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.]
Merrill, Josiah L. '93, Dec. 4 Darrow, Paul E. '04, Dec. 21 Wellman, Harry R. '07, Dec. 19 Schell, Lindsly B. '11, Dec. 31 Ward, Chester D. '13, Nov. 21 Gridley, Joseph H. '14, Dec. 27 Johnson, Harold T. '14, Dec. 15 Harwood, Channing E. '15, Dec. 27 Alger, Fred B. '17, Jan. 7 McAnarney, Norbert A. '19, Nov. 19 Duffy, Herbert S. '20, Dec. 29 Van Iderstine, Robert '20, Dec. 30 Conrad, William L. '23, Dec. 9 Judd, Philip S. '23, Sept. 30 Taber, Rae K. '23, Jan. 8 Jones, Berkeley F. '25, Jan. 2 Williams, Neil '25, Dec. 29 Salinger, Allan B. '28, Dec. 28 Owens, William W. '39, Dec. 8 Frenzel, Thomas M. '53, Dec. 17
Faculty
HARRY RICHMOND WELLMAN '07 died in Concord, N. H., on December 19 after a long illness.
Harry was born in Lowell, Vt., on June 7, 1881 and prepared for college at Brigham Academy. He did not enter college until he was twenty-two and during his four years at Dartmouth had to eke out his existence as best he could, washing dishes, tending furnaces, mowing lawns, pushing wheel chairs at the World's Fair in 1904, playing the piano, and holding down summer jobs at Franconia Inn.
Such strenuous jobs might have exhausted the energies of the average student, but Harry was a leader in campus activities. Wherever there was music in the air, Harry had a part in it. He wrote the music for the first original Dartmouth comic opera, TheFounders. The finale of this show, Williamstrue to purple is sung today by thousands of Dartmouth men. Later he helped to write The Promenaders which featured the song Men of Dartmouth, for which he wrote the music. Harry was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Casque and Gauntlet and Palaeopitus, and a member of the board of The Dartmouth and the Aegis.
After graduation Harry remained at Dartmouth for two years as supervisor of dormitories. In 1909 he became secretary to the Retail Trade Board of the Boston Chamber of Commerce; in 1912 he went to Win. Filene's Sons Co. in charge of men's advertising; in 1913 he became advertising manager for the Walter M. Lowney Co. and in 1917 became vice-president of that company. In 1918, after graduating from Officers Training School at Camp Meigs, he was assigned to the Personnel Department of the Adjutant General's Office in Washington. During the ensuing months, dealing with the maladjusted, the eccentric and the unfortunate, Harry lost his taste for the pattern of life which had been his as vice-president of a wealthy firm.
In 1919 when he was invited by President Hopkins to come to Tuck School as Professor of Marketing he accepted with alacrity, and immediately found himself, and found happiness. In addition to his teaching, he engaged actively in selling and advertising plans for several of the larger corporations (many of which, during the years, tried hard to lure him away from Dartmouth). In his task of finding jobs for Tuck School graduates, he felt that his most important job was to establish confidence between his students and himself in order to discover what they should do in the work of the world. Once a student was placed in a job, however, Harry Wellman's interest in him did not cease. Many of them he placed in four Or five jobs, each better than its predecessor, and his students were constantly writing him for advice and assistance. He once said, "My happiness comes from the fact that I have been able to give at least a sympathetic understanding to hundreds of boys." He had the reputation of being able to pull prize jobs from the industrial pool as skillfully as he could land a silver salmon in New Brunswick.
When Harry Wellman retired in 1952, President Dickey said, "he has given more good advice to more men than any other man associated with Dartmouth College." At this time he was presented with three handsomely bound volumes containing 815 letters from Tuck men conveying their gratitude for his friendship, good counsel and advice.
A bachelor, living in his beautiful house on the edge of the golf course, Harry Wellman was called Dartmouth's Streamlined Mr. Chips, who dressed like an unrestrained freshman. Always keeping open house, he welcomed old and new boys alike. At least ten successful Dartmouth graduates owe their education to him.
Harry Wellman had many hobbies — his love for music and flowers; his deep-rooted love for Dartmouth and his unflagging interest in its educational program. But his first love was fishing — "I know it is a disease, but I don't want to get well" - and he fished every year in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, and held the record on the Miramichi.
With Harry Wellman's passing one of the most colorful and beloved figures is removed from the Dartmouth scene.
1893
JOSIAH LEVERETT MERRILL died at the home of his son, Josiah L. Merrill, Jr., 67 Bayview Ave., Port Washington, N. Y., on December 4.
He was born in Mankato, Minn., June 7, 1871, the son of Charles Henry Merrill '67 and Laura Bell. His paternal grandfather was Abel K. Merrill 1828, and his maternal grandfather was Daniel F. Merrill 1836. Walter H. Merrill '94 was a brother.
In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet, on the varsity athletic team and manager of The Dartmouth. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy.
For many years Joe was connected with General Electric Co. and was one of the pioneers in mechanical refrigeration. He was later an engineer with the Public Service Commission of Ohio, and then became a consulting engineer in Philadelphia.
On November 6, 1905, Joe was married to Katharine Lackey, who died in January 1948. Besides his son he is survived by four sisters.
1904
PAUL EVERETT DARROW died at the Illinois Central Hospital, Chicago, on December 21.
Paul was born December 10, 1883, in An-Dover, Ohio. He attended Chicago Manual Training School and graduated from Dartmouth with the class of 1904. In college he lived in Richardson Hall and was active as treasurer of the Tennis Association.
From 1907 to 1928 he was manager of the Gas and Electric Co. of Greeley, Colo. In 1928 he returned to Chicago and entered the investment and real estate field on his own until he retired a few years ago.
He was deeply interested in social service and child care agencies. This concern led to his position as president of the Illinois Humane Society, a child protective agency.
Paul was the son of one of the most distinguished and controversial figures in the legal profession, the late Clarence S. Darrow. His defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, the Chicago thrill murderers, and his defense of Scopes in the famous evolution trial case in Tennessee, in which case he was opposed by William Jennings Bryan, created great interest throughout the country.
Paul's survivors are his wife, the former Lillian Anderson, and three daughters in Illinois - Mrs. Jessie Lyon of Harvey, Mrs. Mary Simonson of Highland Park, and Mrs. Blanche Chase of Bellwood.
Funeral services were held under the direction of Englewood Commandery #59, Knights Templar. Peacham Blanchard and his wife attended the services for the Class.
Paul was a loyal classmate. He rarely attended any of the class reunions except in charities.
A good man — gone to his rest. We salute his memory.
1908
WILLIAM LEVAN LEE died on September 20, 1956. After a long, painstaking, and persistent effort by the Alumni Records Office, one of the "lost" members of the class was located only to learn of his death.
William was born in Adelphi, Ohio, Match 28, 1886, and prepared for Dartmouth at East High School in Cleveland. He came to College from Perry, Ohio, and for many years afterwards lived in that town. In 1910 he was in business on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland and in 1930 in Cleveland Heights. Several years ago he moved from Perry to Cleveland where he was living at the time of his death.
Burial was in Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland.
1909
HOWARD KIRK SPAULDING died 011 November 22 at the Salem, Mass., Hospital following an abdominal operation. He had been recovering when a rapidly spreading infection caused him to answer his last alarm.
Kirk was born on August 30, 1886, in Peabody, Mass., the son of George Edward and Sarah Bruce (Brown) Spaulding. He came to Dartmouth from Loring Villa Prep. School of Salem, Mass. He remained with us two years but in that time established himself as one of the regulars whenever anything concerning Dartmouth or 1909 was concerned. He will be greatly missed at our future gatherings. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.
Upon leaving college, he was associated with the A. B. See Elevator Co., until the company was taken over by the Otis Elevator Co. Real estate at the same time interested him and he became vice-president and assistant treasurer of the Associated Trust and also Park Square Corporation of Boston. He was a trustee of the Warren Five Cents Savings Bank of Peabody, Mass., and at the time of his death was its oldest trustee in point of service as well as being vice-president and clerk of the Corporation.
Howard acquired his name of Quick Hitch" by becoming associated with the Boston Fire and Police Notification Co. He was its vice-president and general manager and could be found in the vicinity of most fires at any time of day or night.
On September 29, 1911, he was married to Eleanor Maude Frye at Peabody and she survives him.
Private funeral services were held on November 24 from his late home, 175 Lowell Street, Peabody, Mass.
1911
LINDSLY B. SCHELL died suddenly at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jere F. Cleeves, in York, Pa., on December 31. "Budd" was born in Washington, D. C., June 21, 1889, where his father was Superintendent of Construction for the U. S. Treasury Department.
"Budd" entered Dartmouth from Boston English High School, getting his degree in 1912 and his LL.B. degree from Harvard in 1915. He practiced law continuously until about ten years ago. He was a partner in Carver and Schell, a law firm in Boston, from 1916 to 1933, and then continued his law practice by himself until 1946 when he retired. During the war, 1917 tO 1919, he was chief of the Claims Division of the War Risk Bureau. In July 1919 he married Wada Scott who died in 1922. In February, 1924, he was married to Helen Finch whose death occurred in March 1956. In recent years, he had made Fort Myers Beach, Fla., his home although he usually returned to New England for the summer months.
Besides his daughter, he is survived by a son, Rolfe F. Schell, of Keeseville, N. Y., and nine grandchildren. Private services were held at Keeseville.
We shall remember "Budd" as a colorful figure and loyal member of the class and college. He practically never missed a reunion, was usually present at the class dinners at Boston, and was always a generous and faithful contributor to the Class and College funds. It is understood that by a request in his will, a substantial scholarship will be available to Dartmouth boys from Boston English High School which, with Dartmouth, shared "Budd's" lifelong loyalty
1913
CHESTER DUDLEY WARD died unexpectedly at the Mary Black Hospital, Spartanburg, S. C., on November 21.
He was born on July 16, 1892 in New York City, the son of Nina Justh and W. Lee Ward, a naval officer. He prepared for Dartmouth at Peekskill Military Academy but after his freshman year transferred to Trinity College where he graduated in 1913.
He served overseas in World War I and then entered the investment, general insurance, and real estate business in Spartanburg. He served as treasurer of the Montgomery Trust Company from 1923 to 1932 and then became a partner in Ward & Covington, investment firm, continuing until his death.
He was a former vice-president of the South Carolina Bankers Association, a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the American Legion, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars and Delta Kappa Ep- silon.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Kate Montgomery Ward; one son, Chester D., Jr. of Spartanburg, a lawyer; one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Ward Cannon of Spartanburg; two stepsons, two stepdaughters, and three grandchildren; his mother and a brother, Eliot Lee Ward.
1915
CIIANNING ELLIS HARWOOD, state sales director and former city official of Middletown, Conn., died in Middlesex Memorial Hospital there on December 27 after a brief illness. His home was at 628 Ridge Rd., Middletown.
Chan was the first tax director named by the state of Connecticut, the appointment being made by the late Governor McConaughy in July 1947. He served as fire commissioner for the South District there for many years, and also was a director of the fire district association.
Born in Boston on January 5, 1894, he prepared for college in Newton, Mass., schools and graduated from Dartmouth in 1915 with a B.S. degree. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
After serving as a first lieutenant with the Salvage Corps in World War I, he joined the Russell Manufacturing Company in 1919 and was divisional sales manager at the time of his retirement in 1945.
In 1946, Chan served as president of Middlesex Memorial Hospital and also as chairman of its executive committee. He was a member of the WPB during World War II and was a trustee of the Middletown Savings Bank.
He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of New Britain, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the South Congregational Church, St. John's Lodge, AF and AM, and Washington Chapter, R.A.M.
He leaves his wife, Marjorie Holmes Harwood; two sons, Frederic H. Harwood of Middletown and Channing E. Harwood Jr. '45 of Torrington; a daughter, Mrs. Judson H. Nelson of Middletown, and three grandchildren.
Services were held in the South Congregational Church, the Rev. Harris E. Heverly, pastor, officiating.
ALAN CAMPBELL LIVINGSTON, prominent in the mortgage loan business in San Francisco for over twenty-five years, died suddenly on November i at his home at 2219 Pacific Ave.
Al was born in Manchester, N. H., February 27, 1893, and entered Dartmouth from Manchester High School. A member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, he graduated with the Class of 1915 and served with the 101 st Engineers - 26th Division throughout World War I.
He went to San Francisco in the early 20's and, except for about five years in Pasadena, lived in San Francisco. He was manager of the real estate loan department of Prudential Insurance Co. in Pasadena and returned to San Francisco as head of that department for Prudential. Two years ago, he established his own company, Argonaut Savings and Loan Association, of which he was President and Director at his death.
Highly respected in business and in his community, Al - attended the Christian Science Church and was most active in Dartmouth affairs of that area. He was past President of the Alumni Association of Northern California, had served several years on the local interviewing committee, and was a regular attendant at all Dartmouth meetings, luncheons and functions. It has been said of him: "He was a good man to have on your side!"
He is survived by his widow, Dorothy Cooper Livingston; a son, Colin Campbell Livingston; and two sisters, Mrs. C. D. Chase of Manchester, N. H., and Mrs. C. W. Packard of Chicago.
Burial was in San Francisco.
1917
CHARLES CLARK RODENBACH died at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Chicago, on November 12.
He was born at Cedar Falls, lowa, on June 26, 1894, the son of Jennie Fabrick and Charles Hubert Rodenbach. He prepared for college at Cedar Falls High School and attended the University of Minnesota before entering Dartmouth.
On June 14, 1917, "McGluke" as he was familiarly known, enlisted as a private in the U. S. Army Signal Corps. He was later assigned to the 301st Field Signal Battalion and served in the A.E.F. from July 10, 1918, to May 12, 1919. He saw action in the Marbache Section and the Moselle Offensive and received his discharge on June 3, 1919.
Charles was once widely known as a newspaper man and drama critic and had worked on several Chicago papers including the Tribune, Daily News and Herald-American. Since 1952 he had been in the city purchasing department.
A bachelor, Charles is survived by two cousins.
1920
EDWIN B. LINDSAY, a fine Christian gentleman, died suddenly in Chicago last November 14 at the age of 59, thereby bringing to a premature close a career of extraordinary service to his community and his church. He was a man of vast attainments and nobility of character.
Ed had his beginnings in Davenport, lowa, which remained his home to the day of his death. He went from Davenport High School to Dartmouth, where he joined Chi Phi and proceeded quietly to earn himself a Phi Beta Kappa key. During a brief term of service in the Army he was commissioned a second lieutenant. After graduation from Dartmouth and from Harvard Business School, he returned to Davenport to enter the family firm of Lindsay and Phelps, specialists in timber, lumber, and investment management work. In 1930 he married Elizabeth Montgomery Stewart of nearby Rock Island. For many years they had made their home at 224 Prospect Terrace, Davenport.
The lists of posts Ed Lindsay held, too long to be printed here in full, is its own record of the community's esteem for him and of the services which he rendered. He was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Davenport and a former chairman of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, which serves the church from headquarters in Philadelphia. At one time Ed served as president of the board o£ directors of the University of Dubuque, an institution which he fostered and remembered generously in his will. The local library, museum, Legion post, Rotary Club, golf club, Y.M.C.A. and other institutions all had his active support.
Besides his wife, Ed is survived by a son, James Edwin, and two daughters, Margaret and Ann. James attends Corpus Christi College in Oxford, England, and Margaret is enrolled at Wooster College in Ohio
1923
WILLIAM LINDSAY CONRAD died suddenly as the result of a stroke on December 9 at his home in Pasadena, Calif.
Bill was born in St. Paul, January 22, 1901, the son of Edwin and Maud (Osborne) Conrad. He came to college from Stillwater, Minn., and was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
Bill's entire career was in the construction business. For some years after graduation he was a construction engineer with the John W. Cowper Co. of Buffalo. Later he was connected with the Ford J. Twaits Co. of Spokane. For the past fifteen years he had been in the Los Angeles area as director of public relations and sales, first for the Pozzo Construction Co. and later, until his death, with the Vinnell Co. of Alhambra.
In 1928 Bill was married to Florence Adam who died in 1954. He is survived by his mother and a brother, Edwin O. Conrad '21, both of Stillwater, Minn. Bill was buried in Stillwater on December 21.
1927
MARSHALL WEBSTER SCHACHT died in New York City on the morning of November 21, of a heart attack brought on by leukemia. Marshall knew that he had leukemia, and that he had but a short time to live, and this knowledge gave him a feeling that he could now cease to concern himself with the necessities of maintaining life and devote his remaining days to the creative writing that he loved, and to the people whose comradeship he cherished.
Marshall was born in Brookline, Mass., on September 23, 1905, the son of Robert Hugo and Maud (Marshall) Schacht. His interest in writing poetry began while he was a student in Brookline High School, and the year he graduated the editor of a nation-wide book of secondary school verse included more of his poetry than of any other student in the country. He was also interested in playing the violin, an interest which he retained all of his life. He played with the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra while he was in college, and continued to play, and to teach the violin afterward. During his years at Dartmouth he continued to write more and better verse, and in addition to being on the board of the Tower, the literary magazine of the time, and a member of Round Robin and Mitre, he won the New England Golden Rose poetry prize.
He received an M.A. degree from Harvard in 1930, and hoped for a teaching and writing career, but the depression interfered, and he was obliged to devote a good share of his time and energy to various pursuits concerned with earning a living and providing for future security. He managed to do this successfully, while still satisfying his compulsion to write poetry.
In 1949 he won the Twayne Poetry Prize for a book of his poems published under the title of Fingerboard. A year later he was invited, in company with Richmond Lattimore and Richard Eberhart, both '26, to give readings of their poetry in the Tower Room of Baker Library.
Marshall contributed to Poetry, The NewYorker, the American Mercury, Commonweal,New Masses, the Dial, Oscar Williams' LittleTreasury of Modern Poetry, Geoffrey Grigson's British Anthology of the Year's Poetry,1940, the 1948 edition of Bartlett's Quotations, Louis Untermeyer's Yesterday and Today, Lyrics in Brief, 1938, edited by Tom Boggs, and New Poems, 1940.
Marshall loved life, and lived it as a zestful adventure. He enjoyed his years of teaching English at the College of the City of New York, and many of the forms of employment in which he did well. At heart he was always the poet, seeing life situations through a sensitivity to the sufferings and frustrations ofthe down-trodden, through his hate of shamand pretense, through his love of music andthe beckoning beauties he found everywhere,especially in the New England countryside.
He is survived by his brother, Dr. RobertH. Schacht, minister of the First UnitarianChurch, Providence, R. 1., and his sister,Franziska. His brother and sister are givinghis books to the Dartmouth College Libraryas a memorial to Marshall.
1929
It is with great regret that we must recordthe death of ARNOLD WARREN LOVEJOY on October 27 of cancer of the bronchial tubes.Allah had been sick for five or six months,but had been in the hospital only a short time before the end came. His illness disabled him sometime in June, but he and Muriel had had the great pleasure in April of a very happy vacation in Bermuda.
Allah, 50 at the time of his death, had been an insurance broker in the Boston office of the Aetna Life Insurance Co. for 22 years. He was a native Bostonian having been born in Dorchester, later lived in Brookline, and moved to 429 Winchester St., Newton Highlands two and a half years ago. He graduated from Worcester Academy in 1925 before coming to Dartmouth. During World War 11, he served eight months overseas near Okinawa with Army Ordnance A.A. as an "expert" electrical technician on 120 mm. guns.
Allah is survived by his wife Muriel (Johnson); his mother, Grace (Effler) and his father, Warren W. Lovejoy of Meriden, Conn.; and his sister, Mrs. Evelyn Schaal, also of Meriden. Burial was in the West Parish Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
HARRY RICHMOND WELLMAN '07
