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]
Weeks, Lorrain E. '85, June 8 French, Arthur W. '91, May 27 Curtis, Alvah H. M. '94, May 8 Ham, Edward R. '96, September 30, 1948 Moulton, Sherman R. '98, June 16 Shea, Frank A. '98, February 12, 1946 Hill, W. Carroll '02, May 11 Mahoney, William H. '02, April 28 Bloch, Morris '03, March 17, 1942 Jones, Philip N. '03, May 31 Mansur, Fred '03, January 20 Ashley, William H. '05, March 26 Garbry, William F. '07, January 8 Johnson, Robert M. '09, July 29, 1948 Judd, Harold L. '10, May 24 Jackson, Alton B. '11, May 22 Forrestal, James V. '15, May 22 Eastman, Arthur G. '16, May 8 Linn, Carl F. '29, May 6 Snider, Silas S. '29, June 15 Anderson, Edward W. '44, March 1 Chapin, Roger C. '44, June 8 Hudgins, C. Reid Jr. '44, May 23 Ripley, Robert L. '39hon, May 27
In Memoriam
1884
THOMAS MANNING HODGDON, one of the outstanding members of our class, died at his home in Deland, Fla., on March 13.
Hodgdon was born at Greenland, N. H., on October 27, 1858, the son of Alexander and Sarah A. (Walker) Hodgdon.
He attended school at Brackett Academy in Greenland and at Appleton Academy in New Ipswich. He was in business for a time and also taught in the public schools in Greenland. He entered Dartmouth in 1880 with the class of 1884 and graduated with his class. At Dartmouth he was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity and was secretary of the class from 1884 to 1886.
After graduation, he was, for a time, principal of the Limerick, Maine, Academy, after which he attended the Theological Seminary at Hartford, Conn., until 1888. He was an assistant at the North Congregational Church at Middletown, Conn, in 1888-89, after which he returned to the Theological Seminary for another year. After completing his studies there, he became acting minister at the Congregational Church at Sommerville, Conn, and in 1891 became the minister at the First Church of Christ Congregationalism in West Hartford, Conn. He remained in this ministry and resided in West Hartford until 1926, since which time he had been minister emeritus, and made his home in Deland, Fla.
He was married on June 25, 1895 to Jennie Lord Mallory. There were two children, Manning Winslow Hodgdon '19, of 15721 Lake Ave., Lakewood, Ohio, who survives him and a daughter, Florence Kilmer Hodgdon. Mrs. Hodgdon had three children by a previous marriage, who survive him—Mrs. Clara Mallory LeBaron, Mrs. Ethel Mallory Ray and Miss Margaret Lord Mallory. Mrs. Hodgdon died on March 16, 1936.
Hodge was loved and respected by all of his classmates. The writer remembers him as being at all times, a Christian gentleman, and one of the finest characters it has ever been his privilege to know.
1891
ARTHUR WILLARD FRENCH passed away on May 27 at his home in Worcester, Mass. following a long illness.
Arthur, son of Willard and Elmira (Holt) French was born in Battle Creek, Mich, on July 13, 1868. He attended public schools in Milford, N. H. graduating from the high school in 1885. After two years as a clerk in a dry goods store, he entered Chandler SchoolCompleting three years of the course, he entered Thayer School receiving the C.E. Degree in 1892. In 1919 he received his B.S. degree as of 1891. He was a member of Phi Zeta Mu, now Sigma Chi.
In 1891-1894 he was resident engineer at Platte River Paper Mills, Denver, Colo.; 1894-1895, draftsman and designer, Colorado Southern Railway; 1895-1898, associate professor of Civil Engineering at Thayer School, and also an instructor in mathematics in the college; 1899-1933- professor of Civil Engineering and head of department, Worcester polytechnic Institute, resigning as head to devote his time to teaching. In 1938 he was automatically retired, becoming professor emeritus and at commencement that year received an honorary doctorate of engineering degree and the graduates dedicated their year book to him.
Known throughout the country as a pioneer in the field of reinforced concrete he served as superintendent of construction on Harvard Stadium, built concrete structures in Jamaica, supervised the building of the American Antiquarian Society Library, the electrical engineering laboratory, foundry, gymnasium and other W. P. I. campus buildings.
He was co-author of a technical book, "Stereotomy" and had been a frequent contributor to engineering periodicals and civil engineering society proceedings. He was a member of the American, Boston and Worcester Societies of Civil Engineering, Society for Promotion of Engineering Education, Sigma Chi, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi fraternities, and the Economic Club.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carrie V. (Kyte) French, of 202 Russell St., Worcester, with whom he celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, July 2, 1945; four sons, Willard K., Robert F. '19, Frederick A. and Walter H. A beautiful tribute was paid by Rev. Dr. Harold G. Jones in the prayer at the services on Memorial Day in the Central Congregational Church.
A constant attendant at reunions, no one shared greater affection of the class than did "Shorty" French.
1898
FRANK AUGUSTUS SHEA died at Milford, Mass., on February 12, 1946. Frank was a member of the class of i8g8 during his freshman fall. He entered Dartmouth with a very fine record as a baseball catcher but did not stay.
After leaving college he did clerical work with the Standard Manufacturing Co. and since i8gg he was with the Draper Corporation, Hopedale, Mass., as an overseer on textile machinery manufacturing. Frank never had any interest in any class affairs and has been seen by probably no member of the class since he left college. He was unmarried and had lived in Milford, Mass.
1902
The Class of 1902 feels that it has indeed lost a keystone in the death of WILLIAM CARROLL HILL at Auburndale, Mass., on May 11. For eighteen years he was our grand class secretary and undoubtedly knew more of the ups and down of our lives than any other member of the class.
Born in 1875 at Nashua, N. H., he came to Dartmouth from Milford High School. In Dartmouth he started his career as editor by serving four years on The Dartmouth and being on the editorial board of The Aegis.
On graduation he worked for a short time on the Worcester Telegram and BrocktonTimes and then became Managing Editor of the Nashua Daily Press. Later he worked on the Boston Traveler Journal and Post and for six years was with the Associated Press as City Editor. The next few years he spent as publicity director and secretary for the English prima donna Madame Louise Edvina and later for Florencio Constantino, Spanish tenor. He managed the campaigns of Guy A. Ham for Lieutenant Governor and George H. Ellis for Senator and for several years was Executive Secretary of the Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission. From 1918 to 1932, he was managing editor of InsuranceWeekly. And from 1943 until his death he had been editor and historian of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
For many years in his early career William was active in aeronautics and from 1925 to 1930, he was president of the Aero Club of New England. Interested also in skating he was the founder and first president of the Amateur Skating Union of the United States and in 1932 was on the Olympic Committee.
He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and Society of Colonial Wars. In 1917, he was President of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association and was the author of Dartmouth Traditions."
He leaves a wife Marguerite (Baker) Hill, of 321 Auburndale Ave., Auburndale, Mass., a son Robert '42 and a daughter Mrs. William Wood.
WILLIAM HENRY MAHONEY died on April 28, at his home in River Benet, Nova Scotia, where he had lived since his retirement in 1946.
"Bill" was born October 8, 1875 at Miller's Falls, Mass., and came to Dartmouth from Beloit College Academy.
After graduation he spent four years as instructor in sciences at Oregon State Normal School and then in 1907 he returned to Harvard and received his A.M. in 1908. Following this he spent five years in Boston as assistant director, Research Department, School for Social Workers. In September 1913, he went to New York with the Merchants Association and was for many years, until his retirement, head of foreign trade activities of The Commerce and Industry Association, New York City.
He leaves a widow and two brothers, Marshall H. of Miller's Falls and Joseph of Denver, Colo, and a sister Mrs. Bessie Morrison of Bridgeport.
1907
WILLIAM FRANK GARBY died in San Francisco, on January 8.
Frank was born in Walpole, Mass. on December 23, 1877, and was one of the three oldest men in his class. Most of his life since graduation has been spent in San Francisco where he established and operated a credit service.
He had not kept in close touch with his classmates and few have been in touch with him during his many years on the coast. He leaves a brother, H. M. Garby, 15 Chapman St., East Hartford, Conn, and a sister, Mrs. Olive Ward.
1910
HAROLD LEWIS JUDD passed away at his home in Cloquet, Minn, on May 24. "Juddy" as he was well known in the class, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 8, 1888, the son of Charles S. and Rosella (Lewis) Judd. Entering college from Cleveland's University School, he graduated from Dartmouth in the Class of 1910.
He worked for White Trucks until 1912 when he started with Lamson & Sessions Co. at $40.00 per month, rising through the ranks until he became a director of the company as well as director of personnel. Because of ill health he retired in 1946 and moved from Lakewood to make his home in Cloquet.
On September 19, 1911, he was married to Juliette T. Coleman of Bridgeport, Conn., to whom were born four children, Lewis C. (member of the Class of 1936 at Dartmouth), Charles H., Rosemary (died in infancy) and Thomas B. They were divorced a few years ago after which he married his present wife, Kathryn, who makes her home at 339 2nd St., Cloquet.
Always interested in yachting, he was one of the first members of the Cleveland Yacht Club and cruised all of the Great Lakes. Active in the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland, he served as its treasurer, secretary and president, belonged to the Cleveland Athletic Club and Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and served his class as treasurer. In college he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. Able and likeable "Juddy" made friends in College, and his death will be a shock to them.
1911
On May 22, ALTON BLANCHARD JACKSON was claimed by death following a long illness occasioned by a cerebral hemorrhage on July 4, 1940. During all these years he was confined to his home, lovingly attended by his wife, Rebecca. It was only within the past year that it was necessary for him to be moved to a sanatarium because his illness had approached a point where Rebecca could no longer attend him satisfactorily.
"Log," born in Jefferson, Maine, lived most of his life in Everett, Mass. where his father was a doctor. He entered Dartmouth following graduation from Everett High School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Sphinx, and was on the varsity football squad in college.
On July 24, 1915, he was married to Rebecca Chilcott, who survives him together with three daughters, Nancy, Rebecca, and Dorothy.
For seven years following graduation "Log" was New England representative for W. K. Morison Company of Minneapolis, then the North American Copper Company of New York, Skinner Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, and the Carrier Corporation of Syracuse. In 1934, he became a manufacturer's representative handling steel products.
For many years "Log" and Rebecca have made their home in a beautiful old house at the top of the hill in New Boston, N. H. Funeral services were held in the Bigelow Chapel, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, on May 25. Besides his brother Art, other classmates .attending were Ed Chamberlain, Jack Crooks, Gabe Farrell, and Dick Paul.
1911 has lost an active, interested, classmate who participated enthusiastically in all its activities.
FRANK BURTON (BURT) WHITMAN, Sports Editor of the Boston Herald for thirty-one years and one of the best nationally known sports writers, died while covering the Red Sox-St. Louis Browns game at St. Louis on May 8. He collapsed during the 13th inning of this game complaining of a terrible headache and died a few hours later of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Born in Worcester, Mass., June 22, 1886, and a graduate of Classical High School where he played football and was a member of the track team, he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1911, remaining one year, following which he transferred to Harvard.
He later became a reporter on the Worcester Telegram, covering events at Holy Cross, Worcester Academy, and the Worcester high schools. He joined the staff of the BostonHerald in April, 1915, and was made Sports Editor in September, 1917. He was recognized as one of the outstanding authorities on baseball in the United States, and was called the "Dean of Boston baseball writers." He was former president of the Baseball Writers Association of America. He also covered football games and the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Alice Berry Whitman, of 12 Walnut St., Boston, two sons and two daughters.
Funeral services, which were widely attended by newspaper men and representatives of the various athletic groups and associations, were held at St. Mark's Methodist Church in Brookline, followed by commital services in Gorham, Me.
1913
EDWIN Ross MILLRING died in New York on January 13. He was born on December 18, 1889 in Buffalo, N. Y., the son of Laura Ross and Edwin A. Millring, a physician in that city.
He entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1912, after graduating from Lafayette High School in Buffalo, and received his B.S. degree with the Class of 1913.
Ross was a chemist and lived for some time in Buffalo. Previous to his death he and his wife, Ruth B. Millring lived for many years at 166 Van Pelt Ave., Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, N. Y.
1915
JAMES VINCENT FORRESTAL, a loyal, brave, and self-sacrificing servant of the Republic, wearied from nine years of government service, took his own life on May 22 by plunging from a high window in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md.
Born in Beacon, N. Y., February 15, 1892, he graduated from Matteawan High School, and for three years worked on the Matteawan Evening Journal, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. and the Argus News Press, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He attended Dartmouth for one year and Princeton for three. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
In 1915 he was employed by the New Jersey Zinc Co. and Tobacco Products Corp. In 1916 he was with the William A. Read & Co. He entered the U. S. Navy as a seaman second class in May 1917, and was commissioned a naval aviator in November 1917. Discharged with rank of Lieutenant (s.g.) in July 1919, he resumed association with William A. Read & Cos. From 1937 to 1940 he was President o£ Dillion, Read & Cos.
In June 1940 he became administrative assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In August he was appointed Under Secretary of the Navy, engaged with procurement and production for naval expansion program. In May 1944, upon the death of Frank Knox, he was appointed Secretary of the Navy and held this office until September 17, 1947, when he became the first Secretary of Defense, and head of the National Military Establishment.
The death of Jim Forrestal is more than an individual tragedy. In the service of his Country, he knew responsibility, frustration, bitterness. and at last ill-health had emptied his heart of hope and his spirit of fortitude. To the burden of unremitting work were added slights, injustices, and vindictive attacks, making a paralizing load his sensitive and devoted spirit could not bear. The record of his achievements as commander of the greatest Navy the world has ever known, and the reorganizing tasks as Secretary of Defense, is written high in the minds of his countrymen. As a classmate at Dartmouth, and one who has maintained this friendship over the years, his passing was a personal sorrow to the writer.
In October, 1926, Jim was married to Josephine Ogden of Huntington, West Virginia, who survives him. The Class of 1915, with pride in their former classmate's accomplishments and in profound sorrow, extend to her and her two sons, Michael and Peter, their deepest sympathy. Their home is at 3508 Prospect Ave., Washington.
1925
WILLIAM WHITAKER CHISM died suddenly at his desk in the office of the Diamond State Telephone Co., in Wilmington, Del. on May 5. Although he had a record of a functional disorder of the heart and had lost weight his death came as a great shock as no one had any idea his condition was at all serious.
Bill was born in Philadelphia on April 30, 1899 and attended Philadelphia schools. During World War I he served as a Watch and Division Officer in the Navy Department in
Washington. He entered Dartmouth in 1921 but interrupted his course for a year in 1924 when he served as a gunnery officer in the U. S. Coast Guard. He returned to college and graduated with the Class of 1926 and received his degree from Thayer School the following year. He was a member of Alpha Chi Rho and Phi Beta Kappa.
Bill joined the Bell Telephone Company in 1927; he was appointed a Supervisor in 1935, and in 1947 he became Superintendent of the Diamond State Telephone Company, a position he occupied at the time of his death.
Bill's Navy record is an impressive one. A member of the Naval Reserve, he was called to active duty in October, 1940, as a Lt. Commander. He was released to inactive status as a Captain in May, 1946. As commanding officer he participated in landings in Italy, Normandy and Southern France, Iwo Jima and Okinawa and was assigned to occupation duty in Japan. He was cited for his command of the USS Charles Carroll and also received the Legion of Merit.
Bill leaves a host of friends among business associates, at Dartmouth, and in Naval and fraternal circles. He was buried with full military honors on May 9 at Lawn View Cemetery, Fox Chase, Pa.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sara Averitt Chism to whom he was married in 1930, who resides at 4537 Spruce St., Philadelphia.
1927
RAYMOND WAITE HOLBROOK died on May 2 in Memorial Hospital, New York City. Ray was born in Hyde Park, Vt., March 14, 1906 the son of Wynne W. and Geneva (Waite) Holbrook. He prepared for college at Manchester, N. H., High School.
After graduating from Dartmouth Ray received his B.S. in Library Science from Columbia and his A.M. degree from the University of Michigan. He began his career as a librarian with the New York State Masonic Grand Lodge and then served for twelve years as assistant and finally head of the catalogue department of the College of the City of New York Library. He was then called to the University of Georgia to reorganize its libraries under a special grant from the General Education Board, and in 1945 was appointed sociate director of the University's libraries. In the fall of 1946 he returned to New York to become Director of the Russell Sage Foundation Library, the position he occupied at the time of his death.
He was a member of the American Library Association, the Grolier Club, and, with his wife, was active in antiquarian circles and a collector of children's books.
He is survived by his wife, Francis Karr Holbrook, to whom he was married in August 1941. They made their home at 338 Spring St., Ossining, N. Y. Services were held at the Trinity Church in Ossining.
1946
On May 14 burial services were held for ROGER DAY EMERSON at the Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale, N. Y.
Roger was born in Wakefield, Mass., March 15, 1924. the son of Chester Arthur Emerson 'xi and Emma Rawlson Day. He prepared for college at Vermont Academy which he attended from 1939 to 1942.
Rog entered Dartmouth in 1942. He was one of the junior championship skiers in the White Mountain Region. He left College in November 1942 to join the Mountain Infantry where he served first as a ski instructor with the 87th Mountain Infantry.
Roger's outfit was sent to the Aleutians and on August 16, 1943 he was killed in action. He was part of a small detachment sent to take a small island near Kiska. After making their first objective they were threatened with a flank attack. Roger and a dozen others volunteered to hold a ridge on this flank. Six of these men including Roger, were killed. Roger had manned a Browning gun and according to his Sergeant "put up a swell scrap even after he had been mortally wounded. The action of this group of men undoubtedly saved the lives of hundreds of other boys."
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson later received a Purple Heart medal which was awarded to Roger posthumously. Roger was the first member of the Class of 1946 to give his life for his country.
Roger is survived by his parents, now living in Colombia, South America and by three brothers, one of whom is Chester A. Emerson Jr. '38.
