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.]

Eldred, Byron E. '96, May 26 Crowley, Henry D. '98, June 10 Newton, Arthur L. '00, May 21 Hosford, Clarence K. '02, June 12 Luce, Barnard C. '02, May 31 Sewall, Arthur E. '04, June 12 Chase, Millard F. '04, March 27 Webster, Merton W. '06, May 28 McLam, Clarence J. '10, May 5 Young, George Jr. '14, June 13 Pratt, George H. '16, April 21 Bishop, Charles A. '18, May 23 Hurley, Raymond J. '18, May 28 Moore, Robert H. '20, May 18 Brooks, Karl '22, February 10 Muhlenberg, Hiester H. '22, February 2 Beveridge, Wendell H. '23, March 14 Dempsey, John E. '23, June 15 Dixson, Ira '23, May 16 Blanchfield, Walter W. '24, June 1 Olendorf, James W. '27, December 5, 1955 Paulson, Alan R. '30, May 24 Johnson, Philip A. '37, May 23 Low, David S. '41, May 27 McQuade, John S. Jr. '51, August 11, 1955 Glover, John C. '55, June 6 Rowe, Walter C. '99 m, May 14

1888

FORREST LINCOLN KEAY, Rochester, N. H.'s oldest physician, died at his home, 36 Wakefield St., on April 27.

Born in Lynn, Mass., April 1, 1865, Dr. Keay was educated in the Lynn schools. After graduating with his Dartmouth Class of 1888, where he was a member of Psi Upsilon, he then received his M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School in 1894. In college Cully became a noted athlete, playing second base on the baseball team, and captaining the 1887 championship team. He also starred in track. After graduation he played professional ball in the Atlantic League to pay for his medical education. Dr. Keay later became one of New Hampshire's leading golfers, and served as president of the New Hampshire Golf Association.

Starting his practice in Rochester, Dr. Keay continued active in his profession there until six years ago. In 1903 he assumed the position of city overseer of the poor and served in that capacity until his death. His painstaking ability was appreciated deeply by the nine governors of New Hampshire under whom he served. He also served for over fifty years as medical referee for Strafford County. Active in Masonic circles, he was also a member of the Banner Grange of East Rochester.

On June 20, 1895, Dr. Keay was married to Lillian M. Quimby who died on November 12, 1944. He leaves no relatives.

1896

BYRON E. ELDRED died in a nursing home in Torrington, Conn., on May 26. His home was in Lime Rock, Conn.

He was born in Jackson, Mich., February 12, 1873, the son of Zenas C. and Helen (Carter) Eldred. After spending two years with the Class of 1896 he left college, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, to begin his remarkable work in inventions and industrial developments. His work became so outstanding that in 1903 the College gave him his B.S. degree "as with the Class of 1896" and in 1916 conferred the honorary Sc.D. degree upon him.

Dr. Eldred devoted his entire career to independent research and became known as "one of the few remaining scientists engaged in independent research of the type done by Thomas A. Edison." His early work was in the combustion field, where he developed a method for regulating and controlling the duration of combustion, or the temperature and volume of flame. The saving in fuel by this method was phenomenal. He developed a new method of casting metals through the use of latent heat, which he sold to the American Smelting and Refining Co. Another of his developments was an explosive called nitrobyronel which in World War I was hailed as the most remarkable explosive yet devised by American science. He later invented an instrument for curing deafness called the "auditor" which met with considerable success in Great Britain. Among the many com- mercial processes of which Dr. Eldred was the inventor were a substitute for platinum used in the manufacture of electric lamps; an optical light slit used in sound recording for motion pictures and a "talking book" microphotographic record of sound. During World War I the Eldred Laboratory produced the basic material for the manufacture of novocaine, which had previously been produced only in Germany.

Over 100 patents were issued to Dr. Eldred. He lectured at universities and addressed scientific bodies in this country, Europe, Japan and China. He had served as president of the Engineers Club of New York. He was a member of the National Research Council in 1931 and 1932 and in 1928 was the U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo. He had received the John Scott legacy and medal from the City of Philadelphia and the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal from the Franklin Institute, and was the recipient of many diplomas and citations for his outstanding achievements.

Dr. Eldred was married on November 4, 1896 to Mildred Carter of Hanover, from whom he was divorced in 1911. Mary Victoria Lawson, whom he married in 1911, died in 1930. In 1931 he married Mrs. Gurli Nordon Hawthorn who survives him. He is also survived by a daughter by his first marriage, Mrs. Francis Stabler.

It was Dr. Eldred who presented to the College the bust of Craven Laycock. It has become an undergraduate tradition that rubbing the nose of this bust brings good luck in examinations.

1898

WALTER SYDNEY ADAMS died at his home, 873 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena, Calif., on May 11. He was born December 20, 1876, in Antioch, North Syria, the son of Lucian H. Adams '58 and Nancy Francis Adams, American missionaries in the Near East. In the family were an older brother, Edward F. '95, and a sister, Helen A. "Pete," as Walter was known by his classmates, prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy and at Phillips Andover. Following the receipt of his A.B. degree from Dartmouth in 1898 he obtained an M.A. degree at the University of Chicago in 1900. In 1913 Dartmouth gave him the Doctor of Science degree, as did Columbia in 1916, Southern California in 1929, Chicago University in 1945 and Princeton in 1947. From Pomona College in 1926 came the degree of Doctor of Laws.

Pete's wife, Lillian M. Wickham, of Pasadena, Calif., whom he married in 1910, died in 1920; and in 1922 he married Adeline L. Miller of Pomona, Calif., who survives him. Two sons were born to them, Edmund M. and John F.; both graduated from Princetoil, served in the armed services in World War II and are professionally active in Pasadena today.

Following his graduation from Dartmouth, where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Sphinx and Phi Beta Kappa, and where he acquired honorable mention in Greek, Latin and Mathematics, and took the First Thayer Mathematical Prize and First Prize Scholarships in the College, Pete's professional life was divided into two parts, the first in study and teaching in his chosen field of astronomy at the University of Chicago and the second in increasingly important duties at the Mt. Wilson Observatory of Carnegie Institution at Pasadena. In 1946 he retired from this institution but kept at work in the astronomical field for the remainder of his life.

During the active years of his life as an astronomer Pete served as assistant and instructor at the Yerkes Observatory of Chicago University under another Dartmouth astronomer, Edwin B. Frost '86 from 1901 to 1904, when he started his main life work with the Mt. Wilson Observatory, first as assistant astronomer, 1904-1909, then acting director, assistant director until 1923, becoming director until his retirement in 1946. During these years he assisted in the setting up of Mt. Wilson Observatory and helped install the 200-inch reflecting telescope at Mt. Palomar. His spectroscopic observations gave him reason to doubt that life in such form as that existing on this earth could exist on either Mars or Venus. Observations on a companion star to Sirius have been credited with proof of the Einstein Theory of Relativity.

Evidence of our classmate's outstanding work in the astronomical field is shown by the long list of his memberships in scientific societies, among which were the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Astronomical Society (President), Royal Astronomical Society, Society Astronomique de France, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and International Astronomical Union.

To this inadequate formal statement the writer would like to add two items concerning our classmate, which stand out in his memory among many others. The first was the indisputable fact that none of his classmates could even hope to compete with Pete Adams during our four years in college in brains, grades or honors and none ever begrudged him his overwhelming success. The second item is the mental picture of a group of '98 men and women at the time of one of our later reunions in Hanover, seated outdoors near Russell Sage Hall, listening to Pete, at the request of one of the group, as he gave us in simple words and manner an "explanation" of Einstein's Theory of Relativity so well that for a time we felt we understood it. How few men could even have attempted such a feat! None could have accepted such a request more kindly nor have answered it more simply and unassumingly as if it were an everyday affair.

HENRY DENIS CROWLEY died on June 10, at 127 Lincoln Ave., Clearwater, Fla., where he and his wife have been living for the past few years. He was born in Millers Falls, Mass., July 5, 1876, the son of William and Agnes Crowley. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Orange High School, Orange, Mass. In college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. His outstanding extracurricular activities were with the track team, of which he was manager in his senior year and a successful quartermiler throughout. He was president of the New England Intercollegiate Athletic Association. 1898-1899.

Following graduation he studied law at Boston University, receiving the degree of LL.B. cum laude in 1900, and immediately afterward was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. He devoted himself to the practice of law in Boston until 1918. During the first World War he held several positions, in the Legal Advisory Board, the Selective Service Board and the Ordnance Department. Following the war he held important posts in several commercial concerns in Ohio, New York and Massachusetts, finally entering the Internal Revenue Department in Boston, working in three different divisions, serving in the last until his retirement in 1947 as Chief, Employment Tax Division. For about ten years he was active in the Massachusetts Militia, resigning from that service in 1915 with the rank of Captain and Adjutant.

Henry was our class agent for a year in 1941 and our diligent class secretary from 1945 to 1953. It was under his secretaryship that we held our 50th and 55th reunions which involved a deal of preparation and solid work, an important part of which is still in our hands as the History of the Members of theClass of 1898, compiled by him from the "excellent work" of Ike Seelman in obtaining the data.

Some years ago Henry and Betty went south to make their headquarters in Clearwater, Fla., and after a short interval they made Florida their year-round home. It was your secretary's privilege to see'them fairly often through the last few winters. Whenever we got together Henry was happy in hearing news of any member of our class. He could tell me much more about any member I might mention, his family, his work, his health and all kinds of data that he had acquired and retained in his memory. Somehow I felt, as we talked about '98 folks, as if I were listening to a father speaking of his own children, so real and detailed was his very genuine interest in us all. I always profited by such visits, receiving new stimulus in the secretary's job.

It almost seemed to me that, having no children of his own, he made us all members of his family. Certainly in losing Henry Crowley, '98 loses one of its most devoted friends and supporters. We can by that same measure feel a very deep sympathy for his wife and close companion, Betty, to whom his loss means so much.

F. P. L.

1900

ARTHUR LEE NEWTON died on May 21 at the Phelps Memorial Hospital (North Tarrytown, N. Y.) to which he had been taken only a few days before from the nearby Brandywine Convalescent Home where he had been a patient. He had not been in good health for about two years.

He was born in Woodstock, Vt., June 24, 1876. He entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1900 from the Randolph (Vt.) High School along with three others from Randolph Horace Moulton, William Moulton and Fred Smith. In college he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Starting with the advent of the motor car, for more than fifty years he was in the retail automobile business in New York City. He was one of the four men who organized the Glidden-Buick Corporation of which he became president in 1936. When he retired in 1950 he was credited with having sold more automobiles than any other person in the country. In 1939 a dinner was tendered to him to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his connection with the sale of cars. In 1947 he received a distinguished service citation from the Automobile Old Timers Club in which he held a life membership card No. 1 and he had been president of the national association bearing the same name. A few years ago it was reported that he had driven over 2,000,000 miles without an accident.

Arthur's career in sport was notable. At 16 years of age he won the national interscholastic one-mile run and the tennis championship of Vermont. He was a member of the United States Olympic team which, in 1900, competed in Paris, where he ran in the marathon, the winner of which was in dispute because of certain claimed irregularities along the course. It has been maintained, however, that Newton took the lead at midway and was never passed. At the Olympic Games at St. Louis in 1904, he was third in the 2,500 meter, third in the marathon and one of a five-man team that raced over a four-mile course, in which race he finished first by 400 yards. During his eight years of competition in track athletics he won 97 important races.

Arthur's devotion to the Class of 1900 and, as an alumnus, to Dartmouth College was consistently demonstrated in many ways.

Funeral services were held at the George Davis Funeral Home in New Rochelle on Thursday, May 24. Representing 1900, Len Tuttle and George Tong were present. Burial was in the Kensico Cemetery.

Surviving Arthur are his wife, Frieda, and their daughter, Elaine; also a son, Arthur V., by his first wife who died in 1933: '

1901

JOHN GILBERT ANDREWS, a most devoted, loyal and active member of this class, passed away on March 30. He had spent the winter in Florida but was not well, and lived only a few days after his return home.

A native of Chelsea, Mass., Jack was born February 23, 1879, the son of David H. Andrews '69 and Clara Gilbert. A fine student, a member of Psi Upsilon, T.N.E., and Sphinx, he graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank, and in 1902 received his C.E. degree from Thayer School. Immediately after graduation he went to work at the Boston Bridge Works which was founded by his father. Holding responsible positions with the company, he became president following the death of his father. He continued in that capacity until 1937, and later was associated with other engineering concerns. He retired a few years ago.

On October 20, 1904 Jack married Edith Eddy and they have made their home at 76 Laurel Drive, Needham, Mass., for some years. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Mis. Janet Porter of Alcoa, Tenn., two sons, John G. Jr. '27, of Springfield, Mass., and Charles D., of Wenham, Mass. The funeral services were, held at the Newton Cemetery Chapel and the Class was represented by Channing Cox, Richard Ward, Henry Taylor, Arthur Sampson, and Everett Stevens.

The following prayer so well expressed our feelings about Jack that we requested the privilege of printing it: "We come in this hour of need to know thy blessing and to praise thee for one whose spirit we honor and cherish. We thank thee for his unbounding zest for life and its opportunities, for his constant search and finding of new interests, for his laughter that cheered the heart and for his friendships that were given with generosity. We praise thee our Father for his love of his family and his pride in them, for his concern for thy church, and the sustaining promise of his faith. We thank thee for the honesty with which he lived and spoke and the obvious joy he knew and shared in living. For his eagerness to explore and his satisfaction in finding each day a new world in which to claim some fresh achievement, we thank thee.

"Our Father, as we come in this hour to honor one whose spirit lives to bless us still, we seek the quiet peace of thy presence that in our sorrow at parting, thy comforting presence will abide with us in days to come."

1903

DANIEL ANDREW HAUSMANN, former Albany district superintendent for the State Labor Department, died on January 23 at his home, 14 Roosevelt St., Albany, N. Y. Dan had been with the state 42 years when he retired March 3. 1950.

In college he was on the class and varsity football squads, and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Dragon. He was captain of Albany High School's championship football team. He was a member of a widely known Albany family, the son of Frederick N. Hausmann. He was active as a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church and served on the parish council and was a charter member of the Young Men's Club.

Surviving are his wife, the former Frances Ruedemann; a son Daniel R.; two daughters, Mrs. Charles C. Pace Jr. of Albany and Mrs. Leonard G. McNeil of Miami, and six grandchildren.

1908

The grim reaper has taken another member of the Class of 1908 in the passing of EDWARD Dow STORRS of Concord, N. H., on March 27.

Ed was not well known to many members of the class as he was with us only a short time during freshman year, leaving because of eye trouble.

He was born February 20, 1886, in Concord, and spent most of his active life there. His early engineering experience was with the American Bridge Company at Elmira, N. Y., after which he joined his father in the firm of Storrs and Storrs, consulting bridge engineers for many towns in New Hampshire. He also had an interest in the Ford Foundry Company, manufacturers of Dartmouth ranges, stoves, and sinks.

He was a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers for many years.

In May 1909 he married Ethel Mae Foster of Concord, who survives him.

1910

When the College sent information blanks to the alumni asking for information to be used in the '55 edition of the Alumni Directory, this brought to us the information that GUY ADAMS COBURN had passed away March 24, 1954 in Albuquerque, N. M.

Guy was born in East Jaffrey, N. H., March 19, 1887, the son of Edward A. and Eva (Hanscomb) Coburn. Preparing for Dartmouth at Clark College, he joined our class in sophomore year.

Early class reports show that Guy first became associated as a field engineer, with Lockwood, Greene & Co. at Lawrence, Mass. Later he was sales engineer with B. F. Sturtevant Co. at Hyde Park, Mass., and C. H. Davidson Equipment Co., Denver. In 1928 he became air engineer with Fuller, Lehigh Co., Fullerton, Ohio. In 1931 he joined the Babcock & Wilcox Co. in the New York territory and lived in Brooklyn. Because of failing health he moved to New Mexico about two years before his death.

Survivors are his widow, Vera Dorman Coburn, whom he married January 31, 1916, in Chicago, and his son Guy A. Jr.

CLARENCE JAMES MCLAM passed away on May 5 at Brightlook Hospital, Ryegate, Vt., after a confinement of about three weeks. He had not been in good health since a surgical operation at Hanover in October, 1954. Funeral services were held May 8 in the United Presbyterian Church.

Clarence was born September 26, 1881, in Ryegate, son of John A. and Martha (Dickson) McLam. After attending the public schools of Ryegate, he enrolled in Phillips Andover Academy from which he was graduated in 1904. He entered Dartmouth in the Class of 1908 but his course was interrupted and he was graduated in 1910. He taught school in Winchester, N. H., and in South Ryegate and Waitsfield, Vt. Later he became a railway mail clerk. In 1921 when his father's health failed, Clarence returned to his home town to help carry on the family mercantile business. Following his father's death in May 1921, Clarence took over the business. He was elected Town Clerk, succeeding his father in that post. Clarence continued in the office until his own death. The office of Town Clerk had been in the McLam family for 61 years, 34 of which were served by Clarence. His record is that of a public-spirited and infiuential citizen. He served in the State Legislature in 1947. He was a faithful member of the Ryegate United Presbyterian Church.

Clarence and Mrs. Charlotte Wheeler Crowe of South Ryegate were married March 24, 1932. Survivors are the widow, his stepdaughter, Marion Crowe, his stepson, William Crowe, two sisters and a brother.

1914

ELWOOD ALEXANDER BALLOU died in Providence, R. 1., on April 23. He was born in Blackstone, Mass., December 3, 1892, the son of Rollin E. and Mosetta (Brown) Ballou. His home was in Woonsocket for several years and he entered Dartmouth after graduation from the Woonsocket High School in 1910. He stayed with us for only one year. He later moved to Providence and engaged in civil engineering.

He is survived by two sisters, the Misses Marion A. and Anna S. Ballou. Services were held at his late residence, 72 Larch Street, Providence, and burial was in the Union Cemetery in that city.

1920

REUEL GEORGE PHILLIPS, one of the active and popular members of 1920, died in Spokane, Wash., on March 28, after a lingering illness. He was 58 years old. Born in Virginia City, Illinois, the son of George A. and Jessie (Crum) Phillips, Reuel moved to Spokane at an early age, graduated from Lewis and Clark High School there, and in 1924 married a Spokane girl, Helen Porter, who survives him. There are three surviving children, Ruel Jr. (now Frater M. Paschtal of the Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Lafayette, Oregon), Richard, and Ann, and three grandchildren.

At Dartmouth Reuel had a busy career, serving as manager of the basketball team, class representative in the College Club, and vicepresident of 1920 during his junior year. He was a member of Kappa Sigma and Casque and Gauntlet.

At the time of his death Ruel was vice-president of Porter Brothers Company in Spokane. During the late twenties he had been partowner of the Palace Department Store, in which he acquired a controlling block of stock from associates of his late father. During the Second World War he was with Consolidated Vultee Aircraft in San Diego, serving as assistant to the Purchasing Director in the Procurement Department. Later he lived briefly in Donners Ferry, Idaho, where he owned the Casey Motor Co.

Ruel was a member of Spokane Elks Lodge, the Spokane Club, and the Spokane Country Club. The family residence remains at 828 Cliff Drive in Spokane.

HOWARD FERGUSON PHINNEY, whose single year on the Hanover Plain was followed by two years of service in the United States Army, died suddenly of a heart attack on March 9 at his retirement home in Tenants Harbor, Maine. Howard came to Dartmouth from Stoughton, Mass., where he was born November 14, 1895. He prepared for college at the DeMeritte School.

Through most of his life Howard was a Bay Stater. He worked in the twenties for the Warren (Mass.) Steam Pump Company, close to his boyhood home in Stoughton. And after his marriage in 1934 to Florence Pomela Ford, in New York, it was in Stoughton that the Phinneys set up housekeeping. A note from his widow tells something about the last years of Howard's life:

"In 1945 we purchased a home in Tenants Harbor and moved here that year. Howard's chief hobbies were drawing, sketching, sign painting and light carpenter work—bird houses, feeders, sign work on boats, and things like that. He became interested in the KinneyMelquist Post 34, American Legion, of Tenants Harbor and was very active in its support. The post is now constructing a bronze plaque and eagle in his memory."

Funeral services for Howard were held in Thomaston, Maine, and burial took place in Tenants Harbor.

DONALD AUSTIN ROGERS died suddenly in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, on April 20, at the age of 58. He had been residing at the Princeton Club in Philadelphia, but had only recently moved there from Moorestown, N. J., which he called home for almost the full span of his life.

Don came to Dartmouth from Moorestown, a graduate of William Penn Charter School. In the one year that he was able to spend in Hanover, he played freshman football and baseball, as well as varsity soccer, won scholastic honors, and joined Alpha Delta Phi. Then he enlisted for World War I and put in two years with the U. S. Army. Later recalling that fall of 1916, he said: "I still boast that I was able with a crippled and trussed-up knee to make an undefeated freshman team that included eleven better backs than I was. Of course I was only a sub; I was playing in fast company!"

Over the years Don reported his business ups and downs with candor and courage. He was an industrial real estate broker at the time of his death and had served at various times with considerable success as a building contractor. He took pride in his family and friends and was greatly grieved by the loss of his wife in 1948. Born Esther Jones, she and Don were married in Philadelphia in 1922. Their two daughters, Esther Joan (Mrs. John McKeone) and Constance Emily, survive.

Don served two years as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Philadelphia, having previously been its treasurer.

1922

KARL BROOKS passed away at his home, 33 Park Ave., Petaluma, Calif., on February 10. He was born in Pocatello, Idaho, on April 23, 1899.

Karl prepared for college at Boise High School and after graduating from Dartmouth attended Stanford Law School where he received his degree in 1926. He is survived by his wife, the former Geneva E. Thompson, whom he married April 14, 1935, in Hicks Valley, Calif., their son, Charles Woodley, who is attending San Jose State College; and their son, Davis,'who is a junior in Petaluma High School.

After practicing law a few years in San Francisco, Karl moved to Petaluma in 1930 where he continued his private practice while serving as City Attorney since his appointment to that office in 1934. He was recognized as an expert in the field of municipal law.

Karl held membership in Phi Delta Theta, Masons, Knights Templars, Knights of Pythias, Elks, Rotary Club, American Legion and American Bar Association. He had served as president of the Petaluma Chamber of Commerce, of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Sonoma County and of the City Attorneys Section of the League of California Cities.

1923

IRA MILBURN DIXSON passed away on May 16, at the Veterans Hospital in Denver, after a two-year illness. We all will recall " Hooper Dooper" working in Scotty's restaurant during his four years in Hanover. He worked his way through Harvard Medical School, graduating with the Class of 1928. After a surgical service in Hanover of thirteen months he joined the Lahey Clinic and then went on a two-year Harvard zoological expedition to the South Seas and Australia as medical officer.

In the late Thirties Ira married Elizabeth Barber, and he is survived by his wife, and daughter Mary. Ira practiced for a while in Stockbridge, Mass. Early in World War II he became Chief of Medical Services at the U. S. Air Force Hospital, first in Kansas and later in Colorado, with the rank of Lt. Colonel.

Since the war Ira became a member of a Denver medical clinic, devoted himself to practice, and taught at the University of Colorado Medical School. He took a very active part in the Denver Association of the Harvard Medical School Alumni.

STANLEY FIREMAN UNGAR, obstetrician and gynecologist, died of a heart attack in his home, 365 West End Avenue, New York City, on April 19.

Born in New York, Stan graduated from New York University—Bellevue Medical School in 1927, and studied in Vienna. He was assistant obstetrician at Knickerbocker Hospital. He practiced in New York City since his graduation except in the war years of 1942-194.6 when he served as a colonel and flight surgeon with the Ninth Air Force in England and France, winning the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters and two Purple Hearts.

Stan was very proud of his membership in the Admirals' Club and, as might be suspected, was a member of many medical associations such as the Aero Medical Association, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and the American Medical Association.

Surviving are his wife Mildred, a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Petterson, and a grandchild.

1924

WALTER WALL BLANCHFIELD left Dartmouth to prepare himself to be a teacher, but he stayed with us long enough for many of us to remember him well and to feel a. personal sense of loss at his untimely death due to complications following an operation. He died on June 1 at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital. We send his family—Helen and Garrett '58 our deep sympathy.

Walt left Dartmouth to attend the Massachusetts State Normal School, at Bridgewater, 1922-23. He taught Latin and History in the Medford High School, 1923-24, and met his wife, the former Helen Sullivan, who graduated from Boston Teachers College. They were married on August 26, 1927, and had one son, Garrett, who is a student at Dartmouth.

A shift from teaching to advertising is not as uncommon as it might appear, and this is another case of very great success in the shift. Walt was an advertising salesman for several firms before he found his final niche: New England Tel. & Tel., Curtis, Martin Newspapers, Druggists Advertising Assn., Payne, and finally Conde Nast in 1930. From February 1, 1949 Walt was New England Manager of This Week, the magazine supplement to many Sunday newspapers, including The BostonHerald, with which Walt also served briefly. He was well known in Boston advertising circles, and was a member of the Advertising Club and the Lantern Club. In college he was a brother in Beta Theta Pi. While teaching, he was a member of Kappa Delta Phi.

We all regret that another outstanding member of the Class of 1924 has left us. His was both a varied and very successful career; Walt will be missed wherever he served, in business and in the community, and with us.

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Word has been received of the death of ALAN RAND PAULSON in Minneapolis on May 24.

Al came to Dartmouth from West High School in Minneapolis. He did not stay with us for the four years, but entered business, subsequently becoming an accountant for Wix Company. In recent years he had been vice president of Jari Products Company, a firm manufacturing power lawnmowers, garden tractors and similar products. He had shared the management of the company with his brother, David '33.

The sympathy of the Class is extended to his wife, Jean, two daughters, Judith and Sarah, his brother David, and a sister, Mrs. Louise Kingsbury of Rochester, Minn.

1937

PHILIP ALAN JOHNSON, who will be remembered by his classmates as a great devotee of the out-of-doors, was drowned on May 23 in a tragic accident, the details of which are recounted in a letter from a friend, Bruce McKennan '27.

"I am sorry to report that Phil was drowned in the Rogue River Canyon, Ore., between Gold Beach and Grant's Pass on May 23. His body was recovered on May 26. He was with a party of three men, including Dr. Charles Mills '34 of Salem, who were trying to go through the Rogue Canyon upstream. Their boat got away from them and drifted across the river; in attempting to recover it, one man swam across, Phil was to follow but didn't quite make it, was caught in an eddy, drifted upstream and then into the swift water where he evidently was knocked out by striking his head against a rock. An autopsy showed he had suffered a brain concussion. His body was recovered far downstream three days later by helicopter search."

Memorial services were held at Mountain Crest Chapel, Salem, Oregon, on May 29.

Phil, who was a member of Sigma Chi, spent some years in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he was president of the Bank of Alaska. Several years ago he left these interests and moved to Oregon where he operated a chain of soft drink refreshment stands. He is survived by his wife, the former Betty Woods, whom he married in 1938, and five children, Lynn W., Laurence W., Lane W., Laurie W. and Susan Grace. Their home is at 2880 Mountain View, Salem, Oregon.

1941

DAVID STORY Low, who was with the class only during freshman year, died at his home in Santa Maria, Calif, on May 27.

He was born in Boston, August 12, 1918, the son of Fletcher Low '15 and Margery Story, but lived most of his life in Hanover where his father is Professor of Chemistry at Dartmouth. He prepared for college at Hanover High School and Mercersburg Academy. In college he played freshman football and won his numerals on the freshman swimming team.

After attending the College of William and Mary, David was engaged in engineering surveying until he entered the army in January 1943. He served in a Signal Service Battalion in the China-Burma-India theatre and was discharged as a sergeant on December 11, 1945' He was later a field survey chief with the Pacific Islands Engineers, stationed on Guam. He was engaged in engineering on the Pacific coast at the time of his death.

He is survived by his parents, of Hanover, and two sisters.

1955

The Hanover community was stunned to receive word on June 6 that JOHN CURTIS GLOVER had died that morning shortly before noon while working out at the Payne-Whitney Pool at Yale University. He dived into the pool, swam to the shallow end and collapsed. Yale officials and the New Haven fire department attempted to revive him before he was taken to Grace-New Haven Hospital, where he was declared dead. The cause of his death was later diagnosed as a ruptured pancreas. The impact that John had made in his five years in Hanover was borne out by the shocked sadness of faculty, administrative officers, students, townspeople, and the youngsters to whom he was a hero.

John was born in New Rochelle, N. Y., September 5, 1933, the son of W. Curtis Glover '18 and Ruth Longenecker. He prepared for college at Mamaroneck High School where he won All-American honors in swimming. John s undergraduate career at Dartmouth was outstanding, both in athletics and as a student. He was elected captain of the freshman swimming team and was varsity captain in his senior year. He twice won the Watson Trophy, which is awarded annually to the top Dartmouth athlete of the year. In this issue "With Big Green Teams" will carry a summary of John's athletic achievements.

John achieved his winning style despite a major handicap—severe myopia, which made turns difficult to judge. Without glasses he was unable to distinguish one person from another at a distance of ten feet.

He was a member of Green Key and the Undergraduate Council and was senior class treasurer. He was also a member of Theta Delta Chi and Casque and Gauntlet.

Last summer John was selected by the State Department as one of three swimmers sent to Europe on a goodwill tour, visiting and competing against top Europeans and winning all his races. But winning the races was only of secondary importance to John, for he felt he had contributed in some small way to better international relations, and the tributes from the State Department were proof of this.

On Sunday before his death John received his M.B.A. degree from Tuck School. He had been commissioned 2nd Lt. in the USAF on September 3, 1955. He was to go on active duty on June 15, stationed at Mitchel Field, but was to be assigned by the Air Force to Yale where he was to train for the 1956 Olympics, to be held in Australia.

John is survived by his parents and a brother William. The family home is at 80 North Chatsworth Ave., Larchmont, N. Y.

John Ballard and Pete Buhler stood watch for the Class during the hours before the funeral. The Dartmouth, reporting John's death, said, "Thanking All above for his twenty-two years of presence and especially for the five he spent at Dartmouth, we ... know he will be remembered here in Hanover perpetually, mirrored clearly in the pool he loved so well."

WALTER SYDNEY ADAMS '98