Deaths

ALUMNI NOTES

Necrology

Class of 1886

One more of our Green Mountain State classmates, GUY WILSON, left us Sunday, March 1, to join our majority in the "choir invisible." All of us in '86 remember Guy at Dartmouth, scholar and track athlete, as one of our ablest men, who faced every duty and social situation with that honesty, courage, and resourcefulness that have been expected of Green Mountain boys since Ticonderoga and Bennington became household words in American history. Like our John French of Woodstock, Vt., Guy died in the town where he was born, but, unlike John, whose life activities were largely away from his home town, Guy had given his whole life to manifold service to his native town, county, and state.

Guy told us in our 40th Class Report, 1926, that he was the oldest of fourteen children, and, that when his father died in 1897, the youngest of these brothers and sisters was only five years old. In addition to sending his own three children through college Guy helped with the education of some of the youngest members of his father's children. Guy's services to the town of Bethel were recognized by the following resolution passed unanimously in town meeting since Guy left us:

"Whereas, Divine Providence has takenfrom this life a faithful and loyal citizen,Mr. Guy Wilson, and whereas, Mr. Wilsonserved his town over a long period in theseveral offices to which he was elected, andwhereas, his services as town clerk were ofsuch quality as to be noted throughout thestate, be it therefore resolved, that, we,citizens of the town of Bethel, in townmeeting assembled, do now pause in ourproceedings that we may give voice to ourlove, honor, and respect for this man nowlost to this assembly. Be it further resolvedthat we hereby make public record of ourdeep appreciation of his faithfulness, hisintegrity, and his willingness to serve inwhatever capacity requested. Be it alsofurther resolved that specific recognition behereby recorded of his long, faithful, andexceptional service as town clerk. Be itfurther resolved that this resolution' bespread on the town records and a copy sentto each of his children."

The son-in-law, Robert E. Bundy, who carries on Guy's insurance business, in a word of appreciation to the people of Bethel for their kind words and deeds to the family, refers to Guy's services to the public in these words: "For many years Ihave been trying to translate a certain passage from Cicero. Looking at the quiet faceof Guy Wilson, the words came clearly, 'Ofall things men do, nothing lasts so long norcounts so much as good work for the public.' "

The following sketch of Guy's life and work the Secretary has rearranged and copied, with some omissions, from a signed article in the Bethel Courier, March 5, by L. B. Johnson, publisher, whose personal tribute was in these words:

"As publisher of the Bethel Courier Icannot let this occasion pass without a wordof personal tribute to my close friend andlong co-worker, Guy Wilson. He was thedean of correspondents of the White RiverValley List. For 47 years he had been associated with the Courier as local representative in the preparation of news and in thetransaction of business. The same sterlinghonesty, application to duty, and loyalty tohis community characterized him here aseverywhere. In all our years of contact therewas never a bit of friction. I esteemed GuyWilson for his high character and his realworth. It is indeed a personal loss which Ikeenly feel."

"DEATH OF GUY WILSON

"Lifelong, Prominent, and Loyal Citizenof Bethel, Highly Respected by All

"For the first time in forty-seven years,the name of Guy Wilson does not appear aslocal editor of the Bethel news this week.On Sunday morning at the breakfast tablehe suffered a heart attack and died withina few minutes.

"Bethel knew him well. The activities ofhis life in one way or another touched mostof those who lived in this vicinity at anytime during the past three generations.Town clerk for the last thirty years, listerfor the last twenty-seven, and fire districtclerk for the last forty-four, he maintaineda close contact with town affairs. Few, ifany, citizens of Bethel had its interests soclose at heart. None deserve more than hethe title of 'town father.'

"Guy Wilson was born in Bethel, July 11,1864, the son of Hon. James Jay Wilson andJane Flynn Wilson. He attended the village.schools and prepared for college at theRandolph High School. He graduated fromDartmouth in 1886. This coming June hewould have celebrated the fiftieth reunionof his class. He was elected to Phi BetaKappa and to the Delta Kappa Epsilonfraternity. He figured prominently in trackathletics, in which he won a number ofmedals.

"Following graduation from college hebegan the study of law in his father's officein Bethel, where he was also associatedwith Hon. Fred Arnold. In 1889 he was admitted to the Vermont bar a?id in the sameyear served for a time as assistant secretaryof the State Senate at Montpelier. In thisyear he was chosen constable of Bethel anddeputy sheriff of Windsor county, in whichoffices he served for a number of years.

"While at Dartmouth he had studiedsurveying, and upon his return to Bethelhe developed this toork in connection withhis other activities. A diary of his coveringthat period shows him driving his horse'Benjamin Harrison,' then referred to asthe 'colt,' over Bethel and adjoining townsin his legal and surveying work. It was inconnection with his surveying that he began to acquire a great fund of informationconcerning land titles, personal history ofthe people in the valley, and an intimateknowledge of their affairs and daily problems. Because he knew exactly how thingsstood with people he was able to give theadvice and help which were often essentialto them, and year by year they turned tohim more.

"On August 29, 1889, he was married toAbbie Fisher, whose death in 1934 ended adevoted and happy partnership of overforty-four years. In September, 1889, theytook up residence in a portion of the EdwinFisher house, which later became theirhome. As it so happened they were marriedin the room in which they both died.

"In the 1890's Mr. Wilson and Mr. Arnold engaged in the fire insurance business,and continued in partnership for severalyears.

"As a public officer Mr. Wilson served astown clerk from 1905 to 1936; as lister from1909 to 1936; as trustee of public fundsfrom 1924 to 1936; as justice of the peacefrom 1925 to 1931; as town auditor, oneterm; as secretary and treasurer of theBethel Public Library from 1904 to 1936; asclerk of the Bethel Fire District from 1892to 1936; as a member of the committee ofthe Whitcomb High School District, twoterms, as clerk of the High School District,1905-1936; as trustee of the WhitcombFund, 1926-1936.

"The town of Bethel was his life, and noman can love a town more. He kneiv thephysical contour of every foot of ground inthe town. He walked around the wholetown line and encouraged boys of Bethelto go with, him. They accompanied him onthese expeditions until they, had to dropout through fatigue. No hill was too steepfor him; no cliff too precipitous. When hewas following the line, the line was thething, and everything else incident to it.He was never tired of recounting the history of the people, the land, and buildingsthereon. One felt very truly the map ofBethel was engraved upon his heart.

"Mr. Wilson was treasurer of the BethelCooperative Creamery from its beginningin 1922 until his death. He also served astreasurer for several local business andtrade organizations. He was secretary ofthe Windsor county board of underwriters.From 1889 until 1936 he was local editor ofthe Bethel Courier.

"He was a communicant of Christ church,Bethel, and acted as parish treasurer andclerk and vestryman for the past forty-eightyears. For many years he was lay reader. Hewas a member of the board of trustees ofthe Episcopal diocese of Vermont from1921 to 1935, acting as secretary of theboard for six years. For many years he wasin charge of the church lands for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

"He is survived by three children: Mrs.Robert E. Bundy of Bethel, who cared forhim in recent years; Paul F. Wilson, a veteran of the World War, now living in Wellesley, Mass.; and Dr. Harold F. Wilson,now instructor in the State Normal schoolat Glassboro, N. J. Three grandchildrenalso survive, Herbert Joslin Wilson of Wellesley, Doris Wilson Bundy of Bethel, andBarbara Anne Wilson of Pitman, N. J. Fivebrothers and sisters also survive him: JohnJ. Wilson of Bethel, Rev. Robert C. Wilsonof Windsor, Rev. Charles C. Wilson of Cohasset, Mass., Maj. James H. Wilson o.f theCitadel, Charleston, S. C., Joseph F. Wilsonof Montpelier, Mrs. Christopher Riley ofSchenectady, N. Y., Miss Susan E. Wilson ofBoston, Mrs. John H. Taylor of Westwood,Mass., Miss Amy Wilson and Mrs. GeorgeHatnel of Bethel.

"The funeral was held at Christ church,Bethel yesterday afternoon, March 4, whenthe church was filled with friends and relatives gathered to pay a final tribute. Interment was at the Old Church Cemetery,where he will rest with several generationsof his family. Bishop-elect Vedder VanDyckof Burlington read the committal service.

"Mr. Wilson was buried near the spotwhere tradition has it the first explorerscamped and gave to the place the name'Bethel.' He took great pride in the preservation of the Old Church and churchyard.For him the place was always full of anabiding peace and was to him a source ofstrength. When at the annual services ofthe Old Church he joined in singing, 'OhGod, Our Help in Ages Past," there was thesame quiet happiness in his face whichcame when on a hill top he would lookback across long ranges. He joins the generations of which he felt a part."

Class of 1890

ELIJAH PORTER BARROWS perished with his wife in the destruction of their house by fire at East Falmouth, Mass., January 25, 1936. (For particulars of the tragic event see the class notes in the March number and also in the present number.)

The son of Dr. Nathan and Susan (Haines) Barrows, he was born in Sand- wich, Mass., February 23, 1865. His father taught for a long period at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., where Porter prepared for the Chandler School, and then at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. A member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi), he remained with the class for the first three years of the course.

Returning to Florida, he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. He soon came back North, and worked at his trade in Brockton, Mass. Later he was employed at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, and removed to that place. About 1914 he began to teach wood-working in the Quincy Trade School, and later became headmaster of the school, continuing to hold that position until June, 1934. A few years before he had built a camp in Falmouth, and he and his family spent their summers there. In the fall of 1934 he built a house near the camp, and this was the scene of his death.

He was married in Florida, and his wife died soon after they settled in Brockton. A second marriage in October, 1900, was to Elsie, daughter of Henry W. and Elvira (Nickerson) Jenkins of East Falmouth. Three children survive their parents, Robert A., a teacher of mathematics in Middle- town, Conn., Janette E., a teacher in Quincy, and Bertram W., a chemist employed in a paper mill at Rumford, Me.

Class of 1899

At the foot of a huge boulder facing toward the east, guarded by a Joshua tree, in the Morongo Valley Desert, California, the ashes of ERNEST ARTHUR ABBOTT (Randolph Rab) were buried on February 7, 1936. He died in Banning, Calif., October a25, 1935, after a long illness. The time, place, and manner of his burial were all arranged by him and carried out by his faithful wife just as he had planned it. Al- ready friends have begun to lay memory stones at the foot of the boulder in the desert chosen by this sturdy son of Vermont and Dartmouth as his final resting place. Ernest A. Abbott was born in Randolph, Vt., January si, 1877. He entered Dartmouth with a large delegation of Randolph boys: Dußois, Cushman, Woodward, Speare, and Ford, all of the class of 1899. Ernest was promptly nicknamed "Randolph Rab."

After graduation he entered the employ of the Vermont Marble Co. at Rutland, and before the end of his first year was transferred to its Chicago office, of which he later became the head. In 1906 he went to San Francisco, where he engaged in the real estate business, in which he was active in the general fields of suburban developments, farmlands, mortgages, and the financing of real estate operations. Later he was connected with the Federal Land Bank of Berkeley, Calif., an appraiser, and during the World War was a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board in Washington, D. C. Returning to California in 1923, this time to Los Angeles, he was active for ten years in the general real estate business.

In 1933 he was afflicted with a serious throat ailment which compelled his retirement from business. He moved to the Morongo Valley Desert, where he made a partial recovery. Early in 1935 he tried to resume his business life, but his strength was not equal to the task.

He was married February 7, 1914, in San Francisco to Aldorf C. Halsey of Chicago who survives him.

Throughout his life he was a great worker, alert and resourceful; an enthusiastic and loyal son of Dartmouth; a typical New Englander, whose transplanted energies helped materially in the building of the Far West.

Class of 1911

RALPH DEANE MURCHIE died at the home of his parents in Calais, Maine, on March 1, 1936.

Deane was born at Calais on October 24, 1889, and the son of Henry S. and Harriet H. (Caldwell) Murchie, and attended the public schools there before coming to Dartmouth, where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree with his class. In college he was a member of the Press Club and of TheDartmouth board.

From childhood Deane was a sufferer from a severe form of asthma, which was a handicap, and caused him all his life to try to find a location where he could live as comfortably as possible. He was in newspaper work ever since he left college. His first assignment was with the Springfield Republican, in Springfield, Mass., followed by four years in Meriden, Conn. Then he went West, and was employed on papers in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Bisbee, Arizona, and El Paso, Texas. After fourteen years his doctor ordered him East again, where he was with a Newark paper and finally with the Boston Herald. Five years ago he found it necessary to give up work completely, and ever since he has been with his parents in Calais. Besides his parents he leaves a brother, Harris of Jacksonville, Fla. (Dartmouth 1916).

Deane was always a very plucky chap in spite of his handicap, and made a plucky fight to the end. When his death really came it was a merciful release from his great sufferings, as he had no chance to get any better.

The last letter from Deane, which was received about a month ago, said that he hoped to be able to return for our Twenty- fifth Reunion.

Class of 1913

FREDERICK DAVIS DAY died suddenly in a hotel while on a business trip to Philadelphia, February 7, 1936.

Fred was born in Nashua, N. H., May 21, 1891, the son of Charles M. and Eliza- beth May (Bancroft) Day, and came to college from Manchester, N. H. He was active in college affairs, being a member of his class football team and of the Dramatic Club. His fraternity was Beta Theta PiImmediately after graduation he entered the employ of the New York Life Insurance Co. in their Albany office, where he remained through 1915. February 14, 1916, he married Alice L. Brennock, sister of Rev. Thomas L. Brennock '12, and entered the advertising business in New York. In igiy he took a responsible position with the Cosmopolitan in New York. In 1919 he became assistant sales manager with Clifford & Lawton, Inc., of New York, publishers of trade publications, in their advertising department, which position he left in 1935 and joined the advertising department of the American Druggist.

Mrs. Day survives him, with six children, Frederick D. Jr. (for two years a member of the class of '37), Joan, Priscilla, Patience, Abbyann, and Tom. Funeral services were held from his home in Westwood, N. J.

Fred Day was ever an example of a loyal Dartmouth man, a regular attendant at class reunions and gatherings, and a faithful subscriber to Dartmouth appeals. His loss is a great one both to the College and to his class.

Class of 1921

JOHN PERRY MITCHELL JR. died at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, February 24, 1936, following an abdominal operation. Since July 1, 1934, he had been assistant director of education on the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a brilliant career in his chosen field was cut short by his passing.

John Perry was born in Sterling, Mass., March 30, 1899, the son of John Perry and Jennie (Burgess) Mitchell. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Leominster, Mass., High School, entering college with the. class in the fall of 1917. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and also of Phi Beta Kappa, having shown throughout his career as an undergraduate the outstanding qualities of mind which characterized his later career. He received his B. A summa cum laude. The following year he received his Master of Arts degree in economics at the Harvard Graduate School, and he remained at Harvard until 1924 as an instructor in economics.

In the fall of that year he became assistant professor of economics at the University of Michigan, and in 1925 he was appointed secretary of the University of Michigan School of Business. For the next four years he held both of these positions. In 1929 he returned to the Harvard faculty, becoming an assistant professor of business economics at the Graduate School of Business Administration. He remained at Cambridge until he became connected with the Rocke- feller Foundation in 1934. During the period of his connection with that organization his work was particularly concerned with the progress of the board in general education in the field of social sciences.

On June 21, 1930, John Perry married Miss Lucy G. Clark of Ithaca, N. Y., a graduate of Simmons College in the class of 1922, who survives him. Last September he and Lucy had adopted an infant boy named Jonathan. In New York his home was at 400 East 52d St.

Service was held at the Riverside church in New York City on February 26, and also at the Federated church in Sterling the next day. Interment was in Sterling. Quiet and reserved by nature, John Perry made many warm friends during his four years in Hanover by the warmth and sincerity of his character, and in the years since graduation he had won the admiration and respect of the whole class by. his achievements in education. By his passing both the College and the class lose one of their truly distinguished members.

Medical School

Class of 1896

DR. THOMAS BERNARD MCQUAID died at the Webster (Mass.) District Hospital September 19, 1935, of pneumonia. He was born in Webster November 27, 1863, the son of Thomas McQuaid. He prepared for college at Webster High School, and graduated from Holy Cross College is 1885. His history from this time until his coming to Dartmouth for medical lectures in the summer of 1894 has not been ascertained. He attended two courses of lectures at Dartmouth.

He practiced for many years in Everett, Mass., and was visiting relatives in Webster when taken with his fatal illness. He was a member of the Everett board of health and on the staff of Whidden Memorial Hospital.