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.]
Cleaveland, Fred C. '95, Mar. 5 Oakes, Luther S. '99, Feb. 25 Hancock, George L. '01, Feb. 9 Luey, William A. '05, Dec. 16 Moore, William H. '06, Feb. 11 Howland, Nathaniel J. '09, Feb. 16 Crafts, Otis T. '10, Feb. 21 Nicol, Killian Van R. '10, Feb. 5 Pullen, Sherman J. '18, Feb. 26 Moore, Walter C. '20, Feb. 9 Pennock, Robert H. '23, Feb. 24 Jagger, Claude A. '24, Mar. 1 Roberts, C. Bayard '24, Feb. 20 Oakes, Franklyn K. '26, Feb. 4 Raven, Anton A., A.M. '37, Mar. 7
Faculty
After a long illness dating from a coronary thrombosis suffered on June 29, 1953, on a train going to the West Coast, ANTON ADOLPH RAVEN, Professor of English, died in Dick's House on March 7, 1955.
Professor Raven was born October 26, 1895, in Metuchen, N. J., the only son of the Reverend and Mrs. John H. Raven. He attended Rutgers College, where he was prominent in undergraduate activities, and was graduated in 1916. He then spent a year as instructor in English at the University of Maine. In the First World War he served as a seaman in the Coast Guard during 1917-18, and was in training as a pilot in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps from May to November, 1918. On August 10, 1918, he was married to Winifred S. Perkins of Hartford, Conn. She died May 21, 1946.
After the war Professor Raven studied at Harvard in 1919, and received the A.M. degree in 1920. From 1919 to 1923 he was Instructor in English at Dartmouth; in 1923 he became Assistant Professor; and in 1937 he was elected Professor of English and awarded an honorary Dartmouth degree of A.M. He was a member of Zeta Psi, the Modern Language Association, the Modern Humanities Research Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, and the American Association of University Professors. His publications included articles in ModernLanguage Notes and the Shakespeare Association Bulletin, and a book, A "Hamlet" Bibliography and Reference Guide, 1877-1935.
During his 36 years of service Professor Raven served on the most important committees of the faculty. He had been, for example, a member of the Committee on Administration, the Committee on Nominations, the Committee on Defense Instruction, the Committee Advisory to the President, the Committee on Conference with the Trustees, and a member of the Faculty Council. During the Second World War he was Director of Naval English and Chairman of the Directors of V-12 Courses. At the time of his death he was a member of the Committee on Educational Policy, of which he had been Chairman until his last illness required him to relinquish the position. Likewise he had served on numerous committees of the Department of English, of which he was Chairman from 1947 to 1949 and from 1949 to 1951. The great number of committee posts for which he was chosen were tokens of the esteem in which he was held by his colleagues. As one of them has said, "His extraordinary memory, his grasp of detail, his ability to see problems in terms of the future as well as of the present, his tact, his determination to be fair and courteous to those who might disagree with him, his powers of persuasion, all these made him invaluable to the College." Conventional though he was in many ways, he was not conservative; and he was always ready to listen to any proposal and afford it thorough and thoughtful consideration.
Professor Raven's benevolence was publicly manifested by his gift to the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, in memory of his beloved wife, of the Winifred S. Raven Convalescent Home. The full list of his private benefactions will never be known, but many an individual can testify to the warmth and generosity of his heart.
To many who knew him but slightly Tony Raven appeared somewhat austere. To be told that this was so always amazed him; but the fact is that he was not easily informal. Once one got to know him, however, he was a delightful companion with a ready sense of humor. Among his intimate friends he had some reputation as a composer of light verse — most frequently inspired by an anniversary or accompanying a gift. He was widely traveled both in this country and in Europe, and his favorite recreational reading was the literature'of mountaineering and exploration, particularly in the Arctic and Antarctic, on which he was something of an authority.
Throughout his career, cut short too soon, Tony Raven was conspicuous for his integrity. In every sense of the word, he was a good man.
GEORGE L. FROST '21
1893
WILLIAM RICE JARVIS died at the Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., on February 6. Several days before, he had fallen and broken his hip and failed to rally after the accident. He and Mrs. Jarvis were spending the winter at the Hotel Continental in Cambridge.
Billy was born in Claremont, N. H., on October 10, 1871, the son of Russell and Lucretia (Rice) Jarvis. He prepared for college at Stevens High School in Claremont. In a report to the class secretary some years ago Billy said, "My undergraduate activities consisted in trying to get such grades as would entitle me to a diploma." Actually classmates remember well some of his activities. Billy lived for four years in Dartmouth Hall, where he once set up a roulette wheel in his room, and invited his friends to try their luck. He promptly lost the money saved for his tuition. The next night he fixed the wheel, won back his tuition and promptly disposed of the wheel. In the freshman cane rush Billy made off with a cane in his pant leg and was spotted by an upper classman, and as a result lost his pants and half the cane. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi, Sphinx and sang in the Glee Club.
Billy worked his way through college by teaching school. After graduation he was for several sessions clerk of the N. H. Senate. He then became connected with the Sullivan Machinery Co. and continued with the company until his retirement in 1945. His. headquarters for many years were in Pittsburgh where he was district manager. He was later at Michigan City, Ind. In 1939 he returned to the Claremont headquarters of the company. Billy was also vice president of the Standard Life Insurance Co.
In reporting his death, Billy's son said, "Father's thought and affection for Dartmouth never waned." While living in Pittsburgh he was active in Dartmouth affairs and was president of the Dartmouth Club of Western Pennsylvania 1920-22. He served as class agent 1923-32, and again from 1946 to his death. He was fond of football and was proud that he could feel that the Dartmouth players had a wonderful record of keeping free of professionalism. He "liked jazz in its place and liked to be in that place once in awhile."
On October 20, 1903, Billy was married to Edith Pollard Ralston of Woburn, Mass., who survives him with their son William R., of Claremont, and two daughters, Mrs. Jewel Bickle of Pittsburgh and Mrs. Margaret Weed of West Roxbury, Mass. His grandson Peter R. Weed is a member of the Class of 1956 at Dartmouth.
1899
LUTHER STEVENS OAKES was born in Jericho, Vt., April 15, 1877. He died suddenly February 25, at Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, of a heart attack from which he seemed to be recovering. His home was at 1905 James Ave., South.
He prepared for Dartmouth at Windsor, Vt., High School; was a member of both class and varsity athletic and football teams: held the Tricollege record in the hammer throw; was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. After graduating in 1899 he completed the Thayer School course in 1900. Later he served thirteen years on the Thayer School Board of Overseers, delivering its 1951 Commencement address. Likewise the New York alumni elected him to serve six years on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, 1934-1939.
His interest in Dartmouth and in his classmates was proverbial and lifelong, whether saying of Duluth Dartmouth men in 1901, "All stand well, and are pushers"; or in 1914, momentarily relaxing beside his enormous derricks to read the "Ninety-Nine Hymnal"; or in 1939 at the Frisco Pow-Wow reuning with Warren Kendall, Bones Woodward, John Ash and the wives of all four.
From the start of his engineering career Luther Oakes was as outstanding in ability to take big responsibility as he was in his 6-foot, 4-inch stature. In 1901 he had full charge of a huge railroad yard job, with maintenance of way for 250 miles. In 1907 he had become assistant engineer in Minneapolis for Winston Brothers construction department, with 350 miles of railroad to build in Montana and Idaho, - mountain grades, 18 tunnels, steel trestles and fourteen million feet of timber to place. In 1915 he had become a partner in Winston Brothers, had completed a three-and-a-half-year contract to divert the waters of the Calumet River from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico.
For the first time Luther Oakes paused. He took to himself a wife, Anna Louise Kurtz of Portland, Ore., tennis player and rose culturist. She survives him; also their daughter, Elizabeth Stevens (Mrs. Dexter Ayres Clarke of Indianapolis) with her three children; and their son, Thomas Edwin Oakes '41 of Minneapolis. The wedding trip which Luther gave his bride was a grand tour of the West, showing her a panoramic view of the vast field of his operations.
By 1921 Oakes was president and general manager of Winston Bros. He developed the great iron deposits in Northern Minnesota; built Diabolo Dam, then the highest in the world; expanded the firm's activities into Canada and South America; wrestled in six different states with the new, confusing government regulations; and finally participated in defense and war projects totaling 500 million dollars.
In 1946 Winston executives honored his 25 years as president by a dinner, with a surprise presentation of a beautifully bound, 182-page book minutely detailing his life history from birth, - its title, A Yankee fromVermont. Three years later the New York Society of tunnel and heavy construction work gave him their Moles Award for outstanding pioneer achievement in railroad, dam, flood control and drainage work throughout North and South America. There were also barracks, loading plants, supply depots, airfields, pipe lines, mining and miscellaneous huge enterprises all over the Northwest. Particularly, the Moles Award stressed the "high ideals which had helped raise contracting to a respected and dignified business."
There were numerous other activities in Oakes's life, such as membership in the Minneapolis Club, Minikahda Club, Masonic Lodge, Rotary, National Panel of American Arbitrators Association, American Society of Civil Engineers (life membership from 1942), president of Northwest Post of Army Ordnance (now American Ordnance), chairman of Consulting Contractors Council.
As a man he was, like Lincoln, "a master of men and a master of himself." There seemed not a single manly quality which he lacked. He was cast in a giant mold, big in every dimension, - body, mind and soul. He had courage, modesty, loyalty to principle, family, friends, and God.
In Lakewood Cemetery Chapel in Minneapolis, on February 28, there was a unique memorial service. It followed, instead of preceding, interment. The service was one of "praise, thanksgiving, affirmation." The minister read The Bridge Builder, a poem which symbolizes the building, as it were, of a bridge that shall enable humanity to cross safely the chasm of existence, "vast and deep and wide." The life of Luther Oakes, like that of the bridge builder, was truly dedicated to helping his fellowmen.
1901
GEORGE LEVERETT HANCOCK, a life-long resident of Franklin, N. H., a member of one of the oldest families, and one time prominent figure in sport circles and industrial life, passed away in his sleep on February 9 at his home, 25 Auburn St.
Ted was born in Franklin, the son of Parker C. and Jennie (Burgess) Hancock, January 8, 1877. He attended the local schools and prepared for college at Dean Academy. Entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1897 with the class of 1901, he soon made a - prominent place for himself in the life of the college. He had played baseball at Dean Academy, and naturally made the class team his freshman year. In the spring he played on the varsity and continued as a valuable member of that team for four years, most of the time playing at first base, and had a batting average of ,44 Ted was known to everybody in college, his stature and physique were commanding, and his personality was warm and friendly. He was voted the most popular man in college and at Commencement was marshal of the class. His fraternity was Sigma Chi, and he was a member of Sphinx.
After graduation he returned to Franklin and started work with the Franklin Needle Co., continuing with that company until his retirement, having served as treasurer and general manager for many years. Ted Hancock was always interested in baseball and as early as his high school days played on the Franklin town team. He was one of the founders of the Mojalaki Country Club and served as a director for some years. He was always interested in young golfers and did much to promote their interest in the game. He was a member of the Franklin Unitarian Church, the Masons, the Shrine, and a charter member of the Franklin Lodge of Elks.
He is survived by his wife Eva Sturtevant Hancock, a sister and a sister-in-law, also several nieces and cousins. Funeral services were held February 12 and interment was in the Franklin Cemetery.
1905
JOHN EDWARD ASHWORTH of Webster, Mass., retired teacher and organist, passed away on January 24 at the age of 76. Born in Bacup, Lancashire, England, he came to the United States when he was 15 years old and entered Dartmouth from Lebanon, N. H., and from Kimball Union Academy. He served as bugler in the Spanish-American War for a New Hampshire volunteer infantry company.
Quiet, reserved and conscientious, John was active in musical organizations during his college years. He sang in the college chapel and in church choirs, was a member of the Orpheus Club, and studied the organ under Professor Morse.
After college he taught for a year at Woodsville, N. H., then at the Seminary at Bucksport, Maine; was principal of Castine, Maine, High School; taught at Bath, Maine, High School; and was high school principal at New Boston, N. H., and Berwick, Maine.
After 1918, he was for 28 years teacher, director of continuation schools, and submaster of the high school in Webster, Mass. Most of the people now living in Webster have at some time sat in at least one of his classes. He was considered an exceptionally dedicated teacher, with enormous influence on the growth of his students and thereby the whole community.
Wherever he taught, he also served as organist in an Episcopal or Baptist Church. During his retirement he continued as organist of the Episcopal Church in Webster, for a brief period.
In 1906 he married Mina Louisa Slayton of Lebanon, N. H. She survives him, as do his daughter Martha - Mrs. William McNay of Cranston, R. I., graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and a member of the Providence Philharmonic and several musical organizations; and his son John E. - a graduate of Harvard, writer, and lecturer at Columbia University. There are three grandchildren: Margaret McNay, John E. Ashworth, and David Ashworth.
WILLIAM ALLEN LUEY, who took his first four months of college at Dartmouth with the Class of '05, and then transferred to Worcester Polytechnical Institute, died December 16 in Darien, Conn., at the age of 71. He was born in Athol, Mass. At Dartmouth he roomed with Fred Harwood.
For eight years, until 1917, he was connected with the Hassam Paving Co., for a time as Pacific manager out of Portland, and finally as Western manager out of Chicago. After a period each in Chicago and Evanston, Ill., and Highland Park, Mich., Luey in 1918 became salesman in New York for Lincoln-Parker Co. of Worcester, Mass., producers of educational motion pictures. However, the war temporarily closed this enterprise. In 1919 he became district engineer in Little Rock, Ark., for the Southern Improvement Co., seeking to salvage waste land in that state.
By 1923, and for ten years thereafter, he was back in Port Washington, N. Y., as Direction of Production for the Worcester Films Corporation. He then went to Washington, D. C., and was a motion picture director with Ace Forest Service. Since 1949 he and his family had resided in Darien.
On August 31, 1906, Luey and Mabel M. Mery were married in Chico, Calif. They did well in educating their children, Laurence, Gloria and Thomas Allen. Gloria graduated at Wellesley, Laurence at and Thomas graduated from Dartmouth in '36. Mrs. Luey and the three children survive, also his brother Charles R., Dartmouth '11.
EDWARD NAPOLEON SIBLEY died suddenly of a heart attack on January 27 at his home, 26 Winter St., Southbridge, Mass. He had just passed his 72nd birthday.
He leaves no relatives. His funeral was well attended by local friends. He was buried in Fitchburg, Mass.
Born on the family farm on the outskirts of Ashburnham, Mass., and graduating from Cushing Academy, Mr. Sibley, with only one lung, was frail and handicapped, but intelligent and always well informed as to current events. He had a sense of humor and a kindliness which made him well liked everywhere. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1905 he taught a year at Cushing, then did clerking and bookkeeping in his native town and interested himself in politics as a Democrat.
In 1913 he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate for a year, to his own surprise, defeating the then President of the Senate, who was a highly respected manufacturer. His opponent was against women's suffrage. Accordingly, Mr. Sibley, only a token candidate, but a bachelor, favored the ladies' cause, and with little or no campaign was elected!
When his year-term expired, he joined a classmate at the American Optical Company, where he served in several clerical capacities and finally as night switchboard supervisor. He remained there thirty years until his retirement in 1954. He was widely known and well liked in Southbridge. He was respected for his integrity and dependability in whatever was his responsibility. Always interested in his classmates and Dartmouth, he had to conserve his strength and so pursued a quiet and regular life, rarely leaving town.
1906
WILLIAM HERBERT MOORE died February 11 after a long illness. Funeral services were held on Monday, February 14, in the Union Congregational Church in Peterborough, N. H.
Herbert was born in Peterborough, March 26, 1882, and after graduation from Dartmouth taught school in Needham, Mass., Woodsville and Rochester, N. H., and was principal of the high school in Weymouth, Mass., for seven years.
He returned to Peterborough in 1917 to carry on the Moore farm, one of the largest in that vicinity, with his brother Henry. He had served as deacon of his church, president of the Hillsborough County Farm Bureau, member of the school board, and had assisted in preparing a history of the town. The local obituary praised him as "one who contributed loyal support to whatever has been for the best interest of the community."
Herbert Moore was a quiet, friendly, unobtrusive man who obviously fulfilled the highest function of an education. He brought discrimination and intelligence to his community and made it a better place in which to live.
The sympathy of the class goes to his widow, Mrs. Effie Prichard Moore, his son, Richard Moore, both of Peterborough, and to his daughter, Mrs. Rachel C. Shaw of Penacook, N. H.
I908
RAYMOND WARREN SHERBURNE died on January 29 in the Lowell General Hospital after an extended illness. The Class of 1908 has lost a loyal classmate and the Town of Tyngsboro, Mass., a devoted public servant.
Ray was born in Tyngsboro, September 4, 1885, the son of the late Warren and Francena (Davis) Sherburne, and was a life-long resident of that town. He prepared for Dartmouth at Tyngsboro High School and was an exceptional student, earning honors in Greek and Latin. After graduation he taught four years at Lowell High School before entering Harvard Law School where he received his law degree in 1916.
He practiced law in Lowell, and in 1932 entered into partnership with Melvin Rogers as Rogers and Sherburne at 45 Merrimack St., which continued until his death.
He was very active in the affairs of his native town, having served as moderator of Tyngsboro since 1916, town counsel for over thirty years, town treasurer for 25 years, and had formerly served as selectman, member of the school committee and trustee of the library. He was a director of the Lowell Institution for Savings, and a trustee of the Horn Home for Aged Couples in Lowell.
Active in Masonry, he was a Past Master of Pentucket Lodge, AF & AM of Lowell, and past high priest of Mt. Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, and past patron of Puritan Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. He was a past master of Tyngsboro Grange No. 222, a past master of Middlesex North Pomona Grange, and a member of the Massachusetts State Grange. His professional affiliations included the Lowell Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Bar Association.
His funeral was held in the Evangelical Congregational Church in Tyngsboro in which Ray had been active all his life. Hundreds of friends and townspeople filled the church to overflowing in tribute to his standing in the community. Dartmouth was represented by George E. Liscomb '07 and four younger members of the Lowell Dartmouth Club, including its president, John E. Leggat '45. The Class of 1908 sent flowers.
Ray is survived by his wife, formerly Ethel Marion Queen, three daughters, Mrs. John Riley of Pepperell, Mrs. Burton Bickford of Cranston, R. I., and Mrs. Richard Cotter of Hyattsville, Md.; a son, Dr. Russell K. Sherburne '43 of Las Cruces, N. M., five granddaughters and seven grandsons. Burial was in Sherburne Cemetery, Tyngsboro, following the Masonic committal ritual.
1909
JOHN CLEAVELAND BEEBE of Rathdrum, Idaho, died on December 13 from a cerebral hemorrhage. He left home about 11 o'clock that morning and was found by a passerby shortly afterwards, slumped over the wheel of his automobile.
"Beeb" was born June 15, 1886, in Hampden, Mass., the son of Samuel D. and Elizabeth (Cleaveland) Beebe. He prepared for college at Westfield High School and attended Massachusetts State College before coming to Dartmouth. He received a B.S. degree from Dartmouth in 1909 and a C.E. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1910.
His engineering work took him over the Mid and Far West for the rest of his life. While in Wyoming in 1922, he was elected to the State Legislature and served a term. He was with the Fred H. Tibbetts Co. and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. until 1929, when he entered the U.S. Forest Service as a resident engineer and then became a senior civil engineer attached to the San Francisco office. In 1939, he went with the Federal Power Commission as a special assistant and remained there until his retirement in 1948. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a registered professional engineer in Idaho.
On January 1, 1914, he was married to Marjorie F. Douglas at Montague, Mass. She survives, as do two sons, John Douglas and Stewart Radmore and a daughter Alberta.
Funeral services were held in Rathdrum on December 17. Another builder has laid down his working tools and 1909 expresses to the widow and children its sympathy in our mutual loss.
NATHANIEL JACOB HOWLAND of 10 Holder Place, Forest Hills, L. I., N. Y., died on February 15 after an illness of several months.
Nat was born in New Bedford, Mass., on November 21, 1886, the son of John J. and Annie (Gray) Howland. He entered Dartmouth from New Bedford High School. In college, he was on the track squad in 1906 and 1907 and was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
He went to Germany in the fall following graduation as special representative of the Remington Typewriter Co., and eventually covered all of Europe except Russia and the lower Balkans. In 1924, after a visit to the States, he returned to Berlin as representative of Studebaker and Chrysler for Scandinavia and Central Europe. In 1935, he returned to New York and became a vice president of W. R. Bull and Co., investment bankers. In 1945, he joined Douglas T. Johnston & Co., Inc. as a vice president in charge of investment counseling.
On September 30, 1911, he married Clara von Westernhagen at Hannover, Germany, who survives, as do a son Thielo G. of Port Washington; twin daughters, Mrs. Sidney Edwards of Forest Hills, concert soprano known professionally as Alice Howland, and Mrs. Thomas D. Flynn of Port Washington; a sister Alice G., wife of Richard L. Wing '09, and several grandchildren.
1910
OTIS THOMPSON CRAFTS died February 21 at his home 754 Chestnut St., Manchester, N. H. He had been in poor health for several months.
Ote was born in Georgetown, Mass., August 28, 1885. son of Charles G. and Sarah (Kimball) Crafts. At an early age the family moved to Manchester where Ote's father started the business of manufacturing heels.
He prepared at Manchester High School and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He returned to his home city after graduation from Dartmouth and entered his father's business. When his father died about twenty years ago, Ote became owner and president of the firm, New Hampshire Heel Co. Ote was a past member of the Manchester Rotary Club. He attended the First Congregational Church.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Una Crafts; two daughters, Mrs. Thomas H. Gross of Wellesley Hills, Mass., and Miss Mary Crafts of New York City; two sisters, Mrs. Robert Disque of Swarthmore, Pa., and Miss Helen Crafts of New York City; and two grandchildren. His son J. Mado Crafts '41 was killed in action in France, August 10, 1944-
JAMES FRAME died in Clayton, Ga., July 6, 1954. No word had been received from Jimmy in recent years and news of his passing reached us as result of a class communication sent out in recent months.
Jimmy Frame was born in Newport, R. I., June 8, 1888, the son of Robert Frame '82. He prepared for college at Worcester Acad- emy. He left Dartmouth in 1909 and later was a student at Colorado School of Mines. He was located in New England for a time and went to the Continent and Great Britain to study mining conditions. He specialized as a concrete engineer and in 1949 became a member of the firm of Geo. D. Newton Engineers in Atlanta, Ga.
Jimmy was married July 6, 1912, in New York City to May Eder. She died in 1921. His second marriage was to Edyth Reynolds. The widow and two sons, Robert 2nd and James A., survive him.
KILLIAN VAN RENSSELAER NICOL died on February 5 in Evanston Hospital. Funeral services were held in St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Evanston. His home was at 2531 Asbury Ave.
Killy Nicol was born in Chicago, January 19, 1886. He came to Dartmouth from Oak Park High School and remained with our class for two years. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. Returning to Chicago in 1908 he entered the grain business and within a short period was in the Wheat Pit. Later he became associated with the stock brokerage firm of Scott, Burrows & Christie. At the time of his death, Killy was associated with the commodities department of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane.
Killy was married in Evanston in 1912 to Elaine Hunter, sister of Harry Hunter '10. The survivors are the widow and one son, Hunter Van Rensselaer, a daughter, Mrs. Walter E. Haug, and a sister.
1918
RAYMOND LATHROP BARRETT died at his home, 48 Maplewood St., Longmeadow, Mass., on December 10.
Ray was born in Millerton, N. Y., June 21, 1894, the son of E. Lathrop and Alice (Clark) Barrett. He prepared for college at Millerton High School. After graduating with our class he took his second year in medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School and received his M.D. from Columbia in 1921. After interning at Brooklyn Hospital he began the practice of medicine in Springfield, Mass., where he continued until his death.
A specialist in gastro-enterology, Ray was attending physician at Springfield Hospital and consultant at the Springfield Health Department Hospital and at Cooley-Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. A Fellow of the American College of Physicians he was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and various local societies. A member of Faith Congregational Church, Ray also held membership in the Kiwanis Club, Realty Club Masons, Osier Club, and Springfield Musical Club. He had done graduate work at Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and University of Minnesota.
During World War I, Ray served in the S.A.T.C. at Dartmouth. On October 5, 1942, he enlisted in the Army Medical Corps. He was stationed at Camp Miles Standish where he was chief of medical service until his discharge as a lieutenant colonel on December 23, 1945.
In his busy life Ray always found time tor Dartmouth. He was active in the Dartmouth Club of Springfield and twice served as its president.
On August 16, 1922, Ray was married to Sybil Jesseman of Lisbon, N. H., who survives him with their sons Raymond L. Jr. '46 and Alan H„ who graduated from Purdue in 1950.
1920
WALTER CHADBOURNE MOORE, known to all the class as Buster, died very suddenly at the home of his son on February 9. He and his wife were watching television, and in the brief moment that Helen was absent from the room her husband succumbed to a coronary thrombosis. He was 58 years old. His home was at 36 Leighton Road, Wellesley, Mass.
The son of Walter Byron and Helen (Brown) Moore, Bus grew up in Lynn, Mass., and came to Dartmouth after graduation from Huntington School in Boston. His own military service and the death of his father both occurred during his undergraduate years, so that he did not complete the work for a degree at Hanover. He joined Kappa Sigma fraternity, made good friends on the campus, and was active in Dartmouth affairs in later years. At one time he served as secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Wellesley.
Early in his business career' Bus was associated with Roc Elliott in the William Whitman Co. Later he switched to the field of illuminating engineering and at the time of his death had been connected with the Litecontrol Corporation of Watertown, Mass., for sixteen years. He held the position of assistant sales manager for the last five years and was a member of the Illuminating Engineers Society.
Buster married Helen Shelton in 1925 and enjoyed the happiest kind of family life there in Wellesley, where the' Moores lived for 28 years. Their son Robert Shelton Moore, a graduate of Babson Institute, lives in nearby Framingham Centre, where he is assistant treasurer of the Boston-Worcester-New York Street Railway. Karen Louise Moore, 14 months old, is the only grandchild.
Bus Moore reported last year: "Bunny (Helen) and I spend many weekends and a good part of the summer at Bourne on Cape Cod where we have a small place near Phinney's Harbor. Hobbies are fishing, sailing, and color photography." Bunny will always think of him as a devoted husband and father. Funeral services were held at Newton Cemetery Chapel and burial took place at Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, on February 14.
1924
CLAUDE ANDREW J AGGER, known while he was in college as Jim, died on March 1, in Honolulu, from what he told the police who found him was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was born April 30, 1902, in Palmyra, N. Y. No reason for the suicide is given in either The New York Times story, or in the Honolulu Advertiser, other than to quote his statement that he "felt my life was spent."
He is survived by Mrs. Jagger, the former Persis Kohler, of Providence, R. I., whom he married in 1927, and a son, Jeremy, who is a cadet at the Naval Air School, Pensacola. His first child, Joan, died in Honolulu October, 1953, when she fell from the sixth floor of an office building, following an illness. Jim's home was at 4485 Aukai St., Honolulu.
Jim joined the class in 1921 after a year at Cornell. He was a member of Alpha Chi Rho and Cabin and Trail. He attended Columbia School of Journalism 1923-24.
Jim's early training was as city editor of the Providence Evening Bulletin, and then with the Associated Press, as news writer and financial editor; he also contributed articles on the World Economic Conference, 1933. He went to Hawaii in 1947 to join the Economic Foundation as its president. This was an organization, formed by local business men, to foster Hawaii's position in the development of the Pacific area after the war. He bought its assets in 1950 when the Foundation was dissolved. He then formed a management consultation service under the title Hawaiian Economic Service.
Before coming to Hawaii, Jim left the Associated Press as assistant general manager in charge of personnel and promotion, to become associate director of the American Press Institute, at Columbia University. He was president of the Columbia Journalism Alumni Association, 1934, and president of the New York Financial Writers Association, 1942.
We extend our sympathy to his widow and son.
The widow of CHARLES BAYARD ROBERTS, the former Jessie Foley, whom he married in October 1927, tells us of his death on February 20.
Charles Roberts was born April 23, 1902, in Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and graduated from the local High School where his father had been a school principal. He was with the Class until midyears, 1922, and then continued his education at Lehigh.
His first work, in 1925, was with the New York Title & Mortgage Co., when he was living in Mt. Vernon. In 1927, he was an insurance underwriter and married in October. Their only child, Charles Bayard Jr., was born on June 21, 1928. In 1929, Charlie moved to Providence to work for the Texas Co. in their Terminal Division, but returned to Mt. Vernon in 1931, where he remained until his recent death. After briefly working for the Hoover Co., he joined the Ward Electric Co., in Mt. Vernon, makers of electric controls.
The Class expresses its sympathy to his widow and son, and to Theta Chi, of which he was a member.
1926
FRANKLYN KINGSLAND OAKES died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage at his home, 224 Midland Ave., East Orange, N. J., on February 4. He would have celebrated his 51st birthday on February 13. His death came as a great shock to his family and friends as he had apparently been in good health up to the day he passed away.
Frank was born in Bloomfield, N. J., on February 13, 1904, the son of the late Frank V. and Lucretia (Weed) Oakes. He prepared for college at Montclair and Deerfield academies. At Dartmouth, he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Alpha Chi Sigma.
After graduation, Frank worked with several brokerage offices in Wall Street. During the late '30s, he operated a commercial fishing boat from Belmar, N. J., and during World War II served as a Spanish translator with the U. S. Department of Censorship. Following the war, he joined the staff of Brentano's, Inc., booksellers, of New York City as order manager. At the time of his death, he was employed as an administrative assistant with the communications and publications division of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.
Frank married Marion Brentano in 1927. She and two sons, Kingsland Oakes '50 of Long Branch, N. J., and Arthur B. Oakes, at home, survive. Funeral services were held February 8 at The Colonial Home, East Orange, and interment was at the family plot, Bloomfield Cemetery.
1931
LAURI EDWARD MYLLYKANGAS died of a heart attack as he was leaving his work at the Norton Company in Worcester, Mass., on December 23. He had just picked up the turkey traditionally presented by the Norton Co. to each employee at Christmas time, when he collapsed.
Larry was born in Fitchburg, Mass., August 8, 1909, and came to Dartmouth from Fitchburg High School where he had been a four-letter man and captain of the 1925 basketball team which won the national championship. He was considered one of Fitchburg's most famous athletes.
At Dartmouth Larry continued to make athletic history, playing both varsity basketball and as a star pitcher on the baseball team. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Green Key, Kappa Phi Kappa and Sphinx.
After graduation Larry pitched for five years with Montreal in the International League and also for Indianapolis in the American Association. In 1939 he gave up professional baseball and joined the Norton Co., first as supervisor in the Small Wheel Finishing Dept. and later as assistant standard supervisor. He had coached the Norton Co. baseball team and was a former president of the Norco Club, a Norton Co. organization for supervisory personnel.
On May 12, 1934, Larry was married to Mildred Farquhar in Montreal, who survives him with their son Ronald, a Little League pitcher of promise. Larry's home was at 110 Boutelle St., Leominster, Mass.
We are sure that Red Rolfe's expression of deep sorrow on learning of Larry's death is shared by the entire class.
1947
Word has only recently been received of the death of RICHARD LEE CANTWELL in a plane crash in Milwaukee Harbor, off Maitland, on October 12, 1954.
He was born in Shawano, Wis., June 21, 1925, the son of Dr. Roger Clifton and Cora Lee (Ayre) Cantwell. Dick entered Dartmouth in July, 1943, from Shawano High School. On December 18, 1943, he was inducted into the Army and served as a medical technician with the 223rd Hospital Ship Complement in the European, African, Middle Eastern and Asiatic Pacific theatres. He was discharged on April 23, 1946.
Dick's home was at 421 South Weed St., Shawano. He is survived by his parents and by his brother Roger C. Cantwell Jr. '45.
ANTON ADOLPH RAVEN
WILLIAM RICE JARVIS '93
LUTHER STEVENS OAKES '99
