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]

Rowe, Frank E. '91, June 26 Tabor, Hugh B. '96, Dec. 2, 1949 Spring, John R. '98, June 23 Jennings, Frederick E. '00, May 23 Thayer, Nathaniel C. '00, April 23 Moulton, Gilman L. '04, June 29 Clow, Arlington I. '05, June 22 Dennison, Harry G. '05, May 9 Laing, John A. '05, May 13 Ladd, Henry B. '06, May 16 Blanchard, Rollo K. '09, May 1 Bond, Harold C. '11, June 18 Scarry, John J. '13, June 23 Castle, Harold A. '14, May 3 Harris, Nathaniel P. '16, May 28 Erb, William B. '17, July 7, 1952 Gillespie, Francis C. '19, May 5 Cummings, John '23, June 27 Morand, Laurence T. '23, June 13 Carter, Albert H. '25, May 15 Haynes, Charles H. '27, May 25 Meyercord, Kenneth N. '27, June 13 Mudge, Edwin B. '34, May 22 Bright, Arthur A. Jr. '39, May 14 Merritt, Ralph V. '46, May 20 Marburg, Rolland '47, May 3 Wilde, Roger C. Jr. '49, May 26 Ortman, Hadar S22t, Sept. 5, 1952 Freeman, Douglas S. '35h, June 13

In Memoriam

1900

FREDERICK EVERETT JENNINGS of 3 Hampshire St., Everett, Mass., died on May 23 at Palmer Memorial Hospital in Boston as the result of a kidney operation performed in March. He was born in Everett, Mass., on September 23, 1877.

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1903 he became associated with the law firm of which Charles W. Bartlett '69 was the head. Later the firm name became Bartlett, Jennings and Bartlett. Subsequently, he practiced independently under his own name, specializing in corporate and probate laws. Among his many clients for years was Esso Standard Oil Co. of Boston and its predecessor Colonial Beacon Oil Co. He was a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations. For 13 years he was president of the Middlesex County National Bank, and of late years was chairman of the board. He was also a director of the Boston Mutual Life Insurance Co.; Maiden Electric Co.; Kyanize Paints, Inc.; and Everett Co-operative Bank.

Among the civic and charitable affairs of his native Everett, Fred had been chairman of the School Board, president and director of the Albert N. Parlin House, and a trustee of the Albert N. Parlin Fund from which substantial awards have been made to the Mary Hitchcock Hospital and Dick Hall's House.

Golf was Fred's principal recreation a game which he played as he worked giving all that he had to every stroke. He was a member of the Salem (Mass.) Country Club; the Pinehurst (N. C.) Country Club, and the Webhannet Golf Club of Kennebunk Beach (Maine).

He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a past commander of Beausant Commandery of Maiden. He was a member of the Union Club of Boston and of the New England Committee of the New comen Society of England.

In his college days Fred was a member of D.K.E., The ta Nu Epsilon, Sphinx and Palaeopitus. At Commencement he gave the address to the Old Chapel. In athletics he was one of the most effective backfield men in Dartmouth football history. He was coach of the varsity team of 1900 and for several seasons thereafter served as scout and assisted in the development of Dartmouth teams.

Fred is survived by his wife, the former Maud A. Thurston of Everett; his daughter, Mrs. Edgar L. Baker Jr., and a grandson, Frederick L. Baker, both of Everett; and a brother C. Edwin Jennings of Winchester, Mass.

A private funeral service was held on May 26 and burial was in the Glenwood Cemetery in Everett.

NATHANIEL CLINTON THAYER JR. and Mrs. Thayer had spent the winter in Florida and were returning to their home at 280 Bronxville Road, Bronxville, N. Y. They had planned a stop-over visit with their daughter Eleanor (Mrs. Albert L. Toney) of Alexandria, Va. On the train Nat suffered a coronary thrombosis and died in Alexandria on April 23. His was the twelfth death in the class in sixteen months.

Nat was born in Chicago, January 8, 1876. He was a member of Sigma Chi and the class track team. At the end of the second term of sophomore year he left college to enter the employ of Marshall Field & Co., with whom he remained six years.

Subsequently he became western sales representative of two eastern textile concerns, and still later with Celanese Corp. of America, with headquarters in Chicago.

In 1931 he moved to New York, associating with du Pont in promotion and advertising work. He was retired in 1941 under the du Pont plan. For the next eight years he was similarly employed by Burlington Mills of New York, retiring in 1949. The heart condition from which he died developed two years ago.

Surviving him are his wife, the former Ida Mae Leighton; another daughter, Mrs. Charles M. Pond of Westfield, N. J.; a sister, Mrs. Florence Parkinson of Fort Worth, Texas; and two grandchildren, Albert L. Toney Jr., who is attending the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and Elizabeth Pond.

1905

JOHN ALBERT LAING died in his sleep during the night of May 12. He had been staying with Mrs. Laing at their summer home at Wedderburn, near Gold Beach, Oregon.

After graduation from Dartmouth, where he maintained a very high scholastic standing,, he studied law at Columbia University and received his LL.B. in 1908. It is characteristic of John that he was admitted to the bar some months before receiving his degree.

The next two years John spent, first, in the office of Wherry and Morgan and later as clerk with Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett in New York.

In 1910 John went to Portland, Oregon, where he became counsel for the Portland Gas and Coke Co. and the newly formed Pacific Power and Light Cos. This position he held for 42 consecutive years. During this period he served in a similar capacity for several affiliated electric companies, since merged in the Pacific Power and Light Co. In 1936 he established the law firm of Laing and Gray, enlarged in 1941 to Laing, Gray and Smith. He was widely recognized as one of Oregon's most distinguished corporation lawyers.

John's interests were widely varied and included many important civic activities. He was president of the Multnomah Civic Stadium Association, 1924-26, and built the sta- dium in Portland. He organized the Town Club and built an attractive club house. Further activities included: president of the Portland Rose Festival Association; chairman for more than 15 years of the State Highway Commission on promotion of tourist travel: chairman and trustee for many years of Reed College; a member of the Oregon Advisory Commission on liquor control; president of the Portland Symphony Society, director of his own school district; president of the Portland City Planning Commission. Recently he had resigned from the presidency of the Dartmouth Association of. Oregon, in which he had taken great interest for many years.

In college and throughout his career, John was an earnest, hard worker, with great powers of concentration and high ability. His cheerful, friendly disposition gained him a wide circle of devoted friends.

John was born in Albany, N. Y., November 14, 1883, of Scotch parentage. He was married in New York on June 1, 1910, to Ruth Elizabeth Fuller, who died October 16, 1932. Two children were born to them: Helen Fuller, who died in 1941, and John Collier, who is now in the insurance business in Portland, and has three daughters. John and Ruth adopted another son, James Fuller Laing, who now resides with his wife and daughter at Long Beach, Calif. On May 12, 1939, John married Barbara Macleay Philippi, widow of a friend of John's of long standing. Barbara has a married daughter now resident near Portland.

1906

HENRY CHAPIN KETCHAM died in Indianapolis on December 25, 1952. He made his home at 4470 Marcy Lane. Cap was born in Indianapolis on October 1, 1884, the son of William A. Ketcham '67, who was a distinguished officer in the Civil War and one of the outstanding attorney-generals of the United States.

Cap prepared at St. Johnsbury Academy and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1906 but left at the end of junior year to go into business. In his sophomore year he was manager of the class football team.

He was one of the founders and later president of the Service Club of Indianapolis. For years Cap served as chairman of the Draft Board for which he received a Presidential Citation. He also served abroad with the Engineers Corps and on his return was elected a post commander of the American Legion. At the time of his death he was assistant treasurer of Dittrich Equipment Co.

Henry was devoted to his family and his church. His wife, the former Olive Hawkins, died in 1950. He is survived by five sisters and his only daughter, Mrs. C. E. Stafford, and four grandchildren.

1907

JAMES BARRETT BROWN died in Boston on May 10 at the age of 68. His home was at 122 Bowdoin Street.

Jim was born in Bellows Falls, Vt., March 3, 1885, the son of George A. Brown '77 and Flora Pierce. He entered Dartmouth from Kimball Union Academy, and promptly earned class distinction as manager of the freshman football team and as captain of his class debating team.

Following graduation he studied law at Harvard, receiving his degree in 1910 and becoming associated with his father and brother in Everett, Mass.

Jim's record of activities is extensive. He served as a representative of Everett in the state legislature, as city solicitor, and as an incorporator of the Everett Savings Bank. A member of the Massachusetts, Boston and Middlesex Bar Associations, Jim was a Mason, a member of the Elks, and of several Boston clubs. He was general counsel for the Savings Bank Life Insurance Council, and for the Massachusetts Bankers Association for many years, and also represented the Boston and Maine Railroad as its legislative counsel. At his death, he was president of the JohnsonAppleby Company of Cambridge, Mass., and of James B. Brown Associates, Inc., a public relations company. His summer residence was at New London, N. H.

His wife, the former Grace Donaldson, a son James, a daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Martin, and a sister survive him. Nelson P. Brown '99 was a brother.

Private services were held in Plymouth, Vt., on May 13.

1912

ARCHIE STAULCUP HAVEN died on July 30, 1952 in St. Mary's, Georgia. Arch suffered a coronary thrombosis in 1947, followed by a second one and a stroke in 1950.

Arch was born in Vergennes, Vt., on April 30, 1889. He remained with our class for two years, and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. In the fall of 1910 he returned to his home town of Vergennes, where he ran a retail clothing store during the rest of his active life. He also served the town as postmaster.

On October 20, 1915 Arch was married to Marguerite Robinson who survives him with their three children, Shirley, Kittredge R. and Stuart F. Haven. The family home is in Vergennes.

1913

HENRY WADLEIGH MERRILL died suddenly on May 3 in a fire in his home, 121 Kirkstall Road, New tonville.

He was born April 20, 1891 in Concord, N. H., son of Louis Clinton Merrill '74 and Fannie Wadleigh, and prepared for Dartmouth at Concord High School.

Tubby, as he has always been affectionately known, was manager of the Freshman Debating Club and on the Junior Prom Auditing Committee. He received his B.S. degree with the class and graduated from Tuck School in 1914.

He became associated at once with C. W. Whittier and Bros., real estate brokers and building managers, and at the time of his death was senior partner.

On July 3, 1915 he married Marjorie Fiske Chase of Concord, N. H., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Chase '86 and granddaughter of William M. Chase '58. Marjorie attended with Henry every reunion from our third through our 35th. She died on October 7, 1950.

Tubby was a member of Delta Tau Delta and on December 3, 1943 was given the certificate of the Distinguished Service Chapter of that fraternity.

He was a past president of the Boston Real Estate Board, a charter member of the Society of Industrial Realtors, the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, the Industrial Development Council, the Urban Land Institute and the Boston Chamber of Commerce.

He was a director of the National Association of Real Estate Boards and for some years he had been a trustee of the Charlestown (Mass.) Savings Bank.

Henry was a member of the Boston Dartmouth Alumni Association, the Down Town Club, and a past president of the University Club, and a member of the Sunday School Building Fund Committee of the First Unitarian Society of-Newton. He was serving the class as chairman of the 40th Reunion Committee.

He is survived by two sons, Henry W. Jr. '38 of Greensboro, Vt., and Nathaniel C. '48 of Boston, and three grandchildren.

Funeral services were at the West Newton Unitarian Church on May 6. A very large delegation of his classmates and other Dartmouth men attended, including those who served with the honorary pallbearers and ushers.

Happy, good hearted, genial, a wonderful father and friend, Henry was a natural leader and a tireless worker. He will be greatly missed in Dartmouth and class affairs.

1919

FRANCIS CHARLES GILLESPIE died in the Veterans Hospital in Albany, N. Y., on May 5.

Frank was born in Albany, April 5, 1895, and prepared for college at Albany High School. In college he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. He enlisted in the New York National Guard in April 1917 and was sworn into federal service on May 22. He served overseas with the 27th Division from May 19, 1918 to March 18, 1919.

Frank was for some years associated with the Tide Water Associated Oil Co. and until he became ill last August had been with the gas turbine department of General Electric Co. in Schenectady.

He is survived by two sons, Allan H. of 25 Orlando Ave., Albany, and Donald M. Gillespie, and a brother Ralph W. Gillespie.

1924

ALBERT OTIS PERRY died suddenly at his home on Epping Road, Exeter, N. H., on May 1. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Full Perry, a son, Otis Elliott, and a daughter, Belinda Elizabeth.

Bert was born July 18, 1900 in Boston, the son of Otis H. and Isabelle (Andrews) Perry. He prepared for Dartmouth at Clark School and Wilbraham Academy. While in college he was a member of Phi Delta The ta and Dragon. For the past several years Bert was active in the development of New England real estate and operated a large and successful dairy farm. In addition to other activities, he organized the Microfilm Recording Company of Maine and was president of the company at the time of his death. He was always interested in civic activities and took a prominent part in community life.

Throughout his life Bert maintained an active interest in Dartmouth affairs, and enjoyed the fellowship of Dartmouth gatherings whenever possible. In his passing 1924 has lost a loyal worker and a fine friend.

1925

GEORGE NEWTON BULLARD died on February 27 at his home on Chickering Rd., Nashville, Tenn., of a heart attack. Four years ago he had to give up some of his activities because of ill health, but subsequently improved sufficiently to be able to return to his duties as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Equitable Securities Corporation. He had not recently been ill, and only the night before his death returned from a business trip to Florida.

George was born in St. John's, Mich., June 3, 1902, son of the late E. J. and Mary Newton Bullard. He grew up in Detroit, attended Dartmouth for two years, and completed his college work at Vanderbilt. In 1930 he participated in the founding of the Equitable Securities Corporation; he was owner of the Farm Implements Co., and a director of various other companies. At the time of his death he was considered one of the country's foremost authorities on the value of municipal credit. Published tributes indicate the esteem in which he was held as a leading citizen of his city. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ella Petway Billiard, whom he married in 1932, two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Louise, and a son, George N., Jr.

Although he left Dartmouth halfway through to continue his education elsewhere, George remained a loyal and interested Twenty-fiver. He will be missed by the many classmates who are grateful for the privilege of having known him, in college and later.

EDWARD NATHANIEL TORBERT died on May 1 in Karachi, Pakistan, of bulbar poliomyelitis. He became ill a few days earlier in Kabul, Afghanistan, and was flown to an American hospital in Karachi in the ambassador's plane. At the time of his death he was on special assignment for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Nat was born in Syracuse, N. Y., on April 19, 1903. In college he was active in Cabin and Trail and president of the Canoe Club. His fraternity was Sigma Xi. Following his graduation from Dartmouth, he took his M.A. at the University of Chicago in 1927, and then came back to Hanover for two years as instructor in the Department of Geology and Geography. Returning to Chicago, he took his Ph.D. in 1931, and then taught for four years at San Jose State College, Calif. From 1935 to 1939 he was with the TVA, moving then to the Bureau of Reclamation and serving until 1944 as field coordinator for the Columbia Basin Project, following which he was in charge of planning and investigation of irrigation, power, and related developments in the Pacific Northwest. As an economic geographer, he had wide experience in other similar undertakings, among them a major reclamation program in Haiti in 1951-52. He had gone to Afghanistan as chief planning engineer for a government program involving the irrigation of 3,500,000 acres, toward which the U.S. Government had made an initial loan of $20,000,000.

He is survived by his wife, Elise Beygrau Torbert, whom he married in 1926, his father, Edward L. Torbert of Syracuse, and a brother Willis M. Torbert '29, of Pelham, N. Y.

Nat's career, so tragically interrupted in the prime of its achievement, was one in which his classmates may take pride. He died far from home, doing the sort of work by which a better world is being fashioned. His wife, who shared his travels and his work and was with him when he died, says that he was serene and courageous to the end. We are the poorer for his death, but the richer for his having lived.

1934

EDWIN BURBECK MUDGE died on May 22 in the Anglo-American Hospital in Havana, Cuba. Although he had been operated on in Florida about a year ago, he had been in fair health for some time and his death was sudden and unexpected. Burial was in his home town of Amesbury, Mass.

Ned was born in Amesbury on September 30, 1911, attended the public schools there and came to Dartmouth from Tabor Acad emy. In addition to his Dartmouth degree, he obtained an M.A. in Business Administration from Boston University in 1941.

At Dartmouth, Ned was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, and was on the staff of the Green Book. He spent his junior year at the Sorbonne as an exchange student.

Going with the National Shawmut Bank after graduation, he went to South America for the First National Bank of Boston after the war and was an officer of this firm's Havana branch at the time of his death. He had lived in Havana since 1948. During the war, Ned was a captain in the Army Air Force and served in England with the 9th Air Force.

According to word received from Cuba, Ned was a highly respected and beloved member of the English-speaking colony and was active in social and business circles of the island. He was a member of Island Lodge No. 56, the American Club, and was finance officer of the American Legion post in the city.

He was a visitor at class affairs in Boston and New York whenever his trips to this country allowed.

He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth Waterhouse Mudge, and two children, Joanne and John, as well as his father, Dr. Otis Pope Mudge '03, and two brothers Bertram '33 and Otis '39.

1939

ARTHUR AARON BRIGHT JR. died of a heart attack at his home, 214 South St., Hingham, Mass., on May 14.

Art was born in Passaic, N. J., May 17, 1918 and prepared for college at Passaic High School. In college he was a member of S.A.E., Phi Beta Kappa, the Band, and The Dartmouth business board.

After receiving his M.C.S. from Tuck School in 1940, Art received his A.M. from the University of Chicago in 1942 and his Ph.D. in 1949. He had received fellowships from both Dartmouth and the University of Chicago. From 1941 to 1946 he was at M.I.T. as instructor and economic analyst in the Radiation Laboratory. From 1946 to 1948 he was instructor of Statistics and Finance at Tuck School. In 1948 he was appointed industrial economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. In 1951 he was loaned by the bank to act as di- rector of research for the Committee of New-England which has prepared twenty exhaustive reports on the economy of New England.

An editorial in the Boston Herald said, "Dr. Bright's work on this committee was a dedicated job to him, for he gave up almost his existence to it. He died just as he was within sight of its completion. Another month and the projected 20 volumes of the New England economy would have been completed. Others will carry on this work but it is hard to lose this one who promised so much, so young." The president of the Federal Reserve Bank said of Art, "He earned his reputation as a scholarly economist and hard worker, but more remembered than that will be his warmth, his personality, his rare combination of human qualities, which instantly and forever won our friendship."

Art married Evelyn Fay of Southbridge, Mass., on October 3, 1942. She survives him with their four children, Amy 8, 5-year-old twins Arthur and Nelson, and Thomas 1. To them the class extends its sympathy in the loss of one of its most outstanding and best loved members.

1947

Friends of ROLLAND MARBURG will be sorry to hear of his untimely death by drowning on May 3, in West River, Dummerston, Vt.

Rolland and two companions endeavored to shoot down the swift waters of the West River, when Rolland and one companion, George Shumlin, overturned, the other companion, Sydney Gooz, staying upright in his canoe. Shumlin swam to shore but was unable to locate Rolland.

Rolland was in Putney visiting a friend prior to leaving for Nova Scotia where he was scheduled to take a position as camp in struc- tor. He was unmarried, was a 1939 graduate of Putney School, and received his degree magna cum laude from Dartmouth in 1947. He was known as a kayak expert and a strong swimmer and had pursued the sport of white water running in Germany and South America.

Rolland leaves his mother, Mrs. Louis C. Marburg of 818 Valley Rd., Upper Montclair, N. J., a brother Donald, a sister Mrs. MacGregor Gray, and another sister Hildegarde.

1949

The class of 1949 shared with the class of 1921 the shock and sadness of learning that ROGER CONANT WILDE JR., Lt. (j.g.) IN the Navy Medical Corps, was killed in a plane crash near Pensacola, Fla., on May 26. Rog was in training as a Flight Surgeon and was killed with two other Navy officers when two planes collided in the air on a training flight to New Orleans.

Rog was born in Orleans, Vt., August 27, 1927. the only child of Roger C. Wilde '21 and Caroline Shawne. He attended Phillips Andov-er Academy for two years and New Trier High School in Winnetka, I11., for a year. He entered Dartmouth under the accelerated program ill July 1945 and received his degree in June 1948 with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and A.K.K. After graduating from the Dartmouth Medical School the following June, Rog entered the medical school at the University of California and received his M.D. there in Tune 1951. After interning a year at the University of California Hospital Rog was assistant resident in Pediatrics at the same hospital. In October 1952 he was commissioned in the Medical Corps of the Navy and reported for duty at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland, Calif. After a Short tour at the naval base at Litchfield Park, Arizona, he was sent to Pensacola in April for flight surgeon training.

The funeral Was held in Hanover at the Church of Christ on June 1. The service was conducted by the Rt. Rev. John T. Dallas, retired Bishop of New Hampshire, who was rector ot St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover when Rog's father was in college. The nag-draped casket had been accompanied to Hanover by one of Rog's fellow officers. Rog was buried in Pine Knoll Cemetery overlooking the village of Hanover where he had spent four happy years. The friends of those years mourn his loss and extend to his parents then: deepest sympathy. Rog's home was at 1604 Hinman Ave., Evanston, I11.

Four members of the class served as bearers, Bob DeForest, Jack Hartwig, Dick Kearsley and Spike Smith.

FREDERICK EVERETT JENNINGS '00

JOHN ALBERT LAING '05

HENRY WADLEIGH MERRILL '13

ARTHUR AARON BRIGHT JR. '39

ROGER CONANT WILDE JR. '49