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]

Thurston, Henry W. 'B6, September 19 Keating, John F. '97, September 15 Hoyt, Charles H. '00, April 30 Wayman, Harry P. '06, September 7 Hathaway, C. Henry '07, October 7 Lyon, Clifford S. '10, September 21 Clute, Howard M. '11, September 19 Whelden, Richard G. '11, October 12 Howes, Paul S. '14, October 17 Jenkins, Ralph C. '14, October 2 Macßain, Walter D. '23, August Megathlin, George E. '25, August 19 Dunlap, George S. '40, April *Dellis, Donald L. '46 Hurd, Benjamin P. '00m, November 17, 1944 * Died in war service

In Memoriam

1878

GEORGE RICHARDSON HARLOW died Aug. 21, 1946, at his home in Cleveland Heights. Born in Leominster, Mass., Nov. 21, 1856, son of Noah Richardson and Sally Caroline (Howe) Harlow, his family moved to Lowell when he was eight, and that was his home throughout his college course. He prepared for college at Lowell High School, was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank. Never self assertive, he seemed to be observing with a good-humored twinkle all that went on about him. He made it a point to get acquainted with all classmates, visiting more of their rooms, as in later life he visited more of their homes, than any other member of his class. Large of frame, but not especially athletic, he tried the 100 yard dash, hurdles, sack, potato, and wheel-barrow races, the latter three comporting best with his characteristic humor. An "Academic" in a class that included a fair proportion of "Scientifics," he was the only member to become a Civil Engineer, and was a life member of The American Society of Civil Engineers. His profession took him to &nd fro across the country, surveying for railroads, constructing water works, sewage systems, power dams, etc., enabling him to call frequently on classmates. He was the last of his class to see alive Tenney, Still, Harvey and Whittelsey. He was married in 1886 to Miss Margaret J. Jones, a graduate of.Oberlin. She was a person of poise and grace, and at his 25th reunion, she and he, his hair and moustache gleaming white above his large and ruddy figure, made a couple of distinction on the Campus.

After Mrs. Harlow's death in 1923 he moved from Oberlin, which had been their home for some years, and where he superintended the construction of the College Art building, to Cleveland Heights, where, as he said, he made it his chief business to keep the family together. With four daughters and two sons and numerous grand and greaogrand children, he was easily the most of a patriarch of his class, and he looked upon his family as a clan. In 1939 he was elected Vice President of the descendants of William Harlow (1624-1691) of Plymouth, engaged in a movement to make a memorial of the house known as the Harlow House in the old town. In that same year he, in company with his daughter Margaret made a visit to England and Scotland, where they found family traces. But family was not his only loyalty. He was interested in all public affairs. In World War I he rendered important service In the U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. One time Chairman and for many years a member, in 1936 he was made Member Emeritus of The Session of the Cleveland Heights Presbyterian Church. An ab- stainer from liquor and tobacco, he maintained loyally the traditions of his ancestry, citizenship, College, and Church, and was an honor to them all.

1886

HENRY WINERED THURSTON died Sept. 19, 1946 at his home in Montclair, N. J. at the age of 85. He was born at Barre, Vermont, February 28, 1861 the son of Wilson, and Frances (Kinney) Thurston, and was a brother of Charles O. Thurston '84. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa.

While still in college he substituted for a term as Principal of the Stockbridge Mass. High School and on graduation followed the career of a teacher and social worker until his retirement. His first school was in Elk Point, Dakota Territory. For the next twenty five years his work centered in and about Chicago as a high school teacher and principal, and as an executive in social work. During this period he became interested in teaching citizenship and issued a text book on the subject. In May 1900 he was made head of the Department of Sociology in the Cook County Normal School. Five years later he became Chief Probation Officer of the Juvenile Court of Cook County, Illinois, and this led to his selection as the Superintendent of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society in 1909. Three years later, in 1912, he was called to a professorship in the New York School of Social Work, a post he held until his retirement in 1931.

He also held a number of auxilliary posts in social welfare work, including the chairmanship of the Division on Children of the National Conference of Social Work (1917-20) and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Children's Aid Society (1923-1934).

Besides being a contributing editor of The Survey, he was the author of several books, including "Spare Time and Delinquency" (1918); "The Dependent Child" (1930); "Concerning Juvenile Delinquency" (1942); and "The Education of Youth as Citizens" (now in press).

He received the degree of Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1918 and was listed in "Who's Who in America." November 27, 1890, he married Miss Charlotte Skinner, a fellow teacher in the Hyde Park, 111., High School. Mrs. Thurston died in September, 1943. The couple had four children, three of whom are living, Henry W. Jr., a Professor in Penn State College; Robert R. of Chappaqua, N. Y., engaged in business; and Mrs. J. Vincent Brown of Mitchel Field, L. I.

He was outstanding, not only in his profession, but also in his loyalty to college and class. He was a consistent contributor, seldom missed a class reunion, and for many years, was Class Secretary. A fine example of the sons of New England yeomanry who made good in the wider world and never forgot what they owed to the little New Hampshire College that gave them their start.

1895

CLYDE DANFORTH KNAPP, non-graduate, Class of 1895, died February 26, 1946, of heart trouble, at his home at Halesite, L. 1., N. Y. Prior to his death he was senior partner in C. D. Knapp Jr. & Company, investment bankers in New York City with offices at 115 Broadway.

He served his apprenticeship with The First National Bank, Duluth, Minn., 1892-94; Fidelity and Casualty Co., Minneapolis, 1894-97; London Guarantee & Accident Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1897-98; New Amsterdam Casualty Ca., Chicago, 111., 1898-99.

He married (1) Cora A. Dorwin, February 1894, at St. Paul, Minn, (divorced), (2) Estelle M. Videtto, Jan. 11, 1911, at Hoboken, N.' J. (divorced), (3) Gertrude Russell Oliver, Nov. 27, 1919, at Stamford, Conn.

He was the father of two children. Clyde D. Knapp Jr., born Nov. 12, 1911, in New York City; Olive Gertrude Knapp, born Aug. 6, 1921, at Great Neck, N. Y.

While at Dartmouth he was nicknamed "Hike."

1897

JUDGE JOHN FRANCIS KEATING died in Stamford, Conn., September 15, 1946. He was born in Ludlow, Vt., September 8, 1876. He graduated from Black River Academy where he was a classmate and friend of Calvin Coolidge.

After graduation John studied law with John G. Sargent of Ludlow, who later became Attorney General of the U. S. Early in the century he began the practice of law in Stamford. From 1912 to 1923 he was Judge of Probate, and during part of this time he also served in the same capacity for the Town of Darien. From 1925 to 1927 he was Mayor of Stamford. Since that time he had devoted all of his time to the legal practise in association with his son, John P. Keating.

Judge John W. Banks, formerly Chief Justice of the State of Connecticut, told your secretary shortly after Keating's death, that he had known him well and had had legal contact with him in court cases of importance. He stated that he had found Judge Keating sound and reliable in his legal work and that he was highly regarded in the legal profession in Connecticut.

John had long been an active member of the Dartmouth Club of Western Connecticut. In a resolution at the time of his death the Club stated that "His sincerity of purpose, loyalty to his fellow-men, and contributions of note to the community in which he lived, have set a high mark in our hearts. Patient and composed, he met life's tasks with a sincere zeal seldom equalled."

John is survived by a daughter, Mary, and by a son John P. Keating, Dartmouth 1950. Mrs. Keating, the former Julia Kelly, died some years ago.

1898

WILLIAM WELLS FORBES died at Manchester, N. H., on August 31, 1946.

He was born January 19, 1874, in Northumberland, N. H„ the son of William Henry and Addie (Wells) Forbes and was with the Class of 1898 at Dartmouth from September 1894 to April 1895. After leaving college he engaged in the study of law in the office of General John H. Andrews in Manchester, and remained there for several years before entering the individual practice of law. He was admitted to the Bar in 1898 and until the death of his brother Irving E. Forbes ('01) they were associated in law, though not partners. His practice consisted in the main of probate matters and conveyancing.

He was reported to be one of the widest and best read lawyers in the State, and had the happy faculty of being able to quote New Hampshire cases by title, volume and page, and apparently never forgot a case he had once read. For a considerable period, and until he no longer preferred to have the work, he used to be appointed by the Superior Court as auditor, referee, or master.

It is said of him that while he was thrifty in money matters, he was kind and generous and enabled a number of families, by loans, to find and redeem themselves. He did not believe in organized charities nor would he contribute to them, but he believed and practiced personal charity in a very real sense.

Most of his spare time was spent in the open; he had a car that very few people ever knew about, and a friend to drive it so that he could get about to different places. He was supremely happy at either hunting or fishing.

Bill probably never attended a class function or Reunion since he left college but was a loyal Dartmouth man and classmate. Only a couple of weeks before his death he had renewed his subscription to the Alumni Magazine.

He married (i) Caroline Chamberlain, of Nashua, N. H., October 10, 1896, who died in 1911; (2) Elizabeth Thurber, who is no longer living. He left one son, William C., who for a time was a member of the Class of 1919, and graduated from M. I. T. in 1922.

I900

CHARLES HAMILTON HOYT died at the City Hospital, Springfield, Mass., on Apr. 30, 1946 at the age of 71 years. He collapsed on the street, apparently from heart failure, on April 1, and was carried to the hospital, where he remained until his death.

Hoyt Was born in Washington, N. H. on Sept. 4, 1874. Receiving his secondary education in the Nashua High School, he entered Dartmouth in the Class of 1900. As an undergraduate he was largely self-supporting through employment as a barber and his participation in college activities was limited to membership in the band. After graduation he continued in the Thayer School, receiving the degree of C.E. in 1901.

He then entered upon an engineering career largely centered around highway construction. He was employed successively by the New York State Engineering Department, and (as highway engineer) by the highway departments of New York, New Hampshire, Maryland and by the Office of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture. He was instructor in the Michigan School of Mines, '04-'05, and in the Thayer School of Civil Engineering, '07-'08. During this period he published (in connection with Prof. W. H. Burr, of Columbia) a treatise on Highway Conduitsand Bridges and (alone) on New HampshireHighways. While in Washington, D. C., he took up the study of law, receiving from the National University Law School the degree of LL.B. in 1911 and the degrees of LL.M. and M.P.L. in 1912. He then entered the firm of Hawley and Hoyt, Washington, specializing in the law as related to engineering.

Apparently thus firmly established, in 1918, after a visit to his aged mother in New Hampshire, he disappeared completely. No one, including his wife and other immediate family, had any knowledge of his where- abouts, and he was regarded by college and class as deceased. However, after nearly twen- ty-five years of silence he reappeared, visiting a cousin in Concord, N. H., and later spend- ing one afternoon in Hanover at the Thayer School, the only department of the College in which he seemed to have any interest. At- tempts by the secretary to re-establish class relations with him were unsuccessful, he making no response to any letters. It appears, however, that during those years he had gone under the name of Thomas Jones, that he had lived in Chicago and recently had been employed in Springfield, Mass., and that he was in easy financial circumstances. He seems never to have talked about the past and the reasons for his abrupt change of front were never revealed.

When he was taken ill he summoned his Concord cousin to his aid. Upon his death, by her direction his body was brought to that city and buried in the Blossom Hill Cemetery. He was married in 1903 to Bertha Almina Maynard of Allyns, Conn., who is said to have died some years ago. They had no children.

1903

ERNEST RUTHERFORD GROVES O£ Chapel Hill, N. C., sociologist at the University of North Carolina died at his temporary home in Ar- lington Heights, Mass., on August 29, 1946 of heart disease.

Born in Framingham, Mass. on May 6, 1877, the son of Henry Hunt and Susan (Seward) Groves, both of English descent, he prepared for college at the Hudson, Mass. High School. He attended, the Yale Divinity School, from which he received the B.D. degree in 1901, and in 1902 entered Dartmouth College in our junior year. He at once showed brilliant scholarship, ranked Phi Beta Kappa and graduated in 1903. His greatest interest was in philosophy and psychology. During his course he earned his way by preaching in churches of surrounding towns. From 1903-06 he taught philosophy and sociology at New Hampshire State College. In 1906 he returned to Dartmouth and spent two years in the English Department and then returned to New Hampshire State College, where he was Professor of English and Philosophy, 1908-11; Professor of Sociology and Dean, Arts and Science, 1911-20.

In 1920 he became head of the Department of Sociology at the Liberal Arts College of Boston University and taught in the Harvard Summer School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In May, 1946 he received an honorary doctorate of humanities from Boston University.

In 1927 he was made Professor of Social Sciences at the University of North Carolina and established courses of education for marriage and the family. He taught at the Columbia University Summer School and lectured at Duke University; wrote many books on his chosen subjects and articles for leading scientific magazines and journals, both at home and abroad. He was made a member of both French and American scientific societies. An admirable lecturer he was sought throughout the nation in university circles to speak upon his chosen subjects, and thereby pioneered the extension of sociological conceptions to include the human behavior in marriage and family life. In 1942 he received the degree of Litt.D. from Florida Southern College

In October 1907 Ernest married Dorothy Doe of Rollinsford, N. H., who died in 1916. They had four children: Catherine, Ernestine, Ruth and Lois Mary. In February 1919 he married Gladys Hoagland of Concord, Mass. who has been a teacher and collaborator in his work for many years.

1905

DR. DANIEL ROBERT CHASE died of an apoplectic stroke in Orlando, Fla., May 15, 1946.

He was born in Piermont, N. H., January 19, 1879, his father being a physician. The family home was later in Orford, N. H.

He obtained his preliminary education at the Holderness School and Kimball Union Academy, and took his entire medical course at Dartmouth.

After graduation he practiced for a time in Lebanon, N. H„ and in 1917 entered the Medical Corps in the United States Army, attaining the rank of Major. He retired thirteen years ago on account of ill health.

July 10, 1905, he was married to Clara Wood of Lebanon, who survives him, living in Orlando, Fla. They had no children.

HOWARD ERNEST SMITH passed away at the State Hospital, Hawthorne, Mass., September 7, 1946 and was buried at Seabrook, N. H., where he was born in that section of the town known as Smithtown and named for his family.

His early education was in the schools of Newburyport, Mass. and at that high school he was a track man. He finished his prep school work at Exeter Academy and there became a star quarter-dash miler and high jumper. No one who ever heard "Jake" tell the story of winning the high jump at the Buffalo World's Exposition can ever forget that yarn.

"Jake" came to Dartmouth from Exeter with a group including "Bill" Knibbs, Joe Gilman, "Mary" Dillon, "Midge" Reed, Art Ward and probably others whom I do not recall at this moment. He proceeded to star on the track team his Freshman year and was elected captain of the team his Sophomore year. I think he was the only Sophomore ever so honored.

He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

Although he did not graduate, "Jake" was always a loyal Dartmouth man. After leaving college, he became a salesman and sold everyt hing from shoes to steel for fifty-story buildings. His happiest work was when he was with the Concrete Steel Co., and travelled the entire country for them. He later went back to Smithtown and lived at his old home and worked at various things there and at Portsmouth, N. H.

Jake married (1); Eleanore A. Riedel of New York City, January 9, 1915, from whom he was divorced; (2) Edith G. Beach of Detroit, Mich., July 2, 1927.

He left two children, a daughter Virginia, who served overseas with the Red Cross during the war, and a son Howard E. Jr.

1910

CLIFFORD STANLEY LYON died suddenly at his home in Holyoke, Mass., on September 21, as the result of a heart attack which he suffered a short time previously on a golf course. Born March 17, 1888 in New York City, the son of Rev. John Stanley and Ella (White) Lyon, he lived almost his entire lifetime in Holyoke.

Preparing at Holyoke High School, he entered Dartmouth to graduate cum laude with the Class of 1910. During his college career he won prizes in debating and the Woodbury Law School Scholarship—was a Rollins speaker, member of the varsity debating club for three years, member of the college choir and during senior year was feditor-in-chief of The Dartmouth.

Upon graduation he became industrial secretary of the West Side (N. Y. City) Y.M.C.A. for two years—and continued as part-time secretary for the following 3 years while he worked for his degree at Columbia Law School. Graduating in 1915 he worked for the Holyoke law firm of Green & Bennett, being admitted as a member in 1917. In recent years he has been senior member. Cliff was widely recognized as an able trial lawyer.

During his life he was very active in civic affairs such as the Y.M.C.A., Community Chest, Red Cross, Second Baptist Church (of which his father had been pastor), the Republican Party, Mass. Bar Association (a member of the state examiners at his death), the Holyoke Parks and Recreation Commission and various philanthropic organizations.

He held directorships in many industrial corporations and his social and fraternal connections included memberships in Rotary, the Masons, Shriners, Mt. Tom Golf Club. Elks and other local organizations—including his college fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

On May 27, 1916 he married Gertrude Merrick, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke. To them were born Elizabeth, wife of Henry S. Bagg, Dartmouth 1939; Judson, Dartmouth 1940; Clarke, Dartmouth 1943; Margaret (Mrs. Richard Pierce); Mary, a student at Northfield School.

George L. McClintock represented the Class at the funeral which was one of the largest ever held in Holyoke, there being in that city few men whose life touched so many people of various stations.

Cliff was widely known in the Dartmouth family. He had his objectives early in life and was one of those men who developed all of the promise he showed as an undergradua te. Clean, always highly respected, a tireless worker, he made friends and held them. His life was full and unselfish. Few men can hope to equal or surpass it.

ATKINS NICKERSON, who was born in Melrose, Mass., Oct. i, 1887, the son o£ Walter I. and Charlotte (Bishop) Nickerson, died unexpectedly at his home in Melrose on Aug. 9-

Fitted for college at Melrose High School and Worcester Academy, he entered and gradu ated with 1910. During his lite he was associated in early years with heavy hardware and leather industries—and tor the last 25 years with investment banking in Los Angeles and Boston.

Graduating from the Harvard Naval ROTC in 1917, he was commissioned a Lieut, (j.g.) to serve on the USS Mississippi and two years on destroyers in the North Sea. Never losing his love for the Navy, he remained on inactive duty and returned to full duty in 1939 to rise to the rank of Lieut. Commander during World War 11. He had charge of harbor entrance control in Long Island Sound, served several months in Panama, and later as member of the court martial board—to be discharged on pension May 29 of this year.

The day before his death he phoned Earle Pierce for the name of a throat doctor. He died the next night presumably while asleep. He married Thyra Marie Freigang, October 12, 1912. He was buried beside her in Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett.

Surviving are his son, Leonard, of Marshfield and two daughters, Mrs. Charlotte Kellogg of Exeter, N. H. and Mrs. Thyra N. Thorn of Braintree, Mass.

Nick who belonged to various Masonic orders, was always an interesting and individualistic fellow, in and after college—loyal to and proud of Dartmouth—he left many friends in the Class.

1911

DR. HOWARD MERRILL CLUTE died suddenly of a coronary thrombosis at his home in Brookline, Mass., on September 19th. Although Howard had had some earlier warnings of this difficulty he had continued in active practice, and in fact on the day of his death did a full afternoon's operating at the hospital and appeared in his usual good health when he joined friends at the Algonquin Club for dinner.

Howard was born in North Berwick, Maine, January 10, 1890, the son of Charles Howard and Fannie (Merrill) Clute. His father later moved to Florence, Mass., so that Howard attended the Northampton High School from which he graduated prior to his entering college the fall of 1907. After receiving hisB.S. degree he was graduated from the Medical School in 1914. Years later, in 1941, Dartmouth honored him with its degree of Doctor of Science. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta.

In 1916 he became Assistant Surgeon at the American Women's War Hospital in Paignton, England. In June 1917 he entered the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army as a lieutenant and was honorably discharged from the Service as a major in April 1919. During this period he served all over France and Belgium.

On July 23rd, 1918, he was married in the Westminster Cathedral, London, to Josephine Price of London. Following his Army service he was for many years a member of the LeahyClinic after which he went into practice for himself, establishing his own clinic at 1180 Beacon Street, Boston. He was a noted surgeon, especially well known for his goiter and thyroid surgery. He was a surgeon at the New England Baptist Hospital and the New England Deaconess Hospital, and often was called to other parts of New England for consultation and for operating. He was a Consultant in Surgery, Selective Service; Chairman of the Suffolk County Procurement and Assignment Board of Physicians; and was a member of the State Procurement and Assignment Board. He had recently resigned as Professor of Surgery at the Boston University Medical School and as Chief Surgeon at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital.

He has published over a hundred articles on surgical subjects, principally relating to thyroid and goiter. He likewise had lectured

widely on these topics. He was a charter member of the American Board of Surgery; belonged to the American College of Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the New England Surgical Association, the Southern Surgical Association, and the Massachusetts Medical Society. He had been active in most of these organizations as an officer. Last year he was president of the Boston Surgical Society. He was also an active member of the Algonquin Club and formerly of the Beacon Society. He invented a special clamp which bears his name and is widely used now.

At the time of his death Mrs. Clute was in Scotland, just having flown to England a few days earlier. His son, Charles, 26 years old, was on his way to China in the Merchant Marine. His daughter, Alice Josephine, age 21. who was a debutante a few years ago had been taking a Nurses Aide Course at the Children's Hospital. She has been living at home.

With Howard's death the public loses a wise and skilled surgeon; the College a generous and loyal alumnus; and the class a fine fellow beloved by all.

1912

EDMUND R. SAWYER died suddenly on August 25, 1946, while on vacation in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

He was born at Lakeport, New Hampshire, July 24, 1889, the son of Kendrick Dana Sawyer and Carrie Hopestill Read. He prepared for Dartmouth at Laconia (N. H.) High School. After graduating from Dartmouth with the Class of 1912, where he was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, he received a degree of Master of Education from Boston University, in 1934.

At the time of his death he was superintendent of the Union School of East Longmeadow, Hampden and Wilbraham (Mass.). He was formerly principal of the Center School, Norfolk, Mass., a teacher at Hartford, Conn., Head of the Lower School at Vermont Academy, and principal of the Grammar School at Saxtons River, Vermont.

He was married to Margaret McAvey of Boston in 1928, who, together with two sons, survive.

1913

Louis HOWARD KIRK died on August 19, 1946 at his home 43-17 Forty-eighth St., Woodside, Queens, New York. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on December 5, 1889, and lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming when he entered Dartmouth from Concord School. Louis left College at the end of his freshman year and for six years was manager of the Peg Lock Block Co., Inc. of Patterson, N. J. at their New York office. He then became vice president and salesmanager of the company.

He belonged to the 7th N. Y. Regiment but was released from service for physical condition when the National Guard left for the Mexican border and later was turned down in the World War I draft.

At the time of his death Louis was sales agent for the American Art Works Co. of Coshocton, Ohio. He married the former Maude Strange in 1921 who survives him.

He was a member of Kappa Sigma. 1914

DR. RALPH CARLTON JENKINS, President of Danbury State Teachers College, died October 2nd of a heart attack. He passed away quickly in the college at the age of 54.

Jenk was born in Springfield, Vt., December 3, 1891, the son of George O. and Minnie (Roby) Jenkins. He received his A.B. at Dartmouth in 1914 and his A.M. at Middlebury in 1918. Later he did post graduate work at Yale and at Harvard Graduate School of Education, receiving the degree of Ed.M. at Harvard in 1933 and that of Ph.D. in 1937 from New York University.

Immediately after graduation, Jenk went to Burr and Burton Seminary in Manchester, Vt., as assistant principal; in 1916-17 he was at Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vt., as principal; superintendent of schools Plymouth, Conn, from 1917-1920; agent of the American Book Company, 1920-22; superintendent of schools, Putnam, Conn. 1922-28, and principal of Johnson Normal School in Vermont from 1928 to 1935, becoming president of the Danbury State Teachers College in 1935.

A former president of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents and the New England Training Association he was a member of the National Education Association, New England Association of Public School Superintendents and the New England Normal Principals Association. Jenk was also a past governor of The 200th District Rotarv International and the Masons.

He was the author of several works, including, "Henry Barnard—an Introduction" with Gertrude C. Warner; "Henry Barnard, Progressive Educator of Teachers"; and "A Practical Program for Teacher Training in Vermont."

He is survived by three sons, Dr. Ward S. Jenkins, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1942, and the Medical School, who interned at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital; Brooks Allan, who was in the Navy; and Page Thompson, Dartmouth mouth '37, a geologist for the Carter Oil Company in Montana. His wife, the former Rose Thompson, died in 1944.

1915

PAUL BURNETT BERRY died of coronary thrombosis in Harrisburg, Pa., on August 10, 1945.

He was born October 27, 1889 in Chester, Pa., the son of William Harvey and Susan E. (Schofield) Berry. He was at Dartmouth in 1912-13, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

Among other institutions he attended were Pennsylvania Military College, Penn State, and Swarthmore.

During World War I, he served as a Lieutenant in the 316th Inf., 79th Div.

He was vice president of the Berry Engineering Co.; general manager and treasurer of the Fields Brick Co.; had been Senior Food Investigator for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and at the time of his death was Collector of U. S. Internal Revenue.

He is survived by his wife, Edythe Jones Reese, whom he married Aug. 16, 1917 in Pottsville, Pa., and by a son, William H., 3rd. born Oct. 25, 1922, who served in World War 11, as a Lieutenant USMCR and who was in Japan at the time of his father's death.

Berry was a highly respected and esteemed man in his community, and the class extends its sympathy to the family in their great loss and shares with them a common sorrow.

i9J 7

WILLIAM HAROLD STEWART, vice president of the Fuel Service Company, wholesale coal distributors, 500 Fifth Ave., New York, died Monday, August 19, in Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, N. H., of heart failure following an illness of two months. He was vacationing in Woodstock, Vt., at the time of his illness and was taken to fhe Hanover hospital when his condition became serious. He was 50.

Buck, as he was affectionately known to his classmates, was born November 28, 1894, Ashton, R. I. the son of William James and Ethelinda (McFadden) Stewart. He came to Dartmouth from Webster, Mass., Higb School where he was unusually active—class president for four years, president of the athletic association, a member of the dramatic club, and a regular member of the baseball and basketball teams. In Hanover, he ws a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and was well known and highly respected on the campus. He enlisted at Newport, R. 1., in May of 1917 and was commissioned an Ensign, USNR, in April 1918. Thereafter he served in the Subchaser Squadron of the 3rd Naval District, and was discharged in New York in February 1919.

He started his civilian graduate life with F. S. Moseley and Co., of Boston. In late 1919 he became secretary of the Lee Coal Co., of Worcester. Later, in 1922, he joined Peale, Peacock and Kerr, bituminous coal distributors in New York, with whom he remained until 1927. He then changed to the organization of Ladd and Nichols, Inc., real estate dealers, in New York, where he remained until he became an officer of Fuel Service Co., some few years ago.

Buck maintained his residence all through his business life in New York at 1105 Park Ave., and for years also enjoyed a summer home at Millbrook, N. Y. It was there that he married Dorothy Miller of New York City on September 25, 1920. To her and to their two children, William Harold Jr. '45, and Mary Louise, and to his mother, all of whom survive him, the class expresses its profound sympathy.

Services were held Thursday, August 22, in Webster, Mass., and a memorial service was held at the same time in the Federated Church in Millbrook.

1923

ARTHUR FRANCIS O'BRIEN died at Saint Catherine's Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., March 23, 1946. Two years ago he suffered an attack of pneumonia from which he never fully recovered, although he courageously carried on his law practise until he suffered another attack on March 2.

Art was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 18, 1901, the son of James Vincent and Mary (Shea) O'Brien. He prepared for college at Bryant High School in Long Island City.

In college Alt was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, and a member of the track team, specializing in the half mile run. Injuries prevented him from starring in this specialty, in which he had been a top performer in precollege days. After Dartmouth, Art received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1926. and became senior member of the firm of O'Brien and Moran in Brooklyn. His friends recall stories he used to tell about his earh experience with clients seeking his counsel in obtaining divorces. His benign manner, good sound advice and prematurely white hair frequently caused clients to abandon their divorce proceedings, results which were hardly remunerative for counsel, but illustrate the character of the classmate we have lost.

Art was always active within the Democratic party in Brooklyn, and held high office in Knights of Columbus. His enthusiasm for Dartmouth never flagged and his infrequent vacations Were always spent in Hanover. The class has lost a member who prized his membership in that body most highly, and who was always devoted to his friends in Dartmouth and to the College. He is survived by a brother William E. O'Brien of Brooklvn.

1925

GEORGE EVERETT MEGATHLIN died on August 19, 1946 at the home of his parents at 111 Grainger Street, Wollaston, Mass., following a prolonged illness.

He was born in Dorchester, Mass., July 11, 1903, the son of Ralph Simmons and Lennie (Doggett) Megathlin. Coming to Dartmouth from Somerville, Mass. High School, where he had been valedictorian of his class, George achieved a high grade of scholastic work during his years in Hanover. Many will remember him, also, as an accomplished pianist.

After college, as long as his health permitted, George worked for W. T. Grant Company, being located in various cities in the Middle West and New York.

For the last ten years of his life, he struggled against the merciless encroachment of blindness. Though from the physical standpoint he lost this struggle, since he had been totally blind for about five years, nevertheless he triumphed over his devastating handicap in maintaining to the last an active interest in Dartmouth, in worldly happenings and in his friends.

His fondest memories were of Dartmouth and the "Hums" of Spring.

1932

ROBERT CULLEN WILKIN was accidentally suffocated on the afternoon of August 31. 1946 while experimenting with a diving-mask under nine feet of water in his swimming pool at his home on Wheatley Road, Old Westbury, Long Island. Rescue attempts by his wife, Barbara, by an employee from a nearby estate, and finally by emergency squads from the fire department and the Nassau County police were of no avail, and Bob was pronounced dead ten minutes after his removal from the water. He was 36 years old.

Born at Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 5, 1910, the son of Garrat S. and Julia (Cullen) Wilkin, Bob entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1932, and was prominent as athlete, student leader, thinker, and friend. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sphinx, Green Key and Palaeopitus.

On April 25, 1934, he was married to Barbara Cates, who, with their daughter Judy, born November 7, 1938, survives him. For a number of years he had been associated with the Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation, refiners and processers of copper, and last winter had moved East to take an executive position with the New York offices of the firm at 40 Wall Street. His loss will be deeply felt by the class which elected him as its first president.

1934

LIEUT. (JG) MARTIN HERMAN BRAUN, MC, USNR, died in the service of his country on November 13, 1942 while at sea off Fidala, French Morocco. He was attached to the Tasker H. Bliss which was then engaged in the North African invasion.

Marty, the son of Dr. Jacob Braun and Anna Rosencranz Braun of 103 Newbold Place, Kew Gardens, N. Y., was born in New York City March 19, 1914. He was graduated from Newtown High School, Elmhurst, Long Island, in 1930 and matriculated at Dartmouth with the class of 1934. He was a member of Pi Lambda Phi, and majored in Chemistry-Zoology. His graduate work was completed at New York University Medical School. He had planned to devote his life to medical and public health work among the negroes in the South.

Marty, who early volunteered for the United States Naval Reserve, was one of the first of his class to enter service and among the first Dartmouth Alumni to fall in World War 11. On January 25, 1944 he was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart for military merit and for wounds received in the action resulting in his death.

1938

EDWIN SNYDER RUTHERFORD was born 0n May 26, 1917, at Woodhaven, Long Island, the son of Edwin J. Rutherford, Dartmouth 1913, and Irene Snyder Rutherford. He died on June 4, 1946, at his home in Brooklyn, after having been in poor health for almost a year.

Edwin prepared for college at Bound Brook, N. J„ High School. He was interested in music and the stage and was a member of the Handel Society and the Players while in college, as well as of the Dartmouth Union. He was a member of Chi Phi fraternity, and the First Presbyterian church.

Since college he had been working for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, first in Denver, Colorado, and then in New York City. He is survived by his widow, Josephine Rizzo Rutherford; his mother, Mrs. Irene S. Rutherford; and three sisters, Mrs. Voorhees Apgar, Mrs. Harold Kellogg and Miss Phyllis E. Rutherford, all of Dunellen. New Jersey.

Information has just been received that ARTHUR FITCH SHOEMAKER was undoubtedly killed by the Japanese, probably in or near Lashio, Burma, early in 1942. After graduation from Tuck School in 1939 Art returned to China as a junior accountant for the Texas Oil Co. He shared living quarters in Shanghai with Chips Robertson of our class until Chips returned to the states late in 1941. In the earlystages of the Japanese invasion the Texas Co. moved their headquarters from Shanghai to Lashio, Burma. It is believed that Art was either killed or captured there, as no word has since been heard of him by his family.

Art was born December 26, 1915, Peking, China, the son of Dr. Arthur and Dawn (Fitch) Shoemaker. His father was a manufacturer and exporter of Chinese rugs. He prepared for college at Peking American School and spent one year in Yenching University before entering Dartmouth in 1935. He was a member of Germania and the SAE fraternity. He will be remembered by his classmates as a quiet, unassuming member of the class, always having a friendly smile for his many friends. He is survived by his sister Mrs. William F. Carey Jr., of 506 East 87th St., New York City.

1943

ROBERT MICHAEL MCCAW died on September 17, 1946, in an automobile accident at Framingham, Mass. Two others were injured and one person killed in the accident which occurred when the car in which the four people were riding went out of control and crashed into a tree.

Robert was born December 26, 1921, Framingham, Mass., the son of Robert I. and Ma- rian A. (Williams) McCaw. He graduated with honors from Framingham High School in 1939, where he was a member of the football and basketball teams.

Immediately after graduating from Dartmouth, in May 1943, he entered the Army as a private in the Medical Department. He served at various camps in the South and West, and for three months in 1944 was hospitalized as the result of an accident. From August, 1944 to May, 1946, when he was discharged, he served as a Technical Sergeant and Educational Officer in the Rehabilitation Division, at the Cushing General Hospital in Framingham.

The class was represented at the funeral on September 19 by John O'Connor, James Ahern and Paul Randall.

HENRY W. THURSTON, long-time secretary of the Class of 1886, who died Sept. 19 at the age of 85.

HOWARD MERRILL CLUTE 'll

ROBERT CUILEN WILKIN '32

VOX.CLAMANTIS.IN.DESERTO.