Deaths

lA 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]

Bowers, Edward '93, Oct. 14 Richardson, Leon B. 'OO, Oct. 25 Merrill, Arthur H. '02, Oct. 11 Whitcomb, Paul '10, June 7 Twichell, Evans T. '13, Oct. 30 Reber, Edwin P. '14, Oct. 25 Robinson, Willard D.'15, June 14 Walker, Theron B. '16, Oct. 12 Friedeberg, Fred '24, Oct. 20, 1950 Ehler, Adrian A. '29, Nov. 5 Davis, Fred R. 'ggTh, Oct. 4 Whelpley, George F. '94 m, Oct. 26 Mathewson, Louis C. '3411, Oct. 27 Macdonald, Allan H. '41b, Nov. 8

In Memoriam

1894

BENJAMIN MARTIN CHANDLER was born in Manchester, N. H., February 20, 1872, and died in Campden, Glos, England, December 4, 1948.

He was the son of George Byron Chandler, a banker and leading citizen in Manchester. He prepared for college at Manchester High School.

A member of Beta Theta Pi, Chandler belonged to the Chandler Scientific section of our class, as befitted his name. Even so, he remained with us only two years, leaving not because of financial stringency, or ill health, but because he frankly desired a more congenial world to conquer. This world proved to be the life of an English country gentleman, upon which he entered in 1900. He devoted what he called his "spare time" to architectural and literary study. He became one of the owners of "The Shakespeare Head Press," located at Stratford-on-Avon.

During his life he was out of touch with the College and the Class and word of his death was belatedly sent by the postmaster who had served him. Chandler was married before he went to England.

1902

ARTHUR HODGES MERRILL, a prominent member of the Hartford financial community for many years, died on October 11 at the Hartford (Conn.) Hospital.

Arthur was born in Portland, Maine, December 8, 1878. While in Dartmouth he was prominent in tennis and in the Glee and Mandolin Clubs. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet.

After a short period in New York he went to Hartford to enter the investment banking business and remained there the rest of his life. His firm, at first the Adams, Merrill Co., became in 1940, the Merrill Co. and in 1948, he merged with the G. H. Walker Co. of New York. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange.

His wife (Olive R. Grinnell) survives him with two children, Dr. John P. Merrill '38, and Mrs. Mary Hamilton of Grand Rapids, Mich. Arthur's home was at 147 Robin Rd., West Hartford.

1905

IRA AARON NEWICK of 845 South St., Portsmouth, N. H., died while in conversation with two friends there on October 9. Although his heart had shown signs of weakness at times, death was unexpected'

Ira had been a member of the school board of his city, a choir leader, and member of several quartets. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a Knight Templar. He was an active member of the Episcopal Church, the Chamber of Commerce, the New Hampshire Auto Dealers Association and the Rotary Club, as well as the Yacht Club and Country Club.

Son of a brewmaster, brother of a brewmaster and father-in-law of a brewmaster, Ira Newick was himself a noted brewmaster for two concerns.

Born in Syracuse, N. Y., April 5, 1879, Ira came to Dartmouth with a group of several '05 men from Portsmouth and immediately became an outstanding pitcher in baseball and a bass singer in the Glee Club. After leaving college he pitched for the Lynn professional team for a season or two, and then for semi-pro teams in four Maine cities. In 1905 he studied at the National Brewers' Academy and won a degree. He then joined the James Hanley Brewing Co. in Providence for three years, and again from 1935 to retirement in 1948. He rose to be brewmaster, purchasing agent and a director of the company.

From 1909 until prohibition dissolved the company nine years later, Newick was with the Eldredge Brewing Company of Portsmouth, as superintendent, treasurer and part owner. During World War I, he was purchasing agent of the Atlantic Corp. in Portsmouth, builders of steel freighters. For the next ten years he had an interest in the large Hislop Garage in his city, becoming its president. Retaining his interest there, he returned to it upon retirement from the Hanley Co. in 1948, when it was operating as Newick & Wood, Inc.

Ira and Ethel S. Jewett were married October 17, 1906. Their only child, Elizabeth, is now Mrs. F. T. Critchley of Andover, Mass. Mrs. Newick, Elizabeth and three grandchildren survive, as does his brother Albert, and two sisters, Mrs. William Shuttleworth and Miss Laura Newick.

JAMES SETH ADAMS of Army Trail Road, Wayne Township, Ill., died on September 22, in Sherman Hospital, Elgin. He came to Dartmouth from Biddeford, Maine, and was graduated from the Thayer School in 1906. Upon graduation he entered the engineering business in New York City. By 1917 he had been for several years with a consulting paper-mill engineer, George F. Hardy.

At the end of 1917 he set up an industrial contracting and engineering company of his own in Chicago and since then had been its president and general manager. His concern built power houses and large industrial structures. At the time of his death he was considering an early retirement.

Surviving are his widow, the former Violet Madden and their young son, Charles, aged five and daughter, Ann, aged three; also James Seth Jr., Richard L. and Mrs. Margaret McCann, children by his first wife, Myrtle Lawrence Adams, whom he* married in 1908 and from whom he had been divorced.

An active, vigorous man with a wide variety of interests, he had a keen zest for life. His death came as a great shock to his circle of friends and acquaintances.

1909

KARL RAYMOND HAMMOND passed away at the Wesson Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Mass., on October 6. Funeral services were held at the cemetery chapel with burial in the Springfield Cemetery.

Harrimie was born in Nashua, N. H., on July 19, 1887, the son of Dr. Charles Bartlett Hammond '77 and Mary (Tracy) Hammond. He entered Dartmouth from Nashua High School. In college he played on his freshman and sophomore baseball teams and was a member of Chi Phi.

Upon graduation Karl became associated with Bird and Son, E. Walpole, Mass., and remained with them until 1916. He then went to Springfield as assistant to William H. Shuart, president of the Springfield Glazed Paper Cos. Later he was associated with H. A. Manning Cos., publishers of city directories. He was active in the Community Chest and Boys' Club of Springfield; was president for seven years of the Wesson Maternity Hospital; found time to join the Exchange Club, Dartmouth Club of Springfield, Century Club and University Club. Karl's home was at 10 Chestnut St., Springfield.

Karl and Christine Shuart were married on May 6, 1915. She survives with a son, William Bartlett Hammond '41 of Detroit, and a daughter, Audrey H. Bassett of Springfield, and a grandson, Paul S. Bassett 3rd.

In extending its sympathy to his family, the Class of 1909 feels the loss of an ardent friend whose counsel will be greatly missed and expresses the hope that the Great Spirit will comfort them.

1910

In the death of DAVID LAUNDON JOHNSON on October 7, at his home 2141 Overlook Rd., Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the Class of 1910 lost one of its most prominent and loyal members.

Born in Elyria, Ohio, on June 27, 1888, he was graduated from the University School of Cleveland, Dartmouth, and Harvard Law School in 1913. He was admitted to practice in Ohio in 1913 and in 1917 became a partner in the well-known law firm of M. B. & H. H. Johnson, founded by his father, the late Melvin B. Johnson.

Dave's outstanding career as a lawyer was in the corporate field and his judgment was sought particularly on financial problems. For his work in the liquidation of the properties of the former Union Trust Cos., he was awarded the Medal of Public Service by the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and he was noted in Cleveland not only for his business judgment but also for his devoted public and philanthropic service. During his active life he gave much of his time to the Welfare Federation and many of its institutions. He was a trustee and acted as Treasurer of the University School for twenty years; was a trustee of Hiram House and a former member of the Community Fund council.

About five years ago heart trouble forced his retirement from the active practice of law, but he continued as a director to help guide the affairs of the White Motor Co., Union Bank of Commerce, Park Drop Forge Co., Ohio Crankshaft Co. and Steel Improvement & Forge Co. all of Cleveland; the Thew Shovel Co. of Lorain and the Lake City Malleable Co. of Ashtabula.

The Cleveland News published the following editorial:

"Over 40 years, David L. Johnson made himself one of the first citizens of Cleveland from point of usefulness, and his loss by death is a prime one. He attained that difficult personal achievement for most sons of fine men—the scion of a widely influential lawyer, he matched his father's career with the breadth of his own. As he managed this, he continuously exposed a personality of charm, good will, and keen mentality to which people were drawn by the hundreds.

"Cleveland industry owes him much for his organizing and directing brains, and over the same years the cause of philanthropy and welfare progress owe a similar debt because of Mr. Johnson s willingness to work, plan, and lead. When a brilliant mind is paired with a heart full of idealism, the potential for the entire community is almost limitless in constructive good deeds. There are businesses today which are flourishing because of his far sight, and there are wage earners who are prosperous good citizens and once crippled children who grew up to lives of usefulness because he had the 'know-how' of humaneness. It is sorrowful when such lives come to a close."

Dave was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and of numerous professional associations, including American, Ohio and Cleveland Bar Associations, Nisi Prius, and of the Union, Tavern, Kirtland and Country Clubs. For the past few years he divided his time between his homes at Cleveland, Pinehurst, N. C., and West Harwich, Mass.

He is survived by his wife, Frances Jean Rayner Johnson, whom he married on November 20, 1919, and by three sons, David L. Jr., Melvin Blake II and William Rayner; and two daughters, Margaret Jane and Mrs. Frances Jean Parsley. He is also survived by six grandchildren.

Dave was the first of his family to go to Dartmouth, but he was followed by his two brothers, Arthur '13 and Malcolm '19 who both predeceased him, and his three sons, David '35, Blake '36 and Rayner '46.

DONALD FERGUSON PALMER died suddenly on October 7 at the home of his brother, John M. Palmer '14, as the result of a heart attack. He had suffered from heart trouble for twenty years. His home in recent years had been at 45 Farmlea Rd., Longmeadow, Mass.

Don was a cross country runner, a miler on the track team, although he weighed 185 pounds, and later a member of the football team. He belonged to Phi Gamma Delta and Dragon. He was the oldest of the five Palmer brothers who went to Dartmouth from Paducah, Ky. He and Russell were 1910, Raymond '11, John '14 and Wayne '17.

He was a leader of his class throughout its undergraduate days, participating effectively in all of its activities from the Football Rush on through to Graduation. He was always a believer in direct action, as exemplified by his operation leading to the purchase of the first Phi Gam house and the site the present house now occupies. Single-handedly, without consultation, he acquired the option and then proceeded to raise the money required for the down payment.

After graduation he went into the hardwood lumber business with his father, Earl Palmer, and followed the big trees south from Kentucky to Tennessee to Mississippi, building mills and railroad lines and operating them to the tune of hundreds of millions of board feet of oak, cypress and hickory. He lived successively in Paducah, Houlka, Miss, and Memphis, Tenn.

After World War I, the Ferguson & Palmer Lumber Co. was dissolved and Donald with his father and two brothers, Raymond and Wayne, established the Palmer Steel Co. in Springfield, Mass. His retirement due to ill health came in 1930.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Rice Palmer; two sons, Wallace R. of Newton, Mass. and Donald F. Jr. of Trenton, N. J.; two daughters, Mrs. Frances Anne Lillie of Scarsdale, N. Y. and Mrs. Wilson Partridge of Midland, Tex. and nine grandchildren. Three of his brothers, Russell, John and Wayne also survive him.

The following tribute to Don was written in 1947 by Dick Carpenter '10 in a letter to Secretary Hap Hinman: "Don Palmer has a core of inner strength, one that is welded of simplicities. He has a rare charm of personality and resilience, utter honesty, complete outspokenness, a trust in character rather than in possessions, singleness of purpose undistracted by petty or personal considerations, a conviction of individual responsibility holding fast to the things that have proved good." Those who knew Don will give hearty approval to this appraisal of his record.

News of PAUL WHITCOMB'S death on June 7 came from his mother, in response to a Class communication addressed to him.

Paul was born December 14, 1889 in Titusville, Pa. and prepared for college at New York Military Academy. He was a member of Psi Upsilon. His home during his college days was in New York City.

For many years he had been owner of a Baltimore Dairy Lunch at 45 E. 59th St., New York City. He was married March 8, 1911, to Kathleen Roby. Known survivors are his widow, his daughter, Mrs. Chadwick Connell and his mother, Mrs. James A. Whitcomb who lives at 76-10 34th Ave., Jackson Heights, N. Y.

1915

Word has been received of the death of WILLARD DUNN ROBINSON in Minneapolis on

Willard was born in Springfield, Mass., November 7, 1890, the son of Edward Olin and Cora (Dunn) Robinson. His father graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1890. Willard left college at the end of his freshman year to become associated with his brother Francis A. Robinson 'OB, landscape architect. He served during World War I as a Corporal, Aerial Photography Section, U.S. Army. Since 1927 he had been Chief Draftsman, Hennepin County Highway Depart- ment, Minnesota.

On July 3, 1919, he was married to Lola G. Howard of Minneapolis. He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Grenaviere Antoinette.

1916

THERON BAILEY WALKER passed on at his home, 4.3 Bowdoin St., Newton Highlands, Mass., on October 12. He had been in the Newton-Wellesley Hospital for about six weeks with pneumonia and pleurisy, but had recovered sufficiently to go home on October 7. A few days later he suffered a severe thrombosis, from which he succumbed.

Ted was born in Concord, Mass., December 20, 1893, the son of Henry B. Walker and Katharine Bailey. He entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1916 after graduating from Newton High School.

After serving as a 2nd Lt. in a machine gun company in World War I he worked for the Bethlehem Steel Shipbuilding Co., the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. in New Haven, and the Walker-Longfellow Co. of Boston. In 1924 he entered Wm. Filene's Sons Co. in Boston as an executive in the service division.

During his undergraduate days, Ted played freshman football and hockey and made the varsity hockey squad his sophomore year. All members of 1916 will remember Ted's inspired playing in the famous game between the Dartmouth freshmen and Dean Academy, which resulted in a 7-7 tie. He was a member of Chi Phi.

Ted Walker was one of those quiet, reserved men who are intimately known only to a few, but because of their innate friendliness and infallible courtesy, fix themselves indelibly in the memory of classmates. As time passes, and the contacts with classmates become less and less frequent, such men become more and more firmly established as a part of college associations and undergraduate memories. Even those members of the Class of 1916 who did not have the privilege of associating with Ted regularly will remember him for his friendliness and personal worth. Those who were associated with him in his daily work feel a very poignant sense of personal loss.

On September 7, 1919, Ted was married to Alice Shumway who survives him with their daughters, Mrs. Anne Davis and Mrs. Kathryn Munro. He is also survived by four brothers, Kenneth B. '24, Harold B. '29, Merrill B. and Sherburne.

1919'

ALFRED REED WORTHEN of 6 Emerald Ave., Marblehead, Mass., formerly of Lowell, passed away at his home on. September 25 after a long illness.

Born in Weymouth, Mass., on December 17, 1893, son of Albert Parker and Harriet (Reed) Worthen, A 1 entered with our class in 1915 and stayed one year, later graduating from Harvard and Boston University Law School. Following his marriage to Marion E. Dee of Braintree, he practiced law in Quincy until 1937. In that year he went to Lowell as first Manager of the Social Security Board, and in 1944 was transferred to the Lynn office in the same capacity, where he remained until retirement in 1948.

He is survived by his wife; one son, Alfred R. Worthen Jr. of Hamilton; a daughter, Mrs. Frank J. Duggan Jr. of Lowell; a brother, Richard Worthen of Reading; and a sister, Mrs. Cecil H. Whittier of Fairhaven, and four grandchildren. The class extends its most sincere sympathy to the family in their bereavement.

1920

ROBERT BENNETT LOOMIS, one of the two Bob Loomises in 1920, died suddenly and without warning on July 25. Apparently in the best of health, he had been in swimming while on vacation in Maryland and a coronary thrombosis which followed was the cause of his death.

Bob had only freshman year with us at Dartmouth. Like so many others, he enlisted and served in France with the Engineers' Corps during World War I. Born in Princeton, N. J., June 23, 1895, the son of Mary (Bennett) and Elmer Howard Loomis, he prepared for college at Mercersburg Academy.

The record shows all too little of Bob Loomis's postwar and post-Dartmouth activities. He married Marguerite Jewell, a Smith girl, in 1923 and they had two sons, Robert and Richard. The latter, the younger of the two boys, graduated from Dartmouth in 1948.

The Loomises had made their home for 28 years in Ridley Park, Pa., and in recent years had lived at 503 Park St. Early in his career Bob was an advertising copy writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer; later he was connected with the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Writing in 1944 when our 25th Report was in preparation, he mentioned his happy family life and his hobbies of gardening and sailing. Bob was a member of the Ridley Park Presbyterian Church and of the local post of the American Legion. Funeral services were held in Griffith Chapel, Norwood, Pa., on July 28 and burial took place in Princeton.

1922

After a prolonged fight against an incurable illness, CLIFFORD BURROWES ORR, editorial associate of The New Yorker magazine, passed away on October 10 at a nursing home in Enfield, N. H.

Born on November 11, 1899, in Portland, Maine, the son "of Mr. and Mrs. George Orr who survive him, Kip prepared for college in the public schools of that city.

Majoring in English, Kip's extra-curricular interests at Dartmouth were along literary and theatrical lines. His memberships included Round Robin, The Arts which he served as vice president and The Players which he served as president. He was editor of The Bema, co-editor of the DartmouthLiterary Magazine, columnist on The Dartmouth, and a member of the editorial staff of the Jack o'Lantern. Kip wrote the book and lyrics of "Rise, Please!" and, collaborating with the late Winthrop Ranney, wrote the book and lyrics for "Hush!" both of which were produced at Winter Carnival shows.

In response to a class questionnaire in 1947, Kip wrote the following r&umd of his postcollege activities:

"The day after commencement I joined the staff of the late Boston Evening Transcript as cub reporter and shortly became a feature writer for its magazine section. I stayed there until 1925 when I moved to New York. For a brief time I was publicity manager for Robert M. Mcßride, book publisher, and then I moved to Doubleday, Doran. In 1929 I began to free-lance, writing a couple of thriller novels, some serials, revue sketches and lyrics, and short stories. These were done in New York, Ithaca and New Orleans. Having sold considerable stuff to The New Yorker, I joined its regular staff in 1933 and, with occasional brief lapses, have been there ever since as one of the editors and writers."

His two mystery novels, both successful, were The Dartmouth Murders and The Wailins. Rock Murders. For "Murray Anderson's Almanac," presented on Broadway in 1929 Kip wrote the lyrics of "I May Be Wrong, But I Think You're Wonderful," one of the most popular songs of its time. Among the stories and articles he contributed to magazines was "Savage Homecoming" which was reprinted in several anthologies.

1932

ROBERT LEATHERBEE KENDAL died at his home 7753 Draper Ave., La Jolla, Calif., on Tuly 1, after more than two years of the progressive effects of multiple sclerosis. Bob was bora in New York City in 1910, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford H. Kendal. He attended school in Summit, N. J. and spent his final year at Andover. At Dartmouth, his major subject was sociology. He was a member of Zeta Psi.

Upon graduation, Bob became a certified public accountant, after training at Pace Institute. He was with Price Waterhouse for sometime, and later transferred to O. F. Taylor & Co. and subsequently to The Cardamc Cos in Massachusetts. In 1948 the family moved to La Jolla, and Bob set up a branch office in San Diego for a Los Angeles accounting firm.

Bob maintained an active interest in Dartmouth affairs, and was elected secretary of the San Diego club at its first jmeetmg in the fall of 1948. It was soon afterwards that the crippling disease began to be felt, and Bob gradually retired more and more from active affairs.

Bob is survived by two sons, Peter, aged 8, and Alan, aged 5; his wife, who was Telfair Kaltenbach of La Jolla when they were married in 1941; and his parents, who live in Summit, N. J.

Bob was the kind of fellow everyone liKes. Our class has lost a good friend, and our sympathy goes with all sincerity to the family where his passing is so deeply tragic.

DAVID LAUNDON JOHNSON '10

DONALD FERGUSON PALMER '10