Deaths

[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notives may appear in thisissue or may appear in a later number.]

Clark, Harry W. '98, Sept. 10 Perkins, Oscar H. '02, Sept. 9, 1958 Terrien, George D. '06, Sept. 1 Pond, Bremer W. '07, Sept. 2 Crawford, Edwin C. '13, Sept. 4 McCoy, Wallace E. '13, Aug. 15 Saunders, John B. '16, Nov. 11, 1958 Waite, Clayton B. '16, Aug. 27 O'Connor, Edward J. 18 Sept. 16 Colton, Harold J. '22, Sept. 12 Perkins, Moses N. '22, Oct. 2 Sullivan, Horace V. '22, April 1948 Tredennick, Stephen H. '22, Oct. 3. Bereman, Frederick J. '29, Sept. 21, 1958 Cantril, Simeon T. '29, Sept. 10 Grubb, W. Norton Jr., '43, Sept. 10 Andretta, George H. '52, Sept. 14 Carroll, James C. '54, Aug. 17 Denham, James L. '61, Aug. 22

1898

HARRY WALLACE CLARK died in Concord, N. H., on September 10. He was born in Derry, N. H., October 17, 1871, the son of Joseph R. and Emily A. (Chase) Clark, and prepared for college at Pinkerton and St. Johnsbury Academies. He was graduated with a B.S. degree in 1898 and C.E. from the Thayer School in 1900.

In college he took a prominent part in athletics; captain of class football in 1894, a member of the varsity football team in 1894 and '95, and varsity track team in 1895, 1896 and 1897. His fraternity was D.K.E.

He became an engineer and contractor and followed this line from 1900 to the time of his retirement in 1939. He devoted his work to heavy construction and built, among other things, factories, college, bank, school, hotel and office buildings, paper and saw mills. This work took him to various places: sixteen months with General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.; three years with New York Central Railroad; thirteen years in British Columbia; eight years in Oregon with Ash '99; and on the staff of Major John A. Gilman '98 at Fort Myer, Va., Fort Knox, Ky., and West Point, N. Y.

On retiring, he settled on a small farm in North Weare, N. H.

He married Martha Hardy at Chase City, Va., February 6, 1909, and is survived by her, a daughter, Martha Keasey of Corvallis, Oregon, and several nieces and nephews.

1906

GEORGE DOMINICK TERRIEN died on September 1 in Nashua, N. H., while visiting his family there. His home was at 608 West Watson, Midland, Texas.

George was born in Littleton, N. H., January 9, 1882. After graduating from the Nashua High School he entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1906. George was a member of the track team for two years and in 1903 he placed second in the two-mile bicycle race at the Tech meet. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

After graduation he entered the advertising business in Boston and became New England manager for the Buttrick Publishing Co.

In 1917 he resigned to enter the army and was a Ist Lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps.

After the war he went into the oil and investment business in Boston and later became an oil promoter in Tulsa, Okla. In 1951 he moved to Midland.

George married Lillian I. Mineau of Lowell, Mass., in 1922. She survives him with his daughter, Mrs. Clyde George, and his brother Albert Terrien '04.

1907

BREMER WHIDDEN POND died at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover on September 2, after a long illness.

Bremer was born in Boston, and since his retirement in 1950 had made his home in Pittsburg, N. H., where he had built a house overlooking First Connecticut Lake.

He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1907 with a B.S. degree and Phi Beta Kappa honors. He was a member of Chi Phi. He attended Harvard University and received a Master's degree in landscape architecture in 1911, after which he became secretary for Frederick Law Olmstead, an eminent landscape architect.

In 1914 Bremer opened his own office. His work includes numerous parks and residential properties, and landscape architectural plans for Colby Junior College in New London, N. H., the University of New Hampshire, Tuck Drive in Hanover, and Southern Methodist University.

Having been instructor and assistant professor of landscape architecture in the Graduate School at Harvard, he was made full professor of landscape architecture and chairman of the department in the Graduate School of Design, from 1928 until his retirement in 1950.

He took a leave of absence from his architectural teaching and practice in 1917-19 to participate in World War I as a major Q.M.C.

A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, he was its secretary from 1921 to 1938.

He was a trustee of the Hubbard Educational Trust, a Republican, a Unitarian, and a member of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects and the Dartmouth and Harvard Clubs.

During the period of his retirement, Bremer's avocations were fishing, gardening, and hunting, and, during the winter months, reading, writing and occasional trips to Boston and Cambridge.

Bremer never married. It appears that he left no close relatives but he surely left many friends who appreciated this modest and talented friend and classmate.

The funeral service was at Appleton Chapel in Harvard Yard. It was attended by Bill Smart.

1913

EDWIN CONDY CRAWFORD died on September 4 in LaGrange, ill., after a long illness. He succumbed to the effects of a blood clot. He was born on June 6, 1890 in Waukegan, Ill., the son of Josephine (Wheeler) and Edwin Corydon Crawford. Ned prepared for Dartmouth at the Evanston Township High School.

In college he was in the play OedipusTyranus his freshman year and received honorable mention in Greek his sophomore year. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he became collection teller, State Bank of Chicago, and studied finance and commercial law at night school.

Ned enlisted on May 3, 1918 at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and went to Camp McArthur, Texas. He was in the 7th Division Officers Training School and was assigned to the Central Machine Gun O.T.S. Camp Hancock, Georgia, where he was commissioned First Lieutenant.

Upon discharge he returned to the State Bank in Chicago, Trust Dept. He was next with the First Union Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, as Personal Trust Officer. In 1933 he worked with the Receiver to wind up the Foreman State Trust and Savings Bank. He became associated with The Live Stock National Bank as trust officer in 1934, and served there until his retirement in 1957.

In 1938 he married Sallie Hodges and in May 1941 moved into the house they had built at 311 South Leitch Ave., LaGrange. He and Sallie attended the 35th Reunion in 1948, Sallie's first trip to New England. Ned had been active in Village Board Affairs and both were members of the Prairie Club of Chicago, deeply interested in its conservation and social activities. He was devoted to the interests of Dartmouth.

WALLACE EDWIN MCCOY died on August 15 at his home in Montour Falls, N. Y.

He was born on October 3, 1887 in Glens Falls, N. Y., son of Mary (Smith) and Clark M. McCoy, and prepared for Dartmouth at the Glens Falls High School. In college he was on the track squad his sophomore year, and the cross-country squad his junior year. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Rufus Choate Scholar his sophomore year.

Following graduation he went to Union Theological Seminary, and after graduating suffered a serious illness and was obliged to spend four years in complete rest at a sanitarium. After a slow recovery he served the North Park Baptist Church in Buffalo from 1920 to 1929 and then became pastor of the Baptist Temple until 1931. He then went to Hoosick Falls, staying there until 1947, when he accepted the pastorate at Montour Falls in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. He remained at the Baptist Church there until his death.

A distinguished scholar and a dedicated Christian, a brilliant future opened before him when he lost his hearing, becoming totally deaf. He met this handicap with cheerful fortitude, having by his side his wife who became literally his ears and his amanuensis.

He is survived by his wife, the former Elsie Holman; a son E. Clark McCoy of Phoenix, Ariz.; a daughter Ruth. Mrs. Ronaid Forrest, and two grandsons. Ronald Clark and Randy Keith Forrest of Montour Falls. Funeral services were held in the First Baptist Church.

1915

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TOBIN JR. died August 29 at his home, 101 N. Beverly Glen Blvd., Los Angeles, after a brief illness.

Ben was born in Chicago, December 19, 1890, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Laura (Loeser) Tobin, and came to Dartmouth from Muskegon, Mich. At Dartmouth only one year, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, he entered University of Michigan where he studied engineering during 1913-14-

He then became associated with Continental Motors Corp and was with them until 1923 as purchasing director of non-productive divisions and secretary. He became treasurer and general manager of Walker Soda Fountain Corp. and from 1925-30 was in personal investment and real estate business. He was treasurer of Continental Motors until 1936, when he became vice-president in charge of sales. In 1947 he became president of Continental Sales and Service Co., distributors of Continental Motors in nine states west of the Rockies, with headquarters in Los Angeles. He was also a director of Continental Motors and of Lakey Foundry and Machine Co.

On October 4, 1916 he married Harriet Rae Walker of Grosse Pointe, Mich. Besides his wife, he leaves his mother, Mrs. B. F. Tobin of La Jolla; a sister, Mrs. C. C. Macdonald, also of La Jolla; two daughters, Mrs. Thomas U. Burke of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Mrs. L. S. Thompson of Dallas, Texas; a son, Benjamin F. Tobin III of Whittier, and nine grandchildren. He was the uncle of Clay C. Macdonald Jr. '40.

Services were held September 1 in the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Joe Comstock attended as 1915 representative and arranged for a floral wreath inscribed by the Class.

1917

CHARLES SAYER HEDWALL died as the result of a stroke on June 7, at Toronto, Canada.

Charles was born at Minneapolis, Minn., on December 21, 1894, the son of Charles Julius and Rose (Sayer) Hedwall. He prepared for college at Minneapolis West High School and then spent one year at Dartmouth. During World War I he served overseas for 18 months and held the rank of Ist Lieutenant when he was returned to this country. After his return he attended the University of Minnesota. Much of his business career was spent in Canada.

Charles is survived by a sister, Mrs. Raymond Munger of Minneapolis, and two nieces.

1928

GORDON NORMAN SIMONS died May 27 in Pensacola, Florida.

Si was born in North Weare, N. H., February 28, 1906, and attended Dean Academy before entering Dartmouth. He was a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon.

A well-known hotelman, Si retired in 1953, after 19 years with the Waldorf-Astoria, where he had risen to the post of executive assistant manager. He began his hotel career in the fall of 1928 at the Boston Statler. In 1934 he opened the Boston branch office of the Waldorf, remaining there until his appointment as assistant manager of the New York hotel in 1937. Eight years later he was named executive assistant manager. A great many '28ers remember with gratitude his assistance in securing rooms when they were hard to find.

When he retired he moved to Santa Rosa Island, Gulf Breeze, in the Gulf of Mexico, seven miles off the coast of Pensacola. He became a partner in a real estate venture there but spent a great deal of time boating and fishing.

In 1928 Si married Dorothy Ritchie of New Haven, Conn., who survives him. He is survived also by two sons, G. Norman Jr., and D. Douglas.

1929

It is with great regret that we report the death of FRED JAMES BEREMAN on September 21, 1958, at the Copley Memorial Hospital, Aurora, Ill., from a heart attack.

He was born in Aurora, June 30, 1906, the son of James Hulme and Kathryn (Donovan) Bereman, attended local schools from which he graduated in 1923, then attended Lake Forest Academy before entering Dartmouth. He remained with us in Hanover for two years.

Upon returning home, he joined his father in The Stillman Co. and became a partner, along with his brother Robert, in 1929. Fritz was still active in the business at the time of his death.

He was a member of the Aurora Country Club, the Phoenix Club, and Phi Delta Theta. He was always active in shooting and in golf, having won several championships therein, and was extremely interested in all other sports as evidenced from the following quotation from a local newspaper: "But regardless of who is at the front table, there will be missing from the crowd one of the valley's most avid sportsmen, who never missed a White Sox day, a Quarterback Club session, or in fact very many baseball or football games within reach. We speak of Fred Bereman, whose sudden and unexpected death last week brought grief and sorrow to his countless friends. Football, baseball, or track ... he loved to watch them all. He liked to play golf, and he was an expert shot when it came to hunting and a clever manipulator of rod and line when the fish were biting."

He is survived by his wife, Mildred Urch Bereman, his mother, his sister, Mrs. Margaret Gosselin, and three brothers, Robert T. and John H. of Aurora, and Clifford, of Los Angeles, Calif.

It is also with great regret that we report the death of DR. SIMEON THEODORE CANTRIL in Seattle, Wash., on September 10, after a week's illness due to a heart attack. Sim had had a heart attack several years ago and a second one only a few months before his death. His home was at 2 Dogwood PI., Edmonds, Wash.

He was born in Hyrum, Utah, February 17, 1908, and graduated from Jefferson High School there before coming to Dartmouth. His parents were Albert Hadley and Edna Mary Meyer Cantril.

After receiving his medical degree at Harvard in 1932, Sim interned and was resident at the Michael Reese Hospital from 1933 to 1936. From then until 1938 he was a Fellow on the staff of the Curie Foundation in Paris. In 1938 he went to the Chicago Tumor Institute and subsequently became director of the Swedish Hospital's Tumor Institute in Seattle. During World War II, he was drafted to take part in the Manhattan Project and was at the University of Chicago when nuclear fission was first accomplished. In addition, he was medical director of the Oak Ridge Atomic Plant in Tennessee and, later, assistant medical director at the Hanford plutonium works. He was also a member of the Atomic Energy Commission's advisory committee on biology and medicine. Without question, Sim was one of the world's experts on the effects of atomic radiation.

While at Dartmouth, Sim was a member of Kappa Sigma, The Arts, and Phi Beta Kappa.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Grace Ahlstrom Cantril, and three children, Susan Laura, Lucy Bell and Simeon Thain, a member of the Class of 1960 at Dartmouth. He is also survived by his mother and his brother Hadley Cantril '28.

It is also with great regret that we report the death of ROGER DURHAM on January 24, 1959, in New York City of pneumonia which was complicated by a serious heart condition which he had had for several years.

Roger was born January 16, 1908, in Brooklyn, N. Y. His parents were Roger and Helen (Holman) Durham. After graduating from St. James School, he attended Dartmouth for one year.

He went to work for Cheney Bros, in New York in the sales department in 1929. During World War II he rose to the rank of technical sergeant in the U. S. Army and served from 1942 through 1945.

He is survived by his sister, Mrs. William L. Scott, 516 West 93rd St., Indianapolis, Ind.

1931

MARTIN BRADLEY O'CONNOR died at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City on May 7 after an illness of several months. His home was at 1 DeWitt Rd., Elizabeth, N. J.

Marty was born in Elizabeth, March 28, 1908, the son of Martin and Katherine (Bradley) O'Connor. He prepared at Battin High School and Pingry School. He majored in English at Dartmouth, was a member of the Aegis board and of D.K.E. and Dragon.

After attending Harvard Law School for one year Marty received his LL.B. from Rutgers in 1935 and was admitted to the New Jersey bar. He practiced first with Arthur T. Vanderbilt in Newark, before he enlisted in the Army Air Force as a private in May 1942. He was discharged in March 1946 as a captain.

Marty then became a partner in his father's law firm. Later he formed the firm of O'Connor, Morss and Mancini, and later with his brother formed the firm of O'Connor, Morss and O'Connor. He became very active in community affairs as counsel to the Board of Education, to the Union County Medical Society and the Elizabeth Daily Journal. He was a director and counsel of the Central Home Trust Co., the Elmora West End Building and Loan Association, and the Homeland Building and Loan Association, and counsel for the Father Matthew Total Abstinence Benevolent Society. A trustee of the New Jersey Practicing Law Institute, he was a member of the Union County, New Jersey and American Bar Associations. He was also a member of the board of managers of St. Elizabeth Hospital, a director of Junior Achievement of Union County and of the Chamber of Commerce.

On December 14, 1945 Marty was married to Mary P. Schultz who survives him with his mother, a sister, Mrs. John R. Pitman, and a brother, Judge Richard R. O'Connor.

1938

Memorial services for WILLIAM GANTER, an outstanding member of the Class of 1938, were held in the First Church Unitarian, Jamaica Plain, Mass. He died on July 31 after a long illness. Stearns MacNutt represented the Class at the memorial service.

Bill loved friendships, Dartmouth and the New Hampshire out-of-doors. He played soccer at Hanover and was active in many of the outdoor organizations and the Interfraternity Council. His fraternity was Phi Gamma Delta.

Equally active in civic and social affairs in his native town of Jamaica Plain, Bill was associated with the Liberty Mutual Company, Boston.

He is survived by his wife, the former Ruth Hazelton of Hanover, and two sons, William Jr., a senior at Boston University, and Frank, 17, a high school senior. Their home is at 42 Danforth St., Jamaica Plain.

1940

CHESTER ARTHUR FERGUSON JR., of Haddonfield, N. J., died on June 23 as the aftermath of an automobile accident. Chet was born on April 22, 1919, in Maplewood, N. J. Before coming to Dartmouth he attended Columbia High School. In college Chet was a member of Theta Delta Chi. Upon graduation he worked briefly for the Firemen's Insurance Co. in Newark and then entered the Navy in 1941. He served in the Mediterranean theatre and was discharged with the rank of lieutenant-commander.

Upon his discharge" in 1946 he joined the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., starting as a student engineer in the traffic department in Newark. Subsequently he went to the parent company in New York in personnel relations work and then returned to the New Jersey company in its southern division and was made district commercial manager two years ago.

He had been a member of the Maplewood Civic Association, the Maplewood Glee Club, and was a member of the Vineland Rotary Club.

Chet leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ferguson of 18 Salter PL, Maplewood, N. J., and a brother, Paul.

GERARD RUDOLF TORBORO JR., of 24 Marcourt Dr., Chappaqua, N. Y., died of a heart attack in his home on July 12.

Gerry was born in Norfolk, Va., on November 12, 1918. He graduated from the New Haven High School in 1936 and entered Dartmouth that fall. Like Chet Ferguson, he was a member of Theta Delta Chi while in College. After graduation he took his Master of Science degree at M.I.T. in 1942 and then entered the Navy where he attained the rank of lieutenant.

On discharge in 1945 he joined the Esso Standard Oil Co. as an engineer. In 1951 he was made coordinator of fuel and crude oil for Esso Standard in the East Coast Manufacturing Group and then in 1954 he became associated with Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. in White Plains, N. Y., in the economic coordination department.

Gerry was married to Doris J. Myers in Boston, on July 4, 1942. They had two children, Jane Ann, born in 1943, and Carol Sue, born in 1946. He is survived by them, by his mother, Mrs. Bertha Toborg, and by a sister, Mrs. Joan Widdecomb.

1941

ROBERT BARTEMUS BLAKE died suddenly in Louisville, Ky., on August 4, at his home at 225 Carey Avenue, at the age of 39.

Bob was born in Lowell, Mass. He prepared for college at Hebron Academy. At Dartmouth he attended Tuck School and was a member of Sigma Nu.

At the time of his death, Bob was the personnel director at the Appliance Park division of General Electric in Louisville.

He is survived by his wife, Grace (Gray) Blake, and two children, Bonnie Sue and Robert B. Jr., and by his mother, Mrs. Sigvi Blake of Lowell.

Private funeral services were conducted in Lowell.

1943

WARNER NORTON GRUBB JR. died after a short illness on September 10 at his home, Tanyard Farm, Bristol, R. I., where he had resided for the past five years. He was associated with the export department of the Nicholson File Co.

Born in Upper Darby, Pa., Warner attended Epsom College in Surrey, England, and graduated from Taft School in 1939. At Dartmouth he majored in economics and was vice-president of Germania.

After graduating he enlisted in the Army and served as interpreter and interrogator with the First Infantry Division in the E.T.O. After the war he served with Esso Standard Oil in Chile, El Salvador, and Honduras.

In 1946 Warner married Anne Shepard Farnsworth, sister of A. P. Farnsworth Jr. '49. Their children are Warner N. 3rd, Page, and James. His mother and brother, G. Craig Grubb '45, also survive.

Funeral services were held in St. Michael's Church, Bristol, where Warner had been a communicant and vestryman.

1952

In the death of GEORGE HENRY ANDRETTA on September 14 Dartmouth lost one of her most loyal and enthusiastic sons. George died in the Hartford (Conn.) Hospital of a brain cancer approximately two years after he had come through a very serious operation for that grim affliction.

In that period, although continuing treatments, George resumed his work at Hamilton Standard Division of United Aircraft Corporation as a mechanical engineer. During that period he also devoted many hours to Dartmouth alumni projects, one of which was his participation in the Capital Gifts Campaign. He achieved major pledges from all his calls, reporting them within a week of the starting date.

George was born with an interest in the College which he never lost. His father is Henry F. Andretta '26 of Unionville, Conn., and two uncles, also Dartmouth men, are Salvador A. Andretta '20 and Nicholas A. Andretta '23.

With the exception of his college years and Navy service, George had been around the Hartford area most of his 29 years. Born in Hartford on May 15, 1930, he attended Kingswood School in West Hartford. He played varsity football for Kingswood and developed a keen interest in the sciences which he retained and developed throughout college.

At Dartmouth, George concentrated on preparing for Thayer School of Engineering, enjoyed Naval ROTC and his activities as a member of Theta Chi fraternity. After graduation he continued his studies at Thayer, then entered upon active duty with the U. S. Navy as a commissioned officer.

George, who never married, was a member of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers and the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, and was also active in the Young Republicans Club of Hartford. He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Unionville, Conn., where services were held for him on September 17. Ted Rice, Sam Daniell and John McCrillis represented the Class at the services and were pall bearers.

Besides his parents, Henry F. and Ellen Yepsen Andretta, he leaves his grandmothers, Mrs. A. S. Andretta of Avon, Conn., and Mrs. George W. Yepsen of Hartford.

Simeon Theodore Cantril '29