Deaths

ALUMNI NOTES

Necrology

Class of 1869

GEORGE JOTHAM CUMMINGS, oldest in years (but not in date of graduation) of Dartmouth alumni, died September 6, 1934, at his summer home in Groton, N. H.

The son of Jotham and Nancy (Cheney) Cummings, he was born in Groton, July 6, 1838. In accordance with the old custom that a minor's time belonged to his father, until he was twenty-one he worked with his father on a farm, attending the district school winters and in addition two terms at Franklin (N. H.) Academy. From then until he was twenty-five he worked for his father in the spring and summer months, attending some academy in the fall and teaching district schools winters. Deciding then to take a college course, he entered Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H., from which he graduated in 1865 at the head of his class. He then entered Dartmouth, and was fourth in his class at graduation at the age of 31. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

Immediately after graduation he was recalled to Kimball Union Academy to teach Latin and natural science, and remained there eleven years, being principal and financial agent for the last five years. In 1880 he resigned with the intention of taking a year for rest, but was very soon called to the principalship of Monson (Mass.) Academy. This position he resigned in 1885 to accept the professorship of ancient languages and the deanship of the preparatory department of Howard University in Washington, D. C. In 1919 he closed his long and distinguished career as educator by his resignation, retaining the emeritus title of professor and dean. He had since made his home with his daughter in Andover, Mass. He retained all his faculties and was a masterful influence in any community group of which he was a part up to within three days of his death.

July 26, 1869, Mr. Cummings was married to Lucy Edwina Hardy of Groton, who survives him, with their daughter Lucy W., the wife of Henry C. Sanborn, Dartmouth 1895. Another daughter, Alice A., died when young. There are three grandchildren, John W. Sanborn (Dartmouth 1925), George K. Sanborn (Dartmouth 1928), and Lucy E. Sanborn.

Class of 1874

DOANE COGSWELL died August 11, 1934, in Gloucester, Mass. He had been in failing health for some time with arteriosclerosis, which resulted in gangrene of a foot.

He was born April 29, 1851, in Bradford, Mass., the son of Dr. George (D.M.S. 1830) and Elizabeth (Doane) Cogswell, and prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and was connected with the Glee Club and the class crew.

On graduation he intended the study of medicine and entered Harvard Medical School, but after two years he gave up the study on account of ill health, and purchased the large farm in Bradford which belonged to his father, and spent his active life there in the successful practice of agriculture. For the past three years he had made his home with his son George in Quincy, Mass. He had held numerous town offices and had been justice of the peace, and was for some time a trustee and treasurer of Bradford Academy.

December 20, 1883, he was married to Sarah Catherine, daughter of Joseph B. and Sarah (Wilder) Drury of Gardner, Mass., who died May 22, 1892. Two sons survive their parents, George of Quincy, Mass., and Wilder Drury of Methuen, Mass.

Class of 1877

EDWARD Goss HUMPHREY died at his home in Somerville, Mass., August 11, 1934. He had been in poor health for several years, but his final illness was of only one day's duration, and he passed away in his sleep.

The son of Solomon and Electa M. (Goss) Humphrey, he was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., July 8, 1855, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at St. Johnsbury Academy and High School. He was a member of Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi). He left the class during sophomore year.

Returning to St. Johnsbury, he was variously employed for some years, being finally from 1880 to 1885 in the office of the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain R. R. He also served as assistant town clerk and deputy collector of taxes for about five years. In 1885-6 he had a position in the auditor's office of the Boston and Lowell R. R. in Boston. He then returned to St. Johnsbury, and was engaged in the grocery and hardware business until 1891. In October, 1891, he took up work with the Canadian Pacific Despatch in Boston, serving as accountant and claim agent. In January, 1914, this line went out of business, and for most of the time since he had no regular occupation outside of the management of his personal affairs.

In 1900 he took up the collection of shells as a hobby, and since his retirement devoted much of his time to this pursuit. He was connected in an unofficial way with the conchological department of the Agassiz Museum at Harvard and with the Boston Museum of Natural History. He was also secretary and treasurer of the Boston Malacological Club. He sold his collection, numbering over 100,000 specimens, a few years ago, and it is now in the possession of Dartmouth College.

Since a severe attack of pneumonia several years ago, his health has been poor, from anemia and an impaired heart.

May 16, 1877, he was married to Almeda Demaris, daughter of Dennis and Susan (Morse) Hunter of St. Johnsbury, who died May 13, 1916. One son, Philip Arthur, survives his parents, living in Somerville.

Class of 1881

A member of this class who had a unique record was Louis JOHN RUNDLETT, who died in Concord of cerebral hemorrhage September the eleventh. For forty-nine years he had served as superintendent of schools in that city, which is believed to be a record in this department of activity. It even seemed probable that he would continue through his fiftieth, but he was stricken just before that year began. An unusual honor was paid to his memory when the State House was closed during the hours of his funeral on the afternoon of the fourteenth, by direction of the governor and council. The City Hall, public and parochial schools, and business establishments also closed. Adams was the only one of his class who was able to be present at the funeral, which was conducted by Rev. Andrew V. McCracken, pastor of the South Congregational church.

Rundlett was born in Bedford, N. H., March 14, 1858, being the son of William A. and Louisa (McPherson) Rundlett. He prepared for college at the high school in Manchester, N. H. After graduation he was principal of the grammar school in Penacook, N. H., for four years, studying law also a part of this period. He was then elected to what proved to be his major life work in Concord. He was an energetic and progressive educator, also very effective as a platform speaker upon educational topics. The high school building constructed during his administration was the best in the state. In 1910 he inaugurated the first junior high school system in the country; and the "Rundlett Junior High School" perpetuates his name in that connection. When Dartmouth College adopted the plan of awarding a plaque to that school sending three or more students to the freshman class whose representatives stood the highest during the first semester, it was the high school in Concord which won the first award, in 1917. In 1928 he inaugurated in Concord two platoon schools, the first in the state, for one of which a new building was erected that same year.

The fame of Rundlett as a baseball pitcher extended beyond the confines of New England, and he was commonly believed to be, when at his zenith, the best college baseball pitcher in the East. Two national league teams, Worcester and Detroit, endeavored to secure his services after graduation, at high figures for those days, but he declined both for the sake of his chosen educational field. He was a good student, an excellent musician, and surpassed in reciting humorous selections. As a story teller he was the life of a company. He was a member of various educational and other organizations, also prominent in Masonry. In 1920, as potentate of Bentash Temple, he conducted the patrol over nine thousand miles through the Rockies, Oregon, California, New Mexico, etc. His college name of "Duke" (Duke of Bedford?) clung to him through life.

He was married at New Britain, Conn., Sept. 5, 1891, to Miss Carrie Belle Copley of that city. Of their two children, Copley McPherson, born April 22, 1893, Dartmouth cum laude 1916, Thayer School 1917, served as an engineer overseas during the Great War, and was connected with the state highway department of New Hampshire until his death in 1931. Lois, born Sept. 24, 1901, graduated cum laude from Smith College in 1923. While in college she was stroke oar on the college crew, class president, and class orator. She married Robert Plues Booth, Dartmouth 1922, a lawyer in Manchester, N. H. Mrs. Rundlett died Sept. 30, 1915.

Class of 1883

JOHN WALTER PEARSON died June 6, 1934, at his home in Newton, Mass., after a long illness.

The son of John Couch and Elizabeth S. (Colby) Pearson, he was born in Webster, N. H., February 17, 1862. He had brothers in the classes of 1881 and 1893. He prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Penacook (N. H.) Academy and Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi), and was an editor of the Aegis.

Immediately after graduation he became assistant to the chief engineer of the Old Colony Railroad, and remained with that company, and after its merger with the New York, New Haven, and Hartford road, with the latter company, until his retirement in 1923. He was finally division engineer. He ranked high in railroad engineering, and took part in the electrification of the Nantasket branch, the first such project in New England, and in the building of the South Station in Boston, then the largest railroad terminus in the country.

In 1900 he was married to Effie M. Whiton of Newton, Mass., who survives him, with three daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Melanson, Mrs. Edith Chaple, and Mrs. Ruth Dellicker, and two sons, Ezra B. and Nathan.

Class of 1885

HERBERT COREY WHITE died in Rosslyn, Va., July 20, 1932, from a cerebral hemorrhage, but the fact of his death did not become known to his class until very recently.

He was born in Burlington, lowa, September 18, 1861, and was the son of Charles Abiathar and Charlotte R. (Pilkinton) White.

He prepared for college under private tutors and entered the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in the class of '85. During his college course he was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu (later Sigma Chi) fraternity. He served a term as president of his class and as chairman of the committee on decorations at Commencement.

After graduation he went to Nebraska, where for the next five years he resided and was engaged in several lines of business, first in the Town of Beatrice and later in Chester, Harbine, Superior, and Tilley in that state.

He returned to the East in 1890 and for a time was connected with the Roanoke, Va., Times; later he removed to Pawtucket, R. 1., and then to Buffalo, N. Y. From there, he returned to Beatrice, Neb.

In September, 1908, he opened a flower and plant store in Massillon, Ohio, where he continued in the business for about four years. In June, 1910, he very pleasantly remembered his classmates by sending us, while we were celebrating our 25th anniversary reunion at Hanover, a large and beautiful bouquet of green and white carnations to decorate the table at our class dinner. In 1912 he sold out his business in Massillon and removed to Niagara Falls, N. Y. where he appears to have continued in the florist business until about 1915.

After he left Niagara Falls all trace of him by his class was lost until recently, and it now appears that subsequently he conducted a florist shop in Toledo, Ohio, for a time and then removed to Alexandria, Va., where he engaged in the greenhouse business. He later closed out his business in Alexandria and for several years was employed in the greenhouses under the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D. C.

He retired several years ago, and had been living in Rosslyn, Va., for sometime prior to his death. He was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D. C. He never married and was survived by a brother, Leonard A. White, and a sister, Marian White, both of whom reside in Washington, D. C.

Class of 1886

During the last summer the death rate of the class of Eighty-Six has been heavy. Of the thirty men alive at Commencement, three have fallen by the way without warning to their classmates and with only a brief anxiety to their immediate kindred and friends.

CHARLES SWEETSER HAYES, a member of the Chandler School for the freshman year, died on July 16 after a short illness at the home of his sister, Mrs. Irving Oscar Cummings, M.D., of the class of Eighty Seven. He was seventy-two years old and of a large family, survived only by the sister and a brother, H. Percival Hayes.

Mr. Hayes came of a long line of farmers, being a direct descendent of John Hayes from Scotland who settled in Dover, N. H., about 1680. His grandfather, Charles, born in Maine, early became farmer for the Craigie estate in Cambridge, which later passed into the hands of Longfellow the poet. Here his eldest son, Charles Hiram, who was the father of our classmate, was born in 1834. Meanwhile the grandfather had bought a farm of many acres on the Greenland Road in Portsmouth as a homestead for three generations to come. Here Charles Sweetser was born, and lived, and it was in the immediate neighborhood that the end came.

After the usual preparation at Portsmouth High School, "Sweetser" as his mates called him after his mother's line, entered Dartmouth with the class of Eighty-Six. In his Prince Albert coat and silk hat or mounted on his chestnut mare he had been a familiar figure at home. He had friends everywhere; he was the life of the crowd, a leader in sport and a good fellow generally. In college he became something of a personage, never happier than when making the most of college life in the conventional sense of the word. He will be remembered long as a prince of good fellowship both at Dartmouth and at his home in Portsmouth. He was an eager and active member of the Vitruvian Society during his vivid career in Hanover.

At the end of a year, however, he was obliged to leave college to become junior partner of C. H. Hayes & Son, breeders of thoroughbred Ayrshire cattle. Their herd was famous throughout New England and the West, taking many a prize at the New England fairs and elsewhere. He followed farming and husbandry for many years, and it was only after several destructive fires on the farm, in one of which he had nearly lost his life, combined with the death of his wife in 1925, that he retired to private life, living with his sister until death caine. He had no children. During the later years his zest for life flagged, but the end was peace.

His was a genial personality. He was a favorite with a wide circle of friends. He enjoyed the out-of-doors his growing garden, his flowers, his contact with his neighbors. With little ambition for public service, he loved to read widely, and to see the procession of life as it sped by. His year in college he never forgot, but he preferred to think of it as a youthful dream rather than as an experience to be lived over again in reunion and in class activities. He wrote few letters, and most of his mates never saw his face after his year in Hanover.

We must think of ARTHUR MITCHELL as a character. Humorous as well as human, whimsical with a sense of the dramatic in life, he challenges the interest of lovers of the unsusal and strange.

He was born in Temple, Me., in 1864, son of David Mitchell and Salome Davis. He entered the Chandler Scientific Department at Hanover in 1882, but left at the close of the year for a medical course at Boston University, where he was graduated in 1886. He married Annie Harwood in 1919 and died at Corey Hill Hospital in Brookline, near Boston on July 24 of the current year.

Settled in Medfield during his whole professional life, he was in frequent touch with Dartmouth interests in and around the Hub. He attended the annual dinners of the Dartmouth Association and was often present at the major football games. In response to a call for the fortieth reunion of his class, he wrote, "This job of mine isworse to leave than a teething baby, but Ishall hope to get up to Hanover nextJune" and he was there.

More characteristic of the man were some of the letters he wrote to class officers who asked for information. To one he wrote, "I am peddling pills in the country, tencents a dozen, two dozen for a quarter, thehouses two miles apart, and with great exertion on my part and the help of God, Ibarely succeed in keeping the wolf fromthe door." We felt like taking up a class collection for his relief. He tells another secretary that he is a poor old general practitioner in the country, plodding over the hills and through the valleys, through mud and snow, sunshine and storm, nights and Sundays alike. My only recreation is a fishing trip in the spring and a hunting trip in the fall. Pity the sorrows of "Mitch."

Yet the last will and testament of this man disposes of more than a quarter of a million of dollars. Thirty thousand to a church in his native town, a hundred thousand to a Maine hospital, funds for handsome annuities for his housekeeper and chauffeur, with ample provision for his wife! He had no children. When the residue of the estate amounts to two hundred and ten thousand dollars, it goes to the town of his birth. No doubt the role he played gave him pleasure to the last and all along the way. In closing one of his letters to his classmates he says, "Whether we believethat when we die we simply enrich oldmother earth for the next higher order ofbeings, or that we have a job waiting forus beyond the river, the men of 'B6 can lookevery man straight in the eye without fearor shame and await the verdict of a clearconscience."

In the same will he arranges for the disposal of his own remains. Years before he had had a bull terrier, Jack, who once had saved his life. Thenceforward nothing was too good for the dog. He was treated as an equal. The greatest painter available drew his portrait to hang before the master's eye. When the animal died he received Christian burial in the family lot in Maine as if he had been human. In his will the Doctor provides that his own body shall be cremated and interred in the grave with Jack. The provision was all the more strange in that it called for the death of every other animal on the place at the master's decease.

Evidently Arthur Mitchell was little bound by conventionality or consistency. A thorough democrat at heart, and yet gifted with ambitions rarely known in average humanity, he makes his classmates as well as the world in general not a little curious as to the meaning of such a life of contradiction.

Why we called him "Tar" we never knew. We hope, however, that it was not the reason that he never responded to any call for information about himself or joined his class in their reunions at Hanover. In our constellation of friendship he remained a lost star to the end absent but never forgotten.

WILLIAM PEASLEE BADGER was a good student in college, a man of distinct promise, with high aims and serious purpose, and one of the strong men of his class. His friends were many and his work far above the average. Few members of his class were more respected than he. The high place he reached in his chosen profession was the inevitable sequence of the ability and character he displayed during the years at Dartmouth.

Badger was born seventy-two years ago in the town of Chateaugay, N. Y., near the Burke line. He was the son of the Honorable John P. and Emily (Phelps) Badger, who later removed to Malone to become an attorney of distinction in northern New York. His academic education was gained at Franklin Academy, from which he entered Dartmouth with the class of Eighty-Six. After graduation he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1889. For a time he was associated.with his father, a connection soon dissolved for a practice without partnership relations, which he maintained to the end of his life. It was under such conditions that he gained his position as one of the most able and trustworthy lawyers of his region.

During his long period of practice he handled many cases of importance in the local and higher courts. For several years he served as commissioner of the United States court of the Northern District of New York. He was also appointed referee in bankruptcy, another federal position, for the three northern counties of New York, often dealing with litigation in which large interests were involved. For all this work he was especially well fitted, not only by his skill as a stenographer and a knowledge of the French language, but also by his reputation for impartiality in cases appearing before him. In a letter from Botsford, a classmate, we are told that "Tar" "is a just and square referee, very correctin all his work."

Soon after leaving Dartmouth he married Miss Carrie Morgan of Malone, and his was the first child to be born to his class. He became an exemplary family man, the father of eleven children, all of whom, with one possible exception, are alive and parents of a numerous posterity. It was while striving to save one of these little ones from injury that the grandfather received the blow that terminated in his death in the Alice Hyde Hospital at Malone on August 29. After the fall he never regained consciousness.

Of him the Malone Evening Telegram writes: "He was a worthy man in all therelations of life, devoted to his family andpracticing the principles of right livingand always giving to the public interestsof Malone his unswerving loyalty and support. He possessed a genial personality,which won for him the steadfast friendshipof many, and in the adjoining counties ofNew York, where his official duties took himfrequently, he held the highest esteem of amultitude, including lawyers and businessmen of prominence, who came to know himwell through his official duties. His wideknowledge of law and his impartiality as areferee were often highly praised."

Without a wide fame, "Tar" Badger became one of the many sons of Dartmouth who become indispensable to the general welfare and high ideals of the communities in which their lot is cast.

Class of 1888

44 YEARS OF SERVICE

ALEYNE A. FISHER, until recently general superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, died suddenly on Saturday afternoon, May 12, 1934, at Washington. Returning from his office in the Post Office Department to his home in the Ontario Apartments about 3 o'clock, he collapsed from a heart attack at the door and passed away shortly without regaining consciousness. He was 68 years old and had but recently completed 44 years' service in the Post Office Department.

Following soon after his graduation from Dartmouth College, Mr. Fisher received his probationary appointment as a clerk at $800 per annum, in the office of the General Superintendent, Railway Mail Service, Washington, D. C., on April 29, 1889. Promotions followed from time to time until he reached a salary of $1,600 per annum on July 11, 1901. Then on June 30, 1902, he was promoted to assistant chief clerk to the General Superintendent, holding this position until March 2, 1907, when he became chief clerk in the same office. He remained in that position until November 23, 1911, when he was advanced to the position of chief clerk to the Second Assistant Postmaster General. He served in this position until June 22, 1917, when he entered the field service of the R. M. S. by being promoted to the position of superintendent of the Third Division, with headquarters at Washington.

APPOINTED GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT

Mr. Fisher occupied the position of superintendent of the Third Division for nine years. During the period of his administration the service was operated smoothly and efficiently; and his relationship with the employees and the Railway Mail Association was at all times courteous and cordial.

On September 1, 1926, he was appointed General Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, holding this position until January 24, 1934, when he was succeeded by Stephen A. Cisler. With this change, Mr. Fisher was assigned as Assistant Superintendent at Large, holding this position until his death.

His administration of the Railway Mail Service was unusually successful. The secret of his success was to be found in his personal qualities. He won and held the confidence and affection of the more than 20,000 employees of the Railway Mail Service by his sense of fairness, by his interest in their welfare, and by his spirit of cordial relationship with the Railway Mail Association.

Few, if any, of the officials who have held this position better realized than did he the importance of the human equation in an efficient Postal Service. Notwithstanding his long years of official position, he never assumed the "hard-boiled" attitude so characteristic of officialdom generally. Rather it was his plan to administer departmental policies with discernment and with all possible consideration of the human factor in the service. As a result of these very human qualities, he developed a spirit of loyalty and co-operation on the part of the employees productive of high efficiency in the service.

Funeral services were held in Washington on May 14 at 5 p.m., following which the body was sent to Danville, Vt., his old home, for interment. Surviving him are his widow; a son, Harvey, who lives in San Francisco; a daughter, Frances; and a sister, Miss Letitia B. Fisher.

The services in Washington were attended by many officials of the Post Office Department.

Services in Vermont were held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Williams, of Danville, at 3.30 p.m., Tuesday afternoon, May 15. Accompanied by the daughter and the sister, the body reached Boston on the morning of May 15. There the partywas joined by Superintendent W. F. Yarrington, of the First Division, and Chief Clerk J. F. Dinard, who accompanied them to Danville, where they were met by Chief Clerk J. M. Ashley and Assistant Chief Clerk Harry L. Gale, of White River Junction. These four officials of the Railway Mail Service, together with J. Durant Dale and Earle F. Fisher, relatives, acted as pallbearers.

"Our sorrow today, is blended with asense of satisfaction and rejoicing in theprecious memories that cluster about thislife so suddenly come to its earthly ending.To have spent a lifetime in the capital ofthe nation and in service of a great department of the Government; to have risenstep by step from the very humblest position to a post of high honor and responsibility; during all the years to have had anunblemished record; and by his quietfidelities to have commanded the confidence of his superiors, the friendships of hisequals, and the respect and esteem of thoseof interior station; and at the end to havefinished the day's work, wended his wayhome with a love token in his hand; thenwithout a moment's suffering or consciousness of tragedy to pass from what we callTime to Eternity from a rich, full, earthlylife to the great adventure in the spiritworld."

Referring to the influences that moulded the life and character of Mr. Fisher, his "New England birth and inheritance hadendowed him with such quiet strength, witha clear conscience, a keen sense of right andwrong, and art indomitable compulsion ofduty; a fine courtesy to woman, fidelity tohonor, reverence for God, and a supremeloyalty and devotion to the loved ones inhis own home."

Class of 1900

NEILLY GIBBONS passed away at his home in New York City, October 3d. He had been ill for nearly a year from an incurable disease. Most of the time he suffered intensely, but during the last few weeks acute pain did not prevail. Although Neilly Gibbons was only a member of the class for one year, almost everyone recalls that laughing, cheery chap who came from Exeter with a great reputation as an outfielder. Neilly did well at baseball but had difficulty in keeping his weight under control and so had slowed up a lot since prep school days. What a charming, lovable chap he was! Everyone called him Neilly, and in a few months time he was a favorite on the campus until he left College to enter business. Naturally a chap with so many human attributes liked to sell goods, and Neilly was successful throughout his life in this capacity. For many years he was New England sales manager for the S. M. Bixby Polish Company. When that firm combined with several others he took up special lines. During the past few years he was connected with the Seiter & Kappes Lithographing Company of New York. Previously most of his business life was spent in Boston.

We were all much surprised that Neilly, one of our old bachelors, should appear at Hanover reunion with a lady friend. They were soon married, and a beautiful daughter came to delight the household. What pride and joy Neilly took in this little girl, and how sorry he must have been to have left this happy household!

Neilly certainly was a most loyal member of the class of 1900. He attended every round-up and had such a good time. Whether it was held on the North Shore or the-South Shore or at some mountain resort, Neilly was the first to take a swim, rolling around in the water like a human porpoise. How he loved to get into a bridge game with Dan Arundel, Ben Prescott, or Nat Barrows! Neilly always got the most out of life by accommodating himself to every occasion and by always looking for the best in other people. He never criticized and he never aired his own troubles. He was a genuine good fellow, wanting the rest to enjoy themselves as much as he did. Our deepest sympathy goes to Mrs. Gibbons and to the little girl in the household, which will be very silent with Neilly gone. On Saturday, October 6, the funeral services were held at Saint Mary's Gate of Heaven church, Jerome Ave. and 104th St., Ozone Park, Richmond, Queens County, New York. Another fine chap with only a year's residence in college acquired a deep love for Dartmouth and for his class. We will all smile when we think of Neilly, because that is what he would want us to do.

Class of 1901

LESLIE ROY HOVEY, who entered Dartmouth with the class of 1901 and was with us freshman year, passed away, May 31, 1934, while on a train coming from Maine to Boston. He had left his home in Melrose apparently in good health on May 28 for a business trip, and was suddenly taken with an attack of angina pectoris at Caribou. After being under the observation of local physicians there, he was started toward home, under the care of a nurse, but at Bangor suffered another severe attack, and passed away very shortly.

Hovey was born March 18, 1878, at Massawippi, P. Q., the youngest son of Wright and Lois (Hitchcock) Hovey. In youth he attended Stanstead College, and later was a student at Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt. From there he graduated, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1897. He lived at the Miner house on College St., with Jim Higgins, Homer Ladd, and Dolph Lane, all from Barre.

Freshman fall saw him out for the football team, and although slight in stature and weight, he played very creditably at end, even against such competition as he had from the regular Dartmouth ends of that year.

He did not return to college in sophomore year, but soon entered business, where he showed remarkable ability and was very successful. His particular field was the creamery business, being connected for a number of years with Swift & Company, and the last years of his life with Wilson & Company, in charge of all their creamery business in New England. Hovey was very popular among the market men of Boston, and had a very large Western acquaintance as we'll. Frank Lowe was the one man in the class who saw and knew Hovey intimately, and Frank writes, "Roy hadmade a good success of his life and owneda fine home in Melrose. He was a quiet,clean-living man, and we men of the market miss him a great deal." Frank attended the funeral, together with a large delegation of business men from the market district.

Roy Hovey married Phoebe Davidson of Ayers Cliff, P. Q., in June, 1905, who survives him, with a daughter Ruth, and two sons, Arnold and Ernest. Funeral services were held at Nouh Hatley, P. Q., on Sunday, June 3, with burial in the family lot at Massawippi.

Class of 1909

ROSWELL THORNTON PEARL died at Kearsarge, N. H., September 22, 1934, of heart failure. He was a resident of North Woburn, Mass., and at the time of his death was spending his' vacation in the White Mountains with his wife, Myra Wood Pearl.

"Roscoe" was born in Haverhill, Mass., March 10, 1887. His parents were Isaac Emerson Pearl (Dartmouth 1882) and Julie Thornton. He had one brother, Holman I. Pearl, who survives him. Roscoe went to Boston Latin School, from which he was graduated with high honors in 1905. He was a member of the editorial boards of The Dartmouth, The Dartmouth Magazine, and The Aegis, and was a member of the Press Club. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Rufus Choate Scholar.

After graduation Roscoe was for a time associated with the publication of TheSeven Seas. He also taught in a private school. In 1912, he entered the employ of Ginn and Company as a member of the advertising department. Shortly after, he married Helen Whitney. In December, 1917, he volunteered for war service, and until July, 1919, was engaged in New York in advertising work on the Liberty Loan campaigns.

On returning to Boston, he resumed his position with Ginn and Company, and soon became an associate directing editor, which position he occupied at the time of his death. In 1931, he married Miss Myra Wood of Arlington, Mass.

Funeral services were at the Mount Auburn Crematory Chapel, Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday, September 26, at 2 P.M.

Physically, Roscoe had more courage than brawn. He was fond of tramping in the White Mountains, of horseback riding, and of skiing. His days' tramps in the mountains on foot with a pack, often alone, were far beyond those of the average tramper and would have done up many a husky athlete. As a novice on skis, he gayly tackled descents that would daunt an experienced member of the Outing Club, and always came up smiling after each of his many spills. It seems possible that on some such occasion he overtaxed his strength, if not his courage.

In his quiet, unassuming way, he was one of the most loyal and most effective workers we have had in the class. He was a "scholar and a gentleman," friendly, understanding, and always genial. All of us were fond of him. We'll miss him.

Class of 1916

CHARLES TURNER HEARIN died suddenly from a heart attack in Washington, D. C., August 15, 1934.

He was born in Mobile, Ala., July 27, 1891, the son of Charles Turner and Irene H. (Holcombe) Hearin, and prepared for college at the Lawrenceville School. In college he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and the Musical Club, and was interested in dramatics, both in acting and in helping to stage plays. He was with his class but two years.

He went overseas as a lieutenant of the 26th Infantry in June, 1917, and returned at the close of the war as a captain. After the war he entered the diplomatic service, and was vice-consul at Naples in 1921-2 and at Beirut, Syria, in 1922-3. Leaving the service, he entered the paper business in Cleveland, Ohio, but of late years had his home in Washington. He had not married, and his mother and one sister survive him.

Class of 1921

JOSEPH SHAW died of pneumonia in the Cambridge, Mass., hospital on September 7, 1934. Joe was the son of the late Bartlett M. and Edith (Ashley) Shaw, and was born in Watertown, Mass., May 5, 1898. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Watertown High School, and in college was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Since his graduation in Hanover with an A.B. degree. Joe has been connected with the Walker and Pratt Manufacturing Company of Boston. Until his marriage a year ago he lived in Watertown, but since then had been residing at 1125 West Roxbury Parkway in Brookline. Besides his wife, Mrs. Margaret Black Shaw, Joe is survived by his mother and three brothers, Dr. Eliot A. Shaw '16 of Providence, R. I., and Bartlett M. Shaw Jr. and Frederick D. Shaw, both of Watertown.

Funeral services were held at St. John's Methodist church in Watertown on September 9. Joe was a member of the Victory Lodge of Masons and of Watertown Post No. 99 of the American Legion.

By his passing both the College and 1921 have lost a loyal member, for Joe always retained a lively interest in both Dartmouth and his class. He will be sorely missed when the class gathers in Hanover two years hence for its 15th, for, as all who attended the Fifth and the Tenth Reunions can testify. Joe by his warm friendship and gaiety added greatly to the joy of those occasions.

Class of 1923

LESTER STRAUSS GUTTERMAN died at his home in Brookline, Mass., July 11, 1934, after an illness of several months.

The son of Albert and Esther (Strauss) Gutterman. he was born in Charlestown, Mass., January 2, 1901, and prepared for college at Brookline High School and Berkeley Preparatory School.

After graduation he was engaged for a time with his father in the business of importing wool, hides, and skins in Boston, but later became a well-known figure in the real estate field in Boston, being connected with the Henry W. Savage Co. of Brookline. He had not married. He was a Mason, a member of Shawmut Lodge of Boston, and a member of the University Club of Boston.

Two brothers survive him, Irwin S. Gutterman, Dartmouth 1925, and Jerome S. Gutterman, Harvard 1928.

Class of 1934

News has been recently received at the Alumni Records Office of the death of FRANK COMESKY, at Suffern, N. Y., September 8, 1933.

He was born in Suffern, December 26, 1900, his father being James Roscoe Comesky. He was prepared for college at the Suffern High School, and was a member of the class for the first semester only.

No information concerning his subsequent history has been obtained.

Class of 1925

WILLIAM HARTMAN was instantly killed in an automobile accident near Houston, Texas, November 11, 1933, but the fact has only recently become known at the College. The son of William and Stella C. (Dake) Hartman, he was born in Rochester, N. Y., May 9, 1904. He prepared for college at East High School, Rochester. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa.

For two years after graduation he studied at Harvard, and in 1926 received the A.M. degree there in the department of English. He then taught for three years in Rice Institute, Houston, Texas. Since that time he was associated with McGraw-Hill Book Co., for whom he was traveling at the time of his death.

He was unmarried, and is survived by his mother and two sisters.

Class of 1928

HERBERT SPENCER HADLEY JR. died in Houston, Texas, June 16, 1934. He had gone on a business trip to Houston and while there was attacked by appendicitis. After an operation, peritonitis set in and proved fatal.

He was born at Jefferson City, Mo., September 9, 1906, the son of Herbert Spencer and Agnes (Lee) Hadley. His father was governor of the state of Missouri, and at the time of his death was chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.

Herbert Hadley Jr.'s early education was obtained in the schools of Jefferson City, and he afterwards attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Colorado State Preparatory School, and Kemper Military School. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. After a year at Dartmouth he transferred to the University of Kansas, where he graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1927. He then studied law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he graduated as LL.B. in 1930. Since then he had been practicing law in St. Louis.

In April, 1933, he was married to Catherine DeHatre of St. Louis, who survives him.

Medical School

Class of 1883

DR. NEWELL WESLEY BEANE died at his home in East Kingston, N. H., August 2, 1934.

The son of Rev. John Wesley and Phoebe Dustin (Tucker) Bean, he was born in Salisbury, N. H., May 12, 1859, and received his academic education at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton. After his medical graduation he practiced his profession about twelve years in Auburn, Chichester, and Henniker, N. H., and then about two years in Peabody, Mass. Leaving the profession for reasons of health, he was employed in the advertising department of the Boston Globe, and remained there 18 years, being finally manager of automobile advertising. For the ensuing 15 years he was advertising manager of the Haverhill (Mass.) SundayRecord. His home in recent years was at East Kingston, which town he represented in the New Hampshire legislature of 1931. He had been for fifty years a member of the Odd Fellows lodge in Henniker. In 1883 he was married to Mabelle S. Preston of Derry, N. H., who died in 1903. Their four daughters survive, and there are eleven grandchildren. In 1906 he was married to Lucy M. Oliver of Byfield, Me., who survives him.

Class of 1893

DR. LINNEUS ALTON ROBERTS died August 23, 1934, at the Charlesgate Hospital, Cambridge, Mass., of embolism following an operation.

The son of Gilman and Harriet (Dingee) Roberts, he was born in Waldo, Me., October 20, 1867. His academic education was obtained at Belfast High School, and his medical course, begun at Harvard, was finished at Dartmouth.

After his graduation he was assistant physician at Boston State Hospital for ten years, and then was for 32 years in private practice in the Dorchester district of Bos- ton.

In 1903 Dr. Roberts was married to Mabel Marie Webber of Monroe, Me., who survives him, with two sons, John Gilman of New Jersey and Lawrence Alton of Boston.