Deaths
[A listing of deaths of word has been received within the past month. Full notices may appear in this issue or may appear in a later number]
Peabody, Henry G. '76, March 25 Warden, Oliver S. '89, March 12 Blanpied, Ralph D. '96, March 16 Day, Edmund E. '05, March 23 Erickson, Elwood '06, March 11 Smith, Joseph T. '06, March 23 Langill, Morton H. '07, March 28 Griffin, Thomas J. '08, December 24, 1950 Olmstead, Frank T. '09, March 27 Wiggin, Leslie S. '10, December 11, 1950 Huntress, William C. '15, March 14 Johnson, A. LeRoy '15, March 25 Caldwell, George W. '19, March 6 Bacon, Harwood C. '25, March 8 Brown, Franklin E. '27, January 30 Humphrey, Kenneth M. '28, January 30 Clark, Myron G. '36, February 26
In Memoriam
1885
ALTON ELLIOT BRIGGS, president of the Class of 1885, died at Memorial Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., on February 27.
Born in Middleboro, Mass., April 3, 1864, he graduated from the Middleboro schools and entered Dartmouth in 1881. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduation he taught school in Hollis, N. H., and Nahant and Lynn, Mass. In 1888 he went to Chelsea as submaster of the High School and remained there the rest of his life. Appointed principal of the High School in 1891, he remained in that position until the city of Chelsea was destroyed by fire in 1908. At that time he was appointed by Governor Draper of Massachusetts to the Board of Control, which was established to rebuild the city and eliminated all city officials for four years.
At the expiration of that commission in 1912 Mr. Briggs became the executive secretary of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, which position he filled until his retirement in 1933. During this period he was twice elected president of the National Poultry and Egg Association.
During his long residence in Chelsea Mr. Briggs held many honorary positions, among them trustee of the Public Library for 30 years and member of the Excise Board for over 20 years, and chairman during the later years of his term. He was a life member of the Star of Bethlehem Lodge A.F.&A.M.
In 1888 he was married to Mary W. Shaw of Middleboro who died in 1934. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. T. N. Wood of Middleboro, and a son, Paul D. Briggs '11 of 26 Allen Road, Winchester, Mass.
1889
OLIVER SHERMAN WARDEN died on March 12 at his home, 500 Fourth Ave., North, Great Falls, Mont., following an illness of two months.
Publisher of the Great Falls Tribune, Democratic National Committeeman, a key figure in the development of the West, a director of The Associated Press, and active until his illness, his death ended a career crowded with achievement.
Born in North Haverhill, N. H., August 19, 1865, he was the only child of Alexander and Lucy A. (Flint) Warden. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy and graduated from Dartmouth with Phi Beta Kappa honors. One of the editors of the DartmouthLiterary Monthly Magazine, he was a member of Psi Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet.
O. S. Warden, a name widely known throughout the West, saw Montana history made from the time it was a territory down to the present. A month following graduation he arrived in Montana, then a territory, to accept a position as city editor of the GreatFalls Leader. Here he began his long and distinguished career in the newspaper world. Before reaching his destination he stopped off at Helena and witnessed the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention that was shaping the government of the soon-to-be-born state.
In 1895, in association with William M. Bole, he purchased the Great Falls Tribune and became its business manager. Bole assumed its editorship, a position he filled until retirement in 1927. The Tribune never was subsidized by any person or interest. Its publisher kept his poise above the copper wars that agitated the state of Montana for years, for more than a half-century gave himself in unselfish service to his adopted state and the West, identifying himself with almost every important movement in progress and development. He never was a candidate for public office, but, aside from his newspaper association, he held during life and until death many positions of trust and responsibility.
His first civic activity was as a member of the Great Falls Board of School Trustees in which he served 14 years. His service in the local Chamber of Commerce included perennial directorship and the presidency for two years. He was an active member of the sugar beet and airways committees. Receiving his support, the Inland Air Lines—now the inland division of Western Air Lines—was extended from Billings to Great Falls, giving the latter city direct air service to Denver.
in 1924 he was appointed to the newly created Montana Highway Commission, became chairman, and served a total of ten years. Because of his interest in highways, he later became president of the National Association of State Highway Officials, which directed the yearly expenditure of about $5,000,000 in the building and maintenance of roads.
At about this time he was elected president of the National Reclamation Association, an organization interested in promoting reclamation in 17 western states. During the many years he held this office he gave unsparingly of his time and energies to the development of the West and its great resources, leaving as a monument to his vision and leadership the group of dams, irrigation works, power houses and transmission lines he helped to make possible.
From 1933 to 1938 he was director of the United States Chamber of Commerce, first as director-at-large, then as representative of the eighth district. In 1936 he was appointed a member of the Montana Water Conservation Board, and, from being Montana's director of the National Reclamation Association, he was elected its president and re-elected nine times. In 1944 he served as Montana governor of the National Aeronautics Association. He was a director of the Associated Press. During his many years of service he regularly came to New York to attend its annual conventions and meetings of directors.
He was the leader in the construction of a vast system of unrelated and interrelated projects, ranging from those which would irrigate only a few acres to the Broad waterand Missouri project that diverted water for 5000 acres and provided a supplementary supply for 10,000 acres additionally. His crowning achievement in the field of reclamation was in bringing the $36,000,000 Canyon Ferry Dam reclamation project on the Missouri River through to a reality less than two years ago.
As publisher of The Tribune, O. S. Warden also owned The Great Falls Leader•, The Montana Farmer Stockman, radio station KMON, a commercial printing and lithographing department and a wholesale distributing center of paper and office supplies. In his home city he was chairman or president of organizations for schools, city parks and aeronautics too numerous to give here. He also was president of the state's largest summer activity, the North Montana State Fair. He was a director and trustee of the YMCA, one of the organizers and corporate members of the Meadow Lark Country Club in Great Falls, and instrumental in founding the Rocky Mountain Dartmouth Alumni Association of which he became, and was at the time of his death, its president. In 1937 the University of Montana conferred upon him the degree of LL.D.
Oliver S. Warden married first Etta A. Scott of Lawrence, Mass., January 22, 1895. She died March 1, 1919. Four of six children born to this union survive: Alexander S., Dartmouth '19, and Robert D. Warden, respectively business manager and managing editor of The Tribune; Mrs. G. A. Hansen of Great Falls and Mrs. Rowe Morrell of Worcester, Mass. On May 23, 1936 he married Eleanor G. McRae of Helena, who survives. Jock Finley Warden, a 10-year-old son born to this union, also survives. Other survivors include eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held in the First Congregational Church in Great Falls.
A floral tribute from his Dartmouth classmates gave mute expression to their affectionate regard and bereavement. Doc had served '89 as class agent and class president, and three of the class reports had been printed on his presses as a gift to the class.
R.S. B.
1902
FRANK STEARNS ARCHIBALD died at Dick's House in Hanover on February 4, after a long illness.
He was born in Hinsdale, N. H., January 21, 1878. At Dartmouth he was manager of the first Dartmouth basketball team in 1900-01 and of the championship 1902 team.
After three years in college he taught school for a year in West Swanzey, N. H. In 1904 he went to Springfield, Ohio, with the Woman'sHome Companion and the next year was with Rand McNally in Chicago. In 1906 he moved to St. Paul where he remained twenty years as circulation manager of The Farm and TheFarmer's Wife.
From 1927 until his retirement in April, 1950, Frank lived in Philadelphia where he was assistant circulation manager of the FarmJournal and Pathfinder. After his retirement he made his home in Claremont, N. H., where he was buried.
Frank was married on June 21, 1906 to Eliz abeth Fleming who died in 1949.
1906
REV. ELWOOD ERICKSON died suddenly on March 11 in the Community Hospital, Montclair, N. J.
Eric was born in Newark on October 28, 1883. After graduation from Dartmouth in 1906, he attended Union Theological Seminary in New York and received his Master of Arts degree from Columbia in 1910.
In 1917 Eric organized the Fairmount Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and for five years was its pastor.
During the early 1930's he was pastor of the Montclair Heights Reformed Church and later was associated with the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York for several years. In recent years he had been guest minister of churches in Bloomfield, N. J., and in Little Falls, Haworth and Nyack, N. Y.
F{ric was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club of Montclair and had been active in amateur dramatic shows.
He leaves a brother, A. E. Erickson of Newark, N.. J., and a nephew, J. R. Erickson of Orange.
WILLIAM PHIPPS MCGRAIL died at his home, 290 Park Ave., New York City, on January 21.
He was born in Worcester Mass. on February 24., 1884. After graduating from the English High School in Worcester, Bill entered Dartmouth with the class of 1906.
In college he played freshman and sophomore baseball and football and was one of the outstanding members of the varsity basketball team. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Turtle.
Most of his life was spent in the textile industry. At the time of his death he was chairman of the board of the McLoughlin Manufacturing Co. of Indianapolis and president of the W. P. McGrail Cos., 350 Fifth Ave., New York City.
Bill was married to Emily G. Kenney in June 1918 at Shrewsbury, Mass. Besides his wife, his daughter Jean, and his two sons William P. Jr. '44 and Paul, survive.
JOSEPH THOMAS SMITH died March 23 at his home, 309 South Willard St., Burlington, Vt. He was born December 20, 1883, in East Weymouth, Mass., the son of Cornelius and Margaret Smith. He received his education in the Weymouth schools and graduated from Dartmouth in 1906.
While at Dartmouth Joe played varsity baseball, football and basketball and for two years after graduation was football director at Rutgers. For a short while he was connected with the Boston and Maine Railroad. In December 1908 Joe went with the Eastern Talc Company at Rochester, Vt., and in 1913 became manager of the Magnesia Talc Company at Waterbury. The Rochester, Waterbury and Johnson companies were later merged into the Eastern Magnesia Talc Company of which Joe became president. In 1925 he was appointed executive vice-president of the Rock of Ages Corporation, an office he held until the time of his death. In 1948 Joe was instrumental in the organization of a group of business men in the Lamoille Valley to take over the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad and operate it.
Joe spent the major part of his life in Vermont and became one of the state's leading industrialists. He took a keen interest in civic projects and was one of the organizers of the Burlington Boys' Club. He was also one of the leaders in the construction of the new Mary Fletcher Hospital.
On May 31, 1915, Joe was married to Edwina Hallie Lane who survives with two daughters, Mrs. Wellington Glover, wife of Lt. Col. Willington Glover, stationed in Tokyo, and Mrs. John T. Carpenter of Essex Junction. An only son, Sidney Lane Smith, died December 10, 1941, while in his junior year at Dartmouth.
The following is part of Mrs. Smith's letter of April 1: "I was deeply touched by the message of sympathy from Joe's class and for the beautiful flowers which were sent by his class- mates. Next to his family in Joe's affection was his great love for Dartmouth. I believe there never was a more loyal alumnus. The friends he made there were among the truest and most cherished of his entire lifetime and he had told me many times that he owed to Dartmouth a debt he could never repay."
The list of honorary pall-bearers at his funeral included most of the prominent citizens of Vermont as well as businessmen from Chicago, New York and Boston.
1907
MORTON HOWARD LANGILL was found dead in his summer cottage in West Upton, Mass., on March 31. He had apparently died of a heart attack several days before.
"Peb" was born in Hanover January 5, 1884, the son of Howard H. Langill, the Hanover photographer, and Hattie Tabor. In college he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Kappa Kappa.
After receiving his M.D. from Dartmouth in 1910 he interned at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital and then became assistant resident physician in the Worcester City Hospital. After serving for two years as a Captain, Medical Corps, A.E.F., he began private practice in Worcester where he continued until the time of his death. For the last 25 years he had specialized in roentgenology.
"Peb" was a member of the Massachusetts and American Medical Associations, the New England Roentgen Ray Society, Rotary, and had served as president of the Dartmouth Club of Worcester.
His only survivor is a sister, Mrs. Anne Langill Coar, of Ellis Country School, Newtown Sq., Pa.
1909
FRANK THORNTON OLMSTEAD died at his home 4 Madison Ave., Winchester, Mass., on March 27 following a three-month illness. Frank was born on July 1, 1887 at Chelsea, Mass., the son of Frank W. and Hattie E. (Dennett) Olmstead. He entered Dartmouth from Chelsea High School and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
Leaving Dartmouth at the end of freshman year, Frank entered the banking business which he followed until 1918. He served the United States Navy as a cost accountant during 1918-1919. Insurance then claimed his attention until 1939 when he became clerk of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Winchester for a time. He returned to banking and was associated with the State Street Trust Co. for the last nine years of his life.
He was a member of William Parkman Lodge, A.F.&A.M., and of the Winchester Unitarian Church.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Leslie Caverly Olmstead; a son, Ronald Walker '32 of Holland, N. Y.; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Rundy of Beverly, Mass.; and a sister, Mrs. Herbert W. Johnson of Melrose, Mass. Funeral services were held March 29 in the Meyer Chapel of the Unitarian Church, Winchester.
1913
FRANK RICH died on February 19 at the Stamford Hospital, Stamford, Conn., after a lingering illness. He was born in Castelfranco, Italy, on No- vember 29, 1890, the son of Michael and Maria Rich.
He graduated from Stamford High School in igog and attended Dartmouth for two years. He transferred to Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University from which he graduated in 1913 and continued his studies at the Yale Law School receiving his law degree in 1916, and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar the same year.
During World War I Frank served with the 102 nd Infantry of the 26th Division. After active service overseas, he was placed in charge of the foreign language section of the Base Censor's Office in Paris.
Commencing law practice alone, he later became a member of the law firm of Hickey, Spelke and Rich. When the firm was dissolved, after a few years, he resumed his individual practice.
Frank served as Town Counsel from 1924 to 1926 and was a member of the City Park Board and a member of the City Board of Finance for six years. He was president of the Italian Center for the year 1936.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Alice Foley Rich of 199 W. Broad St., Stamford; a son, Francis F. Rich; a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Osle of New York; and a sister, Mrs. Marguerite Centonze of Stamford.
The funeral was held in Sacred Heart Church, Stamford, on March 22. Interment was in St. John's Cemetery in Springdale, Conn.
1915
WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN HUNTRESS passed away at Melrose (Mass.) Hospital on March 14, after an illness of two months. Funeral services were held at Robinson Chapel and burial was in Wyoming Cemetery, Melrose.
Bill was born in Keene, N. H., September 5, 1892, the son of Frank and Berdia (Chamberlain) Huntress. He attended Keene High School and Exeter Academy before entering Dartmouth. In College he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and was active in the Mandolin Club and on the Prom Committee.
At the start of World War I, he enlisted in the Quartermaster Corps where he won his commission as 2nd Lieutenant. Following his discharge from the service he was employed in a Fitchburg department store and later became manager of the Ross-Huntress store in Rutland, Vt., where he resided for 15 years. During World War 11, Bill went to New
York City in the Material Coordination Agency, Bureau of Ships, U. S. Navy. After the war, he returned to Melrose where he engaged in the advertising business, and made his home at 128 Youle St.
Bill and Marion Armington were married in Melrose June 6, 1925. They have two children, Louise and William Jr. Bill is also survived by two brothers, Frank C. '17 of Keene and Carroll B. of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Jack B. Huntress '33 is a nephew.
Bill was second to none in his loyalty to his College and his Class. He was Class President 1940-1946 and on the Executive Committee 1946-1950. His other interests were many and varied, in 1925, he assisted in the organization campaign for the national drive of the Salvation Army. He was active in Masonic work as a 32nd Degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner. He was a member of the American Legion.
In extending its condolences to his family, the Class of 1915 feels the loss of a great friend, a strong leader and a wise counselor.
ARTHUR LEROY JOHNSON passed away suddenly on March 25, at his home, 1632 Edgewood Ave., Jacksonville, Florida.
Roy was born September 11, 1892, in Monson, Mass., and graduated from Monson Academy before entering Dartmouth. During his one year in college, he imprinted his sunny personality on his classmates, particularly those living in Wheeler Hall.
He served in the Army during World War I, entering as a private and being discharged 16 months later as a Ist Lieutenant.
Most of his business life was spent in the South—the last 25 years in Jacksonville. In 1929 he organized the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada in Florida. He was active in many local and state insurance associations and held office in many such groups.
Roy had been a member of Rotary since 1934 and had served two terms on the directorate. He was President of the Boys Home Association at the time of his death. He was Past President of the Episcopal Laymen's League and a vestryman of the Church of the Good Shepherd.
Roy's Dartmouth connections meant much to him. It followed naturally that when the Dartmouth Club of Jacksonville was organized, he became its first president.
To his widow, Mrs. Gertrude Gary Johnson, his son Gary S. 'go, his daughter Mrs. George T. Gratton Jr. of Lawrenceville, N. J., and the brother and four sisters who survive him, the Class of 1915 extends its deepest sympathy.
1919
GEORGE WHIPPLE CALDWELL passed away suddenly on March 6 in Waterbury, Conn. Death was due to a heart attack.
Born on January 3, 1896, in Lynn, Mass., the son of the late George H. and Elizabeth (Whipple) Caldwell, George attended Lynn Classical High School and entered Dartmouth in 1915. He was a member of Kappa Sigma. He joined the Navy in 1917 as an Ensign in the Radio Service and served until 1919.
George was an agent for the Prudential Life Insurance Company in Waterbury for the past twenty years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eileen Caldwell, of 45 Ellsmere Avenue, Waterbury, a son George W. Jr., and a daughter Miss Jean Isabel Caldwell. The class extends its sincerest sympathy to the family in their sad loss.,
1921
D. JAY FULLER died at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover on March 5, following a brief illness. Jay and his family had lived since 1931 in Contoocook, N. H., where he had been New England representative of the Lily Mills Company and Cleveland Mill and Power Company, both of North Carolina and Thomas Hodgson & Sons, Concord, N. H.
Jay Fuller was born in Springfield, Mass., and graduated from Springfield Technical High School. He entered Dartmouth in 1917, continuing with the class until 1920, when he left to study accounting in New York City. In 1922 he joined the American Optical Com- pany in Southbridge, Mass., as a cost accountant, leaving in 1926 to become Assistant Superintendent with Pike Manufacturing Company in Littleton, N. H. He moved to Contoocook in 1931.
He is survived by his wife, Ethelyn Stevens Fuller, and two daughters, Mrs. Harry N. Walls Jr. and Jean Elizabeth Fuller. The service was at Contoocook Methodist Church on March 8.
1923
ROGER HENRY DICKINSON, who was 51, died suddenly on February 26 at his home 645 Flamingo Dr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
He was associated with the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co., in the advertising department, for many years prior to his retirement in 1945. The Dickinsons lived in East Lyme and Hartford, Conn., during that period. Although his ill health curtailed his activities a good deal, he was interested in sailing and in Florida lore after the family moved south.
Roger was born in Hartford and attended the public schools there. He was a member of St. John's Lodge, A.F. and A.M. He was the son of Mary Brown and Henry Howard Dickinson. In addition to his wife, the former Mary Honiss, he is survived by a son, Roger Jr. '47 of Hartford and his daughter, Mrs. William Graulty of Cambridge, and a grandson, William W. Graulty Jr.
Roger was prevented by ill health from joining actively with the Miami Dartmouth group, but he was always interested in Dartmouth and Dartmouth affairs. His many friends in the College and the Class will miss him and honor his memory.
1927
FRANKLIN EMMETT BROWN died in Batavia, N. Y„ on January 30. Born in Gloversville, N. Y„ October 23, 1905, Frank was the son of Franklin E.'and Clara (Blowers) Brown. He prepared for college at Gloversville High School. In college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, the Glee Club and track squad.
For three years after graduation Frank was a security salesman for Harris, Forbes in New York City. After a year as trust officer for the City National Bank and Trust Cos. in Gloversville, he became a partner in Wickenden and Brown, in Buffalo, engaged in bank advertising. In 1934 he went to Batavia with Niagara Hudson Power Cos. and in 1942 became resident manager, of the Genesee District. Frank was elected president of the Batavia Chamber of Commerce in 1949.
On April 12, 1930, Frank was married to Catherine Havelaar who survives with their daughters Marilyn Ruth and Joan Catherine. Their home is at 24 Richmond Ave., Batavia.
1928
KENNETH MALCOEM HUMPHREY died of a heart ailment January 30 in Toledo Hospital, Toledo, Ohio, where he had been admitted two days earlier. He was born in Atlanta, Ga., January 17,
1906, and prepared for Dartmouth at Scott High School, Toledo. He withdrew after one semester. From 1931 to 1942 he was a teller at the Toledo Trust Co., leaving to join the Owens Illinois Glass Co., where he was a senior price analyst.
Ken served two years in the Army in World War 11, most of it on New Caledonia and the Philippines, as a staff sergeant in the Service of Supply.
He is survived by his widow, two daughters, his mother and a brother. His home was at 747 Inwood Court, Maumee, Ohio.
1946
Harvey Gladstone Schiff, a junior at the New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, died February 4 as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Harvey was born in Brooklyn, July 13, 1925, the son of Samuel and Gussle (Gladstone) Schiff. He attended the Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn before matriculating at Dartmouth. While in Hanover he served in various capacities with The Dartmouth, ThePictorial and DBS.
Harvey is survived by his wife, the former Nancy Louise Fingerheit, whom he married in December 1949, and his parents. Their home is at 266 Highland Blvd., Brooklyn. To them the entire Class of 1946 extends their sympathy.
OLIVER SHERMAN WARDEN '89
WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN HUNTRESS '15
IT'S RUGBY, OLD BOY: The Dartmouth (numbered jerseys) and Princeton rugby teams leaping high from a line out in one of the matches played during Bermuda Rugby Week. Princeton, defending champions, won, 11-0, and went on to meet Yale in the finals. Dartmouth, although a newcomer to the sport, defeated Harvard and M.I.T. in other contests. A number of Big Green football stars played at Bermuda, among them Pete Bogardus (35) and Mo Monahan (14) shown in the action picture.
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