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.]
Clark, John L. '88, Sept. 3 Pillsbury, Boyden H. '95, Aug. 9 Adams, Charles E. '99, July 4 Crolius, Frederick J. '99, Aug. 25 Crone, Louis L. '01, June 2 McElwain, Herbert A. '03, Aug. 30 McCabe, Francis J. '05, Sept. 6 Silha, Emil A. '05, Sept. 1 Crane, Charles E. '06, Sept. 8 Dwyer, Louis R. '06, July 30 Seager, George J. '06, July 9 Whitney, Alvin G. '07, June 19 Adler, Lawrence 'OB, Sept. 1 O'Shea, Arthur D. 'OB, June 30 Vietor, Frederick 'OB, Aug. 3 Pearson, Charles W. '09, June 30 Crawford, Charles L. '10, Feb. 3 Knapp, William B. '10, Aug. 6 DeMerritt, Dean R. '12, July 24 Babcock, Jesse H. '14, July 16 Byers, Vincent G. '15, Sept. 13 Hutchins, George W. '15, June 20 Kimball, John C. '15, July 17 Llewellyn, A. Stanley '15, July 4 Fiske, Arthur G. '16, July 13 Hatch, L. Coleman '16, Mar. 18 Johnson, Harold H. '16, Apr. 17 Buttenwieser, Clarence '19, Aug. 16 Finlayson, Donald L. '19, July 24 Wright, Edgar C. '19, Nov. 14, 1959 Trull, Harold A. '21, July 20 Varian, Wilbur C. '21, Aug. 8 Sawyer, Willard G. '22, June 20 Elliott, Luther H. '23, July 17 Carroll, Thomas R. '24, Sept. 7 Thornton, Gilbert '24, July 2 Watson, Arthur A. '24, June 24 Allen, Ford W. '25, July 22 Parrish, Nulton '25, Aug. 14, 1959 Wilbar, Dexter W. '26, Aug. 14 Fowler, Edwin H. '27, July 16 Holleran, John H. '27, July 17 Marsh, Francis W. II '27, Aug. 15 Barns, Merl A. '28, Sept. 27, 1959 Monaco, William F. '28, May i960 Birnie, Walter H. '30, Aug. 18 Blake, Eben N. '30, Aug. 27 Jackson, H. Kirk '30, July 17 Papworth, Clive H. '31, July 13 Riddell, Robert W. '32, Feb. 17, 1959 Mudge, Bertram R. '33, Sept. 4 Meigher, Stephen C. '34, July 26 Kinney, Joseph R., Jr. '36, July 22 Flanders, Dwight C. '40, Sept. 7 Cruttenden, Arthur E. '41, Sept. 3 Hufstader, Theodore W. '45, June 29 Porter, Herdman S. '45, July 4 Swett, Leonard I. '46, Sept. 7 Tricco, Gilbert H. '47, July 25 Halpin, John J. '49, Aug. 8 Hodgson, John H. '51, July 11 Young, Thomas D. '57, July 25 Lovejoy, Frank H. '97 m, July 10 Bass, Robert P., A.M. '11, July 29 Whittemore, Laurence F., A.M. '4B, Aug. 10 Hammerstein, Oscar 11, L.H.D. '52, Aug. 23
1899
CHARLES EZRA ADAMS died July 4 in Elliot Community Hospital, Keene, N. H., following an operation.
Charlie was born November 14, 1874 in Gilsum, N. H. He prepared for Dartmouth at K.U.A. with Edward R. Skinner, Dave Storrs and K. Beal, but left college after one year to work for Guernsey Brothers, Keene manufacturers of crackers and confectionery, remaining with them nearly 50 years as bookkeeper and eventually manager. In 1901 he married Mary E. Cavanagh of Providence, who became a successful dealer in antiques. He belonged to the F & AM. Locally he served on the Keene Council, the Board of Aldermen, as acting mayor, and as president of the Cheshire Dartmouth Club. He actively influenced outstanding young men to attend his own college.
In 1947 he sold his home, his wife sold her antique business, and thereafter they spent the winters at Daytona Beach returning to Keene for the summers.
Funeral services in Keene were conducted by Rev. Arthur Lundberg of the Gilsum Congregational Church and burial was in the Gilsum Cemetery. A remembrance of red roses and the presence of Warren and Helen Kendall expressed the affection of his classmates and their sympathy for the family-Survivors include his widow, a son, Herbert E. Adams '28 of Asheville, N. C. and a daughter, Elizabeth (Mrs. William E. West) of Brookline, Mass.
Charlie Adams was a considerate and companionable gentleman, faithful in whatever he undertook. He and his wife were singularly happy in their home life, and wholly in agreement also on the delight of attending class reunions.
1901
Louis LEONARD CRONE died June 2 at the Laconia, N. H., Hospital after a long sickness. His home was at 30 Forest St., Lexington, Mass.
He was born in Lexington, January 16, 1880. After graduating from the Lexington High School he entered college with this class and was graduated with the B.L. degree. He was the class odist at our Com- mencement.
All of his business life Louie was connected with Paine, Webber Co. of Boston. In 1908 he represented that concern in Butte, Montana, and later in Great Falls. He returned to Boston in 1912 and was with the same firm until his retirement in 1955. He was a trustee of the Lexington Savings Bank, a Mason, and a member of the First Parish Church of Lexington. His fraternity was Beta Theta Pi.
Possessed of a fine mind, he was a good student and always a favorite with his classmates and college friends. Of a genial and happy nature, he radiated good fellowship and warm friendship. He is survived by his wife Ruth, a daughter, Mrs. Daniel Doan ('36), and a son, Louis L. Jr. '32.
1903
LKSTER ALONZO WILLIAMS died at his home, 805 Roble Ave., Menlo Park, Calif., on June 11.
He was born in Hampstead, N. H., June 11, 1880, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1901, coming from French American College. Following graduation he taught schools at Brewster and Groveland, Mass., and Laconia and Plymouth, N. H. In 1909 he received an M.A. from Dartmouth. In 1911 he began graduate study at New York University where he was granted his Ph.D. degree in 1912 and a Pd.D. degree in 1913.
In 1913 Lester joined the-staff of the University of North Carolina serving under his college mate Harry Woodburn Chase, president of the university. During his services there he was professor of education, of school administration and of university extension work, fie also gave much time to the extension of high schools throughout the state which were increased several fold during that period.
He was called to the University of California in 1922 and served as professor of education until his retirement in 1945.
Lester was a Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science, a member of the National Educational Association, American Psychological Association and of two professional fraternities, Alpha Psi Delta and Phi Delta Kappa. He was the author of a number of books on secondary school education.
Lester was married December 31, 1908, to Charlene Tenney who died in 1937. A second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Bishop Williams, -and a niece, Mrs. Malcolm Cate of Haverhill, Mass., survive. Mrs. Williams is also well known in the educational field, having been professor of education and assistant to the president of Santa Barbara College.
Lester's remains were brought East and interred in the family plot in Riverview Cemetery, Groveland, Mass.
1906
Louis RICHARD DWYER died in Bradford, Mass., on July 30.- He was born in Bradford, June 28, 1882. He prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1906. He left at the end of junior year to take some special engineering courses at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Louis went into the steel manufacturing business in Ohio and finally became superintendent of the Republic Steel Co. During World War I he was sent to Australia to install the steel mills at Newcastle, New South Wales. At the time of the Russian five year plan he was loaned to the Russian government to help choose sites for locating steel mills. In the late 1930's he was again sent to Russia to check steel production.
Louis was internationally known as an expert on open hearth production and during World War II was sent to Chicago to supervise the installation of electric furnaces in the Chicago steel mills. He was frequently consulted by the War Department on various defense measures but refused a commission in the Army.
He leaves a niece, Mrs. Harold Brown of Hampton, N. H.
The oldest member of our class, GEORGE JAMES SEAGER, died in South Barre, Vt., on JulY 9.
George was born February 8, 1874, in Maidstone, England. In 1891 the family came to the U. S. and settled in Milo, N. Y. He graduated from the Lakemont (N. Y.) Academy in 1902 and in the fall entered Dartmouth.
After graduation he settled in South Barre where he taught English, Latin and French at Spaulding High School. In 1909 he was appointed Superintendent of Schools in Barre Town. In 1930 George resigned to become a salesman for the National Life Insurance Co.
Music and flowers were his hobbies. He was president of the Barre Flower Growers Association and the organizer and conductor of the South Barre Junior Symphony. He was a member of the First' Presbyterian Church and served as clerk of session for twelve years.
In 1908 George married Lillian Macaulay, who died in 1941. He is survived by his daughters, Mrs. Abran Lyttle and Phyllis G. Seager, and a son, Edward, all of South Barre.
1907
ALVIN GOODNOW WHITNEY died at his home, 104 Adams PL, Delmar, N. Y„ on June 19. The cause of his death is not known.
His birthplace was in Hamilton, Ontario, though his parents were Massachusetts people. He received his pre-college education at Groton (Mass.) High School and Groton Academy. After graduating from Dartmouth he attended Yale Forestry School, 1908-10.
His life was dedicated to forestry. He moved steadily and surely forward in the scientific field throughout his life. He became an assistant with the U. S. Biological Survey, and then served as a naturalist and teacher at the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Alaska Service.
During the war years, 1918-19, he served the Air Production Service, U. S. Army. From 1919 to 1927 Alvin was successively instructor, assistant professor and professor of the department of forest zoology at New York State College of Forestry. During the same period, he served as assistant director, Roosevelt Wildlife Forest Experiment Station. He then served, until he retired in 1953, as assistant director of the New York State Museum and also, from 1946 to 1953, as assistant director of New York State Science Service.
On July 28, 1912, in Washington, D. C., Alvin married Elsie Julia Gibson, a Syracuse graduate, who survives him.
1908
ARTHUR DENNIS O'SHEA, president and treasurer of Dennis O'Shea, Inc., of Laconia, N. H., passed away at the Laconia Hospital on July i, after being stricken at his home the previous day. He was born at Laconia on October 9, 1886, and prepared for Dartmouth at Laconia High School. While in college he played class and varsity baseball. His fraternities were Phi Gamma Delta and Dragon.
Following graduation he entered the family department store founded by his father in 1875. After his father's death in 1916, the business was incorporated. At the time of his death Arthur was president and treasurer and his son John was vice-president.
Art had been a leader in many fields. He was president of the Laconia Hospital Association when, in 1945, money was raised for a million-dollar addition. He had served as director of the New England Council, president of New England Clothiers, president of National Retail Clothiers and Furnishers, member of the Retail Code Authority, N. R. A., president of N. H. Business Development Corp., chairman of the Laconia Board of Education, first president of the Laconia Chamber of Commerce, first president of Lakes Region Association, vice-president of Daniel Webster Council Boy Scouts, and a director of the N. H. Tuberculosis Association.
He was chairman of the board and a director of the Laconia National Bank, president of the Laconia Development Corp., vice-president of the N. H.-Vt. Hospitalization Service, trustee of the City Savings Bank, trustee of the Rockingham Park Foundation, formerly a member of the State Planning and Development Commission, and of the Industrial Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Rotary Club, past exalted ruler of the Elks, Laconia Country Club, and the Newcomen Society.
Art is survived by his widow, the former Pauline Butler; a daughter Margaret, now Mrs. Cruger C. Harrold of Macon, Ga.; two sons, John Dennis '40, of Laconia, and Dr. James Arthur '42, a pediatrician in Lawrence, Mass.; nine grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild.
FREDERICK VIETOR of 26 Soldier's Place, Buffalo, N. Y., died at the Buffalo General Hospital on August 3. He had been in ill health for thirteen years but had continued active as the senior partner in the investment banking house of Vietor, Common, Dann and Co.
Fred was born November 8, 1884, in Lawrence, Mass., and prepared for Dartmouth at Lawrence High School. In college he was a member of our Aegis board and of the Orpheus Club. His fraternity was Delta Tau Delta.
He started his investment banking experience with Lee, Higginson and Co. in New York, but in 1912 was transferred to the Buffalo office. In 1914 he established the firm of Vietor and Hubbell which later became Vietor, Common, Dann and Co. In 1936 he became a member of the New York Stock Exchange.
Fred was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, the Buffalo Club, Wanakah Country Club, and the Dartmouth Club of Buffalo.
He was married on November 25, 1912, to Helen Colby of Lawrence, Mass., who survives him, together with a son, Frederick M. '41, an account executive with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith in Buffalo; a brother, Carl F. of Amesbury, Mass., and a sister, Mrs. Edwin A. Buthmann, of Lawrence.
1909
CHARLES WADLEIGH PEARSON died at his home, 71 Pierce Ave., Bridgeport, Conn., on June 30 after several years of failing health.
"Doc" was born in Nashua, N. H., on June 18, 1887, and entered Dartmouth from Nashua High School. He received his A.B. with Phi Beta Kappa rank. In 1923 he received a 8.8.A. degree from Boston University and in 1925 an M.B.A. He was a veteran of World War I, serving as a sergeant in the Marine Corps, 1918-19.
Upon graduation, he entered the business world for a short time and then the teaching profession and taught in the high schools of Portsmouth, N. H., and Springfield, Mass. After his discharge from the service, he became associate professor of business administration at the Massachusetts School of Pharmacy and was the author of a textbook Drug Store Business Methods. After six years in this position he entered the school system of Bridgeport, Conn. He taught in the Central High School for nine years and Bassick High School for ten years until his retirement in 1947. During this time, he served a ten-year term as treasurer of the Teachers Credit Union of Bridgeport.
Charles and his wife were great travelers and visited all of the 50 states but Hawaii. They were able to attend the fiftieth reunion in 1959.
On June 29, 1929 Charles was married to Ida Louise Bullard who survives him with two daughters, Mrs. Robert I. Brockett of Granby, Conn., and Mrs. John R. Sharpe of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Albert P. Ciarcia of the Stratford Universalist Church and the Rev. Wallace W. Anderson of the United Congregational Church at Bridgeport. Interment was in Oak Hill Cemetery, Sterling, Mass.
1910
WILLIAM BRUCE KNAPP died August 6 at Hillcrest Hospital, Pittsfield, Mass. His home was at 153 South St.
He was born October 3, 1886, in Worcester, Mass., and prepared for college at Allen School. After spending one year at Dartmouth he entered the University of Pennsylvania. In his senior year he left to work in China for the Standard Oil Co., later going into the importing and exporting business.
He imported food for the American Colony in Shanghai and later exported steel from the United States to China, Japan and the Philippines. He engaged in the real estate and oil business in Clearwater, Fla., for a time and then moved to Pittsfield where he became the distributor for Sinclair Refining Co. He formed his own distributing company under the name of Knapp Oil Corp., and was president of the company at the time of his death.
He was active in civic affairs in Florida and Pittsfield. During World War II he served as Pittsfield's gasoline conservator and conducted several programs designed to acquaint the public with the part oil plays in the American way of life. He held memberships in the Crescent Lodge of Masons, the Victoria Lodge of Masons of Hong Kong, was a 32nd degree Mason and life member of the Shanghai Club.
Besides his wife, the former Glenroy McFarland, he is survived by a son, William Bruce Jr., and four grandchildren.
1912
ALVARO M. GARCIA of Grasmere, Staten Island, president of Garcia y Vega, Inc., cigar manufacturers, died June 20 at his home, 43 Delphine Terrace, following a long illness.
Alvie was born on Staten Island, December 19, 1890. He had been active in the company management since World War I when the illness of his father, who founded the firm, led him into partnership with his brother, Antonio F. Garcia '16 of White Plains, and Francisco Gonzalez of Tampa, Fla. The partnership continued until 1946, when the firm was incorporated and Alvie became president.
He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, the Dartmouth Club of N. Y„ the Grand Street Boys' Association and a life member of Tompkins Lodge of Masons. During his Tampa, Fla., residency he served on the board of directors of a retarded children's association. He also formerly held membership in the Richmond County Country Club, He served as secretary of the Class of 1912 from 1925 to 1936.
In line with his business, Alvie was one of the founders of the Cigar Manufacturers Association of America and served as its president from 1937 until 1945. He also aided in the founding of the Cigar Institute of America. Although he would be the first to disclaim the distinction, Alvaro was for many years one of the cigar industry's outstanding figures. A man of quiet but very personable manner, he was endowed with unusual managerial skills, a keen understanding of market requirements and a talent for merchandising cigars which impressed his contemporaries and gratified his customers. One of his most apparent traits was his exacting attitude where the quality of Garcia y Vega cigars and packaging was concerned.
In addition to his brother, Alvie is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Stirn Garcia; a son, Edmund S. of Grymes Hill, N. Y.; and a daughter, Mrs. Emelia G. Carlson of Plainfield, N. J.
COL. DEAN READE DEMERRITT, one of the veterans of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor nineteen years ago, died on July 24 in a hospital in Tulsa, Okla., following a heart attack. His home was at 1203 E. 30th St.
He was born at Northwood, N. H., June 12, 1890. After graduation he was connected with the Amoskeag Co. in Manchester, N. H. He went to Hawaii in 1928 and worked for Libby, McNeill and Libby. In 1937 he joined the Hawaii National Guard and was Assistant Adjutant General at the time of Pearl Harbor. He retired from the army in 1955.
He is survived by his wife, the former Ann Dodson, and a son Dean R. Jr. A memorial service was held in the Ninde Chapel, Tulsa, on July 27, and military rites were conducted by the Muskogee American Legion Post. Interment was in the National Cemetery, Ft. Gibson, Okla.
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HOWARD PORTER WARREN died June 16 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, after a long illness. His home was at 49 Lincoln Ave., Orange, Mass.
Pop was born in Keene, N. H., on July 28, 1890. He entered Dartmouth from the Keene High School and graduated in 1913 and from the Tuck School in 1914.
In the summer of 1914 he conducted an industrial survey for the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati. He then became an instructor in finance at the University of Cincinnati, College of Commerce, until he enlisted on August 29, 1917 for service in the Naval Reserve. On March 26, 1918, he was commissioned Ensign. He was supply officer on the USS Astoria with overseas duty until 1910 when he returned to the College of Commerce.
On August 4, 1919, as the result of a chance encounter with his classmate, Dean Thompson, he became production manager of Minute Tapioca Co. in Orange. He retired as manager of Minute Tapioca Plant of General Foods in 1955.
Pop had an active career in many organizations of local, state and national scope. He was an active church man who served the Orange Universalist Church as its treasurer and its Universalist Men's Club. He belonged to the Temple Lodge of Masons in Keene, N. H., and was a member of the Crescent Royal Arch Chapter in Orange and was Commander of Orange Knight Temple and the Melha Shrine of Springfield, Mass. He was a charter member of the Orange Amerlcan Legion Post No. 172, its second commander, and was the oldest past commander.
The Orange Kiwanis Club counts him among its charter members; he was president in 1928. He was associated with the Community Chest, the Orange Board of Selectmen, director of the Orange National Bank and vice-president since 1956, a member of the Orange Industrial Associates, chairman of the Dexter Park School Building Committee, and United Fund chairman, 1957, 1958.
His active part in obtaining state and federal funds for repair of flood and hurricane damage in 1938, and his success in bringing about flood control for the Orange area will be recalled each spring when the rivers rise. His vision in promoting the establishment of the Orange Municipal Airport will continue to be an asset to the community.
Besides his wife, Arlene White Warren, he leaves a son, John C. Warren '46, two daughters, Mrs. Janet W. White and Harriet H. Warren; a sister, Mrs. Arthur H. Chivers; and six grandsons.
1914
JESSE HERBERT BABCOCK died July 16 at Memorial Hospital, Niagara Falls, N. Y., following an illness of three months. His home was at 960 Vanderbilt Ave.
Jesse was born April 28, 1892, at Waldwick, N. J. He prepared for Dartmouth at Eastern High School, Washington, D. C. He was with the Hooker Chemical Co. for over 41 years and retired May 1, 1957 as vice-president and director. He joined the company's Niagara Falls plant in 1916, as a research chemist. Successively he had been research manager, manager, director and vice-president in charge of development and research.
Jesse married Eleanor Stockett on May 1, 1916. He is survived by his widow; a daughter, Eleanor Babcock Hunt; a granddaughter and two brothers.
1915
ALBERT STANLEY LLEWELLYN, prominent South Carolina industrialist and president of the Camden & Kershaw County Chamber o£ Commerce, died at his home, 1613 Lyttleton St., Camden, on July 4. Death came peacefully in his sleep early that morning.
Stan was born February 24, 1887 in Arlington, Mass. and prepared for Dartmouth at Colby Academy. An outstanding track athlete, he became co-holder of the Dartmouth 100-yard dash record of 10 seconds. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Casque and Gauntlet.
He was active in YMCA in Cambridge, Mass., later becoming secretary, in boys work in Virginia and with the Virginia Regiments on the Mexican Border in the summer of 1916. In 1916-17 he became manager for M. Steinert & Sons Co., Manchester, N. H. From June 1917 to February 1919 he was in the U.S. Army as 2nd Lt. in the Quartermaster Corps.
After World War I, Stan was personnel manager for Lancaster Mills, Clinton, Mass., and then went to Camden as manager of the Wateree Mills plant of the Kendall Company there. Twenty years later he became manager of the Inman and Riverdale Mills in Spartanburg, S. C., returning to Camden five years later to establish the Llewellyn Iron Works which he owned and operated for many years.
He was a member of the James LeRoy Belk Post #17 of the American Legion and a Past Department Commander. He received the S. C. American Legion's Distinguished Service Award in 1957. He was one of the original members of the board of directors of the Santee-Cooper Authority and served in this capacity for seven years.
He was a member of the South Carolina State Development Board, established in 1945, and served for fourteen years, thirteen of which as chairman of the Board. He was also a member of the school board, a Rotarian, and a 32nd degree Mason. Stan did an outstanding job as 1915 Class President from 1945 to 1950 and we all remember his masterful handling of our 35th Reunion dinner in Hanover.
On June 7, 1919, he married Lucy Grey Anderson of Richmond, Va., who attended Hollins College, and who survives him, together with two sisters, Mrs. Arthur Winham of Lebanon, N. H., and Edith Llewellyn of Martinez, Calif.
Services were held July 5 in Grace Episcopal Church of which he was a member, many coming from towns throughout the state to pay their respects to one who was greatly loved, respected and honored. Burial under the United States flag was in the Quaker Burying Ground adjacent to Camden, fulfilling his wish never to leave his adopted State of South Carolina.
Stan Llewellyn, high minded, strong in faith, open hearted, lover of humanity, respected, beloved, loyal to Dartmouth, he leaves the happiest of memories to all who knew him.
GEORGE WESTCOTT HUTCHINS, owner and president of G. W. Hutchins Co. of Sioux City, lowa, supplier of supplementary feed for live stock, died June 20 after a fourmonths illness.
Hutch was born October 31, 1892 in Sioux City. He entered Dartmouth from Sioux City High School and became active in the College Choir, freshman and varsity football, varsity track, the Press Club, junior prom committee and the Dramatic Club. He was a member of The Lambs, Psi Upsilon, and Casque and Gauntlet. Upon graduation he became a salesman for Curtis Bros. & Co., makers of sash, doors and woodwork in Clinton, lowa.
Enlisting in the Navy in June 1917, he became an Ensign 051 the USS Black Hawk and was promoted to Lt. (jg) September 9, 1918. From then until his discharge February 5, 1919, he was attached to the USS Louisville transporting troops.
Hutch then became treasurer and sales manager of Champion Milling & Grain Co. o£ Clinton. In 1933-34 he was with National Woodwork Association in Chicago. He then formed G. W. Hutchins Co., which he operated up to the time of his death.
On January 17, 1918, he married Grace Joehnk, who survives him. He was a member of Lyons Lodge, A F & AM, and lived at 203 Sioux Apts., Sioux City.
1916
HAROLD HENRY JOHNSON died in Esparto, Calif., on April 17. Born in Bethlehem, N. H., December 1, 1894, he entered Dartmouth from Goddard Seminary, but stayed only through sophomore year, transferring to Tufts, where he received his M.D. degree in 1919.
After practicing as a surgeon in New York City until 1943, he moved to California. The class has no further record of his career.
ARTHUR GILLESPIE FISKE died suddenly on July 13 at his home, 172 Nesmith St., Lowell, Mass., presumably of a heart attack, and 1916 has lost another congenial and respected son.
Art was born in Chicopee Falls, Mass., February 26, 1893. He attended Tilton Seminary. In college he was a member of the freshman football team, the varsity track squad, and Sigma Chi.
In 1920 Art joined the American Woolen Co. in South Royalston, Mass., and later lived in Stoneham, Mass., before moving to Lowell, where he was paymaster of the company for more than 25 years. More recently he had been with J. P. Stevens Co., in Andover, as an accountant. He was widely known in textile circles. In Andover he was a member of the Andover Country Club.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth Keresey Fiske, and a son, Neil.
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CLARENCE BUTTENWIESER died August 16 of a heart attack in the Lake Placid Memorial Hospital at Lake Placid, N. Y. He was 62 years old and lived at 888 Park Ave., New York City.
Clarence, who was spending his vacation at the resort, and had planned a trip West, was an independent floor broker in the New York Stock Exchange for 28 years. A native New Yorker, he was the son of the late Joseph L. Buttenwieser, real estate owner and operator. He graduated with the Class in 1919 and received a medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Clarence did not pursue his medical career and was a member of a textile concern until he became a broker in 1932.
During World War II he served as a captain in the Army's Medical Administrative Corps for three and a half years, with eighteen months in the Pacific Theater.
Clarence was a trustee of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations and the Hebrew Technical Institute. He belonged to the Harmonie Club and the Sunningdale Country Club in Scarsdale.
Surviving are his widow, the former Helene Lederman o£ San Francisco; a son, James Lawrence; a brother Benjamin J., and two sisters, Mrs. Florence B. Klingstein and Mrs Gertrude B. Prins.
Of all our classmates, Clarence was, without a doubt, one of the most loyal. He rarely ever missed a class dinner in New York, or a reunion in Hanover, and he was a most generous benefactor of the College and the Alumni Fund and the Class Memorial Fund. He made frequent trips to Hanover over the years and was always keenly interested in all the affairs of the College. Your secretary, and all the New York classmates who knew' him best, considered him their good friend.
Representing the class at the services at Temple Emmanu-El, Fifth Avenue at 65th Street, were San and Jane Treat, Win Batchelder, Tom Bresnahan, Harry Colwell, Chet Demond, Dick Dudensing, Ken Huntington, Ray Legg, Lou Munro, Nick Sandoe and Lou Stone.
Commenting on the eulogy given by Rabbi Marx, one of our classmates wrote, "He certainly knew Clarence and most of the things in which he was interested, for he eulogized him for about twenty minutes without once gilding the lily. He made particular reference to Clarence's loyalty to Dartmouth and the great interest he had in the Class of 1919." Another wrote, "The service was most impressive and a moving and fine tribute to a warm, friendly, and generous man." All of us extend to Helene and the family our most heartfelt sympathy in their sad loss.
DONALD LORD FINLAYSON died July 24 at his summer home in Kennebunk, Maine, at the age of 62.
Don was born in Rye Beach, N. H. He was a veteran of World War I.
After teaching at R. I. School of Design and Wells College, he joined the Cornell faculty in 1928 where he became professor of fine arts. Don taught the history of American arts and crafts and collaborated ill teaching courses in the history of architecture. He received an M.A. from Brown University in 1923 and was a Proctor Fellow at Princeton, 1924-25. He retired from Cornell in June.
He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth; a son, Robert Lord Finlayson; a daughter, Mrs. Louise Drake of Barrington, R. I.; and a sister, Mrs. Lester Wells of New York City.
Funeral services were held at the Unitarian Church in Kennebunk on July 26. Larry Eastman of Portland, Maine, represented the Class at the services. Don was a good cor- respondent, always keeping the Class in- formed of his many activities, a loyal Dart- mouth man and 'iger, and he will be greatly missed by all of us in the Class.
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HAROLD ARVIDIA TRULL, 62, of 50014 16th Ave., N.E., St. Petersburg, Fla., on July 20 was found dead in his bed, apparently from natural causes. A retired broker and insurance man, he had made his home in Florida since 1953.
In World War I, Harry, serving from March 23, 1917 to December 28, 1918, was promoted from seaman first class to chief boatswain's mate.
On April 8, 19.22 Harry married Hester Luther Stevens of Brookline. They had three children: Christopher, Lois, and Harold A. Jr. A former WSUN-TV employe, Christopher is now vice-president and advertising director of River Lakes Manor Subdivision.
Constantly on the move in a varied business career, Harry had lived in Boston, Philadelphia, Martha's Vineyard, and Edgewood, R.I.
In 1923 he was director of the Boston Dartmouth Club, but in recent years he had not been active in alumni affairs.
1922
JERE LONG ROBINSON died January 19 in San Diego where he and his family made their home at 4109 Front St.
Jere was born in Akron on May 15, 1899. He entered Dartmouth from Akron Central High School. A member of Phi Kappa Psi he is remembered by classmates as a congenial, enthusiastic friend.
Following college Jere lived for almost twenty years in Akron and Cleveland where he was in the real estate business. Moving to California in 1940, he became Los Angeles manager for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. During the war years he was in the production planning department of the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. at San Pedro. After the war he was territory manager of the Los Angeles area for the Kelly Springfield Tire Co. Subsequently he moved to San Diego where he was associated with the Michelin Tire Co.
Jere and Charlotte Hawkins were married on October 10, 1926. He is survived by his wife, their son Jere L. Robinson Jr., their daughter, Mrs. Alice Goss, and four grandchildren, all in San Diego. To Charlotte and the family the class offers its deepest sympathy.
WILLARD GILBERT SAWYER died from a coronary occlusion on June 20 at his home 316 Greenoaks Drive, Atherton, Calif.
Jib, as all classmates and a legion of friends knew him, was born January 8, 1900, in Birmingham, Ala. Following graduation from the University School in Cleveland he entered Dartmouth with all of us in 1918. At college he was a friendly, popular and talented classmate. He was highly gifted as an artist and his drawings and designs were constant features of student publications and posters. His contributions to Jack O'Lantern and to our class Aegis were outstanding. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Delta Omicron Gamma and Dragon.
After graduation Jib entered the lighting equipment manufacturing business and lived most of his career in Cleveland. He joined the John C. Virden Co. and served in all capacities throughout its organization. In 1937 he became president of the company. He was one of the early leaders in the Lighting Equipment Manufacturers Association and an original founder of the American Home Lighting Institute. Five years, ago he and his family moved to California and have since lived in Atherton.
Jib and Virginia Odell were married January 24, 1930. Their three daughters are Martha, Janet and Virginia, who survive him. In 1950 Jib was married to Rosalie Brynd who also survives him with his brother, Charles W. Sawyer '23. The Class and all of Jib's many friends share deeply in bereavement with the family.
J923
LUTHER HILL ELLIOTT of Northwood Ridge, N. H., passed away July 17 at the Veterans Hospital in Manchester.
In May of 1959 he wrote as follows: "I was a World War I 'bride' at Dartmouth — was there but one year. Then went to Harvard Summer School. I graduated from the Art Museum School of Boston in 1917. Never did get acquainted with my Dartmouth class. Now sneak up to Hanover frequently to attend the Great Issues lectures and always stop at the Coffee Shop. In the '30's and '40's I used to drop in at the Dartmouth Club of New York City, when I was with the Vacuum Concrete Corp."
Luther leaves a wife, Mary, two sons and two daughters.
1924
The recent deaths always come as a shock to us, but all of us were greatly disturbed to hear that ARTHUR AVERY WATSON had died suddenly, after a very brief illness, on June 24 at the Hartford, Conn., Hospital. His home was at 51 Golf Rd., Wethersfield. It was a very few days before that the secretary had a warm letter from him speaking of his happiness in the many honors he had received when he retired on November 19, 1958 (he was named "Man of the Year" by his friends and associates in business and politics in the Wethersfield area), and his frequent seeing and lunching with such classmates in the Hartford area as Ed Nason and Rollie Taylor.
Art Watson had a great zest for living, and his memory is kept living in a large family of eight children, Joyce, Eunice, Betty Ann, Robert, Richard '59, Judith, Gary (a freshman in Bates), and Thomas. He was born December 16, 1902. He married Helen Letts on September 6, 1924, very soon after graduation—for us (Art resigned after a year and a half to enter the insurance business in February 1922).
His honors upon retiring, when he was given a silver bowl "as a symbol of our love and affection," and when Democrats joined with his Republican friends to acknowledge his contributions, rested on his twelve years' service with the Metropolitan District Committee and the Republican Committee and his sixteen years on the school board. We can all be glad he had his "day" and that he could say, "This is a most wonderful evening . . . one of the nicest I have ever had."
Art started in insurance in 1922; by 1927 he was with the Wakefield Morley Co., but in 1930 he founded Arthur A. Watson & Co. in Hartford, general agents, in which work he had the respect and friendship of all.
GILBERT THORNTON died suddenly July 2 in Bloomfield, N. J., where he made his home at 219 Essex Ave.
Gil was born January 3, 1902 in Newark, N. J. His father was a sculptor. While in college Gil was a member of Zeta Psi and Delta Chi Sigma, and played baseball. His first work, after graduation, was as a teacher, but by 1931 he was listed as assistant treasurer of the Baker Paint & Varnish Co. in Jersey City, N. J., and as treasurer after 1934. He is survived by his wife Ruth, whom he married in 1930, and his daughter Barbara.
Many remember that Gil was an active man, interested in many sports such as badminton, fishing, hunting, and tennis. Our sympathy is sent to his wife and daughter.
1925
We regret to report the death of FORD WORKMAN ALLEN on July 22, at NewtonWellesley Hospital after a long illness. His home was at 59 Adella Ave., West Newton, Mass.
Ford was born in Kansas City, Mo., May 10, 1903 and prepared for his two years at Dartmouth at Marquand Prep School, Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. After his sophomore year he transferred to the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1925.
After several years with the Anaconda Wire & Cable Co., Ford joined the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. as a methods analyst in 1938, a position he held until the time of his death. He was director of the Systems & Procedures Association and of the Isle of Spring (Me.) Association and a member of Dalhousie Lodge of Masons.
Surviving are his wife, Frances (Mendell), and a brother, James W. of Evanston, Ill., to whom the deep sympathy of the Class is extended. Notwithstanding his natural allegiance to the university from which he got his degree, Ford remained loyal to Dartmouth and was a staunch supporter of its aims. His death truly is a loss to the College and the Class.
JOHN FREDERICK REEDER died in the Greenwich, Conn., Hospital on June 15. His home was at Old Mill Road.
Jack was born April 29, 1903 at Toledo, Ohio, and prepared for Dartmouth at Scott High School. While at Hanover he was a member of Psi Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet and played on the freshman and varsity football teams, earning letters his junior and senior years.
He was secretary of the Toledo Alumni Association, 1926-27, class agent in 1939, and currently a member of the Alumni Council. During World War II he served in the Navy as a lieutenant commander. He was a member of the Greenwich Country Club, the Petroleum Club of Houston, Texas, and the Navy League of the United States. He was also a member of the National Model Railroad hobby of constructing model railroads from "do-it-yourself" bits.
Jack's entire business career was in the field of advertising. It began with CampbellEwald Agency in Toledo. He later served as advertising director for the Cadillac Co., and as vice-president of Young & Rubicam, Inc. of New York from 1935 to 1945, when he became vice-president and general manager of Walt Disney Productions in Burbank, Calif. He later became associated with Wm. H. Weintraub & Co. of New York until 1952 when he joined the New York advertising firm of Benton & Bowles, Inc. At the time of his death Jack was a senior vice-president and director.
Surviving Jack are his widow, Laurie Mann Reeder, two sons, Robert and John F. Jr. of Greenwich; two daughters, Mrs. Adam Breuer of Winnetka, Ill., and Mrs. David Graf of Los Angeles, Calif.; a brother, Robert H. Reeder of' Toledo, and a sister, Mrs. Joseph Huston of Winnetka. Both the College and the Class mourn the loss of another loyal son and brother.
*927
While playing golf on the afternoon of July 16, EDWIN HAROLD FOWLER suffered a coronary occlusion which caused his immediate death. He had had no known previous heart trouble, and was apparently in excellent health. The news of his death came as a great shock to all of us, particularly those who had been with him at most of our reunions in recent years.
Ed was born in Rochester, N. Y., on April 6, 1906, grew up in West Haven, Conn., and came to Dartmouth from West Haven High School. While in college he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, the Arts, the varsity football squad, and was business manager of Tower, the college literary magazine. In 1939 he was awarded the degree of Chartered Life Underwriter by the American College of Life Underwriters, and subsequently was president of the Philadelphia Chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters.
After graduation from Dartmouth, he became a newspaper reporter in New Haven, worked for a short time for the National Carbon Co., and in 1931 entered what was to become his life work when he became an agent for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. The next year he was promoted to assistant manager in New Haven, and in 1937 to the post of regional field supervisor for the state of Connecticut. In 1941 he moved to Philadelphia, as regional manager of the Southeastern Region, resigning that post to become district manager at German-town in 1949. At the time of his death his district was a national company leader. He wrote numerous articles pertaining to the life insurance field.
On July 15, 1929 he was married to Francis E. Maginness. They had three sons, Edwin II '53, Richard, and Robert, all o£ whom survive him, as does his mother, Mrs. Medora Fowler.
Ed maintained an active interest and close association with Dartmouth and the Class of 1927. He was a past president of the Dartmouth Club of New Haven, and an active member of the Philadelphia Association. He was present at nearly all of the reunions the Class has ever held. His gracious manner and ready smile will be greatly missed whenever we gather in the future, and our deepest sympathy is extended to the members of his family. Their home is at 209 Marple Rd., Haverford, Pa.
While visiting his patients at Winchester, Mass., Hospital on the night of July 17, DR. JOHN HENRY HOLLERAN suffered a fatal heart attack, the second member of the Class of 1927 to have been so stricken in as many days. One of the leading surgeons in the Greater Boston area, Jack was senior surgeon at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital. His home was at 12 Bryant St., Wakefield.
He was born in Roxbury, Mass., on November 2, 1904 and prepared for Dartmouth at Boston Latin High School. He graduated from the Dartmouth Medical School, and received his M.D. from McGill University in 1932. From 1932 until 1935 he took surgical training at Boston City Hospital and entered private practice in 1936. He was a member of the Massachusetts and Middlesex-East Medical Associations, past president o£ the Melrose Hospital staff, president of Wakefield Medical Associates, past president of the Wakefield Lions Club, and a director of the Wakefield Cooperative Bank.
While in college Jack was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, Casque and Gauntlet, and was a tackle on the varsity football team for three years, the last two as a regular.
On January 16, 1936, he was married to Muriel DeSousa, and they had four children,. Muriel Ann, John H. Jr., Gerald, and Edward, all of whom survive him, as do a brother and two sisters. The sincere sympathy of the Class is extended to all of them.
1930
HUGH KIRK JACKSON died of a heart attack on July 17, while driving home from the Stamford (Conn.) Yacht Club after a day of sailing on Long Island Sound. This news was. indeed a shock to those of us who had seen Kirk at reunion only a month previously,, apparently in the best of health and completely recovered from a heart attack of about two years before.
Kirk was bora in Newark, N. J., July 18. 1907, and attended Montclair Academy. At Dartmouth he was a Tuck School major and a member o£ Sigma Nu. He was manager of quotation services at Teleregister, Inc. of Stamford, manufacturers of stock brokers' market quotation boards and similar equipment. Prior to joining Teleregister in 1956, he had been general manager of C.G.S. Laboratories, Stamford, for about five years, and before that, president of Crystal Research Laboratories, Hartford; secretary of Marsales & Co., New York; and with Dillon, Read St Co., New York. He was a Mason and a member of the Stamford Yacht Club.
He is survived by his wife Helen and their two children, Bonnie Jean and H. Kirk Jr. who was born in 1958 and is one of the youngest children of any Thirtyman; by three children of a previous marriage, Mrs-William L. Cowhill of Pascagoula, Miss., Jay Kirk and Judith; by his father and by two-grandchildren. The funeral service was held in the First Presbyterian Church, Stamford.
Kirk was devoted to his family, and with them enjoyed life to the full. They will miss him sorely, as will our Class, of which he was a loyal member.
WALTER HART BIRNIE passed away suddenly on August 18. Walt had not been in the best of health during the last few months but his, death came as a shock to all who knew him. Private funeral services were held at his home, 9 Myopia Road, Winchester, Mass., and burial was in Wildwood Cemetery, Winchester.
Walt was born in Springfield, Mass., July 2, 1909. At Dartmouth he majored in physics, was on the swimming team for four years and captained the team as a senior. At one time he held the Spaulding Pool record for the 440-yard swim. He was a member of Psi Upsilon, Green Key, and Casque and Gauntlet. His death is the first among the 1930 members of his fraternity.
After graduation Walt attended receiving a B.S. degree in 1932. He then became associated with the United Shoe Machinery Corp. and was comptroller of its research department at the time of his death.
On June 14, 1932 Walt married Mary Kidder of Winchester, who survives him, together with two daughters, Mrs. William A. Stoops Jr. of Needham, Mass., and Hart; two sons, Arthur K. and Richard W., and four grandchildren.
Walt frequently attended Dartmouth gatherings and football games. Most recently he had attended the annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association last February. He worked for the College in the Capital Gifts Campaign- He had planned to attend our 30th reunion, but at the last moment was unable to do so.
Walt will be greatly missed by all his friends and especially by Dartmouth men. We in 1930 deeply regret his passing, and extend our sincere sympathy to his fine family.
1933
RAYMOND WEST FERRIS JR. passed away suddenly at his home on Roanoke Lane, Hingham, Mass., on June 13. Funeral services were held at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, Hingham.
Ray was born in Akron, Ohio July 26, 1911, and attended Western Reserve Academy where he participated in four sports and several non-athletic activities. At Dartmouth, he majored in physics, was a member of Chi Phi, the Yacht Club and the Glee Club. In his senior year, he became head cheer leader. After graduation, he did graduate work at M.I.T. in engineering and business administration.
His whole business career, starting in 1934, was spent with the Shipbuilding Division of the Bethlehem Steel Co., where he advanced steadily to become assistant contract manager in 1943 and contract manager in 1951, the position he' held at the time of his passing. Ray's was a key staff and administrative job involving billions of dollars of Navy and civilian contracts for ships in their many phases. He was headquartered at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Mass., but was required to travel considerably since his responsibilities covered all Bethlehem yards on both the East and West coasts.
Despite this, he managed to be most active in many church and civic affairs. He was particularly interested in Boy Scout work and continued his enthusiasm for sailing through his membership in the Hingham Yacht Club. His professional associations included membership in the American Society of Naval Engineers.
Ray is survived by his wife, Phyllis L. (Vernon), and two sons, Raymond W. Ill, a student at Dennison University, and Christopher V., who attends Governor Dummer Academy.
The Class of 1933 extends its most sincere sympathies to his wife and family.
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DR. STEPHEN CHRISTOPHER MEIGHER died on July 26 after collapsing in the physicians' parking lot of Ellis Hospital, Schenectady, where he had been attending a staff meeting. His home was at 1294 Lenox Rd. in Schenectady.
Steve was born in Saratoga Springs on January 26, 1913, and came to Dartmouth from Schenectady High School. He was a varsity diver for three years and a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Green Key, and Casque and Gauntlet.
In 1938 Steve received his M.D. degree from Cornell University Medical College and spent four years as a resident surgeon at New York Hospital. For three years he was an assistant in surgery on the faculty of the college. He also studied at Mayo Clinic, Harvard and at Brompton Hospital in London.
Steve served over four years in the Army Medical Corps during World War IX in this country and with the 182 nd General Hospital and the 112 th Evacuation Hospital in Europe.
In Schenectady he was chief of surgical services at St. Clare's Hospital, senior attending surgeon at Ellis Hospital, and was on the consulting staff in general surgery at Sunnyview Hospital. He also was an associate in surgery at Albany Medical College.
He was a director of the Schenectady Trust Co. and a director of Blue Shield in his area. He was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a governor of the American Board of Abdominal Surgery.
Steve leaves his mother, his wife Denise, two sons and two daughters.
A lead editorial on the day following Steve's death said, "His career was recognized as brilliant by his colleagues; to have it end so suddenly is tragic for the community as a whole. The sorrow of his family over his untimely death last night will be shared by many who were spared by his ministrations." And most certainly shared by his classmates at Dartmouth.
1936
MAJOR JOSEPH RITCHIE KINNEY JR. died of a heart attack July 24 while playing golf at the Manchester (N. H.) Country Club. Joe left the Class in 1935 and devoted his life to the military. He was in Europe in World War II and with the 25th Infantry Division in the Korean War. At the time of his death he was senior adviser to the United States Army reserve units in the Manchester area.
He is survived by his wife, two children, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kinney 'lO of New Rochelle, N. Y.
1939
COL. WILLARD WEBSTER MORRIS, Com- mander of the 1st Battle Group of the 28th Infantry, died during minor surgery on June 3 at Munich, Germany. Funeral services were held June 4 at Warner Kaserne. Graveside services were held July 22 at Arlington National Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Wade Morris; a son, Willard; and his mother.
Morris was posthumously awarded the Legion of Merit. He had also received the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Commendation Medal, and the Croix de Guerre. His World War II campaigns included Central Europe, Ardennes-Alsace, North France, Rhineland, and Normandy.
He entered the Army as a second lieutenant upon graduation from Dartmouth in 1939. He was a Phi Delta Theta. He subsequently graduated from the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth in 1946, and completed the U. S. Army War College in 1958. He had served as Personnel Staff Officer in the Pentagon and in a similar capacity in the Pacific theatre; as director of Officer Candidates at the Ft. Benning Infantry School; and had held positions in the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army. In 1958 he was Senior Adviser at Hue, Vietnam, and later to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Administration in Saigon.
1945
JOHN WILLIAM MCDANNOLD died in his hotel room in Los Angeles, November 17, 1959 as a result of heart seizure brought on by hepatitis. John came to Dartmouth from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles and spent his brief stay in Hanover as a resident of Smith Hall. He withdrew in September 1942 to join the U. S. Army and remained in the service until 1950.
For many years prior to 1958, John lived in California. In April 1958 he moved to Mexico and, until a week prior to his death, lived in Mexico City and Cuernavaca. There he was primarily occupied by the import-export business. However, throughout his adult life, John was an avid writer, part in avocation and part vocation. Early in 1959 he contracted hepatitis and, failing to respond to treatment, returned to Los Angeles to attempt recovery.
Friends report that John never married. He was a chronic reader and a scholar, possessor of a brilliant mind, a giant physique and warm personality. John McDannold will be missed by his friends in California and Mexico, and by his Dartmouth classmates of 1945.
HERDMAN SNOWDEN PORTER, better known to his Dartmouth friends as "Tony," died at his home at 43 Boulder Rd., Wellesley, Mass., on July 4.
A native of Philadelphia, Tony came to Dartmouth from Friends Central School from which he graduated cum laude. Leaving college at the end of his freshman year, he joined the U. S. Army Air Force as a lieutenant, serving three years, during which he was awarded both the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Flying Cross while flying thirty missions over Europe. He returned to Dartmouth for a year in 1945 and then left to graduate from the Philadelphia Textile Institute. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
At the time of his death Tony had just been named chief of New England sales for the textile division of Union Carbide Co. and had moved to Wellesley in March to assume his new position. He leaves his wife, Mary (Harding); a son Edward, 7, and a daughter Julia, 5; his mother, Mrs. William H. Porter, and his brother, William F. Porter, both of Rose Valley, Pa.
Our deepest sympathies go to his wife and family, for this gentle, quiet, softspoken man was, in the words of one of his best friends, "one of the nicest guys I ever knew."
1947
GILBERT HAROLD TRICCO of 117 Laurel St., Melrose, Mass., died July 25 of coronary thrombosis at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Gil was born in Chelsea, Mass., January 15, 1926. He attended schools there and graduated from the high school in June 1944. On July 1, 1944 he reported to Dartmouth in the U. S. Navy Officer Training Program. Upon being discharged from the Navy in June 1946 he returned to Dartmouth for the summer session and received a degree as Bachelor of Naval Science in September 1946. He returned to Thayer School and in June 1948 received the degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.
Gil went to work for the General Electric Co. and was enrolled in their training program. He advanced rapidly through the program and at the time of his death was in the engineering sales department at West Lynn, Mass. He attended night sessions at Boston University and had been awarded his master's degree in business administration this past June.
Gil was a member of Thompson Club of Engineers in Nahant, Phi Sigma Kappa, Maine Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, and the First Methodist Church in Melrose. He was junior warden-elect, Wyoming Lodge, A. F. & A.M., and a member of the State of Maine Commandery Knights Templar, in Kittery.
He married Audrey L. Moore of Melrose in April 1951. They were blessed with two outstanding children, a daughter Allyson, 6, and a son Roger, 3. Besides his wife and children he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert S. Tricco of Everett; a sister, Barbara; and two brothers, Charles of Everett and James of Peabody.
Funeral services were held on July 28 in the First Methodist Church, Melrose. Tom Gustenhoven attended and represented the Class.
1949
Gur Class joins to send its sympathy to the family of our classmate, JOHN HALPIN, who died in New York City on August 8 after an illness of several months. His home was at 270 First Ave.
John was born in New York on October 2, 1925, and attended St. Paul's School in Garden City. In college he majored in philosophy and was president of the Rifle Club. He had served in the army during 1944.
After attending Columbia Law School for a year, John received his LL.B. degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1951. He served as assistant corporation counsel for the City of New York.
John is survived by his mother, Mrs. Marguerite Halpin, and a brother, Frank S. Halpin.
1951
JOHN HYLAND HODGSON, a friendly, popular and talented member of the Class, died of Hodgkin's disease July 11 at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, N. Y. He had been ill and hospitalized periodically for nearly a year.
Jack had served as junior-senior high school principal of the Lowvjlle Academy and Central School in Lowviile, N. Y. for the past two years. He resigned in June because of his health, and had been hoping to assume a less strenuous post as director of placement at the University of Buffalo.
Shortly after graduation in 1951 Jack married Mary Lapp (Holyoke '51) of Buffalo. He served in Navy air intelligence in the Pacific from 1952 until 1955 and then completed work on his master's degree in history and education at Columbia University in 1956. From 1956 to 1958 he taught high school social studies at Syosset, Long Island, while working at the same time toward his doctorate in education at Columbia, studying new teaching methods to modify the bad effects of mass education.
At Lowville, where he was quite active in civic and professional affairs of all sorts, Jack was highly popular. He was influential in initiating a student exchange program and so effective in spearheading efforts to aid a native boys school in Nigeria that one of the buildings there is named for him. When he first fell ill last fall, the whole town prayed for his recovery.
Jack is survived by his wife, Mrs. John H. Hodgson, 14 Waters Terrace, Lowville, N. Y.; sons John, 7, and David, 3; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hyland L. Hodgson o£ Darien, Conn.
He is the sixth member of the Class to die since graduation. Others deceased are: Ulrich Adami, William Weiss, Bruce Carson, John Lounsberry, and John S. McQuade Jr.
1957
LT. THOMAS DAVIS YOUNG, a Marine Corps Reserve pilot, was killed July 25 when his jet fighter crashed and burned as he was taking off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. Officers at the Naval Air Station said that Torn was on a routine proficiency flight in a single-engined FJ4 Fury.
Tom graduated from Andover in 1953. where he was the President of the Student Council. After coming to Dartmouth he was active in the SOC and the Green Key before leaving at the end of his junior year to join the Marine Corps. After his flight training at Pensacola, Tom served in Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan. Last May 9 he remained in the Marine Corps Reserve and took regular training flights.
This summer he had been working as a technician for the Continental Can Co., but had planned to return to Dartmouth this fall to complete his studies.
Tom is survived by his wife, the former Betty K. Jones, and their six-month-old daughter, Elizabeth. To them the Class offers its deepest sympathy. Tom's home was at
Albert Stanley Llewellyn '15
Clarence Buttenwieser '19
John Frederick Reeder '25
