Death Takes Two Other Professors
THE DARTMOUTH FACULTY suffered the sudden loss of two more of its most valued members shortly after the death of Prof. Leon B. Richardson, when Louis C. Mathewson, Professor of Mathematics, died on October 37, at the age of 67; and Allan H. Macdonaid, Professor of English, died at the age of 50, on November 8. Memoirs of both of these teachers, well known to alumni, will appear in the January issue of the MAGAZINE.
Professor Mathewson, who died at Dick's House following an illness that had necessitated his being on leave a great part of this year, had been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1914, a full professor since 1934. He was born in Mendon, Mich., May 3, 1884, and received his early education in that state. Before entering Albion College, from which he graduated in 1910, he was school principal in Ellsworth, Mich. He received both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois, where he was a graduate fellow in mathematics from 1912 to 1914. Professor Mathewson was an enthusiastic gymnast and for many years worked with the late Pat Kaney in coaching the gym team and helping men in the body-building classes. Professor Mathewson was the author of the textbook Elementary Finite Groups, published in 1930, and wrote more recently in the field of genealogy. A bachelor, he is survived by a brother, L. N. Mathewson of Mancelona, Mich.
Professor Macdonald died at Dick's House on the morning of November 8, following a heart attack the day before. He was born in Lawrence, Mass., on May 20, 1901. He was graduated from Princeton in 1924 and after receiving his Master's degree at Harvard in 1925, he joined the Dartmouth faculty that fall as an instructor. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1931 and to full professor in 1941.
One of the most popular teachers on the campus, he taught courses in the novel, English literature of the Romantic period, and American literature of the period of Emerson and Thoreau. Professor Macdonald contributed articles to the Dictionary of American History and book reviews to leadings journals. At the time of his death he was preparing a life of Richard Hovey, Dartmouth's poet laureate.
Before entering Princeton in 1920, he attended Andover Academy for three years. He was married in 1925 to the former Elisabeth Greenwood of Lawrence, who survives him with their two daughters, Mrs. William S. Hessey ('46) of Bronxville, N.Y., and Mrs. Charles H. Wilkinson ('49) of Springfield, Mass., and two grandchildren.
