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.]

Gannon, Joseph W. '99, Jan. 25 Hobbs, Joseph W. '99, Jan. 16 Chase, Charles R. '01, Jan. 27 Smith, Harry T. '05, Dec. 25, 1966 Russ, Charles A. '06, Jan. 30 Mayer, Otto S. '07, Aug. 6, 1966 Witham, William E. '07, Dec. 12, 1966 Bullock, William H. '09, Jan. 29 Place, Albert W. '09, Jan. 28 Foster, Thomas A. '10, Jan. 15 Leech, C. E. '14, Jan. 26 Palmer, John M. '14, Jan. 20 Webster, George M. '14, Nov. 16, 1966 Luddy, Richard '15, Jan. 25 Friedman, Ethelbert M. '16, Aug. 1963 Howell, A. Llewelyn 'l6, Jan. 1 Richardson, George S. 'l6, Feb. 12 Hill, John W. '17, Jan. 29 Woodward, Earl M. '17, Jan. 15 Kingsbury, Thayer '19, Feb. 4 Woods, Preston Jr. '19, Oct. 4, 1966 Charles, Ruben K. '20, June 10, 1966 Hodgson, Randolph E. '21, Feb. 1 Carpenter, Robert L. '22, Jan. 11 Cassin, Matthew J. '22, Feb. 5 Wood, Richard G. '22, Jan. 25 Fay, C. Norman '23, Jan. 22 Burke, Alfred L. '24, Jan. 28 Kearns, Charles A. '24, Feb. 6 McClintock, Marshall '26, Feb. 9 Pike, John B. '27, July 1966 Wilson, Robert W. G. '27, Jan. 9 Goodwillie, Stuart '28, Feb. 7 Ripley, Malcolm B. '30, Jan. 23 Tracy, Paul B. '30, July 14, 1964 Sutton, Edmund B. '31, Jan. 31 Beaton, Lindsay E. '32, Feb. 8 Burden, Morton Jr. '32, Jan. 22 Barnes, George E. '35, Feb. 2 Gray, Willard R. '43, Feb. 13 Bostick, Warren J. 'llm, Jan. 8 Bullitt, William C. '39h, Feb. 15 Walters, Jack E. '4Bh, Feb. 1

Faculty

THE REVEREND ROY BULLARD CHAMBERLIN, A.M. '27, Fellow in Religion Emeritus, who was Director of Chapel at Dartmouth College for 31 years, died in Hanover on January 13 after a long illness. He was 79.

Dr. Chamberlin (D.D. Wesleyan University, 1927) had a multiple role in Dartmouth life during his three decades of service before retirement in 1956. He not only was prominent as chapel director and as the officiating divine at commencements, convocations, and other College events; he also for some years taught an English Department course in the Bible as literature, and as a member of the Department of Religion from 1950 to 1956 he taught courses in the Old and New Testaments.

A lasting monument to Dr. Chamberlin's Biblical scholarship is the widely known Dartmouth Bible, first published in 1950. Prepared with the late Professor Herman Feldman of Tuck School, after long years of scholarly effort, it is a layman's abridgement of the King James Bible, presenting its contents chronologically, eliminating confusing repetitions, grouping the Proverbs as an anthology, and combining the four Gospels into a consecutive account of Jesus' life, all printed with modern paragraphing and typography, and all accompanied with introductory chapters, prefaces, and explanatory notes. Professor Feldman died shortly before publication and Dr. Chamberlin saw The Dartmouth Bible through its final stages. In 1961 he brought out a second edition, revised and enlarged to incorporate new Biblical discoveries and research, most notably new material about the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Dr. Chamberlin was born in Kingston, Pa., on October 1, 1887. He was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1909 and received a master's degree there the next year. He was a Master at Tome School, 1909-10, and at the Taft School, 1910-12. He then entered Union Theological Seminary to study for the ministry, graduating in 1915. His first pastorate was in Saranac Lake, N. Y. During World War I he served as a member of Foyers du Soldat among the troops at the front. For three years after the war, 1918-21, he was alumni secretary at Wesleyan.

Dr. Chamberlin came to Hanover in 1921 as pastor of the Church of Christ, and in 1925 he also became part-time Director of Chapel at Dartmouth. In 1927 he was named Fellow in Religion with the rank of full professor, and in that year Wesleyan honored him with the honorary Doctorate of Divinity. He began his English course on the Bible in 1929. During World War II he also taught freshman English and public speaking in the Navy V-12 program.

Dr. Chamberlin's campus activities included his work with the Dartmouth Christian Union, for which he was faculty adviser. He played the cello in the College symphony orchestra and also was a member of the Handel Society. He was a founder and the first president of the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, and the steady growth of this community enterprise remained an active interest for the rest of his life.

After his faculty retirement in 1956, Dr. Chamberlin accepted a two-year appointment as Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Talladega College in Alabama. He continued to preach to congregations in the Hanover area, as he had done throughout his Dartmouth career. In his emeriti years he also held interim pastorates at the Union Church in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Union Church in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Roy Chamberlin and the former Alice Jacobs were married in September 1914 while he was a student at Union Theological Seminary. Their 50th wedding anniversary in 1964 was the occasion for a joyous gathering of family any Hanover friends. Dr. Chamberlin leaves his wife and two sons, the Rev. Roy B. Chamberlin Jr. '38 of Gorham, Maine, and Frederick J. Chamberlin '45 of Claremont, Calif. His daughter Martha, who was the wife of Richard F. Treadway '36, died last year.

Burial took place in Hanover's Pine Knolls Cemetery on January 16. A memorial service was held that afternoon at the Church of Christ, with the Rev. Roy B. Chamberlin Jr., the Rev. Fred Berthold Jr. '45, and the Rev. David Yohn of the Church of Christ participating.

1899

JOSEPH WILSON HOBBS was born in Kittery, Maine, December 9, 1876 in the house on Wentworth Street, in the family 130 years. And he died there January 16 this year. He attended Portsmouth High School with other boys who soon became his Dartmouth 1899 classmates: Guy Corey, Ralph Hawkes, Fred Locke, Bobby Rowe, Millard Sewall.

His mother moved to Hanover "to keep the budget in balance" by taking roomers. While in college Joe belonged to Theta Delta Chi. After graduation from Dartmouth he taught Latin and Greek in Starkey Seminary at Lakemont, N. Y. There he met Lina Marie Lyon, music teacher, whom he married in March 1902. On leaving Starkey Joe became Principal of the Kittery High School, then English teacher and Principal of the Portsmouth High School till 1913. Thereafter until his retirement in 1944 he taught at the Boston Public Latin School. He served on the Visiting Committee of Harvard, and for fifteen years on the National College Entrance Board at Columbia University.

His wife died in 1920. In 1923 he married Elsie Jeffers. After retirement he and Elsie spent seven winters in Clearwater, Florida, where in 1953 she died. He returned to Kittery where he remained until his death this winter. In these later years a longtime Kittery neighbor, Dr. Hilda Fife, volunteered her vacation services as his driver. Thus he was happily enabled to attend several of the recent '99 Reunion gatherings, as well as revisit many local scenes of which he was so fond.

Joseph Hobbs's sound scholarship, his extensive knowledge of the antiquarian attractions of his home area, and his own hospitable nature made him always a genial and fascinating host. This the secretary and his wife had learned at firsthand many times, as have many others as they remembered to stop at least briefly as they passed through the area.

For many years Joe held membership in the Portsmouth Athenaeum. He served as trustee of the Rice Public Library in Kittery and of the Kittery Historical Society. He also belonged to the Piscataqua Pioneers. 'He was a devout communicant of St. John's Episcopal Church in Portsmouth. From this church he was buried on January 20.

JOSEPH WILLIAM GANNON, manager of the advertising acceptability department of TheNew York Times from 1932 to his retirement in 1956, died January 25, 1967 in Tranquil House, a nursing home in Warren, Conn., after several years of declining health. He was 93 and the oldest Dartmouth graduate living in Connecticut. After a requiem mass celebrated January 27 at St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church, Cornwall Bridge, he was buried in the church cemetery.

Joe Gannon was bora in Concord, N. H., November 17, 1873, oldest in a family of nine children. He was educated in the local schools, where from the start he showed competitive eagerness to be first and best in anything he Following graduation in 1894, he worked a year then matriculated at Dartmouth College in the Class of 1899.

At afferent times in his college years he was class secretary, class president, freshman class baseball manager, and varsity baseball manager. He was a Rollins Prize Speaker in 1897 and was elected by his class to deliver the Address to the Old Pine on graduation day. During his college course he was president of the Tri-Collegiate Baseball League (Dartmouth, Amherst and Williams), and was elected undergraduate member of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council. He originated the Dartmouth Trophy Room.

After graduation Joe secured a position with the Philadelphia firm of N. W. Ayer and Son, at that time the largest advertising agency in the world. Here he acquired experience in various departments, managed the Outdoor Advertising Department, and finally became the New York State representative for the firm. He next joined the Royal Baking Powder Company, first as assistant advertising manager and then as manager. In November 1919 he started his own business of merchandising counsel and advertising agency. Later he became vice president of Hewitt, Gannon and Company, advertising agency, continuing from 1919 to 1927.

At that time he was invited by Louis Wiley, business manager of The New York Times, to join that organization. There Joe was in succession assistant to Mr. Wiley, assistant advertising manager, and national advertising manager. The niche, however, which he finally occupied with such distinction was as head of the Times advertising acceptability department. And here for twenty years he established the guidelines for answering the question "What advertisements are fit to print?" Joe was alert to advertising that was inaccurate or fraudulent, that made unfair competitive statements, or that failed to comply with the newspaper's standards of decency and dignity.

Such a life although simple to state was rugged to live. Moreover, Joe was frequently on the lecture platform. So after serving 29 years as an executive on the business staff of The Times, he retired February 1, 1956. He still had his comfortable beach home at Ogunquit, Maine, and a home with his daughter, Genevieve, in West Cornwall. Conn.

To fill out the story of his active, useful life, we have to be reminded of Joe Gannon's most stirring experience of all. In the days of the Liberty Loans, Joe was chairman of the group that continually promoted the correct and extensive use of our patriotic emblem, and he was asked to work out a master form of patriotic demonstration to help put the drive over. His plan for the 22 days allotted to the drive was to give one spectacular day to each of the 22 nations in the Great Alliance. The millions who saw the spectacle during those 22 days can never forget the experience. Up and down the entire length of Fifth Avenue flags of all nations waved four tiers tip the sides of buildings and across the width of the Avenue, while at every crossing massed flags presented climax after climax of color, fervor and dedication. All of Joe Gannon's experience, ability and enthusiasm went into this climactic effort.

During all the strenuous days of his business life Joe was also engaged in working for Dartmouth. He founded and organized the Dartmouth Alumni Association in Philadelphia; was Treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York for five years; was a charter member, treasurer and executive officer of the Dartmouth Club, later serving on the Board of Governors. In 1916 he was elected to the Dartmouth Athletic Council and served for twelve years. He was the first to bring a series of college football games to New York with the annual option to use the Polo Grounds, and he was the first to suggest the wearing of numbers by college football players. He had also been a member of the Executive Committee of the Intercollegiate Basketball League and President of the Intercollegiate Hockey League. He was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council 1917 to 1922, and he was Secretary of the Class of 1899 from 1944 to 1954.

Joe was married September 9, 1903 to Mary Genevieve Ridge, who died in November 1942. He leaves three daughters, Mrs. Winter Read of West Cornwall, Conn., Mrs. James E. P. Temple of Jackson Heights, N. Y., and Mrs. Harry Danesi; two brothers, two sisters, three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

1904

THE REVEREND CANON CHARLES MYRON TUBBS, rector-emeritus of Grace Episcopal Church, Bath, Maine, died at the Bath Memorial Hospital on January 3, 1967 following a long illness.

Charlie was born at Gardner, Mass., on April 15, 1881. He was graduated from the Gardner High School before attending Dartmouth. He received his B.D. degree from Seabury Divinity School.

From 1916 to 1918 he was curate at St. Peter's Church, Springfield, Mass., and vicar of the Church of the Good Shepherd, West Springfield; from 1918 to 1921 he was rector of St. Philip's Church, Easthampton, Mass.; and for the next thirty years he was rector of Grace Church, Bath, Maine, resigning in 1951 to retire from active work. His parish voted him rector-emeritus.

Charlie was descended from William Tubbs who settled in Duxbury, Mass., in 1635. In 1958 he published Tubbs Ancestral Notes, the first book on the Tubbs family in America.

Canon Tubbs was on the Diocesan Council of Maine for over 20 years and was chairman of the Departments of Promotion and Christian Social Relations. He served on the Standing Committee, which is the Bishop's council of advice, for 21 years, being secretary for four years and president for ten years. He was a member of the Board of Examining Chaplains in Maine for 11 years, eight years of which he was chairman. He was appointed canon sacrist of the Cathedral Church of St. Luke in Portland in 1949 and served to 1952 when he became an honorary canon.

In 1906 he married Miss Josephine Elvira Bosley of Winchendon, Mass., who died early in 1949. He married Miss Anna McCobb Trott of Bath, Maine in 1950. A son, Roger Bosley Tubbs, died in 1928. A daughter, Barbara Helena Mandriques, lives in Santa Clara, Calif.

Canon Tubbs had memberships in lonic Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and James Rogerson chapter, R. A. M., Eashampton, Mass.; Newcomen Society of North America, the Dartmouth Club of Maine, the Maine and Phippsburg Historical Societies, and the Maine Library Trustees Assoication.

At Dartmouth College he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. His greatest services to the Class occurred over the past few years during which he served as chaplain and conducted the memorial services held at the reunions of 1904 in Hanover. He was the Head Class Agent for the Alumni Fund during 1965 and 1966. The Class will always be grateful to him for his thorough and effective work in this position, to which he devoted much time even though handicapped by poor health. He enriched the Class and the College through his sterling personality and deep devotion.

1905

HARRY THOMAS SMITH died December 25 at his home, 51 East Elm St., Chicago. He was born March 24, 1883, in Bloomington, Ill.

Harry went into business after one year at Dartmouth. Starting with R. P. Smith and Son, a large shoe manufacturing concern, by 1918 he was president of that company. In 1924 he was president of the J. E. Tilt Shoe Manufacturing Co., and after some 23 years he had become president of still a third concern: the 5100 Hyde Park Building Corporation.

Harry's recreation was yachting and he was a member of the Chicago Athletic Association and the South Shore Country Club.

Harry married Miss Josephine Harriman in 1919. She died in 1957. He is survived by their daughter, Miss Josephine H. Smith, at home.

1906

THE REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM WALSH, 85, died at his home in Clearwater, Fla., on January 2 after many months of failing health.

Fred was born in Gilbertville, Mass., May 19, 1881, but in early childhood moved with his parents to Somersworth, N. H., where he grew up. He prepared for college in the Somersworth High School and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1905. He withdrew in the fall of 1903 to work for a year with the New Hampshire Congregational Home Missionary Society and was stationed at Grafton, N. H. The next year he returned to Dartmouth as a junior with the Class of 1906.

After graduation Fred entered Union Theological Seminary, graduated there in 1909, and was ordained at Somersworth June 23 of that year. In the following October he married Grace A. Powers of Grafton Center. Their only child, a daughter, died in 1918 in her seventh year.

His first pastorate after ordination was that of Congregational Church of Blooming Grove, N. Y., 1909-17, followed by those of Reading, Mass.; Bethel and Groton, Conn., 1917-51; and Phillipston, Mass., 1951-57. He was a faithful, beloved pastor in all these communities. Active in civil affairs, he served as chairman of the Groton Red Cross for fifteen years. He was often in office, from scribe to moderator, in the ministerial associations of the districts in which he was located. He wrote in 1956 that he had enjoyed all five of the pastorates he had held.

He retired in 1957 after 47 years of devoted service as a minister, and removed to Clearwater. There he and Grace found relaxation and happiness, and he had opportunity to pursue his favorite hobbies - gardening and fishing. Always a loyal Dartmouth man, he kept in touch with Class and College to the end.

His only survivor is Grace, to whom the deep sympathy of the Class goes out. She resides at 1313 Friend St., Clearwater, Fla. 33516.

1907

OTTO SAMUEL MAYER died August 6, 1966 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, after a brief illness. He had been an enthusiastic summer resident in the area for many summers, coming from his winter home in Phoenix, Arizona.

He was born in New York City, February 18, 1886, and attended New York City schools before coming to Dartmouth.

During World War I Otto sold his Kaywoodie Pipe business and enlisted. Afterwards, he wrote advertising copy for Weber & Heilbroner of New York City. He found his metier in the stock market and thereafter continued in its successful operation. His lifetime hobbies included golf, swimming and amateur photography, all of which he pursued with ardent vigor until his death.

Otto was active in the Phoenix Alumni Association and often stopped in Hanover en route to Maine.

His marriage to Elsie Plaut Mayer terminated with her death in 1952. He is survived by his widow, Elaine, of Phoenix, and a sister.

1910

THOMAS ALBERT FOSTER passed away in Portland, Me., January 15, just one week after the death of his wife, Harriet. He had been a practicing pediatrician for over 50 years.

Doc was born in Portland, November 19, 1887, and entered college from Portland High School. In college he managed the class football team in sophomore year, and in senior year was in the dramatic club, as well as being a varsity cheer leader. He was president of the Class of 1914 in Harvard Medical School from which he was also graduated. .

After service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and the U.S. Army, he was discharged in 1919 and joined the staff of Maine General and the Children's Hospitals in Portland. Following the example of his father and grandfather, he served as president of the Maine Medical Center. For 24 years he was chief of the children's medical service at Maine General Hospital. Among his many honors, at received from Bowdoin College the degree of Honorary Service for his many contributions to the health of the children of Maine ana to medical and health organizations throughout the State. In 1965 he was given the Roselle W. Huddilston Medal for "outstanding contributions in the general field of health to the people of the State of Maine." He was the firs pediatrist in Maine to be certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.

Dr. Foster served on the Portland School Board and helped with the establishment of the hot school lunch program in many rural schools. He promoted the well-baby clinics throughout Maine and helped establish nutritional classes in local schools.

He was a regular lecturer on pediatrics to nurses at local hospitals and taught first aid to Boy Scouts. The first chairman of the Cumberland County Chapter for Infantile Paralysis, he was later chairman of its medical advisory committee.

Dr. Foster was a member of, and served in a governing capacity, many medical associations and societies. For several years he served as editor of the Journal of the Maine Medical Association.

He also belonged to the Ancient Landmark Lodge, AF & AM, and the Mt. Vernon Chapter, the Harold T. Andrews Post, AL, and was a past member of the Portland Rotary Club.

He was a member of the National Committee for the Dartmouth Medical School Campaign, had served on the Dartmouth Alumni Council from 1937 to 1943. In 1929-30 he had served as president of the Dartmouth Association of Maine.

Having dedicated his life to the welfare of children, it seems sad to note that he and his wife never had a family of their own.

EDWARD JAMES KERNS JR. passed away at Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, Mass., on December 9, 1966.

He prepared for college at Worcester Classical High School and was with us part of freshman year. Ed didn't keep in touch with the Class and little has been recorded. He was known as a rowing enthusiast and he owned the first racing scull on Lake Quinsigamond. For many years he was a manufacturer of rowing machines for colleges, having plants in Worcester and Springfield.

He is survived by his widow at 22 Baker St., Worcester, Mass.; his daughter, grandson and sister.

JOSEPH RITCHIE KINNEY died November 27, 66 at New Rochelle, N. Y.

Joe had been under the'doctor's care for many months. In a,letter to Mac Kendall earlier in the fall, he had stated that he had to miss the June reunion because the doctor had told him to stay near home. He wrote, "I have come to look on that little reunion as a rejuvenation of the spirit, together with the meetings with the boyhood friends of long ago. I know I come back from Hanover much refreshed in mind and spirit."

Joe was born March 25, 1888 in Yarmouth, N. S. He entered college from Winthrop (Mass.) High School. In college he was on the varsity baseball squad.

He spent many years with the Hastings Pavement Company. In the latter years he served as District Engineer for the Board of Education, New York City. He was a member of the Masonic Order, Rotary Club, Dartmouth Club of New York, the Elks, Intercollegiate Bridge League, several golf clubs, and was a Vestryman of the Episcopal Church.

He married Marguerite Charlton, in New York City February 14, 1912. Survivors are his widow, at 150 Mountain Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y.; a son, a daughter and two grandchildren.

THEODORE RIPLEY SMITH died in New Orleans, December 8, 1966. He had made his residence in New Orleans after leaving Havana, Cuba in 1960.

He was born July 17, 1885 in Springfield, Mass. In 1909 he became associated with Hinsdale, Smith & Co., in the leaf tobacco business, spending the first year in Havana learning about tobacco. In 1912 he was sent to Mexico for further study. In 1915 he was made a member of the firm, and in 1930 became vice president. He returned to the United States and began raising shade-grown tobacco. In 1934 he formed his own company.

Ted married Maria Vasquez in Havana, February 3, 1912. She died in 1960. Ted left Cuba in 1960 when the Island government became disrupted.

Survivors are his son and daughter, four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, two brothers and a sister.

1912

After putting up a long but losing fight against cancer, RANDALL GREEN BURNS died of involvement of the brain on December 21, 1966 at his home, 21 Hawthorne St., White Plains, N. Y.

Randy was born on December 11, 1890 at Worcester, Mass., and prepared for college at Worcester Classical High School. At Dartmouth he was manager of the Dramatic Club, scribe of Psi Upsilon, and a member of Sphinx.

For one year following graduation Randy was with American Telephone and Telegraph Co. in New York, Chicago and Cleveland. Then for four years he was with Beaver Board Co. of Buffalo, N. Y. After World War I he taught others how to sell belting while employed by Graton & Knight Leather Belting Co. of Worcester, traveling to Cincinnati and Buffalo. In 1923 he joined Graybar Electric Co. of New York with whom he was employed for over 30 years, promoting the sales of lamps and lighting. He retired in December 1955.

Randy entered the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in July 1917. He rose to Ordnance Sergeant and then to Second Lieutenant.

On April 20, 1930 Randy married Joyous Easter Whittick of New York City. She died at White Plains, December 9, 1954.

His announced avocation was "peace and quiet, travel and friends." He was an ardent reunioner, even attending the last one in 1966 when his health was so poor. Everyone loved Randy. He was a member of the Hitchcock Presbyterian Church of Scarsdale, N. Y., of the Dartmouth Club of New York City, and of the Telephone Pioneers. Seldom did he miss a Dartmouth gathering within traveling distance.

Randy is survived by a brother and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held December 24 in White Plains, with burial in Worcester. 1912 was represented at the funeral by Morris Knight, Dr. Harold Freund, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Redfield, and Mr. and Mrs. James A. Steen.

Gradually succumbing to a failing heart, RALPH EDWARD WHITNEY passed away at his home in Newton Highlands, Mass., on November 28, 1966. Prior to his last illness he had suffered two disabling heart attacks.

Ralph was born in Keene, N. H., on April 20, 1890. He prepared for college at Keene High School and while at Dartmouth was a member of the varsity basketball squad and captain of the class basketball team. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Graduating cum laude in 1912, Ralph continued his studies at Thayer School from which he received his C.E. degree the following year. While at Thayer School he was a member of Gamma Alpha.

Ralph was affiliated for many years with C. W. Whittier and Brothers Co. in Boston. In August 1917 he was commissioned first lieutenant, U.S. Army Sanitary Corps, and was promoted to captain the following April. He received his dischage from the Army on June 30, 1919.

Ralph was formerly a director of the Boston Real Estate Board, and a past president of the Building Owners and Managers Association. For over 30 years he was treasurer and director of the American Congregational Association and was principally responsible for the care and management of its office building in Boston. He was an ardent fisherman as evidenced by a 30-pound, four-foot muskelonge mounted on his kitchen wall. Ralph was a 50-year Mason affiliated with St. John's Lodge, A.F. & A.M., Boston.

On September 4, 1915 he married Martha Leita Dodge of Keene. One daughter and two sons resulted from this marriage. Martha died January 15, 1961. On May 4, 1963 he married Mildred Moore Atwood who survives him, together with his children and nine grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted November 30 by Rev. Ross Cannon of the Newton Congregational Church.

Ralph was a much beloved member of the Class of 1912. Quiet, gracious, and kindly of heart, he made many friends. His two Thayer School roommates, Sam Hobbs and Chip Farrington, stopped to see him and report on the 1966 Class reunion which his health prevented him from attending. Those who were on hand for the 1964 reunion will remember Ralph's happy smile as he presented his new bride, Mildred. His loyalty to the College and to his Class bespoke his devoted spirit to the deep values of life.

1914

DUDLEY RAY COLBY died September 15, 1966. He had suffered a heart attack in August and was hospitalized until his death.

Dud had spent 42 years with the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, and retired in 1957 from his post as Secretary and Treasurer. In spite of his many duties with the telephone company, he found time over the years to serve both his college and his community. An active fund worker, he served as president of the Omaha Association from 1946 to 1949.

His community activities included the Omaha Community Playhouse, where he was vice president, and All Saints Episcopal Church, where he served as a vestryman and treasurer.

In 1923 he married Jane Laird and they were the parents of Elizabeth and Norman '51. Jane passed away in 1964 and Elizabeth wrote that the two years without her mother had been very hard on her father. The past year he had been failing steadily.

CHARLES EDWARD LEECH passed away January 26 at Worcester, Mass. For the past 20 years he and Lillian had lived near that city, in Dudley.

Armed with a B.S. from Dartmouth, and an M.C.S. from Tuck, Ed had an interesting and varied career. For three years he was employed by Wm. Filene's in Boston, and the four years following, 1921-25, he was with the F. & R. Lazarus Co. in Cleveland, Ohio.

For 18 years he was associated with Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Co., Boston, and was vice president of that company when he left to become Dean of Nichols Junior College in Dudley.

During World War I Ed served as a lieutenant in the army, and was a member of the Price Adjustment Board in Springfield during World War II.

He had been active in the Boston Dartmouth Club at one time and served as secretary from 1925 to 1927. He was secretary of the Class from 1932 to 1944.

Survivors include his widow, Lillian (Sheppard), to whom he was married in 1919; a daughter, Janet, and a grandchild.

JOHN MUMFORD PALMER, a resident of 105 North Chatworth Ave., Larchmont, N. Y., for 27 years, passed away on January 20, after a long illness.

"Paduke" prepared for Dartmouth at Phillips Academy, and was one of five brothers who graduated from Dartmouth. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

During World War I he served with the rank of Ist lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps.

For 40 years Paduke owned and operated Palmer Associates, advertising displays. He retired in 1960, having also served as President of Point of Purchase Advertising Institute, and later as Chairman of the Board.

A member of both the New York City and Westchester Dartmouth Clubs, he served as an assistant class agent, and as class secretary.

He is survived by his widow, Clotilde (Sayre) to whom he was married in 1918; a son, a daughter, and four grandchildren. His brother, Wayne F. '17, also survives. We offer them our sympathy.

We have recently learned of the death of MANOLO METHFESSEL WIECHERS on January 11, in Sarasota, Florida.

News concerning Manolo has been non-existent over the years. From the obituary published in the Portland (Maine) Press we learned that he was a retired engineer, formerly with Lukens Steel Co., in Coatesville, Pa. The article also stated that he was the grandson of John Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, and that he had written many articles for the magazine Iron Age.

His widow Bernadette survives.

1915

DONALD EDWARD LAW, retired Staten Island obstetrician, died of a heart attack January 7 1967 at the Hobe Sound (Fla.) Hospital.

Don was born July 15, 1892 in Brooklyn prepared for college at Fort Ann (N. Y.) High School and graduated in 1915 with an A.B. degree. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He won his M.D. in 1918 at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and practiced at Tompkinsville, S. I., where he was chief of the obstetrical staff of the Staten Island Hospital in New Brighton until 1957 when he retired and took up residence in Jupiter, Florida. Wagner College awarded him the honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 1952.

He was a member of Tequesta Country Club, and Jupiter Island Club.

Surviving are his widow, the former Florence Lyon, whom he married in 1928; two sons, Donald Jr. and Thomas Hull; four sisters, and two grandchildren.

1916

Wheelerites of our first two years will be sorry to hear the sobering news we have traced of ETHELBERT MORRIS FRIEDMAN, who went to Harvard and then back to his family men's furnishings business in Grand Rapids. From 1933 advice that he was then an incurable invalid of World War I, it has been learned through Cliff Herold and established that, after subsequent periods of hospitalization, Friedman died, presumably in Michigan, in August 1963 at age 69. Meantime, he had changed his first name to Edward.

ARTHUR LLEWELLYN HOWELL died at Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, Calif., on New Year's Day, 1967. He had sufficiently recovered from a stroke suffered last February to be back at work, but was stricken again on December 26. His home address was 410 South Grand Avenue, Pasadena.

The quiet, unassuming Llew was born in Toledo on December 17, 1893 and came to Dartmouth from Toledo High School. On campus he was a member of Psi Upsilon, active in freshman track, and circulation manager of TheDartmouth our senior year. He took an active part in outdoor life by cross-country ski and snowshoe trips, including a mid-year ascent of Mount Washington.

After graduation he drove an ambulance at Verdun in 1916 for the French and continued his interest in the American Field Service International Scholarship, since 1951 as a lifetime trustee and the director for all Southern California. When the United States entered World War I, he had enlisted and served as 1st Lieutenant, Field Artillery, U. S. A., 1917-19.

After the war he went into the oil business, and moved to California in 1921. About 1924 he struck out for himself as a dealer in oil and gas leases and continued in that business up to his death.

Llew was married at Altadena, Calif., on September 11, 1925, to Florence Falkenau. She survives him, as do their daughter Mary H., their son Arthur Jr., and five grandchildren. A memorial service was held on January 4 at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. The Class was represented by Dan Dinsmoor, Dan Lindsley and Spence Sully.

SARGENT GASTMAN POWELL, who also roomed in Wheeler our freshman year and then transferred his allegiance for life to the University of Washington, died suddenly from a heart attack on December 31, 1963, at age 68. He took an M.S. from that university in 1916 and, presumably after service in World War I, served on its faculty of chemistry for 43 years, retiring with the rank of professor at the close of the summer session immediately preceding his death. His home was at 5101 N. E. 55th Street, Seattle. He is survived by two daughters, one son and his widow, from whom Porter Blaney has just secured this report.

1917

CLARENCE KENT HAWLEY died November 1, 1966, after having lived in semi-retirement for many years. He was living in New Orleans, La., at the time of his death.

Jess, as he was commonly known, entered Dartmouth from Philips Andover Academy in 1913 but remained at the College for only two years. He then entered the general insurance business in Omaha but after a year there he came East to train with the Travelers Insurance Co. When World War I broke out he enlisted at New Haven, Conn., as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He soon transferred to the Naval Air Service and in July 1918 went overseas and was attached to the Northern Bombing Group in France. He was discharged at Hampton Roads, Va., on July 1, 1919.

Most of his business career was spent in Ihe insurance field, but in 1941 he became an inspector for Pratt and Whitney, and later, a salesman for Gray Mfg. Company. Unfortunately, we have practically no information about his activities during recent years.

Jess's only known survivor is a sister, Mrs. Max Meyer of 2420 Garfield, Lincoln, Nebraska.

EARL MILTON WOODWARD died January 15, 1967, in Medford, Mass., after a short illness. He was born at Jonesport, Maine, on November 14, 1891. On August 1, 1916, he was married to the then Alice L. Riford at Portland, Maine, who predeceased him.

Earl had been a mathematics teacher at Med School before his retirement in 1957, having been appointed to the position in 1924. He had previously taught and held subprincipal and principalships in Woburn, Addison, South Portland, Harmony, and Stonington in Maine, and at Huntington School.

Before coming to Dartmouth, from which he graduated in 1917, he attended Colby College. He was a member of Marine Lodge No. 122, A.F.& A.M., in Deer Isle, Me- In 1925 he received a degree as Doctor of Optics from the philadelphia Optical College.

Earl is survived by his son, Riford K. Woodard of Medford, Mass.; his daughter, Mrs. Lois w. Olson of Needham, Mass.; and by SiX grandchildren.

1922

RICHARD GEORGE WOOD, 66, died unexpectedly of a coronary thrombosis January 25 in Gorham, N. H. A distinguished alumnus and a loyal classmate, he will be sadly missed.

Dick was director of the Vermont Historical Society from 1956 to the spring of 1966 when he retired. He came to Vermont from Washington, D. C., where he was in charge of the Army War Records at the National Archives. Previously he had been State Director of the Historical Records Survey of New Hampshire and he had taught history for several years, beginning in the high schools of Laconia, N. H., and New Haven, Conn., before he became an instructor at M.I.T. and an assistant professor at the University of Maine.

He came to Hanover from Bellows Falls (Vt.) High School, received his A.B. from Dartmouth in '22, his A.M. from Harvard 1924, and, after teaching and working in lumber camps, his doctorate in 1934 from Harvard.

He was a trustee of several institutions including the Vermont Historical Society, the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Precision Museum, and the Justin Smith Morrill Foundation of which he was also vice president. He was an association fellow of the Society of American Archivists and a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society. As Director of the Vermont Historical Society he served as an ex-offcio member of the Vermont Board of Historic Sites and the Public Records Advisory Committee.

A well-known contributor to historical and archival journals, he was also the author of "The History of Lumbering in Maine" and "Stephen Harriman Long, 1784-1864: Army Engineer, Explorer and Inventor" published in December 1966.

Dick and Ruth, loyal members of the class family, were married in 1938. He leaves his wife, a daughter, three sisters, and six grandchildren. For the past ten years Dick and Ruth had lived in Montpelier. They moved to Randolph, N. H., Dick's birthplace, only last spring. Sterry Waterman represented the Class at the service on January 28 in Randolph.

1923

HENRY JAMES BAKER JR., well-known fuel dealer, died December 13, 1966 in the Holyoke Hospital, after a short illness. He was 63 years old and resided at 65 Lindor Heights, Holyoke.

Henry was the son of the late Henry J. Baker, who with the late John Finn, founded the Union Coal & Wood Company, which was located on Dwight Street. After the death of his father, he operated the business until 1962, when he sold the concern to the Whiting Oil Corp.

Henry was born in Holyoke on October 24, 1903. He attended the local elementary schools and Holyoke High, studied at Dartmouth, and graduated from Georgetown University.

He is survived by his widow, Fredrika (Brackin) Baker, formerly of Pittsfield, and several cousins.

1927

ROBERT WILLIAM G. WILSON died on January 9 in the Cleveland Clinic Hospital. His home was at 2432 Kenilworth Rd., in that city.

Bob attended Dartmouth for only one semester, spent a year at Georgetown University, then went to work for the Central National Bank, in Cleveland. After three years with the bank, he left to join his father's insurance firm, as agent for Aetna Life and Casualty Co. He was associated with Wilson and Co. until the time of his death.

He was a life member of the Cleveland chapter of the U.S. Power Squadron and a past commander on the group's national board of governors. For twenty years preceding World War II he was an active yachtsman. His yacht "Bo'son" won the Alton H. Greeley Memorial Trophy in 1941. He was president emeritus and vice president of the advisory committee of the Great Lakes Historical Society and Marine Museum. Bob was a life member of the Western Reserve Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and a member of the Ohio Society of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America.

Bob was married to Lucille Gaffney on February 1, 1928, and had five children, four of whom, with his wife, survive him.

1928

WARREN CLIFFORD CLARK died December 22 in Sharon Hospital, Lakeville, Conn., where he had been taken following a heart attack. He was vice principal in charge of adult education at Housatonic Valley Regional High School, where he had taught for the past 25 years.

Warren was born in Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 5, 1906. After graduating from Dartmouth he got his Master of Education from the University of New Hampshire. He taught for a while in Stamford, Conn., then entered the insurance business briefly before returning to his chosen profession.

A memorial service was held for him at his school on January 4.

His first wife, Gertrude, died in 1957. He is survived by his second wife, Mary Carter Clark, of Lakeville, and his two children, Lt. Warren C. Clark Jr., USN, Long Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Donald Benedict, San Diego, Calif.

1930

ALFRED FRANCIS MCGRATH was born March 12, 1907 and grew up in Brighton, Mass. He died January 15, 1967 of a sudden heart attack in his apartment at 15B River Park, White

and classmates Bud French and Jack Wooster attended the Dartmouth hockey game at Princeton. While getting ready for church on Sunday morning, January 15, Alfie told Suzanne that he was having severe chest pains but before he could be taken to the hospital, he passed away.

Funeral services were held January 17, 1967 in St. John's Church in White Plains, and burial was in White Plains.

This wonderful guy entered Dartmouth from Boston Latin School where he participated in baseball and hockey, captaining the latter. He was a member of Psi Upsilon, Dragon, the Dartmouth Club of New York, and the Whippoorwill Golf Club.

Suzanne was the only child of his February 22, 1943 marriage to the former Barbara Nevell (Scudder) of New Rochelle, N. Y. (since divorced).

Upon graduation, Alfie joined the foreign exchange branch of the National City Bank in New York City and in 1939 he transferred to the Manufacturers Trust foreign exchange department. In February 1941 he joined the Navy and saw duty in Iceland, Africa, Norfolk, Virginia and Washington, D. C., rising to the rank of lieutenant commander.

While in Washington, Alfie became a friend of Edward Stettinius and from 1947-50, he was vice president and director of the Stettinius Associates. When Harry Truman became President and Stettinius lost favor, this Association collapsed and from 1950-51 Alfie tried investment banking with A. W. Benkert & Company. However, in 1952, he joined the National Container Corporation as salesman for national accounts and his last position was with the Kraft Container Corporation of Bayonne, N. J.

Al McGrath's love and loyalty to Dartmouth was well known and is best portrayed by an early statement - "Dartmouth has become a steadily increasing influence on me and my life - all for the better. My hobbies and most friends are definitely Dartmouth." Alfie was one of the most lovable, unselfish, loyal and devoted men in the Class of 1930.

In 1963 an important step and turning point in Alfie's life happened when he joined Alcoholics Anonymous and this step had a great effect on his later life. He was proud of his A.A. work and he devoted countless hours to this organization to which he was a pillar of strength to those who needed help. He attended meetings religiously and gave many talks to the inmates of penitentiaries and alcoholic institutions.

Attending the services were countless friends of Alfie's and the Class of 1930 was well represented. In addition to our president, Fred Scribner, who officially represented the class, the following classmates paid their respects: Jack Wooster, Buck Steers, Eddie Jeremiah, Wally Wasmer, Bill Jessup, Vic Borella, Red Gould, Bud French, Jim Mitchell, Frank Kindermann, Meade Alcorn, Milt McInnis, Bob Blanchard, Pete Callaway and Wally Blakey. Many wives accompanied their husbands and Ellie French represented John who was away on urgent business. In attendance also were Mrs. Hal Andres '31, Mr. and Mrs. Hal Mackey '33, Ed Walsh '29, and Phil Mayher '29.

The honorary pallbearers were Fred Scribner, Meade Alcorn, Bud French, Jack Wooster, Eddie Jeremiah and Harold Hall (Alfie's A.A. Sponsor).

Alfie's extensive correspondence with members of the Class served to bind us together in a way which will be much missed. It will not seem right to hold 1930 affairs and not have his enthusiasm, quick wit, and warm support.

MALCOLM BURR RIPLEY suffered a heart attack and died suddenly while at work on January 23, 1967. Rip was a supervisor for the Joseph Pollak Corp., an engineering firm.

He was a long-time resident of Hingham, Mass., where he was active in civic affairs, particularly youth work. Rip was a former member of the Hingham board of public welfare, the school committee, and the recreation commission. He also served as a director of youth activity at the Wompatuck Community Center in Hingham. For the past 20 years he had been Scoutmaster of the town's oldest Boy Scout troop and for 14 years was manager of the local Babe Ruth Baseball League team.

The Class extends its deepest sympathy to his widow Dorothy, brother William and sister Alice. Mrs. Ripley lives at 193 South St., Hingham.

1937

CHARLES TODD NEWBERRY JR., of Ausable Forks, N. Y., a former director of the J. J. Newberry Company, variety-store chain, died December 26 in the Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, Vt., after a long illness.

He was born in Brooklyn, the son of Charles T. Newberry, former Chairman of the Board of J. J. Newberry, and was graduated from Northwood School, Dartmouth, and Harvard Business School. He worked for the company as a buyer and director until his retirement in 1956.

His daughter, Jessica, a member of the Olympic Equestrian teams of 1960 and 1964, got him interested in horsemanship to the point where he had a show stable with indoor riding ring and bred horses at his farm. He also actively promoted riding among young people hoping through national and Olympic competition to further international friendship.

He also started the Anonymous Donor Transportation Fund to aid in the early detection of cancer. The fund enables physicians to fly to health centers within 250 miles to diagnose cases where the patient might not otherwise be able to see a specialist.

Surviving besides his daughter are his widow, the former Ruth Tilden Coleman Davis; two sons, Charles T. 3rd and Richard; and a sister.

1940

Word has reached the Class of the death of our classmate JOHN BURTON TURNER on November 22, 1966, in Prescott, Arizona. John entered with our class from Conrad, Montana. He played freshman baseball, majored in English, and was a brother of Gamma Delta Chi. He also distinguished himself in the lnterfraternity Play contests.

John entered the Army in 1942 and was a lieutenant in the Mountain Infantry serving in the Aleutian Islands until 1946. Following his military service he returned to Montana where he worked in the wholesale business and in the real estate business before moving to Arizona in 1954 to establish an accounting firm.

He and Virginia had a boy, John Burton Jr., and a daughter, Tracy, who survive him at 605 Highland Avenue, Prescott, Arizona. The sympathy of the Class is extended to them and to his mother.

1946

CHARLES ALPHONSUS DENNEEN passed away on December 19, 1966. He was 44 years old and resided at 71 Arbutus Road, Greenlawn, N. Y.

Immediately following graduation, "Chas" joined the Royal-Globe Insurance Companies in New York City. He served at different times as a personnel interviewer, assistant personnel manager, personnel manager, and assistant secretary. He was named a secretary of the companies early in 1966.

During World War II he served in the Navy and attained the rank of Ensign.

Survivors include his widow, Jean (Higby), to whom he was married in 1946, and two daughters, Deborah, 17, and Jean, 15.

1949

Classmates and college friends will be saddened to hear of the passing of RICHARD ROBINSON ANDREWS on December 26, 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His death was attributed to a long-standing kidney ailment.

Dick came to Dartmouth from Bath, Maine, where he was born and raised. He graduated from Morse High School and entered Dartmouth in July 1945, as did so many of our classmates. He roomed with Don Mackintosh that first summer term in New Hampshire Hall. Many of us have very poignant memories of that first term when as youngsters fresh from high school we were overwhelmingly outnumbered by military and senior returning veterans. Our camaraderie was fused by such as the cheerfulness and infectious smile of Dick Andrews and the good-natured joshing he took from all of us outlanders who had never known how broad a Down-Maine A really could be until Dick identified his home town.

He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and a swimming team letterman, and graduated in June 1949. He went into the General Electric Company business training program immediately after graduation and was in the property and inventory control division of their Jet Engine Development and Engineering Program at the time of his passing.

Dick was married to Janet Kenerson in 1952, Survivors besides his wife include his parents of Bath; three children, Robert, Todd and Sally and two brothers.

A memorial service was held at Cottage Hill Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati on December 28. Deepest sympathy is extended to the Andrews family in their bereavement from

The Rev. Roy Bullard Chamberlin '27h

Joseph William Gannon '99

Dr. Thomas Albert Foster '10