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.]
Knowlton, Kent '94, Nov. 1 Holland, Harold M. '00, Aug. 2 Howard, William E. '00, Oct. 25 Perham, Frank S. '03, Oct. 16 Washburn, Benjamin M. '07, Oct. 16 Brock, Fred S. '09, Nov. 6 Howard, Eliot R. '09, Oct. 15 Marshall, Leon C. '09, Nov. 12 Moffatt, Elbert M. '09, Oct. 4 Gordon, William D. '11, Nov. 3 Stebbins, Charles G. '11, Nov. 6 Goss, Irvin J. '12, Sept. 18 Robinson, Edward L. '13, Oct. 12 Cleaves, William L. '16, Nov. 13 Gould, Glenn C. '16, Oct. 28 Lyman, Stanley M. '16, Oct. 8 Pease, Robert A. '16, Oct. 16 Ward, Frank R. '16, Oct. 3 Hawley, C. Kent '17, Nov. 1 Stockwell, Howard A. '17, Oct. 14 Hatch, Ellis J. '18, Oct. 17 Featherston, Daniel F. '19, Oct. 30 Barnes, Aldrich B. '20, Oct. 31 Frost, James W. '20, Oct. 28 Lovejoy, Charles W. '20, April 1 Manning, Howell '21, Oct. 10 Davis, W. Carl '22, Oct. 25 Buffett, George M. '23, Sept. 18 Dunton, Ralph E. '23, Nov. 6 Veit, Herbert H. '23, Oct. 27 Reynolds, Bryson J. 2nd '24, Aug. 27 Cogan, Maurice W. '23, Oct. 30 Libbey, Walter C. '33, Oct. 20 O'Toole, Francis J. '33, Nov. 2 Moir, Donald J. '34, Oct. 14 Allen, Norman S. '36, Oct. 9 Redington, Theodore T. Jr. '41, Oct. 8 Brown, Roger S. '45, Oct. 22
1894
KENT KNOWLTON, who was born in West Medway, Mass., August 14, 1872, died November 1, 1966, at his home, 426 Passaic Ave., Nutley, N.J. He was the last surviving member of his class.
He prepared for Dartmouth at St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, and after graduating from Dartmouth went on to take his law degree at Boston University. Because of his strong literary interests he spent some time on the staff of the old Cosmopolitan magazine before entering the practice of law in Boston. In 1924 he was happy to be offered the opportunity to return to the writing field by his old friend and classmate, Philip S. Marden, then owner and publisher of The Lowell Courier-Citizen. He remained with the paper, writing editorials and feature articles and selecting poems and short quotations and quips for the daily column until the paper was sold in 1941.
After his retirement, Kent stayed at the old homestead in West Medway until 1948, gardening and taking an interest in local politics. He was an air raid warden during World War II.
In 1948 he and his wife moved to Nutley, N.J., and later after the death of C.C. Merrill he became Class Agent, continuing until his eyesight failed in 1962.
Publications included poems in national magazines, and a revision of Bigelow's TheLaw of Fraudulent Conveyances, a standard law text.
A private funeral was held November 4 in Nutley, N. J., and interment was in the family plot in West Medway, November 13. He is survived by his widow, the former Cathleen Schontag of South Royalton, Vt., two daughters, and a granddaughter.
1900
Another respected classmate has dropped out of the thinning ranks of our class. HAROLD MAY HOLLAND died in a Galesburg, Ill., hospital on August 2, - He had a serious illness which hospitalized him for many weeks last winter and spring. Then in July he suffered a shock and was readmitted to St. Mary's Hospital where he passed away. Funeral services were private. There are no near relatives surviving him.
Harold was born in Galesburg, Ill., April 15, 1878, the son of Joseph B. and Mary Otis May Holland. His father was of New England origin, a graduate of Dartmouth with the Class of 1858, and a prosperous stock farmer in the vicinity of Galesburg. Harold was educated at Knox Academy and Knox College. In the fall of 1899 he transferred to Dartmouth and graduated with our Class in June of 1900. In college he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. On graduation he joined his father's business. He was a lifelong resident of Galesburg with the exception of the years 1915-1918 when he lived in California. He married in 1909 Beulah M. Hunt, who passed away in 1921.
Harold was an avid sportsman and a lover of the great outdoors. He was a member of the sporting goods firm of McLean and Holland, had a keen interest in stock breeding, and was a well-known ornithologist. He was a first-rate tennis player and held the national clay court championship for several years. His knowledge of bird lore was extensive, and he was particularly interested in migrations and nesting habits. Harold was a member of a number of ornithological scientific societies, a charter member of the Galesburg Rotary Club, and was active in other aspects of good citizenship.
Although distance and business responsibilities prevented him from attending reunions and round-ups of the Class, he was a ready correspondent, a regular contributor to our class fund, and a loyal and devoted Dartmouth man. We of 1900 rejoice in the memory of a genial, kindly, generous personality who ably carried into life activities the eternal spirit of "Dartmouth Undying."
1903
It is a real sorrow to report the death on October 16 of our old friend FRANK STUART PERHAM, at the Frederick Memorial Hospital, after a lengthy illness.
Frank was born February 5, 1881 and prepared for college at the Haverhill (Mass.) High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Chi and earned the degree of Civil Engineer at Thayer School.
In December of 1921 Frank married Mazie E. Thompson of Atlanta, Ga., who survives him at their home in New Market, Md. They had no children.
For many years Frank was in contract engineering in Florida and Georgia, retiring on account of health. In later years he and Mrs. Perham were in the antique business in Bethesda and New Market, Md.
Frank had not been in good health for some time but at all times he maintained his courage and cheerful spirit without complaint. A cheerful letter from his wife was mentioned in the October class notes.
Frank had many friends not only while in college but over the years since. All of them join in sincere sympathy to Mrs. Perham.
OMAR STEPHEN SWENSON of 174 Centre St., Concord, N.H., died September 30, 1966 at Concord Hospital. Omar was born at Oswego, N.Y., April 26, 1878. At the end of his freshman year at Dartmouth he transferred to and in 1903 graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and president of his freshman class.
Omar is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Mary M. Swenson, whom he married in 1944. By the first Mrs. Swenson, who died in 1939, he had a son John '32 and a daughter, Mrs. William H. Sumner of Wayland, Mass. Among the bearers were the following members of his family: Kneeland '40, Guy A. '42, J. Malcolm '59, and grandson Stephen S. '56.
Omar led a busy and successful business life in building up the John Swenson Granite Co. in which he was associated with two brothers John A. '09 and Guy A. '12. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War, director of the Mechanics National Bank, trustee of Merrimack County Savings Bank, and member of the Snowshoe Club. He also served on the Board of Aldermen and Board of Education. He was treasurer of John Swenson Granite Company.
Funeral services were conducted at St. Paul's Episcopal Church of which he had long been a member.
In the Dartmouth 1903 Class Bulletin for its 25th Reunion in 1928, there is further note that Omar had served as President of the National Building Granite Quarries Association. Also in that same Bulletin the editor wrote, "He is a loyal Dartmouth man, in spite of his connection with M.I.T. The writer has had to correspond with him during the last four years and found him cordial and cooperative in all matters personal and having to do with Dartmouth and the Class of 1903." That statement of almost 40 years ago holds just as true for the years since as it did for those first 25 years.
We of the Class still on duty will miss Omar Swenson and our sympathy in their loss goes to all his family.
1904
JOHN FRANCIS DOONAN died August 28, 1966. He was born in Greenville, N. H., on December 21, 1879 and attended Cushing Academy.
He worked for the New Haven Railroad for ten years as a civil engineer before taking a position with the Rockville-Willimantic Lighting Company in Connecticut. His engineering career was interrupted by World War I and he served overseas in the Engineering Corps of the U.S. Army. He held the rank of First Lieutenant and later was Captain in the Reserves. After 32 years of service to Connecticut Light and Power Company he retired, but he immediately employed his time profitably as a consultant in the engineering field.
About fifteen years ago the Town of Windham, Connecticut, asked him to do a renovating and expansion program on the town airport. From that time until his death he was the Town Engineer.
He was a member of LeClair-Caron Post, American Legion of Greenville, N.H., and Willimantic Lodge 1311 BPO Elks, and had membership in several state and national engineering societies.
He is survived by a sister, Miss Nina M. Doonan of Greenville, N.H.
1907
RT. REV. BENJAMIN MARTIN WASHBURN (Phi Beta Kappa; B.D. General Theological Seminary 1913; D.D. honorary Dartmouth 1929; S.T.D. General Theological Seminary 1933; D.D. Kenyon 1949; and S.T.D. Hobart 1951) died at his home, 11 Barrack Hill Rd., Ridgefield, Conn., on October 16.
Born in Bethel, Vt., June 1, 1887, he was one of the youngest men of 1907. He prepared for college at Whitcomb High School. A member of Chi Tau Kappa, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the Dramatic Club, and Aegis board, he was a Rufus Choate Scholar in 1904.
He taught in the public high school of Hartford, Conn., 1907-09 and then attended General Theological Seminary. After many years of dedicated service he was ordained Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, N.J. in 1932 and retired in 1958.
Ben served as Vicar of Grace Church, New York City, in 1915; Rector of St. Paul's Church, Kansas City, Mo. in 1918; and Rector of Emanuel Church, Boston, in 1929. He was chairman of the Board of Trustees of General Theological Seminary; President of the Church Pension Fund and its subsidiaries; vice-president of the New Jersey Historical Society, and trustee of the Newark Museum. He was a Republican, member of the Essex Club of Newark, and Society of Mayflower Descendants.
On April 19, 1917, in New York City, Ben married Henrietta Tracy de Selding. There was one son, Seth Harwood '43, who also survives, as do a brother and five grandchildren.
A service was held at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Ridgefield, Conn. Funeral services were held at Trinity Cathedral in Newark, and Bishop Leland Stark officiated. Burial was in Holy Innocents Cemetery, West Orange, N.J.
To Henrietta and the family goes the sympathy of the Class in their great loss. Ben was a loyal classmate and a sincere friend who will be missed by us all.
1909
ELBERT MARSTON MOPFATT died on October 4, 1966 at the Baptist Hospital a few hours after suffering a shock at his home, 1604 Tanglewood Road, Columbia, S.C.
Elbert was born April 30, 1884 at Le Sueur, Minn., and graduated from St. Joseph (Mich.) High School in 1901. He spent four years learning the printing Business and working for an advertising firm in Chicago before coming to Dartmouth. His college activities were many: class football team, freshman and sophomore debating teams, Magazine Board, business manager of the 1909 Aegis; treasurer of YMCA in 1907, and vice president in 1908.
After graduation, Moff went to New York City and engaged in YMCA work for a couple of years. He then went to Allahabad, India, where he was general secretary for the YMCA for five years. He returned to New York in 1916 and was engaged in the same kind of work there and in Brooklyn. He received his M.A. degree from New York University in 1920 and returned to India under the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions to teach commerce in Christian College, Lucknow. He was loaned to Lucknow University to organize the Bachelor of Commerce course and served as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce from 1921 to 1923. His work with the Mission was mostly on the business side, where he served as treasurer of the North India Conference, member of the Finance Committee for all India, and secretary of the Publishing House. The Mission had a budget of over a million a year with more than 600 missionaries scattered throughout India.
In 1940 while on a year's furlough he completed his residential requirements at the University of Washington, Seattle, and was awarded his Ph.D. degree. His thesis was the Universities of India.
On his return to India he took over much of the financial and executive work of the Methodist Church in India. When the office was moved from Calcutta to Bombay, he organized the Intermission Office which offered to 60 smaller missions its services for travel and sale of exchange through the American Express Co. Elbert supervised this business for 14 years.
In 1946, due to his wife's poor health, he returned to the New York office and worked on property records until 1950. After her death, he returned to India and organized the Methodist Publishing House in Lucknow. He retired in 1956.
Elbert was married to Beatrice Bell on June 29, 1909 at Chicago, Ill., and four children were born to them. He was married in 1953 to Mrs. Olive Gould Ward, who had lived in India. He is survived by his widow, his son E. Marston Jr., three daughters and five grand-children.
Services were conducted at the Trenholm Methodist Church on October 6, 1966 with interment in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Columbia, S.C.
The Class has been fortunate to have had this Christian layman as one of its members and will miss him.
ELIOT REMSEN HOWARD passed away at his home, 25 Monument Road, Concord, Mass., on October 15, 1966 following several years of failing health.
Eliot was born in Hyde Park, Mass., on October 3, 1887 and entered Dartmouth from Hyde Park High School.
He joined the Middlesex Mutual Insurance Co. of Concord, Mass., shortly after graduation and progressed through its various offices until he became president in 1940 and served there until his retirement in 1955. He took time out to serve a short hitch in the Navy during World War I.
He was a director of the Concord Cooperative Bank, trustee of the Middlesex Institution for - trustee of the Insurance Library Association of Boston, trustee of Town Donations to the Emerson Hospital, and was on many town committees over the years.
He was a charter member and past president of the Concord Rotary Club. He received his 50 year pin from the Grand Lodge of Masons in 1963 as a member of Corinthian Lodge of Concord. He was a life deacon of the Trinitarian Congregational Church.
On June 15, 1916 he was married to Eva G. Stevens at Concord, Mass. She survives as does their younger son Stanley M. '45 and three grandchildren.
Funeral services were held October 18 at the Trinitarian Congregational Church with burial in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
1910
THOMAS LEWIS BELCHER passed away suddenly September 9, 1966, in Hawthorne, N.J. He was born May 19, 1886 in Winthrop, Mass., where he prepared for college at Winthrop High School.
After graduation he entered the employ of Revere Rubber Co., Chelsea, Mass. Later he went with the United States Rubber Co., as analytical chemist. In 1922 he joined the Manhattan Rubber Mfg. Co. in Pasaaic, N.J. He retired in June 1960. He was a member of the American Chemical Society.
Tom was married in 1918 to Avia Knight, in Hartford, Conn. She died in 1937. Survivors are his son, daughter and seven grandchildren.
1912
IRVIN JAMES GOSS died suddenly September 18, 1966 following a very brief hospitalization. He had suffered a coronary occlusion some years ago and, although he seemed in good health until about two weeks before his death, it is to be assumed that his death was the result of a recurrent attack.
Irv Goss was born in Berlin, N.H., on October 6, 1889. He prepared for college at Berlin High School and a few years after receiving his A.B. at Dartmouth attended the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance in Boston where he received a C.P.A. in 1923. While at Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Starting out from college in 1912 Irv served for one year as principal of the grade and high school at North Woodstock, N.H. He then spent six years with the Guaranty Trust Company of Berlin, rising to the position of treasurer. Nine years in Boston followed, seven in public and two in private accounting. He then went to New York where he was engaged for two years in public accounting, followed by his long service with the New York State Department of Insurance.
Irv was a long-time member of the Dartmouth Club of New York and, until recent years, had been a fairly regular attendant at 1912 reunions. He enjoyed golf, often stopping off in Hanover for a round en route to vacations in northern Vermont and New Hampshire.
On December 23, 1917 he married Grace Ellery Royston of Berlin who survives him at 2105 Burr Ave., Bronx, N.Y., as does his son, Richard R. '42, a sister, and several grandchildren. Funeral services and burial took place in Berlin.
1913
THOMAS ATTWLLL NICHOLS died in Marblehead, Mass., on October 8, 1966.
Ever since his graduation from college Tom had been affiliated with the Wilson Printing Company of Salem, from which he had been retired but a few years. All through life he was quietly reserved, always considerate of others. Though not a man of hobbies he had a keen interest in his home and garden and an enthusiastic interest in sports. Until late years he was a member of the Men's Club in Lynn, his native city, and was a member of Mount Carmel Lodge A.F. and A.M.
Tom and Florence had no family of their own, but their niece and nephew, Dorothy Doliber and Robert M. Best, were an immediate part of their family life and home.
Tom married Florence C. Powers of Lynn, Mass., in 1926 and is survived by her at their home, 66 Jersey St. He is also survived by his sister, Miriam.
Dean A. Munsey represented 1913 at the services in Marblehead.
All classmates will be sorry to hear that EDWARD LAWRENCE ROBINSON died in a Portland hospital, October 12, after a long illness. Robbie had been affiliated with W. E. Hutton & Co., as their branch office manager in Portland, Maine.
Born in Windham, Maine, October 15, 1891, he went on to Tuck School after graduating with our class, to further his interest in commercial and investment banking.
Robbie was a member of the State Street Congregational Church, and a former member of the Portland Country Club, the Portland Club, the Cumberland Club, and the Portland Round Table. He was also a former member of the Maine Investment Bankers Club, the Dartmouth Club of Maine, the Scottish Rites, Knights Templar, and Shrine Masonic Bodies.
Robbie leaves a son, John E. '49, of Falmouth, Me., and three grandchildren, to whom we, his classmates and friends, send our sympathy.
Memorial services were held on October 15 in the chapel of the State Street Congregational Church.
1914
WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY, well known to Dartmouth men for his Eleazar Wheelock murals at the College, passed away at Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital at the age of 73. He made his home at Lake George, N.Y.
As a Dartmouth undergraduate Walter was art editor of Jack-o-Lantern and of the Aegis, and was designer of the Outing Club seal and of the heading for The Dartmouth. Following his graduation he continued his artistic work, and in 1917 taught in' the art education department of the University of Chicago. He next taught at Bradley Polytechnic Institute in Peoria, and from there went to New York with his wife to engage in free-lance drawing. After achieving great success in the field of commercial art, in 1929 he joined the staff of the Phoenix Art Institute in New York as instructor in commercial illustration and lecturer in artistic anatomy. He was also an instructor in the department of marketing, School of Commerce, New York University. From 1941 to 1964, when he retired to his summer home in Lake George, he was a teacher of commercial art at New Rochelle High School.
In 1937 Walter was selected to execute a series of murals illustrating our famous song "Eleazar Wheelock" in the Hovey Grill of Thayer Dining Hall. The lyrics were illustrated on three large canvas panels, two of them 37 feet long, and one 28 feet, and a "chorus" panel eight feet long. Work was done in his studio in New Rochelle, N. H.
Among other murals Walter executed was one in the Warren County Court at the Municipal Center in Glens Falls. In 1961 he painted a large Eleazar Wheelock canvas for the men's bar of the Dartmouth Club in New York.
He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Chi Phi fraternity, and the University Club of New Rochelle, of which he was honorary president. He served as chairman of the Municipal Art Commission of New Rochelle and honorary president of the New Rochelle Art Association, and also belonged to the National Society of Mural Painters and the Hudson Valley Art Association.
Walter is survived by his wife, the former Constance R. Morton, to whom he was married in 1917, a son and a daughter, and one grandchild. William H. Morton '32 and Roald A. Morton '34 are his brothers-in-law.
The Class of 1914 extends deepest sympathy to Connie and the family in their loss. Walter was a loyal and distinguished Dartmouth man, and he will be missed by all of us.
1916
LUKE SULLIVAN OLLIS, of Lancaster, Mass., died at the Clinton Hospital September 21. He was described in the press as a guiding light in the rebirth of Clinton as an industrial community.
Luke was born April 15, 1894 in Clinton and came to Dartmouth from the local high school, finishing college in 1917. With the onset of the war he enlisted in the U. S. Army Corps as a Private First Class and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in August 1918. He served as an instructor and was discharged in December 1918. Luke then became an assistant manager of hotels in Annapolis, Md., and Philadelphia. Later he was employed as production manager of the Forbes Piggly Wiggly Corp., Fairmont, W. Va.
During the 1930's Luke, as executive secretary of the Clinton Industries Corp., played a prominent role in attracting new industries to Clinton during that depression era. In 1944 he became the manager of the Hotel Flagler, Miami. He retired in 1955 and for five years prior to his death resided in Lancaster, where he was engaged in writing. He was at one time treasurer of Wachusett Cooperative Bank and a director of Clinton Trust Co.
In 1936 Luke married Helen Edith Tyrrell, who survives him. A High Mass was celebrated at the Immaculate Conception Church, Lancaster. The Class was represented by Jim Colton, Ed Craver, and Paul and Gay Goward.
ROBERT ALVARO PEASE died October 17 at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Bedford, Mass.
Bob was born November 21, 1893 in Nashua, N.H., and attended the local high school before entering Dartmouth. In college he was a member of the freshman and varsity cross-country team, the freshman Mandolin Club, the Prom Show and the Orchestra. He was also a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
In World War I Bob was a Second Lieutenant and pilot-observer in the U.S. Air Force, being in the service from 1917 to 1919. After the war he received his law degree from Boston university in 1921, and practiced in Boston.
In 1922 he married Margaret B. Miller, who survives him at 73 Prospect St., Northampton, Mass., as does a son, Robert F. Pease; a daughter, Mrs. George Morse; two sisters, a brother and four grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted by the rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Nashua, of which Bob was a long-time member, as well as a former member of the choir. The Class was represented by Gene McQuesten, Ralph Parker, and Jim Coffin.
FRANK RALPH WARD died October 3 at the Gaylord Hospital, Wallingford, Conn., where he had been brought following a severe stroke suffered about the first of August in Chautauqua, N. Y. His home was at 300 17th Avenue, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Hap was born April 14, 1891 in Ellicottville, N.Y., and came to Dartmouth from Albany High School. At Hanover he played on the freshman baseball team and was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
In 1920 Hap went to China in the employ of the Standard Oil Company of New York and lived in Nanking. Returning from the Far East in 1924, he became secretary-treasurer of Bison Roofing and Supply Co., Buffalo, N.Y., and in 1932 manager of the Investment Syndicate Title and Trust Co., Buffalo. He entered the securities and investment business in St. Petersburg in 1940, and was engaged in this work at the time of his death.
On August 24, 1919 Hap married Emily Elizabeth Stowell in Shanghai. She survives him.
Funeral services were held in Meriden, Conn., on October 6. The Class was represented by Jake and Anita Mensel and Rog Evans. Interment was in Meriden.
1917
HOWARD AUBREY STOCKWELL passed away as a result of a heart attack at his winter home at Ormond Beach, Florida, on October 14. He had suffered an attack while at his summer home at Waterford, Maine, but had improved to the point where his doctor permitted him to go to Florida. Though he flew down, the trip was apparently too much for him as he died just about about a week after arriving there.
After attending Phillips Andover Academy Howard went to Dartmouth where he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity and Editor of the Aegis in his junior year. Upon graduation in 1917 he went to work for Barbour Stockwell Company and by 1927 he had become a Vice President and Director of the company. In 1935 he became its Treasurer, and he retired from the company 13 years ago.
On October 12, 1917 he married the former Dorothy Stewart at Philadelphia, Pa. They had six children, four boys and two girls, three of the boys having gone to Dartmouth.
Howard was a past president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston, a position presently held by his son, Fred. He also served as 1917's Class Agent for a period. He was always active in civic and community organizations and had been president of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce and of the Belmont Hospital Board. He was a member of the Engineers Club in Boston, the University Club, the Rotary Club in Cambridge, the New England Street Railway Club, and the Belmont Neighborhood Association.
Howard was a director of the First Federal Bank of Boston and of the Harvard Trust Company of Cambridge, a past president of the National Casting Council and a former member of the War Production Board. He was High Priest of Belmont Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, and was founder of the Belmont Chapter of Demolay.
Howard is survived by his widow, Dorothy, of Waterford, Me.; by four sons, Howard A. '40, Stewart, Fred F. '43, and Richard S., V-12; two daughters, 22 grandchildren and two sisters.
1918
LYMAN HOGE BLACK passed away on May 30, 1966. He was born on January 30, 1894, in Seattle, Washington.
Lymie was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1917 and attained the rank of 2nd lieutenant. He was discharged in 1918.
He was President of the Black Manufacturing Co., makers of men's work clothing, and Secretary and Treasurer of the Seattle Hardware Company, a wholesale organization serving the four northern Pacific states and Alaska; and a director of the Pacific National Bank. He lived on Lake Washington, at Bellevue, about ten miles outside of Seattle.
Lyman is survived by his wife, Marion Black, three daughters, Maryellen, Janet and Eleanor, and one son, Lyman Hoge Black Jr., and twelve grandchildren.
Mrs. Black may be addressed at Box 3846, Seattle, Wash.
ELLIS JOHNSON HATCH passed away after a long illness on October 17, 1966. He resided at 11 Hillside Rd., Kensington, Conn.
Ell was born in Isleboro, Maine. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1918 and from the Thayer School of Engineering in 1919.
He was formerly a sales promotion manager of the Electric Tool Division of the Stanley Works. He retired in 1961 after 43 years of service with this company.
He was a member of the St. Maurice Church and of the board of directors of the Connecticut Craftsman's Guild. He formerly was a member of the Kensington City Board of Education.
Ell is survived by his widow, Martine Hatch, two daughters, Virginia F. and Mrs. George Scheuermann and six grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the St. Maurice Church and burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery.
1919
DANIEL FRANCIS FEATHERSTON passed away at his home, 601 Grand Ave., Asbury Park, N.J., on October 30 at the age of 70. His death came as a great shock to all of us who saw him only a few weeks previously when he was in Hanover for the Princeton game and seemed in his customary fine form.
Dan was born in New York City and came to Hanover with the Class in 1915. While in Hanover he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and Dragon. He was graduated from the New York University Medical School in 1922 and started practice in Asbury Park where he remained during his entire distinguished medical career.
His honors were many: chief of staff at the Monmouth (N. J.) Medical Center; attending surgeon at the Fitkin Memorial Hospital in Neptune, N. J.; consultant at the Marlboro State Hospital; consultant at the Surgeon General's Office in Fort Monmouth; founder of the County's Cancer Society, and former president of the Surgeons Committee of the American Cancer Society. During World War II he served in the Army Medical Corps as a Lt. Colonel from October 1942 until February 1946 and went to the Southwest Pacific where he was chief of surgery in Manila and New Guinea.
Dan was a most loyal Dartmouth man and '19er. He never missed our fall parties in Woodstock-Hanover and was certainly one of the most popular men in our Class. He will be greatly missed by all of us who knew him so well. Surviving are his son, Dan Jr. '50, and a daughter and sister, to whom the Class extends its most sincere sympathy in their great loss.
1920
CHARLES WALDO LOVEJOY died suddenly at his home, 40 Foxcroft Road, Winchester, Mass., on April 1, 1966. He was born October 10, 1897 in Rumford, Maine.
Bill prepared for college at the Rumford High School and attended Dartmouth in 1916-17, leaving to enter World War I and serving as Captain of the 103rd Infantry. On returning from service he entered Bowdoin College, graduating in 1920. In 1923 he was married to Constance Lodge.
After graduation he joined the Rumford Falls Insurance Agency and was manager from 1922 to 1937 when he became State Insurance Commissioner in Maine. In 1940 he became manager of the Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Co. in Boston, later rising to Senior Vice President and Director. Upon his retirement in 1963 he became consultant for the New York firm of Remer & Rogge.
Bill was a member of the American Legion and was both a Mason and a Shriner. He also was a member of the Down Town Club of Boston and Concord (Mass.) Country Club.
He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Calvin P. Allyn of Winchester, a son Charles W. Jr. of New York, two sisters and seven grandchildren. Funeral services were held on April 4 at First Congregational Church and burial was in Wildwood Cemetery.
The sincere sympathy of the Class of 1920 goes to the surviving members of Bill's family.
1921
Born June 11, 1899 in Tucson, Ariz., where for a lifetime he had devoted himself to cattle and ranching, HOWELL MANNING died October 10. Rev. George Ferguson of St. Philip's in the Hills Church officiated at the services.
In college Howell was Delta Tau Delta. He spent only a year in Hanover and transferred to the University of California at Berkeley. He is survived by his second wife Evelyn, at Canoa Ranch, Amado, Ariz.
1923
JAMES SHERMAN DOYLE died September 30 of a heart attack which a day earlier had put him in the intensive care unit at Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, N.Y.
Although born in Chicago in November 1900, Jim grew up in New York City. He prepared for Dartmouth at Mount Vernon (N.Y.) High School and Phillips Academy at Andover.
While at Hanover, Jim played football, basketball, and baseball. He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. Later, he was a graduate student at Columbia University.
After several years on the staff of the Continental Brake Shoe and Foundry Company, where he became assistant to the president, Jim joined Johns Manville Corporation in 1928, with which company he remained until his retirement last December. During his career there he held at various times the titles of head of the Electric Railway and Motor Bus division, sales manager of the Automotive Replacement Parts division and the Bus and Truck Brake Block division.
Jim was well known throughout the automotive and truck and bus industries, and was listed in Who's Who in the Automotive Industry. He was a three-time president of the Brake Lining Manufacturers Association, a director of the National Service Parts Association, and a member of the executive board of the New England Transit Association at the time of his death.
In 1925 Jim married his high school sweetheart, Ruth Helme, who survives him at 250 Bronxville Rd., Bronxville, N.Y. He also leaves a son, James S. II of Detroit, three brothers and two sisters. Services were held October 3 at the Asbury Methodist Church, Crestwood, jvl. Y. and burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City.
HERBERT HENRY VEIT, of 8 Coolidge Road, Andover, Mass., senior vice president of the Andover Companies, an insurance group, died October 27, 1966 at the Lawrence General Hospital.
Born in Salem, he was graduated from Lawrence High School in 1917 before coming to Dartmouth.
He was a member of Christ Presbyterian Church and Grecian Lodge of Masons of Andover. A 32nd degree Mason, he was a member of Aleppo Temple, Boston.
He was also a member of the Mutual Fire Insurance Associates of Boston and the Merrimack Valley Dartmouth Club.
He leaves his wife, Ethel (Howell), to whom the sympathy of the Class is extended.
GEORGE MARSHALL BUFFETT, of 2417 N. 96th Street, Milwaukee, Wis., died September 18, 1966.
George had one year with 1923, then four at the University of Nebraska for his bachelor's degree, and three at Wisconsin for his Ph.D.
Since graduation George had been with Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, first at their Milwaukee plant, then for eight years (1947-1955) in Pittsfield, and then back in Milwaukee. After 37 years in the technical department of the Milwaukee Paint Division, he was enjoying his retirement.
He was very active as a Rotarian, curler, church elder and deacon, and was a member of several chemical societies.
George is survived by his wife, Helen (Guthrie), a daughter Barbara and a son Roger.
1924
RAYMOND THOMAS SHANE died September 15, 1966. He withdrew from Dartmouth in his junior year but was well known by many of us who send our sympathy to his widow, Freda.. Ray will be remembered as coming from Salt Lake City, as an Alpha Delta Phi brother, and as having played freshman football. He returned to copper mining, like his father, 1923-26; then was with an architect-engineer, 1926-30, and with the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, 1927-38. In 1938 he moved to Idaho Falls, as resident engineer for Idaho's Bureau of Highways. There is a suggestion he also worked in Alaska. Our records stopped at 1938, except to note he was a consulting engineer in 1947, and lately vice-president of Shane Investment Co.
Ray married Freda Ann Howard, San Francisco State Teachers College, in 1929. She and two daughters survive him: Margaret Virginia (1931) and May Elizabeth (1937). The address last used was 546 Baughman Ave., Claremont, Calif.
We are informed by the Registrar of Vital Statistics in Marshall, Michigan, that BRYSON JAMES REYNOLDS, 2nd, died in the Arthur S. Kimball Sanitarium, Battle Creek, on August 27, 1966, just two days after his 64th birthday. He was born August 25, 1902, son of a Grand Rapids merchant. He came to Dartmouth from the Evanston Township High School, but left in 1922. He returned to Evanston as an investment banker (1929), married Cynthia Clark in 1931, but was divorced in 1938. About that time he worked as a salesman. In 1952 he was chief inspector for the Masters Planter Co., Benton Harbor, Michigan. Our final address was Medical Facility, Marshall, Mich. Efforts to obtain further information have not been answered.
1925
JOHN ELIOT WARNER died September 29, 1966, the day before his 63rd birthday, at his home, 101 Manchester Rd., Newton Highlands, Mass.
El was born in Roselle, N.J., where he prepared for Dartmouth. While at Hanover he was a member of Zeta Psi, the 1925 Aegis Board, and the D.C.A. Cabinet during his junior year. Following graduation and for a period of nearly 20 years he was a partner in J. S. Warner Co. of New York City, importers and cutters of precious stones. During World War II he was a liaison engineer for Fairchild Aviation Co. He was with Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Corp. for more than two decades, and at the time of his death was serving as their eastern sales manager for the motor vehicle market. He was a member of the Woodland Golf Club, where he pursued his favorite hobby.
Surviving are his wife, the former Ellenor Graham, and a daughter, Mrs. Linda W. Mullen of Shrewsbury, Mass., to whom the deep sympathy of the Class is extended.
1927
HARVEY PETTIBONE JONES of 335 Keystone Ave., River Forest, Ill., and 1927's Chicago Regional Chairman, collapsed and died October 5 while on his way to work at the Commonwealth Edison Company, where he was a research analyst.
Harv was born in Chicago and came to Hanover from Oak Park High School. While in Hanover, he was a member of Theta Delta Chi, the Band, Bema, and the Aegis of which he was photography editor for the 1927 issue. He majored in economics.
He was married July 8, 1933 in River Forest to Lois Rittenhouse. His entire business career was with Commonwealth Edison, except for the war years 1942-46, when Harv served as a civilian in the office of the commanding general, 6th Service Command, where he received an award for meritorious civilian service.
He was active in community affairs, being a member of the zoning commission, and served on the school board for many years, for two years as its president. He was also a member of the Illinois Association of School Boards and the American Statistical Association. He was president of the Central Graduate Asso- ciation of Theta Delta Chi, and was a trustee of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, a granddaughter, a sister and a brother Paul M. '39 of Glendale, Calif.
Harv was a very active Dartmouth man, working for the College as a whole as well as his Class. He was particularly active in enrollment and helped send many fine young men to Hanover. He will be sorely missed by his classmates, who extend their deepest sympathy to Mrs. Jones and his family.
1928
MAURICE WILLIAM COGAN, former president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Cleveland, died October 30 in Cleveland of a heart attack. He had undergone open-heart surgery over a year ago but was actively running his insurance business until he had a stroke October 20 while driving his car. He was in good health October 13 when George Emery went out from New Jersey to visit him.
Maurie prepared for college at Cleveland High where he captained the football and hockey teams and the same year won the International Junior Speed Skating Championship. At Dartmouth he was well known as a skater, and was a member of Phi Delta Theta. After two years he transferred to Lafayette, received an A.B. degree there and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931. He returned to Cleveland and became a partner in an insurance agency with Bill Mooney '29. Later he formed his own agency.
Throughout his life whatever Maurie tackled got the full treatment. He worked hard for Dartmouth as a class agent and in many alumni offices. The Cleveland alumni during his presidency raised over $20,000 for their Scholarship Fund, built membership to 600, popularized weekly luncheons, and sent many fine boys to Dartmouth. He was one of the prime movers in the Cleveland Skating Club. For many a month he led all the agents of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. in business produced. Whatever he did, he did well
He is survived by his wife, Virginia, of 2166 N. St. James Pkwy., Cleveland Heights, and four children: Maurice W. Jr. and Marcia, both married, and James and Timothy, who are in college.
1932
ROBERT COLLYER HOSMER JR. died October 2, 1966 at his home in Syracuse, N.Y., after a lingering illness.
Bob was born in Chicago on May 19, 1910 and entered Dartmouth from Lake Forest Academy. In college he was one of the outstanding members of the Class, as varsity swimmer, Dartmouth staff writer, and member of Green Key, Casque and Gauntlet, and Psi Upsilon. After graduation he was with the Excelsior Fire Insurance Co. in Syracuse for seven years before joining the U. S. Army in 1941. Before his discharge from the service in 1945 he had been in combat in the European theater and had risen from private to lieutenant colonel. During his postwar business career he was vice president of Redding Manufacturing Co. and a division head of the Easthampton Rubber Thread Co. before he purchased in 1954 the DeBoer Manufacturing Co., Syracuse display furniture firm, of which he was president at the time of his death.
Bob had wide-ranging interests and was a public-spirited citizen of Syracuse. He served as president of the Onondaga Workshop for the Handicapped and was a director of Dunbar Center, the Planned Parenthood Association, the Syracuse Dispensary, the Onondago Health Association, and the International Center of Syracuse. He also was a trustee of the Everson Museum of Art and a member of the Metropolitan Development Association. An editorial in the Syracuse Post-Standard paid tribute to him as "a fine citizen."
One of Bob's closest friends over the years was Ping Ferry '32, who in memory of him has written: "Hoz and I kept up a considerable correspondence, and in the past decade there were also a dozen or more meetings and a great many telephone calls. His letters disclosed zest and keenness of observation, but especially a talent and aspiration for self-education rare in men of our generation. His curiosity widened from those multitudinous affairs of Onondaga County to which he was so committed to the affairs of the intellect and the world.
"Open-minded and open-hearted: these words will do. Hoz's record of public works and private benefactions is amply laid down in the journals of his city and his college, and in the memories of his friends. Beyond the record, for those lucky enough to have known him well over the years, is the most enduring recollection of all, that of his capacity for friendship and sweetness of heart."
Bob was married in 1942 to Flora Mather of Cleveland. She survives him, at 205 Sedgwick Drive, Syracuse, together with their two children, Elizabeth and Jonathan. Also surviving are Bob's brothers, David '38 of Syracuse and Cameron '41 of Cleveland.
Services were held October 5 at the May Memorial Unitarian Church, and burial was in Oakwood Cemetery.
1933
WALTER CUNNNIGHAM LIBBEY died of a heart attack on October 20, 1966, as he was preparing to drive to his Boston office from his home, 85 Tedesco St., Marblehead.
Walt was born in Lynn, Mass. While at Dartmouth he was a member of Chi Phi and a member of the freshman and varsity swimming teams. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Navy and was discharged as a Lieutenant Commander. He married Elizabeth H. Phelan in 1941 and they had one daughter, Gail, who married Jay A. Turner. He had one grandson.
Walt was in the insurance business, having been with Firemen's Fund, Aero Insurance Co., Aviation Insurance Co., and most recently the Insurance Company of North America in Boston with which firm he had been associated for eighteen years. He was active in yachting and was a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead and a member of the QB Pilots Association.
His many friends at Dartmouth will miss him and join with the Class in extending sympathy to Elizabeth, Gail, and his father.
1934
DONALD JOHN MOIR died suddenly at his home (16 Breezewood Drive) in Norwalk, Ohio, on October 14. Death apparently resulted from a heart seizure. He was 54.
Don, a personnel executive for the New Departure-Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors Corp., had been transferred only recently from Harrison, N.J., to Sandusky, Ohio. Death came a few hours after he arrived at his new home following a flight from New York. His son, Donald J. Jr. of Washington, D.C., said Don had complained of suffering chest pains during the flight.
Funeral services were held in Norwalk. Don, a major in the Army Air Corps during World War II, was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Don entered Dartmouth from Brooklyn Boys' High School where he was a student leader and editor-in-chief of the school newspaper. At Dartmouth he majored in English-Philosophy and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
After taking graduate studies at Columbia and New York Universities, Don joined General Motors in 1941. He held key executive positions with the former Hyatt Bearings Division in New Jersey and then with the consolidated New Departure-Hyatt Division. He had been active in personnel and charity work and, for a time, he had served on the Dartmouth alumni interviewing committee in Mt. Vernon, N.Y.
In 1939 he was married to the former Bernice E. Burd, who survives him with his son, his mother, and a brother.
To them the Class of 1934 expresses deepest sympathy.
1936
NORMAN STONE ALLEN suffered a fatal heart attack in his home on Amity Road, Woodbridge, Conn., on October 9. This came as a terrible shock to his family, who had been heartened by his recovery from a diabetic attack in August. He had returned to his teaching post at Southern Connecticut State College where he was Assistant Professor of History an association which began in 1946.
Norm was born in Cliftondale, Mass., and prepared for Dartmouth at Saugus High School. During his college years he was active in the Glee Club and was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi. His major was history-sociology. Norm turned to teaching upon graduation and was a member of the staff at Harrisburg Academy in Pennsylvania for three years. He left teaching briefly, but returned to teach history at the Montclair (N.J.) Academy. The U.S. Air Force requested his services in 1943 and he became a member of an historical unit.
Upon discharge Norm joined the faculty at Southern Connecticut State College in New Haven. While teaching he also attended Teachers College of Columbia University and received his master's degree in 1953. At the time of his death, he.had completed all his doctorate requirements except the dissertation. Norm was active in civic affairs and served for the past three years on the Woodbridge Board of Education. He was the first president of the New Haven chapter of the American Association for the United Nations, a long-time member of the Woodbridge Democratic Committee, and ardent supporter of the Boy Scouts.
In 1942 Norman married Elaine B. Stone of Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y., who survives with their three children - Douglas, Terry, and Beverly. He is also survived by three brothers, Don '31, a member of the chemistry department staff of the University of New York in Albany, Phillip and Blaine. At the time of the funeral, Elaine Allen requested that in lieu of flowers contributions be made to Southern Connecticut State College to establish the Norman S. Allen Memorial Fund.
The sympathy of the Class is extended to Mrs. Allen and her children with the hope that Norman's devotion to teaching and service to others will be a consolation to them and an in spiration to all who knew him. Final services were held in the Episcopal Church of Bethany and interment was in the East Side Cemetery, Woodbridge.
1941
The Class has been saddened by the news that THEODORE TOWNE REDINGTON JR. died October 8, 1966, in Dallas, Texas. At the time of his death Ted was manager of the Insurance and Pension Department of Dresser Industries, Inc., of Dallas. After serving in the Army in Europe for four years, he held various positions in the insurance field prior to joining Dresser in 1953. He was a member of the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters and the American Society of Insurance Management, having served as president of the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter, and as a national director of the latter organization. He had only recently received his LL.B. from Southern Methodist University Law School. While at Dartmouth he served as president of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
The Class extends its deepest sympathy to his wife, the former Dorothy Cushing, his three sons, Richard D., Theodore T. III, and John C., and to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore T. Redington '07, his brother Dana '34, and three sisters, all of whom survive him.
At the time of Ted's death, the Redington family was living at 6614 Aintree Circle, Dallas, Texas.
1945
In the recent death of ROGER STANLEY BROWN, the Class has lost a most loyal, active and stimulating member. The loss is felt even more deeply due to the fact that some 30 of his classmates and their wives had just spent a most enjoyable Princeton weekend with Roger and Barbara, in Hanover. His sudden death occurred when the sailplane, which he was flying, crashed near Morrisville, Vt., on October 22, 1966.
Rog was born in Melrose, Mass., July 31, 1924, the son of Ralph Neally and Helen Aldrich Brown. He prepared for Dartmouth at Maiden (Mass.) High School. While at Dartmouth, Rog was prominent in Outing Club activities, holding the positions of vice-president of the Ledyard Canoe Club, secretary of Cabin and Trail, and membership on the executive committee of the Outing Club, the Winter Sports Council and the Moosilauke Summit Crew. He was also a member of Green Key and the Rowing Club, and was secretary of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
He served in the United States Marine Corps, - as a pilot with the rank of lieutenant.
Rog was a graduate of the Ecole Hoteliere in Lausanne, Switzerland, and was the president of Food Service Corp., Syracuse, N.Y., a firm which operated dining establishments in many diverse locations. With his usual varied interests, he was a certified ski instructor, certified ski jump judge, volunteer fire department member, Rotarian, and a member of the Soaring Society of America and various tennis and ski clubs.
A note from a classmate seems to be most appropriate - "Those of us privileged to know this vital and warm person who was Roger Brown are most aware of our tragic loss."
To Barbara and their two children, Christopher and Galen, the Class extends its deepest sympathy. They make their home at 483 Brattle Rd., Syracuse, N.Y.
Walter Beach Humphrey '14
