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 Uiter number]

Hayt, Walter V. '78, December 25, 1949 Nutt, Howard E. '90, December 29, 1949 Amey, Harry B. '94, December 6, 1949 Hinckley, Daniel R. '03, November 5, 1949 O. Alexander Mechlin '03, December 15, 1949 Herman, Earl L. '04, December 28, 1949 Blake, Henry C. '07, December 20, 1949 Davidson, Herman '14, December 2, 1949 Badger, Walter I. P. '15, September 19, 1949 Rood, Kingsland T. '18, December 23, 1949 Smith, Ernest C. '23, September 27, 1949 Hill, Joe J. '27, January 9 Lynch, Charles S. '30, December 12, 1937 Killick, Thomas M. '47, December 17, 1949 Hicks, Charles A. 'Blm, December 28, 1949 Bowman, Isaiah '3511, January 6

In Memonam

1878

One of the saddest assignments of the alumni editor is to close the records of the classes in the '7os which made such great contributions to Dartmouth history.

The death of WALTER VOORHEES HAYT on Christmas day, in Sacramento, Calif., closes the annals of the Class of 1878 which gave to the nation state governers, diplomats, judges and educators, to'say nothing of men like the Parkhursts and Parkinsons who gave so much of their lives and substance to Dartmouth.

Born in Newburgh, N. Y. April 5, 1857, the son of Stephen and Mary Jane (Voorhees) Havt, Walter prepared for college at Newburg Academy. In college he led the "experimental life" as he did throughout his career. There were few activities in which he did not take part. Shortly before Commencement he left college of his own free will, after expressing his mind to the President. Twenty-five years later he was awarded his degree.

From 1878 to 1888 he served various railroads in the West as surveyor. From 1889 to 1914 he served the city of Chicago in the tiealth Department and in the Municipal Court. In 1914 he moved to California where as he expressed it "he was a common dirt farmer, called orchardist when the press wants information."

Always keenly interested in politics, Mr. Hayt held political positions for 30 years, irrespective of what party was in power. He refused to run for elective office for he declared that the second fiddles lasted much longer than the politicians.

To use his own words, "When I cross the range the New England Branch of the Hayt family which founded Charlestown, Mass. in 1628 is '3o.' From that time we have been a progressive family in any community where we made a home. Never any record of horse thieves or divorce charged against us, through all these years we have served our country in war and peace."

On January 24, 1880, Mr. Hayt was married to Alice Baker who died on March 12, 1893. The following February he married her sister Clara, who survives him at their home 669 55th St., Sacramento. Mr. Hayt's oldest son, Stephen Kingman, was killed in the Philippine Insurrection in 1904. His son Walter Dudley, a veteran of the Spanish and Philippine wars and World War I, died in 1938; and his third and youngest son died in 1930 after being a helpless invalid for eleven years.

Through more sadness than allotted to most, Mr. Hayt's keen sense of humor never failed, and he frequently asserted that he took his medicine without a kick. On commenting on his health he said that his heart valves leaked and he had suggested new gaskets to the doctor, but perhaps they were not necessary as he had. withstood the shock of the 1948 election.

In the death of Walter Hayt the Dartmouth Club o£ San Francisco loses its Grand Old Man; the alumni editor loses a friend whose humorous letters made life more fun for years; and the College loses the last member of a truly great class.

C. E.F.

1884

WILLIAM JOSEPH STARR died in Manchester, N. H., on October 27. He was born in Manchester, April 20, 1863, the son of William and Joanna Starr. He prepared for college in the Manchester schools and graduated in 1884 from the Scientific .Department at Dartmouth where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi.

Going West after graduation, Mr. Starr served as a civil engineer for the A.T. & St. Fe R.R., engaged in the real estate business in the state of Washington, and took part in the Klondike gold rush of 1898.

Returning to Manchester, he studied law in the office of Taggart and Bingham and in 1904 was admitted to the bar. A member of the firm of Wyman, Starr, Booth, Wadleigh and Langdell at the time of his death, Mr, Starr had been with this firm and its predecessors throughout his 45 years of practice. A member of the New Hampshire and American Bar Associations, he held fourth degree membership in the Knights of Columbus.

Always active in Dartmouth affairs, Mr. Starr was a past president of the Manchester Dartmouth Club and served his class as Secretary from 1938 until forced to retire a few months ago due to ill health.

On January 1, 1887, Mr. Starr was married to Abbie True of Manchester, who died in 1893. On June 23, 1909, he married Margaret Fagin who survives him with their daughter, Mrs. Frances S. Lowell, and their two sons, William J. Jr. '33 and Cornelius J. The family home is at 81 Buzzell St., Manchester.

1894

After an illness of approximately five years, during most of which he was confined to his bed, HARRY BURTON AMEY died at his home in Island Pond, Vermont, December 6, within fifteen days of his eighty-first birthday.

He was a farmer's son, born in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, which is in that region of Northern New England where the widest part of Vermont and the narrowest part of New Hampshire come together. It is about thirty miles from Island Pond where he spent nearly all of his active life.

He fitted for college at Lancaster Academy. In college he took what was then called the classical course, and his letters to the class in subsequent years disclosed a fondness for quoting from Latin authors. He belonged to the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. In college he earned the appelation of "Senator." In various ways it fitted him as it did no other member of the Class, and every '94 man, then or since, instinctively has spoken of him as "The Senator."

Following college, he taught for several years in his native Coos county (at West Stewartstown and Lancaster). Meanwhile, he studied law, so that in 1898 he was admitted to the New Hampshire bar, followed by admittance to the United States District Court practice in 1900 and to the Vermont bar in 1903. He practiced first at Milton, New Hampshire, from 1898 to 1902. In 1902 he came to Island Pond and formed a partnership with Porter H. Dale, who was destined to become Congressman and Senator from Vermont. He had been in Island Pond for only two years when he was made State's Attorney for Essex County, a position which he filled for six years, at two periods. He also represented his town in the Vermont House of Representatives and his county in the Vermont Senate in 1919-20. Then for ten years he was United States District Attorney for the State of Vermont, 1923 to 1933, serving during the Coolidge and Hoover periods and giving way when Roosevelt became President.

At the end of his service for the United States, he returned to Island Pond and resumed the practice of law which he continued until his illness. During his law practice, he served at different times as attorney for the Central Vermont Railway and for the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, on which Island Pond is an important station.

He was a member of the Vermont and New Hampshire Historical Societies; a Free and Accepted Mason- a member of Barton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Newport Commandery, Knights Templar; Mt. Sinai Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Montpelier.

He was twice married: first, to Grace A. Norton in 1897; after her death, to Mrs. Harriet Hardy Bailey, who survives him, having given unfailing care during his long illness. He is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Benjamin Heath (Alph Norton Amey) of Derby Line, Vt.; and a son, Henry T. Amey of South Paris, Me.; and by seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Interment was in Pittsburg, N. H.

"Senator" Amey was a frequent and welcome attendant at Class reunions. He was also usually represented by characteristically pithy letters in the Class reports. All of us were indeed sorry that we did not see more of him in recent years.

C. C. M.

1898

FREDERIC HAMILTON LEGGETT died suddenly at Garden City, L. 1., on December 4, while visiting at the home of his brother-in-law. Funeral services were held on December 6 at Ridgeview Congregational Church, White Plains, N. Y.

The church, its altar banked with floral offerings, was filled with former business associates, church members, neighbors and friends. Virgin '00, Marsh '01 and Seelman '98 attended. The service was brief, consisting of scriptural readings and a brief eulogy by Rev. Robert W. Putsch who said in part: "We will remember Frederic Leggett for many unusual qualities which stood out crystal clear in his life. One became aware first of all of the utter clarity of his thought, and of the rapidity of the operation of his mind. Mr. Leggett seemed always to know, far more clearly than most of us ever do, the principles by which he lived, the ends he sought to obtain, and the means he felt worthy and effective in obtaining them. Then there was his contagious good cheer, his eagerness in greeting the day and his friends, the joy he took in living, and in being a constructive part of the world's great life." Burial was in Hudson, N. Y.

He is survived by his wife, Berthe Bohle Leggett, three daughters, Mrs. Daniel L. Dyer (Dartmouth '39), Mrs. Donald Currie and Mrs. John A. Nathans, and a brother, William F. Leggett.

"Ted" Leggett was born at Hudson, N. Y., March 4, 1876, the son of Charles F. and Helen (Ferguson) Leggett. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1894 as one of a group of five from Boys High School, Brooklyn, through the influence of Harry F. Towle '76: Robbert, Vice president of the United States Trust Co. of N. Y.; Green, legislator and lawyer; Swift, internationally known educator, and Bennis, retired official of the A.T. & T. Cos. Truly a noteworthy group of whom Bennis alone survives.

Ted was a member of Psi Upsilon, Theta Nu Epsilon and Sphinx, and was leader of the Mandolin Club 1895-1897. Upon graduation he entered the employ of Western Electric Company. His entire business career was spent in the management of that company and its subsidiaries. His work took him to Japan, where he lived several years and to Belgium, where he met and married his wife. At the time of his retirement, March, 1941, he was treasurer and a director of the company. He was a member of the Corporation of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches of U.S. and of the Board of Trustees of the Annuity Fund for Congregational Ministers and Retirement Fund for Lay Workers. He was a Life Member of Telephone Pioneers of America.

His service to Dartmouth and to '98 was as devoted and effective as it was voluntary and unstinted. As a member of the Alumni Council, 1926-1931, as its President, 1930-1931, as Chairman of the Alumni Fund, 1930-31, as '9B Class Agent, 1917-41, he rendered distinguished service to the College. In his work as Class Agent, he sought and found classmates who had dropped out of sight and brought them back to the College and the Class. Ted Leggett was the driving energy that animated our Class. He built up a spirit that made '98, small in numbers, a force in Dartmouth affairs and a united band of closely knit classmates. What he did we can never forget. He was a talented musician and a philatelist whose collection is one of the largest private extant. He was Chairman of the 50th reunion committee, and was chosen at that time as alternate class president.

His wit, geniality and urbanity, combined with tact, and springing from a nature that scorned affectation and sham, made him the center of our Class gatherings and endeared him to us all. Jack Spring in the 50th Reunion Report wrote: "Ted Leggett was present with his wife Berthe and three daughters, Marion, Yvonne and Marjorie. They are a most delightful family: and no '98 reunion will ever be complete unless they are all present." .

With the passing of Moulton, Pope and Leggett, all of whom were with us on the 50th, there is a void in the ranks that cannot be filled, but the record of their love for Dartmouth and the devotion of Ted Leggett to the College and the Class of '98 are an inspiration to those of us who remain to carry on.

E.P.S.

1903

DANIEL ROY HINCKLEY died of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 5 in the Baptist Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He was taken ill in the afternoon and died without regaining consciousness.

Dan was bora in West Lebanon, N. H., March 3, 1879, and prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. Dan's entire business career was spent in advertising, for many years in Chicago and later in Nashville. Active in the Dartmouth Club of Nashville, he had served as its secretary and as president.

About nine years ago Dan moved to Memphis where he was in the advertising department of Plough, Inc. He is survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Davidson; a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Lansing; a son Davidson Dana; and a sister, Marie Hinckley of West Lebanon. The family home was at 1657 Linden Ave., Memphis.

OSCAR ALEXANDER MECHLIN died on December 15 in Portland, Ore., where he had lived since 1940. "Mech" was born in Washington, D. C., October 13, 1881, the son of Frederick S. and Cornelia Mechlin.

After graduation he was in 1905 appointed professor of civil engineering at George Washington University. About 1910 he entered the construction engineering profession and was connected with large construction all over the country, including work at the Philadelphia \Navy Yard. He had charge of most of the dry docks on the Pacific coast during World War 11. In World War I he was an ensign in the Navy Engineering Corps. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and in college was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

He is survived by his wife, the former Bertha H. Jones, whom he married in 1907; a daughter, Doris, now Mrs. John Lane, both of Portland; and a brother, Ernest, of Washington, D. C.

1907

HENRY CLEVELAND BLAKE died on December 20 in Exeter, N. H. Hank was born in Conway Center, N. H., on April 8, 1885, the son of James Horatio and Ellen (Ploughman) Blake. In college he was a member of Delta Tau Delta and played on the varsity football and baseball teams.

From 1907 to 1913 he taught at the University School in Detroit; from 1913 to 1918 he was at St. Paul's School, Garden City, N. Y. In 1018 he went to Exeter as head football coach and continued in that capacity until 1930 when he became a member of the French department at the school.

On August 17, 1908, Hank was married to Nellie Ames of Fairfield, Me., who died on September 21, 1948. On May 28, 1949, he was married to Alice Barlow of Springfield, Mass., who survives him. He is also survived by his son, James H. Blake '3B, and by two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Ewing and Mrs. Dorothy Denham.

1915

Walter Irving Pearson Badger, died at the Laconia, N. H., Hospital on September 19, after a long illness.

Walter was born February 13, 1891, in Boston, Mass., the son of Daniel Bradford and Elizabeth (Pearson) Badger. He attended Cascadilla School before entering Dartmouth. In college he was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity. His college career covered but one year. He spent most of his life in the insurance business as a broker in Boston.

Walter is survived by his widow, the former Eleanor Briggs, and by a son, Donald Briggs Badger '38, who is credited with being the first 1915 son to graduate from Dartmouth. He also leaves a brother, Erastus B. Badger 'OB. Walter made his home on Eaton Ave., Meredith, N. H.

The Class of 1915 extends its deepest sympathy to his family and with it the hope that Time, the great healer, will soften and assuage their great loss.

1918

KINGSLAND TROUTMAN ROOD, "King" to the many who knew him, passed away on December 23 at Northern Westchester Hospital, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. The memorial service was packed with those who knew King to be an honest, hard working man. His friends were asked not to send flowers, but instead to give money to the Cancer Fund.

King was born in Hazleton, Pa., November 8, 1895, the son o£ Henry E. and Elizabeth (Troutman) Rood. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1914 and withdrew in May 1917 to enlist in the U. S. Army, in which he rose to be Captain of Infantry. His degree was awarded to him while he was in military service.

In our undergraduate days, King was active on the campus and his ready wit and sound sense were rock-ribbed sort of things. After college, he served as Class Secretary and Class Agent and was loyally present at most all '18 gatherings. He had started at the bottom and his clear and well-balanced thinking brought him to the top, as Manager of the Long Lines Division of the A. T. & T. Co. He was Commissioner of Streets and Parks, and on the Planning Board of his town of Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., and yet, with it all, King still had time to interview applicants for Dartmouth.

King's family had been connected with Hanover and Dartmouth for generations. His ancestors were living in Hanover at the time of the Revolution and generations of Roods are buried in the old cemetery. King's father attended N. H. College of Agriculture when it was in Hanover.

He leaves his wife, Peggy, a son at Deerfield and due at Hanover next fall, and three daughters. The world would be a better place to live in if there were more King Roods. King's memory will always live with us.

1919

All of us were shocked to learn of the sudden death of EUGENE GENTRY NEELY 011 December 2 in Dallas, Texas.

Born in Comanche on February 9, 1896, Gene was the son of Richard Vernon and Alma (Gentry) Neely. After attending the Terrill School in Dallas, Gene entered Dartmouth with the class in 1915 and remained two years. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

Bill Cunningham, writing from Hanover, devoted his entire column in the BostonHerald of December 5 to an account of Gene's career and their friendship, dating back to their boyhood days in Texas. Quoting in part: "Gene Neely died down in Dallas Friday night. I was at my desk in The Herald when they started calling. Gene died of a heart attack—'athlete's heart,' was the way they said it over the telephone. He's had a warning tic or two in the past year, but the end was as unexpected and as sudden as it was complete.

"Gene Neely was Dartmouth's famous onearmed athlete of the '16 and '17 varsity football and baseball teams. He was a powerful, pile-driving guard of All-America rank. He was varsity center fielder and lead-off batter with the baseball team. If his athletic career hadn't been stopped by the first World War, there's no guessing at the record he'd have left as a college athlete. Once in the final years of his life, the late Major Frank Cavanaugh told me he considered Neely possibly the greatest lineman he ever coached. With all this, Gene was possibly the most popular member of our class, and he was especially popular with the Hanover townspeople

"Gene wasn't really 'one-armed.' More properly, he was 'one-and-a-half-armed.' His right forearm and hand had been lost in a bird-hunting accident when he was 12 years of age. The remarkable part of it was that he'd been right-handed before this happened, and it was his right hand and forearm that was lost

"For football, he fitted his stub into a heavy leather cylinder closed at the bottom and heavily padded inside with lamb's wool. This was strapped to his upper arm and held in place by his jersey sleeve, cut and sewed together just below the elbow. The officials always carefully examined this apparatus before and sometimes during the games, because those were the days of 'use of hands,' and Neely generally knocked out so many opponents in one way or another that word got around he wore a metal slug in that harness. That libel used to make him fighting mad, and a fighting mad Neely was something awesome to observe. This emotion generally translated itself into three or four more prostrate opponents on the next three or four consecutive plays.

"In baseball Neely was a regular Tris Speaker in center. It was practically impossible to knock a ball over his head. Running at top speed, he'd pull the ball down into his glove, flip it into the air, quickly rip the glove off, catch the ball in his bare hand and burn it like a pitcher to home plate, or wherever. He used a light, short bat, and was a deadly bunter. Sometimes, however, he crossed up the pitcher, and rapped the ball through, or over, the infield. Once I saw him belt a three-bagger.

"Gene couldn't go to war when the rest of us did. He tried in every possible way, but they wouldn't take him. It almost killed him. Since then the story o£ the rest of his life was just as successful. Gene inherited and managed successfully his ancestral properties, and for all its years, until his death, he was head of the HOLC for the government in his part of the world.

"Gene went back to Texas from Hanover when it all was over up here, and married Nell Orand of Brownwood, who survives. They reared a fine son and a beautiful daughter—the boy, Stanley, a great end and captain of the University of Texas football team, president of the student body, president of his fraternity, etc.; the daughter, Adele, the U. of T. beauty queen, head of her sorority, and generally sharing honors on every level with her brother. Both are now happily married and successful in their own rights."

1925

EDWARD MACY MCNAMEE, totally blind and hopelessly crippled by arthritis, died at his home, 903 East Hedrick Dr., Tucson, Ariz, on November 26.

Ed was born December 1, 1902, in Wabash, Ind., the son of Henry Hughes and May (Good) McNamee. He prepared for college at Wabash High School where he played football for three years and was President of the Senior Class.

After leaving college, Ed took up advertising in Chicago and later shifted to saleswork which he was forced to relinquish in 1937 due to ill health.

Ed was a member of Sigma Chi and always a loyal alumnus of the College, being a regular contributor to the Alumni Fund. We all remember him as a jovial, happy classmate and he will be greatly missed.

Ed is survived by his wife Dorothy and by his father, Henry McNamee of Northport, Mich.

1930

PHILIP ALLEN LOWER died in Auburn, N. Y., on November 25.

Phil was born in Auburn, on August 5, 1907. He attended Auburn Academic High School and Dean Academy. He was with the class in Hanover for three years, returning to Auburn where he became associated with New York State Electric & Gas Corp., for which he was a construction accountant.

In 1935 Phil was married to Mary-Nell Dickerman, a Smith graduate, who survives him, as does his son, David Allen, 12, his daughter, Nancy Briggs, 7, and a brother, M. E. Lower '26. James W. Lower '27 was also a brother.

1944

EDWARD WILLIAM ANDERSON died on March 1, 1949, in Cos Cob, Conn., after a long illness.

Ed was born in Greenwich, Conn., May 25, 1922, the son of William John and Esther (Johnson) Anderson. He prepared for college at Greenwich High School and entered college in September 1940. In August 1942 he enlisted in the Marine Corps, and was inducted in July, 1943. He received his degree from Dartmouth in November, 1943. After serving with the Marines as a 2nd Lt. until his discharge in November 1944 he was on active duty with U. S. Merchant Marine from November 1944 until he received a medical discharge in September 1945.

Ed is survived by his parents of 44 Post Road, Cos Cob.

ROCER COE CHAPIN died in New York City on June 8, 1949. He was born in Detroit May 4, 1923, the son of Harold F. and Elizabeth (Gray) Chapin. He prepared for college at Freeport, N. Y., High School.

Roger enlisted in the Naval Air Corps in June 1943 and served until June 1946. He was commissioned an Ensign in 1945. He returned to college and received his degree in June 1947. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Dragon.

He is survived by his parents, who make their home at 200 West Merrick Road, Freeport, N. Y.

CLARENCE REID HUDGINS JR. died in New London, Conn., on May 23, 1949. He was born in Norfolk, Va., January 14, 1921, the son of Clarence Reid and Margaret (Staples) Hudgins.

He prepared for college at the Morgan School, Clinton, Conn. In college he was a member of Theta Delta Chi. Enlisting in the Army Air Corps in December 1942, he served until February 1946.

He did not return to college but became connected with the G. M. Williams Co in New London, of which he was vice-president and general manager at the time of his death.

On February 27, 1943, Reid was married to Nancy Black who survives him with their son, C. Reid Hudgins 111, and his parents. Reid's home was at 798 Ocean Ave., New London.

1947

THOMAS MAYHEW KILLICK was fatally injured on December 17, in an automobile accident 14 miles north of Joliet, 111.

"Larry" was born July 28, 1925, the son of Lawrence and Madelaine Killick. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Burlington High School, Burlington, Vt., and came to Dartmouth as a member of the U. S. Marine Corp V-12 unit. After two years service in the Marine Corps, Larry returned to Dartmouth where he majored in psychology and was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He received his "D" in baseball.

At the time of his death, Larry was a student at the American Institute of Foreign Trade, Phoenix, Ariz. The accident in which he was involved killed two fellow students and seriously injured another.

WALTER VOORHEES HAYT '78

FREDERIC HAMILTON LEGGETT '98

KINGSLAND TROUTMAN ROOD '18