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.]

Jonakowski, Edmund J. '00, Nov. 27 MacKay, Maurice P. '00, Nov. 15 Mudge, Otis P. '03, Dec. 2 Pierce, Henry K. '04, Nov. 6 Ahern, William J. '07, Nov. 13 Hammond, John W. '07, Nov. 17 Sides, Arthur C. '08, Dec. 5 Buchanan, Harry E. '09, Nov. 28 Noyes, Alvin C. '09, Nov. 9 Baldwin, Theodore W. '10, July 25 Wheeler, Allan T. '11, Nov. 28 Witte, Arthur H. '11, Nov. 23 Urion, Henry K. '12, Nov. 15 Rockwood, Otis F. '15, Dec. 8 Fenno, Jesse K. '16, Nov. 29 Sackett, George S. '20, Dec. 5 Wolff, Frederic O. '23, Nov. 13 Knowles, Paul S. '28, Nov. 13 Tiffany, Homer G. '32, Nov. 19 Peabody, Sherman M. '36, Nov. 10 Lynch, Frederick C. '41, Aug. 23 Cowden, Merle C., A.M. '38, Nov. 18

Faculty

MERLE CHANDLER COWDEN, M.A. '38, Professor of German Emeritus, died in his sleep at his Hanover home on Sunday, November 18. He was 64 years old. A bachelor who lived alone. Professor Cowden retired from the faculty in June 1961 after 31 years of teaching at Dartmouth. The victim of a heart attack several years ago, Professor Cowden apparently died of a similar attack. The death was discovered by an undergraduate who had been checking in with Professor Cowden each morning.

Although known to Dartmouth men as a language teacher and a specialist in scientific German, Professor Cowden had begun his career in chemistry and had intended to pursue work in science. Born in Woonsocket, R. I., on February 20, 1898. he was graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass.. in 1920 and served there as a graduate assistant in chemistry until 1923 when he received his Master of Science degree.

In 1922, however, he also took on responsibilities as an instructor in German, and this had a growing appeal for him. From 1923 through 1928 he concentrated on the teaching of German at W.P.I., then enrolled at Cornell University where he was a University Fellow in German. He was awarded an M.A. degree in 1929 and that fall began his teaching career at Dartmouth as an instructor.

He was appointed an Assistant Professor in 1931 and became a full Professor in 1938. Professor Cowden was chairman of the German Department from 1937 to 1941 and again from 1945 to 1949. He was awarded Dartmouth's honorary Master of Arts degree in 1938.

During World War I he served in the U.S. Army field artillery. During World War II he taught mathematics, aeronautical navigation, and descriptive geometry in Dartmouth's Navy V-12 program.

Professor Cowden was the co-author (with a Dartmouth colleague, the late Albert van Eerden) of two books, a German grammar published in 1935 and An Introduction to College German, which appeared in 1937.

He was a former national president of Theta Upsilon Omega fraternity, which later merged with Sigma Phi Epsilon. He also was a member of Sigma Xi, national scientific honorary society, the Modern Language Association, and the American Association of University Professors.

Professor Cowden had made several trips to Germany. In retirement he pursued a long-standing interest in botany and music. His record collection was one of the largest in Hanover.

Professor Cowden is survived by three sisters.

1899

THEOBALD ANDREW LYNCH was born May 25, 1875 in Sterling, Mass. His father, Thomas, an Irish immigrant in 1840, became a farmer, married Margaret Mulcahey, and raised a family of nine. Last June 6 a heart attack, with double pneumonia, sent "Tim" to the Hyannis Cape Cod Hospital for six weeks. Returning to his Cotuit home July 21, he telephoned the Class at their sixty-second Round-Up in Concord. Two months later he flew to Pinehurst, N. C., his winter home for nineteen years, but died there suddenly October 24. After a requiem mass at St. Mark's Church, Dorchester, he was buried in St. John's Cemetery, Clinton, Mass.

Tim prepared for college at West Bolyston High School. At Dartmouth he joined Beta Theta Pi, was a member of both class athletic and varsity teams '96 and '97, and varsity manager '99. He entered Harvard Law School, but got his 1904 degree from Boston University and was admitted to the bar. Evening school work, however, convinced him he preferred teaching.

Graduating from Boston Normal School in 1905, he was successively principal or submaster in six intermediate schools, with special charge of outdoor gymnasium work. The climax of his career came during depression and war years as principal of the new 45-room Woodrow Wilson. He gained the school a unique cultural reputation by accumulating original paintings for corridors and classrooms. One key to his successful administration appears in these farewell words to his fellow workers in December 1944: "I have always felt, no matter how large a group was, that it could be molded into one unit. We have proved it in this school. I have been honored by the confidence you placed in me."

In 1943 his beloved "Detta," Bernadette L. White, whom he had married in 1919 died. The same year Dr. Alfred F. White of the U.S. Navy Dental Corps, and brother of "Detta," died in Japan. He had been like a son to the childless couple. But there had been numerous trips to Canada, the National Parks of Europe, besides those famous "Tim's Tours" in successive summers to Quebec and northern New England with their entourage of up to 50 Ninety-Niners for companionship and golf.

Tim was the last of the nine Oakdale Lynches, but numerous nephews and nieces remain covering three generations. Best known are lawyer Edmund Burke and his sister, Mrs. Margaret Burke Sullivan, children of Tim's sister.

Tim Lynch's passion was knowing and talking with people. He was an active ncmuer of the Catholic Alumni Sodality; the Knights of Columbus, the first '99 Alumni Fund committee, serving as class agent from 1918 to 1924; and the Legislative Committee of the Boston Schoolmen's Economic Associa- tion. Family, classmates, fellow workers, pupils, fellow golfers — all were close to him. He once said, "All the wealth of the world could not buy you a friend, or pay you for the loss of one."

1900

Once again a break has occurred in our fellowship. EDMUND JOSEPH JONAKOWSKI, who for several months had been a patient at the Ideal Nursing Home in Sarasota, Fla., was taken suddenly ill in mid-November. The case was serious enough so that he was removed to the Sarasota Memorial Hospital where he passed away on the morning of November 27. Private funeral services were held November 29, and were conducted by Father Rogers of the St. Martha's Catholic Church. Burial was at Manasota Cemetery located between Sarasota and Bradenton. Unfortunately, at this time, no member of the class was in the Florida area, and so 1900 was not represented at the services. However, Warren Kendall '99 who lives in Sarasota, and who has been a most kind and helpful friend to the Jonakowskis attended the services.

Edmund Jonakowski, familiarly known to classmates as "Johnnie," was born in Bristol, R. I., on November 11, 1877. He was the son of Wladislan and Antonia Kreft Jonakowski who were of Polish descent. When "Johnnie" was quite a young boy the family moved to Webster, Mass. He was graduated from the Webster High School and entered Dartmouth from Webster in the fall of 1896. In college we knew him as a bit stiff of posture, a boy not quite sure of himself, but with a friendly, outgoing, and kindly personality. He always showed his deep loyalty to 1900 by participating regularly in class affairs. His only extracurricular activity was as a member of the editorial staff of that remarkable publication, the Aegis, put out by the brain-trust of the junior class.

"Johnnie" graduated from Dartmouth with the A.B. degree and for several years thereafter was connected with business firms in New York and Philadelphia. By 1905 he had entered the real estate field. For over twenty years he served several New York newspapers as real estate advertising representative or manager. In 1924 he married Maud Marie Woodcock of Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1927 he established his own independent real estate agency with an office in Brooklyn. Some years later, as he became increasingly interested in Long Island real estate, he moved his office to Baldwin, L. I.

Because of illness he retired from active business in 1938, and about 1944 he and his wife became residents of Sarasota, Fla., buying the house at 750 South Orange Ave. "Johnnie" enjoyed the genial climate of Florida. His hobbies were walking and fishing. During the last years of his life he was plagued with failing eyesight. Eventually he became almost totally blind, and at the last he lost his power to intelligibly communicate his thoughts. His was indeed a sad ending, and we can only hope that he has now found the security and peace he so deeply craved.

The only survivor is his wife Maud. Last spring she found it necessary to sell their home, and she is now a resident at the Sarasota Welfare Home.

1903

DR. OTIS POPE MUDGE, for 53 years a practicing physician, died in Amesbury, Mass., November 2. Descendant of a pioneer family, Oat was born in Danvers, Mass., July 10, 1879. It was there, on January 5, 1909, he married Florence Rundlett. Their three sons, the late Bertram R., the late Edwin B. and George 0., were members of the Classes of '33, '34 and '39.

Oat played on the freshman and sophomore football teams and was a member of Beta Theta Pi. Four years after graduation he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

Oat was a dedicated professional man and citizen of his community. For 25 years he was physician for the Amesbury High School football squad and Boy Scout Camp Pow Wow of the Bay Shore Council. Ceremonies to honor him had been planned for next spring by the Council. A Rotarian and Mason, he was a charter member and past president of the Rotary Club. He was also a vice president and trustee of the Provident Institution for Savings.

Oat's wife died in 1945. Surviving him is his son, George Otis, and seven grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers it was requested that memorial donations be made to the Main Street Congregational Living Memorial Fund in care of the Rev. J. Osborne Crowe, pastor.

1904

BASCOM BACCUS BRAYTON, 87 years old, passed away at his home in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on October 22, 1962. Not feeling too well at breakfast time, he sat in his chair with his daughter at his side and fell asleep.

He was born September 11, 1875 at Hartford, N. Y. After attending the schools in his home town and teaching there several years he entered Dartmouth and graduated with the class of 1904. For a time after graduation, he resumed teaching. In 1906 he married Catherine Margaret Buchanan at Elmira, N. Y. They had two daughters, Catherine Julie who died in 1954 and Mar- garet Louise. In 1910 he moved to River- dale, New Sweden area in Idaho, bought a large farm and raised potatoes and wheat - and prospered with the seasons. Mrs. Brayton passed away in 1924 and shortly after her death he moved the family to Toronto, Ohio, where he was employed by a Steel Company near Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1932 he returned to Idaho, where, he boasted, were raised the finest potatoes in the world. 1939 brought retirement and he went to live with his daughter, Louise, who had become a veteran hospital nurse. Subsequently they moved to Long Beach, Calif., Dallas, Texas, and Salt Lake City. Since 1958 they had lived in Riverdale, Idaho, a suburb of Idaho Falls.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge for fifty years. In College highly respected "Brate" was class treasurer, and a member of the football squad. No man traveled more miles to class reunions that "Brate." He made the fiftieth reunion and what a welcome he received!!!! We shall always hold him in deep respect and affection for his loyalty to class and College.

A message of sympathy and deep respect has been sent to his daughter, and a salute to her for her devotion and care of her Dad

MONSIGNOR HENRY KINGSBURY PIERCE passed away November 6, 1962 in Rome, Italy, after a long illness. Just prior to his death he suffered a bad fall.

The son of Henry Dutton Pierce, 1872, he was born in Toledo, Ohio. December 29, 1881. The family moved to Illinois when Henry was a young child; he attended Oak Park, Illinois, High School and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1904. Henry was a member of Phi Delta Theta and the Mandolin Club and roomed four years with Albert Terrien; they formed a friendship which has lasted a lifetime.

After graduation, Henry was associated with the State Library School in Albany, N. Y. The following year he returned to Oak Park, HI., and was associated with his father in the marble business for a number of years. Henry became deeply interested in religion and in 1916 left business to attend the Episcopal General Theological Seminary in New York City. Shortly after attaining the priesthood he was assigned to the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in New York City. He later attended Oxford University in England and became converted to Catholicism and a close friend of the Belgian Cardinal who allotted a small church to him. Still later he went to Rome, attended Beda College, and upon graduation was assigned by the Pope to a church in Rome where he conducted services up to a short time before his death. In 1950 he was made a Monsignor.

He has left no known relatives. His funeral took place at the Church of San Marcello. He was put to rest beside his sister Helena at the Verano Cemetery in Rome. His classmates will cherish the memory of this saintly man.

1906

ROBERT WILLIAM WOOD was born in Columbia, Tenn., on March 29, 1882 and died in Arlington, Va., on October 15, 1962. He lived at 1021 South Quebec Street in Arlington. Bill entered Dartmouth with the class of 1906 but left at the end of sophomore year. He was a member of Sigma Chi and secretary-treasurer of the class.

From 1907 to 1912 he was a salesman for Heavy Construction Equipment Co. and from 1912 to 1917 was resident engineer of F.E.C.R.R. When World War I started he was appointed a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers and was stationed in France. After the war he was a civil engineer in construction work in St. Augustine, Fla., and Jackson, Miss.

From 1941 to 1944 Bill supervised military construction at Keesler Field and Key Field, Miss. In 1944 he went to Washington, D. C., and was construction management engineer for the Army office of the Chief of Engineers and later the Air National Guard. He retired in 1955.

Bill was a 32nd-degree Mason, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the National Society of Professional Engineers.

His wife, Suzanne, survives him as do his four children, Robert W. Jr., Louise S., Walton S., and Clotaire.

1907

WILLIAM JOSEPH AHERN passed away at his home at 8 Bradley Street in Concord, N. H., on November 13. Although he had been in poor health for some time, his death came suddenly. Bill was born on February 8, 1885 in Concord and entered Dartmouth from the Concord High School in 1903, receiving his A.B. degree in 1907. He was a member of the freshman baseball team, Palaeopitus and the Commencement Committee.

After graduation he was employed by Leather Products Co., Columbus, Ohio, and by Concord Electric Co. of Concord, N. H. Bill entered the service of his State of New Hampshire in 1909 when the State Forestry Department was established and was the chief clerk and administrative assistant prior to his retirement in 1956 with a record of 47 years of continuous service.

Bill was past president and one of the original players of the Sunset League; president of the State Employees Association from 1944 to 1949; a former member of the New Hampshire Legislature, serving four terms, and acted as substitute for the speaker frequently and a member of the Rules Committee. He was also a trustee of the Concord Public Library, a member of the zoning board, ward officer, and moderator from 1908 to 1930. Bill was a member and secretary of the Wonalancet Club, and a loyal member of the Merrimack County Dartmouth Club.

In 1911 he married Catherine Agnes Favor in Concord. She died in 1918. In 1927 he married Harriet Inez Jarvis at Haverhill, Mass. There were two children born from each marriage; Richard F. and Frances to the first wife, Elizabeth A. and William J. to the second.

The members of his family who survive are: Mrs. Harriet (Jarvis) Ahern of Concord; two sons Richard F. Ahern of Manchester, William J. Ahern of Brunswick, Me., two daughters, Mrs. Frances Bogart of Concord and Mrs. Elizabeth A. Lamphier of Marshfield Hill, Mass., eleven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

A solemn high mass of requiem was celebrated at St. Peter's Church, Friday, No- vember 16 at 10 a.m. by his brother, Rev. Robert L. Ahern. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Concord, N. H.

To Harriet and the family the Class of 1907 extends its heartfelt sympathy as it bids farewell to our esteemed and honored classmate.

DR. JOHN WILKES HAMMOND passed away on November 17 at his home in Orford, N. H. A memorial service was held November 24 in the Orford Congregational Church. Born in Cambridge, Mass., on August 7, 1884, son of Judge Wilkes Hammond, late justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Jack prepared for college at Stone School and entered Dartmouth in 1903. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Sphinx Senior Society.

After graduation he attended Harvard Medical School where he specialized in pediatrics, receiving an M.D. in 1912. He was an instructor at Harvard Medical School from 1917 through 1922, after which he became a medical missionary in China, where he was assistant head and later head of the Department of Pediatrics at the Union Medical College in Peking from 1922 to 1926. Returning to the United States, he became Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Yale University Medical School from 1928 to 1931. He then practiced in New York City and was assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at New York University during 1931 to 1934. While in New York he was on the staffs of Bellevue and Willard Parker Hospitals from 1932 to 1939 at which time he was editor of Archives of Pediatrics.

In politics he was an independent and served in Civilian Defense as Air Defense Warden. He was a member of the Royal Auto Club of London while studying for a year in London, England.

From 1946 in semi-retirement until his death Dr. Hammond had been school physician and town health officer in Orford, N. H. He lived on Dame Hill Road on a high hill with a beautiful view of Moosilauke Mountain and the surrounding country.

On June 1, 1929 at New Haven, Conn., he married Adelaide Meara, a graduate of Smith College. There are two children, Frank Meara Hammond and Patricia Southworth Hammond, both of New York, who survive. Adelaide died September 19, 1962.

The Class of 1907 extends its sincere sympathy to Patricia and Frank as it bids farewell to a very loyal member.

1909

ALVIN CLARK NOYES passed away at Brightlook Hospital, St. Johnsbury, Vt., on Friday, November 9, from a ruptured aorta. He lived at 2 Burrows Place. Al in the last year of his life had been beset by illness which often caused him to be hospitalized.

He was born in Bethlehem, N. H., on October 31, 1887 and entered Dartmouth from Littleton High School. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Upon graduation, he entered the bond business and then went to Woodstock, Vt., to run the Holbrook Grocery Co. In 1912 he went to St. Johnsbury, Vt., and became associated with the Passumpsic Savings Bank, which he served for more than half a century. He served terms as treasurer and vice president, and was president for nine years. He was active in Kiwanis and the Masonic fraternity.

Al was married on April 8, 1913 at West Newton, Mass., to Harriet Fowler who died in 1936. He is survived by two sons, Wilbur Clark of St. Johnsbury and John Sinclair of Watertown, Conn.; a brother Ralph Wilbur Noyes '10 of Littleton, N. H.; and one grandson.

Funeral services were held November 12 in the South Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury.

1910

THEODORE WHTG BALDWIN passed away July 25 at the Monterey (Calif.) Hospital. He formerly lived in Carmel.

"Baldy" was born in Oak Park, Ill., July 1, 1888 and prepared for college at Morgan Park Academy. His father, Judge Jesse Baldwin, was made a trustee of Chicago University while Ted was in Dartmouth and that caused him to leave after the second year. He was graduated from Chicago with the degree of Ph.B. in 1911. In 1914 he was graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School with the LL.B. degree.

Baldy was married to Myrtle Bement in Chicago in 1915. After practicing law in Chicago for a few years, he moved to California where he practiced in Carmel. He held memberships in Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Delta Phi fraternities, California State Bar Association, and Carmel Highlands Association.

Guy Carpenter carried on correspondence and visited Baldy and it was evident to him that Baldy's heart was "with his first love — Dartmouth."

STORMONT JOSSELYN died September 30 at his home 229 Kenoza Ave. in Haverhill, Mass. He had been in poor health for some time but the end came suddenly.

"Joss" was born in North Andover, April 24, 1888. He attended Johnson High School. In college he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and played on the freshman football team and the sophomore hockey team. In his junior year he left Hanover. He entered the construction field in Boston and later became Eastern District Sales Manager for the Chilton Pen Co.

After he retired from that business, he became active in painting and sold many of his pictures. He exhibited in Boston, Haverhill, and Yonkers, N. Y. He was a member of the Art Association in those respective cities. Violin-making was a hobby of his and he was the proud producer of eight.

Joss was married to Ida Liversedge, April 28, 1911 in Manchester, N. H. She died in 1923. On August 26, 1932 he married Emilie Kritter in Haverhill, Mass.

Survivors are his widow; a daughter, Mrs. John Boyle of North Andover, Mass.; a brother, Harry of Farmington, Me.; six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

EDMUND JAMES SHATTUCK died November 12 at his home 92 River Road, Dedham, Mass. He had been in poor health for several years.

Ed was born in Norwood, Mass., August 24, 1887. He prepared for Dartmouth at Middlesex School. In college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Turtle, and C & G. He played in the Mandolin Club and was chairman of the Junior Prom Committee.

After graduation Ed entered the employ of Geo. H. Morrill Co., manufacturers of printing ink. He served as district manager in Los Angeles and Chicago, and was Pacific Coast manager, located in San Francisco. In World War I, Ed was with the Sanitary Corps. He had risen to Captain at the time of his discharge.

Ed's interest in, and service to, Dartmouth was marked by his election to the presidency of the Dartmouth Club of Boston, the Alumni Association of Northern California in 1936-37 and the Boston Association in 1945-46. He was a 50-year member of the Orient Lodge AF & AM, and of the Temple Commandery in Norwood.

Ed was married to Gretchen Simpson, December 16, 1910, in Roxbury, Mass. She and his son, Edmund James Jr., are the survivors. His son, the late Jackman Morrill '41, was killed in 1943 while serving in the Air Force.

1911

ARTHUR WEBSTER STEVENS passed away at his home at 21 Ridge Road in Concord, N. H., on October 15, 1962, having suffered from cancer for several years. Art was born in Concord, September 13, 1887, attended its public schools and thereafter entered the University of Michigan where he remained for two years before transferring to the Tuck School in 1909. Because he was in the class of 1911 at Michigan he made that his class at Dartmouth. He was offered a position so attractive that he stayed in Tuck only one year. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

His first job was with the Page Belting Company in Concord followed by transferring to the Concord Lumber Company in 1913, then a small business founded by his father. Art shortly became president and treasurer and under his management it became a large and successful business. He was active in various lumbermen's associations; the founder of the Reed-Toof Laundry Company of Concord; a director of the Page Belting Company and the Concord National Bank; a trustee of the Concord Savings Bank and an incorporator of the New Hampshire Savings Bank. He was a life-long member of the Congregational Church. Although only one year under the Hanover influence, it was enough to make him a Dartmouth man for life. He rarely ever missed the meetings of the Merrimack County Alumni Association and his name was always among the contributors to the class and College.

Arthur's first wife, Dorothy Reed, died in 1953 and in the spring of 1955 he married Carolyn Chick of Farmington, Conn., by whom he is survived. Also he leaves a son of the first marriage, Reed Stevens of Concord and four grandchildren. Funeral services were held in the South Congregational Church. In lieu of flowers, friends were asked to contribute to the American Cancer Society.

1912

During the night of October 31, 1962 CHARLES EDWARD MCCARTHY died in George Washington Hospital, Washington, D. C., following a gall bladder operation. The Class of 1912 thus lost one of its most loyal and staunch supporters.

The saga of Mac's life is one of dogged determination and ultimate accomplishment of which Dartmouth may well be proud. Born November 9, 1889 in Melrose, Mass., Mac was a boyhood chum of Bill Shapleigh and Walter Thomas in the Melrose schools. He had a great desire to go to college but said he didn't "have the dough." When told that Dartmouth welcomed any man willing to work for an education, his mind was made up. Once in college Mac worked summers as a brakeman on the Boston & Maine R.R. and later as dispatcher for all the conductors and brakemen on the B. & M. out of Boston. During his college days he worked as a waiter in the Commons and evenings his voice could be heard in the dormitory halls shouting "chocolate eclairs, sandwiches, Hershey bars."

Like so many others from Melrose and surrounding towns in those days, Mac played hockey. At Dartmouth he was on the class hockey team and made good as goalie on the varsity team.

From Hanover Mac attended Harvard Business School for one year. Then he returned to the Boston & Maine R.R. where he rose to the position of acting trainmaster. During the war the railroads were taken over by the Government, and Mac's position was automatically frozen. Severing connec- tion with the railroad in 1919, he moved to New York and started in the steamship business. Some of the shipping companies he was with ceased operations, but Mac was able to better himself with each move. He spent a year in Miami in the stevedoring business, was pier superintendent for the U. S. Lines in New York, and spent three years with the U. S. Fleet Corporation in Washington. In 1930 he joined with International Paper Co., under lohn Hinman '08, in the transportation department, spending considerable time in Canada where the newsprint mills are located, and traveling to Boston, Baltimore, Albany, Philadelphia, and Norfolk. In 1938 he moved to Montreal. There, during the Second World War, he was transferred for a year or so to the Canadian Department of Transport and had to do with the loading of war materials for the United Kingdom.

On his retirement in 1957 Mac bought a home in Falls Church, Va. He was a good golfer, a Mason, and a lover of Dartmouth and its surrounding hills and was never happier than when he was returning to Hanover for a talkfest with his pals of college days.

Mac married Gertrude R. Phelan of Wakefield, Mass., on September 28, 1918. They had one daughter. He is survived by his widow, at 1901 Linda Lane, Falls Church; his daughter, Mrs. Walter Stoneman; two grandchildren, and a brother, Frank E. McCarthy of Maiden. Funeral services were conducted by the Reverend Fuller on November 3 and burial was in Wyoming Cemetery, Melrose. The Class was represented by Bertha and Queech French, Randy Burns, Roy Lewis, and Walter Thomas.

HENRY KIMBALL URION died suddenly on the morning of November 15, 1962 as he was about to step into his automobile at his home at 115 Muchmore Road, Harrison, N. Y.

Heinie was born on April 8, 1889 at St. Paul, Minn., son of Alfred Riley Urion and Mabel Kimball and grandson of Henry M. Kimball. Dartmouth 1885. He prepared for college at University High School in Chicago. At Dartmouth he distinguished himself as managing editor of The Dartmouth and as editor of the 1912 Aegis. He was president of the freshman debating team and a member of the sophomore debating team. His senior year found him president of the Interfraternity Council and at graduation he was honored by being selected to deliver the Address to the Old Chapel. Heinie was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Dragon, and Round Robin. In 1928-1930 he was national president of Phi Delta Theta. Following graduation from Dartmouth he attended Harvard Law School from which he graduated in 1915. Heinie was Secretary of the Class of 1912 from 1943 to 1958.

From 1915 to 1919 he practiced law in Chicago and in later years in both Washington and New York City. While in Chicago he was instrumental in exposing Gaston B. Means, forger of the will of James B. King and later known for his ransom hoax in the Lindbergh kidnapping. From 1919 to 1921 Heinie was special assistant to the Secretary of War in Washington and in Paris and Brussels.

He was a member of the New York law firm of O'Connor and Farber from 1936 to 1950; secretary of the National Vitamin Foundation, 1945-1951 and 1953-1958, counsel for the same, 1951-1958, and executive vice-president of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, 1958-1960. He was a member of the American Bar Association, and of the Chicago, New York State, and New York County Bar Associations. He belonged to the Bankers' Club of America, the Dartmouth Club of New York, and was a communicant of the Episcopal Church.

On June 26, 1915 he married Katherine Paul of Boston, daughter of Isaac F. Paul '78 and sister of Philip B. Paul '06 and Richard F. Paul '11. Katherine died March 28, 1931. On June 11, 1936 Heinie married Irma Whitehead Goetz who survives him, together with two sons, Paul Batcheller Urion '38 and Philip Allen Urion; a stepson, Philip Whitehead Goetz; a stepdaughter, Dorothy (Mrs. John E.) Struggles; a brother, Alfred J. Jr. '13; two sisters, Frances Urion and Mrs. Virginia Dulaney; and five grandchildren.

Funeral services at the home in Harrison on November 17 were private and were followed by cremation.

Heinie will long be remembered by his classmates for his genial disposition and seemingly tireless energy while in college. He missed the Fiftieth Reunion because of his devotion to the cause of a friend for whom he was campaigning, preparatory to the September primaries. His cordial offer of support to the new Class Secretary was probably his last act for 1912.

1914

Although WILLIAM CEDRIC WOLF was with us for only two years, leaving at the end of sophomore year, many of us remember his keen, adventuresome mind and his retiring but warm personality.

Bill founded and was the guiding genius of the Allied Board of Trade - the successful 42-year-old trade association of Interior Decorators - and was also Executive Secretary of the Decorative Furniture Manufacturers Association, both with headquarters in New York. He, had also served as chief of the credit division of the War Assets Administration in 1945 and 1946.

Bill died at his home 333 East 46th Street in New York City on October 15, after a long illness. He leaves a son, Richard, of Harrison, N. Y., a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Jones of New Rochelle, two grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Bill never lost his interest in Dartmouth and lent his considerable support to all Dartmouth interests. To his survivors the Class extends its sympathy.

1915

JAMES MICHAEL KILLEEN, of 34-31 81st Street, Jackson Heights, N. Y., died September 26 at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, after confinement for several months with a cardiac condition. Jim was born August 6, 1892 at Concord, N. H. He prepared for college at Holy Cross Prep, and, after a year at Holy Cross College, entered Dartmouth in 1912, where he stayed through 1915. He was a member of Sigma Chi, Sphinx, and Lambs, and was prominent in Dartmouth Dramatic Association presentations.

Prior to his confinement, he had been active in business with Eilert Printing Company of New York City. Earlier in his career he was resident manager for the Ford Motor Company in Athens, Greece and also worked in Istanbul, Turkey. Jim was a Ist Lieut, of Field Artillery in World War I and became a Commissioner of the New York World's Fair for 1938 and 1939.

His wife, Jeanne, daughter of a former Mayor of Nancy, France, died in February 1960 after a long illness. Surviving is a cousin, Mrs. Agnes Mahoney.

After reposing at "The Hallett Homestead" in Flushing, N. Y., interment was at Concord, N. H., October 1, 1962. The Class of 1915 was represented by Charlie Comiskey who was in charge of arrangements.

1918

RICHARD JAMES OPPENHEIMER passed away on Saturday, October 20, at the Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, Mass. He was born in Springfield on April 22, 1897, but had resided in South Natick for the past twenty years. His address was 24 Water St. Dick was an accountant for the Scovell Wellington Corporation of Boston. Previ- ously he had worked as. an industrial inspector for the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries.

During World War I he served as an aviation chief rigger with the U.S. Naval Air Force. While in college he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and Cercle Francois.

He is survived by his wife Arline Ruse Oppenheimer and two sons, Carl F. by a former marriage, of Fairfax, Va., and Richard J. Jr. who is with the U.S. Air Force stationed in Texas.

The funeral services were held in the Mitchell Funeral home in Natick. His interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield.

1919

CHARLES JONAS KUBIN died of cancer on July 26, 1962 at the Veterans Hospital in Fayetteville, Ark. He was born on July 13, 1896 in Chicago, and came to Hanover from the University School in Evanston. He was on our freshman football squad and a member of Phi Kappa Psi. He later attended Sheffield Scientific School at the University of Pittsburgh.

Little is known of his business, career except that at one time he was in the real estate business in Palm Beach. His only known survivor is his sister, Mrs. Edwin Lame, Route 1, Box 153, Winslow, Ark.

1925

MILLARD SANDERS PEABODY died unexpectedly at his home, 231 Foreside Road, in Falmouth, Maine, October 28, 1962. Born April 27, 1904, in Flyde Park, Mass., he prepared for Dartmouth at Hyde Park High School. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. After leaving Hanover he attended Columbia Business School in New York City.

After a short period of employment with Bird and Son, box manufacturers, in Walpole, Mass., Millard became associated with his father's shoe manufacturing firm,, the E. E. Taylor Corp., Brockton, Mass. He became president of the corporation in 1930. He moved the firm's entire manufacturing base to a large plant in Augusta, Maine in 1937 and opened a second plant in Freeport, Maine in 1947.

He was married in 1927 to Frances Wilson of Santa Fe, N. M., in New York City. They lived in Hingham, Mass., many years and moved to Falmouth Foreside in 1951. During World War II he served for three years as chief of the Requirements Board of the Quartermaster General Department in Washington, D. C., and he received the Medal of Commendation for Exceptional Civilian Service.

Survivors beside his widow include three daughters, Charlotte, wife of Dr. J. Randolph Paulling Jr., of Oslo, Norway; Barbara, wife of Dr. Walter Vom Lehn, of Narrows, Va.; and Emmy Lou, a student at Smith College; a son, M. S. Peabody Jr., of Philadelphia, and four grandchildren.

1927

ELBERT ASA GRUVER JR. died on November 10 in University Hospital, New York City. Bert was stage manager for Leland Hayward, and was taken ill while on tour with the play "A Shot in the Dark.

Bert was born in New York City, August 21, 1905, and entered Dartmouth from Council Bluffs, lowa. He was a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon and the Round Table. He received a Master's degree in Fine Arts in 1931 from the Yale Drama School and devoted his life to the theater with the exception of the period 1942-1945 when he was with the Army Air Force in China.

It was in China that he contracted spinal tuberculosis which eventually put him into the Veterans Hospital in New York City for a year and a half for a series of operations. During this time Bert wrote TheStage Manager's Handbook, which he first published. Later Harper's published the book and it was recently reprinted by the Drama Bookshop. According to Actors Equity, it has become the standard text and is used professionally and academically throughout the country.

His career in the theater encompassed everything from the box office to director, but his real reputation was as "a stage manager's stage manager." Among the shows with which he was associated were "Witness for the Prosecution," "Mr. Roberts," "Two for the Seesaw," and "The Miracle Worker."

The Yale Drama School Alumni Society and fund were organized by Bert at the instance of Ed Cole '26, Technical Director of the School.

Bert never married; he kept his home in Providence at 520 Hope St. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Victor Hicks and Miss Margaret Gruver, to whom the Class of '27 extends its deepest sympathy.

1928

JAMES TOWNLEY HUBBELL died June 14 in Hammond, Ind., where he had been executive director of the Hammond Housing Authority for the past 16 years. He lived at 30 Coolidge St.

Hub was born in Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 18, 1904 and attended Phillips. Exeter Academy. At Dartmouth he was an economics major and a member of Phi Delta Theta. After graduation he worked in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago before settling in Hammond.

He is survived by his widow, the former Margaret Blackman, whom he married Aug. 30, 1936; his sons, James Jr. and Harry; and daughters, Ann and Merrill.

PAUL SIDNEY KNOWLES died of a coronary thrombosis November 13 in a doctor's office in Delray Beach, Fla. He had suffered a slight heart attack four days earlier. After he was stricken November 13 his family, rushed him to the physician's office, but the second attack was fatal. His home was at 1302 Pelican Lane, Delray Beach.

Paul was a prominent resident of Delray Beach. He became a member of the city's Planning and Zoning Board in 1957 and in 1959 was elected chairman. Six months ago he was called on by Palm Beach County to take over its planning, and had been serving in that capacity since then.

Paul was born May 30, 1906 in Chicago, and attended Northwestern Military and Naval Academy. At Dartmouth he was a member of Bait and Bullet, the D. C. A. Cabinet, Phi Kappa Psi, and Dragon. After graduation he attended the Thayer School, and then went with the Falk Corp. in Milwaukee. From 1936 to 1940 he was production manager of that company. In 1940 he became assistant to the president of the Square D Company and moved to Elmhurst, N. Y. Two years later he was appointed director of personnel of the Kollsman Instrument Division of his company.

After the war he retired in 1946 to run his 350-acre farm in southern New Hampshire and lived in Boxford, Mass. In 1952 he moved to Delray Beach. He was a vestryman of St. Joseph's Episcopal Church in Boynton Beach, and president of the Gulf Stream Bath and Tennis. Club.

He married Josephine Philipp on Jan. 16, 1932 in Milwaukee. She survives him, along with their sons, Paul S. Jr. of Delray Beach and Cyrus of Ithaca, N. Y.; his mother, Mrs. Sidney J. Knowles of Delray Beach; and four grandchildren.

1929

Our classmate, JAMES WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, died after a long illness on October 3 in Farmington, Me. He lived on Main St. in Wilton.

Jim, a DU, prepared for Dartmouth at Wilton Academy in Wilton, Me., which had always been his home. Insurance and real estate were his life work. He was an active community-oriented citizen and served as town clerk, town treasurer, trustee of Wilton Academy, and finance committee member. A past master of the Masons, he also was active in the Odd Fellows, Lions Club, and the Congregational Church. Jim aided Dartmouth as a member of the Alumni Interviewing Committee.

In 1929 he married the former Muriel Sanborn who survives him with their two sons, James and Richard, and their daughter, Madelyn. To them the Class extends its sincere sympathy.

Word has just been received from the alumni office of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of the death of ROBERT MEAD SPRAGUE, on March 6. He came to Dartmouth from East Cleveland, Ohio, but had lived until 1956 in the Boston area. In 1931 he received a graduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

During the depression years Bob served as a radio operator on ships touching Baltic and Mediterranean ports. Later for Press Wireless he developed a new method for radio transmission of pictures. After the war he worked as an electronics engineer for Raytheon and developed radar and communications equipment for the armed services. He had been a consulting engineer for Andrew Alford Consulting Engineers in Boston before moving to Long Island to join the Arma Corp. At the time of his death he was self-employed as a consultant. The writer of many technical articles for trade publications, he owned various patent rights.

On August 28, 1937, he married Virginia R. Feriter. To her and their children, Barbara and Clinton, the Class extends its sincere sympathy.

1932

HOMER GALPIN TIFFANY died at Baylor Medical Hospital in Dallas, Texas, on November 19 after a short illness. A former Antioch, Ill., resident, Tiff had made his home in Dallas since 1949. He lived at 3401 Harvard Drive. He was just 53 years of age.

Entering Dartmouth from Antioch Town High School, Tiff majored in History. Shortly after graduation he took a job as principal of a rural school in Mundelin, Ill., but soon left this position to go into claims work with the Continental Casualty Co. He joined Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in 1941 and was with that company as claim supervisor for the remainder of his career. During World War II he worked as a counter-intelligence special agent and security intelligence special agent for three years.

He is survived by two brothers, Charles of Waukegan, Ill., and Albert of Geneseo, Ill.; and five sisters, Mrs. Ollie Burke, Mrs. Hazel Sibley, Deedie and Mary Tiffany, all of Antioch, Ill., and Mrs. Sue Stupey of La Jolla, Calif. To them our Class extends its deepest sympathy.

1934

EDWARD MICHAEL HEFFERNAN died on October 11 in Mills Hospital, San Mateo, Calif., after a brief illness. He lived at 519 West Hillside Blvd.

He was. at the time of his death regional vice president of Hugh W. Long and Company, Inc. in the investment trust field. Prior to moving to San Francisco ten years ago, he was trust officer with the Ann Arbor Trust Company in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Ed was born in Northampton, Mass., January 28, 1913, and graduated from high school there before going to Dartmouth where he majored at Tuck School. He also studied at New York University and the Business Administration School at the University of Michigan. At Dartmouth he was a DU. During the war he was a Lieutenant in the Navy Supply Corps.

Ed leaves his wife, Alice (Kinney) Heffernan, and a son Michael, who is a junior at Stanford University.

1936

CAPTAIN SHERMAN MILNE PEABODY, career Navy surgeon and ophthalmologist, who had just entered private practice after retirement, died suddenly November 10 at his home 1017 - 5th Avenue, Coronado, Calif.

We all share regret, in the words of Frank Soule, also a career Navy doctor, "that the civilian career for which he had waited so long, was .terminated so soon. Sherm was a Highly respected and very popular Navy doctor and a good friend to many of us. We shall miss him."

After Dartmouth graduation where he was a member of Dragon and Phi Gamma Delta, Sherm completed medical school at McGill University, Montreal, and interned for a year at Montreal General Hospital and for a second year at a New York Hospital.

He entered the Naval service in 1942 and was stationed at the Aviation School of Medicine in Pensacola, Fla. After designation as flight surgeon he served at various naval air stations and El Toro Marine Air Base. During World War II he served as flight surgeon aboard the carrier Lexington, and during the Korean War in the same capacity on the carrier, Bataan. He was a native of Quebec, Canada.

Dr. Peabody, who was considered outstanding in his specialty, was a member of the American Medical Association and the Aero Medical Association. He leaves his wife Margaret, his mother, and three sisters.

1938

JAMES THATCHER SEAVER JR., a Colonel in the United States Air Force, died of cancer in Washington, D. C., October 27 and his body rests in the Arlington National Cemetery.

Jim Seaver was a beloved member of his Class and an enthusiastic supporter of Dart- mouth College. He served as vice commander of the USAF Air Weather Service from 1959 to 1960. Jim, who was at Scott AFB for two years previous to this, was assigned to the Pentagon in 1960 as Assistant for Weather, USAF Headquarters.

Jim entered service in October 1940 from the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. where he was a claims adjuster. He attended M.I.T. Weather School as a meteorologist cadet and was commissioned in July 1941. Progressing to the grade of colonel by July 1945, he served in Europe with the Bth Air Force for two years and in the Far East with the 20th Air Force for a year before his release from active duty in 1946. For his combat service, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Legion of Merit. Recalled to active duty in November 1948 from a civilian position as assistant to the vice president of Sales Manager, Inc., Jim was assigned as staff weather officer to Strategic Air Command. Prior to his assignment to AWS headquarters as chief of staff in March 1957, he commanded the 2nd Weather Wing in Germany for 3½ years. In his military duty he was a worldwide traveler.

Jim came to Dartmouth from his native Bronxville, N. Y. Outing Club affairs and Cabin and Trail took much of his spare time at Hanover where he majored in Economics and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. A popular member of the Class, he took part in many alumni functions.

Surviving is his wife, the former June Fuller of Long Island, N. Y., and three sons: Jeffrey, John, and James 3rd.

1940

A head-on auto collision killed EDWIN ALEXANDER HALSEY on October 6, 1962 near Yuma, Arizona. Ed was returning from a vacation trip in California to his home in Ajijic, Mexico where he moved in 1961. At that time he left the Claremont College Graduate School faculty to live and write in Mexico.

While an undergraduate in our class Ed was a tenor in the freshman Glee Club, secretary of SAE and earned his Phi Beta Kappa key. He majored in Latin.

Following graduation from Dartmouth and three years as a naval officer in the Pacific during World War II. Ed earned a Master's degree and a Doctor's degree at Harvard before beginning his teaching career at Reed College. He later was assistant professor of religion at Pomona College and visiting professor at University of California at Riverside. Ed's commitment to the teaching profession and his concern for his students made him numerous friends in the colleges he served.

1955

Luis PEDRO TORROELLA was executed by a firing squad October 31 in Boniato, Oriente province, in eastern Cuba. He had been a prisoner of the Castro government since June 1961, but was charged with taking part in an attempted assassination of Castro the following month. His wife, the former Carole Ambrose of 1 Manomet Road, Winchester, Mass., said the charge was "trumped up." Though living in Winchester and later Miami, she had been in touch with Luis several times during his imprisonment, including a visit to La Cabana prison in Havana, and until the execution it had appeared he eventually would be released.

Luis was a. Cuban but was educated in this country, at Hebron Academy and Dartmouth. He majored in economics and was a brother of Chi Phi. Later he joined the Castro revolution and became Assistant Minister of Finance in the new government. Then, when Communist control became evident, he broke with Castro and opposed the regime.

John Le Fever, a roommate, fraternity brother, and classmate of Luis's at Hebron and Dartmouth, says that "although he was educated almost entirely in the States, he had an exceedingly strong love for the little island of 'Cubita Bella,' something difficult for many Americans to understand. And I also remember his saying often that a time comes when a man must bet on himself, even if it means staking his life on the outcome. ... There was one moment on which a man's whole life turned, and it required his utmost. If he backed down from that challenge, then his life would be not much more than water."

The Class extends its deepest sympathy to Carole and the Torroellas' daughter, Cynthia, 6, and to his two brothers and to Luis's parents, who are also in this country.

Prof. Merle Chandler Cow den, M.A. '38

Henry Kimball Urion '12

James Thatcher Seaver Jr. '38