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.]
Cohen, Arthur J. '03, April 14 Hadley, Chester B. '03, Mar. 19 Cutts, Elwin F. '07, Mar. 17 Brannum, James H. '09, Nov. 18, 1964 Peck, Warren L. '09, Mar. 27 Graves, George A. '10, Mar. 16 Miller, Arthur E. '12, Mar. 9 Ford, Arthur W. '15, Mar. 12 Grant, Denison W. '15, Feb. 5 Woolworth, Wendell H. '15, Mar. 18 Wooster, William W. '17, Feb. 14 Holbrook, Sidney W. '18, Mar. 17 Cannell, Jackson L. '19, Mar. 21 Allen, John G. '20, Jan. 13 Lindsey, Joseph B. Jr. '20, Mar. 18 Lawler, Carroll J. '22, Apr. 3 Norton, John N. '22, Dec. 16, 1964 Cutler, Henry M. '23, Mar. 9 Wason, Richard A. '24, May 8, 1964 Rogers, Robert W. '26, Nov. 1964 Semple, Kenneth S. '26, Mar. 18 Rubin, David '30, Apr. 6 Murray, Edward E. '31, Apr. 9 Briggs, Stephen A. '34, Apr. 12 Shafer, L. Clair '34, Feb. 27 Carter, H. Shaw '36, Mar. 16 Feemster, Joseph H. 3rd '40, Mar. 15 Lash, Richard B. '47, Feb. 10 Rilling, William P. '52, Mar. 11 Mathews, George F. '60, Feb. 21 Gane, William H. '08m, Mar. 11
1903
Another of our 1903 stalwarts has left us. MARCUS RICHARD BROWN, 84, of 715 Madison St., Fall River, Mass., died March 6 while on a motor trip in West Bridgewater.
Dick was born in Fall River on January 30, 1881, and was graduated from Durfee High School in 1898. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Dragon Senior Society, on the freshman and sophomore football teams and was also on the 1903 Aegis board.
Dick was a member of the First Congregational Church; trustee of the Stevens Home for Boys, Swansea; King Philip Lodge, A.F.&A.M.; charter member of Massasoit Lodge, A.F.&A.M.; a 32nd degree Mason; the Fall River Lodge of Perfection, Samuel C. Lawrence Council, Princes of Jerusalem; St. Andrew Chapter of Rose Croix; and the Old Colony Consistory, SPRS.
Dick had held executive positions in the Fall River textile industry and was active at the time of his death in finance and banking, being a member of the trust committee and director of Durfee Trust Co. and Chairman of the Board and investment board member of the Fall River Savings Bank.
He had been a loyal and active member of the Class and did an outstanding job as committee member of the 55th reunion in 1963. He also had been an assistant class agent in recent Alumni Fund campaigns.
Dick is survived by his widow, Mrs. Helen (Winward) Brown, a daughter, a sister, and a grandson. His death is a grievous loss to College and Class, and all members of the Class extend sincerest sympathy to Helen and family.
Our classmate Omar Swenson has reported the death of CHESTER BARTON HADLEY, 86, of 26 Dunklee St., Concord, N. H. Chester died March 19 at the Concord Hospital.
He was born at Winterset, Iowa, but had been a resident of Concord for 52 years. He was graduated from Arlington (Mass.) High School before entering Dartmouth. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
After college he became an engineer for Page Belting Co. with which he was connected for 50 years. Chester married Marie H. Hornbrook on August 16, 1906. He leaves two sons, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held March 22 with burial at Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Mass.
The deepest sympathy of the Class goes out to his family in their great loss.
1907
ELWIN FISHER CUTTS of South Street, Milford, N. H., died on March 17 at the Chelsea Naval Hospital after a long illness. He was buried at Arlington National Ceemetery.
Captain Cutts was born in Amherst, N. H., September 5, 1885 and prepared for college at Milford High School. He attended Dartmouth for one year, and then entered the Naval Academy from which he graduated in 1908. In February 1911, he volunteered for submarine duty and, in May 1912, he became a submarine commanding officer until called to the Naval Academy as an instructor in 1914.
Captain Cutts then served on the submarine USS Savannah and the battleship USS Pennsylvania before going to the Bureau of Navigation in Washington, D. C. He attended the Naval War College and became Chief of Staff of the Submarine Force. Beginning in June 1936, he served on the War College staff for three years, then became commanding officer of the USS Pennsylvania.
For four years, Captain Cutts served as commanding officer of the Submarine Base at New London before becoming Senior Naval Advisor to the Argentine Naval College. Returning to the United States in April 1946, he served on general court martial duty at the Ist Naval District headquarters in Boston before retiring on November 1, 1946.
Mrs. Cutts is the former Elise Riles. They were married on November 24, 1910. He is also survived by a son and a daughter. The Class extends deep sympathy to the widow and family.
1910
GEORGE ALEXANDER GRAVES died March 16, at the Clyatt Memorial Center, Daytona Beach, Fla. He had been in failing health for a long period.
"Jerry" Graves was born January 10, 1886 in Springfield, Mass. He prepared for college at Springfield High School. In college he played on the Class baseball team which he captained in sophomore year. He was manager of varsity track in his senior year and a member of Psi U and Casque & Gauntlet. After graduation he remained in Hanover as the graduate manager of athletics for two years. In 1913 he joined the Dartmouth group in the American Felt Co. and associated companies. In 1917 he went with the Walter M. Lowney Co. in Boston, and after thirteen years in the chocolate field, Jerry became associated with Perry & Elliott Co., catalpg printers. He retired in 1956. Several years ago he took up residence in Florida where he could be near his daughter. He was a member of the Masonic Order.
Jerry was married to Florence I. Schelsinger on June 24, 1916 at Becket, Mass. She died in 1956. His daughter is his sole survivor.
1915
ARTHUR WHITTEN FORD, retired Guard-Sgt. of Dana Corporation, died from a heart attack March 12 at his home in Butler, Ind.
"Art" was born October 25, 1893 in Haverhill, Mass., and married Geneva Muhn on May 15, 1916 at Auburn, Ind.
He retired in 1958 from Dana and became active in Dr. Lee Ford's Companion Collie Program, instituted by his daughter some years previously.
He is survived by his widow, two daughters, a son, and five grandchildren.
DENISON WADSWORTH GRANT, retired Vice President of The Pennzoil Co. of Oil City, Pa., died February 5 at his Smoke Tree Ranch in Palm Springs, Cal.
"Denny" was born August 21, 1890 in Franklin, Pa., and had been a Pennsylvania crude oil producer for many years.
He was a member of the California Club of Los Angeles, the Oil City Club and the Franklin Club of Franklin, Pa.
He had been active in photography and won the A.P.S.A. award from the Photographic Society of America.
REGINALD AUSTIN PRIOR, owner of the R. A. Prior Insurance Agency in Brockton, Mass., died March 8 at his home, 404 Jerusalem Road, Cohasset, Mass.
"Reg" was born September 5, 1892 at North Stoughton, Mass. Upon graduation from Phillips Exeter Academy, he entered Dartmouth where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
He married Gladys G. Clark, November 9, 1913 at Portland, Me., and at one time operated a leather business in Marblehead and Brockton in association with Jerry Shaw, a Dartmouth classmate.
He was a member of Philanthropic Lodge of Masons, Marblehead, and president of Avon Co-operative Bank of Avon, Mass.
Besides his widow, he leaves a daughter Ruth, who married Ernest Wiggins '36, and two grandchildren.
Services were private and interment in North-wood Cemetery, Cotuit, Mass. Memorial gifts were suggested to the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children.
WENDELL HOWARD WOOLWORTH, retired Army major and former bridge editor of the Buffalo Courier-Express, died March 18 at his home, 6321 East 6th Ave., Hialeah, Fla., after a long illness.
"Dud" was born August 8, 1891 at Niagara Falls, N. Y. He prepared for Dartmouth at Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, where he starred in track and cricket. At Dartmouth he was an outstanding sprinter and a member of Phi Delta Theta. He also graduated from Thayer School in 1916.
After working as assistant to the chief engineer in the construction of the Holland Tunnel in 1916, he enlisted in the Federalized National Guard, serving with General Pershing on the Mexican border and then became a commissioned officer, commanding the first company of American infantry to land in France in June 1917. He won the Silver Star for gallantry in action at Soissons and the Purple Heart at Argonne Forest in 1918. He later served in Panama and as a captain in World War II, being discharged as disabled in 1943 with the rank of major.
He married Rena Thompson early in 1943 at Newport News, Va., and worked for the Courier-Express in Buffalo until his final retirement in 1955.
He is survived by his widow and his brother Chester '16. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery with full Honor Guard. A floral tribute was sent from the Class.
1917
WILLIAM WARD WOOSTER died on February 14 after a long illness.
Bill retired from business in the fall of 1960, and he and his wife Lee moved from Buffalo to a lovely little home on Sanibel Island, Fla., where their son David had already settled. A bit more than a year after the move, disaster struck. After a lifetime of good health, Bill suffered a series of strokes and then a broken hip, and was completely disabled, being unable to walk or talk. Finally, early in February, he suffered a severe hemorrhage which necessitated many transfusions, and the end came when his heart became too weak to carry on.
Bill came to Dartmouth by way of Phillips Exeter Academy, and from July 1917 until November 1919, he served with the Army ordnance, holding the rank of second lieutenant. Leaving the service, he went to work for the American Radiator Co. and in 1929 established his own investment business. About 1936 he joined Adsco Industries in Buffalo and was comptroller of the company when he retired.
He married Lena Noble on July 25, 1917 at Batavia, N. Y. Both Bill's widow and son survive. Mrs. Wooster is now living at the Presbyterian Homes, Lakeland, Fla.
HOBAKT FORD of Rowayton, Conn., died on March 1 at his winter home on Man-O-War Cay, Abaco, in the Bahamas. The son of Simeon Ford, a famous after-dinner speaker of his time, and Julia Ellsworth Ford, Hobey spent most of his childhood in his father's Grand Union Hotel, opposite what was then known as New York's Grand Central Depot. The family moved to Rye, N. Y., where Hobey attended the Kingsley School until entering Dartmouth.
He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Casque and Gauntlet. Upon graduation he enlisted in the Army and served overseas as a second lieutenant of ordnance. Returning after the war, he became a stockbroker and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange from 1941 until he retired in 1955, when his seat on the Exchange was taken over by his son, James.
He is remembered by his classmates as a lanky, slow-spoken young man of warmth and gentleness with a whimsical wit, inherited, no doubt, from his father. Aside from his business interests and his family, Hobey's lifelong passion was yachting. He owned and sailed a succession of yachts, including a series named "Jane Dore" after his daughter. He took part in the Newport-Bermuda Races and in one trans-Atlantic race. He was elected commodore of the Cruising Club of America in 1933 and again in 1943. He also was rear-commodore and vice-commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and a member of the American Yacht Club of Rye.
Having been a sailing man all his life, Hobey shared the opinion common to all of the sailing clan that power boating was to yachting about what a witch doctor would be to a modern medical man. But two years ago, taking cognizance of his age he suddenly acquired a power cruiser. His astonished yachting friends, appalled by this heresy, exclaimed "Oh, No!", so Hobey named his new craft "Oh, No!" And just for kicks, he named the dinghy "Why Not?".
Ten years ago, having completed unsuccessfully in several of the Bermuda races, and whimsically conscious of the fact that a man in his sixties had little further chance to win, he solemnly announced that a new classification was needed for the Bermuda race and that he was presenting to the Cruising Club a small grandfather's clock to go as a prize to the skipper who was either a grandfather or more than 50 years old whose yacht was first in that classification on corrected time. Bachelors would be allowed to compete on the assumption that they had had time at 50 to be grandfathers had they chosen to take a bride. There is no record that this prize was ever awarded, but Hobey had had his joke.
Hobey is survived by his widow, Betty, at 9 Rowayton Rd., Rowayton, Conn., a son, a daughter, a sister, and six grandchildren.
1918
SIDNEY WALLACE HOLBROOK died in the Elliot Community Hospital in Keene, N. H. on March 17 after a long illness. Funeral Services were held in the United Church of Christ on March 20.
Sid was a native and lifetime resident of Keene. He was born on August 9, 1895. He attended Keene schools and then was graduated from Mt. Hermon School in Northfield, Mass.
At Dartmouth he was a member of the freshman football and track teams and the varsity football team for two years. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
During World War I he served as a flying instructor at Love Field, Texas, with a rank of second lieutenant. After the war he returned to Keene and became Executive Vice President of the Holbrook Grocery Co. He designed and supervised the construction of many of the new modern IGA stores in and around Keene.
He was a member of the United Church of Christ and a very active member of the Sunday School department.
He is survived by his widow, Edith (Place), of 67 Forest St., one son, and a daughter, and two brothers, Richard L. '17 and Caryl F. '20.
EMERSON GLOVER MORSE, 70, a native of West Medford, Mass., passed away at Dick Hall's House on Sunday, March 14.
Em left college to serve in World War I, and after the war received his Dartmouth degree. He also attended Harvard Business School and was graduated in 1922. From then until his retirement in 1952 he was a director of purchases for Lever Bros. Soon after retirement he built a home in Lyme, N. H., where he lived until his death. For several years he was a partner in the Webster Associates, a Hanover real estate firm which he helped to organize.
Over the course of the years he was given many assignments by the Class of 1918 which he fulfilled with merit. For the last several years he had been responsible for organizing and running the Class get-together held each fall in Hanover at the time of the first football game. He also served on several reunion committees, lending a helping hand whenever needed.
Em was one of the best-known members of the Class of 1918, principally because he went out of his way to entertain his classmates at his home during the years that he lived in and around Hanover. For many of us Hanover will not seem the same without Em there to greet us.
Surviving him is his widow Lois (Dunn), and an adopted son.
Funeral services were held on March 16 in the Bigelow Chapel at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass., and a memorial service was held on March 17 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover.
1919
JACKSON LIVINGSTON CANNELL, former head coach of football at Dartmouth, died March 22 at his home in Kittery, Me., apparently of a heart attack. He was 69 and had lived alone in Kittery since his wife's death in 1963.
Jack was born in Everett, Mass., on May 30, 1896. After a spectacular football career at Everett High School, where he led the national championship team of 1914 to an unbelievable 600 to 0 season climaxed by an 80-0 victory over Oak Park (Ill.), he came to Dartmouth with our Class in the fall of 1915. He became captain of our freshman team, and easily made the varsity backfield the following year. After two years in the U. S. Navy in World War I, he returned to Hanover in the fall of 1919 to captain that renowned team, which included such legendary figures as Swede Youngstrom, Gus Sonnenberg, and Bill Cunningham. Jack was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Sphinx and in senior year was the winner of the Barrett Cup.
Jack remained in Hanover as assistant to Coach Doc Spears '17 in 1920, and then was head coach for two seasons, 1921-22. When Jess Hawley '09 took over as head coach in 1923, Jack was named backfield coach and held that post through the 1928 season. Then in 1929 he was chosen to succeed Hawley as head coach and led the Big Green for four years, through the 1932 season. In his six years as Dartmouth's head coach, Cannell-coached teams won 39 games, lost 19, and tied 3. His best season was in 1930 when Dartmouth won seven games, played a scoreless tie with Yale, and lost to Stanford, 14-7, on the West Coast in the finale.
In 1937 Jack moved to St. Anselm's College in Manchester, N. H., working under Cleo O'Donnell, who had been his school coach at Everett. When St. Anselm's dropped football after the 1940 season, Jack moved to Traip Academy in Kittery as head coach. Over seventeen seasons, his Traip teams rolled up a record of 80 wins, 25 losses, and seven ties, and during one stretch from 1942 through 1946 they compiled the longest unbeaten string in state school-boy records. He retired from coaching in 1957 and from his teaching post at Traip in 1961.
Quoting from a Maine paper: "The soft spoken and retiring Cannell didn't like the pressures or some of the practices of bigtime coaching. He was more satisfied as an assistant college coach than he was when he became head man, and voluntarily retired to high school coaching when he was still sought by several colleges."
Jack lost a son in World War II and his wife in 1963; both losses were great blows to him. He is survived by three daughters, fourteen grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Funeral services were held in the First Congregational Church in Kittery and interment was in the Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, N. H.
1919 extends its most sincere sympathy to the family in their sorrow. The Class has lost one of its most outstanding men. Ed Martin attended the services.
1920
JOHN GREENLEAF ALLEN died suddenly at his home, 4555 15th Ave., Seattle, Wash., of an embolism on January 13, 1965. He had suffered a stroke the previous February. He was born in Council Bluffs, lowa, November 23, 1898, and prepared for college at the Council Bluffs High School. He moved to Seattle in 1937 and was married to Katherine Woods in September 1941.
While in college he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa, and received his Master's at Tuck School in 1921.
Johnny was an auditor for General Insurance Co., retiring in December 1958. He enjoyed his retirement, and spent part of each winter in Southern California. He returned to Hanover for his 30th and 35th reunions.
He is survived by his wife Katherine. The sympathy of the Class of 1920 goes to her and other surviving members of Johnny's family.
JOSEPH BRIDGEO LINDSEY JR., of 24 Forest Road, Delmar, N. Y., died March 18 at the Veterans Hospital in Albany, N. Y., after a long illness.
He was born in Amherst, Mass., March 12, 1897, and attended Amherst High School and Phillips Exeter Academy. While at Dartmouth he was on the freshman baseball team and varsity baseball squad, and a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. Joe was married on March 31, 1928 to Mary Elizabeth Swart.
He served in the U. S. Navy from June 1918 to September 1921. After graduating from Dartmouth he did graduate work at Harvard. He was head of the German department at Albany Academy for 37 years until his retirement in 1959.
Funeral services were held at the Delmar Reformed Church. He is survived by his widow and a sister. The Class extends sympathy to Joe's family.
DR. GRANT LUCAS of Washington, D. C., died November 30, 1964 of a heart attack at the Freedmen's Hospital with which he had been associated for a number of years.
He was, born in 1900 in Forestville, Md., and prepared for Dartmouth in the public schools. After graduating from Dartmouth he received his medical degree from the Howard University Medical School in 1925. He was a practicing physician, following in the footsteps of his mother who was also a doctor and had graduated from Howard Medical School in 1912.
Dr. Lucas was a man of many and varied interests. He collected books on Negro history, was an avid reader and chess player, and a breeder of English setters. He was associated with the Lincoln Society and was in the process of writing a novel at the time of his death.
He is survived by his widow, at 1738 15th St. N.W., a daughter, and a grandson who is looking hopefully toward Dartmouth. The Class extends sympathy to the surviving family.
1923
ANTONIO JOSEPH FELIX CUFFARI passed away on December 6, 1964.
Born in Messina, Italy, on January 28, 1900, "Cuffee" served in the Italian army before coming to Dartmouth. His Dartmouth days were highlighted by his election to Phi Beta Kappa.
At the time of his death he was Professor of French and head of the Modern Language Department at the Richard Bland College of the College of William and Mary. The Class extends sympathy to Mrs. Cuffari who resides at 280 Bedford Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
1940
JOSEPH HALL FEEMSTER 3RD died unexpectedly on March 15 at his home, 290 Hilldale Place, Lake Forest, Ill. He had been a technical salesman for Du Pons Corp. since 1942 and had lived in other locations such as Dallas, Cincinnati, Boston, and Tulsa in his long career with Du Pont.
Red entered with our Class from Tulsa Central High. He was a brother of Kappa Sigma and was the fraternity scribe as well as a member of the gym team squad. In May 1941 he was married to the former Deborah Powers who survives him with their three children.
This sad news touches us all and the sincere sympathy of the Class is extended to his widow and children at the Lake Forest address and to his mother and sister who live in Tulsa.
Jackson Livingston Cannell '19
