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]

Moulton, Clarence E. '89, May 27 Smalley, Fred L. '94, May 21 Bennis, Frederick V. '98, June 8 Howe, Charles H. R. '01, June 17 Griffin, Philip C. '02, May 14 Morton, Howard N. '11, 1951 Plumer, Richard C. '12, May 28 McCullough, John F. Jr. '14, June 5 Washburn, Kendrick H. '15, May 24 Hodgdon, Manning W. '19, April 22 Little, Griffith V. '19, May 26 Ingram, Elbert C. '19, April 4 Nelson, William H. '20, Dec. 5, 1952 Jopson, John M. '21, May 23 Caldwell, Kenneth R. '22, May 18 Threshie, Philip H. '22, May 31 Brooks, Lawrence B. '23, May 18 Matchett, George C. '24, May 20 Pierce, Henry L. Jr. '28, June 7 Nivison, Roland A. '29, June 20 Dennison, Richard F. '30, May 24, 1951 Tweed, Heckscher '37, March 11 Adami, Ulrich G. G. '51, June 13 Hough, C. Randall '52, June 6 Chapman, Philip E. '55, May 3 Krafft, Walter H. '11th, May 29 Prof. Kenneth N. Atkins '28h, May 20

Faculty

KENNETH NOEL ATKINS '28h, Professor of Bacteriology in the Medical School, died on May 20 in Dick's House, following a brief illness. He was 67 years old.

Joining the College staff in 1915 as Instructor in Biology in the Dartmouth Medical School, Professor Atkins for the past 35 years also served as bacteriologist at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. For many consecutive years he was Hanover's Precinct Health Officer, when his efforts were instrumental in bringing about improved sanitation and a modern water supply to the rapidly growing community. He was in addition a consultant biologist to the New Hampshire State Board of Health, and State Epidemiologist. In the year 1946-47 he was president of the Connecticut Valley Bacteriologists.

Professor Atkins was made Assistant Professor of Bacteriology in the Dartmouth Medical School in 1918, and in 1928 achieved the rank of full professor. At that time Dartmouth awarded him the honorary M.A. degree. A graduate of Wesleyan University in 1908, he received the M.A. degree from that institution in 1910 and was a Fellow at the University of Chicago from 1910 until 1913. For the next two years he was bacteriologist for the State of Georgia.

Born in Middletown, Conn., on Christmas Day, 1886, Professor Atkins married Edith Prindiville of Chicago, Ill., on December 22,1914. Mrs. Atkins is presently serving as State Representative from the Hanover Precinct. Other survivors are a son, Kenneth K. Atkins '40 of Chicago, and three grandsons.

Professor Atkins was a member of the Society of American Bacteriologists, the New Hampshire Academy of Science, the New England Genealogical Society and the Masons.

1889

CLARENCE EGERTON MOULTON died May 27 at his home in Montpelier, Vt. He was a son of Justin H. and Hannah Oliver (Perrin) Moulton and was born in Randolph, Vt., September 29, 1863. He prepared for college in the public schools in Randolph, and entered and graduated (A.B.) from Dartmouth with the Class of 1889.

Following graduation he returned to his native town, where his father owned the Green Mountain Stock Farm - a farm settled by his great-grandfather when he came to Vermont in 1791. It was one of the largest farms in New England - famous for its Morgan horses and Jersey cattle. At the Paris Exposition in 1889 it received a gold medal for making the best butter in the world.

After spending two years keeping the books and assisting in the operation of this stock farm he entered, in the fall of 1891, the treasurer's department of the National Life Insurance Co. in Montpelier. In 1597 he rose to become assistant treasurer of the company, and, in 1902, its actuary, holding the latter position 27 years. In 1929 he was elected treasurer, a position he held until 1940, when, under the company's pension plan, he retired, but was retained as a valuable member of the committee on finance for six years after his retirement. In 1946, the directors of the company paid signal honor to him by voting to incorporate in its records their deep and grateful appreciation of the faithful and useful service he had rendered during his 54 years in the employ of the company.

He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church, a director of the Montpelier National Bank and a trustee of the Wood Art Gallery. He was a former member of the Montpelier School Board - its treasurer for a long time, a life member of the Apollo Club and many years a member of the Montpelier Country Club. He also belonged to the Masonic organizations and the Shrine. Quiet in demeanor, devoid of ostentation, always a gentleman, he endeared himself to all having his acquaintance.

In college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Casque and Gauntlet. He was manager of the varsity baseball team in his senior year and while in college played the cornet in the college band and was a member of the Bicycle Club. He attended all regular reunions of his Class up to and including the 60th-year reunion in 1949.

He married September 18, 1895, at Montpelier, Inez Mary Blanchard, who died January 16, 1904. On August 16, 1905, at Middlesex, Vt., he married Laura Aline Ellsworth-Temple, who, with his step-daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Fletcher of Montpelier, survive him. He also is survived by a sister, Miss Mary Moulton of Randolph, and a granddaughter, Mrs. Bryant Fitch of Quincy, Mass.

Funeral services were held in the home and interment was in the family lot in the Green Mount cemetery.

1898

On June 8 FREDERICK VUCASSOVICH BENNIS died in Lakeland, Fla., following a heart attack that developed just as he was about to leave with his sister Ida for their home in Sullivan Harbor, Maine. He was taken to the local hospital and there he spent 19 days before the end. Following cremation in the South his ashes will be taken to his home in Maine where later in the month there will be funeral services at the time of interment. Besides his sister Ida, well known to members of '98, there is a brother Karl V. Bennis living in Arizona.

Fred Bennis was born in Sullivan Harbor, Maine, on June 10, 1874. He came to Dartmouth from the Boys High School of Brooklyn, N. Y., one of a group of six Brooklyn boys to enter the College in his class, the others being Green, Leggett, Robbert, Seelman and Swift. During his college years Fred was a member of his class baseball team, of the varsity track team, editor of the DartmouthLiterary Monthly and of the '98 Aegis. He was a member of Theta Nu Epsilon, Psi Upsilon and Sphinx and he served as class marshal at his Commencement exercises.

After his college days Fred immediately entered the business world where his career was one of rapid and continuing success. Starting as clerk in Western Electric Co. in 1898 he became by half a dozen rapid promotions Treasurer and ended as Supervisor in 1912. Then he became Assistant Treasurer of American Telephone and Telegraph Co. In 1914 he resigned from the treasurership of this company to become manager of the Round T Ranch of High River, Alberta, Canada. This unusual shift in the business world, Fred explained, was because he followed "a well nigh irresistible urge to get into the open country." In this last of his formal business posts he remained for 11 very happy and .satisfying years.

In 1925 Bennis resigned his position in the ranch and, as he states it, "semi-retired" from active business for the rest of his life, at just over fifty years of age. Since then he and his sister Ida have lived during the summer time at their old home in Sullivan Harbor, Maine, and during the winter they lived in California until recent years when they spent this season in Lakeland, Florida. In these later years members of '98 have had the pleasure of occasional visits with Fred and Ida.

During the 56 years since his graduation from Dartmouth Fred has attended many of the '98 reunions in Hanover, including the 35th, 40th, 50th and 55th. At the last in 1953 he took over the class secretaryship, so long and faithfully held by Henry D. Crowley.

In testimony to the above devotion to his College comes this statement just received from the Treasurer of the College: "The will of Frederick V. Bennis, after provision for certain life estates, provides for the establishment of the 'Frederick V. Bennis Class of 1898' fund. The first $500 of the income is to be used for a certain period as a contribution in Mr. Bennis' name as a member of the Class of 1898 to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. All income in excess of the $500 is to be used, under the terms of the will, 'for the benefit of the College in such manner as the Board of Trustees thereof may from time to time direct.' "

Fred Bennis, as most of the class who have seen him during the years following his graduation know, continued to possess the characteristic charm of his attractive personality which his classmates knew in college days and it was enhanced by the maturity and development of his later varied and successful life as well as by his keen mind. He was friendly, genial and natural in manner, enjoyed meeting '98ers and was always happy to reminisce with any of them. He gave the impression of enjoying the later days of less formal activity and would speak of being all too busy with his occupations and preoccupations. More than once he and his sister remained after the reunion in Hanover just to stay over in the town, which he loved, and to see his friends there. In similar fashion his and Ida's love for the old home in Maine was very real and intense and it seemed that the annual return to Sullivan Harbor, their ancestral home, was the highlight of each year's experience. The Class of 1898 gives to his sister Ida its deepest sympathy in her loss of one so close to her. The Class has lost an invaluable and irreplaceable member in the death of Fred Bennis and feels that still his warm greeting, despite his personal absence, will be with the class whenever in the future it may meet.

F. P. L.

1902

PHILIP CHARLES GRIFFIN died at his home, 7922 Paulina St., South, Chicago on May 14.

Phil was born in Chicago on November 26, 1878. After graduation he was in the banking business in Chicago for many years. He was vice president of the Garfield State Bank when it was forced to close during the depression. He then went into the business of manufacturing awnings and at the time of his death was president of the Philip C. Griffin Co.

Phil is survived by his wife Louise; a daughter Mary Elizabeth, professor of English at Marquette University; and a son Thomas who is in the Army Air Corps.

The funeral was held on May 17 at the Church of the Little Flower. Arba Irvin and his wife represented the Class. I suggest members write to Phil's wife that she may know she has the sympathy of the entire Class.

1908

ARTHUR KIMBALL BLOOD, retired president of the J. B. Blood Co. of Lynn, Mass., passed away on April 15 in Torremolinos. Spain, and was buried in the Angelican Cemetery in that city.

Art was born May 12, 1887, in Lynn and prepared for Dartmouth at Lynn Classical High School. In college he was a member of Chi Phi and was manager of the Dramatic Club.

After graduation he became associated with the J. B. Blood Co. which was founded in 1881 by his grandfather. On the death of his father, Charles O. Blood, he became president of the firm, guided it through years of expansion of the food markets and established a Beehive Bakery. He retired because of poor health in 1948. He formerly lived in Swampscott but in 1945 he and his wife bought a 17th Century house, Hidden Fields Farm, in Middleton, Mass., and restored it. They also built a cottage on Eleuthera in the Bahamas where they spent their winters. Four years ago they sold the Hidden Fields Farm and spent most of the following years in Mexico, Haiti or the Bahamas, returning to New England for the summers. Last summer they went to Portugal and then to Spain where his death occurred.

During World War I Art was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Quartermasters Corps and was stationed at Jacksonville, Fla. He was a member of the William P. Connery Jr. Post 6, American Legion. For many years he was active in civic and charitable endeavors and served on the house committee at Lynn Hospital and on the board of advisors of the Lynn House for Aged Men. He was also a Director of the Manufacturers Central National Bank and Lynn Five Cent Savings Bank. Formerly an ardent golfer he injured an ankle and was forced to give up the game. His real hobbies were fishing and hunting.

Art was married in 1911 to Blanche Stacey Tapley, Radcliffe 1904, who died in 1930 leaving a daughter Annah, now Mrs. Harry B. Thayer Jr. of Exeter, N. H., and a son Arthur Kimball Jr., an artist, who lives in Taos, New Mexico.

In 1934 he married Isobel Gardiner Dixon, who survives him together with two sisters: Mrs. Norville L. Milmore of Swampscott and Mrs. Lawrence Bankart of Norwich, Vt. both of whom married Dartmouth men.

1912

RICHARD CHARLES PLUMER died on May 28 at the Florida Sanitarium and Hospital in Orlando of a heart ailment which he had long suffered in varying degree. His home was at 306 Lakeview Ave., Orlando.

Dick was bora at Whitefield, N. H., July 13, 1890, the son of Henry G. and Jessie (Sheahan) Plumer. He came to Dartmouth from Lakewood, N. J., High School. After graduating with the class in 1912 he received his LL.B. from Harvard in 1915 and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1916.

From 1917 to 1922 Dick was Prosecutor of Pleas, Ocean County, N. J. For the next five years he was Assistant U.S. Attorney, during which time he was appointed Special Master of the N. J. Chancery Court. In 1927 he was appointed Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Division of Securities. From 1934 through 1941 he was a member of the firm of Hood, Lafferty and Campbell of Newark, specializing in banking, estates and trusts. In 1942 Dick entered the Army as a Major in the Signal Corps. He retired in 1945 due to ill health, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. The responsible and exacting job which Dick had performed as contracts counsel in the Legal Division of the Signal Corps, which division was headed by our General Conrad Snow, brought on a heart attack in 1944.

In 1945 Dick became a permanent resident of Florida, first in North Miami where he was chairman of the Zoning Board and president of the Town Council. In 1949 he moved to Orlando where he became a member of the faculty of Rollins College as Professor of Banking and Business Law. Dick was loved by all his students. A year ago he was made an honorary member of Omicron Delta Kappa, and a Richard C. Plumer Memorial has been established at Rollins. At the memorial service Dean Darrah of Rollins said of Dick, "Students will remember him as one who taught Economics and Business Law, but above all who taught himself. Into his classroom came more than the facts of the course, there came the disciplined mind and above all else his spirit and attitudes of fairness and concern. He brought something of the granite hills of his native New Hampshire to the sunshine of his adopted state of Florida. He made us more aware of the greater possibilities of the dimensions of the human spirit."

For over a ten-year period Dick served his class as treasurer. Wherever he was living he was active in Dartmouth affairs. In 1935 he was president of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey and served also as a member of the Board of Governors of the Dartmouth Club of New York. In Florida he headed several Dartmouth admissions committees and in 1949 was vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Southern Florida.

The funeral services, conducted by Dean Darrah, were held at the Knowles Memorial Chapel at Rollins College. Burial with full military honors was at Arlington National Cemetery. The class was represented by Connie Snow, Lyme Armes, Barrow Lyons and Warren Bruner.

Dick was married on November 20, 1916, to Frances Louise Barnes, who died in 1946. On August 21, 1947, he was married to Eva Y. Ewing who survives him, together with a sister Mrs. Olive Rand, a nephew Robert H. Rand and a niece Mrs. Robert H. Purnell, all of Plymouth, N. H.

1915

KENDRICK HARLOW WASHBURN of 78 South Main St., Middleboro, Mass., died on May 24 of a heart attack after an emergency appendectomy at St. Luke's Hospital.

A native of Middleboro, Ken was the son of the late Judge Nathan Washburn '85. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1915, attended Harvard Law School and then served as a lieutenant with the A.E.F. in France. After the war he attended Boston University Law School and received his LL.B. there in 1921, since which time he had his own practice in Middleboro.

A member of the Legislature for ten years, Ken served as chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee and was a member of the committee which wrote the alcoholic laws for Massachusetts on the repeal of the 18th Amendment. During his long career of public service, he also had been town counsel and a member of the school board. He was appointed Clerk of the Court in 1936 and his proudest moment came in that year when his bill to rescind the Massachusetts ban on Roger Williams and his followers was passed by the State Legislature.

He was a member of S. L. Nickerson Post A. L.; John Glass Post V. F. W.; Mayflower Lodge A. F. & A. M.; Old Colony Chapter, Brockton Commandery and Aleppo Temple, Boston; Director of Montgomery Home for the Aged; and Trustee of St. Luke's Hospital.

He is survived by his wife, the former Barbara Fish.

1917

IRVING LISTON SPERRY died at Buffalo, N. Y., on March 27 as the result of a heart attack.

Irv, or Spebs as his more intimate friends knew him, was born on May 31, 1894, at Jersey City, N. J. He attended Dickinson High School there and entered Dartmouth in 1913. After graduating in 1917 he enlisted on September 1, 1917, in the United States Navy and subsequently transferred to Naval Aviation, serving for a while in the Azores.

Upon leaving the Naval service he became associated with the American Sugar Refining Co. and subsequently became Controller of the company. In August 1933, he joined the Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange, Inc., Mills Division, as Controller and was serving in that capacity at the time of his death.

Irv's wife, the former Lela C. Aleshire, died in 1947. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Walter Avis of Bryn Mawr, Pa., Nancy Sperry, who is in her sophomore year at Michigan State College, and Anne Sperry, to all of whom Irv's classmates in 1917 extend their sincere sympathy.

1918

RUSSELL HENRY RHODES died in New York City on May 1 as the result of a fall.

Dusty was born in Hartford, Conn., August 30, 1894, the son of William H. and Angie J. (Russell) Rhodes. He prepared for college in the Hartford schools. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Round Robin.

From 1918 to 1919 Dusty served in the Quartermaster Corps of the Army and was then appointed Vice Consul at London where he was stationed for eight years. He then studied drama at Yale and made his debut at the Berkshire Playhouse with another Hartford native, Katherine Hepburn. After eight years on the stage, both on Broadway and in summer stock, Dusty turned to journalism. For several years he was a drama critic for the New Haven Register and dance critic for the New York Telegraph. In 1936 he entered the insurance journalism field with the Weekly Underwriter and in 1943 was named editor of the American Agency Bulletin. At the time of his death he was feature writer for the Journal of Commerce.

In 1932 Dusty was married to Mrs. Dorothy Verrill Yates who now lives in California with their son Westell. He is also survived by his father. Funeral services and burial took place in Hartford.

Dusty had many warm friends among Dartmouth men and he will be sadly missed.

1919

Word has been received from Lakewood, Ohio, of the death on April 22 of MANNING WINSLOW HODGDON, after a lingering illness.

Manning was born in West Hartford, Conn., May 20, 1896, the son of Thomas M. Hodgdon '84 and Jennie Lord, and attended Hartford High School before coming to Hanover. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon.

During World War I he was a lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy. Most of his business life was spent with the Aluminum Co. of America, where he was manager of forging sales at the time of his death.

Manning maintained a lively interest in college and class affairs and our most sincere sympathy goes out to his wife, Florence Kilmer Hodgdon of 15721 Lake Ave., Lakewood, and his daughter Mrs. Sarah W. Porter. Services were held on April 24 in Lakewood.

ELBERT CHAPIN INGRAM passed away in New York City on April 4 of a heart attack, after having been ill for ten years of rheumatoid arthritis.

Born in Lawrence, Mass., on December 25, 1897, Al attended Phillips Academy in Andover, and entered with the Class to remain in Hanover one year. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

Although not active in affairs of the College, he maintained interest in class activities, and club and class news was helpful to him during his long illness.

Surviving is his widow, Irene Simpson Ingram, of 140 E. 28th St., New York City, to whom goes the most sincere sympathy of the Class.

The Class and New York '19ers in particular will be saddened to learn of the sudden passing of GRIFFITH VAUGHAN LITTLE on May 26 in the Northern Westchester Hospital, Mt. Kisco, of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Born in Cincinnati on May 31, 1897, Vaughan attended New Rochelle High School. In college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and played on the tennis team.

After serving overseas in the Army during World War I Vaughan was associated with DeVinne-Hollenbeck, a merger from the Kellogg Lithographic Co. which his father had founded. He was later sales agent for various drug companies.

Vaughan was a member of the New Rochelle Tennis Club and was active in the American Legion and in New Rochelle Republican politics. He is survived by his wife, the former Frances Campbell of Wykagyl Gardens, New Rochelle; by two brothers, James S. of Villanova, Pa., and George W. of Carmel, N. Y.; and a sister, Mrs. Hume Leland of Pelham, N. Y. To them goes the sincerest sympathy of the Class.

Funeral services were held in the Davis Memorial Chapel on May 29 and the Class was represented by Lew Garrison, San Treat, Bri Greeley and Nick Sandoe.

1920

Many months after his passing, word has been received of the death of ROBERT HENRY LOOMIS in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Bob had been resident in that part of the country for eighteen years, working most recently for the Mutual Building Material Co. But a crippling ailment had lately forced him into retirement, where his time was spent tending his garden and absorbing the southern California sunshine. Death came as the result of a coronary thrombosis, September 26, 1953.

Bob was born in Topeka, Kansas, April 1. 1896, the son of Nelson Henry and Christina (Campbell) Loomis. His stay in Hanover was limited to freshman year and his marriage to Florence Rahm took place in 1918. Mrs. Loomis survives him, as do their two children, Nelson Henry of Santa Monica, Calif., and Virginia (Mrs. J. H. Whalen) of Sacramento. There are four grandchildren. Bob's home was at 15947 Temecula St., Pacific Palisades.

1922

PHILIP HENRY THRESHIE died at his home in South Dartmouth, Mass., on May 31, after an extended illness.

Born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., Phil prepared for college at Brookline High School where he was graduated in 1918 and where he was awarded the Harvard Cup for excellence in scholarship and athletics, in recognition of an enviable record.

At Dartmouth, Phil was a popular member of his Class and one of its star athletes as a football and hockey player. He played end on the varsity football team four seasons. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Sphinx.

Phil's first years out of college were spent as a salesman for a leather company but he entered the investment business in 1926 and continued in that field until World War II when he became plant manager and assistant to the president of Northeast Shipbuilding Co. at Quincy. Since the war, Phil has served as district manager for Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., with an office in New Bedford. A boating enthusiast, he was an active member of the New Bedford Yacht Club of which he had been a director.

Phil married Kate Atkins in Brookline on May 26, 1923. Kate and their two sons, Philip H. Jr., 27, and John L., 25, survive him.

At the services at Grace Church in New Bedford on June 3, the Class was represented by three of Phil's closest friends in college, Arvin Gunnison, Robert E. Hight and Oscar R. Rice Jr.

1923

LAWRENCE BICKFORD BROOKS died on May 18 at the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. His home was at 455 S. San Rafael Ave.

After graduating from the Wheaton, Ill., High School Larry served two years in the Marine Corps before entering college. During World War II he again served in the Marine Corps as a captain and after four years' service in Washington retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Reserve.

Larry left college in 1921 and moved to Pasadena where he soon became a business and civic leader. He was identified with banks, building and loan associations and trust companies both in Pasadena and in Los Angeles. He took an active part in the Tournament of Roses, was a director of the Pasadena Republican Club, an active member of the American Legion, president of the Pasadena Tuberculosis Association, and was active in Red Cross work. During the 80th Congress Larry served as personal secretary to his brother, Senator Wayland Brooks of Illinois.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Reeta Walker Brooks, his brother and a sister, Mrs. Gordon McKenzie.

1924

Word has just recently been received of the death of NOBLE OWEN MAXWELL, who passed away in Starke, Fla., on April 3, 1953.

Noble was born on January 26, 1902, in North Adams, Mass., the son of Gilbert and Olivia (Foy) Maxwell. He spent his boyhood in North Adams and prepared for Dartmouth at the Allen Military School.

Upon leaving college, Noble entered the field of hotel management and as late as 1938 was manager of the Hotel Irving in New York City. Shortly after that time he moved to Florida and since then he has been out of touch with the Class. Our sincere sympathy is extended to his wife and family.

1928

HENRY LEE PIERCE died June 7 in the Elliot Community Hospital, Keene, N. H., after a short illness.

Lee was born in Barre, Mass., September 10, 1906, and entered Dartmouth from Barre High School. Although he remained only for his freshman year, he was always a loyal alumnus. He graduated from the Bryant Stratton Business School in Boston and worked for many years for Lever Brothers in Cambridge. He moved to Keene in 1951 when he purchased the Goodco Bakery, which he had been running ever since.

He is survived by his wife Lillian; two sons, Henry L. Jr. and John H.; a daughter, Caroline, all of Keene; and a brother, George E. Pierce, of Mansfield, Mass.

1933

Belated word has come of the death in Washington, D. C., on April 22, 1951, of GEORGE PARKER MONDELL. Born in Newcastle, Wyoming, the son of Ida Harris and Frank Wheeler Mondell, George lived the greater part of his life in Washington, where he graduated from Western High School.

After graduating from Dartmouth where he was a member of Delta Upsilon, "Eph" took his law degree at National University. Government work with the NRA and PWA was followed by mortgage banking with Walker & Dunlap, Inc., and this vocation occupied the rest of George's life.

George is survived by his sister, Mrs. H. Mills Astin of Washington.

1937

Word has just reached us that HECKSCHER TWEED died on March 11 of multiple sclerosis. His home was at Branford, Conn., but he had been confined to a sanatorium since 1949.

Heckie was born in Orange, N. J.,on February 24, 1914. He was graduated from New Haven, Conn., High School in 1933 and entered Dartmouth that fall. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and was on the hockey team.

After graduation he became associated with the Gulf Oil Corp. in New York City and sub-sequently was made manager of service stations for the Rochester, N. Y., area. He was associated with Gulf until 1946 when he and his family moved to Florida in the hope that that climate would be better for his health.

He was stricken with the disease shortly after graduation from Dartmouth and the paralysis progressed slowly, first confining him to a wheelchair before he was ultimately hospitalized.

He is survived by a son, Heckscher Jr., 14; by his father, John H. Tweed; and a brother, John Jr. of Pine Orchard, Conn. The sympathies of the Class are with the family.

1942

WARD CUTTING TUCKER, who spent his freshman year at Dartmouth during 1938-39, died in Fitchburg, Mass., on May 2. His home was on Mason Road, Brookline, N. H.

He was born March 11, 1930, in Needham, Mass., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Tucker, who both survive him. Ward was graduated from Belmont High School in 1938. After his year at Dartmouth he transferred to Boston University, where he graduated in 1943. At the latter school he was captain of the tennis team and president of the Beta Epsilon chapter, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

After his college graduation he joined Crocker Burbank and Co. Association of Fitchburg, paper manufacturers, as a cost accountant. He married Eleanor E. Beard in Fitchburg in October 1944.

A director of the Worcester chapter, National Association of Cost Accountants, he was a certified public accountant. He was a former president of the Brookline, N. H., P.T.A.

In addition to his parents he leaves his wire, three daughters, a son, two sisters, and a brother.

KENNETH NOEL ATKINS '28h

CLARENCE EGERTON MOULTON '89

RICHARD CHARLES PLUMER '12

Except for Commencement and ReunionWeekends, when Dartmouth's luck was at itsbest, this was the typical June state of affairsin Hanover - constantly and drippingly wet.