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.]

MacLennan, J. William '03, Aug. 29 Wadham, John P. '03, Oct. 2 Gilbert, Edgar '05, Aug. 23 French, Charles W. '06, Sept. 21 Farrington, Jeremiah A. '07, July 11 Worthen, Thacher W. '07, Sept. 9 Butterfield, George '08, Sept. 24 Flanders, Philip R. '08, Sept. 16 Severance, Charles C. '08, Aug. 17 Patch, William T. '09, Oct. 1 O'Leary, Edward J. '11, Sept. 19 Elcock, Walter B. '12, June 10 Alden, Frederic A. '13, Sept. 29 Hanna, John A. '14, Aug. 26 Davis, Harold I. '15, Sept. 13 Harvey, Robert P. '16, Sept. 26 Charlock, Richard W. '20, Sept. 29 Frazier, F. Philip '20, Sept. 28 Barnett, Lawrence T. '22, June 1 Green, Harold W. '22, Sept. 7 McMahon, Francis E. '22, Aug. 24 Burns, Irving E. '25, Sept. 13 Joslyn, George R. '25, Sept. 30 Whittemore, Dolloff '25, Sept. 17 Biggs, Edward M. '27, Sept. 16 Smith, Elwood W. '27, Aug. 9 Trefethen, J. Waterman '27, Sept. 22 Ferrini, Maugo O. '29, Oct. 3 McEntee, Francis J. '29, Sept. 12 Robison, Bascom H. '29, July 4 Whitelam, Douglas E. '30, July 12 Clarke, Arthur E. '32, Oct. 6 Andrews, J. Richard '33, Sept. 26 Miller, Robert J. '34, Sept. 11 Holloway, John A. '35, Sept. 30 Schultze, Walter F. Jr. '41, Sept. 19 Adams, Charles F. 5th '59, June 30 Wilhelm, James B. '63, Oct. 3 Stetson, Harlan T., M.S. '10, Sept. 16

1903

JOHN WILLIAM MACLENNAN died August 29 at his home at Carmel Valley Manor, Carmel, Calif. He was born July 17, 1879 on Prince Edward Island, Canada. He prepared for college at Roxbury. Latin School, Boston, and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1903. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, and played on the freshman and sophomore football teams.

In 1914 Bill married Eunice Cashion, who survives him. In 1923 he moved to California where he became head of the History Department and Dean of Men at the Santa Barbara State College. In Santa Barbara he was active as a lecturer for the U.S. Government, writer and coordinator of cultural activities of Santa Barbara, director of the Community Theatre, organizer of the Players Club and Old Spanish Days Fiesta, director of the Art School, and president of the Art Association.

After his retirement Bill traveled extensively and in 1949 moved to Carmel where he continued to study and write on the subject of the history of Monterey during the Spanish Period.

In addition to his widow, Mac is survived by a brother, Edgar A. MacLennan '04. Bill was a devoted and loyal Dartmouth and 1903 man - interested in his Class and many friends right up to his death. He will be truly missed. The sympathy of the class goes out to Mrs. MacLennan and brother Edgar.

1904

WILFRED DOLLOFF WHITTEMORE passed away at his home, 4000 Cathedral Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C., June 5. He was born January 12, 1882 in Bristol, N. H., son of Frederick A. Whittemore, D1888. He came to us from the Central Falls (R. I.) High School, graduated with the Class of 1904 and from the Tuck School in 1905. He entered business with the International Banking Corporation of New York where he was in training for foreign service. He was sent to China for five years as a sub-accountant, then had a year in Japan, nearly two years in Manila, four years in San Francisco, and seven years as Branch Manager of the I.B.C. and the National City Bank of New York serving in Yokohama, Manila, Kobe and Tokyo, Japan, San Francisco, New York and the Darien Branch of the National City Bank. For 25 years he was vice president of the board of trustees of that bank, up to the time of his death.

Whit was recognized as one of the leading international bankers of the world. At his funeral, held in Washington, hundreds of diplomats and international bankers around the world were in attendance.

He leaves his beloved wife, Vilda, a daughter, two sisters and a brother, Dollolf '25 of Hanover.

The Secretary has expressed to Vilda the deep respect in which Whit was held by his classmates. A great man has gone to his rest. Services were held for him at the home of his daughter in San Marino, California.

1905

EDGAR GILBERT died August 23 in a nursing home in Chester, N. J. Sadly incapacitated by an automobile accident in 1958, he had been compelled to give up completely the activities in which he had been engaged previously.

Ed entered Dartmouth from Methuen (Mass.) High School at a considerably older age than the rest of his class because the death of his father had made it necessary for him to work in a woolen mill in Lawrence, Mass. There, incidentally, he worked with Robert Frost, and a lasting friendship began.

In college he was vice-president of the freshman debating club and business manager of the Aegis. In his senior year he was a member of Palaeopitus, and president of his class. Edgar's scholastic record earned him membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and after graduation he served as secretary-treasurer of the Class.

In 1909 he became interested in the manufacture of creosote with particular reference to the production of remedies for cancer and tuberculosis. He organized the Lyster Chemical Co. After inventing an economical method of producing hydroquinone, a chemical necessary for camera film developing, Ed built a factory which, with the Lyster Co., the Eastman Company bought, and he was made general manager.

Three years later he set up the Gilbert Laboratories in Morristown, N. J., and even after the plant was burned in 1953, he rebuilt a small laboratory where he continued his research.

In 1905 Edgar married Effie Taylor of Methuen; she died in 1954. He is survived by their three daughters and a son: also five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

1906

CHARLES WARD FRENCH, a teacher at Boston Latin School for 41 years, died on September 21, after a lengthy illness. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

A native of Boston, he was a graduate of Boston Latin School, and taught at Governor Dummer Academy before returning to Latin School as a teacher in 1910. He retired in 1952 at the age of 70, and that year the student body dedicated the yearbook to him.

He was a football and baseball player in student days, and was a coach at Governor Dummer and Latin School, in later years giving this up to become director of the school's athletic association. He is also well remembered as a teacher of Latin and history.

He lived with his wife, Elvire, and a son Robert '57, at 226 Chestnut Street, Lynnfield, Mass., during his retirement years. He is also survived by two other sons, Charles W. Jr. '35 and Henry, and three daughters.

The funeral was September 24, with a Requiem Mass at St. Maria Goretti Church, Lynnfield.

BENJAMIN WILLIAM. MATHES was born in Point Caswell, N. C., on September 28, 1882. He died in Montclair, N. J., on June 21, 1964.

Ben prepared at Phillips Exeter and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1906 but left college in his junior year and went to North Carolina where he remained for 25 years before moving to Montclair.

While in the South he was the manager of the Cortright Metal Roofing Company. He left them in 1924 to go into the real estate business in Charlotte, N. C. In 1934 he became the executive assistant manager of the Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C. From 1942 to 1950 he was the owner and manager of the Venice- Myakka Hotel, Venice, Florida.

In 1951 he went into the real estate business in Hendersonville, N. C. He retired in 1961 and went back to Montclair to live. Ben was a member of the Grace Presbyterian Church and was a fifty-year member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

He is survived by his wife, Nancy, of 320 Clairmont Ave., and a daughter.

1907

THACHER WASHBURN WORTHEN passed away September 9 at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital, after having a 'stroke arid being unconscious for ten weeks.

"Tute" was born in Woodstock, Vt., September 19, 1886, the son of Prof. T. W. D. Worthen '72, and prepared for college at Hanover High School. He received his A.B. in 1907; A.M. in 1911, and his M.D. the same year. A member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, he also belonged to Sphinx, Palaeopitus, Webster Club, and the Athletic Council.

"Tute" served his internship and residency at the Nursing and Children's Hospital and Women's Hospital in New York City, and a hospital in Germany. After serving in the Medical Corps he went to Hartford Hospital in 1918, where he became a member of the staff, and served as its president from 1948-50. He was past president of the Hartford Medical Society, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and belonged to many state and national medical groups. He was a consulting surgeon at the Institute of Living, Mt. Sinai Hospital, and Bristol Hospital, Bristol, Conn. A past trustee of the Watkinson School and the Kingswood School, West Hartford, he was a member of the Hartford Golf Club and the Twentieth Century Club of Hartford, and attended the Congregational Church.

On May 6, 1915 he married Mary Welles Paine at Duluth, Minn., and she survives him at 183 Bloomfield Ave., Hartford. He is also survived by three daughters, and a son, Frederic P. '42, and 15 grandchildren.

"Tute" was a devoted Dartmouth classmate and will be missed by all of us. Our sincere sympathy is extended to his family. Philip and Theora Chase represented the Class at commitment services in Hanover, on September 14.

1908

GEORGE BUTTERFIELD died at the Burbank Hospital in Fitchburg, Mass., on September 24, 1964.

George was born November 8, 1886. in Washington, D. C., but his residence while in college was in New Bedford, Mass. He was with us two years only. His fraternity was Beta Theta Pi.

He went to work for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company in New Bedford in 1906, was appointed manager of the Marlboro district in 1908, and manager of the Fitchburg Exchange in 1911. In March he resigned to go to the Trade Association and organized the information bureau. In 1933 he became manager of the Glazed and Fancy Paper Manufacturers Association. Towards the end of 1935 he established an insurance agency which he sold in 1949 when a serious automobile accident made it necessary to curtail activities.

He was a member of the First Baptist Church and United Brethren Lodge, A.F. & A.M. of Marlboro.

George was married June 3, 1916 to Carrie Emma Hardy, who survives him, together with a son, Frederick H. Burial was in Forest Hill Cemetery.

PHILIP RAYMOND FLANDERS, of North Swanzey, N. H., died in Elliot Community Hospital in Keene, on September 16, following an operation for a diabetic condition. He had been in poor health for several months.

Phil was born in Rochester, N. H., July 1, 1887, and prepared for Dartmouth at Rochester High School. He was with us three years and embarked on a varied career on leaving Hanover. He served as a male nurse for a time, and then was employed in the ceramic industry, studying accounting in his spare time. He was production manager for Morgan Mfg. Co. which made parts for Liberty Motors in World War I, and worked for New England Screw Co. during World War II.

For a while he was in the insurance business and then with the New Hampshire Forestry Department. Before his retirement in 1957 he did accounting work.

On October 11, 1923 he was married to Velma B. Fuller of Keene. Surviving members of his family besides his widow are two sons, two daughters, six grandchildren, and four stepchildren. Burial was in Mountain View Cemetery, Swanzey Center.

1909

SANFORD BURTON HOOKER, Professor Emeritus of Immunology at Boston University School of Medicine and emeritus member of Evans Memorial Hospital, died in the Mary Hitchcock Hospital on August 28. He had undergone open heart surgery on June 25 and had recovered enough to return to his home in Bradford, Vt. Complications required his return to the hospital.

"Sandy" was born April 23, 1888 at Peacham, Vt. but the family moved to Bradford, Vt. and he grew up in that town and entered Dartmouth from Bradford Academy. In college he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He received his B.A. degree with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He earned a Ch.B. degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1912 and his M.D. in 1913. He received his A.M. degree from the University of California in 1916. In May 1917 he enrolled in Base Hospital 44 and in August was commissioned a Ist Lt. in the Medical Reserve Corps. In July 1918 he was sent to France with the A.E.F. and served there until September 1919.

Discharged, he joined the staff of medical research at Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital in Boston and in 1920 established the department of immunology at B.U. and directed it until his retirement in 1952. He was also on the staff of the Evans Memorial Hospital and the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital.

He did pioneer work in investigating the fields of human allergy, blood groups, and the mechanism of immune reactions, contributing notably to the literature of these subjects. He was a fellow and past president of the American Association of Immunologists and the American Academy of Allergists.

He was elected Boston University lecturer for 1951-52 and was the recipient of the first distinguished alumni citation from the B.U. School of Medicine in 1954. He held membership in Alpha Kappa Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha medical fraternities and was a 32nd degree Mason.

On October 11, 1919 he was married to Lillian A. Osgood at Claremont, N. H. She survives, as do two sons, Burton S. '43 and Robert O. '45, a daughter Janet, and six grandchildren.

Private funeral services were held for this loyal Dartmouth man whom the Class of 1909 will greatly miss.

1912

Any Dartmouth man who watched the Big Green football team perform for the four seasons 1908 to 1911 must remember that stalwart lineman, Jogger Elcock. If it was not at guard it was at tackle he played each autumn. Jogger died on June 10, 1964 from a cerebrovascular accident which followed two extensive surgical operations.

WALTER BENJAMIN ELCOCK was born December 6, 1888 in Boston, Mass. He prepared for college at Boston Latin School, entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1908. In addition to football, he was on the varsity baseball squad for two years, was vice president of his Class freshman year, and was elected class marshal on graduation. He was a member of Palaeopitus, Kappa Kappa Kappa, and Sphinx. In 1943-1945 he served on the Alumni Council.

In the fall of 1912 Jogger returned to Hanover to coach the freshman football team and the following year he coached the line on the varsity team. Then for two successive years he was football coach of that Southern championship team at Washington and Lee University.

His service in the Army during World War I covered almost two years and he retired with the rank of major. His entire business career was spent in the cement industry, first with the Portland Cement Association in Atlanta, then in New York, and in 1935 back in Atlanta where he rose from general manager to president of the Southern States Portland Cement Co. of Rockmart, Ga.

The onset of his physical difficulties came just at the time of 1912's 50th reunion and necessitated postponement of a trip to which he had been looking forward for several months.

Walter Elcock is survived by his wife the former Nancy Lewis Pendleton, who resides at 152 Brighton Rd., N.E., Atlanta, and one son, Walter B. Jr. '42. Graveside services were held in Atlanta on June 12.

1913

BENJAMIN MARTIN HARTSHORN died on August 14 at the Portsmouth (N. H.) Hospital. His home was on Beach Hill Road, in New Castle, N. H.

Ben was born on January 25, 1892 in Reading, Mass., and prepared for Dartmouth at the Reading High School. After leaving Dartmouth, before graduating, he did credit reporting for the Shoe and Leather Trade, and then worked in the Wood Trade, before starting his banking career as a cashier at the First National Bank of Reading in 1931. He served in several banks, and at the time of his retirement in 1954 he was president and director of the Portsmouth Trust Co.

Ben was active in Masonic Affairs as a member of Knights Templar, 32nd degree member of the N. H. Consistory Bektash Temple, and Mystic Shrine of Concord. He was also a member of the Portsmouth Yacht Club.

He is survived by his wife Marie, a son, a daughter, and six grandchildren.

1914

JOHN ALFORD HANNA, emeritus professor of law at Columbia University Law School, died August 26 at the Falmouth (Mass.) Hospital, following a long illness. He lived at 25 Claremont Avenue in New York City and had a summer home at Falmouth.

A specialist in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, John had been a member of the Columbia law faculty for 28 years prior to retirement in 1959. Since retirement he had been visiting professor at various universities, the most recent professorship being at the University of Mississippi.

John was born in Salem, Nebraska, March 30, 1889. He received his Dartmouth degree summa cum laude, and earned a master's degree at Stanford in 1915 and an LL.B. from Harvard in 1918. He began the practice of law in Washington, D. C., served as assistant to the U. S. Attorney General in 1919, and then practiced law in Auburn, Nebraska, for eight years. He was also an attorney for the War Finance Corporation from 1921 to 1927.

After three more years of law practice in Washington, he joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 1931. At Columbia he taught courses on creditor's rights and security as well as seminars on corporate reorganization, the SEC, cooperative associations, and legal aspects of credit. He was director of a research project in agricultural finance, 1931-1933, which led to his becoming special counsel to the Farm Credit Administration. He also helped draft the Uniform Agricultural Cooperative Association Law. Among other services, he was chief analyst of the administrative office of the U.S. Courts in 1942; consultant to the New York Law Revision Commission, 1952-56, and to the Attorney General's Committee on the AntiTrust Laws, 1954. In 1954 he was senior member of the team of law professors who presided over the count of ballots and proxies in the fight for control of the New York Central Railroad. In 1955 he became director of law school admissions at Columbia.

John was the author of many legal studies, among them Cases in Corporate Reorganization,The American Individual Enterprise System,Creditor's Rights, and Security. In addition to writing or editing a dozen books, he was the author of more than 100 articles.

John was married in 1928 to Irene Mermet of Cologne, Germany, a writer and poet. She died in 1956. Survivors are a son, John Jr. Cambridge, Mass.; and three daughters, Mrs. Valentin von Braitenberg of Naples, Italy; Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Jones III of Falmouth; and Mrs. Samuel McMurtrie Jr. of New York. A memorial service was held at the Church of the Messiah, Woods Hole, Mass., and burial was in the churchyard.

1915

HAROLD IRVING DAVIS, purchasing agent for many years for the Vermont Copper Company and a former proprietor of Norwich Inn, died September 13 at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.

"Dave" was born December 24, 1893 in Manchester, N. H., son of Dr. George Davis '89, and attended Manchester High School. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1915 with a B.S. degree. While at Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and played in the Mandolin Club. He later attended Syracuse University and served in World War I.

His first wife died in 1924 and he later married Lucille Colburn of Pembroke, N. H., who died in 1948.

He is survived by a son, four daughters, one sister, and 20 grandchildren.

Funeral sevices were held September 15 at the Godfrey Funeral Home in West Fairlee and interment was in Strafford, Vt.

ARTHUR IRVING DONAHUE, former assistant director of public relations for General Motors Overseas Operations, died at Saint-Brieuc, France, in June. 1964 after being admitted to the hospital with a heart ailment. Word of his death was received recently from the Chaplain of the hospital where he had been transferred from the adjacent town of Treguier (Cotes-du- Nord).

"Jiggs" was born February 19, 1893, attended Somerville (Mass.) Latin High School, and graduated from Dartmouth in 1915 with an A.B. degree. While at Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and starred as a goalie on the varsity hockey team. He loved Dartmouth and carried his loyalty down through the years of his foreign residence.

He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Jacques Maignan, and a grandson, both of Monte Carlo.

Interment was at the American Legionnaires Cemetery at Neuilly, a suburb of Paris.

CHARLES EDMUND GRIFFITH, retired music Publisher and prominent Dartmouth alumnus, died August 24 in Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.

He was vice president of Silver Burdett Co., textbook publishers, when he retired in 1957 after 43 years with the company and moved from Glen Ridge, N. J., to Norwich, Vt. From 1957 to 1960 he was chairman of President Eisenhower's "People-to-People" program. He also was president of the American Institute of Music Education, chairman of the Foreign Education Committee of the American Textbook Publishers Institute, and trustee of the American Book Publishers Council and the Association of American University Presses.

In Glen Ridge, he was a member of the Borough Council from 1947 to 1954 and president of the Glen Ridge Public Library board from 1932 to 1943. He also had been a trustee of the Montclair (N. J.) Art Museum.

An accomplished violinist, Charlie had given many concerts and traveled throughout the United States, the Philippines, China, and Japan, collecting and publishing many previously unpublished folk tunes.

In 1956 he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Dartmouth and in 1959 a Dartmouth Alumni Award. He also had been national chairman of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation Fund Committee and a member of the music Advisory Committee of Hopkins Center. He had recently been elected a vice president of Dartmouth's General Association of Alumni.

Charlie was born November 1, 1892, attended Wilmington (Del.) High School, and graduated from Dartmouth in 1915 with an A.B. degree, later attending Boston University and New York University. At Dartmouth he was a Rufus Choate Scholar, a member of Psi Upsilon, Casque and Gauntlet, Lambs, and the D.C.A. He was editor-in-chief of the 1915 Aegis and participated in many phases of the musical life of the College.

In World War I, he was a cadet in the Air Service, U.S.A., and from 1947 to 1949 was president of the Dartmouth Club of New York.

His widow, the former Susan Evans Hoyt, whom he married in 1918, survives him.

Services, held August 26 at St. Barnabas Church in Norwich, were attended by President Dickey with other College officials and members of 1915 as follows: Dale and Bess Barker, Jack Bowler, Katherine Child, Charlie Comiskey, Hal and Gladys Davison, Bud Doe, Peggy Hill, Roy and Maude Lafferty, Duze and Helen Lounsberry, Fletch Low, Elvie O'Hara, and Howie and Marie Sawyer.

In lieu of flowers, it was suggested that contributions be made to the Hitchcock Foundation or the Dartmouth Alumni Fund.

1916

WILLIAM HOWARD BROWN, for 32 years the principal of the Glens Falls High School, died suddenly on August 12 at his summer home, Alton, near Hopkinton, R. I. RR.I "X T TT T T7

Bill was born in Goffstown, N. H., June 27, 1894, and attended the high school in that town before entering Dartmouth, where he majored in chemistry. In World War I he enlisted in the Chemical Warfare Service and was stationed at the Edgewood Arsenal. After the war he ob- tained his master's degree from Teachers Col- lege, Columbia University, in 1922; then did graduate study at Harvard and the University of Rhode Island. He taught briefly at Kimball Union Academy, then at Amherst (Mass.) High School from 1919 to 1930. For the last nine of these years he was the principal of the school. In 1930 he moved to Glens Falls, where he served as principal until his retirement two years ago. Upon his retirement his ex-students from 36 states and four foreign countries estab- lished a scholarship fund in his name. Upon his death the fund was opened for memorial gifts, and a large number of such contributions have already been received.

Bill's interests and accomplishments were many and varied. He was one of twelve persons to receive the American Educator's Medal given by the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge in 1961, and he was active in many civic groups. His interest in history prompted him to author a biography of Col. John Goffe, and two years ago, an historical novel entitled A Hand on MyShoulder. For over 25 years he was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church; of Glens Falls, and he was also a Mason.

On August 19, 1922 Bill married Mary Thurs- ton, who survives him at 65 Grant Ave., Glens Falls. He is survived also by two daughters, eight grandchildren, and a brother. The funeral services and the interment were held in West- erly, R. I.

SPRAGUE WARNER DRENAN, of 543 Marlboro St., Keene, N. H., died of a heart attack while shopping in a local store on August 14. For 33 years he was head of the English department of the Keene State Teachers College.

"Spike" was born in Sprague, Washington, May 9, 1893 and was graduated from Spaulding High School, Barre, Vt., before entering Dart- mouth. After teaching in Middletown, N. Y., and at Layfayette College, he joined the faculty of Keene State Teachers College in 1928, retir- ing from that position in 1961. He did graduate work at the University of Vermont and Colum- bia, and received his master's degree from Mid- dlebury in 1927.

Spike was a keen student of the drama and coached many plays at the the college. He was widely known as a reviewer of plays and was the drama critic for many years of the Keene Sentinel. He was the first director of "The Old Homestead" upon its revival at Swanzey Center. Having taken up painting as a hobby, many of his canvases were exhibited locally, and he was active in promoting the Keene Art Festival.

Spike was married to Dorothy Hickok Cook of Charlotte, Vt. on August 20, 1918. She survives him, as do his daughter, two sons, and eight grandchildren.

Funeral sevices were conducted in the United Church of Christ and burial was in Monadnock View Cemetery.

1921

EUGENE FRANCIS MCCABE died in Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital on August 23, 1964 at the age of 67.

Born in Chatham, N. Y., July 9, 1897, Gene entered college from Mercersburg Academy. He roomed in North Mass and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. His stay in Hanover ended abruptly on April 4 of his freshman year when he was inducted into the U. S. Marine Corps. After training at Parris Island and Quantico he joined the A.E.F. in France where he served until discharged in 1919.

He resumed his college career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his degree in 1922. He immediately joined the Tidewater Oil Company, from which he retired in 1961 after 39 years of service. He rose to the position of vice-president in 1947, at the same time continuing in his old post of general sales manager of the company's Eastern division.

On April 22, 1926 he was married to Dorothy Mosher of New York City, and the couple were blessed with a son, Eugene Jr. '50, and three daughters.

Gene lived in Titusville, Pa., and Westport, N. Y., and at the time of his death was a resident of 2 Cedar Road, Wilton, Conn.

His allegiance to Dartmouth was well expressed by a statement which he made on the occasion of his 25th Class Reunion when he wrote — "I am very loyal to Dartmouth, and regret that my association with the class was for such a short period."

1922

HAROLD WESLEY GREEN died September 7, after a short illness in a Boston hospital. His untimely passing at age 65 was a great shock because he was in apparent good health. Hal and his wife Betty had just sold their home at 119 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands, and were moving to Aiken, S. C. They had planned to spend the winters there and the summers in Wilmot Flats, N. H., near Lake Sunapee.

Hal was a native of Bangor, Me., and entered Dartmouth from its high school. As an undergraduate he was an honor student and a member of the band, orchestra and choir. He was also active in the Forensic Union and the Outing Club and was a member of Gamma Sigma.

He began his business career with the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. in Portland, Me. He then went with the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. in Portland and subsequently transferred to Boston. About ten years later he returned to the insurance business with the John Hancock Co. and the Prudential Co. During the war he joined the personnel department of the Raytheon Corp. in Waltham, Mass. He retired from Raytheon about a year ago.

He was a member of the Newton Highlands Congregational Church and the Bezaleel Lodge, AF & AM of Hanover, N. H. Throughout life his avocation was philately. He was a member of the Norumbega (Newton) Stamp Club for more than 30 years and the Society of Philatelic Americans for more than 50 years.

Hal and Elizabeth M. Chalmers were married 42 years ago. She and their two sons and a daughter survive him. To Betty and the family the Class offers its heartfelt sympathy and joins in deep bereavement.

At the memorial service in the Newton Highlands Congregational Church on September 10, Bill Bullen and Carter Hoyt represented the Class. Interment was in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bangor.

1923

EDWARD MOLL GEEVATT, of 183 Park St., Montclair, N. J., passed away September 1, at Mountainside Hospital.

Ed was born on January 22, 1901, in Boston, and prepared for college at Glen Ridge (N. J.) High School. He was a member of Psi Omega, and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania after one year in Hanover.

He was a member of many dental societies, had been active in Red Cross, Boy Scouts and Civil Defense, and had served as president of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey. He was the author of several articles on dental techniques.

The sympathy of the Class is extended to his wife, and his two sons.

1925

IRVING EDWARD BURNS died at St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Md. on September 13, 1964. His home was in Oaklee Village in that city.

Born October 17, 1900, in Holyoke, Mass., Irv prepared for Dartmouth at Worcester Academy and Clark School in Hanover. He remained in college only three semesters and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

He had been in institutional food management work all his life and at the time of his death was in charge of all cafeteria food service at the University of Maryland.

Surviving are his wife, the former Lillian E. Pritchett, a daughter, Mrs. Paschal Rogers, and three grandchildren, to whom the sympathy of the Class is extended.

SOLON DOLLOPF WHITTEMORE died at White River Junction, Vt., on September 17, 1964.

Sol was born in Ashton, R. I., January 5, 1899 and prepared for college at Hanover (N. H.) High School. He remained in college only one semester. Little is known of his activities since then. He worked for G. W. Rand & Son in Hanover during the early thirties and twenty years later the record indicates that he was self-employed as a picture framer.

He was married in 1931 to Ethel Weaver of New York City, who died a few years ago. He is survived by a sister, Annie, of Hanover, and another sister, Mrs. R. C. Provillion of St. Louis, Mo., to whom the sympathy of the Class is extended.

1934

WALTER EDWARD KEADY, Dartmouth son of a Dartmouth father, died in a Nashua, N. H., hospital August 28 following surgery for a circulatory condition he had suffered since World War II. He would have been 53 on September 20. Walt's death followed by less than seven months that of his father, John Thomas (Tom) Keady '05, famed coach and author of "As the Backs Go Tearing By."

For the past five years, Walt had taught mathematics at Arlington (Mass.) High School. Before that, he had taught law, history and mathematics at Nashua High School, following his World War II service.

A native of Wakefield, Mass., he entered Dartmouth from Lawrence Academy and Melrose (Mass.) High School, where he was an honor student. At Dartmouth, Walt was a member of the varsity baseball team and Kappa Kappa Kappa. After his graduation from Dartmouth, he served in the Boston office of the Internal Revenue Service. He received a law degree from Boston College in 1941 and also took education courses at Rivier College, Nashua. He married the former Rita T. Neagle in 1942.

Walt entered the naval service as a Lt.(j.g.) in 1942 and served as officer in charge of armed guard crews on various merchant ships in the South and North Atlantic, Mediterranean, North Africa, the invasion of Sicily, British Isles, Scapa Flow and the Murmansk route. Later he was given command of a landing ship in the Pacific and served at Eniwetok, Guam, Saipan, Okinawa, Manila, and Korea. He developed a heart condition and was retired in 1947 with the rank of Lt. Comdr. in the Naval Reserve. He was a member of the Retired Officers Association of Washington, D. C., the New England Association of Teachers of Mathematics, and the Arlington Teachers Association.

Mr. and Mrs. John Foley represented the Class of 1934 at a Solemn High Funeral Mass at St. Christopher's Church. Dr. Norman Crisp '21, Henry Sharpe '29, and Leonard Paquette 32 also were present.

Besides his wife, Walt leaves a daughter, and a son, all of 41 Manchester St., Nashua; and a brother, C. Richard Keady '44. The Class of 1934 shares their loss and extends to them its deepest sympathy.

ROBERT JOHN MILLER, an outstanding student leader through his four years at Dartmouth, September 11 at a Montclair, N. J., hospital. He was 52.

Bob had a distinguished career at Dartmouth. He was vice president of the Class of 1934 in 1931-32 and its president in 1932-33. He also was a member of Green Key, Sphinx, Kappa Phi Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi, and the freshman and varsity baseball and basketball teams. Bob majored in education.

He entered Dartmouth from Bloomfield (N. J.) High School where he was president of his class, an honor student, and a star athlete. After his graduation from Dartmouth and his selection to the All-America collegiate baseball team in his senior year, Bob was signed by the New York Yankees and spent five seasons in the Yankee farm system. A knee injury ended his professional baseball career after he helped the Kansas City Blues win the 1938 minor league World Series.

Bob served as assistant business manager of the Essex, N. J., County Hospital from 1938 to 1942 and then became a teacher-coach at Clifford Scott High School in East Orange, N. J. He retired from coaching last June. In his 22 years as baseball coach, Clifford Scott High had a 222-76 record, won six sectional state championships and, in one span, it won 40 straight games. He also coached the high school basketball team for several seasons and had been the school's athletic director.

Besides his wife, who resides at 171 Hawthorne Ave., Glen Ridge, N. J., Bob leaves two sons, two daughters, a step-daughter, two grandchildren, his mother and a brother.

1940

Word has just been received in Hanover that JOHN KEITH HANRAHAN died in 1957 and is buried in Remsenburg, New York.

John was a brother of Phi Delta Theta, and although he did not graduate with the Class he had many friends there and among The Players with which he was also identified. After the war, John and his mother started The Cookery on Madison Avenue in New York City, where home cooking flourished.

John's contacts with the Class have been few in recent years and it is not known whether he was married or had a family other than his mother, a brother and sister, to whom the sympathy of the Class is extended.

1946

RICHARD FLETCHER PRIEST, of Martin Pond Rd., Groton, Mass., died from a self-inflicted shotgun wound on August 18.

Before leaving college to join the Army Air Force, Dick was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He was discharged from the service with the rank of 2nd Lt. in February 1946, and in May of that year he married the former Helen Fletcher. He purchased an orchard in Groton, Mass., and at the time of his death he was a well-known orchardist, as well as owner of Priest's Ski Tow, also in Groton.

He is survived by his wife, four daughters, and his parents.

1960

ALAN HOWARD SCHNITZER died in Buffalo, N. Y., on January 31, 1962. Alan graduated from Horace Mann School in the Bronx. At Dartmouth he was active in soccer, the GreenBook and Glee Club. He majored in Psychology and was a member of Gamma Delta Chi. He is survived by his father, Isadore, of 34 East 38th St., New York City.

Thacher Washburn Worthen '07

Charles Edmund, Griffith '15