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]
Maynard, Herbert B. '81, March 23, 1943 Comer, Harris '82 Partridge, Charles R. '82, August 9 Metcalf, Harry B. '93, August 30 Griffin, Frank A. '94, July 14 Hoskins, Carl S. '94, July 5 Powers, Albert L. '95, August 30 Hoyt, W. Everett '9,8, July 1 Barney, James L. '99, September 3 Corey, Guy E. '99, August 1 Chapman, Frank W. 'OO, July 31 Dolloff, Charles H. 'OO, August 18 Hovey, Herbert W. '01, April 25 Cannell, John W. '02 Mooney, Clarence D. '02, August 6 Newman, Sewall E. '02, May 31 Griswold, Laurence W. 'OB, September 3 Batchellor, Fred C. '09, August 24 Davis, James C. '09, August 17 Ingalls, James W. '10, July 22 Lyons, Charles I. '11, June 27 Saxton, Robert H. '11, July 11 Pond, Carl F. '12, June 22 Taft, James C. '14, July 24 Duhamel, Arthur O. '17, August 28 Ralph, Blanchard E. '18, July 31 Picken, William H. Jr. '19, July 24 Holdsworth, Edward L. '27, July 20 Messner, Paul B. '27, August 20 Chapman, Richard W. '28, September 9 Geddes, Gail G. '33, June 28 Dock, Herman Jr. '36, April 16 Cash, Paul H. '39, November 1 Russell, Woodrow W. '39, August 27 Rosenberg-Rede, Hubert A. '42 Josephs, Charles S. '97m, August 5 Gates, George C. C. '03m, September 2 Mayes, Matthew T. '03m, June 2 Plimpton, George L. '29h, August 24, 1946 Greene, Evarts B. '31h, June 24 Barry, John L. '38h, August 18
In Memoriam
1889
The Rev. EDWARD BICKFORD BLANCHARD of Barre, Mass., died June 15, 1947 in Nashua, N. H., in his 89th year. He was a twin-son of the Rev. Silas Morrison and Eleanor (Bickford) Blanchard, and was born in Wentworth, N. H., April 14, 1859. His father was a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1842. His twin-brother, Edwin Davidson Blanchard, graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1890. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy, class of 1885, and entered and graduated (A.B.) from Dartmouth with the class of 1889. He belonged to the Kappa Kappa Society. The first term of senior year he served as class president.
In September 1889, he entered Andover Theological Seminary and graduated (8.D.) in June 1892. He immediately began his ministerial duties and held pastorates in Congregational churches in Massachusetts as follows: in Thorndike, June 1892 to October 1895; in Brookfield, October 1895 to March 1904; in East Douglas and Douglas Center, March 1904 to March 1906; in Sherborn, March 1906 to March 1909.
In 1909 he ceased holding permanent pastorates and became affiliated with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Cos. in Natick, Mass. The following year he was transferred to Barre, Mass., to become the local agent and manager of the company there, a position he held until his retirement a few years ago. In 1915 he was elected town clerk of Barre. For more than 25 consecutive years he held that office. He was a corporator of the Barre Savings Bank and a trustee-emeritus of the Henry Wood Memorial Library of Barre. He served as a member of the school committee, and held other town offices in Barre. Besides being active in civic and community affairs, he often was called upon to preach, to perform marriage ceremonies and conduct funerals and do other things usually required of a clergyman. This was in keeping with a practice he began while in college of supplying pulpits in the vicinity of Hanover. Hence came the nickname "Parson" given him by his college classmates. In June 1939 he attended the Fiftieth Reunion of his class at Dartmouth.
He married August 21, 1889. at Nashua, X. H., Wilhemina I. Rohbins, who died in February 1939. There were five children, all daughters, all married, and all now living. They are: Mrs. Rae V. Comerford (Marion Isabel Blanchard), Bedford, N. H., the "class baby" of Dartmouth '89; Mrs. Walter E. Holden (Charlotte Blanchard), Newtonville, Mass.; Mrs. J. Crawford Hartman (Helen Blanchard), Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mrs. Samuel H. Brackett (Lucile Blanchard), Brookline, N. H.; Mrs. Merton O. Baker (Alice E. Blanchard), Barre, Mass. Also surviving are eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
1890
THE REV. FORRESTER MACDONALD died on June 10, after a lifetime of efficient work both in the pulpit and among the people of the various communities that he served.
He was born in Haverhill, Mass., Sept. 14, 1868, the son of John Greenleaf and Hannah (Minard) Macdonald, and received his preliminary education in the high schools of Lawrence. In college he was an excellent student, with special aptitude for English and the classics, and the winner of a Phi Beta Kappa key. His postgraduate work was on a broad scale. He studied at the Newton Theological Seminary, at Andover, and at Harvard. All of his pulpit work was in the State of Massachusetts. His first position was as an Assistant Pastor in Boston. Then he served as pastor in Fitchburg, in Lexington and in Lowell. His last pastorate was in Sturbridge.
Through all of his career his work was not spectacular, but steady, solid and helpful. In 1942 he retired from active service because of poor health and moved to Hyde Park which was his home until his passing. For five years he made a gallant fight for life. Even in his last years, despite his condition, he kept up his interest and participation in the affairs of
his community. One of his last activities was as President of the Family Welfare Conference of the Hyde Park District. He was an active Mason, and of high degree.
His wife, Elizabeth Stone Mac Donald, who survives him, was at one time one of the editors of The Modem Priscilla, a noted women's magazine. He leaves two sons, Donald and Gregory.
1891
JAMES FRANCIS ALLISON died at his home in Sherborn, Mass., on May 20. The son of James and Sarah J. (Darracott) Allison, he was born in Dublin, N. H., March 29, 1865.
He prepared for college at Cushing Academy and entered Dartmouth where he was a member of the class baseball team, ran in the mile and two-mile races and in the mile walk. He held the degrees of A.B. and A.M. and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Theta Delta Chi.
Allison was a high school principal for 23 years and a school superintendent for 14. He retired in 1928 and entered the insurance business and was for many years an assessor in Sherborn.
An active Mason, Allison served as Master of Wisdom Lodge, West Stockbridge, Mass.; High Priest of Monument Chapter, Great Barrington, Mass.; District Deputy Grand Master, 16th Masonic District, Mass.; and Master of Sherborn Grange, Sherborn, Mass.
On June 29, 1895, Allison married Emily Blanchard Ware of Sherborn, who survives him with their three children, Theodore Francis, Margaret and Robert Ware Allison.
1894
A quiet man who radiated friendliness, FRANK A. GRIFFIN will long linger in the memory of all who knew him. "Griff" died at Haverhill, Mass., July 14, early in his 79th year.
Born at Poland, Maine, he fitted at Haverhill High and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1894. There he played in the college orchestra, was one of the Rood House gang, and was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
To his lasting regret, family conditions brought about his withdrawal from college midway through sophomore year—regret reflected in lifelong affection for college and class. One must scan the record closely to find him missing a reunion or one of our many informal gatherings. About the time of our 25th there was an ill-starred effort to persuade the Trustees to grant him a degree as of 1894—not that he needed any letters after his name, but to cement the close association which meant so much to him and to us.
Leaving college he was variously employed for some years, then studied optometry, and settled in Haverhill, where for 39 years in addition to prescribing for his patients he followed through by grinding his own lenses.
He was a 32nd degree Mason and had held high office in that brotherhood which conducted his funeral rites. Dartmouth 1894 was represented by Ames, Knowlton, McGroty, B. A. Smalley and by C. C. Merrill, who took part in the service.
Frank is survived by his wife, who was Lorrie J. Sharman. He leaves also a son Robert, a daughter who now is Mrs. Barbara Langer, several grandchildren, and Dr. Walter A. Griffin, a brother.
B. A. S.
MAURICE SINCLAIR SHERMAN, editor and publisher of the Hartford, (Ct.) Courant, died suddenly June 27, the victim of a heart attack which he suffered a year ago. Mart, as his friends called him, had recovered from that first blow sufficiently to resume a limited schedule of work, and was finally stricken while at luncheon at the Hartford Club after a busy morning at his office.
He was the son of Professor Frank Asbury Sherman, long a teacher of mathematics at the Chandler Scientific School at Dartmouth, and Lucy Rosette Hurlbutt, and was born in Hanover in 1873. He graduated at Dartmouth with the class of 1894 and entered immediately on the journalistic career which was destined to carry him far. He began at the bottom, working as reporter, city editor and managing editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Union. While covering the Massachusetts Legislature for that newspaper he was a roommate of a young representative,-then not widely known, named Calvin Coolidge, with whom he maintained a lifelong friendship. For a brief interval Sherman served as secretary for Hon. Frederick S. Gillett at Washington, who was later Speaker of the House, and acquired an intimate knowledge of national politics at first hand. In 1936 he was called to the Hartford Courant as editor, and three years ago was made head of that newspaper's organization as editor and publisher. He brought both the papers on which he served to the first rank of newspapers in subordinate cities, maintaining an attitude of high independence of party dictation. A Republican in politics, Sherman was a severe critic of party policies and an effective force in directing his party toward paths of intelligent liberalism.
He was for many years a member of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Peace and a close friend of the head of that society, Nicholas Murray Butler. In 1934 he gave the Bromley Foundation lecture at Yale on "the place of the local newspaper in state and nation." Wesleyan University in 1936 honored him with its honorary degree of Master of Arts. He was a member of the American Society of Newspaper Publishers, the Twentieth Century Club, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Hartford Club, and many fish-and-game societies. In college, he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Mr. Sherman is survived by his widow, the former Florine A. Sunderland of Rockville, Ct.; a daughter, Janet, now Mrs. Boardman F. Lockwood of Hartford; and a sister, Mrs. Francis Neef of Hanover. His home in recent years had been at West Hartford, Ct.
Funeral services were held at the South Congregational Church in Hartford, on Monday, June 30, the officiating clergymen being the pastor, Rev. Warren S. Archibald, and Mr. Sherman's classmate at Dartmouth, Rev. Charles C. Merrill. Burial was at Springfield, Mass. The Class of '94 was represented by Dr. Merrill and E. M. Stone, of Hartford.
P.S.M.
1898
FLETCHER HARPER SWIFT, Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of California, died at Berkeley, Calif., on May 28, 1947. He had entered the hospital on May 9 for an operation for a tumorous growth. He had made such good progress after the operation that he was to return home on the 31st. However on the 28th he was stricken with what was believed to have been a blood clot in the blood stream and died almost immediately. Fletcher was a recognized authority on School Administration and Finance. In recognition of what he had done in this line for France he was made a Chevalier of French Legion of Honor in 1936. He had had appointments in this work from the Carnegie Corporation, the United States Commission of Education, the General Education Board, the President of the United States, and from many Mid-Western, Western and Southern States. He spent several years abroad in the study of Financing of Public Educational Institutionin France, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany and of The Financing of Grant 'Aided Education in England and Wales. At the United Nations Conference in San Francisco in 1945 he was a representative of the Association of American Colleges on the Liaison Committee for International Education.
After receiving his A.M. from Columbia in 1904 he was engaged in teaching, first at Teachers College (Columbia), then at University of Washington, University of Minnesota and from 1925 to his retirement on July 1, 1946 at the University of California where he was Professor of Education. Following his retirement he taught at the summer school of the University of Southern California in 1946 and had served on various committees of the University of California, chiefly on committees to examine candidates for Doctors' degrees.
He had received his degree of A.B. from Dartmouth in 1898, a B.D. from Union Theological Seminary in 1903, an A.M. from Columbia in 1904 and a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1905. In 1933 Dartmouth conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogy.
Fletcher was born in New York City on May 20, 1876, and prepared for college at Oswego (N.Y.) High School and at Boys High School, Brooklyn, N. Y. In college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of the Board of Editors of the Dartmouth Literary Monthly.
He is survived by his widow, the former Mary Edge, to whom he was married at Duluth, Minn., on April 18, 1915, and by two daughters, Mary Ruth (Clement) and Julia Elizabeth.
In a letter to the class secretary on March 3, 1947 Fletcher wrote that he was in better physical condition than he had been for the past twenty years and that he was working fully as strenuously as he did before his retirement. In the death of Fletcher Harper Swift the College has lost one of its outstanding alumni and the class one of its most loyal classmates.
1899
GUY EDMINSTON COREY died unexpectedly August I at the Portsmouth, N. H. Hospital following a minor operation. He was seventy-one years old.
Guy was born in Portsmouth and graduated from the High School there with Ralph Hawkes, Joe Hobbs, Fred Locke and Bobby Rowe, with whom he entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1899.
After graduation, he attended Harvard and Boston University Law Schools and was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in June, 1902.
He served three terms in the New Hampshire Legislature, including the 1947 session. He was at one time for three years City Solicitor of Portsmouth and had been City Clerk and a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention.
His widow, Mrs. Margaret Corey, and a sister, Miss Gertrude Corey, survive him.
Funeral services were held August 4 at Buckminster Chapel. There was a floral piece from '99 and classmates attending were: Clark,Hawkes, Hobbs, Rowe, Silver and Wiggin.
Burial was in Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth.
No more will his familiar figure adorn the streets of Portsmouth or his voice add to the interest of debate in legislative halls, but with his classmates the memory of "God" Corey will always remain.
1900
DR. CHARLES HALL DOLLOFF died in New London, N. H., on August 18, 1947, at the age of 69 years. He was attending a forum at the Colby Junior College and, upon rising to ask a question of the speaker, was stricken by a heart attack, which very quickly proved to be fatal.
Charles was born in Cambridge, Mass., on December 29, 1877, the son of Benjamin W. and Henrietta (Hall) Dolloff. His early years were passed in Everett, Mass., and his secondary education was received in the schools of that city. Entering Dartmouth in 1896, he was graduated from the College with the class of 1900 and from the Medical School with the class of 1903. This was followed by an internship in the United States Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Mass. In 1905 he entered the service of the New Hampshire State Hospital at Concord, with which he was connected for the remainder of his life—from 1907 to 1917 as Assistant Superintendent and from 1917 to the time of his death as Superintendent—a period of 42 years.
In this long term of service Dr. Dolloff saw the institution increase in number of patients from 1000 to over 2500, with corresponding large additions to plant capacity, most of them planned by himself. In days when such views were held in some suspicion, he was a pioneer in advanced ideas concerning the treatment of those mentally ill which, in the lapse of time, have become universally recognized as valid and have been generally adopted. He was a foremost leader in bringing about the change from the semi-penal asylum to the mental hospital, with its emphasis upon as large a degree of freedom as possible, upon bright colors, pleasant surroundings and a generally cheerful atmosphere. Following out this conception he set up in the institution a library of 4000 volumes, craft shops, a beauty parlor, a theater and dance hall and many other types of activity adapted to the welfare and happiness of the patients. Nor did the hospital lag in any way in the type of medical treatment furnished. Largely as a result of his efforts thus directed, the institution became known throughout the country as a model of its class.
In his professional capacity and otherwise he was associated with many branches of public activity. He served as a member of the Council of the American Psychiatric Association. At various times he was President of the New England Society of Psychiatry, the New Hampshire Medical Society and the New Hampshire Academy of Science. For nine years he was a member of the Concord School Board. Recently he served as Chairman of a commission set up by the legislature for an investigation of the causes and treatment of alcoholism and which drafted a law for the study and care of inebriates. He was a Trustee of the Pearson Fund. In 1935 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Dartmouth and in 1947 the same degree from the University of New Hampshire. He was a 32nd degree Mason.
In 1909 Dr. Dolloff was married to Miss Gladys Maria Booth, of Concord, who died in 1945- Their only child, Elizabeth, the wife of Dr. Philip M. Forsberg of Concord, died in the spring of 1947. Of his family only the sonin-law and two grandchildren survive him.
The funeral, held in the South Congregational church in Concord on August 21, was conducted by the Rev. Carl B. Bare, of Newport, R. 1., former pastor of the church. It was widely attended by state and city officials, by professional associates and by many friends. The class was represented by the following: Rankin, McDavitt, Prescott, Wallace, Tuttle, Butterfield, Dunlap, Woodman and the Secretary. Burial was in Blossom Hill Cemetery at Concord.
1901
CHARLES JOHN BOYLE died April 21, 1947 at his home in Larchmont, N. Y., after an illness of several vears.
Charlie was born in Worcester, Mass., October 7, 1877, and after graduation from Classical High School, matriculated at Dartmouth in September 1896 with the Class of 1900. Dropping back a year he received his degree with 1901.
Charlie Boyle was an outstanding campus figure. Heavy-browed and outspoken, his was none the less a kind and friendly soul. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and the sophomore society, Theta Nu Epsilon. He was a member of the College Glee Club and the Rollins Chapel Choir and will be remembered for his rich deep bass singing voice.
Throughout his college course Charlie played end on the yarsity football team. Frank Cavanaugh, his friend from boyhood days in Worcester and of whom he was ever an ardent admirer and champion, played the opposite end during three of those years. Charlie assisted Frank when he coached at Dartmouth, and he later coached teams at Ohio State and Ohio Wesleyan. He retained a constant interest in Dartmouth football, critical at times of its conduct, but always its strong champion.
Soon after graduation Charlie was connected with an advertising agency in Columbus, Ohio. He then became New England advertising representative of the Butterick Publishing Cos. In 1911 he joined Paul Block and Associates in New York City and from 1938 until his retirement was the Vice President.
His warm and generous heart mellowed more and more with the passing years when he was a successful and highly respected business executive. He truly loved Dartmouth and liked to be with Dartmouth men. He was an almost daily visitor at the Dartmouth Club and active in its affairs.
He leaves a widow, the former Ruth Crowther of Worcester, and three daughters. His son, Charles J. Boyle Jr., an Army Thunderbolt pilot, was killed in action over Germany.
1902
PEARL PAINE EDSON died in New York, June 12, 1947. He had been in poor health for several years but had hoped to attend the 45th reunion of his class on June 20 and keep up his almost perfect record of attendance.
He was born in Randolph, Vt., October 24, 1879 and entered Dartmouth in 1898, where he soon became an outstanding and beloved member of the class of 1902, being especially prominent in track as the champion hurdler at the New Intercollegiate Meets. In college he M as a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and Casque & Gauntlet Senior Society.
After graduating from Dartmouth, he spent a year in teaching, a few years in the insurance business, and in 1916 entered the real estate business, being the first full-time employee of the Fred F. French Management Cos. Inc. Starting with managing a few "walk up" apartments in the Bronx, he expanded the business on a large scale in Central Park West and became president of the company. He developed Knickerbocker Village and Tudor City (where 4,000 people dwelled) which he managed up to the time of his retirement, April 1, 1946. He was a former president of the Building Manager Association of New York.
He leaves a widow, Mrs. Rosetta Lefferts Edson, and two sons, Andrew L., and Lefferts P. Edson, both Dartmouth graduates.
1908
CLAYTON ELBERT ROYCE passed away in Tampa, Fla., on February 12, 1947. He had a coronary occlusion and was ill only about 24 hours. Funeral services were held at Tampa on February 17.
Clayton was born in Woodstock, Vt., on December 20, 1886. He received his A.B. degree in 1908 and his M.D. degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1911. Following his graduation from Medical School, he served an extensive internship in New York City at various hospitals, and for the five years following he was professor of pathology at the University of lowa, lowa City, lowa. He then served as pathologist in Bethlehem, Pa., until 1929, when he went to Jacksonville, Fla.
Doctor Royce was for many years prominent in medical circles in Jacksonville. He was clinician at St. Vincent's Hospital in that city and also devoted a large portion of his time to charitable work in other hospitals of Jacksonville. He was forced into retirement two years ago because of ill health at which time he took up his residence on his grove in Lutz.
In 1913 he married Susie Etta Merrill, who passed away in 1919. In 1922, in Brooklyn, he married Audrey Stolte who survives him. He is also survived by three sons, Philip F. Royce, of St. Louis, Clayton E. Royce Jr., of Tampa, and Richard K. Royce, all of whom were in the Service during World War 11. He is also survived by a sister, Miss Grace Royce.
Clayton was a member of the Jacksonville Rotary Club for 17 years and during that time was one of the Club's most active members. Among the Club members he was noted for his sincerity and his sense of humor, which was frequently voiced in humorous quatrains about members in the Bulletin.
1910
GROVER SARGENT HOYT died suddenly from a heart ailment at his home in Alhambra, Calif., June 15. He was born oh March 8, 1889, at Craftsbury, Vt., the son of Mason Benjamin and Rose (Sargent) Hoyt.
Transferring from Middlebury College at the beginning of sophomore year, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1910, immediately after which he went with Western Electric Cos. at Hawthorne, Ill. He was transferred later to their plant at San Francisco where he remained until 1920. He then became affiliated with Baker-Joslin Cos., serving with them in San Francisco, Chicago, Downers Grove and Los Angeles. In 1935 he was elected secretary of the company.
In November, 1923, he was married to Alice Rowley of San Francisco, who survives him, with two nieces who have always lived with the Hoyts.
Grover has been out of contact with the Class for many years but he left many friends who knew him well in college.
1911
CHARLES IRVING LYONS died in his sleep while on vacation with Mrs. Lyons at Newfound Lakel, N. H., on June 27, 1947.
Charlie was born in Salem, N. H., January 21, 1889. After attending Methuen High School, he entered college with the class, graduating with them in 1911. He entered his father's lumber business after leaving college, eventually taking over the business in Methuen, where he spent his life. This was interrupted by service in the First World War as Sergeant in the United States Army Infantry from 1918 to 1919. In Methuen, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Methuen Cooperative Bank up to the time of his death.
On September 3, 1923. he was married to Helen Farrell, who survives him.
The funeral was held in Methuen and burial was in the Elmwood cemetery.
1914
HERBERT LARNED BARTLETT died on June 14, in Los Angeles, Calif. He was born in Hyde Park, Mass., November 29, 1892, the son of George Amos and Margaret (Maloney) Bartlett. He prepared for college at Wrentham High School. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
After leaving Dartmouth Bart made a twoyear study of merchandising with Filene's in Boston. He then went to the J. L. Hudson Company in Detroit, staying with them until the early twenties when he became associated with the May Company in California. For several years he was the General Manager of their large store in Los Angeles.
In 1944 Bart's health began to fail, and in 1945 when a heart condition made it necessary for him to take it easy he took up his residence on Balboa Island. He was modest and self effacing, but a very sound business man and a shrewd merchandiser. Although a nongraduate his loyalty to Dartmouth was great, and his unfailing sense of humor was always refreshing.
He is survived by his wife, the former Margaret Ashburner of Riverside, Calif., and a brother George. To them goes the heartfelt sympathy of the class
1912
CARL F. POND passed away late Sunday evening, June 22nd, while many of us were arriving home from the reunion. "Pud" as he was affectionately known to his classmates, had planned to be at our 35th but had suffered an attack of coronary thrombosis on the previous Sunday.
Carl was born in Wrentham, Mass. on March 9, 1888. He attended the high school of that town and came to Dartmouth from Dean Academy. We shall remember him for his genial friendship at all of our gatherings.
He was the son of Charles W. and Mary E. Pond. For years his father had managed the Wrentham Insurance Agency. It was natural for Carl to train for and enter the insurance business. After his father's death he took over the management of the agency and made a fine success of it. This agency represented over thirty leading insurance companies, and he had received special recognition from several of them. The Travelers Insurance Company gave him a testimonial for thirty-five years of continuous service. He was a member of the Life Members of the Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Company and had received among others, a special citation from the Excelsior Insurance Company. He was a member of the Agents Advisory Board from 1940 to 1943.
Carl had made his home in Norwood for many years where he was a member of the First Congregational Church. He was active in the Men's Club of that church and also the Men's Club of-the Original Congregational Church in Wrentham.
He was greatly interested in fishing and belonged to the Massachusetts Fish and Game Association and the Sportsmen's Club of Wrentham. He had only recently returned from his annual fishing trip in northern Maine with members of the latter club.
The funeral services were held in the Norwood Church, conducted by the pastor, Rev. William F. English, Dartmouth 'OB. The large floral tributes, including some from the Class, expressed the sorrow of his many friends.
Ralph Pettingell represented the class among the bearers. Other classmates present were Ted Miner, Lyme Armes, Ray Cabot and Frank Weil.
Carl is survived by his aged mother of Wrentham, his wife, Marion Norton Pond, and daughter, Lilla Marion, of Norwood. The sympathy of the Class goes to them.
1913
WILLIAM SAMPSON APPLEYARD died suddenly on June 18, 1947, in his hotel room in San Antonio, Texas.
He was born on January 22, 1891 in San Francisco, Calif., the son of Addie Adams Sampson and William Appleyard. He attended the Guilford (Maine) High School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1909. He was on the varsity basketball squad during his sophomore year and on the class basketball team. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
Upon graduation he was a salesman with E. T. Harrington Cos., real estate, in Boston until 1916 when he joined the Mortgage Dept. of the Exchange Trust Cos. also of Boston, for a year. He was associated with the Conroy Motor Cos. of Worcester until 1919 when he went to Vernon, Texas and was interested in oil investments and city property.
In 1928 he married Mrs. Evelyn F. Thompson, who survives him, with her son Robert F. Thompson '34, and his wife and two children.
He went to Burlington, Vt., where he was the authorized dealer for Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicles for four counties in Vermont. He formed the Appleyard Motor Cos. and started to purchase bus lines, little by little, and then apartment houses. He consolidated the bus lines with the railroad, and on February 1, 1932 he coordinated the bus rail service of the Central Vermont Railway and the Burlington Rapid Transit Cos.; "Bus Takes to the Railroad Tracks," was the headline.
In 1944 as a side line he was one of the five purchasers of the United Maple Products, Inc. to be operated in conjunction with Vermont Maple Orchards, Inc., which is owned by the same Vermont Group.
Bill has been President and General Manager of the Vermont Transit Cos., Inc. and Burlington Rapid Transit Cos. Inc., but as of April 2, 1947 he became chairman of the Board of Directors and his stepson Robert F. Thompson was elected President and General Manager of each company.
In April Bill suffered a coronary thrombosis but in June seemed to be so much improved he left on a business trip for San Antonio, Texas, where he collapsed in his hotel room and died, shortly after telephoning to Mrs. Appleyard.
Funeral services were held on June 23rd at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Burlington, the Rev. Charles Martin officiating. Active pall bearers were the ten oldest employees with Bill since 1929, and there were some forty honorary pall bearers including Senator Warren Austin, Mayor John Burns and Bill Towler, representing our class. Interment was at Lake View Cemetery, Burlington.
Bill will be missed by the Class. He was a most generous contributor to all college and class activities and funds. We have lost a friend, a loyal Dartmouth man, a great guy.
1919
WILLIAM HENRY PICKEN JR. died in Brooklyn, N. Y., following a short illness, on July 24, 1947. It is with deep sorrow that we report the death of Bill whose loyalty to Dartmouth and our class was unquestioned. Ever a genial and pleasant person to know, Bill was frequently among us in our New York class gatherings.
As commodore of the Bay Shore, Long Island, Yacht Club, where he also had his home, Bill won the Atlantic Coast Star Class Championship of 1941 with his boat Fo-Fo.
In recent years Bill found more time for his hobby, yachting, and had more or less retired from business life but did retain an interest in the Bay Shore Marine Base, Inc., and established two years ago the yacht brokerage company of William H. Picken Jr. & Son at Bay Shore.
Bill was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, also a member of the Dartmouth Club of New York and found many excuses for returning to Hanover.
Bill suspended his college and yachting career to serve as a second lieutenant in the Army tank corps in World War I.
He leaves his wife, the former Florence Merges, whom he married in 1921; two daughters, Miss Florence Picken and Miss Emma Ficken; a son, William FI. Picken 3rd, and a brother, John W. Picken.
Dick Dudensing and Bob Paisley represented the class at services held at the home in Bay Shore.
Bill will long be remembered not only by his many Dartmouth friends, but by the yachting fraternity throughout Long Island Sound and south shore of Long Island. He was always cheerful and always had time to enjoy his large circle of friends in business or in club life. He will be greatly missed by those of us who knew him best.
1933
GAIL GRAY GEDDES lost his life in a tragic automobile accident near Doylestown, Pa. on June 28, when his car overturned following a collision with another car. His daughters, Carol, 4, and Sylvia, 3, were injured but were subsequently reported to be recovering. Spike and his family were vacationing with friends in New Hope, Pa., when the accident occurred.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bond Geddes of Chevy Chase, Md. The elder Mr. Geddes is executive vice president of the Radio Manufacturers Association. His widow is the former Grace Lucille Carr, of Washington, whom he married in 1940.
In college Spike was one of the most active and popular members of his class. He was a member of Sigma Nu and Phi Beta Kappa and manager of the Freshman Track Team. He attended Tuck School and received his M.C.S. degree in 1934. One of the youngest members of his class, he had the further distinction of election to Phi Beta Kappa at the age of nineteen.
During the war Spike was a lieutenant in the Navy and served more than three years in the Pacific. Aboard the carrier Saginaw Bay he participated in operations in Leyte Gulf, the Palaus, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Upon his discharge from the service he returned to the National Association of Manufacturers, with which he had been associated before the war, and at the time of his death he held the position of assistant to the executive vice-president of the Association.
His death brings the loss to the-Class of 1933 of one of its most able, energetic, and respected men; to the College one of the most faithful and distinguished of its younger alumni.
REV. EDWARD BICKFORD BLANCHARD '89
MAURICE SINCLAIR SHERMAN '94
FLETCHER HARPER SWIFT '98
CHARLES HALL DOLLOFF 'OO
WILLIAM SAMPSON APPLEYARD '13
