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 numberJ

Carter, William F. '83, March 11 Chase, Arthur '89, Feb. 21 Ford, Daniel '99, Feb. 19 Leach, Robert M. '02, Feb. 18 Proctor, George N. '05, Feb. 25 Reilly, Thomas E. '07, Feb. 27 Corcoran, John W. '08, Feb. 29 Winkley, Willard C. '08, March 7 Lyon, Graham S. '09, Oct. 2, 1951 Knight, Ira B. '11, Feb. 16 Hazen, Deane S. '15, March 8 Burns, Stewart M. '18, Feb. 19 Stickney, Charles A. '21, Feb. 18 Muhling, Francis J. Jr. '29, Feb. 28 Sumner, Charles M. '31, Feb. 14 Edwards, Chester W. '35, Nov. 13, 1951 Parsons, Richard O. '49, Feb. 16 Thomas, John M. '09h, Feb. 26

In Memoriam

1889

REV. ARTHUR CHASE died in New Haven Hospital February 21 following injuries from a fall at his home two evenings before. He was a son of Arthur and Garafelia (Davis) Chase and was born in Claremont, N. H., August 24, 1867. Carlton Chase, 1817, first Bishop of New Hampshire was his grandfather.

He prepared for college at Stevens High School in Claremont and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1889, in which he remained until the end of junior year, when, due to a disagreement that arose between him and President Bartlett, he left Dartmouth and entered Trinity College, where he graduated in the class of 1889. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He received his divinity degree from the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1892.

The following fall he became a teacher at St. Mark's School where he remained three years, after which he served for one year as assistant rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston. Then began his long and successful career as rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Ware, Mass., which ended in retirement in 1935. Since that time he has been associated unofficially with St. Paul's Episcopal Church in New Haven. He formerly was honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield, Mass.

Arthur was the author of the History ofWare as well as of several plays for church use. Dartmouth awarded him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1912. He was a member of the Connecticut Valley Theological Club and the Clerics of the Springfield Convocation. For many years he was a member of the board of missions and examining chaplain for the Diocese of Western Massachusetts. He was fond of travel, especially in Europe, which he visited eight times.

On October 18, 1900 at Winston-Salem, N. C„ he married Alice Rondthaler who died in 1930. He is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth A. Chase, assistant professor in the Yale School of Fine Arts, with whom he lived at 324 Willow St., and Eleanor C. Chase, viceprincipal of the Ware High School; two sons, Arthur C. Chase, assistant headmaster of the Berkshire School, and Richard D. Chase, vice president of a Las Vegas, N. M. construction company.

Funeral services were held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Ware with burial at Aspen Grove cemetery.

1898

THOMAS CHRISTY died at the Veterans Administration Sanitarium, Northampton, Mass. on July 25, 1951 where he had been confined for many years.

Tom was born in Stamford, Conn., September 15, 1875 and prepared for college at King's School; Stamford. He entered Dartmouth with the class in 1894 and continued during 1894-95. While in college he was a member of Psi Upsilon.

He Jserved in the army in World War I from April 1917 to January 1919. After leaving college he was engaged in the lumber business until 1921 when because of a mental breakdown he retired from all business activity. Later he was confined in the Veterans Administration Sanitarium where he remained until his death. He had never married.

1899

DANIEL FORD died at his home 969 S. Orange Ave., Sarasota, Fla., on February 19.

He was born September 3, 1876, at Cambridge, Mass. His family later moved to Hyde park, Mass., where he spent his boyhood and was one of four graduates of the Hyde Park High School who matriculated with the Class 0f 1899. The others were Jim Barney, Jack Sanborn and Horace Sears, all deceased.

In college he devoted his time assiduously to his studies in which he won honors, including Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduating, Dan studied for a year at Harvard Law School and was then employed by the New England Telegraph and Telephone Company in Boston. He became an instructor in composition and rhetoric in the Case School of Science, Cleveland. Returning to Harvard for graduate study he received a degree of A.M. in 1905. The next year he became professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Nebraska, and was successively assistant professor of rhetoric, University of Minnesota, and professor of English and Dean of the Faculty at Lake Forest College.

Because of failing health in 1931 he spent several weeks at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover. He retired and in 1932 moved to Sarasota where he lived up to the time of his death. During the years of his retirement his health continued to fail and he was not able to be active in any capacity.

He was married to Amy Waturan Howell of Omaha, Neb., June 5, 1909. During Dan's active years he and Mrs. Ford travelled extensively throughout the United States, in Europe and the British Isles.

Surviving besides his wife are four sisters, three of whom are married and live in or near Boston.

1002

ROBERT MILTON LEACH died suddenly on February 12 at Mt. Dora, Fla. Bob was born at Franklin Falls, N. H„ April a, 1879, the son of Edward G. Leach '71, a prominent lawyer and Agnes Robinson. He prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover.

In Dartmouth Bob was a popular member of the class, captain of the freshman football team and member of Psi Upsilon. However, he left college at the end of sophomore year and started work as shipping clerk for the Weir Stove Co. in Taunton, Mass. This concern later became the Glenwood Range Co. and Bob worked up to sales manager. He was treasurer from 1918 to 1942, when he became chairman of the board.

During the first World War Bob was a Captain in the Ordnance 'Dept. In 1921 he served as president of the National Association of Stove Manufacturers and in 1924 he was elected by a wide plurality from the 15th Massachusetts District to fill out an unexpired term in Congress.

At one time he was a director of the Bristol County Trust Co. and a trustee of the Taunton Savings Bank and for several years he had been a director of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston. In late years he made his home at Webster Lake, N. H.

In 1900 Bob was married to Mary Walker of Taunton, and had a daughter Virginia, now Mrs. Stafford CongdOn, and two sons, Malcolm and Walker Leach '23 who is president of the Glenwood Range Cos. His present wife, Mrs. Marguerite White Leach, survives him.

1907

DR. THOMAS EDWARD REILLY died in Marlboro, Mass., on February 27. Born in Randolph, Mass., in March 1884, Tom was 67 years of age.

He received his early education in Randolph and at Thayer Academy in Braintree. following graduation from Dartmouth in 1907 and from the Dartmouth Medical School in 1910, he interned at the New York Lying-in and Worcester City Hospitals. Since 1912 he has been a leading physician in Marlboro and a member of the American and Massachusetts Medical Societies. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus. He leaves his wife, two sons and two grandchildren.

1908

Dartmouth College, and the Class of 1908, lost one of its most distinguished sons in the death on February 1, from heart disease, of FRANCIS GILMAN BLAKE, in Washington, D. C. He was stricken while attending a meeting at the Pentagon on January 15, and was taken to the Walter Reed Hospital where he passed away after another attack. He was serving as Technical Director, Medical Research, in the office of the Army Surgeon General.

Bant, as his classmates knew him, was born February 22, 1887, in Mansfield Valley, Pa., son of Francis Clark and Winifred Pamelia (Ballard) Blake. He received his A.B. with our class, an M.D. from Harvard in 1913, an honorary M.A. from Yale in 1921 and honorary Sc.D. from Dartmouth in 1936.

After graduating from Harvard in 1913, he became successively interne and resident physician, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, 1913-1916; Moseley Travelling Fellow, Rockefeller Hospital, New York City, 1917-19; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 1919-21; Associate Member Rockefeller Institute, 1921-27; John Slade Ely Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 1921-27; and Sterling Professor of Medicine, 1927-51. From 1940 to 1947 he was Dean of the school.

He was also Physician-in-Chief, New Haven Hospital since 1921; member of the Board of Scientific Directors of Rockefeller Institute, 1924 to 1935; member of the National Research Council, Division of Medical Science, 1927-1946, and Chairman 1933-36; member Executive Council, Association American Medical Colleges, 1930-33; member of Overseers Committee, Harvard Medical School since 1933; president, American Association of Immunologists, 1935; Governor, American College of Physicians, 1937-39; Chairman, Section of Medicine, American Medical Association, 1938; member, Executive Committee Third International Congress for Microbiology, 1939; regent American College of Physicians, 1939-1947; councillor, Association of American Physicians, 1940-47; member of the Committee of Chemotherapeutic Agents, and chairman of Sub-Committee on Infectious Diseases, National Research Council, 1940-46; Consultant to Secretary of War since 1941, and Member Army Epidemiological Board of which he was president, 1941-46; member and vice-president Board of Scientific Directors, Yerkes Laboratories for Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida, since 1941; consultant to Committee on Medical Research, OSRD, 1942-46; member Clinical Panel of Antimalarials, National Research Council, 1942-46; Director, Field Commission on Scrub Typhus, New Guinea, 1943; president, Harvard Medical Alumni Association, 1943-44; chairman, Advisory Council, Life Insurance Medical Research Fund since 1945; vice-president and chairman of Section on Medicine of the American Association for Advancement of Science, 1946; vice-president, Association of American Physicians, and 2nd vice-president, American College of Physicians, 1947-48; and member National Advisory Health Council, U. S. Public Health Service, since 1948.

Dr. Blake was called on for service in both world wars. In World War I he was major in the Medical Corps on active duty during 1918-1919. In September 1943 he was called to the southwest Pacific in charge of a medical commission investigating scrub typhus, and remained there four months tor which service he received the U.S. Typhus Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Merit. Other honors were the Charles V. Chapin Award of 1945, and a lectureship with the Austrian Post Graduate Federation of Medicine in 1951 which included a trip around the world for himself and wife.

He was the author of several reports on typhus, virus pneumonia, measles, scarlet fever, and other epidemiological researches, and was considered one of the world's foremost authorities in these diseases. He was also the author of Clinical Experiences with Penicillin. For many years he was listed in Who'sWho and in American Men of Science.

He married Dorothy Dewey of Springfield, Mass., on June 1, 1916. They had three children, Francis Gilman Jr., physicist, Research Institute, Calif.; William Dewey '40, Assistant Professor of Physiology, Yale Medical School; and John Ballard, a graduate student at Harvard. During the last war Francis was a physicist for three years on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, Bill was a captain in the Medical Corps, and John a lieutenant in the Air Corps. He also leaves six grandchildren. Bant and Dorothy were living at 1619 19th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

1909

GRAHAM SPF.AR LYON died at his home in Ligonier, Indiana, on October 2 after an illness of several years.

"Spots" was born on June 9, 1888 in Ligonier, the son of Arthur W. and Ellen (Spear) Lyon, and prepared for Dartmouth at the Morgan Park High School. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon.

He was married in 1913 to Athol Lyon who died several years ago. Except for a short residence in Wauseon, Ohio, they had made their home in Ligonier.

Graham was one of the prominent citizens of Ligonier, being active in business, civic and fraternal organizations as will appear from a statement of his accomplishments: president since 1934 of Lyon & Greenleaf, flour milling, a company founded by his father in 1886; chairman of the board of directors of American State Bank; member, board of directors C. G. Conn, Ltd., of Elkhart; for many years president of the Ligonier School Board, Ligonier Library Board and Ligonier Chamber of Commerce; member of the Presbyterian Church, Ligonier Masonic Lodge and Ligonier Lodge of Elks.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Lyle E. Schuman of Ligonier and Mrs. Jack B. Schreck of Fort Wayne, and three grandchildren.

1911

IRA BENJAMIN KNIGHT died February 16 after a month's stay in the hospital. His death was caused by reaction from drugs followed by embolism. Mrs. Knight writes, "He had grown steadily worse since his week at Whitefield, and if he could have chosen, would have wanted it this way. I can never be grateful enough for the pleasure he had at Whitefield last June." His death culminated a long illness of many years, during which time he was crippled by arthritis.

Ira was born in Keene, N. H., November 28, 1888, and spent his early boyhood in Derry, N. H. He graduated from Pinkerton Academy prior to admission to Dartmouth in 1907. Early in the year at Dartmouth he developed diphtheria, which was serious enough to force him to leave college before the first semester was finished and prevented his return.

After leaving Dartmouth he attended Bowdoin for one year, then was employed by the Durham Hanson Co. in Bangor, Me., hardware jobbers. Later he moved to Gardner, Mass., where he was employed in one of the furniture factories. He was forced to retire from active work because of illness and had, for many years, been confined to his home. However, he did tutoring for the high school students in Templeton, Mass., where he had been living for some years.

He was married to Marian Lord, August 27, 1914 and had two daughters, Emilie and Mary.

In spite of his long illness and inability to participate actively in the affairs of the class and although he was with the class only one semester, he had always been a most interested member of the group and greatly enjoyed keeping up his contacts with the College.

1918

STEWART MORROW BURNS died at his home IN Franklin, N. H., on February 19 when he accidentally shot himself while cleaning his

Stew was born in Downers Grove, 111., July 10, 1896. During World War I he served overseas with the 149th field artillery of the 42nd Division and received the Croix de Guerre.

After his discharge he was connected witn the Fleischman Yeast Co. for several years. From 1921 to 1929 he lived in Downers Grove, first as the proprietor of the North Side Grocery Co. and then in the real estate business. In 1929 he moved to Franklin and was the superintendent of the Sulloway Hosiery Mills until 1940 when he became president of the B. K. Hosiery Mill.

Stew was active in community affairs. He was a director of the Franklin Building and Loan Association; a charter member of Rotary and a member of the Elks, Odd Fellows, American Legion and Sons of the American Revolution. During the war when Stew's two sons were in the service he sent every week by air mail to all local boys in the service a Digest of Home News.

Stew was married in 1919 to Louise Sanders of Franklin, who survives him with their sons Keith and Alexander, both of whom attended the University of New Hampshire.

Take Bingham represented the class at the funeral. Monk Cameron, Stew's roommate, exnressed the feeling of the entire class when he said! "Stew was a good sport in everything he undertook. My association with him will always be one of my most pleasant memories." To Louise and the boys the class extends its heartfelt sympathy.

1919

Word was recently received of the passing of TAMES KNOWLTON ROSE in Fort Wayne, Ind., on January 10. Born April 18, 1896 in Auburn Ind., son of James H. and Mary (Murphy) Rose, Jim attended Culver Academy before entering Dartmouth in He remained until 1917 and was a member of Phi Kappa phi.

After service in World War I Jim attended Wabash College and then entered his father's law office in Fort Wayne. Little is known of his career as he was inactive in class and College affairs and apparently had no interest in them.

The class extends its sincere sympathy to surviving members of the family.

1921

CHARLES ALPHEUS STICKNEY JR. died at his home in Lancaster, Mass., on February 2, from a heart attack following snow shovelling.

Charlie was born on October 1, 1901, at St. Paul, Minn., the son of Charles A. and Edith P. (Jones) Stickney. He attended Worcester Academy, the F. W. Parker School in Chicago, and the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tenn. In all of these schools he was active on the publications. He entered Dartmouth in September 1917, at the age of 15 years, the youngest member of our class. He also held another record, because he did not get his degree from Dartmouth until 1942, 241/2 years after matriculation. Due to the illness of his father, he was forced to leave college after the first semester of senior year but later obtained the required credits from Muhlenberg, Rutgers, and New York University.

Charlie's interests have been so varied that it was difficult to keep track of them, but we know that for six years he served on the editorial staff of Barron's Weekly in Boston. During World War 11, he spent 2 years with the War Production Board in Washington, D. C., and then entered the Field Service of the U. S. Department of Commerce as a business specialist attached to the Manchester, N. H. office. Later he became interested in life insurance underwriting, which he pursued for the last several years of his life as an agent for the Northwestern Mutual and then the Mutual Benefit Life.

As a loyal and active alumnus of the Col lege, he organized and became the first secretary-treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association o£ Eastern Pennsylvania in 1937-38. When Paul Belknap was obliged to give up the secretaryship of the Class of 1921 in 1938, Charlie took over the responsibility and did an excellent job until our 25th reunion in 1946, when he was succeeded by Don Mix. While he lived in Washington, he was a member of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Club of that city from 1944-46.

Charlie was devoted to his family, of which he was very proud. He and Emily T. Preston were married in August 1925, at Chicago. They had three daughters. All three girls are now married and Charlie was especially happy about his two granddaughters.

His club affiliations, in addition to those mentioned, were varied and included the local Rotary in Lancaster, the Dartmouth Club of Worcester County, the Men's Club of All Saints Episcopal Church, and the Worcester Life Underwriters' Association. He regularly attended the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston and our class gatherings in New England.

His high ideals of unselfish service to his country, college, class, community and his family were an inspiration to his friends and associates.

1949

RICHARD OFFUTT PARSONS was shot and killed by his wife in his sleep in his apartment near Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, on February 16.

Dick, or "Red" as he was better known, entered Dartmouth in the summer of 1945 fresh from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., where he had been active in football, swimming, baseball and especially track.

While at Dartmouth he was active in athletics again, concentrating on track. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He remained at Dartmouth only two years and then became connected with the New York advertising agency of Ruthrauff and Ryan, Inc.

Called into the Army, Red went to Fort Sill where he was commissioned a lieutenant. It was at Sill that he met Mary Jean Fleeger, a junior at the University of Oklahoma, daughter of a Tulsa oil equipment manufacturer. They were married on January 2, 1952. Red was scheduled to start anti-aircraft training at Fort Bliss the day after his death.

Besides his wife Dick is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Parsons of Pleasantville, N. Y., to whom the class offers its deepest sympathy.

THE REV. ARTHUR CHASE '89

FRANCIS GILMAN BLAKE '08