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.]

Hall, Dwight '94, Mar. 14 Clark, Robert B. '02, Mar. 18 Fitts, Ralph C. 'O6, Mar. 1 Lewis, Mason A. '08, Jan. 31 Rogers, Fletcher '10, Mar. 28 Thurber, George F. '11, Mar. 15 Dean, Carlton R. '12, Jan. 20 Barrett, W. Emerson '14, Apr. 5 Whiteford, Cameron '14, Oct. 23, 1955 Tokarczyk, John '18, Mar. 16 Ward, Allen H. '18, Nov. 14, 1962 Young, B. Botsford '18, Mar. 16 Behrens, Alfred C. '19, Dec. 12, 1962 Newcomer, Stanley J. '20, Mar. 10 Mac Donald, Robert M. '21, Apr. 12 Atherton. Blaylock '22, Mar. 16 Marden, Earle E. '23, Nov. 29, 1960 Paisley, John S. '23, Mar. 20 Robinson, Sumner J. '24, Mar. 15 Breithut, Fred R. '29, Mar. 6 Wagner, Charles H. Jr. '33, Mar. 1 Estin, Peter G. '47, Apr. 5 Daly, Robert H. Jr. '54, Apr. 12 Breitenbach, John E. '57, Mar. 23 Stilwell, Lewis D., Faculty, Apr. 5

Faculty

GORDON HARKNESS GLIDDON, Ph.D. '26, Associate in Physics and Baker Library Emeritus, died suddenly at his home in Hanover on March 14. He had retired last June after 39 years of service to Dartmouth and the Hanover community.

Dr. Gliddon, one of the few men to hold an earned doctoral degree from the College, was for many years a leading member of the Dartmouth Eye Institute staff. He was a close associate of the late Adelbert Ames Jr. in the discovery of the binocular eye defect known as aniseikonia, its measurement and correction, and in the founding of the Dartmouth Eye Institute in 1935. The Institute had a research division in Choate House and a clinical division on Webster Avenue, headed by Dr. Alfred Bielschowsky, the great German authority on motor anomalies of the eye. Dr. Gliddon devoted part of his time to research, from 1935 to 1939, but the larger part to administration of the Eye Institute.

Born in Rochester, N. Y., December 9, 1894, Dr. Gliddon was graduated from the University of Rochester in 1915 and taught physics there from 1915 to 1918 when he received his M.S. degree. He was a designer of lenses at the Hawk Eye Division of Eastman Kodak Company from 1918 to 1923 and also instructor in physiological optics at the Rochester School of Optometry from 1920 to 1923.

Dr. Gliddon came to Dartmouth in June 1923 to work with Professor Ames on problems of binocular vision. He was a graduate student in physiological optics and in 1926 received Dartmouth's Ph.D. degree, his thesis being "An Optical Replica of the Human Eye." He later wrote a number of articles on ocular images and measurements.

In 1929 Dr. Gliddon was named Assistant Professor of Physiological Optics and in 1937 Associate Professor of Physiological Optics at the Dartmouth Medical SchoolDuring the war years he assisted in physics instruction for the Navy V-12 Unit at Dartmouth. In 1946, the year before the Dartmouth Eye Institute suspended operations, he became Business Manager of Baker Library and at the same time an Associate in the Department of Physics.

For 21 years, from 1938 to 1959, Dr. Gliddon was prominent in local government as Hanover Precinct Commissioner, from 1940 on as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners. His particular interests were the police department, highways, health and sanitation, street lighting, and trees. He was a member of the Hanover Improvement Society and acted as secretary of the Hanover Finance Committee for several years. He was named precinct representative for the Hanover Water Works in 1942 and served as its president from 1952 until he resigned in 1959.

Dr. Gliddon's greatest pleasure was music and the piano, which he had studied at the Eastman School of Music. For many years he played the piano at the meetings of the Hanover Rotary Club. He also was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Delta Chi, Gamma Alpha, The Optical Society of America, Association for Research in Ophthalmology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In a tribute to Dr. Gliddon printed in the Hanover Gazette, Max A. Norton '19, Associate Treasurer of the College Emeritus, wrote: "He was an indefatigable worker and never did he put personal desires and pleasures ahead of the fulfillment of responsibilities he had so graciously and willingly accepted. He was always ready and willing to lend a hand and so very many of his good deeds were performed without fanfare or desire for personal recognition. ... Having known Gordon from the time he arrived in Hanover and having been associated with him in many projects and undertakings, I can attest to his accomplishments. When the next history of the Town of Hanover is written, Gordon Gliddon will be portrayed as a citizen of diversified interests who worked for the good of the community and its organizations."

Dr. Gliddon is survived by his wife, Dorothy Frederick Gliddon, and a cousin, Miss Helen Davis of Lockport, N. Y. On March 19 a memorial service was held in the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College with the Rev. Roy B. Chamberlin, Fellow in Religion Emeritus, officiating. Burial was in Rochester, N. Y.

LEWIS DAYTON STILWELL, A.M. '35, Professor of History Emeritus, was killed instantly on the afternoon of April 5 when his small foreign car was in collision with a heavy trailer truck in White River Junction, Vt. The accident occurred as he turned on to Route 4, the road from Woodstock to White River Junction, from the Route 5 cutoff that comes from the Veterans Hospital.

Professor Stilwell, 71, retired in 1959 after 43 years on the Dartmouth faculty. A specialist in military history, he was still actively engaged in giving his brilliant, graphic lectures on the battles of the Civil War and World War I. His celebrated course History 25, popularly known as "A Battle a Day," had been transformed into a series of evening lectures known as "Battle Nights," heard not only in the College community but also widely by radio. The lectures are currently being carried by a three-station educational network in Massachusetts and New York.

Professor Stilwell was born in Syracuse, N. Y., July 14, 1891. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1913 and received his Master's degree from Harvard the next year. He came to Dartmouth in 1916 as Instructor in History but left in 1917 to serve as Army YMCA secretary at Plattsburg and Camp Meade. In March 1918 he enlisted for active service and went overseas with the 104 th Field Artillery, with which he went through the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

After the war, Professor Stilwell resumed his Dartmouth instructorship and in 1921 was promoted to Assistant Professor of History. When the course in Citizenship was introduced as a requirement for all freshmen, he helped teach it and from 1925 to 1930 he served as course director. In 1931 his title became Assistant Professor of Industrial Society. He was elevated to Professor of Industrial Society in 1935 and became Professor of History in 1936.

Professor Stilwell was the author of Migration from Vermont, published by the Vermont Historical Society in 1937 and in a revised edition in 1949. He was a co-author of An Introduction to the Social Sciences (Appleton, 1941) and also wrote a series of History 6 pamphlets, which he hoped some day to put together in a book. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Historical Association, and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, for which he was the faculty adviser for many years.

Throughout his long Dartmouth career, Professor Stilwell was always rated by students as one of their best and most stimulating teachers. Long years after completing college, hundreds of Dartmouth alumni can still vividly recall the experience of a course with "Lew" Stilwell. And outside of the classroom, students went to his office, had coffee and "bull sessions" with him in a Hanover restaurant, or met with him at the fraternity house. The attraction was his sharp and witty conversation, his friendly, unassuming nature, and his understanding of the undergraduate mind trying to find the answers. The Dartmouth in a 1940 critique of his military history course said, "Lew Stilwell is one of the sanest, bluntest, and most real of our professors. ... The language is collegiate, witty, and probing, and demonstrates wide study, careful organization, and a biting ability to get under surfaces and expose fraudulent emotions and rationalizations."

Professor Stilwell was not married and is survived by no close relatives. A memorial service was held in Rollins Chapel on April 8, with Dean Fred Berthold Jr. '45 officiating and Prof. Allen R. Foley '20 delivering the eulogy. Student members of Phi Kappa Psi attended in a body and members of the Dartmouth Glee Club sang Dartmouth Undying as their memorial tribute.

Professor Foley's remarks at the servicewill be found printed with the Faculty section in this issue.

1894

One more name was added to the rapidly increasing necrology of the Class of 1894 during the past month, reducing the number of living graduates to five, by the death on March 14 at Dover, N. H., of DWIGHT HALL. A former mayor of that city, and for some time a prominent figure in the politics of New Hampshire, Dwight was one of the College's oldest living alumni.

Dwight was a prominent member of his class by reason of his reticence, which was of a quality as remarkable as was the addiction of Henry Hurd to the use of sesquipedalian terminology. Dwight was laconic as Henry was ornately verbose in his contributions to the class literature, and it may have influenced the bestowal of his nickname, which was "Deelay" with the accent on the "Dee." Deelay Hall was singularly reserved in demeanor and universally respected.

Like his father before him, he was a prominent attorney at law, maintaining the same suite of offices in downtown Dover and was one of the city's most eminent citizens. His public service included a term as Collector of the Port of Boston as well as four years as mayor of Dover. In college he was a prominent member of the track team, specializing in middle-distance runs. He was a graduate of Phillips Academy at Andover as well as of Dartmouth.

1902

It will come as no surprise to learn of the death of ROBERT BROWNING CLARK in a nursing home in Enfield, N. H., on March 18, after an illness of many years. The feelings of the surviving members of his class, while tinged with sorrow, must nevertheless be those of thankfulness that his sufferings are at an end and gratitude that we have had the privilege of knowing him. He was very close to some of us. Never robust, he was unable to enter into many of the activities of college life, aside from a brief venture into dramatics in freshman year, but he was well liked by everyone. There is much evidence to show his deep devotion to the College and his fraternity.

He was born April 19, 1878, in Haverhill, Mass., and before coming to Dartmouth attended schools in Haverhill, Newburyport, and Cambridge. After graduating from college, he worked for a year in the Far West, and in 1903 became associated with the firm of Stone and Webster, with whom he served in various capacities and places, rising to the position of General Superintendent in 1912, with headquarters in Paducah, Ky.

He was married June 28, 1905 to Frances S. Southgate of Woodstock, Vt., who died seven years ago. They had four children: Robert B. Jr. '28; Eleanor (Mrs. Raymond F. Leonard); Frederick S. '33; and Clara (Mrs. Alan W. Bryant '37) all of whom survive him, as do ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Of the grandsons, two are also Dartmouth men: Alan W. Bryant Jr. '62 and Timothy C. Bryant '65. Mrs. Clark also had close connections with the College, as her father, Frederick C. Southgate, graduated in the early seventies, and her brother was Richard S. Southgate '07.

Continuing with the history of our Bob's activities, there followed five years of service as superintendent in the Fall River Gas Works; from December 1918, as treasurer of Ordway & Clark, shoe manufacturers in Haverhill; and finally in 1927 with the Equitable Motor Co. of Pittsburgh, with whom he stayed until his retirement in 1942. He then settled in the old Southgate home in Woodstock.

Bob had long been active in Masonic circles and he continued with this, after settling in Woodstock, as long as his health permitted. He was deeply interested in the affairs of the village, being at various times member of Rotary, of the Village Improvement Society, trustee of the Woodstock Recreation Center, and president of the Board of Trustees of the First Congregational Church. In every way he was the kind of man that Dartmouth is proud to have sent out. His was a life well spent in spite of great hardships.

1906

EARLE JASON ST. CLAIR was born in Plymouth, N. H., on February 24, 1884 and died in St. Albans, Vt., on March 14, 1963. His home was at 17 Upper Newton Street.

Earle prepared for college at the Plymouth High School and entered Dartmouth in the Class of 1906. After graduation he went to work for the New England Telephone Company in Boston as a salesman. In 1908 he was appointed manager of the St. Albans office and held that position until 1937 when he was transferred to Boston.

Earle retired in 1950 and returned to St. Albans where he spent the rest of his life. He was a charter member of the Rotary and Champlains Country Club, a past president of the St. Albans Chamber of Commerce, a director of the St. Albans Hospital and the People's Trust Company, and a member of the Telephone Pioneers.

His wife, Anna Mae, and a nephew, Gordon Armstrong, survive him.

1908

JOSEPH WING BLAKELY of 11 Winter Street, Montpelier, Vt., died at the Heaton Hospital there in the evening of March 5, 1963, after being struck and run over by an automobile. He had been in failing health after suffering a shock in 1957.

A fifth generation Vermonter, Joe was born in Montpelier, December 9, 1885, and spent all his active life there. He prepared for Dartmouth at Montpelier High School. In college he took the Tuck School course and received an M.C.S. degree in 1909.

After two years with the Prudential Insurance Co. he became associated in 1911 with his father in the Collins Blakely Pharmacy where he learned the profession and became a registered pharmacist. After the death of his father in 1916 he took over the drug store until his retirement in 1958. He also carried on the Blakely Coal Co. established by his father.

Joe had been active in the life of his city and profession. He had been president of the Vermont Pharmaceutical Association, was a life member of the Vermont State Board of Pharmacy, and was a member for 14 years of the Board of School Commissioners and secretary for a number of years.

One of the oldest living members of the Unitarian Church, he had served as trustee, permanent fund committee member, treasurer of the Laymen's League, custodian of church property, and an usher for many years. He was a member of the executive board of the Montpelier Division of the Chittenden Trust Co. and had been a director of its predecessor, the Capital Savings Bank and Trust Co. for more than 30 years. Joe went far in Masonic circles, and was a member of Aurora Lodge for 53 years. He was the oldest past master of the lodge, past high priest of King Solomon Chapter, past commander of Mt. Zion Commandery, and a member of Mt. Sinai Temple, A.A.O.M.S.

Joe was married April 20, 1923, to Katherine E. Spear. She and their son, Judson Spear Blakely '49, of Staten Island, N. Y., are survivors, together with five grandchildren.

1910

DR. FRANK LAMONT MELENEY died suddenly, March 7, 1963, of coronary occlusion, while on the golf course at the Biltmore Golf Club, Coral Gables, Fla. He lived at 700 Jeronimo Dr. in Coral Gables.

Frank was born September 25, 1889, in Somerville, Mass. He prepared for college at Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, N. Y., where his father was Associate Superintendent of the schools of greater New York. In college he was a member of the College Choir and the Orpheus Club, Chi Phi, sophomore debating team, and president of the Dartmouth Christian Association. Recently he had been Honorary ViceChairman of the Dartmouth Medical School campaign.

Following graduation in 1910, Frank for two years was Headmaster of the Adirondack-Florida School. He then entered the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, receiving his M.D. degree in 1916, graduating near the top of his class. In medical school he came under the influence of Dr. Hans Zinsser, Professor of Bacteriology, who impressed upon him the importance of applying to surgery the discovery of the causative roles of bacteria in surgical infections, and the importance of asepsis in operative procedures. After two years of surgical internship at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, Frank joined a surgical operating team from that hospital, and saw active service in front-line hospitals in France, where the tragic effects of contaminated wounds further impressed him. Returning to New York after the war, with the encouragement of Dr. Allen O. Whipple, then Associate Professor of Surgery at Columbia, Frank decided to become a surgical bacteriologist and took further training under Dr. Zinsser.

Associated with his ambition to become a surgeon, which began with Frank's broken arm in his boyhood, was a strong religious dedication. While an undergraduate he became a student volunteer for Foreign Missions. He fulfilled this commitment to serve as a Christian teacher in a foreign country through his service as Associate in Surgery in Peking Union Medical College in China. In the nearly four years spent there, he described for the first time "hemolitic streptococcus gangrene," an acute subcutaneous infection, usually of the extremities. Dr. Meleney was decorated by the Government of China in Taiwan for his part in raising funds to establish the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China.

Returning to New York in 1924, he was offered the opportunity to establish a bacteriological research laboratory in the Department of Surgery at Columbia University. This was established with the responsibilities of supervising sterile operating room technique and investigating post-operative infections. A nasal "carrier" of streptococci showed the necessity of masking the nose as well as the mouth of all operating room personnel and incomplete sterilizing of catgut by manufacturers was corrected.

In World War 11, Dr. Meleney served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Surgical Infections of the National Research Council. The resistance of staphylococci to penicillin produced new types of hospital epidemics and he continued to lead in studies and in the selective use of chemotherapeutic agents based upon careful bacteriological studies. The greatest contribution of his laboratory to the field of antibiotics was the discovery of bacitracin in 1945. This antibiotic with action somewhat similar to penicillin has proved to be of great value in local applications and in systemic infections caused by staphylococci resistant to penicillin.

On the faculty at College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, Dr. Meleney rose to the rank of Professor of Clinical Surgery. He wrote two treatises on diagnosis and treatment of surgical infections, and his contributions to medical journals numbered over 200. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Dartmouth in 1955. He held memberships in many medical societies.

In religious activities, he was a leader from his college days on. As faculty adviser, he exerted strong influence on student members of the P & S Club at Columbia. As an active member of Methodist churches in New York and Coral Gables, a leader in the American Association for the United Nations, and the author of a widely-distributed "Prayer for World Peace" he carried his convictions into practical action.

In 1955 he retired from Columbia University as Professor Emeritus of Clinical Survey and moved to Coral Gables, Fla. He opened an office in Miami, was appointed Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Miami, and established a new Laboratory of Surgical Bacteriology.

Survivors are his widow, the former Helen Clark whom he married in St. George, New Brunswick, Canada, September 17, 1919; his sons, Frank Lamont Jr. and David Clark; his sister, Miss Grace Coit Meleney; and his brothers, Dr. Henry E. '09, Clarence C. '13 and George L. '23. Burial was in the family plot in Oak Grove Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard.

1911

GEORGE FREEMAN THURBER died at his home at 3 Swart Street, Nashua, N. H., March 15, 1963, at the age of 75. He was a native of Nashua, and a graduate of the Nashua schools and St. Paul's School, Concord. He entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1910, but in the Wet Down in the spring of 1907 he was seriously injured keeping him out of college the following year so that on his return he was affiliated with 1911. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Phi fraternity, graduating magnacum laude.

George's first employment was with Bond & Goodwin of Boston. In 1914 he changed to the Second National Bank of Nashua with which he remained throughout his life. There he succeeded his father as president in 1935 and in 1957 became chairman of the board. He was also chairman of the Stockholders Advisory Committee of the First Federal Reserve District of Boston; president of the Wonalancet Co.; and a director of Whitney Screw Co., First Federal Savings Bank of Nashua; Gas Service Inc.; Masonic Building Association, and Nutt Hospital Association. He was a past president of the Nashua Hospital Association, a charter member of the Nashua Rotary Club and one of the founders of the Coffey Post, American Legion. He had been a Captain AUS, QMC in 1918-19.

He was a member and past vestryman of the Church of the Good Shepherd and past trustee of the local YMCA and the Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Mass. He belonged to all Masonic bodies and in 1948 was elevated to sovereign grand inspector general 33rd degree, honorary member of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Masonry. He also was associated with the Nashua Lodge of Elks, IOOF, the Nashua Country Club, and the Hingham, Mass., Yacht Club.

Members of his family include his wife, the former Muriel Davis, a daughter, Mrs. Peter Prudden of Hingham, Mass., two sons George F. Jr. of Weston, Mass., and Davis Peabody Thurber of Nashua. Funeral services were held in the Church of the Good Shepherd in Nashua.

1913

FRANCIS PARKINSON WALSH died on Sunday March 3, 1963 at St. Joseph's Hospital, Lowell, Mass. He was born on March 15, 1889 at Lowell and prepared for Dartmouth at the Lowell High School. In College he was a member of Theta Delta Chi. After graduation he was in the investment business in Boston until he enlisted in September 1917 in the U.S.N.R.F. as Chief Storekeeper. He was stationed at Mare Island, Calif., Navy Yard until he attended Pay School at Annapolis. He was commissioned an ensign in March 1918.

In 1919 "Bear," as he was affectionately known, was with Allen & Wheeler Company in Troy, Ohio, and then became advertising manager and assistant sales manager with the U. S. Auto Gear Shift Company at Eau Claire, Wis.

He married Katherine DeWeese on August 4, 1920 at Troy, Ohio, and Jeanne Foster was born on November 2, 1927 and Lawrence Brabrook on July 28, 1933.

Francis returned to Boston as a partner in the investment firm of A. G. Walsh and Son and headed the firm after his father's death until 1962 when he joined Hutchins, Mixter and Parkinson, 60 State St., Boston. "Bear" was a member of William Sewell Gardner Lodge of Masons and all local York ROTC bodies, of the All Souls Church, the Boston Security Traders Association, and the Vesper Country Club. From 1947 until 1950 he served as president of the Lowell, Mass., Alumni Association.

He is survived by his wife Katherine, his daughter, Mrs. Don C. Stanton of Sanford, Maine; his son Laurence of 190 Butman Road in Lowell; and two sisters, Mrs. Frank H. Byers and Mrs. Sidney Hunking, both of Lowell.

Services were held in AH Souls Church, Lowell, on Wednesday, March 6.

1914

The class has lost another loyal member in the passing of HAMMOND BARNES in Providence in March - and we shall miss the kindly acts of friendship that lie gave so very generously over so many years. He lived at 12 University Ave. in Providence.

A Theta Delta Chi, "Ham" came to us from Lowell, Mass., and quickly showed the traits that earned him a place in the affections of those who knew him. He was forced by circumstances to leave college before graduation, but a letter some years later to "Jigger" Pender shows his spirit - "I had to leave college before senior year," he wrote, "and in some way my name has been omitted from the class mailing list. If you can correct this, I should be deeply appreciative, because I assure you my interest in Dartmouth and 1914 has never failed."

Ham served in France as a lieutenant of infantry in World War I and then joined the Atlas Plywood Corporation where he served importantly. He was manager of their Phillipsdale plant when he retired some years ago because of ominous health warnings.

He leaves a widow, Gladys Wright Barnes (Wellesley 1915), a brother, Arthur ('08), a son Henry '50 and a sister, Helen.

To Ham's family we in 1914 extend the warm hand of sympathy and understanding in our common loss.

1918

DR. JOHN J. TOKARCZYK passed away on March 16, 1963, while working in the yard of his home at 32 North St., New Britain, Conn.

A native of Poland, he attended the International School in Springfield, Mass., and Dartmouth College before graduating from the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt.

He interned at St. Mary's Hospital, Jersey City, and the Lying-in Hospital in New York before beginning general practice in New Britain in 1921.

John was the New Britain city medical examiner for the past 14 years. He was a member of the Hartford County Medical Association, New Britain Medical Society, the Polonaise Club, and the Holy Cross Church of New Britain.

He leaves his wife, Stephania, and a daughter, Miss Joane Tokarczyk, both of New Britain. Funeral services were held on March 19, from the Borawski-Duksa Funeral Home and the Holy Cross Church. The New Britain Chapter of Catholic Nurses formed a guard of honor at the funeral.

BENNET BOTSFORD YOUNG passed away on March 16. Shore Acres, Lake Bluff, Ill., was his home.

Bots left Dartmouth his freshman year and later graduated from Cornell University. Even so, he was a very loyal Dartmouth man, contributing substantially to the Alumni Fund each year.

He was treasurer of the Anti-Cruelty Society of Chicago and a vice president of the National Boulevard Bank of Chicago, until his retirement thirteen years ago. Bots had been associated with the bank for more than thirty years. He served as a first lieutenant during the First World War, before returning to Chicago to enter the banking and investment field. He was active in Boy Scout and Red Cross work, and was a member of the University Club of Chicago, Shore Acres Golf Club, and the Onwentsia Country Club of Lake Forest.

Funeral services were held in the First Presbyterian Church in Lake Forest on Wednesday, March 20. Survivors include his widow, Ruth, and two sons, B. Botsford Jr. '49 and Montgomery.

1919

Word has recently been received of the death of ALFRED CARL BEHRENS in Rapid City, S. D., on December 12 of spinal cancer. Al was born in Rapid City on November 6, 1894, attended public school there, and the School of Mines before coming to Hanover. He was with the class two years before enlisting in the aviation branch of the U. S. Navy in World War I and serving two years in Ireland and France.

After the war, he returned to his home town and became associated with the family business, Behrens Furniture Store, where he spent his entire business career. He was a member of the American Legion and a very prominent citizen of the city, contributed much of his time to community welfare, and was recognized as a business man of high integrity.

Surviving are his son, Alfred Jr., who is carrying on the family business, two daughters, several grandchildren, and a sister and two brothers. 1919 extends to them its most sincere sympathy in their great loss.

1920

STANLEY JACOB NEWCOMER, a lifelong resident of Monroe, Mich., passed away on March 10 at his home at 13762 Shady Lane, Bolles Harbor, following a long illness.

Few in our Class commanded the respect and admiration of his classmates and contemporaries as did Stan. A warm heart, a glowing personality, and an abiding interest in his fellowen marked Stan from his earliest undergraduate days. Small wonder that he was class president until the time of his death. He is mourned by all who had the good fortune to come within the scope of his acquaintance and friendship. A fine husband, an understanding father, and a true friend ... he will be sorely missed.

Stan attended public schools in Monroe and graduated from Monroe High School, whereupon he entered Dartmouth. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Sphinx. Following graduation from Dartmouth, Stan joined the Consolidated Paper Company in Monroe. He was elected to the board of directors in 1938 and was also named vice president. He was made general sales manager in 1949 and was treasurer and vice president when he resigned from the board of directors in May 1960. He continued his service to the company in an advisory capacity until he retired in December 1962. All in all he was associated with the company for 42 years.

Stan was a commissioned officer in World War I and served in World War II as a member of the Paperboard Advisory Committee of the Office of Price Information.

A member of the Carl F. Payson Post 60, American Legion, Stan was elected post commander in 1933 and was a member of the Last Man's Club of the post. Active in the organization work of the Boy Scouts in Monroe County, .he was a past president of the Wolverine Council for Monroe and Lenawee Counties. An active golfer for many years, he was a member of the Monroe Golf and Country Club, and a former member of the Monroe Exchange Club and the Toledo Club. He also served many years on the board of trustees and as a member of the official board of St. Paul's Methodist Church. In 1956 Stan was elected to the board of directors of the Monroe State Savings Bank.

On October 17, 1925, he married the former Grace L. Jameson, by whom he is survived. He is survived also by a son, William J. of Monroe; a daughter, Mrs. Franklin (Annabelle) Bock of Monroe; three sisters, Mrs. Daisy N. Saunderson of Sioux City, la., Mrs. Millard Toncray and Mrs. Melvin Hollinshead, both of Grosse Pointe, and nine grandchildren.

Services were conducted in the Earle Little Funeral Home with the Reverend Charles H. Beynon, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, officiating. Interment took place in the mausoleum at Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

1921

ROY HAGAR BURRILL of 144 Sunset Blvd., Melbourne Beach, Fla., died February 3. He was connected with Radiation, Inc., which concerned itself with electronics, avionics, and astronics. He was formerly head of the Chicago office of La Coste and Maxwell, publisher's representatives.

Roy spent only his freshman year in Hanover where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. He transferred to Dartmouth from Cornell and transferred from Dartmouth to the Yale Sheffield School.

Roy was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 17, 1898. He married Isabel Stockwell of Evansville, Ind., June 18, 1932. His early years were spent in the advertising business, and he worked for Charles W. Hoyt Co., Inc. of New York and later for the Miami Advertising Co. During World War II he served with the Signal Corps.

FRANCIS ADRIAN ROOD of 4120 Buckingham, Detroit 25, Mich., died suddenly February 13. From 1925 until 1957, when he retired, he worked for the Chevrolet Motors Division of General Motors, where he specialized as master mechanic in forgings, springs, and bumpers. Earlier he was a mine surveyor in Lansford, Pa. In World War I Frank served in Chemical Warfare.

Born in Jeanville, Pa., December 27, 1896, the son of Vernon Harris Rood and Alice Amanda Stone Rood, Frank on November 6, 1923 married Florence Rowland of Catasauqua, Pa. She and their son, Capt. Vernon John Rood, USAF, survive him.

1922

BLAYLOCK ATHERTON died March 16 at his home, 31 Fairmount St., Nashua, N. H. Blay was 62 and a lifelong resident of Nashua. Widely known and highly respected throughout New Hampshire, he was president of the State Senate in 1951-52 and for several months during this period he was the state's acting governor.

In a distinguished career of public service, Blay served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives before his election to the State Senate in 1943. In the House he was a member of the Committee on Legislation and Chairman of the Committee on Banks. He was also on the New Hampshire Water Board Commission and, from 1954 to 1959, he served as a member of the Public Utilities Commission.

For many years he was owner and manager of the Blaylock Atherton Insurance Agency in Nashua and a prominent member of the New Hampshire Life Underwriters Association. He was a former member of the local Board of Education and headed the War Finance Committee.

A friendly, esteemed classmate, a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Blay was with the class freshman and sophomore years. He later transferred to Massachusetts Institute of Technology from which he was graduated in 1924.

He was a communicant of the Church of the Good Shepherd and an adviser to the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. A prominent Mason, he was an honorary member of the Supreme Council, 33 rd degree, and he was past master of the Nashua lodge and past commander-in-chief of the New Hampshire Consistory. He was also past president of the New Hampshire Chapter. Sons of the American Revolution.

Blay and Katherine (Bremer) were married in 1924. He is survived by her and three daughters: Mrs. Raymond W. Peppard of Laconia; Mrs. Albert W. Snow of Durham; Mrs. Frederick W. Atwood of Warrensburg, Mo.; and by his brother, Ives '24 of Hanover. The Class and Blay's legion of Dartmouth friends join the family in deep bereavement.

1923

Private funeral services were held at the Robinson Chapel on March 23 at 1:30 p.m. for JOHN STRAHL PAISLEY, 29 Ardsmoor Road, Maiden, Mass., who passed away at a Long Island Hospital on March 20. Rev. John A. Martin, pastor of the Highlands Congregational Church, officiated. Burial was in the Wyoming Cemetery.

John, 63, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. He graduated from Dartmouth where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

A retired importer, John was a partner in the firm of R. L. Pritchard and Company, importers, of New York City.

He leaves a brother, Robert J. '19, of Garden City, N. Y.; a cousin, Miss Roberta Miller of 29 Ardsmoor Road, and several nieces and nephews. His wife, Margaret Ketterer, died in 1952.

1924

This is the story of a classmate, SUMNER JENNINGS ROBINSON, born in Quincy, Mass., on May 10, 1901, who went to Phillips Andover before Dartmouth and who returned to live in that school-town until his untimely death March 16, of a heart attack. He died in the New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, after a short illness; a memorial service was held in the Cochran Chapel, at Phillips (Andover) Academy.

With only one interlude, Sumner devoted his life to one business: carpets. He started as a sales trainee with Bigelow-Sanford; then was lured to the wholesale department of Carson, Pirie Scott & Co.; then briefly with North American Lace Co. and as sales manager for Roxbury Carpet Co., and back to Bigelow as vice-president in charge of sales. Here he broke away, 1954, to go with National Homes Corp., and then Grand Rapids Furniture Makers' Guild. IN 1957 he returned to carpets as president of Loomweve, after a short term with Stephen-Leedom Carpet Co. His work was in Lawrence but he lived in Andover, Mass. During this career Sumner was known for his progressive ideas, as for example the greater possibilities of merchandising color in carpets.

In college Sumner was active in The Players for three years, and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. He married Frances Curtis, of Chicago, in 1928. Their son, Kent Curtis, was born in Chicago in 1931 and graduated from Dartmouth in 1953. There is also a sister, and two grandchildren surviving. To all, we send our deep regrets at this loss. Those so inclined may send contributions in his memory to the Essex North Chapter of the Massachusetts Heart Association.

1927

ANDREW MESERVE RANKIN, Class Agent of the Class of 1927, died March 8. Andy had retired from business in June 1962 cause of his health. After a series of tests in the hospital last August, he underwent in December an open heart operation. Apparently the insertion of a plastic heart valve was successful, although recovery was very slow. On March 6 he had improved to the extent he was told he could go home on the 8th. But the infection he had fought for three months suddenly returned and proved uncontrollable.

Andy was born in Ashmont, Mass., May 19, 1905, son of the late Walter P. Rankin '00. He entered Dartmouth from Dorchester High School where he had been manager of the football team. In Hanover he managed the hockey team, and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Casque and Gauntlet. After graduation Andy continued at Tuck School in 1928 and '29 while employed by the Graduate Manager of Athletics. In 1929 he joined Warren Bros., road builders in Boston, and in 1931 was transferred to Portland, Ore., where he served as treasurer of Northwest Roads Co. He was with the Reconstruction Finance Company in Portland from 1931 to '37. Returning to Boston, he joined Southern Advance Bag and Paper Co. as assistant treasurer, a happy affiliation since the executive staff were largely Dartmouth men. Mergers eventually into Continental Can Co. led Andy into the sales field where he became sales manager of the By-Products Division of Continental. For several years he was president of the TallOil Associates. His work required headquartering in New York. Keeping his home, now 74 Church Street, in Dedham, Andy for a time shared an apartment with Fred Page, returning to Boston weekends.

Andy married Dorothea Cate, daughter of Edgar Cate '00, in Pittsburgh on October 11, 1930. They have two daughters, Laurie and Faith, both Vassar graduates. Laurie is Mrs. Charles P. White of Sommers, Conn., and mother of the two Rankin grandchildren. Andy is also survived by his mother, a sister, and two brothers, Walter M. '26 of Providence, R. I., and Kenneth of Lisbon, N. H.

Andy's Dartmouth affiliations were extensive and unusual. Son of a Dartmouth man, married to the daughter of a Dartmouth man, brother of Walt '26, Andy was an honorary member of the Class of '00.

Funeral services were held in the Unitarian Church of Dedham where Andy had served as treasurer. Among his classmates present were Bill and Marge Auer, Bill and Betty Cusack, Charles and Barbara Bartlett, Bob and Peg Williamson, Kay Prescott, Fred Page, Bob Page, Shorty Oliver, Huck and Carolyn Norris, Harry Dwyer, Hans Paschen, and Doane Arnold.

Andy was looking forward to the position of Class Agent for 1927 as a means of further serving his College and his Class. The members of '27 share the loss suffered by his family and extend to them deepest sympathy.

1928

ROBERT ARMSTRONG ANDREWS died March 3 in Edisto Island, S. C., where he had lived for over 25 years. He was born August 2, 1905 in Chicago. Bob left Dartmouth after one year and joined the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, as an actor and scenic designer for a year. After a year at the University of Chicago, he then worked for the International Printing Ink Co. for four years.

Since 1931 Bob has been a free-lance writer and designer of advertising and publicity. In 1938-39 he was Southern Works Progress Administration art director, with headquarters in Charleston, S. C. He worked for the Chicago Times, the New OrleansItem and the Miami Herald but always returned to Edisto Island. After serving as public relations director for New Orleans he was made an Honorary Citizen in 1951 and presented with a gold key by the City of New Orleans for distinguished public service.

Bob was married in Hanover, November 29, 1934 to Eleanor Lattimore, daughter of Prof. David Lattimore. Eleanor is currently living at 406½ E. Trinity St., Durham, N. C. with son Michael '61. Another son Peter and a brother, Wayne, also survive.

1933

JAY THORN-E NEWTON JR. (Major) passed away on February 8 at Garden City, L. I., N. Y. after a long illness. Interment and a military service were held at Long Island Veterans National Cemetery, Pinelawn.

Jay was born April 1, 1911 in Cleveland, Ohio, and entered Dartmouth from Shaker Heights High School, where he was active in dramatics and as a class officer. At Dartmouth he majored in comparative literaturebiography, managed The Players, and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Dragon, and Green Key.

Upon graduation, he chose advertising as his career and engaged in that field in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Cleveland until his entrance into the Army in 1936. Jay served 26 months as an intelligence officer in the European Theater and received a Presidential Unit Citation. We understand that he continued in the Army, serving some time in Japan, until - when he became connected with the Grandeur Kennels in Hempstead, N. Y.

Our records on Jay are meager and do not indicate that he ever married. The Class extends its sincere sympathies to his aunt, Mrs. Jessie C. Householder, and his cousins, Mrs. Betty-Lou Kearney and Linda Kearney, all of Hempstead, and to his sister, Mrs. Virginia Newton Stone of San Francisco.

1936

Word has been received of the death in November of DUGALD GILBERT PORTER, until recently controller of the Heath Manufacturing Company (plastics and electronics). He formerly had been an investment banker in Burlingame, Calif.

Prior to entering business for himself, Dug was with Burns Realty and Trust Co., Denver, and at one time was assistant purchasing agent for the Kaiser Steel Corporation, Fontana, Calif.

Following graduation from Dartmouth, he received the M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School. He began his business career as a field man in property management for the Hannan Real Estate Exchange, Inc., and then became executive vice president of Irvin's, Inc. (bottlers), Battle Creek, Mich. Also for a time he was with Sheffield Steel Corporation, Kansas City.

In 1936 he married the former Jane Simmons. They had two daughters, Elizabeth Dow and Brenda.

Word has been received of the death of LEWIS ALFRED MARSTEN, 48, who was with us at Hanover until 1935 and then attended MIT., Stanford, and the University of California. He was vice president and secretary-treasurer of his family firm and a director of Golden Gate Fields race track. He lived at 9 25th Avenue in San Francisco. In 1940 he married Marion Woerner, a member of a pioneer California family.

His father, Alfred Marsten Sr., died in the 1930's after building a substantial familyowned oil company engaged in the drilling, refining, and marketing of petroleum. This firm, Mohawk Petroleum Corporation, still remains a strong independent in the oil and gas industry, although no longer entirely family-owned. It has oil and gas properties in most Western states and in several Eastern states; its refinery is at Bakersfield, Calif and it has 220 retail outlets in the United States. Lew and his twin brother, Albert, took over direction of the company after their father's death.

In addition to his wife and his brother, Lew is survived by three sons, Lewis Jr., David, and Albert.

1942

HAROLD LEON PETERSON JR. died early Sunday morning, February 24, as fire engulfed his country home in Sellersville, Pa. This tragedy has stunned all who knew him.

"Pete" was born in Indianapolis, Ind., February 27, 1920. He attended Radnor High School in Pennsylvania and attended Dartmouth until 1940. He was a member of the freshman debate team, Canoe Club, Players, and Gamma Delta - Pete returned to Hanover for several class reunions. He was vice president and sales manager of H. L. Peterson, Inc., an Oldsmobile agency founded by his father.

At a simple memorial service at the Abington Friends Meeting House, February 26, the tributes to memory were eloquent and touching. He participated actively in civic affairs and was respected and well liked by those who came in contact with him.

Pete leaves his wife, Grace (Olmsted) Peterson, and two daughters, Susan, a freshman at Oberlin College, and Anne, a sophomore at Abington Friends School, Abington, Pa. We extend our deepest sympathy to his wife and daughters.

1957

On March 23, .1963, a member of the Class of 1957 was killed in Katmandu, Nepal, during the first American attempt to scale Mt. Everest. JOHN EDGAR BREITENBACH, the proprietor of the Mountain Shop, a ski and mountaineering equipment shop in Jackson, Wyo., was buried alive by a mass of ice at the foot of the 29,028-foot mountain, the highest in the world.

According to James Ramsey Ullman, novelist and group spokesman, Jack died on Khumbu Glacier. The other 19 members of the team and 40 Sherpa porters escaped injury. The previous Wednesday the expedition had reached the 18,000-foot-high base camp and had been working to clear a path up the towering icefall. Jack was killed trying to improve the route. Ullman said that an attempt had been made to recover the body but that it proved impossible.

Jack came to Dartmouth from Vermont Academy where he had participated in the Glee Club, Track Team, and graduated cum laude. To his wife, the former Mary Louise McGraw and his parents, the Class extends its deepest sympathies.

Gordon Harkness Gliddon, Ph.D. '26

Frank Lamont Meleney '10

Stanley Jacob Newcomer '20