Deaths

ALUMNI NOTES

Necrology

Class of 1866

CHARLES ROBERT HASKINS died in Atlanta, Ga., July 19, 1932, of broncho-pneumonia. This event has only recently been reported.

He was born in Bangor, Me., January 15, 1843, and was during freshman year a member of this class in the Chandler Scientific Department. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).

Before entering college he had Spent two years as sailor and third mate on a ship owned by his father and grandfather. This experience made it appropriate for him to enlist in the Navy after leaving college. He entered the Navy as master's mate, and was assigned to the Wachusett, which saw considerable service until the end of the war. In 1865 he was promoted to be acting ensign, and went around the world on a voyage of three years. In 1868 he received his honorable discharge, and bought a farm on the Delaware river. This he later traded for a farm near Asheville, N. C. In 1885 he removed to Atlanta, entered the real estate business, and was active in developing many sections of the city. He had been in feeble health for two years preceding his death.

For more than twenty years he was clerk o£ Central Congregational church, and was one of the organizers of Atlanta The ological Seminary, being secretary of its board for many years. He was one of the two last surviving members of O. M. Mitchell Post, G. A. R.

Class of 1873

ISAIAH RAYMOND CLARK, recently de- ceased, was born January 1, 1853, at Felchville, Vt., the son of Dr. Ripley (D.M.S. 1847) and Mary A. (Raymond) Clark. The family removed in 1861 to Windsor, and there he prepared for college.

Through his college course he engaged heartily in the athletic sports of that day, maintaining however a high rank in scholarship. He was fond of baseball, playing left field in the class nine. He had a part in Junior Exhibition, at which, on May 1, 1872, the sixteen ranking scholars of the class had parts in public exercises in the college church. He gave an English oration on "England a Thousand Years Ago." He graduated the eleventh scholar, giving an oration on "The Purchase of Official Station." He was a member of the editorial staff of The Dartmouth in senior year, belonged to the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and was received into Phi Beta Kappa. Always a companionable man, he was popular with every member of the class.

After graduation he read law for two years in Windsor, and in the fall of 1875 moved to Boston, entering the office of A. A. Ranney (Dartmouth 1844). He was admitted to the bar in the winter of 1876, and from the very first was most successful in his profession. When Mr. Ranney was elected to Congress the business of the office was carried his absence in Washington, by Clark, and he soon became a member of the law firm of Ranney and Clark, with offices t 23 Court St. For many years he and Mrs. ."'lark lived at the Norfolk House. After the death of Mr. Ranney Clark carried on the business for some time with a son of Mr. Ranney, and then for several years was without a partner. Finally (after 1915) he was the senior member of the firm of Clark, Vanderhoof, and Little, with offices at 54 Devonshire St.

While in later years he took life more leisurely, it cannot be said that he ever retired from business. He acted as trustee for many large estates, and was a director in many corporations. At one time he was president of the Otis Company and the Thorndike Company and vice-president of the Androscoggin Mills. He also had been president of the Algonquin Club, the Dartmouth Club of Boston, the Bostonian Society, the Beacon Society, the Vermont Association of Boston, and the Republican Club.

November 14, 1878, Mr. Clark was married to Katherine Cummings of Windsor, Vt., who survives him. They had no children. He died at his summer home in Windsor, September 19, 1933, and the funeral services and burial took place at Windsor. As is the pleasant custom with the class, the Secretary ordered the florist to send a wreath of flowers to Windsor, and received later a letter of grateful acknowledgment from Mrs. Clark.

Class of 1874

SILAS HENRY BURNHAM died at his home in Lincoln, Neb., September 2, 1933.

He was born in Harrison, Me., April 14, 1848, the son of Sumner and Christiana (Washburn) Burnham. The family home was later at Norway, Me., and he prepared for college at Hebron Academy, teaching during two winters of his preparatory course, as also the first two winters of his college course. He was a member of Psi Upsilon. He left college at the end of junior year, but was given his degree (A.8.) as of his class in 1899.

After leaving college he began the study of law in Portland, Me., was admitted to the bar in 1875, and began practice at Norway in 1876. In 1880 he removed to Lincoln, Neb., and continued in practice for a short time, but soon left the law for other pursuits. He became interested in ranch property at Broken Bow, and established a private bank there under the name of Burnham and Jewett. In a few years this was reorganized as the First National Bank of Broken Bow. Later he started or purchased banks at Calloway, Arcadia, Arnold, Gandy, and Sidney. In 1888 he organized the American Exchange Bank of Lincoln, which three months later obtained a charter as a national bank. In 1891 this absorbed the State National Bank, and in 1899 bought out the First National Bank and took its name. Of this bank Mr. Burnham was president from May, 1899, to January, 1927, when he resigned the presidency and became chairman of the board of directors, which position he held until his death. Other banks were purchased and merged with the First National, and in 1912 he organized the First Savings Bank, of which he remained president until 1927. He had served as president of the Nebraska Bankers Association and on the executive council of the American Bankers Association. He had also been vice-president of the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co. and treasurer of the Lincoln Traction Co. He was an active member from 1887 of the Board of Trade and its successor, the Chamber of Commerce, and was one of the founders of the Country Club.

He became a member of the First Congregational church soon after his arrival in Lincoln, and was always active in the affairs of that church and later of the one resulting from the merger of the First and Plymouth churches.

From a newspaper tribute the following is taken:

"Mr. Burnham ivas never actively associated with any enterprise that failed. Hisbusiness judgment, courage, and fightingability steered his enterprises safely throughthe storms that engulfed so many institutions of seemingly strong structure and pretentious equipment. The panics of the '9os,the financial flurries of 1907, and the devastating cataclysm from which we are nowemerging left unscathed the institutionswhich he had with prophetic forethoughtbulwarked against such emergencies. Inprivate life, the hard shell in which he encased himself in business hours fell off, andhe was a delightful companion, with a keensense of humor and a ready wit which madehim a welcome guest at every social gathering. Faithful and loyal in his friendships,he was a sympathetic soul, ever ready toextend a helping hand to those of hisfriends who were bereaved or in, trouble."

October 26, 1876, Mr. Burnham was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Judge Joseph H. Lewis of Glasgow, Ky., who survives him, with two sons, Joseph L. and Silas H. Jr., and two daughters, Mrs. George W. Holmes and Mrs. Willard S. Yates.

DR. WILLIAM ROBBINS WHITE died at his home in Providence, R.I., November 3, 1933, after an illness of about ten weeks. The son of Joseph A. and Ellen L. (Proctor) White, he was born in Cavendish, Vt., October 31, 1849, and prepared for college at Black River Academy, Ludlow, and Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

After graduation he began the study of medicine at Dartmouth, but took his last year at Harvard, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1877. In September of that year he became an interne in Rhode Island Hospital at Providence, and remained there for 18 months. In December, 1879, he opened an office in that city, and continued in active practice as a successful general practitioner until a few months before his death. For more than 55 years he was associated with Rhode Island Hospital, after his interneship being lecturer to student nurses, house physician for 27 years, and then a member of the consulting staff. He had been secretary and president of the Providence Medical Association and the Rhode Island Medical Society, and was also a member of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Medicine. For several years he served on the city school committee. He was a communicant of the Episcopal church.

December 10, 1879, Dr. White was married to Helen G. Farmer of Providence. They had four children, of whom three survive, William E., Donald P., and Margaret H. White. An obituary notice in a Providence paper styles his widow Margaret L. White, from which it is inferred that the first wife had died and that there was a second marriage.

Class of 1882

REV. DR. WILLIAM FRYE ENGLISH died October 11, 1933, at his home in Hartford, Conn. He had been in failing health for some time and confined to his home one week.

Funeral services were held at the First Congregational church in East Windsor, Conn., and in accordance with his express wish were conducted by his two sons, Rev. William F. English Jr. of Norwood, Mass., and Rev. James F. English of Manchester, N. H.

The burial service at Scantic Cemetery, East Windsor, was conducted by Grand Secretary Winthrop Buck of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut, with many officers of the Grand Lodge, Oriental Lodge, and other Masons present.

"Bill," as he was known to his classmates, was the youngest member of '82.

He was born at Tuftonboro, N. H., February 6, 1863, a son of the Rev. John and Ellen M. (Drake) English. The family home was at Newbuty, Vt., from 1866, and he prepared for college at Newbury Seminary.

His college fraternities were Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa.

May 19, 1885, he married Janet Smith McCrone of Hartford. Of this union there were five children—William F. English Jr., (Dartmouth 1908), Chester F., John, Margaret, and James F.

According to the Fiftieth Year Reunion Book, edited by William E. Strong, English entered Hartford Theological Seminary in the fall of 1882 to study for the ministry.

After graduation in 1885 and a two-year pastorate at Essex and Essex Junction, Vt., he entered upon foreign missionary work at Sivas, Turkey, with the American Board.

Returning to this country in 1892 he became minister of the First Congregational church in East Windsor, Conn., where he remained for 24 years. He then was chosen assistant superintendent and treasurer of the Missionary Society of Connecticut. In connection therewith he was treasurer of the Fund for Ministers and registrar of the General Conference of Connecticut.

Honors of various sorts came his way, A.M. from Dartmouth; Ph.D. from Bellevue; Trustee of Hartford Seminary Foundation; a long list of offices in Masonry, crowned with election as grand master of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut in 1918.

He served as librarian and master of the Grange while in East Windsor, and was a prominent speaker at Masonic and church functions throughout the state and beyond.

He published in 1894 a theological work, "Evolution and the Immanent God," and was the author of many articles and tracts.

He was president of the class for many years.

Class of 1886

ROBERT GILMAN BROWN was born at Hanover, N. H., July 23, 1864, and died suddenly of heart failure following an operation for appendicitis, at Esher in Sussex, a few miles out of London, on July 6, 1933.

With his wife, who had died in 1922, he was buried in the graveyard of the parish church near by, in the presence of a large company of friends and associates who loved him. The widow of a brother was the only member of his family permitted to attend the obsequies in his English home.

Robert Brown—"Bob," as his intimates called him—was fortunate in his ancestry. In his veins flowed the best blood of New England, mingled with a strain of foreign hue from New York. On both sides the tradition was cultural, clerical, and influential—Puritanism softened by the less severe piety of Dutch forbears, which appeared especially in the brother Francis, the greatest Biblical scholar of his time and president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City through days of stress and storm.

The grandfather, Francis, as third president, saw Dartmouth College through the litigation which has become national history. His wife was Elizabeth Gilman, a close relative of the John Taylor Gilman who was governor of New Hampshire so many years. The only child of this parentage was Samuel Gilman Brown, who divided his career between Dartmouth as a professor and Hamilton as president. He married Alice Van Vechten, whose father was a pastor in New York, and had seven children, of whom Alice Van Vechten Brown of the department of art at Wellesley College alone survives.

Robert entered Dartmouth in 1882. With the academic tradition of the family and a father on the faculty, he stood for a culture that few of his classmates could boast. Yet he was modest and retiring, more given to the humanities than to the severer requirements of the curriculum. He loved music, was at home in literature, profited more by the college atmosphere than by the discipline of the sterner matters of the law. The favorite of a few, many of his fellows knew him only by sight. He was a notable tennis player, but too slight in build for the sturdier games of the campus. It must have been a surprise to his family as it was to his class, to see him on graduation entering the Columbia School of Mines to fit himself for the unacademic calling of mining engineer.

His bent is practical enough to begin at the beginning. He works up from the bottorn. He studies coal mining at first hand. He joins the Clarke Interests at Butte, Montana, where he remains five years, in the meantime marrying Sophie Parsons, a noted amateur golf player of New York. For ten years he is manager of the Standard Consolidated Mining Company at Bodie, Calif., winning a record for himself as a successful operator of mines. As vice-president of the company he removes to San Francisco in time to lose all his belongings in the earthquake and the fire that followed. Here he sets up as a consulting engineer, in which capacity he visits most of the states of the Union, as well as Honduras and Mexico, and becomes interested in Canada. He is invited to take charge of large interests in Australia. He is in touch with the Hoovers, especially with Theo- dore, who is his successor as manager of the Standard properties at Bodie. In 1906 he goes to London for a British company, where he remains for the rest of his life.

In a letter to a classmate in igai we catch a glimpse of his activities during the preceding fifteen years. In 1907 and the following year he is in Chile, crossing and recrossing the Andes on a mule. He visits West Africa, Tunis, France, and Germany. For ten years he devotes three months of the year to the development of mining interests in Siberia and Eastern Russia. At one point alone he builds a city in the wilderness—Tishkim-of sixty thousand people—the largest mining center in all the Russias.

After the confiscation of these enterprizes by the Soviets, with a friend he reorganizes this Russian company into a mining trust and carries on business in Australia, New Guinea, and Southern France. At times president of the corporation, he is always a director and moving spirit in its activities and projects. Resolutions passed by his associates at his death show the regard in which he was held both as a mining engineer and as a man and friend. Few of his generation saw life more broadly or contributed more to the practical service of his time than Robert Gilman Brown. The part he played in giving to mining the place it holds among the great industries of the present day is second to that of no other man. It is those who should know him best who know him least.

Yet to the end "Bob" Brown was too modest and too refined to exploit himself before the world like some of his contemporaries. He never lost his love of books or of the quiet ways of the cultural life. He never fails to mention the splendor of the scenery before his eyes, yet he loves simple things—his garden—and he makes friends with the birds. His servants loved him "the best master I ever had," said one of them after his death. He was a capital entertainer—welcomed with open arms the classmates who took the trouble to find him when in London. *His letters to friends were full of affection and sweet fellowship. To the last he retained to a remarkable degree the look and bearing of youth. As one visitor put it, "In appearance he is the youngest of his class." His death was wholly unexpected, he had no warning of the end.

He never surrendered his American citizenship, and never ceased to keep in touch with American affairs. Friends from the old home were often surprised to find how much more he knew of the United States than themselves. He never lost interest in Dartmouth. He explains his inability to contribute to the Alumni Fund in such gracious terms that the refusal itself is a gift. The sorrows of Europe weigh so heavily upon him that he feels that his duty goes with the greatest need. His war service is with those who supply the sinews of war—with Russia until the overthrow of the Empire, with England for the remainder of the great conflict. The loss of his only child left him without issue, but he rejoices that his connection with Dartmouth is kept up by a sequence of nephews, or more exactly grand-nephews, who continue the family name on the College roll. The story of his activities and travels, of his experiences over a large field of action and touching many of the vital interests of his generation, ranks high among the records of men of action. His story of Russia alone would be a distinct contribution to our knowledge and estimate of that misunderstood people.

L. O.W.

Class of 1887

DR. ALEXANDER QUACKENBOSS died at his home in Boston, October 27, 1933, after a long illness.

He was born in Worcester, Mass., October 5, 1866, the son of Abram Edson and Fanny (Bates) Quackenboss.

During his college course he played third base on three varsity baseball teams and was captain of one of them. Later during his medical course at Harvard he filled the same position for two years on the Harvard team.

After graduation he studied at Harvard Medical School for three years, and then served for two years as house officer at Boston City Hospital, receiving his degree of M.D. in 1892, at the end of his hospital term. He then joined the start of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and practiced with distinguished success as an eye specialist for the remainder of his active life. He was professor of ophthalmology at Dartmouth from 1910 to 1914, having previously been instructor in the same branch at Harvard from 1900. In 1920 he was appointed Williams professor of ophthalmology at Harvard. This position he resigned in 1924, and became professor emeritus.

In 1915-17 he served with the First Harvard Medical Unit in France, and in 1918-19 served there in the United States Medical Corps with the rank of major.

January 8, 1894, he was married to Sophia Luce Delano of Marion, Mass., who survives him. They had no children.

Class of 1896

WILLIAM BLAISDELL PLUMER died of heart disease October 26, 1933, at his home, 25 Sargent St., Melrose Highlands, Mass. He was in his usual good health and there was no indication o£ heart trouble. Funeral services were held at his home on the following Saturday afternoon, and burial took place at Conway, N. H., Sunday, October 29.

Plumer was born at Portsmouth, N. H., November 18, 1869. He prepared for college at Brewster Free Academy, Wolfeboro, N. H. He entered the Chandler Scientific Department and was a member of Phi Zeta Mu, now Sigma Chi. Freshman spring he was awarded first prize in free hand drawing and junior year he won second prize for mechanical drawing. He was class president junior spring term, and represented his fraternity on the Aegis Board of editors.

Immediately following graduation he entered the employ of the Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Association as head draftsman. His rise was rapid, and he was sent to all parts of eastern United States and Canada to study and make reports of construction and fire hazards of many manufacturing plants. Later he became head of this department at the home office in Boston.

Plumer was a regular attendant of outclass reunions and always responded to the secretary's requests for class letters. While modest and retiring in his manner, he was always enthusiastic in all class affairs and was ever keen to learn of the welfare of others. He could be depended upon for moral and financial support and will be greatly missed by his classmates.

Perhaps some of us have entirely forgotten that Plumer was moved to verse. While in college, among other bits, he wrote the following to the Connecticut: "Your years will come and mine will go,You will continue to wind and flow.Into your depths the stars will fallThat shine through the tops of the hemlocks tall,And some other youth will watch theirgleamAnd lie at the foot of the bank anddream."

Plumer was married October 14, 1896, to Martha Shackford Hale of Conway, N. H., who, together with a daughter, Miss Eleanor Plumer, survives him. He was a member of the Brewster Club of Boston, Fidelity Lodge of Masons of Melrose, and the Unitarian church there.

Class of 1899

It will not be news for Dartmouth men to read here of the death of MAJOR FRANKWILLIAM CAVANAUGH at his Marshfield, Mass., home on August 29, 1933, judging by the number of newspaper clippings sent to the Secretary from widely separated places. The particular purpose of this brief obituary will be to record the essential facts of his career, leaving that wealth of material which exists as to his life, his interests, and his accomplishments, for the use of a classmate who will prepare the biographical sketch to appear in the next annual report of the class to be issued in February next.

"Cav" had been fighting a losing game for his life for many months. Ill health forced him to resign his position as head football coach at Fordham in December, 1932. As confinement in and about his city home in Newton Center, Mass., irked him, he acquired a farm at Marshfield early this year, where he could have opportunity to keep in the open. He was unable to rebuild the war-torn machine, however, being forced gradually to give up activity of any sort. Born a fighter and always a fighter, the scars of war and disease finally won over that iron will which "Cav's" legion of friends all recognized as his striking characteristic, and which had long ago won for him the sobriquet of "The Iron Major."

The promising football entrant in the fall of 1895 found ready acceptance of all his physical energy, and "Cav" gave of this unsparingly throughout his college career, helping materially with the ground work for that Dartmouth football of the future which has asked, and received, no quarter. So successful was he as a player that his services as coach were soon in demand, and as early as the fall of 1898 the Cavanaughcoached team o£ the University of Cincinnati defeated Dartmouth 17 to 12. Subsequently, and for over thirty years, barring only the period of the war, he was conspicuously identified with football in various parts of the country. Three years he spent with the Denver Athletic Club as player and coach; then one year with Worcester High; and a final engagement at Holy Cross, where he remained as coach for several years. For two years thereafter he coached Worcester Academy, defeating both Andover and Exeter. In 1911 he was called to Dartmouth, and his success there has been chronicled too many times to be repeated here. He remained at Hanover until the war period.

Following his return from France and release by the army surgeons he was called to Boston College as football coach, and in the years 1919 to 1926 brought their team from obscurity to prominence in the football world. In 1927 he went to Fordham, and for six successive and successful seasons placed football elevens on the field which were heartily respected by all contenders.

The spirit of the real Cavanaugh on the football field found its outlet in his enlistment in 1917 and later on the fields of France. Notwithstanding his obligation to his wife and six children the call of country was greater, and on May 20, 1917, he attached himself to Battery B of the First Field Artillery of the Massachusetts National Guard. Eleven days later he was honorably discharged that he might accept a commission as first lieutenant. The name of his unit was subsequently changed to Second Field Artillery. On July 25, 1917, he was transferred to federal service, and the unit with which he was connected became the 102d Field Artillery. He sailed overseas September 22, 1917, was appointed captain June 29, 1918, and major November 22, 1918.

On October 23, 1918, Major Cavanaugh was struck by an Austrian 88 (high explosive) shell during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, six miles north of Verdun, with resulting injuries as follows: fractured skull; fractured jaw; broken nose, 15 pieces of shell in right side of head and face; injury to right ear; cheek bone broken and partly removed.

From that date until April 10, 1919, he spent all of his time in hospitals in France. On his return to this country at that time he went to the hospital at Camp Devens, Mass., and remained there until honorably discharged from the army on September 6, 1919.

Two citations were received by Major Cavanaugh, which should be a part of his permanent record in the history of Dartmouth men

The first, dated August 31, 1918, reads:

"The Division Commander takes greatpleasure in citing in orders the followingnamed officers and men who have shownmarked gallantry and meritorious servicein the capture of Torcy, Belleau, Givry,Bouresches Woods, Rochet Woods, Hill190, overlooking Chateau Thierry, Etrepilly, Bezuet, Epieds, Trugny, and la FereWoods to the Jaulgonne-Ferre-on-Tardenois Road, during the advance of this Division against the enemy from July 18thto 25, 1918, in the second Battle of theMarne." * * * Capt. Frank W. Cavanaugh, 102d Field Artillery, and the second, July 8, 1919: "Capt. Frank W. Cavanaugh, 102d FieldArt.

"For meritorious service at Gael, France.After a rear-end collision of two trooptrains occurred between the 113th Ammunition Train and the 138th Field Artilleryand after the rescuing parties had workedfor an hour, under the difficulties of darkness and rain, a soldier was found pinnedunderneath an upturned truck wheel, uponwhich rested the greater part of three telescoped cars. In order to free the imprisonedsoldier, it was necessary to raise the wreckage to a very dangerous angle. Major Short,Capt. Freeland, Capt. Cavanaugh, andPrivate Sheehan, without regard to the personal danger involved, crawled through thewreckage and in a lying and sitting position, worked against odds for three hoursand succeeded in rescuing the soldier alive.

"By command of Brigadier General Connor."

By reason of his wounds and the citations, Cav was entitled to two decorations, the Purple Heart and the Silver Star, but he never applied for, nor received, either, thus demonstrating at once his self-sacrifice and his great modesty.

But "Cav's" record of accomplisliment was not confined to his capacity on the football field, or to the citations earned on the field of battle. He completed the course at the Boston University School of Law, and practiced his profession with marked success in Worcester, Mass. His public knew him as a football coach, and a man who was brevetted a major by distinguished services in France. His contemporaries knew him as a brilliant lawyer, who was full of promise in that profession up to his entry into the war. His classmates knew him as a loyal member of '99, always devoted to its interests, attendant at all its functions, and always ready (and always called on) at round-ups and reunions with a talk at once intensive, inspiring and eloquent.

Still another record goes to "Cav,"that of the largest family in '99. He married Florence Elizabeth Ayer on January 16, 1908. Nine children were born of this union, of whom four are two pairs of twins. All are living. David, the eldest, now 24, will always be remembered as the recipient of that classic letter addressed to "My dear Davie Boy," and signed "From your old man Cav," written from the trenches in France shortly before Christmas, 1917, and probably the most widely read and the most frequently reproduced of all war time letters.

Funeral services were held from the Church of the Sacred Heart, Newton, and burial occurred in St. John's Cemetery, Worcester, his native city. Prominent men from all walks of life were in attendance at both Newton and Worcester.

"Let the world's tribute,Maker of Men,Be this alone, And ever more known'Old Cav'—Man—andMaker of Men."

Class of 1900

PAUL RUTHERFORD ATHERTON died very suddenly in the Miami (Fla.) Hospital on October 6. For the last two years Paul has been troubled by heart attacks and has had one or two bad turns. On the day of his death he came home from the office feeling tired and exhausted. He seemed to improve, and even listened to a World Series baseball game over the radio, but another severe attack began and he was hurried to the hospital. He died in the emergency room of angina pectoris.

Paul was born at Mt. Desert, Me., January 27, 1877. His father was a farmer. Paul went to Dartmouth in the fall of 1896, but only stayed a few weeks. He returned to Bangor, and started to work in a clerical capacity for the Eastern Manufacturing Company. He continued his clerical work for many years, and finally moved to Miami with his family. Mrs. Atherton died in 1922, but left a wonderful family of five children, two boys and three girls. The oldest is now 34 and the youngest 15.

The only man who saw much of Paul was Henry Teague, but the Secretary received letters from him quite regularly. He was always cheery, kindly, and interested in the class.

Because of his brief stay in Hanover, few remember Paul Atherton very well. He was a most lovable chap, overflowing with charm. Had he stayed in college he would have had a host of friends who would now mourn his passing. Good old State of Maine stock and a most engaging personality. The class of 1900 joins with his family in mourning his loss.

PERCY FORSAITH BAKER, a member for over two years of the class of 1900, died at his home in Boston on the night of November 8. His illness was of very short duration.

His entire life after leaving college was devoted to music. He was a member thirty years ago of the Temple Quartet, and during the latter period of his life he was manager and a member of the Pilgrim Quartet. He sang in about every state of the Union. He was very active in Masonic circles, and was universally esteemed both in his profession and among his fellow men.

Percy Baker was born in Weymouth, Mass., June 3, 1877, the son of William A. and Eva Lenora Baker, and came to Dartmouth from the Weymouth High School with Joe Manion and Charley Whelan. He was a high school halfback, fast, heavy, and very powerful. He never seemed to make any headway in the athletic field, due no doubt to inadequate coaching and to a belief that he was fat and not powerful.

Although possessing a very sweet and well-trained voice, he did not make the Glee Club in those days when dress clothes were more important than a good voice. Every one liked Percy, but did not take seriously his very great gifts, so his whole career was one of disappointment. It was our fault, not his, for he kept serene and sweet. He wasn't a fighter in those days when fighting was essential. So he left college, and no doubt the class and the institution lost talents which nowadays are recognized, developed, and valued.

The last time we saw Percy was at the funeral of Walter Blair, where Percy sang with the Pilgrim Quartet. The same old Percy, not so stout, but just as kindly and genial, as we met him and shook hands in the back of the church.

Now he has gone, leaving a wife and one boy, Lawrence, a student in the Mechanic Arts High School.

He was gifted, useful, and charming. A real fellow, who did honor to the profession which he loved. We failed to appreciate the gold hidden under the flesh of a country high school boy, but he found his vocation and pursued it courageously and successfully to the very end. We salute you, Percy.

Class of 1902

With increasing sadness we record the passing of another member of the class. Charles H. Furber died on October 14, 1933, at his home in Newton Highlands, Mass., after a brief illness.

CHARLES HARRIS FURBER was born in Littleton, N. H., June 29, 1880, and prepared for Dartmouth at the high school there. On entering college he was soon prominent in music, his rich baritone voice making a great addition to the chapel and church choirs. Naturally open and frank, he readily made friends, and was well known among the whole college body.

Upon graduation he entered the advertising department at Filene's in Boston. In 1905 he went with the Boot and Shoe Recorder Publishing Co., and after a brief stay in New York, returned in 1911 to the same company. He became a director in 1926, and was vice-president at the time of his death. He was well known in the trade throughout the East, and had many friends both in his business and social circles.

Besides his love of music, Charlie was one of our most enthusiastic golfers. A member of the Woodland and Charles River Golf Clubs, he played not only on his club links but on every course encountered on his travels. He was wont to say that he thought he had played on more different courses than any one else in the class. He was a member of the Joseph Warren Lodge of Masons in Boston.

He was married on September 4, 1912, to Miss Edna M. Wahle of Buffalo, who survives him, as does his father, George C. Furber. The funeral services were held in Littleton.

Class of 1913

KENDALL WINSHIP died suddenly in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on November 8, 1933, after an illness of only a few days, from heart disease. He believed he had the "flu" and finally consented to be removed from his home to the hospital on Friday, but his condition grew steadily worse until his sudden death on the following Wednesday.

He was born on September 21, 1891, at Lynn, Mass., the son of Addison Lester and H. M. (Johnson) Winship and received his early education at Lynn High School.

He graduated from Dartmouth with the class of 1913 and from the Amos Tuck School in 1914. During his college days, he played both varsity basketball and football. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Sphinx senior society.

He went at once to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was rate clerk for the Great Northern Railroad and in 1914 and 1915 was in the General Freight Dept. at Glacier Park. From October, 1915 into 1916 he was in the traffic dept. of the Great Northern at St. Paul.

Ken was on the Mexican border during the winter of 1916 and 1917 with the National Guard as Second Lieut. Minnesota Field Artillery. When war was declared, he was made a Second Lieut, but resigned his commission to go to Fort Snelling for intensive training. He was commissioned a Captain on August 15, 1917, and ordered to Camp Dodge, lowa, to the 339th Field Artillery, Battery C. From there he went to the Artillery School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. From August 1, 1918, to May 1, 1919, he was overseas as Battery Commander and was discharged at Camp Grant, Illinois, on May 19, 1919.

He went to Tulsa, Oklahoma, with the National Supply Co. and on Jan. 1, 1920, with the Roxana Petroleum Corp. at Tulsa. In November, 1921, he went with the Pittsburgh Gulf Oil Company at Pittsburgh and then travelled in Mexico for the company. Later, he went to South America with the Venezuela Gulf Oil Company.

On June 28, 1926, he married Mrs. Rose White Gregory, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cheney White of Concord, N. H., and then returned to Venezuela as general agent of the Gulf Oil Company. Returning to Tulsa, he was made an assistant to the late Henry McGraw then first vice-president, and upon Mr. McGraw's demise in June, 1931, he was elected to a vice-presidency in the Gypsy Oil Company, and the Gulf Pipe Line Co.

He was director of the American Petroleum Institute and of the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, a director and vicepresident of the Riding & Hunt Club of Tulsa, a member of the University Club, the American Legion and served as a director of the Skelly Stadium Corp. of the University of Tulsa. Ken was a member of the Episcopal church and a supporter of Trinity Parish. He took an active part in many of the Tulsa University financial drives, particularly those affecting the stadium and football. He was an ardent follower of golf and his good natured stories and jokes furnished many a laugh in the Tulsa Country Club locker room.

Funeral services were held at 2:30 P.M. on Friday, November 10, at Trinity Episcopal church and burial was in Memorial Park, Tulsa. Arba J. Irvin '02, was one of the active pallbearers, and among the honorary pallbearers were Dr. John Bowler, Hanover, N. H., J. F. Drake '02, Pittsburgh, Paul W. Loudon '14, Minneapolis and Richard Redfield '15, Pasadena, Calif.

The Tulsa newspapers contained many tributes to Kendall Winship and the Tulsa Tribune Sports Editor wrote:

"Seldom is the passing of a leader feltso keenly both in business and sports circlesas the untimely death of Ken Winship. Animposing figure in the oil business throughhis connection with the Gypsy and Gulf oilcompanies in Tulsa. Winship took an active part in sports during his lifetime.

"Tulsa sportsdom mourns the passingof this leader even as the business worlddoes."

The news of Ken's death came as a great shock to all in the class for he seemed in such fine health at the reunion in June. His going is a very real loss to the class and the college for his loyalty and generosity to 'l3 and to Dartmouth set a high standard for us all to endeavor to reach. We have lost a real citizen and friend, certainly one of the outstanding members of the class.

Class of 1926

The class of 1926 has lost a loyal member in the passing of DR. ABNER OAKES, who succumbed to a streptococcus septicaemia in the Hayes Hospital, Dover, N. H., on October 9, 1933. Ab was born in New York City, September 22, 1904, the son of Dr. Charles W. Oakes, a Dartmouth graduate of 1883, and Marcella M. (Sheil) Oakes. He graduated from Horace Mann School in 1922 and entered Dartmouth with our class in the fall of that year. Quiet of disposition and conscientious as a student, Ab made many friends in Hanover and took a lively interest in the college and class activities. His fraternity was Delta Tau Delta.

After graduating with our class, Ab entered Dartmouth Medical School and became affiliated with the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity. Transferring to the University of Pennsylvania after completing two years of medicine at Hanover, he made a splendid record and was elected to membership in the D. Hayes Agnew Surgical Society there. He received his M.D. degree in 1930, then returned to Hanover to spend a year and a half as interne at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, where his ability, tireless energy, and good cheer endeared him to patients and staff alike. Many of us who returned to Hanover during Ab's term at the hospital were sure to find him there constantly on the job for those who needed his assistance.

After completing his interneship in June, 1932, Ab opened an office for the practice of medicine in Dover, N. H., but soon removed to his old home town, South Berwick, Me., where he had spent many summers and was known to all, from boyhood. On August 29, 1932, Ab married Miss Marjorie Allyn in Montreal West, Canada, then settled down to general practice in South Berwick, where he worked ceaselessly answering the calls of those who needed his skill and attention. He was a member of the Dover City and York County Medical Societies and the Maine Medical Association and claimed numerous friends among the members of his profession.

Representing the class of 1926 at the funeral was Dr. Ralph Jones of Whitefield, N. H. Several members of the Hanover hospital staff and many friends of undergraduate and medical school days were present to pay final tribute. With a kindness of nature and steadfastness of purpose, Ab was well equipped to succeed in his chosen profession, as his brief record and the host of friends he made during the short time he was practicing bear witness.

To his many friends, the College and his classmates, word of his death comes as an unexpected blow. To his family and closest friends, we can only express our sincerest sympathy at this time. Ab is survived by his wife, his mother, and his sister, Miss Marcia Oakes.

Class of 1929

LAWRENCE SHERMAN MARTIN was killed by a falling telephone pole in Florida after the severe storm of last September. The exact place and date have not been reported.

"Chick" Martin was born in Warner, N. H., February 11, 1906, the son of George G. and Helen F. (Sawyer) Martin, who survive him. He prepared for college at Tabor Academy, and at the end of sophomore year transferred to the University of Florida. At the time of his death he was employed by a public utility company in Claremont, N. H., and was in Florida on a visit.

The class expresses its sincere sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Martin.

Medical School

Class of 1872

DR. EH GRELLET JONES died of angina pectoris January 26, 1933, presumably at Middletown, Md.

He was born in China, Me., July 26, 1850. His parents were ministers of the Society of Friends and engaged in mission work in various parts of the world, his mother, Sybil Jones, being said to have been the first white woman ever in Liberia.

Dr. Jones before coming to Dartmouth had, in 1870, received the degree of M. D. from the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania. He practiced his profession successfully for fifty years, and held a position of high authority in some branches of medicine. He had taught in Philadelphia Medical College and Detroit University, and was the author of two medical books, "Cancer—lts Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment," and "Definite Medication." In 1891 he received the honorary degree of Ph. D. from the American Society of Arts and Sciences of New York.

Dr. Jones was a member of the Society of Friends and a 32d degree Mason.

Class of 1900

DR. ELMER ASHLEY BARROWS died suddenly of heart disease in his office at Plymouth, Mass., October 18, 1933.

The son of Frederick H. and Marietta (Van Cor) Barrows, he was born in Hartland, Vt., December 27, 1870.

In November, 1900, he began the practice of medicine at Hartford, Vt., whence he removed to Plymouth in 1914, and was in active practice there until his death. In 1906 he represented the town of Hartford in the Vermont legislature. He was a Mason, being a member of lodge, chapter, commandery, and shrine, also an Odd Fellow and an Elk.

December 21, 1897, he was married to Alice M., daughter of Francis and Ann (Bailey) Litchfield of North Easton, Mass., who died November 12, 1926. Two children survive their parents, Gordon D. Barrows of Syracuse, N. Y., and Vera A. Barrows of Plymouth.

Honorary

CHARLES ADAMS PLATT, upon whom the College conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters in 1928, died September 12, 1933, in New York City.

He was born in that city October 16, 1861, the son of John H. and Mary (Cheney) Platt. Early deciding to devote his life to creative art, he studied in the art schools of New York and Paris. He attained high rank as an architect, and among the monuments he has left are the modern buildings of Phillips Andover Academy and the University of Illinois, the Freer Art Gallery in Washington, and the Hanna Building in Cincinnati. He was also a landscape painter and etcher of distinction. As president of the American Academy in Rome he was an active force in the inspiration and development of many art students. In 1894 he was awarded the Webb prize by the Society of American Artists. He was a member of the National Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. In 1892 he published "Italian Gardens," a book on the enchantment of old Italian gardens.

In an extended tribute in the New York Herald Tribune appeared the following: "He has left a noble mark upon Americanart, one significant of taste, of refinement,of pure beauty. He had creative power, andused it with remarkably balanced judgment. Of his traits as a man those whoknew him will cherish grateful memories."