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.
Hutchinson, Roscoe A.'83, January 9, 1944. Gulick, E. Leeds '13, March 1, 1944. Cooper, Harry McG. '14, March 5, 1944. Eldredge, Donald H. '19, February, 1944. Arnold, Vernet A. '20, December 13, 1943. *Reinhardt, Robert L. '27, March 1, 1944. Eggleston, Leland B. '34. *Faber, Benjamin F. Jr. '36, February 21, 1944. *Wolfs, Jean H. '37, February, 1944. ""Johnson, Theodore K. '39. *King, Albert A. '41, October 19, 1943. *Blood, Rogers '44, February 17, 1944. Ham, John C. '90 M, February 17, 1944. Bates, Willard A. '01 M, February 8, 1944. Dow, Louis H. 'OB Hon., March 7, 1944. Leadbetter, Maud G. '17 A., December 15, 1941. * Died in war service.
In Memoriam
1882
ROBERT PARMENTER PARKER died August 15, 1943, at his home in Sheridan, Wyoming.
He was born in Brandon, Vt., May 16, 186O, the son of Nathan D. and Mary Ann Jane Parker. He prepared for college at Lake View High School, and took the first three years of his college course at Lake Forest College, Illinois, entering Dartmouth at the beginning of senior year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon. He was second baseman on the varsity baseball team, and won honors in prize speaking.
After graduation he studied law in Chicago, teaching elocution as a side line, and was for a short time in professional baseball. After practicing his profession for some years in Chicago, he removed to Sheridan in 1903, where he was prominent in the profession, serving as municipal judge and district court commissioner, and also as president of the Sheridan Bar Association. He was connected with the Presbyterian church and the Elks. In igag he published a course of lectures under the title, "Oratorical Discourses."
June 20, 1892, he was married to Sarah Robbins of Boston, who died May 16, 1921. They had one son, Walter Scott Parker. A second marriage September 28, ig3g, was to Nettie A. Reed of Sheridan, who survives him.
1889,
On December 17 last, FRANK JOHN REYNOLDS left New York with his sister-in-law, Mrs. James P. Reynolds, for a winter in Floridg, a rest which he had for weeks been anticipating. He was stricken on the train that night with a heart attack, was taken from the train at Rocky Mount, N. C., and died there in the Park View Hospital on December 19. His body was removed to Hartford, Conn., and a solemn requiem mass was held for him at St. Joseph's Cathedral on December 22. His body was laid at rest that same afternoon at St. Mary's Cemetery, Claremont, N. H.
He was born in Claremont on May 24, 1865. His parents were Francis and Margaret (Kelly) Reynolds, both born in Ireland. Frank attended the public schools in Claremont, graduated from the Stevens High School and entered the Chandler Scientific Department in the fall of 1885, graduating with the degree of B.S. in 1889.
He was the eldest of five children, and it early depended upon him to take his place as a worker, first in the cotton mill where his father was employed, then in the office and field of the local telephone company. To a native mechanical ability he early added to his experience a knowledge of men and the capacity of accomplishment.
In college he was particularly attentive to those sciences which were to influence his professional career, while for those studies which had no practical bearing upon his planned work he took a tolerant and sufficient interest to ensure his graduation. In many ways he showed a riper judgment in practical affairs than younger members of his class.
During this period he always manifested an ardent interest in outdoor sports, though he never attained varsity rank.
After graduation he immediately embarked upon his first assignment in the employment of the Thompson-Houston Company, later a constituent part of the General Electric Company, and literally began at the bottom, for he was soon employed in attaching electric motors to reconstructed horsecars, and at once demonstrated that he not only could do that work right but could also direct and interest others in the same thing. His first field work in Cincinnati, Ohio, included the installing of what were then large generators and motors, followed by similar activities in Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington. In 1907 he installed the turbines and generators for the Hudson tunnels in Jersey City, following which he was sent in 1910 to install a turbine generator set at the Dutch Point plant of the Hartford Electric Light Company, thus paving the way to his second and final assignment. In all this it must be understood that the early steam turbines were not perfect in their shop assembly, and it was a feature of Frank's accomplishments to be able with men to assemble, adjust, and put in operation steam generating units of increasing size and complexity. To his natural mechanical ability he added a capacity to enlist the supreme efforts of his subordinates in attaining success.
His last General Electric activity was the installation of the electrical generating equipment at the new Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
About this time the Hartford Electric Light Company contemplated the construction of an additional powerhouse and asked the General Electric Company to "loan" them the services of an engineer to supervise its construction. Frank Reynolds was so "loaned" to the Hartford people in 1917, so beginning his second professional assignment, which terminated on December 31, 1943. During this period the output of the Hartford Electric Light Company increased tenfold.
These two assignments, covering fifty-three years, witnessed an orderly and progressive development of an operating and construction engineer whose capacity always met the increasing demands of the years, who kept abreast of the developments of an urgent age, and whose knowledge and love of men equipped him to lead and spur them to the utmost of human endeavor when occasion demanded, for they could trust his fairness and personal interest.
During this career Mr. Reynolds continued an ardent interest in sports, baseball, football, and finally golf, in which he not only was proficient but became an authority on golf course and green construction. During his twentyfive years at Hartford he made his home at the Hartford Golf Club, where he was first made chairman of the greens committee and later permanent greens chairman. In many ways he was "father" of the club, and scores of attendants and caddie boys hold his name in reverent memory not only for his personal care but for their advancement into a larger life as their ambition was made manifest.
This interest, however, did not overshadow his interest in Dartmouth College, for he became Alumni Fund class agent in the year '934"35> and >n this 55th anniversary of the class of 1889 would have completed ten years of service. The record of the class speaks for itself, the Alumni Fund contributions during that period having ranged from 134% to 358% of the objectives assigned. This record reflects not only Mr. Reynolds' faithful, delightful, and effective service as class agent, but those in Hanover have expressed their deep appreciation of Mr. Reynolds' personal generosity. He never left them in any doubt that the class would surpass its objective. He was a frequent visitor at the Alumni Fund office, where, his personality and humor being what it was, the warmest welcome awaited him from all hands. Those at Hanover who observed in some detail the quality of his service to Dartmouth College are not only deeply conscious of the College's indebtedness to him, but more personally they miss a considerate and delightful associate.
It was during this latter part of Mr. Reynolds' life that he interested himself in prospective students for Dartmouth College, and to this end he made it possible for many boys to complete a college career who otherwise could not have made the grade. In various ways he created employment for these boys, in the Electric Light organization, as caddies or attendants on the golf courses in which he was interested, wherever they could fit or serve. How many were so helped no one knows, but the boys will not forget Frank Reynolds. This consideration for the future of others was manifested up to the very time of his passing.
Add to this the fact that he was a prayerful and devout man, loyal to the church in which he was born, tolerant and affectionate to his associates, unforgetting of his College and his friends, and we have an accomplished engineer, an enthusiastic and companionable sportsman, an unfailing and considerate friend, and a worthy son of Dartmouth.
The manner of Mr. Reynolds' death enlisted the immediate attention and support of the entire organization of the Hartford Electric Light Company, and the manifestation of respect and affection so evinced was an astonishing tribute to the greatness of the man.
In college Mr. Reynolds was a member of the Beta Theta Pi and Sphinx fraternities. At Hartford he had membership in the Hartford Golf Club, the Farmington Country Club, the Elks, Hartford University and Engineers clubs, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, and the Fisher Island Club.
Frank John Reynolds was never married; he was the last of his race.
1890
GEORGE MURRAY HANSON died early in February at his home in Alamogordo, New Mexico, after several years of ill health.
He was born in Sidney, Ohio, November 9, 1869, the son of Nathaniel Luther (Dartmouth 1864) and Lida McCullough (Murray) Hanson, and prepared for college at Perrysburg, Ohio, and Northwood, N. H.
For a short time after graduation he was employed in a bank in Toledo, Ohio, but soon entered the auditor's office in Toledo of the Toledo, St. Louis, and Kansas City R. R., finally becoming traveling auditor. In 1900 he removed to Alamogordo to be employed in the accounting department of the El Paso and Northeastern R. R. Co., retiring from the position of auditor and general sales agent. Then he was for a short time auditor for the Phelps-Dodge Corporation at Dawson, N. M. In 1932 he retired and returned to Alamogordo.
October 30, 1902, he was married to Elizabeth Murphy, who survives him. They had no children. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hanson were active in Red Cross work up to the very day of his death.
Murray was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was popular in college, and was a loyal member of the class and the College.
1910
GEORGE CHEEVER SINCLAIR died on December 21 at his home in Winthrop, Mass., after a brief illness of pneumonia.
George was born in Somerville, August 6, 1888, the son of Alfred P. and Emma (Greer) Sinclair.
After graduation from college, he spent most of his life in the insurance business, although he sold bonds at one time in Boston. He was in general insurance in Chicago in 1920, and later returned to Boston where he spent many years in casualty insurance. On April 30, 1915, he married Ruth Preston of West Medford, who survives him.
At his own request the services were private, and he was buried in Mt. Auburn.
In his senior year he was member of the class executive committee.
George was a quiet, unobtrusive lad in college, possessing the capacity for making and holding friends .... which was his characteristic throughout life. He was loyal to his college and class, and always enjoyed being with his classmates, who bore a high degree of respect for him.
1913
EDWARD LEEDS GULICK JR. died on March 1, 1944 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, after one week of pneumonia.
The son of Harriet (Farnsworth) and Edward Leeds Gulick (Dartmouth 1883), he was born on September 25, 1891 at Groton, Mass. He prepared for Dartmouth in the Hanover High School and at Worcester Academy. As an undergraduate he was on the freshman cross country team and on the sophomore tennis team. He was a member of KICK. Leeds graduated from Tuck School in 1914, and for about two years was secretary of Aloha Camps, Fairlee, Vt., until January 1916, when he sailed for duty with the American Ambulance Corps in France. He returned in May 1917, and took the Military Stores course at Tuck School and then studied Aeronautics at M.I.T. His first wife was Lillian E. Bulkley of New York City.
After the war he went to Phoenix, Arizona, where he operated a sanitarium, Valley View Desert Camp, and part of the time ran a stamp business to the delight of the boys. He married Lillian Madlin in Phoenix on May 3, 1924, and they had three children, Madlin Farnsworth, Edward Leeds III, and Peter. Upon his return East recently he taught school for a while, and at the time of his death he was associated with the Bethlehem-Hingham Steel Corp. His wife, the three children, and his mother, Mrs. Edward Leeds Gulick, founder and operator of Aloha Camps, survive him.
Funeral services were held in Lindsey Memorial Chapel, Emmanuel Church, Boston.
1914
ALBERT GAYLORD WILLEY died December 12, 1943, at Charleston, S. C., where he was instructor in Biology and English at Porter Military Academy.
He was born in Boston, Mass., October 20, 1889, his parents being Albert A. and Nellie M. (Spooner) Willey, and prepared for college at Boston Latin School and the DeMeritte School.
After graduation he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught four years at Williams College, and was professor of Biology at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., before going to Charleston.
In college he was a sprinter of no mean ability, having established the indoor track record of 6.6 seconds for the 60-yard dash in 1911. He was the lead-off man on the K K K relay team which made interfraternity history in those days. He was one of those present at Roger Rice's memorable Boothday Harbor house party, and also came back for our twentieth reunion. We all sincerely regret adding the name of this quiet, grand unassuming fellow to the all too rapidly mounting list of our departed classmates.
1919
DONALD HERBERT ELDREDGE of South Bend, Ind., died in New York January 16. He was born in Rockford, 111., November 5, 1896.
In the last war he enlisted with an ambulance unit and later became a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, serving from June 1917 to June 1918, receiving the Croix de Guerre. Subsequently he transferred to the American air forces with the 95th Aerial Squadron, with rank of Second Lieutenant, and served at the front until the armistice.
On returning home, Don went with George Wyman & Cos., leading department store in South Bend, and was president of that company at the time of his death. He was one of the first men in South Bend to become enthusiastic about aviation, and was one of the sponsors of the purchase of the first South Bend airfield. The first aerial marking in that city was placed on the roof of the Wyman store in the late 1920'5.
He was a trustee of First Presbyterian church, a member of the Indiana Club, South Bend Country Club, Rotary Club, the board of the St. Joseph Valley Council of Boy Scouts, and a former member of board of directors of South Bend Association of Commerce.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Elsie L. Eldredge; three sons, Donald H. Eldredge Jr., with U. S. Army; Joseph L., apprentice seaman with U. S. Navy; Charles L., at home; a sister, Miss Dorothy Eldredge, South Bend, and a brother, Stuart E. '24, of Springfield, Vt.
Don's business brought him to New York often in the past year, and he used every opportunity to participate in alumni and class activities. He was a member of the Dartmouth Club and usually stayed there on his New York trips.
In college.... he was a member of K K K.
DR. WILLIAM GRAVES TOWHISEND died at the Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vt., February n, of pneumonia, after a few days' illness.
The son of Dr. William Warren and Agnes (Graves) Townsend, he was born in Rutland, Vt„ September 30, 1896, and prepared for college at Rutland High School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
May 22, 1917, he enlisted in the 107 th M.G. Bn., was promoted to corporal, was overseas from March 21, 1918, to April 4, 1919, and was discharged April 8.
He then studied medicine at the University of Vermont, graduating in 1924, and has since practiced in that city, specializing in urology, and holding a professorship in that subject in the University.
He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopalchurch, the Ethan Allen Club, the BurlingtonGun Club, the Chittenden County Fish andGame Club, the St. Bernard Fish and GameClub of Canada, and many professional societies. He was a widely known sportsman,and several times held the state skeet andtrapshooting titles.
June 24, 1925, he was married to MargueriteYoung of Burlington, who died in 1935. Heis survived by his mother and one brother.
1920
VERNET ARTHUR ARNOLD died December 13,of a heart ailment, at his home in Passaic, N. J., after a long illness.
The son of Arthur Daniel (Dartmouth1893) and Claudia (Arms) Arnold, he wasborn in Stoughton, Mass., July 1, 1897. I"early life, he moved with his family to Passaic,where he graduated from the high school in1915. A member of the class of 'l9, he wasgraduated from Dartmouth in 1920, becauseof a year away during the war. He was amember of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
After Dartmouth, he was graduated from the Columbia Law School, and until two years ago practised law in Passaic.
He leaves a widow, Edythe (Jackson) Arnold; a son, Richard, aged fifteen; and a daughter, Virginia, aged fourteen. Also surviving him are his mother and father of Passaic, and a sister, wife of F. Irving Hutchins (Dartmouth '2O) of Rochester, N. Y.
1921
JOHN GORDON IVES died of a heart attack Jan. 3, 1944, in Bloomfield, N. J., while travelling on a bus from New York to his home in Upper Montclair. At the request of Mrs. Ives, the bus operator drove to the office of a nearby doctor in Glen Ridge who had had Gordon under his care for several years because of a heart ailment. Gordon was dead upon arrival at the doctor's office. He was buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair.
Gordon Ives was born January 24, 1897, in Brooklyn, N. Y., the son of John N. and Abbe F. (Card) Ives. Preparing for college at Kingsley School, Essex Fells, N. J., and Peddie Institute, Slim entered Dartmouth with our class at the beginning of freshman year. He withdrew a year later to enter business.
About 1924 he became connected with Thomas A. Edison, Inc., in West Orange, and remained with that organization the remainder of his life. In more recent years Slim had held the-title of service manager of the Storage Battery Division. He was awarded the M.E. degree in 1926 by Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, where he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity.
Gordon was married April 7, 1926, to F. Roma Evans of San Antonio, Texas, a graduate of H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, Tulane University. They had two children, Josephine Bliss and John Gordon Jr. Besides his wife and two children, Slim is survived by his mother, Mrs. John N. Ives of Upper Montclair; a sister, Mrs. Lloyd Hathaway of Abington, Mass.; and a brother, Lloyd S. Ives of Roseland, N. J.
Slim was a trustee of the First Baptist church, Montclair, and a member of the Engineers Society, also of Montclair. Both he and his wife were active in civic affairs in Glen Ridge and Upper Montclair, where they had lived. Although few men in '2l had seen much of Slim during more recent years, the loss of a citizen of his calibre is one the class can ill afford.
1936
Lieutenant (jg) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FARBERJR. was killed in an airplane crash on February gi, according to a report issued on March1 by the Navy Department. The details ofthe accident or its location are not as yetavailable.
Ben was born in Plymouth, Mich., on December 9, 1914. He was the son of Rev. Dr.Benjamin F. and Helen (Welty) Farber, andprepared for Dartmouth at Horace MannSchool for Boys in New York City, fromwhich he graduated in 1932.
Although he was with us in Hanover for only two years, Ben made a host of friends and has always been a loyal member of Dartmouth and 1936. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta. After leaving Hanover, Ben continued his education at Cornell and received his A.B. degree from that institution in 1937.
After graduation from Cornell, he became associated with Movie Makers, Inc., as a photographic consultant. He later was connected with Spot Film Productions, Inc., as vice president and expert photographer. Ben took a leave of absence from this successful business career in January 1942 to offer his services to his country by enlisting in the United States Navy Air Corps.
He received his training at Floyd Bennett Field in New York and at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Fla., and was commissioned an en- sign later on in 1942. Early in 1943 he was promoted to Lt. (jg), and at the time was a pilot o£ a Hellcat based on an aircraft carrier.
Regretfully but proudly the class of 1936 adds one more gold,star to its service flag in memory of one of its sons who was deeply respected and admired by his host of friends at Dartmouth, at Cornell, in business and in the Navy.
He is survived by his parents and two brothers, one of whom is a captain in the U. S. Army now serving overseas.
1938
1938 has felt the sting of war again, and in a place where it hurts. From a newspaper clipping, we read "The Air Medal and Purple Heart award has been presented to the widow of Ist Lt. ROBERT JOHN HOLDOM of Pelham Manor, who was killed in action in the U. S. Army Air Forces on July 14, 1943. Mrs. Mary Katherine Bagnal Holdom was presented with the high honor at her home at Sumter, S. C."
Lt. Holdom was cited "for exceptionally meritorious achievement while participating in five separate bomb combat missions over enemy-occupied continental Europe. The courage, coolness and skill displayed by this officer on these occasions reflect great credit upon him and the armed forces of the United States."
Holdom, who was with the class only through freshman year, was born in Indianapolis, Ind., November 4, 1914, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gray D. Holdom, who now live in Pelham.
A baby daughter, born after Lieutenant Holdom's death, is with the airman's widow, who is living with her parents in Sumter, S. C.
These are the things a lot of us forget when the papers tell us "only five planes lost in today's action." We are proud to have known Bob.
1939
HERBERT MAX JOSEPH ILLFELDER died November 14, 1943, from wounds received in Italy.
Before entering Dartmouth he studied at La Maison Universitaire in Paris. In college he was a history major and secretary of Le Cercle Fran^ais.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Ludwig P. Kahn, of 41 West 86th St., New York.
Medical School
1882
DR. WARREN ELLIS PAGE died January 5, 1944, at his home in Cranston, R. 1., of pneumonia.
He was born in Avon, Mass., July 6, 1858, the son oF William Thomas and Harriet (Jones) Page, and obtained his preliminary education at the Stoughton (Mass.) High School.
Shortly after graduation he began practice at Phenix, R. 1., and continued actively until soon after the death of his wife, about ten years ago. He was the oldest member and a past president of the Kent County Medical Society, and is thought to have been the oldest member of the Rhode Island Medical Society. He served as health officer for the town of Coventry and medical inspector of schools of that town in 1922-3.
A typical country doctor of the old school, he was nevertheless one of the first physitians in the Pawtuxet Valley to use the X-ray in office practice and one of the first to discard the horse and buggy for the automobile. He was a registered pharmacist, and manufactured pills and other medicines in a laboratory which adjoined his office. His hobby was machinery, and he found diversion in a small but completely equipped machine shop in the rear of his house. When he gave up practice he removed to the Fiskeville section of Cranston.
He was married in 1885 to Ida Estelle, daughter of Harris and Phoebe Henry, who died about ten years before him. They had no children, and the nearest surviving relative is a brother, Elmer E. Page of Phenix.
Advanced Degrees
1941
JAMES HOWARD YOUNG JR. died July 4, 1943, of poliomyelitis, after an illness of only five days.
He was from Colorado Springs, Colo., graduated A.B. from Colorado College in 1939, and studied two years at Dartmouth, receiving the degree of A.M. in 1941.
He had been base weather officer at the Lubbock, Texas, Army Flying Field for almost a year, but had applied for pilot training and was sent to Hicks Field six weeks before his death.
FRANK JOHN REYNOLDS '89
