Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwith in the past month. Full notices may appear in thisissue or may appear in a later number]
Merriam, Joseph F. '81, April 22, 1943 Baldwin, Deo D. '83, July 19, 1946 Viau, Leon '88, December 17, 1947 Squires, Jesse Roy '95, February 29, 1948 Tenney, Elmer S. '94, January 24, 1948 Kimball, William A. '98, March 11, 1948 Lynch, Harry H. '98, February 13, 1948 Palmer, Harold V. '03, February 19, 1948 Braun, Gustav F. '07, March 12, 1948 Hird, John D.'16, 1946 Ranney, Archibald H. '19, February 20, 1948 Ritter, Lawrence J. '42, April 26, 1946 Bennett, Charles G. '43, November 21, 1947 Howell, Thomas '96 m, January 24, 1948 Randlette, Charles M. '97 m, February 27, 1948 Healy, Thomas R. '99 m, February 25, 1948 McConaughy, James L. '31h, March 7, 1948
In Memoriam
1875
Word has but recently been received of the death of FRANK PEIRCE SHEPARD on December 25, 1944, in Dover, N. H.
He was born in Dover September 28, 1850, the son of Charles Peirce and Elizabeth (Brewster) Shepard. In college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. He spent his entire life in Dover, where, except for a short period when he taught school, he was the proprietor of a general insurance and real estate agency. He was a member of the 1.0.0.F. and Masonic Lodge.
July 30, 1879 he was married to Charlotte E. Nesmith of Dover, who died in 1919. He is survived by his daughters Miss Charlotte N. Shepard and Mrs. Bertha Shepard Blackstock. Lucius George Shepard '69 was a brother.
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JOSEPH FRANKLIN MERRIAM died at his home 335 West 21st St., New York City on April 22, 1943 after a long illness.
The son of Marshall and Sarah (Shook) Merriam he was born in Reed's Ferry, N. H., December 23, 1859. He prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy.
Popularly known as "Joe," he was an outstanding athlete in college, taking firsts in the shot put and standing long jump. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After graduation he studied law at Columbia where he received his LL.B. in 1885. For the next ten years he engaged in real estate business in Duluth, Minn. The remainder of his life was spent in New York City in the real estate business except for a connection of a few years with the American Railway Express Agency.
March 8, 1908 he was married to Elisabeth Crowley who survives him. There were no children. John Merriam '77 was a brother.
1888
LEON VIAU, aged 81, died at Paterson, N. J., December 17, 1947. He was born at Corinth, Vt., July 5, 1866 and entered the Chandler Scientific Department with the Class of '88. He was one of its good students until 1887 when he was lured into professional baseball, to the regret of the class and the college, for he was one of the outstanding players on both teams, class and varsity.
His first engagement was as pitcher with the Cincinnati Club. This was at about the time collegians were beginning to dot the major rosters, and the writer remembers hearing Prof. Emerson bemoan the fact that Leon would have to play ball on Sundays. A sports writer gives him a good record in the games he played, and he was called the fastest pitcher of the old-time Cincinnati hurlers.
In 1890 Cincinnati and Viau moved into the National League, but in 1891 he signed with the Cleveland Spiders for a year, only to be traded in mid-year of 1892 to Boston. Drifting to minor leagues he ended his career with Paterson in the old Atlantic League in 1898, and later became an umpire.
Leon grew up in Hanover and was a most likeable young man. His father was the one and only janitor of Dartmouth, caring for all the college buildings of that time. Leon subsequently became "lost" to the class for many years, but was finally reported in a sanatorium in New Jersey suffering from arthritis. In college he was a member of Sigma Delta Pi, or the Vitruvian Society.
1890
Dartmouth lost, through the death on February 7 of JAMES BURTON REYNOLDS '90, a distinguished son—one of her most devoted, one of her gayest and at the age of 77 one of her most youthful.
He was invariably known to his contemporaries as Jimmy, and his contemporaries ranged from octogenarians to his teen-aged step-granddaughter Jane and her friends. Among his numerous talents was the gift of friendship. Wherever he went—and he was highly mobile—he was surrounded by old friends. Some of these he would have known for half a century, others he would have met the previous night: all acted as if they might have been his classmates at Glens Falls Academy and, regardless of the widest discrepancies in chronological age, felt that way. He kept in touch with them through cryptic postcards indited with Spencerian felicity and urbane letters in which he would weave his jests, directed at the recipient and their mutual friends, with elaborate verbal grace and precision.
One hopes, and one guesses, that when Jimmy died suddenly while on a visit to New York, he had by him one of his old friends. (Possibly one made the day before on the club car from Washington.) All those numberless others who, regardless of age and sex, have had the happy fortune of joining Jimmy's hospitable circle of friendship, early or late, sharply felt the void left by a rich store of warmth and merriment and goodness which could be ill spared and suddenly was gone.
Nothing, however, would have pained Jimmy more than the thought that his death might be the subject of dull and lugubrious comment. This would ill suit the memory of one so happily remembered for his laughter. He was, one would guess, about Dan Webster's height, but his shape had a more elliptical quality. Around the middle, his chuckle had physical resemblances to that of Saint Nick, as did the finger he sometimes slyly placed along his nose. His humor, rarely malicious, had a refreshing astringence, and he kept his friends on their toes with sly jibes.
Jimmy had no dotage, and, more remark- able, no anecdotage. Imagine the temptation, for example, for a gifted story-teller who was largely responsible for making Cal Coolidge a national figure and was his White House confidant, to embellish his latter years with a Coolidge legend. He was much more inclined to chuckle over how he established the sugar beet as a vegetable, and thus subject to tariff (as soberly chronicled in the N. Y. Times obituary) than to reminisce on the inner councils of the Republican Party in which he was an influential figure for many years. (He introduced in court a photograph of a South Dakota cow making a meal out of a bushel of sugar beets.)
His library was ample and wide-ranging, reflecting his interests, and he was an ornament to the liberal college in the classical tradition. Into the shadow of his 78th year he remained highly contemporary.
His life will be amply recorded in sundry archives. Briefly: he was born in Saratoga, N. Y., February 17, 1870; prepared at Glens Falls Academy; was, in college, editor of The Dartmouth, contributor to the literary monthly, well-known for his forensic talent, a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx; reporter, editorial writer, and Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser and Evening Record; editorial writer for the NewYork Press; secretary of the Republican State Committee of Massachusetts, for eight years beginning in 1896; appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury by Teddy Roosevelt in 1905; appointed by Taft to the Tariff Board; secretary of the Republican National Committee for eight years, from 19x2; Coolidge's preconvention campaign manager in 1920, and his campaign manager for the vice-presidency that year; an adviser to Coolidge in the White House; subsequently a private legal adviser in Washington and continuingly active in political affairs. He married Mrs. Irene H. Hearin, widow of Charles Hearin, former governor of Alabama, in 1912. She died in 1940.
Jimmy was always a devoted, never a sentimental, Dartmouth man, and on his death left two-thirds of his substantial estate to the College, as recorded in this MAGAZINE last month. He was simultaneously class agent, secretary and treasurer of his class. He was keenly interested in the Alumni Fund, and contributed a cup for award annually for the outstanding achievement among the classes more than 20 years out of college. He became the first president of the Class Agents Association and enjoyed to the full the forensic opportunities offered by that post, joining Hap Atwood '13, the Fund chairman and a kindred spirit (and subsequently a "lifelong friend") in a sort of travelling circus.
He nearly died a year ago last winter, of pneumonia followed by a thrombosis, but recovered to delight retrospectively in the hallucinations of his delirium. Death took Jimmy swiftly. There was no long darkening twilight: he loved life with his bouncing zest right up to the last day. This was good.
A. I. D. '3O.
1895
JESSE ROY SQUIRES, resident of Montpelier, Vt., for the past 42 years, died February 29, at his home. He had been ill for nearly two years.
Born in Bradford, Vt., March 7, 1873, he was the son of Jesse Roberts and Margaret (Barstow) Squires. He attended the public schools in Bradford until he was twelve when he moved, with his parents, to Haverhill, N. H. Here he continued his studies and graduated from Haverhill Academy in 1891. He entered Dartmouth that fall where he studied for a short time.
In July 1896 Mr. Squires accepted a position with the Boston and Maine Railroad where he was employed for ten years. He then entered the employ of the U.S. government as a railway postal clerk where he remained for thirty years.
His first wife, Edith Webster, whom he married in 1900 in Lisbon, N. H., died in March 1940. Their only child, Paul, died November 10, 1926, at the age of 25.
On June 9, 1945, Mr. Squires married Mrs. Ninie Fisk of Lancaster, N. H. She survives her husband as does one brother, Dr. Walter Squires of Eloise, Mich.
Mr. Squires belonged to the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows lodges, in which he took an active part.
Funeral services were held March 2 from his home, with the Rev. G. Lewis Porter officiating. A Knights of Pythias service was conducted. Entombment was in Green Mount cemetery vault to await burial in the family lot there in the spring.
1898
HARRY HOWARD LYNCH died at Orlando, Fla. on February 13. He was born in Amherst, N. H. on March 26, 1877, the son of George F. and Emily (Smith) Lynch, and prepared for college at Lawrence Academy. He entered Dartmouth with the class of 1898 and left college at the end of freshman year to become connected with the President Suspender Company at Shirley, Mass. Leaving that firm in 1910 he joined the staff of the Ayer, Mass., Daily News. In a short time he became editor of the paper, resigning that position in 1924, when he removed to Orlando, because of impaired health, an illness with typhoid fever having left behind an unfavorable heart condition.
He was deeply interested in the work of fraternal organizations and was a Past Master of St. Paul Lodge, A.F. and A.M.; Past High Priest of Bancroft Chapter, R.A.M., Ayer; Past Patron of the 0.E.5.; member of New Hampshire Consistory, 32 degree, A.F. and A.M. and of the Grange, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Rebekahs. He was for many years choir director at the Universalist Church, Shirley, and was a member of the First Unitarian Church of Orlando.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Etta L. Lynch of Orlando, and five children, Mrs. Norman D. Fletcher of Upper Montclair, N. J., Mrs. Frederick W. Cheney of Brookline, Mass., George Frederick Lynch, Mrs. George W. Griffin and Harry Howard Lynch Jr., all of Shirley, Mass., and four grandchildren.
1899
CLARENCE LOVELL JOY died at his home in North Barrington, N. H., on February 7, after a long period of failing health.
He was born in Dover, N. H., September 5, 1875, a son of Lovell and Jennie (Preston) Joy. When he was a young boy the family moved to Brockton, Mass. After graduation from the Brockton High School he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1899.
He roomed with Cass '97 until the graduation of that class and the next fall took over, with Phil Winchester, the care of the Observatory and the weather observations. They roomed together at the Observatory for the three ensuing years, Clarence taking postgraduate work while Phil was attending Thayer School.
Clarence became a teacher after leaving Dartmouth—first teaching Latin and Greek at Farmington, N. H., High School, then at New Hampton Literary Institute of which he became Associate Principal. In 1906 he became Principal of Simonds Free High School at Warner where he remained for six years. After that he became Principal of White River Junction, Vt., High School; then for five years he was Principal of Hartford, Vt., High School and for five years thereafter was Superintendent of schools of that town. In 1926 he went to Proctor, as Supervisor of Schools, continuing in that position for seventeen years until his retirement in 1943. Since then he lived at his ancestral farm in North Barrington, near Rochester, N. H.
He was a charter member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at Dartmouth, a charter member of the White River Junction Rotary Club, a member of United Brethren Lodge F. and A.M. and past president of the Vermont Teachers Association.
As a member of Proctor Union Church he served as deacon, and was an active worker with Boy Scouts in whatever community he resided.
In June 1903 he was married to Lena E. Chamberlain whom he met while at New Hampton. She survives him; also surviving are a son Robert C. Joy, now a student at Dartmouth Medical School; two daughters, Mrs. Maurice Plumb of Malone, N. Y. and Mrs. Howard W. Douglas of Rutland, Vt., and two grandsons, William Lansing Plumb and Walter Joy Douglas.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon, February 10, at the Congregational Church in East Barrington. George Clark represented '99, driving alone from Plymouth when the temperature was 28 degrees below zero. George also had flowers sent for the class —two dozen red roses gratefully acknowledged by Mrs. Joy.
Clarence was another of many loyal class members, a regular attendant at reunions and often at the annual Roundup. With Lena he joined in the family gathering at Swampscott prior to last year. His gentle, kindly nature endeared him to all his contemporaries and to thousands among the youth to whom he was for so many years a faithful and inspiring guide.
1903
HAROLD VIALL PALMER of 81 Prospect St., Reading, Mass. died February 17, of cerebral hemorrhage.
Born in Reading May 3, 1881, the son of Edward Hale and Emily (Viall) Palmer, he prepared for college in Reading schools. Entering with our class he was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
After graduation Palm entered the employ of the Carter's Ink Co. but soon transferred to Carter Rice & Co., wholesale paper merchants. Starting as an office boy he later became office manager of the company. In 1932 he retired and operated an automobile agency and garage for several years.
In 1944 Palm suffered a cerebral hemor- rhage which was followed by a crippling case of arthritis. Though his physical efforts were strictly limited he was able to get about until the fatal hemorrhage on February 17.
October 1, 1908 Palm was married to Harriet Bradish of Reading, who survives with their son John E. Palmer.
Funeral services were held at the home on Thursday February 19.
1912
CLYDE GILMAN MORRILL died at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, on February 5 as the result of a heart attack. His sudden death came as a profound shock to his thousands of friends.
He was born at Wakefield, Mass. on July 14, 1889, the son of Lee Sumner and Alice (Taylor) Morrill. Preparing at Wakefield High School, he graduated from Dartmouth with the Class of 1912. In college he was a member of Sigma Chi and Dragon.
After graduation Click became New England sales representative of the Lakewood Engineering Co. He worked for this organization for several years and subsequently represented the Beardslee Manufacturing Co. of Chicago. Since 1938 he had been connected with the petroleum industry in various capacities.
Considered a national authority on supply and distribution of petroleum products, he was Executive Director of the Fuel Oil District Council, Executive Secretary of the Atlantic Coast Oil Conference, New York, and a member of the American Petroleum Institute, Division of Marketing: New England Governors' Emergency Fuel Advisory Council; and the Massachusetts Emergency Fuel Advisory Council under Governors Saltonstall, Tobin and Bradford. A few months ago Secretary of the Interior Krug appointed him to the National Petroleum Council.
He is survived by his wife, Sophia Lewis Morrill, and a son, Lee Sumner Morrill.
1916
The Class of 1916 lost another member when EDGAR SPRING WINTERS died in Buffalo, N. Y. on February 22, after a five weeks' illness.
He was born in Owego, N. Y., December 22, 1890, the son of Edgar and Harriet (Spring) Winters. His family moved to Buffalo when he was a child and Spring prepared for college in the Buffalo schools.
In college Spring was a member of the Rifle Club, the Spanish Club, and was active in the Dramatic Association. A cheerful, calm dispositioned student, he loved the "bull sessions" so dear to the average college man's heart.
From 1916 to 1923 he was located in Hong Kong, China, with the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. Upon his return to the states he was for several years a bond salesman in New York City. Returning to Buffalo he became associated with Dixson and Winters, manufacturers of concrete blocks. For the past few years he had been senior engineering aide for the Town of Tonawanda.
Always active in fraternal and civic affairs, Spring was president of the Alumni Association of Old Central High School; past chairman of the Grand Jurors Association; president of the Kenmore Junior-Senior High School PTA and Roosevelt School PTA. He was a member of Master Builder Lodge, F & M, and Ismailia Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Buffalo Consistory.
December 17, 1919 Spring was married to Ruperta Coyle who survives him with their daughters Margaret and Patricia.
His classmates regret that circumstances prevented Spring from returning for reunions in recent years, but he was a man to remain in the memories of his classmates.
1927
DAVID ROBERT CLIMENKO, acting chief of medicine at the Veterans Hospital, Fort Bayard, N. M., died there October 9, 1947.
Bob was born in New York City August 39, 1906, the son of Dr. Harold T. and Rose (Brownell) Climenko. He prepared for college at Townsend Harris Hall School in New York City. He was a member of Pi Lambda Phi.
Immediately after graduation Bob went to Edinburgh University where he served as Instructor in Physiology from 1928 to 1931 when he received his M. D. from the University. In 1932 he received his Ph. D. from the same university. The next year he served as Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Alberta, and 1933-34 was an Associate in. Pharmacology at Cornell.
In 1935 he became Research Pharmacologist for the American Cyanamid Co. and later served the Winthrop Chemical Co. in the same capacity. In November 1942 Bob entered the Army Medical Corps as a Captain and served in the E.T.O. and North Africa. He was released from active duty as a Major in February 1946, and went to Albany, N. Y. to become Senior Medical Biochemist for the New York State Department of Health. In July 1947 he was appointed acting chief of medicine at the Fort Bayard Veterans Hospital.
November 16, 1933 Bob was married to Eleanor K. Levy who survives him with their child ren Peter and Catherine.
1935
GEORGE MARGULIS was held up and shot in the back by a bandit on February 6, 1948. He died instantly. The shooting occurred at the offices of the Reliable Steel Plate Company in Cleveland, Ohio, immediately after George had returned from lunch with his father and brother.
George came to Dartmouth from Glenville High School in Cleveland where he was active on the school paper and in the band. In Dartmouth he continued his musical interest with the Symphony Orchestra and in addition was active in the Chess Club. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1935 and continued on in Tuck School where he graduated in 1936. Upon leaving college he became connected with the Reliable Steel Plate Company and subsequently became secretary of the organization.
George was married in 1940 to Frances Furman and, besides his wife, leaves two sons, Dennis, age 4, and Wendy Joe, age 2.
He was not one for headlines or publicity. His was the silence and the calm that one takes for granted, but which is so greatly missed when it is not present.
JAMES BURTON REYNOLDS '9O
CLARENCE LOVELL JOY '99
CLYDE GILMAN MORRILL '12
