Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices may appear m thisissue or may appear in a later number]
Starr, William J. '84, October 27 Stanley, William E. '91, October 17 Burnap, Robert L. '94, November 1 Parker, George P. '97, October 6 Reeve, Ralph W. '05, October 14 Beals, Charles E. '07, August 21 Berry, Lester S. '07, October 20 Tabor, Parker W. '07, October 30 Bell, Thomas '09, September 17 Crowley, Esmond R- 13, September 27 Crosby, Alden P. '19. October 29 Geottel, Phillip C. '19, September 27 Frederiksen, Steffen M. 21, October 17 Snyder, Donald C. '23, October 2 Ford, William F. Jr. '42, September 1 Cobb, William O. '97m, October 18
In Memoriam
1887
FRED EMERY WINN died at his home in Redlands, Calif., on September 24. Fred was born in Hudson, N. H., December 4, 1863, the son of William Franklin and Lucy Maria (Richardson) Winn. In college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
After graduation he taught for three years at Kimball Union Academy and then entered Andover Theological Seminary from which he graduated in 1893. For the next sixteen years he filled various Congregational pastorates in Maine, New Hampshire and Massa- chusetts. In 1909 he moved to California where he engaged in milk producing until his retirement in 1932. In 1938 he came to Hanover where he made his home for three years, doing research work in Baker Library and for a time serving as reporter on the Hanover Gazette.
On July 25, 1888 Fred was married to Sarah Celia Moulton of Merrimack, N. H., who survives him and makes her home at 1248 Alta St., Redlands. Fred is also survived by three of his six children: two daughters, Mrs. F. A. Kimball and Mrs. F. H. McElfresh, and a son Dr. Clifton C. Winn, now chief of the education division in the American Zone, Germany.
1891
WILLIAM EDWARD STANLEY died in New London, N. H., on October 17, following a short illness. Services were held in the Baptist Church, of which he had been a deacon.
Stanley was born October si, 1866, in New London, the son of Benton and Almira (Clough) Stanley. He prepared for college at Colby Academy. In Dartmouth he played on the football team and was a member of Phi Zeta Mu, now Sigma Chi.
For the first year after graduation Stanley was an engineer on water power and canals in Lowell, then for a year was with A. B. Tower of Holyoke as a field engineer on paper mill construction. From 1893 to 1940 he was with the Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Boston, serving in all departments of fire protection engineering. The last seven years were spent in loss adjusting in Philadelphia, where he was made district manager. Following his retirement in 1940 he returned to his native town of New London.
In 1896 Stanley was married to Margaret M. Carter o£ New London, who died in 1912. Two daughters were born of the marriage, Margaret Stanley Jones, a graduate of Miss Wheelock's School, now living in New London, and Isabel Stanley Day, a graduate of Simmons College, now living in Southbury, Conn. On October 9, 1915 Stanley was married to Minnie E. Mason of Hartford, Vt., who died in 1948.
Classmates and business associates well remember the sterling qualities of Stanley who carried through successfully all commitments which came to him. He had served as our Class Agent since 1931. He was a sincere Christian and a worthwhile contributor to the success of the various churches with which he was associated for nearly sixty years.
1894
ROBERT LORD BURNAP died suddenly in New York on November 1, while walking on Madison Avenue. He had witnessed the YaleDartmouth football game at New Haven on the preceding Saturday and was looking forward to the Columbia and Princeton games with all the eager enthusiasm of a confirmed football follower—an enthusiasm which had led him back to Hanover in nearly every autumn of his alumnus life. Apparently in his customary bodily vigor, he had spent October in Hanover as usual, and his death was wholly unexpected. The class of '94 had no more loyal member than he, nor any more well beloved.
Bob was born in Burlington, Vt., September 20, 1872, and at his death was starting his 78th year. He was the only survivor of the three sons of Judge W. L. Burnap (Dartmouth '63) and Fannie L. (Castle) Burnap. His two brothers (Clement F. and James Burnap) died in 1938. Bob's only survivinrelations are five nephews, the sons of Clem- ent, his younger brother, four of whom are Dartmouth alumni—Clement '39, John '40, Robert L. '43, and Thomas K. '46. The last named is now a resident of Hanover as a doctor associated with the Mary Hitchcock Clinic.
Bob's activities throughout his graduate life were on the administrative side of railroading. Beginning as a clerk in the service of the Central Vermont Railroad at Ogdensburg, he rose to be a vice president and freight traffic manager of the Canadian National Railways, with his headquarters mainly at Chicago, retiring in 1932. In recent years he divided his time between winter residence in Florida, summer residence in New York, and his customary visits to Hanover in the football season. His interest in sports grew out of his collegiate activities as a manager of athletic teams, as a member of the Athletic Council (1894-5) and a member of the Alumni Council (1919-22).
Bob never married, but since his brother's death he had been like a father to his nephews. He was a man of strong convictions and intense loyalties, and possessed of a whimsical sense of humor which had endeared him in an especial manner to his classmates. He was present at the 55th reunion of '94 in Hanover last June. A familiar figure on the Hanover streets, he will be well remembered by many who knew him but slightly as invariably accompanied by his adopted dog, Bebe; for Bob was a devoted friend of small animals and "had a way with them" which they appreciated. He was in politics a stalwart Republican, and outspoken as always concern- ing trends which he thoroughly disapproved.
Funeral services were held in New York November 4; and after cremation, according to his wish, his ashes were taken to Burlington by the family and buried in the family lot there. The class was represented at the funeral by Knowlton. The other '94 New Yorkers, Martyn (who procured the flowers) and Jenks, were kept away by illness.
P.S.M.
1896
EDWARD RANDOLPH HAM died in Foote Hospital, Jackson, Mich., on September 30, 1948.
He was born in Strafford, N. H., October 17, 1871, the son of Edward Bartlett and Aramantha Ellen Ham. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduation he attended Andover Theological Seminary for a year and then spent a year at Denver Law School. Transferring to Northwestern he received his LL.B. there in 1901. His entire professional life was spent as a private teacher until his retirement in 1938.
He never married and there is no record of survivors as his brother Ernest G. Ham '94 died in 1941.
1897
All o£ our classmates will be saddened by the death of GEORGE PRESCOTT PARKER, whom we lovingly knew as "Poddy". By those of us who knew him closely in college he will be remembered as the jovial, happy companion and one of the friendliest men in our class. A letter from his widow tells that in the long years after college he did not change from the "Poddy" we knew at Dartmouth.
"My dear Mr. Ham: I think you are the person whom I should let know that George Prescott 'Poddy' Parker died on Thursday, the 6th of October. I found him when I awakened. He had quietly slipped out sometime during the morning hours according to the doctor. He had been, apparently, feeling all right when he went to bed and I have been assured that there was no suffering. He has been quite amused at some of your recent accounts of his days at Dartmouth, one or two he thought you were just a little 'off about, but enjoyed them to the uttermost.
"To the very last he kept up his keen interest in town affairs. In fact the week before he died he had spoken on a subject quite close to his heart, our municipal playgrounds, at a special Town Meeting, supplying some data which the voters seemed to feel was vital to the question under consideration.
"He served on the Board of Selectmen for six years and as an Assessor for about two years. Of course, as you probably know, he was a charter member of the Dartmouth chapter of Phi Kappa Psi. He was a past master of Prescott Grange, a past grand of Beacon Lodge, I.O.O.F., a charter member and past president of the Pepperell Town Club.
"I am sure that any Dartmouth man would have been proud of the tribute paid him yesterday at the funeral services by the minister. He was a perfectly grand man to have lived with and I felt honored at having been his wife for the past sixteen years. Kindness was one of his many charms. I am his only survivor. Sincerely, Carolyn Rolfe Parker, Halfacre, E. Pepperell, Mass."
1898
STUART WESSON who was a member of this class in 1894-95 died in New York City on June 9, 1949. He had entered Dartmouth from Harvard and after having left Dartmouth nothing was known of him until his death. He had been connected with General Motors for many years in New York and had resided in that city. In 1918 he was married to Elsie W. Archer of Portchester, N. Y., who survives him. He had no children.
1903
ROBERT DAVIS died at the Proctor Hospital, Proctor, Vt. on September 25. He had not been in the best of health for some time.
Bob was born in Beverly, Mass., July 28, 1881, the son of Rev. William Henry Davis, Dartmouth '74 and Emma Priscilla Meacham. He came to college from Newton. In college he was a member of KKK and Casque and Gauntlet.
After graduation he attended Columbia where he received an A.M. in 1907, and Union Theological Seminary, where he graduated with S.T.B. degree in 1908. Bob served as minister of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, 1908-10, and of the Englewood, N. J. Presbyterian Church 1910-17.
From 1917 to 1920 Bob served overseas with the Red Cross, first as a Major and then as commissioner. He then settled on a farm in Margoux, Gironde, France, where he produced wine for export and engaged in breeding fine cattle. For some years he was an editorial writer and special correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, and was at one time director of the American Library in Paris and of the American Hospital in Paris.
Since 1938 Bob had been teaching, at intervals, History and Biblical Literature at Middlebury College, and since 1942 had been acting pastor o£ the Union Church in Proctor. He was the author of numerous books, which, though written for children, had a wide appeal to all ages of readers.
On January 1, 1911 Bob was married to Louise Corwith, who died in 1918. Their son Corwith graduated from Yale in 1934- On October 20, 1920, Bob married Kathleen Johnston who survives him with their daughters Joy, Noelle and Elisabeth. Bob is also survived by his brother Aaron Davis '13 of Harwich Port, Mass.
1905
HARRY SCOTTE RICKARDS, died in Erie, Pa. on August 8, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Landis, 515 Hilltop Street. Harry was a classmate from whom we rarely heard. From j 928-1931 he was manager of the Woonsocket Branch of the Union Trust Company of Providence. For some years previous to this he had been in the service of this bank. In 1931 he joined the head office of the Union Trust Company in Providence and remained for several years until he became ill and retired. He lived in his home in Woonsocket until the death of Mrs. Rickards about a year ago and then went to live with his daughter in Erie. He was a dependable and respected citizen.
JUDGE RALPH WALKER REEVE, Chief Justice of the Lynn District Court for 28 years. died on October 14 at his home in Swampscott, at the age of 65. He was a highly respected citizen of Lynn. His funeral was a large one attended by many distinguished people.
"Brick," as we knew him in college, was a native of Somersworth, N. H. and was a varsity shortstop on the baseball team. For several years after graduating he played professional baseball at Corning and in the New England League, and later managed a team at Richmond, Va. He also played semi-professional baseball in Maine, New Hampshire, and the Mississippi Valley League.
Studying in the attorney's office, he was admitted to the bar in 1909 and practiced until Governor Channing Cox appointed him to the bench in 1921. Although somewhat severe in certain types of cases, he won a city-wide reputation for integrity and fairness.
Chairman of the Draft Board in both World Wars he won a reputation for outstanding civic service, commanding the highest respect of both the civilians and army officers. He also stood at the top of the Republican party in the city of Lynn, having been a member of the Lynn Republican Club for more than 20 years, and for a time, chairman of the Lynn Republican City Committee. In 1923, almost single-handed, he settled a shoe strike in Lynn. He was impressed by the increasing number of nonsupport cases coming into his court as a result of the strike. In the first World War he was chairman of the Public Safety Committee and of the Red Cross drive for the city.
An expert at golf he had played on several of the Tedesco league championship teams. He was first president of the Happy Valley Golf Club and past president of the Oxford Club. The Judge is survived by his widow, the former Virginia Pollard, a nurse at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, whom he married in 1905. He has two surviving sisters, both ex-school teachers in Vinal Haven, Maine—Mrs. Ada Joyce and Miss Alice L. Reeve. His brother, Guy C. Reeve, is sheriff of Dade County, Fla. Judge Reeve had been in failing health for several months, but his early death was not expected.
1906
ROBERT WALLACE RICHARDSON was born in Lisbon, N. H. on August 23, 1884. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1902, spent two years with the class of 1906, but in 1905 switched over to the Dartmouth Medical School. However, he took up his regular college work in his senior year and graduated with 1906. The next three years he spent at the College of Medicine, McGill University, from which he received his doctor's degree in 1909. He served his internship at the Post Graduate Hospital in New York.
In 1911 Bob went to Chile as head of the Medical Department of the Braden Copper Corp. of Sewell, where he remained until 1944.
When he returned to the United States it was his intention to buy a small farm in Lisbon and settle down. However the Bethlehem Steel Corp. persuaded him to take over the directorship of hospital services at their shipyard in Brooklyn.
Bob had known for some time that he needed an operation but kept putting it off. The operation was a success but his heart gave out and he died in the University Hospital on July 8.
Bob's wife, Yolande Collins, survives him. They made their home at the Hotel Winthrop, Lexington Ave. and 47th St., New York City.
1907
CHARLES ELMER BEALS died at Petersham, Mass. on August 21. Born in East Bridgewater, Mass., June 24, 1877, he attended Bangor Theological Seminary from 1902 to 1905, when he entered Dartmouth and graduated with our class in 1907, with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He received his B.D. degree from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1908.
After serving in pastorates throughout New England he returned to East Bridgewater and retired in 1939.
July 17, 1907, "Parson" married Anna M. Bourne, who died in 1941. He is survived by his son Charles, two daughters, Mary A. Beals, a teacher in South Africa and Mrs. Harry C. Buell oE Petersham.
Mrs. George G. Newell of St. Johnsbury, Vt., received word on October 20 of the sudden death of her brother, LESTER STILES BERRY, at his home in Jackson Heights, L. I. He was 63 years old.
He was born in St. Johnsbury Center, was graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1903 and from Dartmouth College in 1907. For many years he was president of the J. P. Linahan Company of New York, until his retirement last spring.
Lester is survived by his widow, and three children, Byrne, .Richard and Beverley, all of 35-33 83rd St., Jackson Heights, and by two sisters, Mrs. Harry A. Keniston, of Bar ton, and Mrs. Newell.
PARKER TABOR died at his home in Pittsburg, N. H., on October 30. Born on the farm where he died at the age of 65, his entire life was spent in Pittsburg and neighboring communities.
His interests were farming, lumbering and banking. He was president of the Beecher Falls Manufacturing Corp., vice president and director of the Colebrook, N. H., National Bank and served on the School Committee in Pittsburg, and was its Town Auditor.
He is survived by his wife, the former Nina Williams, and a daughter, Sarah Jane, aged 15.
1913
ESMOND RICHARDSON CROWLEY died on September 27, in Danvers, Mass., after a long illness although not with a continuous seriousness. He was born on August 8, 1888 in Danvers, the son o£ Daniel N. Crowley, a lawyer. He entered Dartmouth from the Danvers High School, but left after his freshman year.
Es first operated moving picture theatres on the North Shore and then became an insurance broker writing general lines. He married Edna Clowes in March 1911, who died in 1946. Elizabeth was born on March 2, 1913 and Esmond Richardson, Jr. on August 14, 1918.
Es was always interested in the College and the class, attending games and reunions, particularly after Esmond Jr. who graduated in 1941, moved to Hanover during the school months. Es was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He is survived by his daughter son, of 181 Locust St., Danvers.
1914
BURT H. SMITH passed away in Washington, D. C., on July 20, 1949- Burt Hamblet Smith was born in Springfield, Mass., December 19, 1892, the son of Zera Walter and Mary Aseneth (Burt) Smith. He prepared for Dartmouth at Central High School, in Springfield, entering in the fall of 1910, but completed only three years of college. After leaving Dartmouth, he was associated with the National Blank Book Company of Holyoke until his enlistment in the Army, May 15, 1917. Pinkey, as he was known in college, served with the Ist Engineers A.E.F., from August 7, 1917 to June, 1919 when he was discharged with a sergeant's rating.
Following his discharge, he was first associated with the Columbia Graphophone Co. in Cleveland and then became a public accountant with Overlock Burke & Co., Chicago. He later served in the office of Chief Accountant, F.W.A. and then with the War Assets Administration from 1948 until the time of his death.
Burt never kept in close touch with the class and little is known about his family life, activities or interests. We have no details of his final illness or the cause of his death.
1919
It is the sad duty of the Secretary to record the passing of another loyal Dartmouth man and '19er, Alden Porter Crosby.
A 1 has been seriously ill for some years and was unable to participate in any class activities, but his death came as a shock to his many friends in the class.
Born in Danvers, Mass., on September 26, 1897, Al entered Dartmouth from Holten High School and was a member of Kappa Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa.
His entire business career was with S. S. Pierce & Co., in Boston, where he served in an executive capacity for many years. He was past master of the Masonic Lodge A.F. & A.M., Danvers, past deputy Grand Master of the Salem, Mass., Eighth Masonic District and was past high priest of the Holten Royal Arch Chapter, Danvers.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Helen Crosby, of 16 Cabot St., Salem, Mass., he leaves his father, William H. Crosby, and a sister, Mrs. Ralph C. Holmes.
The class was represented at the funeral service held on November 1, by Jim Davis, Howie Cole, Phil Bird and Spider Martin.
PHILIP CHURCHILL GOETTFX died on September 27 at Monson, Mass. Death was caused by a fire in his home, which partially destroyed it.
Phil entered with the class in 1915 from East High in Cleveland, Ohio, and remained at Hanover until March 1917 when he enlisted in the U. S. Army Air Corps, and served during World War I.
Little is known of Phil's career, as he has been completely out of touch with the College and class since 1924. He had done some newspaper work and was formerly a radio script writer, but further details are lacking. A bachelor, his only survivor is a brother in Ohio.
1921
STEFFEN MIDDELBOE FREDERIKSEN died very suddenly at the New England Deaconess Hospital in' Boston on the morning of October 17. He had been admitted a few days before, preparatory to a possible operation to alleviate a condition which made it necessary for him to give up active business some years ago.
Freddy and his wife, Grace, lived in Saranac, N. Y. for a number of years, where he did public accounting and tax work as his strength would permit. He was born in Little Falls, N. Y. on September 13, 1899 and graduated from high school in that town.
After graduation from Dartmouth in 1921, Freddy was associated with a chemical firm in Wilmington, Del. and later with an electrical supply house in Buffalo, N. Y. He then returned to Little Falls to go into the business ("The Junket Folks"), which his father had managed many years.
During the late twenties, he succumbed to the condition which prevented him from pursuing the active and successful career which would surely have been his, had he retained the robust health that made him an outstanding skiier during his undergraduate years
uate years. Freddy is survived by his wife, Grace (Johnson) Frederiksen, of 20 Kiwassa Rd., Saranac Lake; three brothers, one of them, Oliver J., Dartmouth 1916; and a sister.
1929
It is with deep regret that we report the untimely death last June 20 of Paul Emile Heftier, who was killed in a head-on collision between his car and a truck near Cle Elum, Wash., while on a visit with friends in Seattle with whom he had worked as Engineer in the Boeing Aircraft Company during the war. Paul was driving alone and apparently dozed off, his car drifting into the path of the . truck.
This ended a very promising career as patent attorney and inventor which Paul had carefully planned during his Dartmouth days. Those of us who knew him when we were at Hanover will remember him for his whimsical sense of humor, his ambition to succeed in his chosen profession, and his determined individualism.
After graduation, as a physics major, he took a year of engineering at Michigan and four years of law at Michigan and George Washington University from which he graduated in 1934. He had worked in the Patent Office during his law school days and afterward worked with firms of patent attorneys in Detroit and Chicago. When war came he went with Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle where he developed a clever turbo supercharger control and an automatic power control for the engine, propeller, and turbosupercharger of the B-29 that would have made its operation much simpler. The war ended, however, before this device could be put into production, and Paul returned to Detroit resuming his patent and inventive work until his fateful visit to Seattle.
Other inventions of his were a special carburetor made by Zenith Carburetor Company, a back-fire trap for motor boat engines now almost universally used, and a spring suspension for automobiles used by the English Rover and Jaguar and the Australian Holden to keep the car from pitching when the brakes are applied.
At Dartmouth Paul was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity which later merged with others into the present Gamma Delta Chi. Two brothers also graduated from Dartmouth, Ben '28, and Pierre V. '31. Both now live in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. Paul never married, and made his home at 1051 Berkshire Rd., Grosse Park, with his father Victor R. Heftier.
R. A. B.
1942
The infantile paralysis wave which swept over the United States this summer and fall claimed WILLIAM FRAZER FORD JR., on Sep- tember 1, at Hyde Park, Mass.
Bill Ford was born in New York City, August 17, 1920, the son of William Frazer and Edith May (McElroy) Ford. He prepared for Dartmouth at Teaneck, N. J., High School. He was class president, captain of track and basketball while in high school.
At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and of the freshman and varsity track squads. After receiving his degree, he was employed by the Production Control Department of the Corbin Screw Corp., New Britain, Conn.
Despite the fact , that he was turned down on physical reasons for all branches of the armed services during World War 11, Bill contributed his part to the war effort by working at an aircraft factory in Paterson, N. J. He was later employed by the Westinghouse Corp. as plant layout engineer in its Sturtevant Division at Hyde Park, Mass. He was thus employed at the time of his death.
Surviving him is his wife, Phyllis, a sixyear-old son, William, and a five-year-old son, Walter. Their home is 11 Brainard St., Hyde Park, Mass.
WILLIAM EDWARD STANLEY '91
ROBERT LORD BURNAP '94
