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.]
Austin, Henry H. '85, Nov. 15 Woodman, Edwyn LaF. '0l, Nov. 11 Martin, Arthur C. '07, Nov. 1 Lee, William L. '08, Sept. 20 McLane, Arthur F. '09, Nov. 10 Spaulding, Howard K. '09, Nov. 22 Bullis, Leland S. '14, Oct. 20 Livingston, Alan C. '15, Nov. 1 Rodenbach, Charles C. '17, Nov. 12 Lindsay, Edwin B. '20, Nov. 14 Travell, Winthrop A. '23, Nov. Birch, Robert W. '27, Sept. 3 Schacht, Marshall W. '27, Nov. 21 Winans. James A., A. M. '20, Nov. 20 Neef, Francis J., A. M. '23, Nov. 20
Faculty
FRANCIS J. A. NEEF, M.A. '23, Professor of German, Emeritus, died of a heart attack at his home in Hanover on November 20. He was 74 years old.
Before his retirement in 1952 Professor Neef had for 25 years been Director of the Personnel Bureau and in that position had complete charge of the College's financial aid program, including scholarships, loans and student employment. Placement service for both undergraduates and alumni was also under his supervision. As Director of the Personnel Bureau, he efficiently organized and headed an administrative operation that grew steadily over the years, and many of the procedures he introduced are used today in the two offices of financial aid and placement into which the Personnel Bureau was divided when he retired.
As teacher and administrative officer Professor Neef served Dartmouth for 43 years. He came to the College as Instructor in German in 1909, became an Assistant Professor in 1915, and was promoted to Professor in 1923, at which time Dartmouth awarded him the faculty honorary degree of Master of Arts. He was at one time chairman of the Department of German, and his service on faculty and administrative committees was continuous and varied. The committees he headed were those on financial aid, student organizations, and plans for a new graduate club. The committees of which he was a member included those on revision of the cut system, revision of student regulations, student housing, student health insurance, and administration.
Professor Neef was born in Springfield, Ill., on October 15, 1882. He attended Bradley Polytechnic Institute and then continued at the University of Chicago for the one year necessary to obtain his bachelor's degree in 1905. For the next two years he studied abroad, at the Universities of Lausanne, Berlin and Leipzig, and then held a fellowship at the University of Chicago, 1907-08. He was appointed Instructor in German at Brown University and after one year he accepted the same position at Dartmouth in 1909. The next eighteen years were devoted to teaching until in 1927 he was asked by President Hopkins to become Director of the Personnel Bureau. Along with this position he always retained his professorship in the Department of German, but personnel work took more and more time and eventually became a full-time responsibility. In 1922, before this appointment, he had served as Acting Registrar of the College. During World War I he held a government position as censor of German language newspapers published in the United States.
Professor Neef held many civic positions in Hanover, notably with the School Board. He was chairman of a special committee which studied Hanover's school needs and also chairman of the building committee which planned and supervised the construction of the Hanover Junior-Senior High School, 1932-36. Earlier he had been chairman of the committee which supervised the erection of the Hanover Municipal Building in 1929-30. He helped draw up the zoning regulations for the town in 1930 and for some years was clerk of the Precinct Zoning Board. At various times Professor Neef also was president of the Graduate Club, and a member of the Howe Library Corporation, the board of directors of the Dartmouth Cemetery Association, the board of governors of the Hanover Country Club, and the Mary Hitchcock Hospital Corporation.
He was past president of the Eastern College Personnel Officers Association and a member of the Association of University Professors and of Psi Upsilon fraternity.
Professor Neef was married in 1914 to the former Margaret Lucy Sherman of Hanover, daughter of the late Frank A. Sherman ’70, Professor of Mathematics on the Chandler Foundation. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Mrs. Robert L. Headley Jr. ('42) of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and Mrs. William Park. A memorial service was held in St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Sunday, December 9.
JAMES ALBERT WINANS, M.A. '20, Evans Professor of Public Speaking, Emeritus, died at his home in Ithaca, N. Y., on November 20. He was 84.
Dr. Winans Was born in Sidney Center, N. Y., on February 8, 1872 and was graduated in 1897 from Hamilton College where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He then taught two years at the Middletown (N. Y.) High School. In 1900 he received his M.A. degree from Hamilton and, except for one year at the University of California, taught at Cornell University from 1899 to 1920. In 1907 he received an LL.B. degree from Cornell.
In 1920 Dr. Winans left Cornell to become professor at Dartmouth and upon his retirement in 1942 was made professor emeritus. The previous year Hamilton had honored him with the degree of Doctor of Humanities, the citation reading: "Today once again your Alma Mater proudly points to our tradition of public speaking and selects you, one of its leading exponents in American education and American life, for signal honor.... In honoring you [she] reaffirms with emphasis the conviction that a well-educated man must be a well-spoken man."
Dr. Winans was the first chairman of the Department of Public Speech at Dartmouth and was regarded as a pioneer in this field. In 1915 he published the forerunner of most modern texts on public speaking and his later works, Argumentation and Speech Making are also standard college texts. In 1914, when teachers of public speech were but a small section of the National Council of Teachers of English, he was one of those who formed the independent National Association of Teachers of Speech which he served as president. The New York State Speech Association made him an emeritus lifetime member at its 1956 meeting.
After his retirement he was Visiting Professor of Speech at the University of Missouri and returned to Ithaca in 1945. His most recent work, written with the late Prof. Howard Bradley of Dartmouth, was Daniel Websterand the Salem Murder, published this year.
On June 28, 1899, Professor Winans married Elizabeth Sweet who died on May 4, 1955. He is survived by their daughter, Mrs. E. L. Boutilier ('38) of to Hamilton Place, Clinton, N. Y., and a granddaughter and grandson. Funeral services were held in Sidney Center, N. Y.
DR. MICHAEL LADD, 33, who was appointed Instructor in Clinical Surgery in the Dartmouth Medical School in July, died December 1 in an automobile collision on the Hanover-Norwich road. Besides teaching at the Medical School he was also Assistant Chief of the Surgical Service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction, Vt.
Dr. Ladd was born May 16, 1923, in Portland, Ore., and attended the University of Chicago and Bard College. In 1947 he received his M.D. from New York University College of Medicine and completed a one-year internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. For two years, 1948-50, he held a National Research Council Fellowship in Physiology at the N.Y.U. College of Medicine, where he studied the genesis of postoperative salt retention and the normal metabolism of salt and water in man and animals. He then completed a general surgical residency at Bellevue Hospital.
From 1951 to 1953 Dr. Ladd was a First Lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps studying the physiological effect of war wounds, first at the Edgewood Army Chemical Center, then with the Surgical Research Team in Korea where he studied shock. From Korea he went to the Department of Surgical Physiology at Walter Reed Hospital for further research.
From July 1953 until his appointment at the Medical School, he was a general surgical resident at University Hospital, University of Michigan, while also serving as clinical instructor in the Department of Surgery at the university.
Dr. Ladd is survived by his wife, the former Anne Pratt of New Milford, Conn., whom he married in 1948, and by five children. Their home is at 38 East Wheelock St., Hanover.
1885
HENRY HERBERT AUSTIN died November 15 at the home of his daughter in Webster, N. H., after several weeks of failing health. On August 4 his wife died, and thereafter he seemed to lose all interest in continuing on alone.
He was born in Webster, November 19, 1862, the son of William W. and Abbie (Morse) Austin. After schooling in neighboring academies he entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1885 and graduated with an engineering degree. His interest in Dartmouth affairs never waned. He served as class secretary-treasurer for many years and was a regular attendant at the spring gatherings of class officers. He attended every Commencement and this past June his 71st anniversary of graduation.
Henry followed his engineering career in Brookline and Boston and in 1910 became superintendent of the plant at Wellesley College. He retired in 1923. Thereafter he spent winters in St. Petersburg and summers in Webster. He was a regular attendant at Dartmouth gatherings in the St. Petersburg area. He helped to form the New Hampshire Society there and was its first president.
In 1889 he married Harriet A. Stott of North Billerica, Mass., and last May celebrated the 67th anniversary of their marriage while flying north from Florida. As he mentioned in the '85 Class notes recently he "was surprised to hear congratulations coming from the pilot over the loud speaker system of the plane."
He is survived by a son, Herbert S. Austin '14 of Wellesley, Mass., his daughter, Mrs. Stuart G. Fifield, of Webster, a grandson, Robert H. Austin '40, two granddaughters and five great grandchildren.
Mr. Austin was a Past Master of Hiram Lodge A.F. & A.M. and Past High Priest of Menotomy Chapter, both of Arlington, Mass.; a member of the sons of the American Revolution; and an active member of the Congregational Church in the communities where he was resident. While in Wellesley he was on the building committee which replaced the former Wellesley Congregational Church in 1917 with the present magnificent structure in Wellesley Square.
Funeral services were held at the Webster Congregational Church on November 18 with burial in the Corser Hill Cemetery in the family lot where several generations of Austins have preceded him. The group of "old timers" grows smaller year by year and the passing of Henry Austin has removed one of the most loyal alumni of the College.
1889
RALPH WALDO DOANE died at his home in Harwichport, Mass., on September 28. He was born in Harwichport, March 23, 1867, a son of Abiathar and Josephine (Higgins) Doane. At the Harwichport High School he prepared for college. He came to Dartmouth from M.I.T., and entered the Class of '89 (C.S.D.) in the winter of freshman year and remained until the end of the spring term in sophomore year.
The following fall he entered the employ of M. Steinert & Sons of Boston as a salesman. Later he became night clerk of the old United States Hotel.
Early in the first decade of the new century he was back in his ancestral home on Cape Cod. For 15 years he served on the School Board during all of which time he fought for a new junior high school building, which was built in 1937. He was one of the trustees of the Harwich port library, and for many years served as town moderator. Soon after returning to his native town he devoted himself to poultry raising and later he turned his attention to dealing in real estate and cultivating his cranberry bogs. He was a founder of Fish and Game Association, and was a widely known sportsman. For many years at the Monomoy Kennels he raised and trained hundreds of hunting dogs. He was a member of the Pilgrim Lodge of Masons and the Pilgrim Congregational Men's Club.
On March 31, 1892 he was married in Boston to Belle O'Brien. Born to this union were a son, Waldo, who died at the age of nine months, and a daughter Sylvia Gladys. In 1938 he wrote: "My two years at Dartmouth were happy and profitable, yet not long enough to get the class spirit and associations others have who were graduated." Since his days at Dartmouth he continued to be, at heart, a most loyal member of the Class of '89. He regularly paid class dues and received and read the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. His survivors are his daughter Sylvia Gladys Doane, for more than 25 years in the employ of the Boston Edison Co., and several nieces and nephews.
His body remained in the home he so loved until the services. The casket stood beneath the portrait on the wall of his father, Captain Abiathar Doane, amidst a mass of beautiful flowers, among which were dark red roses from the two living members of his Class at Dartmouth giving mute expression of their affectionate regard. Simple services were held with the minister emeritus and present pastor of the church the deceased regularly attended officiating, followed by the Masonic service. Burial was at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Harwichport.
1895
FRANCIS EUGENE MASON, of Hinsdale, N. H., died in Medfield, Mass., on November 1.
"Tappan" was born in Hinsdale, January 20, 1873, and prepared for college at the Hinsdale High School. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
After graduation he taught for some time in Keene, N. H., and Pawtucket, R. I., and then became principal of the high school in Peterborough, N. H. In 1908 he joined the Boston school system. In 1915 he became head of the Science Department of the High School of Commerce where he remained until his retirement in 1943. His strong and vigorous personality set its mark upon the school, where he won the respect and admiration of students and teachers alike. He inspired in his students high standards of character and serious ideals in scholarship.
In July 1899 Tappan was married to Blanche Lewis, who survives him. He is also survived by two daughters, Mrs. Maude Glendrange and Mrs. Harriet Parrish, both of Medfield, and one son, Dr. Christopher Mason of Hollywood, Calif.
1907
ARTHUR COE MARTIN died at his home, Woodcrest Farms, Greensburg, Pa., on November 1, after a year's illness.
Pete was born in Pittsburgh on May 25, 1883 and entered Dartmouth from Bordentown Military Institute. He remained at Dartmouth only two years and then studied for a year at the School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.
Returning to Pittsburgh, he entered the family business, Kittaning Martin Brick Co., which he served as president from 1932 until his retirement in 1952.
In September 1918 Pete was married to Flora Belle Morrow, who survives him with a daughter Roberta (Mrs. Henry K. Watson) and a son, Sherwood C. Martin '43.
1909
ARTHUR FINDLEY MCLANE died November 10 at his home, 102 Bay St., Manchester, N. H., after several years of failing health.
Mickey was born in Collousin, Kansas, on January 4, 1886, the son of James Monroe and Sarah R. (Martin) McLane. The family moved to Colorado and Mickey came to Dartmouth from West Denver High School, having decided on the way East to take a longer train ride than to the college he had originally planned to attend.
In college, he quickly displayed those qualities that caused the quotation "with malice towards none and charity for all" to be put under his picture in the 1909 Aegis. He was a member of the football squad and a regular on the baseball team, earning his "D" for play in left field. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Turtle junior society and Sphinx senior society.
He engaged in newspaper work on The Washington Times and then came back to Manchester, N. H., where he was a superintendent in the 7-20-4 cigar factory until his retirement.
He was married on November 14, 1910 to Julia C. Sullivan who died in 1949. He is survived by five children, Mrs. Mary Dekker of Greenwich, Conn.; Arthur F. Jr. and Thomas of Manchester, N. H.; Mrs. Loretta L. Toolin in Germany; and Mrs. Muriel Elizabeth Costello of Manchester, N. H.; and also by ten grandchildren.
Services were held on November 13 and the class was represented by Burpee, French, Mason and Swenson. 1909 extends to his children its sympathy and expresses the hope that they will continue to maintain the interest in Dartmouth that he did.
1913
WILLIAM HARTLEY CARY died at his home, 45 Fairview Ave., Brockton, Mass., on August 10.
Bill or "Dutch" as he was affectionately known was born on April 8, 1889 in Brockton, the son of Matilda (Winslow) and William H. Cary. He prepared for Dartmouth at Phillips Exeter Academy.
After graduating he became associated with the Avon Sole Company, manufacturers of rubber soles and was president of the company at the time of his death.
He married Grace Howland Harris on October 25, 1916, and a daughter Henrietta, now Mrs. Dean R. Noyes of Brockton, was born on October 18, 1918.
At college Bill was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Beta Kappa. He has always been a substantial, civic-minded citizen. He was a director of the Home National Bank and the Brockton Savings Bank and a member of the Satucket Trust.
He served as general chairman of the Brockton Fund and was active in other social activities. He was a former president of the Brockton Hospital and vice president of Brockton Council of Boy Scouts.
Bill was a member of the Brockton University Club, Rotary Club of Boston and the Thorny Lea Golf Club, of which he was president in 1924.
He is survived by his wife and his daughter; a sister, Mrs. Raymond E. Drake of Brockton; and three grandchildren. Services were held at the Sampson Funeral Home and burial was in Melrose Cemetery Brockton.
1914
LELAND STOREY BULLIS died in Rochester, N. Y., on October 20. He was born in Bainbridge, N. Y., June 12, 1891, the son of Edgar S. and Ella (Leland) Bullis.
After graduation from the Glens Falls (N. Y.) High School, Doc entered Dartmouth with our class. While in college he was assistant manager of freshman baseball, a member of Phi Delta Theta and Casque and Gauntlet. He was a veteran of World War I.
At the time of his death he was associated with Weed & Co., Hardware, in Rochester. He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Harold Godfrey, and his niece, Miss Hazel Godfrey. Interment was at White Haven Memorial Park.
1915
FRANCIS LORD POOR, 63, of 1118 Nira St., Jacksonville, Fla., former Assistant U. S. District Attorney for Florida and a former Peabody, Mass., official, died on November 4, at his home, following a lengthy illness.
Fran was born in Peabody, Mass., son of the late Elmer and Margaret (Lord) Poor. Following graduation from Dartmouth in 1915, he succeeded his father as town clerk in Peabody. At that time he held both the office of town clerk and town treasurer, and when the city form of government came in, he continued as city clerk. He was a member of the South Congregational Church there. During World War I, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Air Force.
He received his LL.B. degree from Cumberland University in 1925 and shortly after went to Jacksonville, where he lived until his death. It was during the Coolidge and Hoover administrations that he was Assistant District Attorney for Florida.
He was a member of the Florida and American Bar Associations, American Legion Post 88, Society of 40 and 8, Jordan Lodge F. and A.M. (in Peabody), Scottisli Rite Bodies and Morocco Temple of the Shrine. He was a past Florida president of the Disabled American Veterans.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Goudy of Chicago; a nephew, Manly Leavell of Jacksonville; an aunt, Mrs. Theodore Coffin of Fairfield, Conn.; and a grandson.
Memorial services were held in Jacksonville, conducted by members of Jacksonville Chapter 1, DAV, and in St. Petersburg at which all veterans organizations participated.
The family requested that flowers be omitted and memorial offerings be made instead to the local chapter of the American Heart Association.
1917
JAMES HERBERT DODGE died suddenly at his home, 256 Washington St., Dover, N. H., on October 27, 1956.
Herb, son of the late James Edward and Maybell Eva (Ahmuty) Dodge, was born at Pembroke, N. H., on December 5, 1894. He entered Dartmouth from Pembroke Academy.
On May 21, 1917, Herb enlisted in the Signal Reserve Corps, and served at the front - St. Mihiel, Argonne, Moselle and Marbache - from September 1918 until the Armistice, and then with the Army of Occupation until May 1919.
Following his discharge from the Army in 1919, Herb attended and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later attended the University of New Hampshire. He then began a teaching career and taught at the Stearns School at Mt. Vernon, N. H., and in the Dover, N. H., school system from 1938 until the time of his death. He had very recently been appointed Principal of Dover High School.
On June 11, 1922, Herb was married to Marie Bowes, who survives him together with two sons, J. Herbert, Jr. and John Edward.
1918
GEORGE EDWIN HOWARD, of 100 Myrtle St., Norfolk, Mass., died on July 25.
Rix was born in Northboro, Mass., on April 2, 1895, and came to college from Hingham. He lived in North Mass. during his one year with the class.
For some years Rix was a research engineer with Raytheon, Inc., and later was a radio engineer in the Radiations Laboratory, M.I.T. Unfortunately, he never maintained any contacts with classmates. News of his death was received from his brother, Frederick Howard of Norfolk.
1923
On November 28, John Pierce Travell '58 was informed that his mother and father, WINTHROP A. TRAVELL '23, had been given up as lost at sea.
Win Travel! was born June 28, 1902 in Plainfield, N. J. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1021 as a junior, transferring from Rutgers University, and was graduated cum laude. In 1936 he received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from New York University Law School.
His career has been an active and interesting one. For three years Win served as supervisor of internal revenue of the Republic of Liberia. Returning to the U. S., he practiced law with the New Jersey firm of Smith and Evans. Then, in April 1950, he left for Korea to serve as Assistant Comptroller of the Marshall Plan. The Korean war prevented his wife Mildred and their two children from joining him. In May 1951 his family did catch up with him in the Philippines where Win was Comptroller of the U. S. Foreign Operations Mission. From then on he rotated back and forth between Korea and the Philippines until early 1956 when he was made Controller and Foreign A. P. O. Administrator in Bangkok, capital of Siam. Win and Mildred were on a short vacation trip off the coast of Cambodia when their ship went down.
Win is survived by his son, a junior at Dartmouth, and a daughter Joann, a student at Katherine Gibbs School in New York. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Ira W. Travell of 334 Grandview Circle, Ridgewood, N. J.
1927
ROBERT WHITE BIRCH died of a stroke on September 3 in San Clemente, Calif., where a year ago he had established his own business, Birch's Carousal, a china, glass and linen gift shop. His home was at 208 LaCuesta.
After graduation from Dartmouth, Bob went to work in the silver department of Macy's in New York. In 1930 he went with Bamberger's in Newark, N. J., as buyer for their silver department, and left there to become merchandiser for the main floor shops at Wanamaker's. In 1938 he moved to Minneapolis, where he was merchandise manager for home furnishings, and later vice-president of the Powers Dry Goods Co. He left Minneapolis in 1947 to become buyer for the five Broadway Department Stores in the Los Angeles area, where he remained until he opened his own business in 1955.
Bob was born oil January 3, 1906, in Reading, Pa., the son of Robert S. and Edith (White) Birch. He entered Dartmouth from the Boys' High School in Reading. While at Dartmouth, Bob was a member of the Musical Clubs, and business manager of The Dartmouth. He was a member of Kappa Sigma and Alpha Delta Sigma.
He was married on April 12, 1947, to Andrea James in Northampton, Mass. While they had no children of their own, they raised a nephew who had had polio, and it was with Bob's help that he recovered from his illness.
Bob worked as a volunteer at the state mental hospital, whenever his busy life would permit. He was a collector of first editions, rare autographs, and stamps, and had a great interest in gardening.
While Bob had suffered from diabetes for many years, he had always led an active, normal life, and news of his death will be a great shock to his many friends in the Class.
1943
MALCOLM CHRISTIAN MCCORD died May 27 in Denver, Colo. Chris was born in Glendale, Ohio, July 10, 1921, the son of Carey Pratt and Catherine (MacKay) McCord. He prepared at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. At Dartmouth he was active in the Outing Club, was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and was elected to Green Key.
In the fall of 1941 Chris transferred to the University of Michigan, where he received his A.B. in 1943 and his M.D. in 1945. He later received an A.M. degree from the University of Colorado. He was a member of the Medical Corps, A.S.T.P., during the war, and served as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps, 1946-48.
Chris interned at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago and was later a resident at the Veterans Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. In 1952 he became instructor in medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver.
On October 7, 1950, Chris was married to Janet Stickney of Clarkston, Mich., who survives him with their son Michael, born on February 2, 1954. They have been living with his parents at 120 E. Fountain Ave., Glendale, Ohio.
1945
CHARLES CARROLL MORGAN JR., 33, fourth generation Washingtonian and assistant treasurer of the American Security and Trust Co., died of cancer on October 23, at the National Institute, of Health, Chuck, who lived at 7 Ardmore Circle, Wood Acres, Md., was a descendant of the Carroll and Digges families, two pioneer Maryland-Virginia families who settled in the vicinity of Washington in the mid-17th century.
He attended St. Albans School in Washington and was a graduate of Deerfield Academy. Freshman year at Dartmouth, Chuck roomed with Ed Riley in Lord Hall. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta. Chuck received his degree under the accelerated program, while a member of the Navy V-12 unit. On July 1, 1943 he went on active duty with, the Navy where he commanded crash boats and was a gunnery officer on the USS Midway. He was discharged in July 1946 with the rank of Lt. (jg).
In 1953. Chuck won top scholastic honors in the Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Banking.
He is survived by his wife, the former Barbara N. Miller; a son, Charles Carroll Morgan III, 4; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carroll Morgan of Chevy Chase; and a brother. LeRoy T. Morgan, also of Washington, D. C.
PROF. FRANCIS J. NEEF, M.A. '23
PROF. JAMES A. WINANS, M.A. '20
HENRY HERBERT AUSTIN '85
Prof. Herbert W. Hill of the History Department pointing out campus buildings to India'sAmbassador, Gaganvihari L. Mehta, and Mrs. Mehta during their visit to Hanover this fall.
