince of Orange Masonic lodge and Constitution chapter of Royal Arch Masons. Phelps was a lover of nature and of out-door life; Camping was his favorite recreation, and some of his most cherished memories were of a camping trip in British Columbia some years ago. Quiet and unassuming in manner, he was popular with the men with whom he worked, as he had been with his classmates at Hanover, and his attainments in his profession were readily appreciated. He was unmarried. Burial was in the family lot at Claremont. He is survived by a sister, Miss Elizabeth G. Phelps, of Cambridge, Mass.
CLASS OF 1896
RAYMOND DANIEL HAZEN died at Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y., June 7, 1931. He was born February 2, 1876, at Strafford, Vt. In his childhood his parents moved to White River Junction, and from there Hazen attended Kimball Union Academy. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1892. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
During his college course, he was interested in track athletics, and participated on the team most of his four years, in which activities he was prominent for long-distance and cross-country running.
Hazen taught school the first few years after graduation in New York and New Jersey. At this time he married Katherine Chamberlain; no children were born to this marriage.
After a few years of teaching, Hazen entered finance work, and in 1910 became connected with the firm of Harris, Forbes, and Company, one of the largest investment houses, where he continued for seventeen years and rose to a prominent position in the bonding department. During the War he was active in the liberty loan campaign.
In 1928 he resigned and retired from active work. He and Mrs. Hazen made an extended trip of Europe. After this, he bought a home at Hartford, Vt., where he spent parts of the summer and fall.
He was always interested in football, and followed the team about for the past few years.
CLASS OF 1897
ARTHUR FRANCIS O'MALLEY died of angina pectoris at his home in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston on May 20, 1981. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., March 27, 1874, his parents being Prancis P. and Julia Ellen (Canty) O'Malley, and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
After graduation he entered at once upon his lifework as teacher, and held positions successively at Gardner, Wakefield, and Brockton, Mass. In 1911 he became connected with the Boston schools, having in that year won the degree of Master of Arts at Columbia. He became head of the commercial department of the High School of Commerce, and filled that position with a high degree of success.
August 12, 1902, he was married to Catherine E. Sargent of Gardner, Mass., who survives him. They have had no children.
Mr. O'Malley was a member and deacon of Central Congregational church of Jamaica Plain, and the following tribute is taken from the words of the pastor of the church at the funeral service:
"He was a great teacher. There are hundreds who have learned that in his classrooms . . . He had unusual analytic powers. He could grasp the core of a book while many others were toying with the surface. He prepared himself with the utmost care for his profession. He was more to his students in the double time he gave to the day and night schools than I could possibly describe . . . Men came to him for counsel, sympathy, and guidance. So his school was an ever-widening one. He was teacher to us all in one way or another. With such tact, humility, and delicate consideration did he reveal the well ordered riches of his seasoned mind that everyone looked upon him as a most helpful friend and fellow laborer . . . He was always a friendly soul. This gave him an unusually wide circle of friends . . . He graved his name on the hearts of people, for he was always a Christian gentleman, a great teacher, and a man with a real genius for friendship."
CLASS OF 1898
It is with sincere regret that we are called upon to announce the death of our classmate GUT CLEMENT GRIFFIN at Tucson, Arizona. His death occurred July 27, 19S1, following an operation for appendicitis. He had stood the operation well, but at the last his heart gave out.
Guy Griffin was born in Manchester, N. H., June 28, 1873, the son of Norris and Mary (Parker) Griffin. He received his early education in the local schools, then entered McGaw Normal Institute. He then attended Pinkerton Academy at Derry, N. H., for three years, where he graduated in 1893. He taught school one year, and entered Dartmouth College in the fall of 1894, graduating in 1898. Throughout his college career he maintained a great interest in the hotel business, and spent practically his entire life in that business. During college he was a waiter in the Hotel Wheelock. In the summer months he was head waiter at the Iron Mountain House in Jackson, N. H., also at the Hotel Pocahontas, Kittery Point, Me.
After graduating from Dartmouth he was for a time ticket man with the Plant System in Boston, then assistant purser on the Plant Liner La Grande Duckesse, Boston, ticket man for the New York Central, Newburgh, N. Y., private bookkeeper and stenographer for Harvey and Wood, Piney Woods Hotel, Thomasville, Ga., manager of the Churleigh Inn, Stroudsburgh, Pa., steward at the Hargrave Hotel, 72d St., New York city, chief clerk at "The Palatine," Newburgh, N. Y., lessee and manager of the Mt. Beacon Casino, Matteawan, N. Y., chief clerk at Hotel Navajo, Manitou, Colo., manager at Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Colo., proprietor of Hotel Lafayette, Denver, Colo. He then went to Tucson, Arizona, where he became owner and manager of two hotels in Tucson, and one in Nogales.
He is survived by a brother, Carl P. Griffin, a sister Mrs. Bertha G. Crowell of Litchfield, N. H., two nieces, Nancy and Judith Crowell, and a nephew Walter A. Crowell, 2d. Following the funeral service in Tucson, the body was forwarded to Los Angeles, Cal., for cremation and the ashes brought eastward and buried in the family lot in Hillcrest Cemetery of Litchfield.
Words are very inadequate to express the real feeling and sentiment toward a dear friend who has entered the other life. Guy Griffin was a true friend to every '9B man and to many another Dartmouth man as well. Simple, modest, genuine, reverent, and always immaculate in appearance. There was also about him a cleanness of soul and spiritual refinement that one sensed immediately. He reminded one of Dr. Tucker in that fine atmosphere that always surrounded him. Like Hawthorne's story of the Great Stone Face, Guy had grown to be like his ideals. How pleased Dr. Tucker would be to know of the rare and beautiful life that this '9B Dartmouth man had achieved. The wisest man cannot say that the good doctor does not know.
With serious limitations in health he went out into that western country, and with indomitable will and magnificent courage won a very real material success, and, what is far more important and inspiring, built up a strong and noble character. I hear from many quarters that Guy Griffin was a source of good cheer, power, sympathy, and material assistance to a host of people.
What precious and abiding memories such a life affords! To such a one there is no death. Yes, death is truly swallowed up in victory.
Guy left a substantial sum of money to Dartmouth and also to his society, Tri Kappa. He also remembered generously his many assistants in business who had been with him three months or more. An only brother, Carl P. Griffin, who has resided for the past twenty-nine years in Lawrence, Mass., goes at once to Arizona to continue the business interests left by his brother, and I am sure '98 wishes him every success and whenever opportunity affords will welcome him to the '98 fellowship, not only for the sake of his much beloved brother, our classmate, but for his own sturdy and attractive manhood. H. PHILIP PATEY
CLASS OF 1900
The death of JOSIAH MINOT FOWLER on July tenth deprived Nineteen Hundred of one of her finest minds, and a true classical student. He came to his law office on the morning of the ninth, suffering from what he believed to be an attack of indigestion, saw his physician, in the afternoon, by whom he was sent to the Deaconess Hospital, where he died the following day from angina pectoris.
He was bom in Boston, on May 17, 1880, where he always lived. -It may be said of him, that he inherited the Dartmouth tradition, as he did his love of the law profession, for his grandfather, Honorable Asa Fowler, was Dartmouth 1837, and a justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. His mother, Isabel Minot, was the daughter of Honorable Josiah Minot, Dartmouth 1833, a law partner of President Franklin Pierce, and later commissioner of pensions. He was named for this grandfather. His father, George R. Fowler, was special justice of the Municipal Court of the West Roxbury district.
Minot prepared for college at the Roxbury Latin School, and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1901. His scholastic record was very brilliant, as he completed the course in three years to take his degree with the class of 1900, and that as a Phi Beta Kappa man.
He entered Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated in 1903, and formed the law firm of Fowler, Bauer, and Kenney, of which he was the senior partner, with offices at 50 Congress St. in his native Boston.
He spent the year 1904 traveling in Europe, and in 1908 made the world tour.
He was married in 1911 to Miss Martha Louise Parsons, who, with a son, Josiah Minot, Jr., and two daughters, Jean Parsons Fowler and Isabel Minot Fowler, survive him. Another son, Minot Parsons, died in infancy.
Essentially a student, and with a retiring disposition, he enjoyed the knotty problems of the law, the examination of the intricate and abstruse estate title, the preparation of the brief for the Supreme Judicial, or other appellate court, rather than the trial work in court.
Characteristically, he was a lover and collector of rare old books, and Dartmouth College is the richer by a present from him of his valuable collection of book plates.
He founded and endowed at the Roxbury Latin School, in memory of his mother, the Isabel M. Fowler prizes for essays on American history, and gave the furnishings of the law library at Northeastern University in memory of his father.
His intense love of study, his quiet disposition, coupled with the completion of college work in three years, which really made him a member of the class only at the very close, served to make the real Minot Fowler unknown except to a very few members of this class.
No one who had the good fortune to be present at the dinner on our Twenty-Fifth Reunion will ever forget his tribute to the memory of his close friend, and our classmate, Francis Bradley. Both genuine lovers of the classics, they formed a friendship in college which ended only with the death of Father Bradley after the lapse of a quarter of a century. After Bradley's graduation, he went to Rome, where he was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Just as a side light of their friendship, Minot Fowler went to Italy to be present at Father Bradley's ordination. This friendship grew with the passing of the years, and when with a voice husky with emotion, Minot Fowler held his classmates spellbound with his tribute to Father Bradley, as he took his seat, there was not a dry eye in the room.
The sympathy of the class goes out to Mrs. Fowler and their children in the loss of a devoted husband and father, and in his passing Dartmouth College 1900 has a real loss.
CLARENCE G. MCDAVITT
CLASS OF 1910
HENHY HOMER HOBBS, known to us as "Heinie," passed away suddenly of heart disease at his home, 242 East "2d St., New York city, Sunday, June 28, 1931.
He was born in Slatersville, R. 1., May 10, 1887, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hobbs; fitted for college at Phillips Andover and entered Dartmouth with us in 1906. Almost im- mediately he started making athletic history on the football field. He made his letter at tackle.
Though with us only one year before transferring to Yale, he was elected our freshman president, and made many warm friends through his enthus'asm and kindly greetings. He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity.
Transferring to Yale, he continued his football prowess and was an All American tackle on Ted Coy's famous 1909 team. After graduating he coached at Amherst.
Fifteen months before the United States entered the World War, "Heinie" went to France to serve with the French Ambulance Corps. Later he was with the French Intelligence Corps and with the Hoover Relief Commission in Belgium. When the United States became an active participant, he enlisted and won his way to a captaincy.
In later years he has been associated with George A. Fuller Construction Company as an engineer. He leaves a wife, who was Miss Edna Shirk.
Clarke Tobin had an interesting experience with him a year ago this summer. "Heinie" phoned Clarke at his home—not letting him know who he was and saying that he was talking from White River Junction and wanted him to come up right away. After kidding Clarke good and proper, he revealed his identity and asked him to come over and play golf with Johnny Kilpatrick as the third member of a threesome.
Clarke went and found "Heinie" to be the same old Hobbs—jovial, full of life, wonderful company. He was still an ardent 1910 man, and had always cherished finest memories of the year he spent with us at Dartmouth.
Strangely enough FLOYD BARNET passed away in Chicago on the same day—Sunday, June 28.
Entering college from University High School, Chicago, he remained with us one year, and enjoyed many friendships, several of which have been of a very lasting nature.
We are indebted to Lew Williams and Bob
Woodcock for the following details: " 'Barney' was taken with a severe attack of appendicitis while in his office, and was taken to the Great Northern Hotel, where he remained all night under the care of the house physician. Mrs. Barnet was with him, and the following morning she called in their own physician, who immediately rushed 'Barney' to the Illinois Central Hospital and operated on him. Gangrene had already set in, however, and the posion was all through his system. He seemed to be improving fairly well, in spite of the poison and the extreme hot weather, but passed away suddenly on Sunday, June 28.
"The funeral services were held in a chapel at 4141 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, and he was buried on Wednesday, July 1, in Barnet Cemetery, Lockport, 111."
He was born in Chicago, September 10, 1886, his parents being Willis Yule and Elizabeth (Huff) Barnet. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
After leaving college he took up advertising for a motor truck magazine, the Power Wagon and later became assistant editor. He was then associated with the Packard Motor Company of Chicago, becoming the Chicago manager for Packard trucks, which position he held until the Packard Company discontinued the manufacture of trucks. He then organized the Checkometer Company, manufacturing check protectors, of which he was president. He became Western manager for the Business Economic Digest of New York, and in 1929 founded his own company, known as Barnet and Company, for investment counsel, and published his own financial service, called the Investors' Observer, which was the only financial service west of New York. A little over a year ago he had established a home in Hinsdale, III.
January 24, 1927, he was married to Mildred, daughter of J. H. (deceased) and Edith (Tuttle) Porter, who survives him. They have had no children.
CLASS OF 1915
HAKOLD CAHGILL RYAN died July 8, 1931, at St. Luke's Hospital, New York city, after a short illness of pneumonia, which developed following a surgical operation.
He was born in Cobleskill, N. Y., February 25, 1893, his parents being William Henry and Leida (Cargill) Ryan, and prepared for college at Ossining High School.
The first year after graduation he taught Latin and English in Rhinebeck, N. Y., High School, and was then for a year principal of the public schools of Millerton, N. Y. He was then employed as a chemist by the American Photo-Chemical Company in Rochester, N. Y., and the American Photo Products Company at West Orange, N. J In December, 1926, he entered the employ of the Ansco Company of Binghamton, N. Y., where he had charge of the emulsion department in the chemical laboratory, and remained with this company until the failure of his health. He was ill about two and a half
years, and spent most of that time in Lakeland, Fla. April 30, 1919, he was married to Sarah Thompson, daughter of William W. and Anna (Goodrich) Raymond of Owego, N. Y., who survives him, with a daughter, Dorothy Raymond, who was bora March 12, 1921. His parents also survive.
CLASS OF 1916
DONALD STICKNEY COBBAN, a member of this class during part of the course, died at Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Mass., December 9, 1930, after an operation.
He was born at Groveland, Mass., March 6, 1893, the son of John C. and Mary C. Cobban, and obtained his college preparation at Groveland High School and Deerfield Academy. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
During the war he saw service in France and Germany as private in an ammunition train, and afterwards became president and general manager of Cobban Brothers, Inc., operating a chain of wall paper and paint stores throughout New England.
In 1917 he was married to Myra F., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Frost of Haverhill, Mass., who survives him, with their daughter Barbara. His parents are also living, and a brother, J. D. Cobban of Portland, Me.
He was a member of the Kiwanis Club of Lowell and of the Lowell Post of the American Legion. The burial was with militaryhonors in Riverview Cemetery in Groveland.
CLASS OF 1923
ROBEET PHARES MERHIDITH died March 25, 1931, at Merced, Cal., as the result of a ruptured appendix. His body was brought to Denver, Colo., and rests in the Fairmount Cemetery mausoleum.
He was born May 28, 1901, at Monmouth, 111., the son of Joseph F. and Edna (Phares) Merridith. His home was from early years in Denver, Colo., where he attended the grade schools and graduated from East Denver High School in 1919. He was very active in scholastic and athletic affairs at East High.
After leaving college he worked for the Lindquist Cracker Company for a few years, and then attended the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company's school at Akron, Ohio, and became associated with the organization in California. He made remarkable progress with the Goodyear Company, having in the course of a couple of years worked into a most responsible position, and his future seemed well assured.
He was married May 31, 1930, to a lovely California girl, Betty Ann Richards, the daughter of John W. Richards. She was born in South Pasadena, Cal.
A personal word that I may add would be that he was a wonderful man for making friends, a most likable fellow, and one who seemed destined to make his mark in the business world.
J. C. HOUSTON, Jr. '23
CLASS OF 1925
RAYMOND CHARLES COMERFORD was drowned at Sunset Beach, Marshfield, Mass., August 25, 1931. He was attempting to rescue a small boy who had been caught, and finding himself in difficulty called for help. One man succeeded in bringing the boy ashore and another had reached Comerford when a huge wave knocked them apart, and Comerford was carried out to sea.
He was born in Roxbury, Mass., July 29, 1899, the son of James John and Catherine (Lennon) Comerford, and prepared for college at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham. He was a member of the freshman baseball team, and of the varsity team in junior year, winning special note as a pitcher. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
After graduation he taught modern lan- guages and coached baseball and basketball at the Abbott School for Boys, Farmington, Me., and later at Cushing Academy and at Leominster High School, where he was to continue the coming year.
CLASS OF 1928
EDWABD HARRIS FOSTER died very suddenly at his home in Kew Gardens, L. 1., N. Y., on Sunday morning, August 15. The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, August 18, at St. Luke's Episcopal church, Forest Hills, L. I.
Ted and his wife had just returned from their vacation, and Ted was apparently feeling well though not quite up to standard. Unofficially, his death is believed to have been caused by a streptococcus organism in the blood, which in some way reduced the number of red corpuscles.
Ted was born May 3, 1905, at Providence, R, 1., the son of Charles Edward and Blanche (Fleet) Foster. He graduated from Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., where his family was then living, in 1924, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of that year. He graduated with an A.B. degree in 1928—a mem-ber of Psi Upsilon and Dragon.
Ted entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 1928, but left a few months later to be married to Jessie Tappan. Coming to New York, he became associated with his fatherin-law who is an architect. Later he was employed by Ames, Emerich, and Company, and at the time of his death he was connected with the American Telephone and Telegraph Cos. at New York.
BYRON CASE KELLY died at his home in Sodus, N. Y., February 25, 1931, of acute bronchitis and middle ear infection.
He was born in Sodus, February 26, 1905, his parents being Myric M. and Gertrude (Case) Kelly. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy.
For two years after graduation he studied at Harvard Law School.
CLASS OF 1929
ALSON MORGAN ABBOTT, JR., died on July 6, 1931, in the Muhlenberg Hospital at Plainfield, N. J. Death was caused by a heart attack following pleurisy, which developed from an appendectomy.
He was born in North Plainfield, N. J., April 12, 1906, the son of Alson Morgan (Dartmouth 1899) and Maud Earle (Conklin) Abbott. He received his preparatory education at Hoosac School at Hoosick, N. Y., where he was graduated in 1925. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of that year, and majored in sociology. He was a member of his freshman football squad, of the 1926 soccer team, and of the Canoe Club. During college he became a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and of the Sphinx senior society. After leaving college he went to work for the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and for some time was located in the oil producing fields at Hull, Texas. A few months ago he was transferred to the sales department of the company in Plainfield.
His parents and one brother, James Earle Abbott, survive him. He was unmarried. Many members of the class will remember him with affection. We are indeed extremely sorry to record the early passing of one of our classmates. The sympathy of the class is extended to his parents and brother.
CLASS OF 1930
THOMAS MURRAY LONGNECKER was found dead underneath his overturned roadster in a roadside ditch near Toledo, Ohio, in the early morning of Sunday, May 24. He was on his way from Toledo, where he was living and working as financial reporter of the ToledoTimes, to the home of his parents in Delta, Ohio. The radiator of the car was cold and there was frost on the wheels when the wreck was discovered at 3:50 A.M. Coroner Frank Kreft said death probably was instantaneous, resulting from internal injuries, and calculated that the accident happened about midnight. There were no witnesses of the crash. No evidence was apparent that another car had been involved in the mishap, and those who discovered the wrecked automobile thought it likely that it had skidded from a sudden application of brakes and that possibly Tommy, driving late at night, had momentarily fallen asleep at the wheel.
Tommy was born March 15, 1908, in Traverse City, Mich., the son of Fred M. and Helen (Bollmeyer) Longnecker. The family later moved to Delta, Ohio, where Tommy attended the Delta High School, graduating in 1926. He played football, baseball, basketball, and track there, and was president of the senior class. At Dartmouth he joined Delta Kappa Epsilon, and was a member of Green Key and Sphinx. He played freshman and varsity football and baseball, and was a member of the honors group in English, his major subject.
Following his graduation, Tommy spent the summer months in Europe with a group of classmates. He later joined the editorial staff of the Toledo Times.
Newspaper tributes to Tommy were widely printed when news was received of his death.
CLASS OF 1931
IRA DANIEL LATSHAW was killed in an automobile accident in Effingham, III., July 3, 1931.
He was the son of Ira Daniel and Jessie B. (Langham) Latshaw, and was born in Royersford, Pa., September 7, 1909. His home was later at Swarthmore, Pa., and he fitted at Swarthmore Preparatory School and at Phillips Exeter Academy.
He was a member of Theta Chi, circulation manager of the 1931 Aegis, and on the board of The Dartmouth.
THOMAS GRIEME ANDERSON died on August 23, 1931, by suicidal shooting at his home in Amsterdam, N. Y.
He was born in Amsterdam, July 15, 1909, the son of Thomas S. and Dora L. (Grieme) Anderson. His mother was drowned in Schoharie Creek about 15 years ago while swim- ming with him. Thomas, then a small child, got beyond his depth. His mother succeeded in getting him into shallower water, but was exhausted by the effort and went down herself.
He attended the Amsterdam High School two years, and was then in the Massey School at Stamford, Conn., finishing his preparation at Manlius Military Academy. He was a member of Chi Phi, the varsity gym team, and the Glee Club. Two months be- fore his death he entered the employ of the General Electric Company in the accounting department.
Medical School
CLASS OF 1881
DR. FRANK BROWN MORRILL died at his home at Costa Mesa, Cal., May 8, 1931, after an illness of some fourteen months.
He was born in Readfield, Me., November 28, 1854, the son of Reuben and Hannah (Philebrown) Morrill. His academic education was obtained at Kent's Hill Seminary, and he studied medicine with Dr. A. M. Peables (D.M.S. 1864) of Auburn, Me., attending lectures at Bowdoin and Dartmouth, and after graduation at Harvard.
His first medical locations were at East Buxton and South Berwick, Me., and in 1891 he removed to Riverside, Cal. Subsequently he removed to Los Angeles, and was in active and successful practice until the breaking down of his health. He excelled in diagnosis, and was especially successful in chronic cases and in diseases of women.
His wife, who was Emma Florence Larrabee of Riverside, Cal., survives him. They had no children.
CLASS OF 1882
DR. FREEMAN ALLEN BABBITT died May 18, 1931, of heart disease, at his home in Pasadena, Cal.
He was born in Savoy, Mass., May 4,1857, the son of William S. and Marcia J. (Thompson) Babbitt.
For many years he practiced his profession in Athol and Warwick, Mass., and in Auburn, N. H. In 1923 he retired from practice and removed to Pasadena.
In 1879 he was married to Ida M. French of South Royalston, Mass., who died in 1904. They had no children. Dr. Babbitt is survived by a brother and a sister, both living in Pasadena.
Honorary
TIMOTHY COLE, styled the foremost wood engraver in the world, upon whom the College conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters in 1930, died at his home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 16, 1931, after an illness of several months.
He was born in London, England, in 1852, the son of Skinner Cole. When Timothy was five years old his mother died, and in that same year his father emigrated to America. While attending school in New York city, the boy demonstrated a remarkable talent for drawing. While still a boy he became apprenticed to a wood engraving firm in Chicago, and made rapid progress in the art. The great fire of 1871 destroyed not only the shop in which he worked, but also his own engravings and other belongings. He then returned to New York and started afresh, being first with the Aldine Press. In 1876 he joined the staff of Scribner's Magazine (later known as the Century), and for more than 35 years his work was a regular feature of the magazine. In 1883 he was sent abroad by the magazine to make engravings of the Old Masters, and was engaged on that commission for more than 25 years without once returning to America during that time. Notes on the work of these painters appeared regularly in the Century, and were afterwards republished in book form. The work of the wood engraver has been largely superseded by other methods, but Mr. Cole continued faithful to his art and its ideals until his final illness.
In 1875 he was married to Annie Elizabeth Carter of Jersey City, N. J., and she survives him, with three of their four sons.
DR. GEORGE WASHINGTON GAY, who re- ceived the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1895, died on May 30, 1931, at his home at Chestnut Hill, Boston.
He was born in Swanzey, N. H., January 14, 1842, the son of Willard and Fanny (Wright) Gay, and studied medicine, graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1868. While still a student, in 1867, he was appointed house surgeon at the Boston City Hospital, and began a lifelong connection with that institution. In 1868 he was appointed surgeon to out-patients, and in 1872 became visiting surgeon and in 1899 senior surgeon. Through most of these years, as lecturer on surgery he gave clinical instruction to students of the Harvard Medical School, and helped to organize the systematic instruction by lectures in the training school for nurses. In addition to his hospital work he carried on a large general practice, and was eminent as a surgeon.
In November, 1868, Dr. Gay was married to Mary Elizabeth Hutchinson of Milford, N. H., who died in February, 1873. In November, 1875, he was married to Grace Greenleaf Hathorne of Boston, who survives him There were no children of either marriage
