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.]
Allen, Harry C. '92, Mar. 26 Kendall, Warren C. '99, Mar. 13 Jenkins, Harry M. '00, Mar. 19 McElroy, John H. '03, Mar. 14 Torrey, Harry K. '04, Mar. 11 Smith, Allen C. '05, Mar. 19 Nuelle, Joseph H. '06, Apr. 9 Sleeper, Finlay P. '06, Mar. 18 Lena, Fred T. '07, Apr. 1 Worthen, Joseph W. '09, Mar. 15 Allen, George E. '10, Apr. 3 Washburn, Harold E. '10, Mar. 29 McConnell, Glen G. '11, Mar. 20 Sterling, John C. '11, Mar. 24 Gould, James R. '14, Sept. 25, 1963 Littlefield, Alden L. '14, Apr. 5 Washburn, William W. '14, Mar. 22 Pelletier, John A. '16, Mar. 26 Hesse, Henry R. '18, Mar. 10 Serafin, Peter J. '18, Feb. 4 Beranek, John G. '20, Mar. 7 Derby, Robert W. '21, Mar. 28 Rogers, Elwood '21, Feb. 14 Kattwinkel, Egon E. '22, Mar. 15 Sollitt, Sumner S. '23, Apr. 2 Ripley, James D. '26, Apr. 2 Roberts, John G. '26, Feb. 5 Hartman, Morris J. '29, Mar. 22 Crosier, George D. '30, Mar. 9 Goggan, Thomas S. Jr. '32, Jan. 17, 1962 Morrison, Charles E. Jr. '32, Oct. 15, 1963 Standish, Miles '33, June 25, 1937 Madden, John J. '34, Mar. 2 Close, Daniel B. '35, Apr. 3 McKernan, John R. '36, Mar. 20 Kraatz, Joseph A. '46, Apr. 3 Schnitzer, Alan H. '60, Jan. 21, 1962
Faculty
HAROLD EDWARD WASHBURN '10, Professor of French Emeritus, died March 29 in Ottawa, Kansas, where he had been living since his retirement in 1957. He was 75 years old.
Professor Washburn was, an active member of Dartmouth's teaching staff for 39 years, beginning in 1914-15 and continuously from 1919 to 1957. After graduation in 1910 he was assistant to the Registrar for three years and then studied at the University of Grenoble, returning to Dartmouth as instructor in French for the year 1914-15. He left the College for graduate study at Harvard, obtaining his A.M. there in 1916, but interrupted graduate work in 1917 to enlist in the U. S. Army. He was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant and served overseas with headquarters of the 26th (Yankee) Division. At the conclusion of hostilities Lieutenant Washburn studied at the Sorbonne for five months in 1919 and returned to Dartmouth as instructor that fall. He again studied at the Sorbonne on a Parker Traveling Fellowship from Harvard in 1921-22, and was promoted to assistant professor at Dartmouth upon his return. He became a full professor in 1934 and for two separate periods was chairman of the Department of Romance Languages. Professor Washburn taught a course in the French novel as well as elementary and advanced courses in the French language.
Born in Putney, Vt., on January 22, 1889, Professor Washburn prepared for college at Brattleboro High School and received his Dartmouth A.B. degree cum laude. In one of the first biographical forms he filled out for the Alumni Records Office he wrote: "I have an undying admiration for France and the French people." His first marriage, on June 16, 1919, was to Simone Rodet of Paris, who returned to Hanover with him but died the following year, a few days after giving birth to a son, Rene Jacques. The son died in February 1925, at the age of four.
Professor Washburn's second marriage, to Sidsell Nelson of Ottawa, Kansas, a portrait artist, took place in Paris on August 19, 1922. Surviving Professor Washburn are his wife, who resides at 123 W 2nd St., two sons, John N. Washburn '45, with the Office of the Legal Adviser, U. S. Department of State in Washington, and Wilcomb E. Washburn '48, Curator of the Division of Political History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington; and three grandchildren. Professor Washburn's brother, Dr. William W. Washburn 'l4 of San Francisco, died just one week before the professor, on March 22. The Rev. Benjamin M. Washburn '07 of Ridgefield, Conn., is a cousin, and Dr. Edward G. Washburn '45 of San Francisco is a nephew.
Funeral services were held at the Congregational Church, Putney, Vt., on April 2, and burial was in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Putney.
1899
WARREN CLEAVELAND KENDALL was born May 22, 1877 in the old railroad station at Pompanoosuc, Vt. (now renamed "Kendall" in his honor), where his father was agent. He died suddenly of a heart attack March 13 while visiting his brother Leon '10 in Clearwater, Fla.
Warren's mother, Cora Cleaveland Kendall, born in Lebanon, N. H., was a descendant of Moses Cleaveland of Ipswich, England, who emigrated to America in 1635. His fourth-generation descendants, Aaron and Moses, founded Cleveland, Ohio in 1796.
Warren's preparation for Dartmouth at St. Johnsbury was hardly more important than was his education in telegraphy, begun at eleven and continued in most leisure or vacation time right through college days. The Morse Code was as familiar to him as the alphabet. In the summer of 1899 he put his Bachelor of Science degree away, along with his Tri-Kap and C & G pins, and became a telegrapher at the B & M North Station in Boston. During the next ten years he rose through all the grades of clerking to become B & M general manager, general superintendent, and finally superintendent of transportation. Thus by the outbreak of World War I he had become master of the details of railroad operation.
Millions of men and millions of tons of produce and munitions were to shuttle back and forth across the continent, up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, gearing in with fleets of transports and freighters. This was exactly the sort of problem that for years had fascinated Warren Kendall. The result was a summons to Washington as headquarters, with constant traveling throughout the country, while he grappled with the problem. Successively, from 1917 to 1933, he became New England representative on the Car Service Commission of the American Railway Association, Manager of the Car Service Section of the U.S. Railroad Administration under government control; after the Government returned railroads to their owners, he was Chairman of the Commission on Car Service, Manager of the Railroad Relations Section of the Car Service Division of the American Railway Association, and in 1933 Chairman of the Car Service Section of American Railroads.
In World War II he became Agent for the Interstate Commerce Commission for all freight cars, and under the Office of Defense Transportation also Agent for all passenger cars. In 1949 he retired after 50 years of uninterrupted railroad service. But for years he continued as consultant to the ICC. He had also helped develop a National Association of Shippers' Advisory Boards. And he had become a constant friendly stimulant for everybody from presidents of railroads and industries down to countless individual workers. Warren Kendall had proved himself both a cool-headed human computer and a warm-hearted human being.
Of course there were awards, though to Warren they were an appreciation due first to his multitudes of fellow-workers. On November 12, 1946 he received the United States Certificate of Merit, signed by President Truman, and also the Certificate of Appreciation from the United States Navy, "in grateful recognition of meritorious personal service, for wisdom and foresight with indifference in cost to himself in time and effort." In 1948 from the National Association of Shippers Advisory Boards came their Gold Medal of Honor.
Warren, however, never failed to heed the calls of Dartmouth and of '99. Thus he served as President of the Washington, D. C.„ Dartmouth Club, 1923-24; Class Secretary, 1929-34; member of the Alumni Council, 1935-41, and its President 1938-39; president of the Secretaries Association, 1933-34; founder and first president of the Sarasota Club, 1957; and Class President and Fund Agent, 1959-64. He received his honorary Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth in 1949, during the Fiftieth Reunion of the Class, and in June 1958 the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
One of the activities nearest to Warren's and Helen's hearts was the organizing and building of the First Congregational Church in Sarasota ten years ago. To this enterprise they contributed generously in time, money, and service. And from that church on March 15 a throng of friends bade farewell to Warren before he was taken north to await June burial beside his wife, the former Helen Augusta Hodgkins, whom he married in 1905 and who died last October 4.
Perhaps, above all else. Warren Kendall will be remembered by railroad co-workers, classmates and Dartmouth men everywhere as a personal friend. As a tireless traveler and a prolific letter writer he somehow seemed never far from any one of us.
Survivors include a son, William H. Kendall '32 of Louisville, president of the Louisville-Nashville Railroad; another son, Gordon H. Kendall of Jacksonville, Fla., an executive of the Atlantic Coast Line; a daughter Roberta, Mrs. Rolfe Mason Kennedy of Charlotte, N. C.; also a brother, Leon B. Kendall '10, retired general manager of the Chicago and Northwestern; and four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
1900
1900 has lost another good man and true. HARRY MILO JENKINS passed away on March 19 at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass., where he had been taken on March 6 suffering from a mild shock with lymphatic complications. On March 21 a simple memorial service, attended by relatives and many friends, was held in the Fuller Chapel of Second Church, West Newton, Mass., of which he had been a member since 1917. The Class was represented at this service by Arthur and Ruth Roberts of Natick, Mass.
Harry was born in Fairlee, Vt., on June 11, 1877. He was graduated from Bradford (Vt.) Academy and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1896. In college he was a member of AAO (Chi Phi) fraternity, acted as assistant marshal at Commencement, and was graduated with the B.S. degree. On July 7, 1901 he married Florence C. Gordon of Boston, Mass., who died in 1929.
On graduation "Cap," as he was known to the Class because of his service with the Vermont National Guard, went into business and was with firms in and about Boston. In 1923 he was appointed registrar and field secretary of Burdett Business College in Boston. Because of poor health he was forced .to resign this position in 1933 at the height of his powers and usefulness. For many years he was a trustee of Lincoln Savings Bank of Boston, active in church work, Boy Scout work, and other community enterprises.
Owing to the untimely death of his wife, he was both father and mother to his three children and according to reports from the family he did a very creditable job of it. The warmth of his friendship, his cheery greeting, his genial presence added much to the enjoyment of our class roundups and reunions. Outstanding was his loyalty to his friends, to his college, and to the Class of 1900; this will stand as an eternal memorial to a sturdy scion of a fine New England family.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Homer G. Bean, of Auburndale, Mass.; two sons, Gordon of Corning, N. Y., and Hubert of Weston, Mass.; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
1903
JOHN HALE MCELROY of 14 Woodland Ave., Albany, N. Y., died March 14 after a long illness. He was born in Indianapolis, Ind., May 1, 1880 and moved to Albany when an infant. His father James F. McElroy '76 was president of Consolidated Car Heating Co. of Albany.
John prepared at Albany High School for Dartmouth, where he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. Throughout college and thereafter he maintained a deep and active interest in both. After graduation from Dartmouth, John worked as engineer for New York State Highway Dept., civil engineer on the Panama Canal for one year, and Secretary of Consolidated Car Heating Co. He retired from Consolidated as Vice President in 1953.
In 1906 John was married to Miss Helen Boss of Albany who predeceased him. Surviving him are daughters, Mrs. Craig Thorn Jr. of Hudson, N. Y., Mrs. Alice Proctor of Dedham, Mass., and Mrs. Thomas H. Stetson of Falls Church, Va.; a son, the Rev. James F. McElroy '31 of Philadelphia; a sister; 12 grandchildren and 14 great-grand-children.
John was greatly beloved in the Capitol District and had a full life of community work, including 47 years as vestryman at St. Peter's Episcopal Church. He was active in Boy Scouts, Y.M.C.A., Kiwanis Club, and University Club of Albany.
He had many friends in his chosen college and fraternity. We are sorry to lose him but glad that we could have visited with him last June at our 60th.
You will find John's picture in the reunion group page 33 of the July 1963 MAGAZINE. He is in the back row next to the last man on the right.
1904
HARRY KIMBALL TORREY passed away March 11. Born in Newburyport, Mass., August 16, 1880, he was a descendant of a distinguished Revolutionary family, and inherited his membership in the Sons of the American Revolution, an organization to which he gave a great deal of his time and interest, and became a National Trustee of that Society. Harry was a graduate of Exeter Academy, where he was an honor student, and came to the Class in our sophomore year. He left Dartmouth at the end of that year, studied law in Portsmouth, N. H., and was admitted to the Bar in 1907. From 1918 to 1950, when Harry retired, he was traveling auditor of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue, Income and Excess Profit Tax Dept., in Washington, D. C., New Hampshire. Oklahoma and Florida.
We remember him with deep respect and are proud to make note of his distinguished record.
1906
JOHN JAY BURTCH, whose home was at 684 Lowell Street, Lexington, Mass., died at the Symmes Hospital in Arlington on February 20, after a brief illness. The funeral services were held at Arlington, with interment at North Thetford, Vt.
John was born in Wahoo, Neb., September 28, 1883, and prepared for Dartmouth at Englewood High School in Chicago. In college he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the tennis and track teams and the Glee Club. He was also the class chorister. Remaining in Hanover for a year of graduate study and serving at the same time as an assistant instructor in economics, he received his A.M. degree in 1907. He was a salesman for Ginn and Company in Chicago from 1907 to 1918.
On his return from World War I he entered the general real estate and insurance business in Arlington, Mass., which he followed successfully until a few years ago, when he established an office for the collection of bills for utility companies and the Town of Arlington. John never lost his interest in sports, and for many years umpired the National Doubles Tennis Tournaments at Longwood.
He was married October 6, 1910 to Esther May Howe of North Thetford, Vt., who died in 1944. He is survived by two daughters, Solglad and Elizabeth, who reside at the home in Lexington and to whom the Class extends its deep sympathy.
1909
JOSEPH WASHBURN WORTHEN of 60 Swan Road, Winchester, Mass., died at the Winchester Hospital on March 15, following a prolonged illness.
Joe was bora in Hanover, N. H., on January 21, 1888, the son of Professor Thomas Wilson Dorr Worthen (1872) and Elizabeth Washburn. He entered Dartmouth from Hanover High School. From the start Joe was an important member of 1909 as is shown by his undergraduate activities: freshman debating team, manager of freshman hockey, sophomore debating team, manager of sophomore football team, manager of varsity football, member of Orpheus, Glee and Mandolin Clubs, Rollins Prize Speaker, Second Class of 1866 Prize Speaker, member of Palaeopitus, Rufus Choate Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, Sphinx Senior Society, and Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.
He was 1909's first permanent vice president and then served terms as president and secretary and made the Golden Anniversary address for the Class in 1959. He served two terms on the Alumni Council, was president of the Secretaries Association and the Boston Alumni Association. He was president of the Alumni Association of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.
Joe spent the year following graduation at Harvard Law School and then was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at New College, Oxford. He received a B.C.L. from Oxford in 1913. He served as president of the American Club of Oxford University and for more than 25 years was on the committees for the selection of Rhodes Scholars in New England.
Joe started his law practice in Boston m 1913 and in 1919 joined Robert J. Holmes '09 in a partnership in Boston which lasted until 1932 when he set up his own office at 10 Post Office Square, maintained to the present. He held membership in the Middle-sex, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations.
On August 7, 1915, Joe was married to Dorothy Bullard at Wellesley, Mass. Two daughters and two sons were born to them and a happy family circle formed to which twelve grandchildren added much joy and pleasure.
He is survived by his wife Dorothy; two daughters, Mary (Mrs. Julien L. Tobey of Wenham, Mass.) and Joanne (Mrs. Richard Latta of Marblehead); two sons, Thomas '42 of Winchester and Palmer B. '49 of Marblehead; a brother, Thacher W. '07 of West Hartford, Conn.; a sister, Miss Louise of Hartford, Conn.; and twelve grandchildren.
A memorial service was held March 18 in the First Congregational Church, Winchester, Mass.
1911
JOHN CARLETON STERLING, honorary chairman of the board of This Week Magazine, died March 24 in the Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Boynton Beach, Fla., after a long illness. He and his wife Katherine were spending their seventeenth winter in Delray Beach.
"Chub" Sterling had a long and distinguished career in publishing and advertising. He was founding director and later chairman (1958-60) of The Advertising Council, which grew out of the public services rendered by the advertising industry during World War II. He also was one of the founders of the Advertising Research Foundation and served as director from 1951 to 1960. In 1952 he was honored by Printer'sInk with the first Annual Advertising Award for "distinguished personal services to advertising."
Chub was born in Bridgeport, Conn., April 25, 1888, and prepared for Dartmouth at Bridgeport High School and Hotchkiss. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet and played on the class basketball team.
He began his professional career as a salesman with the International Silver Company and then the Warner Company of Bridgeport. During World War I he served as captain of infantry, and in 1919 entered the publishing field as manager of the New York division of Ladies' Home Journal. Four years later he became a partner in the advertising firm of Barton, Durstine & Osborn (now BBD&O) but in 1926 returned to publishing as vice president and advertising director of McCall's.
Chub's long association with This Week began in 1936 as associate publisher. A year later he was named president of the parent company, Publication Corporation. In 1940 he was advanced to publisher of This Week and eight years later to chairman of the board. He was active in this position until May 1960, when he became honorary chairman. During these years he guided the Sunday magazine's growth from a distribution of 21 newspapers with 4.5 million circulation and advertising revenue of $2,276,000 to 43 newspapers with 14.2 million circulation and $30,000,000 in revenue.
A resident of Greenwich, Conn., Chub headed the Greenwich Community Chest and belonged to social and civic groups there and in Florida. He had a lifelong interest in Dartmouth affairs, serving the Class of 1911 as class agent and as president. He was a member of the Alumni Council from 1932 to 1938 and was Alumni Fund chairman in 1933 and 1934. More recently he was a member of the first Capital Gifts Committee. He was honored with a Dartmouth Alumni Award in 1959. Shortly before his death he had completed a book containing new proof that Daniel Webster actually had uttered the famous "small college" phrase about Dartmouth in the Dartmouth College Case.
Chub is survived by his wife, Katherine Calhoun Sterling at Andrews Road; a daughter, Mrs. William L. Thompson Jr. of Rensselaer, N. Y.; two sons, Calhoun '40 of Fayetteville, N. Y., and John '44 of Birmingham, Mich.; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Private memorial services were held at Christ Church Chapel, Greenwich, with interment in Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich. In place of flowers it was suggested that friends contribute to a Dartmouth memorial fund to bear the name of John Carleton Sterling'11.
GLEN GORRELL MCCONNELL died suddenly in Fort Myers, Fla., on March 20. He and Harriette were spending their vacation there as they have done in recent years. No further details are known at this time but last fall Harriette had written of Glen's having a very serious bout with pneumonia a year ago and she was happy to have him home again.
Glen was born August 3, 1887 in Paulding, Ohio, attended the public schools there and entered Dartmouth from the Troy High School. In college he was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Turtle and Dragon. On graduation he joined his father in the George R. McConnell General Insurance Agency in Troy, later to become president and a highly regarded lifelong citizen of the community.
He was a member of the Troy Rotary Club and the Trinity Episcopal Church in Troy, where funeral services were held on March 24. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery.
He was married to Harriette Klaner in Chicago, Dec. 21, 1912. Besides his wife, who resides at 626 E Franklin St., Troy, he is survived by three sons, Glen Jr., George R. II of Troy and Dr. Robert W. of Davenport, Ia.; one daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Casparis of Troy; 18 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
1914
LEON PICKERING HOBBS passed away on March 6. He had been residing at 20 Kensington Road, Arlington, Mass.
Leon prepared for college at Phillips Exeter and included membership in Beta Theta Pi in his Hanover activities.
In 1919 he married the former Britomart Stack who survives him at the Arlington address. He is also survived by his daughter, Mrs. Bickford White.
Last June Leon wrote that he was busy with two Hobbs Realty Trusts and was chairman of the Board of Managers of the Middlesex National Bank.
In his home on 2850 Lake St., San Francisco, on the night of March 22, WILLIAM WALLACE WASHBURN was taken from us by a heart attack. There was no warning - no indication that this outstanding man was threatened. It was an instantaneous end to a life and a career that many might envy and very few could achieve.
Bill came to the campus from the farm of his ancestors in Putney, Vt. - with an earnest dedication to a career in medicine. The way was not easy for him and he was required to work at various jobs during undergraduate years and Dartmouth Medical School.
Then came graduation from the University of California Medical School, and overseas service as a Captain in a surgical unit in World War I - preparation for a career of great distinction and success. When Bill retired in 1957 from active association with the famous Southern Pacific Hospital he had become its widely respected Chief Surgeon, consulting Chief Surgeon at St. Francis Memorial Hospital, and still continued his important private surgical practice. His son, Edward, Dartmouth 1945, joined him, and upon Bill's withdrawal assumed full responsibilities of the office.
Dr. Washburn was an oft-honored member and officer of many medical and surgical societies, the Dartmouth Club of Northern California, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
No mere recital of achievements can give a true picture of Bill - the surgeon, the devoted husband and father, the humanist, the friend, the superb host, the generous and often secret benefactor. He graced every community he touched, and enhanced it.
Our love and understanding sympathy go to Bill's family - Hortense, his wife, his sons Edward and Bradford, his daughter, Mrs. Mary Elena Straub, and his two grandchildren. Bill's brother, Harold 1910, died March 29. He had long been a Professor of French at Dartmouth, retiring in 1957.
It is suggested that memorial gifts be sent to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, St. Francis Hospital Fund, or Southern Pacific General Hospital Fund. Admiral Arthur H. Dearing represented the Class at the funeral.
1918
JAMES ALLEN MYTTON died at St. Joseph, Mo., on December 15, 1963, after a short illness. He was 69 years old. A native of St. Joseph, Jim retired in January 1963, after 43 years in the investment banking business.
He was a graduate of Central High School at St. Joseph and attended Dartmouth College and Columbia University. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. During World War I he served in the Navy. Services were held in Christ Episcopal Church, of which he was a member.
He is survived by his widow, Mary Phillips Mytton, of 2705 Lovers Lane, and their two sons, James W. Mytton '49 of Denver and William P. Mytton, of St. Joseph.
1921
Manager and owner of Steele's Book Store, Peterborough, N. H., since 1922, ROBERT WILKINS DERBY, aged 64, died March 28 at his home, 17 Union St., Peterborough.
Born June 6, 1899 in Peterborough, Bob prepared at his high school and lived most of his life there. A former treasurer of the Town School District and a former treasurer of the Peterborough Historical Society, he was at the time of his death a member of Altemont Lodge AF & AM, a director of the Peterborough Cooperative Bank, and a corporate member of the Peterborough Savings Bank.
The book store was a one-man business which kept Bob in town except for occasional short trips to Boston and to the White Mountains on fall foliage drives. He bought most of his books from Jack Campbell '21.
At Dartmouth Bob was a member of Epsilon Kappa Phi (now Delta Upsilon), the Spanish Club, and the Student Army Training Corps.
He married Marjorie Steele Emmes in Boston June 5, 1926. They had no children. She and his brother, Clarence Derby of Peterborough, survive him.
1922
EGON EMIL KATTWINKEL died March 15 at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital. He was a prominent and highly respected physician with many Dartmouth alumni and their families among his patients.
Katti was born 63 years ago in Cologne, Germany, and came to this country as a child. He entered Dartmouth from Stamford (Conn.) High School and was with us in Hanover for freshman and sophomore years. At college he was a member of Theta Chi and Pi Delta Epsilon. He later transferred to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where in 1923 he received his B.S. degree. He subsequently entered Harvard Medical School and in 1930 received his M.D. there.
He began his professional career as an intern at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and later started a private practice of internal medicine. He and his family lived at 65 Sterling Street, West Newton and throughout his life he retained his association with Newton-Wellesley Hospital serving as Chief of Cardiology.
He was also a past Chief of Medicine at Newton-Wellesley and was past president of the Boston Chapter of the Massachusetts Heart Association. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Association, the Charles River District Medical Society, and the Roxbury Society for Medical Improvements, and he was past president of the Newton Medical Club.
At the memorial services at the Second Church, West Newton, our Class was represented by Ray and Doris Atwood, Hal and Mildred Burnham, and two of Katti's former roommates - Joe Perkins and Horace Shepard with their respective wives Betty and Margaret. Other Dartmouth classes were represented by Ted Learned '24, Nate Bugbee '25, Henry Blake '26 and Henry Whitmore '26.
Katti and Dorothy Fisher were married June 8, 1929. He is survived by her; two sons, Dr. Norman of the U.S. Navy and John of Troy, N. Y.; a daughter, Mrs. Stephen Wilson of San Jose, Calif.; and a sister. The Class offers its deepest sympathy to the family and joins the community in bereavement at the loss of an outstanding member of the medical profession.
1924
HARRY SAMUEL TEMPLE died August 23, 1963 while vacationing with friends in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. According to word from his wife, he suffered a massive coronary shortly after finishing a game of tennis and died within the hour.
Sam, as he was known to his classmates, entered Dartmouth from St. Paul Academy and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. After graduation he joined his father's accounting firm in St. Paul and in 1936 became treasurer of the New Richmond Roller Mills Company in Wisconsin. In 1951 he reported his position as Comptroller of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sam was married in 1926 to the former Dorothy B. Dodge, who survives him and now resides at 290 Laurel Avenue, Highland Park, Ill. Two sons and a daughter also survive.
The record on HAROLD SMITH NOYES is sad. Hal was a "local boy," born January 3, 1901 in Enfield, N. H., just about ten miles from the campus. His father was a weaver in the mill there. The academic record was poor and Hal withdrew in midyear of his sophomore year, February 1921. In 1927 he was living 25 miles north of Dartmouth, in Newbury, Vermont. He expressed "no interest" in the College or the Class. His death is belatedly reported: December 25. 1959, at Water.bury, Vermont.
1926
GEORGE MELVIN LIVERMORE died in Boston of a heart attack as he was driving home from work on February 27.
Born in Waltham, Mass., April 20, 1903, George spent his lifetime close by his native city. He graduated in 1921 from Waltham High School, where he was captain of the football team, and did postgraduate work at Dean Academy. George spent only two years at Dartmouth. During his freshman year he roomed with Francis C. Smith '26 in 30 Fayerweather Hall.
George was employed for several years by Lever Brothers in Cambridge, but soon entered the employ of the Boston Edison Company by whom he was still employed at the time of his sudden death. He was successively manager of the Edison stores in Newton Highlands, Framingham (for 20 years), Waltham and Maynard. Four years ago he became floating manager of the Boston Edison stores in the Greater Boston area.
George is survived by his widow, Mary (McManus) Livermore of 17 Thornton Road, Waltham, Mass.; two sons, Lawrence and John, both of Waltham; and four daughters, Mary Ann (Mrs. Roger) Guthrie of Ardmore, Pa., Ruth Ann, Susan Jane, and Kathleen Ellen, all of Waltham; and by two sisters. The Class of 1926 extends to all of them our sincere sympathy in their loss.
Word was recently received of the sudden death on November 17, 1963 of HYMAN LOUIS SHADDOCK who died in his sleep at his home in Pacific Palisades, California.
Born in Bristol, Vt., September 24, 1903, Hy came to Dartmouth from the Enfield (N. H.) High School where he was president of his senior class, and also president of the athletic association. He is remembered by many of us as one of a quiet but genial disposition, an excellent student, and an avid sportsman. Following graduation from Dartmouth he migrated to the West Coast. For the past 25 years he represented a tobacco and candy wholesaler in the Los Angeles area, in which business he made many new and loyal friends.
Hy and Toby Spivak were married on November 30, 1941 in Los Angeles. Their daughter, Luba Diane Fisher, was married two months before Hy's death, and he thus had the supreme pleasure of giving his daughter in marriage. She is now a senior at the University of California at Berkeley. Their son David is a high school junior. Hy always put his family above all else, for he was a devoted husband and father.
Hy is survived by his widow, Toby (Spivak) Shaddock, of 875 Chautauqua Boulevard, Pacific Palisades, Calif.; his daughter Luba and son David; and by three sisters, to all of whom goes our deepest sympathy.
1930
"No one who knew him will ever forget him!"
This is the spontaneous reaction of everyone to the news of Brud Crosier's death which occurred on March 9, 1964.
GEORGE DAVID CROSIER was reared in North Adams, Mass. He arrived in Hanover from Worcester Academy with a physique that most grown men would envy, with a shy kind of humor and a quiet warmth that possessed a universal magnetism.
Although this New England freshman had never been on skis, even the prospect of jumping didn't phase him. In response to a ten-dollar dare, he climbed the Dartmouth ski jump, clamped on borrowed skis, and all two hundred and twenty pounds of him took off! Spread-eagled and flailing off the lip of the jump, he finally landed on his back — miraculously undamaged. Back in New Hampshire Hall he confided, "For a hundred bucks I'll go down that rig in July on roller skates."
On April 7, 1934 Brud married the former Marjorie Jones of Hanover, the girl he had selected as his future bride when he first arrived at Dartmouth.
Along with his innate shyness, Brud could be as exuberant as the greatest extrovert. When he burst into the Chi Phi House after being elected captain of the track team, his bellow, "BY GOD, I MADE IT!" hit with the wallop of a sonic boom. Yet, he never again referred to that signal honor; in fact, in the Aegis beneath his class photograph he listed only one word, "Track." No mention either of Green Key or Sphinx.
After graduating from Dartmouth, Brud attended Harvard School of Business. He was assistant controller of Hayward-Schuster Woolen Mills until 1947 when he became assistant to the president of the Putnam Worsted Mills. He moved to Washington in 1951 to become head of the Wool Division of the O.P.S., and in 1954 was appointed Deputy Comptroller, U. S. Navy Ammunition Depot in Hastings, Nebraska. At the time of his death, Brud was Assistant to Regional Administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency in Philadelphia.
In addition to his widow, the former Marjorie Jones, Brud leaves his son, Robert W. Crosier; his daughter, Constance C. Gibson; a grandson; his brother, Walter S. Crosier, and his sister, Mrs. R. O. Smith.
S. A. R.
An advice, extraordinarily delayed, reporting the death of BERNARD WALTER FOER while on European duty with the U. S. Army, July 18, 1945, has been received. He entered Dartmouth from South Side High School, Newark, N. J., and remained in Hanover less than a full semester. He did not maintain any contacts with the Class, and nothing else is known concerning his life after leaving college.
1931
PETER BERTLES EVANS passed away suddenly on March 15. Such was the telegram received by the College from the Dupont Flint Laboratory. Like the telegram, Pete's life was all too short.
On receiving word of his death, his friend Charlie Simonson wrote - "After nearly a year of not seeing each other, I spent last weekend in Philadelphia with him. We stayed together at the Racquet Club, spent most of Saturday at the Philadelphia C.C. and saw the Noel Coward show "High Spirits" Saturday night.
"After breakfast Sunday morning he walked me to the Suburban Station so that I could visit some friends out on the Main Line. He went back to pack and catch a noon plane to Detroit.
"He got back home at 4:00 p.m., picked up his mail, and turned on the TV. The maid found him dead in the chair with the TV still on the next morning. He had succumbed to a heart attack. He left no close relatives.
"He was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1909 and graduated. Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth in '31. He went on to graduate school at Northwestern, earning a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1935.
"He was continuously employed by Du-Pont and made important contributions in research for the Fabrics and Finishes Division. Most of his career was in Philadelphia but for the last seven years he was located in Flint.
"During the war Pete was loaned to the government and worked on the atomic bomb. After the war, the President wrote him a letter of thanks for his important contribution to its development.
"He was Class Treasurer for quite a few terms and a loyal and devoted contributor and worker for the College."
Pete's vim and vigor in Class activities and in his personal appearances at reunions and other meetings will be sorely missed by the Class but particularly by those of us who had the good fortune to work with him as officers and executive committee members.
1936
A little more than a year and a half ago, JOHN RETTIE MCKERNAN wrote the obituary, which appeared in this MAGAZINE, for his best friend and classmate, Bob MacPherson. On March 20 John died suddenly of a heart attack in Boston where he had been broadcasting the New England Schoolboy Basketball Tournament. That very morning it had been announced that he had been named Outstanding Sportscaster in Maine by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Awards Committee. He was to have been honored on April 6 and 7 in Salisbury, N. C.
Jack had been an active newspaper man since graduation, with time out for service during World War II. At the time of his death he was editor and publisher of the Penobscot Times in Oldtown, Maine. Brad Chase and Pete Fitzherbert represented the Class at his funeral in Bangor.
Jack was vice president of our graduating class, a member-at-large of Palaeopitus, and captain of the varsity basketball team. The Class of 1936 will miss him greatly, and we extend our sincere sympathy to his wife, Barbara, at 218 Broadway, Bangor, Maine, his sons, Jock and Bob, his mother, his sister, and his brothers, Allan '40 and Gordon '42.
As one of his sportswriter colleagues wrote, "Perhaps someday we might attain the qualities that were Jack McKernan's, his character, his stature, his ability, his personality. But it's doubtful. You are only born with such qualities."
1938
ANDREW DANIEL ROBERTSON died on December 1, 1963.
Andy was born in Shamokin, Pa., on February 9, 1915 and prepared for Dartmouth at the Hun School. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
In 1946 he married Barbara A. Lambert and she survives him at 2917 Starr Road, Palm Springs, Calif. He is also survived by his son, Andrew Jr.
1945
RUPERT STANLEY RAY died suddenly on February 24 in Pasadena, Calif. At the time Rupe was vice president of Cotan Corp., manufacturers of imitation leather goods. His home was at 811 S. Oakland, Pasadena.
A graduate of Malden High School, where he was football captain, Rupe attended Dean Academy where he also captained the football team. A member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, he left Dartmouth soon after Pearl Harbor. Rupe joined the Navy Air Corps and attained the rank of lieutenant. At one time during the war he was credited with sinking more enemy tonnage than any other Navy Pilot.
Surviving him are his wife Anne; six children: Virginia, twins Cynthia and Jeffrey, twins Nancy and Robert, and Rupert Jr.; his mother, two sisters, and his brother.
Words cannot describe the surprised shock of Rupe's passing. One of my first friends at Dartmouth, he seemed indestructible. The Class has lost a good friend and extends its deepest sympathies to Rupe's widow and family.
1949
The Class of 1949 has joined to express their sorrow at the death on April 16, 1963 of Ross WHEELER DUNBAR.
Ross was in the communications industry, and had charge of sales for the Rollins Broadcasting Co. of Wilmington. In college his major was pre-med.
Sympathy is .expressed to Ross's wife Shirley, who resides at 1227 McCannon's Church Rd., Wilmington, Del., and to their two children, Alex and Beth.
1959
Though somewhat belatedly, we sadly record that on December 2, 1963 a loyal son of Dartmouth was lost to us through injuries sustained in an auto accident earlier in the day. LT. JACK LLOYD KEIGLEY died just three days after having spent Thanksgiving with a classmate, Dick Watson. That night he had said his usual friendly, quiet farewells to a group of classmates and close friends he had not seen since college days. He was returning to the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., after spending the night with a friend, when the accident occurred.
"Kegs" came to us from Grand Junction, Colo., where he was a standout high school student. While at Dartmouth he was an unforgettable member of the Glee Club, and an even more unique member of the Injunaires as the group's sophisticated funnyman. A staunch Theta Delt, he was an architecture major who painted extensively. One of those paintings, given to the fraternity by him, now occupies a place of honor over the fireplace in the living room. As of this writing, the majority of all the canvases this talented man ever created are in an unknown room he rented for showing purposes somewhere in or near Lakehurst.
Upon graduation from Dartmouth he received a fellowship for further study of architecture at Harvard School of Design. Instead of attending, he enlisted in the Naval Air Corps, receiving his early training at Pensacola, Fla. His love of music and fun led him into the Naval Air Chorus while there, furthering the "sing and travel" practice he had loved at Dartmouth. During the last year and a half, Lt. Keigley had made two six-month tours of duty in the Arctic as one of two naval helicopter pilots operating from the icebreaker Westwind. In a recent letter, he wrote about their following a 25-square-mile iceberg, the largest ever known to break off the polar cap. He said that his group had landed on the iceberg, core-drilled and planted radio antennae on it. They found that the large iceberg traveled with the currents in a huge circle, rather than drifting toward the Grand Bank off Newfoundland as expected.
Jack had returned to the States November 17 and after visiting friends in the East, he planned to spend Christmas in Grand Junction with his mother, Mrs. Harriet Traber, and maternal grandmother, Mrs. Betty Kelly. A brother, James D. Keigley of Powell, Wyo., also survives. At the memorial service on December 7, classmates Greg Holthusen and Dick Watson, along with Chuck Darrow '6O and Bob Loverud '57 were honorary, and consequently honored, bearers.
To the remaining family may we extend our very deepest sympathy at this difficult time.
1962
ROBERT BARCLAY MEYER died February 6 after a two-year battle with cancer. Upon graduating from Dartmouth, "Stilt" taught mathematics and coached basketball and football at Salisbury Preparatory School in Salisbury, Conn. This past fall he entered the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Mass., where he attended until his illness forced him to leave in December.
While at Dartmouth Bob played basketball for two years, thus acquiring his nickname. He was a brother of Beta Theta Pi where he was treasurer. Apparently, even at Dartmouth Bob was aware that his days were numbered, but he never lost his spirit and good humor.
Bob will be remembered for his cheerful "har-har" and warm greetings. He felt the strong ties of Dartmouth, carrying with him a sense of great pride and love for his life in Hanover. He was so attached to the spirit we all feel for the College that he insisted on completing his senior year with his Class although he was not well. In his four years, Bob garnered much from what we know as the Dartmouth life, and to this life he also gave a great deal.
Representing the Class at the funeral were Chairman Steve Martindale and Rich Barber. Also, Don O'Neil '61 and Carl Mayer '61. Bob is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Meyer of 138 Alexander Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J.
Prof. Harold Edward Washburn '10
Warren Cleaveland Kendall '99
Joseph Washburn Worthen '09
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