Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices may appear in thisissue or may appear in a later number.]
Miner, George E., '89, Oct. 13. Letteney, John H., '95, Nov. 15. Johnston, Robert P., '99, Oct. 17. Barton, Ralph M., '04, Nov. 14. Dailey, Michael A., '04, Oct. 27. Just, Ernest E., '07, Oct. 27. Taylor, Harold F., '14, Oct. 22. Willey, Richard R., '18, Oct. 4. Libby, Richardson A., 'ax, Nov. 9. Nutter, George W., med. '84, Oct. 28. Leach, Albert C., med. '94, Nov. 9. McNeil, Archibald, med. '96, Oct. 13. Terwilliger, Frank W., med. '96, Oct. 31. Ames, Owen A. 8., med. '9B, Nov. 9.
Necrology
1889
ZJ GEORGE EPHRAIM MINER died suddenly at his home in Ridgefield, N. J., October 12, 1941.
Born at St. Johnsbury, Vt., September 3, 1865, the son of George F. and Sophronia E. (Richardson) Miner, he graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1885 and was one of 18 from that school to enter Dartmouth the following September. He graduated (8.L.) with our class.
After a year of teaching at Coventry, Vt., he studied law in the office of Potter & Potter, New York City, and in February 1892 was admitted to the New York bar and became a member of the above firm on the same day. He went to his office on October 11, having been in active practice for 49 years. Until Mrs. Miner's death, November 19, 1940, the family home was in Brooklyn, where both he and his wife were prominent in social and civic organizations. He had held the office of president of the New England Society and the Vermont Society, also of the Congregational Club.
On June 29, 1892, at Gaysville, Vt., he married Miss Harriet V. Sawyer. Their three sons are all Dartmouth graduates. Paul S. '18 is with the Underwood Elliott Fisher Co.; Stanley P. '22 has been with the New York Telephone Company ever since his graduation; Theodore R. '23 is a physician in Brooklynjust now serving in the U. S. Navy. There are five grandchildren.
1897
MURRAY WEST GORDON died August 1, 1941, at his home in Rochester, N. H.
He was born in Landaff, N. H., July 8, 1870, the son of Russell Tewksbury and Susan (Clark) Gordon. He remained with the class only through freshman year, having become a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. Later in 1895-6 he was in Brown University. After leaving college he entered the employ of the Boston & Maine Railroad, and for 25 years was a towerman at the Boston terminal. He was then a printer at Rochester, and also conducted a restaurant there.
June 12, 1900, he married Cata Cook of Chester, Vt., who died in January 1906. March 14, 1920, he married Hazel Brownsett, who survives him, as does also a son, Clayton S., of Providence, R. I.
1901
HARRY OSBERT WASHBURNE, familiarly known to the class and the college as "Ike," passed away in a hospital in Chicago, July 26, 1941, after a long illness. v
He was born in Hartford, Vt., June 19, 1876, and after attending the public schools went to work in one of the local mills. However, he was ambitious, and decided to secure a higher education and become a physician. He worked his way through St. Johnsbury Academy, and entered Dartmouth College in the fall of 1897, and was graduated with his class. He was older and more mature than most of his classmates, and his means were limited, so for four years he was always busy, carrying on various business enterprises to meet his expenses. While at St. Johnsbury he met and knew Graham '99 and lived with him in old Dartmouth Hall freshman year. Washburne later on ran the College Book Store in the Rood House, which had been operated previously by his friend Graham. His was a strong character, decidedly retiring, and even those who were privileged to know him, never were very close to him. Perhaps this was due to the incessant demands upon his time and energy to secure his expenses and carry on his college work. Nevertheless he was always active in college affairs, and played on the freshman baseball team, and was manager of football his senior year. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Dragon Senior Society.
After graduation he was located in Concord, N. H., where he continued the insurance business he had started in college. Later on he was in business in Leominster and Seekonk, Mass. His last years were spent in and about Chicago, where he held several positions, the last with the Stein-Hall Mfg. Co.
Washburne married Miss Florence Russell, who lived only a few years, and he leaves no relatives.
1907
DR. ERNEST EVERETT JUST, noted zoologist, died October 27 in Washington, D. C.
He was born in Charleston, S. C., August 14, 1883, and obtained his preliminary education at the State College at Orangeburg, S. C., and, coming North, at Kimball Union Academy. He graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank and with special honors in zoology and history.
In 1907 he became instructor in English and history in Howard University, his work being changed to English and biology in 1909. In 1910 he became assistant professor of biology. Later this became a full professorship, and he was also head of the department of physiology in the university's school of medicine. In 1916 he received the degree of Ph.D. in biology at the University of Chicago, magna cum laude. In 1915, for his work in physiology and in improving the standard of Negro medical schools, he received the Spingarn Medal, awarded annually to "the man or woman of African descent and American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year or years in any honorable field of human endeavor."
The leading biologists in Germany chose him as the best fitted among the world's scholars to write a treatise on fertilization. He was also one of the authors of an elaborate work on colloid chemistry. He was an editor of the international journal, Protoplasma, and of the official organ of the Marine Biological Society, and a member of the American Society of Zoologists, the American Naturalists, and La Soci6t6 des Sciences Naturelles at Mathematiques.
In 1912 he married Ethel Highwarden of Columbus, Ohio, who survives him with a daughter and a son.
1916
HARRY GOLDMAN died suddenly on August 16, 1941, of acute cardiac thrombosis.
He was born in Providence, R. 1., on October 21, 1892. His parents were Abram and Annie (Brown) Goldman. Harry prepared for college at Bryant High School.
After serving in the World War as a sergeant in the Ordnance Department, he entered the clothing business, in which he engaged for a number of years. He was also in the life insurance business for a time. Since 1934 he had been a social investigator for the Department of Welfare of the city of New York, in which city he likewise made his home.
On July 6, 1918, he married Augusta Loewy of New York City. She and their three children, Austin David, June Beatrice, and Andrew Jesse, survive him. Austin graduated in 1940 from the College of the City of New York and now attends Harvard Law School.
Harry returned to Hanover last June for his twenty-fifth reunion, and his wife tells me of the happiness he experienced in renewing the friendships of his classmates. He had a deep affection for the College and for his class, and we, in turn, held him in high esteem.
1918
Quiet, retiring, a gentleman and a scholar, and a friend of all with whom he came in contact, DICK WILLEY, deceased October 4, will eter be remembered in our class as a congenial person.
Dick not only had a very interesting and colorful career but he distinguished himself greatly. Upon graduating from Dartmouth he obtained a position in Brentano's book store, for his passion in life was books. He had started collecting them in college, and throughout his entire life had accumulated an extensive library. He also had a great love for travel and, as he was a most progressive and scholarly person, he passed the government examination and was appointed American vice-consul to Dublin, Ireland, in October 1921. He remained in Dublin for four years. In 1926 he passed his second government examination and was made a full consul. He was then transferred to Calcutta, India. He remained in India approximately five years. His last diplomatic post was in Leipzig, Germany. He was sent there in 1931 and stayed until 1932. When he returned to the United States he took a short vacation, and then later became affiliated with the New Yorker magazine until his death on October 4, 1941.
Throughout all his travels he added to his growing library, and at the time of his death had acquired some 5000 books. This great love of reading and collecting books made him a well known person in all of New York's book haunts.
In his last illness, one of his greatest desires was to return to Dartmouth College once again. He said he knew that New Hampshire's climate would make him well again. This of course was an impossibility, as he was a great deal sicker than he realized. He had kept in touch with his classmates throughout all his years abroad, and remarked many times that he was proud to be a "Dartmouth man."
We shall all miss Dick, but his memory will live always with the other 42 men of '18 who have gone before. We are indebted to Dick's sister, Mrs. Blumenthal, for this fine intimate picture—and to his family and his mother, Mrs. Sara Willey of Brooklyn, 1918 extends their deepest heartfelt sympathy.
(RICHARD RHOADS WILLEY was born in New York City, August 11, 1896, his parents being Albert Henry and Sara (Rhoads) Willey.)
1940
Whenever Viv Bruce skated on Occom Pond, he could look over his shoulder and see an admiring group of Hanover kids following him around the rink. Some of them he had taught to skate, all of them were his friends. All of them knew that during the rest of the year he would stop whenever they saw him in Hanover and talk with them, remembering everyone by name.
Viv Bruce spent four years in enjoying or rejecting all that Hanover could offer. He enjoyed the friendship of the townies and of their parents. He lived in and enjoyed New Hampshire and Vermont, whether it was in his Model T, his bicycle, or the motorcycle that he drove off in a week before his class graduated. He painted what he saw and wrote of what he felt. He enjoyed most those classes that sought and developed the individual and those that worked for self-expression.
He rejected popularity and popular customs. He did his own working and his own playing, and no one ever knew for sure where he was eating or how he spent his afternoons. He lived by impulse and purpose and not by routine.
In his own way Viv Bruce sought and found a better and more real Dartmouth man. He learned to do his own thinking, and by so doing gained respect for his conclusions. He combined a serious, searching, and doubting mind with athletic prowess. He was elected to Green Key from the class at large, though he hated the word "popularity" and though he never let himself become more than a temporary member of any group. His strength and ability made him captain of the Skating Team, art editor of Pace, and a member of Players' shows, but it never affected the sensitive and romantic nature that made him one of the best writers in the class or led to his leaving Hanover in June of 1940 without a word to anyone.
On September 17 near Evanston, Wyoming, VIVIAN RANDALL BRUCE JR. died in an automobile accident. His parents, Vivian Randall and Mary Agnes (Rockwell) Bruce live in Wellsville, N. Y. Bruce was an instructor in the Army Air Corps, stationed at Moffatt Field, Calif.
TED GATES.
(DANIEL RICHARD CONWAY was born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 9, 1917, the son of Timothy Joseph and Margaret Mary (Nelson) Conway, and prepared for college at University School. He was a member of Sigma Chi and Dragon. He left college to enlist in the Air Corps. He married Catherine L. Johnson of Fort Worth, Texas.)
On July 25 I flew from Salt Lake City to Fort Worth, Texas, for a mighty happy occasion. Dan Conway was to be married the next day. We had spent three full years together at Dartmouth. Three years that were crammed with the wonderful times, the grand friendships, and the various unforgettable experiences that one lives through with a roommate at college.
On September 17, I again took off from the Salt Lake Airport. However, there wasn't any joy and light-hearted feeling that there was when I started on my flight of less than two months before. This time I was going to Dan Conway's funeral at Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Monday morning, September 15, Dan was killed at Brady, Texas, while teaching a student instrument flying. He was a flying instructor for the Army Air Corps, having graduated from the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field in June of 1940.
Dan loved flying with a passion. He loved the feeling of accomplishment which he received from instructing students. He loved the small ships that he flew and often kidded me about my being in Heavy Bombardment. All who knew Dan knew what a full life he led. He was the kind that got a kick out of every moment of every day. Dan lived only 24 years, but during that time he lived more than many of us do in a lifetime. Dan left a wife, a mother, a father, two sisters and ten brothers. Their pain is lessened however by the knowledge that Dan died a hero's death, while serving his country, and that he died while flying. That is the way he wanted it.
FRED EATON JR.
Medical School
1884
DR. GEORGE WILLIAM NUTTER died in the Portsmouth, N. H., Hospital, October 28, 1941, from injuries received when he was struck by a car on a street in that city.
The son of William Sumner and Mary Elizabeth (Collins) Nutter, he was born in Barnstead, N. H., June si, 1858. His early education was obtained in the schools of Barnstead and at Pittsfield Academy, his course there being interrupted by frequent absences during which he was teaching district schools.
After obtaining his medical degree he began practice in Manchester, N. H., where he remained for seven years. He then left the practice of his profession and became a registered pharmacist. He owned and operated a drugstore in Concord until 1915, and at the time of his death he was operating two such stores, one in Salmon Falls, which he had operated for 50 years, and one in Somersworth, which he had owned for 45 years, making his home in Salmon Falls.
He was active in public affairs, and was a representative in the state legislature for one year during his residence in Manchester, and in 1928, 1933, 1934, 1937, and 1938 from the town of Rollinsford, of which Salmon Falls is a part. He had attained high degrees in Masonry, and was a member of the Odd Fellows, the Grange, and the Eastern Star.
In 1898 Dr. Nutter was married to Josie May Lord of Salmon Falls, who died February 15, 1900, with her infant son. March 25, 1903, he was married to Bertha Elmira, daughter of Charles and Eva Johnson of Salmon Falls, who died May 13, 1941. They leave two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Smith of Baltimore and Mrs. Dorothy Green of Salmon Falls. There are four grandchildren.
1885
DR. FRANK FLETCHER POPE died of uremia at his home in Ashby, Mass., August 26, 1941. The son of Frederick William and Mary Florence (Fletcher) Pope, he was born in Shirley, Mass., August 7, 1859, and received his preliminary education at Naugatuck, Conn., High School. His medical course was begun at the University of Vermont and concluded at Dartmouth.
He practiced first in Boston and Lunenburg, Mass., removing to Ashby in 1896. He led the quiet, uneventful life of a country doctor, having no ambitions for social or political prominence. Outside of his profession his chief interest was the study of languages, and he had a comprehensive knowledge of French, German, Italian, and Spanish. In 1924 with his wife he made a European trip.
April 3, 1884, he was married to Frances Alice Moody of Burlington, Vt., who died December 15, 1920. They had one son, Frederick W., now of Ashland, Mass. A second marriage, November 5, 1921, was to Florence Kendall Gates of Ashby, who died in 1931.
1896
DR. ARCHIBALD MCNEIL died at his home in Westport, Conn., October 13, 1941, after a short illness.
He was born at Cross River, N. Y., July 16, 1866, the son of Dr. Rollin and Esther (Keeler) McNeil, and was a sometime student at Yale.
After helping to establish the New Haven Health Department laboratories, he went to New York, and was connected with the Department of Health Laboratories for many years as a serologist, becoming a research specialist in the cure of gonococcal infections.
In 1912 he published one of the first accounts of work in his chosen field with the complement fixation test. He devoted most of his time to work in the diagnosis and tests for proof of cure of infections, and perfected the "McNeil Antigen." During the World War he was director of the Port of New York Quarantine Laboratories, and for twenty years directed the National Pathological Laboratories.
Dr. McNeil married Julia Brook, who is not living. They had no children.
DR. FRANK WEBSTER TERWILLIGER died sud denly of heart disease at his home in Highland, N. Y., October 31, 1941.
The son of Gilbert Saxton and Frances (Smith) Terwilliger, he was born in Highland, August 11, 1870, and received his academic education at Dwight Preparatory School.
After graduation he served an internship in Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, and then opened practice in Brooklyn. About 25 years ago he returned to Highland, gave up the prac- tice of his profession, and went into a crate manufacturing business there.
He was a member of the Highland Presbyterian church, and was an Elk and a 32d degree Mason.
His wife, who was Martha Haight, died in 1927. Their survivors are a son, Dr. William Gilbert Terwilliger of New York City, and a daughter, Mrs. William C. Hidlay of Bloomburgh, Pa. There are two grandchildren.
