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.]

Ruggles, Arthur H. '02, Jan. 2 Aldrich, Oscar J. '04, Dec. 29 Hersam, George A. '05, Dec. 9 Cutting, Raymond '06, Dec. 20 Knapp, Merton C. '07, Jan. 6 Hobart, Harold S. '08, Jan. 3 Wooldridge, Reginald '08, Nov. 15 Jackson, Arthur M. '11, Dec. 22 Howland, Carl E. '14, Dec. 23 Ballou, Frederick B. '15, Dec. 14 Degnan, Henry W. '17, Dec. 11 Celce, Frederick W. '19, Dec. 21 Ripley, Hubert G. Jr. '21, Dec. 25 Swenson, Merwin W. '23, Dec. 31 Taylor, Horace F. Jr. '23, Dec. 24 Proctor, John W. '24, Dec. 18 Douglass, George L. '28, Sept. 18 Lowe, R. Gordon '28, Aug. 21, 1958 Gage, Phillip H. '29, Dec. 28 Kiger, Charles J. '33, Dec. 14 Quimby, Robert L. '35, Dec. 12 Richmond, Harold T. A. '38, Dec. 16 Lamson, Wetherbee '40, Jan. 2 Duncklee, John C. '46, Jan. 6 Messer, W. Stuart A.M. '23, Dec. 21

Faculty

WILLIAM STUART MESSER, M.A. '23, Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Emeritus, died December 21 at the Beverly (Mass.) Hospital. He was 78 years old and for nearly two years, while in poor health, had been living with his brother, Henry A. Messer of South Hamilton, Mass., who died in October 1960. For some years following his retirement from the Dartmouth faculty in 1952, Professor Messer had lived in Winston-Salem, N. C., the native city of his wife, the former Erie Wilson, who died there in March 1959.

Professor Messer had taught at Dartmouth for 33 years, from 1919 until his retirement in 1952. A native of Washington, D. C., he was graduated from Columbia University in 1905 and received his master's degree there in 1909, while teaching the classics at the Barnard School in New York. He taught Greek and Latin at Columbia from 1911 to 1919 and during that period received his Columbia Ph.D. in 1917. He was a University Fellow in the Classics, a Gottsberger Traveling Fellow in the Classics, and a Carter Fellow in the American Academy at Rome.

Professor Messer came to Dartmouth in 1919 as Assistant Professor of Latin. He was elevated to full professor in 1923, at which time Dartmouth conferred its honorary faculty M.A. upon him. In 1938 the Trustees elected him Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, one of the oldest chairs at the College. In 1922 Professor Messer was made an Honorary Doctor by the University of Padua in Italy. He was also a Knight of the Order of the Redeemer, conferred by the Greek government.

Professor Messer taught courses in classical civilization as well as in the Greek and Latin languages. Besides heading his department for many years he served on a number of the most important faculty committees, including those on educational policy and advisory to the president. With the outbreak of World War II, Professor Messer took on a role second only to that of the President of the College. He was vice-chairman, under President Hopkins, and directing head of the Committee on Defense Instruction, which had been granted extraordinary powers by the Trustees to make whatever curriculum adjustments were required by the emergency. He also served as chairman of the American Defense-Dartmouth Group, a committee early committed to America's participation in the war. And in 1944 he was named chairman of the Special Committee on Academic Adjustments, empowered to grant academic credit for military service and make other curriculum adjustments in the cases of veterans resuming their studies. Two years later he served on the Special Committee on the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.

After retiring in 1952, Professor Messer was for one semester a Whitney Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash.

Professor Messer was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of the American Philological Association, the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Classical League, and the British Classical Association. He was the author of The Dream in Homer and GreekTragedy and of many articles ,in classical and educational journals.

Professor Messer was married in August 1914 to Winifred Irish, who died only a few years later. His second marriage, to Edna Erie Wilson of Winston-Salem, took place in August 1924. He is survived by two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Henry A. Messer of South Hamilton, Mass., and Mrs. Henry Wilson of nephews. Funeral services were held at the Dane Street Congregational Church, Beverly, Mass., on December 23, and burial was in the Hamilton Cemetery.

1902

One of Rhode Island's and Dartmouth's most distinguished citizens, ARTHUR HILER RUGGLES, died at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, on January 2.

He was born in Hanover, January 26, 1881, the son of Edward Rush Ruggles, 1859, and Charlotte Blaisdell. His father was professor of romance languages and his maternal grandfather, Daniel Blaisdell, 1827, was Treasurer of Dartmouth, 1835-75.

In college Dr. Ruggles managed the football team his senior year and was a member of DKE and Casque and Gauntlet. After receiving his M.D. from Harvard in 1906 he interned at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. In 1909 he was elected assistant physician at Butler Hospital, a private mental hospital. He was elected superintendent of the hospital in 1922 and retired in 1948, remaining as general consultant. During the years when Dr. Ruggles directed the hospital there were not only many additions to the physical plant, and a large increase in the staff, but a vast improvement in the methods of treatment. He was a tireless advocate of the establishment of mental hygiene clinics as a measure to treat the mentally ill in time to avoid the necessity of hospitalization.

In 1932 Dr. Ruggles was selected to construct and organize the Emma Pendleton Bradley Home, a school for emotionally disturbed children. He was superintendent of the school until 1941 when he retired to become vice-president and president of the board of trustees.

In 1912 and 1913 Dr. Ruggles studied at the University of Munich where he came in touch with the revolution in psychiatry instituted by Sigmund Freud. At the outbreak of World War I, Dr. Ruggles became psy-chiatrist at a British war hospital in Scotland. When the United States entered the war he was commissioned a major in the Medical Corps and organized the first, neuropsychiatric unit in the A.E.F. After the armistice he became medical director of a base hospital in France and was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government.

Dr. Ruggles was constantly called on by his city, state and national governments for aid in solving problems in his field. In 1929 he was named Rhode Island representative to the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene in Washington where he was elected president of the congress when it convened. Ten years later he was named a representative of the United States at the second International Congress on Mental Hygiene held in Paris.

In 1926 he was a member of a committee appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to survey St. Elizabeth's Hospital and he later took part in surveys of Florida Hospital for the Insane and of Antioch College. In 1942 he was named to a committee to study the army medical service.

Dr. Ruggles was frequently called on by governors of his state to serve as consultant on the care of the mentally ill. He was a member of the advisory council of the State Department of Social Welfare, a member of the advisory board of the State Curative Center, and, in 1949, he was appointed a member of the State Parole Board. He was one of the organizers of the Rhode Island Society for Mental Hygiene and later its president and had served as a director of the Providence Council of Social Agencies. He had served as president of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and the American Psychiatric Association. During World War II he was consultant to the Secretary of War and chairman of the Committee on War Psychiatry.

Recognition of Dr. Ruggles' service to his community was expressed in frequent tributes. In 1940 he was the first recipient of a silver plaque awarded by the Men's Club of Temple Emanu-El and in 1944 he was honored at a wartime Sunday-in-the-Park ceremony where he was presented with a "Roger" by the Providence Journal Company for being "among the foremost in pushing back the frontier of healing to include the once unknown territory of the mind." He was honored by Doctor of Science degrees by Dartmouth in 1926, Brown in 1929 and University of Rhode Island in 1949. In 1937 he was made an honorary member of the Dartmouth chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

With all his national and international honors, Dartmouth was where Dr. Ruggles' heart was. He was a member of the Alumni Council, 1931-36; Trustee, 1936-46, and Emeritus Trustee until his death. In 1959 he received an Alumni Award for distinguished service to the College.

No better tribute was paid to Dr. Ruggles than that of the trustees of Butler Hospital on his retirement: "Any account of Dr. Ruggles' work would be incomplete if it failed to mention the help which he has given to hundreds of persons, having no claim upon him except that of their common humanity, who have come to him for counsel in their perplexities and troubles. The value of his help has been immeasurable and his generosity limitless." The Rhode Island Parole Board paid deep tribute to the memory of a great man and understanding citizen whose warm understanding and vast knowledge left a lasting imprint on the correctional system of Rhode Island.

Dr. Ruggles was married April 22, 1914 to Hazel Wheeler who died in 1939. He is survived by a son, Arthur H. Jr. '37 of 17 High St., Greenfield, Mass.; a daughter, Ann, of New York City, and a sister, Mrs. Helen R. Hodgkins of Phoenix, Ariz.

1905

GEORGE ALEXANDER HERSAM died December 9 after a brief stay at a nursing home in Peabody, Mass. He had been gradually failing for some months. He was born in Stoneham, Mass., October 16, 1878. Quiet, determined and serious, George plodded his way through college and Boston University Law School, where he received his law degree in 1907.

For some thirty years George practiced law in Stoneham and thereafter he continued his practice in N. Lebanon, Maine. While he never ran for office, he was active in politics as an ardent Republican. He was active and faithful, too, in a variety of civic duties. For forty years he was prominent in Masonic circles and had been Past Noble Grand of Columbia Lodge, Odd Fellows.

Directly following graduation from Dartmouth George married Mabel W. Home of Stoneham. In 1917 Mrs. Hersam died in childbirth, leaving George with five children. He devoted himself faithfully and unstintingly to bringing up his children and to seeing to it that they received good educations.

For the past five years George, after retirement, had made his home at 14 Howard Ave., Peabody, Mass. He is survived by three sons: Richard H. of Stoneham, George A. Jr. '29 of Miami, Fla., and Alfred R. of Lebanon, Me., and by two grandsons.

1906

RAYMOND CUTTING was born in Northfield, Vt., on July 2, 1884, and died in Montpelier, Vt., on December 20, 1960.

Ray started his college career at the University of Vermont but transferred to Dartmouth for his senior year.

For two years after graduating with the Class of 1906 he worked with his father in the promotion of Adirondack Ozonia, non-mineral spring water. Then he went to New York to work for the New York Telephone Co. but resigned in 1911 because of ill health.

Later on, when his health permitted, he engaged in lumbering operations in Tupper Lake, N. Y., and Northfield, Vt. Sickness forced him to retire several years ago and he had been living in a rest home in Montpelier.

Ray never married. His brother, Earl '12, survives him.

1908

REGINALD WOOLDRIDGE of Castleton, Vt., a retired entomologist, passed away of a coronary attack on November 15, 1960, while walking with his wife in their garden. He had been hospitalized for a heart condition in April but had been well all summer.

Reg was born March 11, 1884, in Melrose, Mass., and prepared for Dartmouth at Melrose High School. After leaving college he entered the U. S. Department of Agriculture and became an entomologist in the research station of the Bureau of Entomology in Melrose Highlands, Mass. In 1935 he was transferred to the station at Greenfield, Mass., as administrative assistant of personnel, from which he retired on March 31, 1949.

In Melrose, Reg was an honorary member of Waverly R. A. Chapter; past master Melrose Council, R. & S. M.; and past commander Hugh de Payne Commandery No. 20. In Castleton he was a member of Cairo Temple Shrine, Rutland, Vt.; treasurer of Lee Lodge No. 30, F. & A. M., Castleton; member and treasurer, Castleton Federated Church; a town lister and trustee of the Public Library.

On September 14, 1917, Reg married Margaret Adams Page of Melrose and they had one son, Reginald Jr., Middlebury '43, who was with Merrill's Marauders and the Mars Task Force in World War 11, and is now manager of the Utica, N. Y., Better Business Bureau.

After Reg's retirement he and Margaret moved to a house in Castleton built by Margaret's grandfather in 1850. Her greatgrandparents settled in Castleton in 1800. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery in Castleton.

1910

REUBEN RIXFORD COPP passed away November 26, 1960, at the Huggins Memorial Hospital, Wolfeboro, N. H. A heart attack following an operation was the cause of death. The Class was represented at the funeral by Kay Dyer, Beezle Parker and Art Rollins.

Reub was born July 19, 1887 at Strafford, N. H. and entered College from Concord (N. H.) High School.

He retired in 1952 after long service with the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. as an engineer, having entered that concern following graduation from Dartmouth.

Survivors are his widow, a daughter, Mrs. James Carey of California, and three grandchildren.

1911

Death came suddenly on December 22 to one of 1911's most loved family doctors. ARTHUR MORISON JACKSON died suddenly in the Whidden Memorial Hospital, Everett, Mass., of complications following an operation two days before. Art had been president of this hospital and had served it all through his medical career, in which he was a general practitioner and surgeon. Hundreds of patients looked upon him as their family doctor.

Art was born in E. Jefferson, Maine, June 12, 1889, and entered college from Everett, Mass., High School. In college he was on the freshman basketball team and the varsity football squad and belonged to Kappa Kappa Kappa.

Following graduation from Harvard Medical School in 1915 he was on the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital for two years before serving as Captain in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army. In 1919 he became associated with his father in Everett in the practice of medicine and surgery, to which he devoted his life and in which he was engaged up to the time of his death. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons and Aesculapian Club of Boston.

He and Ellen R. Lyons were married on October 3, 1921. Everett continued to be their residence for many years until their move to Winchester, Mass., where they made their home at 212 Main St., and where Art opened another office. His wife and three married daughters with several grandchildren survive.

Funeral services were held in the Church of the Epiphany the day before Christmas. It was suggested that those desirous of sending flowers might send memorials to the building fund of the Whidden Memorial Hospital or the Winchester Hospital.

CLINTON WARD ELWELL died at his home, 5 Bayberry Lane, Exeter, N. H., on December 7. He had been in poor health for many months and confined to his home, but maintained general supervision of his insurance agency.

Clint was born in Newton Junction, N. H,, August 16, 1889 but his parents moved to Exeter where he attended Phillips Exeter Academy and was later to spend much of his adult life.

He left Dartmouth to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and from then on spent his life in the field of insurance. He represented the Commercial Union, first as an agent, then as a special agent covering several New England states, until 1925. His change that year to the Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance Co. was referred to as follows: "A capable and well liked field man has elected to transfer from one first-class connection to another.

... Mr. Elwell may be relied upon to continue his good record." For three years he was special agent for Firemen's Fund Insurance Co. to be followed for the next 15 years as manager of the Fire Companies Adjustment Co.

During this period he had been living in Auburndale, Mass. He moved to Exeter in 1946 to carry on Elwell's Insurance Agency which was established by his father, Rufus Elwell, a former insurance commissioner of the State of New Hampshire. He served in the New Hampshire legislature, was a lecturer on insurance and was active in the Insurance Institute.

Services were held in the Exeter Congregational Church followed by burial in the Exeter Cemetery. He was survived by his widow, Frances Kelly, whom he married in 1914, a daughter in Wellesley, Mass., and four grandchildren.

1914

CARL EUGENE HOWLAND died in the Cottage Hospital, Woodsville, N. H., on January 2, after a long illness. His home was in Haverhill, N. H.

Carl was bom in Piermont, N. H., July 31, 1892 and graduated from Haverhill Academy. After graduating from Dartmouth he taught for two years and then became connected with Armour & Co. After two years in the Navy as an Ensign, he taught for several years in the Treat School, Helenwood, Tenn. In 1920 he returned to Haverhill to teach in Haverhill Academy, and later served as headmaster until 1928 when he took up the management of his father's farm, where he continued until his death.

Carl was a member of Grafton Lodge 46, F. and A.M., and of Ross-Wood Post, American Legion. He never married and is survived by a sister, Mrs. Millicent Breed of Haverhill.

1915

FREDERICK BROUGHTON BALLOU, retired president of Reliance Insurance Agency of Norfolk, Va., died December 14, 1960 at his home, 140 E. Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, N. Y., after an illness of several months.

Fred was born November 8, 1893, in Providence, R. I., and attended Dartmouth for two years where he was a member of Chi Phi.

He was a member of the 25th Division during World War I and had operated the insurance agency of which he was president for many years until his retirement in 1959.

Requiem services were held in St. James Episcopal Church in Scarsdale and burial was in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R. I.

He is survived by his wife, Catherine M. Ballou, and two daughters, Mrs. Robert Jevon and Mrs. Karl Clauset.

1917

HENRY WILLIAM DEGNAN died at a Fall River, Mass., hospital on December 11, 1960, after a two-month illness. His home was at 5 Grove St.

Henry was born at Lowell, Mass., April 3, 1893, and came to Dartmouth from Nashua, N. H., High School.

His entire business life had been in the newspaper field, first with New Bedford papers, and for the past 38 years with the Fall River Herald News. At the time of his death he was religious and copy editor of that paper. He had been a superior court reporter and as a result had developed a wide acquaintance with judges and members of the bar throughout the area.

Besides his wife, Margaret (Keeley), he is survived by a son, Henry W. Degnan Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., and five grandchildren.

1919

HEBER ASHLEY died on November 30 in the Veterans Hospital, Buffalo, N. Y. His home was at 349 Orchard Rd., Grand Island, N. Y.

He was born April 26, 1891 in Lowell, Mass. Heber was graduated with the class in 1919 and from Thayer School in 1920.

For many years he was associated with the N. Y. State Department of Public Works, latterly as supervisor for the Buffalo district. During World War II he spent four years in the Army Corps of Engineers, being stationed at Fort Belvoir, Va., and Camp Claiborne, La., where he was commanding officer of the Second Provisional Engineer Training Regiment with the rank of Lt. Colonel. He resumed his state career in 1946.

Heber gained wide acclaim among professional engineers for his experimental achievements in developing longer-lasting and safer New York roadways. In 1954 he supervised the drafting of initial plans for the Ontario, Erie and Niagara sections of the New York Thruway. He was named "Engineer of the Year" in 1958 by the Technical Societies Council of the Niagara Frontier. Heber was also past president of the American Society of Military Engineers and the N. Y. Society of Highway Engineers.

Surviving are his wife Stella; a daughter Yvonne, who is believed to be the class baby, having been born in 1916; two sons, Heber Jr. and Emery Ashley, all of Grand Island, N. Y., to all of whom goes the sincere sympathy of the Class in the loss of our distinguished classmate.

FREDERICK WILLIAM CELCE passed away on December 21 at his home at 37 Dartmouth Street, Holyoke, Mass. Death was caused by heart failure, possibly induced by a recent operation.

Fred was born in Holyoke on December 12, 1896. After attending Holyoke schools, Fred came to Hanover with the Class in 1915. While in college he became a member of DKE and Casque and Gauntlet. He left in 1917 and went to France with the old 26th (YD) Division. Returning in 1919, he graduated and went on to Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. in 1925.

Fred began practice in Holyoke and had a long and distinguished career in his home town. He was a member of the American College of Surgeons, the Holyoke and Hampden County Medical Societies, and the Massachusetts and American Medical Societies. For the past 15 years he had been chief of surgery at the Holyoke Hospital, and was on the staff of the Providence Hospital for many years. For most of his career Fred was a general practitioner but in the last decade had concentrated on surgery. However, he continued his interest in obstetrics and was the family physician for hundreds of families in the Holyoke area, whose devotion for him resulted in his carrying on a continuing consulting role.

Surviving are his wife Virginia; a son, Frederick Jr. '60; and a daughter, Mrs. David Bartlett, of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, to all of whom goes the most sincere sympathy of the Class in their sorrow.

Fred was one of 1919's most distinguished and most popular members and all of us will miss him greatly, as will the community which he served so well.

JAMES HOWARD WRIGHT passed away on November 29 of a heart attack at his home, 143 Arlington St., Winchester, Mass.

Howie was born in Holyoke, Mass., May 11, 1896, and graduated from Holyoke High School. He was graduated here in 1919 and received his G.E. degree from Thayer School in 1920.

He engaged in general engineering and for the past 34 years had been in the roofing business, first with the Philip Carney Mfg. Co., and since 1929 with his own business, the Wright Roofing Co., in the management of which he had the active assistance of his wife.

Howie was a member of the Winchester Rotary and of the Sagamore Lodge, A.F. & A.M. of Medford.

On September 2, 1922 he married Marjorie Salter of Holyoke, who survives with two sons, Dr. Roger H. Wright of Manchester, N. H., and Alan F. Wright '51 of Aiken, S. C.

Howie and Marjorie attended several reunions and fall parties at Woodstock and were always interested in the affairs of the Class and the College. Howie will be greatly missed by all of us and the Class extends its most sincere sympathy to Marjorie and the boys in their sorrow.

1920

On December 2 FREDERICK BARTON HAMM passed away after a long illness at his home in Vero Beach, Fla.

Fred was born in Cleveland, Ohio, September 1, 1897 and attended Evanston Academy before entering Dartmouth. As an undergraduate he was an enthusiastic member of various track and relay teams. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Casque and Gauntlet.

For many years Fred was a resident of Highland Park, Ill., and before his retirement was president of the Blakely Printing Co. He had lived in Vero Beach for the past several years.

On January 29, 1930, Fred married the former Dorothy Joy, by whom he is survived. He is also survived by two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Bettman and Miss Terry Hamm; two grandsons; and a brother, Edward F. ’30.

Services were held in Vero Beach.

1921

In poor health for some years, HUBERT GEORGE RIPLEY JR. Of 5 St. Charles St., Boston, died unexpectedly on Christmas Day, 1960, at the home of friends.

The son of an architect who made his home at 36 Birch Hill Rd., Newtonville, he was born December 9, 1897 in Roxbury, Mass. A graduate of Newton High School, Rip joined Sigma Chi at Dartmouth. He made a name for himself as a member of the Arts and as the author of the music in Rise,Please, a musical comedy in three acts with lyrics by Kip Orr '22 and with the production staged by Jerry Cutler '21. He also wrote the music for Chasin' Around, an extravaganza in two acts with lyrics by E. M. Curtis '20.

Rip wrote the music for still another musical show, The Sun God, when he was a graduate student at the M.I.T. School of Architecture, which he attended for two years after his four at Dartmouth.

In 1923 and 1924 Rip was associated with the Boston architectural firm of Blackall, Clapp & Whittemore, and in 1924 and 1925 with Irving & Casson-A. H. Davenport Co., dealers in furniture and decorations. For some years after 1935, employed by John H. Pray & Sons Co., also of Boston. Rip was head of the department of interior decoration and furniture.

In 1932 he wrote A Group of ParisianSketches, printed in Pencil Points, which in 1933 published his New England Inns andTaverns. A lifetime lover of music, he was a constant listener at Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts.

Rip never married and leaves no immediate family.

1922

WILLIAM BROWN PIERCE died November 24, 1960 in Pasadena, Calif., where he and his wife Isabel lived at 140 North El Molino. With high courage he had met the long, severe illness that preceded his passing.

Bill was born March 6, 1900, in Chicago where he prepared for college at the Harvard School. He was one of the highly esteemed, fine men who came from Chicago to Hanover in the autumn of 1918. At Dartmouth he was a friendly, popular classmate and a member of Psi Upsilon.

Following graduation, Bill lived in Chicago and for several years was president of the Martin Coal Co. He went into the investment business in 1929 when he began an association which lasted for many years with Bacon and Whipple Co. of Chicago. During World War II he served with the War Production Board and was in charge of manpower requirements for the electronics industry in the mid-west. Because of poor health, Bill and his family moved in 1946 to Tucson where he became president of the Arizona Irrigation and Construction Co. Subsequently the family moved to Pasadena where Bill was in charge of management investments with California Investors.

Bill and Isabel Ayres were married on June 10, 1924 in Chicago. He is survived by her, their two daughters Barbara and Georgia, and five grandchildren. Barbara is now Mrs. James A. Huck of Calendon Hills, Ill., and Georgia is Mrs.. Frederick L. Bishop of Northbrook, Ill.

To the family and to Bill's many friends the Class extends its deepest sympathy and joins in bereavement with the loss of a respected classmate and a loyal Dartmouth man.

1923

ELIJAH HENRY ALLEN passed away September 20 at the National Institute of Health, Washington, D. C. He was one of the outstanding colored physicians in the country.

After graduation Elijah received his M.D. from Howard University in 1926 and an A.M. in Health Education at Ohio State in

For many years he was director of the Central Louisville, Ky., Health Center which served a large portion of the colored population. His staff included four secretarial staff members, ten nurses, two part-time dentists, and a part-time physician.

On May 12, 1960, Elijah, or Henry, as some of us remember him, accepted a position as staff physician at the Carrie V. Dyer Child Health and Maternity Center in Monrovia, Liberia, a 100-bed institution. There he found much to do, in an area where his talents were much needed and diseases are so pronounced. He subsequently succumbed to an attack of malaria and was sent back to the states for treatment in the Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D. C. On August 25 Elijah was transferred to the National Institute of Health at the request of a doctor who was expert in the treatment of tropical diseases in that hospital. He could not recover and died September 20.

He is survived by his widow, Lulu Claire Allen, now living at 1000 S. 41st St., Louisville, Ky.

1933

CHARLES JAMES KIGER passed, away suddenly on December 14 at the St. Francis Hospital, Port Jervis, N. Y., at the age of 50. His home was at Foster Hill Rd., Milford, Pa.

Chuck was born in Paducah, Ky., and matriculated from New York City where he attended the George Washington High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and the Arts and participated in water polo and track. His major department was Tuck School.

Immediately upon graduation he went with the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. in a sales capacity and advanced steadily to the position of division manager, the post he held at the time of his death.

He is survived by his wife, Georgiana (Pulley), and a son, William P., to whom the Class extends its most sincere sympathies.

1955

JOHN SHELDON WILDER was killed December 7 in the collision of a Buddliner, a self-propelled railroad car, and a truck loaded with propane gas cylinders. The accident occurred one mile north of Nashua, N. H., where the Buddliner, on the Boston and Maine Railroad, struck the truck. Jack was thrown out of the railroad car and was one of six people killed.

Originally from Orchard Park, N. Y., Jack graduated from Orchard Park Central High School, where he was president of the Student Council, played football and participated in various musical activities. At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and majored in philosophy. He also took part in Outing Club and D.C.U. activities, but he was probably best known to his classmates as a singer, both in the Glee Club and the Injunaires. Jack's baritone voice and his warm, sympathetic personality made him a mainstay in both groups.

A member of the ROTC at Dartmouth, Jack spent two years on active duty and then attended Harvard Law School, graduating last June. At the time of his death he was living at 145 N. Adams St., Manchester, and was a clerk to the chief judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals in Boston. The accident occurred while en route to Boston with the judge.

Jack is survived by his wife, the former Sandy Smith, a graduate of Colby Junior College, and two children. The Class extends its deepest sympathy to them.

Prof. William Stuart Messer, M.A. '23

Arthur Hiler Ruggles '02