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]

Proctor, John H. '91, October 15 Sargent, Herbert E. '91, October 27 Chesley, Roscoe H. '97, November 9 Orcutt, Harold W. '00, July 26 Stewart, Hollis W. '03, September 24, 1942 Wentworth, John P. '03, November 4 Colby, William G. '07, September 28 Robinson, Frank O. '11, October 29 Whelden, Richard G. '11, October 12 Howes, Paul S. '14, October 17 Lawrence, Raymond A. '16, October 21 Murphy, William H. '16, November 7 Murphy, George T. '24, November Van Campen, Theodore D. '29, Dec. 13, 1944 Wiley, William U. '29 * Anderson, John N. '37, May 17, 1944 Paull, William G. '38, July Haynes, Henry W. '94 m, November 12

Died in war service.

In Memoriam

1891

FRANCIS MILTON BANFIL "passed away in Milford, N. H. on June 14. The funeral was held in the Church of Our Saviour, Milford, and burial was in Nashua.

Banfil, the son of William K. and Nancy S. (Boyce) Banfil, was born in Nashua, N. H„ May 30, 1862. Following his graduation from Dartmouth he studied at the General Theological Seminary and in 1894 became a deacon of the Episcopal Church. In 1895 he was ordained a priest by Bishop Nicolson. Following this he served in the following capacities; Curate, St. Martin's Church, Brodhead, Wis., 1894-95; Assistant Priest, St. Stephen's Church, Providence, R. I., 1895-98; Rector, St. James' Church, South Bend, Ind., 1898-1910; member, Standing Committee of Diocese of North Indiana, 1899-1910; Assistant Master Howe School, Howe, Ind., 1910-13; Curate, All Saints' Church, Boston, and Vicar, St. Cuthbert Chapel, 1913-19,; Rector, St. Mathew's Church, Goffstown, N. H., 1919-33.

To Bishop Dallas of Concord, N. H. the secretary is indebted for the report of the fact that Banfil, who had been the beloved Rector of the church in Goffstown for so long, had been blind and in failing health for some years.

HERBERT EUGENE SARGENT died of a coronary occlusion, October 27 in Wolfeboro, N. H. Services were held October 30th in the Congregational Church in Wolfeboro, of which Sargent had been a deacon for thirty-five years.

Sargent was born in Plymouth, N. H., January 2, 1867, the son of Hermon Logan and Myra (Randall) Sargent. He was graduated from both the Plymouth High School and the Plymouth Normal School and entered Dartmouth where in 1891 he received the B.S. degree. His college society was Phi ZetaMu.

After graduation he did additional work in Botany at Harvard, including field work on the Cape, while teaching in the Concord High School for two years. He then went to Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N. H. where he taught for a period of fifty-six years, as head of the science and mathematics department.

June 23, 1898, he married Marion J. Ricker of Acton, Maine, a young graduate of the Academy. There were six children of whom five survive, with thirteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Sargent was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Vermont Botanical and Bird Clubs. His interest in botany caused him to explore the woods and fields surrounding Wolfeboro where he found many botanical specimens never before found in this area. He prepared a great many of the specimens now on exhibition in the Libby Museum. As an educator he had the longest service of any member of his college class.

A tribute to Mr. Sargent from an old pupil

When to the sessions of sweet, silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, And in the mystic web by memory wrought I find old friends and teachers long held fast, Then I recall the one who taught us flowers And weather maps, planets and stars and birds, And made his joy-in-learning keenly ours Quickening our minds to action by his words; Helped us to solve equations patiently, His kind eyes twinkling at our mental strife; Explained the laws of light and gravity,

Taught us self-discipline, chief law of life. There is a man who, by his love of truth, Through the long years has shaped the thoughts of youth.

1900

HAROLD WILLIAM ORCUTT died in Washing- ton, D. C., on July 26, 1946, at the age of 67 years.

He was born in Clinton, Mass., Sept. 8, 1878, the son of William D. Orcutt (D. C., 1871), but most of his early years were passed at Wollaston, from which town he entered Dartmouth College in the fall of 1896, having received his secondary training at Thayer Academy. He remained in college for four years, being a member of the class baseball team and of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He then studied law, attending the Law School of Boston University, 1902-1903, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1905. He practiced his profession in Boston, establishing his residence in Winthrop, of which community he was town solicitor from 1909 to 1918. He was also attorney of the Winthrop Co-operative Bank and, in 1915, Republican member of the Suffolk County Redistricting Commission.

In 1918 he entered the army as First Lieutenant of the Sanitary Corps, becoming eventually a Captain. During his army service, which was legal in character, he served successively as law enforcement officer at Camp Lee, Va., as Assistant Director of the Law Enforcement Division of the Army and finally with the Real Estate Division of the Department. Receiving an honorable discharge in 1920, he made his subsequent home in Washington. For two years he was legal advisor to the Department of Agriculture and then entered the prohibi- tion enforcement service, first as legal advisor to Director Haines and then, for eight years, as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in charge of all conspiracy cases in relation to prohibition. This position coming to an end at the advent of a Democratic administration, he became legal advisor in the Lands Division of the Department of Justice, retiring on account of ill health in February, 1945.

For much of his Washington career he resided at Takoma Park, Md., where he owned a home. For a time he was a member of the municipal Council of that community.

Orcutt was married on Nov. 3, 1909, to Mary Ethel Bennett, of Boston, who survives him. The couple had no children.

I911

COL. FRANK OWEN ROBINSON died at the residence of his brother, Edward K. Robinson '04 in Watertown on October 29. His death followed an illness of many months during which time he was confined to the hospital. Robbie was born in Littleton, N. H., December 6, 1886, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Adaline (Kilburn) Robinson. He graduated from the Newton, Mass., High School, where his father was superintendent of schools, entering Dartmouth with the class of 1910 but finishing with the class of 1911, with which class he has always preferred to be ranked. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.

Following graduation he was associated with the L. G. Balfour Company, Attleboro, for five years. He then was manager of the Wiano Club, Wiano, Mass., for a year. In 1917 he was Belmont's first volunteer to enter the war. He served as an ambulance driver for the American Field Service, later volunteering as an Army Private becoming attached to the French Army. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and decorated by General Petain as follows: "An officer full of spirit and bravery who has distinguished himself in many circumstances by his initiative and his presence of mind. The 28th of May, 1918, his convoy having been attacked in the daytime from a very low height with machine gun fire by seven enemy air planes, he succeeded in saving it, thanks to skilful arrangement, and to having his drivers execute a return fire."

Following his discharge he was an executive of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation from 1919-1930. In 1936 he bought a store in West Mansfield, Mass., which he operated until he was recalled to active duty as a Colonel in January 1941 when he was assigned as transportation officer for the Boston Port of Embarkation, later being transferred to Camp Myles Standish where he was Transport Officer in charge of transportation, courts-martial, and other activities. He made five voyages to England and on one occasion returned in charge of a shipload of German soldiers. He was one of only twenty-five Americans entitled to wear nine battle clasps for his services in World War I.

Following his return to inactive duty last year he was employed by the New Haven Railroad as Market Master in charge of perishable freight at the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Market Terminal in Boston. His army service was of twenty-five years' duration including active and reserve duty. As a result of his service in the last war he was entitled to wear A.T.O., E.T.O. and W.W. II ribbons. "Slats" was author of "Proper Motor Equipment for the U. S. Army," and other articles in "The Quartermaster Review."

He was a member of the Boston City Club, Military Order of World War, Elks, Military Order Foreign Wars, American Field Service, and ex-Commander of the Belmont Post of American Legion.

Funeral service was in Bigelow Chapel in Mt. Auburn, and burial was in Manchester, N. H. Dick Paul and other classmates represented the class at the services in Mt. Auburn.

RICHARD GILBERT WHELDEN died on October is at his home following an illness of a few weeks in a New York hospital.

Dick was born in Ludlow, Vt., November i, 1888, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Myra (Marsh) Whelden.

He graduated from Black River Academy, entering college with the class in the fall of 1907. In college he was an active member of the class and remained so until the day of his death. He returned to Tuck School for his graduate year in 1912, receiving the degree of Master of Commercial Science. In May 1912 he entered the factory of the Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Company at Whitman, and in 1914 he became a salesman for the same company and remained with them until the time of his death.

On June 28, 1924, he married Priscilla McClellan of Grafton, Mass., a graduate of Smith in the class of 1916. In addition to his wife he is survived by two brothers, Perley of the Class of 1903, and Marsh of the class of 1921. Also a cousin and two nephews have since graduated from college, and two other nephews are now in the sophomore class at Dartmouth.

Dick was well known in the Greenwich Village area of New York City, having lived there since 1926 when he participated in the Macdougal-Sullivan Garden Development where his house formed part of one of the city's most pleasant living developments.

At the time of World War I Dick entered the armed services as an enlisted man in the Ordnance Department of the Army, being promoted to sergeant, and later to 2nd lieutenant, whereupon he was sent to Northwestern University and placed in charge of two Ordnance training schools. During World War II he entered enthusiastically into the work of perfecting an air raid system for New York City, taking the responsibilities of a Sector Commander. At the same time he found it possible to work nights in Grand Central Station serving coffee and sandwiches to soldiers, sailors, and marines. Dick was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an active participant in the affairs of the Phi Gamma Delta Club of New York, and the Dartmouth College Club of New York. He was a Knights Templar affiliated with Vermont Commandery No. 4 in Windsor, and a member of Cairo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, Rutland, Vt. He was active in the American Legion Post No. 1212, Greenwich Village.

Private funeral services were held at his home, 82 Macdougal Street, New York, which were attended by Charlie Jordan, Mac Rollins, and Charlie Stebbins. Burial was at Grafton, Mass.

1916

RAYMOND AUBREY LAWRENCE died at his residence in Washington, D. C., October 21, 1946. He had not previously been ill, and his death was sudden and without warning except for a slight indisposition, which he disregarded in his conscientious desire to start for his office in the United States Maritime Commission, where he was Chief of the Sea-Air Section.

Ray was born in Sumas, Wash., March 20, 1892, and attended Fargo High School and Fargo College, in the North Dakota city of that name, but from 1913 to 1916 was at Dartmouth.

From 1920 to 1923 he was engaged in the insurance business in Fargo, leaving that city to accept a position with the Electric Bond and Share Company of New York City. In 1931 he joined the National Recovery Administration in Washington, and upon the dissolution of that organization, because of his knowledge of insurance techniques, was asked to join the Social Security Board as Technical Advisor. In 1941 he went to the U. S. Maritime Commission as a trade expert and economic analyst in transportation, later assuming the position of chief of the Sea-Air Section.

After leaving Dartmouth, Ray served two years in the Army, as a corporal in the Ordnance Corps. In. 1921 he was married to Ruth Schuyler, who survives him, with two daughters, Ann, aged 22, and Joan, aged 20. His father, Aubrey Lawrence, a retired attorney, who made his home with his son, also survives him. He was buried in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va., with military honors.

1937

DONALD ESSEX KIMBALL II was killed August 9, 1946, when his plane crashed near Forked River, N. J.

Don was born in Chicago, Ill., April 19, 1914, the son of T. Weller and Helene (Ailing) Kimball. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy where he spent five years. He remained with our class only until February 1935. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

After leaving college Don was for several years special agent for Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. in Chicago. In 1938 he became Assistant General Manager of Darling and Co. in Chicago and was with this company at the time of his death.

Don is survived by his wife, the former Mary Elizabeth Davis of Buffalo, and two children, Heather and Holly.

1938

RICHARD AXEL ANDERSON was killed August 19, 1946 near Hookerville, Vt. when his car left the highway and overturned. He was on the way to his office in Barre from Joe's Pond where his family was vacationing.

Dick was born November 19, 1916, in Barre, Vt. the son of Arthur and Tekla (Larson) Anderson. He prepared for college at Spaulding High School in Barre. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

Immediately after graduation Dick joined the Anderson-Friberg Co., granite manufacturers in Barre, and at the time of his death was Treasurer-Manager of the company. In May, 1944, he enlisted in the U.S.N.R. and served two years as a Gunner's Mate. He had the American and Asiatic-Pacific Theatre ribbons and the Victory Medal.

July 17, 1938 Dick was married to Shirley RStaflEord in Woodstock, Vt. She survives him with their two children, Sandra Karen and Joan Tekla. He is also survived by his mother who was in Sweden at the time of his death.

1940

IST LT. SAMUEL MEREDITH CARVER, missing in action since April 16, 1945, has been declared lost by the War Department. He was piloting a B-29 in a raid on Kawasaki, Japan when the plane was shot down. Reports of the action state that only one crew member, who bailed out, survived.

Sam was born in Springfield, Mass., November 9, 1918, the son of Samuel M. and Amalie (Sanders) Carver. He prepared for Dartmouth at Easthampton High School and Williston Academy. In college he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. After leaving college at the end of junior year, he was employed in Easthampton and Holyoke, Mass. before enlist- ing in the Army Air Corps in August, 1942. He was first pilot on a B-29 in the Pacific Theatre when he flew from the west coast to Hawaii and on to Tinian where he was based in February, 1945.

He was married April 2, 1942 to Elinor Kingsbury of Northampton, Mass. and they had one daughter, Meredith, born December 26, 1944. His parents, wife and daughter survive him.

GEORGE SPAULDING DUNLAP of St. Albans, Vt. was killed in an automobile accident at Bakersfield, Vt. April 20, 1946. He was alone in the car at the time of the accident and investigation indicated that he had suffered a heart attack before the crash.

He was born in lowa City, lowa October 15, 1917, the son of John H. Dunlap '05 and Fanny Gates Dunlap. Both parents died while he was young and he grew up at the home of his mother's family in Bakersfield, Vt. He attended Brigham Academy there, and was with 1940 in college for one semester.

He is survived by two brothers, Richard of St. Albans, Vt. and Clark of Bridgeport, Conn.

WILLIAM GLESSNER PAULL was killed in an airplane accident in West Virginia in July, 1946. He and another former Army flyer had just taken off in a new dual-control plane near Wheeling and crashed soon after leaving the runway.

He was born in Wheeling on January 10, 1915, the son of Lee Cunningham and Mary (Glessner) Paull, and prepared for college at Pennsylvania Military Preparatory School. Bill specialized in insurance engineering work after leaving college and after several months with the London Guaranty and Accident Company in New York he returned to Wheeling and became associated with his father, in the firm Lee C. Paull, Inc. He was interested in flying and was the youngest licensed pilot in West Virginia when he first began to fly. Being in the Army Reserve, he was called to active duty in 1941 and served at Patterson Field before going to Iceland in the fall of 1941. Back in the States again in 1948, he served as Priority Officer at Presque Isle, Maine, and later spent twenty months in Italy, Greece and France. He was commanding officer of a field north of Florence, Italy, before his return to the States, and discharge, as a captain, in November, 1945.

Bill was a member of the budget committee of the Community Fund in Wheeling and took part in other civic affairs. He was treasurer of the Young Republicans Club of Ohio County.

In September, 1938, Bill was married to Kathryn Belle Foulk, in Wheeling, and he is survived by her, two children and his father.

Medical School

1895

DR. ALBERT ATHERTON TAFT died August 28, 1946, in West Swanzey, N. H. He was born October 26, 1867, in Hancock, N. H. the son of Dr. Albert H. and Mary Louette (Atherton) Taft. After graduating from the Dartmouth Medical School he served for a time in the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover and from there went to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston. He was later superintendent of a hospital on Long Island and from there went to serve in a similar capacity in the hospital on Deer Island, Boston Harbor. About forty years ago he went into private practice in Keene, N. H. where he remained until his retirement.

On March 9, 1903, Dr. Taft was married to Erminie Mercier of Maiden, Mass. who died some years ago. He is survived by a brother DeForest Taft of Winchester, N. H.

FRANK OWEN ROBINSON '11