Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been received during the summer. Full notices may appear inthis issue or may appear in a later number.]
Stephens, James M., '72. Swazey, Albert C., '73, May 2. Plimpton, Herbert F., '74, Oct. 9, 1936. Forrest, William S., '75, July 15. Chapin, Franklin M., '77, Aug. 1. Field, Brayton A., '78. King, Charles F., '81, July 1. Rogers, John W„ '83, June 27. White, George 8., '83, Mar. 5. Pearson, Fisher H., '88, Aug. 5. Goodwin, Harry 8., '91, Jan. 19, 1931. Wright, Flam R., '93, Aug. 23. Hardy, Ashley K., '94, July 29. Jones, Matt 8., '94, July 1. Rossiter, Charles T., '94, June 20. Bacon, Theodore H., '97, July 29. Pillsbury, Charles H., '97, Mar. 23. Hodgkins, Willis 8., '99, Aug. 27. Jordan, Wesley W., '99, July 1. McCarten, James E., '01, June 25. Lamprey, David C., '02, June 27. Fitts, Harry W., '03, June 20. Griffin, James T., '06, June 26. Hopkins, Louis B„ '08, Aug. 10. Speare, Alden T., '08, Sept. 9. Moffatt, Robert G., '11. Hedlund, Mauritz, '12, July 6. Moyer, Paul S., '12, July 16. Kelly, Russell M., '15, Aug. 28. Bailey, James M., '19, July 23. Hawks, Horace G., '19, July 8. Bartlett, Richard L., '20, Aug. 29. Coffin, Charles C., '23, June 13. Van Orden, Harold U., '23, Jan. 22, 1926. O'Connell, Joseph P., '35, Sept. 1.
Bailey, Bernard A., med. '90, July 18. Cochran, John C., med. '90, July 18. Beaton, Alexander A., med. '98, Aug. 21. Schereschewsky, Joseph W., med. '99, July 9- Bartlett, Walter A., med. '11, Aug. 12. White, True W., hon. '90, Feb. 14. Wambaugh, Eugene, hon. '08, Aug. 6. Joshi, Samuel L., hon. '27, June 10.
Necrology
1875
WILLIAM SYLVESTER FORREST, the oldest alumnus in the Chicago district, died at his home at Highland Park, 111., July 15, 1940.
He was born in Baltimore, Md„ July 9, 1852. During his youth he witnessed many of the events which have become of significant historical importance, among these the great Chicago fire and the field of the battle of Gettysburg the day after the battle. At the age of 16 he taught school in Mississippi and otherwise worked to provide funds for his education. He entered Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year from Beloit College. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.
After graduation he became submaster of the high school in Somerville, Mass., studying law at the same time in the office of a Boston attorney. In 1878 he began practice in Chicago, and continued there through his active life, winning national prominence in his profession. He served as counsel in many celebrated cases, and for one period of twenty years he did not lose a single case.
April 17, 1879, he was married to Elizabeth Whitney of Chicago, who died in February, 1895. A second marriage, July 9, 1896, was to Emily Kimball of Kenosha, Wis., who survives him. Two daughters and four sons survive their father, two of the latter being Maulsby (Dartmouth 1919) and William S. Jr., who was in Dartmouth '26 for a part of the course.
1880
WARREN CONVERSE FRENCH died at Brattleboro, Vt., April 11, 1940.
In November 1938, he suffered a very severe stroke, which left him bedridden and completely helpless. His condition remained unchanged until he died very peacefully in his sleep and was buried in the family lot in Woodstock, Vt. He retired from the practice of the law in 1933 and returned to Woodstock to live.
He was born in Woodstock, Vt., June 3, 1859, and was a son of Warren Converse and Sarah (Steele) French. He prepared for college at the Woodstock High School, supplemented by outside study with William S. Dana, Dartmouth 1871. His fraternities were Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
He was a Republican in politics, Congregationalist in religion, and his principal recreation was golf.
September 26, 1894, he was married in Walpole, N. H., to Ethel G. Hosmer of New York, N. Y. He has one daughter, Ellen Hosmer French, born October 25, 1899, who is married to Lt. Delamer L. Jones, a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy in the class of 1921.
After graduation he studied law in his father's office in Woodstock, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1883. In the fall of 1883 he went to Hoi yoke, Mass., and remained there about a year in law practice. He then went West, and after traveling about somewhat, settled in Des Moines, lowa, in the fall of 1884, and remained there about a year, still in practice. In the late summer of 1885, he returned East and settled in New York City, and for many years was engaged in the practice of the law in that city.
He was a member of the Manhattan Congregational church, having been a charter member of said church, which was established in 1896. He had been clerk of the church for over twenty years and for many years a member of the board of trustees.
Since graduation, he did not fail to spend part of the summer in each year at his old home in Woodstock. He was a member of the American, New York State, and New York City Bar Associations.
He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of New York, 22d As- sembly District Republican Club of New York, Republican County Committee, Washington Heights Taxpayers Association, Psi Upsilon Club of New York, Society of Medical Jurisprudence, Scarsdale Golf Club and also Woodstock (Vt.) Country Club.
1888
FISHER HILDRETH PEARSON died August 5, 1940, at his home in Lowell, Mass. He left us at the end of sophomore year and took up the study of law in the office of his uncle, Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, took his degree from the Boston University Law School in 1889, was admitted to the bar, and opened his own law office, where he practiced for more than fifty years.
We all recall his early ability to ask searching questions but his reluctance to express his own opinion until he had all the facts. A Democrat, but not a New Dealer, he naturally took a keen interest in civic and political affairs, and served at various times as chairman of the Democratic city committee, state senator, delegate to national convention in 1896, police commissioner from 1901 to 1905, member of the board of health. A busy and useful life for one actively engaged in the practice of law. He had an inquiring mind, which led him to a deep study of the origin and principles of the law. In later life the same marked interest in research made him the recognized storehouse on all matters of local history. He was a member of St. Anne's Episcopal church.
He was born in Lowell, November 29, 1866, the son of George H. and Laura (Hildreth) Pearson. His mother was a sister of Mrs. B. F. Butler. In December 1896 he was married to Miss Lalla Mead of Louisville, Ky., a descendant of the early Massachusetts Saltonstalls. She died May 1, 1940. He leaves a brother, Gen. Gardner W. Pearson of Lowell, and three children, Mrs. Laura Pearson Pratt of Lowell, Lt. Commander Mead Saltonstall Pearson, U.S.N., and Fisher H. Pearson Jr. of Lowell. There are seven grandchildren.
While Pearson did not stay to graduate with our class, he was given a degree in 1908 because of his accomplishments.
1893
HUBERT EUSTACE SMITH died June 2, 1940 at Kingman, Arizona, where he was interested in mining, being associated with the Paymaster Mine.
He was born July 16, 1869, in Braintree, Vt.., and prepared for Dartmouth at Randolph High School. He entered the Chandler Scietr. tific Department in the fall of '89 and was with the class of '93 during its freshman yeat
He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, and al though of reserved manner he was immediately popular. Upon leaving college he en tered upon a business career which eventually took him to the Pacific Coast and later t0 Arizona. In 1903 he married Nettie May Griffin of Mason City, lowa, who survives him.
Willis Tucker Sparhawk '93, writing 0f Smith, says: "He was a schoolmate at the old Randolph High School when A. J. Whitehill '83 was principal. Hubert was a shy man, like. able and with genuine talent—a hard worker —a mathematician—and a firm friend."
DR. ELAM RUST WRIGHT, who was born August 31, 1866, in Lunenburg, Vt„ the son of William Harrison and Harriet (Cummings) Wright, died suddenly, August a3, 1940, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Warren Gee, ail Ridgewood, N. J.
He prepared for Dartmouth College at Gil manton (N. H.) Academy. From Dartmouth he received his bachelor's degree with the class of 1893 and his Master's and Doctor of Medicine degrees in 1896. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and interested in all college and class activities.
After doing postgraduate work and serving his internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Wright settled in Alton, N. H. where, during more than 40 years, he served his neighbors not only as their physician but also as town official, interested in many civic matters. He established a lyceum course-an insurance agency, and was for 40 years a coe respondent for the Manchester Union-Lead-- He was an ardent Republican, an active Con gregationalist, and member of the N. H. Medical Society.
In 1902 he was married to Anna C. Murray, who died in 1932. Later he married MB. Minnie Prescott, who passed away in Mai 1939. He is survived by two children, Muni J. Wright, Dartmouth '26, principal ol Nashua, N. H., Junior High School; Mrs. War ren Gee; two grandchildren: and a sister, Miss Rosamond Wright of Cambridge, Mass.
Dr. Wright was a man o£ high ideals. At college he was serious, earnest and studious, and all during the many years which he served his community he carried these traits with him, with the result that he was held in the vert highest esteem by all who knew him or cam in contact with him. The class of '93 loses! loyal member and its members a sincere friend.
1894
Following closely on the death of Man Jones, the class of '94 suffered a second stagger ing blow in the death of PROFESSOR ASHLEY KINGSLEY HARDY, which occurred at Hanover. July 29, after a brief illness ensuing on an attack of coronary thrombosis. Professor Hardy was within a year of his retirement age. The funeral was held at his late home, 4 Clemen' Road in Hanover. Classmates present at the services were Chief Justice John Eliot Allen of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who served as one of the bearers, Henry N. Hurd and Don Colby. Burial was in the Dartmouth Cemetery at Hanover.
Within the class of '94 Hardy was always a leading scholar, and at its graduation he gave the salutatory address. He became '94's only representative on the Dartmouth faculty, comin a to the College first as an instructor in German and Old English in 1897, after pursuing an intensive preparation in the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig in Germany. He woft his Ph.D. at Leipzig in 1899. Dartmouth made him an assistant professor in 1902, an associate
professor in 1915, and awarded him a full professorship in 1917. He was widely known outside the College as a scholarly editor and annotator of German texts and as the compiler of the German portion of a bibliography of useful books in his chosen department of learning, for the guidance of teachers and libraries in secondary schools.
He was born of old New England stock at Keene, N. H., April 6, 1871, being the son of fudge Silas and Josephine (Kingsley) Hardy. His father was also a Dartmouth alumnus. Educated primarily in the schools at Keene, he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1890 and began an association with that college destined to endure and be uncommonly fruitful during the ensuing 50 years. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi, and the Sphinx senior society. Other fraternal affiliations included membership in the Sons of the American Revolution of New Hampshire, which he served as president from 1920 to 1923; the Modern Language Association; the American Dialect Society; the advisory council of the Simplified Spelling Board; the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York; the St. Botolph Club of Boston; the Graduate Club of Hanover; and the Masons. He had served also as treasurer of his chapter of Alpha Delta Phi. and from 1907 to 1911 was an associate editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
In a letter written some years ago, President I ucker said of him: "Mr. Hardy gives the impression at once of having large resources of scholarship and maintains that impression the more he is known. His preparation both at home and abroad was unusually thorough and discriminating. In teaching he has the power of communicating both himself and his knowledge, but he is not a wasteful teacher. He understands how to give and how to withhold. He has the art of proportion. The training of his students is marked by great accuracy. He stimulates his classes by the clearness and lucidity of his mind, as well as by the range of his information. He never leaves his students in doubt as to his meaning, or with any question as to his authority. He can always be lawn upon, not only within but beyond the units of his department. He has been an invaluable member of the library committee and has served from time to time on the distinctively executive committee of the faculty."
His classmates and all who knew Professor Hardy will confirm the further estimate of Dr. Tucker when he went on to say: "Personally, Mr. Hardy is a man of positive qualiles-frank and critical in his judgment, but not narrow or obstinate; courteous in his bearing towards all; of a high sense of honor, a citizen, and always ready to do his part, wotj out 'Jeing officious; as much respected in the college community for his strong, reliable Personal qualities as for his brilliant attainments."
No account of Hardy's life would be complete which ignored the place he made for jomself in the community of Hanover, outside the mirnediate circle of the College. An intelligent interest in citizenship made him a valued participant in precinct affairs, and he had for many years served as one of the trustees of the Dartmouth Savings Bank. One of his keenest interests was in the Howe Library, where he was president of the board of trustees, this service calling forth from that body one of the most moving tributes following his death. To the affairs of that library he gave more of his time than to any other of his subsidiary activities; and to his 23 years of service may be ascribed much of the adequacy and beauty of the institution.
Professor Hardy was married in New York City in 1902 to Adelaide B. Sanford, who survives him. They had no children. A singularly united couple in tastes, temperament, and interests, they made of their home in Clement Road a place to which returning classmates and undergraduate students delighted to repair. It happened that Hardy was the first of his classmates-to-be that the present writer met on arrival at Hanover in the fall of 1890, and there began at that moment an intimate friendship destined to endure throughout life: a stimulating companionship, socially and scholastically, which increased in appreciation with the years, seasoned as it was by his dry wit, which he knew so well how to express.
Mr. Hardy's place in the Hanover scene was perhaps best summed up by a colleague of the faculty, who said: "Dartmouth College has lost a careful scholar, a conscientious and distinguished teacher, a discriminating friend; and the Hanover community loses a genuine, devoted, and intelligent citizen." His classmates and those closely associated with him in college ork best remember his stimulating mentality, his quiet dignity, his wit—which could be mordant on occasion but never cruel—but above all his scholarship, in which pedantry had no place or part.
PHILIP S. MARDEN.
It is a strange coincidence that following the death of Robert R. Penniman noted in the July MAGAZINE the next one of the class to go should be a man who had spent his life in the same county in New Hampshire and in the same occupation.
At his farm home in Claremont, where he was born December si, 1868, CHARLES TIMOTHY ROSSITER succumbed June 20, 1940, to a stroke of apoplexy sustained some months before.
Fitted for college at Stevens High, Rossiter entered Dartmouth and was graduated with the class of 1894, of which for nearly fifty years he was a most devoted member. Beta Theta Pi was his fraternity affiliation.
Upon graduation "Tim," as his classmates knew him, returned to the ancestral acres, where his subsequent years were spent. He conducted a model dairy; was a member of the Sullivan County Farm Bureau for many years and its president in 1926; and took especial pride in his fine cattle. Driving a yoke of oxen, he lent true farm flavor to many a local pageant; and in his last months, in his wheel chair, visits to his tie-ups gave him keen pleasure.
Never one to seek the public eye, Rossiter did represent Claremont in the New Hampshire legislature in 1951, and under Secretary Batchelder served as a member of the State Board of Agriculture. He is survived by his widow, the former Gertrude Rindlaub, and by two brothers.
Funeral services at his home were conducted by Rev. Charles E. Dunn, pastor of the Congregational church, of which Rossiter was a former deacon. He was assisted by Rev. Charles C. Merrill, Secretary of the class of 1894. Other r894 men present were J. E. Allen, Barton, Cassin, Claggett, Colby, Ham, Hardy, Hurd, Stone, and Wallis.
Interment was in Claremont's Pleasant St. Cemetery.
MATT BUSHNELL JONES died suddenly at his home in Newton Center, Mass., in the early morning of July 1, and so peacefully that Mrs. Jones believed he was still sleeping. Although he had not been in the best of health for a year or more, there had been no indication that anything serious was amiss and on the evening before he had seemed in the best of spirits. On Wednesday, July 3, a dozen of his classmates and a few more of his more intimate friends gathered at his simple funeral, which was conducted by Rev. Charles C. Merrill, D.D., '94, who later officiated also at the committal services at Waitsfield, Vt. Classmates attending the funeral in Newton were F. C. Allen, Ames, R. W. Bartlett, Griffin, Hall, Howland, Knowlton, Lyon, Marden, C. C. Merrill, Palmer, and B. A. Smalley.
Matt was born in Waitsfield, Vt., May 15, 1871, being the older son of Walter A. and' Elvira (Bushnell) Jones. After graduating from the academy at St. Johnsbury, Vt., he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1894 and in due course received his A.B. degree with distinction. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his fraternity connections at Hanover were with D.K.E. and the senior society of Casque and Gauntlet. He was varsity center rush on the football team for four years.
Following his college course he studied law for the ensuing three years at the Harvard Law School, receiving his LL.B. in 1897. Gaining admission to the Massachusetts bar, he became associated with Samuel L. Powers (Dart. '74) and Edward K. Hall (Dart. '92) in the firm then known as Powers, Hall, & Jones in Boston. That firm was largely engaged in legal work for the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company; and in 1904 Matt became general counsel for the telephone company, retaining that activity until he assumed the presidency of the company in 1919. He continued in active service as president of the N. E. Tel. & Tel. until 1934, when impaired bodily health forced his retirement, although he continued as a director and chairman "of the board until 1936. He was also a director of the First National Bank of Boston. From 1907 to 1911 he had served in the Newton board of aldermen, part of the time as its presiding officer, but never after that found time for any public service, apart from his business in which he scored an unusual success.
His avocations were chiefly those of an antiquarian. He was a member of a number of historical societies and an officer in several of them, such as the American Antiquarian Society, of which he was a councillor, the Massachusetts Historical Society, of which he was corresponding secretary, the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, and the historical societies of New York, Vermont, and Connecticut. He was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Union Club of Boston.
Matt was an avid and intelligent collector of old and rare books, which led him to membership in Boston's Club of Odd Volumes, of which for the three years preceding his death he was librarian. His historical studies prompted most of his incidental literary activities, the principal fruits of which were his "History of Waitsfield, Vt.," published in 1909, and his most recent book, "Vermont in the Making," published in 1939. In addition he had written many articles, pamphlets, and notes inspired by his comprehensive collections of early Americana. He was also a discriminating collector of etchings. It was in recognition of his literary contributions through the years that led to the bestowal of the honorary degree of Litt.D., first by Brown University in 1936 and last by Dartmouth at the most recent Commencement (1940) only two weeks before his death.
He married, Sept. 12, 1899, Grace A. Smith of Northampton, Mass., who survives him. Of this union two children now survive—a daughter, Catherine Bushnell (Mrs. Sumner Babcock) and a son, Matt Bushnell Jones Jr. His older son, Walter Leland, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1923, died several years ago. There are six grandchildren. A brother, Walter A., also survives, in Waitsfield, Vt.
Matt was the unquestioned key man of his class. No other member of '94 had done so much as he to keep the class an active and vigorous unit. For 26 years, generally on the night before the Harvard-Dartmouth football game, Mr. and Mrs. Jones threw open their home in The Ledges Road, Newton, for a dinner to all the class who could come—and the number ranged from about 15 to something like 30 on occasion. To those who could claim to have attended them all, these memories are now peculiarly precious. They constituted a sort of annual reunion, and now and then a classmate would come from as far away as California. No one missed one of Matt's annual dinners if he could possibly be there. No other one man could be named who would be more sadly missed. Matt's was a pervasive personality—a big, kindly heartiness like his cannot be suddenly withdrawn without leaving an aching void, least of all can it be done when a man like Matt has been for 50 years the valued friend of so intimate a circle as a Dartmouth class in the '9os was likely to be and as '94 was. Strong in his likes and dislikes, positive and at times humorously dogmatic in his expression of opinion as Matt frequently was, there was something about him which made him an acknowledged leader in any circle. But best of all there was that in him which made him universally beloved, as well as respected and admired. He typified Dartmouth at its best.
1897
CHARLES HENRY PILLSBURY died March 23, 1940.
During the latter years of his life Pillsbury had a tough time. He was afflicted with diabetes, which first resulted in the loss of a leg and finally brought on heart disease, of which he died. Equipped with an artificial leg, he met the situation confronting him with great courage, commuting between Stamford, which had been his home for the last nine years, and New York, where his business was. His wife writes, "For all of these years he suffered untold agony, but like the good sport he was he never complained."
His favorite pastime was gardening. He would work hours in the garden and never tire of it. He had also a fruit orchard, and raised police dogs.
"When fall came," writes his wife, "we could always find him sitting by his radio, waiting for Dartmouth to start. He always acted as though he were right on the field. He lived every minute of the game with the boys."
He was born in Amesbury, Mass., October 22, 1876, the son of William James and Harriet Louise (Gale) Pillsbury. He was a member of Sigma Chi. Coming from Amesbury, he was one of the "Sons of Whittier" of whom Butterfield wrote so amusingly in this MAGAZINE and in the Eleventh Class Report. The bronze tablet on the Senior Fence was Pillsbury's suggestion. He played center on the varsity football team when Kelly, also a "Son of Whittier," played end.
These are the items of his business career: salesman and manager for Swift & Cos., 1897 to 1910; vice president, L. H. Lang & Cos., 1910-15; manager, Wilson & Cos., 1915-20; buyer, Kossman's, from 1920.
March 6, 1899, he was married to Gertrude Copeland of Boston, who died in December 1919; a second marriage was to Susan Miller of New York City, who died in April 1922; and a third, Oct. 18, 1922, to Mae Meyers of New York, who survives him, with a daughter, Shirley Mae, aged fourteen.
REV. THEODORE HENRY BACON died July 29, 1940, at the Danbury (Conn.) Hospital, where he he had been on treatment for a disease of the heart for a month.
He was born in Laconia, N. H., January 2, 1874, the son of Rev. William Ferdinand and Mary (Beal) Bacon. He prepared for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H.
For a long period after graduation he was engaged in teaching, first at Phillips Andover Academy and then as submaster at the high schools of Maiden, Mass., Clinton, Mass., and Danbury, Conn., and as principal of the high schools of Marshfield, Mass., and Sheffield, Mass. He was then social service director of the Federated church in St. Louis, Mo., for several years, and was ordained to the ministry there in 1925. He returned to Danbury, Conn., in 1936, and for three years was director of adult education and director of Americanization at the Danbury High School, and also served as pastor of the King St. Christian church for a year. A year ago he removed to Redding Center, Conn., and became pastor of the Federated church.
December 25, 1901, he was married to Catherine E., daughter of William E. Begg of Danbury, who survives him, with two sons, William S. of Dallas, Texas, and Theodore H. of St. Louis, Mo., and a daughter, Olive, dietitian at the Danbury Hospital. Two surviving brothers are George P. (1887) and Arthur A. (1807).
1899
WILLIAM WESLEY JORDAN died at his house in Hanover, N. H., July 1, 1940, after an illness of several months from high blood pressure and kidney trouble. He was born in Plainfield, N. H., May 8, 1876, the son of Willis and Ella S. (Read) Jordan, and graduated from Kimball Union Academy in 1894.
After graduation he was employed as salesman for the International Harvester Cos. at Aberdeen, South Dakota.
During his active life he was a farmer and a successful citizen of his native town, having served as town treasurer, selectman, school committee man, and representative to the leg. islature. He was also a director of the Wind, sor, Vt., National Bank. Upon his retirement he settled in Hanover.
He married Miss Grace Edith Colby 0f Plainfield, Dec. 17, 1910, who with their two daughters, Barbara and Winifred, survives him. He is also survived by a brother, Ralph Jordan of Plainfield, and a sister, Bernice Jordan of Washington, D. C.
His classmates Clark, Spear, Benezet, Rich, ardson, and Storrs attended the funeral services at Hanover July 3.
HERBERT LESLIE LYSTER died suddenly at Fairlee, Vt., July 17, 1940, from a heart attack while on an automobile drive with his wife. He was born at Dunham, Quebec, NovemBER 9
1871, the son of William Henry and Isabelle (Leslie) Lyster.
Educated in the common schools of his birthplace, he graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1894 and attended Dartmouth for one year.
He was employed by the Ryegate, Vt, Creamery for five years, and was manager of the creamery at Gilmanton, N. H., going to Wells River, Vt., in 1903, where he was manager of the Wells River Creamery for thirty years.
Retiring from active business several yean ago on account of poor health, he has spent his winters at Lakeland, Fla., and his summers at Wells River. He served as village trustee and as trial justice for many years.
He married Junie B. Lyster of Waterford, Vt., June 21, 1899. He is survived by his widow, a son Leland C. Lyster, a mining engineer of Hibbing, Minn.; a brother, sister, and many nephews and nieces.
He was a past master of the Pulaski Lodge, A. F. and A. M.
1901
HUBERT MARCY SNOW died October 3, 1939, after an illness of several months, at his home, 12 Ober St., Beverly, Mass.
Hubert Snow was born in New Haven, Conn., November 14, 1876, the son of Samuel I Snow. He fitted for college at Prof. Putnam's School in Washington, D. C., and entered college in the fall of 1897. He had a brother in the class of 1898 and lived in Thornton Hall freshman and sophomore years, as did many of his classmates. Snow was older than most of those in the class, was of a very quiet disposition, and had to work his way through college, so did not take active part in any class or col lege activities. He was handicapped in not being able to make friends easily, but he always appreciated his class acquaintanceship5 and occasionally attended class reunions, and was a loyal contributor to the Alumni Fund The Boston men used to see him occasional at the Boston alumni dinners.
He left Hanover about junior year, and ft" many years was connected with the Woodbuy Shoe Company of Beverly. In later years i" was with the New England Mutual Insurant' Company in the Salem office.
On November 4, 1913, he married Augusta Woodbury, who was a Wellesley graduate of the class of 1903. He is survived by a daughter, Virginia, and two sons, Randell W., and Hubert M. Jr.
1902
DAVID CLINTON LAMPREY, who was born in Manchester, N. H., December 23, 1878, died in that city on June 27. He was head of the mathematics department and for 19 years was director of athletics at the Manchester High School, Central. He died at his home after a brief illness.
Lamprey graduated from Manchester High School, and came to Dartmouth from Manchester. After graduation he taught at Bourne, Mass., and also at Plymouth before returning to teach in the Manchester High School, Central. As director of Central's athletic teams for so many years, Lamprey became one of the best known and loved school officials in southern New Hampshire. He resigned his post as athletic director about a year ago. He was prominent in Masonic circles, being a member and officer of a large number of Masonic bodies.
January 2, 1907, he was married to Anna S. Signor, who died June 6, 1909, leaving a daughter Anna S. (now Mrs. Wilson of Beaumont, Calif.). Aug. 31, 1920, he was married to Florence Dinsmore of Port Clyde, N. S., who survives him. He leaves also a grandson, David Lamprey Wilson, and a brother, Morris S. Lamprey of Lawrence, Mass.
1903
HARRY WILFRED FITTS of Newton, Mass., died of cerebral thrombosis on June 20, 1940, while on a business trip to Nashua, N. H.
He was born Sept. 8, 1876, in Lowell, Mass., the son of Nathan C. Fitts of Candia, N. H„ and Minnie Hill Fitts of Lowell, Mass. Graduating from the Manchester, N. H., High School he entered Harvard College. During his first year his health failed and he thought the rarer atmosphere of Hanover might restore it. Accordingly he entered our class in the fall of 1900. He remained with the class through sophomore year, and then studied for a year in the Thayer School.
On Oct. 12, 1903, he married Mabelle E. Porter of Manchester, N. H. Their children are Howard P., a graduate of Williams College 1928 and Harvard Business School, Margaret, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College 1931, and Elizabeth, a graduate of Dana Hall 1931 and the Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School.
fom1903 1905 he was engaged in various engineering work, and then became connected with the New England Structural Steel Company of Boston, manufacturers of structural steel for bridges and buildings. In 1915 he was made vice president and director of the company.
. In the city of Newton, Harry was prominent in many lines" was treasurer of his (RePuican) ward committee for 7 years, alderan for 6 years, trustee for the city of the Reed and the Cousins funds. He was director n two co-operative banks, trustee and vice resident of the Franklin Square House of ost°n, director of the Master Builders' Assoion of Boston, of the board of government of the Structural Steel Board of Trade of New England, a member of the Engineers' Club, the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and the Newton Eight O'Clock Club (literary).
1906
JAMES THOMAS GRIFFIN, "Jocko" to all who knew him, passed away at his home in Baltimore on June 26, 1940, from a heart attack after an illness of six months.
Born in Holyoke, Mass., May 7, 1882 son of James Thomas and Nora (Rohan) Griffin, one of five children, all boys, he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1902, having prepared at South Hadley High School. His reputation as a football player preceded him, so it was natural that he became a valuable member of the freshman team. As center on the varsity his junior and senior years his play was so outstanding that he was selected as a member of several all-star teams in the East.
From college "Jocko" went to New York City with the Western Electric Cos., but was shortly transferred to Chicago. Here he met Miss Avis Quinn of Oak Park, I11., to whom he was married in 1913.
In 1922 he was sent to London to assist in the manufacturing of so-called "loaded" transatlantic cables for the Western Union Telegraph Cos. Returning to America in 1929, he was sent to Baltimore as manager of the inspection division of the Point Breeze plant of the Western Electric Cos., which position he held at the time of his death.
Always a loyal Dartmouth man, it was his misfortune not to be able to attend many of the class reunions, so few of his classmates had seen much of him since graduation.
Besides his wife Jocko is survived by a son, James Thomas Griffin, and four brothers, three of whom are physicians and two are Dartmouth men, John F. '02 and Thomas J. 'O8.
1908
Louis Bertram Hopkins, president of Wabash College and brother of President Hopkins of Dartmouth, died suddenly in Hanover on August 10. Dr. Hopkins was visiting at the home of his intimate friends J. Fredrick Larson, when he was stricken with a heart attack which caused death almost immediately. The fatal attack occurred on the eve of his 59th birthday.
With Mrs. Hopkins and their two daughters Dr. Hopkins had been staying at his summer home in Perkinsville, Vt„ enjoying a needed vacation since early July. He had made several trips to Hanover to visit his brother and other Dartmouth friends, and his death occurred while he and Mrs. Hopkins were making a visit devoted partly to the discussion of Mr. Larson's architectural plans for some new Wabash buildings. President Hopkins was notified of his brother's death and left his summer place in Manset, Me., immediately to drive to Hanover.
Louis Hopkins was born in Hopkinton, N. H., on August 11, 1881, the son of Adoniram Judson and Mary Martin Hopkins. He attended the public schools in his native town and later was a student at Worcester Academy and Coburn Classical Institute from which he was graduated in 1904. Dr. Hopkins attended Dartmouth for two years and in 1907 began his business career with the Regal Shoe Company. For the next nine years he filled positions with the American Optical Company, the Pittsfield Spark Coal Company, and the General Electric Company, at whose Pittsfield works he was assistant to the general manager, in charge of personnel and labor relations. During the World War he served as co-director of the Trade Test Division of the U. S. Army's Committee on Personnel Classification, with the rank of major; and then became assistant in the personnel division of the U. S. Department of Labor. After the war he returned to industrial work as treasurer of The Scott Company, engineers in industrial personnel and organization. When Dr. Walter Dill Scott was chosen president of Northwestern University in 1922, Dr. Hopkins went with him as Director of Personnel. Although he moved from Philadelphia to Evanston, I11., he continued for a while his work for The Scott Company. In 1926 Dr. Hopkins was elected to the presidency of Wabash College and was inaugurated on December 3, 1926, succeeding Dr. George L. Mackintosh. His administration of the Crawfordsville (Ind.) institution had been one of marked efficiency and success, and his death occurred at a time when important plans were being formed for continued development.
In addition to the M. A. conferred upon Louis Hopkins by Dartmouth in 1925, he had received the Doctorate of Laws from DePauw University and Marietta College, both in 1930; the Doctorate of Letters from Hanover (Ind.) College in 1932; and the Doctorate of Science from Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1933.
For several years before his death Dr. Hopkins was a member of the Commission of Institutions of Higher Learning of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Recently he served as a member of the Apparel Industry Commission, wages and hours division of the U. S. Department of Labor, an advisory council created by the Wagner Labor Act. Dr. Hopkins was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Academy of Political Science, Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and the professional fraternity of Pi Gamma Mu.
Dr. Hopkins was married on October 2, 1907, to Miss Nora M. Lander of Bingham, Me. He is survived by his widow and two daughters, Florence Martin and Margaret Lander. Other surviving relatives include his mother, Mrs. A. J. Hopkins of Perkinsville, Vt.; and two brothers, President Hopkins of Dartmouth and Robert C. Hopkins '14 of Darien, Conn.
Funeral services for Dr. Hopkins were held in the Dartmouth chapel at Hanover on the morning of August 13, with burial that afternoon in the family cemetery at Perkinsville. Vt. The Rt. Rev. John T. Dallas, Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, conducted the chapel service, and the Rev. George E. Beach of Weston, Vt., conducted the service at Perkinsville. The bells of Baker Memorial Library were tolled before and after the morning service, and floral tributes completely covered the chapel altar. The musical portion of the chapel service, played by Prof. Maurice F. Longhurst of the Dartmouth music department, included the Wabash College hymn.
Bearers for the service included Dean Byron Trippett of Wabash College; Prof. George V. Kendall, former dean of Wabash; Prof. Insley Osborne of Wabash; Prof. Charles A. Proctor 'oo of Dartmouth College; Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College; J. Fredrick Larson, College architect; Charles N. Safford '08 of Springfield, Vt., representing the Class of 1908; and William Salmond of Perkinsville, Vt., a family friend.
Among those who attended the Hanover service as representatives of Wabash College were Lee McCanliss of New York City, Wabash trustee, and Miss Mildred Roach, personal secretary to Dr. Hopkins.
DR. FITZROY F. PILLSBURY died June 18 at Saco, Maine, after several months illness.
Fitzroy Farnsworth Pillsbury was born January 25, 1885 in Saco, Maine, the son of Charles Wesley and Ella Emerson (Farnsworth) Pillsbury. He entered college in 1904 with the class of 1908, but remained only one semester, then withdrew from college and came back to Medical School, where he received his M.D. in 1909. He was a member of Sigma Chi and Alpha Kappa Kappa, American Medical Society and Middlesex Medical Society. Following graduation from Medical School he studied at Lying-in-Hospital in New York City and interned at Lowell Corporation Hospital. He started practise in Lowell and remained there until he retired on account of illness, in January, 1940. He then removed to Saco, Maine, and died there June 18, 1940. He was married Nov. 15, 1907 in Boston, Mass., to Ruby May Davis, who survives, and two sons, Wesley D. and Robert F„ together with a brother, Leon, of Lowell and a sister in Portland, Maine. His father, Charles W. Pillsbury graduated from the Dartmouth Medical School in 1881.
1911
ROBERT GORDON MOFFATT died in Toronto in July.
Bob, as he was known to his friends in the class, was born in LeSueur, Minn., November 23, 1889. He came to Dartmouth from St. Joseph High School, Michigan, attending Dartmouth only his freshman year.
He left college to start a newspaper career which took him from Baldwin, Mich., to Baltimore, Daytona Beach, and then to Canada, where he joined the staff of the Toronto Star as a reporter and copy reader in 1922. In 1929 he went to the Baltimore News, returning to the Star in 1934. In 1936 he became secretary to Dr. A. R. Dafoe, well known as the doctor of the Dionne Quintuplets, remaining there for two years, when he went to Jacksonville, Fla., in an attempt to regain his lost health. He returned to Toronto last October.
September 26, 1934, he was married to Dorothy Lawson, who survives him, together with two brothers.
1912
RUSSELL PALMER died on August 8, 1940, at the Scripps Hospital, La Jolla, Calif. Russ had come from his home at Altadena, Calif., only ten days before his death, and had leased a large place for a vacation at La Jolla. His blood pressure had been high for some time and he became suddenly ill and died of a stroke. His body lay in state at Altadena, and the funeral was held at Los Angeles.
Russ was bora at Johnsonburg, Pa., December 4, 1890, son of Dr. William Russell and Mary Katherine (Howell) Palmer. He prepared at Johnsonburg High School. His full name was William Russell Palmer, and he acquired the nickname "Doc." He left college at the end of his freshman year, and proceeded to a most successful career. He became a newspaper reporter, a business journal editor, and subsequently a publisher of trade journals, and retired completely from business in 1928, at the age of 37. He had active business interests in three countries, and had lived in seven. He later returned to business, and at his death was publisher of the Petroleum World of Los Angeles, World Petroleum of New York, and the Petroleum Times of London, and various other trade journals. He was an eyewitness of part of the Spanish Revolution. He had acquired a large fortune by his own efforts, and owned a beautiful estate at 2885 Tanoble Drive, Altadena, California.
Russ was married on June 15, 1917, to Elizabeth Cleveland Prescott of Seattle, Wash., where Russ was then employed. They had a daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, born May 20, 1924. He married, second, Mona McCarthy, on June 27, 1927, and they have three children, Mary Blessing, born July 5, 1928; Polly, born July 11, 1930, and Russell Jr., born February 81, 1936. He is survived by his wife Mona and children.
Russ was a genial, popular member of the class. He had recently revived his class associations, and was at Hanover during Commencement, 1940, very impressive with his large stature and full beard, and cordial and happy in his Dartmouth friendships. He will be missed by the class.
MAURITZ HEDLUND died at Hanover on July S, 1940, following a sudden stroke. The funeral services at the College Church on July 9 were attended by a large number, including Art Burnham, Babe Hartshorn, Roy Lewis, Harry Trapp, and Elliott White of the class of 1912. Harry Trapp was a bearer, and there were flowers from the class. Burial was at Worcester, Mass., in the new Swedish Cemetery.
Mauritz was born in Hagfors, Varmland, Sweden, on September 22, 1889, the son of Sven Gustaf and Marie (Johnson) Hedlund. He came to Dartmouth from English High School, made Phi Beta Kappa and Gamma Alpha, and received his B.S. in 1912, magna cum laude, and his M.S. in 1913. He was awarded the Chamberlain Fellowship from Dartmouth College, for two years of graduate study of mathematics at the University of Illinois, 1913- 1915. He was instructor in mathematics at Beloit College from 1915 to 1917.
During the World War, Mauritz served as a 2d Lieutenant, A.G.D., and was with the A.E.F. from November 1917 to June 1919. During this period he acted as an interpreter, and later as an instructor in mathematics at the A.E.F. University.
From 1919 to 1923 he was with George E. Keith Cos., shoe manufacturers of Brockton, Mass., from 1923 to 1924, manager of Luid Shoe and Slipper Cos. at Worcester, Mass., and from 1924 to 1926, assistant superintendent of Whitaker Reed Company of Worcester. He studied again at Thayer School, 1926 to 1928, serving part time as an instructor of mathematics in the College, and received his C. E. in 1928. From 1928 until his death he was as. sistant superintendent of buildings and grounds for Dartmouth College.
Mauritz was married on July 30, 1932, at Boston, Mass., to Alexandra Lukaszewicz 0f Boston. About five years ago they built a beau, tiful home just north of Hanover on the Lyme Road, and they lived happily and took much interest in the gardens and grounds. Mauritiz was much liked in Hanover and active in the affairs of the Graduate Club. He was a superior bowler in their tournaments. He was taken ill on July 5 and stayed an home. The next morning he became unconscious on arising, and was taken to the hospital, where he died in the afternoon.
Mauritz will be greatly missed as a quiet, efficient, and loyal officer of the College, and a lovable, friendly, unselfish member of the class of 1912. He is survived by his wife Alex, andra and by a sister, Miss Marie Hedlund of 195 Belmont St., Worcester, Mass.
Word had been received of the death oil PAUL SNYDER MOYER at Naperville, 111., on July 16, 1940.
Paul or "Skinny" as he was better known, was born at Derry Church, Pa., on September 14, 1891, and came to Dartmouth from Met cersburg Academy. He played on the class baseball team, ran on the class track team, and was manager of class hockey. His frater nity was Kappa Kappa Kappa, and he wasi member of Turtle and Sphinx. He received 1 B.S. in 1912, and studied at Massachusetts In stitute of Technology.
On graduation, Paul went with the American Hide & Leather Company at Chicago, 111 Later he was chairman of the board of the Aridor Company, manufacturing metal scret caps at 3428 W. 48th Place in Chicago, with! residence at 125 Stonegate Road, Lake Forest 111.
In 1917, Paul married Dorothy Dayton Fessenden of: Highland Park, 111., who died in 1919. There was one daughter, Laura Dayton (now Burrows), born in Chicago, Septembei 13, 1918. In 1929, Paul married Mrs. Elizabeth Farwell (Milieu), daughter of the late France C. Farwell, Chicago merchant. They have one son, Paul Moyer Jr.
Moyer was an active, sunny, popular menber of the class, and his death will be much regretted.
1915
RUSSELL MORGAN KELLY of Cazenovia, N. Y... died on August 28 at a hospital in Utica after a brief illness. He was born in Sanborn, lowa on June 21, 1891, the son of Samuel Kelly, but entered Dartmouth from Woodstock, Vt. where he graduated from the Woodstock Hight School.
Kelly was of the quiet, studious type in college, but nevertheless found time during his sophomore and junior years to go out for fool ball, and although never a regular, was one of those who gave his time freely and consciemiously to the thankless task of taking the daily poundings on the second team. In his semor year he was enrolled at Thayer School, and graduated with the degree of B.S. with & class. He did not return for the extra year at Thayer, but at once went with the New York Central Railroad as assistant division engine of the maintenance-of-way department. He remained with the railroad for 12 years.
He subsequently became connected with the Eastern Rock Products Inc., in Utica as vice resident and executive secretary, remaining with his company for about eight years, and during the past few years had lived in Cazenovia. ,
His work with the New York Central Railroad was interrupted for two years, when he entered the military service in the World War, and he saw much service overseas as Ist lieutenant in the 305 th Engineers.
Kelly was the brother of Robert T. Kelly of the class of 1914. He married Mary Burr, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. William Gibson of Utica, and is survived by his mother, his wife, three children—Morgan Burr Kelly, Content Moore Kelly, and Alaster Mac Donald Kelly; a sister, Mrs. Willis Waite of Middlebury, Vt.: and three brothers, Byron Kelly of Woodstock, Vt., Ralph Kelly of Bristol, Conn., and Ellsworth Kelly of Springfield, Vt.
In civic life he was active, being a member of the Masonic order, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Dartmouth Club of Syracuse, and was a regular attendant at the Episcopal church. He retained his interest in World War activities through his membership in the New York Central Veterans' Association, the Military Order of the World War, and the Ft. Schuyler Club of Utica. He was an accomplished musician, and was widely known as a pianist and organist.
1917
Supplementing the brief notice of the loss of ROBERT ARMSTRONG MC KENNEY in the July issue, Mrs. Mc Kenney wrote that Mac died suddenly at their residence, 1650 South Sycamore St.. Petersburg, Va., on January 11, 1939, and was buried at Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg.
He was born August 9, 1893, at Petersburg, the son of William Robertson and Clara Justine (Pickrell) Mc Kenney. He prepared for college at Woodbury Forest School. Transferring from the University of Virginia, he spent his junior and senior years at Dartmouth, until entering the Navy. Dartmouth conferred on him the A.B. degree in 1918, as with the class of 1917, in accordance with the vote of the trustees in recognition of several Seventeeners who left College for military service before Commencement.
Mac volunteered for service with the U.S.N. R-F., reporting for duty April 4, 1917, with the rank of quartermaster, 3d class. He went to Marblehead Training Station, then was assigned to U.S.S. Virginia. Later he was assigned to U.S.S. Comber (minesweeper), U.S.S. Admiral (flagship of group No. 2 minesweepers), and to U.S.S. Israel, a destroyer. He served in foreign waters from September 18, 1918, to june 4, 1919, was with the trans-Atlantic convoy. and was present at the laying of the Gibraltar barrage and the Dalmatian riots. On June 4, 1919, he was discharged with the rank of quartermaster Ist class.
On returning from abroad he became a clerk for the Banking Trust and Mortgage Co in Petersburg, and in 1921 he was made an assistant treasurer thereof. In 1924 he en'he law school of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and received the LL.B. in 1927. He had become a member of Phi Beta Kappa. practised law until his deat. He was a Mason, a Rotarian, president of the Petersburg Tuberculosis Ass'n, and a director of the Petersburg Savings and American Trust Cos. For several years he was the top-ranking golfer of the Petersburg Country Club.
Mac was married April 20, 1920, in Petersburg to Katharine Friend Jones. Also surviving him are two children, Ann Pickrell Mc Kenney, born September 21, 1927, and Robert Armstrong Mc Kenney, 3d, born January 11, 1933.
Mac's later excellence in golf is no surprise to Seventeeners who flayed the pill in our junior and senior years. Fie was a member of the varsity team all during his life at Hanover, and was manager our senior year. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity.
1918
How sad it was to just open a letter from Paul Miner in which he encloses a clipping of our owt 808 (DR. P.) MUNSON, who died September nth in the Medina, N. Y. hospital after a short illness.
Paul says "isn't it too bad—for Bob was such a fine boy and an excellent doctor according to many Medina people. He had not been well for some time but this is a shock to me."
Bob, as we all know him, was a grand looking individual, full of pep and raring to go and the loss of Bob will be a shock to his many devoted friends in the class of 1918— the 36th man of our number out of a total class of about 420.
He was born in Medina, son of the late Dr. Edward and Lillian Smith Munson. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1919 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in 1922. Bob enlisted in the United States Navy during the World War and was discharged at its close with the rank of ensign. Bob leaves a widow, two brothers, District Attorney William H. Munson of Medina and David C. Munson, a Chicago lawyer, and two sisters, Mrs. A. J. Parkin of Chicago and Mrs. Ernest Hart of Medina.
1919
HORACE GILMOUR HAWKS died in Framingham, Mass., after a two months' illness on July 8, 1940. Funeral services were at the St. Andrew's Episcopal church with his father-inlaw, Canon Myles Hemenway, officiating. Several members of the class attended the services.
Hawks was born in Newton Center, July 31, 1897, the son of Horatio C. and Ann (Gilmour) Hawks. He graduated from Newton High School and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1919. On our entry into the war, he left college and served as a second lieutenant in the Army Aviation Corps, instructing at Kelly Field in Texas. Subsequently, he returned to college and received his degree. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
After his graduation he worked with the Graton & Knight Cos. of Worcester, and later started his own leather business, which enterprise was terminated by a serious sickness. After his recovery he associated himself with B. F. White and Cos., investments, in Boston, and was a partner in this firm at the time of his death.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth (Hemenway) Hawks, to whom he was married June 25, 1924, and two sons, John Anthony and Horatio Allen Hawks of Framingham
Always a most enthusiastic Dartmouth man, Horace took an active interest in every college and class activity. He will be greatly missed wherever and whenever Dartmouth men may meet.
PHILIP ELLIS GAMMONS died at his home in Ashland, N. H., May 6, 1940.
He was born in Ashland, March 1, 1897, 'he son of Ellis G. and Adele (Ladd) Gammons. He graduated from Ashland High School in 1915-
He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1915, leaving to enter military service during the late World War.
He was active in town affairs, having served as a member of the school board and board of selectmen, and was town clerk at the time of his death, having held that office for about fifteen years. He was a member of the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention of 1939.
He held many positions of trust and responsibility. Was active head of Green Grove Cemetery Association, a trustee of the Meredith Village Savings Bank, and treasurer of St. Mark's Episcopal church, of which he was a lifelong member.
His business activity was with Gammons Cos., Inc., prominent in undertaking, insurance, and business circles for many years in both Plymouth and Ashland.
On December 19, 1919, he married Ida Mann of Woodsville, who survives him, together with a son, Ellis, and a daughter, Dorothy, and a brother, Samuel W. Gammons of Plymouth, N. H.
JAMES MILLER BAILEY died of a heart attack July 23, at his home, 9 Tanglewylde Ave., Bronxville, N. Y.
He was born in Massena, N. Y., July 31, 1896, the son of Frank Edgar and Anna (Miller) Bailey.
He graduated from Massena High School in 1915 and entered Dartmouth in the fall of that year. In April 1917, he enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to the supply ship U.S.S. Bridge, making seven trips abroad. When discharged, he worked in his father's store for ten months and then returned to Dartmouth to finish his studies, graduating in 1920.
He immediately went to R. H. Macy's in New York, and after finishing the training course was assigned to a position in the cashier's department. He has been with Macy's since 1920 with the exception of five years, when he was assistant general manager in charge of delivery at Gimbel's. On his return to Macy's in 1932, he was in charge of the training squad, delivery, and at the time of his death was manager of the receiving department.
Mr. Bailey's death came as a deep shock to his colleagues at Macy's. He was an able executive, had one of the broadest management experiences in the organization, and was much beloved by the members of his staff.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary C. Bailey, one son, J. Miller Bailey Jr., his mother, two brothers, and a sister.
1923
CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN was taken with a fatal heart attack on June 13, 1940, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The son of John Edward and Eva Adele (Hurlburt) Coffin, he was born in Manchester, N. H., April 18, 1897, and fitted at Manchester High School. He was with the class only during reshman year.
In 1920-2 he was in the foreign department of the National City Bank of New York; then for a year instructor in physics in Manchester High School; in 1923-5 security salesman with H. L. Doherty Cos.; then successively with Rockrimmon Oil Cos., International Projector Corp., Rockwell Appliance Cos., Corning Glass Works, Victor Chemical Works, Atmospheric Nitrogen Cos., and Lummus Cos. In 1938 he entered the employ of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., and at the time of his death was construction superintendent at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
NATHAN WHITNEY WATSON died of pneumonia March 19, 1940, in Hollywood Hospital, Hollywood, Calif.
He was born in Kewanee, 111., November 6, 1902, and prepared for college at Kewanee High School. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. He left college at the end of sophomore year, and later attended Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., where he graduated in 1925.
He was for eight years with the Standard Sanitary American Radiator Cos. in their sales office, and for the last seven years had been with the Grinnell Cos. of the Pacific, having his home in Glendale, Calif.
He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Fond of fishing, he enjoyed the deep-sea fishing off the California and Mexico coast.
June 6, 1925, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. P. D. Gum, who survives him, with a daughter, Laura Elizabeth, who is now 14 years old.
Through some unexplainable error the death of HAROLD YOUNG VAN ORDEN on January 22, 1926, in Orange, N. J., has never been reported. Hal had transferred to Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn., and had received his B.A. in 1923. He is survived by his parents, Fran and Gertrude M. Van Orden, and a sister, Gertrude A. Van Orden.
MEDICAL SCHOOL
1884
DR. PERLEY TAYLOR KIERSTEAD died of pneumonia January 15, rg4o, at the home of his daughter in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
The son of William and Margaret (MacLeod) Kierstead, he was born at Snider Mountain, Kings County, N. 8., May 29, 1859. He attended Sussex Grammar School and later the Provincial Normal School. He was at Dartmouth only for the lecture term in the fall of 1883, having taken two courses of lectures elsewhere.
He practiced first at Sheffield, N. 8., where in 1890 he married Harriet Emma Seabury Barker. After his marriage he spent over a year in different hospitals in London, England. Upon his return he practiced at Woodstock, N. B„ for over twenty-five years. Then retiring from active practice, he subsequently made his home in Sheffield, but spent the last few winters with his daughter in Fredericton.
Dr. Kierstead's wife survives him, and their only daughter, Mrs. Alfred C. Yerxa.
1890
DR. BERNARD ANDREWS BAILEY died at his home ill Wiscasset, Me., July 18, 1940, after a year's illness.
The son of Benjamin and Margery (Allen) Bailey, he was born in Woolwich, Me., December 25, 1868. He obtained his academic education at Bath High School at Kent's Hill Seminary. He began his medical training at Bowdoin, taking his final course of lectures at Dartmouth.
After serving as intern at Bellevue Hospital and being on the staff of Randall's Island Hospital for 18 months, he began private practice in 1893 at Wiscasset, and continued until his retirement in 1906. He then lived on a farm for four years, returning then to practice, which he continued to 1937.
During the World War he served in the Medical Corps as acting major. For many years he was on the staff of Bath Memorial Hospital. He was a 33d degree Mason and a musician of no small ability.
His wife, who was Louise Dunwoody of New York City, who survives him, with five daughters and one son.
1895
DR. ALBERT MILO SHATTUCK died May 26, at the Worcester (Mass.) City Hospital, after an illness of two years. He was born in Groton, Mass., August 12, 1870, the son of Milo H. and Susan Parker (Fitch) Shattuck. His ancestry goes back to William Shattuck, who settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1630.
After graduating from Lawrence Academy, Groton, he began the study of medicine at Harvard, but after a year came to Dartmouth for the remainder of his course. After graduation he was intern and then resident physician at Cambridge Hospital, and then studied two years in Vienna. In 1898 he began a general practice in Worcester, which he continued for many years, being also a member of the staff at City and Memorial Hospitals and from 1904 to 1909 at St. Vincent's Hospital.
Dr. Shattuck's wife, who was Katherine Bryan, survives him, and a son, Albert M. Jr. Mrs. Shattuck is now secretary of the Worcester Y. W. C. A. industrial girls' club.
1899
DR. JOSEPH WILLIAMS SCHERESCHEWSKY died July 9, 1940, at his summer home at West Harwich, Mass.
The son of Rt. Rev. Samuel I. J. (Missionary Bishop of China) and Susan Mary (Waring) Schereschewsky, he was born in Peking, China, March 6, 1873. Graduating from Harvard in 1895, he studied for one year at Harvard Medical School and finished his medical course at Dartmouth.
After graduation he enlisted as private in the U.S.A. and soon became acting hospital steward. November 4, 1899, he was appointed assistant surgeon in the U. S. Public Health service, and received successive promotions until in 1930 he became medical director of the service.
He specialized in industrial hygiene and occupational diseases, and was in charge of the office of field investigations of occupation, diseases from 1913 to 1918, and assistant sur. geon general in charge of the division of scien. tific research from 1918 to 1922. He had be. come greatly interested in cancer research and in 1922 he was appointed in charge of in. vestigations in cancer and assigned to the Hat. vard Medical School. There he cooperated in setting up the cancer center and conducting, experiments in cancer cure, and became known as one of the leading authorities on that disease.
He was an associate editor of the Journal ofIndustrial Hygiene, a member of the Amen, can Medical Association's House of Delegate, and a past president of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons,
His home had been for many years in Belmont, Mass.
June 27, 1899, he was married to Bessie Berry Conklin of Albany, N. Y., who survive! him with three sons and three daughters.
1912
DR. WILLIAM JAMES VIVIAN died at Northport, N. Y., June 10, 1940, of coronary throm bosis.
He was born in Jermyn, Pa., August 20. 1884, the son of John David and Martha Vivian. His academical education was obtaimi at Suffield, Conn., his home being then at Nei Britain, and he took his entire medical corns at Dartmouth.
After serving an internship at Mary Hitch cock Hospital, he practiced for a time ii Springfield, Mass. In 1915 he took a course at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, and then opened a private sanitarium for nervous ait mental diseases at East Walpole, Mass. Duriing the World War he received a commission as major, after which he served at the Worcester State Hospital for two years. In 1920 he wen: into the Public Health Service and was star tioned at West Roxbury, Mass., as ward surgeon, becoming later clinical director. He was next transferred to the U. S. Veterans' Hospital at Northampton, Mass., in 1930 to a similar hospital at Coatesville, Pa., and in 1935 to Northport, L. 1., to the largest veterans' hospital in the service.
June 15, 1915, he was married to Mary Udaughter of Eugene and Mary Giblin of Springfield, Mass., who survives him, with oil daughter.
THE next few chapters on film developing and printing are the most important in the book There, at the end of some chapters, are experiments designed to let the photographer come to h's own conclusions under his own
working conditions. The last chapter is devoted to finishing and mounting pictures.
In conclusion, Mr. Hexter says "Perfection of technique is just the beginning, not the end."
To get so much information on 186 pages, Mr. Hexter hasn't wasted any words. To you interested in photography, this is the shortest path to sound perfect technique.
ADRIAN N. BOUCHARD.
ME-TOO, by Morrison Fitch '24, with illustrations by Kate Howard. The Grey stonePress, New York, 1940.
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY attractive juvenile, printed in large type, with delightful pen and wash drawings reproduced in two colors, and the whole bound in white linen.
Mr, Fitch has written the story of a little pig named Rufus John Augustus, who, because he wanted to do everything every other pig did (and more), was nicknamed Me-Too.
His adventures, which include being lost in the woods after which he was rescued by the farmer's son, end up in an amusing episode at a country fair where he triumphs, owing to a sudden and inspired idea he had, over all the other little pigs and wins the blue ribbon with gold letters: Prize Pig of this County.
This is a book for young children, and my youngster aged 514 was delighted with the story, and I enjoyed reading it aloud to him. For children, I should imagine, from three to seven.
HERBERT F. WEST '22.
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
LECTURES ON MOTOR ANOMALIES, by Prof. Alfred Bielschowsky. Dartmouth College Publications, 1940. 128 pp. $1.00.
Last month Dartmouth College Publications published in book form the Lectures on Motor Anomalies of the Eye, which the late Dr. Alfred Bielschowsky, Director of the Dartmouth Eye Institute, delivered in January 1938 before the Research Study Club of Los Angeles, California. These lectures appeared originally in issues of the American Journal of Opthalmology that are now out of print.
br. Bielschowsky was recognized as one of the foremost authorities in the field of disturbances of ocular motility. He owed this authoritative position to the fact that he had acquired a thorough knowledge of the physiological basis of binocular vision and ocular motility in the laboratory of Ewald Hering, one the greatest masters in this field. By apply the physiological principles to the pathological conditions, he was able to put this study on a more solid basis than had ever been done before.
he conclusions reached by Dr. Bielschowy are scattered throughout numerous publication but have never appeared in comprehensive form.His largest contribution, 11 'shed as a part of Graefe-Saemisch's Handbuch der ges. Augenheilkunde, deals only with the paralyses of the extrinsic muscles of the eyes. He could not realize his wish to complete it by publishing a comprehensive text-book which would include all other forms of motor anomalies of the eyes.
It is therefore doubly gratifying that Dartmouth College Publications are able to publish Dr. Bielschowsky's Lectures, although they present only a brief survey of the field. They give, however, a clear picture of his approach to the subject, and many answers to the questions concerning the etiology, symptomatology and therapy of the motor anomalies of the eyes. In an obituary of Dr. Bielschowsky published in the May issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology for the current year, Dr. Lawrence T. Post goes so far as to describe these, lectures as "undoubtedly the best contri- butions published in the English language." There has been a great demand for Dr. Bielschowsky's lectures, and there is no question that this publication fills a large void in the ophthalmological literature of America.
HERMANN M. BURIAN, M.Da.
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Professor Philip Wheelwright is the author of On the Semantics of Poetry, reprinted from the summer edition of the Kenyon Review.
The Purple Finch Invasion of Northeastern United States and the MaritimeProvinces in 1939, by Richard L. Weaver, College Naturalist, appears in the July issue of Bird-Banding.
A Poet's Mother Sarah Snell Bryant inIllinois, by Professor George V. Bohman appears in the June issue of the Journal ofthe Illinois State Historical Society.
Mr. Ray Nash is the author of an article appearing in the June issue of Print, aQuarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, entitled Education in a Workshop.
Dr. M. Dawson Tyson is the author of an article entitled One-Stage Lobectomy inBronchiectasis, which has been reprinted from the New England Journal of Medicine.
It will be impossible in the future to review text books and works in foreign languages in this magazine. We are glad to report however that Longmans, Green &Company have just published SpanishGrammar for College Students by Professor Foster E. Guyer 'O6, and Professor Alberto Vasquez. Professor Vasquez with Robert Selden Rose is also the author of a scholarly work Algunas Cartas de Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. This is published by the Yale University Press as number 10 in the Yale Romance Studies. Another textbook by a Dartmouth man is Practical FrenchReview Grammar with Exercises for Composition, by W. S. Barney '05. Professor Barney is head of the Department of Romance Languages at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina.
