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]
O'Malley, Michael H. '03, January 12, 1949 Barnes, Samuel L. '07, January 31, 1949 Billings, Warren C. '07, December 10, 1948 Clough, Walter H. '07, December 8, 1948 Davis, Tenney L. '11, January 25, 1949 McDonald, John J. '11, February 8, 1949 Deering, Philip J. '23, January 30, 1949 Koch, Albert F. '34, September 13, 1948 Douglass, Fred James 'gained, January 1, 1949
In Memoriam
1883
The last of the regularly listed non-graduates of 1883, CHARLES WOODMAN HAMILTON, died after a short illness at his home, 3049 North Lake Drive, Milwaukee, Wis., on December 28, just a week after an attack of virus influenza.
He was born on September 23, 1859 the son of Clarke Woodman and Mary (Weed) Hamilton.
He fitted for college at Fond du Lac (Wis.) High School and matriculated at Dartmouth with the class of 1883. He remained until 1881 when he transferred to Amherst where he received his B.A. degree in 1883.
At Dartmouth Hamilton was a member of the freshman double quartet and of Alpha Delta Phi and at Amherst he was also a member of Sigma Psi.
In the later years of his life he took a keen interest in golf and yachting as his favorite recreations and he had a large number of trophies won in contests in these sports.
He was a member of the following clubs:— Milwaukee Athletic, Milwaukee Country, Bluemound Country, University, Oconomowoc Lake and Milwaukee Yacht.
For fifteen years after attending Dartmouth and Amherst he was in the employ of the old Milwaukee Harvester Co., now the International Harvester Company, as director, secretary and treasurer, but in 1898 he decided to go into business for himself.
He had grown up in the paper business in Fond du Lac, his father being president of the Mannette Paper Co. at that place.
So, in 1898, with a German immigrant die Maker named Hess he established the Milwaukee Lace Paper Co. in two rooms. Today, with 175 employees it is the foremost plant of its kind in the country. Hamilton was president of this company until two years ago when he became chairman of the board. He was also director of the Box Elder Land and Lumber Co., the Silurian Mining Co., and secretarytreasurer of the Hamilton Land and Lumber Co.
On September 6, 1888 Hamilton was married to Elizabeth Noyes in Milwaukee, who survives him with their son Kenneth.
Although a graduate of Amherst, Hamilton had attended reunions of his Dartmouth class and was always a congenial companion and the life of any reunion gathering.
1893
Judge Edward Griffith of Manchester, Vt. died December 14, at the Rutland, Vt. Hospital following an operation.
Judge Griffith was born January 7, 1871 at East Dorset, Vt., the son of John M. and Mary (Kelley) Griffith. He prepared for college at Middlebury High School and Burr and Burton Seminary.
Entering Dartmouth with the Class of 1893, he graduated with a Bachelor of Letters degree. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, the Crirologian Club, the Telegraphers Society, and Casque and Gauntlet. Interested in all campus activities, he was popular with his classmates and the entire student body respected him for his unswerving integrity.
From Dartmouth he immediately entered New York Law School. While attending Law School, Judge Griffith was connected with the old Astor House in downtown New York and later on was assistant manager of that well known hostelry.
Graduating from the Law School in 1896 he continued in the hotel business for a few years and it was during that period that he met and married, April 6, 1898, Katharine Stark Hope of Oneida, N. Y., who died in November, 1907. Soon after her death Judge Griffith moved with his three young children to Vermont and opened a law office at Manchester, becoming in 1910 Judge of Probate, which position he held up to his death.
On March 22, 1911 he was married to Emma Marie Seymour who took over very successfully the bringing up not only of his three children but also of two others, a result of their very happy married life.
In addition to an extensive law practice and his duties as Probate Judge, he was active in Manchester and Bennington County affairs, being Clerk and Treasurer of Manchester Village, Treasurer of Dellwood Cemetery Association, an organizer and director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Treasurer of the Battenkill Valley Red Cross, Director and President of the Factory Point National Bank and a member of numerous associations and societies such as Vermont State Bar Association, the Bennington County Bar Association, the Descendants of the Mayflower Sociely, Masons and others. In fact Judge Griffith for many- years was the leading citizen of Manchester and was the friend and confidential adviser of the citizens of that section.
Funeral services were held December 16 at the Manchester Congregational Church which was filled to overflowing, the Rev. Lawrence W. Fairchild conducting.
The Masonic service was used at the grave in Dellwood Cemetery and was conducted by the Rev. Edgar W. Johnson of Manchester Center and Mr. John Graves. The County Court House and the Bank were closed during the services.
The survivors are Mrs. Griffith; sons- Thomas Hope '21 and Charles Gould '35; daughters—Mary Louise (Mrs. Guy B. Townsend), Katharine Stark (Mrs. Emery C. Mower), children.
1899
ERNEST LEROY SILVER died January 4 at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover where he underwent a major operation the day before Christmas. He rallied and his condition appeared to be hopeful until suddenly he succumbed from a coronary thrombosis. His death was a severe shock, not only to his family but to the town of Plymouth of which he had been a resident for 38 years.
He was born in Salem, N. H., September 29, 1876, the son of Clinton Leroy and Pauline (Ayer) Silver.
Dr. Silver attended the nearby local grade school in the village and then became a student at Pinkerton Academy. After graduation from Pinkerton he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1899, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa rank. With an innate sense of modesty he didn't wear his key for thirty years and then only on state occasions.
Following graduation, he was a teacher at the high school in Newton, Mass. for one year and then was appointed Superintendent of the public schools of Rochester, N. H., where he remained for four years. From 1905 to 1909 he was Superintendent of Schools at Portsmouth, N. H., and then became principal of Pinkerton Academy, the place of his boyhood upper schooling. Associated with him as a teacher at the Academy at that time was Robert Frost, the distinguished poet. This was the beginning of a lifetime friendship.
In 1911 Dr. Silver became principal of the State Normal School at Plymouth which at that time had two buildings—the red brick Rounds Hall and a large three-story wooden student dormitory, later replaced with a large brick dormitory called "Mary Lyon Hall." The latter was the beginning of enlargements to the plant which Dr. Silver made, including more dormitories, tennis courts, several houses, including the purchase of a house for the President's home, a recreational park and a lake shore cottage for the use of students and faculty.
Under the Silver regime the training period was extended from two to three years for teachers of secondary schools, then to four years. In 1939 the title of the school was changed to Plymouth Teachers College which since 1929 has been accredited as Grade A by the National Association of Teachers Colleges. The Diamond Jubilee of the College was celebrated in June 1946 in commemoration of the completion of Dr. Silver's 35 years as its head.
When he retired in 1946, Dr. Silver continued to be active in the civic life of the community and the state and was entrusted by his fellow citizens with major responsibilities. He served as President of the Sceva Speare Memorial Hospital Association and was one of the founders of the Plymouth Rotary Club and later its president. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Methodist Church and the Chamber of Commerce and at one time served as master of Plymouth Grange. In 1946 he was elected to serve as a representative in the New Hampshire State Legislature where as Chairman of the Committee on Education of the House, he was instrumental in securing more adequate financial support for New Hampshire's public schools. He was reelected in 1948. In recognition of his achievements the State Board of Education in 1947 awarded him a citation for outstanding educational leadership.
The Teachers College faculty in a scroll presented to him at the time of his retirement, addressed him as:
"One who has expressed his faith in the fundamental soundness of youth and its ability to meet the demands of a changing age. "One who has helped his associates with his appreciative sympathy; his kindly counsel; his frank, honest criticism; and his wise judgment. "One who has used his talents for unselfish, honorable service to the state and nation. "For such devoted leadership, New Hampshire owes him an immeasurable debt of gratitude."
In 1924 a degree of Doctor of Pedagogy was awarded to him by Dartmouth College in tribute to the quality and magnitude of his educational leadership.
Dr. Silver married Miss Hattie May Plummer in 1899. She was his schoolmate at Pinkerton Academy. They had one son who died in infancy before they came to Plymouth. Mrs. Silver died in 1928. In August 1947 he married Miss Gertrude I. Shaw, who was his adminis trative assistant at Plymouth Teachers Col. lege during all his tenure there.
Funeral services were held in the Congrega. tional Church at Plymouth on the afternoon of January 6. The church was filled with folia who came to pay their last respects—a final tribute from those he served, inspired and led. Representatives from local civic, fraternal am social groups and large delegations of college students and faculty members were among those in attendance, as well as representatives from the State Department of Education and from the State Legislature. The class of '99 was represented at the funeral by Kenneth Beal,Hawley Chase and George Clark, who also attended the burial services which were held Friday, January 7, at the family lot in Salem with the Rev. Roger Barney, son of a Dartmouth classmate, officiating.
When a student at Dartmouth, Silver was unobtrusive, studious, modest and well liked. A character sketch of him in the '99 Aegis stated "He has a soft, light complexion; of medium stature but immense brain Silver is very modest and was never known to be rude."
He was a regular attendant at all class reunions and at the Annual Roundups where he presided at times and was always impressive in his remarks, ever manifesting loyalty and devotion to the class of '99 and to the College.
JOSEPH W. GANNON
1901
LAURENCE JAMES O'LEARY who had been in ill health for some months, passed away unexpectedly on December 26.
"Bill" as he was always affectionately known to his college friends was born in Lawrence, Mass., May 28, 1878. He was a lifelong resident of that city, and had retired last October after completing a quarter century as Headmaster of the Lawrence High School, and a total of 47 years in the educational system of that city.
He graduated from the local high school in 1897, and there showed his ability on the gridiron and his aptitude as a scholar. Soon teacher of High School history and civics He gained promotions in his chosen field and teacher of High School history and civics- He gained promotions in his chosen field and in 1922 became headmaster of the High forced his retirement.
Bill O'Leary left a lasting mark on the public school system of his native town. His entire life was characterized by devotion to his work and to his family. He will always be remembered for his high principles. He was of a gentle, kindly and somewhat jovial disposition, always well liked and popular, an A will be greatly missed by all his friends. Dartmouth can well be proud of his record and his achievements.
He leaves his wife the former Carolyn Carpenter, three sons, William L. '26, Joseph A. '29 and Laurence J. '33 and three daughters, Helen, Mrs. Cornelius F. O'Keefe and Mrs. Henry B. Flaherty.
The funeral services were held at St. Laurence's Church, Wednesday, December 29' followed by burial in St. Mary's Cemetery Richard Ward and Harold Hathaway represented the class at the services and there was a large delegation present from the Dartmouth Club of Lawrence.
1903
MICHAEL HENRY O'MALLEY of 1518 Lincoln Ave., San Rafael, Calif., died at his home on January 12, of a heart attack. He was born in Clinton, Mass., January 10, 1880, the son of Austin J. and Elizabeth (Clune). O'Malley. On June 17, 1908 he married Mary E. Buckley of Waterbury, Conn. To them seven children were born.
Michael entered the class in sophomore vear. After graduating in 1903 he taught school in the Philippines, 1903-06. In 1906- 1908 he was with the Boston Traveler and the Waterbury Republican. From 1908-1917 he served as Principal and Superintendent of private schools and colleges, attached to the Office of Secretary of Public Instruction in the Philippines. This was interrupted by one year of graduate work at the University of California, 1914-15.
In 1917-1920 he was in charge of the copra buying office of the Philippine Vegetable Oil Mill and Manager of R. J. Harrision Cocoanut Oil Mill.
From 1918-1940 he was at various times a director of several banks in the Philippines, treasurer of the Manila Gas Corp., President of the Fidelity & Surety Co., Manager of the Manila Finance & Discount Co., Treasurer of the Lyric Film Exchange, Secretary of Marsman & Co. and 19 other affiliated companies.
When the Philippines were threatened by the Japanese in World War II Michael and members of his family made their way back to San Francisco where he spent several months in the hospital. After recovery he took up residence in San Rafael.
In 1944 when Colonel Carlos P. Romulo, Minister of Information in President Quezon's Philippine War Cabinet, was in San Francisco, he said of Michael, "It was O'Malley who first taught me Americanism. He treated me like a son and gradually changed my hatred for America to suspicion, my suspicion to confidence, then gratitude, then friendship for, America."
He is survived by his wife, three daughters and two sons. Requiem high mass was celebrated at St. Raphael Catholic Church, San Rafael, Calif.
1906
JAMES FREDERIC HARVEY died in San Marino, Calif., December i6, 1947 after having been an invalid for eighteen years.
Jim was born in Rock, Mass. November 24, 1886 and prepared for college at the Middleboro High School. He remained with our class for three years and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Jim spent most of his business life in California and little is known of his career. His wife, Harriet S. Harvey died in San Marino on October 1, 1948.
ALBERT HENRY STONE, one of the most highly respected and loved residents of Gardner, Mass., died there on June 2, 1948.
Al was born in Gardner, October 8, 1882 the son of Reuben S. and Mary (Raymond) Stone. He prepared for college at Dean Academy where he made an enviable record as a football player. At Dartmouth he was a member of the freshman squad, and of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.
Leaving college at the end of freshman year, Al became associated with his father in the firm of Nichols and Stone, nationally known furniture manufacturers. He was president of this company at the time of his death and had served as a director of the Gardner Trust Co. and of the Chairtown Co-operative Bank and as past commander of the Gardner Post, American Legion. He was always deeply interested in youth betterment and had served as head of the Monadnock Council of Boy Scouts for 35 years. He left a fund for worthy Gardner boys in his will.
Al served two terms as mayor of Gardner and was easily the most popular man in his section of the state. He was prominent for years in Worcester County Republican affairs.
Though with our class only a short time Al was a loyal classmate and devoted to his college. He is survived by his wife, the former Martha A. Jones.
1907
SAMUFL LAWRENCE BARNES died in Seattle, Wash., on February 1. Born on February 9, 1885, in Gainesville, Fla., Sam entered Dartmouth from Danvers, Mass. In college, he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
Soon after graduation in 1907 he went to Washington State and was employed by the Superior Portland Cement Company at Concrete. Bill Jennings '07 was associated with him during this period. Sam became secretary of the company before leaving it in 1926.
Later he became an organizer and director of the Pacific National Bank; an organizer, director and secretary of the American Mail Line; director and vice-president of Ranier National Park Company; director of Pioneer Sand and Gravel Company; and trustee of the Washington Mutual Savings Bank.
He served as a member of the Alumni Council from 1922 to 1927, and as President of the Dartmouth Association of Washington, and was a life-long worker and leader in Dartmouth alumni affairs.
In 1911, Sam and Helen Clapp were married in Danvers, Mass. She and their daughters, Mrs. Thomas Todd of Seattle, and Mrs. James M. Selby of Philadelphia, survive him.
WARREN CHESBRO BILLINGS died in Reading, Pa. on December 10. He was born in Milford, N. H. on May 6, 1885. In college he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
After graduation Warren studied electrical engineering at the University of the State of N. Y. For some years he was with the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in San Francisco. Later he was connected with the Niagara Hudson Power Corp. and with the N. Y. Public Service Commission, making his home in Rome, N. Y. During the war and post-war years he was with the Civil Engineer Corps, U. S. Navy, in Washington.
He is survived by his wife, the former Edith Keeler, and three sons, Henry, Robert and Richard, all graduates of the University of Michigan.
WALTER HAYDEN CLOUGH died at his home in West Medford, Mass. on December 8, after a long illness. He was born in Lawrence, Mass. on March 16, 1882. In college he was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
He is survived by his wife, the former Lucile Coaker, two sons and a married daughter.
1911
The death of TEENNEY LOMBARD DAVIS, professor emeritus of organic chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, came suddenly following a heart attack while he was driving to his home in Norwell, Mass., on January 25.
He was born in Somerville, Mass., January 7, 1890. He came to Dartmouth for his freshman year, whereupon he transferred to M.I.T. from which he obtained a B.S. degree in 1913, later attending Harvard University where he secured his doctor's degree in 1917. Meanwhile he was an Austin teaching fellow there and in the University of California from 1916 to 1917. In 1920 he joined theM.I.T. faculty where he was rapidly advanced, becoming a full professor in 1935and professor emeritus in 1942, the year hejoined the National Fireworks, Inc. as dj.rector of scientific research. He was a member of many scientific societies, and associateeditor .of a number of chemical and technological magazines.
He is survived by his widow, the formerDorothy T. Muench, and two sons, RobertT. of Kennebunkport, Maine, and Philip s.of Reading, Mass.
RUSSELL HESS KIMBALL died suddenly of aheart attack in Sherman Oaks, Calif., on October 29.
Russ was born December 26, 1888, in Hong kong, China, where his father was a dentist for many years. He graduated from Staunton Military Academy and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1907, leaving at the end of the first semester in 1909.
He spent all of his life in the construction field, originally being Director and General Superintendent of the Strange-Maguire Paving Co. 1913 to 1920, with time out as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 341 st Field Artillery from 1917 to 1919. In 1922 he formed the Kimball Construction Company, of which he remained a General Manager and President until the time of his death. He built many important structures in Colorado Springs, which was his home from the time of his return from the Army until 1946 when he moved to Sherman Oaks.
Russ was also Superintendent of Maintenance for the Broadmoor Hotel Co., a Director of the Broadmoor Golf Club, the El Paso Club, the Elks Club, and a Trustee of the First Congregational Church. He was a member of Chi Phi fraternity.
Russ's wife died in 1946, and he is survived by one son, Richard Kimball of Van Nuys, Calif.
1912
DOMINIC CESSARIO ASHLEY died in Glens Falls, N. Y., February 4, 1946. He was born in Italy, April 23, 1886, the son of Eugene Lionel and Elizabeth (Hitchcock) Ashley.
He remained with our class for two years and was a member of Phi Delta Theta. Transferring to Georgia School of Technology he graduated there in 1913 with the degree of B.S. (C.E.). He served in the Field Artillery during World War I and then began engineering practise in Glens Falls.
On February 26, 1921 he was married to [Catherine Romeyn. Dominic never kept in touch with the college or his class as his interests were in Georgia Tech where he graduated.
1919
With the sudden passing of LELAND C BIXBY, on January 9 the class of 1919 lost one of its most outstanding and well-known members. Bix, who was 52, died at his home in Watertown, Mass., where he had been a life-long resident of the community and prominent in local affairs.
During World War I, he was an Ensign in the Navy serving aboard the U.S.S. Nebraska, and later became a charter member and vice-commander of the W atertown American Legion Post. Bix offered his services again in World War 11, and served two rears as a member of the Wat Production Board in Washington.
for many years he was associated with the Walker-Pratt Company, stove manufacturers, later with the Lewis Shepard Company, and two years ago started his own business, the L-S Distributor Co., of which he was Treasurer.
He leaves his widow, the former Edith Fuller, and two sons, Curtis W. of Augusta, Maine, and Robert Fuller Bixby of Watertown. The Funeral was held on January 12 and the class was represented at the services by Phil Bird, Jack Clark, Rock Hayes, Spider Martin and Jigger Merrill. At Hanover, he was a member of Delta Tau Delta, and the Dragon Senior Society.
The class, most of whom Bix numbered among his host of friends, will miss him greatly. Always on hand for reunions, and enjoying them to the fullest, his interest in the affairs of the class and the College never lessened over the years. Bill Cunningham devoted his entire column in the Boston Herald of January 11 to a splendid and moving account of his friendship with Leland, dating back to our freshman year in Hanover. The last paragraph in Bill's column expresses, far above your secretary's powers, the way people felt about our well-loved classmate. "What most people will remember about Bickie was his laughter. He loved to live. He loved his friends. His friends loved him. No man could have a finer epitaph. A wide circle of friends will morn with his family, but there is nothing but happiness, friendship, service to the community and country, love of family and fellow man, in his record. When the time comes, may as much be said of all of us."
1921
GEORGE CHANDLER CAVIS died suddenly at his home in Waban, Mass. on December 14.
Chan was born in Concord, N. H. February 14, 1898, the son of Harry Minot and Kate (Chandler) Cavis. He prepared for college at St. Paul's School and entered Yale with the class of 1920, remaining with that class for two years.
From May to October, 1917, he served with the American Field Service in the French Array. In January 1918 he enlisted in the R.O.T.C. at Yale and later served as 2nd Lt. in the Field Artillery.
As many members of his family had attended Dartmouth it was natural that he should transfer to Dartmouth after his discharge from the service, where he graduated with the class of 1921. He was a member of Sigma Chi.
After spending the summer of 1921 with Prof. Raffalovich on a bicycle tour of Europe, he returned to Tuck School and received his M.C.S. degree in 1923.
He was connected with Stone & Webster and Morton C. Tuttle Co. until 1926 when he became associated with Edward B. Smith & Co. In 1938 he and several associates established the Central Accounting Bureau in Boston. At the time of his death he was associated with Clark, Dodge & Co.
Chan was married on October 24, 1931 in New York to Jean Wood who survives him with their son, George Chandler Jr., a student at St. Paul's School.
1923
GEORGE ALFRED BEHRINGER died at his home in Jackson Heights, N. Y. on September 25, after an illness of two years. He contracted pneumonia in September of 1946, which caused permanent injury to his heart. During his first year of illness he spent four months in the hospital, and when he returned home he was no longer able to work, although he kept on hoping and believing that he would recover.
George was born in Elmhurst, N. Y. and entered Dartmouth from Newton High School, where he had been a track star. He was a member of Dartmouth track and debating teams, and belonged to the Delta Sigma Rho fraternity.
Behringer went to work for the New York Telephone Company immediately after graduation from Dartmouth, and was traffic engineer at the time of his death.
George was an enthusiastic Mason, and he spent many years establishing and guiding a much-needed civic association in Smalhvood, N. Y., where his summer home was located.
He is survived by his wife, the former Frances Blair Rice; a fifteen year old son Blair Rice Behringer; sisters Julia, Gertrude, and Emily; and brother John.
PHILIP JAMES DEERING, 46, president of the McDonald Lumber Company of Portland. Me., died suddenly of a heart ailment at his home, 11 Fletcher Street, Portland, on January 30.
Phil was the son of Philip J. and Pamelia (Knight) Deering. He attended the Portland public schools, and Portland Country Day School.
At Dartmouth Phil was a member of Psi Upsilon, and he belonged to the Cumberland Club and the Portland Country Club, in Portland.
During World War 11, Phil was on active duty with the Navy, first in the Office of Naval Intelligence and later on a carrier.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Audrey Purves Deering, Phil is survived by his daughters, Mrs. Jeremy Colpitts and Pamelia Deering,his two grandchildren, his mother, and hissister, Mrs. Sewall C. Strout.
In a letter to his Class Secretary, just afew days before his unexpected death, Deering was his usual good-humored self, full ofenthusiasm and plans for the future. Thisletter is quoted for the information of themany classmates who will mourn his passing.
DEAR METZ:
My saga follows: Still making mouldings in a (new in 1938) straight line production deal here in Portland. It is the only such plant in the East. Has been considerably expanded since the war but I still work less, having a nice comfy crew of assistants arranged in a neat pile that forms a buffer for me against the long hours and the tedium of bringing on coronaries.
I get to California each winter or spring for two months, which is caused by the need to buy lumber there, and we usually find lots of it around La Jolla, Coronado, and Carmel.
My two dotters are 20 and 24, the former being a Junior at Skidmore and rapidly on the way to a cold garret room in the line of making the lights on Broadway. The latter has been married four years plus and we have two grandchildren, one of each brand, two and three years old, and of course the best such in captivity. I put in almost five years in the Navy, winding up as Asst. Navigator on a baby carrier in the not Pacific.
I missed the 25 th due to the marriage on that date of a nephew. I shall be on hand, I hope, for all future seances. Best regards to you Metz and cheerio.
PHIL DEERING
1924
WILLIAM WIN ANT SHORT died on December 20, in Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, after a short illness. Bill was born in Malone, N. Y. in 1902, the son of Maule E. Hepburn (Wells '97) and Wallace Clark Short (Dartmouth '88). He attended the Malone schools and the schools of Daytona, Florida where the family spent the winters. He was graduated from Franklin Academy, Malone, in 1920. He attended Dartmouth College, Stetson University and Syracuse University where he was graduated from the College of Business Administration in 1925. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the University Club of Syracuse and the Dartmouth Club, New York City.
Since graduation Bill had been associated with several refrigeration and air-conditioning companies among them Servel, McCrae and Carrier Corporation. About 1942 he organized and became president of the William W. Short Company at 274 Madison Avenue, New York City, in which business he was engaged at the time of his death.
Bill enjoyed travel and had toured the United States, Canada, Panama and Central Europe. His hobby was fishing and he had enjoyed trout fishing throughout the Adiron central New York and Canada, and deep sea fishing off the coast of Florida.
He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Raymond Rhine of South Hadley Falls, Mass. and a brother, Commander Wallace C. Short, Jr., of Alexandria, Va.
1934
ALBERT FREDERICK KOCH died September 13, 1948 at Schenectady, N. Y. as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident.
Al was born in Turners Falls, Mass., the son of Gottlieb and Mary (Schick) Koch. He received his preliminary education at Turners Falls High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity.
Upon graduation he taught mathematics at Turners Falls High School, where he met his wife, Frances Meade. After a year of teaching he went with the Millers Falls Company at Millers Falls, Mass. as a time study man. In 1941 he moved to Bridgeport, Conn, as a time study engineer with the General Electric Corporation. From there Al became senior industrial engineer at Waldes-Kohinoor Company on Long Island. In October, 1947 he joined the Murray Corporation at Scranton, Pa. as standards superintendent.
Al had just accepted a position with General Electric again as manager of their new plant at Johnson City, N. Y., then in the final stages of construction, and was their youngest man in the Administration Department in Schenectady at the time of his death.
He is survived by his wife, a son, Albert Frederick Jr., a daughter, Susan, his father, a brother, Eugene Koch, and a sister, Louise.
1938
ROBERT ERRETT ARCHIBALD died in Pasadena, Calif, on December 6, after a short illness.
The son of Elizabeth Robertson and Henry E. Archibald, Arch was born in Lincoln, Ill., on January 24, 1915. He attended the Alhambra (California) High School and Pasadena Junior College before entering Dartmouth.
He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet.
After graduation he did graduate work at the University of California in Berkeley and was connected with Macmillan Publishing Company in San Francisco until he was called to active duty by the Supply Corps of the Navy in March, 1942. He served at various stations in the United States and the Southwest Pacific and received a Letter of Commendation. He was released to inactive duty in September, 1945 with the rank of Lt. At the time of his death he was in the laundry and dry cleaning business in San Gabriel, Calif.
On Nov. 20, 1943, Arch was married to Nancy Heedy o£ Cleveland, Ohio, who survives him with a daughter, Susan Glen, and twins, Robert Errett, Jr. and Sarah Jane; his parents, and two sisters.
The New York Times of December 15 carried the following report of the death of ALLEN MITCHELL BLAKE:
"Kuala, Lumpur, Malaya—American-born A. M. Blake, Headmaster of the Serendah Boys School near here, was slain Monday night by terrorists who burned his body in his residence. The charred skeleton of Mr. Blake, who gave up his United States citizenship to become a Briton, was found by police today in the ruins of his house. The police said he had been shot dead.
"Mr. Blake, 31 years old, had lived in a bungalow amid the 150 orphan boys in his rare. He had refused to carry a gun. He feared the effect that such precautions would have upon the boys who lived about him."
Allen Mitchell Blake was born in Beverly, Mass., on July 23, 1916. After attending Torrington High School (Conn.), Al spent one year at Peekskill Military Academy, coming to Dartmouth as we all did in 1934. He spent only one year with us, going from Hanover to the McLean Hospital School o£ Nursing in Waverly, Mass., where he specialized in mental diseases. After spending some time as a registered nurse in psychiatry, he served as a medical instructor in the Canadian Army. After the war, he gave up American citizenship to work with the Save the Children Fund, a British benevolence. He worked for the fund in London as secretary of foreign relief until he was transferred to Serendah in 1947 as headmaster of the school.
Although he was with us for only one year, many of us will remember him and feel the loss, heightened as it is by its tragic violence in these violent times.
CHARLES WOODMAN HAMILTON '83
ERNEST LEROY SILVER '99
SAMUEL LAWRENCE BARNES '07
LELAND CURTIS BIXBY '19
GEORGE ALFRED BEHRINGER '23
