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]
Parkhurst, Lewis '78, March 28 Hodgdon, Thomas M. '84, March 13 Marden, Jesse K. '95, March 21 Lull, Henry M. '97, March 23 Huntington, Leßaron M. '98, February 3 Mitchell, Robert J. '98, January 9 Pope, Frederic S. '98, March 28 Campbell, W. James '05, March 2 Kingsbury, Joseph L. '05, March 13 Millring, Edwin R. '13, January 13 Vanderveer, John D. '2l, March 7 Carlton, Roger C. '23, March 20 Goff, William D. '26, March 20 Bloch, Henry L. '29, March 24 Merritt, John W. '29, January 26 Turkevich, Walter '29, March 11 Belsky, Abraham H. '35, March 17 Ridelsperger, Gail K. '2gmed, March 11
In Memoriam
1897
Henry Morris Lull, one o£ the outstanding members of our class, died of a heart attack while attending Charter Day ceremonies at the University of California at Berkeley, on March 23.
Henry's forebears had been residents of Vermont since 1763 and he was born there, in Windsor, March 31, 1875, the son of Sumner Thomas and Emma Louise (Cleveland) Lull. He prepared for college at Windsor High School. At Dartmouth, where he graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank, he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and held one and two mile records in bicycle racing.
After graduation Henry was for two years Principal of the High School in West Lebanon; from 1899 to 1904 he was Vice Principal of Punahou School in Honolulu; and for the next two years he was head of the mathematics department at Belmont School for Boys, near San Francisco. During these years Henry had been spending his spare time studying civil engineering and working on engineering projects during vacations.
In 1906 he entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Company as a draftsman in the San Francisco office; when, in 1927, he became Executive Vice President he brought to the job of guiding the lines a rich experience gained from the mud, slides and forest fires of Oregon, through the deserts and mountains of the West, and the swamps and prairies of Texas and Louisiana. Under his direction the rail lines under his care were, extended and improved; the critical war traffic level was sustained; the lines were kept solvent; on his retirement in March 1945 the lines were at peak efficiency and in better physical condition than ever in their history.
An indefatigable fly fisherman, the only company rule Henry ever broke was to "borrow" the roadmaster's rail motor car on weekends to reach the more inaccessible trout streams.
On August 5, 1902, Henry was married in San Francisco to Alice Woods who survives him with their daughter Mrs. Barbara Rahm and their son Arthur S. Lull '31.
Henry, the tall, dry witted Vermonter, unassuming in manner, always friendly in contact, will be greatly missed by his Class and his College.
1898
FREDERIC SETH POPE died as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage at Sandwich, Mass., on March 28.
Seth was born in Sandwich, on January 13, '875 to one of the old Sandwich families. He was graduated from the Sandwich High School in the class of 1893 and from Dartmouth with the degree of B.L. in 1898, with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and had been a member of the Dramatic Club.
On graduation from Dartmouth he was appointed principal of Sandwich High School where he served from 1898 until 1901. He 'hen became Superintendent of the Sandwich, Bourne and Mashpee schools until 1905. He then became Superintendent of Schools at North Easton where he served six years and then moved to Gardner, Mass., where he was Superintendent from 1911 to 1913.
Leaving the teaching profession he entered the banking business with the First National Bank of Gardner where he served as cashier until 1918. His next move took him to Chicago, where he became cashier of the Chicago Trust Company, becoming vice president before leaving that institution in 1929. He became vice president of the National Bank of the Republic in Chicago and in 1931 was elected president of the Old Dearborn Bank of Chicago. During the depression years he devoted his time to real estate and business management.
In 1937 Seth retired and returned to Sandwich to make his home in the old house in which both he and his father were born and which had been owned only by Popes for 154 years. Having retired at the age of 62 in 1948 he wrote, "Retirement while faculties were still unimpaired was a mistake. Complacent drifting is a fine thing to look forward to, but when attained proves disappointing. A man ought to pull an oar as long as he is physically and mentally able, even if he can no longer stroke the boat."
After his return to Sandwich he was elected a selectman before he had had time to regain his voting privilege in the town. He was interested in the civic life of the town and served on many committees. He was a prominent member of the Sandwich Village Improvement Society, trustee of the Sandwich Free Public Library and former president of the Sandwich Health Association. He left two daughters and three grandchildren and his widow to whom he was married but recently. One of his grandsons expects to enter Dartmouth in 1951 and the other one in 1953.
Seth was a well loved classmate and his cheery smile and personality will be greatly missed at the future reunions of the class.
LE BARON MONROE HUNTINGTON died at New Brunswick, N. J. on February 3, from a heart attack. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 1, 1875 and fitted for Dartmouth at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of the class during 1894-96. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and an editor of the Dartmouth Literary Monthly.
After leaving college he first engaged in newspaper work and then in banking in New York City. For many years he was an executive in several phonograph companies and at the time of his death was Manager of the Salvage Department of the Personal Products Corporation of Milltown, N. J.
While he had not attended any of the reunions of the class he had kept in touch with Dartmouth through his membership in the Dartmouth Club of New York. He leaves a widow and two daughters.
ROBERT J. MITCHELL died at Randolph, Vt., on January 9, after an illness of several months. He was born in Bridgewater Corners, Vt., on March 29, 1874. After preparing for college at Randolph High School he entered Dartmouth and was a member of the class of 1898 from 1894 through 1897. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
After leaving college Bob engaged in the clothing and furnishings business in Randolph and later also with his son in the jewelry business.
He was married to Stella C. Watson at Randolph August 26, 1907. She died October 28, 1920. He left five children, one son, Robert W. being Dartmouth 1932. Little has been seen of Bob by the class since he left college but he had remained a good Dartmouth man and had been a regular contributor to the Alumni Fund.
1904
DONALD GILMAN KIMBALL died on March 7 at the Naval Hospital, Kittery, Me., of a heart attack.
The son of Edward L. Kimball '81 and Marsha Parker he was born in Manchester, N. H. on November 30, 1882. He was educated in the Manchester schools and graduated from Dartmouth in 1904, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Dragon.
Don enlisted in the First Corps Cadets in Boston in 1909 and was always active in that organization which served in World War I as the 101st Engineers of the Yankee Division. Don served overseas from October 1917 to September 1918.
Most of his life was spent in Boston, where he was employed by the Burtt Shoe Cos. and later by the Reginald Boardman Association. About three years ago, he moved to Moultonboro, N. H. where he was employed at Beaton's Store.
Don is survived by a sister, Mrs. William L. White and three brothers, Edward L., Parker S. and Philip G. Kimball '22.
Services were held in Exeter, N. H. on March 10 and burial was in the Forest Dale Cemetery, Maiden, Mass. Members of the class attending the service were Ferdinand and Mrs. Edgerly, Mathes, Young, Sewall and Lampee.
Louis IRVING PERRY passed away December 28, 1948, in the Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis. He was born January 31, 1883 in North Billerica, Mass., the son of Josiah and Jane (Auty) Perry.
After graduating from North Billerica High School, he attended Lowell High School for one year, entering Dartmouth in 1900, to graduate in 1904. In College he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx.
For several years Louis was with a Boston brokerage house, then he became associated with Niles and Niles, Certified Public Accountants of New York City, as travelling auditor.
On June 13, 1920 he married Mary Valentine Landers of Clarinda, lowa, and for three years they went from coast to coast, Louis auditing public utility holdings. "It was a grand trip—we had time for so much sight seeing in California, Oregon, Washington New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Mexico and plenty of golf, bridge and fun."
In 1923, Louis was made manager of the Boston office of Niles and Niles, continuing in that work until he went with United Shoe Machinery Corporation in 1928. After his retirement on October 1, 1948, he moved to Harwich Port, on the Cape, hoping that his health would benefit by the change, but he lived less than two months.
1905
WILLIAM JAMES CAMPBELL, pastor of the Boothbay Harbor Congregational Church since last summer, passed away suddenly at St. Andrews Hospital, Boothbay Harbor, on March 2. He had been taken to the hospital Saturday morning after suffering a broken hip when a truck knocked him down. His condition was reported as good during the first part of the week. The cause of his death was a cerebral hemorrhage.
Dr. Campbell was born at Carlton, P. E. I, Canada, on September 28, 1877, the son of Donald and Mary Ann (McPherson) Campbell. He attended Ohio Northern University from 1896 to 1898 and Bangor Theological Seminary from 1900 to 1903. His bachelor of arts degree came from Dartmouth College in 1905. His other degrees were S.T.B. from Harvard in 1907, M.A. from Harvard in 1908. and LL.D. from Marietta College in 1937.
Dr. Campbell became an American citizen in 1919. He had been ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1905 and then joined the Congregational Church.
He was associate pastor of the First Congregational Church in Detroit from 1908 to 1910, then became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Port Huron, Mich, until 1913 when he accepted a pastorate at the First Church in Kalamazoo. From 1915 to 1921 he was pastor of the Williston Church in Portland, Me., from where he moved to Youngstown, Ohio and served until 1928. He became president of Vanderbilt University's Atlanta Theological Seminary Foundation in 1929 and held the position until his retirement. Since 1934 he had been a professor of practical theology at Vanderbilt University.
A member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the American Society of Church History, he was a thirtysecond degree Mason and Shriner. In 1906 he married Clara Smythe Green who survives him, with a daughter Louise Grace.
Funeral services were held at the Congregational Church, Boothbay Harbor, March 6.
1915
RAYMOND FIELD RUSSELL died at Memorial Hospital, Worcester, Mass., on March 6. Ray was born in Worcester, February 191891, a son of the late Herbert James and Katherine (Field) Russell. He was graduated from Classical High School in 1911 and from Dartmouth College in 1915. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He was a veteran of World War I, enlisting De' cember 11, 1917 as a Private in the Army, and was stationed at Fort Slocum, N. Y. On Auwas st 10, 1918 he was commissioned a second Lieutenant and was stationed at Fort Wood, N. Y.
In 1919-21 was with Harpham, Barnes, Stevens & Co. in Boston, and also an accountant with the George A. Smith Cos. During 1921-25 he was with the Aeolian Co. of New York and served as office manager with the Webber Piano Co. From 1925-27 he was associated with the State Mutual Life Assurance Co of Worcester. In 1937 he entered the firm of Sleeper & Hartley, Inc. as Treasurer and Was Vice-President at his death.
In his Worcester affiliations, he was a member of the Dartmouth Club of Worcester County and the Philatelic Society. He attended Central Congregational Church, from which his funeral was held.
Ray married Ethel Sleeper at Jacksonville, Fla., January 23, 1918. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Sally Stedt of Worceter, two sons, Richard S. '49 and Frank S. '51, students at Dartmouth, a sister, Mrs. Miriam R. Lancaster of Worcester, and a granddaughter.
1921
JOHN DITMIS VANDERVEER died in Hempstead, N. Y. on March 7. He was born in Queens, N. Y. June 29, 1898, the son of Charles and Helen (Ditmis) Vanderveer. He prepared for college at Brooklyn Polytechnic Preparatory School.
At Dartmouth, John was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. As he remained with the class for only one year, he never subsequently kept in touch with the class or the College.
He is survived by his wife, the former Margaret Covert. The funeral was held in Garden City on March 9.
1923
ROGER CONANT CARLTON, died on March 20, of leukemia, in Harkness Pavilion of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York. He lived at 2 Ballard Place, Radburn, N. J.
Rog was born in Rimouski, Canada, August 6, 1899. With his parents he returned to the United States and spent his boyhood in Milford, N. H. He was a veteran of World War I, having enlisted in the U. S. Navy in December 1917. He served as a radio operator at the Radio Relay and Communications Center at Bar Harbor, Me.
At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, and was one of the founders of the Dartmouth Radio Club. After graduation, Rog joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and since then was constantly concerned with radio research and development, with particular emphasis on aviation communications, radar, and radio relays for television.
He was a member of the Benevolent Lodge of the Masonic Order in Milford, and was a former president of the Square Club of Radburn. For many years he was president of the Fair Lawn Boys Club, and an active official in the Boy Scout organization.
Rog is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marion Parker Carlton; a daughter, Carolyn Elizabeth; a son, Francis Conant; his father, Chester V. Carlton; and two brothers, Clarence and Albert Carlton.
1926
WILLIAM DAVID GOFF died suddenly March 20, in Concord, Mass.
Born in Providence, R. I. on December 15, 1902, Dave was the son of William David and Alice (Strahan) Goff. He prepared for Dartmouth at Allen Military School in West Newton, Mass.
Dave left Hanover in 1923 and, after ventures into the manufacturing business and real estate, became an agricultural contractor in which business he was actively engaged at the time of his death. He was a member of the Concord Rotary Club and a director of the Strahan Wallpaper Company of Chelsea, Mass.
Dave is survived by his wife, the former Gladine MacGregor whom he married in 1924, and a daughter, Joan, born in 1925. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett, Mass. The sincere sympathies of the class are extended to his survivors.
1929
WALTER TURKEVICH died on March 11 at the State Hospital, Central Islip, N. Y. He had been in ill health for several years.
The funeral was held at 3 P.M. on March 12 in the Russian Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration, Brooklyn, N. V. Walter's father, who is the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Chicago, had flown to New York for the funeral service. His three brothers, John '28, Nicholas '40 and Tony '37, served as pallbearers as did I—who was both a classmate and a fraternity brother.
Interment was in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens, in the family plot.
In the passing of Wally, Dartmouth has lost a loyal son. He worked his way through college but found time to be an active participant in athletics and in social activities. Wally was a fine student. He had been successful in business in New York City prior to his long illness.
L. W. L.
1935
ABRAHAM HERMAN BELSKY, lawyer and head of a real estate agency in Holyoke, Mass., and his father were both killed on March 17, when their automobile skidded and crashed head-on into an oil truck on Severn Run bridge in Glen Burnie, Md. His father was killed instantly and Abe died shortly after being admitted to the University Hospital in Baltimore. They were returning from Florida where the father had been spending the winter. Abe had flown down a week before the accident to drive his father back.
Abe spent his Junior year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and was a member of Le Cercle Francais. After graduating he received his M.A. from Bucknell in 1936 and an LL.D. from Harvard in 1940. For a time he worked as a lawyer for his father, a manufacturer of paper mill supplies. Eventually he became President of Charles Belsky & Co., real estate.
For two years during the war he served as legal officer with the Army Engineers in construction of the Alaskan highway, and later went to Korea with the military government. He was a past commander of the Jewish War Veterans of Holyoke and a member of the William Whiting Lodge of Masons. He had never married.
We remember him for his warm, friendly personality, an abundant sense of humor and, at the same time, a seriousness of purpose that was bringing him steady success. His tragic and untimely death is indeed a sad loss to the class.
HENRY MORRIS LULL '97
FREDERIC SETH POPE '98
