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.]
Smith, Windsor R. '96, Dec. 12, 1959 English, Martin J. '03, Aug. 8, 1958 Gage, George H. '03, June 17 Freeman, Fred B. '04, Mar. 14 Hatch, Fletcher A. '05, May 17 Kennedy, Charles F. '06, Aug. 1, 1951 Dunn, Charles W. '07, Nov. 2, 1959 Sanborn, William A. '07, June 18 Libby, Bion B. '08, Mar. 25, 1953 Lyon, Henry W. '08, May 31 Croll, Edward H. '09, Dec. 10, 1950 Meagher, Ward C. '10, Sept. 30, 1962 Stix, Edgar R. '10, Apr. 18 Chase, Richard V. '11, June 15 Sherwin, Ralph W. '11, May 17 Harlow, William H. '12, May 3 Lowd, Harry S. '12, June 3 Atwood, Warren G. '15, May 13 Rowell, Hugh G. '15, May 29 Sherman, Allen '15, June 4 Kelley, Richard H. '19, June 17 McQuiston, Dale S. '19, May 15 Matthews, John P. '22, June 25, 1962 McGrath, Henry L. '22, Feb. 27, 1959 Bourne, Henry T. '23, June 8 Frankel, Ferdinand Jr. '23, May 4 Wilner, Ellis H. '23, June 19 Shimonek, Stewart W. '24, May 30 LaFever, Minard C. '26, Dec. 23, 1962 Hoskin, Richard A. '27, May 13 Payer, Franklin L. '27, Apr. 3 Corman, Herschel W. '28, May 17 Leach, Henry '28, June 12 Embree, Henry S. '30, June 17 Tadross, Victor A. '30, May 2 Burge, Edward S. '31, June 11 Muller, William G. '33, May 30 Dryfoos, Orvil E. '34, May 25 Stevens, Ross L. Jr. '34, June 14 Smith, Joseph F. '36, June 16 Lefebvre, Paul L. '37, June 8 Maguire, William A. '44, Jan. 30 Blees, William A. II '62, May 24 Purinton, Watson S. '98m, May 29 Woodbury, Dwight A., M.S., '11, Feb. 20.
1905
THEODORE BADGER PLATT died in the Mary Hitchcock Hospital on May 1. He was born August 18, 1884 in Poultney, Vt. His funeral services were held in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in White River Junction and interment was in Christian Street Cemetery in Wilder, Vt.
"Bunny," as he was called by his classmates, entered Dartmouth from Nashua (N. H.) High School where he was graduated in 1901 with the delegation to Dartmouth that included Robert French, Thomas Luce, George Terrien '06, all deceased, and George Putnam.
Of a quiet, unassuming personality, he had the distinction of being class president during his sophomore year. His life work was as an employee of the Postal Transportation Service. He had been in charge of the service in White River Junction for some years prior to his retirement.
In 1909 Theodore married Elizabeth A. Smith of Hanover. They made their home in Wilder. He was a member of Hartford Lodge, BPOE, United Brethren Lodge, The Shrine, and Knights Templar. Services were conducted by these lodges.
He is survived by his wife and daughter, Mrs. Allen Adams of Rutland, Vt., two granddaughters, and four great-grandchildren.
FLETCHER AMES HATCH died May 17 in Kent County Hospital, Warwick, R. I. He had been stricken with an acute illness which kept him in a hospital in Golfita, Costa Rica, while he and his wife were on a vacation at the scene of some of the years of his business career. A relapse after his return home proved fatal.
"Sliver," as he was affectionately called, was born November 3, 1883. He entered Dartmouth from Norwell, Mass. Warmhearted, kind, generous and loyal, he endeared himself to a wide circle of friends not only at Dartmouth, where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, but wherever his active life led him. Directly after graduation he went on to earn an engineering degree at the Thayer School.
Fletcher's keen energy took him to widely scattered areas. After some eight months in New York City he went put to the Philippine Islands where for six years he worked as a surveyor for the Philippine Railroad Company in laying out new roads.
On his return to the U.S.A. Fletcher found a position as an engineer for the United Fruit Company. He was sent at once to Central America where he did most effective work in building up banana plantations for his company. In assignments of varying length Sliver spent toilsome but highly productive years in surveying and in the management of plantations in Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, and finally Costa Rica.
After 24 years in those states Fletcher returned once more to New York to work in his company's home office. There he advanced to become vice-president, a position that he held at the time of his retirement in 1949.
Retirement however did not mean inactivity for Sliver. He built for Alva and himself a lovely home in Natick with spacious grounds and a view of Lake Cochituate. Here they lived until 1961, when they moved to East Greenwich, R.I.
In Natick, Sliver was an active worker for the community. As a member of that city's Public Works Commission, Town Forest Commission, and School Building Commission he was of incalculable service with his advice and planning based upon his engineering skill. He took a just pride in the planning and construction of several schools.
Unswerving in his loyalty to Dartmouth and his class, he worked hard and effectively as class agent. In recognition of his long, effective service in this field he was honored by being cited as Class Agent of the Year in 1962.
In 1916 Fletcher married Alva Flye. He is survived by his wife, living at 63 Virginia Ave., East Greenwich, R. I.; a son, Fletcher Jr. of Golfita, Costa Rica, manager of a plantation his father built up; two daughters, Mrs. Josephine Parkin of East Greenwich and Mrs. Dolita Little of Foley, Ala.; a sister, Mrs. Helen Sprague of Marshfield, Mass., and 12 grandchildren.
1907
CARROLL CHARLES HOLDEN died March 5 at Proctor, Vt. He resided at 69 High Street.
Carroll was born in Proctor, Vt., June 20, 1884. He left college at the end of freshman year and entered the employ of the Vermont Marble Co. as a salesman.
He is survived by his widow, Letitia C. Holden, to whom the Class extends its sincere sympathy.
1908
CAPTAIN HENRY WARE LYON, of Lyonsden, Paris Hill, Me., who made history in 1928 as navigator of the monoplane Southern Cross piloted by Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith of Australia from Oakland to Australia, the first plane to fly 7300 miles across the Pacific via Honolulu and Suva in the Fiji Islands, died at the Veterans Hospital in Togus, Me., on May 30. About two months previously he had fallen down his cellar stairs and broken two ribs.
He was born in Charlestown, Mass., but while in college lived in Portsmouth, N. H. He was with us but a year and then transferred to Lafayette College. Prior to Dartmouth he had been at Annapolis for two years and the call of the sea took him to square-rigged sailing ships for two years and then to steamships on both the Atlantic and Pacific. His first command was in 1912 with the Inter-Island Co. of Honolulu. In 1917 he reentered the Navy as a Lieutenant in the Reserve and served for a year aboard the cruiser St. Louis, and in 1918 was made a Lt. Commander and given command of the USS Westerner. After World War I he left the Navy and entered the Merchant Marine.
In 1928 he made the historic flight across the Pacific. For a year after that he was in aviation but then returned to the Merchant Marine and commanded several vessels. In World War II he was in command of the Liberty ship James G. Blaine for a year in the Mediterranean.
In 1938 he left California and returned to Maine where he married Thelma Bradbury of Norway, who survives him. Since then they have lived a life of retirement at Lyonsden.
In June 1958 he and Thelma were invited to participate in the dedication of a memorial building commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Pacific flight of the Southern Crow and were flown to Sydney, Australia, stopping at Suva en route where' they met many friends of the original flight. The dedication exercises were held in Brisbane at the building where the SouthernCross is now housed. Harry and the radio operator, the only survivors, were presented medals commemorating the occasion.
1909
On April 28, after years of incapacitating illness, bravely endured, life came quietly to a close for ROBERT JAMESON HOLMES. It had been a deeply rewarding one for his family, his many friends and himself.
Bob's four years at Dartmouth gave early promise of his later success. In Sigma Chi and throughout our Class his friendships were close and enduring. Never seeking a preferential position for himself, his interests were broad and keen.
His college vacations also were of outstanding value to others. As an unpaid counsellor to successive groups of city newsboys at Camp Hale, near Sandwich, N. H., he led them up many of the most difficult and interesting peaks in the White Mountains. Just as to an ardent fisherman the fish caught seem to grow faster after their death than before, so in Bob's honest recollection, throughout his life, the mountaineering exploits of his beloved "Camp Hale Boys" seemed to grow more dramatic with each passing year, to the delight of his listeners, to whom they signified his extreme devotion to that worthy cause.
During the three years at Harvard Law School his closest friends were still those of his class - Harold Murchie, Fred Carroll, Sam Bell. There followed three years of service as infantry lieutenant in World War I. On joining the Bar, he became associated with the distinguished Dartmouth alumnus, Thomas W. Streeter, under the firm name Streeter and Holmes. Associated with them also was Basil O'Connor '12, who subsequently followed Tom Streeter to New York City, and later, as is well known, became the law partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Remaining in Boston, Bob became one of its most respected corporation lawyers, accepting and successfully performing many and varied professional obligations. One of the outstanding of these was his reorganization and refinancing of the University Club of Boston, an arduous and successful undertaking for which it rewarded him with its certificate of life membership.
His interest in Dartmouth was unflagging, as chairman of many committees, president of our Class, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston and of the General Alumni Association of the College and member of the Alumni Council. For years as secretary of the Dartmouth Educational Foundation he devoted countless hours and weeks to its successful development. For this service the award to him of highest preferential treatment in allocation of seats at Dartmouth football games was one which he especially prized.
His marriage to Harriet Bullard, sister of Dorothy Worthen and of Gardner Bullard '12, was a supremely happy one. Their home is at 3 Lakeview Road, Winchester, Mass. Of their sons and daughters - Stephen and David, Peggy and Sally - and six grandchildren, all are living except the firstborn Stevie, physically killed in action on Iwo Jima, has ever since continued to live in the memory of his family and his friends a life of vivid reality and of cheerful, outgoing perennial youth.
Though Bob never thought of himself as a torchbearer, he enlightened many a puzzled and worried client by his knowledge, and even more by his wisdom. For many years to come his name will bring to scores, indeed hundreds of Dartmouth men and others a sense of personal loss, and the warm glow of old friendship, of gratitude and affection.
J.W.W.
1910
EDGAR ROBERT STIX died April 18 at White Plains Hospital, White Plains, N. Y. He was born in New York City, November 11, 1890, and prepared for college at the Ethical Culture School, New York City, and Erasmus Hall High School. Having entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1911, he did not become a member of 1910 until late in his senior year.
After graduation he returned to Thayer School and received the C.E. degree in 1911. He entered the real estate business and became a partner in the firm of L. J. Phillips & Co. In 1938 he became vice president of the company.
Edgar was married to Ruth Fink, in New City, April 20, 1914. Survivors are his widow, who resides at Underhill Road, White Plains, and two sons, Robert L. '38 and Donald, and six grandchildren.
1911
The Class of 1911 lost one of its popular members in the sudden and unexpected death of RALPH WALDO SHERWIN on May 17 His son-in-law found that he had died in his sleep during the night at his home 3 Prospect Street, Dover, N. H.
Boh, as he was affectionately known by his friends, was born in Fitchburg, Mass., January 31, 1888. He was graduated from Cushing Academy in 1907 and Dartmouth m 1911. His undergraduate activities included membership in Delta Kappa Epsilon, Turtle, Glee Club, Choir, Casque and Gauntlet, president of his class sophomore year, varsity baseball, and varsity football for four years. As right tackle on the Dartmouth eleven, he won All-American honors and international honors as a drop-kicker.
Following graduation he coached at the University of Kansas for two years and then became associated with the Woolworth Company, managing a store in Haverhill, Mass., for 32 years. He afterwards operated a store in Bennington, Vt., and until his complete retirement he was associated in the operation of a motel in Camden, Maine. He was active in the Dartmouth Alumni Association and a frequent attendant at reunions, and as a member of Casque and Gauntlet he returned each spring to Hanover for their festival.
He was first married to Alice Winslow in 1916, and she was the mother of their two children, a son, Commander Robert W. '41, U. S. Navy, stationed in France, and a daughter, Mrs. David W. Christiansen of Dover, N. H. This marriage ended in divorce as did his marriage to Muriel Stokes in 1952. A brother, Charles, of Essex, Mass. also survives him, as do five grandchildren and four nephews.
Funeral services were held in the Sawyer Funeral Home and burial was in the Forest Hill Cemetery, Fitchburg. Jake Lovejoy and Chuck Emerson represented the Class at the services.
1912
JOHN ALOYSIUS CRONIN died on Thursday, April 19, 1963 in Oak Park Hospital, Oak Park, Ill., after a brief illness. He was one of Dartmouth's most devoted sons. From his early days in Hanover his engaging smile was an open sesame to friendship.
Jack came to Dartmouth from Holyoke, Mass., where he was born December 23, 1891. He prepared for college at Holyoke High School. Starting as a reporter for the Holyoke Evening Telegram after graduating from college, Jack soon rose to be city editor. Two years later he entered the real estate and insurance business together with John H. Woods, mayor of Holyoke. The following year he served as secretary to the mayor and soon after this he and the ex-mayor bought the Holyoke Free Press and converted it into a political weekly.
With the advent of World War I Jack enlisted in the U.S. Navy in May 1917 and in January 1918 was commissioned ensign. He graduated from the Third Reserve Officers Class at Annapolis and served for 18 months as a line officer on the USS Kentucky of the Atlantic Fleet. He obtained his discharge in December 1919.
For two years Jack was secretary-treasurer of the Business Editors Association of Chicago, and then was elected vice chairman. His editorial positions were numerous, both in New York and Chicago. In 1927 he was western manager of Packing and Shipping, a monthly publication. From 1934 to 1943 he was a free lance and during part of this period was associated with Steel Magazine of Cleveland. From 1944 until his retirement in 1957 he was managing editor of The Official Catholic Directory. During World War II, in addition to his editorial duties with the Directory, he edited St.Catharine's Courier, a monthly newspaper sent to servicemen of the parish. Before moving to Illinois in 1961 the Cronin family had lived in Pelham, N. Y., for about 30 years.
Jack was a communicant of St. Catharine's Church and active in the Holy Name society. He was founder and president for years of the Holy Name Society in Pelham.
Jack was married on June 5, 1920 to Janet Rempe of Chicago who now resides at 808 Ferdinand Ave., Forest Park, Ill. He is also survived by a son, George H. Cronin, and two daughters. Virginia (Mrs. Paul A. Nickel), and Mercedes (Mrs. John A. Miller). There are fifteen grandchildren. Funeral services were held at St. Bernadine's Church in Forest Park.
WILLIAM HAYWARD HARLOW died of pneumonia in Portland, Oregon on May 3.
Bill Harlow was born February 11, 1889 in Tarentium, Pa., the son of George R. Harlow '78. He prepared for college at Mercersburg Academy and attended Dartmouth for one year. Bill started engineering m 1913 at Jarbridge, Nevada. The following year he was a paint salesman for Tropical Oil Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., and in 1917 became assistant salesman for Kid-well and Caswell Commission Company at Seattle, Wash. In 1922 he was an engineer at Gresham, Oregon; in 1927 was with Portland Gas and Coke Company, and 1937 found him with Bonneville Power Commission, Raymond, Wash., as senior draftsman on transmission line surveys. At different times he worked on the Bonneville and the Grand Coulee Dams in Washington and during World War II was field engineer for the Kaiser Company at the construction of the three shipyards in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Wash.
Bill married Mary Ellen Troy of Portland, Oregon, in June 1915. In addition to his widow, he leaves three children, Jane Elizabeth (Mrs. Henri Petitmermet), William H. Jr., and Troy George; two sisters, Mrs. Ivan Greenwood and Mrs. Ralph Bevins, both of Cleveland Heights, Ohio; and twelve grandchildren.
THE REV. HARRY STEVENS LOWD died suddenly of a heart attack in a restaurant in Keene, N. H., on June 3. Harry and his wife Katharine were returning to their home in East Northfield, Mass., from a visit with their son and his family in Plaistow, N. H.
Harry Lowd was born May 3, 1886 at Andover, Mass. He prepared for college at Panchard High School in Andover, then entered Bangor Theological Seminary from which he graduated in 1910. He enrolled at Dartmouth as a junior with the Class of 1912, graduating with an A.B. degree. While at Dartmouth he was a member of the Wheelock Club.
During World War I, Harry for a short time in 1918 served under the aegis of the Young Men's Christian Association; otherwise his life has been spent in the Christian ministry. His pastorates included Congregational churches in Massachusetts in East Walpole, Lawrence (Riverside), Merrimac, South Easton, and the North Orange and Tully Community Church. These pastorates brought much satisfaction and joy to both Harry and his wife in friendships formed and opportunities afforded for service. In September 1962 an impressive service was held commemorating his fifty years as an ordained minister in the Congregational Church. The following month, after serving his last pastorate for five years, he retired and settled in East Northfield.
Harry was a Mason and a member of the Grange. He was a member of the Pilgrim Club of Boston, chairman of the Ministerial Standing Committee of Worcester North Association, and a member of the State Missionary Committee.
On September 1, 1924 he married Katharine Denison Emrich of Boston, who survives him together with their three children - Hilda Marion (Mrs. Fred G.) Sturm of Oxford, Ohio, Frederick E. Lowd of Plaistow, N. H., and Nancy Stevens (Mrs. Kenneth R.) Handy of Fairfax, Va. - and six grandchildren. A brother, Dana J. Lowd, resides in Northampton, Mass.
Memorial services were held on June 7 in the Community Church at North Orange. Those classmates who attended the Fiftieth Reunion will recall Harry Lowd's thoughtful and sincere tribute rendered our departed classmates in the conduct of the memorial service held in Rollins Chapel.
1915
WARREN GERALD ATWOOD, one time surgeon-in-chief, president and member of the board of trustees of the Truesdale Hospital of Fall River, Mass. and, until his retirement last November, inspector of hospitals for the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Hospitals with headquarters in Chicago, died May 13 in San Diego, Calif.
Dr. Atwood was born March 24, 1894 in Marion, N. Y., and prepared for Dartmouth at the Wilson School.
"Fish," as he was known to his classmates, graduated from Dartmouth with an A.B. degree in 1915 and received his M.D. from Harvard in 1919. His Dartmouth ancestry included his great-grandfather, Jacob Burbank, of the Class of 1807. While at Dartmouth, "Fish" was a member of Kappa Sigma and later served in World War I as Hospital Apprentice Ist Class with the U.S. Navy.
Following an internship in Massachusetts General Hospital and service as resident physician in the Boston Lying-in Hospital, he joined the staff of the Truesdale Hospital and Clinic in 1921, where he served as surgeon and chief of gynecology and obstetrics until the death of Dr. Philemon Truesdale, at which time he was elected surgeon-in-chief. He was married in 1923 to Leila M. Redavat in Boston.
Dr. Atwood was a man of scholarly attainments and diversified interests. He was a collector of rare old medical books, had written various articles on surgery, and at one time served as a trustee of the Boston Medical Library. He was instrumental in the development of the Ida S. Charleton Library of the Truesdale Hospital. He was a philatelist of note, specializing in United States stamps and first covers and was called upon many times to address stamp societies on certain issues of such stamps.
He is survived by his wife, of 6825 Cart-wright, San Diego; by two daughters, Mrs. Alexander Lirakis of Middletown, and Mrs. Robert Lawrence (Dr. Elizabeth Atwood) of Acoaxet; and by a sister, Mrs. Bess Dacey of Coral Gables, Fla.
HUGH GRANT ROWELL, M.D., D.HUM., retired public-health administrator at Columbia University and former director of the Rockefeller-financed Sleepy Hollow Restorations, died May 29 in Phelps Memorial Hospital at North Tarrytown, N. Y.
"Doc" was born November 3, 1892 in Orleans, Vt. where he attended Barton Landing public schools. He was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1911 and from Dartmouth in 1915 with an A.B. degree. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa at Dartmouth, obtained his M.D. from Harvard in 1917 and served as a Private in the Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps in World War I.
In 1921 he married Sara Miller Dennis who was very active in Philipse Manor educational and community interests. She died in 1957.
Entering public health work, Dr. Rowell became assistant superintendent of schools at New Bedford, Mass., and in 1923 went to Columbia as instructor and physician, later becoming administrative officer in public health and developed a program for exceptional students.
His interest in historic preservations attracted the attention of the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. and together they planned the Sleepy Hollow Restorations of which Dr. Rowell was full-time director from 1943 to 1955. These projects included the restoration of Philipse Castle in North Tarry town and of Sunnyside in Tarrytown, the home of Washington Irving.
For 25 years Dr. Rowell had been a consultant and board member of the New York League for the Hard of Hearing. An expert on heraldry, he was past national president of the Americans of Armorial Ancestry, and last year was a delegate to the International Congress on Heraldry at Edinburgh.
He was a past president of the Tarrytown Historical Society and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Founders and Patriots of America, the Crown of Charlemagne Society, the Order of the Three Crusades, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Descendants of Colonial Clergy, Colonial Governors and Knights of the Garter and the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims. His name also appears in Who'sWho in America and in the British American Society whose royal patrons include Queen Elizabeth. His hobbies included a collection of early clocks and early American circusiana, his model circus having been exhibited in several museums.
A brother, George B. Rowell, residing in Vermont, survives him.
1919
JAMES HAROLD STACEY passed away in the Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover on May 5 after a long illness. Hal came to the College from Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H. and also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In World War I he was an ensign in the U.S. Navy attached to the flying corps. He returned to Windsor, Vt., in 1919 to be associated in the fuel and lumber business with his father where he spent his entire business career.
Hal was prominent in Vermont political circles, as well as local affairs, serving as town representative for four terms, being elected speaker in 1949, and as senator from Windsor County in 1955. He was defeated in a three-way primary race for governor in 1950. He was also active in fraternal affairs, was a 33rd degree Mason, a former officer of the Elks, the Rotary, the Retail Lumbermen's Association, and the Northeastern Lumbermen's Association.
The most sincere sympathy of 1919 goes to his wife Ethel, of 16 Pine St., Windsor. Vt.; his sons, Ernest R. of Washington and James H. Jr. of Windsor; his daughter, Mrs. Charles Dana of Windsor, and six grandchildren and two sisters.
1924
CLARENCE SEWARD LUITWIELER JR., one of our most colorful classmates, which is meant as a compliment, with a great love for Dartmouth, passed away on May 8. He came to Hanover with a Dartmouth family tradition begun by his brother, Edward B. '12. and now continued through his son, Peter Edward '64. During all those fifty years and more, "Luit" was a loyal son and a generous supporter, serving as a Class Agent in 1928-1929. There must be few indeed who didn't know him; and to know him was to feel his warm heart. He had a deep need for friends, and gave much of himself. Many of us shared, sympathetically, in his sickness which has now ended peacefully.
"Luit" was born December 12, 1902 and came to Dartmouth from the Newton (Mass.) High School. While here, he ran cross-country for three years and was a brother in Phi Delta Theta. After graduation, Luit entered partnership with his father (for whom he was named), and his brother in the manufacture of shoe trimmings, and subsequently expanded into heavy duty lock and stitch sewing machines, leather eye-glass and contact-lens cases, etc. (I have a recollection of other business developed during the depression in the sports lines.) This family business was his one and only business commitment; he was vice-president and assistant treasurer by 1936, and president in 1953.
A strong sense of "family" was one of Luit's strengths. There are memories of his distress when his parents died. On the lighter side, several knew of the jam sessions the parents and children put on for their own fun and the entertainment of others. He was married October 19, 1929 to Sarah Louise Holcomb, who survives him. He also leaves three daughters and a son - Sarah Holcomb, now Mrs. Robert E. Drucken-miller of Alplaus, N. Y.; Gretchen Louise, now Mrs. Dennis F. Doucette of Concord, N. H.; Elizabeth Ann, and Peter Edward Luitwieler, Dartmouth '64; a brother, Edward B. Luitwieler 'l2 of Maiden, Mass.; a sister, Miss Helen Luitwieler of Cambridge, Mass.; and three grandchildren. Mrs. Luitwieler resides at 89 Cambridge Street, Winchester.
In keeping with Luit's strong loyalty to the College, his family requested that friends make contributions to Dartmouth in his name instead of sending flowers. We will all miss him deeply at Commencement in 1964, when Peter graduates, and also at our 40th reunion.
1926
Word was recently received of the death on December 23, 1962 of MINARD CLINTON LAFEVER who died at the Hollywood (Calif.), Presbyterian Hospital following an extended illness.
Born in Battle Creek, Mich., Minard came to Dartmouth from Evanston Township High School where he was active in athletics, and was president of the Literary Scientific Club. He left Dartmouth in December of his sophomore year. For some years he was employed by United Rexall Drugs, Inc. and most recently by J. W. Robinson Company.
Minard is survived by his wife Virginia Grose, of 10443 Cheviot Drive, Los Angeles; two sons, Minard and William G ; and a brother. Wesley LaFever, all of Los Angeles, to all of whom his classmates extend their sincere sympathy.
1930
With the sudden death of VICTOR ANTHONY TADROSS on May 2, the Class of 1930 soberly records the passing of its 100th member.
Vic was born in Brooklyn on May 20, 1908 and prepared for Dartmouth at New Utrecht High School. He completed the course at Dartmouth Medical School in 1931 and thereafter attended New York University College of Medicine, receiving his M.D. in 1933. He interned at Cumber-land Hospital, Brooklyn., and then went into private practice in his home neighborhood of Fort Hamilton Parkway. He became a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology and later limited his medical practice to this field.
During World War II he was a lieutenant in the Navy Medical Corps. He held memberships in the American Medical Association, New York State Medical Association, Kings County Medical Association, Brooklyn Ophthalmological Society, and the American Board of Ophthalmology.
Funeral services were held at St. John's Episcopal Church, Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, on May 6.
Vic was married February 7, 1943 to Suzanne Paulus of Nanticoke, Pa., who survives him, together with their daughter Beryl, 19, now Mrs. Edward Taylor, two brothers, and three sisters. Vic resided at 141 - 89th St., Brooklyn. '
We mourn the passing of a quiet but loyal classmate, who well served his fellow mail in his chosen profession, throughout almost his entire career in the neighborhood of his birthplace.
1933
WILLIAM GROVER MULLER passed away m his sleep at his home at 195 Kensington Road, Garden City, Long Island, on May 30. Services were conducted at Fairchild Chapel and burial was in Nassau Knolls Cemetery in Port Washington.
Bill was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. on August 18, 1912 and came to Dartmouth from Jamaica High School where he was an honor student for four years. In Hanover he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and earned his M.C.S. degree from Tuck School
Aside from service in the Navy as a Lieutenant during World War II, Bill spent his entire career in accounting in which he attained his C.P.A. He was assistant treasurer of the Cherry Valley Club, a member of the N. Y. Society of C.P.A, the American Bankers Convention Committee, and of the Nassau-Suffolk chapter on cooperation between bankers and C.P.A.s.
The Class extends its most sincere sympathy to his wife, Florence (Eldridge) a daughter Susan, son Peter, and his sister Mrs. Grace Muller Daly of Port Washinston.
SAM STEPHENSON JR. passed away on March 19 in Santa Monica, Calif, after undergoing eye surgery.
Sam was born on April 15, 1909 in Great Falls, Mont. A graduate of Great Falls High School, he spent a year at the University of Montana before coming to Dartmouth. He majored in history and was a member of Psi Upsilon. Upon leaving Hanover, he entered Harvard Law School from which he was graduated with an LL.B. in 1936 His specialty was labor relations, in which field he first served with the International Smelting and Refining Co. in Salt Lake City until 1945 when he entered the legal department of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Sam became head of its labor relations department when it was formed in 1952.
He is survived by his wife, Billy Kester, of 836 West Galena, Butte, Mont., and three children, to whom the Class extends its most sincere sympathies.
CHARLES HENRY WAGNER JR. of 2995 Edgehill Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, passed away on March 1 as the result of cancer of the spine.
Chuck came to Dartmouth from Cleveland Heights High School where he was a National Honor Society student and active in dramatics. At Dartmouth he majored in sociology, was a member of Delta Upsilon and the Interfraternity Council, and was active in the Dartmouth Players as electrician and lighting manager.
In 1936 he received his LL.B. from Western Reserve University's School of Law and entered the general practice of law in Cleveland. In 1941 Chuck became associated with the Parker Appliance Co. in Cleveland and subsequently filled the positions of secretary, treasurer, and vice president. He left this company in 1954 to join the Van Aken Organization with which he was associated in the sale of real estate at the time of his passing.
The Class extends its sincere sympathies to wife Betty and two sons, Charles and William.
Fletcher Ames Hatch '05
Robert Jameson Holmes '09
