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]

Bennett, Warren A. '83, March 27 Wallis, William J. '94. April 2 Adams, Benjamin F. '97, March 22 Herr, Edward A. '06, March 18 Deshon, Percy '11, March 5 Pounds, William S. '11, March 16 Brooks, H. Harrington '12, March 15 Pettingell, Ralph D.'12, March 26 Stillman, Harold D.'17, March 21 Hale, Arthur C. '20, March 13 Cruikshank, Kenneth M. '25, December 21,1949 Phillips, Farrington P. '27, March 11

In Memoriam

1891

JOHN HASTINGS QUINT passed away on February 28 in a Beverly Hospital. The following is largely the story of his life portrayed at the funeral services at the Orthodox Congregational Church in Manchester, Mass.

John Hastings Quint was the son of Rev. Alonzo Hall and Rebecca (Putnam) Quint, and was born in New Bedford, Mass. on December 8, 1868. He studied first at Dartmouth College 1887-90, and then took his theological degree from Bangor Theological Seminary, where he graduated in the class of 1898. He received his A.B. from Bowdoin in 1897 and an honorary D.D. in 1913. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

On May 18, 1898, he was ordained to the Christian Ministry in Rochester, Mass. He served the following churches: Rochester, Mass., Falmouth, Mass., Rockland, Maine, Brunswick, Maine, and Chelsea, Mass. He was pastor of the First Congregational Church, Chelsea, Mass. from September, 1913, to June, 1942. When he retired in 1942, he was made pastor emeritus of that church.

He was a member of the Robert Lash Lodge of Masons of Chelsea, a member of the Winthrop Club of Boston, a director of the American Congregational Association, and Chairman Emeritus of the Congregational Library Committee at the time of his death. Formerly he was on the Board of Trustees of Bangor Theological Seminary, the Board of Ministerial Aid, and served on the Executive Board of the Boston Seaman's Friend Society.

On taking up residence in Manchester, Mass. in 1942, he became a member of the Orthodox Congregational Church and gave freely of his counsel and advice in an active way. He preached in that church during vacation periods, and was acting pastor for six months. He was keenly interested in town affairs, and was a member of the Manchester Historical Society.

He was married to Grace Lane of Manchester, Mass. on September 2g, 1903. In addition to his widow, he is survived by his daughter, Elizabeth, and his sister, Katharine.

1898

LAURENCE ILSLEY HEWES died at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco, on March 2, following a heart attack. He was born in Dover, N. H., September 28, 1876, and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1898 in its sophomore year. He received the degree of B.S. at Dartmouth in 1898 and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1901. In college he was a member of Casque 8c Gauntlet, and at Yale of Sigma Xi.

Two of his five children are Laurence Jr., of the class of 1924 and David, class of 1931- Mrs. Hewes makes her home at 114 Edgewood Ave., San Francisco.

After receiving his Ph.D. he was for four years. Professor of Mathematics and Engineering at Rhode Island State College; for four years instructor in Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University; and for one year Professor of Mathematics at Whitman College. After teaching for ten years, in 1911 he entered into the profession of Highway Construction, in which he was to achieve the pinnacle and gain world renown.

In 1911 he became an engineer with the United States Bureau of Public Roads, and since then had been successively Chief of Economics and Maintenance, District Engineer, General Inspector, Deputy Chief Engineer, Chief, Western Division (1939), and in 1945 he was made Chief of Western Headquarters with a territory covering eleven western states, Alaska and Hawaii. Since 1920 he had been in charge of Federal Aid and National Forest Road Construction.

As a top engineer, connected with the building of the great Alaska Highway during the late war, he helped direct a force of 17,000 men. Over ten thousand miles of roads to military and naval depots were built in the western region, including air fields and war production centers. He was the author of several books, the better known of which are Highway Bonds, written in 1915, in collaboration with Professor J. W. Glover, and still a standard on the subject; and his best known publication, American Highway Practice, which has been declared the world's most authoritative book on roads.

He was Chairman of the United States delegation to the International Road Congress held in Munich, Germany, in 1934. In 1946, he was invited to Saudi, Arabia, to advise King Ibn Saud on the construction of a threehundred mile road from the Persian Gulf to the Persian Capital. On February 28, 1950, he received from the United States Department of Commerce a Gold Medal and Citation for exceptional services.

The Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce, in a press release following his death said: "In 1911 he was employed by the Bureau of Public Roads at a time when the service of road building was in its infancy and the needs for modern highways were first being felt. From the beginning Dr. Hewes has played an important part in Highway Development, not only in the discharge of his official duties on assignments of great responsibility, but as an original thinker in the uncharted fields through which Highway Development has advanced.

"Shortly after employment with Public Roads he was recognized as an authority on Highway Financing. He was first to apply systematic procedures in measuring economic needs for highways. With the initiation of Federal Aid for highways in 1916, Dr. Hewes took an important part in planning the organization's administration and working relations with the States. Since 1920, he has been in charge of Federal Aid and National Forest road construction in 11 western States, Alaska and Hawaii. In that capacity he exercised great influence in a large region and became recognized as an authority on all phases of highway development from the details of design and construction to the broad general policies of planning and economics.

"Always he has been among the leaders in anticipating future needs and in planning to meet them. His own stature has added much to the prestige of Public Roads, and of the Highway Engineering Profession generally. Although he reached retirement age in 1946, his services to the Bureau during the war and post-war periods were so needed that he was requested to carry on and gladly did so; the progress of his country and his Highways were always his primary interest.

In the August 1948 issue or the westernConstruction News, it was said: Men who knew Dr. Laurence Ilsley Hewes, Western Regional Chief of the U. S. Public Roads administration, are convinced that he knows more about highways than anyone else in the world. This sweeping statement is borne out by his record as one of the pioneers of modern highway construction, and by the fact that as author of American Highway Practice he has written the world's most authoritative book on roads."

Laurence Hewes was not only a great engineer. In his work speaks the economist the mathematician, the engineer, the philosopher, the poet, the man.

1905

The will of HARRY BOYNTON PRESTON as reported in the New Hampshire newspapers, mirrors the life of a man who went about doing good. His distribution of $70,000 exposes to view a lifetime of modest wisdom, combined with a wealth of human kindness and a deep interest in the people of his native town, his close friends, and in Dartmouth.

Son of a Henniker, N. H., grocer, Preston entered Dartmouth as a quiet, gentlemanly, studious freshman with a purpose—a young man of character and of few words. Partly from his innate modesty and partly from a minor facial affliction which he carried through life, he seemed unusually sensitive and shy. As he progressed through college, always at PBK level, specializing in history, respect for him grew among both students and faculty. Along with his scholarliness he was endowed with a Yankee wisdom and common sense, half hidden because of this sensitiveness.

From college he became a teacher or nistory and the school administrator at Kimball Union Academy for 12 years; seven years were spent caring for his blind father and his mother; twenty years a teacher of English literature, at Keene Normal School, and finally a trustee of a young college in his native town—New England College a member of its faculty and chairman of its Committee on Instruction. He served, also, 21 years as trustee of the Tucker Free Library in Henniker. He was a deacon in the Congregational church there, and a supply pastor for churches in neighboring small towns. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Eastern Star Lodge, and of the Historical Society, treasurer of the town of Henniker, moderator of its town meeting, treasurer of its library and its cemetery funds. Whatever his sensitiveness, and although remaining unmarried, this is a record of a wise and friendly man who earned the confidence of many groups in unusually diverse activities, all directed to helping his fellowmen. At Keene Normal School, where he taught longest, and retired last June, he instituted a popular course in New Hampshire Resources. While there he helped many needy students financially and otherwise. He was guide and philosopher to students as well as their teacher.

Dartmouth honored him with A.M. degree in history. The State Commissioner and Board of Education honored him with a citation of merit as "Master Teacher." The distinguished company and his home town neighbors at his funeral at the Congregational church honored him. Obviously he was a great teacher. His was a sympathetic understanding of students, a warmth of personality, a keen sense of humor, and a high standard for this profession.

Although seriously ill last winter, Professor Preston had been unusually well this winter and was enjoying his lighter load of civic responsibilities in his native town. Overtaken with a mild cold he asked to be taken to the hospital and there died of cerebral hemorrhage almost immediately, on February 9, at age 67.

As mentioned above, Professor Preston s distribution of his $70,000 reserve mirrors a life lived modestly, wisely, and lived for others. He left woodlots to his town for upkeep of parks and the common, and to reduce the tax rate!!! To churches, to hospitals, and the library he bequeathed substantial amounts. At the Concord hospital he provided for the care of Henniker patients. His loyalty to four men friends was expressed in substantial gifts to them. He gives principal protection to his cousin and close associate, long the head of the history department of Manchester's high school-Miss Elsie D. Fairbanks. Finally evidence of Harry Preston's lifelong loyalty to his class and his college also is to be found in his will. An estimated $5000 is given to his class to give to Dartmouth.

By his own request he was laid away in his Dartmouth cap and gown, and by Miss Fairbanks' request, wearing his Dartmouth PBK key.

Whether as classmate, as citizen, or as teacher, Professor Preston had earned the respect and affection of those who knew him students, educators, fellow townsmen, and classmates.

On March 1, 1950, GEORGE STICKLE REID, than whom no one could have been more loyal to Dartmouth and his class, died of cerebral hemorrhage in his home town of Ipswich, Mass.

Born in London, England, April 16, 1880, while his father, Dr. Robert A. Reid of Newton, Mass. was completing his medical education, George came to America at the age

Entering Dartmouth from Exeter Academy, he took part in class athletics and golf and tennis. The latter two activities he kept up through life, winning many trophies. He was well-known as a friendly and sociable member of the college and became a member of Casque & Gauntlet. He finished the college course in three and a half years, but remained to graduate with his class. Venturesome and always an optimist, he devoted much of his life to selling. After a year learning the mill end of the wool business in Lawrence, Mass., he spent five years as wool buyer in the Ohio area and as wool salesman in Northern New England for Brown and Adams, one of Boston's largest firms.

Then he went to South America for 4 years to manage a coffee plantation in Santa Marta, Colombia, in which his uncle had an interest.

Returning to Newton and Boston in 1915, he devoted the next three years to selling. After spending a war year in Ohio and Texas with the Air Corps and attaining a commission, he returned to selling. From the close of the war until 1922 it was automobiles, land, and oil in New Orleans and Texas. Then it was tires and finally life insurance in Boston with Clark and Sanborn, State Mutual agents.

In 1935 he retired. In 1940 he was very sick for a year. Since this he had been a victim of various disorders, particularly pneumonia, which overtook him last October. George Reid was best known to his classmates as "Midge." He was a member of the Dartmouth Clubs of Boston and New York, of the University Club of Boston, and a founder of the Hatherly Country Club of North Scituate. He rarely missed a Dartmouth gathering or a Class event.

In 1924 he married Mrs. Anne Fairbanks Smythe of Cambridge, Mass., and thereafter they came to class reunions together. She became nearly as well known to the Class as Midge, and is highly regarded. She survives, and will live for the present in their Ipswich home. George's sister, Mrs. William Stewart, of New Haven, Conn., also survives.

1906

DR. EDWARD ALBERT HERR died suddenly in St. Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, Conn., on March 18. Ned was born in Waterbury on January 4, 1883 and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1906. In college he played baseball and football and was a member of the track team.

After graduation Ned entered the University of Vermont from which he received his medical degree in 1909. After a postgraduate course at the University of Vienna Ned began his medical practice in Waterbury, specializing in gynecology.

During World War I he served as assistant surgeon in the Home Guard. Later he served as battalion adjutant in the Fifth Infantry, Connecticut State Guard.

Dr. Herr was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Connecticut, New Haven county and Waterbury Medical societies, and had written several scientific reports on gynecology.

At one time Ned was president of the Connecticut State and Waterbury Dartmouth Alumni Associations and also president of the University of Vermont Alumni Association of Connecticut.

Ned was married to Florence I. Smalley in New York on Nov. 11, 1911, who survives at their home in Cheshire, Conn. A son, Edward A. Jr., lives in Woodbury, Conn.

ARTHUR FREDERIC LIBBY died suddenly of a heart attack at his home on Coit Lane, Norwich, Conn., on March 10. He was born in North Vassalboro, Maine, on June 22, 1883 but he entered Dartmouth from the high school in Putnam, Conn.

In college Arthur was a member of the Aegis Board and an associate editor of TheDartmouth.

After graduation he taught at the Montclair, N. J., Academy for a while and then entered the Harvard Law School from which he graduated in 1913.

In 1914 Arthur settled in Norwich, where he engaged in the general practice of law. For many years he served as judge of the Norwich City Court and also chairman of the School Board and chairman of the grievance committee of the New London County Bar Association..

In 1941 Arthur served as chairman of the Selective Service Board for District 19 and as a member of the Board of Education for the Town of. Norwich.

Arthur was married August 13, 1934 at Squirrel Island, Me. to Margaret Taylor Sherwood, who survives. He also leaves two daughters, Elizabeth Ann and Margaret Sherwood Libby. A son, Arthur, died in 1942.

19og

THOMAS BELL died suddenly at his home, 300 Hyde Park Avenue, Jamaica Plain, Mass. on September 17, 1949 from a severed artery received when a rug slipped and caused him to plunge his arm into a china cabinet.

Tom was born in Glasgow, Scotland on April 4, 1886 the son of Jeannie (Morran) and James Bell. The family came to the United States when he was three years old and settled in Pittsfield, N. H. where they remained until about 1904 when they removed to Exeter, so that Tom finished his preparation for Dartmouth at Phillips Exeter Academy and called Exeter his permanent address for many years.

In college, Tom was a member of the Class football team in '07 and was on the Varsity squad in '07 and '08.

After graduation, Tom worked for the telephone company in Maine and later in Massachusetts. Accounting interested him and he became a certified public accountant. After working for various concerns and banks he became his own employer and continued to be so until his death.

He was interested in the Masonic fraternity and held membership in Star of the East Lodge #59 of Exeter, and De Witt Clinton Commandery of Portsmouth, N. H. On October 31, 1931, he married Ada Direxa Allen of Hanover, Mass., who survives him.

Funeral services were held on September 20 at the Folsom Funeral Chapel, Roslindale and Dartmouth 1909 saw another of its dependable members pass behind that Golden Curtain.

1911

News has been received of the death of PERCY DESHON at his home, 418 N. Beachwood Dr., Los Angeles on March 8. Perce, a native of Fall River, Mass., was born on July 12, 1889, and came to Dartmouth from Fort DesMoines High School. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity here at Dartmouth.

Following graduation, Perce became a soldier in 1912 as a 2nd Lieutenant, then Ist Lieutenant, Captain, and finally Major in the Field Artillery, being retired for physical disability in 1922, following which he became a partner in Allied Properties, a real estate firm doing business in Santa Monica, Calif. For the last year and a half he had been property manager for Capital Co., a subsidiary of the Bank of America.

In December, 1914, Perce married Harriet P. Ellis in Honolulu. She was a graduate of the University of Texas. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, George Ellis and Robert Ellis, both of whom graduated from the University of California.

Despite the heart ailment which kept Perce from great activity in the past twenty-five years, all his life he was always very interested in the class, and kept in frequent communication with the secretary. The secretary recalls a very pleasant meeting at the Los Angeles Airport a few years ago with Perce and Mrs. Deshon, it being the first sight of him in many years. It never had been Perce's good fortune to attend a reunion, yet his contributions to the class and college continued to arrive faithfully.

Perce was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D. C.

1912

HOMER HARRINGTON BROOKS died unexpectedly of a coronary occlusion on the afternoon of March! 15 at his home, 1323 Dorchester Rd., Brooklyn, N. Y.

"Honey," as he was known to his Dartmouth friends, was born in St. Albans Bay, Vt., the eldest son of Homer and Emily (Farwell) Brooks, on October 10, 1889. After graduating with the B.S. degree from Dartmouth, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma and played on the football team, he moved to Brooklyn and lived there the remainder of his life.

The early part of his career was spent in manufacturing, with Ingersoll-Rand Company, Rock Drill Division, and with American Machine and Foundry Company. He engaged also for a few years in the export and import field. For the past eighteen years he has been with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, as salesman, as resident manager of the Brooklyn office, and as executive in the Special Risks Division at the New York office.

The warmth of his friendliness, the calmness, quietness and dignity of his bearing, the soundness of his opinions and judgments, endeared Honey to all who knew him. He will be greatly missed. His interest in Dartmouth affairs was profound, he often returned to Hanover for brief visits, and for the past three years he served as Chairman of an Admission Committee.

On October 24, 1916, he was married at St. Albans to Evelyn Mae Greene, who together with one daughter, Mrs. Edward R. Carey, and two granddaughters also of Brooklyn, survives him. He leaves also three brothers and one sister. The sympathy of all his Dartmouth friends is extended to each of them. Funeral services were held in Brooklyn on March 16 and also on March 18 in St. Albans where he was buried.

RALPH DEXTER PETTINGELL, treasurer of the Class of 1912, passed away suddenly during an early-morning heart attack, Sunday, March 26, at his home, 21 Lowder St., Dedham, Mass.

From that morning until, sundown Tuesday, following the funeral services that filled his own Aliin Congregational Church to overflowing and the committal ceremonies in nearby Brookdale Cemetery, all official flags in Norfolk County were flown at half-mast. "Pett" had been for eighteen years the Treasurer of Norfolk, elected and re-elected, sometimes by one and sometimes by both major parties, and only recently returned to that office for another six-year term.

So, too, the flags stood at half-start in tne hearts of the still wider community of his friends and classmates. Fifty-six of his sixty years he had lived in Dedham. He was president of the Massachusetts Association of County Treasurers, senior deacon and treasurer of Allin Congregational Church, trustee of the Massachusetts State Conference and moderator of Suffolk South Association of Congregational Churches, prelate of Temple Commandery of Masons of Norwood, pastmaster of Constellation Lodge A.F.&A.M. of Dedham, past worthy patron of Contentment Chapter—Order of the Eastern Star, past illustrious master of Hyde Park Council o Royal and Select Masons and past president of the Dedham Rotary Club.

Ralph was a veteran of World War I, a charter member and past commander of Dedham Post 18, A.L. and a member of the 11-11-11 Club, which meets only to honor the day and the friendships linked with it on Armistice Day. He was also a member of the Norfolk County Republican Club and that ancient and traditional inner circle still known as The Society in Dedham for Apprehension of Horse Thieves.

For Dartmouth and the Class of 1912, his loyal services, sound counsel and ardent interest had been unceasingly at work from the time he reported for the football squad and won his 1912 football numerals in his sophomore year. For Dartmouth 1912 he was one of the first Class Agents in the history of the Alumni Fund. Twice, for extended periods, he served as class treasurer. And, from his graduation day to now, "Pett" was one of the very few Twelvers who had never failed to attend a Class Reunion. It is very likely that in his heart, as in his Dedham home, he gave first place in sentimental and personal values among many honors to the Ticknor print of "Old Dartmouth," which was presented to him last year by the College with a citation as the outstanding Class Treasurer of the year.

From all these broad fields of a lifetime's personal and public service, many friends came to the funeral of Ralph Pettingell, each to find his reasons for being there enriched by the pastor of the church, the Rev. Harry R. Butman, in his brief, factual but moving eulogy.

Among them were a score or more men and women of Dartmouth 1912. These included. Clyde and Erma Cook from Cushing Academy in Ashburham, Ben and Joey Adams from Derry, N. H., Queechie French from Springfield, Eddie Luitwieler, Ray Cabot, Tuck Tirrell, Gardy Bullard, John Park, Caesar Young, Alice (Mrs. Chub) Hitchcock, Chet and Mrs. Haycock, Marion (Mrs. Pudd) Pond and daughter, Lilla, Mrs. Click Morrill, Chris and Lyme Armes, and Amos Crooks 'lO.

"Pett" was born, by happenstance, in Acton, Maine, 60 years ago, but Dedham had been the family home before and was to be, again, soon after that. After graduation, he was employed by the Merchants National Bank, Boston, and Curtis & Sanger, Boston bond brokers, until 1932, when he became treasurer of Norfolk-County. Two daughters, Helen and Jane, reside at the Lowder street .home with their widowed mother, Mrs. Emma Pettingell. An older brother, Theodore, also fives in Dedham.

L. A.

1917

ALFRED MONTGOMERY CHENEY died in San Juan, Porto Rico, on February 21. A 1 was born in Ashmont, Mass., June 14, 1893 the son of Benjamin Arnold and Agnes (Olmstead) Cheney.

On October 4, 1917 Al entered the army as a private. He was later commissioned and stationed in Porto Rico until his discharge December 10, 1918.

After the war A 1 returned to Porto Rico and made his home there the rest of his life, where he was president of B. A. Cheney & Son, brokers. For several years he was the Porto Rican tennis champion.

On June 21, 1917 A 1 was married to Nettie Agnes Parlee of Weymouth, Mass., who survives him with two sons, Alfred M., Jr.., and Robert I. and a daughter, Mrs. George Friedman. The family home is at 9 Emajagua St., Santurce, P. R.

HAROLD DEWING STILLMAN died on March 21 in Nashua, N. H., after a long illness.

Hunk, as he was affectionately known by his classmates, was born in Rochester, N. Y., November 19, 1895, the son of Herman H, and Genevieve (Pratt) Stillman. He came to Dartmouth from the Fair Haven, Mass. High School. In college he was a member of the Aegis Board and played on the soccer team. A member of Sigma Phi Epsilon he graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.

Immediately after graduation Hunk enlisted in the Navy, with an Ensign's commission. He served on the U.S.S. Des Moines for over a year and was promoted to Lt. He was hospitalized from September 1918 to June

Immediately after his discharge Hunk joined the Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Co. and remained with them until his death. He served as sales representative in Philadelphia and on the Pacific Coast, and returned to the Nashua plant in 1926 where he was office and credit manager.

Hunk was a member of the National Office Managers Association and past president of the Boston chapter. During World War II he was with the paper section of the War Production Board in Washington. He was a past officer of the New Hampshire Golf Association and past state champion of the New Hampshire Bridge Association.

Hunk served his College and Class long and faithfully in various capacities, as club president and secretary and as class agent.

On October 18, 1919 Hunk was married to Anita Gregory of Marblehead, Mass. who survives him with their three children, Gregory H. '45, Sylvia Stillman and Mrs. Thomas J. Leonard, Jr. The family home is at 10 Hall Ave., Nashua. He is also survived by his brother, Allen P. Stillman '20.

1920

ARTHUR CROSBY HALE, known affectionately to everyone in the Class as "Shrimp," died suddenly in Cleveland on March 13 of coronary thrombosis. Unmarried, he lived with his mother at 1284 Cove Ave., Lakewood. He had been employed for the past 15 years in the income tax division of the Federal Office of Internal Revenue in Cleveland.

Arthur was the son of Edward Buxton Hale '87 and Florence Crosby. He was born January 9, 1899 in Brookfield, Mass., but came to Dartmouth from Jamaica Plain, Mass., having prepared for college at Roxbury Latin School. Although he saw active service during World War I he returned to Hanover to graduate with the Class.

One of the first jobs he held after graduation took him to Buenos Aires, representing the First National Bank of Boston as an accountant and auditor. Years later he recalled that time of his life with special pleasure, but when he came back to the United States for his second vacation in six years he decided to stay here. He worked with General Motors Acceptance Corporation for a period of years before settling down in Cleveland.

Art belonged to the Congregational Church. He was a Mason, a member of the American Legion and of the 40 8. Besides his mother, he is survived by a brother Henry F. Hale, Dartmouth '27, and a sister Jessie, who married Roland C. Batchelder, Dartmouth 'Bl. Funeral services were held in Cleveland, but interment took place in Forest Hills outside of Boston, following a memorial service at St. John's Episcopal Church, March 18. George Macomber and Scout Lee represented 1920 at the memorial service.

Rarely did anyone see "Shrimp" Hale without a smile on his face. Always evident, too, was his enthusiastic and loyal devotion to Dartmouth.

1944

ROBERT JAMES REMMER passed away February 23 at the New York Memorial Hospital of acute leukemia. The dramatic and cour ageous struggle that the young physician made against the dread disease, brought cheer and hope to his many friends and newspaper readers who followed the events of his determined fight.

Bob came to New York last fall to begin residency preparation for specializing in diseases of the ear and eye. Late in November he became ill. His ailment baffled doctors with whom he consulted. Fnally Bob diagnosed his case as acute leukemia. He entered the Memorial Hospital in New York with the prospect of dying within a week.

Experimenting with the new wonder drug, ATCH, Bob not only came through the first week, but began to show an astounding recovery. Five weeks later, Bob was discharged from the hospital apparently, though not definitely, cured of a disease that was considered hopeless.

Horace Blood, with whom Bob was associated at the N. Y. Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, tells of the gallant and philosophical attitude Bob showed toward the disease and of his determination to make the study of ATCH a life work.

Bob attended Our Lady of Lourdes School and St. Francis de Sales High School in Utica and then went to Dartmouth where he received his B.A. degree. He attended the Syracuse University College o£ Medicine where he received his M.D. in 1946. He served his internship at the Rochester General Hospital, then entered the Navy. He served two years as Flight Surgeon at the Pensacola, Fla. and San Diego, Calif, naval air bases. He terminated his active service in the Navy last May

Bob's loss comes as a particularly tragic shock to his many Dartmouth friends and especially those who had the good fortune to know him best when he lived at North Mass. and the Sigma Nu house. All of us in the class of '44 send heartfelt condolences to his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Harry T. Remmer, 25 Greenwood,

LAURENCE ILSLEY HEWES '9B

HARRY BOYNTON PRESTON 'O5 (right), who died Feb. 9, shown last June at the time of the pres- entation by the New Hampshire Board of Educa- tion of a citation of merit as "Master Teacher.

THOMAS BELL 'O9