Deaths

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

Frost, Gilman D., '86, Oct. 8. Blakely, David N., '89, Oct. 15. Selden, George C., '93, July. Cleveland, Raymond L., '04, Sept. 27. Childs, John W., '09, Sept. 23. Trewin, Harold R., '12, Oct. 8. Goss, Parker S., '23, Aug. 18. Ward, Kenneth H., '24. Hershey, Frank S., '25, Sept. 24. Bauer, Ernest W., '26, Oct. 12. Peterson, Kenneth D. R., '33, 1938. Shafer, J. Frederick Jr., '37, Sept. 18. Hutchings, Joseph H., med. '85, Jan. 12, 1941. Hertzberg, G. R. R., med. '99, Sept. 17. REPORTED MISSING IN WAR SERVICE Aieta, James V., '35. Griffith, Lt. Jay C. Jr., '42.

Necrology

1884

DELAVAN C. DELANO, a member of the Class of 1884, passed away at Somerville, Massachu- setts, September 13, 1942. Born at Hanover, New Hampshire, February 1, 1859, he attained the ripe old age of 83 years at his decease.

After graduating from Dartmouth, he en- gaged in the study of law at Boston University Law School, and received his LL.B. degree in 1887. He thereafter practiced law in Boston for over 40 years. Following his retirement from practice, he removed to Somerville, Mas- sachusetts, some 10 years ago.

He was a member of the Aegis Board dur-ing his college course, but he joined no fra-ternity while in college.

Quiet and unassuming in his deportment,he devoted himself assiduously to his studies,and later became proficient in the legal pro-fession. He was sufficient unto himself, havingfew associates during his career at college orassociation with his fellow members of 1884since graduation.

Funeral services were held at Hanover, NewHampshire, and burial was in the family lot.

i893

GEORGE CHARLES SELDEN died in New YorkCity, July 20, 1942.

The son of Rev. George and Mary A.(Towle) Smith, he was born at East Concord,N. H., December 6, 1870, and prepared for col-lege at Pinkerton and Cushing Academies.While in college he changed his name fromSmith to Selden, and by that name was after-wards known.

He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and won the Rollins and Nettleton prizes in oratory and the Grimes prize in English composition. He was editor-in-chief of the Aegis, an editor of the Dartmouth Monthly, and joint editor of "Dartmouth Sketches," and was a member of the Press Club and the Crinologian Club. His fraternities were Theta Delta Chi and Sphinx.

After graduation he studied law at Lake Forest University, from which he received his LL.B. degree in 1895. After remaining in Chi- cago for a number of years he was active in legal and financial matters in Washington, Atlanta, Nashville, and New York City. At one time he was a Schiff Fellow of Political Econ- omy and Finance at Columbia University, and for twenty years beginning in 1909 he was ed- itor of the Magazine of Wall Street. He was a widely known writer of financial books and magazine articles, and a speaker in the Finance Forum. During the last fifteen years of his life Selden was not actively engaged in business, but had large interests in New York City real estate and in various corporations. In politics he called himself a Socialist, and in 1912 voted for Eugene Debs for president.

In 1904 he was married to Catherine Cope o£ Des Moines, lowa, who died in 1917; in 1923 he married Louise Decker of New York, who survives him.

Selden was one of the most brilliant men in the class, but reserved and of a noticeably ret- icent nature so far as his personal affairs were concerned.

1897

ALBERT HENRY MORRILL died of a heart at- tack at his home on Spooky Hollow Road, near Montgomery, Ohio, on the morning of Sunday, September 13. He had worked at his office, apparently in good health, the day be- fore. In January, however, he had written me, "I have slipped a lot in the last year." And it turns out that he had had the trouble for eleven years, and that the doctors had told him to slow down, but that he had elected to "die with his boots on."

In a monograph, "A Daughter of the Mc- Guffeys," published in 1933, Albert's mother says:

"I wish that my children and grandchildren might always keep something of the pioneer spirit, that never fears to press 011 and up. Remember the motto that your father and I chose at the beginning of our fifty years to- gether—''Animo at Fide,' 'With Courage and Faith.' "

While at the University of Cincinnati Law School he was captain of the football team which defeated Dartmouth, a victory which, however much pleasure it may have given him, produced also mortification and annoy- ance that Dartmouth should be licked.

Beginning the practice of law in Cincinnati, he progressed rapidly from the very start. Of one of his clients, Kroger Grocery & Baking Cos., he later became president. This was a huge chain of 5500 grocery stores, reported to be the second largest chain in the United States. Its intake was nearly a million dollars a day. Albert made a great success of his presidency. In a recent book, "The Ebb and Flow of Investment Values," it is stated that the chain store grocery business appears to be an ebbing industry, but Albert's company, though the general current was against it, has come steadily ahead. After his death the em- ployees o£ the company published in the newspapers, with his picture, a testimonial ascribing his extraordinary capacity for lead- ership to great ability, a rare sense of obliga- tion, vital energy, constant thoughtfulness of others, and instinctive understanding of and affection for people. "His fine example in- stilled in all of us a will to do better than our best."

Albert was also a director of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad, president of the National Chain Store Asso- ciation, a director of Commercial National Bank and Trust Company of New York, chair- man of the Cincinnati War Chest drive, a director of the Community Chest and the Cincinnati Y.M.C.A., and a trustee of the Children's Home. He was active in the affairs of the Cincinnati Summer Opera Association, sponsoring the zoo operas. In 1937 he was chairman of the emergency food-control com- mittee—organized to aid flood sufferers after the Ohio River had overflowed through twelve square miles of Cincinnati. He was president of the Albemarle Hunt Club in Virginia, where he had a large place. This he sold shortly before his death. He also had a large ranch in Arizona.

The son of Henry Albert (Dartmouth i860) and Anna (McGuffey) Morrill, he was born in Cincinnati, June 20, 1875. His maternal grandfather was Alexander Hamilton McGuf- fey. The newspapers all stated that it was William Holmes McGuffey, author of the McGuffey readers. Alexander was William's younger brother and Alexander had, in fact, a great deal to do with the readers, working under his brother's supervision as to some and writing others under his own contracts with the publishers. The effect of the readers on American thought, habit, and aspiration, it is said by competent authority, cannot be over- estimated.

Albert is survived by his wife, Lily Logan Morrill, to whom he was married in June 1905; his son Logan, a captain in the Quarter- master Corps, who also has a law office and investment counsel business in Cincinnati; a daughter, Mrs. Richard S. Holladay, who is an air pilot, as is her husband; two sisters, Mrs. Daniel B. Ruggles of Boston, and Mrs. Genevieve M. Fuller of Milton, and four grandchildren. One of Mrs. Fuller's sons looks strikingly like Albert.

WELD A. ROLLINS.

1899

ALBERT HENRY GREENWOOD died at his home in West Hartford, Conn., July u, 1942, after a long illness.

The son of James and Mary Ann (Howard) Greenwood, he was born in Lawrence, Mass., November 8, 1877. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and graduated with the degree of 8.5., taking the Thayer School course in his senior year and graduating from the Thayer School in 1900.

His first engineering work was with the Locks and Canals Company of Lowell, Mass., and then he had a year on sea wall and break- water construction in Mexico. In 1910 he be- came a member of Greenwood and Nocrr. con- suiting engineers, of Hartford, and had some time since retired from active practice.

He was a member of the American Society of Engineers, the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, and the Hartford Civilian Club.

April 12, 1904, he was married to Mary Agnes Gage of Lawrence, who survives him, with two sons, one of whom is John G. Green- wood '36. There are two grandchildren.

The funeral services at Hartford were at tended by a delegation of his classmates.

19°2

ARTHUR CLARENCE TOZZER, vice president and director of the Turner Construction Com- pany, died at his home in Scarsdale, N. Y., September 9, after a long illness.

The son of Samuel Clarence and Caroline Blanchard (Marston) Tozzer, he was born in Lynn, Mass., July 18, 1879. He was a member of Chi Phi and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1942.

In 1903 he graduated from the Thayer School, and after some engineering experi- ence in New York he joined the Turner Construction Company in 1905 as a superin- tendent. In 1913 he became general superin- tendent in charge of New England operations, which position he held for five years. In 1918- 19 he was executive manager in charge of the construction of the Army Supply Base. In 1919 he was elected a vice president, and in 1925 a director. In 1928 he was assigned from Boston to the New York office as executive vice president, and held this position until 1937. He had been an overseer of the Thayer School since 1924.

His record with the Turner Company was a brilliant one. He had supervision of some 300 large construction projects, among them that of the Army Supply Base in Brooklyn, on which $28,000,000 was expended. He was a sound writer for technical journals and a recognized authority on labor relations, serv- ing a long time as secretary of the Masters League of Cement Workers of the Building Trades Employers Association. In 1933 he was president of the Associated General Con- tractors of America. In October 1938 he was chairman of the first meeting held in Wash- ington between representatives of business and industry and of the American Federation of Labor. He was a director of the Turner Rostorck Corporation. He was a member of the American Concrete Institute, the Ameri- can Society of Civil Engineers, and the Archi- tectural League of New York.

June 1, 1916, he was married to Dorothy La- Croix. A second marriage, September 28, 1937, was to Mrs. Isabel Kellers, who survives him, as do three daughters of the first marriage. Dr. Alfred Marston Tozzer, professor of an- thropology at Harvard, is a brother.

19°9

JOHN WARREN CHILDS died suddenly at his home in Goffstown, N. H., September 23, 1942. Jack had been in good health and about his regular business until that day.

He was born in Henniker, March 6, 1888, the son of Richard Lane and Kate Marion (Gutterson) Childs. He lived in Goffstown for 15 years and then spent three years in Henniker, returning to Goffstown to live about two years ago. Jack prepared for college in the Henniker schools and graduated from Dart- mouth in the class of 1909 and from the Thayer School in 1911.

He served as an engineer in the U. S. Rec- lamation Service, 1912-16; was engineer of the N. H. State Highway Department, 1916-20; engineer with the J. A. Greenleaf and Sons Company, Contractors, Auburn, Maine, 1920- 23; and for the last nineteen years has been associated with the N. H. Highway Depart- ment, first as an office engineer and later as a division engineer with headquarters in Little- ton. Since 1925, he had the supervision and re- sponsibility of the designing and construction of all bridges in the state.

Because o£ havoc wrought by three floods in the state, he was given an opportunity to extend himself and leave behind monuments that are of value not only in service but in beauty of design. Twice his department re- ceived the annual national award given by the American Institute of Steel Construction for the most beautifully designed steel bridge costing less than $250,000.

He also did considerable work in rehabilitat- ing several of the old covered bridges typically New England in character, and also designed and built a new covered bridge similar in ap- pearance to the old type but of modern and adequate specifications. Jack was also the en- gineer in charge of building the aerial tram- way in Franconia Notch. This was the first passenger tramway of this kind built in North America.

He was active in numerous associations and fraternal organizations, among them the New Hampshire Good Roads Association, of which he was a past president; the American Society of Civil Engineers; the American Association of Highway Officials; and the Henniker lodge of Masons. He was a member of the North Congregational church in Concord.

On September 6, 1938 he was married to Ruth Mudgett Bailey, who survives him. Also surviving him are three daughters, three sons, his mother, a sister, a brother, Professor Fran- cis L. Childs 'O6 of Hanover, and three grand- children.

1924

KENNETH HIRAM WARD died at his home in Moret'own, Vt., September 26. He had been in failing health since early in June, and was a patient at the Neurological Institute in Mon- treal in July and August, where his case was pronounced incurable.

The son of Burton Smith and Annie Laurie (Evans) Ward, he was born in Moretown, March 1, 1901, and prepared for college at Montpelier Seminary. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, was captain of the wres- tling team, and played baseball and football.

Since graduation he had been in the lumber business with his father and brother, being vice president of the Ward Lumber Cos., and was also agent for several insurance com- panies.

He was a steward of the Methodist church, and for many years had sung in its choir. He was a member of the Mad River Valley Grange, a past master of Mad River Lodge, F. and A. M., and a director of the Associated Industries of Vermont.

July 8, 1924, he was married to Florence E. Miles of Sheffield, Vt., who survives him, with their two sons, Owen 16 and Wyman 8. His parents also survive him, and a brother and a sister.

I925

FRANK STONE HERSHEY was stricken with a heart attack while on a Canadian fishing trip, and died at a camp on Blackstone Lake, On- tario, on the evening of September 24.

He was born at East Orange, N. J., March 5, 1903, the son of Clarence Heath and Elizabeth (Fisher) Hershey, and was with the class the first two years of the course. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and 011 the football squad.

After leaving college he was with his father in the wholesale lumber business until 1928, when he became associated with the Marine Trust Company of Buffalo, N. Y. He became assistant secretary in 1931 and vice-president in July 1935. He attained a high standing in' business and banking circles in Buffalo, being president of the Buffalo Convention and Tourist Bureau, Inc., treasurer of the Buffalo Better Business Bureau, Inc., and a director of Buffalo General Heat, Inc., Great Lakes Transit Corporation, Irwin Vending Corporation, and Yates-Lehigh Coal Com- pany, and president of the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company.

He gave much time to charitable projects, being a leader in recent Red Cross and Victory Fund drives. He was a member of the West- minster Presbyterian church.

June 13, 1925, he was married to Marjorie Long of Glen Ridge, N. J., who survives him, with two sons.

1936

RICHARD JOYCE HUERTH has been reported killed during action in the Pacific area while serving as a Captain in the United States Ma- rine Corps.

Richard, son of John Frederick and Rosanna (Joyce) Huerth, was born in Boston on Jan- uary 23, 1913. He attended Arlington (Mass.) High School and St. Johns Prep School (Dan- vers, Mass.), where he was active in athletics.

At Dartmouth he was a member of Zeta Al- pha Phi, scientific fraternity, and graduated cum laude, with distinction in psychology.

Upon graduation, Richard was commis- sioned a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve. Prior to being called into ac- tive service in October 1939, he was associated with the Boston fur firm of Huerth & Huerth. Early in 1940, Richard volunteered for the first Marine parachute battalion; and trained with this unit at Camp Elliott, San Diego, Calif. At the time of his death, he was a para- trooper in the Solomon Island area.

Besides his parents, he is survived by a wife, the former Jeanne Gannon of Columbia, S. C.; and a sister, Mrs. John A. Notte Jr., of Provi- dence, R. I.

1937

JACOB FREDERICK SHAFER JR. died on Septem- ber 18, 1942, in Baltimore, Md., after a seven months' illness.

Born in Baltimore on December 18, 1915, he was the son of J. Frederick and Unetta (Classen) Shafer.

Jake entered our class from the Baltimore Friends School. At Dartmouth he was a mem- ber of the Sigma Chi fraternity, at one time its house manager, and during his senior year, its president. He was an active member of the interfraternity council.

Jake's ability as a lacrosse player and the respect of his fellow teammates are best evi- denced by his record. He was captain of our freshman lacrosse team and there he held the unusual honor of being Captain of the Varsity Lacrosse Team during both his junior and senior years.

After graduation he was employed by W. E. Hutton & Cos., investment bankers, and then by the C. Wilson-Woods Cos., paper brokers. When defense efforts curtailed the paper busi- ness he accepted a position with the Bethle- hem-Fairfield Ship Building Cos. of Baltimore.

Jake's enthusiastic alumni activities and love for Dartmouth earned him the presidency of the Baltimore Alumni Association in 1941. He was also an active member of the Baltimore Junior Association of Commerce.

In Jake's passing, Dartmouth loses one of its most loyal sons and the class of 1937 loses one of its most promising and likeable mem- bers.

He is survived by his parents, a sister, Emma Belle, and a brother, Charles C., Dartmouth 1933-

19.4°

WILLIAM WENTWORTH VROOM was killed, in action on August 21, 1942, according to a re- port issued by the War Department.

Obviously, no details of Bill's going have been released; however, it is known that he was fighting at the time in the Southwest Pa- cific Theatre, where he was flying B-26 Martin Medium Bombers.

He was born December 3, 1917, living most ofl his boyhood in Worcester, Mass., and was graduated from Exeter Academy in 1936. He entered Dartmouth in 1936 and graduated in June, 1940. Bill was an English major, and an active member of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.

He entered the Army Air Corps in Novem- ber, 1940, and was commissioned a and Lt. in July, 1941. On Feb. 2, 1945, he married Susan Cook (Smith '42), in Yuma, Arizona. Soon afterwards, Bill sailed from the west coast. He was commissioned a First Lt., overseas, in June, 1943. Sue, who has so long been an hon- orary member of our class, is now living in Worcester, at 52 Highland Street. Bill's mother and dad, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic K. Vroom also reside in Worcester at 21 Franconia Street.

Always a good natured, happy-go-lucky guy, Bill was not without a serious side. He had a sense of loyalty and responsibility to his fel- low-men and his country, which is well evi- denced by his many good friends and his own undying love for his arm of the service—The Army Air Corps. During those good old bull sessions under "—those soft September sun- sets—" Bill, like the rest of us, was a great pacifist. We were never going to wave a flag— they were never going to "suck us in." But soon after graduation, most of us had a change of heart. The "—cold, cold world—" threw a different light on the situation. We began to realize that our Hanover vision was pretty much rose-colored, and saw that there was a job to be done. Bill was one of the first to take action after this realization. He loved the Air Corps, and was fully cognizant of the prize he and his team were playing for. All of us know what that price is by now—let us hope we can be ready to pay it as bravely.

BUD RAYMOND '4O.

ENSIGN HAROLD DANIEL WEBSTER JR. was killed August 23 in the crash of a flying boat near Dahlgren, Va.

The son of Harold Daniel and Mae (Leon- ard) Webster, he was born in Warren, Pa., March 23, 1918. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and of the boxing, football, and basketball squads.

In May 1941 he enlisted in the Naval Air Corps, received his advanced flying training in Florida, and was commissioned ensign.

194i

ROBERT BERTRAM MAURO was killed August 20 in a plane crash in Panama while on duty with the United States Naval Air Force. No official account of the accident had been re- ceived at this writing.

The son of Matteo and Mary (Holmes) Mauro, he was born in Piainfield, N. J., June 7, 1918, and prepared for college at Piainfield High School.

Bert enlisted in the Naval Air Force in the summer of 1941 and was a member of the Dartmouth training unit at Pensacola and Squantum.

In college he was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity, the gym team, and the cheerleader squad, which he headed in his senior year.

Medical School

!575

DR. RUFUS KING NOYES died August 31, 1942, at his summer home in Atkinson, N. H.

He was born in Hampstead, N. H., May 24, 1853, the son of Joshua Flint and Lois Ann (Noyes) Noyes, and graduated from Atkinson Academy.

After his medical graduation he won by a competitive examination a position as house surgeon in Boston City Hospital, and re- mained there for two years. In 1877 he began private practice in Lynn, Mass., and after a few years opened an office on Chambers St., in the West End of Boston, which he main- tained until the time of his death. His home had been for many years in the Jamaica Plain district.

Dr. Noyes was the author of two books: "History of Medicine for the Last 4000 Years" and "Views of Religion." He was a director of Atkinson Academy, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and of the Bos- ton Dartmouth Alumni Association.

He was married August 28, 1912, to Grace J. White, who survives him. They had no children.

Dr. Noyes left directions that his medical books and instruments be given to Dartmouth College.

1888

DR. LEVI HULBERT FULLER died of arterio- sclerosis March 8, 1942, at the Los Angeles County General Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif.

The son of William L. and Nancy (Frazee) Fuller, he was born in Baldwinsville, N. Y., but the date of his birth has not been ob- tained. His early education was in the Bald- winsville schools and at St. John's Military Academy, Manlius, N. Y.

Soon after graduation he went to California, where he had since remained. For many years he was in practice in Monrovia, but had re- tired about ten years before his death. His last residence was in Pasadena.

Dr. Fuller married Zoe Ballard in Califor- nia, who died before him. They had no chil- dren.

1897

DR. WILLIAM MORSE EAMES died at his home in Northampton, Mass., July 27, 1942, of val- vular heart disease, after a long illness. He was born in Bath, Me., October 4, 1863, the son of Henry and Adelia (Morse) Eames. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1885, being there a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. After his college graduation he studied at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, where he graduated in 1887. With his brother, he conducted a drug store in Manchester, N. H., for 23 years, during which time he took his medical course at Dartmouth. For five years he was corporation physician for the Nashua Manufacturing Company. In 1927 he removed to Northampton, where he had since con- ducted the Eameshome Inn.

January 16, 1901, he was married to Hor- tense Hal), who survives him, with a son, Maximilian P. Eames of Boston.

i899

DR. GEORGE ROBERT REINHOLD HERTZBERG died at the Stamford, Conn., Hospital, Sep- tember 17, 1942, of cancer of the pancreas.

He was born in Hamburg, Germany, Sep- tember 26, 1874, the son of George Otto and Bertha (Mullach) Hertzberg. His early ed- ucation was in the schools of New York City and Stamford, and his medical course was begun at Baltimore Medical College, with his last year at Dartmouth.

The years of his professional career have been passed in Stamford, where he was for a long time on the staff of Stamford Hospital and where he did much outstanding work in surgery. He was the founder and president of Stamford Museum, a member of the Camp Fire Club of America, and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

June 30, 1900, he was married to Edith, daughter of Albert and Ann Maria Billing- ham, who survives him, with their son Lt. Comdr. Reinhold F. Hertzberg, U. S. N. (Dart- mouth 1923).

ALBERT H. MORRILL '97

KILLED IN ACTION Robert B. Mauro '4l, Ensign, USNR, lostin aviation action in the Pacific.