Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past month. Full notices may appear in this issue or may appear in a later number]
Powers, Matthew '87, October 31 Thompson, Arthur '14, October 30 Keeler, Horace B. '15, November 13 Warren, Paul A. '16, October 29 Chamberlin, John R. '23, December 18, 1939 Tracy, Hubert J. '24, June 29, 1939 Bolles, Chester A. '25, November 19 •Edwards, Edward H. '36, April 24 Callaway, Lynn '38, November 21 Woods, Charles E. '90m, October 12 Johnson, Walter A. '01m, November 1
In Memoriam
1887
MATTHEW POWERS, a member of this class during freshman year, died at Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, October 1, 1945.
He was born in Newbury, Vt„ August 16, the son of Matthias and Johanna 'O'Brien) Powers. The family early removed to Littleton, N. H., where he graduated from the local high school in 1883.
His father's death made it necessary for him to leave college and take over the family farm in Littleton. In 1914 he removed to Bradford, Vt. and lived on a farm there until his death. June 27, 1890, he was married to Katherine Foshey of Lancaster, N. H., who survives him, with two sons and four daughters.
1893
REV. ALLEN JOHN HOLLEY died in April 1944 (exact date and place not available at this time).
He was born January 17, 1873, at Salem, N. Y., and came to Dartmouth from Washington Academy and St. Stephen's College. He was of '93 during 1890 and 1891. Of his afterlife little is known to the College or to his classmates.
Records indicate that he was an Episcopal clergyman, that he taught at Hoosac School, New York, and served churches at Brandon, Vt., and Bethlehem, Lancaster, Littleton, Peterborough, and Sugar Hill, N. H. Latest information up to the report of his death was that he was chaplain at St. Mary's School, Littleton, N. H., but mail sent there has brought no response until a card was returned recently with unsigned notation telling of his death.
Our records show that his wife, Mrs. Susan Watson Sherman Holley, died in 1930, leaving two sons, born in 1924 and 1925 respectively, who were students at one time at Bishop's College, Lenoxville, Quebec.
1908
ALEXANDER STEINERT SHONINGER, who was with the class for only a part of freshman year, died, it is reported, in April 1943. He was born in New Haven, Conn., May 19, '1885, the son of John H. Shoninger. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
Since leaving college he had been field manager for the British Type Securities Cos. of Newark, N. J.; vice president of American Associated Dealers; with the American Trustee Share Corporation; and at the time of his death with Vance, Sanders & Cos., of Boston.
He was married to Mabel Clarke of New Haven, Conn., March 11, 1912.
1909
MAX KNIGHT BONTER died at his home in Los Angeles, Calif., October 4, 1945. Max had suffered from high blood pressure for some time, and had been advised six months previously to retire from active business and take it easy on his ranch.
He was born in Chicago, 111., July 4, 1887, the son of James E. and Marion Alice (Knight) Bonter, and prepared for college at Morgan Park Academy. He was a member of Psi Upsilon. He had to leave college in 1907.
He was associated with the Phoenix Hosiery Company from 1909 to 1934, and in the capacity of salesman he covered the United States very widely. He later held other business positions, being finally Western sales manager for Jacob and Sehey, hosiery. Max always made it a point to visit any '09 men who were in the city where he was doing business, and as a result he had a wide acquaintance among the '09 men and was an enthusiastic member of the Class as well as of Dartmouth.
June 19, 1912, he was married to Gretchen Dyer of Denver, Colo., who survives him, with a son, John K. (Dartmouth '40), who is now carrying on the ranch, and a daughter, Gretchen.
1911
The Class of 1911 is saddened by the news of the sudden death of CHESTER CORWIN ROBERTS at his home in Marion, Ohio. Enjoying good health, he was stricken with a coronary heart attack upon arising on November 1, 1945.
Although "Bull" transferred to the University of Illinois his sophomore year, his geniality won many Dartmouth friendships which quickly revived in subsequent Hanover visits or gatherings of classmates. His steadfast Dartmouth interests were evidenced by his sending his second son, John C., to Dartmouth to become a leader of the class of 1944. "Bull" for many years was a generous contributor to the Alumni Fund.
Chester C. Roberts, the son of Frank Herschel and Ellen (Mapes) Roberts, was born in Chicago on December 31, 1888. Upon graduating from University High School in Chicago, and after a year at Dartmouth, he graduated from the University of Illinois in 1912. In his senior year he captained the University football team and was named to a halfback position on Walter Camp's All-American second team. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After college he was engaged in business in Chicago until World War I. Commissioned as a Captain, he saw service in the infantry and was advanced to Major, the rank he held on leaving the service on January 1, 1919.
April 20, 1918, Mr. Roberts married Miss Mildred Christian, daughter of Col. and Mrs. George B. Christian, of Marion, Ohio.
Upon leaving the military service, Mr. Roberts engaged in the business of farm property management in Marion, Ohio. In 1926 he pioneered the distribution of electric refrigerators, and in turn became commercial manager of the local electric light and power company, and ultimately its president during the period of large company expansion. At the time of his death the Marion-Reserve Power Company served 28 Ohio counties in the north-central area of the state.
The Marion Star of November 1, 1945, both in its news and editorial columns paid tribute to the business and civic career of Chester C. Roberts. The following is a brief abstract of the Marion Star editorial:
"In the death of Chester C. Roberts Marion has lost a citizen whose vigorous and able leadership in civic affairs has been a vital force in awakening this community to a realization of its needs and possibilities of future advancement, His death came at the peak of his record of service, with the 'Jobs and Progress' program which he did so much to launch and promote nearing a decision by the electorate.
"Although he was always intensely interested in Marion's welfare and active in movements designed for its betterment, attention naturally centers now upon the particularly outstanding role he has taken in civic affairs since outbreak of the war. Climaxing work in behalf of the service forces was his leadership in the movement to establish a fund for a War Veterans' Memorial home.
"Friends have expressed the opinion that Chester Roberts' almost unceasing labors for his country and community hastened his death, and circumstances tend to confirm this belief. Thus everybody in Marion has added reason and incentive for helping make sure that the work he did toward community improvement and the welfare of the young men and women who served us in time of war is carried through to fulfillment."
Surviving with Mrs. Roberts are three sons, all now serving in the United States Naval Reserve. They are Lt. (jg) John C. Roberts (Dartmouth 1944) stationed on the USS Rushmore in Tokyo Bay, Ensign Charles C. Roberts, stationed on the USS Frost at Jacksonville, Florida, and Lt. Frank C. Roberts, of Marion, now n terminal leave awaiting assignment to inactive duty.
1912
WILLIAM WILLARD FLINT, died on November 11, 1945, at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H., from heart trouble after a year's serious illness.
The son of William Willard (Dartmouth 1871) and Frances Caroline (Chapman) Flint, he was born on July 7, 1892, at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and prepared for college at St. Paul's School where he won top scholastic honors.
Fie graduated from Dartmouth in 1912 with a B.A. degree, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Kappa Kappa. He played the lead in the Greek play of 1912, and was editor in chief of the Dartmouth Literary Magazine.
After winning his M.A. at Princeton, he went to Oxford in 1914 on a Rhodes scholarship for the state of New Hampshire and graduated as A.B. in 1916. In 1917 he joined the Quartermaster Corps of the A.E.F. in a civilian capacity, and in 1918 was granted a commission as First Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. He was later granted a commission as a Captain of Infantry in the Officer's Reserve of the U.SA.
He was married on July 3, 1920, to Dorothea Chester Paradise of Medford, Mass. By this marriage there were two children, Robert Willard, Lt. (jg) USNR, Harvard '43, and Frances Caroline, Vassar '45. He is survived by his wife and children.
In 1921 he won his Ph.D. from Princeton with a thesis on "The Use of Myth to Create Suspense in Extant Greek Tragedy," published by the Princeton University Press. In 1921 he became a teacher of classics at St. Paul's School, at which position he continued until his death, when he was holder of the Cochran Chair in Greek and head of the Classics Department.
1915
HORACE BUSHNELL KEELER of Shaker Heights, Ohio, died November 13, 1945. Red had been attending a meeting of the Shaker Heights Town Meeting, in which he had long taken an active interest, and had been active in the discussions of the evening. He left the meeting just before it was adjourned, and collapsed as he was leaving the building. The cause of death was given as coronary thrombosis.
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, September n, 1892, and attended Dartmouth during our freshman year and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Upon leaving Dartmouth he entered the investment business, which he made his lifework, and during his career was located in New York, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. At the time of his death, he was the head of Keeler & Company, an investment concern, with offices in the Union Commercial Building in Cleveland.
He was a veteran of the 1st World War, having been commissioned a 1st Lieutenant, Field Artillery. At the close of the war he became manager of the Cleveland office of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. Subsequently he was with the bond department of the National City Bank of New York at its branch in Cincinnati. He was a director of the Packer Corporation and a member of the Bond Club and active in negotiating new financing in business deals.
He was married on October 9, 1920, to Geraldine Love of Conneant, Ohio, who survives him, with a daughter, Cynthia, and three sons, Bushnell, Edward, and David, one of the sons being in the armed services and stationed in Japan.
1916
PAUL ALFRED WARREN died at Wallingford, Conn., on October 29, 1945. Committal services were held on October 31 at the Mountain View Cemetery, Claremont, N. H.
The son of Benjamin F. and Eva Jane (Steele) Warren, he was born in Claremont, N. H., on October 28, 1891, and was graduated from Stevens High School in 1911. He attended Dartmouth for one year and then went to Lehigh University. While at Dartmouth he became a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
He left Lehigh to enter military service, being Captain of Field Artillery from September 1917 to May 1919.
He taught at the Gilman Country Day School, Baltimore, Md., at Nichols School, Buffalo, N. Y., and at the Choate School, Wallingford, Conn., since 1929, and was active in the interviewing of Connecticut applicants for Dartmouth under the Selective Process.
He never married, and is survived by a sister, Miss Florence Warren, of North Grafton, Mass.
1918
PAUL ALLEN BLOOM died in Akron, Ohio, November 19, 1945. He suffered a heart attack at his downtown office.
He was born in Akron, January 20, 1894, the son of Harry A. and Nellie E. (Buckley) Bloom. He was a transfer sophomore year from Case School of Applied Sciences, Cleveland. He was a member of Sigma Nu.
In World War I he was a sergeant in the Chemical Warfare Service, stationed at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Cos. in Akron.
He was in the investment business in Chicago, Akron, and Cleveland.
He was twice married. His first wife, Madeline, died December 11, 1935. His second wife, Margaret, to whom he was married in January 1937, survives him, as does his father, who lives in Tiffin, Ohio.
Jack often saw Jack Slabaugh, and perhaps his best pal at Hanover was good old Cap Hanley. Paul was a loyal Dartmouth rooter, and will be greatly missed by all his classmates.
1919
ARTHUR DANA POWERS died suddenly at his home in Danvers, Mass., November 17, 1945.
The- son of Ernest Jay (Dartmouth 1888) and Harriet (Turner) Powers, he was born in Danvers, August 15, 1897, and had always made his home there. He prepared for college at the local high school. He was a member of Kappa Sigma.
After serving in World War I he entered business pursuits in Danvers, and so continued.
He married Muriel Rider, who survives him, as do also a brother, Ernest H. Powers, and a sister, Mrs. Dwight H. Marsh, both of Danvers.
1922
JOHN COAKLEY died suddenly after an illness of virus pneumonia at his home in Rockville Center, L. 1., on July 8, 1945.
He was born in Dorchester, Mass., on August 3, 1899, the son of Francis Joseph and Mary (O'Donnell) Coakley and prepared for college at Andover. John had been in the sales division of the Samson Cordage Works in Boston for many years, and later with the New York Telephone Cos.
He was with us in Hanover for freshman year only, and class records are unfortunately incomplete on further details of his activities. 1924
Major JAY EUGENE TREMAINE died Septem ber 7, 1944, on board of a Japanese freighter transporting prisoners of war from the Philin. pines, when the freighter was sunk off the west coast of Mindanao.
He was born in Chicago, 111., December 12 1902, the son of Jay Eugene and Clara J. (Lindquist) Tremaine. He was a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon and Alpha Chi Sigma.
For a year after graduation he was assistant instructor in chemistry at Dartmouth, and later studied medicine at Rush Medical College, where he graduated as M.D. in 1930. He was in practice at Highland Park, 111., 1931-0 and then at Eunice, New Mexico, where he held the office of mayor.
He entered the Medical Corps in March 1941 as Major and in April was assigned to the post of Manila. In November he was transferred to Mindanao. He was taken prisoner in action May 7, 1943.
November 20, 1935, he was married to Evelyn Ely of Chicago, who survives him, with a daughter, Mary Anne, and sons, Paul Donald and John Winthrop.
1925
CHESTER ALFORD BOLLES, chairman of the Board of Continental Industries, Inc., New York, and chairman of the Executive Committee of the class of 1935, was killed when his private plane crashed into the Hudson River during a rainstorm on November 19.
The son of Robert E. and Belle M. (Jones) Bolles, he was born in New York City, May 31, 1901. At Hanover, Chet played football and was on the swimming team. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sphinx, and Green Key, and was president of his class.
After leaving Hanover, he was associated with his father in the Fownes Glove Company in New York. In the late '3o's, Chet bought a defunct storage battery company, and by aggressive methods developed it to a point at which he sold it for a reputed profit of $250,- 000. Using this experience as a formula, he bought into a number of businesses which he felt could be greatly developed by proper financing and imaginative management. Due to his characteristic aggressiveness and to a greatly increased improvement in business conditions, his assets grew into million-dollar figures.
He was twice married: first, to Ruth Ellis Galveston of Schenectady, N. Y.; second, to Mrs. Martha Lee Sims Greep of Elkton, Md., March 22, 1944, who survives him. Members of his class and other Dartmouth friends attended a memorial service at St. James Chapel in New York on December 3.
1931
MITCHELL ROBERT SYREK died November 10, 1945, at the New Rochelle, N. Y., Hospital, during an eye operation.
Mickey was born in Chicopee Falls, Mass., November 22, 1908, the son of Walter and Caroline (Pinkos) Syrek. He was a member of Sigma Nu.
While an undergraduate he was college representative for the New York Herald Trib- and after graduation joined the staff of Tat paper as a salesman in the circulation department. In 1937 he became manager of the education department. His home was in New Rochelle.
September 3, 1938. he was married to Thelma Nordgren of Great Barrington, Mass., who survives him, being a member of the WAc, stationed at Camp Real, Calif., and a daughter, Penny Sue. His mother and two
sisters survive him. Mickey worked his way through Dartmouth, and had a deep love for the College. He was serious by nature, but at the same time had also a keen sense of humor, as those who attended the Tenth Reunion will testify. He will be greatly missed by all his friends and classmates.
1938
EDWARD LYNN CALLAWAY died in Clearwater, Florida, on November 21, 1945, at the age of 30. His death brought to a close a long and gallant fight which Lynn had made against illness which forced him to withdraw from college in his senior year, and it deprived the class and the College of one of the most loyal and gifted of Dartmouth men. Shortly before his death he and his wife and son had gone to Florida from their home in Hartsdale, New York, in the hope that the warm climate would contribute to the recovery which Lynn never stopped believing possible.
Lynn was born August 39, 1915, in New York City, the son of David H. and Mary (Sampson) Callaway. He prepared at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1934, the year in which his brother. David H. Callaway Jr. '34 graduated. In college he was sports editor of The Dartmouth, technical director of Jacko, and a member of Kappa Sigma. His college course was interrupted by illness during what would have been his junior year, but he returned in 1937 and remained until forced to withdraw permanently in March of 1939.
After leaving college he did free lance writing for a while, and edited Ski Week and also Tempo, which recorded events in Westchester County, New York. He later became associated with the publicity department of Sperry Corporation, aviation firm, in New York City, and was editor of the Sperry News. He had been on leave from this firm for nearly a year before his death. Lynn was married October 86,1941, to Eleanor Hazeltine of Lowell, Mass., a graduate of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover. They have a young son, Sean, who survives Lynn, as do Lynn's widow, parents, and brother.
Despite the illness which necessitated constant rest and occasional periods abed, Lynn managed to accomplish much for the College. He edited the 1938 class newsletter The PaceSetter during the past tour years, being accorded top honors in this branch of alumni service, and during the past year he had volunteered to undertake for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE a series of alumni profiles, several of which he had planned to complete in Florida this winter. He maintained a keen interest in all Dartmouth affairs and to the limit of his physical capacity contributed his unusual talents to the College's welfare.
Though tragically short in years and beset with illness, Lynn's life was a model of courage and good cheer and was an inspiration to his many friends. The Class of 1938 will sorely miss him and, like the College itself, will be the poorer for the generous and gifted help which he will no longer give.
1943
ROBERT HATFIELD HOBART gave his life on June 29 in a vain attempt to save a companion when a squall overturned the boat in which they were sailing on Lake Michigan. He was born in Evanston, 111., December 3, 1921, the son of Dr. Marcus Hatfield and Helen Converse (Brown) Hobart, and prepared for college at Evanston Township High School. He was a prominent member of his class at Dartmouth, being president of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and active in the Ledyard Canoe Club, Cabin and Trail, and tennis.
He was a member of the V-12 unit at Northwestern Medical School, and was to intern at Cook County Hospital. He played on the Northwestern tennis team, and was a member of Nu Sigma Nu, the medical fraternity.
He is survived by his parents, at 621 Foster St., Evanston.
1945
Ensign WII.LARD EDWIN TOSTMAN was killed October 8 when his plane, flying in bad weather, crashed into a mountain in the Aleutians. Pilot-navigator of a PBY Catalina bomber, he was on a trip between the islands of Adak and Kodiak. Of the fifteen aboard, seven were killed and eight seriously injured.
He was born in Woodhaven, N. Y., September 8, 1921, the son of Reuben Edwin and Elizabeth. (Finch) Tostman, and prepared for college at Andrew Jackson High School, St. Albans, N. Y. He was a member of Theta Chi.
He enlisted in the Navy Air Corps September 10, 1942, and was commissioned Ensign in August 1944. He was sent to the Aleutians in the spring of 1945.
Medical School
1890
DR. CHARLES EDWIN WOODS died at the Burbank Hospital, Fitchburg, Mass., October 13, 1945, of arteriosclerosis and bronchial pneumonia. The son of Charles and Anna (Matthews)
Woods, he was born in Henniker, N. H., April 23, 1863.
After graduation he studied further at the New York Post-Graduate School and then practiced for a short time on Smith's Island, Chesapeake Bay. In April 1893 he settled in Lunenburg, Mass., and continued in faithful and successful practice until August 1943, when he retired on acount of failing health and removed to Fitchburg;
Dr. Woods was the last charter member of the Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity at Dartmouth, and was a member and past president of the Worcester North Medical Society. He became Lunenburg's first school physician in 1906, and held that position until 1941. From 1927 to 1938 he was secretary of the trustees of Ritter Memorial Library at Lunenburg. He was a member of Pequoit Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Marlboro, N. H.
June 3, 1896, he was married to Mary Edith, daughter of George and Mary (Barnes) Howe of Lunenburg, who survives him, with a son, Arnold H. Woods of Allentown, Pa., a daughter, Mrs. H. Russell Francis of Portland, Me., and four grandchildren, one of whom is now preparing to enter Dartmouth.
LYNN CALLAWAY '38, editor of the '38 class news-letter, "The Pace Setter," who died at Clearwater, Florida, on November 21.
* Died in war service.
