Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedduring the summer. Full notices may appear in thisissue or may appear in a later number.]
Hill, Frank P., '76, Aug. 24. Warner, Willard, '80, June. Adams, Carlos F., '84. Dinsmore, Charles A., '84, Aug. 14. Clark, John F., '85, Aug. 27. Ladd, William P., '91, July 1. Prichard, Fred E., '91, July 27. Tilton, Bertram M., '92, Aug. 1. Ham, Ernest G., '94, July 13. Johnson, Edward J., '96, June 16. Gordon, Murray W., '97, Aug. 1. Farley, George L., '98, Sept. 10. Tabor, Edward 0., '98, Aug. 25. Balkam, Gilbert, '00, Aug. 3. Marden, Martin G., '00, June 19. Stoddard, Edward P., '01. Murphy, Francis V., '02, Nov. 14, 1940. Vaughan, James A., '05, Aug. 4. Spelman, Walter B.; '07, July 4. Vaitses, Paul S., '08, July 12. Griffin, Trescott, '09, July 18. Lawson, John D., '09. Osborne, Harold A., '09, Sept. 7. Forristall, Philip M., '10, July. Hedges, Ralph W., '10, June 21. Jones, Malcom, '12, Nov. 14, 1940. McDaniel, Charles S., '13, Aug. 16. Douty, Albert E., '16, Jan. 9. Root, Frederick K., '20, Sept. 2. O'Brien, Smith, '34, Sept. 15. Hallett, Maurice C., 2nd, '38, June 17. Krumsick, William, '41, Feb. 3. Mulock, Hulbert H., '41, June 22. Southerland, Andrew F., '41, Aug. 1.
Aldrich, William W., med. '78, June 24. Pope, Frank F., med. '85, Aug. 26. Lamb, Bert E., med. '91, July 28. Murphy, Daniel D., med. '91, Aug. 8. Connor, Michael E., med. '01. Klock, James E., hon. '03, Apr. 29, 1939.
Necrology
1876
FRANK PIERCE HILL, son of Cyrus and Nancy Long (Walker) Hill, was born August 22, 1855, in Concord, N. H. His college preparation was obtained in the Concord High School. He entered college in the Liberal Arts Department, but at the end of the first half year transferred to the Scientific Department.
After graduation for several years he was variously engaged, with a leaning toward business. In 1882 he became the head of the Public Library in Lowell, Mass. After two years he organized a free library in Paterson, N. J., and later a library at Salem, Mass. In 1889 he accepted a call to become the head of the Public Library in Newark, N. J., and remained in that position till 1901. His accomplishment in Newark was notable. He reorganized and modernized the library and secured the erection of a building at a cost of $250,000.
Hill assumed charge of the Brooklyn Public Library in 1901, and so continued till his resignation in 1930. When he went to Brooklyn the library contained 118,000 volumes, with an annual circulation of 626,000, and an annual appropriation of $1OO,OOO. When he left the library the number of volumes was over 1,000,000, the circulation 7,000,000 annually, and the annual appropriation $897,000. In the meantime thirty-three sub-stations had been organized. Hill's special gift, his special skill, was in administration, organization, and modernization. He felt keenly the need of getting the books to the people who needed them.
Hill served as secretary of the American Library Association from 1891 to 1895, and in 1895 he was elected president. In 1917 he was chairman of a sub-committee charged with the raising of funds to erect library buildings at army camps. $ 1,800,000 was raised for this purpose. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary .from graduation, Hill was given the honorary degree of Litt.D. by Dartmouth College. A few years ago, when spending a winter in California he compiled a "Bibliography of Early American Drama."
Though physically enfeebled, Hill attended the annual meeting of the American Library Association at Boston in May 1941. It was his fiftieth consecutive attendance. He died at his home in Hartford, Conn., August 24, 1941.
Hill married May 17, 1880, Miss Anna Maria Wood of Lowell, Mass. They had four sons and two daughters. Three sons and two daughters survive. Mrs. Hill died January 31, 1940.
1880
WILLARD WARNER died June 1, 1941, at his home in Chattanooga, Tenn. He had been ill for several weeks. Funeral services were held at St. Paul's Episcopal church in Chattanooga. He is survived by his son Stanley of Chattanooga and a daughter, Mrs. J. C. Wilson of Rockwood, Tenn.
Willard Warner, or "Cap" Warner as he was familiarly called by classmates, was a native of Newark, Ohio, born January 18, 1857, 'he son of General Willard and Eliza Warner. He prepared for College at Williston Seminary, Eastharapton, Mass., and entered and graduated with the class with the degree of A.B.
April 9, 1882, in Tecumseh, Ala., he married Mary Elizabeth Parker of Newark, Ohio. Besides the two children mentioned above, they had a son and a daughter who are not now living.
Upon graduation he engaged immediately in business in the manufacture of pig iron- first at Tecumseh, Ala., for seven years, and then three years as superintendent of the Citico Furnace Company of Chattanooga.
For 17 years he was superintendent of the Roane Iron Company of Rockwood. He was secretary for many years of the Richmond Spinning Company and was president of the Chattanooga Coffin and Casket Company.
Always deeply interested in religious work, he early became a member of St. Paul's church and was a vestryman £rom 1914 to 1919, and twice was elected one of four lay delegates from the diocese of Tennessee to the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was appointed by the presiding bishop of the church in 1922, as one of five laymen to make a report to the General Convention on the subject of "Increased Lay Activity in the Church." He prepared and presented a report to the Convention in 1925. He was a lay member of the National Commission on Evangelism of the Protestant Episcopal Church from 1920 to 1940, and was treasurer of the committee having charge of the teaching of the Bible in the city public schools of Chattanooga. He was a charter member of the Billy Sunday Evangelistic Club, which was formed in 1920.
"Cap" retired from business in 1919, and since that time has devoted his energies principally to civic and church affairs.
While at College "Cap" was captain of our class baseball team and fond of all outdoor and athletic activities. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He was highly esteemed by classmates and by all with whom he came in contact, and his passing will be greatly regretted by all who knew him.
1882
CHARLES MARSH DAVIS died at his home in Northfield, Vt., June 15 1941, from cardiorenal complications.
He was born in Northfield June 13, iB6O, and was the son of John P. and Phebe L. (Marsh) Davis. He prepared for college in the schools of Northfield and entered Norwich University, coming to Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year (C. S. D.); he was a member of the Vitruvian ( now the Beta Theta Pi) fraternity; among his classmates and intimate friends he was familiarly known as "Jeff"; he was an excellent scholar and was graduated in regular course with the degree of B.S.
During the five years following his graduation he was associated in business with his father, who was a general merchant in North- field and was -also one of the largest wool dealers in central Vermont.
In the fall of 1887, having decided to study law, he entered the law school of Boston University, where he completed the prescribed three-year course in two years, and was graduated with the class of 1889 with the degree of LL.B. "magna cum laude," and later that year he was admitted to practice at the Vermont bar.
During the next ten years he practiced his profession in Northfield and also continued to purchase and sell wool, which he began doing soon after leaving college.
In 1900 he acquired the business and manufacturing plant of a long established woolen mill, located in that part of Northfield called "The Falls," which was engaged in the manufacture of high-grade white flannels and blankets. While he previously had had no practical manufacturing experience, he soon thoroughly learned the business, to which he thereafter closely and successfully devoted himself for the next thirty years until he retired from active business in 1930—incidentally that date was just one hundred years after a six-horse team drew the first set of wool carding ma- chinery from Amesbury, Mass., to Northfield Falls, which was installed in the woolen mill, later owned and operated so long by Mr. Davis. The high quality of his woolen products gave them a wide distribution through this and other countries, and he was always proud of the fact that his long manufacturing experience was free from labor troubles and strikes.
After His retirement from active business he devoted much of his time to the affairs of the community; for many years he was a trustee of the Northfield Savings Bank and also of the Northfield Trust Cos.; he long served as chairman of the board of trustees of the Brown Public Library of the town, and after forty years' service as a member of the board of trustees of Norwich University he declined reelection; he took an active part in the organization of the Mayo Memorial Hospital of Northfield, and during all the years he had been active in the support and maintenance of the Congregational church, of which he was a regular attendant. While somewhat retiring in manner, he was a man of strong convictions and deep sincerity, ever loyal to his friends, his class, and his Alma Mater.
While he took a great interest in public affairs, town, state, and national, he never sought nor cared to hold public office, preferring to use his efEorts and influence as a private citizen rather than as a public office- holder. From his childhood he never enjoyed robust health, but he fortunately early learned to conserve his strength, which enabled him to carry on so actively, without serious sickness, throughout his long life.
In politics, although he was registered as a Democrat, he was far from being a "radical" or a "New Dealer"; from his long business experience and success he could be well characterized as a conservative businessman of sound judgment, who could and did do his own thinking and whose vote and influence was in support of what he believed to be for the public good; he realized and cherished his unique distinction of having passed his entire life, of more than fourscore years, in the town of his birth; where he early won and had always maintained the confidence, esteem, and respect of all who knew him.
On September 15, 1892, he was married to Mary H. Wooster, who survives him. Their home life was ideal, and to them were born two children, John W., Dartmouth 1917 and Mrs. Emma Davis Cross, Smith College 1920. There are three grandchildren.
1884
REV. DR. CHARLES ALLEN DINSMORE died August 14 at the Institute of Human Relations at New Haven, Conn., where he was admitted last February after suffering an attack of cerebral arteriosclerosis.
Dr. Dinsmore was born in New York City August 4, iB6O, the son of Dr. Lafayette Henry and Mary S. (Ladd) Dinsmore. Graduating from Dartmouth in 1884 with the degree of A.8., in 1905, the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater, and still later in 1916 by Yale University.
Ordained in the Congregational ministry in 1888, he served pastorates at Whitneyville and Willimantic, Conn., and Phillips Church, Boston, and he was pastor of the First Congregational church at Waterbury, Conn., from 1905 to 1920.
Dr. Dinsmore was Carew lecturer at the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1920, visiting lecturer at the School of Religion, Athens, Greece, in 1927, and was a member of the Dante Society of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
As Mattatuck Foundation lecturer on the Spiritual Content of Literature, he was connected with the Yale Divinity School for 20 years, retiring from active duty two years ago.
Dr. Dinsmore was an authority and lecturer on the works o£ the Italian poet, Dante. Among his numerous literary works were: "The Teachings of Dante," "Aids to the Study of Dante," "Atonement in Literature and Life," "The New Light on the Old Truth," "Life of Dante," "Religious Certitude in an Age of Science," and "The Great Poets and the Meaning of Life." In the latter he discussed the works of Homer, Aeschylus, Lucretius, Virgil, and Shakespeare, as well as Dante.
In 1894, Dr. Dinsmore married the former Annie Laurie Beattie, of Sandusky, Ohio, who survives him, as does an only daughter, Mrs. Donald S. Tuttle, and three grandchildren.
His family life was an Eden of joyous companionship and happiness. He was a full man, lovable, kindly, and so constituted that he shared his many delightful qualities with his friends and neighbors.
Funeral services were held at the Beecher and Bennett Funeral Home, 100 Broadway, New Haven, and burial services at the Grove Street Cemetery, on August 16 last.
Among his classmates, there were none superior in intellectual attainments or kindliness of manner. Of him it may well be said—he made legions of friends but no enemies.
Another of the diminishing numbers of our class, Rev. CARLOS LEMUEL ADAMS, passed away at Howell, Mich., August 20 last.
Bora in Williamstown, Vt., July 14, 1856, the son of John and Anna (Howe) Adams, he prepared for college at Montpelier Seminary. He was a member of the D.K.E. fraternity.
Unusually close and devoted have been his ties o£ friendship with all the members of his class.
In 1887, he was graduated from the Boston University School of Theology, and for 45 years thereafter served the Methodist ministry with singular devotion, retiring from active duty six years ago due to failing health. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity at Albion College in 1914.
His first sermon was preached in the Congregational church at Orford, and later he supplied the Methodist pulpit at Thetford, Vt. In 1887, he was transferred to the Detroit, Mich., Conference. His successive charges were at West Branch, Holly, Flushing, Chelsea, Adrian, Woodward Avenue church of Detroit, Howell, Ishpeming, Calumet, Oxford, associate pastor of Central church, Detroit, Hudson, Milan, and Romeo. He retired in 1930, and made his home in Howell.
He was married October 5, 1887, to Emma Louise Cooper, o£ Springfield, Vt., who died November 7, 1913. Two children were born of the marriage: Merrill Cooper, and Gwendolen, now Mrs. E. V. Hartman.
September 28, 1921, he married Flora Kempf, who survives him, as does a brother, Wilbur, of Tacoma, Wash., a sister, Miss Emma Adams, of Williamstown, Vt., and six grandchildren.
Born among the verdant hills of old Vermont, with its invigorating climate, Carlos Adams inherited a rugged constitution and sturdy character, but withal he was known for the gentleness that endeared him not only to his classmates but to everybody who came into the circle of his friendship.
1885
JOHN FRANKLIN CLARK died at his home, 69 Elm Place, Nutley, N. J., on August 27, 1941, after a period of failing health of about a year.
He was born in Exeter, N. H., September 2, 1861, and was the son of John Wingate and Martha Ellen (Philbrick) Clark. He received his preparatory education in the public schools of Manchester, N. H., and Washington, D. C., and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1885. During his college course he was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, president of his class, and a member of its glee club. He earned money to assist in his education by acting as a waiter in summer hotels.
He left college during his senior year to engage in active business, and devoted most of his time for the next ten years to the advertising and publishing business. In 1896 he became the manager and resident vice-president for Northern New Jersey of the American Surety Co. of New York with offices at Newark, which positions he continued to hold until his retirement a few years ago; he was also active in the Surety Underwriters Associat ion of New Jersey, of which he served as president for five years.
He became a permanent resident of Nutley in 1887, and thereafter took an active and leading part in the civic affairs of that community, serving as president of its Board of Education and its Board of Park Commissioners, he was elected as a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Essex County, and as a strong Republican, he served for two years in the State Assembly. He was senior elder of the Franklin Reformed church of Nutley, and held membership in Masonic and various other fraternal organizations, and the Alumni Association of Dartmouth.
He was married to Lucy Clement in Jersey City on April 21, 1885. He is survived by a son, John Franklin Clark Jr., with whom he resided, and a daughter, Mrs. Harriet Clement Huntley, both of Nutley, two granddaughters and a brother, Daniel S. Clark of East Orange, N. J. His wife died in 1934 and during her attendance at our forty-fifth reunion in 1925 she was elected an honorary member of the class.
His funeral services were held in the Franklin Reformed church on Saturday, August 30.
1887
REV. DR. FRANK LINCOLN GOODSPEED died at his home in Oakland, Calif., July 20, 1941, after a long period of ill health.
Born in Moretown, Vt., March 15, 1861, the son of Hiram and Rebecca V. Goodspeed, he prepared for college at Montpelier Seminary. Entering Dartmouth at the beginning of freshman year, he remained but a few weeks.
From 1887 to 1890 he was pastor of the Congregational church at Mattapoisett, Mass., and then for two years at Enfield, Mass. Meanwhile he was studying at Harvard and at the Theological School of Boston University, and graduated at the former in 1890 and at the latter in 1891. He was then pastor of the First church in Amherst, Mass. 1892-4, and of the First church in Springfield, Mass., from 1894 to 1909. He then went to Oakland, Calif., where he was pastor of the First Presby- terian church to 1918. Returning East, he was pastor of the Congregational church in Barre, Vt., from 1918 to 1928. In these important pastorates he achieved a marked success, be- ing a preacher of unusual pulpit powers. He was also prominent in national denomina- tional matters. Illinois Wesleyan University gave him the degree of Ph.D. in 1901, and Fairmount College (Kansas) that of D.D. in 1905. At the close of his Vermont pastorate he returned to California and made his home at Oakland.
June 29, 1884, he was married to Cora Belle Spaulding of Moriah, N. Y., who survives him. They had no children.
1891
WILLIAM PALMER LADD passed away in New Haven, Conn., after a long illness, July 1, 1941.
Dr. Ladd's funeral services at St. Paul's church, Lancaster, N. H., on July 4 epitomized his life and work in a peculiarly intimate way. This was his home town, where his father long maintained a distinguished place as a judge and civic leader. A tablet in his memory rested against the wall where the family gathered for these services. The day before at New Haven, Conn., in the field of his life work as dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, his family and a few intimate friends had participated in a requiem eucharist, after which the remains were cremated and the ashes brought to Lancaster for the funeral. It was well attended in spite of the holiday and the vacation absences.
Dr. Ladd proved a great and inspiring teacher. The devotion of his pupils to him was unbounded, particularly in evidence during his last illness o£ several months' duration. To appraise his work among them is not altogether easy, so exceptional were his talents and so winsome in a personal way was the sweet serenity of his life. He seemed never ruffled. He was calm and philosophical in everything. Perhaps not technically a high churchman, he may be described as mystical in his attitude toward the spiritual possessions of the Anglican fellowship. Of this his published works bear evidence, notably "A Guide to Christian Living" and the "Prayer Book Interleaved," as well as his occasional sermons and his part in the classroom discussions.
Dr. Ladd's home life proved particularly happy. His four children have exhibited brilliant scholarship. His elder son appears to be on his way to a professorship in philosophy, the younger intends to go into public school work, while his two daughters are still in college.
Their mother, who was Miss Alsie Taylor, of London, England, a woman of sympathetic understanding and marked attainments, survives. Both she and her husband had been deeply interested in the economic problems of the era, and in essential sympathy with the strivings of the relatively underprivileged. They were often visitors at the White House, Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Ladd sharing common aims as to the social order.
Ladd was born May 13, 1870, the son of William Spencer (Dartmouth 1855) and Myra Barnes (Fletcher) Ladd. He prepared at Phillips Andover, and after graduating at Dartmouth studied at Paris, Oxford, and Leipsic Universities—and remained preeminently a student all his life. His only settled pastorate was at St. Barnebas' in Berlin, N. H., where he remained from 1897 to 19°2- He then became a professor of church history at Berkeley in 1904, and for the rest of his life made teaching his work, a field in which he proved of outstanding capacity and appeal.
R. L. O'BRIEN
FRED ELMER PRICHARD died at his home in Peterboro, N. H., July 27, 1941, after a lingering illness.
Fred was born at Bradford, Vt., January 13, 1869, the son of John B. W. and Orissa (George) Prichard. He prepared for college at Bradford Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth with the degree of Litt.B. He was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
He married Metella I. Paine of Newport, Vt., August 18, 1898. Mrs. Prichard died August 28, 1932, leaving no children.
He taught for fifteen years after graduation in Newbury, Bradford, Randolph, and Brandon, Vt., during which time he was also examiner of teachers for Orange County. Then his hearing having failed him, he entered newspaper work, serving on the Nashua (N. H.) Telegram for about a year, then becoming managing editor of the Easthampton (Mass.) News, which position he retained for four years. On account of ill health he was then obliged to give up indoor work, and purchased a farm in Hopkinton, Mass. Four years later he sold this farm and purchased another in Winchendon, living there for seven years. During four years of this time he served as treasurer of the Cooperative Bank. The last twenty years of his life he was manager of a large summer place in Peterboro, N. H.
Fred was a Mason and also a member of the New Hampshire Order of Cincinnati.
Fred Prichard was always genial and friendly and gained the goodwill of all who knew him. Loyal and true in every way, his passing leaves a sincere feeling of regret among the members of the class of '91.
J. F. ALLISON
1894
ERNEST GUY HAM Sixteen of the eighty-six men who graduated in 1894 went into education. High among these was the subject of this sketch. For one thing he was really a student. He ranked third in the class, and throughout his whole life neglected no opportunity to increase his knowledge, not for the sake of gaining position but simply because that was what he liked to do. Classmates recall an incident when one of our Greek instructors asked us to do a piece of exhaustive investigation with regard to the uses of the article "an" in the book we were reading. It was plainly so difficult a task for most of the class that they forthwith began circulating a petition to the instructor that the requirement be canceled. Not so Ernest Ham. Before anybody realized and before the instructor actually did cancel the requirement he had it prepared.
One cannot tell how many languages he mastered, not because he wanted to teach them but because he was interested to know them. Such interest in study was contagious during the forty-six years of his service as instructor, as principal, and as school superintendent. These years were mainly spent in the state of Vermont, where he began at Vergennes in 1898, then went on to Montpelier, then to Randolph, then to the superintendency of the Rutland North District with head- quarters at Brandon, and finally for fifteen years as superintendent at Springfield. What the Springfield Reporter says sums it up tersely and well:
"He exerted an incalculable influence on Springfield and the other communities in which he lived by his character and his scholarship."
He ranked with the best in loyalty to the class and to the College. No one was friendlier, no one more interested in his classmates and their families. His studiousness gave him somewhat the aspect of over-seriousness. However beneath there lurked a real sense of humor. The class will never forget the part which Ernest Ham had in the celebrated dramatic skit which constituted the central event of our twentieth reunion. Nobody could have carried off the part as Ham did, and his thorough enjoyment of it was not the least aspect of its interest.
As was noted in our class column some months ago, Ernest had been warned by his physician of a serious heart malady. Sunday evening, July 13, while he was perhaps hurrying to escape a sudden shower, the attack came. Death was instantaneous. It occurred at York Beach, Maine, which had been his summer home for years. Less than a month before he had passed his seventy-first birthday. The funeral was at Limerick, Maine, which had been Mrs. Ham's early home and was near that of her husband. It was conducted by the class secretary and was attended by six other members: F. C. Allen, Ames, Claggett, Cassin, Griffin, Wallis. Mrs. Ham will continue to live at Springfield, where they had bought a home and where their daughter Mrs. Otto J. Slack, Mr. Slack, and their son Robert Slack will be with her.
1896
EDWARD JOTHAN JOHNSON died suddenly at his home in Spokane, Wash., on June 16.
He was born August 29, 1873, in Charlestown, Mass., the son of Gardner Rand and Lizzie Abby (Ridgway) Johnson. He received his public school education in Nashua, N. H. and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1896, being a member of Beta Theta Pi.
He was in the city engineer's office in Nashua from graduation until 1902, and then city engineer to 1908. He was a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers and also a member of the Signal Corps, New Hampshire National Guard, from 1900 to 1903.
After removing to Spokane in 1908 he engaged in the real estate business for six years, and then became office manager for the Johnson- Bungay Fuel Company. He was a member of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist.
June 17, 1903, he was married to Fanny Weed of Oswego, N. Y., who survives him with three sons, Lieut. Edward Johnson of Honolulu, Gardiner H. Johnson of Kirkland, William W. Johnson of Spokane, and three daughters, Harriet H. Johnson and Mrs. E. R. Van Dorn of Spokane and Mrs. Broom of San Francisco.
1898
DR. EDWARD ORLANDO TABOR, a leading physician in Lowell, Mass., for nearly forty years, died at his home on August 25. Among the many flowers at the funeral service was a tribute from the class of 1898. The Secretary was privileged to attend the service.
Dr. Tabor was an attendant at the First Congregational church, and his pastor spoke in praise of his skill as a physician, and also most feelingly of his outstanding qualities as a man who gave freely of his time and skill to many needy people without thought of reward.
During Eddie Tabor's years at Dartmouth he was an outstanding pitcher on the baseball teams. He was also the organist at the Episcopal church when "Ich" Crane was choir master. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Casque and Gauntlet.
Honors in his profession came to Dr. Tabor with the passing years. He was president of the staff of the Lowell General Hospital from 1927 to 1938, having been a member of the staff since 1913.
Born in Hanover, N. H., December 4, 1876, the son of Orlando and Mary (Rand) Tabor, he was graduated with the class of 1898 and from the Medical School in 1901.
In 1902 he began the practice of medicine in Lowell, specializing in pediatrics. He was a fellow of the American Medical Association and held membership in the Massachusetts and Middlesex Medical Societies. He was an honorary member of the Vesper Country Club, and for many years was one of the most skill- ful golf players in Lowell. He was a past president of the Dartmouth Club o£ Lowell and a Mason.
He leaves his widow, the former Alice M. Whelan, to whom he was married July 25, 1918, and a son, Edward O. Jr., a graduate in this year's Dartmouth class and now a second year medical student at Dartmouth.
1900
One of the best-liked members of the class has gone from us in the passing of GILBERTBALKAM, who died at his home in Wollaston, Mass., on August 3, 1941.
Balkam was born in Hyde. Park, Mass., on January 3, 1877, the son of Stephen Brewer and Alice (Croudon) Balkam. A graduate of the local high school, he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1900—a member o£ the famous "Hyde Park delegation," made up of himself, Sears, Norris, D. B. Rich, and Howard. All of this group were affiliated with Phi Delta Theta.
After graduation Balkam was connected with various business enterprises, for many years being secretary of the Pneumatic Scales Corporation. In 1930 he became manager of the new business and analysis department of the Quincy (Mass.) Trust Company, a position which he retained until his death. He was vice-president of the Financial Advertisers Association of New England, a member of the state committee to study banking costs and a frequent contributor of articles upon management of accounts and public relations of banks, published in the banking journals.
He was also active in civic affairs. While in Hyde Park he was treasurer of the Y.M.C.A. and a member o£ the school committee. In Quincy he was vice-president of the Kiwanis Club and especially interested in the work of that organization for underprivileged children, co-chairman of the Protestant group of the Quincy Round Table of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, president of the Wollaston Men's Club, and assistant chairman of the Quincy Community Fund. For many years he had been a member of the local committee to interview candidates for admission to Dartmouth.
Balkam was married on October 11, 1905, to Miss Gertrude Sanger Mitchell of Hyde Park, who survives him, as do their four children: Stephen Brewer, Dartmouth '29, of Chicago; Lucelia, now Mrs. A. K. Tinkham; Gilbert Jr., Dartmouth '36; and Robert M.
His funeral was held in the Wollaston Congregational church on August 5. In attendance from 1900 were Rankin, McDavitt, At- wood, F. D. Sears, Jenkins, Merry, and Wallace. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery, Hyde Park.
MARTIN GOULD MARDEN, a member of the class for one term in freshman year, died at East Orange, N. J., on June 19, 1941.
He was born in Piermont, N. H., on October 13, 1877, the son of Rev. Augustus L. Marden, Dartmouth '56, and entered college from Allentown, Pa. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
Soon obliged to leave college because of ill health, he received a medical degree from the University of Louisville in 1902. Not much is known of his subsequent career. He was in the military service during the Spanish War, serving in Puerto Rico, and seems to have practiced medicine in Newark, N. J. He was on the medical staff of the Hog Island shipbuilding establishment during the World War, and later was associated with the medical office of the Post Office Department.
Maiden was married on August 14, 1909, to Miss Mary H. Snyder of Nantucket, Mass. They had two children; John S., Dartmouth '33, and Allen E.
1905
JAMES ALBERT VAUGHAN died at his home in Minneapolis, August 5, 1941.
The son of Patrick J. and Hannah (Wright) Vaughan, he was born in Portland, Me., August 24, 1882. He was a member o£ Theta Delta Chi and Casque and Gauntlet.
Immediately after graduation, he went to Lake Forest, Ill., where he taught mathematics at Lake Forest Academy. In 1907 he became associated with the Berwind Fuel Company, and represented them in Minneapolis. Later he was vice-president of the Clarkson Coal and Dock Co. Upon the death of his father- in-law, Mr. Wyman Partridge, in 1923, he became affiliated with Wyman Partridge & Co., and in 1930, when that firm was sold to Ely Walker Dry Goods Cos. of St. Paul, he became associated with the Wyman, Partridge Hold- ing Company as president and treasurer. His work in converting the old buildings of this company into the Wyman Merchandise Mart was outstanding. At the time of his death, he was also president of the Superior Separator Co.
Mr. Vaughan had a great many interests and was very civic minded. He had served as a member of the board of Civic and Commerce Association, the Taxpayers' Association, and the Labor Counciliation Board. Also at the time of his death he was chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Northwestern Hospital, and much of his time and energy had been recently spent in the raising af funds and the construction of a new building for the hospital. Jim Vaughan was one of the outstanding Dartmouth men in the Northwest.
In undergraduate days, he was half-back on the famous football team of 1903, and had the distinction of kicking the first competitive goal in the then new Soldier's Field Stadium at Harvard. His interest in Dartmouth was consistent, both in the College and in the young men attending it. He was responsible for placing many young men in good positions. He was a man of outstanding integrity and unusual friendliness, and his loss is keenly felt by the community.
Mr. Vaughan is survived by his wife, Katherine Wyman Vaughan, to whom he was married February 5, 1916, and four children, Wyman R., Dartmouth '39, James A. Jr., Dartmouth '41, Richard H„ and Katherine B.
HENRY D. THRALL '06.
1907
WALTER BISHOP SPELMAN died suddenly from pulmonary embolism in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, July 4, 1941. He had undergone an operation for hernia. The son of Amasa B. and Nancy V. (Anell) Spelman, he was born in Sciota, N. Y„ June 20, 1885. The family early removed to Champlain, N. Y., and he prepared for college at the local high school and at St. John's Military Academy. He was at Dartmouth for the first two years of his course, but finished at Princeton, where he graduated in 1910. Later, in 1937, he received the degree of A.M. at the University of Chicago.
After graduation he was for one year with the Western Electric Co. in Chicago and then for one year with the Chicago Telephone Co. in 1912 he began teaching English and history in the Morton High School at Cicero, Ill., and when Morton Junior College was established in 1924 he was made dean of men, and remained in that position for the rest of his life.
During his boyhood and college days he was prominent in athletics, and played baseball, football, basketball, and hockey.
December 23, 1912, he was married to Ruth schantz of Cicero, who survives him, with three sons and three daughters.
1908
PAUL STEVEN VAITSES died suddenly July 12 at Baker Memorial hospital in Boston. He was 56 years of age. Though not in best of health he had been going to his office regularly until the day before his death. For 35 years he was a resident of Melrose, at 123 Warwick Road.
tFollowing his graduation at Dartmouth in 1908 Paul engaged in business in Boston and 1927 he reorganized and became treasurer and general manager of the United Stay Company of Cambridge. In this enterprise he was eminently successful and gave it his undivided ettention until the day before his death.
Civic and fraternal interests were many, Raul was active in Boy Scout work in Melrose and in the First Congregational church in that city. He was a director of the Melrose Savings Bank, active in Republican political organizations, in the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce and Cambridge Rotary club. He was a member of Tabor Lodge of Masons in Fair- haven, and DePayens Commandery Knights Templar in Melrose, and Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Boston. Also he held membership in the Boston City club, University club, and Beta Chapter of Omicrom Delta. He was a frequent visitor in Hanover where his sons followed him in the Dartmouth tradition, and never failed to attend any class or college round-up in the Boston district.
He leaves his widow, Hazel Holmes Vaitses, three sons, Donald S., Allan H. and Paul S. Jr., also his mother, four brothers, two sisters and one granddaughter.
Funeral services were held July 15 at Whitney Funeral Parlor in Melrose.
1909
HAROLD ALLEN OSBORNE died at his home, 15 Bradlee Ave., Swampscott, Mass., on September 7, 1941, after a brief illness.
He was born in Lynn, Mass., November 28, 1886, the son of the late Addison L. Osborne and Harriet E. (Andrews) Osborne, and prepared for college at the Lynn Classical High School.
Harold was the vice-president, general manager, and a director of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, and also held directorates in the Littleway Process Company, United Shoe Repairing Machinery Company, Krippendorf Kalculator Company, Turner Tanning Machinery Company, 8.8. Chemical Company, and the Campbell Bosworth Ma: chinery Company.
He was also a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Tedesco Country Club, Algonquin Club of Boston, Oxford Club of Lynn and the Beach Bluff Club of Swamp- scott, and was a 32d degree Mason. At college he was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity, the Vaudeville Club, the Press Club, and the class baseball team.
Because Harold had to work his way through college, he appreciated what an education meant, and as a result he has helped numerous young men to go through Dartmouth. This help was always given without ostentation, so that very few people realize how much he has contributed to the younger Dartmouth men.
In 1913, he was married to Miss Bessie Goodridge of Lynn, who survives him. He is also survived by his mother.
TRESCOTT GRIFFIN died at the Phillips House, Boston July 17, 1941, after a short illness.
He was born on August 19, 1887, at Brighton, Mass., the son of John W. Griffin. He prepared for college at the Roxbury Latin School but left college after his sophomore year.
He was the proprietor of an investment securities business located at 161 Devonshire St., Boston. His home was at 31 Cleveland Road, Wellesley, Mass.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth M. Griffin, and his mother.
JAMES SAMUEL BELL died at his home at 39 Benton Road, Somerville, Mass., on April 10, 1941. He was stricken with pneumonia and lived only a few hours.
He was born on September 8, 1883, in Boston, Mass., and prepared for college at Cambridge Latin School and DeMeritte School. He attended Dartmouth for two years and then left to complete his education at Harvard. He later entered the insurance business.
1910
RALPH WARNER HEDGES was born at West Berlin, Vt., September 17, 1887, the son o£ Jesse Clarence and Carrie Belle (Strong) Hedges. Graduating from Northfield, Vt., High School, he attended Norwich University in 1906-07, Dartmouth from September to December, 1907, and entered Middlebury in 1909, graduating there in 1912.
He taught school in Abilene, Texas, 1912-13, and was in business {or about a year before going to Salisbury, Vt., where he taught in 1915. He was principal of the Bristol, Vt., High School, 1915-17, going from there to Bridgeport, Conn., to remain as principal of the Warren Harding High School for many years. He was married in New York City August 15, 1920, to Helen Plaisted. They had no children.
Date of his death and further details of his life are lacking.
PHILIP MERRILL FORRISTALL was born in Cliftondale, Mass., February 19, 1888, the son of Stephen Arnold and Katherine (Cross) FOr ristall Graduating from Maiden High School, with Hazen Jones and Jim Porter, the three entered Dartmouth to graduate in 1910. They were members of Theta Delta Chi.
He then spent two years with U. S. Rubber Co. in New York and Boston, going with Waitt & Bond, where he rose to sales manager and vice-president. In 1935 he became general sales manager of American Tobacco Company's cigar department, and in 1939 went with the Stack-Goble Advertising Agency as vice-president.
December 12, 1916, he married Doris Graver, and some years later was married to Mary Hoag. No children survive by either marriage.
Phil's tragic death by carbon monoxide on July 13 at his home in Mount Vernon, N. Y„ was a great shock to his host of friends. Dartmouth was represented at the funeral by Clarke Tobin, H. P. Jackson, Russell Palmer, George L. McClintock, John Palmer and Charles Comiskey.
Phil Forristall in his active and full life possessed that real quality of loving his friends and being loved in return by them. Loyalty to them, to the class and to the College was outstanding in him at all times.
1912
Harry Malcolm Jones, 1912, died in Minneapolis, Minn., on Nov. 14, 1940. Harry and his wife, Lenore Lee, and son, Lee Malcolm, had just been on a trip to Arizona. Three weeks after his return he was walking home in one of Minneapolis' worst blizzards, through two feet of snow, and was overcome by the recurrence of a heart trouble.
Harry was born in April 7, 1887, eldest son of Harry W. Jones and Bertha Tucker Jones of Minneapolis. He prepared at Pillsbury Academy, Owatonna, Minn. In College he was a member of Sigma Chi and a member of the track team that beat Harvard, Yale and Princeton at Madison Square Garden. After graduation he went into surety bonding and became manager of American Surety Co. at Los Angeles. Later he was transferred to a branch at Seattle, and then returned to Minneapolis in 1917 to enter into the insurance business on his own.
In 1925 he went to Florida with the Thew Shovel Co., later the Lima Shovel Co., and since that time has devoted his life to selling road construction equipment.
On January 6, 1913, he married Lenore Lee at Minneapolis. They have had two children, Mary Elizabeth, born in 1913 (died 1921), and Lee Malcolm, born 1922. The wife and son live at 1400 West 47th St., Minneapolis, and a sister, Mary White Jones, at Aurora, Ill.
One of the quiet men of 1912, always a cheery optimist, a friendly fisherman and a good hand at bridge,—Malcolm will be missed by the class.
1913
CHARLES STANLEY MCDANIEL died on August 16, 1941, in Pittsburgh, Pa., after a long illness following an operation last December.
The son of Charles William and Ida F. (Saunders) McDaniel, he was born in Lake- port, N. H., on January 17, 1890. He prepared for college in the Portsmouth, N. H., High School and Brewster Academy, Wolfboro N H.
He majored in English and economics, and after graduation he taught these subjects in Manchester, N. H. and Port Chester, N. Y„ High Schools. He then entered the employ of Allyn and Bacon, Boston publishers.
At the outbreak of the World War he enlisted in the U. S. Navy, and by competitive examination entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis and was commissioned ensign. After the armistice he returned to Allyn and Bacon with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa.
June 30, 1923, he married Elisabeth Brook- field Cowpland, a graduate of Carnegie In- stitute of Technology and an art instructor in the Pittsburgh schools. After a wedding trip in Europe they made their home in Pittsburgh.
Mac was a member of Phi Delta Theta and sang in the choir for three years.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, Charles Stanley, age ig, and H. Cowpland, age 13; a brother, Harry Sewall McDaniel, and a sister, Mrs. Edwin Weeks Goodwin.
Services were held in Pittsburgh, and Karl Maerker 1910 represented the College and the class.
1916
Lieutenant Commander BARRETT STUDLEY, U. S. N., retired, met death by drowning near San Diego, Cal., on March 3, 1941.
He was born September 6, 1895, at Brent- wood, N. Y., and was the son of George Barrett and Mary Cushman (Spaulding) Studley. He prepared for college at Jamaica Hieh School. S
After graduation from Dartmouth, he engaged in accounting work for a short time, but this was merely a prelude to his life's work, naval aviation, in which he had a brilliant career.
Enlisting in the Naval Reserve June 11, 1917, he was transferred on April 30, 1918, to the Naval Reserve Flying Corps, commissioned as an ensign December 27, 1918, lieutenant junior grade December 3, 1921, lieutenant September 19, 1922, and lieutenant commander in 1934. He retired in 1940.
His assignments included the following: inard types of navy planes, and he was stationed at various times on the east and west coasts.
His assignments included the following: in- structor of flying at Pensacola, senior aviation officer on the flagship, New Mexico, member of Patrol Squadron No. 7 at San Diego, service on U.S.S. Wright, officer in charge of the ground school at Pensacola, and commander of the Aviation Cadet Battalion at Pensacola, with 400 cadets in the battalion.
Barrett wrote a number of magazine articles, and was the author of the following books, published by the Macmillan Company: Learning to Fly for the Navy, How to Fly, and Practical Flight Training.
On February 17, 1933, he married Elsie Denyes, who survives him.
Barrett was an excellent student at Dartmouth and belonged to Phi Beta Kappa. His classmates held him in high respect and affection, and his death comes as a deep shock to all of us.
A letter from his father informs us that, in accordance with Barrett's wish, he was buried in the National Cemetery at Point Loma, overlooking San Diego harbor and the Naval Air Station on North Island, to which he was attached for three years of his flying career.
During the summer, word was received of the death on January 9, 1941, of ALBERT EDWARD DOUTY.
Douty was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on May 6, 1893, 'he son of Harry William and Louise (Myers) Douty. He prepared for college at the Pennington School, Pennington, N.J.
He left Dartmouth after his freshman year. He was engaged in the real estate business, and married Cora Belle Langfield. Their son, Harry William Douty III, graduated from Dartmouth in 1941.
1923
WARREN SLATER ZELLER died in the Gotham Hospital, New York City, on June n, 1941. He had gone to New York from Philadelphia on business and was taken with an attack of acute appendictis, necessitating an emergency operation on June 5th. Complications set in causing his death six days later.
Warrie was with us in Hanover for two years. The year following he became ass ciated with the American Sugar Refining Q and advanced with them to the position , superintendent of their Baltimore plant. On a few years ago he resigned from the compat and returned to his native Philadelphia to si up his own concern in the food brokera. business, representing several Hawaiian an California interests. He was a member of Ir Kappa Psi, Kiwanis, Henry H. Houston, Post American Legion, and the Dartmouti Alumni Association of Philadelphia. In spit of his short residence in Hanover Warrie hai always maintained a keen and Joyal inters in all things Dartmouth and as an active '23er will be greatly missed.
Surviving are his widow, Evelyn Rapp, two sons, Warren Jr. and Richard of Paper Mill Road, North Hills, Pa., and his parents, now of Mt. Airy, Pa.
He was born in Philadelphia, November s 1899, the son of Edwin Adrian and Carolit (Weston) Zeller.
1938
MAURICE CROCKER HALLETT 2D died a Mount Clemens, Mich., on June 17 of this year of injuries received in an airplane accident. He was born in Oak Park,Ill., Jun 14, 1916, the son of Harold Maurice and Else Christine (Eissler) Hallett. He was a graduate of Newton (Mass.) High School.
Shortly after graduation from Dartmouth he became associated with the Lumbermans Mutual Insurance Co. as a tabulating clers in their Chicago office, and in the spring of 1940 became a safety engineer for the sara firm. It was toward the end of last year that he began studies at the University of Chicago as a member of the Meteorological Department of the U. S. Army. Upon completion of his course, he was assigned to active duty, and his death occurred just a few days prior to his reporting for duty.
At a height of approximately 150 feet, the plane stalled, spun, and crashed, bursting into flames. The pilot was killed immediately and Mouse passed away after several days of unconsciousness.
Majoring in mathematics, he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and the Sphinx senior society. Mouse played freshman hockey freshman baseball, and varsity baseball, and was a letterman on the varsity hockey team After graduation he played on Chicago's Cath olic Association Hockey Team, and was in the playoffs for the 1939 Illinois State champion ship. He was active in class alumni affairs
and was a strong factor in the success of our Fund campaigns, as well as the arrangement of our class get-togethers.
Mouse's going was more than untimely and shocking, and in a country losing a citizen and soldier, and a family a son, we have lost one of our most devoted comrades.
1941
HULBERT HEWITT "HOBIE" MULOCK Was killed in an automobile accident at Youngs town, Ohio, on Sunday, June 22, one week after he had received his diploma in Hanover
Hobie had stopped off in Youngstown to visit his former Dartmouth roommate, Bill McKelvey, on his way from Hanover to his home, 321 37th Street, Des Moines, lowa. The two were returning from a trip to nearby Niles, Ohio, when another car swung out from a side street and struck McKelvey's convertible coupe, which was proceeding on a through thoroughfare, according to the Youngstown police report.
Born in Des Moines June 23, 1919, the son of Edwin Hulbert and Ethel Sarah (Hewitt) Mulock, Hobie prepared for college at Roose- velt High School there. At Dartmouth he majored in Democratic Institutions, was a member of Sigma Chi, vice-president of the fraternity, and an excellent golfer.
One of his closest friends in college wrote after his death: "His sense of humor, his congeniality, his ever-present helping hand, combined with an ability to think for and rely on himself when the time came, served to make him a real person. The knowledge of these things and the memories of such incidents as all-night chinning sessions, an experience with straw hats, or joint struggles with the same course, are the only balm for those crushed by his untimely death."
He is survived by his parents and his sister.
ANDREW FLAG SOUTHERLAND of Hall, N. Y., died of pneumonia in a hospital at Petoskey, Mich., on Friday, August 1. He was taken ill while, attending a University of Michigan biological camp at Sheboygan, and was removed to the Petoskey hospital.
Flag was born in Canandaigua, N. Y., May 30, 1918, the son of Henry Augustus and Vera Mary (Robson) Southerland, attended Penn Yan Academy for two years and graduated from Geneva, N. Y., High School. A quiet and capable student, his ability in his major subject, biology, is attested by an appointment he had received to a teaching fellowship in that department at Williams College for the coming year.
At Dartmouth, he was president of the Natural History Club, and a member o£ the Undergraduate Scientific Society.
He leaves his parents, a sister, Margaret Southerland, a student at the University of Michigan, and his grandfather A. Flag Robson, of Penn Yan, N. Y.
Medical School
1890
DR. FRANK HOLLIS BURNETT died June 21, 1941, at his home in Brockton, Mass., of coronary stenosis and thrombosis.
He was born in Guilford, Vt., October 10, 1866, the son of Hollis Herbert and Mary Aurelia (Thurber) Burnett, and prepared for college at Glenwood Classical Seminary, West Brattleboro. He entered college with the class of 1890, but was soon taken ill with rheumatic fever and measles, and was not able to continue his course. He began his medical course at the University of Vermont and completed it at Dartmouth.
He began the practice of his profession at Hinsdale, N. H., whence he went to Hanover, Mass., and was then for a short time in Houston, Texas. In 1896 he removed to Brockton, where he had an active general practice and was for many years a leading member of the surgical staff of the Brockton City Hospital. In recent years he had specialized in psycho- therapy.
Besides the American Medical Association and state and county medical societies, he was a member o£ various social organizations, a vestryman of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, and a member of various Masonic organizations, including the Knights Templar.
September 15, 1891, he was married to Florence, daughter of Seth and Mary Barnard of Wilmington, Vt., who died in October, 1936. They had no children. Edward A. Burnett '87 is a brother.
1891
DR. BERT EVERETT LAMB died of cancer July 28, 1941, at his home in Gardiner, Me.
The son of Bowman and Matilda (Wey- mouth) Lamb, he was born in Shawmut, Me., February 18, 1864, and received his early-education in the public schools of Skowhegan. At the age of 18 he removed with his parents to Randolph, Me., where he continued to make his home until 1909. He was employed in a drug store in Gardiner, and was the first man in Maine to pass the state pharmacy examination. He studied medicine with Dr. John Turner of Gardiner and at Dartmouth.
In 1891 he opened an office in Gardiner, still living in Randolph, where he was for three years chairman of the board of selectmen and represented the town in the legislatures of 1902 and 1903. Finally removing to Gardiner, he was a member of the Common Council in 1910, and from 1911 to 1917 and again from 1921 to 1923 mayor of the city. For seven years previous to his death he was health officer for the city, and served in a like capacity at various times for several neigh- boring towns.
In March, 1912, he was married to Lucretia H., daughter of William H. and Jennie (Williams) Ring of Gardiner, who survives him, with a son, Philip E., who is a lawyer in Gardiner.
A local paper said of Dr. Lamb: "He started his practice in the days of the horse-and- buggy doctor, and had the reputation among his wide circle of patients of never refusing to answer a call regardless of the condition of the weather or the patient's ability to pay."
1896
DR. GEORGE EVERETT SLEEPER died January 13, 1941, at the Hartford (Conn.) Hospital after a short illness. He was born in Concord, N. H., July 12, 1870, the son of Jonathan W. and Johanna Frances (Hurd) Sleeper. After graduation he served his internship at the Hartford Hospital, 1897-99. His entire professional life was spent in Hartford. He married Grace Butler in Weathersfield, Conn., who died several years ago. There were no children. One sister survives, Mrs. Fred A. Hinchliffe of Beverly, Mass.
CHARLES MARSH DAVIS '82
LT. COMMANDER BARRETT STUDLEY '16,U. S. N.
