Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices mayappear in this issue or a later one.]
Allen, Edwin H. '85, May 23 Grover, Frederick O. '90, June 2 Colby, Ira G. '94, June 25 Austin, Frank E. '95, June 21 Donovan, Timothy S. '01, May 8 Griggs, Leland '02, June 29 Abdian, Gregory N. '03, July, 1961 Hinman, Burritt H. '04, June 14 Mower, Penfield '04, May 25 Whittemore, Wilfred D. '04, June 5 Hazen, Edwin H. '05, May 4 Marston, Ralph H. '09, June 13 O'Brien, Frank J. '09, June 19 McMurray, Harry F. '11, May 11 Gately, Matthew E. Jr. '13, June 6 Bergman, Edward H. '14, May 27 Harris, Jonathan N. '14, June 1 Kimball, Roland G. '14, May 17 Waggett, Frank G. '15, June 6 Widman, Herbert V. '15, May 18 Cotton, Thomas L. '17, May 24 Husk, Frederick R. '17, May 5 Opper, Clarence V. '18, June 19 Brown, William B. '19, May 2 Hodgkins, O. Lee '20, June 3 Naylor, Edwin L. '20, June 22 Randolph, Maurice D. '20, February 1964 Thomas, Edward L. '20 Lindsay, Kenneth W. '22, May 15 Rowe, Edgar C. '22, April 19 Jones, H. Fletcher '24, June 20 Truesdale, James W. '26, May 29 Hodell, George T. '27, April 6 Smith, Willard H. '27, June 5 Adams, Herbert E. '28, May 26 Wallis, Richard G. '28, May 21 Smith, H. Morton Jr. '30, May 26 Jonas, Ralph F. '31, May 24 Gardner, Thomas L. Jr. '33, May 2 Howland, Winslow D. '34, May 8 Shaw, William C. 3rd '36, May 15 Ernest, W. Richard '37, Jan. 25 Brandis, Durward H. '38, May 18 Stephens, Bruce A. '42, June 4 Pine, John C. '45, May 2 Pomeroy, John N. Jr. '49, June 17 Starzyk, Edmund P. '60, June 20 Bagley, Charles R., A.M. '32, May 26
Faculty
CHARLES RUTHERFORD BAGLEY, A.M. '32, Edward Tuck Professor of the French Language and Literature Emeritus, died May 26 at his home in Oakland, Calif., after a long illness. Professor Bagley, who was 70, had been associated with Mills College since his retirement from the Dartmouth faculty in 1960.
Professor Bagley came to Dartmouth from Swarthmore in 1930 as visiting professor, for the purpose of establishing an honors program in Romance languages. The College asked him to remain permanently and in 1932 he was elected Professor of French. He was awarded Dartmouth s honorary faculty Master's degree at that time, and in 1946 he was named Edward Tuck Professor. In 1948 he was decorated by the French Government for his teaching and writings.
Professor Bagley was born in Moyock, N. C., on July 9, 1893. He was graduated from Trinity College (now Duke University) in 1914 and received a Master's degree there the next year. After teaching high-school Latin for one year he returned to Trinity as Instructor in French, but enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1917. He served overseas with the A.E.F. and became Captain of Company B of the 321 st Infantry, which participated in the Meuse Argonne offensive. After the war he received a diploma from the University of Paris in 1919 and then was named a Rhodes Scholar from North Carolina. He studied at St. John's College, Oxford, taking a B.A. with honors in 1921 and a B.Litt. in 1922. Summer study at the University of Poitiers earned him additional diplomas in the French language and literature. Professor Bagley later received his M.A. from Oxford in 1932, and on two separate occasions, in 1945-46 and 1951-52, he was invited back by St. John's College to be visiting lecturer and tutor.
In 1922 Professor Bagley was named Instructor in French at the University of North Carolina, and the next year he went to Swarthmore College as assistant professor. There he directed honors work in French and was promoted to associate professor before he left in 1930 to begin his career at Dartmouth.
Professor Bagley was the author of three books, Great Men of France (1932), Introduction toFrench Literature of the 17th Century (1937), and Famous Women of France (1941). He also wrote a biography of Dudley Warren Bagley and was co-author of La France d'autrefois et d'au-jourd' hui.
Professor Bagley was active in the cause of Free France during "World War II and spearheaded a letter-writing campaign under the Dartmouth Defense Group. Among his Hanover activities he was co-founder of the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society in 1936. He was an excellent tennis player, a sport in which he won letters at Trinity and' Oxford and which he coached at Swarthmore.
He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Alpha, and was past president of the New Hampshire chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French.
Professor Bagley was married June 23, 1926, to the former Florence S. Kennedy of Philadelphia. He is survived by his widow, who resides at Mills College, Oakland, Calif.; a son Philip, and a daughter, Mrs. Hans Jurgen Laure.
Following cremation, burial was in the family cemetery in Moyock, N. C. A memorial service was held June 1 in the Mills College chapel.
1885
DR. EDWARD HOWARD ALLEN, Dartmouth's oldest living graduate, who celebrated his 100th birthday on April 16, died May 23 at his home, 37 Hancock Street, Boston, Mass.
Dr. Allen, who was also the oldest living alumnus of Harvard Medical School, was formerly Chief Medical Director of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, from which he retired in 1939. His career with that company began in 1890, the year after he received his Harvard medical degree, and extended over 49 years, the last sixteen of which he was chief medical officer.
Dr. Allen was born in Alfred, Maine on April 16, 1864. He began his college course at Bowdoin but transferred to Dartmouth with seven other sophomores when college officials meted out what was considered an unfair penalty. He became a close friend of his classmate Richard Hovey, and reminiscences of their student days together form an interesting part of the autobiographical story of Dr. Allen that was printed in the April 1964 issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Dr. Allen began the practice of medicine in Boston in the fall of 1889, but shortly thereafter was asked to go to Washington to act temporarily as secretary to Speaker Thomas B. Reed of the U. S. House of Representatives. Dr. Allen's father was Congressman from Maine for twelve years. Upon his return to. Boston, Dr. Allen began to supplement his regular practice with insurance examinations for Hancock and this led to his fulltime association with the company's medical department.
Dr. Allen was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Upsilon fraternity, the Brookline Country Club, where he played golf until he was 80, and the Algonquin Club, Boston.
Dr. Allen was married in 1896 to Miss Linda Whitin Forbush, a descendant of the founder of Whitinsville, Mass., where the Aliens for many years enjoyed a summer farm, Linwood Grove; Mrs. Allen died in 1938. The only survivor is a son, Nathaniel D. W. Allen, who lived with his father in Boston.
The funeral service was held May 26 in St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston, and burial was in Pine Grove Cemetery, Whitinsville.
1890
FREDERICK ORVILLE GROVER, Professor of Botany Emeritus at Oberlin College, passed away on June 2. For two months he had been our oldest living graduate.
Born in Bangor, Maine on July 31, 1868, he was awarded his A.B. at Dartmouth in 1890, and his A.M. in 1893. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Delta Theta. Dr. Grover also earned an A.B. and an A.M. from Harvard. He taught at Oberlin from 1898 until his retirement in 1933. He was active in setting up the college's herbarium and in organizing its department and museum of fine arts.
He married the former Ruth Creighton in 1925, and she survives him at 180 Morgan St., Oberlin, Ohio. He is also survived by his brother, Edwin Osgood Grover '94.
1892
HARRY CARLEY ALLEN died in San Jose, California, on March 26, 1964. He was in his 98th year.
Harry was raised in Randolph, Vt., and was a member of Theta Delta Chi at Dartmouth.
In 1907 he converted his family's farm into a sawmill and operated it successfully until 1927. In 1951 he migrated west to join his son in Nevada. In 1893 Harry married Electra Fish and they had one son. Mrs. Allen died in 1923, but his son survives, as do two granddaughters.
1905
EDWIN HUMPHREY HAZEN died May 4 at Middlesex Memorial Hospital, Middletown, Conn. He was born in that town September 15, 1882.
At Dartmouth he majored in the Classics and was a member of Chi Phi. Because of trouble with his eyes, Edwin was compelled to withdraw from college for a time and received his degree in 1908. However, he was devoted to his own Class of 1905. In 1911 he received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Hartford Theological Seminary and was awarded a Master of Arts degree by "Wesleyan University in Latin and English in 1912; he also received an M.A. from Princeton in 1916.
As a teacher he continued his devotion to Latin with teaching experiences at Straight University in New Orleans, Suffield Academy and Mt. Hermon School in Massachusetts. The major part of his career was spent teaching Latin at Yale University.
For some years he had been in semi-retirement. He made his home with his sister, Miss Helen B. Hazen, at 212 College St., Middletown. He is survived by his sister and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held May 6 at the Doolittle Funeral Home, where Edwin's classmate and fraternity brother, Carrol Campbell, represented his Class and College.
WALTER BLAISDELL SMALL died April 22 in St. Joseph's Hospital, Providence, R. I., after an illness of two months. He was born in Hudson, Mass., April 10, 1882, the son of Walter H. Small '78, a former superintendent of schools.
After some 15 years' experience, chiefly with construction companies, Walter in 1920 entered the employ of Bodell and Company, investment bankers in Providence, where he became cashier. He remained with this firm until his retirement in 1942.
A quiet student at Dartmouth, Walter became a greatly devoted and generous supporter of his Class and College. By adding sizable accretions year by year, he had built up for Dartmouth an endowment fund entitled the Walter B. Small 1905 Memorial which stood as of June 1963 at $45,600.02. In addition, he had added the sum of $1,000 to the William Jewett Tucker Foundation. After several bequests to certain Masonic groups, the residue of Walter's estate was left to Dartmouth College.
Keenly interested in Free Masonry, Walter was a member of St. John's Lodge, F.&A.M., the Providence Royal Arch Chapter, No. 1, the Rhode Island Consistory of Scottish Rites and the Palestine Temple of the Shrine.
Until failing strength in recent years prevented his coming, he had been a faithful participant in class reunions.
"Walter never married. He is survived by two cousins. A funeral service was held in the Chapel of Horace B. Knowles' Sons, Providence. Interment was in Forestvale Cemetery, Hudson, Mass.
1907
NORMAN CHARLES COOMBS died on May 3 in Oak Park, Ill., after several major operations. He had been in declining health for some time.
"Bub" was born December 6, 1883 in Oak Park and prepared for Dartmouth at Oak Park High School. He received an A.B. degree, and while in college was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Casque and Gauntlet. He roomed with "Rip" Heneage.
After graduation Bub went into the real estate business for a while and then became very successful in the investment business while associated with Paine, Webber and Co. of Chicago.
On June 11, 1911, he married Gladys Morrell, who passed away several years ago. He is survived by two sons and a daughter, six grandchildren, and one great grandchild.
Funeral services were held on May 5, in Grace Episcopal Church chapel. 1907 was represented by Herbert H. Mitchell. Bub's daughter, Mrs. Margaret Coggeshall, resides at 25 Ashland Ave., River Forest, Ill. We send our sympathy to the entire family.
MCKAY SYLVESTER HOWARD of 50 East 10th Street, New York City, passed away on May 3 at the Manhattan General Hospital where he had been under treatment for cancer of the liver.
McKay was born in Middletown Springs, Vt., on November 7, 1886 and prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. After receiving his A.B., he went to Yale for his M.A. in 1909, and did postgraduate work at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia. His specialty was chemistry and his entire business career was spent as a chemist with Union Carbide. He was an authority on ferro alloys.
On May 14, 1929 he married Marguerite Holland, who died in 1936. A second marriage in New York was to Winnifred M. Cone on February 16, 1945 and she survives.
Funeral services were held on May 5 at the First Presbyterian Church, and interment was at Cedar Grove Cemetary.
McKay always looked forward to returning to reunions over the years. We regret "Mickey's" passing and Winnifred has our since rest sympathy.
SOLON JOSHUA VAIL, of Mountain Ave., Woodstock, Vt., drowned on May 12 in Prescott Pond, Forks, Maine, while fishing with his brother, Homer Jackson Vail '13, who also died in the accident.
Solon was born in 1884 in North Pomfret, Vt. and prepared for college at Randolph (Vt.) High School. After graduation he was a salesman and farmer. His principal interest was in the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, of which he was secretary. This association was concerned with conserving Vermont's natural resources.
In August 1911 he was married to Edith Solger. Classmates and friends are saddened by his loss.
1910
JAMES MARSH PORTER died May 13, 1964, following an operation, in Cambridge, Md. Burial services were at Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Montclair, N. J.
Jim was born January 27, 1886 in Maiden, Mass., and prepared for Dartmouth at Maiden High School. In 1911 he received a C.E. degree at Thayer School, and while at Dartmouth was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Dragon. He played on the freshman baseball team.
Jim worked for the Northwestern Metals Company for a year and then transferred to Waitt & Bond, Inc., manufacturers of Blackstone cigars. In 1924 he was made vice president, and in 1931 was elected president. He retired in 1940 and moved to Cambridge, Md.
On October 16, 1912, Jim married Helen Boals Orr in Maiden, Mass. She may be addressed at Box 303, Cambridge, Md. He is also survived by two daughters and seven grandchildren.
1913
HOMER JACKSON VAIL died on May 12 in a drowning accident with his brother Solon Vail '07 in Moxie Pond, The Forks, Maine. Game Warden Mike Collins, flying as observer in a Fish and Game Department airplane, spotted the bodies floating near an overturned canoe.
Homer was born in Pomfret, Vt, on June 19, 1890 and prepared for Dartmouth at Randolph High School. He was a member of Kappa Sigma and transferred to Middlebury College for his sophomore year.
For a while he was a senior league baseball player and coached the Falmouth (Maine) High School.
He is survived by his widow Hallie of 24 Johnson Rd., Falmouth Foreside, Me., and four sons.
1914
Once again the Class has suffered a loss in the passing of a steadfast, loyal alumnus, JONATHAN NEWTON HARRIS, on June 1, 1964, after a long illness.
Jack came to us from Allston, Mass., and while in Hanover was a member of Gamma Delta Chi. After graduation and overseas army service, he returned to his well-chosen work in accounting which led to a position in San Francisco as Chief Supervisor for Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery, one of America's leading accounting firms.
A call from Dewey and Almy Chemical Company in 1930 offered him the post of Comptroller of this international organization and he served in this capacity, and as Assistant to the Treasurer, until his retirement in 1955.
Jack was the originator of Direct Cost Accounting, a system used by many companies today and being taught at Harvard, M.I.T. and Northeastern. He wrote many articles on accounting, and appeared as guest speaker before accounting groups all over the country. His modesty concealed a "touch of genius" in his chosen work.
But Jack's kindness, his hospitality, and his generosity could not be hidden, and his sense of gentle humor made him a most welcome guest and gracious host.
Jack leaves a widow, Ruth Elizabeth, of 74 Hunnewell St., Wellesley, Mass., two daughters, nine grandchildren, and three brothers: Joel '15, George '21, and Edmund '29.
Beyond the formal expressions of sympathetic understanding to the family, we in 1914 and all who knew Jack unite in telling Betty and her family of our deep and lasting sense of loss.
EDWARD HENRY BERGMAN passed away on May 27, at the Newington Veterans Hospital in Connecticut.
Born in Bethel, Conn., on August 20, 1890, he was at Dartmouth one year before transferring to Trinity. Part of his business career was spent with Travelers Insurance Company, but he did not keep in touch with the College, and details of his activities are not known.
His wife, the former Mildred White, predeceased him.
1915
HERBERT VICTOR WIDMAN, past president of the City National Bank of Hackensack, N. J., died May 18 in Hackensack Hospital.
Herb was born May 28, 1894 in Newark, N. J., and lived there for 27 years before moving to Hackensack. He was a graduate of Newark Academy and spent three years at Dartmouth where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
After service in World War I as Ensign on the USS Nebraska, he returned to Hackensack and was first employed by the Hackensack bank in 1922 as a cashier. He was named president of the bank in 1943 and served at that post for twelve years, before retiring.
He married Isabel Folsom of Newark, Sept. 17, 1921, moved to Ridgewood in 1941, and to Sparta nine years ago, where he resided at 212 Stanhope Road.
He was a member and past president of the Bergen County Bankers Association and a member of the board of governors of Hackensack Hospital.
His wife survives him. Funeral services were held May 21 at the Colonial Home, 132 S. Harrison St., East Orange.
FRANK GRAY WAGGETT, retired U. S. Army Captain, of Highland Park, Ill., died suddenly June 6 while attending an annual meeting of the 33rd Division. He was rushed to the Von Soldrig Memorial Hospital in Chicago but failed to respond to emergency treatment.
Frank was born October 2, 1891 in Melrose, Mass. He spent one year at Dartmouth and had resided in Highland Park for 28 years. He had been employed by the Workmen's Compensation Department of the State of Illinois.
An active member of the Highland Park American Legion, he served on the building committee of the American Legion Hall at the time of construction and was a member of the board of trustees of the building. He was a member of "40 and 8" and the Officers' Club at Ft. Sheridan and was an ardent stamp collector and a loyal Dartmouth man.
Survivors include his widow, Gladys, whom he married June 27, 1923; a daughter, Mrs. Nancy Potter of Temple Terrace, Florida; a son, Lt. Commander Warren W. Waggett, U. S. Coast Guard, Portland, Maine; two sisters and seven grandchildren. Burial was in Ft. Sheridan Cemetery.
1917
ROBERT EMERSON ADAMS died on April 28, as the result of a heart attack suffered in an Easton, Maryland, hospital not far from his retirement home at Rio Vista, St. Michael's, Md. He had been in poor health for some time.
Bob was born at Hanover, N. H., the son of Julia Amanda (Stevens) and Prof. Charles Darwin Adams '77, the latter a long-time teacher of Greek at Dartmouth. Bob prepared for college at Worcester Academy. After completing his regular college course he received a C.E. degree from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Civil Engineering. He was a member of Chi Phi fraternity.
He saw service during World War I from October 20, 1917 to August 30, 1919, with overseas service most of the time, both with the American and French Armies.
Although he started his business career with Turner Construction Company, he soon turned his attention to the insurance field and for some years was manager of the new business department of Ernest W. Brown, Inc. of New York City. Later, and for some years he was associated with Reciprocal Managers, Inc. and its predecessors of New York, first as a fire protection engineer and later as a vice president of the company.
On February 25, 1925 at Crestwood, N. Y., Bob married Beatrice B. Bancker, by whom he is survived. He also is survived by two married daughters, a sister, Miss Ellen F. Adams of Hanover, N. H., and seven grandchildren.
A memorial service was held at the Asbury Church, Crestwood, N. Y. on May 2.
With the passing of THOMAS LUCIUS COTTON on May 24, 1917 lost another classmate well known both on campus and in the business world.
Tom was born on December 1, 1891, at Cumberland, lowa, and prepared for college at Mt. Hermon School. He was active on the Dartmouth campus, playing both freshman and varsity football, and serving as a member of the Dartmouth Christian Association cabinet. He was a tackle of no mean ability and easily won his football "D".
In 1917 he became affiliated with the Y.M.C.A. and, in September of that year, as a field representative he sailed for Russia and Siberia, arriving in Moscow five days before the revolution began. At Pskoff he took command of the North Front Y.M.C.A.
He returned in July 1919 to the U.S. where, a year later, he became secretary of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce. Ultimately he became connected with the N. Y. State Welfare Department as a district administrator. He was a former president of the New York Adult Education Council, a founder and executive vice president of the New York Citizens' Council, and a director of the Public City Club of N. Y. He was a member of the Public Relations Society of America, and the New York and National Conferences of Social Work. During the mid-40's Tom formed Thomas L. Cotton Associates, a public relations concern in New York City.
Tom is survived by his widow, Ellen M. Cotton; two children by a former marriage; a brother and sister; three grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
FREDERICK ROBERT HUSK suffered a fatal heart attack on May 5 while at his office in the Penobscot Building at Detroit, Mich.
Born at Boston, Mass., on November 20, 1893, Fred attended Mechanic Arts High School before entering Dartmouth.
On June 3, 1917 he enlisted at Hanover, N. H., as a private, and after various Army assignments he was discharged at Camp Taylor on December 2, 1918, with the rank of sergeant.
In 1922 Fred went to work as a salesman for the well-known Boston firm of Hornblower & Weeks at the firm's Detroit branch office, and it was there that he died more than forty years later. He was a past commander of Alger Post No. 86 of the American Legion, and was a member of the Detroit Athletic Club and the Oakland Hills Country Club.
On February 7, 1946 he married the then Esther C. Hock at Detroit, Mich. She survives him at 630 Merrick Ave., Detroit, Mich.
A requiem mass was offered on May 8 at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Detroit.
1918
JOHN CHARLES CAMPBELL JR. passed away on July 16, 1963. His passing, at the age of 65, was from a heart attack at his home at 302 N 25th Ave. East, Duluth, Minn.
John spent his freshman year at Dartmouth and then completed his education at Yale, where he graduated in 1919. After ROTC training he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery. After working briefly for an oil drilling firm, he left to join a firm of logging contractors and dealers in forest products; and then set up his own company under the name of J. C. Campbell Company.
John was a member of DKE at Yale, and in recent years a member of Society of American Foresters, and several social organizations. He was a director of Northern City National Bank, and a member of the Pilgrim Congregational Church. He is survived by his wife, Irene; two sons, a daughter, and 14 grandchildren.
PHILIP HADLEY SANDERSON passed away on May 6 at the age of 69. The funeral services were held at the North Congregational Church in Portsmouth on May 9.
Phil was born in Portsmouth, N. H., graduated from the local high school, and from Dartmouth in 1918. While at college he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha.
A year after receiving his degree at Dartmouth, he became the Boston Globe's representative in the Portsmouth district, succeeding his father. He remained a correspondent of the Globe for 45 years; and became the editor of The Periscope, a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard newspaper, immediately after World War II. He was a Shriner in the Masonic Order, a Past Patron of the Rivermouth Chapter Order of Eastern Star; a member of the Past Matrons and Patrons Club, and Os-good Lodge, IOOF. He was secretary of the Dartmouth Seacoast Club, and a member of the Boston Globe Quarter Century Club, The Hourglass Club, and the Veteran Journalists.
He was editor of the Class of 1918's Newsletter, in which capacity he had served for the last 10 or 12 years. Phil's newsletters contributed substantially toward keeping us informed of our classmates' a tivities. His love for Dartmouth rubbed off on us and kept us intensely interested in each other and the College. He will be seriously missed by us all.
Phil is survived by his wife, Doris, and two daughters. Friends wishing to write Doris can reach her at 377 Richard Avenue, Portsmouth, N. H.
1919
THE REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM SMITH, assistant pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Hagerstown, Md., died suddenly at his home, 39 East Irving Avenue on May 9.
Fred was born in Bradford, England, and came to this country at the age of 15. Turned down by the American Army in World War I, he enlisted in the Canadian Black Watch Regiment and served overseas. He was a retired member of the New England Conference and served in several Massachusetts Methodist churches and was active in Anti-Saloon League work. He came to Hanover from Phillips Academy, Andover, and later attended the Boston University School of Theology and Yale.
He is survived by two daughters, a son, and a sister, to whom goes the most sincere sympathy of the Class. Burial was in Arlington National Cemetery.
1923
MORTON SAMUEL STERN collapsed while driving his car on May 12, and was pronounced dead on arrival at Mt. Auburn Hospital.
Mort graduated from Cornell Medical School in 1928 and specialized in internal medicine. He was affiliated with the Beth Israel, St. Elizabeth, Boston City, Brookline, and New England Sanitarium Hospitals and was for many years a medical instructor at Tufts.
Mort roomed with Clary Goss and Joe Schiffenhaus in college and was a member of Phi Delta Epsilon. He leaves his wife, Lillian of 4 Middlesex Rd., Watertown, Mass., and two sons, Morton and Robert.
WILLIAM JAMES WEAVER died December 30, 1963. Bill was in the wholesale grocery business in Chester, West Virginia. He retired from this business in 1958.
He leaves his wife, Elsie at 426 Florida Ave Chester, W. Virginia, and one son.
HENSON CHARLES ROBINSON died very suddenly of a heart attack in Springfield, Ill., on April 24, 1964.
Henson's stay in Hanover was limited to one year, and during that time he became a member of Sigma Chi. Since 1920 he had been in the heating, air conditioning, roofing, and sheet metal business in Springfield. His company was the Henson Robinson Company.
Henson always enjoyed fishing and hunting and has explored trout streams in Canada and Alaska.
He is survived by his daughter Margaret, a son Philip, and step-son Charles '56.
HENRY ROBERTSON BARRETT JR. died April 18, 1964. Henry diligently followed the profession of law since his graduation from New York University Law School in 1927, first with his father, H. R. Barrett, and then with the firm of Bleakley, Piatt, Hart and Fritz, New York City. He was a former vice-president of the Westchester County Bar Association and had been secretary of the organization for 25 years. At Dartmouth he was a member of DKE.
Heinie is survived by his wife, Lillian at 210 Martine Ave., White Plains; a son Henry R. III, and a daughter Jean Dolan.
Word has just been received that JOHN JOSEPH DUNN died suddenly of a heart attack on November 11, 1963 in San Fernando, Calif., where he had lived for the past few years. Born April 21, 1904 at Buffalo, N. Y., John was at Dartmouth for three years. He was an ardent golfer and had assembled a collection of nearly 100 trophies for golf matches and motor boat races. John did not marry; and left no close relatives. He had made his home for many years with his cousin, Mrs. Rose M. Walters of Syracuse. Burial was in San Fernando.
1927
KENNETH HOITT RUSSELL, of Portland, Maine, died April 28 after a long illness.
While in high school Ken worked for Burrowes Corporation part-time and joined them permanently after graduation. After representing them in Philadelphia, Reading, and Pittsburgh, he returned to Portland. In 1950 he organized his own company, the Kenneth H. Russell Company, as Burrowes distributors. He retired about two years ago because of ill health.
In Hanover, Ken was a member of K.K.K. His memberships in Portland included Maine Dartmouth Club, Cumberland Club, Portland Club and Rotary. He was a member of the Williston Congregational Church.
Ken married Helen Armstrong of Portland in 1931. In addition to his wife, who resides at 1166 Shore Rd., Cape Elizabeth, he leaves three sons and a daughter and a granddaughter. One son, Harry, graduated from Dartmouth in '57.
1929
RICHARD MEYER ROBIN died on April 27, 1964. Dick came to Dartmouth from Rutherford, N. J., and lived most of his adult life there and in its environs, Ho-Ho-Kus and Tenafly. He is held in memory by his classmates and fraternity brothers of Pi Lambda Phi as a man of sincerity and noble purpose.
Dick began his business association with Becton, Dickinson & Co. in 1929. For a while he worked in sales and later in its New Product Development Department. He found particular interest in his duties as vice-president for the company's international subsidiaries which entailed travel to South America and Europe.
In recent years he had devoted time and energy to the garden and trees which surrounded the historic house he and his family had restored. Reading and music were a definite part of his life; he studied cello and piano to keep up with his family. At the time of his death he was engaged in writing a book for the medical field.
In 1933 Dick married Helen Vass, who survives him at 42 Kenwood Dr., Tenafly. He is also survived by two daughters, a brother, and his parents. The Class offers them its sympathy.
1930
HORACE WARREN ALLYN died of a coronary attack while gardening at his home, Windwood Road, Bernardsville, N. J., on May 2.
Born in Montreal, January 31, 1909, Al spent his early years in Canada until going to Phillips Andover, where he graduated in 1926. He attended Tuck School following graduation from Dartmouth, but due to a conflict with Actuarial Society examinations required for his employment by the Prudential Insurance Company, he was unable to take his final examinations at Tuck. In a lifetime career with the Pru, Al held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility at the Home Office in Newark, ,and at the time of his death was Associate Director of Insurance Practices in the Ordinary Policy Department.
In May 1932 Al was married in Hanover to Mary Elizabeth Young, daughter of Mathematics Professor and Mrs. John Wesley Young. He was a member of the 1930 executive committee and had served as an assistant class agent for the past few years. He never missed a reunion and was a regular attendant at all college and class functions in the New York-New Jersey area. His friendship will be greatly missed by these groups.
He was very fond and justly proud of his nephew Ab Oakes '56, following with great interest and enthusiasm Ab's college career, and his success this past season while serving Dartmouth as hockey coach.
Al was a member of the Basking Ridge, N. J., Presbyterian Church, the Sons of the American Revolution, and Alpha Chi Rho fraternity.
In addition to his widow, Al leaves two daughters, four sisters and a brother. A memorial service was held at the Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church at which the Class was represented by Herb Chase, Scott Van Derbeck and Charlie Humiston.
H. E. C.
1931
News of the death of RALPH FRANKLIN JONAS on May 24 appeared in the Boston Herald on May 25.
Ralph attended Haverhill High and Huntington School. At Dartmouth he was active in track and was a member of the Varsity Golf team. He returned to Haverhill after graduation and was engaged in the manufacture of shoes the rest of his life. In 1933 he married Esther Goldberg, and she and their three children survive. Mrs. Jonas may be addressed at 41 Montclair Rd., Haverhill.
Excerpts from our Twenty-fifth Year Book very appropriately list Ralph's interest in Dartmouth: "Dartmouth gave me four valuable things: (1) a feeling for the liberating arts which has enriched my life; (2) A love for Hanover as a place to reminisce about and to return to; (3) A love of the outdoors, nurtured by four years in the hills of New Hampshire; (4) A sense of well-being that comes from knowing you are a part of the great Dartmouth fellowship."
The Class extends its heartfelt sympathy to his wife, son, and two daughters.
1936
On May 15, while working in New York, WILLIAM CHECKLEY SHAW died of a coronary. He was apparently in good health and in the best of spirits which makes it doubly hard for Bill's friends and family to reconcile his sudden passing. Only a brief two and a half years ago he left a sixteen-year association with Genesco in Nashville to join the Melville Shoe Company in New York as Director of Personnel. This company was about to recognize his talents further by confirming upon him the title of vice president.
In Hanover, Bill was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Casque & Gauntlet, and Green Key. As those of us in the Class knew so well, he was an able, unpretentious, square-shooting, good friend who liked and understood people, characteristics which made him outstanding in his chosen field of industrial relations.
Mere words can convey little of the meaning of the depth of an individual. In his difficult field of business he was a man who stood on principle and not compromise. Strange it is that Bill's untimely passing should parallel, in circumstance, that of his brother John, a promising doctor and fellow member of the Class of 1936, who died in 1949.
Membership in the Class meant much to Bill, and we are fortunate he was one of us. The Class joins in expressing its deepest sympathy and sense of great loss to his devoted wife "Pat" and to their four children. Episcopal services were held in Darien, Conn., and burial followed in Wilmington, Delaware. "Pat" will continue to maintain their home at 20 Briar Brae Road, Darien.
1945
JOHN CRANE PINE died accidentally in a fall from a hotel room on May 2 in Cleveland, Ohio, while attending the Mississippi Valley Historical Association convention. He was associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas where his fields were Latin American and American history.
John came to Dartmouth'from Oak Park (Ill.) High School, and despite his being blind (he lost the vision of one eye at age eight and the other in a high school shop accident), quickly won himself the deep respect and friendship of all who knew him. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
After receiving his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1947, John earned his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado in 1955 and taught at Hastings College (Nebraska) and Joplin Junior College before joining the University of Arkansas faculty in 1956.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley Jo, and three children.
In his memory, friends have established a John Pine Memorial Fund with Professor Thomas W. Scott, 603 Vinson Ave., Fayetteville, Ark., as custodian.
The world is a better place, and we are better people for having known John Pine, to whom adversity was simply greater challenge.
1946
RUSSELL LANE JOHNSON died suddenly on May 2 at his home at 2443 Minton Rd., Hamilton, Ohio.
Born in Lawrence, Mass., Russ attended both Salem (N. H.) and Haverhill (Mass.) High Schools before coming to Dartmouth in 1942. He served in the United States Navy in World War II.
The Class extends its sympathy to his wife, Alfrieda, his son David, and their three daughters,Linda, Judy, and Brenda.
