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.]
Pingree, George E. '01, Feb. 16 St. Clair, Earle J. '06, Mar. 14 Downey, John E. '07, Feb. 25 Blakely, Joseph W. '08, Mar. 5 Hearne, Alonzo G. '09, Mar. 1 O'Mara, Arthur J. '09, Feb. 16 Meleney, Frank L. '10, Mar. 7 Walsh, Francis P. '13, Mar. 3 Barke, Ralph J. '14, Jan. 23 Barnes, Hammond '14, Mar. 2 Tubby, William B. Jr. 'l5, Feb. 26 Waterman, Henry C. '17, Feb. 22 Doty, Harold B. '18, Feb. 13 Knapp, Norman G. '18, Feb. 15 Berson, Jack '19, Jan. 10, 1951 Townsend, Edward S. '19, Feb. 11 Gortner, Harry '20, Feb. 7 Burrill, Roy H. '21, Feb. 3 Rood, Francis A. '21, Feb. 11 Davis, Joshua A. '27, Mar. 1 Rankin, Andrew M. '27, Mar. 8 Andrews, Robert A. '28, Mar. 3 Marsten, Lewis A. '36, Feb. 28 Porter, Dugald G. '36, Nov. 12, 1962 Bennett, Richard O. '38, Feb. 22 Peterson, Harold L. Jr. '42, Feb. 24 Gliddon, Gordon H. '26 Ph.D., Mar. 14
1900
The Class of 1900 has suffered an irreparable loss in the death of WALTER POLAND RANKIN, our President and Trustee of the Class Fund. Words are entirely inadequate to express the debt the Class and Dartmouth owe to this stalwart, loyal, and devoted classmate.
" While looking at television one evening Walter had a shock, and without fully gaining consciousness, he passed away the next afternoon, January 29. He lived at 20 Chapel Street in Brookline, Mass. Funeral services were held February 1 in the Forsyth Chapel, Forest Hills Cemetery, Forest Hills, Mass. This service was largely attended by Dartmouth friends. The music consisted of Dartmouth songs played as hymns, and the well-loved gospel hymn, "God be with you, till we meet again," which was written by Walter's uncle. The Class was represented by Cap Jenkins and his daughter, Ruth Bean, our class baby. Interment was in the family lot at the Forest Hills Cemetery.
Walter Poland Rankin was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., on March 26, 1878, the son of Andrew Everts and Isabell Emma Rankin, and stepson of H.C. Cushman '87. The family moved to Boston where Walter prepared for college at the Boston Latin School. Although he was accepted for admission to Harvard College he chose instead to come to Dartmouth, the college of his grandfather and stepfather.
In college Walter was an outstanding man and an active participant in Class and College affairs. He was a member of DKE, Palaeopitus, Casque and Gauntlet, the freshman football team, the varsity football squad for two years, the dramatic club, chairman of the junior prom committee, and at. Commencement as class president he delivered the introductory address.
On graduation Walter became associated with the Cushman-Rankin Co., manufacturers of leatherboard with a mill in Bath, N.H., and offices in Boston. For more than 50 years, until his retirement in 1952, he was treasurer of the Cushman-Rankin Co. and its counterpart, the International Leather Co. Through this long period he proved himself an alert and able businessman. He suffered the ups and downs of a productive enterprise with equanimity. On May 8, 1901 he married Alice Louise Meserve, a Smith graduate. On the same date in 1961, at the home of their daughter in Springfield, Mass., these two fine people celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary surrounded by children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Since graduation Walter Rankin along with Nat Emerson and Clarence McDavitt has labored to cement the feeling of unity, loyalty, and interest in the class, and has elaborated the idea of a 1900 family. Through the years since graduation Walter has been regularly and unanimously elected president of the Class. He served in this capacity for 63 years, and this honor shall be his forever. As president he has been the mainspring and the moving spirit in getting a large number of the Class to attend reunions and round-ups. His enthusiasm, devotion, active interest, and effective appeal is attested by the fact that, beginning with our 10th reunion and with almost monotonous regularity at five-year intervals thereafter the Class of 1900 has been awarded, at Commencement time, the cup for having the highest percentage of living graduates present in Hanover. All honor is due to Walter for this achievement. He was a very modest man and shunned publicity. His kindly interest, his affection, and his almost emotional attachment for every member of our fellowship will be long remembered by those who survive. Added to all else he was a home-loving man, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.
He was survived by his wife, Alice Rankin, a daughter, Marjory, three sons, Andrew '27, Walter Jr. '26, and Kenneth, six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
As this notice is being prepared for publication, we learn of the second tragic blow to the Rankin family - the death of son Andrew on March 8.
1903
FRED W. BAKER died suddenly in his law office at Lancaster, N.H., February 4, 1963 of natural causes. Fred was born in Lancaster, July 24, 1881. His mother died while he was about a year old and his father later married Miss Cummings who was the only mother he ever knew. Fred never married.
Graduated with highest honors at Lancaster Academy, he received his A.B. from Dartmouth in 1903 and later his LL.B. from Harvard Law School. For a short period between Dartmouth and Harvard he taught at Lancaster Academy. Fred practiced law in Boston for some three years, then returned to Lancaster in 1911 where he practiced until his death. In the earlier years he did considerable work in connection with timberlands and farms but in his later practice confined his activities largely to abstracting and probate law. Fred had a fine collection of Lancaster historical memorabilia and editorials and other data covering a period of 50 years or more. He had many friends, among them many of the younger generations with whom he liked to visit. He had grown to be a part of Lancaster life and history and his passing will be greatly regretted. In College he was a member of Alpha Alpha Omega fraternity.
Fred was a member of the North Star Lodge, F & AM, North Star Chapter R.A.M., Lancaster, the Coos County Fire Association, and the New Hampshire Bar Association.
Members of the family include a sister, Mrs. Z. Carleton Staples of Exeter; a niece, Mrs. J. Arthur Tufts of Exeter; and a nephew, Hugh B. Staples of Davis, Calif.
1907
JOHN EUSTIS DOWNEY died Monday, February 25 at the St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, Conn. He lived at 17 Middlefield Drive, West Hartford 7, Conn. Jack was born in Providence, R.I., August 21, 1882 and graduated from Exeter Academy in 1903. He received his B.S. degree from Dartmouth in 1907. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx. After graduation he became engaged in the insurance business.
Jack joined the Aetna in 1921 and was appointed Assistant Superintendent of its Special Risks Department. He was advanced to superintendent of that department in 1925 and was made its manager a few years later. In 1935 he was elected assistant secretary of the three fire companies then included in the Aetna Insurance Group, and in 1938 was elected secretary. In 1951 he was elected secretary of all companies in the group, which position he held until his retirement December 31, 1952.
On December 28, 1908, at Newton, Mass., he married Edith Mae Pineo, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, who survives him. He also leaves a daughter, Miss Edith Downey of West Hartford.
Funeral services were held February 27 at 2:30 p.m. in the Newkirk and Whitney Funeral Home, 776 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford, with the Rev. Dr. Wallace Grant Fiske officiating. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made in his memory to Oak Hill School for the Blind or the Memorial Fund of the Church of the Redeemer, Universalist.
Quite a few Dartmouth men attended the funeral and Dr. Thacher W. Worthen represented the Class of 1907.
We all salute the memory of a loyal Dartmouth man.
1908
ARTHUR THEODORE ANDERSON passed away in the Concord, N.H., Hospital on the morning of February 10 after a short illness with pneumonia.
Art was born May 9, 1883, in East Boston, and prepared for Dartmouth at East Boston High School. With him in our Class was his brother, Frank, two years younger, who died in 1922. In college Art was a member of the freshman and sophomore football teams, Phi Sigma Kappa, and was assistant manager of the '08 Aegis board.
Following graduation he spent two years with the Library Bureau in Boston, Mass. In 1910 he became a bond salesman for the Hayden Stone Investment Co. of Boston, where he remained 25 years. In March 1936 he became sales manager of the Arthur S. Brown Manufacturing Co. of Tilton, N.H., manufacturers of the Tilton Endless Transmission Belt, remaining there until his retirement four years ago.
On June 15, 1928 he married Margaret Clough of Loudon, N.H. On coming to Tilton they moved to Margaret's former home, a small farm in Loudon Center, where for about 20 years they raised turkeys for a hobby, but last fall they sold the farm and moved to 95 School Street in Concord, where Margaret plans to continue residence.
Art served the town of Loudon at times as auditor and trustee of trust funds, headed various fund drives, and served as director of the Merrimack Valley Regional Association. He was a member of Mt. Tabor Masonic Lodge of Boston.
He leaves his wife, Margaret; a sister, Eve Anderson of Roslindale, Mass.; and a niece, Mrs. Horace S. Nichols of Weston, Mass. Funeral services were held on February 12. Ralph Sherburne and your editor represented the Class of '08.
1909
MILTON BLANCHARD HAGER passed away suddenly on the afternoon of December 25, 1962 from a heart attack at his home in Pepperell, Mass.
Milt was born in Boxborough, Mass., on August 15, 1888, and prepared for Dartmouth at the Concord, Mass., High School. He was a member of the track squad during the two years he was in college.
Upon leaving college, he went to work for Massachusetts Highway Commission and was there until 1916 when he went with the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. at Quincy, Mass. In 1919 he went to the tropics with the United Fruit Co. and in 1923 he was made one of their construction and valuation engineers. In 1933 he joined the United States Engineer Corps as an Assistant Engineer at large. This assignment took him to the Midwest but in 1938 he was back in the Boston office. He requested a transfer to the Panama Canal Zone for road construction and remained there until 1950 when he retired and returned to the States. Having been interested in flying and holding a pilot's license, he planned to return to South America as a manufacturer's representative but overshot a runway in Pennsylvania and cracked up. He then took courses in radio, TV, and electronics and at the time of his death was working on a computer.
Milt was a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. He is survived by a son, Sterling Blanchard Hager of Holliston, Mass., to whom the Class extends its sympathy.
Dartmouth meant much to Milton and 1909 has lost another of its loyal members.
ALONZO GRAHAM HEARNE passed away at his home, 68 Rogers Road, Kittery, Me., on March I, 1963.
Kit was born in Amesbury, Mass., on March 15, 1886. He prepared for Dartmouth at Kittery High School. After graduation he taught for a year in Newburyport High School and then was commissioned an ensign in the Supply Corps of the United States Navy. He was promoted to lieutenant commander during World War I. In 1920 he resigned from the service to become purchasing agent for the Arlington Mills of Lawrence, Mass., and spent 28 years in that post. He had been awarded a LL.B. from Northeastern University School of Law and in 1948 established an office for the general practice of law in Kittery, Me., which he maintained until his death. Previous to this move, he was a resident of Medford, Mass., most of his life.
On August 15, 1914 he was married to Sarah E. Bickford at Beverly, Mass. Four children were born to them: Dorothy Lois; Alonzo G. Jr., a member of USNR, who died on November 28, 1942; Robert B„ and Priscilla Elizabeth. In June 1957 he was married again to Ruth C. Esselstyn.
Kit was a member of Kittery Naval Lodge of Masons and the Scottish Rite Bodies.
He is survived by his wife; a son, Robert B. of Dedham, Mass.; and two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy L. Goodrich of Memphis, Tenn.; and Mrs. Priscilla E. Butkus of Brockton, Mass. Funeral services were held on March 5.
ARTHUR JAMES O'MARA passed away at his home, 649 Stuyvesant Avenue, Trenton, N.J., on February 16.
"Happy" was born in New York City on July 1, 1887 and came to Dartmouth from Boys' High School. He remained only two years but was always an active Dartmouth man. He went to the West Coast and spent seven years in teaching and engineering. He came back to New York and received his B.S. degree from New York University in 1916. He taught mathematics in Trenton High School until 1926 and did part-time work in insurance. In 1926, he gave up teaching and set up his own general insurance agency. Five years later he became an insurance broker. In 1942 he became an actuarial assistant to the New Jersey State Department of Banking and Insurance and served until his retirement in 1956. He was a former president of Trenton Chapter, Council of State Employees; state treasurer of Hew Jersey Council for eight years and also legislative representative for the group. He was a former editor of the Spotlighter, the newsletter of the Council.
Art was the founder of the Central New Jersey Dartmouth Club. He served as secretary for 15 years and in the fall of 1958 was elected its president.
He was married to Esther Yeoman on April 21, 1917, at Brooklyn, N.Y. Two children were born to them: a daughter Constance and a son A. James Jr. '42.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Esther Y. O'Mara; a daughter, Mrs. Constance Moore of Trenton; a son, A. James O'Mara Jr. of Silver Spring, Md.; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Vaczy of Sayville, L.I.; a brother, Edward of Oakland, Calif., and six grandchildren.
Funeral services were held on February 20, with Rev. Monroe Drew Jr. of the Fourth Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment was in Ewing Church Cemetery.
1912
MORTON KYLE died suddenly at his home, 8 Lothrop Street, Plymouth, Mass., on February 12, 1963.
Quiet, unassuming as an undergraduate, Mort became one of those solid citizens to whom New Englanders like to point with pride. He was born June 19, 1888 at Portland, Me., and secured his college preparation at Hackley School, Tarrytown, N. Y. After four years at Dartmouth, Mort returned to Plymouth where his family was then living and became the owner of the Bradford Joint Company, manufacturers of magnet wire.
Following the entry of the United States into World War I, Mort was drafted and inducted into the Army and immediately transferred to Company B, 304 th Engineers at Camp Merritt for construction service overseas. After Armistice Day the company was engaged in salvage work. Mort received his discharge June 13, 1919 and on July 15 that same year married Susan Carlisle, of Brattleboro, Vt.
Returning from military service, Mort entered the employ of his father in Bradford, Kyle & Co. With the death of his father in 1931 he assumed ownership of the business and continued its operation as the Bradford Kyle Wire Mills until his last illness.
Mort served during World War II as an ensign, junior grade, in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. His town of Plymouth he served as member of the Finance Committee, as trustee, clerk and chairman of the Board of Investment of the Plymouth Savings Bank, Director of the Pilgrim Society and of the Plymouth Public Library. He was a past commander of the Plymouth Yacht Club, having recently been voted a life member. It comes as no surprise to note that his hobby was boating.
Mort and Sue attended the Fiftieth Reunion of the Class of 1912 in Hanover last June. On September 12 he suffered a heart attack. By November he had recovered to some extent but late in December it was quite apparent that his recovery was not progressing as anticipated. Nevertheless, with unflinching courage he arose each day, went through the usual routine, even including short rides, insisting that he not "rust unburnished but shine in use." Warnings of his failing heart only seemed to drive him harder.
He is survived by his wife Susan, and a sister Margaret, both of Plymouth, Mass. A nephew, Thomas F. Dunlevy '41, lives in Cazenova, N.Y.
A memorial service was held in the First Parish House, Unitarian, Plymouth, Mass., on the afternoon of February 15.
1914
RALPH JOHN BARKE, of 225 Church St., Fergus Falls, Minn., died there at the age of 72 on January 23 after a long period of failing health.
Ralph came to us in junior year from the University of Minnesota and became a respected and loved member of our Class. After graduation and Army service in World War I he became active in the insurance business and civic affairs in his native city of Fergus Falls where his quiet and competent judgments made him a valued associate and friend.
He was a member of the Federated Church and had served as a deacon and on the board of managers. He belonged to the Elks Lodge, the American Legion, and Phi Gamma Delta.
Surviving are his wife Corinne; two daughters, Mrs. Harlan (Barbara) Blake of New York City and Mrs. John (Phyllis) Gilbert of Philadelphia; and a son, Lt. Comdr. Arthur R. Barke of Newport News, Va. He also leaves a granddaughter and two sisters.
1914 has suffered the loss of a loyal son of Dartmouth and a gentleman.
1915
JOHN USHER LOOMIS, senior partner of the law firm of Loomis, Lazear & Wilson of Cheyenne, Wyo., and general attorney for the Union Pacific Railroad, died in his sleep January 31 at his home, 3000 Capitol Avenue in Cheyenne where he had resided since 1931.
John was born April 2, 1893 in Salina, Kan. He prepared for college at Omaha High School, graduated from Dartmouth in 1915 with an A.B. degree, and obtained his LL.B. from Columbia in 1918. During World War I he was attached to the U.S. Embassy in London.
As an undergraduate he was a member of Psi Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet, manager of football in 1914, and a member of the Athletic Council, 1914-15. He was elected 1915 class treasurer for the period 1915-20, member of the Alumni Council 1922-24, and vice president of the Class of 1915 from 1925 to 1930. He was also Secretary of "Of the Plains" Association 1920-22.
In December 1915 he married Florence D. Geddes of Toledo, Ohio, and there were two sons, John U. Jr., 1915's "Class Baby," now living in Toledo, and Frederick G. '48, now living in Cheyenne.
Entering the practice of law in Omaha, he became associated with his close friend "Zeke" Carpenter, a classmate both in high school and at Dartmouth, as secretary and general counsel of the Carpenter Paper Company. In 1931 he moved to Cheyenne to join the law firm headed by the famous attorney, J.W. Lacey, and was later taken into the firm of Lacey & Loomis. Upon Mr. Lacey's death, John took in some partners and the firm name was changed to Loomis, Lazear & Wilson.
After the death in 1931 of his wife, he married a local Cheyenne girl, Ruth Harrington, in January 1934 and they had a daughter, Ann H., now Mrs. Robert Wolff of New York City. His brother the late Robert H. was a member of the class of 1920.
John was a member of the University Club of Denver, the Dartmouth Club of New York, the School Board of Omaha for six years, and the Water Board of Cheyenne for eight years.
Survived by his wife and children, John Loomis was a man of fine character, a loyal son of Dartmouth, and beloved by all with whom he came in contact.
Funeral services were held February 2 at the First Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne.
WILLIAM BUNKER TUBBY JR., well-known architect of Greenwich, Conn., and New York, died suddenly February 26 at his home, 352 North St., Greenwich, after a short illness.
Bill was born February 8, 1892, attended Greenwich Academy and Choate School and, after two years at Dartmouth where he was a member of Chi Phi, obtained a B.C.S. degree at New York University and Bachelor of Architecture degree at Columbia. He served as an ensign in World War I with six months' service overseas.
He practiced architecture with his father in New York City from 1914 to 1944 and had his own firm from 1944 to 1952. Among the buildings he designed are several schools in Greenwich, where he was a member of the Greenwich Representative Town Meeting for eleven years and Past Master of Masonic Lodge of Greenwich.
He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Adams Weeks Tubby, whom he married May 2, 1917; a daughter, Elizabeth A. Tubby; and a son, William B. Tubby III.
Funeral services were held February 28 in Greenwich.
1917
JOHN HERBERT CRENNER, a long-time resident of Nashua, N.H., died there on Thursday night, January 31. He lived at 15 Dow St.
Jack was born at Somerville, Mass., on August 14, 1893, and was educated in the Somerville public schools. After graduating from high school he attended Tufts University for a time and then transferred to Dartmouth. During World War I he spent some time in the Ordnance Department at Washington before enlisting in the Field Artillery. He received his discharge at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, on November 30, 1918.
Following his service with the Army, Jack went to the Middle West for the Nashua Gummed & Coated Paper Company. About 1922 he transferred to the Waxide Paper Company in Omaha. Then came a period during which he served as business director of Kenmore Memorial Hospital. Later he was employed by Kirby Sales & Service Company, Improved Machinery Corporation, and most recently, by the Yale Transportation Co.
On July 12, 1921, at Kansas City, Mo., Jack was married to Amy M. Chess, by whom he is survived. He also is survived by a brother, Robert A. Crenner 'l3, and a niece, Mrs. Robert E. Sudsbury.
HENRY CATE WATERMAN of 23 Elm St., Tilton, N. H., died on February 22, following a long illness.
Henry was born at Littleton, N. H. on May 14, 1893. For more than 30 years he was a research chemist with the U. S. Department of Agriculture in Washington. He retired in 1951 and returned to Tilton where there was a family home.
He was a member of the American Chemical Society of Washington, Trinity Episcopal Church at Tilton, Doric Lodge, F and AM of Tilton, St. Omer Chapter, RAM of Franklin, and Horace Chase Council of Concord. He was a junior warden of his church.
Henry is survived by the former Helen Mariette Bishop, whom he married on July 29, 1925, and a daughter. Miss Ruth A. Waterman of Tilton and Washington, D. C.
1918
HAROLD BISSELL DOTY passed away at the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, on February 13. He lived at 525 Daytona Parkway in Dayton.
Hal graduated from the West High School in Cleveland, Ohio. At Dartmouth he served on The Dartmouth board for three years, as well as the Aegis board his junior year. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi and Sphinx. After graduating from Dartmouth, he was graduated from the Tuck School of Business and Administration.
He was a former manager of the American Loan and Savings Association and had served as the area manager for the War Production Board during World War II. In the First World War he served in the War Department as assistant chief of the contract accounts division of the Student Army Training Corps. Last November he retired from his post in the Real Estate Administration at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Hal is survived by his wife, Sarah P.; two sons, Edward W. '42 of Wellesley, Mass., and John P. '52 of Dallas, Texas; and five grandchildren.
Private funeral services were held at the Boyer Funeral Home in Dayton.
NORMAN GRAY KNAPP died February 15, 1963, at the Rutland Hospital after a long illness.
"Nipper" was born in Elizabeth, N. J., June 9, 1894. He was a graduate of Worcester Academy and attended Dartmouth for two years as a member of the Class of 1918. He was a member of Psi U.
In April 1916 he moved to Poultney, Vt., to manage the Gray Foundry and later became its president. He was also president of the American Pipe Bending Machine Co., Inc.
A veteran of World War I, in 1940 and 1941 he was department commander of the American Legion. He was a director of the Associated Industries of Vermont and of the New England Council and also served as the appeal agent for the Fair Haven Draft Board.
Nipper retired in December 1961 due to failing health. It was a source of great pride and gratification to him to have his son Norman assume the management of the foundry at the time of his retirement.
He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Hammond; a daughter, Sarah E. Knapp of Cambridge, Mass.; and two sons, Norman G. Knapp Jr. of Poultney, Vt., and Lynn H. Knapp '47 of Syracuse, N. Y. His brother Gray '12 died in 1948.
Funeral services were held on Monday, February 18, 1963 at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Poultney.
CLARENCE EUGENE TOWER passed away on January 31. Clarence was born in Niagara Falls 69 years ago. He resided at 356 Mountain View Drive in Lewiston. Graduated from Niagara Falls High School, he also attended Tennessee Military Institute before coming to Dartmouth.
He was an officer in the C. J. Tower & Sons, customs brokerage house of Niagara Falls and Buffalo, which was founded by his grandfather.
Clarence was an avid sportsman and was considered one of the area's outstanding athletes, excelling in basketball. He was a member of the Niagara Club, the Rotary Club, the Niagara Falls, Ontario Club, and the First Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by his wife, Mabel Paterson Tower; a daughter, Mrs. Robert Murray of Hamilton, N. Y.; a son, Peter of Youngs-town, N. Y.; and four grandchildren.
Private funeral services were held February 2.
IN THE MARCH ISSUE Ellen Magoon Waterman, of Hanover, N. H., wife of ProfessorEmeritus W. Randall Waterman, and sister of the late Mayo McKinley Magoon '18, was not listed among the survivors.
1920
Following a brief illness HARRY GORTNER passed away on February 7 in Franklin County Hospital, Greenfield, Mass.
Harry was born in New York City, March 28, 1897, and attended Greenfield High School before entering Dartmouth. While an undergraduate at Dartmouth he volunteered for service in the U. S. Ambulance Corps in France and when the United States entered World War I he enlisted in the Naval Air Force for service as an ensign on combat duty in Italy.
Following the war he lived for a short time with relatives in New Canaan, Conn., where he was active in sports, playing on town basketball and baseball teams. He then returned to Greenfield where he worked as a linotype operator for 40 years on the Greenfield. Recorder-Gazette. He lived at 17 Park Street.
Harry was a Past Commander of the Howard M. Bossa Post, No. 653, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He is survived by his wife, the former Irene Bates; a daughter, Mrs. H. Suzanne Waldron of Inglewood, Calif.; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Lydia DeForest of Vista, N. Y.; and a brother, Charles F.
Services were held in Greenfield on February 10. Interment will take place in the spring.
1927
On Friday, March 1, JOSHUA ALBERT DAVIS, one of the more devoted sons of Dartmouth, died suddenly. Josh, trying out a new snow blowing machine at his home, 8 Windsor Place, Upper Montclair, N. J., collapsed and died immediately.
Memorial services were held March 7 at the Union Congregational Church in Montclair. Among the many from Dartmouth in attendance were the following representatives of the Class of '27: Doane Arnold, Ken Ballantyne, Barbara Bartlett, Rog and Marion Bury, Duke and Sonia Coulter, Bill and Susan St. Amant, Howard Mullin, Fritz Kortlucke, Art Kelleher, Gus Cummings, Jim Picken, Bob Page and Bob Stevens.
Josh was born September 28, 1903, in Kane, Pa. Entering Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter Academy, he. had a most distinguished undergraduate career in Hanover. A member of the track team, he also was center on the Dartmouth undefeated football team of 1925. In his senior year, Josh entered the Harvard game with a badly ulcerated tooth and played some 58 minutes. He was all over the field, and his play inspired the remark from E. K. Hall that it was the greatest game at center he had ever seen. A member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sphinx, and the Occum Council, Josh was president of his Class his senior year.
The year after graduation, Josh coached line in Hanover, and then began his long and distinguished career in finance. Salesman, branch manager for Kissell Kinnicut, Eastman Dillon, and Reynolds & Co., he was syndicate manager and partner for the latter before being elected chairman of Blair & Co. in 1952. He was partner and chairman of the board of Blair & Co. at the time of his death. He became one of the best known men in the investment banking business. Among his directorships were Holgate Bros. Co., Thompson-Starrett, Godfrey Engineering Co., Blair & Co., Blair Holdings Corp., Coastal States Gas Producing Co. of Corpus Christi, Tex., Needham Packing Co. of lowa, and the Mt. Vernon Life Insurance Co. He was a member of the syndicate committee, Investment Bankers Association of America.
Josh was married to Cornelia Scudder Van Antwerp of Albany, N. Y., on May 23, 1931. They had three daughters and a son: Suzanne, Skidmore '54 (Mrs. William G. Tull), resident of Upper Montclair and mother of two daughters; Anne, Skidmore '5B (Mrs. Thomas C. Carrier), New York City, mother of a daughter; Dorothea, who was married to George E. Davies '53 and died in 1958; and William H. '62 who is now back in Hanover as a junior, after a two-year tour in the Army in Germany. Preston H. Kelsey '25 is a brother-in-law, and Thomas V. A. Kelsey '54 and Preston T. Kelsey '58 are nephews.
Josh's Dartmouth activities are evidence of the fullness of his devotion to the College. A member of the Alumni Council, 1944-47, he was vice president in '46 and '47. He was chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee in 1945 and 1946, years when the Fund set new high records of $337,000 and $417,000 respectively. Josh served on the Football Advisory Committee in 1947 and on the Trustee Planning Subcommittee on Athletics in 1958. He was a vice president of the Dartmouth College Club of New York and a member of the board of directors of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey.
The Class of '27 not only had Josh as its president during senior year, he served in many capacities after graduation, including Assistant Class Agent, Memorial Fund Chairman, Class President, 1953-1957, a member of the Bequest Committee, and at the time of his death as Honorary Class Chairman. 1927 recognized his great services to the Class and College at the New York 1962 annual class dinner by honoring him as 1927's "man of the year." Montclair, N. J., his home town, had the benefit of the Davis energy as captain of the Montclair Police Reserve, 1941-1946; trustee of the Montclair Community Chest; and Commis- sioner of Revenue and Finance, 1948-1952. In 1956 and 1958, Josh served as chairman of the fund campaign for Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, raising more than $4,000,000. He was vice president and a trustee of the hospital, and was founder and a trustee of the Windsor Foundation, Inc., a New York charitable organization.
His clubs included Dartmouth Club of New York, Petroleum Club, Montclair Golf Club, Wall Street Club, Union League, Harbor View, Bond Club, and the Management Club of Corpus Christi, Tex. He was a Trustee of the Union Congregational Church of Upper Montclair and a member of the Ministers Retirement Fund.
Josh leaves the mark of his great love of life, his integrity, generosity, and youthful enthusiasm on a wide and varied world, of which Dartmouth and his Class were privileged to be high on the list.
1950
REV. JOSEPH LADD SULLIVAN, minister of the United Universalist Churches of Norway South Paris, Maine, died unexpect- edly February 6 after a brief illness. He was a native Vermonter, having been born in St. Johnsbury on March 3, 1915.
Joe attended schools at St. Johnsbury and Concord, Vt., and the New England School of Theology before entering Dartmouth in the summer of 1945 as an unclassified student. After an absence of one term, he returned to College to graduate with our Class. Joe received his Th.D. degree from the Central School of Religion in Indianapolis in 1957, and did graduate work in education at Keene Teachers and Rochester Divinity Schools.
He was ordained into the ministry in 1942 and served pastorates in Marblehead, Mass.; Monroe, Claremont, and Littleton, N. H.; Hartford, Vt.; and Albion, N. Y. For the past seven summers he was minister of the Universalist Church at North Hatley, Quebec. He had been president of the New York Universalist State Convention before moving to Maine. He was described as a "militant liberal minister" by the South Paris papers, "as full of life as a Beagle puppy . . . jovial, straightforward ... a wonderful vocabulary . . . [preaching] inspiring, articulate sermons, the work of a craftsman."
The deepest sympathy goes to his widow, the former Doris Melcher Silley, whom he married in 1933, and to their four children.
Walter Poland Rankin '00
Joshua Albert Davis '27
