Deaths

(This is a listing of deaths of which word hasbeen received since the last issue. Full notices,which are usually written by the class secretaries,may appear in this issue or a later one.)

Woodfall, J. Leslie '83, March 30 Smith, Henry O., Dr., '86, May 15 Noyes, Nathaniel K. '89, April 12 Kinney, George E. '93, April Crawford, Eben G. '04, April 17 Eaton, Hugh C. 'is, April Oulton, Philip D. '20, May 6 *Kuhn, Howard R. '26, March 3 Finch, Benjamin '30, April 21 *Titcomb, John A. '32, March 1 *Coppenrath, George R. '34, April 9 *Foss, Ernest '38, April 28 *Sullivan, William P. '38, April 26 *Nash, Lloyd W. '39, February 15 *Eddy, Philip S. '40 *Ellis, Richmond H. '40, March 19, 1944 *Herrick, Roger W. '40, February 24 *Nichols, Robert S. '41, April *Dunlap, David R. '42, March 19 *Nunnemacher, Jacob R. '42, April 14 Rachin, Ralph A. '42, April 9 *Corrigan, Emmett T. '43, March 24 *Williams, Warren B. '43, March 20 *Dargie, R. Vaughn '44, July 12, 1944 *Ball, John W. '45, December 18, 1944 *Weatherby, Stephen D. '45, April 5 *McMahon, Richard P. '46, March 24 *Aldom, David R. '47, April 14 Potts, Joseph H. M '05, March 23 Roosevelt, Franklin D. hon.'29, March 12 Behrendt, Walter C. hon.'41, April 26 * Died in War Service.

In Memoriam

1883

JAMES LESLIE WOODFALL, president of our class since the death of Hon. John L. Rand, died at his home, No. 47 Louise Road, Belmont, Mass., March 29 last, after a year's period of poor health, the last six months of which he was confined to his home.

Mr. Woodfall was born in Washington, D. C., August 18, iB6O, the son of James H. and Lydia W. (Curtis) Woodfall, but early came to Massachusetts. He attended the schools in Lynn and matriculated with the class of 1883 in the Chandler Scientific Department, graduating in regular course with the B. S. degree.

He first entered engineering service as assistant engineer in South Orange, N. J., but later came to Chelsea, Mass., where he was acting and assistant engineer until he organized the firm of McClintock and Woodfall, consulting engineers, with office in Boston.

Mr. Woodfall assisted in the planning of the North and South Metropolitan Sewer System, as well as sewer and drainage systems in many other cities and towns. As a private contractor he became associated with the town of Belmont in 1892, and when it established its Town Engineering Department in 1921, he was appointed engineer. He served as the head of the department until June 1944, at which time he was appointed a special consultant.

Through his planning the town of Belmont in 1933 was the first city or town in the state to put a large group of men to work on a Federal Relief project, when 200 local men began construction of several sewer and drainage systems in the town under the Civilian Works Administration program.

In college Mr. Woodfall was of a quiet, retiring disposition, and he did not engage conspicuously in extra-curricular activities. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, which was absorbed by Beta Theta Pi when the Chandler School became the scientific branch of the college proper.

He married Carrie Sawyer Fickett of Chelsea, Mass., October 30, 1889, by whom he had two sons who survive him, Laurence Curtis and Harold Campbell, both of Belmont, the latter with whom he made his home. He also left surviving him three grandchildren. Mrs. Woodfall died September 29, 1929.

His funeral was held in the First Parish Unitarian church, Belmont, March 31, and burial was in the family lot in Scituate.

1889

DR. NATHANIEL KINGSBURY NOYES died suddenly at his home in Plymouth, Mass., April 12, of heart ailment. He was born .January 16, 1865, in Manchester, N. H., son of Hezekiah Hall and Emily (Chandler) Noyes. He prepared for college at the Manchester High School, where he was known as an able speaker, and he was the salutatorian of his graduating class there in 1885. The fall of that year he entered Dartmouth, Latin Scientific course, with the class of '89, and was elected its first class president. He became a member o£ Kappa Kappa Kappa. In May 1886, he left College on account of circumstances resulting from a broken leg received in a baseball game at Lebanon, N. H., while playing on the freshman nine.

The next three years were divided between studying medicine with a physician in Manchester, N. H., teaching school in Grantham, N. H., Whitneyville, Me. and So. Dennis, Mass., and attending three lecture terms in the Dartmouth Medical College, which gave him the degree of M.D. in November 1889. The year following he supplemented his training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the Polyclinic Hospital in New York, and at the St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston.

On November 19, 1890, he began an active medical practice in Hanover, Mass., where he remained until September 1892, when he moved to Duxbury, Mass., where he had a wide and successful practice for thirty-eight years. He married Ella Kelley Nickerson at So. Dennis, Mass., December 30, 1890. Of this union there were three sons and two daughters. Following her death in 1929, he changed his residence to Plymouth, Mass., where he built an attractive home at 17 Brewster St. Here he continued his active practice, and on December 15, 1930, married Miss Alice Isabel Edgar, then superintendent of the Jordan Hospital in Plymouth.

From 1895 to 1925 he was Health Board physician in Duxbury, and from 1915 to 1925 was a visiting physician at the Jordan Hospital. For many years, beginning in 1898, he served as associate medical examiner of the Third Plymouth District. For thirty years he was school physician of Duxbury and ten years chairman of its school board. He also had served as a director of the Duxbury Free Library, and a director of Partridge Academy in Duxbury. During the first World War he was a captain in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army, and served as senior medical officer of troops guarding New Orleans and the Mississippi river.

He is survived by his wife; a son, Edwin Miles Noyes, Dartmouth '16, of Duxbury; two daughters, Mrs. Louis A. Chute (Mabel Kingsbury Noyes) of Woburn, Mass., and Mrs. Carroll P. Burgess (Emily Chandler Noyes) of Plymouth; a brother, Horace William Noyes of Chicago, 111.; and three grandchildren, interment was in the Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury.

1893

REV. GEORGE EDWARD KINNEY died April 23 at his home, Ellsworth Falls, Maine, of a weakened condition brought on by violent coughing caused by asthma, with which he had been afflicted for some time. The end came peacefully, but rather suddenly.

"Deacon" Kinney, as he was familiarly known in college, was born in Norwich, Vt., (near the Thetford line) on September 9, 1868, the oldest of four children born to Joseph Child Kinney and his wife, Louise Ann (Rugg) Kinney. When he was seven years old, the family moved to Thetford, and it was at Thetford Academy that he prepared for Dartmouth College which he entered in the fall of 1889 with the class of 1893.

Much loved and always respected for his never-failing graciousness and good sense, he was actively identified with College and class affairs. He was missionary-secretary of the Y.M.C.A.; member of Phi Kappa Psi; presentist of hatchet, a Junior honor; member of the Press Club; on athletic teams; gave address at the Tower at Commencement Class Day; was a member of the chapel and church choirs; and took on considerable outside religious work.

From 1893 to 1898, he studied at the Hartford (Conn.) Theological Seminary and the Boston University Theological School; from which latter he received the S.T.B. degree.

On May 10, 1899, he began his life work as pastor of the Somesville Congregational church, Mt. Desert, Me. In 1904 he was called to Lee, N. H., and served the church there until 1909, when he transferred to the Sixth Street Congregational church, Auburn, Maine, which he served until 1924. At Auburn he was prominent in religious and civic affairs as a trustee of the Public Library, director of the Congregational Conference of Maine, president of the Auburn School Board, and officer and member of other similar organizations.

In 1924, he continued his church work as pastor at Bradford, Vt., and it was while here that he was laid low by poliomyelitis. With great courage and determination, although badly crippled, he continued his work, taking over the pastorate of the Lyme, N. H., Congregational church in 1927. Although barely able to get around with the aid of braces, crutch, and cane, he mastered driving a car and so managed to perform his ministerial duties to the great satisfaction and joy of his parishioners.

In 1931, Mr. Kinney retired and after a short stay at Winter Park, Fla., with Mrs. Kinney settled in Ellsworth Falls, Me., where they have lived happily and peacefully for the past 11 years, enjoying their garden and local church work. He preached frequently at churches in neighboring towns and had served for many years as superintendent of the local Sunday School.

Mr. Kinney was married July 12, 1899, to Mary W. Sparrow of Cambridge, Mass., who died August 13, 1900, following the birth of their son on August 12. This son, Nelson James Kinney, died on November 28, 1917.

On June si, 1905, he was married to Caroline B. Cochrane of Ellsworth, Maine, who survives and who has been his faithful helpmate and loving companion during the past 40 years. Serious trials and troubles seem to have been their lot, but with great faith and courage they cheerfully met and conquered them.

1900

ELIAS MAYER died in his apartment in the Standard Club in Chicago on May 3, 1945.

Mayer was born in Chicago on November 7, 1878, the son of Solomon and Helen (Susheimer) Mayer. He received his preparatory training in the Lake View High School, and entered Dartmouth in the class of 1900. During his freshman year he was prominent in class activities and became a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. At the end of that year he transferred to Harvard, receiving the bachelor's degree from that institution in 1900 and the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Northwestern University in 1903.

He became a successful Chicago lawyer as a member of the firm of Stein, Mayer, Stein, and Hume and was in practice in that city until the time of his death. He was a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the New Illinois Athletic Club, the Book and Play Club, the Harvard Club of Chicago, and the Ravisloe Country Club.

Much interested in Jewish charities, he acted as secretary of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds in the United States and was a director of the Jewish Charities of Chicago. He also endowed a fund for aviation research in Northwestern University in the early days of aviation.

Mayer was married in 1909 to Miss Lucile B. Marks of Chicago, from whom he was divorced in 1934. He is survived by two children, Robert E. and Eleanor L., as well as by two brothers. His home was on Half Way Road, Deerfield, Ill.

1902

DR. JOHN FRANCIS GRIFFIN died at his home at Malverne, N. Y., January 23, 1945, after an illness of five weeks.

He was born in Holyoke, Mass., April 7, 1879, the son of James Thomas and Nora (Rohan) Griffin. He was a member of the varsity football team in junior and senior years.

After graduation he remained at Dartmouth to study medicine, and received his M.D. in 1905. After serving as interne at St. Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., he began practice in Brooklyn, becoming a specialist inurology. He retired as chief of staff at St. Catherine's Hospital last November after a service at that hospital of more than 25 years. He was also on the staff of Holy Family Hospital. He made his home in Brooklyn until his removal to Malverne two years ago. He was a member of the Kings County Medical Society and of the Emerald Association.

He is survived by his widow, who was Gertrude Dalton, and two sons, Dr. John F. Griffin Jr. '34 of Brooklyn, and Lt. Robert Griffin, U.S.N. James T. Griffin '06 and Thomas J. Griffin '08 are brothers.

Funeral services were held at Our Lady of Lourdes church in Malverne, and the burial was at St. John's Cemetery.

1910

ALLEN POPE SALMON died at his home in Newtonville, Mass., April 5, from coronary thrombosis, having suffered a first attack some five years ago, another last fall, and a final one which proved fatal.

Al graduated from Newton High School, entered Dartmouth to remain with the Class of 1910 for a year and a half, after which he attended Bowdoin for a year before entering business. Although born in Minneapolis (October 28, 1887), he came to Boston at an early age and lived in Newton for 50 years.

He was in the brokerage business about all of his business life, at one time in Chicago and later in Boston. At the, time of his death he was vice president and director of the Keystone Corporation of Boston.

Al retained his interest in Dartmouth and the friendships he made there. Earle Pierce and Ray Gorton attended the funeral. Burial was in the Newton Cemetery. Surviving are his widow, Esther Salmon, and a son, Pvt. Robert P., now stationed at Camp Wheeler, Ga.—an older son in the service having been killed two years ago in a plane crash.

1921

WILLIAM EDGAR HANKINS died November 25, 1944, in the Uniontown Hospital, Uniontown, Pa. Bill had entered the institution only the previous evening upon being suddenly taken ill at his home.

Hank Hankins, as he was known to his classmates in college, was born May 11, 1896, in Uniontown, the son of John Foster and Mary (Rankin) Hankins. Preparing for college at Uniontown High School, Hank was a member of Phi Kappa Psi at Dartmouth.

He enlisted in the Navy as a Seaman 2/c toward the close of freshman year and did not return to college following the termination of World War I. He served at Norfolk, Va., and on the USS Radford. On October 1, 1918, Bill was promoted to Boatswain's Mate, and he was discharged February 1 of the following year.

After a short period of employment with the Pennsylvania State Highway Department, Bill joined with his two brothers in starting a coal business in Uniontown known as the Fayette Fuel Co. Later they organized the Hankins Coal & Coke Co., Hankins Gas & Oil Co., and the Hankins-Paulson Co., building materials, in all of which companies Bill was a director and actively interested at the time of his death.

Bill was married on February 25, 1922, to Margaret Lacey of Cheyenne, Wyo. They had one daughter, Martha Louise, born November 10, 1924, now a student at the University of Maryland. He was again married on Dec. 9, J 943. to Margaret Collins. Of this union a daughter, Billie Edgar, was born December 3, 1944 just eight days after Bill's death.

Bill was a member of various Masonic lodges, Uniontown Kiwanis Club, BPOE No. 37°. LaFayette Post No. 51 of the American Legion, Chamber of Commerce, and Uniontown Country Club. He was also a member of the First Presbyterian church of Uniontown. In addition to his immediate family, Bill is survived by a twin sister, Miss Martha Hankins, and two brothers, James H. and J. L. Hankins.

1925

AUGUST RANDOLPH JANSSEN died in New York City January 10, 1945. The son of August and Alice Erdmunde (von Boeckmann) Janssen, he was born in Great Neck, N. Y., September 16, 1904, and prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was with the class only in freshman year.

After leaving college he entered his father's restaurant business in New York City, and since the latter's death in 1939 has carried on the business.

He was not married, and is survived by his mother, two sisters, and a brother, Werner '21.

1928

S/Sgt. EDWARD BACON WHEATLEY was killed in an airplane crash over Northeastern India, January 25, 1944. He was listed as missing until recently when the War Department notified his wife that he is now listed as dead.

He was born in New York City, November 16, 1905, the son of Edward M. Wheatley and Emily Josephine (Bacon) Wheatley. He attended White Plains High School and Blair Academy. He was a member of Sigma Nu. He graduated from the New York University School of Law, and engaged in the practice of law in White Plains until he entered the Army on July 13, 1942.

He was assigned to the Air Force and soon became a crew chief of a mobile aero repair unit. He had passed the Officer Candidate School Board and its physical examination and was waiting for a call to the Judge Advocate General's School when he was shipped to the China-Burma-India theater in November, 1943.

On January 25, 1944, he was in a B-24 bomber which left Southwestern China on a ferrying mission to Northeastern India. The plane was last contacted" by radio at noon, at which time it was over Northeastern India. It was not seen or contacted after that time and its loss is believed to have been caused by adverse weather conditions.

On June 2, 1942, he was married to Eleanor Wright of Scarsdale, N. Y., who survives him, as do his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Wheatley of White Plains.

1930

LT. (jg) KENNETH KENELM KULL died at Pearl Harbor, T.H., on March 2, 1945, of a compound fracture of the skull caused by an accidental fall through an open bomb hoist hatch on the hangar deck of his carrier. Although there was a man directing operations of the bomb hoist at the time of the accident, no one saw Ken approach the open hatch. Burial was at Halawa Cemetery, Pearl Harbor.

Ken was born October 9, 1909, at Appleton, Wis., the son of George Filmore and Elsie (Bottensek) Kull. He entered Dartmouth from the Madison (Wis.) Central High School. He was a prominent and very popular member of the class of 1930. In his senior year Ken was manager of the varsity baseball team, and was a member of Green Key, Sphinx and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He majored in Economics.

From the time of his graduation until he entered the Navy in the fall of 1943, Ken was associated with the Illinois Bell Telephone Co., becoming first a local and then a district manager in Chicago, at the Edgewater-Rogers Park office. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club in Rogers Park.

His marriage to Barbara Nash took place at Madison, July 3, 1933. Their daughter, Barbara, was born May 12, 1934. His first marriage was terminated by divorce, and he was married February 25, 1944, to Miriam L. Powers. A son, Kenneth K. Jr., was born December 8, 1944, but Ken never saw him, having been on sea duty since November. He was so proud of his son that the members of his fighter squadron, of which he was the fighter director officer, had nicknamed him "Pop."

In addition to his wife, children, and parents, Ken is survived by a brother and two sisters.

BENJAMIN FINCH JR. died April 21, 1945, at a New York Hospital, after a long illness. His home was in Katonah, N. Y.

Ben was born in Superior, Wis., May 23, 1907, the son of Benjamin and Jane (Evans) Finch. He attended Duluth Central High School and spent one year at Andover, from which he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1926. He majored in English and was a member of the Round Table and Alpha Delta Phi.

After graduation Ben joined the overseas division of the National City Bank of New York. During 1936 he was in Spain in the Barcelona office and in the first months of the Spanish Civil War volunteered his services to the American consulate. The next four years Ben spent in the bank's London office and he was there during the height of the German bombing attacks. He returned to New York City in 1941.

Ben was married to Faith Stratton in Superior, Wis., August 22, 1935. A son, Ellicott, was born July 4, 1939, and a daughter Alden a year or so later. His parents and a sister, who live at Englewood, N. J., also survive him. 1932

CAPTAIN JOHN A. TITCOMB, USMCR, died March 1, 1945, of wounds received in action on the island of Luzon, Philippines. Born October 27, 19 10, at Newton, Mass., Jack attended Fessenden School, West Newton, and Westminster School in London, joining his classmates in Hanover in the fall of 1929. A Phi Bete who was graduated summa cum laude, Jack was extremely active in the DOC and Cabin and Trail, and was a brother in the Theta Chi fraternity. After getting his Civil Engineering degree at Thayer School, Jack spent some months as mining engineer in Yugoslavia, and after further graduate work in geology at Yale, he began work with Newmont Mining Corporation, 14 Wall St., New York City, for whom he traveled extensively throughout the mining areas of the West and Canada, until he entered the Marine Corps. Jack is survived by his wife Janet, his daughter Marian, his son Peter, his brother Andrew '36, his sister Peggy, and his parents, of Greenacre, Farmington, Maine.

CAPTAIN ORRIN F. CRANKSHAW was killed in action in Germany, February 23, 1945. Born at Lyndhurst, N. J., December 24, 1910, Orrin prepared at Rutherford High School, and at Dartmouth was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, and a pre-medical student. He got his M.D. at Cornell University in 1935, interned at the New Haven Hospital, taught medicine at Yale, and joined the army in 1942 with the Yale Medical Unit. This unit staffed the 39th General Hospital at New Zealand and later at Guadalcanal, where Orrin was stricken with malaria. After several months of hospitalization in this country, Orrin went to England in February, 1944, took part in the D-day invasion of France, and subsequently won the Bronze Star for courage in the treatment of wounded under fire. He also held the Purple Heart, though he continued his duties despite wounds sustained in a mine explosion. Orrin is survived by his wife Adeline, his parents, a brother, Lt. Allan Crankshaw, USMCR, and five sisters.

LT. MICHAEL MORRISON ALLISON AUS was killed in action before the German Westwall, November 28, 1944. Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., March 23, 1911, Mike attended the McCallie School for seven years prior to his entry into Dartmouth. After two years in Hanover, he withdrew and completed his A.B. degree at the University of Chattanooga. Thereafter Mike studied law, and in 1937 became a partner in the firm of Lynch, Phillips, Hall, and Allison of Chattanooga. In the fall of 1940 he married LaGeorgia Newell, who, with his son, Michael M. Allison 111, survives him. Mike participated in the invasion of southern France with the Seventh Army, and at the time of his death was serving as forward observer for an artillery unit inside Germany.

1934

LIEUTENANT GEORGE R. COPPENRATH was killed in action somewhere in Germany on April 9, 1945, while serving with the Rainbow Division of the 7th Army. He entered the Army three years ago and had been overseas for five months.

Lieutenant Coppenrath was born in Boston on February 9, 1912, the son of Leonard and Emily Coppenrath. He entered Dartmouth from the Clinton, Mass. High School, and became a member of Alpha Chi Rho. He was active in LeCercle Francais, El Centro Espanol, and the football squad.

After graduation he went into the trucking business and at the time he entered the Army was part owner of the Clinton Auto Express. He was married in the spring of 1942 to Miss Isabelle Jurentkuff of Leominster, Mass.

Besides his wife, he is survived by his mother, a sister, Mrs. Raymond L. Robinson, and three brothers, Walter, Lawrence, and Francis.

1935

BRADLEY REEVES was killed in action in Belgium November 18, 1944.

He was born in Washington, D. C., October 10, 1913, the son of Lawrence Leroy and Frances Edwards (Carter) Reeves. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

In 1939 he graduated from the National University Law School in Washington with the degree of LL.B., and had been connected with the Association of American Railroads.

He entered the Army December 31, 1942, and was a corporal. Lawrence C. Reeves '33 is a brother.

1936

It is reported that VALENTINE BURLING HAMMANN died November 26, 1943, but particulars are lacking.

He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 9, 1913, the son of Charles Alexander and Vera (Burling) Hammann. He had been a teller with the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn.

He was married November 12, 1938, to Mary Flanagan of Brooklyn, who survives him.

1938

CAPTAIN WILLIAM PAUL SULLIVAN, pilot-instructor at Smyrna Army Air Field, Texas, was killed in a plane crash there in April.

He was born in Boston, Mass., October 23, 1916, the son of C. William and Charlotte (Dwyer) Sullivan. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega.

After graduation he became passenger agent in Boston for the Greyhound Bus Co. of Portland, Me. On June 2, 1941, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, in which he was eventually promoted to a Captaincy.

He is survived by his wife and their two sons and by his father and a sister.

1939

MAJOR LLOYD WILLIAMS NASH was killed in action over Germany on December 24, 1944, when he bailed out of a burning bomber.

The son of Edward Cobb and Anna (Edd) Nash, he was born in Westport, Conn., May 29, 1917, and received his grammar and high school education in Westport. He attended Dartmouth College from 1935 to 1939, taking the Thayer School course in senior year and graduating with honors. He was a member of Sigma Nu.

He continued his education for one year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before entering the Army Air Forces at Maxwell Field as an aviation cadet. He was graduated as a flying officer with the commission of second lieutenant, February 7, 1941.

He was first assigned to duty at Cochran Field, Ga., and on January 7, 194 a, was transferred to the Army Air Forces flying training department at Decatur, Ala. He received his promotion to first lieutenant on February 1. 1942.

On June 1, 1942, he was transferred to the newly activated Flying Training Detachment at Clarksdale, Miss., where he acted as engineering officer and operations officer.

On November 26, 1942, he was married to Anita Jackson, of Marks, Miss., and on the same date received notice of his promotion to Captain. On April 26, 1943, he was made commanding officer of the 69th Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment at Clarksdale, Miss., and on November 22, 1943, was advanced in rank to become a Major. In April of last year, he was sent to the Lockbourne Army Air Base as an instructor for Flying Fortress pilots. Last September he flew to England.

After flights that won him the Air Medal, he was made director of training at an English flying field, and his relatives here thought his flying days were over. He is survived by his wife and a one-year-old daughter Anita in addition to his parents.

1941

CAPTAIN DAVID GRATZ was killed in action in Italy on February 9, 1945.

He was born in New York City May 11, 1920, the son of David and Anne (Front) Gratz, and prepared for college at Horace Mann School. He was a member of Pi Lambda Phi.

He entered the Army October 10, 1941, was commissioned Second Lieutenant at Fort Knox; served as instructor at Fort Benning and was commissioned First Lieutenant; went overseas in December 1942 and was there promoted to Captain. He saw active service in Africa, Sicily, and Italy.

1943

LLOYD SUMNER HOLTON was killed in action in the invasion of Leyte in the Philippines November 18, 1944.

He was born in Toledo, Ohio, January 25, 1921, the son of Hoyt Sumner and Rachel (Lloyd) Holton, and prepared for college at Toledo High School. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta.

He enlisted in the Navy in December 1942 and was sent to the Midshipman's School at Northwestern, where he graduated as Ensign July 1, 1943. He was then sent to the California Institute of Technology, where he graduated June 7, 1944. He was made engineering officer of a squadron, of planes on a carrier, and at the time of his death had gone up with one of his squadron.

RICHARD DAVID SHAPIRO was killed in action on Leyte Island on December 20, 1944.

The son of Jack and Daisy (Viertel) Shapiro, he was born in New York City, December go, 1921, and prepared for college at Fieldston School, where he. was a member of the football team and captain of the baseball and basketball teams. He was on the track team at Dartmouth. He was a member of Pi Lambda Phi.

After attending Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, he was commissioned, and at 'he time of his death was a First Lieutenant.

On January 13, 1943, he was married to Marion Miller, who survives him, with his parents and two. brothers.

SGT. WARREN BROOKS WILLIAMS was drowned accidentally in the South Pacific on March 20, 1945.

He was born in New Haven, Conn., on March 4, 1921, the son of Daniel Wayne and Minette Carrier (Norton) Williams. Graduating cum laude from the Choate School in 1939, he came to Dartmouth the same year, where he did honors work in History. He was a member of Theta Chi fraternity.

Upon his enlistment in 1942, he took his basic training with the Army Air Force in Miami, Fla., and later went on to a technical school at Fort Logan, Colo. He did classification work at the Salt Lake City Air Base, and attended the Army Classification School at Brookings, South Dakota.

In November 1944, he went overseas as a personnel man with a bombing squadron, and was stationed in the Marianas. His group was one of several recently recommended for meritorious service by Major General Curtis E. LeMay.

Besides his parents he is survived by his brother, Lt. (jg) Norton Williams, U.S. Navy, and a sister, Mrs. Thomas Church of Boston.

1944

STAFF SGT. JOEL STEPHEN COFFIN III was killed in action with the 10th Division, 86th Mountain Infantry, in Italy, on March 3, 1945.

Sergeant Coffin was born in Montreal, Que., September 19, 1920, the oldest son of Mrs. Deborah (Peckett) Coffin and the late Joel S. Coffin Jr., of Englewood, N. J. and Franconia, N. H. Before coming to Dartmouth, he was graduated from the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass.

A skier of note, he left Dartmouth College in his second year to enlist with the 87 th Mountain Infantry Regiment on August 19, 194 a, and took part in the invasion of Kiska Island in the Aleutians. Returning to Camp Hale, Colo., he was advanced to the rank of sergeant and taught skiing and winter warfare.

In November of last year, he was sent overseas from Camp Swift, Tex., and was assigned to the 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment, with which he was serving at the time of his. death.

LT. (jg) STEPHEN WINDSOR HOLMES was killed in action on Iwo Jima on February 22, 1945. Previously wounded in action at Peleliu with the First Marine Division, he was fighting with the Fifth Marine Division at the time of his death.

Steve was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Holmes of Winchester, Mass. (Dartmouth '09). He attended Winchester High School, where he was president of his senior class and an outstanding athlete.

His record at Dartmouth was a most splendid one and typical of his whole life. He was a scrappy first-string guard on the football team for three years and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa for his scholastic achievement. Steve was president of his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, and a member of Green Key, Paleopitus, and Casque and Gauntlet. He was treasurer of the class of 1944. Upon completion of his Tuck-Thayer major, he entered the Navy in December 1943, and was commissioned an Ensign following training at Notre Dame Midshipmen's School. After a few months' further training in this country at the Navy Yard, Washington, he left for duty in the Pacific with an Amphibious Force. He was appointed to the rank of lieutenant (jg) and assigned on January 1, 1945, to the Fifth Marine Division.

Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, David '46.

1945

JOHN WILDER BALL of Winnetka, Ill., was killed in action off Mindoro Island in the Philippines on December 18, 1944, while serving as a quartermaster second class on a PT boat.

John was born in Evanston, 111., on July 30, 1922, the son of Charles Allis and Antoinette H. (Wilder) Ball. Before coming to Dartmouth in 1941, John graduated from the New Trier . High School where he was an honor student and a member of the student council. At Dartmouth he took part in freshman skiing activities. He left College to enlist in the Navy and was inducted into the service on August 30, 1942.

LT. STEPHEN DEWITT WEATHERBY was killed in action on April 5, 1945, somewhere in France.

Steve was born in Syracuse, N. Y., the son of Edmund Curry and Winifred (Hadley) Weatherby. He attended Ithaca High and entered Dartmouth from Manlius Military School from which he had graduated as an honor student. At the College he was a member of the Band and of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He left Dartmouth to enlist in the Army Air Corps in September 1942 and, after training in various stations in this country, was commissioned a second lieutenant at Stockton, Calif., on May 23, 1944. On this occasion, he and other members of his class, took part in the motion picture, "Winged Victory," as a member of the army movie cast.

Steve went overseas in 1944, was commissioned a first lieutenant, and awarded the Air Medal. At the time of his death he had nearly completed his missions as a pilot of a B-26 Marauder and was due to be furloughed home.

He is survived by his wife, the former Nancy Crandall, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. Carl Crandall of Cornell University, his parents, and four brothers.

1946

ROBERT WILLIAM BOYD was killed in action in Luxembourg on January 11, 1945, while fighting with an infantry company. He was a private.

He was born August 3, 1924, at Fort Fairfield, Maine, the son of Carroll Preston and Bernice Leola (Stevens) Boyd, and prepared for Dartmouth at Fort Fairfield High. He left college in May, 1943, at the end of his freshman year, to enter the Army and trained at Fort Riley, Kansas, before going overseas.

WILLIAM AERAM CORTWRIGHT has been killed in action in Germany while serving as a private in an Army Combat Engineering Unit. The date has not been reported as yet.

Bill was the son of Francis Whiley and Gladys Paine Cortwright and was born in Narberth, Penna., on November 28, 1924. He prepared for college at Haverford School and The Hill School and left Dartmouth in the spring of 1943 to enter the service. His training before he went overseas was at Camp Wolters, Texas, Drexel Institute for Engineering and Camp Claiborne, La.

At Dartmouth, Bill lived in Hitchcock Hall and was on the Business Staff of the DailyDartmouth. We all remember him for his ready wit and congeniality and with deepest sympathy report his passing.

LT. WILLIAM FREDERICK ALWORTH has been reported killed in action while on a fighter plane sweep over Italy, February 11; 1945. He was born November 29, 1923, in Duluth, Minn., the son of Royal D. and Molly Young Alworth and prepared for college at Lawrenceville.

Leaving college in April 1943, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps on the 23rd of that same month and was commissioned a second lieutenant at Luke Field, Ariz., in May 1944. He went overseas in October 1944 as a pilot of a Thunderbolt, participated in 30 missions, and was awarded the Air Medal and promoted to first lieutenant for commended attacks on bridges and other targets in spite of intense anti-aircraft fire.

"Whitie," as we all knew him, lived in Gile Hall and was admired by all for his friendly spirit. We know he died in a manner befitting a true Dartmouth man.

Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Royal D., '44, who is serving with the Army in the Pacific area.

JEWELL IRWIN DILSAVER JR. was killed while serving his country in Germany 011 November 22, 1944. He was born August 1, 1923, at White Heath, 111., the son of Jewell Irwin and Bernice Parkhill Dilsaver. He prepared at Mattoon, Ill., High School and The Hill School and left Dartmouth during his freshman year to enter the Army. He was in a Coast Artillery Unit and trained at Fort Bliss, Okla., Johns Hopkins University (ASTP), and at Camp Claiborne, La., before going overseas.

At Dartmouth, Jewell lived in Streeter Hall, was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, and played freshman basketball.

We deeply regret his death and our sincerest condolences go to his family.

PFC. JOHN MARSHALL ZUCK died in action in Luxembourg as a member of the 104 th Infantry, 36th Division. The exact date of his death has not been reported officially.

He was born January 2, 1925, at Corey, Penna., the son of Arthur Cleveland and Wilhelmina Marshall Zuck and graduated from Washington, N. J., High School before entering Dartmouth. He entered the Army June 30, 1943, was in ASTP at Fort Benning, Ga., and the University of Maine, and went overseas in July 1944.

At Dartmouth, he was a musician and played in the Dartmouth College Band.

RICHARD PAUL MCMAHON has been killed while serving his country as a member of the Paratroops near Wesel, Germany, on March 24, 1945. He was born on September 5, 1924, in Nashville, Tenn., the son of William Grogan and Edna Morton McMahon. He lived most of his life in New Rochelle, N. Y., and prepared for college at New Rochelle High School.

Dick left school at the end of his freshman year to enter the 17th Airborne Division and trained in ASTP at MIT and at Camp Forrest, Tenn., before going overseas as an Airborne Infantryman.

While serving under General Montgomery's forces and leading a Rifle Platoon, he and the group encountered German tank fire. Dick, in an effort to aid a wounded member of the platoon, was struck by a tank shell and died of wounds shortly thereafter.

He was buried in Margraten, Holland, and is survived by his parents, seven brothers and sisters. Dick unselfishly and bravely died in the performance of his duty.

At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and won his numerals in freshman football.

1947

PFC. DAVID R. ALDOM was killed in action in Germany on April 14, 1945. Dave graduated from the Grover Cleveland High School of Caldwell, N. J., in 1943 ancj was a freshman here at Dartmouth at the time of his enlistment in August 1943 in the Army Specialized Training Program. Under this program he completed his basic first term engineering course at Cornell University. In December 1943 he was assigned for basic training to Fort Benning, Ga.( and with the abandonment of the A-12 program, he was assigned to Camp Livingston, La.

Subsequently Dave was transferred to the West Coast for amphibious training and was successively assigned to Camp Cooke, Camp Callen, and Camp Luis Obispo. In February of 1945, his division was alerted and sent to the East Coast where it soon left New York on a converted luxury liner.

Arriving at Le Havre, Dave's company crossed France, Belgium, and Holland on its way to the Rhine. At Cologne, the division became a part of Patton's Third Army and participated in the drive for the Bavarian Mountains of the south. Dave was awarded the Expert Infantry Badge in January 1945 and was the Browning Automatic Rifle man for his company.

Medical School

1905

DR. JOSEI'H HENRY POTTS died March 24 at New Britain, Conn., Hospital, of cerebral hemorrhage.

The son of William Gibson and Euphemia (Wallace) Potts, he was born in Barnet, Vt., February 24, 1880.

After graduation he took further studies at the Royal Ophthalmic College in London, and then settled in New Britain as an eye, ear, and nose specialist, having a successful career.

July 13, 1904, he was married to Ethel K. Swenton of Millbridge, Me., who survives him. They have had eight children.

Advanced Degrees

FRANKLIN LAUNCELOT ADAMS, who received the degree of A.M. in 1908, died at the Sibley Hospital, Washington, D. C., July 26, 1944, after an illness of six weeks.

He was born at Moores, N. Y., April 9, 1876, the son of Frank and Isabella (Hewton) Adams. Preparing for college at Cushing Academy, he graduated from Boston University in 1900.

He was connected with the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1908 to 1918, and then became an examiner in the U. S. Patent Office, having been made principal examiner of Division B in 1930. Meanwhile he studied law at Georgetown University, where he graduated as LL.B. in 1926.

June 23, 1910, he was married to Helen M. Newell of Sitka, Alaska, who died in August 1940.

LT. (jg) KENNETH K. KULL '3O, who died at Pear! Harbor in March following a carrier accident.

CAPT. JOHN A. TITCOMB '32, USMCR, former student leader in the Outing Club, who died March 1 of wounds received in action on Luzon.

KILLED IN ACTION over Germany last December, Major Lloyd W. Nash '39 was director of training at an English air base.

KILLED BY ACCIDENT in the South Pacific, Sgt. Warren B. Williams '43 had been commended for meritorious service with the Army Air Forces.

KILLED AT IWO J IMA. Lt. (jg) Stephen W. Holmes '44, treasurer of his class, died in action with the Fifth Marine Division on February 22.