Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices may appear inthis issue or may appear in a later number]
Sears, George '95, Nov. 18 Huckins, George L. '99, Nov. 19 Hastings, Alfred B. '04, Nov. 8 Daniels, Frederick L. '05, Nov. 24 Rogers, Earle J. '09, Nov. 30 Coleman, Albert J. '10, Nov. 11 Mullen, John A. '11, Nov. 18 Fitzpatrick, Walter T. '13, Nov. 28 Wentworth, Stacy H. '15, Nov. 7 Kirkpatrick, Nathaniel W. Jr. '18, July 5 McPartlin, Raymond F. '20, Nov. 26 Buckley, Robert J. '23, Nov. 1 Horan, George B. '23, Nov. 26 Lord, Gordon S. '29, Dec. 3 Clark, Edward R. '85m, Nov. 26 Lancaster, Walter B. '39h, Dec. 8 Ross, Harold W. '50h, Dec. 6
In Memoriam
1893
EDWARD BOWERS died on October 14 at a nursing home in Fort Plain, N. Y., after an illness of over a year.
He was born January 6, 1864, in Roseboom, N. Y., the son of Conrad and Catharine (Diefendorf) Bowers. In 1868 the family moved to Freys Bush, N. Y.
Edward was educated in the district schools and at Clinton Liberal Institute of Fort Plain. He graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1887. The following two years were spent teaching in the district schools in that area, after which he enrolled at Dartmouth with the Class of 1893.
Noted for his modest but intense interest in all college and class affairs, "Shorty" was especially interested in the Y.M.C.A. He joined Kappa Kappa Kappa and Tiger Senior Society.
Immediately after graduation he entered Boston University School of Theology, graduating with the S.T.B. degree in 1895. He then joined the Troy Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and for the next forty years held pastorates in upper New York and Vermont. In 1935 he retired to live at his home in Schaghticoke, N. Y., with his wife, the former Mary Needham, of Cazenovia, whom he married on May 26, 1897. She died on November 16, 1941. In 1948 Shorty disposed of his property in Schaghticoke and made his home with his brother Stanley at Fort Plain, N. Y.
The funeral, conducted by Rev. A. T. Strobel assisted by District Superintendent Rev. F. W. Bevan, was held in the First Methodist Church, Fort Plain, with burial at Frey's Bush, N. Y. He is survived by his brother, two nephews and a niece.
1895
DR. GEORGE SEARS died at his home, 122 Armour St., New Bedford, Mass., on November 18. Quotation from Mrs. Sears follows:
"He was taken sick on November 6 with yellow jaundice and was violently ill for a few days. He then rallied and it seemed as though he might recover. The jaundice condition cleared up, but on the 16th he suffered a relapse and went into a semi-coma. On Sunday morning, the 18th, he went into a complete coma and passed away very quietly."
Dr. Sears was born in Windsor, Vt., September 16, 1874. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1895 and later from Harvard Dental School, meantime serving as apprentice in the office of a well-known dentist in Boston. He finally opened an office of his own in Fall River, Mass., and developed a large practice employing two dental assistants and two dental laboratory experts. In 1926 Dr. Sears sold his outfit in Fall River and began practice on a smaller scale in New Bedford and continued there until his last illness.
He was a member of New Bedford Lodge of Elks and of Defenders Club. He was known as a philanthropist always willing to help the unfortunate and ill-favored persons who needed friendly help.
His survivors are Mrs. Gertrude E. Sears, his widow, and a brother, William S. Sears of Claremont, N. H.
1899
GEORGE LAURIE HUCKINS was fatally injured November 19 when his automobile crashed against a Boston and Maine passenger train at the Main street crossing in Wakefield, Mass. He was apparently on his way to his home in Melrose Highlands.
Witnesses said he turned out to pass a car which had stopped for a red traffic light signalling the crossing of the train. His car hit one of the coaches and his head jammed against the windshield fracturing his skull. He died without regaining consciousness shortly after his arrival at the Melrose Hospital.
George was born in Plymouth, N. H., August 17, 1875. He attended Holderness School where he played on the school baseball team and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. In college he was genial, modest and very well liked. He was a member of Sigma Chi. He was a brother of the late Dr. Theron Huckins, Dartmouth '97.
After graduation George went to work for the Boston and Maine Railroad in whose employ he had been much of the time since as a civil engineer. He could have retired some time ago but chose to continue in survey work so that he could be out of doors.
His chief diversion was working among the flowers and on the grounds of his home.
All through the years, he rarely missed the annual '99 Roundup. He and his wife, the former Alice Burleigh, were frequent attendants at class reunions.
They suffered a tragic loss in the death of their two fine sons Joseph G. '31 and Robert B. '32 both of whom died very shortly after graduating from Dartmouth. Mrs. Huckins died in 1947. These sad blows George bore with great courage.
Funeral services were held in Melrose November 23. Paul and Mrs. Osgood and Herbert Rogers represented '99. There was a floral piece from the class. Burial was in the family plot in Wyoming Cemetery in Melrose.
1904
ALFRED BRYANT HASTING died of a heart at tack at his home in Mansfield Center, Conn, on November 8.
Hasty was born in Claremont, N. H., February 19, 1882, the son of Lemuel Spencer Hastings '70, a long time member of the Dartmouth faculty, and Laura M. Cobb. He prepared for college at Nashua High School. In college he was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
After graduation he taught mathematics for five years, first at Holderness and then at Milton Academy and St. Paul's School. He then entered Yale Forestry School where he received his M.F. in 1911. For the next five years he was with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho and Montana. From 1916 to 1925 he was Assistant State Forester, first in New Hampshire and then in Virginia, and during this latter period was associate professor of forestry at the University of Virginia.
In 1925 he returned to the U.S. Forest Service and served in the Division of State Cooperation until his retirement in 1944. During the next four years he made studies of state forestry administration in seven states for the Society of American Foresters and the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation.
In 1948 Hasty sold his home in Kensington, Md., and moved to Tumbling Brook Farm in Mansfield Center, Conn. He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Fellows, whom he married in 1915; three sons, Alfred B. '38, Dwight F. and David S.; two daughters, Laura and Lucy; and a brother, Harold R. Hastings '00.
1905
FREDERICK LINCOLN DANIELS died November 24 at Granville, N. Y. A native of Woodbury, Vt. (March 17, 1872), Fred Daniels spent part of a year at Dartmouth in 1901-2 as a special student, and sat in chapel with the Class of '05. At the time he was in Hanover on a mission, while on trial as a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. When that mission terminated he left college. He was 29 years old at the time. What his previous occupation had been is not recorded.
From then until his retirement in 1945, he was a preacher in smaller Methodist Episcopal churches in northern Vermont and New York state in the Lake Champlain areas. Having a rhetorical instinct, he specialized in preaching. He was sometimes travelling elder and sometimes pastor.
At some time after 1918, Daniels changed his name from Fred to Frederick Lincoln Daniels. At the time of his death at Granville, N. Y., he had been in retirement six years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lulu Chamberlain Daniels, whom he married in Bethel, Vt., July 8, 1903.
1910
ALBERT JAMES COLEMAN died suddenly on November 11, at his home, 9 Jackson St., New Rochelle, N. Y. The funeral services were held November 14.
"Obbie" as he was known to all Tenners, was born in Cambridge, Mass., February 13, 1886, son of James W. and Helen (Denyven) Coleman. He prepared at Cambridge Latin School and entered Dartmouth in 1906, graduating with his class in 1910. "Obbie" enjoyed singing and was able to make the glee club, College Choir and Orpheus Club, and was a member of the chorus of the Prom operetta, "The Promenaders."
After graduation he went to Gatun, Canal Zone, where he was employed until 1916 by the Government, on the Panama Canal. I" 1917 he entered the employ of I. B. Kleinert Rubber Co., New York City, and remained with that concern until his retirement March 1, 1951. His work was in statistics and cost accounting.
"Obbie" kept his Dartmouth friendships through his membership in the New York Dartmouth Club. It was while he was having lunch in the Club one day in July, that he was stricken. His health had been poor from that time but he was able to enjoy short motor trips and he spent much time reading, His regard for the College was sincere and he was gratified to have his son, John Parker Coleman '38, and two nephews, Richard A. Whiting '44 and John C. Cooper '47, follow in his Dartmouth footsteps. "Obbie" was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic order.
He was married to Edith Shaw of Brighton, Mass., March 16, 1914, at Gatun, Canal Zone. Survivors are his widow, three daughters, Mrs. Raymond J. Skinner of Stamford, Conn., Mrs. Thomas M. Stone of Cleveland, Mrs. Ray A. Gibbs of Bloornfield, N. J.; his son, Rev. John Parker Coleman '38, rector of St. Timothy's Protestant Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C.; and five grandchildren.
1911
JOHN AUGUSTUS MULLEN died suddenly of a heart attack at his home, 106 Main St., Wareham, Mass., on November 18. He had been in his usual good health except for a virus attack, from which he apparently had recovered. He went to bed in good shape the evening before and in the morning was found in a coma and died early the next day.
John was born in South Boston, Mass., February 22, 1886, the son of Ellen M. and John Mullen. When he graduated, he went to work for the Henry Urann Company as a shoe salesman, until he became an insurance salesman under Josh Clark. He later resigned to go into business for himself.
Funeral services were held in Wareham. A close college friend of John's writes, "I had known John for fifty years and I had always found him a most lovable and kind friend and a loyal son of Dartmouth. He had many close friends in 1911 and always had a good word for everyone." John was an unusually active member of the class in College, being a member of Kappa Sigma, Sphinx and Palaeopitus; treasurer of his class freshman year; and a member of the executive committee his senior year. He was a member of the class basketball team, later the varsity, of which he was captain in his senior year.
His only surviving relatives are two sisters, Mrs. John McCormack and Miss Gertrude Mullen of Pocasset, Mass.
1913
EVANS TRUMAN TWICHELL died October 30 at his home, 101 Roycroft Boulevard, Snyder, N. Y.
Evans was born on October 5, 1891, at Springville, N. Y., son of Helen T. (Evans) and Charles A. Twichell, a banker. He fitted for Dartmouth at the Buffalo Central High School. In 1915 he married Marjorie E. Howard of Whitman, Mass., who survives him.
In 1915 he became cashier of the Bank of South Dayton, a post he held until 1918 when he affiliated with the Buffalo office of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, where he remained until 1924. That year he joined the Brown Brothers, Harriman banking house in Buffalo until he formed with Garret C. Williams the Williams and Twichell Co., an investment banking concern which lasted until 1947. Four years ago Evans formed Twichell & Company, Inc., with offices in the M. & T. Building, 290 Main Street.
"Twich," as he was known in college, was a member of Kappa Sigma and played on the freshman basketball team and was on the varsity basketball squad. At Buffalo he was a member of the Bond Club, the Springville Country Club, Cherry Creek Lodge 384 F. and A. M., Ismailia Shrine Temple, Buffalo Consistory, and the North Collins Rod and Gun Club. He attended the First Unitarian Church of Buffalo.
Surviving besides his wife are three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy B. Chappell of Flushing, L. I., Mrs Marjorie Jensen of Potsdam, and Miss Ellen Twichell of Buffalo; a sister, Mrs. W. D. Bohannon of Moreland, Ga.; a brother, W. Lee Twichell of Gowanda; and two grandchildren.
1914
EDWIN PERRY REBER passed away after several months' illness on October 15 at his home in Milwaukee, Wis.
He was born in Rockford, Ill., September 1, 1891. After attending Rockford High School he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1914. He remained with the class for two years, then transferring to the University of Illinois, to take an engineering course, and graduating in 1914. Following graduation, he returned to Rockford where he was with the Cotta Transmission Corp. for many years. For the past few years he had been connected with a manufacturing concern in Milwaukee where he made his home.
In college, Reber was a Psi Upsilon. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Thomas D. Reber, and a sister, Mrs. Helen Maguire, both living in Rockford, Ill.; a son, Lt. Col. Thomas R. Reber, Bryan Air Base, Texas: and a daughter, Mrs. Terry Hardenbergh of Corpus Christi, Texas.
To his family, the class of 1914 takes this opportunity to express its deep sympathy in our mutual loss. Although Reber was in Hanover only two years, no better Dartmouth man ever lived.
1915
STACY HALL WENTWORTH died suddenly in New York City on November 7.
He was born in South Weymouth, Mass. February 26, 1891, the son of George L. and Annette (Small) Wentworth. He prepared for Dartmouth at Cushing Academy.
Most of his business life was devoted to commercial photography. He had been in poor health for a number of years preceding his death.
Interment was in South Weymouth. He is survived by a sister Marian Wentworth.
1918
NATHANIEL WILLARD KIRKPATRICK JR. died of a heart attack at Ocean City, Md., on July 5.
Willard was born in Dayton, Ohio. May 13, 1895, the son of Nathaniel W. and Harriet (Pruden) Kirkpatrick. He prepared for college at Lawrenceville. He spent one year at Dartmouth with our class, rooming with Jay LeFevre and joining Alpha Delta Phi. He then transferred to Yale where he spent the next two years in Sheffield Scientific School.
After serving during World War I as a Captain in the Field Artillery, Willard went into the real estate business in Dayton, where he continued for the rest of his life, making his home at 700 Oakwood Ave.
On October 3, 1923, Willard was married to Isabel Netting in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Kirkpatrick died in December 1950. He is survived only by a daughter Ann.
1920
RAYMOND FRANCIS MCPARTLIN, best Dartmouth newspaperman of his time, died of cancer on November 24 at the age of 52. He had been writing readable prose for all of the 31 years since his graduation, and his active brain and fingers kept up their daily stint until within a few weeks of his death.
Mac was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Hugh McPartlin. Born in Natick, he came to Dartmouth from Framingham (Mass.) High School and straightway began making his presence felt as a one-man new deal in college journalism. Before he was through the whole campus knew him, because his nose for news told him what was happening to undergraduates, faculty, and townspeople—often before it happened. The Dartmouth and the Press Club were his consuming passions. In his senior year, as managing editor of TheDartmouth, he teamed with Ax Warden, editor-in-chief, to turn the tri-weekly into a daily and to bring the Associated Press to Hanover.
When graduation came Mac's typewriter continued to beat its tattoo. He became, for a period of a few months, the first editor of Scholastic Magazine, published in Pittsburgh by Mose Robinson '19. The next two years were divided between further journalistic apprenticeship on the Manchester (N. H.) Union-Leader and a return to Hanover, at Jigger Pender's request, to write that useful and absorbing history, Dartmouth in Athletics. Then he located the spot where he so surely belonged, a desk on the Boston Globe. He served there for 28 years, as copy desk man, news broadcaster, feature and editorial writer, overseer of the "Letters to the Editor" column, and most recently as writer of the unique and widely read "T. V. Diary." Every journalistic task to which he turned his hand was well and distinctively done.
Just a few months before his own passing Mac lost his wife Gertrude, to whom he had been married almost 25 years. He is survived by his parents and by his three daughters: Joan of the Boston Globe staff; Nancy, Radcliffe undergraduate; and Barbara, a student at Cambridge High and Latin School. A high mass of requiem at Sacred Heart Church, Mt. Auburn, was followed by burial November 28 in Framingham.
1923
JAMES ARTHUR GALLETLY died at the Pittsfield, Mass., General Hospital on April 5 after a brief illness.
Jim was born in Somerville, Mass., November 13, 1901, the son of Arthur S. and Mary (Connors) Galletly. He prepared for college at Boston Latin School. In college he was a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon.
Immediately after graduation Jim joined General Electric Co. in Pittsfield and remained with them until his death, when he was Supervisor of Payroll. As paymaster he had oversight of payments to 12,000 employees. He was a member of the GE Quarter Century Club and the GE Credit Union.
On November 26, 1925 Jim was married to Annette McClintock of Pittsfield, who survives him with two daughters, Mrs. Fred Staley and Barbara, a student at the University of Massachusetts. Their home is at 265 Springside Ave., Pittsfield.
1929
DR. ADRIAN AUGUSTUS EHLER, rioted chest surgeon, died on November 5 at Albany Hospital of acute leukemia. Formerly associated with New York Hospital, Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, N. Y., and Los Angeles Center Hospital, he had been in Albany since 1940 as attending thoracic surgeon at Albany Hospital, and associate professor of surgery at Albany Medical College. He also was surgeon of Glenridge Sanitarium, near Schenectady, and did a large part of the chest surgery for the state of Vermont.
Beau was born October 3, 1908 in New Rochelle, N. Y. where he attended the public schools before entering Dartmouth. In college he majored in chemistry-zoology and was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
After receiving his M.D. from Yale in Beau was an instructor in surgery at Cornell Medical School and the University of Michigan before establishing his practice in Albanv in 1940.
A member of the American College of Surgeons, an outstanding success in his profession, Beau enjoyed the same high regard of his fellows that marked his membership in the class where he will always be remembered with deep affection and respect.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Florence Saenger Ehler, of 445 State St., Albany, and his father, Augustus E. Ehler.
1948
WILLIAM ROBERT BLUM JR. died in New York Hospital on October 10. His death was the result of leukemia which he had contracted about one year ago. He was the son of W. Robert Blum and Mildred Singer; born in New York City, March 23, 1926. He prepared for college at Deerfield Academy and entered Dartmouth in September, 1946 after two years in the Navy, both in the fleet as an SC2 and in the V-12 program when he attended Hobart College and St. Mary's College, Calif.
At Dartmouth, Bob was a physics major and a member of Sigma Chi. He was on the Ski Squad and was in charge of the Ski Patrol for the D.O.C. Most of the '48 class movies are the result of his time and effort.
After graduation, Bob worked in 1948-49 at Sun Valley, managing to take off plenty of time for skiing. Then he took a position with Fish Constructors, who were constructing a natural gas pipe line from Texas to New York. He was located in the office supervising construction in Virginia. This year he became connected with the Northeastern Transmission Co. as an engineer in the construction of a natural gas pipe line to New England and was with this firm till his death.
He was married to Barbara Kann of Baltimore on June 14, 1950. A son, William Robert III was born June 10, 1951. The college and the class have lost a great deal with Bob's death. Our deepest sympathies go to his wife, child and family. The family home is at 20 East 76th St., New York City.
1952
LEON PATRICK LAPOINTE died as the result of an automobile accident near St. Thomas, Ontario on September 7. Leon and his wife were en route from San Antonio, Texas, where Leon, a Pfc. in the Army, had been stationed, to New Haven where he was to have studied Chinese as a member of the Army Air Force. His wife was killed in the same accident.
Leon was born in Concord, N. H., March 17, 1929, the son of Raymond Victor and Jeanette (Guimond) Lapointe. He prepared for college at St. John High School in Con- cord. He was with the Class of 1952 until January 1951 when he entered service. Leon and Marie Louise Robinson of Short Hills, N. J. were married in May, 1951. He is survived by his parents of 56 Pleasant St., Concord, N. H.
ALFRED B. HASTINGS '04 (left), who died Nov. 8, with his lifelong friend and associate, Prof. Herman H. Chapman of the Yale School of Forestry.
AS AN UNDERGRADUATE: Raymond Francis McPartlin '20, Boston journalist who died November 24, shown at the old Delta Tau Delta house.
