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.]
Hilton, George F. '97, May 9 Varney, Lucius E. '99, July 5 Brooks, Robert H. '00, Aug. 27 Prouty, Leonard A. '00, Sept. 3 Rich, D. Bradlee '00, Aug. 31 Page, Donald T. '01, Aug. Harris, Oliver M. '01, July 6 Hatch, Roy W. '02, Sept. 10 Pillsbury, Henry C. '02, July 18 Smith, Orvil W. '03, Aug. 27 Colesworthy, Daniel C. '04, June 23 Barney, Winfield S. '05, July 31 Glattfeld, John W- E. '07, June 26 Hazen, Ralph W. 'OB, Aug. 23 Shaw, Arthur B. 'OB, July 18 Herrick, A. Lowell '09, June 16 Bucknam, Arthur B. '10, Aug. 25 Downey, Joseph E. '10, July 26 Farwell, John T. '10, Apr. 19 Gleason, Gay '10, June 25 Mitchell, Harry G. '10, July 11 Winship, Harold S. '10 July 6 Tuttle, David F. '12, June 11 Stratton, William A. '14, June 9 Luby, Charles H. '14, Aug. 15 O'Leary, Paul A. '14, July Mac Gown, Roland C. '17, June 3 Conlon, Chester L. '18, July 1 Hayes, Ralph S. '19, June 9 Sussdorff, William H. Jr., '20, June 23 Terry, William E. '21, July 6 Leverone, Lawrence P. Jr., '22, June 8 Sweney, Chester L. '23, Sept. 2 Davis, John H. Jr., '25, Aug. 4 Bird, G. Curtis '28, May 23 Humbert, John K. '30, July Greig, Roderick F. '31, July 27 Williams, Robert P. '32, June 27 Carson, Bruce N. '51, Aug. 28 Gmelin, William J. '54, June 16 Wheelock, lan W. '54, Jan. 24 Baketel, H. Sheridan '95m, July 7 Scott, Elmer A. '97 m, June 11 Davis, Stilman G. '11m, July 4 Wilkin, Philip '22 th, July 4 Shaub, Howard C. '22 a, July 20 Hobbs, Franklin W., M.S. '13, June 16 Ames, Adelbert Jr., LL.D '54, July 3 Hull, Cordell, LL.D '38, July 23
Faculty
ADELBERT AMES JR., former research head of the Dartmouth Eye Institute, died of a heart attack in Hanover on July 3. His age was 74.
Professor Ames, who was appointed Research Professor in Physiological Optics in 1921 and who continued in this capacity until 1946, was internationally known for his contributions in the fields of physiological optics and the psychology of visual perception.
Born in Lowell, Mass., he was graduated from Harvard in 1903 and in 1906 obtained the LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School. For four years he practiced law in Boston. However, law as a career did not hold his interest, and he decided to study to become an artist. It was during this period, as he learned the techniques of painting, that he first became curious about the conceptual processes involved in seeing, as well as the mechanics of vision. He went to Clark University as a Research Fellow to study with John Wallace Baird. Following World War I service and upon Professor Baird's death, Ames came to Hanover to continue his experiments in optical physics with Charles A. Proctor '00, then Professor of Physics. It was at this time that President Hopkins, who said that he was fascinated by a mind so inquisitive, offered Ames a place on the Dartmouth faculty.
Seven years later, Professor Ames discovered the eye abnormality he named aniseikonia, in which the eyes see images that differ in size and shape from each other. In 1934 he was successful in devising a cure for this condition, and patients from all over this country and abroad began to come to Hanover to obtain special aniseikonic lenses. As a result the Dartmouth Eye Institute with its clinic was created. Professor Ames was research director of the Institute and also served later as research director of the Hanover Institute for Associated Research. In 1954 "Dartmouth awarded him the LL.D. honorary degree. In his citation to Professor Ames, President Dickey said, 'As one of the world's great men in vision, you are perhaps best known for your demonstration that seeing is not believing, but rather, that believing is seeing." In the April preceding his death, Professor Ames received the Edgar D. Tillyer Medal from the Optical Society of America.
When in 1949 the Dartmouth Eye Institute was dissolved, Professor Ames' demonstrations in perception were set up in a special building in the Psychology Research Center of Princeton University. His demonstrations are now being used in more than 125 research centers in eighteen different countries. Professor Ames continued until his death to work in the offices of the Institute for Associated Research in Hanover.
Professor Ames is survived by his widow; a son, Adelbert 3d of Brookline, Mass.; a daughter, Mrs. Melville Anderson of San Mateo, Calif.; and three sisters.
l695
DR. H. SHERIDAN BAKETEL died at his home, 309 Midland Ave., Wayne, Pa., on July 7, of a heart attack.
Although receiving his M.D. from the Medical School in 1895, Sherry was always closely associated with the Class of 1895. He was present with the class when we received our degrees in the College Church and he was the only medical student ever elected to the board of the Dartmouth Literary Monthly.
Sherry was born in Hopedale, Ohio, November 15, 187 a, the son of Oliver Sherman and Rosie (Mack) Baketel. As his father, a Methodist district superintendent, later had jurisdiction over church activities in a large area of New Hampshire, Sherry spent his childhood in the state and prepared for college at Exeter Academy. At the age of 13 he supplied social notes to the Portsmouth newspaper, and after graduating from Exeter spent a year in the newsroom of the Boston Globe, and later paid his way through medical school as a correspondent for several papers.
After receiving his M.D., Sherry practised for several years in rural New Hampshire but in 1902 he moved to New York where he began a long and distinguished career as a specialist in urology, teacher, and editor of medical journals. He was attending urologist at numerous clinics and hospitals in New York City and Brooklyn.
From 1913-31 Sherry was professor of preventive medicine at Long Island College of Medicine, and was then made professor emeritus. From 1938-1942 he was vice president and chairman of the board of Columbia University College of Pharmacy. In 1910 he became editor of Medical Times.
While teaching medical students, Sherry discovered how little most of them knew of business. So he began a series of lectures covering the rudiments of financial and business procedures, but also the proper personal and professional habits of a doctor. Out of these lectures grew the magazine Medical Economics, which Sherry and Lansing Chapman, an advertising man, launched in 1923. This was one of the first pocket-sized magazines, and grew from the first 25-page copy to its present 250 pages. As editor-in-chief of the magazine over the years, Sherry expanded it to include lively articles on medical personalities, legislation and current news of the medical world. He made ten trips abroad to gather information on foreign medical developments.
Along with his other activities, Sherry was president of Reed and Carnrick, physiological laboratories, from 1925, and was a member of many pharmaceutical associations. In 1912 he was commissioned in the newly organized medical reserve corps. Ordered to active duty in 1916 he was assigned to New York's medical supply depot. He became a major in 1917 and a colonel in 1924.
A life Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, he was a member of numerous medical societies, and of the Sons of the American Revolution, and a 32nd degree Mason. A devoted member of Beta Theta Pi, he had served as district chief for the fraternity, national vice president, trustee and associate editor of its publication. He was also a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa.
Dartmouth had a no more loyal alumnus than Sherry Baketel. He served as president of the Medical School Alumni Association, 1923-29. Recently he and his son established the H. Sheridan Baketel scholarship fund at Dartmouth, primarily to provide scholarship funds for qualified boys coming to Dartmouth from Exeter Academy.
He is survived by his wife, the former Corinne Sellers, and by his son H. Sheridan Baketel Jr. '20.
To quote a business associate: "Dr. Baketel had the great gift of friendship and happiness and inspired all who were fortunate enough to know him. His many talents gave him great vision and understanding, and his wide fund of knowledge put him at the top as an authority and as an elder statesman."
1899
LUCIUS EVERETT VARNEY came to Dartmouth from Dover, N. EL, an unpublicized freshman. He took prizes in Latin, Mathematics, and History; joined Delta Kappa Epsilon and Casque and Gauntlet; achieved Phi Beta Kappa rank, and delivered the Commencement Salutatory. Then having secured his LL.B. at New York Law School in 1901, he began a long and distinguished career as a topflight attorney at the Patent and Trade-mark Bar, appearing before Federal Courts all over the United States, and occasionally before the Supreme Court in Washington.
He never married. He was a generous benefactor to other people's children, and in 1925 adopted a son, Walter, then twelve years old, who later cared for Luke's aging mother in the spacious home Luke built for her on his 50acre Dover estate, and during the last two years, with his wife, cared for Luke himself in the latter's New York City home at 277 Park Avenue.
He began his legal career in 1899 with the firm of Redding, Kiddle and Greeley; soon after 1901 he formed the firm of Kiddle and Varney; then followed practice by himself until about 1908 when he joined the firm of Emery, Booth, Janney and Varney. This firm, with offices in both New York and Boston, continued under various names until the time of his death, when it was known as Emery, Varney, Whittemore and Dix. From 1933 he was the head member. Among the partners are two Dartmouth men, Manvel Whittemore '12 and Nichol M. Sandoe '19.
As a most resourceful patent lawyer he left an enduring mark on some of the greatest industries in the United States. During World War I was special assistant to the Attorney General. He and his partners at that time were largely instrumental in organizing the patent work of the Office of Alien Property Custodian. His work in this connection assisted in breaking the German held chemical monopoly and led to the formation of Chemical Foundation, Inc., to administer chemical patents formerly owned by German interests.
Varney's death ocurred suddenly in his New York office on July 5, soon after his 77th birthday. He had been in failing health for some years, as evidenced by his non-attendance at 1899 s 55th Reunion. He had regularly attended such celebrations, and in earlier years the annual class roundups at Boston.
In accordance with Luke's request, the body-was cremated, with no funeral. On July 15 the ashes were interred in the family piot in Pinehill Cemetery at Dover with a brief committal service. Ninety-Niners present were Ralph Hawkes, Joe Hobbs, Joe Gannon, and the latter's daughter Genevieve Read, who, like his other two daughters, had always called their father's classmate "Uncle Luke."
Surviving, besides his adopted son, are Luke's sister Alice, wife of M. Everett Mathes '04. of Dover, and two nephews and two nieces. The late Laurence Varney '02 was his brother.
Luke Varney's brilliant mind made him master of the intricacies both of research and of court presentation. His chief characteristics, perhaps, were his quiet gaiety and his spontaneous friendliness. A long-time friend said of him: "He was charitable in mind and deed. I never heard him say an unkind or critical word about anybody."
1901
SIDNEY CYRUS HARDING, a member of this class freshman year, was killed on June 4, in West Fairlee, Vt„ when a truck in which he was riding ran off the road and overturned.
He was born in Vershire, Vt., November 25, 1876, the son of the Rev. Wilbur F. and Louise (Whitcomb) Harding. After attending the local schools of his native town, he was graduated from Thetford Academy.
He taught school in the West several years, then came back to Vermont where he became a widely known educator. He was Superintendent of Schools in St. Jt. Johnsbury, and then served in the same capacity in Rochester until his retirement in 1947. Harding was a member of state and national education organizations, president of the St. Johnsbury Educational Association, a Mason and a member of Rotary.
He is survived by his wife, the former Maude McCasco, and a son Wendell O. Harding '36, who is a teacher at Vermont Junior College. Harding's home was at 4 Pleasant St., St. Johnsbury.
OLIVER MOSES HARRIS died on July 6 at his home, 12 Carleon Ave., Larchmont, N. Y.
Born in Portland, Maine, May a, 1877, Spud attended Westbrook Seminary. After spending one year with the class he became a salesman in New York for the Worumbo Woolen Co., a firm founded by his grandfather. He later became associated with Fire Fighter Products Co. He was one of the organizers of the Howell Park Association of Larchmont and was a member of the Larchmont Men's Club.
Spud is survived by his wife, the former Beulah Mills, and a daughter, Mrs. Robert Armstrong. With a smile on his face, and a hearty laugh, he always enjoyed his Dartmouth contacts and particularly reunions, in recent years.
JAMES BRADFORD McINTYRE, or "Squash" as he was more familiarly known, passed away on March 23 after an illness of about two months, the last six weeks in the hospital in His home was at 221 Ridgemede Road.
He was born August is, 1879, in Randolph, Vt the son of Benjamin and Rosabel (Bradford) McIntyre. Entering college with this class he was graduated in 1901 and the following year received his C.E. degree from the Thayer School.
He immediately began his business career with the U.S. Steel Corp., in Chicago. Promotions came rapidly and he filled many positions of responsibility, including that of Superintendent of the Illinois Steel Warehouse Co. From 1938 to 1943 he was district manager of the Scully Steel Products Co. in Boston, and then was transferred to Baltimore with the same company, and remained there until his retirement in 1946. He then became an independent consulting engineer and had as ex- tensive business in Baltimore and Washington.
Squash was a familiar character on the cam- pus, winning his "D" on the track team, his specialty being the two mile bicycle race. He had a keen mind and made many friends. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi.
On March 31, 1934, he married Dorothy Ronan in St. Charles, Ill., who survives him. The burial was in the old family cemetery in Randolph.
1902
HENRY CHURCH PILLSBURY died of a heart attack at his home in Ross, Calif., on July 18.
Cap was born in Lowell, Mass., May 27, 1881, the son of George H. Pillsbury '66 and Mary Boyden. After receiving his M.D. from Harvard in 1906, Cap began a long and distinguished career in the United States Army Medical Corps.
Entering the service as a first lieutenant, he rose steadily until he was commissioned Brigadier General in 1941, and was stationed at various times in the Philippines, on the Mexican border, in Panama and in England. In 1919-25 he was director of the X-ray department at Walter Reed hospital in Washington, and again in 1933-36. In 1930-31 he was in charge of Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco. He then became chief health officer for the Panama Canal Zone until 1939, when he was appointed chief surgeon for the Third Army Corps area in Baltimore. In 1941 he assumed charge of the Lovell General Hospital at Fort Devens, where he remained until his retirement in 1945.
Cap was married June 5, 1912, to Janet Wood, the daughter of Brigadier General William T. Wood. She died in December 1951. He is survived by his brother, Dr. Boyden H. Pillsbury '95 of Lowell, Mass., and a sister Mary Pillsbury of Dorset, Vt.
Funeral services were held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Washington and burial was in Arlington National cemetery.
1904
DANIEL CLEMENT COLESWORTHY passed away suddenly, of a heart attack, in his home, 845 Westfield Rd., Scotch Plains, N. J., on June 23. Dan was born in Everett, Mass., May 28, 1881, and entered with the class from Hyde Park, Mass. In college he was a member of the track team for four years, and of the College Choir and Phi Gamma Delta.
Dan rarely got back to Hanover for reunions, but was a member of the Dartmouth Club of New York and attended the meetings of the Club annually. He was associated with the Monson Steamship Lines of New York from 1906-1933, and was a director of three of their subsidiaries. The company went out of business in 1933 and Dan became associated with the firm of Boland & Cornelius until 1949, and later with Emory, Sexton & Co., steam ship brokers, until his death. He was a former member of the New York Produce Exchange. Dan was considered an authority on charter parties and contracts in the transportation trade and an arbitrator in steamship matters.
On October 11, 1907, Dan married Ella Ferguson of Asbury Park, N. J., who survives him with a son, Daniel C. Jr. and a daughter, Mrs. R. C. Hubbard.
1907
JOHN WILLIAM EDWARD GLATTFELD died in Chicago on June 26 following a very brief illness. He had been appointed an observer for the University of Chicago at the Geneva conference and was planning to leave in a short time.
Ted entered Dartmouth from Quincy High School, Quincy, Ill. An excellent student, he attained Phi Beta Kappa rank.
After graduation, he was an instructor in chemistry from 1907 to 1910. During this period he received his Master of Science degree from Dartmouth. He then studied for and received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago, and in 1913 joined the Department of Chemistry there. He was associated with that department until he retired in 1948 as Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry. After retirement, he engaged in research work with the Argonne National Laboratory until his death. He was 72 years of age last April 19-
Ted is survived by his widow Mabel Sathoff Glattfeld, of 5638 Kenwood Ave., Chicago, and by a brother and sister.
1908
WILLIAM MAYO LYNDE was stricken suddenly with a heart attack on June 15 at his home at 118 Elm Street, Barre, Vt., and passed away at the Barre City Hospital a few hours later. He had been active in the firm of Drew and Lynde, general insurance agents, until three years ago when his health required spending the winter months in Sarasota, Fla.
Born at Williamstown, Vt., on February 18, 1886, the son of James K. and Clara (Perrin) Lynde, he was educated in Williamstown public schools and prepared for Dartmouth at Brigham Academy in Bakersfield, Vt.
From 1909 to 1920, he was engaged in sheep raising near Pioche, Nevada, but sold out his interests and returned to Barre in 1920 to join with the late Wilmarth A. Drew in establishing the Drew and Lynde Insurance Agency. After Mr. Drew's death in 1942, Mayo became head of the agency.
Mayo was very active in local Masonic organizations, attaining the 32nd Degree. He was also a member of the Bill Duthie Shrine Club, the Sarasota, Fla., Shrine Club, and the Barre Lions Club. He was past president, director, and long time member of the Barre Country Club and until his retirement an ardent golfer. In the field of insurance, he was a member of the New England and Vermont Association of Insurance Agents.
Aside from golf, his principal hobby was music. In college he was a member of the Orpheus Club. For many years he sang bass with the choir of the Graniteville Presbyterian Church and later at the First Presbyterian Church in Barre. For a hobby he enjoyed participating in barber shop quartets and was a member of the national organization.
His first wife, Effie A. Mac Donald, whom he married on December 26, 1919, died on February 10, 1952. On September 22, 1952, he married Vivian Stott Mac Donald who survives him. Also surviving is a brother, Roscoe P. Lynde of Barre, a nephew, James Mac Donald, his junior partner, and a niece.
Burial was in the family lot in Wilson cemetery in Barre.
In the passing of ARTHUR BRIGGS SHAW, the class of 1908 lost its best-known athlete and a pioneer doctor. After a long and painful illness, he died at the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., on July 18. Services were held in the Wee Kirk 0' the Heather, with Jim Norton, Dick Merrill and Kid Richardson representing the class.
"Bub" was born in Joliet, Ill., April 28,1886, the son of John Bliss Shaw M.D. and Lydia Hammond, and attended Toliet High School.
In college he won fame not only as an athlete but as a singer. He sang in the Glee Club, the Orpheus Club and the College Choir. He was a member of the track team for four years and captain in his senior year. His specialty was the high hurdles and his classmates well remember his timber topping. His fraternity affiliations were Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx.
The marvelous performance of captainelect A. B. Shaw in clearing the 120 high hurdles in 15 seconds flat was a feature at Worcester, Mass., on May 24 and 25, 1907, at the N.E.I.A.A. meets. It was done, however, in the trials and a slight mishap saved the world's record from being changed. In 1907 he held the Intercollegiate record for the 120 yard hurdles at 15 1/5 seconds. In 1907 at the Mott Haven games, Shaw equalled the world's record in the 120 yard hurdles in 15 1/5 seconds and repeated this in 1908. He was a member of the 1908 Olympic Team competing in London where he won 3rd in the 110 metre hurdle race.
After receiving his A.B. in 1908 he continued in the Dartmouth Medical School and earned his M.D. in 1911. He interned at the Boston City Hospital and on August 13, 1912, married Kathleen Murphy, a nurse in the New York City Health Department. A year later they went to Terry, Mont., where the older son, Arthur B. Jr., was born in 1916. This was frontier "country and Bub sometimes had to travel thirty miles under extreme conditions to attend patients in an emergency. In 1921 he wrote of a memorable trip of 3000 miles to Seattle to see Dartmouth dedicate the University of Washington Stadium. In 1921-22 he was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council.
In the spring of 1922, "Bub" returned to take a post graduate course in orthopedic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and lived in Fall River. In 1923 he began practice in Longview, Wash. He became a member of the Washington State Medical Society and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. His younger son, John Bliss Shaw, was born here in 1927. Mrs. Shaw died in October 1943.
He is survived by his wife, Eleanor (Jones), whom he married in 1948; two sons Arthur B. Jr. '38, and John B.; a sister, Laura Candee, of Prescott, Ariz., and a brother, John B. Shaw of South Pasadena.
The last tragic but courageous years of his life are best told in a letter from his devoted wife, Eleanor, to Larry Symmes:
"In about 1935 he began having trouble with an ulcer, which was treated both medically and surgically. Superimposed came a painful and crippling type of arthritis diagnosed as both osteo and rheumatoid. This forced him into retirement about 1942, at which time he moved to Pasadena.
"A year ago June he had his right leg amputated because of a blood clot. The doctors didn't think he would pull through then, but he had too much spirit and faith and fight, and he fooled them. He even tried to get an artificial leg, but this was mechanically impossible because of the arthritic hip joint; so for the past year he had been confined to bed and wheel chair with occasional drives in the car.
"That he held a deep affection for Dartmouth, I know, and for all the members of his class. He was a fine man and I feel in my heart that Dartmouth should be as proud to have had him as he was to have had Dartmouth."
1909
ARTHUR LOWELL HERRICK died unexpectedly on June 16 at his home, 123 Bellevue Ave., North, Seattle, Wash.
Dick was born on January 23, 1886, at Gloucester, Mass., the son of Arthur Emery and Vesta (Linnekin) Herrick. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Gloucester High School, received a B.S. degree from Dartmouth in 1909 and a C.E. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1910. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
In the fall of 1910, Lowell came to Columbia University in charge of the Hydraulics Laboratory and remained there until 1918. From 1918 to 1933 he was with the engineering department of Ingersoll Rand Co. in New York as a sales engineer. He came back to his native town of Gloucester and engaged in retail business until the outbreak of war in 1941 when he went west to the Seattle Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. as an assistant engineer and later was with the Associated Shipbuilding Co. and then retired.
He married Una M. Davis of East Gloucester, Mass., on October 1, 1910. She survives him as does a son Richard Lowell Herrick of Ferguson, Mo., and a sister Mrs. Alice V. Herrick of Gloucester. The sympathy of the class is extended to the family in our mutual loss.
1910
JOHN THURSTON FAR WELL died April 19 in the Brattleboro Retreat, Brattleboro, Vt. He had been a patient there for many years. He was born February 15, 1885, in Farmington, N. H., the son of F. E. and Susan (Dow) Farwell.
Jack prepared at Phillips Andover Academy. In college he was a member of Theta Delta Chi, Turtle and Sphinx. He was manager of the golf team in senior year and a member of Palaeopitus.
ALFRED IRVING MORIARTY died on June 2 in Overlook Hospital, Summit, N. J., following a brief illness. His home was at 11 Timber Acres, Short Hills, N. J.
Alf was born February 14, 1888, in Fitchburg, Mass., son of Oscar and Nancy (Irving) Moriarty. He entered Dartmouth from Belmont High School. After one year, he transferred to Harvard and was graduated there in 1910.
He taught for several years in schools around Boston and later was a teacher in the Lake Placid School for Boys, and headed a summer camp for boys in Maine. He served in World War I in France and rose to the rank of major. After his discharge, he returned to teaching. While a faculty member at Smith College he married Elizabeth Richards, on September 10, 1921, who survives him.
In 1925 he entered the insurance business in New York with Weed & Kennedy, Inc., becoming a broker in 1927. In 1935 he was elected president of the firm and in 1954 was made chairman of the board.
Although Alf Moriarty was with his Dartmouth class for one year only, he retained a deep interest in the class and the College and was a loyal supporter for many years.
GAY GLEASON passed away suddenly on June 25 at York, Me., where he was spending a vacation at the summer home of one of his neighbors in Newton, Mass. Gay had been suffering from a heart condition for a long period and his death was undoubtedly hastened by the shock of his wife's sudden death while they were vacationing in Florida last spring.
Gay was bom November 4, 1888, in Somerville, Mass., son of Joseph H. and Mary (Gay) Gleason. He prepared at Somerville Latin High School. He was manager of the Dartmouth Magazine, senior year, a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and the Webster Club.
After graduation from Dartmouth he re- ceived his LL.B. at Harvard in 1913. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar and began practice with the firm of Sawyer, Hardy, Stone & Morrison in Boston. He became a partner and retained that connection until 1942 when he became general counsel and vice president of the Employers' Group of insurance companies. In this connection he gained the reputation as one of the country's best-known insurance lawyers. He retired in 1954. He was a vestryman of Grace Episcopal Church, Newton.
Gay married Winifred Nowell Gaskin in Newton, June 5, 1923. Survivors are their three children: Mrs. Edward C. Edwards of Newton, Mrs. William Laverack of New York and Ens. Edward S. Gleason USN.
Several members of the class attended the funeral services in the Grace Episcopal Church, Newton.
EARL RUSSELL PALMER died suddenly at his home at i Forest Ave., Great Neck, N. Y., on June 30 as the result of a coronary thrombosis. He had been hospitalized twice in the last twelve years for this condition, but had continued to take part in his business activities.
Russ Palmer was born February 6, 1889, at Fort Wayne, Ind., son of Earl and Mary (Ferguson) Palmer. He prepared for college at Morgan Park Academy.
Russ was a member of the track team throughout his college career and was its captain in his senior year. He was a high jumper of great ability, being the first Dartmouth man to leap over the six-foot mark. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Sphinx. When he and his brother Donald came up to the Hanover Plain with the Class of 1910, from Paducah, Ky., they were the first of the five Palmer boys, including Raymond '11, John '14 and Wayne '17.
He was a leader in class activities. In addition to his extracurricular work, he was a fine scholar and a writer of great talent. He contributed to the various literary maga- zines and wrote the book and lyrics for the Pea. Green Earl. He was a member of Palaeopitus and was a close runner-up for a Rhodes Scholarship. He served on the Junior Prom Committee and the Magazine board. He served also as class agent for the Alumni Fund, 1925-30.
After graduation he went into the newspaper field in Chicago, becoming a feature writer for the Chicago Daily News. During World War I he enlisted in the Army and just finished O.C.S. at Camp Taylor when the Armistice was declared.
After the war he went into the advertising business with Williams & Cunningham, later becoming an account representative with Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. For the past twenty years he has been in business with ms brother, John, in the firm of Palmer Associates and was so engaged at the time of his death.
He is survived by his widow Madge Boles Palmer and his son E. Russell Jr. '49, and two brothers, John and Wayne.
A great many messages of sympathy received from Dartmouth men represented the high regard in which Russ Palmer was held by all who knew him.
REV. HAROLD SUMNER WINSHIP, pastor of German Congregational Church, Clinton, Mass., died July 7 at Hahnemann Hospital, Worcester.
Harold Winship was born February 22 1887, in Passaic, N. J., son of Russell C. and Abbie (Hill) Winship. He prepared at Passaic High School and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1910. For three years after graduation he followed a business career, most of the time in sales work. In 1913 he began studying at Hartford Seminary and upon completion of his course became pastor at Rockville, Conn. He combined sales work with his ministerial work and all told spent eighteen years in business connections. In 1937 he began full-time service in the ministry in churches in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He went to the German Congregational Church in 1949 and held that pastorate at the time of his death.
A member of the glee club and college choir, he continued his active interest in male quartet and chorus work. He served in World War I as a member of the 76th Division, 393rd Machine Gun Battalion, as sergeant-major.
On August 27, 1919, he married Hazel Robertson, in Coventry, Conn. His widow and a son, Sumner R. Winship of San Francisco, his sister, Helen Winship and a brother, Donald S. Winship of Cleveland, Ohio, and three grandchildren are the survivors.
JOSEPH ELLIOTT DOWNEY died July 26 at his home, 23 Waverley Ave., Newton, Mass. He had been in poor health for some time.
Joe was born March 17, 1887, in Providence, R. I., son of John J. and Katherine (Monohan) Downey. He prepared for college at Allen School and Phillips Exeter Academy. In college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx.
In World War I, Joe served overseas as an Army lieutenant and was wounded in action. He was a member of VFW Post 2022, Brighton-Allston Chapter.
He entered the insurance business after graduation, locating in Boston. In 1922 began his connection with the Joseph E. Downey Co., insurance brokers. In 1930 he became president of the company.
Joe married Marie Louise O'Brien, June 30, 1917, in Newton. The survivors are his widow, his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Bobin of Allston, Mass., his son John J., of Pittsburgh, and his brother, John E. '07 of Hartford, Conn.
HARRY GILBERT MITCHELL passed away July 11 at his home, 302 Chestnut St., St. Mary's, Pa. His death followed an illness of over a year.
Harry was born November 10, 1888, in Boston, son of Melvin P. and Marcia (Foss) Gilbert. He prepared for college at the Stone School. He was a member of Kappa Sigma. Harry taught science at Kimball Union Academy the first year .after graduation from Dartmouth and then returned to College where he and Andy Scarlett were known as two "kid instructors" in the Chemistry Department. They were known, also, as "the Bartlett Pair" in memory of Prof. E. J. Bartlett, head of the department.
Harry remained at Dartmouth until 1915 and then completed his work for a Master's degree at Columbia. From 1915 to 1918 he taught at the University of Maine. In 1918 he went with the United States Industrial Alcohol Co., and in 1926 joined the Speer Carbon Co., St. Mary's, Pa. Except for the period 1942-1945, when he was loaned to the War Production Board, he was in the service of this corporation until his death. When the company celebrated its 35th anniversary in October 1951 Harry was presented with a bronze plaque "for outstanding accomplishment in the advancement of Powder Metallurgy." Harry was a member of the Masonic Order and the Elks.
On October 24, 1914, Harry was married to Ruth Esther Aiken in New York City. She and a daughter and two sons are the survivors, as well as several grandchildren.
1911
EMORY DAVID HEALD died on June 12 of a heart attack just on the verge of his preparing to start for reunion. The news of his death came as a great blow to his classmates, who had already assembled in Hanover.
Dave was born in Milford, N. H., where he prepared for Dartmouth in the local high school. Following his graduation from college he entered his father's business in Milford, the French & Heald Furniture Company, of which he became sales manager in 1936 and then president. He retired from active management in 1949 but continued to handle his former contracts.
Dave was a member of the New Hampshire State Legislature, and during World War II served as a member of the United States Committee on Food Mobilization and Distribution. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He was a 32nd degree Mason, and also past master of Milford Lodge A.F. and A.M., and a past commander of the New Hampshire Consistory at Nashua, N. H.
Funeral services were held in the Bigelow Chapel, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass., and burial was in the Westview Cemetery in Lexington, Mass. Ken Ballou represented the class at the services.
He is survived by his wife, Helen V.; a son, David '42, of Pembroke, N. H.; two daughters, Mrs. Burton L. Wales Jr. of Wilbraham, Mass., and Miriam, of New York City; two step-daughters, Misses Judith and Jane Heald of Lexington; six grandchildren; and two .sisters, Mrs. Earle Cooley of Tampa, Fla., and Mrs. Edna Sanderson of Cambridge. Dave's home was at 3 Valley Road, Lexington.
i912
EDWARD JOHN DALEY died on June 21 at a hospital in Detroit, Mich., to which he had been taken a few days earlier after suffering a heart attack.
He was the son of Edward and Bridget (O'Dowd) Daley and was born at North Stratford, N. H., September 10, 1887. He was married to Margery Grannis at Brookline, Mass., June 9, 1923.
Preparing at Dean Academy, he entered Dartmouth with, and graduated with, the Class of 1912. In his senior year he was the captain of the Dartmouth football and baseball teams, and was named by Walter Camp as All-American End. He was a member of Sigma Chi and Casque and Gauntlet.
After graduation he had been Register of Deeds of Coos County, N. H., played football professionally with the Providence Steam Rollers, coached football at Colby College, and, for the past fifteen years, had been Probation Officer of the Recorders Court, Detroit. He was a World War I veteran, and while attending ROTC at Harvard, was captain of that ROTC football team.
Surviving are his widow, son John, daughter Mrs. David Covell, five sisters, a brother and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at Detroit and at Island Pond, Vt. Burial was in the family lot at North Stratford.
1914
PAUL O'LEARY of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., was an international authority on dermatology and syphilology. He died on July 20, after a short illness.
He was born November 11, 1891, in Brooklyn, N. Y., entered Dartmouth with our class and was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He left after one year to study medicine at the Long Island College of Medicine, from which he received his degree in 1915.
He joined the staff of the Mayo Clinic in January 1917 and served for 38 years, a longer tenure as a member of the staff than any active member now living. He was one of the founders as well as president of the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology and the Minnesota Dermatological Society and the society of the same name in Chicago. In 1926 he was one of the publishers of Modern Clinical Syphilology; he was editorin-chief of the Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology; in 1951 he was president of the staff of the Mayo Clinic. He was a member of many medical societies, and an honorary member of the Royal Society of Medicine in England, and the Dermatological Societies of Britain, Germany and Holland. As avocations he often acted as judge at horse shows and was especially skilled in woodworking.
Paul was married in 1921 to Ruth Youmans of Winona, Minn., who survives him together with two children, Paul Jr., of California and Patricia, of Phoenix, Ariz.
Funeral services were conducted at the Calvary Episcopal Church and burial was in the Oakwood Cemetery, Rochester.
WILLIAM ABBOTT STRATTON died on June 9, in Boston. He was 63 years of age. Born in Milford, Mass., son of John and Catherine Stratton, he graduated from St. Mary's High School, attended Holy Cross and then transferred to Dartmouth.
For several years after college he was associated with the automobile business in Milford. In later years he spent much of the time in Florida, still maintaining a home at 109 Beacon St., Boston.
He is survived by his wife Helen (Ward) Stratton; three daughters, Mrs. Marie T. Kenny of Milford, Mrs. Jean Landry of Watertown, and Mrs. Helen Grimaldi of Coral Gables, Fla., as well as six granddaughters.
The funeral was held June 13 with a high mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Jamaica Plain. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery, Milford.
CHARLES HENRY LUBY, who died on August 15 in Philadelphia, was born in Worcester, Mass., January 2, 1891. Before joining the Class of 1914 he attended Holy Cross, having graduated from Worcester Classical High School. He served in World War I as a naval ensign and in World War II as captain of the tanker John Bull which supplied fuel to the Navy fleets.
Funeral services were held in Philadelphia and burial was in St. John's Cemetery, Worcester. Survivors are a sister, Mrs. Eleanor F. Ferris of Los Angeles, Calif., and a brother, William F. Luby of Worcester.
1918
CHESTER LAWRENCE CONLON died in Miami, Fla., on July i. Chet came to college from Exeter Academy and was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
After service in World War I he was a lieutenant in the regular army for some time. He returned to the service after the outbreak of World War II and was attached to a military police battalion.
Chet was in the real estate business for some years in California before the war, but had made his home in Florida recently. He is survived by his father and two sons, William L. 2nd and David, both of Los Angeles.
1919
JAMES WHITCOMB BUCKLEY died in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on March 16. He had been living in Florida for many years, where he operated a nursery business.
Jim came to college from Worcester, Mass., where he attended the public schools. He served in World War I as a lieutenant in the Air Corps.
Little is known of Jim's career as he had been out of touch with the class for many years. He is survived by a son, Capt. James W. Buckley Jr., now stationed in Formosa.
1920
PAUL MACARTHUR CANADA, long-time loyal worker for Dartmouth and for 1920, died at his home 55 Woodland Ave., Summit, N. J., on June 3. He was 57 years old. Long prominent in banking affairs in northern New Jersey, Paul had been for several years assistant to the president of the Passaic-Clifton Bank and Trust Co. He served as a deputy state director of war bond sales during World War II.
Paul was born in Albany, N. Y., the son of Prentice A. and Adelaide (Spencer) Canada. A graduate of Colt Memorial High School in Rhode Island, he earned his diploma at Dartmouth in an interrupted college career which included distinguished service in the U.S. Marine Corps. During the war, before his return to Hanover, he was honored with the opportunity to carry on his undergraduate studies at Cambridge University in England. In Hanover he joined Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity
As a Dartmouth alumnus Paul was active for many years in fund-raising for the College, serving a succession of terms as an assistant Class Agent. He played an equally active part in civic affairs, being at the time of his death a director of the Passaic-Clifton Chamber of Commerce and of the local Y.M.C.A., as well as a member of the Passaic Rotary Club, the Passaic Valley Citizens Planning Association and the Passaic County Banking Association. He was a former president of both the Passaic City Club and the Pennington Club.
In July 1925, Paul was married to Bobbie Schairer, who died in 1946. In April 1950, he was married to Helen Parr Lutz, who survives him, with two children, Paul M. Canada Jr. '50 and Betty (Mrs. Jerold G. Gallagher) of East Orange, N. J.
WILLIAM HENRY SUSSDORFF JR. died on June 23, at age 59, at his home 2551 Broadway, Schenectady, N. Y.
Bill was a devoted husband and father, living happily in recent years in Schenectady where he worked for General Electric. From there he and his wife Marion could "commute" weekends through the spring and summer months to the Lake Champlain country, which had been home in years past when Bill ran successively a hotel and then a garage business in Port Kent and Keesville.
Bill came to Dartmouth from Polytechnic Preparatory School in Brooklyn. In the interlude of the First World War he served as a corporal in the U.S. Army and was in later years an active member of the American Legion. At Dartmouth his fraternity was Delta Tau Delta. In addition to his wife, he is survived by one son, William, two daughters, Mrs. Clare Wysocki and Mrs. Harold Whitney, two sisters and three grandchildren.
1921
WILLIAM ERWIN TERRY suffered a heart attack on June 29 and died at White Plains Hospital on July 6. Bill and Jack Hubbell had played golf in the same tournament on June 28. He was 57 years old and lived at Chateau Normandy, Scarsdale, N. Y.
Funeral services were held July 8, at the Church of St. James the Less, Scarsdale, with Pudge Neidlinger '23 and Bill Stedman '19 among the honorary pallbearers. Gene McCabe and Jack Hubbell represented the class. Many other men of Dartmouth and a large delegation of friends attended the services. The family requested that flowers be omitted in favor of donations to the Scholarship Fund, Dartmouth College.
Bill was born in Crafton, Pa., on June 22,1898, the son of Will Albert and Queene (Von Steinmetz) Terry. He came to Dartmouth from Evanston, Ill., where he had prepared at Evanston Academy and played basketball.
During his four years on the Hanover Plain, Bill was well known for his drum playing and for his great capacity for making friends. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet. During his junior year he was elected to Rake and Roll. Immediately after graduation Bill spent a year working for the New York Central Railroad. Then five years with the Franklin County Coal Co. and two years with Kellogg Group, Inc., before he became advertising manager of the Detective Group of Macfadden Publications in 1929. He joined Redbook magazine in 1937 as an advertising salesman and became advertising manager in 1952, which position he occupied until his death.
On January 24, 1928, Bill married Pauline Hall at Rockville Center, N. Y., and on August 10, 1929, their son William Hall Terry was born. Young Bill graduated at Dartmouth with the Class of 1951. In 1936 our Bill and Pauline came to a parting of the ways and on October 3, 1936, Bill married Mildred Hatch Read in Brookline, Mass., thus acquiring a stepson, Charles D. Read.
The sincere sympathy of Bill's classmates and many friends is extended to his family.
1922
LAWRENCE PAUL LEVERONE died suddenly on June 8 in Washington, D. C., the victim of a heart attack.
Born in Keene, N. H., on March 3, 1900, Larry was graduated from the high school of that city and attended the University of New Hampshire for a short time before transferring to Dartmouth. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. In recent years Larry has lived in Washington where he served as co-manager of the Senate Restaurant.
Funeral services, in which the American Legion participated, were held at the Woodland Cemetery Memorial Chapel in Keene. The class was represented by Russell G. Putney who served as one of the bearers.
Surviving Larry are two sisters, Mrs. John Gladis and Miss Gertrude Leverone, three uncles, including Louis E. Leverone '04 and Nathaniel Leverone '06, and three aunts.
1924
HARR FREDERICK RANNEY died in his sleep on June 29 at his home on Cherry Lane, Morristown, N. J. Of the recent blows to the Class, his sudden loss is one of the most severe, and hardest for the Class and College to bear. His three years as Class Agent brought our Class rapidly up the ladder to its present solidarity and achievement; he was the spark. We were only this recently getting really to know him. Behind his quiet reticence were "warmth, generosity, and understanding" only his closest friends knew.
Harr was born December 31, 1902, in St. Cloud, Minn., the son of a mill superintendent father who died when Harr was two years old. His mother left him an orphan at 16. At Dartmouth, he showed a good mind. His oldest and closest friends were Harold Collins and Lee Ramsdell; the latter, his roommate for two years in Hanover and almost four more in New York until Harr's marriage, at which Lee was best man. His first positions were in the publishing field: The Army and Navy Register, in Washington, D. C., for a year; then as editor of The Electrgist (a trade paper); and finally for Boy's Buyer, in the highly competitive clothing business in New York.
Speck Ramsdell joined him in his publishing work in 1932. The pressure of the depression and "bank holiday" produced a collapse and temporary halt in Harr's business life, but his courage and versatility appear in his subsequent entering the investment business where he made a new and successful career. In 1952, he was listed as a "Registered Representative," or customer's man, and assistant manager for Reynolds & Co., in Morristown, N. J. He has been living in New Jersey ever since 1929. Born Harold, he legally changed his name to Harr in April 1938.
Harr married Edith Fischer Meyer, prominent in New Jersey and New York society, October 21, 1927. The marriage has been described as being unusually well made and happy, each complementing the other to an exceptional degree. Their 28 years together were enriched by three children, who survive him: Frederick James, born in 1929, graduate of Dartmouth in 1951, veteran of the Korean campaign, and father of Harr's grandson; Joan Edith, born in 1931, attended William and Mary College, and now Mrs. Arthur Quinlan; and Harr Flint, born in 1935, and a member of the Class of 1956. In addition to his wife, he is also survived by two sisters: Mrs. O. O. Pankey, and Miss Belle R. Ranney.
Like other leaders, Harr was active in community affairs, such as serving on the Morristown rationing board, and as vice president of the Neighborhood House. He was a member of the Dartmouth Club and of the Downtown Athletic Club, both of New York City. The record is clear as to his services to Dartmouth, especially as Class Agent. Our notable record in leading the classes of our decade most of the year is a tribute to his energy and enthusiasm. His work to start and develop a Memorial program for those of 1924 who have died is already evident in the immediate gifts - instead of flowers - to the Alumni Fund in his name, and in the inevitable continuation of what he started by others. To a greater degree than most, regardless of how well those others may have achieved, it is proper to record a richly deserved "Well done" in these pages.
1925
JOHN HUBBARD DAVIS JR., chairman of the Class Executive Committee, died suddenly on August 4, while visiting friends at Amagansett, L. I. His home was at 875 Fifth Ave., New York City.
Jack was born in Hamden, Conn., on April 29, 1903, the son of John Hubbard and Evelyn (Collins) Davis, and attended New Haven High School. At Dartmouth, he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. His entire business career was spent with the Alloy Steel Products Co. of Linden, N. J., which he founded in 1929 and of which he was president and treasurer at the time of his death. He did original work in the application of stainless steel to valves, and the company has participated in work in aid of nuclear research and in the development of plastics and chemicals. It received the ArmyNavy "E" in 1943.
Dartmouth had no more devoted son than Jack, who offered without stint his time, his energy and his material resources. To him, as to no other single individual, the Class of 1925 owes its recent fine record of service to the College, not alone by the measure of his personal contributions, but even more through the stimulus of his leadership and the quickening touch of his enthusiasms. In addition to his duties as chairman of the Executive Committee, he had served as co-chairman of the 1925 Scholarship Fund, for the institution of which he was in large part responsible. He participated actively in the successful campaign a few years ago that led to the installing of artificial ice in the hockey rink. He was for years an active member of the Dartmouth Club of New York, a member of its Board of Directors, 1942-45, and vice president, 1949-51. He was currently a member of the Alumni Council and chairman of its Committee on Class Gifts, having served previously as a member of the Committee on Bequests and Estate Planning, and the Committee on Corporations, Foundations, and Special Gifts.
His other activities included membership in the Westchester Country, Baltusrol Golf, and Economic Clubs; The Valve Manufacturing Association, American Society for Metals, Linden Industrial Association, Linden Chamber of Commerce, and the New England Society of New York.
He is survived by his wife Elbra, his mother, a daughter, Mrs. James H. Clark, two grand- children, three sisters, Mrs. William T. Beazley, Mrs. Robert C. Young, and Miss Kathleen Davis, and a brother, Raymond.
A vigorous and successful business man devoted to the cause of liberal education, he was affable and modest, preferring to do his work behind the scenes and to offer his gifts anonymously. He had the courage to plan boldly, the skill and imagination to make his plans effective. Those of us who were privileged to know Jack, to work with him, and to enjoy his friendship know that his passing leaves a place that must remain unfilled save by our memories.
1927
WILBUR GARDNER KENNEDY, one of the best loved members of the Class of 1927, died of a coronary thrombosis at his home on RR1, Dayton, Ohio, on May 2. While Wib had been in poor health for a number of months, his condition was not considered to be critical, and he, had been working and carrying on a normal life up to a few days before his death.
After graduation from Dartmouth, he attended Harvard Law School, and in 1929 became connected with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, serving this company for many years as a special agent. He was a past president of the Dayton Life Underwriters Association, and of the Life Insurance and Trust Council. He served as president of the family service division of the Dayton Community Chest, and was a member of the Civitan Club. He was several times president of the Dayton Dartmouth Alumni Association.
Wib was born in Dayton, the son of Wilbur C. and Linda (Estabrook) Kennedy. He entered Dartmouth from Deerfield Academy, was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity and the Arts. He was married in 1929 to Shirley B. Locke, and they had one daughter, now Mrs. Gretchen Stout. Wib was divorced in 1932, and in 1935 married Hannah Jane Rice. A son, James G. Kennedy, was born in 1942.
Wib was a real gentleman in every sense of the word. Everyone, who . knew him was impressed by his gentle manner, friendliness, and intellectual capacity. In his death Dartmouth has lost an ardent supporter, and we have all lost a true, friend. Our sincerest sympathy is extended to. his wife, his daughter, and his son.
1929
ALBERT CARL BERTCH died on June 6 at his home The Mermont, Byrn Mawr, Pa., of a coronary occlusion. Carl was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., August 21, 1907. His parents were Albert C. and Eda (Widman) Bertch. He attended Central High School in Grand Rapids before coming to Dartmouth. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Green Key, Palaeopitus, Sphinx, Pleaid, manager of the Musical Club, on the editorial board of TheDartmouth and the Board of Governors of The Arts, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. His prodigious interest in higher mathematics continued throughout his life.
Carl went to work for N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., in Philadelphia immediately after graduation, at which time he entered the Plans-Merchandising Department which consists of a group of marketing people who specialize in individual industries and work out plans for clients which coordinate advertising with the specific marketing problems involved.
When World War IX started, he entered the Army as a private. He was first assigned to duty at Forth Monmouth, where he became an instructor in code work. He later transferred to the Air Force, took his officer's training at Miami Beach, and obtained a commission. He was returned to Washington, where he was assigned to planning work at Air Force Headquarters. He left the service as a captain and returned to Ayer as head of the Plans-Merchandising Department, which position he held when his health broke down a few years ago.
Carl never married and, with the exception of the period in the armed services and vacations at the family summer home at Spring Lake, Mich., he made his home in Bryn Mawr. He was a member of the Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa. and his favorite sports were squash, tennis and sailing. He was a prodigious collector of early jazz records.
He is survived by the immediate members of his family, including a brother, J. Widman Bertch '23.
1932
ROBERT PATTEN WILLIAMS died from a heart ailment at his home in Summertown on Signal Mountain, Tenn., on June 27. He was born in Chattanooga, November 23, 1911, and lived there all his life.
Following his graduation from Dartmouth, Pat received his law degree from Vanderbilt in 1935 and was a member of the law firm of Williams and Frierson in Chattanooga. He was also a prominent church and civic leader, having devoted much time to a special study of Tennessee educational problems and last September he was appointed to the State Board of Education. He had always been active in Dartmouth affairs in Chattanooga.
He is survived by his wife, the former Jane Shelton of Chattanooga and three children, Patsy, Henry, and Margaret. Funeral services were held in the First Presbyterian Church, where Pat had served as an elder.
1935
ADOLF LORING SIEGENER died June 15, in Los Angeles, Calif., of a cerebral hemorrhage following a brain operation, which occurred while he was visiting his mother, Mrs. Frederich Karl Siegener, and his sister, Mrs. Fritz Cahn.
Loring was born in Boston, Mass., in 1911, and prepared for Dartmouth at Deerfield Academy. He entered Naval Aviation in 1937 and served for thirteen active years. In 1940 he married Peggy O'Neill Bruen of Kansas City, Mo., in Coronado, Calif. When he resigned his commission of Commander in the Navy, he moved with his wife and daughter Sharon to an estate, "Armagh," on Merritt Island, Florida. There he managed citrus groves and lived the outdoor life he loved so well. Just before his illness he had been planning and looking forward to attending his 20th Reunion in Hanover.
Private services for Loring were held at Forest Hill, Boston, Mass., with only his immediate family attending.
1954
WILLIAM JAY GMELIN was killed with his instructor when their training plane crashed and exploded on June 16 near Marana Air Base, Ariz.
Bill was born in New York City December 28, 1932, the son of William J. and Mildred (Thomas) Gmelin and prepared for college at New Rochelle High School. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, D.0.C., and Dartmouth Christian Union. A member of the Air Force ROTC he was commissioned at graduation and was called to active duty in January.
Bill was married on December 31, 1953, to Mary Jane Butler who was in Hanover with him from then to graduation. She survives him with their son Peter Brooks Gmelin, born July 13, 1955. He is also survived by his parents whose home is at 13 Lotus Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
LAN WARDWHEELOCK has been officially declared lost at sea on January 24, when his father's yacht was reported missing in the Caribbean. Aboard were lan's father, his step-mother, two family friends from Philadelphia and two crewmen. The yacht put out from Bermuda in a heavy sea on January 13. When no word was heard from the yacht in a few days, an intensive search was conducted by planes of the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and Air Force but no trace of the yacht was ever found.
Lan was born in Philadelphia on November 22, 1932, the son of Ward and Margot (Williams) Wheelock. He prepared for college at Taft School. He worked on WDBS in college and was a member of the Air Force ROTC.
Lan is survived by a brother Keith Wheelock of 133 Old Gulph Road, Wynnewood, Pa:, and a sister Mrs. Margot W. Schlegal.
ADELBERT AMES JR. '21h
H. SHERIDAN BAKETEL '95
JOHN HUBBARD DAVIS JR. '25
