Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices mayappear in this issue or a later one.]
Lynch, Theobald A. '99, Oct. 24 Calderwood, Edward S. '01, Oct. 27 Wood, Theodore N. '01, Oct. 28 Brayton, Bascom B. '04, Oct. 6 Durgin, Linwood S. 'O4, Oct. 21 Emery, Walter P. '05, Sept. 29 Wood, Robert W. '06, Oct. 15 Shattuck, Edmund J. '10, Nov. 12 Sawyer, Carl W. '11, Feb. 18 Stevens, Arthur W. '11, Oct. 13 McCarthy, Charles E. '12, Oct. 31 Wolf, William C. '14, Oct. 15 Oppenheimer, Richard J. '18, Oct. 20 Kubin, Charles J. '19, July 26 Beers, Wilson C. '21, Oct. 8 Peabody, Millard S. '25, Oct. 28 McDonald, Leon E. '26, Sept. 3 Gruver, Elbert A. Jr. '27, Nov. 10 Hubbell, James T. '28, June 14 Sprague, Robert M. '29, Mar. 6 McLaughlin, J. Frank '30, Oct. 25 Sands, Dorrance E. '30, Sept. 8 Woodward, H. Russell Jr. '31, Nov. 2 Heffernan, Edward M. '34, Oct. 11 Seaver, James T. Jr. '38, Oct. 27 Halsey, Edwin A. '40, Oct. 6 Serafin, Peter M. '49, Oct. 15 Torroella, Luis P. '55, Oct. 31 Meinig, Frederick R. '57, Oct. 22 Mifflin, Elgin Jr. 'lot, Sept. 14
1899
WILLIAM LOVELAND HUTCHINSON was born August 22, 1875 in Norwich, Vt. He was the last of four brothers, and died October 5, 1962 in the United Presbyterian Home Hospital, Philipsburg, Pa. A sudden coronary thrombosis followed several years of weakening sight and health.
Bill completed college preparation at St. Johnsbury. He received his B.S. in 1899, his C.S. in 1901, and did his first engineering with Boston & Maine. Then as assistant division engineer with the Wabash System of the Pittsburgh, Carnegie & Western R.R. he constructed fourteen tunnels in 30 miles of. track for a new line into Pittsburgh. He was also with Miller-Patterson Co. of Pitts burgh, nd manager in that city for Balch Brothers of Boston, publishers.
Bill's marriage to Carrie Gertrude Mawhinney in 1905, and the birth of three children made the couple decide five years later to buy a 100-acre farm fifteen miles from Pittsburgh. Varied crops, a herd of registered Holstein cattle and "a nice bunch of white Leghorns" brought hard work and happiness, as wartime industrial expansion brought expansion also of dairy operations. The children, and eventually the grandchildren, developed their own skills in tending and "showing" stock. Bill himself was a member of the Cecil Township School Board, and a director of the Farm Bureau Co-op.
Success, however, involved one drawback, no Boston '99 Round-Up after the first one in 1900; but at the 20th Reunion in Hanover the whole family came. Then after 50 years in the family the farm was sold, and the couple lived turn-and-turn-about with their children, until retirement in 1961 to the United Presbyterian Home.
Final services were held at Speakman's Funeral Home, Houston. Pa.; interment was in the cemetery of the United Presbyterian Church in Venice. Carrie had grown up in that church, and Will long served as one of its ruling elders.
Besides his wife, Will leaves three children: Sarah Ellen Glass (Mrs. William M.), of State College, Pa.; William Loveland Jr., Washington, Pa.; and Martha Aileen Lambing (Mrs. Charles L.), of Arlington, Va. Also surviving are nine grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, Jane Hutchinson, widow of Will's brother Martin, '94 m, Mary Hutchinson, widow of Perkins, besides nephews and nieces.
"Bill Hutch" was home-spun, deeply religious; hard worker, happy family man, and loyal friend. The red roses, traditional memorial tribute from Ninety-Nine classmates, were never more fittingly given.
1901
A ruptured appendix, followed by complications resulted in the death of GEORGE SUNDERLAND of 422 Davis Street, Evanston, 111., on April 26. Most of George's life was spent in the Chicago area, where he was born on October 11, 1880. A Beta, George left us after two years and became associated with Armour & Co. Twelve years were spent with this company and then he entered the security business. Until his retirement nine years ago he was a partner in Sunderland-DeFord, brokerage firm in Chicago.
On June 6, 1905 George married the former Alma Reuss. She survives him with a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Gallery of Winnetka; a son, Richard P. of Northfield; a brother; a sister and nine grandchildren.
1901 extends to George's family our deepest sympathy.
THEODORE NEWTON WOOD, lifelong resident of Middleboro, Mass., died October 28, in a Lakeville nursing home following five years of failing health. He and Mrs. Wood had observed their 57th wedding anniversary October 17.
"T," as he- was known to us, attended local Middleboro schools. He claimed Phi Delta Theta and Dragon his college clubs, and through his lifetime maintained active membership in the Masons; the Massachusetts Savings Bank Officers Club; the Lions; the Central Congregational Church; the Historical Society, and the Boy Scouts.
After clerking with the Middleboro Savings Bank and the Union Pacific Railroad for some five years, he returned to the bank. Successively he held the positions of assistant to the treasurer, treasurer and then vice president. Over a fifty-year span, "T" found time to own and operate his own insurance agency. In retirement he continued to serve as a trustee and director of the bank; trustee of the Middleboro Public Library and the Hannah B. Griffith Shaw Home for the Aged. Surviving "T" are his wife Isabell Brigg Wood and Andrew Miller Wood '42.
1901 has lost a classmate whose life can best be described as one of fulfillment.
EDWARD SWAZEY CALDERWOOD, M.D., died suddenly while hunting on October 27. He had retired from the active practice of medicine in 1957 in Boston, Mass., to Searsport, Me. He continued a lively interest and participation in community affairs to the end.
Ned never lost a deep love for nature and enjoyed a walk through the woods almost every day with his dog. He was extremely fond of fishing and hunting - and his fondest wish was to have death overtake him while fishing or hunting in the woods of his beloved Maine. His wish was granted, as he died of a sudden coronary attack while returning from an afternoon of partridge hunting. He would have been 84 years of age on the 10th of next month.
Ned, the son of Samuel H. 1873 m, was born in Waldoboro, Me., on November 10, 1897. His early education was received at Roxbury Latin School and after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth he continued on to Boston University where in 1904 he received his M.D. In 1960 the alumni association of Boston University awarded him the distinguished service citation.
His memberships at Dartmouth included Sigma Chi and Casque and Gauntlet. He was also a member of the American Medical Society and numerous other professional organizations. His early career was spent at Boston University where he started as an assistant in anatomy and rose to full professor of medicine, a job he relinquished on retirement in 1941. For fourteen years he was physician in chief at Massachusetts Memorial Hospital and until 1957 served as a consultant.
His survivors are his wife Hope Curtis Calderwood, whom he married October 9, 1907; two sons, Samuel H. Calderwood of Bangor, Me.; Dr. George C. Calderwood of San Francisco, Calif.; six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
1903
HAROLD MINER HESS died in Bronxville, N.Y., October 2 after a short illness. Surviving are his widow, the former Grace Hosmer Kellogg of Peoria, Ill.; a son Robert Kellogg Hess '41 and two grandchildren. Harry and Grace had recently celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary.
A native of Evanston, Ill., where he was born March 8, 1880, he entered college from the local high school. A Chi Phi brother, he served on the Aegis board and throughout his college courses maintained scholastic levels to attain Phi Beta Kappa membership. At graduation he was named to give the address at the Old Pine. On this memorable occasion for '03, Harry became our one and only class treasurer. In 1960 he also assumed the responsibility of Head Class Agent.
From 1903 to 1906 he served as fire insurance inspector and rater throughout Illinois outside Cook County, and assisted in the preparation and testing of the Analytic System for measurement of fire hazard, familiarly known as the Dean Schedule, the basis of which is still being used in many states today.
In 1911 he was appointed manager of the Missouri Inspection Bureau and moved to St. Louis. During this period he served as chairman of a committee on legislation, which succeeded in legalizing the use of the Coinsurance Clause in the State of Missouri. During this period he also devoted much time to the St. Louis Dartmouth Alumni Association as Club secretary.
In 1926 he came to New York from St. Louis to accept the post of an actuary with the National Board of Fire Underwriters, and in 1929 became the manager of its exchange as well as of the New York City Division of the New York State Fire Insurance Rating organization. Modestly Hank wrote for our class report one year that "the work in which I engage my heart and mind is that of attempting to manage the New York Fire Insurance Exchange." In 1949 on the occasion of his 20th anniversary with the exchange, 200 close friends honored him at a testimonial dinner.
He shared his extracurricula activities among many professional organizations, several Bronxville clubs, and the Dutch Reformed Church, which he served as a deacon and elder.
Success in his field of endeavor could be attributed to one of Hank's many outstanding qualities - forthrightness. Love and respect of this man was duly shared by those in the professional field and by the Dartmouth family. Hank's indelible imprint will surely remain with all of us.
1904
LINWOOD STORY DURGIN, 81, of 35 Ware Street, Lewiston, Me., died at the Central Maine General Hospital, October 21, 1962. He had been in poor health for many years. He was born in Lewiston, July 5, 1881, and remained a life-long resident of that community. He was educated in the Lewiston public schools and came to Dartmouth from which he graduated with the class of 1904. In college he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and Dragon, and later president of the class, a position he held for fifty years.
Lin worked in Portland, Me., for a couple of years in a plant manufacturing automatic telephones, now called the dial telephone. In 1906 he moved back to Lewiston and became associated with his father in the coal and wood business, and on a part-time basis worked for the Lewiston Journal. That same year of 1906 he married Grace H. Skinner, the only girl he ever went with, and they shared their lives for 56 years together. They had two sons, both graduates of Dartmouth — Winslow, 1930 and Larry, 1933, and a daughter Patricia who attended Bates College. Shortly after returning to Lewiston, Lin went into the insurance and real estate business and manager of the U.S. Realty and Investment Co. of New Jersey for their properties in Lewiston. He was for thirty years secretary, treasurer and director of the Lewiston Loan and Building Association. Civic minded, Lin Durgin served his city as an alderman for three years, and was chairman of the Board of Registration, a member of committee which drew up the City's Charter; chairman of the Red Cross Disaster Committee and did notable work during the New Auburn Flood, as well as the New Auburn fire, and a member of draft-Board. He did contact work during World War I for the F.B.I, and during World War II was associated with the Navy and Army Intelligence for six years. He was a life member of the Shrine and a 32nd degree Mason; past president of the Kiwanis Club, and charter member of the Stanton Bird Club. His hobbies were hunting, fishing and sailing. Lin is survived by his widow, two sons, a daughter, a brother, seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Despite his poor health, Lin Durgin lived a full life of service to his city and gave of his time and strength to every worthy cause in his community. He credits Dartmouth College as the source and inspiration to public service and chooses as his claim to fame in Dartmouth the fact that he was the last class president to hold a meeting in the old Dartmouth Hall before it burned down.
1905
WALTER PALMER EMERY died September 29 at the Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, L.I. He was born in Auburn, N.H., December 19, 1879, and entered Dartmouth from Pinkerton Academy. Through his friendly, outgoing nature he made many friends.
Immediately after graduation Walter was engaged by the Bell Telephone Co. in Pitts burgh, Pa. He became assistant manager of the Highland Exchange as district manager of the Hill Exchange. He was transferred to Boston in 1907 and soon became the assistant traffic engineer of the New England Tel. and Tel. In 1919 he was promoted to the parent company, the American Tel. and Tel. Co. at 195 Broadway, which was his headquarters until his retirement in 1944. Here his work was on a national scale as well as local. He played a major part in maintaining local and long distance telephone service in America.
In both World Wars our armed services made use of Walter's skill as expert in telephonic communication. During the First World War he was assigned to the chief signal officer in Washington to train switchboard operators for Gen. Pershing's signal corps. Walter also shared in the more spectacular phases of modern communication such as ship-to-shore telephones, transmission of pictures by telephone and automatic recording of news reports by the press. All these reflect his handiwork.
Walt was keenly and actively devoted to his College and Class. From 1925 to 1930 he served ably and successfully as Class Treasurer and Alumni Fund Class Agent.
In 1909 he married Lucie F. Newcomb of Quincy, Mass. They later made their home in South Orange, N.J. Upon his retirement in 1944 they moved to Cutchogue, L.I., where they had a summer home. He is survived by his widow.
1911
LEWIS ALBERT PARTRIDGE died in a Hartford, Conn., hospital October 5, 1962 from a stroke suffered a few weeks earlier. Pat had been ill from a heart condition for several months prior to this, but had continued to carry on his editorship of the class news-letter which was a source of enjoyment to all the classmates and wives.
Pat came to college from Manchester, N.H., where he was born Feb. 21, 1890. In college he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and the varsity hockey squad. He returned to Hanover to complete the second year in Tuck School. From 1912 to 1924 he was a salesman and resident manager with E. Naumburg, noted brokers of New York. From 1924 until his retirement in 1954 he was with the State Bank and Trust Co., which merged with the Phoenix Bank to become the Phoenix State Bank and Trust Co. and Pat became vice president. He next became his own proprietor as Lewis A. Partridge, estate appraisals. After the flood in 1955 he worked with the Small Business Administration in interviewing property owners, evaluating damages, and recommending loans.
His principal outside activities were related to Dartmouth. He was past president of the Dartmouth Clubs of Hartford and the Alumni Association of Connecticut; treasurer of the City Club of Hartford; president of the Avon Country Club and a fire commissioner of West Hartford. He was a director of the Hartford Federal Savings and Loan Association and the Hartford Assoc. of Credit Men.
He leaves his wife, Helen Bradley Partridge, two daughters, Mrs. S.P. Marland Jr. of Winnetka, Ill., and Mrs. S.L. Baird of Woods Hole, Mass., a brother Charles W. Partridge of Manchester, N.H., and a sister Mrs. G.R. Shipp of Reading, Mass., and three grandchildren. Funeral services were in St. John's Episcopal Church Chapel, West Hartford and burial in Fairview Cemetery. Memorial contributions were to go to the Hartford Heart Assoc., 108 Gillett St. or a charity of the donor's choice.
1912
Due to a mistake the obituaries of WalterThomas Kyle and Samuel Spaulding Stevensappeared last month under the class of 1907.
1918
HOMER DEAN LININGER died on September 8 at the St. Joseph's Hospital in Tucson, Arizona. He had been in poor health for several months. He was 67 at the time of his death. Homer was born in Topeka, Kan., on January 6, 1895. He was graduated from Evanston Academy of Northwestern University. After leaving Dartmouth he received a degree in business administration at Columbia University.
During World War I, he served as an ensign in the Navy and during World War II he had charge of the National Housing Authority in Tucson, Arizona. He was active in community and cultural affairs. In addition he helped to found the Arizona Hotel Association and was. one of its first presidents. His memberships included the Rotary Club; the Old Pueblo Club; Little Theater, and St. Philip's-in-the-Hills Church all of Tucson. He was a past national vice president of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
Homer was in the insurance business in Chicago for about 25 years before moving to Tucson in 1936. He founded the Lininger Travel Service in 1938 and operated it until 1959. He remained on the board as vice president until a year ago, when he retired. He was very active in the American Society of Travel Agents and traveled extensively. He frequently lectured in this country and abroad, showing color films of his global trips. He made his first air trip in 1933 from Sweden to Fnland and after this first trip traveled nearly a million miles in airlines.
He is survived by his wife, Cornelia; two sons, Maxfield Lininger of Phoenix, and Schuyler Lininger of Tucson; a daughter, Mrs. Richard Erb of Hacienda Heights, Calif., and Dallas, Texas; and eight grandchildren.
Friends among his classmates, may wish to write Mrs. Cornelia B. Lininger, whose address is P.O. Box 6669, Tucson, Ariz.
1921
WILSON CHRISTIAN BEERS of 32 Taunton Lake Drive, Newtown, Conn., United States Treasury Representative from 1926 until his retirement in 1959, died Oct. 8 in Newtown after a brief illness. With his wife Ann in 1959, Bill drove several thousand miles about the United States to find exactly the sort of place where he wished to live out the remainder of his life. He wanted two acres of land; a ranch house; trees to chop; a lawn to mow; a big comfortable chair beside a log-burning fireplace; an English brindle bulldog, and 1921 men to drink whiskey with him and to talk about the old days in Hanover.
These ideals are natural enough when one considers Bill's footlessness for 26½ years. He spent six years in Vienna; five in London; three in Paris; four in Prague; two in Cuba; one and a half in France and Germany; one in The Hague, Antwerp, St. Paul, and Seattle working the Pacific North West, British Columbia, and Alaska. In addition he spent weeks and months in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Albania, but no time in Russia. In the Netherlands in 1940 when the Low Coun- tries were invaded by German armies, Bill, expelled, was transferred to Cuba.
Born Oct. 16, 1898 in Waterbury, Conn., Bill was one of the tallest and most powerfully-built men in the Class of 1921. Excelling in football, baseball, basketball, and track, he was an outstanding athlete in Crosby High School, Dartmouth, and the University of Maryland from which he was graduated in 1924. In collegiate circles he was especially distinguished as a weight thrower. As a freshman at Dartmouth, a veritable giant, he was given the nickname of Babe.
After college, Bill joined the merchant marine, and as a sailor he went to sea from July 1924 to March 1926. He became a widely publicized hero in 1926 when as a member of Capt. George Fried's lifeboat crew of the S. S. Roosevelt he went over the ship's side and helped to rescue the passengers and the crew during a terrific North American storm lasting three nightmarish days in January. For his services he was awarded a gold medal. When he and his shipmates reached New York, they were given a traditional Broadway welcome.
In later life Bill won other honors, two from the United States Treasury Department: the Albert Gallatin Award and the Meritorious Civilian Service Award "In recognition of services so distinguished that the Treasury Department's acknowledgement and official commendation are accorded."
He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Dartmouth; Euclid Lodge No. 135, A.F. and A.M., Waterbury; Paris Post No. 1, American Legion, Paris, France; and the International Order of Footprinters, Seattle, Wash.
Bill married Oct. 10, 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Anna Rose Cvanearova, who had been educated in Karl's University, Prague. Bill took particular pleasure introducing 1921 men to her in 1960 at the Bonnie Oaks Football weekend. They had no children. She survives him.
On vacation in La Jolla, Calif., FRANK TROWBRIDGE HODGDON JR., Secretary-Treasurer of the Forest City Publishing Company, which publishes the Cleveland Plain Dealer, died in his sleep Oct. 9. He was also controller of the Holden Estates Company; Secretary of the Art Gravure Corporation of Ohio, a publisher of newspaper supplements, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine; Secretary-Treasurer of the Plain Dealer News Charities, Inc.; a director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Hannibal; and a member of the Institute of Newspaper Controllers and Finance Officers, where he served as an officer for eight years and as President for one. Jigger was also a member of the Midday Club; the City Club; the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants, and he served as President of the last organization for a term.
Jigger described himself as "a saloon piano player," and though he never played for money in a saloon, he remarked that he often wished that he had. As "a piano buff," Jigger and his musical wife Dora, who together knew more old songs from the 1920's and the 1930's than probably any Dartmouth couple, could keep any party going until the small hours of the morning.
The son of Frank Trowbridge Hodgdon and Annie Porter Roberts Hodgdon, Jigger, born April 29, 1899 in Hannibal, Mo., prepared for college at Hannibal High, where he had, though young, showed the talents he later so spectacularly developed. He was editor of the school paper, class president, and cheer leader. At Dartmouth he joined Beta Theta Pi where he acquired the nickname by which he was universally known.
After leaving Hanover, he kept planning on reunions which he never made owing to his multifarious and complicated business responsibilities, but he kept up his Dartmouth friendships over the years.
While at Dartmouth he made the acquaintance of a Smith College girl, Dora Janice Hirschheimer, and he married her in La Crosse, Wis., Jan. 30, 1937. They had no children.
Jigger was proud of his Dartmouth connections. His father was Frank T. Hodgdon '96; his great uncle, Thomas M. Hodgdon '84; his first cousin once removed, Manning W. Hodgdon '19, son of his great uncle; and Charles H. Walker 'OB, a cousin.
Three years before his death Jigger was described in the Forest City Log, the Plain Dealer family paper, as "one of the most amiable, amusing, easy-to-get-along-with guys in the entire plant, a character with a dry, homey wit who never seems to get excited. . . On the day after his death the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an editorial with this final paragraph: '"Though he bore heavy responsibility on his shoulders, he carried it gracefully, never forgetting to be kind, considerate, thoughtful of others. In his profession he ranked with the very best.'
1922
DR. THOMAS NICHOLS BARROWS died of a heart attack on August 11 while he was visiting at Menasha, Wis. Transferring from the University of California, Tom was with us junior year at Hanover. Well remembered by, many classmates, he was a roommate of Dick Townsend '23 who sent us the news of his passing. He returned to California as a senior and received his B.A. at Berkeley. He later had M.A.'s from Columbia and Ripon College and Litt.D. from Willamette University. He was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma.
Tom had an eminent career. He and his father, Dr. David Prescott Barrows, professor of political science and former president of the University of California, published in 1927 a widely read book, "Government in California." In the early thirties Tom taught at Woodmere (N.Y.) Academy and at Columbia where he was vice president of the Lincoln School. He then became dean and in 1937 president of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis. A decade later in association with the American Council on Education, he moved to Washington, D.C. Returning to Berkeley in 1951 he became director of extension courses at the University of California and took particular interest in developing college-level studies for armed services personnel in Asia.
Ill health forced Tom's retirement in 1957. Since then he and his wife loan have lived at Carmel, Calif. He is survived by her and their son David. The Class extends deepest sympathy to them.
1923
DR. HOWARD BRYDEN BROWN, vice president and medical director of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. Co., died suddenly on September 21 in Chatham, Mass. He resided at 226 Springfield Street in Wilbraham.
joined mutual in 1931 as assistant medical director.
A member of Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha Kappa Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholastic society, he served on the National Committee for the Dartmouth Medical School Campaign. He was a director and past president of the Massachusetts Heart Association; a director and past president of the association's western chapter; treasurer of the Hampden District Medical Society, and had served on several committees for the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors. Howie was also a member of the medical section of the American Life Convention and a World War I veteran.
On June 4, 1925 he married Maude E. Hubbard. The Browns have a son Bryden, a daughter Janet, and two grandchildren.
1926
LEON EMERSON MCDONALD, born in Lockport, Ill., died of a heart attack in Chicago on September 3. "Mac" entered Dartmouth at the age of 16, and was one of the youngest members of our class. Because of his youth he left college at the end of his freshman year "to work and mature" before continuing his college education at Northwestern. He graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Northwestern in 1928. While there he played water polo, and was captain of the swimming team.
He worked eight years with Illinois Bell Telephone, following which he spent more than twenty years in sales promotion and sales engineering for Westinghouse Electric and Sylvania Electric Products.
Mac served in the Army Air Force during World War II as an intelligence and counter intelligence officer, and also served on Lord Louis Mountbatten's staff in Ceylon following his graduation from the Command and General Staff School in Kansas. After the war he remained in the active reserve, attached to Selective Service, and retired August 1, 1962 as a Colonel after completion of twenty years' service.
For many years a member of the Illumination Engineering Society, he was, at the time of his death, Assistant Procurement Manager of The Grolier Society.
Leon is surivived by his wife Gertrude, two sons Sherrill R. and Leon E. III, a daughter Augusta Ann, and a granddaughter Pamela, to all of whom the members of his class extend sincere sympathy.
1929
JOSEPH ALOYSIUS WALSH JR. died on September 19 in Norwalk, Conn., after a brief illness.
Born in Sloatsburg, N.Y., July 18, 1909, Joe entered Dartmouth from the Brooklyn Friends' School. His life-long interest was always civil engineering and, after graduation from the Thayer School, he worked during the thirties for the New York State Highway Department as a construction engineer.
During the War he was a designer with Fairchild Aircraft Co. in connection with the C-82 Flying Boxcar. After the War he moved to Norwalk, Conn. He was well known as a bridge designer and, at the time of his death, was a consulting engineer for Brown and Blauvelt of New York City. Most of the bridges on the toll roads of the East were designed by him.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Lyons Walsh; a daughter, Mrs. David A. Stevenson by his first marriage; and a brother, William J. Walsh, Dartmouth 1931.
1930
On October 25 the Class of 1930 lost one of its truly distinguished members with the passing of JOSEPH FRANK MCLAUGHLIN in Honolulu, Hawaii, after an illness of two months. Requiem high mass was said in St. Augustine's Church in Honolulu, followed by interment at Diamond Head Memorial Park, at which the Class was represented by Bertram Gross.
Frank was born in Leominster, Mass., on June 7, 1908, and was graduated from St. John's High School, Worcester, after which he was a very active member of our Class and Chi Phi. He was awarded the LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1933. After a year of private practice, he went to Washington, D. C., as an attorney for the Department of Justice. In the middle thirties he was transferred to the then Territory of Hawaii as special assistant to the U.S. District Attorney in Honolulu; in 1939, at age 31, he made history by being the youngest man ever appointed as judge in the Territorial Court in Hilo - certainly one of the youngest men ever to sit on a Federal Bench.
In 1943 Frank was appointed judge of the U.S. District Court in Honolulu, in which he served with distinction until the coming of Statehood to Hawaii in 1959. Many of the decisions which he handed down were regarded as virtual classics of law and rhetoric, but he was a controversial judge from many angles. His sternness on the bench and insistence on court procedure were famous throughout the Islands. A forthright judge, no matter how competent in the law, will inevitably step on many different sets of toes, and Frank was no exception.
With the coming of Statehood to Hawaii, it was logical to suppose that Frank would receive a lifetime appointment to the Federal Bench, but delay followed delay, and another man received the appointment last year. This was a period of great personal strain for him and his family, something understood but deplored by his host of friends. The last months of Frank's life were spent, once more, in the successful private practice of law.
Aside from Frank's prominent public life, there were facets to his character known by too few people. He was not only a man who cherished his family, but also one of devout religious beliefs, and as a friend he was incomparably warm and steadfast. He loved Dartmouth and our Class, and nothing delighted him more than to have one of us look him up on the rare occasions when we were in Honolulu. Many of us who went through there during World War II will always remember his pleasant companionship at that time when it was so important to us. Distance and his position made frequent trips to the Mainland impossible, but we are grateful that he was able to attend our 15th Reunion in 1946, a gathering which he enjoyed to the greatest degree.
Judge McLaughlin was prominent in the initiation of the Federal Probation office in Hawaii in 1943, and served on many committees and boards of the community. One of his principal interests was in the Dartmouth Club of Hawaii, of which he was a prominent and active member for many years. On July 11, 1935 Frank married Pauline Driscoll (known affectionately as Polly); they have two children, Paula Kathryn (Mrs. Ernest Desperito of Tuckahoe, N.Y.) and Jay F. Also surviving are his mother, a brother, and a granddaughter.
On behalf of the Class Executive Committee, gathered in Boston, a message of condolence was forwarded to Polly McLaughlin on October 27. Frank's noteworthy career, and his loyalty to his friends, College and Class, will be an indelible part of our collective history. It may seem redundant to say he will be missed, but to some of us Hawaii will never be quite the same.
H.S.E.
On September 8, DORRANCE EARL SANDS died in a St. Petersburg hospital where he had undergone emergency surgery two days previously. He had been news editor of the Tampa Tribune for the last twelve years, and its state editor for the preceding four years. Although working in Tampa, Brick and his wife Frances, who survives him, lived at 235½ 20th Avenue South, in St. Petersburg. His brother Charles D. is Dartmouth '31.
In recent years Brick had not been communicative to the Class, but we well remember him as the captain of our freshman baseball team and later a member of the varsity. His athletic interest remained with him and in the early thirties he was a member of the Pelicans, winners of St. Petersburg's first softball championship, and he later organized, managed, and played for the Saints in the old West (Florida) Coast Baseball League.
Brick was a native of Montgomery, Ala., entering Dartmouth from the Tilton School, at which time he was living in Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico. He was a popular member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Green Key, and was elected to Sphinx, but did not return to Dartmouth for his senior year. At the time of publishing our tenth reunion booklet, he was listed as being the city editor of a paper in Dubuque, lowa, but apparently the greatest part of his business career was spent in St. Petersburg and Tampa. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, attaining the rank of captain.
In addition to his editorial duties. Brick was classical phonograph record critic for his paper, writing a column, "On the Records," appearing every Sunday. The final one, discussing Segovia's guitar music, Leonard Bernstein and Jascha Heifetz had that "Earl Sands' touch" and appeared the day after his death.
1940
Word has reached the Class of the untimely death of RONALD STURGIS WOODBERRY JR. on October 8, 1962. He was graduated from Boston Latin School before entering our class. He was a brother of Kappa Kappa Kappa and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and also graduated from Tuck School.
Ron was married to the former Hazel Hartwell, a Radcliffe girl, in August 1941 and they had five children, the oldest of whom, Alan, is a member of the Class of 1964 at Dartmouth.
Since 1946 Ron had been president of the D.S. Woodberry Company, a truck transportation and warehousing company in Boston. He gave freely of his time around his home town of Lexington, Mass., where he was active in the Hancock Congregational Church; the Lexington Golf Club; a member of the Town Capital Expenditure Committee; a school committeeman and member of the Boston City Missionary Society. His premature death leaves a large gap in his community and business life.
Besides his wife and children, he leaves his father, three sisters, and two stepbrothers, Paul '49 and Robert '54 to all of whom the sincere sympathy of the Class is extended.
1957
On October 22, 1962 Capt. FREDERICK RICHARD MEINIG, an instructor stationed at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, was killed in an airplane accident. He was on a routine training flight with a student. On approaching the landing strip they had engine failure. The student ejected safely but Fred did not have enough altitude left when he ejected.
Fred came to Dartmouth from Wyomissing High School, Wyomissing, Pa., where he was the president of the Hi-Y, played football, and was the captain of the basketball team. While at Dartmouth, Fred was extremely active, well-known and well-liked - majoring in psychology, a brother of Delta Upsilon, her social chairman; in the Undergraduate Council; in the Air Force ROTC; and the executive manager of the Intramural Department.
After graduation Fred joined the Air Force and went to Greenville, Miss., to take his pilot training. It was. here that Fred and his wife Mary teamed up to win the Class Boy award by having a son, David Frederick Meinig. It is to Fred's wife Mary and family and to Fred's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Meinig of Wyomissing, Pa., that the Class of 1957 extends its sympathies for the unfulfilled hopes and dreams. We are proud to have known Fred.
1960
DOUGLAS ALAN HORSBURGH died August 14, 1962 in Hanover, N.H., as a result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on July 27 in Hanover.
Born November 12, 1938 in Wyandotte, Mich., Doug moved to Ontario, Calif., and attended Chaffey Union High School before entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1956. While at Dartmouth he earned his numerals in freshman football, was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and achieved distinction in his psychology major.
After receiving his A.B. degree in 1961, Doug entered the Dartmouth Medical School. He had completed his first year of medical education and was engaged in a summer research project in electron microscopy at the Medical School before his death. At the Medical School as in the college, Doug was once again an active participant in extracurricular activities serving as treasurer of Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity.
Among his friends, Doug will long be remembered as an individual who possessed a deep and genuine concern for mankind, an artistic creativity, and a warm personality. To Doug's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Horsburgh of Ontario, the Class of 1960 extends its sincerest sympathy.
Harold Miner Hess '03
J. Frank McLaughlin '30
