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.]

Grant, Perley C. '01, Jan. 11 Johnson, Harry B. '04, Dec. 18, 1964 Brintnall, Henry S. '05, Jan. 8 Greenleaf, William A. '05, Dec. 19, 1964 McDonough, Frank Jr. '07, Nov. 29, 1964 Pratt, Everard S. '10, Dec. 15, 1964 Harris, Charles W. '11, Dec. 7, 1964 Gibbs, Ruel S. '12, Jan. 14 Wood, Leonard A. '12, Jan. 5 Wylde, Russell A. '12, Dec. 26, 1964 Evans, Donald P. '13, Dec. 7, 1964 Miller, Stanwood '13, 1960 Rector, Voyle D. '15, Dec. 28, 1964 Whipple, Percival D. 'l6, Nov. 26, 1964 Beckwith, Guy L. '17, Nov. 18, 1964 Wheelock, John F. '17, Jan. 1 Hulbert, Woodward D. '18, Dec. 25, 1964 Knowles, Robert S. '18, Dec. 26, 1964 Lucas, Grant '2O, Dec. 1, 1964 Cleary, Homer J. '21, Dec. 19, 1964 Johnson, William E. Jr. '21, Dec. 22, 1964 Cuffari, Antonio J. F. '23, Dec. 6, 1964 Rubens, Richard V. '23, Jan. 9 Lockwood, Henry K. '24, Dec. 9, 1964 Schmidt, Kenneth P. '26, Dec. 10, 1964 Poeter, Frederick G. '29, Dec. 18, 1964 Goodman, Herman S. '32, Jan. 6 Hannan, James A. Jr. '32, Dec. 27, 1964 Shaughnessy, William K. '33, Dec. 20, 1964 Prescott, Romeyn '39, Nov. 30, 1964 Valier, Frank H. '39, Oct. 8, 1964 Salisbury, Donald W. Jr. '41, Feb. 11, 1964 Rogers, George A. '45, Nov. 11, 1964 Vanderberg, Harry H. '58, Dec. 14, 1964 Friedman, D. Richard '63, Jan. 8 Rice, William H. '23t, Aug. 19, 1964 Keir, Malcolm, A.M. '19, Dec. 18, 1964

Faculty

MALCOLM KEIR, A.M. '19 hon., Professor of Economics Emeritus, died December 18 at Natick, Mass., after a long illness. He was 77 years old and had held emeritus status since 1956 when he retired after 37 years of teaching at Dartmouth.

In an era of great teaching Professor Keir was esteemed by students and colleagues as one of Dartmouth's greatest. His campus fame was attested by the verse about "Prof. Keir's Eccy" in the song Where Oh Where? And a story told with some awe dealt with the day that the fire whistle blew and not a single student left his lecture, contrary to the wholesale rush from the classrooms that was then permitted when there was a fire.

Professor Keir was a specialist in the history and problems of labor, and his course in the subject was once rated by The Dartmouth as "an adventure" and as essential to a Dartmouth man's liberal education. The direct relationship of his teaching to current labor problems was one of the enlivening factors in his courses, and another was his head-on acceptance of controversy when his ideas, liberal for his day, aroused the ire of conservatives.

Professor Keir was born in Buffalo, N. Y., on February 3, 1887. He attended Wesleyan University for two years and then dropped out and went to work when the Panic of 1907 strained the family finances. Two years later he entered the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and received his B.S. degree there in 1911. He was managing a peach orchard when Pennsylvania's Prof. J. Russell Smith asked him to tell about his work in Smith's economic geography course. His impressive performance led Smith to invite him to come into his department and work toward a graduate degree. Professor Keir received his A.M. degree in 1913 and his Ph.D. in 1917. He was an instructor at the Wharton School from 1912 to 1914 and an assistant professor from 1914 to 1918, teaching economics, industrial history, and scientific management.

In 1918 he went to the War Department to be assistant to Dartmouth's President Ernest Martin Hopkins who was in charge of industrial relations for the Department. This led to his coming to Dartmouth the next year as Professor of Economics. In his years at the College he became increasingly well-known nationally as a labor economist, and eight books and more than a hundred articles were evidence of his scholarship and his vital interest in many aspects of his specialty. In the later years of his career at Dartmouth, illness and a serious operation forced him into a less active role as a teacher.

Among Professor Keir's more important pub- lications were Manufacturing Industries inAmerica (1921), Industrial Organization (1923), Epic of Industry (1926), The March of Com-merce (1927), Manufacturing (1928), Labor'sSearch for More (1937), Labor's Town Meeting (1938) and Labor Problems from Both Sides (1938). He was an editorial writer for TheChristian Science Monitor in the thirties.

Professor Keir, one of the first to predict the rising industrialism of the South as a competitive threat to New England, served as economic adviser to the New England Governors in the noted North-South Freight Rate Case of 1938. He also was public representative on several industry committees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, served on the special committee named by the Department of Labor in 1941 to recommend a minimum wage for the textile industry, and was a public panel member of the War Labor Board in 1943. Professor Keir was a member of the New Hampshire Advisory Committee for the NRA in 1933, and in 1936 he was granted leave to serve as director of the adult education Public Forum established by the U. S. Department of Education in Manchester, N. H. In both 1938 and 1941 he was a Hanover delegate to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention.

Professor Keir was married September 9, 1915 to Miss Emily Cecile Hanna of Bloomington, Ind., who died in 1955. He is survived by a son, Peter M. Keir '4l of Alexandria, Va.; a daughter Jean, wife of James N. Luttrell '37, of Natick, Mass.; two sisters, Mrs. John Swan of Seymour, Conn., and Mrs. Gilbert Beaver of Yorktown Heights, N. Y.; five grandchildren and one great-grandson. At Professor Keir's request there was no funeral service.

1901

ARTHUR JAMES SYKES, 89, passed away on November 11, in Puerto Rico, where he had made his home for 60 years.

He was born in West Windsor, Vt., September 21, 1875, the eldest of ten children. He gradu- ated from Windsor High School before coming to Dartmouth.

In Puerto Rico he taught English, and raised vegetables and dairy cattle. He had also served in various branches of the government and numbered among his accomplishments the fact that he could read, write, and speak five languages.

His classmates always looked forward to hearing his stories of Puerto Rico whenever he came back to reunion. Our sympathies are extended to his surviving brother and sisters.

1904

HARRY BECKET JOHNSON died at his home in Vero Beach, Fla., December 18 after a long illness. Known as "Beck" to his classmates and scores of other college friends, he was one of the great Dartmouth stalwarts among the older classes. He served as Secretary of the Class of 1904 for two terms totaling 25 years, from 1919 to 1934 and again from 1954 to 1964.

Beck's business career embraced 56 years of investment banking. He began in New York, then worked for Harris Forbes and Company in Springfield, Mass., where his activities were interrupted by World War I. After service in France, he returned to Harris Forbes in Worcester. There he founded the General Charles Devens Post of the American Legion and was elected its first commander. In 1926 he went to Springfield as manager of the local office of Jackson and Curtis. In 1932 he entered the employ of the brokerage firm of Tifft Brothers and two years later went to Pittsfield as manager of their local office. During World War II this office was closed for four years and Beck occupied the time with patriotic activities. He directed Pittsfield's civilian defense program, was executive secretary of the Pittsfield Public Safety Committee and the city fuel administrator. With other local businessmen he worked on a special late shift for the General Electric Company.

Tifft Brothers reopened their Pittsfield office in 1946 and Beck returned as office manager. When another larger company, Shearson, Hammill and Company absorbed Tifft Brothers in 1955, he fully expected to be replaced by a younger man, as he was then well past 70. His new employers, however, respected ability more than age, and after reviewing the record of the Pittsfield office, they decided that Mr. Johnson was a super-salesman, as well as an office manager, and they retained him at a substantial increase in salary. Beck established an enviable reputation for investing his clients' funds only in top-grade securities. When a new customer showed a strong interest in high-risk ventures he advised "Come back after you have made your first million and then we will talk about speculating." He continued his active business career until he was nearly eighty when, three years ago, he decided it was time to retire, and he and Sally moved their home to Vero Beach. About a year ago his strength began to fail, but he had firmly resolved that he would attend his sixtieth reunion, and harboring his energies, he made the trip to Hanover last June for his final round-up with his cherished classmates.

Beck's activities apart from his business were many and varied, but dominant among them always was his work for Dartmouth. The Berkshire Eagle of Pittsfield referred to him as "Mr. Dartmouth to more than 100 college alumni." On the way to his reunion in Hanover last June he was the guest of honor at a special luncheon of the Dartmouth Club of Berkshire County, which he had helped to found, and which he served for twenty years as secretary, treasurer, and chairman of the interviewing committee for candidates applying for admission to Dartmouth. From 1936 to 1938 he served as president of the Club.

For twenty years Beck held the title of Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War for the State of Massachusetts. He was a member of a committee of 48 composed of representatives, one from each state, which assisted the national legislative committee in drawing up the National Draft Act in 1940-41. He was Secretary of the Army Advisory Committee for Berkshire County.

At various times during his residence in Pittsfield and Lenox he filled many offices. He was a president of the Kiwanis Club, chairman of the Berkshire Red Cross Disaster Committee, trustee of the Lenox Congregational Church, a member of the Lenox Planning Board, chairman of the Lenox Electric Light Committee, trustee of the Lenox Academy Building Committee, chairman of Liberty Bond and Red Cross drives, treasurer of the Lenox Republican Town Committee, treasurer of the Berkshire Republican Club, and treasurer of the Southern Berkshire Conference of Congregational Churches.

Beck was first married to Mildred Frances Hall in 1910. They had two daughters. Divorce followed in 1926. In 1941 he married Sally Rice Jacques, who has been not only an ideal wife and companion but also a collaborator in many of her husband's activities. In addition to his widow Beck is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Kirk B. Herrick of Pueblo, Colo., and two granddaughters, Charlotte Herrick of Pueblo and Constant Crooks of Sunnyvale, Calif.

Services for Beck were held in Vero Beach on December 21 with the Rev. Arnold Wettstein, pastor of the local Community Church, officiating and the Rev. J. H. Owen, a former pastor of the Johnsons in Lenox, Mass., assisting. On the evening of the same day in Lenox another memorial service was held at the Old Church on the Hill of which Beck had been a trustee. Interment was at Crestlawn Cemetery, Vero Beach.

On the grounds of the Johnson home in Vero Beach grows a Norfolk Island Pine, a gift from 1904 when the Johnsons established their new home in Florida. It is now perhaps twelve feet high. Some specimens of this kind of tree, the most symmetrical of the many varieties of pine, grow to great heights. If the weather is kind it is not improbable that this living token of appreciation may live on long after any classmates survive, as a memorial to Harry Becket Johnson whom they loved.

E.K.R.

HOWARD GRANVILLE SHARPE died on November 16 in the Long Beach Veterans Hospital, California, following a month's illness. He was born October 20, 1880, at Fort Griffin, Texas, and had spent several years of his life on army posts in the United States and the Philippines.

Even before entering college he had served in the War with Spain and the Puerto Rican Expedition in 1898. He entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1904 and remained through part of 1902. With his military background, he was nicknamed "Major."

After leaving Dartmouth the "Major" returned to military service in which he enjoyed a distinguished career. He was in five Philippine Moro Campaigns, and served on the Mexican border. In World War I he was commander of an SAT Camp, and retired in 1919, having been wounded in action.

In 1919 he purchased a 300-acre ranch at Bixby Creek, California, and operated a tourist resort there until he retired to southern California in 1931. During his long retirement his chief activity was writing, and under the name Alfred D. Pettibone he published a long list of novels and stories.

He leaves a widow, Mrs. Alice Sharpe of 853 N. Citrus Ave., Covina; a daughter, and a step-daughter. His only son was killed in action in World War II.

1905

WILLIAM CLARK JACKSON died November 18 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Kasschau, in Upper St. Clair, Pa. He was born in Lowell, Mass.

He left Dartmouth before completing his course and was graduated from Lowell Textile School.

William worked as a color chemist for Eugene Berry and Sons and later for the Chaffordon Company of Lynn.

He was a member of the Caleb Butler Lodge, A.F. and A.M. From 1931 to 1934 he served as tax collector in Ayer.

He is survived by his daughter and two grandchildren. His wife, Mabel (Maclver) Jackson, is deceased.

WALTER GARFIELD SMALL died November 26 at a nursing home in Brockton, Mass., where he had stayed for a year. He was 83.

At Dartmouth, which he entered from Whitefield, N. H„ Walter won respect as a friendly, earnest person who was characterized by sound judgment and dependable integrity. This characterization remained applicable to Walter throughout his business career.

He started work with the Lowell (Mass.) Electric Light Corp., from which he was transferred in 1910 to the Whitman Division of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Brockton. In 1916 he was advanced to be superintendent of distribution in the Brockton Edison Co., a Position of great responsibility. Here he remained until his retirement in 1949.

Walter was a member of various social and athletic clubs, including the Brockton Commercial Club. A devoted Mason, he was a member of all Masonic bodies in both York and Scottish rites, among which was the Aleppo Temple, Order of Mystic Shrine, Boston.

He is survived by a brother and several nieces and nephews.

1910

EVERARD STOWELL PRATT passed away unexpectedly December 15, 1964, at his home in Sandwich, Mass. Private funeral services were held at the home and a memorial service took place at St. John's Church. Interment was in Bay View Cemetery.

Everard was born in Sandwich, Mass., on March 23, 1887. He entered Dartmouth from Brookline (Mass.) High School. In college he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

After graduation he was active in personnel work and was associated with Filene's in Boston, and adviser to the Retail Research Association and the AMC Stores on executive placements. In 1933 he formed his own company, E. S. Pratt & Co., Inc., Personnel Research, with offices in New York City. During World War II he was asked to take charge of officer personnel procurement in the Adjutant General Department and served at Camp Upton and in the Pentagon. He retired with the rank of Major and returned to his business in New York.

In 1951 he retired to his native town of Sandwich and became active in community affairs. He served St. John's Episcopal Church as Vestryman and Senior Warden. As President of the Sandwich Historical Society he made the Glass Museum internationally known for its collection of Sandwich Glass and thousands visited it annually. Upon his retirement in 1964 he was honored by having the third wing, built during his administration, named the Everard Stowell Pratt Wing and he was presented with an illuminated scroll listing his accomplishments for the Society.

On June 9, 1914 he was married to Evelyn Fessenden Carpenter at Cambridge, Mass. St. John's Church honored them on their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception and presentation of a golden tray. She survives as does a son, Everard S. Jr. of Cincinnati, and three grandchildren.

1911

CHARLES WILLARD HARRIS died December 8, after a long illness, in Darien, Conn. His wife had predeceased him as had a son, James Edwin. He is survived by a son Clifford H. and a granddaughter.

Charlie was born in Kirby, Vt., May 12, 1887. He attended Lyndon Institute before entering Dartmouth and graduated with the Class of 1911. In college he was a member of the Band and College Orchestra.

His profession was accounting which he practiced in each of the companies with which he was associated. He was bookkeeper of the Fleming Coal and Oil Co. from 1928 until his retirement in 1962. During his last illness he had been with his son and his family in Darien.

Funeral services were conducted by the rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and interment was in the Old Greenwich Congregational Cemetery.

LESTER JAMES WALDRON, Assistant to the President of McCreary Tire and Rubber Co., passed away at his home in Indiana, Pa., on November 28. He had suffered a stroke on November 3 and was hospitalized for three weeks, but Jo had taken him home hoping for a recovery when his heart simply failed, a few days later.

Les was born in Chelsea, Mass., June 15, 1888 and graduated from Revere High School in 1907. He got the degree of S.M.A. at University of Texas in 1918. He was a Cadet, U. S. Air Service, 1918. He also served with the War Production Board as a Senior Consultant in the office of the Director of the Rubber Division during World War II and the Korean conflict. During the past five years he was a member of the Business and Defense Administration of the U. S. Department of Commerce.

His business life was devoted to the rubber industry. He was General Sales Manager of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co. and then the Day- ton Rubber Co. He had been associated with McCreary for ten years prior to his retirement two years ago. He and his brothers under the name of Waldron Auto Supply Co. operated the first gasoline and auto supply company in the city of Revere.

He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Star of Bethlehem Lodge AF and AM of Chelsea, Aleppo Temple of Boston, and the Indiana County Shrine Club, and was active in the Indiana County Civil Defense Program. He was also a member of the Unitarian Fellowship of Indiana County.

He was married in 1927 to Josephine Stapleton of Pittsburgh, who survives him at 121 North 6th St., Indiana, Pa.; a daughter, two brothers and a sister, and four grandchildren. He was an ardent Dartmouth supporter and we are glad he was able to return for his 50th Reunion.

1912

ROBERT BROWN BELKNAP died November 18, 1964 at his home at 1521 Cerito, San Mateo, Calif., after five years of deteriorating health, due to cardiovascular disease and emphysema.

Bob was born at Niles, Mich., December 31, 1889. He prepared for college at Benton Harbor (Mich.) High School. At Dartmouth he was assistant manager of the freshman baseball team in his junior year and manager in his senior year. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

After graduation Bob became assistant to the treasurer of Dartmouth for two years. For ten years Bob was general auditor for the U. S. Automotive Corporation in two of its subsidiary companies at Connersville, Indiana. The next change found him in New York City with General Motors Holding Corporation, which he served in various divisions and at various locations in the United States for 21 years (except for the period of the war) until his retirement in 1950 at Los Gatos, Calif. During World War II Bob took leave of General Motors for three years and became a senior industrial specialist for the Signal Corps in Washington, D. C.

Bob had many interests. At one time he was a member of 8.P.0.E. and of the Kiwanis Club. In his later years he belonged to the Dartmouth Club of Northern California and to the Saratoga (Calif.) Men's Club. He served as vestryman and treasurer in his local Episcopal Church.

Bob is survived by his widow, Rosalind Howe Belknap, two daughters and one son. A memorial service was held at the Episcopal Church of St. Matthew in San Mateo on November 21.

CLARENCE TOMPKINS SCHWARTZ passed away in his sleep on the morning of November 5, 1964 at his home at 1403 Edgewood Ave., Wanamassa, N. J.

"Kid" Schwartz, as he was called in college, was born in New York City on October 18, 1888. He prepared for college at Bordentown Military Institute, and spent one year at Dartmouth where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. For 13 years, including the period of World War I, he was officer and director of the Shallow Water Boat Co. and the Ripley Boat Co. in New York City. From these positions he entered the real estate business where he was assistant to the manager of Cross & Brown Co., also in New York City. In 1957 he became employed as a security officer in the First Merchants National Bank of Asbury Park, N. J., where he remained until his retirement in June 1964 because of ill health. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Asbury Park.

Clarence Schwartz married Mary Fraser of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., on May 5, 1917. One son resulted from this marriage. Mary died in 1957 and on October 17, 1959 Clarence married Alice A. Carton who survives him, together with one son, a stepson, a stepdaughter, a sister, and seven grandchildren.

Funeral services were held November 9 in the First Presbyterian Church in Asbury Park.

1915

RICHARD ADOLPH SCHARMANN, retired executive of Johns Manville Corp., died suddenly November 25, 1964 in a Bernardsville, N. J., hospital where he had gone for a routine check-up.

"Dutch'' was born April 23, 1892 in Adams, Mass. He prepared for college at Adams High School and graduated in 1915 with a B.S. degree from Dartmouth where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

During World War J he served in the U.S. Army before going to New Jersey, where he was employed by Johns Manville for many years prior to his retirement as Production Superintendent in 1957. He was a member of Blue Lodge Chapter, Council and Commandery, Masonic Order.

In January 1933 he married Marjorie Danforth of Maine. Besides his wife, he leaves a son, Morton '57, of Bernardsville; two sisters, and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Scharmann may be reached at Sycamore Hill Rd., Bernardsville.

Services were held November 28 at Spear Funeral Home in Somerville, N. J., where he formerly resided. Flowers were sent in tribute by the Class of 1915.

1916

JOHN PATRICK ENGLISH, retired Major, U.S. Army Air Corps, died at the Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., December 11 after a brief illness. He had not been in good health, however, for some years. His home was at 2 Poplar St., Stoneham.

Jack was born on St. Patrick's Day, 1891 at Rockville, Conn. He attended high school in Hartford and Springfield, Mass., before entering Dartmouth. After graduating he studied briefly at Columbia before enlisting in the service in World War I. He served from August 1917 to July 1919.

Returning from the service, Jack was in the employ of a number of companies, mainly investment and economic service, in New York, Woonsocket, Boston and San Francisco. He did graduate work at the University of Dayton and at Harvard. In World War II he served from September 1942 to January 1946 in the Army Air Corps, mostly at air bases in England, and attained the rank of Major, receiving three commendations.

At Dartmouth Jack was most active, being Secretary of the Class four years, a member of the Choir, Class Chorister, and a member of the Press Club. He was manager of varsity tennis. He was a member of Kappa Sigma, and Casque and Gauntlet, senior honor society. As an alumnus he was Secretary of the Class from 1935 to 1940.

Jack was married to Kathryn Anne Barnes of Manchester, N. H., on September 25, 1922. His wife and five children survive him. John Jr. is a member of the Class of 1949. Services were held on December 14 at a Stoneham funeral home, followed by a Requiem High Mass in St. Patrick's Church, Stoneham.

CHARLES CLIFFORD GAMMONS, retired vice president, general counsel and board member of the Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc., died at the Delaware Hospital, Wilmington, on November 28, after an illness of several years. He lived at 901 Stuart Road, Westover Hills, Delaware.

Cliff was born May 19, 1895 at Cohasset, Mass., and attended the local high school before entering Dartmouth. After graduation he received his LL.B. from Harvard in 1920. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Beta Kappa. In World War I he served overseas as a second lieutenant in the 151st Infantry Brigade until December 1918.

Returning from service, Cliff was associated for six years with the Boston law firm of Warren, Garfield, Whiteside and Lamson, then with the legal department of the Hood Rubber Company and later, the B. F. Goodrich Company, before entering the employ of the Atlas Powder Company of Wilmington, where he was employed for 30 years. He was a member of the American and Delaware Bar Associations, Wilmington Club, Wilmington Country Club, Lions Club, and other fraternal groups; also a member of the board of directors of the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce.

On January 26, 1918 Cliff married Sarah Clare Lapham, of Cohasset, who survives him, as do three daughters, his mother, three brothers, Everett W. '12, Donald T. and Edward B., and 11 grandchildren.

Graveside services were held at Cohasset December 2. The Class was represented by Dick and Kay Parkhurst, Jim Coffin, and Jim Shanahan. Memorial services were held a week later in Westminster Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, where Phil Nordell, George Farrington '12, Rog Evans, Pete Cleaves and his sister-in-law, Catharene Cleaves, represented the Class and the College.

1918

The Class of 1918 has lost Bob Knowles, one of the well-loved, solid members of its New York group.

ROBERT SAINT KNOWLES was born in Reading, Pa., in 1896, but his family moved shortly thereafter to Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Bob graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1906 and entered Dartmouth in the Class of 1918. During the war Bob entered the army and was assigned to the Princeton Pre-flight School. Later he went to Texas for further training.

In 1922 he married Ethel Corcoran in Brooklyn. After two years of working with his father in real estate Bob worked for the Rhinelander Real Estate Co. in New York City for the next 37 years until his retirement.

Bob lived for many years on Lido Beach, Long Island, and there died in his sleep on December 26, 1964. He is survived by his wife, a brother and a sister, and by two sons. The funeral was held at the Pettit-Clayton Funeral Home in Rockville Center, L. I.

In college Bob was a member of Kappa Sigma. He is warmly remembered by the writer (Stan Jones). Bob was always among the first to volunteer when a job for Dartmouth was in order. His funeral was attended by Steven Mahoney, who provided a 1918 wreath, and whose help has proved invaluable in collecting these sad notes.

JOHN ALDEN THAYER passed away on November 25, 1964, at the Bethesda Memorial Hospital, in Delray Beach, Fla.

Johnny was born in New York City, son of Henry B. Thayer '79 for whom Thayer Hall is named. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in World War I. He went to Delray Beach in the early '40's, and became editor of the Delray Beach News and active in real estate. He was elected Mayor of Delray Beach in 1944 and 1945, and served several terms on the city council.

In 1957 Johnny presented the "Breeches" Bible, brought over on the Mayflower by John Alden, to the College, and received a warm letter of thanks from President Dickey.

He is survived by his widow, Florence Thayer of Delray Beach; a son, and a daughter.

I am sure that his many college friends and fraternity brothers, as well as his many friends in Delray Beach,, will miss him for many years to come. He was a grand person, loved by all who knew him well.

1920

DANA EDMUND PEARSON of 304 E. 41st Street, New York City, died at the Polyclinic Hospital December 1, 1964 after a long illness. He was born September 15, 1898 in Northampton, Mass., and served in the Navy during World War I.

Ned was employed for a few years at the Hampton Company in Easthampton and after May of 1928 was employed at the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company in New York, retiring two years ago. He was a member of Jerusalem Lodge of Masons in Northampton, and a member of Kappa Sigma.

He leaves his wife, Ruth (Donovan) Pearson, and two nephews. Funeral services were held at the Charles R. Dutton funeral home on December 4. Burial was in the Bridge Street Cemetery.

The sympathy of the Class goes to Ned's surviving family.

1921

HOMER JOHN CLEARY, for many years a teacher of French and Spanish, died December 19 in Dick's House, Hanover, after long and complicated illnesses. An operation for cataracts having proven unsuccessful, he had been blind in late life.

Homer was born in Marion, Ohio, May 21, 1900. A member of Phi Kappa Psi at Dartmouth, he made a name for himself as actor, singer, pianist, and writer in The Players, and in the Glee Club, the Arts, and Cercle Francais. A fter graduation he attended the Sorbonne, received an M.Ed, in 1945 from Western Reserve University, and in 1949 attended the summer school at National University of Mexico. During the war he was a clerk in the Scioto Ordnance Plant (1943-44). As writer, he had some 30 stories published in Roman Catholic magazines.

Homer taught at the University School; Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Western Reserve Academy; and Kew-Forest School. In 1961 he accepted a position in the Colegio San Antonio Abad, Hamacao, Puerto Rico, and in- tended to make his home there for the rest of his life. A major attack in the classroom necessitated a return to the United States where he was forced to retire because of ever-increasing difficulties with failing vision, cardiac weakness, and diabetes.

The last months of his life when ill and in and out of hospitals in New York, Claremont, N. H., and Hanover, he was constantly helped by Abe Weld '21 and earlier by Bill Embree '21 and Cory Litchard '21. Recently Homer lived in the Hotel Moody, Claremont, and in the Green Lantern Inn, Hanover. During the 1964 football reunion of 1921, Homer, though blind, played some of his old piano favorites at the Hanover Inn and at a cocktail party in a private home.

Never married, Homer is survived by two nephews. Funeral services and interment were in Marion.

1924

HENRY KENNETH LOCKWOOD died December 9, 1964, at his summer home in Hampden, Mass., of heart failure. His more-often-used name was Ken, and so the Dover (N. H.) Foster's Democrat newspaper account of his death listed it as H. Kenneth.

Ken was born April 22, 1902, and was graduated from Lawrence (Mass.) High School and with us in 1924. He had lived in Dover, N. H., for some time, but for the past forty years had resided in Springfield (Mass.), where he was a time study engineer for the Savage Arms Corp. of Chicopee. He was a salesman for Gulf Oil Corp. in 1927 and was in auto sales in 1939. In college Ken was a brother in Zeta Psi; unhappily our record tells no more, and time is too short to write his family and friends for more background.

Ken was married (no date in the record), and is survived by his wife, Florence, of 73 Sherman St., Springfield; by a son and daughter, several grandchildren, and three sisters.

1928

JOHN TOWER MCDONOUGH died in Denver on September 11. He had emphysema and had just had a kidney removed.

Jack was born in Denver on April 13, 1907 and prepared for Dartmouth at the East Denver High School. He was a member of Sigma Chi. He worked for the Colorado National Bank for 15 years, resigning his position as assistant cashier to become an officer of the Campbell Investment Co. and assistant manager of the Albany Hotel. In 1948 he became general manager of the hotel, a position he held at the time of his death.

Jack was active in alumni affairs in Denver, serving several terms as secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Great Divide and later as vice president. He was a director of the Denver University Hotel School, and lectured there.

He is survived by his widow, Becky, at 669 Washington, Denver; three sons, and two brothers, Frank '07 and Gilbert '14.

CHARLES JAMES ROBERTSON, president of the Robertson Lumber Co., of Houston, Texas, died November 14.

He was born December 1, 1906 in Oak Park, III., and prepared for Dartmouth at the Prosso Preparatory School. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega.

Charlie left college after two years and worked for a year in Mexico, then took the first "floating university" World Cruise in 1927. From 1928 until 1940 he was a lumber salesman for several companies in Texas. In 1940 he started the Robertson Lumber Co.

He is survived by his widow, Felide O'Brien, at 2304 Wroxton Rd., Houston, and three children.

1929

Word of the death of JAMES BERNARD COSGROVE on August 16, 1964 has been received from the office of the Town Clerk of Athol, Mass. Jim came to Dartmouth from Athol and made his home there most of his life. The sympathy of the Class is extended to his family who may be reached at 126 Fish Street, Athol, Massachusetts.

Our classmate FRANCIS JOSEPH MCENTEE suffered a fatal coronary on September 12, 1964 in Pasadena, Calif.

A native of Lynn, Mass., Fran studied law at Harvard following graduation from Dartmouth. He then went to California to practice and maintained offices in Los Angeles. He became a specialist in tax and corporation law and was a regular lecturer at the Tax Institute of the University of Southern California.

Fran found time in his busy practice to serve as president of the Dartmouth Club of Southern California and to relax on the tennis courts.

In 1935 he married Anna Payne, who survives him with their two sons, John and James. The Class extends its sincere sympathy to them.

BASCOM HOWARD ROBISON died on July 4, 1964. "Howdy's" boyhood was spent in Omaha, Nebraska, where he graduated from Central High School before coming to Dartmouth. After college he studied law at the University of Southern California where he received his LL.B. in 1938. He was engaged in the practice of law in Los Angeles. 1929 offers sympathy to Mrs. Robison and their two daughters, who may be addressed at 141 South Gunston Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif.

1932

ARTHUR ESTES CLARKE passed away on October 6, 1964 in Concord, N. H.

He was born on November 15, 1910 in Concord and attended high school there. At Dartmouth he was a member of Theta Chi.

Art was co-owner of the Davis Drug Company in Concord.

On July 12, 1941, he married Vida Duffett who survives him at 297 Pleasant St., Concord, N. H. He is also survived by a son and a daughter.

BRUCE PHERSON LYONS of Jamestown, N. Y., passed away on April 26, 1964.

He was born in Jamestown on February 4, 1911 and attended high school there. At Dartmouth he majored in economics and was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

For several years after graduation Bruce taught history at Jamestown High School. He had been president of the Lyons Lumber and Supply Corporation and more recently had been with Flakeboard Corp.

In July 1941 he married Eleanor Krieger, who survives him, with their son Michael, at 100 Townline Road, Jamestown, N. Y.

EDMUND WELCH MILLER JR. died July 23, 1964 after an illness of several years.

Ted was born May 5, 1909 in Waterloo, lowa, and prepared for Dartmouth at Morgan Park Military Academy. He was on the freshman and varsity track teams and the editorial board of The Dart. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

Until his retirement a few years ago, he was a marine insurance underwriter.

During 1942-1945, Ted served with the U. S. Navy, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Com- mander, and was skipper of an LST in the Pacific theatre.

He was married to Marion Smith of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on June 30, 1937. She survives him at 3500 Indian Road, Cedar Rapids. He also leaves two sons, Michael '62 and Douglas.

Burial was in Arlington National Cemetery on July 29, 1964.

1933

Word has just been received from Michael Munn of the death of his father EDWARD EVANS MUNN on February 7, 1961. We have no information on Ned or his family since graduation other than that contained in Michael's letter that Mrs. Munn lives at 110 North Brighton Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. and that there were eight children, two sons and six daughters.

Ned's brother Clarke J. Munn was a member of the Class of 1932.

WILLIAM KIRBY SHAUGHNESSY died in New York Hospital on December 20. He had most recently been Deputy Representative of the Ford Foundation for West Africa and stationed in Nigeria.

After graduation from Dartmouth, Bill went on to Columbia where he was awarded an M.A. degree. He had a number of government and related positions, starting as a junior statistician in the Bureau of the Census, then with the Social Security Board, U.S. Employment Service, and International Refugee Organization in Geneva. For seven years, from 1954 to 1961, he was chief of Administration and executive secretary of the Welfare and Health Council of New York City. In 1961 Bill went to Nigeria as Deputy Representative for the Ford Foundation for West Africa. His specialty was as a Manpower Economist.

Bill married Joy Caphney Mossop in Geneva, Switzerland in 1952 and she survives him as do their two daughters, his mother, and sister. Mrs. Shaughnessy may be reached at 430 63rd St., Apt. 8H, New York, N. Y.

The Class extends its sympathy to his family.

1937

JOHN BAILEY CHAPMAN, director of the American School in Paris, France, died in the fiery crash of a jet airliner at the Rome airport on November 23. He was on the way from Paris to an educational conference in Athens, with a stopover in Rome.

He leaves his wife, now living with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Kinney, at 80 Granby Road, South Portland, Me.; and five children.

In college John was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and a Geology major. His lifelong interest, however, was in education, and he received a Master's degree in Education from Columbia University, and did graduate work at the University of Vermont, New York University, and Cambridge University.

He taught English at Dow Academy in Franconia, N. H., and served as principal of the Lincoln (N. H.) grammar school, Chatsworth elementary school in Larchmont, N. Y., and New Lebanon elementary school in Greenwich. He served in the Army during World War II. At one time he and his wife operated a ski resort at Franconia, N. H.

For several years John was headmaster of Wayneflete School in Portland, Me., where he is credited with an outstanding record of encouragement of an expanded program of language study, and a summer school. He came to Wayneflete in 1954 from an assistant principalship at the Greenwich (Conn.) High School, and left in 1961 for the American School in Paris.

Although living overseas, he wrote in our 25-Year Book that "home - real home —is now Broad Cove, Bremen, Me. A pre-Revolutionary gem right on the coast with salt water forming two boundaries."

1939

FRANK HENRI VALIER, 47, died October 8 at West Palm Beach, Florida, after a fight against cancer of almost two years. Survivors include his widow, Betty; four sons and two daughters, all of West Palm Beach; and three brothers, Robert, Edward L. '34, and Louis A. '37.

Frank was born September 10, 1917 and attended school in West Palm Beach. He was graduated from the Asheville (N. C.) School for Boys, where he was president of his class and a star of the track team, setting several records that are still in effect.

He majored in English at Dartmouth and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. After graduation he worked for the Palm BeachPost-Times and then was in the Army Air Force, spending a year and a half in Hawaii in intelligence and security. After the war he was associated with his brother in Surf Beverages, distributors for Schlitz. Several years ago they sold this business, and Frank became an account executive with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith in Palm Beach.

He was a member of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, the Everglades Club, and the Dartmouth Club of Palm Beach County, which he faithfully attended. He was back at our Fifteenth Reunion, but his failing health prevented his attending last June.

The sincere sympathy of the Class is extended to his wife and children, who live at 2426 Medina Way, West Palm Beach.

1954

ROGER MARK STUART was killed in the crash of a commercial airliner on July 9, 1964. At the time of his death, Rog was working for General Electric in Germany.

Rog was only with us for freshman year but those of us who knew him then thought highly of him. Even though he did not graduate with us, Rog remained an active alumnus, interested in Class affairs.

To his wife Dorothea, of 314 Mitchell Ave., Syracuse, N. Y., and to his child the Class extends its deepest sympathies.

1960

NED GUYAR PATRICK 2ND died of cancer on November 17. Pat was extremely active at Dartmouth. He was freshman class president, member of the UGC, a brother of Gamma Delta Chi, and an active ROTC member.

After being in the service at Fort Benning, Georgia, he returned to his native Omaha with his bride Nancy, whom he had met in Atlanta. He was a very successful insurance salesman for Massachusetts Mutual, qualifying for the Million Dollar Round Table in his first year. Pat was also very active in Dartmouth alumni work.

His death is a great loss to the College as well as to his family and friends. The Class sends its deepest sympathy to his wife and family. Nancy may be reached at 1413 Marbee Dr., Omaha, Nebraska.

1963

ANDREW IRA ALLAND died in Columbus, Ohio, on October 21, 1964 of multiple injuries sustained in a one-car accident about a week earlier. He was attending Ohio State University as a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics. At Dartmouth, Andy was a member of the wrestling team and Tau Epsilon Phi, and was a physics major.

He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Alland of 11 Dorset Road, Great Neck, N. Y.

Professor Malcolm Keir A .M. '19

Harry Becket Johnson '04