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]
Wilson, Albion B. '95, October 31 Richards, Guy C. '96, November 1 Moulton, William F. '00, October 14 Peters, William P. '02, August 21, 1944 Burns, Robert A. '09, October 12 Cory, Frank L. '09, October 16 Deferrari, Harry A. '17, October 28 Grady, Francis A. '17, October 4 Haskell, Samuel B. '17, September 16 Steenrod, Alexander H. '17, August 9 Drane, Malcolm G. '19, November 7 Holbrook, Charles S. '24, October 27 Doty, Samuel S. Jr. '31, January Kline, Alan F. '35, October 1 Kroehler, Rodney S. '49, October 17 Winslow, Arthur E. '03th, October 17 Teter, Lucius '20h, October 22
In Memoriam
1896
FRANK T. (KID) HODGDON died at his home .1000 Hill St., in Hannibal, Mo., on October -3. After remaining with our class only one year, Kid went to work in a bank in his home -town. He remained with this bank for over 55 years, and in 1949 became president of the Tanners and Merchants Bank and Trust Co. He became one of the best known and most influential civic leaders in the community where he lived practically all his life.
Active in the Missouri and American Associations, he became widely known in banking circles. In 1918 he was elected president of the state association and in 1920 he became a member of the executive council of the American Bankers Association.
In 1898 Hodgdon was married to Annie Porter Roberts, who survives him with their -son, Frank T. Hodgdon Jr. '21, two daughters, Julia and Ann. The Class of 1896 is proud of having had among its members a man who was such a power for good in his community and for his fellow man.
1900
WILLIAM FORD MOULTON died on October 14 at the Newton-Wellesley (Mass.) hospital. He was born in Brookfield, Vt., on December 14. 1876, but the greater part of his youth was passed at Randolph. He was a member of the Class of 1900 during freshman year.
Most of Bill's life was spent in the employ of the Pullman Company as conductor, having charge for a time of the Twentieth Century, from New York to Chicago, and also of trains from Boston to Detroit and Boston to Albany. An outstanding experience was his as Conductor for the special train carrying President Taft throughout the country during his campaign for the presidency. He retired from this work some years ago and has since lived at 109 Walnut St., Newtonville, Mass. He was buried at his old home town, Randolph, Vt.
Bill was married in 1914 to Annie Millard of Newton, who survives him, as do three stepchildren.
1902
WILLIAM PHILIP PETERS died in Lawrence, Mass., on August 21, 1944. He was born in Acton, Mass., May 4, 1878. He entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1902 but remained only through freshman year.
Phil was a widely known sports editor on the Lawrence Eagle Tribune from 1905. In later years he was with the Boston and Maine Railroad in Lawrence.
He was married to Margaret McDonnel September 16, 1916, and his son William P. Peters Jr. graduated from Dartmouth in the Class of 1942.
1909
ROBERT ARTHUR BURNS died suddenly and peacefully in his sleep on October 12 in South Harwich, Mass., where he was visiting friends. Bob was born in Wilton, N. H., and was the son of the late Charles A. Burns, former mayor of Somerville, and grandson of Judge Charles H. Burns of Wilton. In college he was a varsity baseball and basketball player and a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
He was director of wholesale sales for Borden Farm Products and advertising and national sales manager for the Walter M. Lowney Chocolate Company before his association with the Whiting Milk Company. He was sales and advertising manager of the Whiting firm for more than 20 years. Since last April, he had been associated with the John C. Dowd, Inc. advertising agency.
Bob was a past president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston, national chairman of sales and advertising of the International Milk Dealers Association, vice-president of the New England Dairy and Food Council, vice-president of the Luncheon Club of Boston, a governor of the University Club, and a member of the Beacon Society, Engineers Club, Advertising Club of Boston and Sales Managers Club.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Burns; three sons, Robert Jr. '37 of Burlington, Dr. James McGregor Burns of Williams College and Charles H. Burns, graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, and five grandchildren.
A most loyal and interested son of Dartmouth, a regular attendant at all Dartmouth and class affairs within reach, Bob was a real and warm friend of everybody in the class. His early decease leaves us all with a feeling of personal loss. No one in the class was or could be more affectionately regarded.
FRANK LAWRENCE CORY suddenly dropped dead October 16 as he was walking on High Street in Lebanon, N. H.
Frank was born in Hanover, August 27, 1884, the son of Carleton and Dema (Stark) Cory. While still a small boy, the family moved to Lebanon and the rest of his life was spent there. After leaving college, he purchased the Hatton printing business and changed the name to the Cory Press. In 1935 the Cory-Hewitt Press, Inc., was formed with Frank serving as Vice President. As printer of the Hanover Gazette, Frank was one of those fortunate ones able to keep close contact with Dartmouth affairs and all that it means to those who have the proud privilege of calling it Alma Mater.
His associates say that one word described Frank and that was friendliness. He served as a deacon in the Congregational Church and was very active in York rite masonry. He was a past master and chaplain of Franklin Lodge N'o. 6, F. & AM; past high priest and treasurer of St. Andrew's Chapter No. 10, R.A.M.; past master and treasurer of Washington Council, R. & S.M.; a member of Sullivan Command- ery, K.T., of Claremont; a former member of Bektash Temple, A.A. 0.N.M.5., of Concord, a past patron of Kimball Chapter No. 38, O.E.S. He was a member and past president of the Lebanon Rotary Club and a member of the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce.
Funeral services were held on October 19 in the Congregational Church with burial in Lyme.
The sympathy of the class is extended to his wife, Hilda Brockway Cory, and two brothers, Edward Cory of Leicester, Mass., and Harold Cory of Oriskany, N. Y., in our mutual loss.
1914
VAHAN KALENDERIAN passed away on October 7 at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City.
Born in Agin, Armenia, he came to this country following the Turkish Massacre in 1895, when his entire family with the exception of a cousin and a niece were killed.
Following graduation from Dartmouth he studied law at Columbia, where he later became a member of the faculty in the department of Slavic languages.
"Kelly" was an authority on Near East and Middle East affairs, and was a member of the Armenian Student Association and editor of the Iran Review. In 1948, he addressed the International Bar Association at its annual meeting at The Hague on "Islamic Law and Social Legislation." He also has lectured on Near and Middle East problems in Paris, Rome, Damascus and Teheran.
For years, Kalenderian, who was 59 at the time of his death, had lived at the Dartmouth College Club in New York and at his summer home, Cold Spring Harbor, L. 1.
Although personally opposed to Naziism, he did not hesitate when asked in 1937 to defend Fritz Kuhn, leader of the GermanAmerican Bund. He took the case on the ground that all men in a democracy are entitled to counsel and trial. He was Kuhn'slawyer throughout the famous trial in 1938 and 1939.
Funeral services were held at the Armenian Cathedral, East 27th Street, New York.
1917
FRANCIS ALBERT GRADY died at his home, 8 Throggs Neck Blvd., Bronx, New York City, on October 4.
Frank was born in Worcester, Mass., June 12, 1894. In college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and was one of the editors of the Jack-o-Lantern. In June, 1917 he enlisted in the American Field Service and served in France until December when he was transferred to U. S. Air Corps. Commissioned 2nd Lt. he served overseas twenty months.
Frank's entire career was spent in the advertising field. He was copy chief for several New York agencies until he formed his own company in 1933, Grady and Wagner, of which he was president at the time of his death.
In June, 1922, he was married to Claire Burr.
SAMUEL BOND HASKELL died suddenly on September 16 at his home, 7128 River Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio, from a heart attack.
Sam was born in Painesville, Ohio, July 19, 1894. He left college in April, 1917 to enlist as a Seaman in the USNRF. He was commissioned and promoted to Lt. (j.g.) and served as commanding officer of a Sub Chaser. He was called back to active duty with the Navy in November, 1940, as a Commander and served for four years in the Caribbean and Pacific.
In 1921 Sam was made a probation officer with the Juvenile Court in Cleveland and since its organization in 1928 had been chief of the adult probation department of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas with his headquarters in Cincinnati.
A 32nd degree Mason, member of the Gyro Club and state and national probation and parole associations, Sam had made many friends who were shocked at the news of his death.
On February 18, 1919, he was married to Ruth Mary Couniham who survives him with their daughter Marilyn (Mrs. William Graf) and their son Samuel 8., Jr.
ALEXANDER HEWETSON STEENROD died in Freeport, Ill., on August 9. He was born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, September 17, 1895, the son of George Emerson and Josephine (Hewetson) Steenrod. In college he was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
Ever since graduation Alec had been connected with the Woodmanse Mfg. Co. in Freeport. He was a member of the Elks, Kiwanis and American Legion.
On August 13, 1918 he was married to Dorothy Hettinger who survives him with a son Alexander H., Jr. and a daughter Elizabeth Ann.
1923
WILLIAM THOMAS KEAVNEY, who was at Dartmouth for only a year, died at his home in Stamford, Conn., on September 6, of a heart attack. At the time of his death he was assistant prosecuting attorney of Stamford city court, having been appointed to that office about one year ago, by Judge Joseph P. Zone, Dartmouth '23.
Bill formerly lived in Waterbury, where he had many friends among the Dartmouth group there.
He entered Dartmouth from Williston Academy, and after his year in Hanover attended Catholic University Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1923, and practiced law with Cassidy and Cassidy.
During World War I he served for 18 months as a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service.
He was president of Lodge 1666, International Association of Machinists at the Norma-Hoffman plant in Stamford, and was president of the Connecticut I.A.M. Council, and was prominent in Stamford Democratic circles.
A bachelor, Bill is survived by his niece, Mrs. John Reidy and two nephews, Frank and William Keavney, all of Waterbury.
!935
ALAN FREDERICK KLINE died on October 1, in Chicago. Two years ago he had had a serious brain operation from which he recovered fairly well. But recently complications set in and medical help was unable to save him.
Al was born in Los Angeles February 3, 1913, but spent most of his life in Chicago. He attended the Harvard School for boys in that city before coming to Dartmouth where he was a member of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, played varsity soccer, and worked on "The Dartmouth" news board. Following graduation he went to work for his family business, Kline Brothers Company, a department store chain, and was associated with it the rest of his life.
In 1946 he married Elinor Grant after serving in the Navy during World War 11. His wife and two boys, two and a half years and six months old, survive him.
1949
RODNEY STUART KROEHLER died October 17 as the result of an automobile accident. Rod entered Dartmouth in the summer of 1945 directly from Culver Military Academy in Indiana. He graduated in 1949 with a B.A. degree, having majored in economics.
While at Dartmouth Rod was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. He also was an active member of the Camera Club, Glee Club, Jacko-Lantern, Dartmouth Pictorial, and the varsity swimming team, from which he earned his "D"as an accomplished diver.
Rod was unmarried and was living at his home, 127 Taft Rd., Hinsdale, Ill. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Kroehler. To them the Class of 1949 wishes to extend its deepest sympathies.
ROBERT ARTHUR BURNS 'O9
