Deaths

[ A listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past month. Full notices may appearin this issue or may appear in a later number.]

WENTWORTH, RUSSELL A., '79, Batavia, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1937. NORRIS, FRANK B„ '83, Pittsburg, Calif., Dec. 22, 1936. BARTLETT, REV. SAMUEL C„ '87, Norwich, Vt., Feb. 1, 1937. MASON, THOMAS A., '01, Feb. 13, 1937. GRAY, CLARENCE T„ '06, Ridgewood, N. J., Jan. 31, 1937. MCEWEN, HARVEY A., '17, Wellsville, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1937. BAER, THADDEUS E., '18, Elsmere, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1937. Ross, HAROLD K., '18, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1937. DOLD, RICHARD C., '28, Wichita, Kans., Dec. 5, 1936. WALKER, DR. CHARLES S., med. '01, Jan. 19. 1937.

ALUMNI NOTES

Necrology

Class of 1881

In the early afternoon of the twentieth of January, during a temporary lull in the reports of the inauguration, there flashed over the radio the news of the death of DR. EDWARD HENRY TROWBRIDGE. He died after a brief illness, as the result of an infection, at the Harvard Hospital in Worcester, Mass. The funeral was Saturday afternoon, the twenty-third, attended by his pastor, Rev. Paul G. Macy. Adams and Castle of the class were present, the former speaking in tribute to one who was not only his classmate, but also his roommate during two college years.

He was born at Portland, Me., October 1, 1856, being the son of William S. and Elizabeth (Tukey) Trowbridge. He fitted for college in the Portland High School, and then began the study of law. Not being satisfied with this profession, he became a member of the class of 1881 at Dartmouth, being with us the whole four years. He was a faithful and good student, making Phi Beta Kappa and being a Commencement speaker. His fraternity was the Alpha Delta Phi.

His three years of medical study were divided between the Portland and Maine medical schools, his degree being granted by the latter. He then spent a year as house physician and surgeon in the Maine General Hospital at Portland. He then, in 1885, began the practice of medicine in Worcester, continuing there in active practice until about a week before his death. His specialty was surgery, in which department he ranked very high. He was for years a senior surgeon in the Worcester City Hospital, and during his later years surgeon-in-chief of the Harvard Private Hospital. For twenty-five years he was a member of the city board of health, most °f the time as chairman. For three years he was a member of the school board. He was a member of many medical societies and of various clubs, also of the Masonic body. His church affiliations were with the Piedmont, later by merger the Chestnut St., Congregational church.

He was not satisfied with reading and practice only, in his medical career, but made at least five trips to Europe for additional medical study.

Trowbridge was a peculiarly enthusiastic and interested Dartmouth man. For six years he was a member of the Alumni Council. The success of our class reunions was due to him more than any other member of the class. He was president of the class, also class agent. Many times he served for Adams as proxy at the meetings of the class secretaries. We shall miss him.

He married Carrie Louise Parker of Framingham, Sept. 5, 1888. Surviving him are Mrs. Trowbridge, his son Parker (Dartmouth 1913), his daughters, Mrs. Gladys Isabelle Coolidge and Miss Louise Trow- bridge, and five grandchildren, Anthony Dyke Trowbridge, Jean Parker Trow- bridge, Nancy Trowbridge, Rosamond Coolidge, and Louise Coolidge.

Class of 1883

The following report on Frank B. Norris, who died at Pittsburg, Calif., December 22 last, is furnished by his surviving widow:—

FRANK BROWN NORRIS was born at Centerville, Calif., August 8, 186O. While still a young child, his parents moved to the state of Montana, where they were among the early pioneers.

He first attended local schools, then was sent to a preparatory school in Ohio and later to Dartmouth College, where he spent two years. He attended a medical school one year, and later studied dentistry in St. Paul, Minn., concluding his studies at the Chicago School of Dental Surgery. During the next twenty-five years he engaged in the practice of dentistry at his home in Helena, Montana.

He attended more or less regularly a Protestant church until he became interested in Christian Science. Then he embraced the Science of Christianity, as he so often spoke of it, realizing the almighti- ness of God and the power of His laws. All else was given up and he engaged in the healing work as his profession.

In 1909 he moved to Oakland, Calif., where he married Miss Augusta Cole of San Francisco. Both Mr. and Mrs. Norris have been active in church work, serving as readers and holding different offices as well as attending to the practice of his profession.

Mr. Norris retired from active practice several years ago, and the family has resided at Pittsburg for the past four years. He is survived by Mrs. Norris and a son, Frank Cole Norris, who is employed in the Columbia Steel Mills in Pittsburg, as an analyst.

Among his last words were those which expressed his firm faith in and understanding of, even in the face of the "last enemy," the principle and laws of that Life Eternal.

Class of 1887

From the Hanover Gazette is taken the following obituary notice of Dr. Samuel C. Bartlett, written by Dr. Ambrose W. Vernon.

We have to record the death of one of Dartmouth's most distinguished alumni, whom she recently honored with the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and who only last year came from Japan to live among us.

SAMUEL COLCORD BARTLETT, born in Chicago in 1865, was the son of President Bartlett and graduated from the College in the class of 1887 as the salutatorian of his class summa cum laude. Immediately after graduation he sailed for what proved to be his first term of service in Japan. His health but not his spirit breaking, he sailed for home around Cape Horn as the single passenger on the full-rigger Wm. G.Davis, and disembarked at Portland, Me. While in the process of recuperation he assisted his brother, Prof. Edwin J. Bartlett, in the chemistry laboratory, and taught chemistry for a year in the high school at Nashua. He then went to Andover Theological Seminary, from which he graduated with distinction in 1894. He thereupon was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational churches, and entered upon lifelong joy as he married Miss Fanny Gordon on July 11 of that year. They immediately sailed for Japan, where his wife had been born. After a labor of the deepest success in Tottori for ten years, he came with Mrs. Bartlett and his children to his beloved Hanover for his furlough.

He and his family returned to Northern Japan, and preached and lived the gospel in the large and difficult city of Otaru from 1905 to 1912. Then there followed a twelve- year term of service in America for the sake of his children. He worked in the pastorates of Harvard church, Brookline, of Colrain, Mass., and of Peacedale, R. I. Then came two periods of notable service in the Doshisha University at Kyoto, where he was chaplain and Mrs. Bartlett dean of women—the first American to serve in that post. In 1936 he and Mrs. Bartlett said farewell to Japan, where the University made him emeritus professor of practical theology—a rare honor in Japan—and where a vast crowd followed them to the station to give them their last proof of their affection. Last September he purchased a house in Norwich, Vt., a community of which he was very fond, and now he is gone.

Mr. Bartlett was a charter member of Casque and Gauntlet and a member of Alpha Delta Phi. While of high distinction in scholarship, he took great interest in athletics. He had both a brilliant and a subtle mind, but his proudest distinction lay in the fact that "common people heard him gladly."

He is survived by Mrs. Bartlett, by his daughter Agnes, a student in the Yale Medical School, and by three sons, Samuel Colcord of Brookline, Robert of White Plains, and Donald, professor of biography at Dartmouth. A son, Gordon, has his name inscribed on the walls of the Memorial Stadium.

A simple service was held at his home in Norwich, Vt., on Wednesday, February 3.

Class of 1891

HERBERT ARTHUR BLAKE, who passed away in Gloversville, N. Y., July 30, 1936, was born in Troy, N. H., November 20, 1869, the son of Samuel A. and Lizzie C. (Dickerman) Blake. He fitted for college at the Middleboro (Mass.) High School, entering Dartmouth with the class of 1890. An unfortunate accident necessitated the amputation of a leg, and he was unable to complete the freshman year and later became a member of the class of '91. Blake was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and in junior year represented that society as an editor of the Aegis. His scholastic standing was excellent, and he made Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he taught in Rhode Island for several years, studied law and was admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1901, practicing in that state for five years. In 1911 Blake was admitted to the Massachusetts bar from West Medway, Mass., and practiced for several years in that vicinity. Later he removed to New York and became an accountant for the Vogue Glove Company in Gloversville, N. Y. September 10, 1910, he was married to Hattie A. Gay, who survives him.

Last June a letter received from Blake regretted his inability to attend the reunion, but in no way intimated that his health was impaired.

Class of 1895

The death of WESLEY ALVAH O'LEARY, a distinguished member of the class of 1895, was chronicled in the Marlboro (Mass.) Enterprise-Liberty of February 1 as follows:

"Wesley Alvah O'Leary, 63 years old, of Elizabeth, N. J., brother of James E. O'Leary of Southboro, died at his home, January 28,-of a heart ailment. He had been ill for ten days. He is survived in Elizabeth by his wife, Mrs. Iris Prouty O'Leary, an assistant in charge of women's vocational work in the vocational education division of the state of New Jersey. Mr. O'Leary has been assistant state commissioner of education in charge of vocational and continuation schools since 1917, and a nationally known authority on vocational education.

"Mr. O'Leary was born in Southboro on September is, 1873, the son of the late James Otis O'Leary and Amy Amelia O'Leary. He had attended the Southboro public schools, and his first teaching experience was gained in Southboro from 1896 to 1897 in the public schools, and then in St. Mark's private school from 1897 to 1898; next he taught in the public schools in Portsmouth, N. H., from 1898 to 1904.

"In 1904 he went to New Bedford, where he was principal of a school for American- ization and later organized and was the first principal of the vocational school in that city. This was the first all-day vocational school organized as a part of a public school system in the United States.

"In 1913, Mr. O'Leary went to Brooklyn, N. Y., to organize and conduct vocational teaching training classes at Pratt Institute. He remained there two years. While he was at Pratt Institute he married Miss Iris Prouty of Spencer, Mass., on July 6, 1914.

"Although he continued as a member of the faculty of Pratt Institute, Mr. O'Leary was appointed as the first director of the Essex County, N. J., Vocational School Board in 1924. He organized the all-day vocational, part time, and evening classes in that county during the next three years.

"When the United States entered the World War, Mr. O'Leary was one of the first school men to be called by the United States for special war service. He was assigned to Rock Island Arsenal to organize and also conduct the training course for 2000 inspectors of equipment and material for the Ordnance Department.

"By 1917 Mr. O'Leary's work with the Essex county vocational schools had brought him a nation-wide reputation as a leader in his field, and the late Dr. Calvin N. Kendall, then state commissioner of education of New Jersey, appointed him as an assistant commissioner.

"During summer vacation periods he attended Harvard and Clark Universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1912 was awarded a Doctor- ate in Science of Industrial Education by Stout Institute.

"Mr. O'Leary was a former president of the American Vocational Association, and at one time member of the Hoover Commission for Vocational Education, member of the National Advisory Committee on Education, the National Education Association, American Vocational Association, Sigma Chi fraternity, and St. John's Lodge No. 1, A. F. & A. M. of Portsmouth, N. H.

"Mr. O'Leary's death immediately brought forth expressions of high regard for his ability as an educator from his associates in the state Department of Public Education.

"Dr. Charles H. Elliott, state commissioner of education, paid him the following tribute:

" 'The death of Mr. O'Leary is a staggering loss to the Department of Public Instruction. He was one of the best known experts on vocational education in this country. For twenty-two years he has been developing a program of vocational education in New Jersey. Twenty of those years he spent in the state department.

" 'He was a man of the finest character, one who was highly respected by his colleagues for his fine scholarship, his devotion to duty, and his thoughtfulness for others.

" 'Mr. O'Leary has earned national recognition for his distinguished work in New Jersey and to him belongs the credit for many of the outstanding things that have been accomplished in the field in his department.

" 'I feel that his death is a great loss to the educational profession and it will be most difficult to find his successor.' "

Class of 1906

CLARENCE TEBBETS GRAY died at his home, 491 Overbrook Road, Ridgewood, N. J., on Sunday, January 31, 1937. Al- though he had not been in good health for many months, he was confined to his bed for only two weeks before the end. Funeral services were held on Tuesday evening, February 2,. with private interment on the following day.

"Tubby," as he was affectionately known to all of us, was born at Ayer, Mass., October 24, 1882, the son of James R. and Myra H. (Thrasher) Gray. He grew up in Newport, Vt., preparing for college at the high school there and at Wil' liston Academy.

As an undergraduate he quickly became one of the best-liked men in the class, his cheery ways and genuine kindliness to everyone readily winning and keeping friends. He was a member of our Junior Prom Committee and the leader of the Mandolin Club in our senior year. He belonged to Psi Upsilon, Turtle, and Casque and Gauntlet.

He was graduated with the B. S. degree, and at once entered the insurance business, in which he had an eminently successful career. For a time he was with the American Bonding Company in Denver, then became connected with the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company of Cleve- land, and later for a brief period with the Republic Casualty Company of Pittsburgh. In November, 1916, he came to New York as vice-presiderit of Fester and Folsom, Inc., who were then the United States managers of the European General Reinsurance Company, Limited, of London. When the European General established its own offices in New York, Tubby became their assistant United States manager, a position which he held until his death.

He was married September 28, 1915, to Christene Billinghurst of Cleveland, who survives him, with their only son, Thrasher Thompson Gray, now a sophomore at Lehigh University. He leaves also two brothers and a sister, besides numerous more distant relatives. Henry R. Buck '35 and James G. Buck '40 are nephews. Tubby's home life was ideally happy, and gave him scope for his hobbies of gardening, golf, restoring antique furniture, and collecting Staffordshire china.

Our class will deeply miss Tubby. His loyalty to the college and the class was unbounded. He gave liberally to the Alumni Fund, and he stood ready on all occasions to serve in whatever capacity he could. For the last ten years he had been the member at large of the executive committee of the class, and as such had been most help- ful in planning and carrying out our re- unions. But above and beyond all these ex- ternal ways of service towered Tubby's real love for Dartmouth and genuine interest in the welfare of his friends. The memory he leaves in the hearts of all who knew him is a monument fairer than any that could be carved in stone.

Class of 1913

THOMAS JAMES SCULLY died at his home, 55 South Park St., Montclair, N. J., on January 29, 1937, after a long illness.

Tom Scully was born on June 4, 1889, in Dußois, Pa., the son of Helen F. and Henry S. Scully, and prepared for Dartmouth at Erasmus Hall High School. He entered with the class of 1913, but left college at the end of his junior year and became president and general manager of the Olean Engineering and Construction Co. of Olean, N. Y. He served with the Ist Cavalry on the Mexican border. In 1914, he went with the J. H. Havens Contracting Co., where he remained until he enlisted in May, 1917, at the R. O. T. C. at Plattsburg. He was commissioned captain of engineers, in August, 1917. He served as company commander at Yap Hank, L. 1., Washington Barracks, Camp Forrest, Ga., and Camp Custer, Mich., where he was discharged. While in service, he was married on December 12, 1917. A daughter was born in 1920.

After the war, he became associated with the Foundation Company, and built pipe lines for the Mexican Petroleum Co. in Mexico, and then for the Foundation Company went to Brazil and Peru. In 1922 he returned to the United States and was at Madison, Me., for this same company. His second marriage was to Miss Alice Brainard of Glen Ridge, N. J., on December 8, 1922, and a daughter was born in 1925.

From Madison he went to Venezuela, and later returned to New Jersey and became Thomas J. Scully, Inc., engineers and contractors, at Belleville, N. J. He built the Ruppert Stadium for the Newark Baseball Club and the Newark Schools Stadium. He was also contractor for Temple B'Nai Abraham at Newark.

Tom was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. His mother and a brother, Henry J. Scullv, live in Montclair.

Class of 1917

HARVEY ALGER MCEWEN died suddenly at his home in Wellsville, N. Y., on the night of January 10, 1937.

He was born in Wellsville, July 30, 1894, the son of John and Emma McEwen, and prepared for college at Wellsville High School and Phillips Exeter Academy.

December 11, 1917, he enlisted in the Navy, with rank of seaman, second class. He was stationed at Bumkin Island for two months and at Commonwealth Pier for three months. In August, 1918, he was transferred to Portsmouth Navy Yard, where he was discharged December 11, 19x8, with rank of yeoman, first class.

Since that time little is known about his history, except that he was in business at Wellsville as treasurer of McEwen Brothers.

Medical School

Class of 1901

DR. CHARLES SIDNEY WALKER died at the Elliot Community Hospital, Keene, N. H., January 20, 1937, of pneumonia, after a short illness.

The son of Charles L. and Sarah (Harmon) Walker, he was born in Harrison, Me., August 24, 1870. After graduating from Lewiston High School in 1891 he took a course in nurse's training, and worked for a time at that calling.

After completing his medical course he was for two years on the staff of the New Hampshire State Hospital for the Insane, and then in 1903 began practice in Keene, where he remained for the rest of his life. At the time of his death he was city physician and president of the staff of the hospital in which he died.

He had a long and active military record. In 1911 he joined the New Hampshire National Guard as medical lieutenant, and was advanced to captain in 1914. In that capacity he went to the Mexican border in 1916 with the First New Hampshire regiment. In June, 1917, he entered the Medical Corps, U. S. A., and was sent to Fort Oglethorpe. In September he was transferred to Camp Bartlett, and almost immediately was sent overseas, becoming a major in the medical unit of the 103d Infantry of the s6th Division. In May, 1918, he was made commanding officer of the medical units of the division, and was mustered out in April, 1919.

He was a member and past president of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and a member of the New Hampshire Surgical Club and the American Medical Association. He was a past commander of the New Hampshire Department of the American Legion, and a Mason of high degree. He had been president of the Cheshire County Dartmouth Alumni Association, of which he was one of the most enthusiastic members.

April 6, 1907, Dr. Walker was married to Adele T. Taylor of Chelmsford, Mass., who died November 21 last. They had no children.