"Ed" Boyle Dies

ED" BOYLE, FRIEND of every heeler and editor of The Dartmouth from 1918 to 1932, died in St. Cloud, Florida, on July 26, a victim of silicosis. As linotype operator, make-up man, and general night foreman at the Dartmouth Printing Company, he "put to bed" nearly every issue of the student daily for fifteen years, and in the process became a legend which members of the more recent staffs still perpetuate.

A stern taskmaster while there was work to be done, Ed Boyle in the off-hours of the evening was the friend and counsellor of the students working at press. He often brought an extra-large midnight supper to share with them, and to be invited to Norwich for one of Mrs. Boyle's famous meals was an ambition almost as great as that of being editor.

Before coming to Hanover in 1918, in an adventurous move to get to the country, Ed Boyle had been reporter, make-up man, and typesetter for the Manchester Union and the Boston Globe. With this experience behind him, he could dash off a news story in hot type, and sometimes he would insert into one or two issues of the paper, printed especially for the editor and business manager, some libelous item that would send the two rushing to press to stop the issue.

For Dartmouth men of that period "Bee" Boyle was as great a friend as a husband Ed.