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.]
Watson, Albert P. '97, Jan. 28 Dunsmoor, Ralph W. '01, Jan. 1959 Burdett, Owen L. '04, Jan. 29 Keady, John T. '05, Feb. 12 Howard, Charles S. '06, Dec. 11, 1963 Badger, Erastus B. '08, Feb. 4 Chase, Laurence C. '09, Feb. 3 Buell, Arthur C. '12, Feb. 4 Wallace, Donald J. '16, Jan. 11 Wilson, F. Stirling '16, Jan. 22 Allison, William H. '17, Feb. 3 Spears, Clarence W. '17, Feb. 1 Mytton, James A. '18, Dec. 15, 1963 Brown, William J. '19, Dec. 23, 1963 Keely, Kendall 'l9, Apr. 12, 1951 Meader, Ralph I. '19, Dec. 19, 1963 Dain, John W. '21, Jan. 1 Ransom, Howard S. '21, Jan. 21 Myers, Walter E. Jr. '27, Jan, 19 Word, Robert L. Jr. '28, Jan. 12 Young, Francis W. '28, Jan. 9 MacVean, Homer G. '31, Jan. 27 Lanoue, Ernest W. '32, Jan. 25 Richmond, Guilford H. '35, Jan. 25 Ranson, Howard F. '35, Jan. 21 Hirst, John M. '38, Jan. 21 Hatcher, Albert C. '39, Jan. 29 Teschner, Douglass P. '46, Feb. 2 Then, Richard J. '55, Dec. 28, 1963 Meyer, Robert B. '62, Feb. 6 Demaree, Albert L. A.M. '41, Jan. 15 Wilson, Homer B. '09m, Feb. 2
Faculty
ALBERT LOWTHER DEMAREE, A.M. '41, Professor of History Emeritus, died January 15 in Antrim, N. H., of a heart attack. He was 69 years old.
Professor Demaree, whose special field was American history, retired in 1961 after 34 years on the Dartmouth faculty. He had been teaching at Nathaniel Hawthorne College in Antrim since its founding in 1962, but continued to live in Hanover. He and Mrs. Demaree had remained in Antrim the night before his death because of a heavy snowstorm.
Professor Demaree served with the U. S. Navy in both World Wars, and throughout his teaching career he had a special interest in U. S. naval history, writing and lecturing on this subject in addition to teaching his regular courses in American history and American political biography. He taught at the U. S. Naval Academy after active sea duty in World War I, and his book NavalOrientation (1945), written in Washington while serving as Commander in the Naval Reserve in World War 11, has been used in all the NROTC units throughout the country.
Professor Demaree was born in Bloomsburg, Pa., on April 24, 1894, and was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School, now Bloomsburg State College, in 1913. For the next three years he taught high school in Grovania and Northumberland, Pa., and then decided to enroll in the A.B. course in Dickinson College. He interrupted these studies in 1917 to enlist in the Navy, serving on destroyers, fleet supply ships, and submarine chasers, and earning the rank of Ensign. In 1920 he was assigned to the VSS Olympia when it brought the body of the Unknown Soldier to this country.
Returning to Dickinson College, Professor Demaree received his A.B. degree in 1923 and then for three years was with the Certain-teed Products Corporation in York, Pa. Teaching rather than business was his choice, however, and he enrolled for graduate study in history at Columbia University, becoming Instructor at Dartmouth in 1927 before completing his M.A. degree in 1929. He later received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1940. At Dartmouth, he was promoted to assistant professor in 1935 and to full professor in 1941, in which year the College conferred its M.A. degree upon him. He was the recipient of a Distinguished Service Award from the Alumni Association of Bloomsburg State College.
In World War II, Professor Demaree interrupted his teaching at Dartmouth to return to the Navy as Lieutenant, later Commander, with duty in Washington and aboard the USS Boxer. When Japan surrendered he was en route to Guam. Since the publication of his book Naval Orientation in 1945 he had periodically revised it. His special contributions to the Navy were honored with a citation from the Chief of Naval Operations.
Professor Demaree was also the author of The American Agricultural Press (1941) and of Our Navy's Worst Headache - the Merrimac, published in U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings in March 1962.
He was a member of the U. S. Naval In statute, American Historical Association, Ag ricultural History Society' American Legion and Phi Delta Theta fraternity; and was an World Affairs!16 Hampshire Council of
Professor Demaree was married June 25, 1937 to Helen Ann Jackson of Pennsburg Pa. He is survived by his widow, who resides at 19 East Wheelock Street in Hanover, and a sister, Mrs. Timothy O. Van Alen of Harrisburg, Pa. A memorial service was held m Rollins Chapel on January 18, with interment and a graveside service at the family plot in Bloomsburg, Pa.
1897
THE REV. ALBERT PRIESTLEY WATSON passed away on January 28 at a nursing home in Bedford, N. H.
Mr. Watson was born in Barrington, N.H., and spent his boyhood in Hampstead. He graduated from Kimball Union Academy before coming to Dartmouth. After receiving his A.B. he went on to Andover Theological Seminary where he earned his S.T.B. degree in 1900. He was member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
During 52 years in the ministry he served churches in Bedford, Franklin, and Charlestown, N. H.; East Braintree and Hatfield Mass and Wilton, Maine. On his retired in 1952 he as ,made Pastor-emeritus of the Church in Charlestown.
He is survived by his wife, Alice B. Watson of Bedford, N. H.; a daughter Mrs. son George A of Topsfied, Mass,; a son, George A. of Topsfield, Mass. six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Interment was in the Bedford Center Cemetery.
1898
MYRON GEORGE LITTLEFIELD, our beloved "Skipper" died at Pottstown, Pa., on December 22 and was buried in nearby Zion Cemetery.
He was born December 6, 1875 in Ogunquit Maine, and prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy, entering Dartmouth in 1894. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Theta Nu Epsilon, Sphinx, and Phi Beta Kappa. Skipper served from 1908 to 1956 as a civil engineer with Bethlehem Steel Corp. at Pottstown, Pa. He was a Mamember of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
On October 3, 1904 he married Emily I, Wisner, who survives him at 422 Worth Blvd., Pottstown. Their four children are all living. John B. Littlefield of Monsey, N. Y,; Mary, now Mrs. Charles A. Wemock of Rockport, Maine; Charles M. and Myron G. both of Pottstown, Pa. There are seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Skipper was a wholesome, forthright, genial and sincere man. Although he attended but few reunions, those of us who were at the 60th will not soon forget the presence of him, his son and grandson. He wanted to attend our 65th but was physicaly unable. Skipper was a loyal supporter of every Dartmouth project. The sympathy of those or us who remain is sincerely extended to his widow and family.
1901
RALPH WALES DUNSMOOR, 83, died in January, 1959 at a Tampa, Fla. Hospital. He was born in Northfield, and reared in Burlington, Vt. He was employed there as insurance adjuster, before moving to Florida where he eventually settled m Zephyrhills. He was a member of the First Methodist Church in Dade City, where funeral services were held.
Survivors include his wife Alice, a sister, two sons, three daughters seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
1902
FUNIEL THOMAS CUSHING was born in Dnechee, Vermont, July 31, 1880, and died in Mobile, Ala., November 22 1963.
pan came to us from K.U.A., and at Dartmouth became a member of Beta Theta Pi After graduation he started in with the B. & M. and the C. V. Railroad, but soon shifted his interest to the South, where he was in the lumber business all the rest of his active life. From 1905 he was with the Great Southern Lumber Company, living at Bogalusa, La., and working up from paymaster to general manager and vice-president.
In 1932 he was elected Mayor of Bogalusa. The local paper, "The News," wrote of this event: "While Col. Cushing was elected by a more than two to one majority, we consider it unfortunate that his election was not unanimous. We believe that he deserved that honor and distinction, not only on account of his connection as the head of a vast industry, but on his record as a public citizen, serving the city as Finance Commissioner, and his activity and interest in all civic affairs. ... We are fortunate that a man of the ability of Col. Cushing is available for the position of Mayor."
He retired in 1948 when his lumber company liquidated its holdings. He was married in 1909 to Floyd Willoughby. They had a son, Frederick '35, and two daughters, Floyd and Barbara, both now married and living in Chicago.
In 1949 Dan moved to Tucson, Arizona, because of the illness of his wife, but after her death he went to Mobile, Ala. to be near his son, who resides at 255 Levert Ave. He was a veteran of both World Wars, and held all Masonic degrees to the highest. He seldom came North but was present at our Fiftieth Reunion with his grandson, Fred. Not prominent in college, he became one of 1902's great success stories. The Class and the College will miss him.
1904
DR. LEROY BENJAMIN VAIL passed away at his home at 13006 Boca Ciega Ave., St. Petersburg, Florida, December 31, 1963, after a long illness. Born in Riverhead, Long Island, November 30, 1880, he was 83 years old. He leaves a wife and a daughter, Mrs. Fanny Lawson of Montreal, Canada.
"The Kid," as he was familiarly called by his classmates, came to us from Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, along with Jimmie Brotherhood. Leroy had determined upon a medical career and upon graduation from Dartmouth entered Columbia College, Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1908. Iragedy struck him in 1916 when he was stricken with infantile paralysis and was torced to give up the practice of medicine. Upon partial recovery he became examining Physician for the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., and later became associated with a shipping company doing Business in South America. It was there he met his wife. Upon retirement from business he settled in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he made his home.
In college Leroy was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Dragon and enjoyed the friendship of every man in the class. Unfortunately, your secretary was never able to get replies from him and consequently this obituary is sketchy. He does know that Leroy was ill for a long period and had the loving care of a devoted wife during his long suffering. "The Kid" has gone - may he rest in peace.
***1908
ERASTUS BEETHOVEN BADGER 11, of Osterville, on Cape Cod, died February 4, 1964, at Phillips House in Boston.
"Tat," as he was known to us, was born in Boston, May 26, 1886, and prepared for college at Winchester High School. While at Dartmouth he was a member of the musical clubs, class baseball and basketball teams, and took part in college theatricals. He was active in the affairs of Theta Delta Chi and had served as one of the officers of the cor- poration for a number of years.
On leaving college he became associated with the E. B. Badger and Sons Company, founded by his grandfather, Erastus B. Badger, in the year 1841 in Boston. He became president of the firm in 1935, at which time it was engaged in the design, engineering and construction of plants and equipment for process industries. The company has played a prominent part in the development of the chemical and petroleum process industries in the United States and many foreign countries. It made major contributions to the war potential in both World Wars, designing and building plants to produce high explosives, aviation gasoline, the principal components of synthetic rubber, and other vital products from petroleum and chemical sources. He was connected with the development of the Houdry process of cracking petroleum.
During World War II, E. B. Badger and Sons built refineries for all the major U. S. oil companies and after the war constructed a large refinery for the Kuwait Oil Co. on the island of Kuwait. The firm also constructed many plants for the manufacture of artificial rubber, supplied the U. S. Navy with self-sustaining water-distilling units, and built sections of the "Manhattan" Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn., for development of the first atomic bomb. During World War II Tat's company received two "E's" for meritorious service.
On January 15, 1948, Stone and Webster, Inc., acquired E. B. Badger and Sons Company and in 1952 they were merged, with Tat going on the board of the Engineering Corporation. He retired from active business in 1954.
Tat was a former president of the Winchester Country Club and of the Massachusetts Golf Association, vice-president and member of the Board of Governors of the Oyster Harbor Club. He also belonged to the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Wianno Club, and the Chemists Club of New York City.
During his active years his many worldwide construction projects required extensive air travel and in 1940 he acquired a membership in the Admirals Club, an honor conferred by the air transport companies on patrons who had flown more than a million miles.
Tat was married on July 10, 1920 to Alice Drumngould Macshane of New York City, who died in March 1958. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Jarcus Munsill of Providence and Mrs. John P. E. Dempsey Jr. of San Francisco; a brother, Paul B. Badger of Greenwich, Conn., and eight grandchildren. Burial was in Wildwood Cemetery, Winchester.
1909
JOSEPH RAE GRAFF passed away in his home at 976 Vernon Avenue, Winnetka, Ill., on December 19, 1963.
Joe was born in South Auburn, Nebraska, on January 22, 1886. He prepared for Dartmouth at Central High School, Washington, D. C., as his father was a member of Congress from Peoria, Ill. In college he was active in the Christian Association and belonged to Phi Delta fraternity. Upon graduation he studied at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools, graduating from the latter. He was a member of the Columbia varsity wrestling team.
In 1920 he joined the Chicago Title & Trust Co. as manager of real estate and assistant trust officer. In 1924 he was made a corporation executive and took this position in the Central Chicago Trust Co. in 1935. He was an accountant, general sales manager, and director of sales for over twenty years with the Pure Oil Co. He also served as a deputy bank examiner and public relations representative.
Joe was a York Rite Mason, belonging to North Shore Lodge No. 939, A.F.&A.M.; Loyal Chapter No. 233, R.A.M., and Lincoln Commandery No. 64, Knights Templar. He was active in St. Andrew's Brotherhood and Senior Center Men's Club of Christ Episcopal Church.
On January 28, 1919 Joe was married to Edna Anna Zahn. She survives him as do their two daughters, Mrs. William R. (Mary Burton) of Ashtabula, Ohio, and Mrs. Lorenzo (Jeanne) Garcia of 2280 Farnsworth Lane, Northbrook, Ill.; two sisters and five grandchildren. Funeral services were held in Christ Church and interment was in Washington, Ill.
1910
HENRY FRANCIS COLLINS passed away on December 29 at his home at 23 Durant St., Lawrence, Mass. He had. been in poor health for a long period.
Henry was born March 26, 1888 in Lawrence, and prepared for college at Methuen High School. After graduation he went to Harvard Law School and practiced law in Lawrence for fifty years. In later years he was associated with his son, Thomas H. While in law school Henry taught English in the Lawrence Evening High School.
Survivors are his widow, Katherine Hyland Collins; his son, and three sisters, all of Lawrence.
1913
ROBERT ELMER MORE suffered a fatal heart attack on Christmas Day, 1963, at his home at 2500 Coburn Lane, Shell Beach, Calif.
Bob was born on March 11, 1892 in Denver, Colo., and prepared for Dartmouth at the Denver Eastside High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of the varsity basketball squad and the varsity football squad during his sophomore year. He was also a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and in later years served on the Alumni Council, representing the Coast Alumni from 1931 to 1937.
He received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1916 and practiced law in Denver for the firm of Dines, Dines & Holme, of which he became a partner in 1925. He also found time to study accounting, landscape architecture, and horticulture at Denver U., Colorado U., and California State Polytechnic College.
Bob was very active in Denver. During the war he was an associate member of the Legal Advisory Board and local Council for the Alien Property Custodians, 1917- 1919. He was also a member of several law and civic organizations, and was president of the Denver Bar Association, 1935-1936 On November 1, 1955, the law firm with which he was connected became known as Holme, Roberts, More and Owen.
His hobby for many years was growing evergreens. At the request of the Arnold Arboretum in Massachusetts he wrote up his experiences for its bulletin Arnoldia in December 1945. He was an active vice president of the Colorado Forestry and Horticultural Association. On his Glenmore Arboretum he had more than 200 types of evergreens among 300 odd varieties. He was also a great fisherman.
In June 1916 Bob married the former Alice Bancroft in Denver, Colo. Two sons born of that marriage in 1919 and 1925 died in infancy. Another son, Jeremy, bom in 1929, was a member of the Class of 1952, and while a student at Dartmouth' climbed Mt. McKinley from the west win, Dr. Bradford Washburn.
Bob retired in 1958 and moved to Shell Beach, Calif-. He became associated on part-time basis in the San Luis Obispo County district attorney's office. He was the author of several books and many article, on Conifers, and lectured on Conifers at Denver University and California State Polytechnic College. He was former co-directon of the Denver Botanic Garden.
He is survived by his wife Alice and son Jerry. Private rites were held in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and burial was in Denver.
1914
When WILLIAM CHARLES HANDS JR. died on Christmas Day, we lost not only our Class Chairman but also one of the best loved and most respected members of the Dartmouth community. Rutherford, N. J., will also long remember this kindly and wise citizen who earned the complete admiration of its people. He lived in Rutherford for over forty years and proved again that quiet competence and steadfast loyalty are qualities that mark the leader and the good companion.
Bill came to us from New York Military Academy, and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx. After graduation and military service, he joined the National Dairy Company, .gradually rising in the councils of that company. He retired in 1956, after serving for over thirty years in executive capacities.
Bill once wrote to a classmate: "Your letter is overflowing with kindness - a quality which I value most highly perhaps because of its comparative rarity." Bill had it, and he had the other qualities that made him Chairman of 1914, and then, in 1962, brought him the well-deserved award of "Best Class Chairman of the Year."
Funeral services were held on December 27, at which the affection of the Class was shown by a large representation, including Larmon, Davidson, Sleeper, Daley, Bacon, Learoyd, and Breslin.
Survivors are his wife Daisy; a son, John P. '41 of Montclair; a sister, and three grandchildren. Words sometimes seem futile and inadequate, but the family of our friend and classmate have the solace of knowing that every one of us appreciated Bill and loved him.
1916
PROF. CHARLES WEST MANZER died July 2, 1963. He was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, November 29, 1893, and attended the high school in Presque Isle, Maine.
Charles received his Master's degree at Columbia University in 1917, and also his Doctor's degree in 1928. He started his teaching career as an instructor in psychology at Washington Square College, New York University.
Charles lost touch with his Class and attempts to obtain further information of him have proven unsuccessful.
HERBERT COURTNEY COMSTOCK, who resided sided at 35 Barker Ave., White Plains, N. Y., died November 1.
He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 15, 1894 and attended Erasmus Hall High School before entering Dartmouth. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania at the end of his freshman year, and there received a B.S. degree in 1916. He was a member of Chi Phi fraternity.
In World War I, Herb was a First Lieutenant, Aviation from 1917-19, and was a member of the American Expeditionary Force. After the war he engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Brooklyn, Detroit and Westchester County, N. Y., with the firm of Herbert C. Comstock and Son.
In 1919 he was married to Marie E. Corbett, who predeceased him by a year. Their daughter, Marjorie, survives. A son, Herbert C. Courtney III, died in 1954, the year he graduated from Columbia University.
FRANCIS STIRLING WILSON, one of the best beloved Sixteeners, died in the Naval Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla., on January 22, succumbing after a long and valiant fight with cancer.
He was born November 24, 1892 at Wenatchee. Wash., and obtained his early schooling at Eastern High School, Washington, D. C. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Jack o'Lantern board, its editorin-chief 1915-16, and also a member of The Arts. In the winter of 1915 he sailed on the famous Ford Peace Ship expedition to Europe. Later, in 1935, he obtained a LL.B. degree at Southeastern Law School in Washington, then a master's and a MPL. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
Stirling had a wide experience in business. Starting in 1920, he was successively with General Motors Export Co.; Gehring Publishing Co., as general manager; Research and Publications Department of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Consolidated Coal Co., Fairmont, W. Va., as general manager; Bill Brothers Publishing Co., New York; Sears-Roebuck Co.; Department of Commerce, as chief of the Business Information Section and editor of Domestic Commerce.
Stirling had a keen interest in the Navy. During World War I he was a Lieut, (j.g.) U.S.N.R.F., and in 1918 he attended the Naval Academy. In World War II he served m the Naval Intelligence Department. From 1943-45 he was stationed in Punta Arenas, Chile,_ as Naval Liaison Officer. He was retired in 1951, for physical disability, having attained the rank of Commander. In later life he was engaged in the real estate business in Washington and Florida.
His interests were many and varied. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Aztec Club of 1847 (the military order of the Mexican War), Commander of the Gen. C. E. Edwards Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a ViceCommander, Dept. of Commerce American Legion Post No. 45, District of Columbia. He was a member of the Fellowcraft Club, the Sojourners Club, LaFayette Lodge, No. 19, F.A.A.M., Washington, and wrote a number of articles for magazines. In later years Stirling became engrossed in the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, and was a member of its board of directors and its International Historian. He was also a member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Washington, and sang in the choir of the Methodist Church in Ormond Beach, Florida, where the Wilsons moved in 1955, after living many years in Washington. Their home, Dartmouth House, in Bethesda, always had its hospitable doors opened wide.
Stirling was a president of the Dartmouth Alumni Assn. of Washington, secretary of the Class of 1916 from 1946 to 1961, and editor of the 1916 Balmacaan Athletic Club Newsletter from 1946 until his death. In 1961 he received the College's citation as the Newsletter Editor of the Year. Two months before his death his grateful classmates presented him with a replica of the Wentworth Bowl, suitably inscribed. Dick Parkhurst, president of the Class, went to Florida to make the presentation.
In 1926 Stirling married Elizabeth Romane Harp, of Benevola, Md., and three children were born to them - Margaret, wife of Lieut. Grafton S. Piatt, USN, Jacksonville; Stirling Stokely, Potomac, Md.; and Janet, wife of Lieut. John Yamnicky, USN, Lemoore, Calif. There are ten grandchildren. Mrs. Wilson now resides at Box 1856, Ormond Beach, Florida.
Funeral services were held in the Fort Myer Chapel and Stirling was buried, with full military honors, in Arlington Cemetery. His grave, on the gentle slope overlooking the city, is close by that of our late President. A number of classmates, including Class President Richard Parkhurst, attended the services.
The Dartmouth Club of Washington will purchase books for the Baker Library in Stirling's memory. An appreciation of him will be found in the 1916 class notes in this issue of the MAGAZINE.
1917
HOWARD SEARLES BARTLETT died at his home at Orleans on Cape Cod on January 2, 1964.
He was born at Chicopee Falls, Mass., on August 12, 1893, and prepared for college at Roxbury Latin High School. He entered Dartmouth in 1913 but remained with us for only one year before transferring to Tufts from which he graduated in 1917. With the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted in the U.S. Medical Corps at Boston on May 7, 1917, and sailed at once for the other side where he served with the British at Ypres, Paschendale, Messines Ridge and elsewhere for some two years. Returning to this country, he graduated in 1922 from the Massachusetts College of Optometry.
As an optometrist he operated Bartlett & Son Co. in Boston until about 1950, and then moved the business to Brookline. Prior to his retirement and move to Orleans, he had lived in Wellesley Hills for many years.
Asti was a member of the American Optometric Association, the Massachusetts Society of Optometrists, Universal Lodge, A.F.&A.M., the American Legion and the Orleans Board of Trade.
He is survived by his widow, Eleanor Rae (Thorpe), whom he married at Somerville, Mass. in January 1949; two sons, Dr. David W. of Hingham and Bruce H. of Orleans; a daughter, Cynthia Rose, also of Orleans; and two grandchildren.
Mrs. Bartlett's address is Box 144, Orleans, Mass.
Very indirectly word has been received that FREDERIC WILLIAM LEIGHTON died in New York on October 8, 1963, as the result of a heart attack.
Fritz was born in Chicago, Ill. on December 30, 1895, and prepared for Dartmouth at Hyde Park (Ill.) High School. During his first year at College he captained the freshman golf team, and later was a member of the varsity team. He was a member of the Lincoln Douglas Debating Society, Deutscher Verein, and Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.
During the mid-20's he founded Fred Leighton, Inc. and engaged in the importation of Mexican and other Latin American handicrafts. Besides an office on University Place in New York he maintained four retail shops, one in New York, a winter shop at Palm Beach, Florida, a summer one at Hyannis, Mass., and one in the Georgetown section of Washington. In addition, he operated as leased departments Latin American Shops in Bloomingdale's in New York and Gimbel's in Philadelphia.
Fritz was a recognized authority on Mexican handicrafts as evidenced by the organizations and groups to which, at one time or another, he had belonged. He had been on the Advisory Council on Imports of the Department of Commerce, a vice president of the National Council of American Importers, vice chairman of the International Section of the New York Board of Trade, a director of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and a vice president of Mexican Pilgrims.
He is survived by his wife, who resides at 58 East 11th St., New York 3; two daughters, and a stepson.
LEONARD ANDREW SHEA died at Los Angeles, Calif., on Sunday, December 29, 1963.
Len was born at Nashua, N. H. on January 3, 1895. Before entering Dartmouth he attended Nashua High School and Colby College. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Delta Theta, and was active in the College orchestra, band and dramatic club.
On June 16, 1917, at Hanover, he enlisted in the Ordnance Dept., U.S. Army, and finally was discharged on February 5,. 1919, after serving in France.
It was during the latter year that he went with W. H. McElwain & Co., which proved to be the beginning of a long career in the shoe business, ending only when he retired on May 1, 1960. In the interim he was connected with the International Shoe Company and Melville Shoe Corp. of which latter corporation he became sales manager in 1930 and a vice president in 1947. He also was a vice president and director of Thom McAn Shoe Company. While with McAn he was directly responsible for the establishment of several hundred of the Thom McAn retail stores in the United States, including Hawaii before it became a State, and Puerto Rico.
Len lived at the Dartmouth Club in New York for many years, when not traveling, until he married Sally McConnel on November 12, 1938, at Hollywood, Calif. Len and Sally have traveled widely both for business and pleasure, and have regularly attended 1917 reunions and more recently, our informal fall gatherings. Their presence will be sorely missed.
Len is survived by his widow whose address is Barrington Plaza A-1407, 1170 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 25, Calif., and a brother, Edward J. Shea '15, of Cambridge, Mass.
1919
DR. WILLIAMS JENNINGS BROWN passed away suddenly on December 23 following a thrombosis in his office in Chicago. Bill was born in Littleton, N. H., on August 18, 1896 and attended Littleton High School before coming to Hanover. He attended Rush Medical in Chicago, and practiced there all his life.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Cecil (East- man) Brown of 1423 West Thome, Chicago, Ill.; a son, William Jennings Brown of New York City; a grandaughter, two nieces, and two sisters in Littleton. To them goes the sincere sympathy of the Class in their sorrow.
RALPH IRVAN MEADER passed away at his home, 3301 Woodbine, in Chevy Chase, Md. on December 19. He was the apparent victim of a heart attack at 66 years of age.
Ralph was born in Lynn, Mass., on Aprii 29, 1897 and attended Lynn Classical High School before corning to Hanover. He left college in 1918 and served in the Navy, returning to college to receive a B.S. degree in mathematics. Most of his business career consisted of the invention and patenting of new products in the communications field, and he did a great deal of business with the Postal Telegraph Company after his graduation.
At the start of World War II he went back in the Navy and served as commanding officer of the Naval Computing Machine Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio. It was at this post, under his direct supervision, that the first high-speed digital computer was developed. The result of this work was the breaking of the Japanese and German codes during the war. One of the interesting sidelights of this was the reading of the Japanese message giving the location and time of an upcoming flight of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto. The United States was able to have fighters on hand to greet the Admiral's plane, which was shot down.
After the war Ralph retired from the Navy as a Captain and became president of Electronics Research Associates of Minapolis. This firm was later merged with Remington/Sperry Rand as their Univac Division. Ralph then went back to inventing in the small appliance field and developed the first electric can-opener which is marketed under the BVI, Westinghouse, Faberware, and other brand names.
He was buried on Christmas Eve in the Arlington National Cemetery. Surviving are his wife Janet; three sons, Malcolm and Duncan of Washington, and Bruce, commanding officer of the submarine Rasher, San Diego, Calif., and two grandchildren. To all of them goes the most sincere sympathy of 1919 in their sorrow. We have indeed lost a very distinguished classmate.
BRYAN BONNELL POWELL passed away on December 2, 1963, after having been completely disabled for ten years, due to a stroke.
Bryan did not stay in Hanover for fOur years but he did receive a B.S. in mechanical engineering from M.I.T. in 1922. From 1932 until his retirement in 1953 he served as vice president of Stephen A. Powell and Company, Inc., paper merchants.
In 1921 he married Elizabeth Baker and she survives him at 15 Sunset Drive, Summit, N. J. He is also survived by five daughters and a son.
1921
The son of missionary parents who went to South Africa in 1890 and the father of a clergyman, HOWARD STEPHEN RANSOM senior partner in the real estate firm of Ransom & Pastorfield of New Haven, Conn died of a heart attack January 21. He had been ill about two weeks.
Prominent in church work, Howie had been deacon, a member of the Governing Board, and a Sunday School teacher in the Edgewood Congregational Church in NewHaven. Active in the Dartmouth Club of New Haven, of which he was president from 1957 to 1959, with Z. Waters White '36 he was instrumental through John Jay and his ski movies in raising $2,000 in 1962 for the Dartmouth College Scholarship Fund.
Eager to be of service to his community, Howie had been Treasurer of the Regional Planning Authority of South Central Connecticut, a director of the Connecticut Association of Real Estate Boards, Chairman of the Orange Town Planning and Zoning Commission, active in YMCA financial and membership drives, and a past president of the New Haven Real Estate Board. He also was a past president of the New Haven Y's Men's Club, clerk and assistant prosecuting attorney of the Town Court of Orange, a justice of the peace, treasurer of the Commonwealth Men's Club, Chaplain of the American Legion of Orange (Post #127), chairman of the Cub Committee of Orange, and a member of the Badminton Club of Orange and of the Milford Yacht Club.
He was born March 16, 1897 in Amanzimtoti, Natal. He attended the Oberlin (Ohio) High School and Peekskill Military Academy. At Dartmouth he was Phi Gamma Delta. In World War I, stationed at Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C., he was a sergeant in the Field Artillery.
He married Lorraine Soden on June 20, 1925 in New Haven. He is survived by her and their two sons, Richard Calhoun Ransom of Larchmont, N. Y., and Rev. David Penhall Ransom '54, of Avon, Ill.
Howie began his business career with the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. and moved to the Connecticut Mortgage & Title Guaranty Co., as mortgage bonds salesman. He was connected with Clark, Hall & Peck, a real estate firm for 24 years before going into business for himself.
At Howie's funeral, 1921 was represented by Tom and Betty Cleveland, Dave and Edith Bowen, and Tom and Rakey Norcross.
1923
KENNETH MAURICE KEEFE died November 5, 1963. Ken was with us two years, then taught school a year, and graduated from Harvard summa cum laude. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
For many years, he was with Halsey, Stewart and Company, in New York. In 1952 he joined Stockton, Whatley, Davin, of which he became treasurer, a member of the board of directors, and executive committee.
Ken is survived by his widow, Lydia Fleming Keefe, and two sons.
LAWRENCE BOARDMAN STONE passed away October 26, 1963, at the Mercy Hospital in Springfield. Larry, born in Hartford, Conn., was always a bachelor, and by profession. an engineer, first in Hartford and later in the Springfield area. For the past six years he had been employed as a civil engineer by the Town of Agawam, Mass.
He is survived by his sister, Mrs. P. H. Sheridan, 65 Argyle Ave., West Hartford, Conn.
1924
In his own field, few are brighter stars among their peers or are held in such high esteem as ABBOTT JOSEPH LIEBLING. His death on December 28, 1963 of bronchial pneumonia was both premature and a major loss to many friends and admirers. A more intimate "profile" is being circulated in a Class Letter. This will record the outlines only of his notable career.
Joe was born in New York City on October 18, 1904 and was one of the younger members of the Class. He prepared for Dartmouth at Far Rockaway High School. The record tells only that he was recognized as a brilliant writer on the college paper and that he was separated in February 1923 for failure to comply with the compulsory chapel requirement. This resistance to unaccepted authority was to be a well-known feature in his professional life.
He started in newspaper work as a reporter and feature writer: for The NewYork Times briefly, doing sports write-ups until he named the referee of a basketball game the Latin equivalent (Ignoto) for "unknown"; then picketed the New York World demanding to be hired - which failed; this is a sample. He was in Paris as early as June of 1927, and he fell in love with France for the rest of his life. Literature was his profession. He returned as a reporter for the Providence Evening Bulletin (1927); then feature writer for the NewYork World (1932), and finally made his contact with The New Yorker in 1937. He had married Ann McGinn in 1934; there were no children. This marriage was marred by her chronic illness and finally ended in divorce fifteen years later. Having written for the magazine since 1934, he was at last sent to Paris in 1939. He was fluent in French, had had a year at the Sorbonne; he knew and loved Paris deeply. He stayed there until the. Germans "were coming down the street and I thought it was time to go." In Algeria he wrote, on a less demanding schedule, of life at a U.S. bomber base, lived with the young pilots and wrote intimately of them. Here he also fought the military "brass." He tried but failed to join the war correspondents assigned to the D- day Normandy landings but did observe it from an offshore vessel; he was right behind the very first in the return into Paris.
After the war, Joe directed his venom at Chicago, jeering at Carl Sandburg's sentimental picture. His reputation as champion in many areas was shared by himself and backed by fact. Despite his reputation for heavy eating, he was a good swimmer and boxer. He jeered at Dartmouth's outdoor life ("We used to nail the window shut in the fall and keep it that way until spring"), but he was a vigorous man. His friends claim that he thought of himself as the Renaissance Man - the artist, the flaneur, the gourmet, the courtier - as well as the journalist. (These are from the Times obituary, and so credited.) He had attended the School of Journalism at Columbia University, as well as the Sorbonne for one year.
A second marriage, to Lucille Hill Spectorsky, also ended in divorce ten years later (1959), whereupon he married Jean Stafford, a writer who - together with a sister, Mrs. Harold Stonehill - survive him. France gave Joe her Croix de Legion d'Honeur for his career as a writer and war correspondent (especially for writing of the French underground). There were several books, often collections of his articles, from 1938 to 1961. The latest was The Most of A. J.Liebling. The "profile" in the Class Letter tells of one more in preparation just before his death.
Joe was living in a brownstone house at 45 West 10th St., in New York. His wide scope of interests meant many friends of all sorts. Ranging from a love of Old French ("French is the only other language I think in"), read or spoken, he loved to eat gourmet style; all sports interested him ("I like sports in which a man can't hide his mistakes"); but a notable characteristic was a deep appreciation of good fellowship - all agree on this. Joe Liebling will truly be missed because he was also truly respected and beloved.
1926
WILLIAM ALEXANDER CAMPBELL died of a brain tumor in Beirut, Lebanon, on December 27, 1963. "Sandy," as he was known to most of us, was born in Joliet, Ill., October 8, 1900. He entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1924 but left after his sophomore year to work in lumber camps in the Pacific Northwest. He then returned to Hanover and graduated in the top tenth of our Class, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. While in college he was active in The Arts and Round Robin, and was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Kappa Phi Kappa. He married Florence Evelyn Carter in Hanover on May 6, 1922. Two sons, Alexander and Craig, were born of this marriage.
"Sandy" did graduate work as a Carnegie Fellow at Princeton University where he received his M.A. in 1928 and his Ph.D. in art and archaeology in 1930. He was instructor of Greek at Dartmouth before becoming, in 1931, an associate professor of archaeology at Wellesley College.
In 1932 "Sandy" went to the Middle East as field director of an archaeological committee which undertook the excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes, which work extended into 1942. He had also done archaeological surveys in France and Greece. From 1942 until the end of World War II he served with the U.S. Army Middle East Command. At the end of the war he helped found in Beirut the American Levant Company (AMLEVCO).
In May 1957 "Sandy" joined Trans-Ara- bian Pipe Line Company ("Tapline") as Assistant General Manager, Government and Public Relations Department. He became Manager of Government Relations in January 1951 and was elected Vice President of Government Relations on May 12, 1958.
On June 21, 1946 "Sandy" married his second wife, Gisela Landis, in Damascus, Syria. Their son, Andrew Keck Campbell, is now a junior at Lausanne-Pully, Switzerland.
One of the best known and most beloved Americans in the Middle East, "Sandy" will be well remembered by his many friends and business associates in Beirut and abroad for his many kindly qualities and his ex- treme devotion to duty. His energetic activities and his keen sense of responsibility were exemplary in the Tapline Company.
"Sandy" is survived by his wife Gisela and his three sons, to all of whom are extended our heartfelt sympathy. Mrs. Campbell may be addressed c/o Tapline, Box 1348, Beirut, Lebanon.
DR. EDMUND PRINCE FOWLER JR., professor of Otolaryngology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the sixth generation in his family to be graduated from the college, died of a heart attack January 13 in the Harkness Pavilion of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
Ned was born in New York City, Decmber 16, 1905 and attended the Storm King School. At Dartmouth he was business manager of The Tower and advertising manager of The Dartmouth. He was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity and Alpha Delta Sigma.
He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in 1930, and received a degree in medical science from the college in 1934. He joined the faculty in 1938 as director of research in the department of otolaryngology and had been a professor since 1947.
He wrote a book, Medicine of the Ear, as well as many other articles and papers on the subject for medical journals. For years he was one of the country's most prominent medical men, and was noted for his work in the problems of the deaf and hard of hearing.
He was vice-president of the American Otological Society, past president of the Audiology Foundation, and for a number of years president of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing.
Other groups with which he had been active were the American Society of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology; American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, New York Otological Society, New York Academy of Medicine, American Speech and Hearing Association, Deafness Research Foundation, and the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Blindness.
"Ned" was a Major in the Army Medical Corps in World War II and received the Legion of Merit for his work on aero-otitis to keep the 8th Air Force airborne. He was a member of the 2nd General Hospital. He also served in Squadron A, 101 st Cavalry National Guard in New York City. At the time of his death he was a Consultant in Audiology for the Veterans Administration. In 1961 he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
"Ned" was a member of a family with a tradition of medical training and service. His grandfather, Dr. George B. Fowler, served as Health Commissioner of the City of New York, and his father, Dr. Edmund Prince Fowler, an otologist (and still active in practice at age 91), was for more than 25 years director of research and clinics of the New York League for the Hard of Hearing.
A memorial service was held January 19 in the Pauline A. Hartford Chapel at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Representing our Class were Henri P. and Kay Esquerré, Holt and Lillian McAloney, and Hinsdale and Marion Smith.
"Ned" has been characterized by one of his Dartmouth classmates as "first of all cheerful, second dynamic, and third genuinely interested in people." He was always held in the highest esteem by his professional colleagups. He had many interests, but most important of these were his family and his work.
Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Olivia Jarrett, who resides at 2675 Henry Hudson Pkwy., N. Y.; a daughter, Heather (Cornell '62); a son, Edmund Prince Fowler III, presently a senior at Dartmouth; his father, Dr. Edmund Prince Fowler; a sister Mrs. James H. Maroney; and two brothers Benjamin Fowler and Prof. George B. Fowled of the University of Pittsburgh. To his fan), ily we extend our sincere sympathy in their great loss. Ned's younger brother, Denny '30, a captain of Infantry, was killed in action in the invasion of Africa.
1927
WALTER EDWARD MYERS JR. died January 19 at Cleveland, Ohio. A lifelong resident of Cleveland, he attended University School where he starred in football and basketball
After graduation Walt joined the trust department of the Cleveland Trust Co. Subsequently he was with the Chase Securities Co. before becoming a salesman in 1932 with Pioneer Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland, suppliers of chemical specialties. Walt had a most successful career with Pioneer, becoming production manager and director in 1942, a vice president in 1953, and chairman of the board in 1961, a position he held until his death.
He was a member of Sigma Nu, the Canterbury Country Club and Manakiki Country Club.
November 8, 1930, Walt married Janet L. Shelhart, who survives him at 28100 Belgrave Rd., Pepper Pike, Cleveland. He is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. James H. Schattinger of Cleveland, and his brother, Salmon C. Myers of Detroit.
Walt was active in his support of the College and instrumental in getting a number of young men to Hanover. The Class of 1927 extends deepest sympathies to his family.
1931
HAROLD ANDRES died December 31, 1963 after a long illness in Bronxville, N. Y.
During high school days in Newton, Mass., he played varsity football, baseball and hockey and was football captain his senior year. At Dartmouth, he bettered these feats by playing on the freshman football team and then on the varsity for three years, becoming captain senior year and gaining "All-American" recognition; freshman hockey, then three years of varsity; freshman baseball as catcher and three years of varsity, also as catcher.
Hal's athletic abilities spoke for themselves as the records proved, but his activities and value to the Class extended into his membership in Palaeopitus and Green Key. He was a Phi Gam, and senior year he was elected to Sphinx. Sophomore year he served as class treasurer. Upon graduation, he was elected one of seven members of the Class Executive Committee.
Hal joined Lever Brothers in 1934 and worked his way up the hard way - by ringing door bells for market surveys and then on through the Promotion Department to Product Manager, and finally to Manager of the Washing Machine Bureau. During World War II he served as a Navy lieutenant commander.
Hal's leadership in sports and in class activities and his outstandingly wholesome personality made him one of the best known individuals of our Class. We have lost a very valuable member and wish to extend our sincere sympathy to his wife Ruth, at 1468 Midland Ave.; his daughter, Mrs. Thomas L. Brogan; and to his mother, sister and five brothers.
1933
WALTER EUGENE HAMMETT JR. passed away in Los Angeles, Calif., on January 3 after a four-year illness.
Gene was leader of the Barbary Coast for three years and active with other musical groups while in college After graduation he formed his own orchestra and in 1937 went with Frank Dailey's orchestra as a music arranger.
He spent ten years with Vaughan Munroe until that orchestra was disbanded. He was an arranger and also directed the orchestra on the TV Camel Show
We extend our sympathy to his wife and two children, and to his mother. Mrs. Hammett resides at 17 Conry Crescent, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
1938
Word has been received of the death of DUNCAN ALBERT DOBIE III on November 1 at the U. S. Veterans Hospital in Atlanta, Ga Chapel services, attended by many Dartmouth men, were conducted by Dr. Arthur V Gibson of the Mornmgside Presbyterian Church of Atlanta on November 4. Graveside services were conducted by a U S Navy Chaplain, assisted by a U. a. Navy detail. Burial took place in the Marietta National Cemetery.
"Dune," as he was affectionately known to his classmates and host of friends, served as secretary of the Atlanta Dartmouth Club. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on October 14 1916, and attended grade and high schools in Bay Shore, Long Island. He entered Dartmouth in 1934 and received his A.B. degree in 1938. His fraternity was Sigma Phi Epsilon.
During World War 11, Duncan served for two years in the Anti-Submarine Patrol of sailing craft out of Greenport, Long Island, as Boatswain first-class. After the war he married Dorothy S. Fisher of Flushing, N. Y. He was a salesman specializing in biological and pharmaceutical products. Over the years Duncan devoted much time to Boy Scout activities in Atlanta.
His survivors include his wife Dorothy of 1541 Sagamore Drive, N.E., Atlanta, Ga.; son Duncan IV and daughter Glenn; a sister, Mrs. Ruth D. Guest of Port Washington, L. I.; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan A. Dobie Jr. of St. Augustine, Fla.
JOHN MINOT HIRST, former member of the faculty of the Thayer School of Engineering, died January 21 at a Boston hospital, after a long illness. He resided in Middleboro, Mass., where he had been an engineer for the past eight years with the Maxim Motor Company, makers of fire engines.
John was a graduate of the Thayer School in 1939 and returned there as Instructor in Electrical Engineering on January 1, 1944. He became Assistant Professor on July 1, 1945 and held that post until he resigned in 1955 to join the Maxim Motor Company. This job gave him an opportunity to combine his engineering knowledge with a life-long interest in fire-fighting.
John was born March 5, 1918 in Concord, N. H., the son of Edgar C. Hirst, State Tax Commissioner, who received Dartmouth's honorary A.M. in 1936, and Mary Stillings Hirst. He had a grandfather and great-grandfather who graduated from Dartmouth. In college he was active in The Players and the Band and was a member of Gamma Delta Chi. After graduation from Thayer School he was a draftsman with the Boston and Maine Railroad for three years and then was an engineer with Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 1943. After joining the Thayer School faculty in 1944 he obtained an M.S. in electrical engineering at Northwestern University in 1948. He was granted a two-year leave of absence, 1953-55, to be visiting professor at the University of Rangoon in Burma but shortly before his departure the Burmese government cancelled all forms of U. S. aid, John instead became an engineer with Westinghouse in Baltimore, 1953-54, and then a U. S. intellingence officer in Washington 1954-55. He resigned his Dartmouth faculty post in 1955 to go with the Maxim Motor Company.
John was a member of Phi Beta Kaonthe American Society for Engineering Education, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
He leaves his widow, Phyllis Oburg Hirst, who resides at 100 South Main Street Middleboro; a son Grant, and a grandson; his parents Mr. and Mrs. Edgar C. Hirst Concord; and a brother, Heston S. Hirst 36 of West Barrington, R. I.
A memorial service was held at Centra; Congregational Church. Middleboro January 26.
1940
Word has just been received from the family of DEAN VEITH HANSCOM that he died last November 29 of a coronary thrombosis This sad news removes one of the quiet, steady ones from our ranks and saddens us all. Dean was born in Seattle and it was there that he died, although he entered our Class from the Bronxville (New York) High School. Dean's twin. Don also a member of our Class, was killed 'in a freak tram accident, from which Dean was at the end of our sophomore
As an undergraduate Dean was a member of Kappa Sigma. He enlisted in the Navy in December 1941, after getting an MS degree in journalism at Columbia University discharged as a lieutenant in November 1945, after lengthy service in the Pacific, including the Leyte and Okinawa operations as well as the first occupation of Tokyo .Bay Ding" became an assistant buyer in a Seattle department store after earning the merchandising business at the Seattle Sears, Roebuck store. Since 1952 he had been Assistant to the President and Assistant Sales Manager of the Northwest Metal Products, a company which manufactured and fabricated hardware and housewares.
Dean and Marjory (Eagan) would have celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary on February 14. She, and their three boys, Steven 12, Douglas 10, and Mark 8, survive him along with Dean's parents. To all of these the sincere sympathy of the Class is extended. Mrs. Hanscom and her sons reside at 4318 N.E. 42nd St., Seattle.
1955
RICHARD JOHN THEN died December 28 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head.
Dick was born in Boonton, N. J., and attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, N. J. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and majored in geology. After graduation he became a geophysical interpreter for Continental Oil Co. in Ponca City, Okla. He spent a year in the Navy flight program, then returned to Continental Oil and remained there until 1960. He later traveled extensively in Europe.
At the time of his death Dick was living with his parents at 29 Field Rd., Maplewood, and was a member of the Naval Re- serve training center in Elizabeth He was unmarried.
Albert Lowther Demaree, A.M. '41
Erastus Beethoven Badger 11 '08
Francis Stirling Wilson '16
Dr. Edmund Prince Fowler Jr. '26
