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.]
Adriance, Samuel W., '73, December 19. Rich, Charles A., '75, December 4. Welsh, Joseph B. G., 'B7, December 14. Reynolds, Frank J., 'B9, December 19. Brown, Forrest, '92, December 5. Fitch, Ray W., 'OO, December 2. Woolverton, William H., 'O3, November 6. Kinney, Ralph M., 'l4, November 14. Sullivan, F. Francis, 'l4, November 19. Carleton, Earle J., 'l6, November 11. Clark, Ralph E., 'lB. McCausland, Samuel G., 23, February a. Hale, Edward P., '42, December 19. Brigham, Edmund H„ '2B, October 13. Bedingfield, Alfred W., '36, November 14. Illfelder, Herbert M. S., '39, November 14. *Werner, William G., '4l, November 18. *Lee, Philip A., '42, November 7. Wright, Stanley P., '42. *Wilken, Ray T., '44, September 6. * Died in war service.
In Memoriam
1875
CHARLES ALONZO RICH died at his home in Charlottesville, Va., December 3, after a long illness.
The son of Rev. Alonzo Berry and Mary (Severance) Rich, he was born in Beverly, Mass., October 22, 1854, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department in the Beverly schools. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)
After graduation he entered an architect s office in Boston, and began preparation for a long and brilliant career in that profession. He had several years of travel and study in Europe to round out his preparation. In 1882 he became a member of the architectual firm of Lamb and Rich in New York, which soon became one of the leading firms in the profession in the city. After 1895 he was in business alone, and continued in New York until 1933.
The list of important buildings designed by him would fill a large space. Buildings at Dartmouth would be included in the list, which would also contain Amherst, Williams, Smith, and Barnard Colleges and Pratt Institute.
Mr. Rich was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the Architectural League of New York and other organizations.
In April 1886 he was married to Harriet Bradbury of New York City, who survives him with three daughters: Mrs. Stuart C. Goderly of Washington: Mrs. Andrew M. Underhill of New York; and Mrs. William H. Sage of Charlottesville.
1894
The death of Dr. JOHN JOSEPH NUTT took place at the New York Polyclinic Hospital in the early morning of November 16, 1943. The night before he had had a stiuke of apoplexy, and did not regain consciousness. His strength seemed to have been depleted by an attack of pneumonia which he had in the early part of the year. Having been born in Glencoe, Ill., June 19, 1870 (the son of John and Anne (Evans) Nutt), he was well into his 74th year. Funeral services were held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, New York, on November 18. at which the class was represented by Burnap and Martyn.
"Jack" Nutt, as he was known in the class, had a distinguished career as an orthopedic surgeon. For this he made careful preparation, being a graduate of, and getting degrees at, both the New York University and the Cornell University Medical Schools. He was a resident surgeon at the Bellevue Hospital and also was demonstrator of anatomy and surgeon at Cornell Medical for about five years. Then in addition to the large general practice which came to him he was visiting orthopedic surgeon at the Willard Parker Hospital, superintendent and surgeon of the State Hospital for Crippled Children at West Haverstraw, and professor of orthopedic surgery at the New York Polyclinic Hospital and Medical College. Among these one ventures to think that he took the greatest interest in his relationship with the Hospital for Crippled Children, which he relinquished some years before his death. This writer recalls what Nunce Norris used to say about the delight that Jack took in the childen and the delight that they took in him.
He was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and had membership in numerous other medical societies. He was the author of "Diseases and Deformities of the Foot" and articles in medical journals.
Jack was a man of whom the class not only had reason to be proud but whose genial ways and real loyalty attracted us to him. In college he was a member of Sigma Chi and Sphinx, and was manager of the Glee Club in his senior year. He also had business charge of dramatic organizations, which the Glee Club members and others carried on. During the nearly Bfty years since graduation, he has shown his constant interest in the Class and the last word from him expressed the hope that we could all come together for our 50th Reunion in the spring.
He was twice married, first to Blanche Paulson, December 2, 1899. She died January 24, 1938. His second wife, Helen Crane, to whom he was married October 22, 1939, survives him. He also leaves a son, Capt. John Gordon Nutt, U.S.A., now stationed at Orlando, Fla. and connected with Army aviation.
1901
FRANK FERDINAND KEZER died by his own hand at his home in Rochester, Vt., November 7, 1943. He had returned not long before from a stay in a Burlington hospital, and had since seemed despondent.
The son of Fayette Alba and Laura (Pearson) Kezer, he was born in Rochester, June 21, 1877, and prepared for college at the local high school. He remained in college for only a part of freshman year.
After leaving college he returned to the farm on which he was born, and remained there until his removal to the village in September last.
In 1897 he was married to Lula M. Chamberlain of Stockbridge, Vt., who survives him, with two children, Mrs. Albert E. Hill of Rochester and Fayette W. Kezer of Derry, N. H. There are also seven grandchildren.
An obituary notice in a local paper recalls his neighborliness and kindly spirit and his love and enthusiastic appreciation of outdoor nature.
1903
WILLIAM HAND WOOLVERTON of 4461 Clairmont Ave., Birmingham, Ala., died November 6, 1943, of coronary thrombosis.
He was born September 3, 1882, in Enterprise, Miss., the son of William Hand and Pearl (Holman) Woolverton, and prepared for college at the Washington High School. At Dartmouth he became a marked man because of his pleasing Southern manner of speech and his genial personality. For a shortening of his name he was called Wcoly. He was a member of the French Club, and participated in its play "Le Medecin Mai ore Lui" in junior year. As a student he ranked SBK.
After graduation he taught for three years in the McKinley Manual Training School of Washington, D. C., and while so engaged studied law at George Washington University Law School, receiving his LL.B. in 1907. He went immediately to Birmingham, Ala., to enter what proved to become a most successful law practice.
April 20, 1910 he married Virginia Spinks of Meridian, Miss., and of their union were born three children: Mary Phillips, Virginia, and William H. Jr.
In 1934 he suffered a very severe attack of coronary thrombosis, but gradually recovering he was able, under constant restriction, to continue his practice of law. Arthritis then partially crippled him, but with great courage and determination he pursued his daily course, living to see his son start in practice in his office.
Wooly was an ardent Southern gentleman, a Christian of great worth in the Presbyterian church, and a lawyer of high standing. In fraternal circles he was a 33rd degree Mason, an honor conferred upon him in 1929.
He leaves his wife, his oldest daughter Mary, wife of Dr. Henry T. Kirby-Smith of Sewanee' Tenn., Virginia, wife of John Lewis Hawn of Birmingham, and a son, William H. Jr., now in the Army Air Force.
HARRY STEPHEN BLAISDELL of 79 North Manning Rd„ Albany, N. Y„ died of a heart attack on March 12, 1943.
The son of E. A. Blaisdell, he was born May 3. 1878, in Goffstown, N. H., and prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy.
college at the close of our first year, Harry went to Chicago to enter the meat packing business. In 1913 he was still in Chicago, but in 1917 he was manager of a branch meat packing company in Albany, N. Y. In 1928 he was manager of the Gloversville Hide and Tallow Cos. of Gloversville, N. Y. In 1933 he returned to Albany to take over the management of the branch packing company again.
December 29, 1907, he married Cora M. Streeter, from which union four children were born: Harry, June 22, 1912; Helen, July 31, 1914; Thelma, December 11, 1919; and Frank, May 20, 1923.
1907
JOSEPH PATRICK MCCANN died October 28, 1943, at the Massachusetts Osteopathic Hospital, Jamaica Plain.
He was born in Chelsea, Mass., December 14, 1884. His mother was Catherine J. McCann. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He was with the class during its first two vears.
Soon after leaving college he entered the employ of the' Boston Elevated Railway, and at the time of his death was assistant supervisor of the maintenance department.
He had made his home in Arlington for the past 27 years, and was a member of the Arlington Universalist church and of the Masonic order, and was for a time active in the Boy Scouts.
He married Mildred Jones, who survives him, with a son, Harry E. McCann '34 of watertown, N. Y„ and a daughter, Marjorie (Mrs. Clyde L. Hayne) of Cooperstown, N. Y., also two grandchildren.
1911
Belated news of the death of LEICESTER BEST ATKINS on March 24, 1943, has just been received.
He was born in Washington, D. C., July 13, 1889, the son of Joseph Leicester and Kate (Best) Atkins, and came to Dartmouth from Western High School, Washington. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
After graduation he studied law, and practiced in partnership with his father at Portland, Oregon, for some years. He was later a brick manufacturer, and finally in the U. S. Customs Service in Portland.
He was in military service from November 1917 to July 1919, becoming a first lieutenant and serving in the A.E.F.
December 17, 1916, he was married to Eliza abeth McKenzie, who is now living at Tigard, Oregon. They have one son, Joseph L. Atkins, who is 25 years of age.
1912
After a rather short illness LLOYD WITHROWKNIGHT passed away on November 7, 1943, at the Chelsea Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass.
"Bug," as he was so happily known to his classmates, was born in Dorchester, Mass., on July 29, 1889, the son of Daniel W. and Flora F. Knight. Preparing at Dorchester High School, he graduated with the class of 1912, receiving a B.S. degree. He was a member of D.K.E. and Casque and Gauntlet, and played on the freshman football team while in college.
Immediately following his graduation he went to work as a clerk in the First National Bank of Boston. Joining the service in 1917, he was a second lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the Balloon Service, serving in this country. From 1919 to 1927 he was with the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, following which he was in the security business until the onset of the war, when he joined the Bethlehem Steel organization, with which he had been serving as an accountant up to the time of his death.
Surviving him are his wife, Marion, and their two children, Douglass, born in ig23j and Robert, born in 1936. They have made their home at West Somerville since their marriage.
With his sunny disposition and knack of making and retaining friends, he will be missed by all who knew him.
1914
FRANK SULLIVAN passed away suddenly, while returning from his office, on November 19. If it be true that one gets from an institution what one puts into it, then Frank Sullivan must have put a lot into Dartmouth. For truly, his interest in men and things of Dartmouth was strong, unflagging, and sincere. This, of course, is true of many, for great is the heritage of four years at Hanover.
But "Sully" had, in addition to his many other admirable points, the gift of laughter, not just good humor and a pleasant smile, but honest-to-goodness bursts of merriment. When something struck "Sully" as funny, he really laughed a contagious, infectious, convulsive laugh which was taken up by those with him to the pleasure and profit of all.
"Sully" had his ups and downs, and when he was down the world was never bothered. There was still humor in the situation and things to laugh about. Bronze and stone are not often used in public appreciation of such a homely virtue as good humor, but when such a man passes to his reward we cannot but be reminded that in his loss, we could well carry on to spread a bit of joy here and there as we pass through this vale called Life.
Florence Francis Sullivan was born in Fitchburg, Mass., April 7, 1892, the son of Patrick J. and Mary (McDonough) Sullivan; and attended Fitchburg High School before entering Dartmouth. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and played four years on the varsity baseball team.
After graduation, he taught school for four years at Leominster High School, and then served in the Army from June 25 to November 8, 1918. He was at Officers' Training School when the armistice was signed. He was then a bond salesman for various companies, and had become connected with Stone and Webster a short time before his death.
April 20, 1921, he was married to Kathryn I. Perault of Fitchburg, who survives him, with two children, Mrs. Kathryn Gurney, and Kevin I. There is also one grandchild. To his wife the class extends its deep and sincere sympathy. We shall all miss "Sully."
Representing the class at the funeral were Jim Heenehan, Bill Stratton, and John Burleigh.
1916
EARLE JOSEPH CARLETON died suddenly on November 11 at his home in Newtonville, Mass. Funeral services were on November 13, and burial took place in the Edgell Grove Cemetery, Framingham Center.
He was born at Nashua, N. H., on December 11, 1895, the son of Charles Gage and Lillie (Butler) Carleton. He was graduated from the Nashua High School, Dartmouth, and the Tuck School (1917). He entered the Army in June 1917 and served as first lieutenant in the Ordnance Department until November 1919. He held the rank of captain in the Reserves, for the period 1924"34. His business career included service with the Allen-Chalmers School of West Newton, Scovell, Wellington and Cos., A. C. Burrage, Burton-Boston Brush Company, Boston Fiduciary and Research Associates. From 1939 to 1941 he served as director, secretary, and treasurer of the Keystone Corporation of Boston, and from 1941 to the time of his death he was director and treasurer of Keystone Custodian Funds, Inc.
He was married December 29, 1917, to Marjorie Chalmers, graduate of Smith 1917, and daughter of Rev. Thomas Chalmers, who held the degree of D.D. from Dartmouth. Their son, Earle Joseph Jr., was born in 1919, graduated from Harvard in 1941, and is now a first lieutenant in the Field Artillery.
He was a member of Kappa Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa, and several business associations. In college he won his letter in soccer and participated in other activities. His career in business led him to specialization in investments and in taxes, in which fields he was expert. His circle o£ friends in college and in business was large and he was widely respected and admired. The class of 1916 recalls Joe's devotion to the College and feels keenly the loss of a loyal classmate. We wish to convey to Joe's wife and to his son our sincere sympathy for their loss which we also share.
1917
COLONEL ROY DENNIS HALLORAN, chief of the neuropsychiatry branch, Army Medical Department, died November 10, 1943, in the Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D. C., of coronary occlusion. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.
Born in Cambridge, Mass., August 4, 1894, the son of John F. and Nora (Knox) Halloran, he prepared for Dartmouth at Boys' High School, Brooklyn, N. Y. In Hanover he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and played on the varsity soccer team junior and senior years. As an undergraduate Hal possessed the characteristics which always distinguished him. Quiet, modest, and unassuming, he was unusually keen and able.
Receiving his A.B. degree cum laude, Hal went on with his medical study in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, where he received his M.D. in 1920. He served his interneship at the Newark (N. J.) City Hospital, and later took a course in vital statistics at Harvard University School of Public Health. He was a member of the medical enlisted reserve corps throughout the first World War, but in common with so many medical students, was never called to active duty.
Hal had served as assistant physician at the New Hampshire State Hospital, Concord, when in 1922 he came to the Boston State Hospital, where he was successively assistant physician, senior physician, and assistant superintendent. He became associate in research there, and collaborated in the establishment of the research department of that institution. In 1929 he became assistant to the Massachusetts State Commissioner of Mental Diseases, and filled that position until he became the first superintendent of the new Metropolitan State Hospital in Waltham, in 1933. He was co-founder and director of the annual postgraduate seminars in neurology and psychiatry at this institution. In 1935, he organized the Child Guidance Clinic at Waltham. Tufts College Medical School, on whose faculty he had served since 1928, made him clinical professor of psychiatry in 1939. He was attending specialist in psychiatry at the United States Veterans' Hospital, Bedford, Mass. In July 1942 he was granted a military leave of absence from the Metropolitan State Hospital, commissioned from civilian life to the rank of Colonel, and appointed head of the neuropsychiatric branch of the Army Medical Department. It was this responsibility which he held at the time of his death.
A specialist certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hal was president of the Massachusetts Occupational Therapy Association from 1939 to 1941, and served as councilor, vice-president, and president of the New England Society of Psychiatry. He delivered the annual oration of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1939 and served as a member of the Society's legislative committee in 1940 and as councilor in 1942. Other societies in which he was active were American Medical Association, American Hospital Association, American Psychiatric Association, Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Waltham Medical Club, Gamma Alpha, and Alpha Kappa Kappa. In addition to his professional activities, he was an active member of the Belmont Rotary Club, and its president in 1940- 41.
On September 26, 1921, in Erie, Pa., Hal married June Melvin McEnery of Memphis, Tenn., who survives him, with their two children, Roberta Lee and Donald James, the latter an Army aviation cadet. Paul J. Halloran '19 is a brother. To them 1917 extends its most sincere sympathy.
In spite of his busy life, Hal seemed always to have time and strength for Dartmouth. He was a member of the new Belmont Dartmouth Club, and of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston. It was largely through his untiring efforts as its chairman that our twenty-fifth reunion was the best we have ever had. As one of our classmates wrote, "We have all had s,o much fun with Hal. He has done a gorgeous job in life on every task he ever tackled. Dartmouth, 1917, and all of us individually are beneficiaries of his abiding interest and unusual ability." As time is measured, the span of Hal's life was brief. During those few years he accomplished more for the relief of suffering in his fellow men than most men are even permitted to consider. He gave generously and eagerly of himself, and he died in the service of his country. Yet selfishly we find that it is with a deep sense of loss that we go on.
1928
EDMUND HEMPSTEAD BRIGHAM died at Memorial Hospital, Houston, Texas, on October 13. He had been fighting a progressive paralysis for five years.
Ed was born in Mankato, Minn., Nov. 28, 1905, the son of George S. and Christine (Hempstead) Brigham, and prepared for college at Lafayette High School, Buffalo, N. Y.
He majored in chemistry at Dartmouth, and following graduation he continued in that field in Buffalo, first as a chemist with Eastern States Milling Corp., and later with the Stover Drug Cos. He had patented various anesthetic preparations.
In 1935 he became an inspector for the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, and continued until his health forced him to resign in 1941 and move, with his wife, from New York City to Texas.
Survivors are his wife, Antoinette Arnold Brigham, whom he married in Buffalo on March 24, 1933, and his parents.
1936
ALFRED WYNN BEDINGFIELD died suddenly after a short illness at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City on November 13, 1943.
A 1 was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on November 2i, 1912, and so was approaching his thirty-first birthday at the time of his death. He was the son of Victor G. L. and Josephine (Wynn) Bedingfield, and prepared for Dartmouth at Oak Park, 111., High School and Ridgewood, N. J., High School.
In college he was a member of Gamma Delta Chi as well as Junto and the Forensic Union. A 1 majored in History-Sociology and graduated cum laude "with distinction" in his major. He was also rewarded for his fine academic work by membership in Phi Beta Kappa. then appointed a Research Assistant in History at Columbia. After several years in this capacity, A 1 was justly rewarded for in 1942 he was appointed as Instructor in History at Amherst College, the position he held at the time of his passing.
He did not stop his educational pursuits upon graduation, for he went on to study at Columbia University, where he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts in 1938. He was
He had many friends during his days in Hanover and many more thereafter. He was always one of the faithful show up at class dinners in New York, and the class of 1936 has lost one of its most loyal members.
He is survived by his parents and four brothers.
1942
Lt. PHILIP ATKINSON LEE, Army Air Forces, was killed in an airplane crash at Santa Rosa, Calif., on November 7, 1943.
Born in Pleasantville, N. Y. on October 13, 1919, the son of Joseph Day and AbDy (Howell) Lee, Phil attended Pleasantville High School before coming to Dartmouth in the fall of 1938. He married Miss Carol E. Laehnle on June 21, 1942, and of this union was born a daughter, Caroline, in February 1943.
Phil entered the Air Corps in July 1942, receiving his advanced training at Blytheville, Ark., where he won his wings. He was stationed at Santa Rosa, and was teaching two other students formation flying at the time he was killed. One of the students crashed into him from the rear, and both were killed.
"Philip was a quiet, non-assertive boy at college," his sister has written, "but his love for Dartmouth increased as time away from her progressed."
Quiet and non-assertive perhaps, but his classmates will always remember him for the kindliness and the care and the aid he offered that one of our more handicapped classmates might carry on his Dartmouth days. It is hard to picture Phil Lee as a pursuit pilot, because he was always so at peace with the world; it is harder to realize that one so quiet and so peaceful has surrendered his life to Mars.
Besides his wife and daughter, Phil is survived by his mother and a sister, Mrs. John B. Crandell.
1st Lt. STANLEY PROCTOR WRIGHT, United States Marine Corps Reserve, has been killed in action in the South Pacific.
Stan was born in Hanover, N. H. on April 7, 1920, the son of Professor William Kelley and Gertrude (Sly) Wright. Before entering Dartmouth, he attended the Hanover public schools and the Northwood School, Lake Placid, N. Y., where he played football, basketball, baseball, and hockey.
At Dartmouth he captained the freshman hockey team, and later won his letter as a member of the varsity six. He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the Dragon senior society, and as a sophomore of the Vigilantes.
Stan was one of us who did not wait until Pearl Harbor to join the service. He enlisted in the Marines in April 1941, and received his basic training at Quantico. He was sent back to Dartmouth to finish his education, and graduated with our class in May 1942.
He was commissioned a second lieutenant in October 1942, and had been overseas with the Marines since February 1943. After his transfer to the Pacific area he was promoted to first lieutenant.
His death comes as a blow to his class, which since the early days of 1938 has looked upon him as one of its most popular and leading members. Friendly, quiet, reserved, and unassuming, Stan was set in purpose and ideal and known for his persistence in following through what he believed to be right. It is obvious that he upheld these principles to the end.
Besides his parents, Lt. Wright is survived by a sister, Mrs. Sanborn C. Brown.
1944
LT. RAY THEODORE WILKEN was shot down and killed in the European area on September 6, 1943.
He was born in New York City, October 20, 1930, the son of Ray Theodore and Helen (Wadsworth) Wilken. Before coming to Dartmouth, Ray attended Choate School, where he was captain of the football team.
Lt. Wilken was married to Miss Braxton Nicholson on April 19, 1942, when he was an air cadet. She and a three-months'-old daughter, Katherine Anne, survive him. Ray's mother also survives him.
Ray left school early to join the Air Forces on January 20, 1942. He was the pilot of the Flying Fortress "Battling Betsy," which had established a record of which the crew was justly proud. The fatal mission was his sixth in the European area.
1892
Dr. HOMER AUGUSTUS DAVIS died at Missoula, Montana on June 27, 1943.
He was born in Bolton, Que., October 31, 1858. The family home was in Lewiston, Me., from his boyhood, and later in Fitzwilliam, N. H. In 1875 he entered New Hampshire Agricultural College, then at Hanover, but had to leave soon on account of illness. Upon his recovery he taught three years in Illinois. In 1879 he returned to Fitzwilliam, which was his home when he entered Dartmouth Medical School in 1890.
Upon graduation he went to Dickinson, N. D., and began practice in partnership with Dr. Victor H. Stickney (D.M.S. 1883), and remained there for 36 years. In 1928 he retired from practice, and removed to Rapid City, S. D., whence he went to Arlee, Mont., in 1935, and finally to Missoula in September 1942. His career was that of a hard-working country doctor, diligent in business and doing his part in the affairs of the community.
Dr. Davis was three times married. In 1879 he married Florence N. Davis of Fitzwilliam, who died in 1888. Of their three children one is now living, Homer I. of Oakland, Cal. In 1890 he married Anna Foster Downer, who died in November 1925. Their daughter Eleanor (Mrs. Leffingwell) is in Denver, Colo. There are three grandchildren. A third marriage, May 17, 1928, was to Appolonia E. Thomas, who survives him.
E. JOSEPH CARLETON '16, Keystone Corporation official, who died on November 13.
LT. STANLEY P. WRIGHT '42 USMCR, son of Prof. W. K. Wright, Dartmouth Philosophy Department, who was killed in action in the South Pacific.
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