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.]

Boutelle, George W. '93, May 7 Nichols, Harrison L. '98, Oct. 11 Wentworth, Frank W. '03, Oct. 13 Klopp, Valentine X. '09, Oct. 20 Stratford, Charles H. '12, June 24 Pattillo, Gilbert S. '14, Oct. 13 McGrath, Herbert A. '18, Jan. 10 Arakelian, Joseph '19, Oct. 21 Moore, John J. Jr., '20, Oct. 14 Jones, Clinton S. '22, Sept. 25 Hartigan, John G. '26, Mar. 24 Mann, Albert E. '28, Oct. 20 Bushnell, William M. Jr., '38, Aug. 29 Andrew, Laurence C. Jr., '41, Oct. 5 Person, Harlow S., A.M. '09, Nov. 7

1893

GEORGE WILLIAMS BOUTELLE of 41½ Cross St., Nashua, N. H., died on May 7. Born in Nashua April 25, 1870, he joined the already prominent Nashua representatives at Dartmouth: Fassett and Hilton of '90, Lakeman '92 and Runnells '93. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx.

Always an accountant, his first position was with Flather & Co. of Nashua. In 1901 he joined the Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Co. and remained with them until his retirement in 1930, as assistant treasurer.

On October 15, 1907, Bob was married to Josephine Jewell Moore who survives him. There were no children.

1898

HARRISON LINCOLN NICHOLS was born in Baldwinville, Mass., April 24, 1874, and died October 11, in Houston, Texas.

Following graduation from Dartmouth, where he played varsity baseball and football, he entered Harvard Law School, only to be forced to withdraw because of ill health. He went to Florida and after a year recovered his health, then went to St. Louis to work for the Simmons Hardware Co. In 1901 he was married but lost his wife many years ago.

After working as a member of the firm of The Adwriter for a time, Nichols started his work for the Bell Telephone Co., moving sucGessively to Chicago, Springfield, Ill., Oklahoma City, Dallas and finally to Houston, where he lived until his death.

He went into the real estate business for a time, but retired in 1937. Quoting from D. G. Edson '18, also of Houston:

"He had lived alone in Houston since I have known him and, as he recently remarked, found his greatest pleasure in .his Dartmouth associations. He was an enthusiastic member of our local Alumni Club and faithfully kept in touch through the ALUMNI MAGAZINE with his classmates and Dartmouth affairs. He left a sister, Mrs. Fred M. Byl of Baldwinville, Mass., and he will be buried there in the family plot in Greenlawn Cemetery."

As "Hoss" Nichols said in his last letter to the secretary of his class, "I have been in the hospital twice in the last eighteen months but Mother Nature with the aid of several physicians and my stubborn resistance kept me from entering the Pearly Gates. We are fast approaching the end of the trail when we will have solved this enchanted experience of life.. .."

Such a spirit as that of "Hoss" Nichols lives always.

1903

FRANK WESLEY WENTWORTH died on October 13 at his home 1864 Yosemite Rd., Berkeley, Calif.

Frank was born in Chelsea, Mass., November 19, 1879. He prepared for college at Chelsea High School. In college he was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Dragon. He was class president junior and senior years and the five years after graduating.

He started in business with Library Bureau in Boston, but was soon transferred to San Francisco. In 1910 he organized the Frank W. Wentworth Co., one of the largest office, library and school equipment firms in the West. He sold his firm to Remington Rand in 1928 and retired after a year with them. Whereupon he and Mrs. Wentworth took a tour of Europe.

Interested in community work, Frank was a member of Berkeley's first city council, was the city's first vice-mayor and was acting mayor at times.

He served as trustee of Mills College from 1930 to 1950, and was financial vice president and treasurer from 1931 to 1948. He was a member of the Berkeley City Planning Commission and was a founder of the Berkeley Municipal League. For thirty years he served on the governing board of the Save the Redwoods League.

Frank married Jean Baird Pond in 1910. They had a son William P. of Berkeley and a daughter Mrs. Margaret W. Owings of San Francisco, all of whom survive him.

Following is a tribute by Leigh Kimball who was probably closer to Frank than anyone in the class:

"In the passing of Frank Wentworth the class has suffered the loss of one of its ablest and most beloved members. As an undergraduate Frank possessed many traits of character that made friends of all with whom he came in contact. Sound judgment, broad vision, high principles and devotion to the public good enabled him to render an outstanding and varied service to the large and growing community in which he lived."

1910

GEORGE CLEMENT DAVIES passed away at Detwiler Memorial Hospital, Wauseon, Ohio, on September 29. He had suffered a heart attack three years ago and was stricken with a kidney ailment while visiting at his sister's cottage in Vergennes, Vt., in the late summer. He returned to Wauseon and entered the hospital.

George was born December 4, 1887, at Fairport, N. Y., son of Rev. R. R. and Minnie (Clement) Davies. He entered Dartmouth from Vergennes, Vt., High School. At an early age, he contracted Bright's disease and was not expected to survive. His father, then serving a church in the South, decided to move to Vermont in the hope that the northern climate would help George. In spite of his late start in school because of his poor health, George made up for the lost time and was graduated from high school with what would have been his original class. He received his M.A. degree at Harvard in 1912 and continued study there and later in Germany and England.

During World War I, George served with the 83rd Division and was transferred to the Rainbow Division, with which outfit he saw service at the Front. After the war he served with the army of occupation in Germany, and acted as interpreter. He received three battle stars.

He taught history and civics at Glenville High School, Cleveland. In 1933 he moved to Wauseon to occupy his mother's family home and to manage the family property. He became interested in community service and active in Republican Party affairs. He was a member of the Republican State Central Committee, and in the mid-i94OS was elected to two terms in the State Senate. He was director and vice president of the People's State Bank, director of the Metamora State Bank, president of the Library Board in Wauseon, chairman of the Fulton County Red Cross for twenty years, trustee of Defiance College, member of the Aetna Grange, American Legion, Congregational Church, Farm Bureau and a 32nd Degree Mason. He was an affiliate member of the State Highway Patrol. George's service to his community was recognized. In the obituary in the Wausecm Republican was this comment: "One of his great loves and interest was in civic affairs and his contribution to the community will be greatly missed."

George was married to Elizabeth Croucher in Newport, R. I., May 6, 1916. She and their two children, Richard Clement Davies and Elizabeth Davies Stotzer, and two sisters are the survivors.

George Davies was one of the most loyal and enthusiastic supporters of his Class and College. Knowing his condition he was fearful that he might be denied the attendance at the reunion last June. He made it but showed the effects later. He was a Tenner who will be missed greatly.

WINSOR DORNIN WILKINSON, a member of the Executive Committee of the Class, died suddenly October 4 at his home, 1955 Marin Ave., Berkeley, Calif. A little more than two years ago, he was stricken with a coronary but had recovered so that he was able to make the long trip to Hanover for the reunion last June. He had more recently made the trip to Walla Walla, Wash., to enter his daughter, Jean, in Whitman College. The Class was represented at the funeral service by Rev. Harold Robinson, Fletch Rogers and Dick Carpenter.

Wilk was born May 30, 1887, at Berkeley, Calif., son of Crayton W. and Mary (Dornin) Wilkinson. He entered College from Berkeley High School. He played on the sophomore baseball team and was a member of Sigma Nu. In the fall of 1910 Wilk wrote the words of

The Touchdown Song.

For a short time after graduation he was assistant in the Engineering Department of the Massachusetts State Board of Health in Boston. He spent the next two years studying sanitary engineering at the University of California. He was employed in several engineering concerns in construction work. He attended the Military Training Camp at Monterey in the summer of 1916 and in 1917 enlisted in a new regiment of the National Guard Field Artillery. At the time of his discharge in February 1919, he was a first lieutenant. He returned to engineering work with consulting engineers, with city, county and state highway departments. He served in World War II as captain, Field Artillery, at several camps in the Far Western states.

Wilk was one of the most active men in Dartmouth affairs on the Coast. Always on the lookout for Dartmouth men, he was especially active in contacting any Tenners who took up residence in the general vicinity, and would go any distance, any time to welcome another Tenner.

He was a prime mover in the organization of the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California. This was incorporated in '39 and Wilk was one of twenty Dartmouth men who provided the funds for the purchase of the cabin site in the Sierra Nevadas. Through the war years it was his zeal and drive that prevented the club from going into eclipse. The secretary-treasurer of the club, it was Wilk who laid out the plans for the dedication of the fireplace in memory of the club's first president, Ray Taylor '11. This dedication took place when President Dickey visited the Coast, October 9. Wilk's son, Albert, lighted the first fire in the fireplace which his dad had worked so hard to have ready for the time of President Dickey's visit. Plans are under way for placing a suitable memorial in the cabin for Wilk.

Wilk was a member of Durant Lodge #268 F & AM; Society of Mayflower Descendants; Society of California Pioneers; Charter Member, Dartmouth Outing Club; Associate Member American Society of Civil Engineers.

It was Wilk who, when he was unable to attend any of our informal reunions, stirred up the five Tenners on the Coast and held an informal reunion each year, at the same time of our meeting in . Hanover.

Wilk was married February .21, 1935, in Berkeley to Mabel Florence Sutton. Survivors are his widow, four daughters, Jean, Sally, Mary and Louise, the son Albert, and two sisters, all of Berkeley.

1912

CHARLES HAROLD STRATFORD died on June 24, at his home 168 Ridge Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

He was born February 25, 1889, in Newport, R. I., the son of William H. and Charlotte E. (Goffe) Stratford. Preparing at Rogers High School in Newport, he entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1912, remaining there through his freshman year. He married Violet E. Griffin in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 25, 1914.

After a business training at Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., he was purchasing agent for T. A. Gillespie Co., and Pittsburgh manager of East Jersey Pipe Co. Since 1934, and until the time of his death, he was a life underwriter with Edward A. Woods Co., a large life insurance agency of Pittsburgh.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

1914

GILBERT SAYWARD PATTILLO died in a nursing home at Newburyport, Mass., on October 13. He was buried in the family plot in the Oak Grove Cemetery, Gloucester, Mass. He had been ill since June.

Pat was born in Gloucester, September 26, 1890, the son of A. Man ton and Grace (Perkins) Pattillo. He entered Dartmouth from Gloucester High School and during his undergraduate years was on the editorial staff of The Dartmouth.

After receiving his degree he was for many years an advertising copy writer with Charles W. Hoyt Co. of New York and Boston, and was also the author of children's books. During World War I he served in the office of the Adjutant General in Washington, as a member of the committee for the classification of army personnel. At the request of the Secretary of War he was commended for "especially meritorious and conspicuous service." Pat's major avocation was going down Maine on fishing trips with Sherm Saltmarsh. He never married, and his sole survivor is his sister, Mrs. Alice Pattillo Cobb of Newbury, Mass.

1917

ROLAND COPELAND MACGOWN died suddenly on June 3, at his home 295 Centre Ave., Abington, Mass.

Born at Lynn, Mass., on November 2, 1893, the son of Wilson Young and Cora King (Copeland) MacGown, Mac entered Dartmouth from Abington High School. On July 18, 1922, at Sandusky, Ohio, he was married to Zella Kent.

With the outbreak of World War 1, Mac enlisted in the U.S. Navy at Boston on April 13, 1917, with the rating of seaman, 1st Class. He trained at the Marblehead Training Camp and then attended the First Naval District Officers' Cadet School at M.I.T. Subsequently he was Commanding Officer of S.C. No. 35 based at Plymouth, England, and was on S.C. No. 271 when she made her trip to Archangel. He was discharged at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on September 12, 1919.

After leaving the Navy, Mac worked for a short time for Lever Brothers at their Cambridge soap plant, then moved on to Cleveland where he worked in a bank and ran a variety store. Later he returned to Middleboro, Mass., where he taught in the high school for seventeen years and was coach of several sports much of that time. In 1944 he suffered a very severe heart attack from which he never fully recovered.

Mac is survived by his widow and three daughters, Jane - Mrs. Hazen Reynolds of Pontiac, Mich.; Nancy - Mrs. Robert White of East Braintree, Mass.; and Ann — Sister Jean Therese of West Roxbury, Mass.

1919

JOSEPH ARAKELIAN, 57, chief engineer of the construction and repair division of the General Services Administration of the Federal Government in the Boston area was stricken at work and died October 21 in the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

A native of Newburyport, Joe was the son of the late Donabed and Mary (Chilingerian) Arakelian and was educated in the local schools. After graduating from Thayer School, he became an engineer for the Government and worked throughout the United States and its territories, and for the past several years resided in Boston.

Surviving him are four sisters, Mrs. Raymond Perry of Hyannis, Mrs. Claude Butler of Bainbridge, N. Y., Miss Highrue Arakelian of Hartford, and Mrs. George Anannian of Newbury, Mass.; two brothers, George, and Nicholas of Newbury.

Joe was a very loyal member of 1919 and the Class extends its most sincere condolence to the family in their sorrow.

1920

JOHN JOSEPH MOORE JR., one of the campus personalities of his time at Dartmouth, died on October 13 at his home, 15 Tennyson Rd., West Newton, Mass., after a long illness. In March, 1953, tests revealed that John was a victim of the rare Alzheimer's disease. Shortly thereafter he retired from the fine business he had established some years earlier, and his last years were spent in the home to which he was completely devoted. His wife Margaret has written: "We brought John from the hospital in August and had the comfort and great consolation of having him at home. His suffering was intense. His doctors and nurses marveled that he remained always patient, kind and sweet."

A native of Newport, R. I., John Moore came to Dartmouth as a graduate of Rogers High School. He quickly established himself as a reporter and writer of exceptional talent, winning a place for himself on the editorial board of The Dartmouth and The Bema, and serving as editor-in-chief of the 1920 Aegis. He pursued his various causes with the passion of a crusader; with the same fervor, he turned his back on anything he believed fraudulent or pretentious. His college career was interrupted briefly by service in the Navy during World War T.

John was a natural-born salesman. Through a business career devoted mainly to the radio and electrical appliance business, he scored repeated successes. During World War II he served on the staff of the War Production Board, as a priority specialist in the Washington and Boston offices; but immediately thereafter he started developing the thriving business in Providence bearing his own name.

Survivors include his wife Margaret (Reardon), whom John married in October, 1923, and two daughters, Mrs. Francis O'Meara of East Milton, Mass., and Mrs. Vincent C. Sullivan of Norwell, Mass. Funeral services from the West Newton home were followed by a Solemn Mass of Requiem in St. Bernard's Church and interment in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Rockland.

1922

CLINTON STORY JONES passed away on September 25, after a courageous struggle for six months against the ravages of lung cancer.

Born in Norwich, Conn., on November 24, 1898, Clinton attended the schools of that city and was graduated from Norwich Free Academy. He entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1922 but left college at the end of sophomore year. He had been a resident of Rochester, N. Y„ for the past twenty years, living at 346 Post Ave.

On September 8, 1923, Clinton and Eleanoi A. Prue were married in Norwich. Besides his wife, he is survived by three sons, Clinton Jr. of Chicago, Norbert C., a lieutenant (jg) in the U.S. Navy, and Warren P., an undergraduate at St. Lawrence University; and in addition a brother, Emerson B. Jones of West Hartford, Conn.

1925

DRENNAN JAY SLATER was killed by a Northwestern Railway train in Evanston, Ill., on September 7. Previously in seeming good health, he had called home from his office eailier that day to say that he wasn't feeling well and would be home soon. Apparently ill and confused, he left the train at the wrong station and was walking along the right of way when struck. The funeral was held at St. Mark's Church with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery, Evanston.

Drenny was born in Chicago, January 22, 1903, the son of Robert Jay and Leah Miriam (Curzon) Slater, and went to Evanston High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alphi Chi Rho and Phi Beta Kappa, and active particularly in the Outing Club. A graduate of Northwestern University Law School in 1928, he began the practice of law in Chicago in that year. He served as a member of the Illinois Legislature from 1932 to 1940, and subsequently was a trustee of schools in Evanston township and a member of the Draft Board.

In 1942 he joined the Legal Department of the North Western Railway and in 1953 was appointed general solicitor. He was a past president of the Chicago Trial Lawyers Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the Church Home for Aged Persons in Chicago, the Glen View Country Club, the American, Illinois, and Chicago Bar Associations, and a former vestryman of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. He had lived in Evanston since early childhood. His home was at 2441 Central Park Ave.

Surviving are his wife Maida, two daughters, Suzanne (Mrs. John E. Alden) and Leslie Maida, a son Robert '56, and a brother, Robert H. Slater '27, of Louisville, Ky.

Drenny was a loyal, active, and well-loved member of the Class. His untimely death removes one of those who had contributed to its vigor and effectivenss.

PATRICK JAMES PHELAN died at his home in Herkimer, N. Y., on September 6. No details as to the cause of death are available. He was born in Nashua, N. H., November 2, 1904, the son of John Thomas and Elizabeth (Glynn) Phelan. He attended high school in Barre, Mass., and at Dartmouth was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. He was married in 1931 to Elizabeth Gould and they had two sons, Richard G. and Patrick J., and a daughter, Mary E.

He went to work with Montgomery Ward in 1929 and up to 1950 had served in seven different communities. At that time, he was store manager in Raleigh, N. C„ and director of the Merchants Bureau in that city. Unhappily, there has been no further word from him since the 25 th Reunion Report was issued and even his address was unknown at the time of his death. If any who knew him well have further information covering these last five years, it will be gratefully received, so that his memory may at least be served by a full record of his life.

A report has been received that LLOYD CHESTER HARRIS died on August 27, 1954. He withdrew from college early in freshman year and subsequently graduated from Middlebury. He was married in 1929 to Aurela Haines, and his latest address of record (1950) was Rochester, Minn. He was at that time advertising manager for the Journal Publishing Co. of Waseca, Minn.

1926

JOHN GLENN HARTIGAN of New Buffalo, Mich., died March 24, after a two months' illness of cancer.

John had reached his fiftieth birthday only two days before his death, having been born in Chicago, Ill., March 22, 1905. He was the son of Augustus and Elizabeth (Glenn) Hartigan.

He entered Dartmouth after graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover. He left College at the end of his sophomore year. As an undergraduate he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

John married Katharine Hooper soon after leaving college and had two daughters, Elizabeth Jane and Mary Sue. All survive him.

1928

GEORGE CURTIS BIRD died from a heart ailment May 23 at his home in Los Angeles. He was born in Chicago, May 21, 1906.

Curt was a member of Sigma Chi at Dartmouth. He left college in his junior year and for the next five years was in the automobile business with his father's firm, Bird-Sykes Co., in Chicago. Then he moved to Los Angeles and formed a radio transcriptions business. At his death he was an automobile salesman.

He is survived by his mother, a son, G. C. Bird Jr., and a sister, Mrs. G. L. Perisse Jr., 110 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, Ill.

ROY FREDOF MARTIN died in a hospital in Toronto, Canada, on September 17, two weeks after being admitted.

Ray had been living in Huntsville, Ala., where he was employed by the Army Quartermaster Corps. He was visiting his wife's family in Toronto when he was taken ill.

Roy was born in Ansonia, Conn., January 8, 1907, and entered Dartmouth from Ansonia high school. After graduation he worked for the Chase National Bank in New York for nine years, then was president for several years of Martin, Hefler & Robbins, Inc., 40 Wall St., dealers in inactive and obsolete securities. Since the war he had worked for the government in Washington until last May.

He is survived by his second wife, the former Gwen Reid MacGregor, and a brother, George Martin, of Derby, Conn.

1932

GEORGE WIIXIAM DENISON died on September 27, ten days after he had entered a Boston Hospital.

George was born in Chelsea, Mass., on August 11, 1909. He completed his freshman year at Dartmouth and transferred to M.I.T. Most of his business life was spent with the Theis Dyeing Co. of West Warwick, R. I.

George is survived by his wife, Dorothy (Wood) Denison and two daughters, Brenda and Nancy. Private funeral services were held from the family home at 601 Morton St., Stoughton. Mass.

1951

BRUCE NEVIN CARSON was killed in an automobile accident near Colorado Springs on August 27. Bruce was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Nevin Carson, of the Class of 1923. Besides his parents, he is survived by his wife Perry living at 939 So. Corona St., Denver, Colo., and a son born in April.

After completing his freshman year at Dartmouth, Bruce entered Cotorado College, where he graduated in 1951. He returned to Tuck School for one year, and at the time of his death was in the Air Force. We are all deeply sorry to lose a loyal Dartmouth alumnus and a good friend.

WINSOR DORNIN WILKINSON '10 (left),who died October 4, shown in Hanover lastsummer with Robert S. Monahan '29, College Forester. Mr. Wilkinson took back Dartmouthstones for the Ray Taylor MemorialFireplace in the Donner Summit Cabin ofthe D.O.C. of Northern California, of whichhe was for many years the guiding spirit.