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]

Gray, Edward W. T. '91, June 21 Brown, Walter W. '93, May 14 Gerould, James T. '95, June 8 Wallace, Dana D. '97, June 13 Miller, Herbert A. '99, May 6 Logan, Donald B. '04, June 22 Walker, Raymond 'OB, June 14 Averill, Porter W. '12, May 26 Wicker, Carlton S. '14, May 17 Wallace, Harry W. '16, July 20, 1940 Stelberg, Edward C. '17t, March 1 Carpenter, James S. '18, May 31 Smith, Robert H. '19, May 29 Mac Donald, Donald '20, May 26 Stanley, James P. '23, May 27 Burbank, Thomas H. '24, June 25 Hartley, Edwin Forrest, Jr. '26, May 14 Brown, Richard B. '28, May 27 Walker, Hurlburt T. '28, December 20, 1950 Wright, S. Chapman '28, May 13 Barr, Lockwood C. '36, June 25 Scadron, Harvey M. '46, May 9

In Memoriam

1889

CHARLES SUMNER CURRIER died at his home in Elkin, N. C., on April 25, after many years of illness. The son of Charles L. and Celinda (Dickey) Currier, he was born December 16, 1867, in Hardwick, Vt. He prepared for college at Barre Academy and entered Dartmouth in the Class of 1889, He remained in the class until the end of junior year. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, and was one of the 16 members of the Dartmouth Bicycle Club. With a dry wit and keen sense of humor, he was given the anomalous nickname of "Slugger," by which he was familiarly known throughout life. He always had a deep interest in Dartmouth and closely followed the careers of his classmates.

Soon after leaving college he began with the Barre Railroad as a transitman. In that capacity he served other northern railroads before becoming engaged in surveying and building railroads in the South. He was emloyed as engineer in various capacities with such railroads as the Seaboard Air Line, Carolina, Churchfield & Ohio, Winston-Salem Southbound, Carolina Valley and Elkin & Alleghany. For many years he was district engineer with the North Carolina State Highway Commission.

In 1932, because of illness, he retired from all business. Since then he was confined to his home in Elkin and spent most of the time in bed, resigned to his condition, and retaining his .sense of humor to the end. During those long years of illness, his wife cared for him with a devotion seldom equalled.

His wife, the only survivor, is the former Blanche Hollister Skinner, whom he married in Montpelier, Vt., January 1, 1896. To her, the living members of the class extend their deep sympathy. Upon the casket at his funeral a floral tribute from his Dartmouth classmates silently expressed their affectionate regard.

1895

JAMES THAYER GEROULD, a member of one of Dartmouth's most distinguished and scholarly families, died June 8 at his home, 601 Pollard Park Drive, Williamsburg, Va.

He was born in Goffstown, N. H., October 3, 1872, the son of Rev. Samuel Lankton Gerould '58 and Laura Thayer. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

Immediately after graduation he entered the library profession where he gained national distinction as one of the top men in his field. After a year as assistant librarian in General Theological Seminary he spent three years as a department supervisor in the Columbia University Library. In 1900 he was appointed librarian of the University of Missouri where he remained until 1906 when he became librarian of the University of Minnesota. In 1920-.he was appointed librarian at Princeton University where he remained until forced to resign on account of ill health in 1938.

At Princeton Dr. Gerould strove for a humanized instead of a mechanized library. In an era when libraries were still operating on the policy of keeping the student and the book as far apart as possible, he gave students complete access to all books and instituted midnight closing. Convinced of the importance of the library to a college, he became a recognized expert in planning and designing college library buildings. In recognition of this the Carnegie Corporation asked him to incorporate his suggestions for library planning and construction into a book published in 1932, The College Library Building. The new libraries at Princeton and Dartmouth reflect his vision.

In addition to his administrative duties, Dr. Gerould for many years wrote a monthly survey of foreign affairs for Current History. An authority on Anthony Trollope, he published in 1948 A Guide to Trollope. After years of research he published AmericanNewspapers, 1821-1936, a union list of files available in the United States and Canada.

In 1932 when Dartmouth conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters on Dr. Gerould, President Hopkins said, "You are by inclination, aptitude and experience, par excellence, the university librarian.... You have made yourself master of and have yourself devised much of the technique of library administration in the American college... .Your method has been not only to make books available to maximum degree but to arouse the interest which should lead to fullest use.

... You have contributed important articles on matters of historical interest and you have written informingly of foreign affairs and persuasively in behalf of completer understanding of the principles which govern international relations."

On September 18, 1900, Dr. Gerould was married to Mary Chamberlain who died in 1939. In December, 1940, he was married to Winifred Gregory who survives him. He is also survived by his son, Albert C. Gerould '32, librarian of Clark University: and his brothers, John H. Gerould '90, Emeritus Professor of Biology at Dartmouth; Gordon H. Gerould '99, Holmes Professor of Belles Lettres, Emeritus, at Princeton; and Leonard S. Gerould '06, an engineer.

1899

DR. ARTHUR WARREN HOPKINS died at the home of his daughter, Faith Baver, M.D., in Pennsburg, Pa., April 30, following a long illness. He was born February 28, 1877, in Lyndonville, Vt., his parents being Charles H. and Ellen (Colby) Hopkins.

He attended schools in Lyndon Center, Vt., and Manchester, N. H. He received his M.D. in medicine at Dartmouth Medical in 1903, and was a practicing physician in West Swanzey, N. H., since that time.

Dr. Hopkins was much interested in civic work. He became a member of the state legislature in 1915 and served for two terms. For more than 40 years he was school and town moderator of Swanzey and for nearly that long was a member of the school board and health officer.

He was a past president of the Cheshire County Medical Society, and a member of the American Medical Society, Masons, Knights of Pythias, Lincoln Grange, Golden Cross, Red Men, and the Federated Church in West Swanzey.

Dr. Hopkins was married to Grace W. Harvey on June 22, 1903. She .survived him but a few weeks, dying May 21 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Baver, whose husband is also a physician.

In 1935 'he grammar school in West Swanzey was named the Hopkins School, he being one of the few living persons to receive such an honor. In 1944 he told a story of his life as a country physician in Pep, Pills and Politics, a 239-page book filled with rich, human experience reflecting the joys and sorrows of those of high and low degree which "Hoppy" shared for nearly 50 years as a faithful and much loved doctor to a wide countryside among the hills of New Hampshire.

Funeral services were at the West Swanzey Federated Church, May 3. Classmates attending were George Clark, Dr. and Mrs. Hale Dearborn and Hawley Chase. There were flowers from the class. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery, West Swanzey.

DR. HERBERT ADOLPHUS MILLER died May 6 in an Asheville, N. C., hospital. After a long illness his condition became critical and he was removed from his home in Black Mountain, N. C.

He was born on the farm of his maternal grandparents in Tuftonboro, N. H., on June 5, 1875. When he was a year old his parents took him to Massachusetts where he lived until he was eight when his father died. He then returned to the Tuftonboro farm where he lived until he was sixteen at which time he entered Brewster Free Academy where he prepared for Dartmouth. The rest of his life was devoted to teaching, writing and international political activity.

Beginning with a district school at Etna, five miles from Hanover, in the fall of his freshman year, and two other terms of teaching during his college course, his teaching career covered 52 years. On his first visit to Hanover from Etna, Seth Pope '98 hailed him as "Ye Old Pedagogue." His classmate Joe Edwards immediately shortened it to "Peddy" by which name he was known by his classmates and their contemporaries ever since.

After graduation he taught Greek at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn. This was a leading Negro college and while there he became absorbed in the race problem. This interest was expanded to embrace all minority problems. After three years at Fisk he went to Harvard and studied philosophy and psychology, receiving a doctor's degree in 1905. Beginning with the fall of 1905 he taught for seven years at Olivet College in Michigan, then spent a half year at the University of Chicago, where he began to study the Bohemians, now called Czechs.

In 1912 he went to Bohemia with an American delegation of Bohemian athletes. He had a letter of introduction to Professor Masaryk, the recognized great man of the country, a few years later to be the founder and first president of the Czechoslovak Republic. Thus began a relationship of great educational value and much political implication.

In 1914 he became the head of the Sociology Department of Oberlin College. During the First World War there was almost complete ignorance in America of national aspirations of the countries of Central Europe and the attitudes of aliens, and Miller wrote and lectured continuously on the subject. In 1918 the Carnegie Corporation made an exhaustive study of the methods of Americanization and he joined the staff while continuing to teach at Oberlin. The result was a book entitled Old World Traits Transplanted.

When Professor Masaryk came to America in 1918, Miller joined him and they worked together until the end of the war when Professor Masaryk returned to Czechoslovakia as first president of the new Republic and, shortly after his arrival, proposed the idea of the mid-European Union which had been organized by Miller and of which he was director. This became the Little Entente. Afterwards Miller visited Czechoslovakia four times as the guest of President Masaryk and was awarded the Order of the White Lion.

In 1924 Miller joined the faculty of Ohio State University where he remained until 1931. In the meantime he made two trips to Europe and one of fifteen months around the world and wrote a book, Races, Nationsand Classes. Since he had had many Chinese, Korean and Hindu students, some of whom had returned to Asia, they contributed much to the activities in Asia. He lectured at many universities in both China and India. In Korea, at the invitation of some Korean Ohio State graduates, he spoke to a public gathering. Many Japanese police were present and after a time forbade him to continue. Miller had been decorated by Br. Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea, for his help with the problems of freedom and unification of that country. In India, where he had been a guest of Gandhi on the day Gandhi started on his Salt March in defiance of the British government, Miller made what he considered a very innocuous brief speech in Bombay. The substance of the speech was cabled all over the world, and was immediately taken as an excuse by the trustees of Ohio State University for refusing to renew his contract. The alleged reason was that he was helping the subjects of a friendly power to revolution. The real reason was, he believed, that the Ku Klux Klan had been complaining about his activities in trying to help the Negroes in Columbus.

After two years without a job, during which he wrote The Beginnings of Tomorrow, he was invited to teach at Bryn Mawr College in 1933 where he remained until he reached the retiring age in 1940. The summer of his retirement and for the following three summers he was director of the American Seminar for Refugee Scholars under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee. This he considered his most useful educational work.

The first year after retirement he substituted at Temple University, and the next year at Beloit College, then.for one semester at Pennsylvania State College, at the end of which he wa.s called to Black Mountain College in North Carolina where he stayed nearly five years, serving as chairman of the faculty one year and as registrar for several years.

Surviving are his wife, Bessie Cravath Miller, a son, Maurice and a daughter, Gustova.

1904

ROBERT ROSWELL BROWN died at his home, 710 N. Kentucky Ave., Roswell, N. M„ on December 24, 1950. Bob was born in Joliet, Ill., November 28, 1 79- the son of Roswell S. and Caroline (Clark) Brown. He was with our class for two years, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Playing football in college led to his life work as an athletic coach.

He began coaching in 1902 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute where he spent two years. From there he later coached at the University of North Carolina, Washington and Lee, and Tulane. In 1910 he went to New Mexico Military Institute where he remained as athletic director until his retirement in 1948. Commissioned by the state he held the rank of Lt. Colonel at his death.

Bob was one of the most colorful coaches in the Southwest and helped to build up the highest type of sportsmanship in the border country. "Cap" as he was known in Roswell became a city institution. In writing of his death the editor of the Roswell Daily Record said, "Men like the Colonel, who have devoted their lives to sports, are responsible for the sportsmanship that has pervaded all American activities in the past generation or two. They not only built great teams but they taught a lot of character along with their athletic training, and the result has been reflected in the way Americans live. Therefore this man whose whole life was that of a gentleman, has contributed something of material worth to the whole nation as well as to the community he called home for many years."

Bob is survived by his wife, the former Luella Hann, whom he married in 1931.

1908

Belated news has been received of the death on December 7, 1949 of JOHN DANA SAVAGE, in Portland, Maine.

John was born January 4, 1886, at Newmarket, N. H., but lived when in college at Mattapan, Mass. He was with the class only during freshman year.

In 1911 while employed in Cuba he was married there to Ruth M. Crossman of Boston. He was employed by T. Stuart and Sons of Watertown, Mass., as Engineer and Superintendent of Construction and in 1940 was employed by Coleman Brothers Corporation of Boston in the same capacity.

He had been in poor health for several years and lived with his daughter, Mrs. Robert Ricker, of Portland, who survives him, together with another daughter Ruth and a son John Jr. He is also survived by his widow and eight grandchildren.

1912

RALPH HORACE WHITNEY died in his sleep from a coronary occlusion at his home in Arlington, Va., on April 15.

He was born in North Attleboro, Mass., on March 11, 1890 and, after preparation in the North Attleboro schools, entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1912. He left Dartmouth and spent his sophomore year at Yale and then returned to spend another year with our class. He then attended Lehigh University where, in football and track, he made an outstanding athletic record. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

He married Marguerite Davidson at Detroit, Mich.„ on July 12, 1919, which marriage was subsequently terminated by divorce. He remarried in 1938, and is survived by his second wife, Beatrice. His mother, Josephine Hatch Whitney, who maintains her residence in North Attleboro, also survives him.

At the time of his death, he was a representative of the Industrial Products Division of The B. F. Goodrich Company in Washington, D. C. Prior to that time he had been for a number of years special representative from the same division, operating out of Akron, Ohio, on special large contracting jobs, the duties of which took him to almost all parts of the country.

"Red," as he was affectionately known by his classmates and a host of other friends, was enthusiastically loyal to Dartmouth and on his extensive business travels he made extraordinary efforts and took great pride in looking up and becoming acquainted with Dartmouth graduates in the vicinities to which his work took him.

Interment was in the family lot at Mount Hope Cemetery, North Attleboro, on April 20.

1918

JAMES SULLIVAN CARPENTER, better known as Jim by men of all classes at Dartmouth, passed away at the Syracuse Memorial Hospital on May 25.

Jim was born in Andover, Mass., April 17, 1895. His father, Charles Lincoln Carpenter, graduated from Dartmouth in 1887 and from Thayer School in 1889. He became vice-president' of the Central Aguirre Sugar Cos. in Puerto Rico. Jim's grandfather, Charles Carroll Carpenter, received an honorary A.M. from Dartmouth in 1887. After graduating from Andover Theological Seminary in 1875 he had gone to Labrador with Grenfell as a missionary. The Carpenter family was of sturdy New England stock, the first member coming to this country in 1638.

Jim prepared for Dartmouth at Andover Academy. He was a member of Sigma Chi. During World War I he served as Lt. (j.g.) in the Naval Reserve.

Most of Jim's business career was spent as an auditor, first with Shell Oil Co. and later with Colonial Beacon Oil Co. At the time of his death he was an auditor for the E. C. Stearns Co.

Jim has one of the finest families it has been our pleasure to know—his wife, the former Mary Ellen Nolan; his two daughters Virginia and Patty; and his two sons Harvey and Peter. His son Jimmy was killed in action in 1943. Jim is also survived by his mother and his brother, Thomas R. Carpenter '20. The family home is at 237 Wolf St., Syracuse, N. Y.

Jim's great and abiding loyalty was always Dartmouth and things Dartmouth. He had a great capacity for rich and loyal friendships. Wherever he touched human beings his warmth was felt.

Flowers were sent to the funeral in the name of the class and Ernie Earley and Steve Mahoney acted as pall bearers.

E. H. E.

1920

DONALD MACDONALD'S life came to a tragic and untimely end on May 26, when he died at his home, 52 Salem St., Andover, Mass., of a self-inflicted bullet wound. Burial took place in nearby Methuen, the town where he was born almost 54 years ago.

During the last 14 years Don had served Time and Life magazines, working in or managing their advertising offices in Boston, New York and St. Louis. Just a few months ago, late in 1950, he had come back East, to manage Time's office in Boston and to take lip residence in the well-remembered country where he grew up. Over the years the MacDonald's had maintained a summer place in southern New Hampshire.

Don was the son of the late Rev. Robert Mac Donald and Ada (Tenney) Mac Donald. Coming to Dartmouth from Worcester Academy, he joined P.si Upsilon fraternity, stayed with us for two years, and then served in France with an ambulance unit. Before World War I was over he also saw service in the Naval Reserve. Prior to joining the TimeLife organization, he had some experience in the wholesale lumber business, followed by four years of the Golden Twenties selling real estate in Florida and then by a period of seven years with the Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Co.

Don married Victoria JLang in 1925. She survives him, as does their daughter Frances, now Mrs. Donald Thompson, who also lives in Andover.

1926

EDWIN FORREST HARTLEY JR. died May 14 at his home, 302 South Virgil Street, Los Angeles, Calif., following an illness of three days.

Born in Fairmont, W. Va., February 22, 1903, the son of Edwin F. and Louise (Moderwell) Hartley, he graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1922. Following his graduation in 1926 he received his LL.B. degree from the University of Virginia in 1932. At the time of his death he was employed in the Los Angeles Branch of the California State Employment Office where he was primarily concerned with the rehabilitation of veterans.

During his four years in Hanover, Stormy, as he was affectionately known by his manyfriends, was a member of Sigma Chi, Dragon and the Round Table. During the 2nd World War he served with the USAAC from November 1942 to June 1945 when he was discharged from active duty with the rank of staff sergeant. His decorations included the European Theatre ribbon with six battle stars and a distinguished unit citation.

His many friends in the class will miss his good-natured smile and will long remember his engaging personality.

He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Homer Barnes, of the Montecito School for girls in Los Angeles.

1928

HURLBURT THAYER WALKER died very suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 20, 1950, in Portland, Maine.

"Pop" was born in Taunton, Mass., May 8, 1906, and prepared for college at the Taunton High School. At Dartmouth he made a host of friends and was known to everyone as "Pop". He was a member of Delta Tau Delta.

On July 8, 1933, he married Mary E. Bostock of Taunton, who survives him with their two children, Florence, 14, and Hurlburt Jr., 10. Their home is at 44 Pleasant St., Yarmouth, Maine.

His entire business career was spent with the Universal Credit Co., for a number of years in their Boston office, and, since 1940, as manager of the branch office in Portland.

1946

Death came to HARVEY MATTHEW SCADRON in New York City on May 9 as a result of Hodgkins disease. He had been ill for one and one-half years.

Before entering Dartmouth, Harvey prepared at Stuyvesant High School and Clark School. While at Dartmouth, Harvey majored in Philosophy. He served with the Army during the recent war.

In January of this year he had fifteen canvasses on display at the Carpenter Art Galleries in Hanover.

Harvey is survived by his wife Doris; his parents, Dr. and Mrs. S. J. Scadron of 47 E. 88th St., New York City; a brother, Dr. Eugene Scadron '30, and a sister, Mrs. Miriam Scadron Stone. To them the entire Class of 1946 extends its deepest sympathy.

JAMES THAYER GEROULD '95

ARTHUR WARREN HOPKINS '99

HERBERT ADOLPHUS MILLER '99