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.]
Geiger, William F. '92, Nov. 20 Paul, Clarence B. '04, Aug. 15 Ward, Harold E. '05, Nov. 12 Pierce, Charles A. '06, Nov. 29 Wing, Richard L. '09, Dec. 1 Kinney, Joseph R. '10, Nov. 27 Whitney, Ralph E. '12, Nov. 28 Haley, Walter J. '13, Oct. 26 Burnham, Donald C. '14, Nov. 12 Hazen, John N. '14, Nov. 26 Eskey, Chester L. '15, Oct. 23 MacPherson, Kenneth W. '15, Sept. 4 Stearns, Howard O. '15, Dec. 3 Lagay, Frank L. '17, Dec. 1 Bickford, Ralph D. '18, Nov. 20 Lewis, William A. '19, Dec. 1 Pollard, Rowland P. '19, Dec. 9 Washburn, William D. '19, Dec. 4 Dyer, Frederic W. '22, July 26 Libbey, Kenneth P. '22, Dec. 5 Welsh, Israel B. B. '26, Nov. 16 Goble, Edward A. '36, June 15, 1959 Morrison, John E. Jr. '36, Nov. 23 Brown, Robert E. L. '37, Oct. 10 Prudden, William O. '39, Nov. 20 Turner, John B. '40, Nov. 22 Potter, Richard A. '41, Nov. 26 Horton, Clark W. '44h, Dec. 9
Faculty
WILLIAM FREDERICK GEIGER '92, Professor of Education Emeritus, who at the age of 96 was the oldest living graduate of Dartmouth College, died at the Waterbury (Conn.) Hospital on November 20, after a very short illness. He was the last surviving member of his class.
Professor Geiger had lived in Lyme, N. H., after his faculty retirement in 1940, at the age of 70, but in recent years he had spent six months of the year with each of his two daughters. At the time of his death he was residing in Watertown, Conn., with his daughter Jeanne (Mrs. Charles H. Shons). His other daughter, Helen, is the wife of Joseph S. Piazza '29 of Easthampton, Mass.
Although he has retired in 1940, Professor Geiger was called back into service for the College when World War II broke out, and he taught for four more years, 1942-46. This extended his education career, in high school and college, to 54 years. At Dartmouth, beginning in 1931, he helped prepare a great many men for secondary school teaching and administration, in both of which he had been engaged in Illinois and the State of Washington. In Tacoma, where he was Superintendent of Schools for 19 years, an elementary school was named for him in 1948.
Professor Geiger was born January 23, 1870, in Peoria, Ill. In college he was a member of the football team, class baseball team, Kappa Kappa Kappa, and Casque and Gauntlet. While he was still a Dartmouth undergraduate his teaching career began with two winter-term jobs at Lunenburg, Vt., and Newington, N. H. After graduating from Dartmouth he returned to Peoria to teach Latin, German, physics and chemistry in the high school. In 1895 he became principal of the Quincy (Ill.) High School, and six years later he accepted a similar position at East Aurora (Ill.) High School. In 1904 he went to Washington to be principal of Seattle's Broadway High School, remaining until 1911 when he was named head of Stadium High School in Tacoma. Five months after taking this post he was appointed Superintendent of Schools in Tacoma, achieving a distinguished record of expansion and reorganization during his 19-year tenure. In 1931, because of political interference in the city's public school system, he resigned and accepted President Hopkins' invitation to be Professor of Education at Dartmouth. The College had awarded him an honorary M.A. degree in 1922 in recognition of his Tacoma career.
At various times Professor Geiger was vice president and a director of the Tacoma Public Library, a trustee of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, trustee of the First Congregational Church of Tacoma, president of the Tacoma Tuberculosis Association and of the Social and Hygiene Society, president of the State of Washington Educational Association, vice president of the National Education Association, and a member of the commission sent to Germany in 1933 by the Carl Shurz Memorial Foundation to study problems of municipal administration.
Professor Geiger, who received the College's honorary degree at the time of his 30th reunion in 1922, was honored again by the Dartmouth Alumni Association when he was present for his 70th reunion in 1962. Earlier this year he was in the news when he beat life insurance odds of 100,000 to 14 to become the beneficiary of his own policy, at the age of 96.
Professor Geiger was married July 1, 1897 to Laura Margaret Meyer of Quincy, Ill., who died in 1958. Besides his two daughters he is survived by a son, Frederick M. Geiger of Tacoma, Wash. A younger son, William A. Geiger '31, died in 1956.
There was no funeral service. A memorial service was held November 25 in the Federated Church in North Thetford, Vt.
THE REV. GEORGE HENRY KALBFLEISCH, Director of Undergraduate Religious Life at Dartmouth College and executive secretary of the Dartmouth Christian Union, died of an apparent heart attack at his home during the night of November 17. He was 56 years old.
Perhaps no other member of the College community worked more closely with undergraduates, had more student friends, or had more of their trust than did George Kalbfleisch. A bachelor, he made Dartmouth undergraduates his "family" and was the confidant and counselor of untold numbers of them during his 18 years of service in Hanover. Some 700 students were engaged in the programs of the DCU this past year, and the activist philosophy of their graduate director had a strong influence upon them as religious and social workers.
The Dartmouth in an editorial tribute to Mr. Kalbfleisch said: "In public but primarily 'behind the scenes' he has labored to bring a deeper sense of Christian commitment to those with whom he has been associated. At times he has been a controversial figure because of his deep commitment to his beliefs, yet in doing so he has given the Dartmouth community a greater sense of conscience and has been the driving force behind the religiously active Dartmouth Christian Union. ... [He] can be considered a Christian in the most complete sense."
The Rev. Mr. Kalbfleisch joined the Dartmouth staff in 1948 as Graduate Secretary of the DCU. He also participated in the program of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, taught in the Departments of Religion and Philosophy, and served as Director of Chapel from 1956 to 1958, when he assumed the post held at the time of his death.
Beyond the campus, he was a leader in the Student Christian Movement both in New England and nationally. He was one of the founding members of the National Association of College and University Chaplains, serving as secretary and vice president, and then heading the association as president in 1965-66. He also had been a trustee of the Westminster Foundation of New England since 1949 and was chairman of its board for two years.
Mr. Kalbfleisch, a native of St. Louis, was a 1937 graduate of Elmhurst College and received his D.D. degree from Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, Mo., in 1940. Following his ordination he was Dean of Chapel and Student Pastor at Elmhurst College for two years before entering the Navy as chaplain in 1942. Overseas with the Marine Corps he served in the Solomons and the Philippines. When discharged in 1946 he held the rank of lieutenant commander. Between this period of war service and his coming to Dartmouth in 1948 he was with the Presbyterian Church's Board of Christian Education as Assistant Director of the Department of Young People's Work.
In 1939, while enrolled at Eden Theological Seminary, he attended a World Student Christian Conference in Amsterdam and from there went to Germany to be part of an anti-Nazi underground group. Upon the outbreak of war he returned to his seminary studies.
At the funeral services for Mr. Kalbfleisch in Rollins Chapel on November 22, the speakers were Dean Richard P. Unsworth of the Tucker Foundation; Prof. Paul Lehman of Union Theological Seminary, where Mr. Kalbfleisch had done graduate work; Prof. John W. Finch of the English Department; and George J. Mcllrath '67, president of the DCU. James P. Breeden '56 attended for the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches; and representatives were also present for the New England Student Christian Movement and the National Association of College and University Chaplains.
In a statement of tribute, President Dickey said: "The Dartmouth community as well as hundreds of individual students were the beneficiaries of George Kalbfleisch's selflessness. The life he lived was the lesson he taught; it is a lesson many of us can hope to honor a little better for having known him."
1900
In the past eight months 1900 has lost four good men and true from its group. The latest is WILLIAM EARLE HOWARD who passed away Oct. 25, 1966 at the Columbia-Lutheran Nursing Home in Seattle, Wash. Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery in Seattle. The nearest of kin is a niece who lives in Colusa, Cal., with whom Bill lived for some time several years ago. No information has been received as to the immediate cause of his death
Bill was born in Hyde Park, Mass., April 15, 1877. He came to Dartmouth from the Hyde Park High School and was a member of 1900 for the four years of college, but for reasons best known to himself he never received a degree. In college he was a member of Phi Delta Theta and of Dragon senior society. In freshman year he was elected class historian. After college Bill entered the business world and was connected with the Crown, Cork, and Seal Co. During the years he was promoted to the position of district manager in Baltimore, Wichita, and Chicago. Later he became interested in real estate, first in Chicago and then in Seattle. In 1911 he was married to Cida Florence Wilmont of Wilmington, Del., who passed away in 1955.
Our information regarding Bill is fragmentary. He was not a good correspondent and for many years the Class lost contact with him entirely. During the years 1946 to 1955 the Class was gratified to again have direct contact with him. To one reading between the lines his letters indicated that Bill had to face life with a good deal of courage.
1905
HAROLD EDWARD WARD died November 12 in a Biddeford hospital after a long illness. He was born in Kennebunk, Me., February 13, 1881. After graduating from Kennebunk High School, he entered Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter Academy.
Harold returned to Kennebunk after graduation from Dartmouth, and for,eight years ie worked with his father who carried on a construction business, erecting paper mills and carrying on other projects throughout' New England.
In 1914 Harold settled on his farm in West Kennebunk, where he remained the rest of his life. As he expressed it himself, his life was a happy one, if uneventful. He had been a member of the local budget board and president of the Hope Cemetery Corporation.
In 1913 Harold married Irma H. Lavin of Berlin, N. H. He is survived by his wife and four sons: Edward, James, Harold Jr., all of Kennebunk, and Robert of Granville, N. Y., and four grandchildren.
1909
FRED SUMNER BROCK of 214 Main St., Salem, N. H., passed away in the Lawrence General Hospital, Lawrence, Mass., on the morning of November 6, 1966 following long years of illness.
Ted was born in Rochester, N. H., on January 31, 1889 and entered Dartmouth from the high school of that city. He received his B.S. degree cum laude.
The teaching profession took him to high schools in Plymouth and Granby, Mass., and to his home town of Rochester, N. H., where he was sub-master. After six years, he became an agent of the U. S. Treasury Department, Bureau of Internal Revenue and served 36 years before retiring. The greater part of this service was in the Manchester, N. H. office.
Ted was prominent in New Hampshire fraternal orders being a member of Humane Lodge #2l A.F. & A.M. of Rochester, N. H., a holder of the Scottish Rite 32nd degree and member of Bektash Temple A.A.O.N.M.S. He belonged to Motolinia Lodge #181 Order of Odd Fellows of Rochester, N. H. He was a Past Patron of Salem Chapter #35, Order of the Eastern Star and Past Grand Patron of the Grand Order of Eastern Star of New Hampshire, serving in 1935. He belonged to the Pleasant Street Methodist Church, Salem, N. H., serving as trustee, clerk and as auditor for twenty years.
He was married to Mary E. Woodbury on December 27, 1915 at Salem Depot, N. H., and last year they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary. She survives as does a half sister Mrs. Ralph Huckins of Strafford, N. H.
Funeral services were held on November 8 with interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Salem N. H.
LEON CRAIG MARSHALL passed away on November 12, 1966 in the Concord Hospital, Concord, N. H. He had been bedridden the past several years from a succession of shocks.
"Andy" was born in Hanover, N. H., on October 1, 1884 and entered college from the local high school. After graduation, he went to Montana for a time and then returned to Thayer School and received his C.E. degree in 1912.
His engineering career took him to Washington, D. C., in the U. S. Forestry Service, to Puerto Rico in the sugar industry, and back to his native state of New Hampshire where he spent 36 years with the State Highway Department until ill health forced his retirement.
He was married to Mrs. Elsie T. Holbrook on June 10, 1945 at Concord, N. H. She predeceased him.
Andy was a Scottish Rite Mason belonging to Bezaleel Lodge #100 A.F. & A.M. of Hanover, N. H. and New Hampshire Consistory. Masonic services were conducted by Blazing Star Lodge of Concord, N. H.
Funeral services were held on November 15 with interment in Tisdale Cemetery, Sharon, Mass.
Dr. Clarence E. Dunbar represented the Class at the services.
1911
A sudden heart attack, when he and Florence were on their way to church, claimed the life of CHARLES GILLETTE STEBBINS on Nov. 6, 1966. He had been making a good recovery from a serious coronary illness of two years ago.
Charlie was born in Livingston, Mont., Sept. 11, 1888. His family moved to Everett, Mass. where he attended high school preparing for Dartmouth. He belonged to Kappa Sigma fraternity and was a member of the class auditing committee his senior year.
Following graduation he was one of the group of Classmates that went with the Crown Cork and Seal Co. His life work was in the sales field, with the result that he travelled widely and resided in cities from Boston to Kansas City; but he and Florence finally settled down at 56 West 11th St., New York City, which has been their home for the past twenty years. He was president and sales manager of the Sterling Engineering and Mfg. Co., Hyde Park, Mass., then returned as sales representative for the Crown Cork and Seal Co. in New York. Until his retirement a year ago he was vice president of Jefferson Union Co., Lexington, Mass., to which position he was appointed in 1946.
He was married to Florence E. Link in St. Charles, Mo., June 17, 1916. Last summer Charlie's health was good enough for him to be home from the hospital to enjoy their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Later he was able to fly to Florida to see his father before the latter's death at 99 years of age. Charlie and Florence were both active participants in Dartmouth affairs, including four reunions, and they had been counting on the 55th.
The funeral services were held in the Grace Episcopal Church, New York City, where Charlie had been an active member.
WILLIAM DAVIS GORDON died November 3, 1966 in Winnetka, Ill., which had been his home since 1946. His son Robert wrote that he had been in reasonably good health up to that time.
Bill came to college from Sioux City, la., where he was born May 15, 1889 and attended public schools there. In March 1919 he married Clara Shepard Kull who survives him along with four sons and a daughter and sixteen grandchildren. The Gordon family were Midwesterners where he practiced his profession of engineering. His home since 1944 had been 467 Willow Rd., Winnetka.
His military service consisted of two years as a Captain in the U. S. Army from 1917-1919. Prior to this time he had operated his own engineering office, then became general superintendent of the Vermont Marble Co. in West Rutland, Vt. This was followed by branch managerships of the company in Philadelphia and Chicago. Since 1955 he has been semiretired but engaged in private practice in the field of sales engineering.
Bill has always been a backer of Class and College endeavors. He was an attendant at our 10th, 25th and 50th reunions. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
1913
WALTER JOHN HALEY died on October 26, 1966 after a long siege of emphysema.
Walter was born in Boston on July 6, 1889 and prepared for college at Cushing Academy. Fortified with a B.S. degree he joined the Detroit Steel Co. in Boston. At the start of WW I he was affiliated with the Ordnance Department, and after training in Illinois and Wisconsin he went overseas with the 303rd Field Artillery, as a sergeant On his return he joined the Boice Motor Equipment Company.
As a construction engineer he was connected later with E. I. DuPont Co., U. S. Gypsum, Valspar Corp., National Gypsum, and the U. S. Government (1940-56) as Engineer Officer, U.S.V.A. When he retired in May 1961 he was the engineering aid for Waghorne-Brown Co. in Boston.
Walter, throughout his life, had a keen discerning interest in everything that happened in Hanover. Always positive in his thoughts and ideas, he quite often contributed open letters to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, much to '13ers delectation. All through his long illness he maintained the same buoyant spirit that was always so characteristic of him.
Our sympathy goes out to his wife, Elizabeth, of 12 Basto Terrace, Roslindale, Mass., and his three children: Walter Jr. '42, Loretta, and Jeanne.
1914
DONALD CHURCH BURNHAM passed away on November 12, in Sewickley, Pa., where he had made his home at 414 Beaver Rd.
Born in Gloucester, Mass., Dutch joined Pittsburgh Plate Glass, and retired from that company in 1957. He had served as vice president since 1947.
He was a member of the board of trustees of Sewickley Valley Hospital and was a member of the Duquesne Club and Allegheny Country Club.
Survivors include his wife, Lena, to whom he was married in 1927, a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Lee of Greenwich, Conn., and four grandchildren.
JOHN NORMAN HAZEN - whose Dartmouth ancestors went back as far as his great-great- great-grandfather, and recently included his father, brother, son, and nephew - passed away on November 26 in Holyoke, Mass.
John attended Hanover High School (his father being a Dartmouth professor of some distinction) and earned a Phi Beta Kappa key while at Dartmouth. He was a member, also, of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Casque and Gauntlet.
In 1915 he moved to Holyoke where, after an association with the Taylor-Logan Paper Co. and service in the Army, he eventually formed the Hazen Paper Company in 1925.
A man of broad community interests, Johnny served as president of the Holyoke Boys Club and as president of the Holyoke Rotary Club. He was a trustee of Holyoke Hospital and for a time was president of the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce. A member of the board of directors of the Holyoke National Bank, he was a former trustee of the Mechanics Savings Bank and a member of its executive committee, as well as chairman of the trustees of St. Paul Episcopal Church and was principal counselor on its finances until his death.
He is survived by his widow, the former Marie Weis, whom he married in 1920, and his son Thomas N. '57. To them the class extends sincere sympathy.
1915
KENNETH WILLIAM MACPHERSON, inventor of Carter's Two Fluid Ink Eraser, died September 4, 1966 of pneumonia at his home in Rochester, New York.
"Mac" was born November 26, 1892 in Palmyra, New York, attended Palmyra High School, and spent two years at Dartmouth where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
He received his B.S. degree from M.I.T. and also attended University of Colorado.
He was a member of Institute of American Inventors, Washington, D. C., and was Chemist for Atlas Powder Company during World War I.
He is survived by two brothers, Dr. Donald MacPherson of Boston and Roger MacPherson, an architect in New York City.
HOWARD OLIVER STEARNS, of 80 Prospect St., Wellesley Hills, Mass., retired professor of physics at Simmons College, died suddenly December 3, 1966.
Howard was born September 20, 1891 in Haverhill, Mass., and attended preparatory schools there, then spent six years at Dartmouth where he earned his B.S. in 1915 and his M.S. in 1917. He was a member of the First Congregational Church of Wellesley Hills and served as clerk of the church and superintendent of the Sunday school. He was also a member of the town school survey committee, secretary of the Annie F. Warren school committee and a member of the troop committee of Troop 2W Boy Scouts.
He began his career with the Bureau of Standards in Washington during World War I, and later was physicist at the Mayo Clinic and consulting physicist at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
He was a member of the American Physical Society, the American Astronautical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Roentgen Ray Society, chairman of the board of trustees of the Gravity Research Foundation and the Rainfall Utilization Foundation. He was a member of the board of directors of Webber College in Florida and was the author of "Elementary Medical Physics" and "Fundamentals of Physics and Applications."
He leaves his wife Mrs. May Belle (North) Stearns, one son, Rev. Howard O. Stearns Jr. of North Easton, Mass., and five granddaughters.
Funeral services were private. It was suggested that memorial gifts be made to Newton-Wellesley Hospital X-ray Department.
1916
WILLIAM LAWRENCE CLEAVES died at his home in Swarthmore, Pa., on November 13. He was retired senior trust officer of the Girard Trust Bank, with which he had been associated for forty years.
Pete was born in Sorrento, Me., on January 9, 1891 and attended Bar Harbor High School. In college he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. During World War I he served in France as a First Lieutenant in the 152 nd Infantry Division.
He was a vestryman, treasurer, and senior warden of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Swarthmore and a trustee of the Philadelphia Divinity School. He was a charter member of the Edwin Kirk Post, American Legion, Bar Harbor. He served the Class as secretary and newsletter editor.
Memorial services were held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Swarthmore on November 15 and St. Saviour's Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor on November 17. Burial was in the Ledgelawn Cemetery, Bar Harbor.
A bachelor, he is survived by three sisters-in-law: Mrs. Carl Cleaves of Swarthmore, and Mrs. George and Mrs. Elmer Cleaves of Bar Harbor, and by eight nieces and nephews, two of whom are William G. Cleaves '40, and James A. Cleaves '48.
GLENN CARLTON GOULD, of Shirley Center, Mass., and St. Petersburg, Fla., died on October 28 in the Burbank Hospital at West Acton, Mass.
Glenn was born November 27, 1891 in West Acton. In college he was instrumental in the formation of the" Cosmos Club. After graduation he served with the First Field Artillery at Jackson, S. C.
Glenn was employed by the Atlas Products Company of Newark, N. J., manufacturers of electrical specialties. He was a faithful member of the First Congregational Church of St. Petersburg, Fla., where he served as usher for many years. He belonged to the Charles H. Welch Lodge of Masons, Waldron Royal Arch Chapter, Aleppo Temple of Boston. He was an ardent bridge player and a member of the A.C.B.L.
On June 7, 1917 Glenn married Ruth Gertrude Knowlton who survives him along with their son Glenn Gould Jr., and three grandchildren. Throughout his life Glenn retained an affectionate interest in the College.
The funeral was held in the West Acton Baptist Church Chapel and burial was in the Mt. Hope Cemetery, West Acton.
1918
RALPH DAVIS BICKFORD died after a long illness oh November 20, 1966 in the Strong Memorial Hospital. He was 71.
Bick was born in Spencerport, New York, and was graduated from the East High School in Rochester. He entered Dartmouth College in the Class of 1918 and became a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. While in college he played on the freshman hockey and tennis teams, and in his second year was on the varsity hockey team. During World War I he served as an Ensign in the Navy.
After the war Bick worked for the Berkshire Life Insurance Company in Rochester as a chartered life underwriter. In 1936 he left Berkshire Life to accept the presidency and management of the Batavia Company. He retired in 1961.
He was a member of the Doty-Magill Post, American Legion and the Monroe Golf Club. Bick is survived by his wife Ariel of 110 Summit Dr., Rochester, N. Y. and his sister Mrs. Ruth Munger. His survivors also include four Dartmouth nephews and two Dartmouth grand- nephews.
1920
ALDRICH BRAMHALL BARNES died of cancer on October 31, 1966 in North Conway, N.H. "Red" was born December 12, 1896 in W. Somerville, Mass., son of Frank and Maude Falls Barnes and prepared for college at the Phillips Andover Academy. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta while in College, a U.S. Army Veteran of World War I, and a member of the Bristol Lodge, A.F. and A.M.
Red had been connected with several paper box companies before becoming associated with the Mason Box Co., North Attleboro, Mass., of which he became vice president in 1947 and from which he retired in 1960. After retiring he moved to Davis Hill Road, South Conway, N. H. and spent the winter months in the British West Indies.
He was married in New York, May 24, 1926 to Elizabeth Rhodes and had a daughter Elizabeth and a son Aldrich B. Jr. who survive him. His survivors also include five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at the Sperry-De-Blois Funeral Home in North Attleboro, Mass., and burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery.
The Class extends sincere sympathy to Florence and the other surviving members of his family.
JAMES WHITNEY FROST died suddenly on Octtober 28, 1966 at his home, 208 Grove Street, Putnam, Conn., where he had been a resident for the last 35 years. Although Jim had a heart attack last winter he had recovered from that, and although he had not been well for the last six weeks his death was a shock to his family.
He was born in Wallingford, Vt., July 24, 1898, son of Gaius '96 and Bertha Whitney Frost, and prepared for College at the Tilton Seminary. He received his degree in Education at Harvard in 1929 and was principal of several grade and high schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. From 1950-53 he was State Education Consultant to the Connecticut Department of Education. After retiring from this last job he had been associated with the H. B. Motion Picture Service in New Haven.
Jim was a member and senior warden of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church, a member and past commander of both the Mayotte-Vien Post, American Legion, and the Albert J. Breault, Post Veterans of Foreign Wars. While in College he was a member of Theta Chi.
Funeral services were held on Sunday, October 30, 1966 in the St. Phillip's Episcopal Church with burial in the Grove Street Cemetery. He is survived by his widow Mrs. Florence Towne Frost, four sons, two daughters, a brother, a sister, and sixteen grandchildren. Busy as Jim was he always had time for a chat and was in Hanover in June for the graduation of his nephew Bill Parkerton '66.
The sympathy of the Class goes to Florence and the other members of Jim's family.
JOHN EDGERLY SUNDERLAND, 5421 Nicholas St., Omaha, Nebraska, died October 15, 1966 of a heart attack at his ranch in Cody, Nebraska.
He was born June 16, 1898, son of James A. and Alice Edgerly Sunderland and prepared for College at the Central High School. He was married on June 6, 1925 to Julie Bill in Hartford, Conn.
While at Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Rake and Roll, First Honor Group, and assistant manager of Track. He graduated from Tuck School in 1921 and went immediately to work for Sunderland Brothers Co., a marble, tile, and stone business established by his father in 1883. He became president of the company in 1929 and chairman of the board in April 1966.
His other interest was the Hub Valley Ranch in Cody, Nebraska, the operation of which he had supervised since 1937. He was past president of the Ciry Farmers Club, a vice president and director of the Conservative Savings and Loan Association, and a director of the Ash Grove Lime and Portland Cement Co. in Kansas City.
Funeral services were held from the First Presbyterian Church with burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife Julie, a son James A. Sunderland, a daughter, Mrs. Eugene C. Dinsmore - all of Omaha, a sister in California, and three grandchildren.
The sympathy of the Class goes to Julie and to the other devoted members of his family.
1922
WILLIAM CARL DAVIS, 66, retired vice president and general manager of the London Harness Co. of Boston, died October 25 at the New England Medical Center in Boston. For many years he and his family have lived in Cohasset, Mass., most recently at 46 Beach St.
Carl was a native of Falmouth, Mass., and he came to Dartmouth from the Moses Brown School, Providence. A member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, his friendliness and thoughtfulness for others marked him as a popular and admirable classmate.
He started his business career with the Dennison Manufacturing Co., Framingham, Mass. After five years there he went to Neusalz, Germany, where he was an industrial engineer with the Gruschwitz Textilwerks. Coming to New York in 1929 he began an association of eight years with R. H. Macy & Co. where he worked as head of the personnel and planning departments. He then joined Russell W. Allen Co., New York, as an industrial engineer and became assistant to the president. In 1942, he went with the Joseph Home Co. department store. He came to Boston in 1947 and began an association with the London Harness Co. of which in 1958 he became vice president and general manager.
He had served as vice president of the Franklin Street Associates of . Boston, chairman of the Cohasset United Fund, president of the Cohasset Dramatic Club, and he was a member of the Cohasset yacht and golf clubs.
Carl and Margaret H. Harris were married at Winsted, Conn., 32 years ago. She, two daughters, three grandchildren and his brother LeRoy '20 are the survivors. The Class joins them in deep sorrow.
1930
DANIEL STEWART McKENNA died July 20 in St. Luke's Hospital, Denver, Colo., after a short illness. Dan was an orthopedic physician who had practiced in Denver until his retirement three years ago.
Born in Crafton, Pa., Dan came to Dartmouth from Boulder, Colo., where he returned to attend the Univ. of Colorado School of Medicine following his Hanover years. He received his M.D. at Colorado, interned at Youngstown, Ohio, and took a year of graduate work at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He served with the medical corps of the Air Force in Fresno, Cal., during World War II and retired with the rank of Major in 1946.
The Class extends its deepest sympathy to his widow Mary, daughters Carol and Constance, and son Tom. Mrs. McKenna lives at 110 Eudora St., Denver, Colorado. Dan is also survived by three Dartmouth brothers: J. Cleveland '29, Robert A. '32, and James W. '38.
1933
FRANCES JAMES O'TOOLE died suddenly on November 2, 1966 in Auburn, Mass. Frank was born in Clinton, Mass., and graduated from high school there. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho. He served in the U. S. Army and after service was rehabilitation chief in the Worcester Veterans Administration. For many years, until his retirement two years ago, he was a deputy collector for the U. S. Internal Revenue Bureau in Worcester. The sympathy of the Class is extended to his widow Mildred, who lives at 9 Newton Rd., Auburn, and his two sons, Terrence and Kevin.
1936
November 23, 1966, JOHN EMERSON MORRISON JR. died, at age 52, in the New York Hospital as a result of a thrombosis developing from a serious and lengthy kidney disease. At the time of his death Jack was Vice President of the Bankers Trust Company in charge of the Long Island City branch.
Jack was born in Albany, N.Y., and prepared for Dartmouth at Troy High School. After he received his A.B. degree, he continued his studies at Tuck School and was awarded his Master of Commercial Science degree in 1937.
When Jack left Hanover for New York City, he joined the Bank of New York and worked in the credit department. He was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy in 1944 and was stationed in Atlanta as Termination Officer for war contracts for the Southeastern District. Upon discharge, Lt. (j.g.) Morrison returned to the Bank of New York. In 1947 he briefly joined his father in his business of stockholder relations and proxy solicitation, but banking had a stronger pull and in 1948 he joined the Bankers Trust Co. He served in many capacities and in 1956 took charge of the Long Island City branch. He devoted much time to the business and civic affairs of Long Island City and served as a director of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, Bankers Association, and the YMCA. In 1959 the YMCA honored Jack, their former chairman of the board, as "Long Island City Man of the Year."
“Jocko," as he was known to all the members of the Class, maintained a strong interest in Dartmouth. He was chairman of the 5th Reunion, secretary of the New York City Tuck school Alumni, '36 Class Treasurer 1941-50, and Acting Secretary 1943-44. In 1948 he became a member of the Alumni Council.
In August 1940, Jack married Ruth Holland of Flushing, N.Y., who survives along with their two sons, John E. III and David. John graduated from Dartmouth in 1963 and is presently teaching in Bay Shore, Long Island. David is attending Nichols College. The family resides at 510 Manatuck Boulevard, Brightwaters, L.I., where Jack was active in community affairs as a member and president of the Board of Education, PTA, Boy Scouts, and vestryman of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, where funeral services were held on November 28. Interment was in Long Island National Cemetery.
The sympathy of the Class is extended to Ruth Morrison and her sons, and we join them in sorrow over the loss of a devoted son of Dartmouth and a loyal member of our Class. It is appropriate to use the words of Rev. Jim Lancaster that "here and there in places filled by John Emerson Morrison Jr. an intelligent service to the community of men has ceased. A witness to an ideal and a spirit that we share has gone silent."
1937
ROBERT EDWARD LEE BROWN whose home was at 20 Willow Rd„ Menlo Park, Calif., died of a coronary occlusion October 10 in New York where he and his wife, Anne, were spending their vacation. She writes that he had been ill for several years but after two attempts at heart surgery they had thought he was coming along fine. Burial was from Saint Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., where they were married.
Bob was with us for two years but our records do not show anything of his activities since then. Anne says he enjoyed reading both the class newsletter and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
He leaves a married son, Robert Jr., and two daughters who are working in New York City.
1946
MAJOR RALPH GORDON CHADBOURNE passed away in Ogden, Kansas, on June 13.
Chad prepared for college at Fryeburg (Maine) Academy and attended Bowdoin College briefly before coming to Hanover. He received his MCS from Tuck in 1947 and served as assistant cashier and trust officer at the Norway National Bank in Norway, Me., until he became an officer in the regular Army in 1951.
Having been promoted to major in 1961, he served as Chief of the Programs and Budget Board, United States Continental Army Command's Quartermaster Section, in Fort Monroe, Va.
The sympathy of the Class is extended to his wife Carol and the three children.
FRITZ LOTHMAN died in Warson Woods, Mo. on August 8, 1966.
The only news clipping in Fritz's folder indicates that in 1958 he was in San Francisco, and that he and Dottie were the parents of five children.
To them, and to his brother William '43, we extend our sympathy.
Prof. William Frederick Geiger '92
Rev. George Henry Kalbfleisch
William Lawrence Cleaves '16
