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.]
Marden, Philip S. '94, July 20 Fuller, Montie J. B. '99, Aug. 13 Hawkes, Ralph W. '99, June 26 Edwards, William B. '00, July 17 Eddy, Ernest J. '01, Aug. 27 Brackett, Karl S. '02, Sept. 10 Wright, Charles A. '02, July 1951 Noyes, Arthur P. '03, Aug. 21 Nelson, Horace A. '04, Aug. 14, 1962 Woods, Carl F. '04, Aug. 26 Wells, Edward P. '05, Feb. 16 Slack, John P. '06, July 15 Abbott, Robert H. '07, Apr. 4, 1960 Bartlett, Samuel C. '07, July 13 Cochrane, Robert C. '07, July 4 Eames, Alden N. '07, July 16 Hale, Samuel '07, July 25 Jennings, Harold D. '07, Aug. 1 Kitching, A. Harper '07, Aug. 5 Pelren, Harry J. '07, Aug. 14 Warner, Harry J. '07, July 8 Dudley, Benjamin H. '09, Aug. 20 Follansbee, Merrill M. '09, July 2 Patterson, William H. '09, June 30 Sporborg, Arthur J. '09, June 17 Wheat, Harold A. '09, Aug. 14 Golde, Walter '10, Sept. 4 Warren, Julius E. '10, Aug. 31 Campbell, Harold A. '11, July 12 Hedges, Horace G. '11, Aug. 2 Pease, Harold W. '11, June 26 Patten, Ernest R. '12, Dec. 3, 1961 Preble, Blanchard M. '12, June 6, 1944 Becker, Harlan A. '13, Sept. 2, 1948 Cole, Samuel D. '14, Aug. 3 Mayo, Winthrop M. '14, Aug. 10 Andrus, Maynard B. '15, Oct. 5, 1962 Stanton, Henry F. '15, Dec. 7, 1953 Chutter, Reginald F. '16, July 26 Hammond, Morris G. '17, Aug. 1 Mac Martin, John E. '17, Aug. 4 Oberne, George S. 'l7, Nov. 11, 1961 Hardie, Francis C. '18, Aug. 25 Tefft, Ivan D. '18, July 18, 1962 Hepburn, Basil G. '19, Mar. 4, 1961 Libby, Furber M. '19, Jan. 15, 1962 Ray, Charles R. '19, Oct. 31, 1958 Breglio, Vincent A. '20, Aug. 11 Howard, Alvin E. '20, Aug. 11 Richardson, Norman B. '20, Sept. 14 MacCready, Donald A. '21, Nov. 14, 1953 Mayo, Robert D. '21, July 19 Harper, Elmer B. '21, July 14 Clemens, Sherrard Jr. '23, July 8 Emerson, Albert L. '23, Aug. 9 Foster, John E. '23, July 5 Lewis, Gordon C. '23, Aug. 31 Williams, James McK. '23, Aug. 22 Bird, S. Curtis '24, Sept. 1 Peterson, Charles A. Jr. '25, Sept. 7 Munsey, Everett D. '27, Aug. 7 McLachlan, George' A. '29, Aug. 30 Cusano, Paul P. '30, July 30 Dunnington, Thomas C. '30, Aug. 18 Howard, Charles W. '31, Aug. 27 Engel, Frank L. '34, July 10 Odell, John MacD. '34, July 11 Sellmer, Robert A. '35, Aug. 8 McKallagat, John J. Jr. '36, Aug. 14 Barnet, Henry B. Jr. '38, Aug. 9 von Wedel, Jerrold O. '43, July 18 Dunbar, Ross W. '49, Apr. 16 Sera, George R. '52, July 21 Darpinian, Haig R. '55, Mar. 15 Burton, David T. '59, July 9 Cornell, Craig R. '6O, Aug. 28 Sheltren, Gary A. '62, June 22 Fuess, Claud M., Litt.D. '31, Sept. 9 King, Donald S., A.M. '54, Aug. 30
SAM BRUNGOT, Custodian of College Property at the Dartmouth Grant and a colorful character of the New Hampshire northwoods known and respected by many alumni, died in early September. Custodian from 1951 to 1961, Sam was the genial and loquacious host for scores of alumni, undergraduates, faculty and staff officers, and Hanover townspeople during his service at the "Patrol Cabin" near the Forks of the Diamond at Dartmouth's North Country outpost.
1894
PHILIP SANFORD MARDEN, Trustee Emeritus of the College, who was newspaper editor, author, and one of the leading citizens of Lowell, Mass., died at his home, 84 Fairmount Street, Lowell, on July 20. He was in his 90th year.
Mr. Marden, a man of wide reading and culture, was editor of the Lowell CourierCitizen for 35 years, from 1906 to 1941, and was president of the Courier-Citizen Company, one of the nation's largest printing firms, from 1907 until his death. As editor of the newspaper he contributed editorials and editorial-page articles on books, the arts, and travel. For some fifty years he wrote a regular weekly column called "Saturday Chat," which appeared first in the Courier-Citizen and then continued in the Lowell Sun when that paper bought the Courier-Citizen. Mr. Marden was an Associate Editor of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE from 1920 to 1932 and again from 1942 to 1946, writing an editorial section called "Gradus ad Parnassum." He was best at discursive essays, written with grace and frequent use of Latin quotations. The classics and strong Italian stogies were two of the things he loved most.
Travels in many foreign lands resulted in six books: "Greece and the Aegean Islands" (1907), "Travels in Spain" (1909), "Egyptian Days" (1912), "Sailing South" (1921), "Detours" (1925) and "A Wayfarer in Portugal" (1927), all published by Houghton Mifflin. Another book, "In Times Like These," appeared in 1942.
Mr. Marden's devotion to Dartmouth was lifelong. He was always active in the affairs of the Class of 1894 and of the Dartmouth Club of Lowell. He was a member of the Alumni Council for nine years, 1923-32, by virtue of being chairman of the executive committee of the General Alumni Association, and was vice president of the Council, 1925-28. He served two five-year terms as alumni trustee of the College from 1932 to 1942. For many years he was president and bequest chairman of the Class of 1894, and in the past two years he had assumed also the duties of secretary and class agent. In 1914 Mr. Marden received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth, and in 1958 he received the honorary Doctorate of Science from Lowell Technological Institute, which he had served as a trustee.
Mr. Marden was born in Lowell on January 12, 1874, the son of George A. Marden, Dartmouth 1861, and Mary Fiske Marden. He entered Dartmouth from Lowell High School and was a Phi Beta Kappa student. After a year of newspaper work he studied law and received his LL.B. from Harvard in 1898. He practiced law only until 1901 when he was named managing editor of the Courier-Citizen, becoming editor-in-chief five years later. Upon the death of his father he also became president of the Courier-Citizen Company.
Mr. Marden was a patron of many cultural and civic activities in Lowell, and for some years was president of the Lowell Art Association. He was a trustee of the Central Savings Bank and the Rogers Hall School, and was a director of the Community Chest Association and the Social Service League. He belonged to the Vesper Country and Yorick Clubs of Lowell, the St. Botolph Club and Club of Odd Volumes of Boston, and the Century Association of New York. During the years of its existence before 1919 he was president of the old Papyrus Club in Boston.
Mr. Marden was twice married, first in 1902 to Miss Florence S. Shirley of Goffstown, N. H., who died in 1934, and then in 1935 to Mrs. Clare Reed Brockunier, a native of Lowell, who died in 1957. There were no children by either marriage, but four step-children, by the second marriage, are survivors: Clare Brockunier of Lowell, Elizabeth Brockunier of Boston, Charles W. Brockunier of Boston, and Prof. Samuel H. Brockunier of Middletown, Conn. The late Robert F. Marden '98 was a brother and the late Jesse K. Marden '95 a cousin. By his first marriage he was the uncle of Thomas E. Shirley '18 and Lawrence W. Shirley '29.
Funeral services were held July 24 in St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Lowell, followed by burial in the Lowell Cemetery. Dartmouth was officially represented at the services by Gilbert R. Tanis '38, Executive Officer of the College.
1899
MONTIE JOHN BAKER FULLER died in Fernald Rest Home, Litchfield, Conn., August 13 after years of crippling arthritis and a heart ailment that worsened last winter. Survivors include his wife Martha; two sons, Mark Fuller, Albany, N. Y., and Melville. Great Barrington, Mass.; two daughters, Marcia (Mrs. Robert J.) Brennan, with whom her mother is now making her home, 4535 Third Ave. South, St. Petersburg 11, Fla., and Miss Miriam Fuller, San Francisco, Calif.: five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Montie was born Dec. 16, 1876 in Wallingford, Vt. He prepared for Dartmouth at Rutland Institute, took the classical course at college, and became Bachelor of Theology at Hartford Seminary in 1902. December 31 of that year at Peru, Vt., he married Martha Jane Lyon, a sister of Albert Mark Lyon '94. They celebrated their 60th anniversary in 1962.
Between 1902 and 1938 the Rev. Fuller served some ten regular pastorates, mainly in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connectcut. His last regular pastorate, eleven years, was at Harwinton, Conn. After retiring in 1938, the Fullers remained in Harwinton while Montie supplied or served as interim pastor in a score of Congregational churches throughout Litchfield County.
Montie Fuller always chose to work in small communities, however discouraging conditions might be. He sought the man-to-man contact, not display or distinction. In his single pastorate outside of New England in Crown Point, N. Y., he successfully prosecuted men who undertook to own both a church pew and a liquor bar.
As the only minister in '99 Montie's position was unique. He felt and expressed an unobtrusive but sincere spiritual responsibility for all his classmates. On their part, admiration for his modesty and his consistency of life grew through the years into warm affection.
The funeral service was held August 15 in the Harwinton church. Three ministers officiated: Rev. G. Homer Lane with whom Montie once worked in Torrington; Dr. Ewing, the present pastor in that town, and the present pastor in Harwinton. The service was, at Montie's request, completely Scriptural, with no eulogy, but with his favorite tenor solos, "There Is No Death" and "The Holy City." The Class of '99 was represented by Joe Gannon's daughter Genevieve and her husband, Winter Read. On August 25 son Melville with Pauline carried the ashes to be buried in the Fuller lot in Scotsville Cemetery, Danby, Vt.
RALPH WILSON HAWKES of York Village, Me., died June 26 in the local hospital. A tendency to shortness of breath during recent years suddenly became acute, and his heart succumbed within a week. Ralph was born May 9, 1876 in York Village. He and five other Portsmouth High School graduates entered Dartmouth and graduated together. In 1903 he graduated cum laude from Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar.
He first practiced eight years in Worcester, but on his father's death he moved his office to York, becoming also trial justice of York County and superintendent of schools. Then he was absent from Maine again for several years as president of the Holbrook Mills Co., Millbury, Mass.; but by the early 1920's he was permanently back in York Village with busy law office and incidental direction of his father's former drug store.
In 1902 Ralph married Georgia Bancroft of Millbury; she died in 1906. In 1911 he married Blanche Rice, also of Millbury. One daughter by the first marriage, Georgia Sturtevant, died in 1958. The six offspring of his second marriage are still living and all married.
For the last 40 years of his life Ralph was never idle except for occasional trips to the White Mountains or to the homes of his married children in the West. In the middle 30's he was prosecuting bootleggers; always he was justice of the peace, consultant on wills and income tax returns. Even in his middle 80's he daily climbed the long flight to his office for some hours of work.
He was a member of Olive Branch Lodge, AF and AM of Millbury, and a faithful communicant of St. Peter's-by-the-Sea church at Cape Neddick; as long-time treasurer of St. Peter's he more than doubled its endowment funds.
Ralph was a dependable attendant too at '99 Round-Ups and at Class reunions in Hanover, often with Blanche and a child or two. He was class secretary 1949-54. In all his activities he was a hearty, companionable, hard-working man, and few could be more missed than he.
Funeral services were held at St. Peter's on June 28. The Class was represented that day by Joe Gannon, Joe Hobbs, Warren Kendall, Rodney Sanborn, and Esther barker, and later by a memorial donation to the Maine Heart Association.
Survivors include his wife, Blanche; four daughters - Mrs. Frances Tracy, Mrs. Caroline Best, and Mrs. Betty Bowers, all of York; and Mrs. Mary Lang of Arlington, Va., two sons, Ralph Jr. of Vassalboro and Edward H. of Mattawamkeag, Me.; seventeen grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
1903
GEORGE H. GAGE of 19 Cheever Circle. Andover, Mass., died June 17, 1963 at Shady Knoll Nursing Home. George was born May 18, 1880 in Lawrence. He matriculated with the Class of 1903 but left College in November of his freshman year to take over the family business of the George L. Gage Coal Co. of Lawrence. He became president of the firm founded by his grandfather.
George was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the North Andover Country Club, the Phoenician Lodge A.F. & A.M., York Rite, charter member of the Lawrence Lions Club, and a trustee of the Broadway Savings Bank in Lawrence.
He leaves his wife, Mildred (Atkinson) and two daughters, Mrs. Charles N. (Sally) Curtis of Topsfield and Mrs. John W. (Julia) Moses of La Canada, Calif. Funeral services were held in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, North Andover. The sympathy of the Class goes out to Mrs. Gage and her daughters.
DR. ARTHUR PERCY NOYES died August 21 at Norristown, Pa. Arthur was born November 26, 1880 at Enfield, N. H. He entered with the Class of 1903 but left at the end of junior year to combine his third year at the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Arthur graduated from the Medical College in 1906 and served as intern at City Hospital, Blackwell's Island, New York City.
Arthur was widely known in the field of psychiatrics. His book, "Text Book of Modern Psychiatry," was extensively used both as text book and for reference. A sixth edition has been published. In 1958 he was elected president of the American Psychiatric Association.
Art was married twice, but his only survivor is his son David.
1906
JOHN PHELPS SLACK was born in Bethel, Conn., on lune 30, 1884. He entered Dartmouth College with the Class of 1906 and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. While he remained the full four years he did not take a degree. He never kept in touch with the Class so details of his career are scanty, but he worked as a journalist and in the advertising field in New York and Philadelphia.
In 1916 he joined the U. S. Navy and was assigned to the transport U.S.S. Mallory on convoy duty. In 1925 he was appointed judge of' probate court in Bethel, Conn. After twelve years' service he retired and moved to Myrtle Beach, S. C., where he ran a gift shop.
Jack died on July 15, 1963. His wife, Deborah Hickock, and three sisters survive him.
1907
ROBERT HOWARD ABBOTT passed away on April 4, 1960 in Denver, Colo. Robert was born August 27, 1884 at Randolph, Vt., and was at College only three months. He was a consulting engineer in metallurgical furnaces and was associated with Mine and Smelter of Denver.
He is survived by his widow at 5475 McIntyre, Route 1, Box 562, Golden, Colo.
SAMUEL COLCORD BARTLETT, A.B.; C.E. Dartmouth 1908, of New York City and Bridgewater, Conn., died Saturday, July 13, at his new home in Bridgewater, as the result of two strokes. Sam was born November 26, 1886 in Hanover, N. H., the son of our beloved professor of chemistry, Edwin J. Bartlett, and the grandson of Samuel Colcord Bartlett, president of Dartmouth from 1877 to 1892. Sam prepared for college at Hanover High School and after graduating from Dartmouth he attended Thayer School of Engineering.
In 1911 he entered the employ of the Hastings Pavement Co. in New York City. In 1918 he served in France and was commissioned captain. In 1921 he returned to the Hastings Pavement Co. Since 1945 he has been self employed as head of Samuel C. Bartlett, Inc., of 25 Broad Street, New York City.
While in College Sam was a member of the golf team, Psi Upsilon, and Dragon. He was a member of Braidburn Country Club, Dartmouth College Club of New York City and the New Jersey, and the National Society of Professional Engineers. In politics he was a Republican. Sam was a very fine class treasurer for years and was an excellent chairman of our 55th class reunion in 1962.
On February 15, 1915 in New York City he married Dorothy Hinman who survives. There are two daughters, Mrs. Caroline Case and Mrs. Dorothy Hardy, and several grandchildren.
Funeral services at Bridgewater were held in St. Mark Church, July 16 and our classmate the Rt. Rev. Benjamin M. Washburn D.D. represented the Class of 1907. Thayer Smith '10, brother of the late Morris K. Smith '07, also attended the services.
Burial service at Hanover, N. H., on July 17 was conducted by the Rev. Loren House of Norwich, Vt., and the following classmates were present: Allan Brown, Philip and Theora Chase, Robert and Lura Kenyon, George and Fern Liscomb. Sam's daughters were present as well as his cousin Don Bartlett of Norwich. The service was beautiful and the head stones nearby brought back memories of President Tucker, Prof. Worthen, and many Dartmouth men of our college days.
The Class of 1907 extends its deepest sympathy to Dorothy and the entire Bartlett family. Sam was a sincere, devoted, and loyal son of Dartmouth. He will be missed by us all.
DR. ROBERT CARLYLE COCHRANE, B.S., M.D. Harvard 1911, died July 4, at his home 18 Heatherland Road, Newton Highlands, Mass., after a short illness. Bob was born May 17, 1886 in Somerville, Mass. He prepared for Dartmouth at Somerville English High School. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and Sphinx. After he finished College he was a staff member of Boston City Hospital 1916-1948, surgeon-in-chief 1930-1948 and consulting surgeon 1948-1963. He was also consulting surgeon at Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Mass., Emerson Hospital, Concord, Mass., and was on the staff of Newton-Wellesley and the Faulkner Hospital. He served as assistant professor of surgery, Harvard Medical School 1928-1946 and secretary of the Board of Registration of Medicine of Massachusetts.
Bob was a fellow of the American Board of Surgeons and a member of several medical societies. He also belonged to the Harvard Club, the Lodge of Masons and served as a vestryman at St. Paul Episcopal Church in Newton, Mass. In World War I he was a major, Medical Corps, and in World War II served in England as colonel in charge of the Boston City Hospital Unit.
He married Louise C. Carpenter, September 8, 1914. She died May 27, 1949. His second marriage to Helen M. Crossman took place on October 18, 1951. She survives him as do his three sons: Robert C. Cochrane Jr. of Brookline, Mass., John M. Cochrane of Oklahoma City and a stepson, Dr Everett W. Haggett '53 of Greenfield, Mass'. There are eight grandchildren.
Funeral services were held on July 6 at St. Paul Episcopal Church, Newton Highlands. Curtis Plummer represented the Class of 1907 at the services. Bob was a loyal Dartmouth man and will be greatly missed by all his classmates and friends. To his wife Helen, sons and grandchildren the Class of 1907 extends its sympathy.
CHARLES WESLEY DUNN died on November 2, 1959. He was born July 26, 1885 at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1903. He left College at the end of freshman year transferring to Princeton where he received his A.B. degree in 1907, M.A. Columbia 1909, LL.B. New York University 1911. He practiced law in New York City and was very active in the affairs of the New York State Bar Association. He published Dunn's Food Drug and Act 939 ACt and Dunn's Wheeler Sea
On September 9, 1925 he married Alice Louise Hafner who survives him. living at Wilson Point, South Norwalk, Conn. There are also two children, Anne Bernister and Charles Wesley Jr. We extend our sympathy to the family.
ALDEN NOYES EAMES passed away at the Winchester Hospital on July 16 after a short illness. Alden was born April 11, 1885 at Wilmington, Mass. He attended the public schools and Northfield Academy, and was in College for one year. He then attended the Lowell Technological School. For a number of years he was a civil engineer for the Barbour Stockwell Co. and served with the Boston Elevated and the M.T.A. He also served on the Wilmington School Committee and was a member of the Board of Water Commissioners for 28 years.
Alden is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lena Shaw Eames, a son Alden S. Eames of Wilmington, daughter Mrs. Barbara Partridge of Anchorage, Alaska, and five grandchildren. Funeral services were held on July 18 in the McMahon Funeral Home on Middlesex Avenue with burial at the family lot in the Wildwood Cemetery, which is part of the old homestead property.
Our deepest sympathy goes to Lena and the family.
SAMUEL HALE, 31 Linden St., Rochester, N. H., passed away at a local nursing home on July 25 after a long period of failing health. Sam was born in Dover, N. H., January 27, 1884. He attended Dover schools and received his A.B. degree in 1907 from Dartmouth where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Dragon. He was a Mason. For many years after graduation he was in the investment business in Boston as a brokerage representative.
On July 9, 1952 at Lee, N. H., he married Lucia H. Cartland who survives him. Other members of the family are a stepdaughter, Mrs. Fred E. Drew Jr. of Barrington and a cousin, Miss Elizabeth Goodwin of South Berwick, Me. Funeral services were held on July 27 at the Wiggin Funeral Home in Dover. Burial was in the Pine Hill Cemetery.
Sam was a gay and devoted friend, always loyal to Dartmouth. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Lucia has our sincere sympathy.
HAROLD DELMONT JENNINGS died August 1 at his home 34 Eastern Ave., Augusta, Me. Harold was born in Cornville, Me., June 9, 1883. He left College at the end of his sophomore year. In 1908 he entered the employ of the Central Maine Power Co. and served in a variety of positions for 45 years and retired in 1953 as treasurer of the company. In retirement he continued as a director of the utility; Good Will Home Association; Augusta, Me., District, and the Augusta General Hospital. He was a member of Kiwanis Club of Augusta and the Y.M.C.A. He was also a Congregationalist and a Mason.
In Clinton, Me., on May 20, 1908 he married Etta Ricker who died in February 1939. He was married a second time on November 18, .1942 to Jennie A. Foster of Augusta who survives him.
Funeral services were held on Sunday August 4 at the South Parish Congregational Church. The Class of 1907 extends its sincere sympathy to Jennie.
ALBERT HARPER KITCHING died on August 5 in the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston. His death was caused by lung cancer. Kitch, as he was called by his classmates, was born July 12, 1885, in Melrose, Mass., the youngest of ten children of Henrietta Disney and John Andrew Kitching. He prepared for college at Melrose High School. In College he belonged to Chi Phi fraternity and the Press Club. After graduation he attended New York University School of Business.
On June 14, 1917 he married Jessie G. Mitchell, of Worcester, Mass., who died June 6, 1952. There were two daughters, Jessie Beatrice and Marjorie Janette; a sister, Mrs. James Frame of Philadelphia; and a brother, Robert H. Kitching of Boston. The funeral was held in the chapel at Puritan Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Peabody, Mass., on Wednesday, August 7. Burial was in the family lot. The Class of 1907 was represented by Bill Smart and Ralph Perkins. Roger Brown of '05 also attended.
Kitch's chief pleasures in life were his family, his business, and loyalty to his College. He seldom missed a Class or Dartmouth get-together. He was greatly comforted in his last illness by the constant and loving devotion of his family. The Class and Dartmouth have lost a devoted member.
1909
EDWARD HENRY CROIX passed away from a heart attack in Reading, Pa., on December 11, 1950. Ed came to Dartmouth from Cornell University and remained through sophomore year. He then went to Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University. Following his graduation as a mechanical engineer, he taught two years at Tufts College, Medford, Mass. He then returned to his native city of Buffalo, N. Y. In 1940 he joined Gilbert Associates and moved to Reading, Pa., where he spent the rest of his life.
He is survived by a sister, Miss Justina R. Croll, who lived in the old homestead at 40-15th St., Buffalo, N. Y. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery in that city.
MERRILL MIDDLETON FOLLANSBEE passed away at his home in Sacramento, Calif., on July 2 from a "tired heart." Merrill was born in Chicago, Ill., on April 10, 1886. He came to Dartmouth from University High School. In College, he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and Casque and Gauntlet Senior Society. He was on the track squad his freshman year. After graduation, he attended Northwestern University Law School and was awarded a LL.B. in 1912- He practiced law for three years and then became secretary-treasurer of the Western Paper Stock Co. in Chicago.
Merrill moved to California in 1924. He incorporated the Follansbee Realty and Investment Co. and became an agent of the Aetna Insurance Co. His holdings included store properties, farms, and a date ranch. In 1952 ill health forced him to give up most activities, but he retained one farm and the ranch until 1956. He was a member of the Big Ten Club of Southern California.
Merrill was married on May 8, 1915 at Highland Park, Ill., to Cecile Vail who died on May 4, 1927. Two sons and a daughter were born to them. On June 24, 1936 at Barrington, Ill., he married Mrs. Leonore Law Smith, a widow. Upon her death in 1961, he sold his Los Angeles home and after traveling for a time settled in Sacramento. He is survived by two sons, the Rev. Merrill M. Follansbee Jr., of 5941 Wymore Way, Sacramento, Calif., and Donald V. Follansbee of Reno, Nev.; a daughter, Mrs. Marcia Heeger of Evanston, Ill., and two sisters, Mrs. Marjorie Warner and Mrs. Miriam Rockwell.
Merrill was laid to rest in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif. 1909 has lost a loyal member who has kept up his associations with classmates, members of the faculty and college throughout the years.
ARTHUR JOSEPH SPORBORG passed away at University Hospital, Birmingham, Ala., on June 17 after several years of failing health. Art was born in Albany, N. Y., on August 6, 1887 and entered Dartmouth from Albany Academy. In College, he was on the track squad and was a Rollins Prize Speaker. After graduation, Art was in the hop business with Chas. S. May Co., Albany, N. Y. In 1916, he went into textiles as assistant manager for W. Lowenthal & Co., Cohoes, N. Y. In 1924, he was treasurer of the Tuskeloid Co. He became a realtor in 1925, first as manager of the real estate department of Meyer Kizer Bank of Miami and then as manager of Tatum's, Inc., Miami Beach. He served as president of the Miami Beach Board of Realtors and president of the Rotary Club. His holdings also extended into North Carolina and Alabama.
Art and Mildred were married on December 25, 1929 at Hollywood, Fla. After he retired, they lived at Fieldcrest, their Black Mountain, N. C., home where Art enjoyed gardening, mountain climbing, and reading. When their daughter Peggy married William Kling and went to live in Huntsville, Ala., Art and Mildred would visit them often. Peggy's three children, Emily, Nancy, and Billy Jr., were the pride and joy of their grandparents. When the mountain life became too rugged for Art they moved to Huntsville.
Art loved Dartmouth and attended reunions whenever possible, his last one being our Fiftieth. He served as an assistant class agent for the Alumni Fund over a long span of years. In his will, he bequeathed $25,000 to Dartmouth as a token of his love for his Alma Mater.
1910
WARD CHARLES MEAGHER died in Miami, Fla., September 22, 1962. He was born October 22, 1888 in Omaha, Neb., son of Mark C. Meagher. He prepared for college at Brookline high school and Waterman Preparatory School. In College he played on the class football teams in freshman and sophomore years. He remained in College for only two years. Later he spent a year at Yale and then studied law at New York University, receiving his LL.B. degree in 1911. He practiced law in New York City.
1911
After a long illness HAROLD ANDREW CAMPBELL died July 12 in a nursing home in Plainfield, N. J., which city had been his home for 34 years. "Gabe" was a St. Albans. Vt., boy, born May 26, 1889 and a" graduate of the St. Albans schools. He belonged to Kappa Sigma fraternity, and was a charter member of the Downtown New York City Athletic Club.
His first job was with the Panama Canal Commission, then a year with the Grand Trunk Railroad. There followed two years in Columbia University mechanical engineering school before he began on his life's job with Ingersoll Rand Corp. He started as a salesman of mining machinery and on hid retirement in 1950 he was an executive in the general sales department. His first two and last four years were spent in New York City. In between times he lived in El Paso, Texas, and Mexico City while he was manager of the Mexico branch. He served with the National Guard in the Mexican border campaign. During his years of retirement he spent the summer months on a farm he had on Lake Champlain where fishing was his principal occupation. He and his wife had traveled extensively in Spain and Africa.
His wife was Isabel Laube, and they were married in Easton, Pa., Jan. 10, 1917. She died in 1959. Survivors are a son, Harold A. Jr. of Kansas City, Mo.; two daughters, Mrs. Marion C. Shay of Plainfield and Mrs. Charles D. Brannan of Summit; and a sister, Mrs. Herman Atkins of North Hero, Vt. Funeral services were held in the Central Presbyterian Church and burial was in Hillside Cemetery.
On August 2, 1963 death claimed one of 1911 's outstanding alumni, HORACE GABRIEL HEDGES. "Cap" as he was called from high school days was born in Cedar Rapids, lowa, Feb. 14, 1888, attended Washington High School and entered Dartmouth in 1906 - but spent one year at the University of lowa, returning to join 1911 at Dartmouth. There he played on the basketball team for three years and belonged to Alpha Delta Phi, Turtle, and Sphinx. He was married to Coleen Dixon lohnson, Sept. 9, 1911 who became the mother of the 1911 class baby, now a vice president of a leading bank in Houston, Texas. His busy life was interrupted by a severe stroke about five years ago which left him incapacitated, yet he still carried on many of his activities from a wheel chair. He attended his Fiftieth Reunion and the Mt. View gatherings until a year ago. A coronary attack finally overcame him in a Cedar Rapids hospital.
Cap was known as a great football official in the midwest, as a realtor and civic worker in his home town and as a loyal, active Dartmouth alumnus everywhere. His life had been one of great usefulness and filled with honors of many kinds. His business career started as manager of rentals in his father's real estate firm. Ten years later the firm was incorporated with Cap as vice president and sales manager. He was a pioneer in city planning and industrial development and for 30 years was a leader in bringing outside industries to the city. The organizations with which he was affiliated were legion. He was president of the St. Martin Land Co., Iberville Land Co., and Mutual Investment Co., vice president of Greater Cedar Rapids Co. and secretary of the Kingston Realty Co. He was a director of Nye Realty Co., Westwood Land Co., and the Cedar Rapids, lowa City, and Southern Construction Co. He served as past president and honorary life member of the Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board and vice president of the lowa Assn. of Real Estate Boards. In the local Chamber of Commerce he was chairman of the industrial bureau for 35 years, president in 1927. He also was a member of the City Plan Commission and the lowa Development Commission, and of the first Playground and Recreation Commission. Other activities were memberships in the Lions Club, Cedar Rapids Automobile Club, director and treasurer of the lowa Taxpayers Assn., and director of the Merchants National Bank. For many years he was active in the lowa Consistory' and El Kahir Shrine, the Elks Lodge, Cedar Rapids Country Club, First Presbyterian Church and the YMCA. At a testimonial luncheon given in his honor by the Chamber of Commerce he was cited as "one of its most useful, most distinguished, most beloved members and leaders."
His career as a football and basketball official began soon after graduation. During his 38 years in this capacity with 33 in the Big Ten, he performed in 380 football and 1,000 basketball games. One of the highlights was the 1946 Rose Bowl game. He was a great contributor to the Class of 1911 in spirit and effort. He and Coleen could be found at nearly all Hanover reunions as well as those in the midwest. He was a past president of the Class and Alumni Fund agent and a member of its executive committee for many years. He also was a member of the Alumni Council.
Surviving in addition to Coleen are four sons, David T. '34 and Dixon D., both of Houston, Texas, Samuel H. of Pompano Beach, Fla. and Horace G. Jr. '45 of Cedar Rapids, and seven grandchildren.
1914
SAMUEL DODGE COLE, 71, passed away on August 3 in Salem, Mass., after a long illness. After graduating from Dartmouth he received a master's degree from Tuck School and pursued a career in shoe manufacturing, having factories in Lynn, Lowell. Manchester, N. H., and Baltimore, Md. He had been a resident of Winchester for 30 years.
Sammy always seemed to have a strong sense of direction and a serious purpose. These qualities - evident early in college - accounted largely for his outstanding success in business. And the loyalty to Dartmouth and his wide circle of associates and friends was evident in the impressive numbers that attended his funeral. Aborn and Newmark of 1914 represented the Class.
Surviving are his wife Georgianna Wescott of 8 Winter Street, Salem; a son, two daughters, two sisters, a brother, and eleven grandchildren.
The news of WINTHROP MERRIAM MAYO'S death in Leominster, Mass., on August 10 brought sadness to all of us who knew him - and added pain to those of us who knew him well in College. Win came to us from Hackley School and Harvard and quickly established himself among us as a good friend and companion.
After service as a Tank Corps officer in World War I, Win returned to Leominster where he gradually assumed positions of importance in the industrial, banking, and civic life of his native town. Win served on the City Council for two terms and was a member of the Water Commission. He was trustee of Leominster Hospital, president of Leominster Hospital Association, a member of the board of directors of Merchants' National Bank of Leominster, and a trustee of Leominster Savings Bank. He was also director of his town's Red Cross Chapter, of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Recreation Center. During World War II Win was director of procurement for the O.S.S. in Washington.
The Leominster and Fitchburg papers both devoted large editorial space to his leadership and abilities - a tribute that is reserved only for those who serve their communities long and well.
Win leaves a widow, Claire, of 803 Pleasant St., Leominster: a sister; two married daughters; a son, Winthrop Jr. '38; and eight grandchildren. To his family all of us in 1914 unite in sending understanding sympathy.
1915
ALLEN SHERMAN, partner in the law firm of Brownell, Sherman and Whittier of New Bedford, Mass., died June 4 at his home, 266 Slocum Road, North Dartmouth, Mass.
Al was born July 30, 1892 in New Bedford where he prepared for college at Mosher School. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta at Dartmouth and received an A.B. degree in 1915. He earned his LL.B. and LL.M. from University of Maine Law School. He continued as an instructor at that institution from 1918 to 1920. In 1922, he married Eleanor Shaw of Bangor, Me. She survives him.
Active in hospital and social welfare work, he was a former president of the Welfare Federation of New Bedford and a former trustee and vice president of St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford. He was also a member of Quittacas Lodge, A.F. and A.M., and the Square and Compass Club, both of New Bedford.
Al's loyalty to Dartmouth was demonstrated by his generosity and service to the College. His presence at class gatherings will be greatly missed.
Besides his wife, he leaves a sister, Miss Elizabeth Sherman of Elizabeth, N. J. Services were held June 6 at the Wilson Chapel, 479 County Street, New Bedford, and interment was in South Dartmouth Cemetery.
HENRY FRANCIS STANTON died December 7, 1953 in North Carolina, according to word recently received from Cornell Alumni Records office. Henry spent one year at Dartmouth where he was a member of Chi Phi and received his degree of B.Arch. from Cornell in 1916.
Cause of his death is unknown.
1917
Funeral services were held on August 7, for the Rev. JOHN EDWARD MACMARTIN who had died the previous Sunday at the Huggins Memorial Hospital, Wolfeboro, N. H., after a long illness. John was born at Dorchester, Mass., on April 7, 1892, and prepared for college at Boston English High School. He graduated from both Dartmouth and the Bangor (Me.) Theological Seminary. During World War I he served briefly as a chaplain in the U. S. Army.
In 1924, after having served pastorates at North Andover and Mansfield, Mass., he was called to Wolfeboro where he served the First Congregational Church for five years and the First Christian Church for a like period. Then he went west, preaching five years at Monroe, Wis., and six years at Stockton, 111. Since his retirement three years ago he has lived in Wolfeboro.
He is survived by his widow, the former Ruth Batchelder whom he married on June 29, 1918, and by six sons, a daughter, a brother and a sister.
The Rev. N. Harlan Scott, a resident of Wolfeboro and a classmate of John's at Dartmouth, assisted at the funeral services at the First Christian Church of Wolfeboro.
1919
RICHARD HAMILTON KELLEY, former ediGranite State Free Press and a lifelong resident of Lebanon, N. H„ died of heart complications on June 17 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction. Dick came to Hanover with the Class in 1915 and left College to serve m Naval aviation in World War I. He joined the Free Press in 1919 and became editor m 1926 on the death of his father. Dick continued as co-editor and partner until 1962 when the paper was sold and he retired because of ill health. He was a prominent Mason and always interested in civic affairs in his home town. Surviving are his sister, Mrs. William A. Smith of 15 Messenger St., Lebanon, and two nephews Dr. Kenneth W. Smith of Middleboro. Ky. and Donald C. Smith of New York City. To them the Class extends its most sincere sympathy.
DALE STRONG MCQUISTON passed away in Rochester, N. Y., on May 15 having been retired since 1948 due to illness. "Shorty" was born in Paxton, Ill., on July 19, 1896. After graduating from Dartmouth he attended Harvard Law School in 1919-20. Most of his business career was spent in real estate development in and around Chicago. In World War I he served in Naval aviation.
Surviving are his wife Florence (Bowen) who resides at 45 Dakeland Rd., and three children, Dale S. Jr. of Rochester, Malcolm of Stratford, Conn., and a daughter, Mrs. Robert S. McCauley of Anchorage, Ky. To them goes the most sincere sympathy of the Class.
1921
While mowing his lawn at his home on Harbor Road, West Harwich, Mass., July 15, ELMER BRUCE HARPER suffered a completely unexpected heart attack and died before help could reach him. Aged 63. he was expediter for the Procurement Office of the Department of Defense. During World War II he was president of the Material Coordinating Agency of New York City, a branch of the Navy Bureau of Ships. Later he was president of Harper Consultants, New York.
Born on Christmas Day, 1899, in Dorchester, Mass., the son of Thomas James Harper and Jennie Douglas Bethel Harper, he attended Huntington School, Boston. At Dartmouth he was Phi Sigma Kappa and Dragon.
After graduation El was vault engineer from 1922 to 1926 with the Mosler Safe Company of Boston. From 1926 to 1928 he was vice president of Norton and Townsend of New Haven, architects and engineers, and from 1928 to 1937 partner of Harper and West, Boston.
El played an important role in the American war effort. At the request of the U. S. Navy Department, Bureau of Ships, he left the Shipbuilding Division of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and became president and general manager of the Material Coordinating Agency, Inc., in New York City.
In 1951 a similar situation arose with the U. S. Air Force, and El became president and general manager of Lougee & Company, Inc.
In recent years as consultant for the De- partment of Defense in Security Affairs, El had frequently to leave his headquarters in the Pentagon and to travel in Europe and the Far East.
El is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Hayward Harper; two sons, Lt. Thomas J. Harper '56, U.S.N., of Carmel, Calif., and Lt. John O. Harper '57, U.S.N., of Washington; and four daughters, Mrs. Philip D. Holmes and Mrs. Helen Ghiorse, both of Falmouth, and Mrs. Richard W. Callahan and Mrs. William F. Parady, both of Bourne; and 14 grandchildren.
The Class of 1921 was represented at the funeral by Howie Anger, Bill Kearns, Dan Patch, and Cape Payson.
1923
HENRY THAYER BOURNE died on June 8, suffering a fatal heart attack. A Cleveland advertising executive for 35 years he was the owner of the Henry T. Bourne Advertising Agency, Inc., which he founded in 1935 and which specialized in industrial and machine manufacturing accounts. While at Dartmouth, "Heinie" had been a member of Kappa Sigma, and since graduation has been a true friend of the 1923 secretaries, providing them with news about all the Cleveland contingent except himself. He is survived by his wife Louise, who resides at 13930 Lake Ave., Cleveland, two daughters and a son.
JOHN EDWARD FOSTER passed away July 5, 1963. He had experienced several heart attacks, including a stroke which rendered him speechless for a time. He was taking therapy for speech and motion and was progressing quite well.
John lived a full life. He was active on the campus in Dartmouth and in alumni affairs after graduation. He played an important role in the life of his community. John began his business career with W. T. Grant where he was director of personnel. In 1947 he was named director of personnel and. vice-president of the George Fry Associates. In 1955 he became a partner and management consultant of the Boyden Associates, New York City.
After graduation John scouted for the Dartmouth football coaching staff, taught English and coached football and hockey at Phillips Academy, played hockey for the Saint Nicks and refereed college hockey. In 1930 he married Isabel Munoz who survives him with his two sons, Charles and John '5B.
HUGH BRANDON JONES of Montpelier, Vt., suffered a fatal heart attack on April 26. Fifteen years ago he had a serious coronary and his activities since then have been curtailed. Hugh prepared for Dartmouth at Montpelier High School and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. After graduation he became one of Montpelier's outstanding citizens, and for many years was active in granite industry organizations, both locally and nationally. He served as a trustee of Heaton Hospital, a director of the Central Vermont Railroad and treasurer of Associated Industries of Vermont. He held the titles of vice president of Jones Brothers Company and treasurer of the Wells-Lamson Quarry Company.
Hugh is survived by his wife Ruth who resides at 11 Woodrow Avenue, a daughter, Lucille, and a son, Hugh Brandon Jr. The Joneses had made definite plans to attend 1923's 40th reunion and renew old friendships.
ELLIS HENRY WILNER passed away June 19, 1963, suffering from a heart attack. Ellis and Irene had breakfast with the Zimmermans and lunch at the outdoor buffet at the Outing Club cabin. The Wilners drove to New York that afternoon to keep a dinner engagement with friends. At this friend's home he died.
Ellis was a founder and for seventeen years a vice president of the United Cerebral Palsy of New York. He was president of Henry Glass and Co., manufacturers of Peter Pan fabrics. For several years he was president of the Textile Fabrics Association and treasurer of the Cotton Guild.
Ellis is survived by his wife Irene and two daughters, Joyce and Ellen.
1927
RICHARD AUGUSTUS HOSKIN died very suddenly on May 13 in Menominee, Mich., of a heart ailment. Dick was born in 1906 in Menominee and graduated from Menominee High School in 1923. While at Dartmouth he majored in economics and was a member of Beta Theta Pi and Dragon. Upon graduation from Dartmouth, he went to work for the Hoskins Paper Co. and eventually succeeded his father as president. In 1952 the Hoskins Paper Co. was sold to the Marathon Paper Co. and Dick retired at that time. He was a director of the First National Bank in Menominee and a member of the Riverside Country Club.
He was married to Betty Smith of Menominee, who survives him, together with his mother, three sisters, and two sons, R. A. Hoskin Jr., married and the father of two sons, and William S. Hoskin, also married.
1930
Rarely have there been men who re- mained as devoted to Dartmouth as was Hank Embree, who passed away June 17. If there was a task to be undertaken for the College or the Class, always he stood ready with action or advice to help guide the end eavor to a successful conclusion.
HENRY STEVENS EMBREE died of a heart attack while driving home from his office with his son Tom. Hank had had a moderately severe attack four or five years ago, but since then he had seemed to be in generally good health and had continued his business routines. However, he did escape the rigors of Chicago winters by taking extended trips to Hawaii and other Pacific islands. He was chairman of the board of Citrus Products Company, Schiller Park, Illinois, producers of soft drink concentrates, a firm he formed in 1951. He was also treasurer and a director of Rittenhouse and Embree, a family lumber firm, with which he had worked from his graduation until 1951. In World War 11, Hank spent nearly four years in the Navy, largely in the Pacific area, emerging as a commander attached to the staff of Admiral Halsey and holding the Navy Commendation Ribbon.
A tireless worker, Hank served Dartmouth and the Class of 1930 in many ways. At his death he was class treasurer and a member of the class executive committee. From 1953 to 1955 he was chairman of the Class Memorial Fund and, in a tremendous effort, assembled the then-record fund of $152,593.38 as our 25th year gift to the College, establishing the Class of 1930 Memorial Fund. He was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council from 1951 to 1955 and a member of the Friends of the Library, serving as executive committee member in 1948. He was also midwestern chairman of the Capital Gifts Campaign, and for several years was an officer of the Chicago Alumni Association.
Hank was born in Chicago, January 3, 1908. Coming to Dartmouth from University High School, he engaged in many activities while in college and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Arts, the Pleiad, the Players for four years and the Glee Club, and was secretary of the Class during senior year. In the first year of the program, he was one of the six Senior Fellows. His major subject was English.
Hank is survived by his wife, the former Ruth Borden (daughter of Charles S. Borden '05); his son Thomas B.; two daughters, Suzanne, now Mrs. Stuart H. Sinclair, and Caroline; and his brother, J. William Embree Jr. '21. Funeral services were held at the Winnetka Congregational Church at which the College was represented by Gilbert Tanis '38, and the Class by Newell Rumpf.
Hank almost always found the time to attend class functions, which, lacking his charming, persuasive personality, will never be quite the same again. He had an abiding love for Dartmouth and he will be sorely missed by the College and by his classmates. He served both extremely well.
At its meeting in Hanover on June 21, the Dartmouth Alumni Council by a rising vote adopted a resolution of sadness in the passing of Hank Embree, expressing at the same time gratitude for his contributions to the College and in his fields of endeavor.
1931
The big, blond and smiling personality of EDWARD SEYMOUR BURGE made him an outstanding individual in our large Class of 1931. Sey's soft-spoken manner and friendliness made him known to practically every member of the Class probably more intimately than any other class individual. The news of his death on June 11, therefore, will be received regretfully by the entire Class. Sey's record of accomplishments during his short lifetime was extensive in medicine, education, and religion, all indicative of his well-rounded interest in life.
After graduation from Dartmouth he attended Rush Medical College and completed his graduate residency at the Presbyterian Hospital. He wrote and collaborated on numerous scientific papers in his field of obstetrics and gynecology and served on the staff of the Evanston Hospital since 1940, and was president of the staff in 1957-58. He was a member of the Northwestern University Medical School faculty for many years and was a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Central Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Committee of Maternal Welfare. Interested in research, his most recent project was a four-year study on obstetric anesthesia which was reported in the November 1962 issue of "Postgraduate Medicine." He wrote and collaborated on numerous scientific papers published in state, national, and academic professional journals.
He served as an elder of the First Presbyterian Church, was a member of numerous organizations including the U. S. Navy League, Zeta Psi, and Alpha Kappa Kappa. During World War II he served as a Navy flight surgeon attached to a Marine Corps fighter squadron. After four years' service, he was separated in 1946 as a lieutenant commander. He saw battle action in the Pacific.
1934
Dr. FRANK L. ENGEL, who achieved international eminence as an endocrinologist, died of an acute heart attack in Durham, N. C., on July 10 at the age of 49. One of three brothers who have distinguished themselves in medicine, Frank was a professor of medicine, associate professor of physiology, and director of the division of endocrinology at the Duke University Medical Center. He had been at Duke since 1947.
Dr. Engel was widely known for his research in endocrinology and in metabolic ailments such as Addison's and Cushing's diseases. A Duke Medical Center official said his latest work in peptide chemistry "bids fair to open a new area of understanding which may result in the identification of a number of currently undefined diseases." He was the author of more than 100 medical papers published in a number of scientific journals and had served on the editorial boards of the "American Journal of Medicine," "Endocrinology," "Perspectves in Biology," and "Medicine, Physiology for Physicians," "Proceedings of the Societv tor Experimental Biology and Medicine," and other journals. He was active in a number of leading professional organizations, had seved as vice president of the Endocrine Society in 1958-59 and, during a lecture tour of South America in 1956. "he was named an honorary member of' the Argentine Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Frank entered Dartmouth from the Columbia Grammar School in New York City with his twin brother, George, now a professor of psychiatry and medicine at the University of Rochester Medical School. At Dartmouth, he was a member of varsity gym, Zeta Alpha Phi, the Mathematics Association and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was born in New York City December 10, 1913, son of the late Adolph and Esther Engel. Following his graduation from Dartmouth, he received his M.D. degree at Johns Hopkins in 1938 and also studied at the Colorado Foundation for Tuberculosis Research, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and Yale University.
Besides his brother George, he leaves his wife, the former Mildred Goldfaden; a daughter, Susan; and another brother, Dr. Lewis Engel, professor of biochemistry at the Harvard Medical School. A memorial service was held at Duke University on July 12. The Class of 1934 mourns the loss of this distinguished and loyal son of Dartmouth.
1937
PAUL LEO LEFEBVRE, owner of the E. Ray Ashley Insurance Co., Inc. in Holyoke, Mass., died on June 8 from a heart attack at his home, 40 Lindor Heights, Holyoke. Paul leaves his wife, the former Louise Ranger; a son, Paul L., who attends the University of Pennsylvania; and a daughter, Mrs. Richard Morse, of Springfield, Mass.
At Dartmouth Paul was an English major, a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and was active in athletics and in debating. From 1960-1962 he was president of the Dartmouth Club of Holyoke. After graduation he joined the Hercules Powder Co., and after living in Providence, Buffalo, Chicago, and Wilmington, Del., became district sales manager in New York. He was associated with the Electric Game Co. in Holyoke, and in 1957 purchased the Ashley insurance company. He was president and treasurer at the time of his death.
His mother, three brothers, and a sister also survive.
1943
DR. JERROLD OTTO VON WEDEL died in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 18, 1963 after a long illness with multiple sclerosis. Born in 1921 at Ardsley-on-Hudson, Jerry graduated from Loomis School and at Dartmouth attended the Medical School and belonged to Alpha Kappa Kappa. With an M.D. from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Jerry spent two years as a Navy medical officer with the U. S. occupation forces in Japan. After service he started his specialty as a surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, later became associated with Greenwich Hospital, where he had a private practice. He retained an association with Bellevue by performing research in the cardiovascular field.
In 1955 Jerry contracted multiple sclerosis, and seeking a more temperate climate, he moved family and practice from Greenwich to San Juan, where he taught surgery from a wheelchair at the University of Puerto Rico's Medical School. Using himself as a guinea pig, he divided his time between classroom and research work on multiple sclerosis, testing various drugs and procedures on himself in his own private war on this disease. Jerry's last eight years were an inspirational struggle against dreadful odds, always with the goal that his misfortune might serve to help mankind. His wife and he never gave up hope.
His Dartmouth classmates and friends are saddened with the loss of this skilled and courageous man. To his widow Barbara and his children, Randall and Diane, we express deepest sympathy. Jerry exemplified the Dartmouth man at his very best, and we all can be proud of the lesson in living he gave us.
C. M. D.
1955
HAIG ROBERT DARPINIAN died March 15: cause of death was not reported. He was a dentist in Teaneck, N. J., and on the staff of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Dental School there. Bob graduated from Teaneck High School where he played basketball and tennis and was in the National Honor Society. He started at Dartmouth and later switched to Temple University in Philadelphia. After graduation he entered the Army for two years, serving in the medical department. After service he attended the Fairleigh Dickinson Dental School, graduating in 1961 as second highest in his class. He was elected to Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the honorary dental society.
Bob was active in the Armenian Evangelical Church of New York City and was a Sunday school teacher there. He is survived by his wife, the former Arouss Kemkemian, whom he married in Cairo in 1955, and a son, John. To them we extend our deepest sympathy.
Correction: The reference in the obituary of Thomas Harlan McKnight '23 in the June issue to the late Wallace Jordan '25 was an error. Mr. Jordan is very much alive.
Philip Sanford Marden '94
Horace Gabriel Hedges '11
John Edward Foster '23
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