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.]
Conant, David S., '91, April 6. Adams, Edward F., '95, March. Hack, Thomas H., '95, March 27. Mills, Archibald C., '97, April 2. Bell, William T., '06, April 3. Knapp, Raymond A., '11, April 2. Wheeler, Bertrand C., '11, March 31. Jordan, Chester B., '15, March 2g. Morey, Douglas, '16, March 19. Higgins, William V., '19, April 2. Miller, Albert L., '26, March 20. Herbert, James A., '29, March 20. *Bailey, William C., '41. *Griffith, Jay C., Jr., '42, Aug. 8, 1942. O'Leary, Cornelius J., m'24, May 21, 1942. * Died in action.
In Memoriam
1886
DR. THOMAS JEFFERSON HARRIS, ear, nose and throat specialist in New York City for nearly fifty years until his retirement a few years ago, died March 14, 1943, following an illness of some two vears' duration.
Dr. Harris was born in Claremont, N. H., July 26, 1865, the son of Thomas Jefferson and Myra (Beaumont) Harris, fitted for college at the Stevens High School and graduated from Dartmouth with the class of 1886. While in college he was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity. In 1889 he was graduated from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania.
After a year of study at the University of Berlin, in 1890 he returned to New York and began practice, specializing in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat, in which he won a national and even international reputation. He made his home first at 104 East 40th St., New York City, moving to Scarsdale, N. Y., in 1913.
He was professor of diseases of the nose and throat at the New York Post-Graduate School of Medicine and was a consulting otolaryngologist at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. From 1922, until he withdrew from practice, he was president of the Jennie Clarkson Home for Children at Valhalla, N. Y. He was a former president of the American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society, the New York Physicians Mutual Aid Association, and the New York Laryngological Society.
Dr. -Harris was also a member of the permanent commission of the International OtoLaryngological Congress and was secretary for four years from 1928 of the New York Laryngological Society. He was the author of many articles relating to his specialty, mostly of an historical nature.
In 1918 he was connected with the Army Medical Corps, stationed at Camp Greenleaf, Ga., holding the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, the University Club of New York and the Quill club.
He married Oct. 26, 1896, Lena Breed of Lynn, Mass., who survives him, with a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Barton of Cambridge, Mass.
1889
ALFRED ADAMS WHEAT died suddenly of a heart attack at his apartment in the Mayflower Hotel at Washington, D. C., March 11, 1943. He had not been vigorous and strong since his retirement £rom the Court.
He was born at Nashua, N. H„ June 13, 1867, the son of George E. and Addie (Adams) Wheat. He prepared for college in the Nashua schools, and entered with our class in the fall of 1885, graduating in 1889 with Phi Beta Kappa rank and also receiving from his Alma Mater the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1929 at our fortieth reunion.
Immediately after graduation he went to Washington, D. C., where he was destined to spend nearly half of his active life. He taught in the section of the Central High School given to business courses, and later became a member of the faculty and an organizer of the first Business High School when set apart from Central as a separate school. During this first period of residence he lived with other classmates and studied law at Columbian (now George Washington University) Law School, from which institution he received the degrees of LL.B. and LL.M. in 1891 and 1892 respectively. His admission to the bar of the District of Columbia was in 1891 and to the New York bar in 1893. After graduation from Columbian he went to New York, and engaged in the active practice of his profession there until 1912.
He was first associated with a leading firm representing the elevated railroads of New York, and later gave himself to trial and probate practice in association with the firm of Rollins and Rollins.
In 1922 he returned to Washington as special assistant to the Attorney General, and served in the Department of Justice until his appointment to the bench of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He participated in the preparation of many cases for hearing, and presented 69 cases on behalf of the United States in the Supreme Court of the United States. Three cases were submitted without argument, in three others the Court found it unnecessary to hear from the Government. Of the 69 cases he won 56, considered an enviable record by the Department. During this service he frequently served as acting Solicitor General.
By act of Congress passed December 20, 1928, the Supreme Court o£ the District of Columbia was increased from six to seven members, the first increase in number since 1870. President Hoover appointed Fred to the new office, and he thus started the seventh stem of that Court. He took oath June 3, 1929, was made Chief Justice June 7, 1930, and retired December 31, 1941, after an honorable and devoted service, respected by the bar and affectionately regarded by his associates on the bench.
Perhaps his most notable decision was the able opinion holding the first Railroad Retirement Act unconstitutional.
February 17, 1912, he married Mrs. Gertrude Burd Luther, who died May 3, 1936. The daughter of Mrs. Wheat by an earlier marriage, Mrs. Grace Luther Burnham of Marblehead, Mass., was devoted to her stepfather and helped to sustain his interest and activities after the death of Mrs. Wheat.
Fred was a Republican in politics, and his fraternities were Alpha Delta Phi, Casque and Gauntlet, and Phi Beta Kappa. He was our leading musician and college organist.
In 1930 Fred was elected to the vestry of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, and in 1933 chosen senior warden, which election was confirmed annually by acclamation at the Easter elections, and he performed his duties until the Sunday before his death.
Fred had high ambition that his life might be useful, and he devoted himself to high attainment in one profession of the law. All this was accomplished, and his work was well done.
Funeral services, held in his church on Saturday, March 13, 1943, were attended by associates on the bench and the presidents, past and present, of the Bar Association. The interment was in historic Rock Creek Cemetery. Warden and Blair represented '89, and a floral tribute bore silent testimony of our affection for our classmate and president.
1891
DAVID SLOAN CONANT died April 6 at his home in St. Johnsbury, Vt., after a long illness.
The son of Jonathan Josiah and Martha Pike (Howard) Conant, he was born in Thetford, Vt., December 7, 1866, and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
After graduation he studied law in the office of John H. Watson at Bradford, Vt., and attended Boston University Law School for a year. In 1898 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice at Bradford, whence he removed to St. Johnsbury in 1917. While in Bradford he was state's attorney for Orange County from 1900 to 1904, and represented the county in the State Senate of 1915. During his active life he had an extensive and successful practice.
July 6, 1899, he was married to Mary Ellen Jones of Bradford, who survives him with three daughters: Mrs. Dorothy S. Cramton of St. Johnsbury (the wife of Dr. Edward A. Cramton '22); Mrs. Barbara A. Oakley of Summit, N. J.; and Katherine R. Conant of Glencoe, Md.
1895
DR. THOMAS HENRY HACK died of a heart attack at his home in Proctor, Vt., March 27. Dr. Hack had been troubled with a heart ailment for some time, but had seemed to be as well as usual the day of his death. He had treated his regular patients and had made a call at the hospital Saturday evening, shortly before the sudden attack that caused his death. His passing came as a great shock to the whole community; and the Marble Company joins his hundreds of Vermont friends and his classmates of Dartmouth in extending most sincere sympathy to the family.
Dr. Hack was born in Orwell, Vt., October 24, 1870, and prepared for college at Mt. Hermon School and Burr and Burton Seminary. In college he was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
He graduated from the University of Vermont Medical College in 1900 and had been practicing in Proctor for forty-three years. In addition to his general practice in the town he was the Vermont Marble Company physician and closely connected with the Proctor Hospital.
He was town health officer and had cared for the needy of the town for many years. He was a member of the Proctor Union Church for thirty-six years and also a trustee for many years. Dr. Hack was surgeon of the Vermont Society of Colonial Wars and the Vermont Society of Mayflower descendants and also a member of the Rutland County and American Medical Associations.
He was in charge of school clinics, and all candidates for athletic teams were examined by him. Proctor schools were closed in respect for Dr. Hack.
Funeral services were held in the Union Church. Dr. Robert Davis 'O3 of Middlebury, was in charge of the service. Dr. Herbert S. Martin. Dartmouth '94, of Cuttingsville, and other members of Rutland County Medical Association were present. Dr. Hack's patients and friends filled the Church to capacity. Interment was in Mountain View Cemetery, in Orwell.
Dr. Hack is survived by his widow, Josephine (Burt) Hack whom he married July 10, 1902; his son, Burt H., Dartmouth '33, of Burlington, representative of the Foods Distribution Administration: his daughter, Mrs. Rachel H. Dorin, of Torrington, Conn., Wellesley '27; a grandchild, 7 years old; and two sisters.
EDWARD FRANCIS ADAMS, non-graduate, died in March at the Rosemead Lodge Sanatarium in Pasadena, Calif., after several months' illness.
He was born in Antioch, Syria, June 8, 1874, the son of Rev. Lacian Harper (Dartmouth 1858) and Nancy Dana (Francis) Adams. His parents were missionaries. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, graduating there in 1891; entering Dartmouth in the fall of that year. He was a member of the class of 1895 three years, and subsequently entered Harvard, where he received his A.B. degree in 1896. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
In 1906, "Mike," as he was familiarly known at Dartmouth, graduated from the Boston University Law School with an LL.B. degree. He practiced law in Boston from 1906 to 1920. In 1922 he became staff computer at Mt. Wilson Observatory.
August 27, 1910, he was married to Carolyn W. Pullen of Cambridge, Mass., who survives him, as do also his brother, Walter S. Adams '98, director of the Observatory, and a sister, Miss Helen Adams of Pasadena.
1897
ARCHIBALD CLARK MILLS died at the home of his son in Los Angeles on April 2, 1943. He had been sick for some time, and had been troubled by stomach ulcers for quite a long period.
He is survived by his wife, Harriet Root Mills, two sons, Archibald Root Mills and Hayden Clark Mills, and four grandchildren, one of whom is Archibald Fay Mills, making the sixth Archibald Mills. Our classmate's grandfather was the second Archibald Mills, and he was "Chelsea" Atwood's grandfather.
Our Archie was born May 22, 1875, in St. Louis, where his father was a manufacturer of men's clothing. When Archie was three or four years old, his father bought land in Alton, III., and built houses, and Archie lived there. He went to Lawrenceville Academy and came to Dartmouth from that school.
When Archie left Dartmouth in '97, he went back to St. Louis and continued his father's clothing business, which he presently sold out and went to British Columbia, where he raised fancy cattle, getting many prizes. He later bought a farm, sold it, and bought another farm. Where these farms were I am not informed, but in the 1910 General Catalogue his residence is given as Ferry, Wash.
At the time of the 1933 class report, Archie was in Seattle in the insurance business with his younger son, Hayden. He was later with Sears and Roebuck on the Pacific Coast, retiring from that business in May 1942. The summer of '41 he spent in New England.
Archie was a Beta Theta Pi, and in his senior year at college roomed with his cousin "Chelsea" Atwood in Crosby.
1899
DR. EDWIN ARNOLD HYATT died at his home in St. Albans, Vt., February 14, 1943, after a long illness.
He was born in Starksboro, Vt., May 26, 1875, the son of the Reverend Isaac and Hannah (Allen) Hyatt. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
After graduation he studied medicine at McGill University, graduating in 1902, and in that year began practice at St. Albans, where he continued with success through his active life.
He was a former president of the Vermont Medical Society, and a member of the Public Relations Committee of Vermont, the New England Medical Council, and the staff of the St. Albans Hospital. He was connected with the Masonic order, and had been for 33 years a deacon of the Congregational church.
April 22, 1903, he was married to Sarah Eugenia. Terry of Poland, N. Y., who survives him, with a son, Lt. Allen Thompson Hyatt, U.S.A. Willard I. Hyatt, deceased, also of the class of '99, was his brother.
1906
WILLIAM THOMAS BELL died at the Margaret Pillsbury hospital in Concord, N. H., on April 3, of a heart ailment. He suffered a serious illness several years ago and had not been in good health since, but had continued to carry on his business activities to a limited extent until shortly before his death.
He was born in New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 10, 1884, the son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Burns) Bell. He was graduated from the Newmarket, N. H., High School in 1901, and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1906. In college he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, played on his freshman and sophomore football teams, and made the varsity football squad in his junior and senior years. His sincere and frank nature won him friends throughout his class, and his unwavering affection for and loyalty to the college throughout all the years since his graduation widened and strengthened those friendships. The last public event he attended was the annual dinner of his class in Boston last October.
Immediately upon graduation he entered the employ of the Page Belting Company in Concord as a shipping clerk. He rose through the stages of assistant sales manager and sales manager to that of vice president of the firm in 1925. At the time of his death he was executive vice president and treasurer.
For many years past he had been prominent in the business and social circles of his city. He was a director of the Mechanicks' National Bank, trustee of the Merrimack County Savings Bank, trustee of the Margaret Pillsbury Hospital, member and first president of the Concord Rotary Club, member and for several years director of the Concord Chamber of Commerce, and long a director of the Concord chapter of the American Red Cross. He held membership in the Wonalancet Club, Beaver Meadow Club, Concord Country Club, Bow Brook Club, and Snow Shoe Club, all of Concord, and often served these organizations as an able officer. He had also been a director and vice president of the American Leather Belting Association.
Funeral services were held at his late home, 23 Ridge Road, Concord, on April 7. Classmates in attendance were Ned French, Bob Wallace, Bob Blood, Fred Scribner, Ralph Fitts, Noble Bowlby, Fin Sleeper, and Albert Cochran.
He is survived by his wife, the former Margaret Dudley Sargent of Concord, whom he married on January 6, 1909; a son, Dudley Sargent Bell, now of Norwich University and soon to enter the Army; two daughters, Mrs. Barbara Bell Conway of Knoxville, Tenn., and Mrs. Elizabeth Bell Rill of Syracuse, N. Y.; three grandchildren, two brothers, and two sisters. D. A. M.; F. L. C.
1909
HERBERT LEROY TIRRELL passed away February 18, 1943, at the Providence, R. 1., Hospital, where he had just undergone a mastoid operation.
Roy was the son of Rev. Arthur Wells Tirrell, a Dartmouth man of the class of 1882, he was a graduate of the Maiden High School. When at college he was a member of the freshman Mandolin Club and of Alpha Delta Phi.
He was an engineer for the government, and in the past year was transferred from Boston to Providence.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Eliot Tirrell, to whom he was married December 22, 1909, his mother, a son, Eliot Tirrell of Belmont; two daughters, Mrs. R. Wendell Woods of Lincoln and Mrs. Charles A. Derby of Melrose. He has six grandsons and a sister, Miss Florence A. Tirrell of Maiden.
The funeral services were held at the Ward Funeral Home in Maiden, Sunday afternoon, February 21. Interment was at the family lot in Forest Dale Cemetery, Maiden.
1911
BERTRAND COLE WHEELER died March 31 at his home in Wilmette, III., after a long illness.
He was born in Boston, December 13, 1888, the son of Bertrand Thorp and Mabel Alma (Cole) Wheeler. His father (Dartmouth 1884) was a former superintendent of streets in Boston. Allan T. Wheeler '11 is a brother. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and the track team.
From 1913 to 1917 he was a highway engineer in Philadelphia; in 1917-8 advertising and sales manager of the Dyneto Electric Corporation of Syracuse, N. Y.; in 1919-21 assistant to the general manager of the Portland Cement Association, Chicago; from 1921 to 1929 advertising manager of the Marquette Cement Manufacturing Cos., Chicago, then Western manager of Palmer Advertising Service, and advertising manager of Bates Value Bag Corp., Chicago. In 1933-5 he was Chicago manager for Compton and Sons Lithographing and Printing Cos. For several years he was in the advertising business for himself in St. Louis. He had continued active and in good spirits, even attempting to undertake war work in Washington, though aware that his illness was of a serious nature.
March 27, 1913, he was married to Una Hawthorne Bean of Dover, Mass., who survives him, together with three sisters and two brothers.
We shall remember the Al and Bert team, and will miss their repartee, in which the two brothers thanked each other for the Christmas presents via the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
RAYMOND ADELBERT KNAPP died April 2 at the John Adams Hospital of the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea, Mass., following an illness of several years. Funeral services were held in Chelsea with burial at Oak Grove Cemetery, Gloucester.
Raymond was born in Newburyport, September 16, 1887, but had resided in Gloucester ever since childhood. He was a graduate of Gloucester High School and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1911, remaining one year.
He served with the artillery abroad in World War I and became the official topographer under General Pershing at Chaumont. He attained the rank of captain, and completed 17 years of service as a commissioned officer before returning to private life. For a number of years he was an engineer of Federal Works projects in Gloucester.
On June 14, 1921, he was married to Ellen Cooper, who survives him, together with three daughters, Valerie, Patty Lou, and Shirley Rae.
He was a member of the American Legion, Tyrian Lodge of Masons, and the Cape Ann Camera Club, all of Gloucester.
Although Raymond was with us for only a year, he nevertheless made many friends in the class, who join with his family in sorrow at his passing.
1915
Although we heard a couple of months ago with the deepest regret of the death of Art Rowe, it is only now that we have the details available for permanent record.
• ARTHUR MILTON ROWE died suddenly at his home in Old Hickory, Tenn., on December 10, 1942, after what might be called a recurrent illness over a number of years.
He was born October S3, 1891, in Franklin, N. H„ the son of Charles Carroll and Martha Frances (Allen) Rowe, and prepared for college in the Franklin public schools.
After graduation he entered the teaching profession as an instructor at Colby College in Waterville, Me., followed by a half year at Dean Academy—both in the field of chemistry.
Early 1918 found him with the DuPont Company, after which he entered the Chemical Warfare Service, specializing on combat gases as used in World War No. 1. After the war he returned to the DuPont Company, with whom he remained until his death, except for two years, 1918-20, when he was chemist at Edgewood Arsenal.
For a period in 1931 he was at Saranac Lake, N. Y., for his health, and likewise for a period in 1934 he also was forced to enter a sanitarium because of a recurrence of his illness, but at that time it was believed that he was completely convalescent.
September 1, 1919, he married Edith D. Law, who died suddenly on April 2, 194 a. There were no children, and Art's survivors are his sister, Mrs. E. B. Hardy of Plymouth, N. H., and a brother, Dr. Carlton Rowe of Milton, Mass. He is also survived by a stepdaughter, Lieut. Beatrice H. Glasca, A.N.C., U. S. Army.
Art's one fraternal affiliation was with the Masonic order in New Hampshire, as a member of Meridian Lodge No. 60, from which he had just received a 2 5-year pin before he died, representing his quarter-century of membership.
He was one of the College's most faithful alumni, and never failed to tell those in faraway parts of the country where he was located that Dartmouth alone had made his success in life for him. That this was no lip service is evidenced by the fact that the friend who supplied the facts relative to his death mentioned, among other evidences of his loyalty, that he had made a bequest to the College in his will.
CHESTER BRADLEY JORDAN died at his home in Keene, N. H., March 29, 1943, after an illness of several months.
He was the son of Chester Bradley and Ida Rose (Nutter) Jordan, and was born in Lancaster, N. H., February 15, 1892. His father was the 51st governor of New Hampshire, whence the son acquired his college nickname of "Gov." He prepared for college at the Lancaster schools.
Graduating with Phi Beta Kappa rank, he entered Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1918. He was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1919, and upon his marriage in that year to Mildred Blood of Lancaster he opened an office for the practice of law in Keene, where he remained until his death, having become one of Keene's leading citizens. For a short time he was associate judge of the Keene Municipal Court, and in 1920 was appointed judge of the Probate Court for Cheshire County.
In his adopted city of Keene, he held membership in many clubs and organizations, among which was the Rotary Club, of which he was a charter member and past president. He was a trustee of the Keene Public Library and Vicepresident of the directors of the Y.M.C.A. He was many times called upon as the speaker for public gatherings, where his eloquence was inspirational. He was dev-Oted to music, and as president of the Keene Chorus Club and the Keene Co-operative Concert Association he found opportunity to assist in the advancement of this art in the city.
In college, "Gov" took a leading part in undergraduate life, besides ranking high in scholarship in all departments. He was particularly devoted to the various courses in English, and his writings appeared in the college publications of his day, both in prose and poetry.
He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Casque and Gauntlet, and of The Lambs and The Arts. He was a regular participant in the performances of the Dramatic Association, and was a member of the Debating Team, both of which activities provided the early training for his subsequent success as a public speaker.
He is survived by his wife, a sister, Mrs. J. E. McCarten of Lancaster, N. H., and a brother, Gladstone Jordan '11 of Concord, N. H.
1916
LEWIS PALMER GOVE died suddenly on March 6 at Fishkill, New York. His firm, the Mutual Boiler Insurance Company, had recently promoted him to the position of chief engineer for its New York district, and he was engaged in his newly assigned duties at the time of his death.
He was born on November 13, 1891, at Perry, Maine, and was graduated in 1916 from Dartmouth with the degree of A.B. and in 1917 from the Thayer School with the degree of C.E. He served as second lieutenant in the 316 th Engineers, 91st Division, A.E.F. During his active and successful professional career he was employed by Ingersoll Rand (1917-1922), Public Service Production Company (1922-23), Stone and Webster (1924-32), as consulting engineer (1933-35), and by the Mutual Boiler Insurance Company (1936-).
He was married on August 18, 1923, to Helen A. Johnson and is survived by his widow and by two children, Insley C. Gove (born August 19, 1924) and Brandon P. Gove (born December 6, 1927). His varied activities in his own community included service as senior vice-commander of the Cpl. Nelson Post, American Legion, and as president of the Nine Twenty-Niners in the Wakefield Congregational Church, where the funeral services were held on March 9.
1916 remembers him as "Louie" and recalls vividly his staunch loyalty to the College and the firm strength of his substantial character. His associates since graduation have been impressed by his meticulous care in the discharge of his duty, his generous and cooperative spirit, and his appealing humanity. His spirit was motivated by a clear realization that these traits of character inevitably placed him in the number of those from whom the world exacts as contribution to its work far more than his due share of unselfish effort throughout life.
1919
WILLIAM VINCENT HIGGINS died of a heart ailment on April i at his home in Lawrence, Mass.
Bill had not been feeling well for some weeks, and was in the hospital under observation for the better part of a month. He seemed to be suffering from a combination of a persistent cold and heart trouble. Outside of perhaps a reduced resistance on account of overwork and mental strain, medical authorities were unable to be specific about his condition. He was slated to return to his desk on April 5. The final blow came after he had returned from dinner with his two brothers.
Bill's years were full and happy. He was for a long time associated with the Gillette Razor Cos., where his work as foreign representative took him to all parts of the globe. He had spent much time in Japan and was one of the best informed men in the state on Japanese affairs. For the past ten years, his interest had been in the ups and downs of the bond and stock market and at the time of his death, he was a partner in H. C. Wainwright Cos., 60 State St., Boston.
In the last World War, Bill was a Ist Lieut.-Adjutant of the 101st Machine Gun Battalion and saw service overseas.
He was born July 18, 1893, in Lawrence, the son of Michael and Mary Ann (Kililee) Higgins, was graduated from Lawrence High School, and attended Peekskill Academy, Peekskill, N. Y. He was a member of Sigma Chi, the Sphinx society, and the University Club of Boston.
Surviving are two brothers, John J. Higgins, a Lawrence attorney, and Leo A. Higgins, Dartmouth 'l4, of the Lawrence High School faculty, and a niece, Mary P. Higgins. Services were held Monday, April 5, with a mass of requiem in St. Laurence's Church.
1926
On the 20th of last March Al Miller was accidentally killed in New York—the result of a tall.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, June 20, 1903, ALBERT LLEWELLYN MILLER was the son of George H. and Cora B. Miller. Before entering Dartmouth he had graduated from the Miami Military Institute of Germantown, Ohio. Al was in Hanover only for his freshman year, but in that time he fell under the spell and never lost his love for the college.
In the many years that Al was with the Erwin-Wasey Cos. of New York he made a name for himself as an advertising executive, particularly in the drug and cosmetics field. During five of his business years he represented the company in England. Al was a director of the Wasey Products Company, Ltd., of London and of the R. J. Semler Company of New Canaan, Conn.
On the 31st of July, 1928, Al and Marian Phillips were married in Danville, 111. Their two children, Janet and George, are now thirteen and twelve. They are living at 16 Sherbrooke Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. In addition to his wife and children Al is survived by his sister, Mrs. John Castle of Cleveland.
Al was a grand chap, a loyal Dartmouth man, and a good citizen. We shall miss him.
1929
GEORGE ADOLPH HEIN was crushed under a tree on his farm at George's Mills, N. H., December 15, 1942, and received injuries from which he died in a short time.
He was born in Torrington, Conn., February 22, 1906, the son of Karl and Anna (Troemel) Hein, and prepared for college at Stamford (Conn.) High School. He was on the football and basketball teams and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
For some years after graduation he operated a service station in Stamford, Conn., but later purchased a dairy farm property in New Hampshire, and removed there last April. He is survived by his wife and two children, two brothers, and a sister. His mother also survives him.
1931
EDWARD WHITMAN MORRIS died February 13 at his home in Dayton, Ohio.
He was born at Nantucket, Mass., July 19, 1909, the son of George Myron and Nellie Louise (Prince) Morris. The family home for many years was in the Dorchester district of Boston. He was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi and of the Glee Club.
After graduation he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and graduated as B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering in 1933. In 1934-6 he was research assistant at the Aeronautical Engineering Laboratory at M.I.T.; in 1936-8 was aeronautical engineer for the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Cos.; and since 1938 assistant chief engineer in the Curtiss Propeller Division of the Curtiss Wright Corp.
June 15, 1935, he was married to Martha Woodbury of Buffalo, N. Y„ who survives him, with two daughters. His parents also survive, a brother, Lt. Albert E. Morris '26, U.S.N. Medical Corps, and a sister, Mrs. John Scammon of Newton, Mass.
1937
WILLIAM JUNGHANS BURFORD was killed on December 11, 1943, near Tulsa, Okla., when the bomber he was navigating crashed.
He was born November 11, 1915, in Baltimore, Md., the son of Lawrence Busey and Bertha (Junghans) Burford. He attended the Ridgewood, N. J., High School one year and the Shaker Heights, Ohio, High School two years. At college he was on the Dartmouth business board and was active in the managerial competition. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
He worked for the Erie Railroad for a while after graduation, and then attended Winnetka Graduate Teachers College, from which he received his A.M. Then he taught Navajo Indians in New Mexico under the U. S. Indian Service.
He entered the service in 1941, and served as an enlisted man at Randolph Field before being appointed an aviation cadet in October 1941. He graduated from Kelly Field Navigation School and was commissioned a lieutenant in January 1942. He then became an instructor in Aerial Navigation, as a second lieutenant, at Kelly Field. Later he was promoted to first lieutenant and instructor in Navigation at Hondo, Texas, the world's largest navigation school.
The smiling picture of Bill published last month was typical. Although he was an excellent student and a spirited competitor in the Dartmouth and managerial competitions, what we chiefly remember is his ready smile and friendly bearing.
