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]
Frederick C. Allen '94, Dec. 15, 1947 Philip S. Deane '20, Dec. 10, 1947 Hillman O. Fallon '26, Jan. 2, 1948 Harold E. Nichols '19, Dec. 14, 1947 George H. Hutchinson '81, Jan. 2, 1948 Robert L. Hazel '26, Dec. 3, 1946 Samuel S. Perry 'Bo* Jan. 14, 1948 Theron H. Huckins '97, Jan. 10, 1948 Dr. Willis G. Nealley '07, Jan. 8, 1948 Charles P. Joyce '93, Jan. 10, 1948 Henry N. Pringle '90, Jan. 1948
In Memoriam
1894
At the time of his death December 15, 1947, FREDERICK C. ALLEN had been for forty-three and a half years president of the Class of '94. He succeeded his close friend Edward H. Safford who served as president up to within a few months of the first ten years of the postgraduate life of the class.
"Ted" Allen, as he was known in Class circles, was born in Hopkinton, R. 1., August 6, 1871, the son of Lieutenant Governor Edwin R. and Mary E. (Thayer) Allen. He fitted at Westerly High School and came to college with his Westerly classmate, Aubrey C. Lewis.
In college he went in for dramatics (playing for example in "The Rivals"), sang in the Glee Club (second bass), and during his senior year-was managing editor of The Dartmouth, then a bi-weekly. His fraternity was Theta Delta Chi and his senior society Sphinx. He was vice-president of the class in 1892 and toastmaster at the Class banquet that same year.
Following College he went to the Boston University Law School where he was associated with five other '94 men, namely, Colby, Hall, Lyon, F. S. Rollins Jr. and Safford. He graduated in 1897 with the degree of LL.B. He spent the next ten years picking up the routine and practice of law in established offices, notably that of Bartlett (C. W., Dartmouth '69) and Anderson, and in 1907 set up the firm of Allen and Smith (Rutherford E.), for the general practice of law, an association which continued until 1946 when ill health compelled his retirement.
This ill health came to the notice of his classmates in November, 1945, when he was unable to come to the Matt Jones Round-up, the first one in all the years he had missed. From that time on he had a constant struggle with the heart ailment, or series of heart ailments, which first sent him to the hospital and which until his death kept him going back and forth between the hospital and his home. It was a hard and depressing fight for life, but his classmates who saw him from time to time were always impressed with his good cheer and his fine courage. Not until within a week of the end did he seem to give up.
Ted Allen was a vital factor in what the Class o£ '94 has become during the years. No one knows this better than the Class Secretary, who is writing this sketch and who wishes to bear affectionate testimony to his unremitting support and help. His dislike of sham and pretentiousness, his simplicity, his straightforwardness, were shown at every turn, and among other things led him to conduct Class meetings and dinners so that they did not become tedious. He was ever thoughtful of others but in so unostentatious a way that his left hand knew not what his right hand did. So the tribute which was paid him by those who missed him at the first Class gathering which he had missed was simply true:
This occasion, which has now become sacred to us, has ever found you working, helpful and reliable, all in your quiet and modest way.
You have always been present when we have gotten together, and you have brought good cheer and fine fellowship.
You have carried our class torch for forty-one years, and we have been honored by your leadership. You have done the thoughtful, nice things of which we have received the benefit.
He was married in 1901 to Sadie B. Hamblett, who survives him. He is also survived by a brother, George E. Allen of Hopkinton, R. I. Funeral services were held at the Waterman Chapel in Boston, December 18, conducted by the Class Secretary, assisted by the pastor of the Union Church in Waban. Lewis, Lyon, Knowlton, Marden and B. A. Smalley were present, together with Mrs. M. B. Jones and Mrs. R. W. Bartlett.
1904
JOHN HIBBARD FELLOWS died in the New Britain Hospital on October 7, after a lingering illness.
John was born in Laconia, N. H., November 22, 1882, the son o£ William B. Fellows '80 and Ida Scribner. He prepared for college at Tilton Seminary. At Dartmouth he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. In 1906 he received the degree of B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T.
In 1906 John joined the Stanley Works in New Britain, Conn., and continued this connection until forced to retire on account of ill health a year ago. From 1906 to 1908 he was engaged in cost and engineering work; in 1908 he was sent by the firm to Niles, Ohio, to supervise the construction of a branch plant; he remained in Niles until 1912 when he returned to New Britain, and for the next five years directed cost and service departments; in 1917 he became plant engineer, a position he held for thirty years.
During his long association with the Stanley Works, John designed and developed electric annealing equipment which since has become standard as furnished by General Electric and Westinghouse, under Stanley Works patents. He designed, patented and developed several large machines used for the continuous pickling of hot rolled steel.
John had served New Britain as chairman of the Sewage Disposal Commission; was a local Boy Scout commissioner; a vestryman at St. Mark's Episcopal Church; and was one of the corporators and an honorary director for life of the New Britain General Hospital.
November 25, 1922 John was married to Ada C. Baker who survives him with a daughter Ada, a student at Wheaton College and a son William, a student at Brown.
The Class of 1904 lost one of its best loved members when JOHN HARRISON NOLAN died in Portland, Maine, on December 12 from a heart attack.
Jack was born in County Downs, Northern Ireland, on June 24, 1884, the son of Henry and Sarah (Harrison) Nolan. His family came to this country when he was a boy and settled in North Grafton, Mass. He prepared for Dartmouth at Phillips Andover Academy. In college he was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
After graduation Jack entered the General Theological Seminary in New York, from which he received the degree of S.T.B. in 1907. In the same year he received an A.M. degree from Columbia. In 1935 American International College conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity on him.
o ' . , In 1907 Jack was ordained a Deacon m the Episcopal Church. He served in Fitchburg, Portland and Lewiston, Maine, before he was appointed, in 1914, Rector of St. Peters Episcopal Church in Springfield, Mass.
Few men make so indelible an impression on a community. "Father John" as he was dubbed by the boys of the 104 th Regiment, which he served for two decades as chaplain, was known and loved throughout Western Massachusetts. An editorial in the SpringfieldDaily News said: "One would have to travel far to find a more generally beloved figure than Father John, as he was known by virtually everyone who came into contact with him. To meet him was to become his fast friend. He loved the Church, gave it every ounce of his physical and spiritual support, and at the same time extended his personal interests to include the entire community. His was a personality which will endure and make itself felt for generations to come."
With, his Irish wit, always ready to make a speech or tell a story, Jack was a natural candidate for Kiwanis, and became Springfield president in 1924- was a member of the Board of Directors of the Family Welfare Association and the Springfield Boys Club; Chaplain of the Springfield City Home; active in the interests of the Community Chest; member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Connecticut Valley Historical Society, member of the School Committee; member of the faculty of Springfield College, where he taught sociology. Besides his public offices, calls upon him for private counsel and assistance were numberless. In presenting him to the President of American International College for the degree of Doctor of Divinity, Bishop Davies said "I may apply to him some lines of a famous song and describe him as 'The tenderest teacher and powerfuliest preacher and kindliest creature in all Donegal.' " For his distinguished services to the community the City of Springfield conferred on him the Order of William Pynchon in 1941.
Father John resigned as rector of St. Peter's in 1928 and became Episcopal city missionary. In 1937 he was appointed general missionary of the diocese of Western Massachusetts. Ill health forced him to retire in 1940 and he then moved to Portland, Maine, to make his home.
June 23, 1910, Jack was married to Sophia Wallace of Fitchburg, who died in 1946. He is survived by his three daughters, Sophia, Charlotte and Kathleen, and by two sons, John and Herbert, who graduated from Darmouth in 1943.
To quote Chic Weston, "Good old Jack Nolan is gone, literally worn out serving others. If ever there was a man loved, respected and revered by a whole city it was Father John. Ask any of the thousands who knew him and they would say 'He was always what we, in our better moments, would like to be.'"
1906
JOSEPH THEODORE CHASE died suddenly at his home on November 9. He came to Dartmouth from Holyoke, Mass., where he was born on February 2, 1882.
After graduation in 1906 he attended the Thayer School of Engineering and in 1910 became affiliated with the Roanoke Rapids Power Co. in Roanoke Rapids, N. C. When the Virginia Electric and Power Co. acquired this firm, Joe was retained in an executive capacity. For the past ten years he was vicepresident of the company.
Joe settled in Roanoke Rapids nine years after the town received its charter and had been active in its development. In 1917 he was elected mayor and was elected for the second time in May, 1947. Among his other accomplishments, Joe was instrumental in building a hospital for the community, in improving the roads, in stamping out malaria, and in improving the public school system.
After the first World War, Joe received a commendation from President Wilson for his work in aiding the government in capturing a group of spies operating between Texas and Canada.
Joe retired in March and was devoting his entire time to his duties as mayor. On Sunday, November 9, he was listening to the radio when he suffered a heart attack and death was almost instantaneous.
Surviving are his wife, the former Coralie Johnson; a son, Chester Everett, named for our classmate; a daughter, Mrs. John F. Schaffner, of Winston-Salem, and three grandchildren.
1919
FREDERICK JAMES BEAR passed away the morning of November 19, from a heart attack. It was a great shock to his many Dartmouth friends in Detroit, especially because he had seemed so well and had been so active on the Hopkins Center campaign.
Jim was born in Chicago, 111., January 16, 1897, the son of Charles Ulysses and Mabel (Herkimer) Bear. He prepared for Dartmouth at the University School in Detroit. In college he was circulation manager of The Dartmouth and The Bema and was a member of The Arts.
After graduation he was for a time associated with the Packard Motor Company. In 1929 he became manager and treasurer of the Detroit Clearing House Association which position he. held until 1940, when he became connected with the Fruehauf Trailer Co.
Jim was always active in Dartmouth affairs in Detroit. From 1924 to 1926 he served as secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Detroit, and in 1938 became its president.
Jim is survived by his parents; his wife, the former Barbara Nale; his son, F. James Jr. who is a Lt. (jg) in the Navy; and by his daughter Barbara, a sophomore at Wayne University.
Services were held Friday at the Hamilton Chapel in Detroit, conducted by the new Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. Staff Hudson and Phil Watson were among the pall bearers. A large delegation from the Dartmouth Club of Detroit attended in a body. Friends were asked not to send flowers but to contribute to the Hopkins Center in memory of Jim.
On Sunday, December 14, 1947, HAROLD EVERETT NICHOLS passed away after an illness of several months. Services were held in the Needham Congregational Church and interment took place at the Lowell Cemetery. Among the bearers were John W. McCrillis '19, Chadwell '19, Norman B. Richardson 'so, and Kenneth W. Spalding '20.
Because of a heart condition resulting from rheumatic fever when a boy, Nick as an undergraduate could not take an active part in many extra-curricular activities. Instead he turned to music for enjoyment and was at one time leader of the college orchestra. In World War I he taught radio in the Dartmouth Training Detachment, U. S. Army. He was a member of S.A.E. and Phi Beta Kappa.
During his business career he was associated with the American Woolen Company in Norwich, Conn.; Biddle and Smart of Amesbury, Mass.; and the Rust Craft Publishing Company of Boston.
He is survived by his mother, his wife Gladys, and one son, Foster, now a sophomore at Dartmouth and a member of the NROTC.
Nick was a faithful son of Dartmouth—one of his greatest satisfactions was derived from the admission of his boy by his Alma Mater. Since college days, he was one of five Dartmouth men, self-dubbed "The Tribunal," who have kept in close touch with each other by frequent meetings in individual homes, particularly at the time of the Dartmouth football games and by a round-robin letter. The circuit for this letter has been maintained for 27 years, even though one of the recipients might have been in Alaska or a foreign country. The other members of The Tribunal served as bearers.
1920
PHILIP SHERIDAN DEANE JR. passed away in Bedford, Va„ December 10, from injuries suffered in an automobile accident a few days before. He is survived by his wife, the former Jean Clark, his mother, and two sisters.
It was both irony and tragedy that "Bing," as he was known to all his friends, should have failed to survive a civilian accident such a short time after the end of a long and active term of service in World War 11. He was a naval Ensign in World War I; "started another hitch in this one in early 1941," as he expressed it in our 25th Class Report, and rose from the rank of Lieutenant to Commander before his tour of duty was completed. In the process he chased submarines in the North Atlantic and later took part in almost every major engagement in the South Pacific as gunnery officer aboard an attack transport. After his discharge he resumed his occupation of wool merchant in Bedford, Va.
Bing was born in Maiden, Mass., March 9, 1897, the son of Philip S. and Mary (Rennard) Deane. He prepared for college at Cushing Academy. While at Dartmouth he joined the Chi Phi fraternity and was a notably vigorous basketball player through three campaigns, when more of his kind would have kept Big Green basketball at a higher level. Partly because his undergraduate career was interrupted for two years by the first war, Bing never finished out his college course, although he did return to Hanover for a brief period after his release from the Navy. In the ensuing years, until quite recently, the officers of the class heard little from him, but he maintained his Dartmouth connections and his personal friendships with Dartmouth men.
1926
RICHARD DAY GOODING died June 23, 1947, in St. Vincent's Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif. He was born in Rochester, Minn., on January 1, 1904, the son of Arthur Clair and Frances (Faitoute) Gooding. He attended the Shattuck School in Minnesota and the Raymond School in Highland, N. Y., and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1922 from Clark School. Dick was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
After graduation from Dartmouth he attended the Harvard Graduate School (Arts and Sciences) for a year, then entered the business world with Chubb & Company, a general insurance agency in New York.
In 1928 he was married in New York to Alice Goodrich of Ann Arbor, Mich. A daughter, Nancy Day, was born of this marriage, which later ended in divorce.
Dick returned to Minnesota in 1929 and between then and 1943 he was associated with his father in the brokerage and hotel businesses in Rochester, and with the Northwestern Fire Insurance Company in Minneapolis.
In 1933 he married Thelma Swanson and they had two children, Claire Faitoute, now thirteen years old, and Arthur Clair, now nine.
In 1943 he moved to Los Angeles and engaged in hotel work to the extent permitted by his impaired health, which continued to deteriorate until the end last June. Dick maintained his interest in Dartmouth through the years and he will be missed by his manyfriends in the class.
ROBERT LORIMER HAZEL died on December 3, 1946, in Waltham, Mass., of peritonitis following an appendectomy. We regret that word of Bob's death was received only recently, which accounts for this much belated notice.
Bob was born November 25, 1904 in Winthrop, Mass., the son of the late George E. and Mary Ellen (Mooney) Hazel. He attended the public schools in Winthrop and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1922 from Winthrop High School. He was a member of the Kappa Phi Kappa society.
Upon graduation from college Bob became associated with the Retail Credit Company of Boston, and later for a number of years was a salesman for Wilson & Co., packers, with headquarters in Boston. During the war years and up to the time of his death he was with the Raytheon Manufacturing Company of Newton and Waltham, as a purchasing agent.
Bob and Irene R. Farrell were married in Winthrop on June 7, 1933, and they had one child, a son, Robert Jr., now three years old. In the words of Irene, who has continued on with her young son in their home at 5 Bright Street, Waltham, Mass.: "It was Bob's wish, and is mine, that our son will follow in his footsteps and be a staunch Dartmouth man." We have assured Irene that his classmates join them in that wish.
HILLMAN OLIVER FALLON died in his sleep at his home in Sanford, Me., January 1. He had suffered from heart trouble for some weeks before his death but continued at his work with the Goodall-Sanford Co. until stricken fatally in the late afternoon December 31.
He was born in Waltham, Mass., December 30, 1903, the son of William J. and Margaret Fallon. He attended Waltham High School and entered Dartmouth from Dean Academy with our class, graduating in 1926 and later taking advance studies in education at Boston University, Harvard, and Northwestern University.
After serving as teacher and coach at the Athol (Mass.) High School, 1926-1930, he accepted a similar position at the Sanford (Me.) High School where he produced noted athletic teams. In September 1942 he entered the field of industrial relations first with the Waterbury (Conn.) Clock Cos. and later with the Brewster Aeronautical Corp. of L. I. City, N. Y. Later in the war he was transferred to the company's Hatboro (Pa.) factory. In 1944 he was employed by the Walsh-Kaiser Shipbuilding Cos. with top responsibilities for its industrial relations program, first on the west coast and later in Providence, R. I.
He returned to Sanford at the end of the war and accepted an executive position in labor relations with Goodall-Sanford, textile manufacturers, a position which he held at the time of his sudden death.
On November 25, 1928, he was married to Anne I. Goulding of Waltham who survives him together with two sons, Hillman Jr. of the Dartmouth class of 1951 and Richard G. of Sanford.
"Flash" Fallon was known by everyone in his generation at Dartmouth, for his goodnatured whimsy, level-headed judgment and natural leadership. He was one of the most popular men in his time. He earned a name for pluck during our four years in Hanover when he worked up from the scrub football team to a position as one of the varsity quarterbacks. "Flash" made up for his small size with an abundance of grit and fight, qualities which he never lost and which, together with his integrity and friendliness, carried him to distinction in the field of industrial relations.
In College he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, Kappa Phi Kappa, and Green Key. "Flash" always maintained an active interest and enthusiasm in all Dartmouth affairs.
In later life he was active in Lions International being governor of District 41-A, and also in the Maine State Coaches Association and in the Unitarian Church.
Burial was at Sanford, January 4.
1933
SAMUEL CLARK LOVEJOY died in Middlebury, Conn, on November 30, 1947. He had been in ill health for several months. At the time of his death Sam was purchasing agent for the Waterbury Farrell Foundry and Machine Company.
Sam was born in Branford, August 7, 1911, the son of Herman S. Lovejoy '94 and Mabel Wirkman. He attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, before coming to Dartmouth with the Class of 1933. In college he was a member of Delta Tau Delta. His major extra-curricular activities were musical. He played in the Freshman Orchestra, the Band, and The Players Orchestra. He was a major in Physics.
After graduation he carried on his studies at the Harvard Business School and then entered upon a business career.
He is survived by his parents; his widow, Jane W. Bennett Lovejoy; a son, Samuel C. Jr.; three daughters, Anne W., Mary T., and Stephanie; and a brother, Paul, of New York City.
Sam will be remembered as a quiet, modest member of his class and a devoted alumnus of the College.
1946
Word has but recently been received of the death of CHARLES EDWARD PRESCOTT, on December 30, 1946, in New York City.
Charlie was born in Passaic, N. J. October 4, 1924, the son of Charles Edward and Nellie (Beryl) Prescott. He prepared for college at Montclair Academy. He was with our class for only one year, and was a member of Delta Tau Delta. At the time of his death he was studying engineering at Rutgers.
He is survived by his parents and a brother and sister.
FREDERICK CARLETON ALLEN '94
