Deaths

[A listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past month. Full notices mayappear in this issue or a later one.]

Smith, Melvin W. '98, Aug. 23 Hutchinson, William L. '99, Oct. 5 Hess, Harold M. '03, Oct. 2 Manning, Patrick J. '04, Sept. 9 Farrier, Albert M. '07, Sept. 16 Josselyn, Stormont '10, Sept. 30 Barstow, Robbins W. '11, Sept. 17 Partridge, Lewis A. '11, Oct. 6 Killeen, James M. '15, Sept. 26 Sibbernsen, Drexel J. 'l5, Sept. 2 Merryman, Carl '16, July 30 Lininger, Homer D. '18, Sept. 8 Beattie, Gordon D. '21, Sept. 22 Hodgdon, Frank T. Jr. '21, Oct. 8 Palmer, Henry F. '21, Sept. 20 Brown, Howard B. '23, Sept. 21 Carey, George E. '27, Sept. 10 Koles, George S. '27, Sept. 29 Barnstead, George R. Jr. '28, Sept. 30 Armstrong, James W. '29, Oct. 3 Cate, Robert M. '29, Sept. 12 Page, Kenneth M. '29, July 22 Walsh, Joseph A. Jr. '29, Sept. 19 Heidler, George P. '33, Aug. 3 Woodberry, Ronald S. Jr. '40, Oct. 8 Berno, William H. '54, Sept. 27

1890

With the passing of WALTER WARREN ROWE on August 31, Dartmouth has lost another one of its oldest living graduates. In June of 1960, Walter had the distinction of being the oldest alumnus at commencement and was duly honored by the College and alumni groups.

The Dartmouth family lineage for Walter originates in 1856 when his uncle, Abraham Coffin, graduated. Over the span of years, two cousins, three brothers, a nephew, and two grandsons became alumni. The latest was his grandson, Preston B. Rowe, who graduated with the Class of 1962.

Born July 2, 1867 in Winchester, Mass., he attended public schools before entering college. He truly identified himself as one of the outstanding class musicians. With two classmates he organized the Dartmouth Medley Club. One of these is Frederick O. Grover, the sole surviving member of '90. Walter was also a member of the Ocarina Trio and Phi Delta Theta.

Frequent canoe trips up the Connecticut River to Thetford Center culminated in his marriage to Bessie L. Preston on August 2, 1893 in Lowell, Mass. Their family soon grew with the arrivals of Preston 8., Priscilla S. and Herbert H. Priscilla died shortly after birth and Herbert in 1944.

Walter's departure from a teaching career came in 1892 when he entered his father's electrical contracting business in Boston. In the early fifties, he retired as owner of the business. However, he kept his old office, complete with a grand piano. Surrounding walls were covered with pictures of Dartmouth professors, past presidents, and scenes of the campus - a proper decor for frequent entertaining of his Dartmouth cohorts.

In 1935 his wife died and eventually Walter made his home with his son, Preston, at 126 Chestunt Street in New Bedford. Most recently he had been confined to a nursing home.

Besides his son, he is survived by a brother, Braynard of Warner, N. H., three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

1898

MELVIN WILBUR SMITH died in Mease Hospital, Dunedin, Fla., on August 23, 1962 after a stroke suffered earlier on that day. He was born in Hollis, N. H., Sept. 26, 1876. He prepared for college at Melrose (Mass.) High School and received his A.B. from Dartmouth in 1898. In college he belonged to Phi Delta Theta and was a prize winner for proficiency in Botany. On Oct. 5, 1900 he married Edith May Whitford. Their only child, Grace Evelyn, died shortly after birth. Melvin taught in Plainfield, Mass.; Haydenville, Mass.; Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Mass., and in Boston, Mass., from 1898 to 1901; then at American School of Correspondence, Chicago, 1901-1906; served in the traffic department of Sears, Roebuck Co. 1906-07; J. W. Butler Co., Chicago, 1908-1909 and then finished his business career as freight claim adjuster with Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R. from 1909 to 1944 at which later date he retired.

He served as Superintendent of the Sunday School, Chairman of the Board of Directors and First Reader in First Church of Christ, Scientist at La Grange, Ill., and as assistant to the Superintendent of Christian Science Publishing Co., Boston, Mass. He later moved to 242 Garden Circle South, Dunedin, Fla., where, after the death of his wife in May, 1954, his niece, Miss Eleanor W. Hoft, kept house for him.

His renewed friendship with Fred Lord, whose winter home is also in Dunedin, revived his interest in the College in his later years.

1904

DR. PATRICK JOHN MANNING of King Philip Drive, North Kingston, R. I., passed away unexpectedly Sunday, September 9, 1962. Pat was born in Wareham, Mass., on January 7, 1880, the son of the late Patrick and Catherine (Battles) Manning. They had six children - five daughters and Pat, the only son. Pat entered with the class of 1904 from Hyde Park High School, but transferred to the Medical School from which he received his medical degree in 1907.

His first internship was at Lewiston, Me., and from there to the St. Joseph Hospital in Providence, R. I. Then Pat settled in Wickford, R. I., as a general practitioner. In 1913 he became medical examiner for District #4, Washington County, R. I. In 1917 he enlisted in the Medical Corps with the rank of Ist Lieutenant and was first sent to Harrison, Ind., and later to Fort Devens, Mass., where he examined over 10,000 men. In July, 1918 he was promoted to Captain, attached to the 303rd Infantry, 2nd Battalion as surgeon, and shipped to Le Havre. At one time he was in command of Group F Infirmary with 3000 men, nearly all colored troops. Pat was discharged August 5, 1919.

During his college days, Pat was a baseball player. He made his M as a summer vacation, player in the White Mountain League and coached baseball at Middlebury College. He was a charter member of Delta Tau Delta and a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa (Medical).

During the very early period of his practice as a doctor, he was also a correspondent of the Providence Journal. Pat was a founder and member of the American Legion of North Kingston; a member of the American Medical Association; Rhode Island Medical Society; Washington County Medical Association, and Friendly Sons of St. Patrick.

Pat is survived by his wife Ann L. (Fratus) Manning. They had no children. The respect and affection in which Dr. Manning was held in his own town of North Kingston, where he resided for 44 years and in an official capacity for over 28 years, is the finest tribute which can be paid to any man. His classmates of Dartmouth also join in a tribute to him for his loyalty to College and Class.

1905

PERCY CHANDLER LADD, D.Th., died suddenly September 5, in a hospital in Burlington, Vt., from a heart attack. He lived at 45 South Willard Street. He was born in Berlin, Vt., April 21, 1883. At Dartmouth Percy was an able student, somewhat shy. He applied himself with distinction to his courses and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa at graduation. After a brief experience in teaching Percy chose the ministry as his vocation. He was graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1911 with the distinction of magna cum laude.

Percy served as assistant minister in Middletown, Conn., for two years. In 1913 he assumed the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Moline. Ill., where in nine years, with the help of his wife, he built up the church physically and spiritually. His next church was in Denver, Colo. Here again he succeeded in adding much to the strength of that congregation.

In 1931 Percy went to the College Street Congregational Church in Burlington for his last regular pastorate from which he retired in 1945. Since his retirement he has done substitute preaching in a number of churches, even as late as this year when he served in a church in Elizabethtown, Vt.

Between his last two pastorates Percy attended the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colo., and received the degree of Doctor of Theology in 1931. He also served with the Congregational Board of Ministerial Relief in New York for seven years.

P. Chandler Ladd, as he signed himself formally, was a man of wide interests, keen intellectual curiosity, and withal a kind friend. His correspondence, which he took pleasure in maintaining, was most interesting. He was very widely read and, an indication of his desire for varied knowledge, he pursued in later life on his own initiative the study of such languages as Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic. He was an ardent and successful gardener and, as a mark of his physical vigor, he climbed Mt. Mansfield with an elderly friend in 1960.

At the request of his church in Moline, Percy had written an account of the history of that church. He had also written a beautiful appreciation of his wife, whom he had cared for devotedly through years of invalidism. These articles had private circulation.

Percy had not traveled widely but he greatly enjoyed two visits to England and Holland after his wife's death. He found particular interest in the Shakespeare country and historic churches.

Percy was devoted to our College and visited Hanover frequently for various events, including our class reunions. He demonstrated his interest alike in Dartmouth and in poetry by presenting to the Baker Library a collection of books of poetry as a memorial to his son. George Alden Ladd '41, who was killed in World War II.

In 1913 Percy married Esther Josephine Sanderson. Two children were born to them: Mary Elizabeth and the above mentioned son. Percy is survived by his daughter, Mrs. F. K. Hayes, of Bethesda, Md., and two granddaughters. His brother, the late Carey R. Ladd, was a member of 1902.

1906

HAROLD EARLE SMITH of 53 Beacon St., Athol, Mass., was born in Petersham, Mass., on April 2, 1885. At the age of two he moved to Athol and he graduated from the High School in 1902. He entered Dartmouth College with the Class of 1906 and after graduation, entered Tufts Dental College from which he graduated in 1908.

Harold started practice in Leominster, Mass., and at the same time coached the high school baseball team. After a year he moved to Provincetown but in 1912 he settled in Athol where he opened an office. In 1910 he married Edith Allan of Boston and they had one daughter, Helen, who is the librarian at Worcester State College. Edith died in 1918 and in 1921 Harold married Ruth Keet of Bernardston, who survives him.

At the time of his retirement in 1958, Harold had been a practicing dentist for fifty years; twenty-six of which he served as dentist of the Athol schools. In his youth he played summer baseball and was offered a contract with the Worcester Club of the Eastern League.

Harold was a member of the American, Massachusetts and Wachusett Dental Societies; the Rotary Club; Athol Rod and Gun Club; Worcester County League of Sportsmen's Club and Hiram Lodge of Masons of Provincetown.

On Friday, August 24 Harold was injured in an automobile accident and was taken to the Athol Memorial Hospital where he died on Sunday, September 2, 1962.

1907

SAMUEL FRINK HATCH died Tuesday June 26 at his home at 6 Manataug Trail, Marblehead, Mass. Sam was born in Greenland, N. H., September 23, 1884, attended college for one year and then went to M.IT. where he was graduated in 1908 with a B.S. degree. For many years he was employed by E. B. Badger Engineering Co. of Boston and later with the American Printing Co. of Fall River, Mass., retiring in 1955.

On November 12, 1912 at Cambridge, Mass., he married Florence Delia Ford. There were two sons, Robert Ford Hatch who graduated from Boston University and Samuel Frink Hatch Jr. a graduate of Northeastern University, five grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Gardner of Riverside, Ill., all of whom survive him.

Services were conducted at Buckminster Chapel, Portsmouth, N. H., Friday afternoon, June 29. Burial was at Hillside Cemetery, Greenland, N. H.

ALBERT MOSES FARRIER passed away at Clifton, N. J., on September 16 after a long illness. He lived at 410 Clifton Blvd. Al was born in New York, August 27, 1883 and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1903 from Brooklyn. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and played left guard or center on the varsity football team, which was one of the greatest college teams of that period. He left college at the end of sophomore year and attended courses in the College of the City of New York.

Al started out as a salesman with J. A. and W. Bird & Son in '05-'06; then became associated with M. H. Treadwell Co. '07-'13, vice-president, Eastern Car and Construction Co. '13-'20; vice-president, Thomas A Edison, Inc., '23-'27; division manager, American Car and Foundry Co. '30-'35; New York agent of Faitoute Iron and Steel Co., '36-'52. He retired in 1952. He was also engaged in various real estate operations during the above years. High school football coach for five years and intercollegiate and professional football official for 25 years, Al was a member of Thompkins Avenue Congregational Church of Brooklyn; Harlem Yacht Club; Branchbrook Golf Club; Eastern Intercollegiate Football Officials Association; Gamma Delta Psi and Sussex Library Association.

On July 31, 1905 he married Mary Weathered, a graduate of Smith College, who survives. There was one daughter, Dorothy, a graduate of Wellesley and Columbia.

The Class of 1907 sends its sincere sympathy to his bereaved family.

WALTER THOMAS KYLE died May 12, 1962 at Bellmore, Long Island, N. Y. His last known address was 95 Beech Ave., Berea, Ohio.

Born September 14, 1888, at Troy, Ohio, "Brad" Kyle was the son of Thomas Barton Kyle, one-time member of the class of 1881. A graduate of Troy High School, Brud spent only a limited time with the class of 1912 and no word from him, directly, has been received since he left college. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

Notice of his death reached the Alumni Records Office through the kindness of Frederick Long '11 of Santa Barbara, Calif., who reported that, until his retirement a few years ago, Brud lived for 25 years in Berea, Ohio, and was employed by the Bank of Cleveland. His wife was the former Marion Griffith (deceased) of Toledo, Ohio. His survivors include two daughters: Mrs. C. B. Clarke of Bellmore, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. C. L. Clarke of Berea, Ohio; and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Cherrington, Altadena, Calif.

SAMUEL SPAULDING STEVENS, long lost to class officers and the Alumni Records Office, is now officially reported to have died, June 7, 1954, in the Danvers State Hospital at Hathorne, Mass.

Sam was a civil engineer, Thayer School '13. Starting out with Aberthaw Construction Co., Boston; Westinghouse, and sundry New York companies, he landed with the New York Municipal Railway Corp., in charge of a subway construction job in Brooklyn. When that was completed, he went to work for the Interstate Commerce Commission and, by 1916, was an assistant field engineer in charge of a roadway party, Bureau of Valuation, that took him up and down the entire eastern seaboard. He was in Chillicothe, Ohio, when last heard from in 1920. Not until 1937 was it learned that, sometime in the intervening years, Sam had been hospitalized. After that - silence!

Sam was born in Newburyport, Mass., November 4, 1882. From Mechanics Arts High School, he entered M.I.T.; transferred Jo Dartmouth in his senior year to enter Thayer School where, with a distinguished group of Twelver candidates, he received his C.E. degree in 1913.

1909

COL. PERCIVAL JOHN MACNAUGHTON Passed away on August 22 in Luke AFB Hospital, Glendale, Ariz., following a long Period of disability resulting from his World War II service. Jack was born on February 1887 at Kingsbury, Que., Canada and entered Dartmouth from Murdock Academy, Baidwinsville, Mass. He remained two years and when the Army asked for engineers to go to the Panama Canal Zone, he volunteered. Upon his return to the States, he entered the University of Pennsylvania for his junior year and took part of his senior year at the University of Texas. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

He returned to Massachusetts and was employed in the engineering department of the city of Springfield until World War I when he served as an executive officer in the Navy. After the war, he set up his own contracting company, P. J. MacNaughton, Inc. in Boston. His business took him back to Texas in the vicinity of Waco. He came back to Boston in 1932 as an executive vicepresident in charge of the engineering and construction division of Warren Bros. Road Co.

Holding the rank of Captain, U. S. Reserve, Construction Division in 1936 he was called back to Washington, D. C., and served at the Munitions Building until mustered into the Army Air Force on August 21, 1940. He served in the South Pacific until his discharge at Walter Reed Hospital as a Lt. Colonel in November 1944 because of disability. Having been a pilot of several years experience, he was able to scout the islands, lead his men to the site, construct the air strips needed, and then lead them into combat. He was awarded the Asiatic Ribbon with two campaign stars (Guadalcanal and No. Solomons).

After his discharge, he went to Prescott, Ariz., where as a registered professional engineer, he was a consultant and design engineer specializing in structural, mechanical, and electrical plans and pre-stressed concrete units. In 1950, he moved to Phoenix, Ariz., and organized the P. J. MacNaughton Associates to carry on the same work.

In Phoenix with the help of William G. Gilmore '34 he founded the Phoenix Chapter of Quiet Birdmen. Possessed of great courage, he forced himself to be active up to a short time before his death. His respect and affection for Dartmouth was deeply inured in him.

He is survived by his widow Virginia of 6816 N. 12th Way, Phoenix.

Funeral services were held on August 27 in Phoenix with Dartmouth being represented by William G. Gilmore '34. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.

1911

ROBBINS WOLCOTT BARSTOW'S distinguished career ended with his death from cancer on September 17 in the Stamford, Conn., Hospital. He lived at 13 Hamilton Ave. in Stamford. He was born in Glastonbury, Conn., Feb. 18, 1890 and was the third generation of the Barstow family to graduate from Dartmouth and Hartford Seminary and enter the Congregational ministry. His son, Robbins Jr. '41, became the fourth generation at Dartmouth. From 1910 to 1912 he served as a missionary of the American Board in Turkey which postponed his graduation two years. His later degrees were B.D. from Hartford Theological Seminary, honorary LL.D. from Ripon College, Boston University and Dartmouth College. He was a chaplain in the 81st Field Artillery in 1918 and 1919.

Bob's pastorates were South Cong. Church, Hartford, Conn.; First Cong. Church, Woodstock, Vt.; South Cong. Church, Concord, N. H.; and First Cong. Church, Madison, Wis., prior to 1930 when he became President of Hartford Theological Seminary for 14 years. He then became first executive of the Commission for the World Council Service and in 1945 an executive associate of the Church World Service until the National Council of Churches was formed. He was executive director of the Department of Overseas Union Churches up to the time of his retirement in 1959. His retirement years were busy ones. He filled several interim pastorates up to the time of his final illness. He was in demand as a preacher and radio speaker and wrote for many publications. He was the author of several books and pamphlets. His fifteen years of ecumenical service took him abroad eighteen times and to nearly every country.

Bob was engaged in many activities rounding out a full life. Some of them were: President, Hartford Federation of Churches; Vice President, Connecticut Council of Churches; Trustee, Congregational Annuity Fund; Committee on Interchange of Preachers of the American and Foreign Christian Union; honorary president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of Connecticut; trustee of Stamford Museum and Nature Center; Stamford Forum for World Affairs; and Editorial Board of Religion in Life and Boston Seaman's Friend Society. His great hobby was sailing and he was fleet chaplain of the Cruising Club of America and was especially interested in the work of the Maine Seacoast Mission.

A Memorial Service was held in the First Congregational Church in Stamford where the class was represented by Ken Clark. He is survived by his wife, the former Dorothy Rogers, his three sons, Robbins Jr., John, Paul, and three sisters. In lieu of flowers it was requested that contributions in his memory be sent to the United Church Board for World Ministries, 475 Riverside Drive, New York for a hospital wing at the Chigore Mission, Southern Rhodesia, Africa, where a niece is nurse and superintendent.

1912

CECIL PILLSBURY DODGE died at his home in York Beach, Me., on September 7, 1962. Cy was born January 25, 1889 at Lowell, Mass. He prepared for college at Lowell High School and was at Dartmouth for three years. Cy had the distinction of being elected the first president of the Class. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

Prior to World War I Cy was with Wyman's Exchange in Lowell, in the real estate and fire insurance business. He spent his service in the war as a second lieutenant, Aviation Reserve Corps and as a flying cadet at Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, La., where he taught Americans to fly.

In 1920 he was in the oil business in Texas. Following this he was newspaper reporter, columnist, radio news commentater, and a boxing promoter and manager. At the time of his death Cy was president of Sullivan-Dodge Associates, fund raising consultants in Hartford, Conn. He was a member of Catholic Men's Clubs of York, Me., a communicant of Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the American Legion.

On August 30, 1926 he married Veronica Sullivan of Lowell who survives him. There are two daughters, Mrs. Francis J. Hartman of Moorestown, N. J., and Mrs. Joseph M. Guinan of Farmington, Conn. He also is survived by a sister, Mrs. Beulah Laskey of Scottsdale, Ariz., and six grandchildren.

HARRY EDWARD SAWYER passed away on August 15, 1962 at Kearney, Neb., after a long illness produced by arteriosclerosis. Harry, son of Charles N. '72, was born on June 11, 1889 at Scottsville, Kan. He prepared for college at Kearney High School, spent three years at Doane College, Crete, Neb., then entered Dartmouth in the autumn of 1911 as a senior and graduated cum laude the following June. While at Dartmouth he attended Thayer School.

Following graduation Harry became an observer for the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institute. For three years he was in Africa and for another year on the yacht Carnegie in the Pacific Ocean and its islands. In 1917 and 1918 he was in the Congo as far as Lake Chad and the Nile. Two years later found him an instructor in navigation at the Boston School of the U.S. Shipping Board. From there he went to Lordsburg, N. M., and spent two years as sanitary engineer in an internment camp. During World War II the Sawyers lived in Long Beach, Calif., where he was employed in the shipyards for five years. He returned to Kearney in September 1949 as city engineer. His last assignment with the U.S. Army Engineer Corps was spent in Tripoli for several months. Since then he has been suffering from a progressive vascular disease which prevented him from attending our 50th Reunion and finally took his life.

On December 2, 1922 Harry Sawyer married Una May Snidow of Falls City, Neb. They had one daughter, Harriet Barbara, now Mrs. Jens Andersen of Fort Hall, Idaho. Mrs. Sawyer died in 1932 and on Christmas Day, 1939 Harry married Edna G. Hoppe who survives him together with five grandchildren.

1913

COLLIN WELLS died on May 24, 1962. He had not been ill recently but just went to sleep and did not wake up. He was born on March 5, 1892 in Brunswick, Me., son of Elizabeth Tucker and David Collin Wells, then Professor at Bowdoin College and later full Professor at Dartmouth until his death in 1911.

Collin prepared for Dartmouth at the Hanover schools and Phillips Andover Academy. He was a member of the Golf Team (1, 2 and 3) and was manager his junior year; member of the Webster Club; Delta Kappa Epsilon and Casque and Gauntlet. He spent his senior year in Tuck School.

He taught school in the Newton (Mass.) High School after a year with Winslow & Co., woolhouse, in Boston, Mass., and a year at Massachusetts Agricultural College and farm experience in Syracuse, N. Y. He went to New York in 1917 with Row Peterson & Co., educational publishers and then to the advertising department of Harpers Bazaar.

He enlisted in April, 1918 and went to Camps Upton and Devens. As part of the 76th Division, he went over seas in July 1918 to Vzay-le-Verron, France, and then to St. Aignan. Following the armistice he was with the Virginia Good Roads Assoc. He married Miss Elizabeth Cornell on November 10, 1920, who died October 23, 1951.

Collin started soon after World War I what was to be his real career in the field of public relations, with the Riverdale Childrens Assn. in New York. In the 1930's he was also representing the Equitable Life Insurance Society and continued his golf interests. In 1939 he returned to Public Relations only, and more specifically fund raising.

He married Marjorie Cornell on June 14, 1956, and she now lives in Norwich, Vt., in the home Collin had bought and to which they had planned to retire this past summer.

Collin was a loyal Dartmouth man and a wonderful friend.

1915

DREXEL JOHN SIBBERNSEN, chairman of the board of the Nebraska Bridge Supply and Lumber Company and of the Independent Lumber Company, died September 2 1962 at a local Omaha hospital. Drex attended Lawrenceville (N. J.) School and Dartmouth where he was a member of Psi Upsilon.

A veteran of World War I, he served as an artillery officer with a unit that won the Croix de Guerre and was in action from January 1918 until the Armistice. He joined the above companies in 1925 after six years as a rancher near Center, Colo. Residing at 5210 Davenport Street, Omaha, he was a member of the Omaha Club and the Palm Beach (Fla.) Sailfish Club.

Surviving him are his wife, Marion Towle; sons, Drexel J. Jr., and Everts S., both of Omaha; and a brother, Albert H. '18, Elk City, Neb. Funeral services were held at Burket Chapel, with burial at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

1916

DR. DOUGLAS ROY GORDON, a nationally known chest specialist, died September 8 at the Barnstable County Hospital, Pocasset, Mass., at the age of 69. He was retired and had made his home for the past 15 years at Centerville on Cape Cod.

Doug was born in Matteawan, N. Y., December 18. 1892. His early schooling was at Wilson School, Beacon, N. Y. and Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mass. From there he entered Dartmouth and with the coming of the war enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, from which he was discharged in June 1918. He received his B.S. degree from Columbia in 1919 and his degree in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1921.

After interning at a New York hospital he was a resident at Bridgeport General Hospital in Connecticut. He was medical director of O'Dell Memorial Hospital, Newburgh, N. Y.; resident physician at New York State Hospital and Ray Brook Hospital, Saranac Lake, N. Y.; a consultant at St. Luke's Hospital, Newburgh; Cornwall Hospital; Goshen Hospital and Rockland State Hospital, all in New York.

Since coming to Cape Cod he was a consultant at Barnstable County Hospital, a director of the Barnstable County Health Assn., Barnstable Historical Society and the Centerville Civic Assn.

Doug was a former president of the Newburgh Rotary Club., Newburgh Medical Society and Newburgh Public Health Assn. He was a member of the American Academy of Tuberculosis Physicians; American College of Chest Physicians; American Trudeau Society and the City Club of Newburgh.

Doug is survived by his wife, Katherine F. Gordon and a sister, Mrs. Arthur Parkerson of Marlboro, N. Y. Funeral services were held in Hyannis and the interment in Centerville. Alec Jardine represented the Class at the services.

Funeral services were held August 1 for CARL PLUMMER MERRYMAN, of 433 North Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, Ill., who died two days previously in Passavant Hospital, Oak Park, at the age of 69. He suffered a severe cerebral thrombosis almost a year prior to his death, which left him a total invalid.

Carl was born in Cambridge, Mass., January 26, 1893. He graduated from Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and after finishing at Dartmouth got his law degree in 1925 at Yale Law School, where he was a member of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. He lived in the Chicago area most of his life and had been a resident of Oat Park for 11 years.

Upon finishing school Carl entered business and in 1928 was treasurer of the Tellite Mfg. Co., of Chicago. In 1934 he became president of the Dur-O-Lite Pencil Co., of Melrose Park, Ill., and held that office and was part owner of the company until his retirement in 1959.

He maintained his interest in Kimball Union Academy throughout his life and was elected a trustee in 1953, serving in that capacity until his death. Carl is survived by his wife, Mabel R. Merryman and a brother, Roger P. Merryman of Arlington, Mass.

DR. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE TELFER, a dentist in the New York city area for more than forty years, died in the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, after a brief illness, on August 11, at the age of 69. Ike, as he was known to his classmates, was born in New York City June 8, 1893. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in that city and entered Dartmouth, which he attended for three years. As well as our first class president, he was an avid football player, and member of Theta Delta Chi. He then went to the New York College of Dentistry from which he received his degree in dental surgery in 1918. He served in the Army in World War I.

In 1920 he married Lois Edith Johnson, who survives him, together with two daughters, Mrs. Mary Jane (Curtis C. '36) Cornstock of Midland Park, N. J., and Mrs. J. R. Sexton of Middletown, 0., and six grandchildren. His oldest grandson, Curtis Comstock, is a member of the Class of 1964.

Ike was a Professor of Operative Dentistry at the Columbia University Dental School and also served as the supervisor of the American Red Cross Dental Clinics of New York County, following the War. About a year ago he moved his dental practice to Glen Spey, N. Y., where he resided at the time of his death.

1917

PORTER GALE PERRIN, 66, of Kirkland, Wash., died on September 9, 1962, as the result of a heart attack. He lived at 11085 Champagne Point Drive. Porter was a native of New England, and prepared for college at Tilton Seminary. After graduating from Dartmouth, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, he embarked upon a teaching career, starting out as a teacher of history at the Provincetown (Mass.) High School. In 1921 he received his A.M. in English at the University of Maine, and in 1936 his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

He became a nationally known authority on modern usage of American English, and wrote a series of seven textbooks on the subject including "Writer's Guide and Index to English," a well-known college outline. He taught at the University of Maine; Northwestern University; Middlebury College; Colgate University where he stayed for 18 years and was chairman of the English Department; and the University of Washington where he had been a Professor of English since 1947. He was a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English and a member of the Modern Language Association of America.

On September 20, 1926, at Northampton, Mass., he married the then Dorothy L. Merchant. He is survived by his widow and three sons, William Burton of Leonia, N. J., Stephen Gale of Cambridge, Mass., and Peter Anthony of New York City.

1921

A nationally known leader in the rubber industry for 33 years who began his career as an instructor in Chemistry at Dartmouth, HENRY FRANCIS PALMER passed on suddenly in Pasadena, Calif., September 20. He lived at 1285 Rexford Ave.

Henry was born July 2, 1899 in Lynn, Mass. He prepared for college at Middleboro High School. At Dartmouth he joined Delta Chi Epsilon, played in the Dramatic Association Orchestra and in the college band for four years and the college orchestra for two. He won the Atherton Greek Prize in his freshman year. A Chemistry major, he received his A.B. from Dartmouth, his M.S. from Ohio State University in 1922, Ph.D. in 1925 and Ch.E. in 1938.

In 1921 and 1922 Henry was a parttime instructor in Chemistry at Ohio State University and full-time instructor at Dartmouth 1922-23.

In 1925 he entered the rubber business as a research chemist for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; and from 1926-1942 Chief Chemist for the Xylos Rubber Division of Firestone. Subsequently he received a promotion to chief chemist of the parent company.

During World War II he was on loan to the Rubber Reserve Co. as production manager of the government's synthetic rubber plants. After the war he returned to Firestone to become assistant director of Chemical Laboratories.

In 1946 he went into private practice as a consultant in rubber technology. Four years later he accepted the position as general manager of the Kentucky Synthetic Rubber Corp. in Louisville, Ky., an organization set up by eleven companies to operate Plan cor 1278, a government-owned synthetic rubber plant. Subsequently he was promoted to vice president.

In 1953 Henry moved to the U. S. Rubber Reclaiming Co., Inc., of Buffalo as vice president in charge of sales and research, and in 1954 he was appointed technical director of the Kirkhill Rubber Co. of Brea, Calif.

Subsequently Henry bought a de-luxe apartment motel with swimming pool and housekeeping facilities, the Jamaica, in Palm Springs, Calif., and managed it personally until his health gave way. He sold it and retired in 1959.

On June 23, 1923, Henry married in Chillicothe, Ohio, Lucille I. Fisher by whom he had two sons, Henry Francis and Neal Richard. On February 28, 1948 he married in Washington, D. C., Evelyn W. Anderson. His third wife, Mary L. Watkins, whom he married in Buffalo May 2, 1954, survives him as do his sons, and three grandchildren.

The author of some 30 articles and patents, Henry belonged to many chemical and engineering and rubber societies and research organizations.

A visitor in Hanover just this past June, Henry expressed pleasure in introducing Mary to his Dartmouth friends and in viewing with her the old and the new Dartmouth.

A retired insurance salesman for National Life of Vermont in Old Town, Me., GORDON DOBSON BEATTIE died suddenly of a heart attack in Bay Pines, Fla., September 22. He had been in failing health for some time. Con was born in Old Town, Me., March 28, 1898, and he lived most of his life there. He prepared for college at Old Town High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, played in the band one year, the Mandolin Club two years and the Glee Club and the dramatic orchestra four years. He was elected to Rake and Roll and to Casque and Gauntlet. In after life he kept up his cello.

Con served in both world wars. In the first he received his commission as Second Lieutenant in the Infantry at Plattsburg. In the second he volunteered as a private in the Army Air Force, was in uniform from May 1942 to June 1945, and rose to sergeant.

In early life Con spent several years with the woolen firm of Draper & Co. and later with the financial firm of Tucker-Anthony & Co., both of Boston. He settled in 1931 in Old Town.

Con married Eleanor Carpenter of Manchester, N. H., July 9, 1924 from whom he was later divorced. Two daughters survive, Mrs. Elizabeth Moore of Manchester, N. H., and Mrs. Joan McLaughry. Joan is married to the son of the former Dartmouth football coach Tuss McLaughry, Robert D. McLaughry '44 of Gile & Co., the Hanover real estate and insurance firm. Joan, who lives at 13 Buell St., Hanover, a sufferer from multiple sclerosis, is well known for her help to other sufferers in this area. The mother of three boys she has been a guest of honor at a number of 1921 reunions in Hanover.

Classmates who wish to honor Con's memory may send contributions by his request to the New Hampshire Multiple Sclerosis Society, Charles Deering, Treasurer, Old Milford Road, Amherst, N. H.

1924

The passing of WILLARD SLOAN FAWCETT was, from one point of view, a relief from a throat cancer that eventually took his life on August 23, 1962. Our sympathy to Sarah and to his two daughters is, thus, the deeper. Bill was born September 6, 1901 and attended Boys' High School, one of the very oldest, in Brooklyn, New York City. After graduation he entered the export business, had brief work in Investors Syndicate and in selling dental supplies before following his father in selling business furniture and accounting systems. In 1935 when he joined Shaw Walker Company he took all his father's furniture customers. He primarily sold payroll and other accounting systems, covering New England and New York department and furniture stores.

In college, Bill was a Sigma Nu. During World War II he was active in Civil Defense and for several years in the Community Chest. He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, in Newtonville. He was survived by one brother, George K. Fawcett. The late Edward H. Donaldson, his brother-in-law, was a member of our Class also.

From his marriage to Sarah Louise Hampton, of Tracy City, Tenn., on December 31, 1931 there were two daughters: Sarah Louise Jr., or Sally Lou, now Mrs. Orth, was born Oct. 7, 1932; and Florence Elizabeth, born June 25, 1946. Mrs. Fawcett attended Ward Belmont College; Sally Lou, the Edgewood Park Junior College; and Elizabeth is in the Newton High School. Sarah lives at 24 Brookdale Road, in Newtonville.

It was a sad surprise to hear of the passing of GEORGE WILLIAM LOURIE JR. after a short illness. Tillie was, until more recent years, "among those always present" at reunions - just as he had been known for his faithfulness at his local town meetings in Belmont for the past forty years. This same quality was seen in his close friendships, especially with Parker Hicks, despite disagreements over politics and other matters. For the past decade the Louries and the Hickses had spent almost two months each winter together in Florida, plus many more casual meetings.

Tillie of 14 Gale Road, Belmont, Mass., was born on June 30, 1902; one of the very few June birthdays in the class. He came from Brentwood, N. H., but prepared at the Canton (Mass.) High School and after graduation at Dartmouth in 1924 and an extra year at the Tuck School of Business Administration, he went to work in Boston with the Simpson Brothers Corp. and lived in Belmont where he remained all his life. He married Marion Duff in Melrose on September 30, 1938; there were no children.

The streets and sidewalks of Belmont were paved by Tillie's firm. He was director and vice-president of Simpson Brothers Corp., the Vulcan Construction Company (both in Watertown), and also Rubber Roads, Inc. He was a member of the New England Roadbuilders Association and of Bituminous Concrete Association, in Boston. He also took an active part in the Beaver Lodge of Masons.

We regret that vacations prevented notification of nearby classmates who would have represented the class with Parker Hicks at internment in the Newton Congregational Church chapel on August 10.

1925

It is with deep sorrow that we pass along belated word of the death of ELMER SLATER DURGIN at Los Angeles, Calif., on January 27, 1962, after a lengthy illness of pulmonary emphysema. A native of Newmarket, N. H., El was born June 19, 1901, and prepared for college at Newmarket H. S. In 1931 he assumed the assistant managership of the Anderson Furniture Co. in Los Angeles and became the owner in 1940. He had retired from business last year because of ill health.

On November 1, 1926, he married Amy Taylor of Los Angeles, who survives him, together with a daughter Alice (Mrs. Leland T. Miller) of Gardena, three grandchildren and a brother, John, of Boston, Mass. Another brother, the late Robert G., was a member of the Class of 1913. Mrs. Durgin now resides at 11608 Crenshaw Blvd., Inglewood, Calif. A Masonic burial service was conducted by the Rising Star Lodge in Newmarket.

1927

GEORGE EDWARD CAREY died Monday, September 10 at Arlington, Va., Hospital after a brief illness. At the time of his death he was Deputy Director of Budget and Finance in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. George was born January 3, 1905, in Manchester, N. H. He entered Dartmouth from Manchester High School. He was with International Shoe Co. before entering federal service in 1935 as an accountant for the Treasury Department. In 1941 he joined the Army Corps of Engineers as a civilian, and in his capacity of contract negotiator worked on the construction of the Pentagon building.

Following World War II George transferred to the Department of Defense and in 1950 was named Deputy Budget and Finance Director, the post he held at his death.

George was a member of the finance board of Rock Spring Congregational Church, Arlington. He lived at 1605 S. West Street, Falls Church, Va. He was married to Alyce E. Anderson of Manchester in January 1940, who survives him together with a daughter, Carlene. His classmates of 1927 express their deepest sympathy of his passing.

GEORGE STANLEY KOLES died early in the morning of September 29, in Cazenovia, N. Y. With his wife, Barbara, he was returning from a vacation at Nantucket, Mass., and during the night suffered severe pain in his hip, caused by an embolism, which moved to his heart. He had suffered from high blood pressure for several years, and recently had undergone a series of operations for cataracts and detached retina. In spite of his knowledge that he was in very poor health, he had continued active in his law practice, and very few of his friends had any idea that he was seriously ill.

George was born in Lawrence, Mass., on July 7, 1904. He entered Dartmouth from Pinkerton Academy. After graduation he attended Cornell Law School, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and the Order of Coif, and was the editor of the Law Review of the Cornell Law Quarterly. After receiving his law degree from Cornell, he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he began the practice of law with the firm of Marshall, Melhorn, Marlar and Martin. A year later he was with the firm of Smith, Beckwith, Ohlinger and Froelich, becoming a partner in 1938. He remained with this firm, now known as Ohlinger, Koles, Wolf and Flues, until the time of his death. The company has long been recognized as one of the leaders in Toledo in the practice of corporate law.

He was married on October 14, 1936 to Barbara Swift, in Fremont, Ohio. They have two children, Bradford, who lives with his wife and daughter in San Rafael, Calif., and a daughter, Caroline, who lives at home. He was a devoted husband and father, and his principal interests, outside his profession, were his family and home.

George was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Maumee, Ohio. The Toledo Rotary Club; The American, Ohio, and Toledo Bar Associations; and a former member of the Toledo Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. He also served on the board of trustees of the Florence Crittenten House.

The Class extends sincere sympathy to his wife, his son and daughter, and to his brother, Charles.

1928

GEORGE RICHARD BARNSTEAD, well-known in the newspaper field in New England, died of a heart attack on September 30 at his home, 19 Keene St., Stoneham, Mass. Dick was born in Stoneham, July 27, 1906 and graduated from Stoneham High. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Tan Omega.

After graduation, Dick went into partnership with his father in the printing and publishing business. Until a year ago he was publisher of the Stoneham Independent. He was past president of the Massachusetts Press Association; a former president of the Stoneham Rotary Club, and an incorporator of the Stoneham Savings Bank. A dedicated Mason, he was also an active member of the New England Weekly Newspaper Association and was affiliated with the National Editorial Association for many years.

He is survived by his wife, Nance, and three daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Leland of Reading, Mass., Mrs. Sally Feeney of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Manuel Francis of Bedford, Mass. To them we extend our sincerest sympathy.

1929

Our classmate, ROBERT MAXWELL CATE, died on September 12 at his Beacon Hill home, 20 Longview Road, Port Washington, N. Y. Services were conducted by the Rev. J. Harold Hadley of the Unitarian Church. Bob, son of Eleazar Cate '88, came to Dartmouth from Belmont High School (Mass.) and Phillips Andover. Members of the freshman hockey team in 1926 will remember him as the manager. Since graduation Bob has been associated with the New York Telephone Co. where he has worked as a statistician and an economist.

For the past 24 years he has made his home in Port Washington with his wife, the former Leona Cowes, whom he married in 1937. He is also survived by a son, Robert D. Cate of Port Washington, and a brother, Allen M. Cate '20 of Needham, Mass., father of Allen M. Jr. '50.

RICHARD THOMPSON DOE died at Harkness Pavilion, New York City, on May 4 of a heart attack following a long illness. Dick, the son of the late Judge Robert Doe of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, was bora in York, Me., on December 23, 1907. He came to Dartmouth after graduation from Rollinsford, New Hampshire High School. After 1929 Dick studied at Harvard and received a M.A. degree in history in 1931. Rollinsford was his home until 1938 when the Pacific Mills with which he had been associated in Dover transferred him to Columbia, S. C. During his New Hampshire years he was community-minded and served his town in many areas including that of chairman of the Board of Selectmen.

On September 1, 1939, Dick married Marjorie E. Simons and received that year a B.L.S. from Columbia University. From 1940 until his death he was associated with the New York Public Library where he worked successively as Main Reading Room Supervisor; special investigator; chief of the Newspaper Division, and chief of the Book Delivery Division.

Dick and his family made their home at 106 Morningside Drive, New York and enjoyed summer vacations at his farm in Rollinsford. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Ann and Nancy, students at Radcliffe College, a brother, and two sisters.

In lieu of flowers, it was requested that donations be made to the Dartmouth Scholarship Fund or the Heart Fund.

WALTER PRESTON COOKE died in April in Columbus, Ohio, which had been his lifelong home. He lived at 2712 Bexley Park Road. Preston, as he was known to all, came to Dartmouth following graduation from the Guynn School of Concentration. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

Real estate claimed his business energies all his life. The company which bore his name served Columbus and Central Ohio. He wrote several articles on general real estate brokerage, taught extension courses at Ohio State University, and lectured before the Dayton Real Estate Board School on brokerage and salesmanship.

Preston was a past president of the Columbus Real Estate Board, President of Ohio Chapter No. 3 of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and had served the Congregational Church in many capacities.

On November 14, 1929, he married Virginia Rice who survives him along with three children, Shirle Cooke Hoftyzer, Rodney P., and David F.

Word has recently been received from Evanston, Ill., of the death of KENNETH MELVILLE PAGE. Ken, a multiple sclerosis victim, had been ill for the past eight years, the last five of which had been spent in a nursing home. Ken and his wife, the former Eloise Brown, made their home in Evanston for the past nineteen years. Ken's work was in the field of accounting and finance and he had been associated with the Pullman-Standard Co. of Chicago and the Western Adjusting and Inspection Co. At Dartmouth he is remembered as a member of the Round Table, the band, and Alpha Tau Omega.

He had been active in the Men's Club of Saint Marks Episcopal Church and the Wilmette Lodge, A.F. & A.M. He is survived by his wife, Eloise, and two sisters, Mrs. William M. Clough of Glendale, Calif., and Mrs. Marden S. Pierson of Sarasota, Fla.

1933

GEORGE PHILLIP HEIDLER of 110 South Sleight St., Naperville, Ill., passed away on August 4 after having been taken ill in April and operated upon in July for lung cancer. George was born in Oak Park, Ill., on April 6, 1911 and prepared for Dartmouth at Oak Park High School where he was an honor student, a class officer, and a member of the student council as well as a football and basketball player. At Dartmouth, he majored at Tuck School and was Phi Beta Kappa. A member of Phi Delta Theta, Dragon, and Green Key, George was Ports editor and on the news board of The Dartmouth.

His first job after graduation was in the hardware business which he left to become a salesman for the Heidler Hardwood Lumber Company where he was vice president from 1942 to 1949. For the next four years, he engaged in farming. In 1953, he became connected with Wilson & Company in Chicago served as general manager of several of its divisions. At the time of his passing, George was general manager of the Chemical Industries Division.

Surviving are his wife, Marjory C. (Stockdale); a daughter, Mrs. James Loer of Chicago, Purdue '60, and a son, George P. Jr., a student at the University of Arizona. The Class of 1933 extends its most sincere sympathies to his wife and family.

1934

JAMES EDWARD SULLIVAN died suddenly on August 7 in York Hospital, York Village, Me. As Jim's contact with the class had been almost solely through regular alumni fund contributions, information on his life has to depend upon close friends in his home town of Ware, Mass., where he was born on January 25, 1912, and where his mother, Mrs. Ellen Sullivan, still lives at 60 W. Main St.

In recent years, Jim had been with a hotel chain operating the Marshall House in Maine in the summer and moving to Pinehurst, N. C., in the winter. Upon graduation he went with the New England Electrie System in his home area until 1939 when, with time out for service, he was an assistant examiner for the U.S. Civil Service Commission in Washington until 1947.

At Hanover, Jim was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. During World War II, he was a Captain and assistant adjutant at the Army Air Forces Training Command installation in Colorado and was stationed at Buckley Field, Colo. Soon after the war, for reasons of health, Jim went to Florida from Washington. He was one of the very early heart cases in which the then new openheart surgery technique was used.

1951

On August 31, 1962, Dartmouth lost one of her finest sons and the Class of 1951, a loyal and enthusiastic classmate with' a ready wit and a ready smile. ROBERT ANDERSON BOWLER perished in a private plane crash in the dunes near Portage, Ind., en route to Ohio on a business trip.

Born January 29, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Bob entered Dartmouth from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. We shall remember him as the winner of a "D" for diving, a Sigma Chi, student manager of the Green Lantern and a first-year Tuck man.

Upon graduation, Bob headed for San Francisco, where he worked as a buyer at The Emporium. While there, he met and in 1953 married Virginia Jean Robinson, a 1950 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. Bob later was a field representative for the California & Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corp., Ltd.

He returned to Illinois for C&H Sugar and then managed a supermarket for C. H. Morgan Grocery Co. in Evanston. In 1958. he became a sales representative for MacLean-Fogg Lock Nut Co. of Chicago, the position he held at his death.

Bob actively served both Class and College as an assistant Class Agent, an enrollment worker, a member of the Trustees' Planning Subcommittee on Alumni Relations. In addition, he was president of the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff (Ill.) Young Republican Club and active in the Episcopal Church.

Besides his wife Jean, Bob is survived by one son, William Geier II, and two daughters, Nancy Elizabeth and Kathryn Pamela. To them, the Class of 1951 extends sincere and heartfelt sympathy.

1955

JOHN ALBERT MACLEAN III died August 31 in the crash of a private plane. John and three other executives, including Bob Bowler '51 were on a business trip in their Company's private plane when the mishap occurred in the Indiana Dunes, South of Lake Michigan. Three were killed instantly, the fourth was badly injured.

Born in Evanston, August 30, 1933, John came to Dartmouth from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. As an undergraduate he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, the Dartmouth Players, and the Army ROTC. After completing a tour with the U. S. Army Ordinance Corps. John returned to civilian life and married Joy Diane Pavlik on April 27, 1957. John was employed by the MacLean-Fogg Lock Nut Company and had recently been promoted to assistant to the president. He joined the company in 1955 as a production assistant. After his military tour he returned to that same position, and in 1959 was appointed secretary of the firm.

Since leaving Dartmouth, John has been active in community affairs, and has maintained his interest in the Army through active participation in the Army Reserve program. A younger brother, Barry Lee, was a member of the Class, of 1960.

The Class of 1955 extends its deepest sympathy to Joy and to John's three children; John Albert IV, age 4, Marjorie Janeage 3. and Robert Barker, born earlier this year. Those who knew John will remember him most for his love of family, his inventive mind, his high moral standards, and his kindly way with people.