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.]

Sampson, George A. '01 Mar. 3 Thompson, Philip P. '02, Feb. 16 Tracy, Henry C. '02, Feb. 1 Drummond, James '01, Mar. 12 Fuller, Harold S. '12, Feb. 17 St. Clair, Ashley '15, Feb. 21 Hawkes, Harry Jr. '17, Dec. 13, 1965 Hardy, F. Kenneth '20, Feb. 15 Ruder, Ralph E. '21, Feb. 26 Goss, Kenneth L. '24, Jan. 21 McConnaughey, Robert K. '26, Feb. 28 Tomlinson, W. Bruce '26, Mar. 2 Smith, Wilbur C. '30, Nov. 8, 1963 Kraus, Roy A. '35, Oct. 10, 1964 Fisher, Wallace C. '37, Dec. 23, 1965 Levine, Irving '47, Feb. 2 Magown, Robert M. '49, Mar. 9 Cook, Leroy J. '47h, Feb. 19 Sloan, Alfred P. Jr. '57h, Feb. 17 Hofmann, Hans '62h, Feb. 17

Faculty

LEROY JAMES COOK, A.M. '47, Professor of Romance Languages Emeritus, died February 19 in the Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, Mass., at the age of 79. He had been in failing health for the past two years and had been leading a quiet life at his ancestral home in North Truro, a part of the Cape he greatly loved.

Professor Cook was an honorary member of the Class of 1945, having been adopted by that class at the time of his faculty retirement in 1955. The association with '45 men, who visited him frequently, was one of the great pleasures of his retirement years. And there was a genuine affection for him on the part of the members of the class, especially those who had been in his French classes or who had known his gifts for companionship, good talk, music, the theater, and the culinary arts, in which he reportedly could outdo any man or woman in Hanover.

Professor Cook was born in East Boston, Mass., on September 22, 1886. His forebears were among the first settlers on the Highlands of the Outer Cape, where they helped build the famous lighthouse. His grandfather at one time was superintendent of the Province Lands adjoining Provincetown.

Professor Cook received his A.B. degree at Tufts in 1909 and his A.M. in 1910. He taught French and German at Lawrence Academy the next year, and for the next ten years taught college French at the University of Cincinnati, Colby College, Tufts, M. I. T., and Harvard. He came to Dartmouth as Assistant Professor in 1921 and was elevated to full professor in 1947. The year after his retirement from the Dartmouth faculty in 1955 he was decorated with the Legion of Honor by the French government.

His interest in French drama led him to perform in several student and community productions at Dartmouth, notable among them the Barber of Seville. He was an accomplished pianist and organist, and had served as church organist. He once played at the White House for President Theodore Roosevelt.

Professor Cook was a member of the Truette Organists Club, the Society of' Mayflower Descendants, the Modern Language Association, and Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. During World War I he served at Camp Devens.

Professor Cook formed many firm friendships with faculty colleagues at Dartmouth. One of the closest was with George C. Wood, now Professor of Belles Lettres Emeritus. Professor Wood's characterization of him tells much of the warm humanity of this Dartmouth teacher of the old school:

"Professor Cook was a Cape Codder in every sense of the word, a Cape Codder of nearly 350 years in the Mayflower tradition. There he had latterly spent much of his leisure on his ancestral farm in North Truro, just down from Highland Light, a farm which with the exception of his old house is a part of the new National Park.

"Professionally he was completely without scholarly pretentiousness and was simple and direct in his relations with other people. Those who were admitted to his closer circle of friends came to realize the warmth of his nature and the cordiality of his hospitality. He was witty, tolerant, and helpful; a good host, a modest gourmet, and a competent musicologist as well as a talented and generous musiciafi.

"As a colleague he was remarkable in his loyalty, and as a teacher he was widely and imaginatively informed. He was uncompromising in his critical evaluations, and the clamoring demands of those students brought up in the tradition that the customer is always right regardless of his age, experience, and knowledge left him unswayed. He went his own way and in it he gladly taught, for he was firmly fixed within the concept of his own being which it never occurred to him to compromise.

"The students who knew him best were among his cherished and closest friends. His old friends of long standing, academic and otherwise, will always remember their association with him as a jolly and cosmopolitan experience on the higher levels of intellectual and esthetic competence, as well as of realized sensibility. He was a Yankee humanist, but he was also humane."'

Funeral services for Professor Cook were held in Hyannis on February 22 and burial was in the old North Cemetery in North Truro. Among those attending were Professor Wood, Professor Sidney C. Hazelton '09, Bertrand C. French '09, Harry Hampton '45, and Forrest Smith '58.

Professor Cook, a bachelor, is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Mortimer Nickerson of Winchester, Mass., and Mrs. Anna Leighton of West Bridgewater, Mass.

1902

PHILIP PICKERING THOMPSON died in Portland, Me., on February 16. Born in that coastal city on April 29, 1881, he entered Johns Hopkins University Medical School upon graduating from Dartmouth and gained his M.D. in 1906.

At Dartmouth Phil was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and of Casque and Gauntlet. Always a prominent member of our Class and a born leader, he was a member of Palaeopitus and manager of the freshman and varsity baseball teams.

On June 11, 1915, in a brilliant society wedding, he married Jennie Estelle Means. She and their two sons, one daughter, and eleven grandchildren survive him.

In World War I, he served in France as a major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, and during World War II he was a member of the local Selective Service Appeal Board from 1941 to 1945.

His entire professional life was dedicated to the service of mankind. He was a member of the American Medical Association and the Maine Medical Association; secretary of County Medical Association; adjutant surgeon of the Maine General Hospital; visiting surgeon at the Portland City Hospital and the Webber Hospital in Biddeford; president of the Portland Medical Club; president of the Cumberland Medical Society; fellow the American College of Surgeons; member of the New England Surgical Society; a staff member of the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Mercy Hospital, Portland, and the Maine General Hospital; and consultant surgeon at the U.S. Marine Hospital. He retired from active practice in 1949.

At the time of his death, he was the third of the only presidents the Dartmouth Class of 1902 has had since graduation. The others were Percy Dorr, who died in 1957, and Bradlee Watson, who died in 1961.

No list of honors and achievements can do justice to Phil's warm nature and delightful personality. He used to tell us that while in Baltimore as a student he was profoundly influenced by the old-time charm of Doctors Osier and Welch, and he seems to have absorbed much of that same charm.

His love of the classics and appreciation of the cultural life is shown in all his more serious writing, of which, since he was long class secretary before becoming president, the members of the Class have many examples. He was by no means an "old fogey," but a cultured gentleman in the finest sense of the word. To know him was to be honored. To mourn his passing is to ennoble oneself. All of us are better for having had him in our midst.

1906

HERBERT WILLIAMSON RAINIE passed away on February 8. He was one of the members of our class who was born outside of the United States, his childhood having been spent in Aberdeen, Scotland, but he received his education in the Concord, N. H., schools before coming to Dartmouth and then on to the Harvard Law School. In college he was the organizer and leader of the band.

Admitted to the Bar in 1910, he soon entered politics while also giving his attention to a growing law practice. Herbert was county solicitor from 1918 to 1928, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1929, a member of the State Ballot Law Commission from 1932 to 1935, and a member of the Board of Education from 1934 to 1940. From 1951 to 1955 he was a member of the Concord City Council and in the latter part of his term served as Mayor. He also served two terms in the New Hampshire Senate in 1957 and 1959.

Herbert was a member of the Kiwanis Club for 30 years, president of the New Hampshire Association of the Blind, member of the Congregational Church, treasurer of the Christian Civic League, and an honorary member of the Concord Music Club. He was an accomplished musician who for 26 years directed the annual performances of Handel's "The Messiah" and was an officer of the Community Concert Association.

He was secretary of the Rumford Building and Loan Association and a member of the board at the time of his death.

He leaves his widow Florence; two sons, Dr. Robert C. '41, and attorney Donald G. '40, all of Concord; and two brothers, and nine grandchildren.

1907

Louis CARDELL GERRY, financier, business executive, and leader in community life in Providence, R. I., died on February 5 in Rhode Island Hospital, an institution which he had served as president for twenty years.

"Lou" was born in Fall River, Mass., on September 18, 1884 and graduated from Dartmouth in 1907; and Tuck in 1908. He was made a C.P.A. in New York in 1913 and received an M.A. (Hon.) from Brown in 1947. He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Thomas Smith Webb Lodge No. 41, A.V.F. Wars.

After graduating Lou went with Niles and Niles, C.P.A.'s, New York City for three years, coming back in 1915 as a partner after being treasurer Federal Light and Traction Company from 1912 to 1914. He was a partner of Bodell & Co., investment bankers from 1916 to 1942.

He was also chairman of the board of directors, American Textile Co.; and director of American Credit Corp., Arnica Underwriters Inc., and Automobile Mutual Insurance Company of America, to name just a few of his activities. He served the Red Cross for several years as its Providence chairman and was active in many veterans groups. In 1945 he was awarded a "Roger" for his civic work. He had also served as a trustee of Brown University, and recently the new student nurse dormitory at the Rhode Island Hospital was named Gerry House.

On March 6, 1917 he married Alene Foley in New York City. There were two children, one of whom died in 1948. There are three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, all of whom also survive.

Memorial services were held on February 8 at St. Martin's Episcopal Church. The Class of 1907 has suffered the loss of a loyal son of Dartmouth, and Providence a useful citizen who left a heritage of public service in its highest sense, as recorded in the U.S. Congressional Record - Senate - February 9, 1966, on Page 2509. Classmates extend their deepest sympathy to Alene and family.

1912

HAROLD GOODHUE STEARNS died of cancer in Middletown, Conn., on June 11, 1965 after an illness of five years.

"Blondy", as he was called in college, was born on October 29, 1889 in East Berlin, Conn. He prepared for college at New Britain High School and Pinkerton Academy. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree from Dartmouth in 1912 he became assistant to the mechanical engineer of the American Hardware Corporation in New Britain, then later was in the purchasing department. Following World War I he secured a position as Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue at Hartford, Conn., which he held until his retirement.

He married Carolyn Margaret Smith of Middletown, Conn., on December 28, 1916. Besides his widow he is survived by two sons, Harry Elmer and William Byron '50.

The Class of 1912 lost a loyal member in the death of Doc Worcester on January 31 at his home, 220 Engle Street, Englewood, N. J., after a long illness.

GEORGE FRANKLIN WORCESTER was born on April 28, 1891 at Peabody, Mass. He prepared for college at Peabody High School, remained at Dartmouth for two years, then transferred to Boston University from which he received his M.D. in 1914. While at Dartmouth Doc was a member of Kappa Sigma.

From 1914 to 1918 he was engaged in general practice in Merrimac, Mass. He then spent three years as a resident in ophthalmology and otolaryngology at Manhattan's Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital. From 1921 to 1926 he practiced this specialty in Haverhill, Mass., then moved to Englewood, N. J., where he continued the same type of practice.

Doc Worcester was associated with Englewood Hospital from 1929 to 1965, was chief of the department of ophthalmology from 1938 to 1956, and in 1939-40 was president of its medical staff. In addition he was associated with Bergen Pines Hospital in Paramus, N. J., from 1952 to 1966, where he was chief of ophthalmology from 1952 to 1956.

In 1941 he was made a diplomate of the American Board of Otolaryngology and the following year received the same distinction from the American Board of Ophthalmology. In 1964 he was presented with the Golden Merit Award for 50 years of distinguished service as a practicing physician by the Medical Society of the State of New Jersey.

Dr. Worcester was a member of the Bergen County Medical Society, the Medical Society of New Jersey, the American Medical Association the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He enjoyed all out-of-door sports, especially fishing and hunting, and was a member of the Englewood Club. Many of his vacations were spent at Lake Winnipesaukee, and the woods and lakes of Maine were no strangers to him. In his later years he was an ardent photographer, appearing at many reunions with camera in hand. One cannot but commend the courage he displayed in recent years when he suffered one physical setback after another, realizing as a physician the seriousness of each.

On October 17, 1916 he married Blanche Thompson of Haverhill. In 1947 he married Virginia Fessler of Clifford, N. J. He is survived by the latter and by two sons, George F. Jr. D.M.D. and John T. '42, a physician carrying on his father's practice in Englewood. There are six grandchildren. Funeral services were held on February 2 in the First Presbyterian Church, Englewood, with interment in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.

1913

NATHANIEL PIERPONT RICE'S many Dartmouth friends will be sorry to hear that he died of a heart attack on February 8. Nat had been in the Meriden Hospital for two weeks, having blood transfusions for a bleeding ulcer which had bothered him off and on for six or seven years.

Nat was born in Somerville, Mass., on September 30, 1888. He attended schools there and then went to Phillips Andover Academy for a year before entering Dartmouth. He was in the service for a brief time during World War I, receiving a medical discharge from Camp Devens Hospital.

Nat worked for a while in a broker's office in Boston, and then he and his brother Francis were salesmen for Hugh Lyon's & Company of Lansing, Mich., selling show window fixtures throughout New England until World War II when the company started making war materials. rials.At that time Nat retired.

Nat and Dorothy Hickman of Philadelphia, Pa., were married on May 24, 1923 and lived in Swampscott, Mass., until 1952 when they moved to Connecticut to be near their daughter Constance. Their older daughter died in 1935.

Nat and Dorothy loved to travel to Florida and Mexico by car, but better still they loved boats and enjoyed many West Indies and Mediterranean cruises. Every summer they were off to their log cabin in Boothbay Harbor, Me.

No one loved Dartmouth more, no one was more loyal in his affiliation with 1913. We shall all miss his quiet contribution to our reunions and his quizzical comments, always with a gleam in his eye. Our sympathy goes out to Dorothy, who now resides at 15 Swan Avenue, Yalesville, Conn., and to their daughter and the six grandchildren.

1915

ASHLEY ST. CLAIR of 129 Garden Street, Needham, Mass., retired counsel for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., died February 21 in Glover Memorial Hispital, Needham, of an embolism.

"Ash" was born February 19, 1894 in Calais, Me., attended Calais Academy and after Dartmouth he went on to graduate from Northeastern University Law School. He was with Liberty Mutual from 1923 to 1962 when he retired and opened a private practice.

He was a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and of the American Bar Association where he was on a Special Committee on Atomic Energy Law. He was also a member of the International Institute of Insurance Council, the American Judicative Society, the Needham Finance Committee, Norfolk Lodge AF & AM, Wellesley Country Club, and a deacon in the Needham Congregational

He "leaves his "widow, Mrs. Winifred (McKinney) St. Clair, two daughters, and a brother.

Services were held February 24 in the Needham Congregational Church. Flowers were sent by the Class of 1915 and classmates m attendance were the Dale Barkers, the Duze Lounsberrys, the Russ Rices, Eben Clough, and Chan Foster.

1919

RICHARD EDWARD SEWARD passed away on February 5 at his home in Pasadena, Cal., apparently from a heart attack.

Eddie was a native of Exeter, N. H., but had been in the lumber business and a resident of Southern California for 44 years. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy before coming to Hanover with the class in 1915, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

Eddie was certainly one of our most loyal classmates. He and Connie traveled across the continent to attend 1919's 30th, 40th, and 45th reunions and, only last summer, was back in Hanover just to sit on the Inn porch and look things over, recalling that it used to be quiet around the campus in the summer.

He was active in both Exeter and Dartmouth affairs on the Coast, as well as local civic affairs. He is survived by his widow Constance, a daughter, two brothers, and two granddaughters. Eddie had planned to attend our 50th in 1969. He will be greatly missed by all of us who knew him so well.

1920

JAMES RALPH GIBSON of 706 Sandwich Street, Amherstburg, Ontario, died November 26, 1965. He was born in Hudson Falls, N. Y., August 28, 1898 and prepared for college at the Hudson Falls High School. While at Dartmouth he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. In 1940 he married Florence Krug of Chesly, Ontario.

After graduating from Dartmouth Gibby went to work for the Union Bag and Paper Corp. With the exception of thirteen years in the New York office he spent most of the time in the Detroit, Mich., office of that company. For the past nine years he lived on the Detroit River in Amherstburg, Ontario.

Since his retirement about three years ago his time has been taken up traveling. He is survived by his widow, Florence, a daughter, and two sisters. The sincere sympathy of the Class goes to Florence and other surviving members of his family.

FRANK KENNETH HARDY died on February 15 at his home at 5 Great Plain Avenue in Wellesley, Mass. He was born in Andover, Mass., October 22, 1897, and prepared for college at the Phillips Andover Academy. While at Dartmouth Ken was a member of the Dramatic Association and Lambda Chi fraternity. His college years were interrupted by a short period at M. I. T. in naval aviation.

He was married in 1925 to Lavinnia Peirce of Evanston, Ill. He retired in July 1962 from the New England Tel & Tel Co. after 42 years of service in various capacities in traffic engineering and, at the time of his retirement, he was program and planning engineer. He was interested and devoted much of his time after retirement to tape recordings for the National Braille Press, specializing in technical books for students. He owned his own equipment which has been given to the Wellesley Lions Club so that his work may be carried on by some other member of the club.

His clubs also included the Maugus Hill Lodge AF and AM of Wellesley Hills and St. Matthews Lodge AF and AM of Andover, Mass. After his retirement he spent about six months of each year at his summer home in Maine.

A memorial service was held in the chapel of the First Congregational Church of Wellesley Hills, on February 18. The sincere sympathy of the Class goes to Lavinnia who is his only survivor.

1921

A stockbroker and respected civic leader, RALPH EMERSON RUDER of 15 Pourtales Road, Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Colo., a resident since 1933, died of cancer at his home February 26. Active with his brother Lucius '22, who died in December, he was Chairman of the Cincinnati Sheet Metal and Roofing Co. of Cincinnati Ernst '15, who died 1952, was also his brother

He was a member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers and of the Colorado Mining Association He served on the Board of Directors of Fountain Valley School, Cheyenne Mountain Country Club, El Paso Club, Broadmoor Golf Club and the Cincinnati Club. Formerly Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Colorado School for Girls, he was one of the original members of the school board. He was also a member of the board of Spaulding House, Denver, and former Senior Warden of Grace Church Parish. For a number of years he was on the Board of Directors of the Red Cross and Community Chest.

Born October 27, 1899 in Hamilton, Ohio, he prepared for college at Miami School. At Dartmouth he was Phi Delta Theta. He received his M. C. S. in 1922.

Tom Cleveland, who roomed with Ralph in Tuck School and has been a close friend ever since, characterizes him as "one of God's finest men. Gentle, quiet, and brilliant with a rich sense of humor, he had a great love for his city, church, and family."

In 1926 Ralph married Evelyn Arnold, who died in 1942. They had a son and a daughter In 1946 Ralph married Rosemary Regan by whom he had another son, John R., a Dartmouth freshman, and a daughter.

At the funeral service in the Chapel of Our Savior, Broadmoor, 1921 was represented by Tom Staley.

1924

Coming from the West High School, Minneapolis, KENNETH LEE GOSS stayed at Dartmouth for only two years. He transferred to the University of Minnesota and graduated in 1924. A letter from his wife expresses his regret that constant travel kept him from continuing with this Class as an alumnus in company with many others who did not graduate from Dartmouth for this and other reasons.

He was born July 11, 1902 at Elgin, Ill., where his father was in the dairy business. Ken followed these "footsteps" with the DeSoto Creamery Company of Minneapolis from 1924-1936, being consecutively a department superintendent and manager (1934). He married Katerine Fain Sutherland in 1926; there were no children. Ken did have two brothers, Robert '26 and Lee. Two sisters also survive him.

In 1937 and until his retirement in 1953, Ken started a new career working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, living in Chicago. Ken was interested in sports, especially hunting and fishing; also adventure and history books. He was a member of the Plymouth Congregational Church when they moved to Whittier, Cal., where they had been living. He died January 21 after a two-month illness, in St. Francis Hospital, Lynwood, Cal. His wife's wishes to remain a part of the Class will certainly make her welcome at all Class gatherings, here and on the coast.

1958

LAURENCE MARK SCHLOSSBERG died of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 27, 1965 at his home, 87 Fonda Road, Rockville Centre, Long Island, N. Y.

Larry was associated with the Walker Publishing Company in New York City. The sympathy of the Class is extended to his parents and brother.

Prof. Leroy James Cook, A .M. '47

Herbert Williamson Rainie '06