Student Deaths

Four undergraduates of the College met death by accident during the summer, three in automobile smash-ups and one by drowning. Those killed were P. E. Gordon Clark '39, of Westfield, Mass., brother of William B. Clark '35 and a leading member of the varsity football team; John H. Vaughan '39, of Belmont, Mass.; Elmer D. Hays Jr. '4O, of Chevy Chase, Md.; and James R. Leech Jr. '4O, of Washington, D. C.

Clark was fatally injured in an automobile accident which occurred in Edgecomb, Me., on August 30. He was returning from a baseball game near Edgecomb to the summer camp where he was counsellor at Wiscasset, Me., when the car driven by a fellow counsellor left the highway in a heavy fog and crashed into a tree. Clark had won his letter as halfback on the varsity football team last fall and was captain of the 1939 freshman eleven. He was also ah outstanding member of the hockey and baseball teams, and had been a leader in his class ever since he entered Dartmouth from Exeter. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Green Key.

Vaughan was drowned on September 9 when he attempted to save two small boys whose canoe overturned on Baker's Pond, 15 miles north of Bingham, Me. The son of Massachusetts State Representative John W. Vaughan, he had entered Dartmouth from Browne and Nichols, where in 1935 he was awarded the Nichols Prize for highest distinction in scholarship and athletics. He was a member of the Dartmouth football squad and of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.

Hays and Leech were both killed on September 2 while returning to Hanover with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer D. Hays, parents of young Hays, who were also killed when their car crashed head-on with a Washing-ton-bound bus on the highway between Baltimore and Washington. Hays and Leech, both 18, were returning to college early to wait on the football training table at the Smalley Club. Leech was a member of the athletic managerial competition.