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]

Center, John W. '83, July 16 Sturgis, Olin D. '85, March 16, 1944 Fairbanks, Robert N. '88, August 4 Cox, Ralph E. '92, June 12 Allen, John E. '94, July 24 Tarbell, Wallace H. '95, July 20 Bacon, Arthur A. '97, August 19 Abbott, Alson M. '99, August 14 Webb, Charles A. '03, August 12 Sampson, Wallace L. '05 Worcester, William W. '08, August 27 Parkinson, Taintor '09, August 12 Whelpley, Walter M. '09, July 9 Williams, Russell T. '10, July 25 Baker, Ralph E. '12, July 24 Sargent, Gorham P. '14, August 21 Wilson, Paul F. '14, August 14 McEndy, John F. '16, August 6 Wentworth, William O. '16, August 22 Durkee, William P. '20 July 16 Shaw, Samuel T. Jr. '21 August 13 Streng, George W. '22, July 22 Fitzpatrick, Thomas C. '24, January 29 *MacMillan, Frederick D. '27, Dec. 3, 1943 *Taber, Elwyn L. Jr. '38 June 20, 1944 •Newman, John '39, June 26 *Palmer, Charles H. '39, June 30 *Duncan, Joseph J. '40 April 17 *Hale, Robert A. '40 February 21 *Orr, John I. Jr. '41 July 30 *Taylor, George A. '41 January 21 *Carey, Fred M. '43, June 20 *Mulhern, Robert E. '44, May 30 *Geiger, Peter E. '45, July 28 Liota, Victor J. '45, July 19 *Rue, Charles T. '46, March 24 *Stroh, Edwin A. '46, March 16 *Worton, Robert A. '46, July 27 Hadley, Lorenzo W. '97 m, June 22, 1944 Hoyt, Park R. '06m, August 31 Curtis, Walter W. '86th, June 29, 1940

In Memoriam

1880

GEORGE MATHIOT DAVIDSON died May 15, 1945, at the West Suburban Hospital, Oak Park, Ill., after a brief illness resulting from a fracture.

He was born in Newark, Ohio, December 8, 1858, the son of George Mathiot and Cornelia Caroline (Curtis) Davidson, and prepared for college at Williston Academy, Easthampton, Mass. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He graduated with the degree of B.S., specializing in chemistry.

In December 1880 he became assistant chemist in the Chemical Laboratory of the Cambria Iron Cos., Johnstown, Pa. In September 1882 he was transferred to the Open Hearth Steel Department, of which he soon became assistant superintendent. In 1886 he established a chemical laboratory for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, being a pioneer in that field of research, and in 1888 he became engineer of tests for the entire system, holding the title of industrial engineer, which included the management of the company's coal mines. He remained with the company through his active life, having his home in Oak Park from 1888.

He was a member of many scientific organizations, including the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Wood Preservers' Association, the Western Society of Engineers, and the Western Railway Club.

In 1888 he was married to Grace H. Stennett of Oak Park, who survives him, as do also a brother and two nephews. The late Edward S. Davidson '92 was a brother.

1888

DR. BERTRAND FRANK MARSHALL died at his home in Westbrook, Me., June 22, 1945, after a brief illness.

The son of Dr. Albert Quincy and Lucy Helen (Duun) Marshall, he was born in Oxford, Me., October 31, 1866. His medical course was begun at Bowdoin and finished at Dartmouth.

He began practice at Moultonboro, N. H„ and was later at Windham and Weld, Me., and Weston and Waltham, Mass., before going to Westbrook in 1918.

He was a member of the Cumberland County and Maine Medical Associations, and at Westbrook was city and school physician.

His first marriage was to Minnie D. Smith of Gray, Me., who died a few years later. A second marriage was to Eva A. Smith, a sister of his first wife, who died nine years ago.

Surviving him are a son, Dr. Orland S. Marshal] of Billerica, Mass., and a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Foss of West Asheville, N. C.

ROBERT NOYES FAIRBANKS died August 4, at his home in St. Johnsbury, Vt., after a short illness.

He was the second son of Prof. Henry Fairbanks, Dartmouth 1853, and was born at Hanover, N. H., November 19, 1866, his father at that time being Professor of Natural Philosophy in the College. His mother, Annie Stick ney Noyes, was the daughter of Daniel James Noyes, Dartmouth 1832, who was Phillips Professor of Theology, 1849-69, and Professor of Intellectual Philosophy and Political Economy, 1869-85.

At the age of three he moved with his parents to St. Johnsbury, and here Robert spent his youth, attending the local schools, and graduating from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1884. In the fall of that year he entered Dartmouth, graduating in 1888. He was an excellent scholar and won honors in French. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Casque and Gauntlet, and manager of the varsity baseball team senior year.

After graduation he began his long career with the Fairbanks Morse Scales Cos., in their Chicago office, where he spent two years attending to correspondence and learning about the world-wide business, started by his grandfather, Thaddeus Fairbanks, inventor of the famous Fairbanks Scales. His first business trip was made in 1892, when he was sent to Honolulu, Australia, and New Zealand, where he studied the needs of these colonies and brought out designs that still form the leading lines of scales in these localities. In 1895-6 he was sent to Mexico with letters from the Mexican Embassy, where he assisted the Mexican government in introducing the metric system, which incidentally meant a large increase of business for the Scales Cos. In 1897 he went around the world in Company interests, visiting Japan, China, Straits Settlements, New Zealand, Australia, India, and Ceylon, afterwards going to England and Scotland. The following year he was in Cuba and the West Indies, and in 1899 was sent to London in charge of the European business. He established branch offices in Glasgow, Paris, and Hamburg, and remained in England for the next forty years. He resigned from the scales business in 1912, and became London manager for the firm who were agents for the American Car and Foundry Cos., and for manufacturers of railway supplies. From 1916 to 1940 he was owner and manager of the British-American Import Cos., located in London. During these years he was active in many worthy deeds and gained a wide acquaintance in England. He organized the American Luncheon Club, which grew from 50 to 200 members and met weekly at Hotel Savoy with distinguished speakers. During the first World War he was president of the American Society in London, and active in war services, doing much to provide recreation for convalescent British soldiers.

Fairbanks belonged to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, was honorary secretary and treasurer of the American Luncheon Club, past master of Columbia Lodge, Order of Masons, member of the Royal Automobile Club, Royal Motor Yacht Club, and the White Friars Club (including the leading literary and newspaper people of London). He was also chairman of the Church Council of the Church of England and sidesman in the same church.

In 1892 he married Camilla Van Kleek of New York City who died in 1912; two children survive from this marriage, Mrs. A. L. Cotter of New York City and Dr. Sydney Fairbanks of Chicago. He was later married to Miss Pauline Olga Harmer of London, and they have one daughter, Miss Lucie Olga Noyes Fairbanks. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Marian Adams of Danville, Vt., and Mrs. Dorothy Nelson of Montpelier. His brother, Arthur Fairbanks, Dartmouth '86, died in January 1944.

Fairbanks and his wife built "Vermont House," located on the .Sussex Coast, and their beautiful ten acre plot was cherished during their last years in England. He came to Halifax with his wife and daughter on a troop ship in November 1941, and from there to St. Johnsbury, where he passed his final years amid old scenes and gained a wide circle of friends. He was the guest of honor soon after his return from England, at a luncheon given by Wendell Williams to his '88 classmates at the University Club of Boston, and here he spoke briefly of the bombing of his beautiful English home.

Funeral services were held at the South Congregational church, conducted by his brotherin-law, the Rev. Chauncy A. Adams of Danville, and burial was in the family lot at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.

1892

RALPH EASTMAN COX died at his home in Covina, Calif., on June 12, 1945. He had gone to Covina in 1941 for medical treatment, and at first improved considerably, but for some months before his death had steadily lost ground.

He was born in Kittery, Me., January 2, 1872, the son of Joseph E. Cox, and prepared for college at Portsmouth, N. H., High School. He was a member of Sigma Chi, and graduated with the degree of B.S.

After a few months' surveying in New England, he entered the employment of the Western Electric Company of Chicago, and was with them in various locations for twelve years.

On September 5, 1895, he married Miss Minnie E. Paul, who shared with Ralph his love for the great outdoors, so that she enjoyed with him two years of gold mining and prospecting in South Dakota in 1905 and 1906. In 1907 he purchased the Riverside Ranch in Rawlings, Wyo., and in 1915 the Echo Glen Ranch in La Porte, Colo. Success attended these ventures, so that in 1918 he sold out his ranch interests and indulged in an 8000-mile auto trip through the West, a wonderful opportunity for camp life, which was much to the taste of the Coxes.

When it came to settling down they chose San Diego for a home, later moving to Long Beach, in both of which places Cox was active in church and community affairs.

Although distance prevented Cox from attending reunions, he never lost interest in Dartmouth and" the Class of 1892. He was a regular correspondent of the Secretary, and was prompt and generous in responding to calls upon him from the College. Mrs. Cox survives him.

1893

JOHN QUINCY EATON died June 18, 1945, at his Tchulahoma Road, Whitehaven, Tenn., home, and services were held at the National Funeral Home in Memphis, the Rev. Marshall Wingfield officiating. Eaton suffered a stroke in May and was unable to recover.

He was born July 14th, 1873, in Washington, D. C. The son of General John (Dartmouth 1854) and Alice Eugenia (Shirley) Eaton. General Eaton was United States Commissioner of Education (1871-86), He had been Superintendent of Education in Tennessee (1867-69), and is credited with having laid the foundation for the present state school system. He had served as a chaplain in the Union Army and was a personal friend of General Grant and President Lincoln, and shortly before his death wrote a book about them based on his firsthand knowledge.

John Quincy Eaton attended public schools in Washington, D. C., and later Marietta (Ohio) Academy and College, of which his father at the time was President. Transferring in his junior year to Dartmouth, he enrolled with the Class of '93 in the fall of 1891 and immediately became active in class and college affairs. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and in his senior year of the Sphinx society.

Immediately after being graduated from Dartmouth he entered the office of his uncle, L. B. Eaton '59, at Memphis, Tenn., doing clerical work and studying law for about a year, after which he returned to Washington, D. C., working in the National Museum and continuing his law studies at Columbian Law School, from which he received the degrees of Bachelor of Laws in 1894 and Master of Laws in 1895.

He was employed for four years by the Interstate Commerce Commission in their legal department. Continuing his legal connections he became owner of a cotton plantation at Itta Bena, Leflore County, Miss., and soon gave this his whole attention. He became a permanent resident of Memphis in 1907, operating a real estate office, and became active in Republican party affairs, particularly as secretary-treas urer of the Southern States Republican League.

He was a member of the Shelby County Bar Association; a director of the American Building Association; member of the Selective Service Board during World War I; member of the First Congregational church; and a 32d degree Mason. He was life director and president of Memphis Associated Amateurs, through which he attempted to foster outdoor sports for the underprivileged.

On September 5, 1901, he married Mary Clough, who with their three children survives him. The children are John Quincy Eaton Jr. (Dartmouth 1930), born January 7, 1907, and now with the Army in the Pacific; Clough Eaton, born December 18, 1910; and Mary Christine Eaton of Whitehaven, Tenn., a suburb of Memphis. There are two grandchildren, Barbara and Janett Eaton.

1894

JOHN ELIOT ALLEN, who, until his retirement because of age limitation in 1943, was chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, died at his home in Keene, N. H., July 24.

He was born in Claremont, N. H., June 26, 1873, a son of Judge William Harrison and Ellen E. (Joslin) Allen. He attended the public schools of Claremont, received his A.B. at Dartmouth in the class of '94, and his LL.B. at Harvard in the Law School class of '98. Dartmouth awarded him an honorary LL.D. at the Commencement exercises of 1942 in recognition of his long and distinguished career at the bar and on the bench.

"Jack" Allen, as he was affectionately known by his classmates, was admitted to the New Hampshire bar even before he graduated from the Harvard Law School, having supplemented his formal studies by intensive reading in the law offices of Bachelder & Faulkner at Keene, and in the offices of the late Ira Colby in Claremont. His record at Harvard was of high scholastic distinction, as it had been at Dartmouth.

From 1900 to 1903 Judge Allen served as an instructor in the Tuck School, meantime serving as city solicitor of Keene and as a judge of probate from 1900 to 1906. He was named to the Superior Court bench in 1917, while engaged with the War Industries Board at Washington in World War I, and for six years was a member of the Superior Court bench. He was named to the Supreme Court in 1924 and later became its chief justice, to serve until he retired at the age of 70 in June 1943. He had given valuable service also as head of the New Hampshire Bar Association, served for eight years as a member of the board of education for the Union school district, was a director of the Keene National Bank and a trustee of the Keene Savings Bank. He had been a member of the Keene Country Club and the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Cheshire County. After his retirement from the bench he continued his practice of the law, with offices in Keene.

On July 1, 1901, he married Amy L. Abbott, daughter of Hon. and Mrs. John T. Abbott of Keene, who survives him. There were no children.

A memorial service for him was held at the Unitarian church in Keene on the Friday following his death, attended by several of his Dartmouth classmates as well as by a distinguished company representing the bench and bar of the state. The '94 men present were Gassin, Colby and Claggett.

In college, Judge Allen had been a member of the DKE fraternity, of the Sphinx senior society, and of Phi Beta Kappa. His was one of the outstanding minds in his class, both at Hanover and at Cambridge, and his personal qualities endeared him to all who knew him. Never a showy character, Jack Allen was universally recognized for the sterling stuff that was in him. It is doubtful that any other justice of the state's highest court at any time in its long and honorable history ever brought more solid and enduring repute to it than did he. It is one thing for a judge to "call them as he sees them" to adopt the vernacular of the sporting page and quite another to "see them" accurately as they ought to be seen. In combining the two desirable qualities, Judge Allen was unsurpassed. He was that rare being, an idealist and a man of common sense, adept at seeking and finding what President Tucker used to call "the higher ranges of the practical." By his classmates he will always be remembered alike as one of the most brilliant minds in their fellowship and as one of the most lovable, association with whom was a delight. There was nothing of the prig about Jack Allen. Intellectual snobbishness was at the farthest remove from his nature. To be a first rate scholar and at the same time a first rate fellow is not too easy—but for Jack Allen it was "a natural."

1895

DR. HORACE NEWHART died July 9 at the Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn. The son of Jude and Sarah (Parker) Newhart, he was born in New Ulm, Minn., Decernber 9, 187 a, and prepared for college at Carleton Academy, Northfield, Minn. He was a member of Sigma Chi and Phi Beta Kappa.

He graduated as M.D. at the University of Michigan in 1898, and then studied for a year at the University of Vienna to which he returned in three subsequent years for further study. He had been in practice in Minneapolis since 1901, and had become one of the nation's most noted ear specialists. Since 1912 he had been professor of Otolaryngology at the University Medical School, and was a staff member at University, Northwestern, Abbott, and St. Barnabas Hospitals and at Glen Lake Sanatorium.

He was president of the American Otological Society in 1939-40, of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing in 1927-8, of the Minneapolis Society for the Hard of Hearing in 1925-9, and of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology in 1924-5, and was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the American Medical Association.

September 4, 1904, he was married to Anne Hendrick of Slingerlands, N. Y., who survives him, with a son, Ellwood Hendrick Newhart.

On July 20 the Class of 1895 lost another valued member. DR. WALLACE HENRY TARBELL died at his summer home at Contoocook, N. H.

The son of Charles H. and Mary (Eskridge) Tarbell, he was born in Pepperell, Mass., November 16, 1871. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

He studied medicine at the University of Vermont, where he graduated as M.D. in 1902. He had practiced for more than 40 years in Manchester, N. H. He was a member of the Masonic order, a fellow of the American Medical Association, and a member of the New Hampshire and Merrimack County Medical Societies.

His wife," Mrs. Clarice (Elliott) Tarbell, survives him.

1897

ARTHUR AVERY BACON died at his summer residence at Raymond, Me., August iB, 1945. Burial was at Amesbury, Mass.

The son of Rev. William Ferdinand and Mary Welch (Beal) Bacon, he was born in Laconia, N. H., October 26, 1875. His boyhood home was in Medford, Mass., where he prepared for college. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, and was later elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he did postgraduate study at Dartmouth, receiving the degree of A.M. in 1901, and being instructor in physics 1899-1900 and in mathematics and astronomy 1900-1. He next was science instructor for a time in a preparatory school in Massachusetts. From 1903 to 1919 he was Professor of Physics at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., where he was also registrar from 1907 to 1917, and was an elder and Sunday school superintendent at the First Presbyterian church. In 1917-19, under leave of absence, he was captain and later major in the American Red Cross Relief Unit in Palestine, receiving a citation from General Allenby.

From 1919 to 1940 he was Professor of Physics in the American University, Beirut, Syria. During the first part of this period he was active in the Near East Relief organization which carried through the American Red Cross war-time service. He was elected to Sigma Xi while doing research work under Dr. Robert A. Millikan of California Tech. during a furlough in 1926-7.

After returning from Syria he lived first in Amesbury, Mass., and then in St. Petersburg, Fla., with a summer residence at Panther Pond, Raymond, Me., where he died.

June 27, 1902, he was married to Edith Morrill Jones, who died in January 1931. Their children are: Mary Frances, a graduate of Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, now the wife of Rev. Robert L. James Jr. (Dartmouth 1933), who is in charge of student religious work at San Jose (Calif.) State Teachers College; Richard Emerson (Dartmouth 1930), with Group Division of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Chicago; Preston Morrill (Northeastern 1934), with Casualty Department of National Surety Company in Kansas City, Mo. There are five grandchildren. A second marriage, December 25, 1934, was to Mrs. Lydia T. (Jenkins) Jones, who survives him.

Professor Bacon was the youngest of five brothers who were Dartmouth men: the others were Charles A. '83, George P. '87, William A. '90, Theodore H. '97. Their one sister married William H. Mahoney '02.

1899

ALSON MORGAN ABBOTT died at his home 35 East 30th St., New York City, August 14. Had he lived three days longer he would have been 68 years old. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx senior society. Not only those of Dartmouth who knew him but all his friends and business associates always called him "Pap." This name came about through his close association during his undergraduate days with two classmates, Sam Burns of Omaha and Harold Kirk of Chicago. Burns tall, with dark skin, black hair, and high cheek bones was called "Buck"; Kirk, short and thickset was called "Squaw"; Abbott with blond curly hair was called "Pap," short for papoose. Buck, Squaw, and Pap they were to all of Dartmouth who know them as long as they lived. All three are now deceased.

Pap came to Dartmouth from his native city of Glens Falls, N. Y. After graduation he was a reporter on the New York Evening Journal for five years. Later he was in the printing business for several years before going to work in Wall Street, where he was associated with different brokerage firms, all members of the New York Stock Exchange Paine, Webber & Cos., J. R. Williston & Cos., and for the last ten years with Hoppin Brothers & Cos. Formerly for several years his home was in Plainfield, N. J., twenty-four miles from New York.

Service and burial were at Pine View Cemetery, Glens Falls, August 16.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Maude Earle Conklin Abbott; a son, Staff Sergeant James Earle Abbott, stationed in the Netherlands East Indies with the Army Medical Corps, and a half brother, James Burton Reynolds, Dartmouth '90, of Washington, D. C., former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. An older son, Alson Morgan Abbott Jr., Dartmouth 1929, died in 1931.

1901

Guy CLIFTON RICKER, a member of this class for a short while, died at his home in Kansas City, Mo., January 30, 1943.

He was born in Actori, Maine, February 3, 1876, the son of Daniel W. and Emma (Merrow) Ricker. In 1897 he was graduated from Brewster Free Academy, Wolfeboro, N. H., and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1897, where he stayed one year and then took special work at Harvard University.

He then went into the book business as a salesman, traveling from Maine to California. Later he was promoted to the general agency for the state of Maine. In 1907 ln recognition of his ability and success, his field was extended to the Maritime Provinces and organnized as a department. Following this, he became manager of the Frontier Press Company in Kansas City, a position he held until his retirement on account of ill health a few years ago.

In college he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

He was married in 1899 to Jeannette Blood of Norwich, Vt„ who died eight years ago. Surviving him are two daughters, Mrs. Karl Wolf of Chile, South America, and Mrs. Robert T. Wren of Kansas City, and three grandchildren.

ELLIS JOHN UNDERHILL died at his home in Washington, D. C., April 23, 1945> after a long illness.

The son of Ellis John (Dartmouth 1873) and Eliza P. (Parsons) Underhill, he was born in Maroa, Ill., March 6, 1879. He fitted at a private school and was at Dartmouth through freshman year. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and was on the varsity football squad.

Most of his life he was interested in coal mining, and developed and operated several such properties. For many years he maintained offices in Cleveland and resided in Lakewood, Ohio. He retired some years ago, and went to live in Washington, where his two daughters are located.

"Tubby" Underhill, as he was familiarly known, came to college from Lowell, Mass., where his mother was principal of the Rogers Hall School for Girls. He was a roly-poly, jolly, good-natured soul, congenial and wellliked. Very few of the class have ever seen him since leaving college, although Mort Crowell used to meet with him occasionally in Cleveland.

He was married November 29, 1905, to Kathryn Freligh of Washington, who survives him, with two daughters, Helen F. and Lida P. The burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

1903

CHARLES ALFRED WEBB of 2831 28th St., N.W., Washington, D. C., died at Brattleboro, Vt., August 12, 1945, after several years' illness.

He was born on January 14, 1880, at Irasburg, Vt., the son of Rev. Alfred H. and Lizzie (Sutcliffe) Webb. He married in 1910 Eva B. Runsdell of Canton, N. Y.

After preparing for college at Montpelier Seminary, class of 1898, he entered Dartmouth in the class of 1903. Remaining in college until 1901, he was forced by lack of finances to leave, and entered the employ of Swift & Company in Chicago. In 1903 he joined the staff of the Montpelier Daily Journal. He became city editor, then editor, and later editor and manager in the years 1905-1909. In the years 1904, 1906, and 1908 he reported the Vermont state legislature.

In 1909, as secretary to the late U. S. Senator William P. Dillingham of Vermont, he was named clerk of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and in the next few years served as clerk on many important committees.

After Senator Dillingham's death in 1923, he ran for a seat in the U. S. House of Representatives, but was defeated by the late Ernest W. Gibson. Immediately he returned to Washing, ton and served as Mr. Gibson's secretary until 1931, when Senator Warren R. Austin was elected. He went with Senator Austin as his secretary and remained as such until 1941, when failing health compelled retirement.

In college Charles was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and a half-back on the freshman and sophomore football teams.

He is survived by his wife, Eva B. Runsdell Webb, a daughter, Mrs. Marion Webb Stephens, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Bertell of Montpelier, Vt.

Funeral services were held at Montpelier on August 14, and burial services at Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier.

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WALTER MARTIN LEIGHTON of Maplewood, N. J., died on May 22, 1945.

The son of Albert Richard and Eliza Jane (Martin) Leighton, he was born in Haverhill, Mass., January 31, 1883, and prepared for college at Haverhill High School. He was a member of Sigma Nu.

He became associated with the Western Electric Company in New York in 1908, and was continuously employed by that company until his death, having become senior accountant.

June 23, 1914 he was married to Emma Lewis Garnett of Richmond, Va., who survives him, with two daughters, Miss Janet and Mrs. C. H. Lane, and a sister, Mrs. W. D. Head of Montclair, N. J. Services and burial were at Richmond, Va.

1908

JOSEPH JOYCE DONAHUE died most suddenly at his house, 235 Forest Hills St., Jamaica Plain, Mass., Oil the night of Saturday, June 2, of a coronary occlusion. Earlier in the day he had complained of faintness and had been brought home, seemingly only indisposed. In the late evening his condition became worse and all attempts to rally him failed.

Born in Medford, Mass., on September 26, 1885, he was the son of Peter E. and Catherine (Joyce) Donahue. He attended Medford schools and was graduated from the high school in 1904. There he distinguished himself in sports and dramatics and won several trophies in debating. That same fall he entered Dartmouth. The "Count," as he was familiarly known, was active again in dramatics and debating and was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. After receiving his bachelor's degree he entered the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated in 1911 Almost immediately he was admitted to law practice.

Mr. Donahue practiced from this time to the moment of his death. His practice was varied, but in him the barrister ever predominated over the solicitor, and nothing delighted him more than court work and forensic oratory before a judge and jury.

Always actively interested in matters political, he was elected a member of the Massa chusetts legislature for one term in 1915 as a Democrat. Later he twice received the nomination of his party for Attorney General. In 1922 as a special assistant to the Attorney General he prosecuted many fraudulent stock cases and was instrumental in cleaning out much existing corruption. During the Thirties he was again active in civic matters, when as member of the Boston Finance Commission together with Charles Moorefield Storey he engaged in an investigation of the illegal actions of Curley while Mayor of Boston. This investigation led Curley upon becoming governor to pack the governor's council as his first act in office so that he could without opposition highhandedly remove Donahue and Storey and save himself from investigation and prosecution. While for a moment he blocked this investigation, later Curley was forced to pay back to the city large sums of money illegally obtained. To show his contempt for the acts of his predecessor and by way of vindication Governor Saltonstall after assuming office appointed Mr. Donahue to the post of civil service commissioner, which position he held at the time of his death.

Many other fields claimed his attentions, and his wide range of interests and voracious study and reading on subjects as diverse as philosophy or the cultivation of mushrooms made him a fascinating conversationalist and frequent after-dinner speaker. On the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Charitable Irish Society in 1937 he was elected its president.

Surviving are his wife, the former Isabel Cairns, whom he married April 7, 1920, and three sons, Robert Joyce; Douglas Alexander USMC and Dartmouth 1945; and David Cairns, USN. The funeral services were held on June 6 at St. Thomas' Church, Jamaica Plain, and burial was in Forest Hills Cemetery.

WILLIAM WARNER WORCESTER, former postmaster and owner of the general store at Hollis, N. H., died at a Nashua hospital Monday, August 27, following a short illness.

He was born in Cambridge, Mass., September 23, 1885, son of William and Helen (Read) Worcester. He came to Hollis with his parents as a child and had since been a resident of the town. He graduated from Hollis High School and Colby Academy, and from Dartmouth College in 1908, receiving his M.C.S. degree at the Amos Tuck School in 1909. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

In recent years he had been engaged in the real estate business. He served a number of years on the school board and as trustee of Hollis Library.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lou M. Worcester, a daughter, Miss Mary Worcester, a student at Colby junior College; two sons, Pfc. William W. Worcester Jr. in the Philippines, and Russell D. Worcester, stationed near Okinawa.

1909

TAINTOR PARKINSON died at the New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, on August 12, 1945. Death came after an illness of about two weeks which followed the extraction of an impacted tooth. The condition causing death was diagnosed as inflammation of the nerves of the spinal column, caused or contributed to by infection over a long period.

Taintor was born October 22, 1886, at Falmouth, Mass., the son of William Dwight, class of 1878 and Caroline (Bowman) Parkinson. He prepared for college at Waltham (Mass.) High School.

After graduating from Dartmouth he received the degree of Master of Science at the University of Michigan and the degree of Master of Pedagogy from New York University in 1911. During World War I he served with the Army Signal Corps and rose to the lank of second lieutenant, and immediately following the armistice was assigned to teach radio at the Second Aviation Instruction center, Tours, France, for the 1918-19 winter term. He was a public school principal in Greenwich, Conn., 1919-23. He later joined the United States Bureau of Standards, where he was associate physicist from July 1928 to February 1930, in charge of a project on investigation of radio wave phenomena, and had for a little more than four years previously been a research associate with the bureau in the same field.

As a delegate from the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research council, he presented a paper at the meeting of the International Union of Scientific Radio in Brussels in 1928, and while in Europe did special study on radio research then being conducted at various laboratories in France, England, and Belgium.

He then went to the Louisiana State University, where he taught in the electrical engineering department and was later made a full Professor of Electronics. He.was one of the investigators of radio wave phenomena in the first Bvrd Antarctic Expedition in 1928. Professor Voorhies, head of the electrical engineering department, made the statement that Taintor was one the finest men he had ever known and it would be very hard to replace him on the faculty of Louisiana State University.

He is survived by his father and three brothers.

WALTER MERTON WHELPLEY died in a local hospital in Savannah, Ga., on July 9, 1945, from an infection following an operation for a double hernia.

He was born in East Boston, Mass., October 6, 1886, the son of Mrs. Margaret (Scott) Whelpley and the late Theodore M. Whelpley. He prepared for college at Winthrop High School, Winthrop, Mass. and attended Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1905-6. At college he played class baseball.

After graduating in 1909 with a degree in chemistry he joined the Southern Cotton Oil Company in Savannah, Ga. He continued with this company for the thirty-six years since his graduation continually rising in the company until he was Works Superintendent, Superintendent of Refinery, Superintendent of By products Dept. and District Chemist. He was an expert on the refining of edible vegetable oils.

Walter was a member of the Ancient Landmark Lodge No. 231, F. and A. M. and for many years was prominent in civic affairs.

February 12, 19x3, he married Annie Waller, who survives him, with his mother, and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services weie conducted by Rev. H. G. Shearhouse, pastoi of the Asbury Memorial Methodist church. Interment was in Bonaventure Cemetery.

1912

RALPH EDMUND BAKER died July 24, 1945 at his home in West Medford, Mass., after several months of painful illness.

He was born in Joliet, Ill., March 14, 1888, the son of Edmund J. and Mary Vii a (Tower) Baker. The family moved to Manchester, N. H., where Ralph graduated from the High School in 1908. He and his brother Harold went to Norwich University, but both transferred to Dartmouth in their sophomore year and graduated together in '1912, and from Thayer School 1913.

Ralph was employed by Stone & Webster in West Virginia and New England until 1931. For ten years he was with the Boston Federal Savings and Loan Association. He then returned to Stone & Webster, and was affiliated with them in their Boston office until his death.

He married Bertha Fifield of Manchester, N. H., who died in 1941. Since then he had lived with his daughter Barbara, now Mrs. Gerald Wilkinson.

There are two grandchildren, Donald Arthur, 21/2 years, and Kenneth Jon, 14 months. Gerald has just returned from Germany where he was with the 6th and 3rd Armored Divisions.

Ralph was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at Dartmouth, and joined Bezaleel Lodge No. 100 A. F. & A.M. in Hanover and always maintained his membership there. He was a loyal Dartmouth man and very proud of his classmates. He maintained his record as a "Dartmouth regular" by sending a check for the Alumni Fund while on his deathbed. We will miss his loyal and friendly comradeship.

PAUL PRENTISS JONES died May 23 at the Springfield (Vt.) Hospital from complications following ulcers of the stomach.

He was born in Windham, Vt., September 1, 1890, the only child of Emory Harris (Dartmouth '73), and Hattie (Prentiss) Jones. Preparing at Brattleboro High School, he graduated from Dartmouth with the class of 1912 with Phi Beta Kappa rank.

Following his graduation he was for a year the principal and sole teacher of a two-year high school at Brooks, Maine, and was then at a high school at Argyle, N. Y., for three years. He then took a course in Agriculture at the University of Vermont, from which he received a Master's degree in 1917, preparing to teach Agriculture in the country schools.

This he did at Stowe, Vt., in 1917-18, and at Antrim, N. H., 1918-19. He then retired to his ancestral home in Windham, Vt., and became a successful farmer and a columnist for the Brattleboro Daily Reformer. He had been school director, town clerk and treasurer for his town and superintendent of schools for a group of towns. He represented his town in the state legislature in 1923, 1925, and 1937. He was actively connected with the Congregational church of Windham.

He never married, and his mother is the nearest surviving relative.

1914

CARLTON KEARNS BROWNELL died recently of a heart attack at his home in Geneva, N. Y.

The son of the late Leroy J. and Bertha (Reams) Brownell, he was born in Potsdam, N. Y., July 25, 1891.

He served in the First World War with the Motor Corps. After discharge from the army he was associated with the Mack Motor Truck Company for a time, and then was engaged in the real estate business in Florida, making his home at West Palm Beach. For the past six- teen years he has lived in Geneva, where he was the owner of C-K Petroleum Associates. He was a member of the Geneva Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Geneva Country Club.

In 1924 he married Marion E. Gotham, who died in March 1929. Nine years ago he married Ruth Kennedy, who survives him, with three sons, Cpl. Leigh Brownell AAC, S 1/c Kenneth Brownell, and Carlton K. Brownell Jr.

GORHAM PARSONS SARGENT, was born August 18, 1891, at Bridgewater, Mass., the son of Winthrop and Emma (Worcester) Sargent. Receiving his preliminary education at Haverford School '00-'07, Milton Academy '07, and Haverford College '09, he graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1914.

In December 1914, he became associated with Hare & Chase, insurance brokers of Philadelphia, as a salesman, and remained with them until his death on August ai at Gloucester, Mass.

He served in World War I from August 1917 to May 1919 with the 19th Railway Engineers in France, as a private, being discharged

as a sergeant.

He served as a vestryman at the New Church (Swedenborgian) of Philadelphia, and as councilman from 1932-37 at Riverton, N. J., his home. He was always active in church affairs, contributing articles to religious papers from time to time.

He is survived by his widow, Dorothy (Shreve) Sargent, a daughter, Dorothy Warner, of California, and a son, Gorham P. Sargent Jr., now serving with the army overseas.

PAUL FLYNN WILSON died August 14 at the Veterans Facility, White River Junction, Vt.

He was born in Bethel, Vt., January 25, 1892, the son of Guy (Dartmouth 1886) and Abbie (Fisher) Wilson. He prepared for college at Whitcomb High School, Bethel, where he was a member of nearly all athletic teams. While in college he was especially interested in Outing Club activities.

After graduation he was assistant to his father, who was town clerk and realtor, for about two years, and then was with the Dennison Manufacturing Cos., Framingham, Mass., for a few months. While in Bethel he helped to organize Cos. F. in the 1st Vermont National Guard, and was in active service during the Mexican incident.

August 14, 1917, he enlisted in the Army, and was overseas from July to December, 1918, becoming a sergeant. He received a serious leg injury while in service, which resulted in arthritis and finally rendered him a complete invalid. In 1919-20 he was with the United States Rubber Cos., Woonsocket, R. I., and then returned to his father's office, and reported for the Bethel Courier and the Associated Press. During the latter years he contributed many articles to local papers, and in the past year has edited a series of bulletins to the men and women of White River Valley, scattered on all fronts throughout the world. He was an active Mason, and helped to organize the Noble-Beckwith Post, American Legion.

June 26, 1920, he was married to Eleanor Joslin of East Blackstone, Mass., who survives him, with their son, Herbert J., of the AA.F, and a brother and a sister.

1915

PHILIP ARTHUR LEARY, consulting engineer of the Lynn office of the War Manpower Commission, died June 29, 1945, at his home following a heart attack. Just two weeks before, Phil had been with the Boston group at the reunion dinner and had seemed in the best of health.

He was born in Lynn, Mass. on April 14, 1892, and had lived in that city all his lite. From the Lynn public schools he entered Dartmouth in the class of 1915, and graduated with the class, later devoting an extra year of study at the Tuck School, receiving the degree of M.C.S.

He entered the armed service in World War I, serving in the Fourth Ordnance Supply Company, E. A. C., and after the war became a member of East Lynn Post of the American Legion. He was a past president of the Wyoma Parent-Teacher Association of Lynn, and a member of the Dartmouth Club of Lynn. Durling the present emergency he was chief warden of District One, Air Raid Precaution of the Wyoma District of his native city.

He is survived by his wife, Kathleen G. (O'Connor) Leary; two daughters, Miss Gertrude Leary, proprietor of the Gertrude Leary Dancing School, and Miss Kathleen Leary, a student at Boston University; a son, Sergeant Daniel A. Lcarv, N.S.A.A.F., stationed at Jackson, Miss.

The funeral was held Tuesday, July 3, with a solemn high mass of requiem at St. Pius church in Lynn.

The class was represented at the funeral mass by String Downing, who was a lifelong friend of Phil, and Chan Foster also paid his respects to the family on behalf of the class.

1916

JOHN FRANCIS MCENDY died suddenly at his home in Halesite, Long Island, on August 6. The burial was in Uxbridge, Mass., his former home. He had recently completed a tour of duty as lieutenant commander in the Navy and been returned to inactive status.

He was born at Linwood, Mass., August 13, 1895, the son of John and Margaret (Drohan) McEndy. He was married in Chicago on September 1, 1933, to Ila Blackbourn, who survives him.

After graduation from college he was employed as salesman by the J. H. and C. K. Eagle Cos. of New York. In 1918 he enlisted in the Naval Reserve and was commissioned as ensign, serving as flight instructor at Key West and Miami and later as squadron commander and patrol pilot bomber. He resigned from the Naval Reserve in 1921. At this time he entered the employ of the Certainteed Products Corporation in Chicago, but soon became district sales manager in New York for the firm of Bird and Son, Floor Covering Division. He held this position until 1942, when he reentered the Naval Reserve with the grade of lieutenant commander, serving on the Naval Aviation Selection Board at Chicago and later at Philadelphia. At the time of his death he had returned to the employ of Bird and Son in New York.

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, an active and popular member of the class of 1916, and a loyal alumnus of the College. The Class' extends its sympathy to his mother, his wife, and his brothers and sisters.

WILLIAM ORIN WENTWORTH died suddenly at his home. 326 East 201 st St., New York, on August 22.

He was born in Spokane, Wash., September 27, 1894. the son of J. w. and Fannie E. (Loomis) Wentworth. He was a member of Kappa Sigma, and was with the class for its first two years.

He studied at Columbia University, where he received the degree of E.E. in 1923, and was later an instructor in electrical engineer- ing. For the past twenty years he had been employed by the New York Central Railroad as electrical engineer.

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FRED WEYLE GEE died at his home in Law- renceville, 111., on July 1, 1945. He had suf- fered from a heart condition for almost two years, and during that time underwent a diffi- cult operation. Thereafter his health had seemed to improve. The death of a brother in March, however, proved too heavy a load for him in his weakened condition.

Fred was born in Lawrenceville on May 30, 1895, the son of Sylvester Judd and Belle (Weyle) Gee, and lived there all his life except for absences for college, World War I, and graduate study. He was a graduate of Law- renceville Township High School, and was a member of the undefeated 1912 football team. At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, well liked by his classmates, and appreciated particularly for his under- standing of his fellowmen and his quiet sense of humor.

He enlisted June 25, 1917, at Allentown, Pa., was promoted to sergeant July 28, 1917, went overseas January 9, 1918, and served with Sec- tion 562 USAAS with the French Army in all its major campaigns. He returned June 4, 1919, and was discharged June 11, 1919, at Camp Dix, N. J.

Then he attended the University of Chicago, receiving his law degree there in 1923. Fred then returned to his home town, practising law with his father, and continuing alone after his father's death in 1933.

Although of a reserved disposition, Fred had a wide circle of friends and cherished them all. An indication of his sincerity and character was his remark that no one could afford to lose friends. In his profession he was considered a brilliant attorney. His cases were ready for trial when called. He was a clear thinker, and an easy and forceful speaker, known for his ability and accomplishments throughout his section of the state. A life-long Republican, he sought no office and took little part in political issues. He did, however, come out forcibly for Governor Dwight Green, having been his classmate and roommate at Chicago.

December 31, 1922, Fred married Thelma M. Beeson of El Paso, Tex., who also holds a law degree from Chicago University in the class of 1923. Their two children are Greta 0., seventeen, and Sylvester Judd II. Greta enters McMurray College, Jacksonville, Ill., this fall, and Judd, thirteen, enters Lawrenceville High School. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Belle Gee of Lawrenceville, a brother, Arthur M., of Findlay, Ohio, and two sisters, Mrs. Pauline Lewis of Bridgeport, Ill., and Mrs. Dorothy Jackson of Philadelphia, Pa.

From 1942 to 1944, Fred served as president of the Farmers State Bank of Lawrenceville, and thereafter as a director. He was a member of the Elks, and the Rotary Club which he served for a time as its president.

1920

WILLIAM PORTER DURKEE JR. passed away July 16, 1945, at his home in Balboa Island, California, from a heart ailment.

He was born May 15, 1897, in Omaha, Neb., the son of William Porter and Anna (Jewell) Durkee. He prepared for college at Lyons Township High School, La Grange, Ill. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and played fullback on his freshman team and on the varsity in his sophomore year.

Enlisting in the Navy at Portsmouth, N. H., in the spring of 1917, he returned to college on furlough in the fall of that year in order to recuperate from an attack of spinal meningitis contracted while at Portsmouth. In February 1918 he returned to the Navy, and served until June 1919, with final rank of lieutenant.

Upon discharge from the Navy he went to California to enter the oil business, and continued in this industry until his death.

He was president of Independent Petroleum Company of Seattle, Wash., and vice president of Van Fleet-Durkee, Inc., Los Angeles, former operators of 800 gasoline service stations on the Pacific Coast, later taken over by the Shell Company. At various times he served as vice president of the Shell, New York, and the Shell Cos. of California, and at one time was division manager of the marketing department of General Petroleum Corporation in Washington, Oregon, Northern California, and Southern California.

On February 22, 1918, he married Helen Chapman Stookey of La Grange, Ill., who survives, with two sons, William Porter Durkee III, class of 1941, Robert Chapman Durkee, and a daughter Mrs. Barbara Durkee Parker. Also surviving are three brothers, Rodney S., Millard P., and James T. Durkee, 1917.

RALPH SHEPHERD BRADLEY died last March26 at his home in Hilton Village, Va., wherehe had lived for many years.

Ralph was another whose college career wascut short by World War I. He was born September 26, 1896, in Gloucester, Mass., the sonof Fred and Estelle (Stevens) Bradley. Comingto Dartmouth from Gloucester High School,he became a member of the Chi Phi fraternity;then left college as early as November, 1917,to enter the Army Air Corps. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and served at various fields in this country until his discharge in January 1919.

As far as is known, at the time of his death Ralph had been associated for a long period with the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Cos. as an inspector and staff supervisor. He is survived by a widow, Alice (Walker) Bradley, and two sons.

PHILIP DOCKHAM OULTON died suddenly at Raymond, N. H., on May 4. He was returning with his wife to their home in Danvers, Mass., after a vacation trip to Canada, and had stopped at Raymond for a visit with relatives. Military funeral services were conducted at Portsmouth, N. H., May 9, by a detachment of Marines from the Portsmouth Navy Yard.

He was born in Portsmouth, N. H, August 4, 1898, the son of George Franklin and Nettie (Dockham) Oulton, and came to Dartmouth from Portsmouth High School. As early as April of our freshman year he left college to join the Navy; served for nearly two and a half years; and was one of the youngest men in service to be commissioned a lieutenant, being only 20 when promoted from ensign. He made a number of trips across the Atlantic during the First World War, and his last assignment was in the transport service aboard the USSMongolia.

For the past 20 years Phil had been employed by the A. C. Lawrence Leather Cos. of Peabody, Mass., and for almost that length of time had been living in near-by Danvers.

Married in 1919 to Henrietta Beaton, he is survived by her, by his mother, Mrs. Nettie Oulton, by a sister, Mrs. Edmund Shugart of Washington, D. C., and by his six children: Lt. (jg) Robert F. Oulton of the naval air station at Ottumwa, Iowa; Electrician's Mate Richard B. Oulton, serving in the Pacific; Ruth B. and Dorothy, cadet nurses in Salem, Mass., and Lyons, N. J., respectively; and John D. and Barbara E. Oulton of Danvers. Phil was a member of Acacia Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of East Gloucester, Mass.

1922

GEORGE WILLIAM (Bill) STRENG passed away on July 22, 1945, at his home in Dalton, Pa., from a heart attack.

He was born in Pittston, Pa., July 30, 1899, the son of George William and Julia (Pfahler) Streng, and prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Garden City, L. I.

After graduation he spent a few years in the traffic department of the Bell Telephone Cos. of Pa., then joined the investment firm of Lahey, Fargo & Cos., Scranton, Pa., as a salesman, and was with them until a year or so ago. Recently he had been employed by the government as an inspector for the Lend-Lease program with headquarters at Trenton, N. J.

In college, Bill won his freshman numerals in basketball, and played left end on the varsity football team for three years. A popular member of 1922, Bill was a Delta Tau Delta and Sphinx,

On June 27, 1925, he was married to Marian Heraty at East Mauch Chunk, Pa., who survives him with their two sons, Pvt. G. W. Streng Jr., 19, overseas, and James P., 15 years old; two brothers, Benjamin and Fred P. Streng, both of Wilkes-Barre, and a sister, Mrs. C. E. Nicholson of West Pittston, Pa.

1926

HOWARD ROWLEY KUHN died on March 3, ig4s, in Charleston, W. Va., after an illness of three months. On December 3, 1944, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, from which he never recovered. He was buried in Sunset Memorial Park in Charleston.

Howie was born in Buffalo, N. Y., on June 28, 1904, the son of Frank Leonard and Frances (Rowley) Kuhn. He was a graduate of the Buffalo Technical High School.

Howie's cheerful modest disposition won for him a host it friends during the two years he was with us in Hanover. In his business career, he received the same respect and affection from his associates. Mr. F. Edwin Mower, president of the Mower Lumber Company, wrote the College: "Mr. Kuhn had been connected with our company since 1936, and was superintendent of our Omar Mill from 1941 until the time of his death. He was one of the most capable and valuable members of our organization, and our firm has suffered a great loss by his untimely passing."

Howie never married, and information is lacking as to who among his family survive him.

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EDWARD DAMES BOHMAN died April 29, 1945. He was born February 24, 1906, at Chicago, Illinois, the son of Edward Victor and Bolette (Eckstorm) Bohman. He prepared for college at Lane Technical School and attended Dartmouth for the first semester of freshman year.

From 1928 to 1936 Edward was a transport pilot, a flying instructor, and an airplane salesman. Following that he was a plant analyst with the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. So far as we know, he never married, and is survived by his mother, who resides in Chicago.

JOHN CAMILLUS BRADLEY passed away at his home, 12a Elm St., Marlboro, Mass., May 10, after a long illness and period of confinement. He was born in Marlboro, September 30, 1909, the son of Jeremiah J. and the late Mary Alice Bradley.

John entered Dartmouth in September 1926 from Marlboro High School, and withdrew from college in October. He entered again in September, 1927, and withdrew in December of that year. He later attended Boston University.

John was associated with his father in the furniture business in Marlboro. His wife, Mrs. Mary Riordan Bradley, and his father survive him.

1934

THOMAS LESLIE was killed in action on September 8, 1943, while flying from Kunming China, into India. He was reported as "missing in action" at that time, and not until now has his death been confirmed. He was on a C-46 transport attached to the Air Transport Command.

Tom was born in Manchester, N. H.„ July 18, 1912, the son of Robert and Ellen (Clyde) Leslie, and attended West High School of that city. He spent only two years in Hanover. Be fore going into the Army, he was with the Ed wards Mfg. Cos. in Maine. He is survived by his father.

1938

A War Department message informing them their son, CAPT. ERNEST FGSS JR., U. S. Army Medical Corps, had been killed by the Japanese suicide plane that attacked the USS Comfort, hospital ship transporting wounded from Okinawa, the night of April 28, recalled to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Foss, a letter they had received from him.

"All will be brightly lighted," the letter read. "It would be very difficult to mistake the Comfort for anything but a hospital ship, even from the air. It is also protected by Geneva convention rules."

He was born in Newburyport, Mass., February 12. 1914, the son of Ernest and Elizabeth (Whitton) Foss, and prepared for college at Governor Dimmer Academy. He was a member of Gamma Delta Chi.

After graduation he studied medicine at McGill University, receiving his M.D. in 1941. He studied tropical diseases at Louisiana State University before his entrance into the Army Medical Corps, July 15, 1942.

September 14, 1941, he was married to Jane Sheldon Hosmer of Ithaca, N. Y., who is now in Los Angeles.

A psychiatrist, he had been assisting in surgery because the operating staff was so busy. At his suggestion, the Comfort had been equipped with an enclosure on the after top deck to permit mental patients to exercise without danger of their attempting to jump overboard. The same feature had been incorporated in other hospital ships.

The War Department presumes that Captain ELWYN LOWELL TABER JR. is dead, according to word received from his father, Elwyn L. Taber '12. He was shot down over France on June 20, 1944, and no trace of him has ever been found.

Capt. .Taber was attached to the Eighth Air Force overseas, and was Group Operations Officer and Command Pilot of a squadron. Previous to going overseas he had been on anti-submarine patrol in the Atlantic Coast area, and was awarded the Air Medal just before he left for overseas duty.

In college Capt. Taber was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and a member of the fraternity treasurers council. He played the drums in the Dartmouth Band for four years.

He is survived by his wife, Wilma Ross Taber, 114 Lee Ave., Trenton, N. J., his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn L. Taber '12 of Holyoke, and a brother Lt. Donald M. Taber '41, U.S.N.R., now in the Southwest Pacific in command of an L.C.I. (L).

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Pfc. CHARI.ES HAIOH PALMER died from an attack of infantile paralysis in Rome, Italy, on June 30. Charles was assigned to the 11th AAF headquarters depot and at the time of his death was preparing to return to his base from Rome, where he had been on business. He wrote to his wife as late as June 27, telling of his experiences in the famous Italian city and of his audience with Pope Pius XII.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Palmer, he was born in Woonsocket, R. I., July 10, 1918, and prepared for college at the Moses Brown School in Providence, R. I. He attended Dartmouth for a year and also Boston Uni- versity. He was attending Boston University Law School when he enlisted in U. S. Air Forces in September 1942.

His wife, the former Phyllis Hoyle, survives him.

Second Lieutenant PHILIP WALLACE HIDEN JR. was killed in action over Germany, March 8, 1943, and had been reported missing on March 25 of that year. Official notice came recently from the War Department of presumption of death. Philip was co-pilot of a B-17 bomber on a raid over Germany at the time of his death.

The son of Mrs. P. W. Hiden and the late P. W. Hiden, he was born in Newport News, Va. on September 3d, 1917. He prepared for college at Woodberry Forest School. He left Dartmouth during his sophomore year when the death of his father occurred. Entering Air Corps training early in the war, he received his wings in May 1943 at George Field, Lawrenceville, Ill.

He was the wearer of the Purple Heart and Air Medal decorations. He was unmarried.

1945

PFC. ROGER ELLIOT WASHBURN was killed in action somewhere in Germany on April 8, 1945-

He was born in Melrose, Mass., April 14, 1923, the son of Henry Clinton and Eva Fuller (Seaverns) Washburn, and prepared for college at Melrose High School, where he was a member of the championship football team. He was at Dartmouth a little over a year, and was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He enlisted in 1942, and had been overseas since last November.

1884

DR. EDWIN HAMILTON BIDWELL died in Nilwa, Mich., November 13, 1944, from the infirmities of age.

The son of Dr. Edwin and Maria C. (Lee) Bidwell, he was born in Haddam, Conn., Angust 28, 1859.

The first year of his medical course was taken at Yale, and the rest at Dartmouth. He practiced his profession for a short time in his native.state, and then in Vineland, N. J. Then on account of his wife's health he was for some years in California and Colorado, and finally in Michigan, at Gladstone and Niles.

He married Lola Fowler, daughter o£ Capt. Lewis and Grace Elizabeth (Fowler) Clark, who survives him, with two children, Edwin Clark Bidwell of South Bend, Ind., and Mrs. Helen Lee Carmon.

1906

DR. PARK ROWE HOYT died August 31 at his home in Laconia, N. H., of heart disease.

He was born in Lakeport, N. H., November 1, 1881, the son of George William and Mary Ann (Blaisdell) Hoyt, and graduated from Laconia High School. He took his entire medical course at Dartmouth.

After graduation lie was first an intern at Worcester City Hospital and then a staff member at Bellevue Hospital. He then practiced for a short time at Brattleboro, Vt., and in 1910 came to Laconia, where he became one of the best known physicians and surgeons in that part of the state. In World War I he served in the Army Medical Corps with the rank of first lieutenant.

He was a member of local professional organizations and the American Medical Association and of the Masonic order and the American Legion.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Florence Juliet Hoyt, and a son, Park R. Hoyt Jr. His father also is living at the age of 91.

JAMES R. WHITCOMB '3B died in action in Europe on July 24, 1944. He held the ETO ribbon. Good Conduct Medal, and the Purple Heart.

* Died in war service.

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