Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices mayappear in this issue or a later one.]
Ayers, Hobart B. '95, June 13 Hendley, William R. '03, presumed dead Mullett, George B. '03, presumed dead French, Edward S. '06, June 9 Stickney, Park W. '08, June 20 Hoar, Carl S. 'I I, June 22 Le Count, Walter K. '14, May 18 Marceau, Franz R. '14, May 20 Doe, Orlando C. '15, June 20 McCarthy, Justin H. '15, June 10 Trumbull, Charles H. '15, May 20 Burnham, Paul L. '17, June 8 Dobbins, William F. '17, Feb. 17, 1962 Sturgess, Albert H. '17, May 25 Wolff, Charles 3rd '17, June 15 Langley, James M. '18, June 23 McDowell, Edward S. '18, May 22 Beaman, Roy E. '19, May 27 Minnis, James L. Jr. '20, Apr. 2 Bernheim, Leonard H. '22, May 16 Noyes, Richard W. '22, Feb. 10 Eaton, Austin C. '23, June 1 Peters, Edward W. '23. June 4 Pierson, Ralph W. '23, Apr. 25 Harris, Roger M. '24, Jan. 30 Milnor, Sidney D. '25, May 10 Stutzmann, Frederick C. '25, Jan. 1968 Hudgins, Henry E. '26, May 20 Carson, John B. '28, June 9 Mason, John W. '28, May 24 Colson, Cortlandt M. '29, Apr. 23 Grote, William F. Jr. '29, Nov. 8, 1967 Martin, H. Proctor '29, Mar. 31 Worth, Lawrence W. '29, May 16 Grant, Edwin H. '30, May 26 Richards, Louis L. '30, May 13 Fisher, Richard F. '41, June 13 Blume, Robert E. '51, June 12 McCreary, Peter H. '52, June 3 Fitch, Frederick A. 3rd '59, Nov. 11, 1967
Staff
EARL P. HAMILTON, backfield and end coach of the Dartmouth varsity football team, died suddenly of a heart attack on the night of June 7. He was 44.
Mr. Hamilton, who had been head freshman coach for ten years before he joined the varsity staff in 1965, began his long association with Head Coach Bob Blackman at the University of Denver in 1953 and came to Dartmouth with him in 1955.
"It is impossible to assess the contribution Earl has made to our program," Coach Blackman said. "We have worked closely for many years. I cannot begin to measure my personal loss and the loss to Dartmouth."
Coach Hamilton was born in Chicago and began his football career as a blocking back at Tilden High School. He entered Wichita State University in Kansas in 1942 but interrupted his studies the next year to enlist in the U. S. Army. Serving with a tank battalion overseas, he was captured during a German attack and spent six months as a prisoner of war. After his Army discharge, he returned to Wichita and was graduated in 1949. He played three seasons at quarterback and was captain of the team in his senior year.
Coach Hamilton remained at Wichita for the next four years, coaching the freshman team and serving as chief scout before joining Coach Blackman at Denver. At both Wichita and Dartmouth his freshman teams had undefeated seasons. His first Dartmouth team in 1955 had a Perfect record, and also his 1960 team. His overall record as Dartmouth freshman coach was 39 wins, 21 losses, and one tie.
Coach Hamilton is survived by his wife Terry; a daughter Susan, who attends the University of New Hampshire; a son Edward, who graduated from Hanover High School this year; and a sister, Mrs. George Manion of Chicago. Funeral services were held at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Hanover, on June 10 and burial was in Pine Knolls Cemetery.
Colleagues, friends, and former players of Coach Hamilton are raising a memorial fund that will serve to promote outdoor life for students. Coach Hamilton was an ardent hunter, fisherman, and outdoorsman.
1901
DR. ERNEST SAMUEL CROSS SR., died Thursday, May 2, 1968, at a Baltimore, Md., nursing home. He was bora April 29, 1879, in Atkinson, N. H.
After graduating with our class, Ernest registered at Johns Hopkins Medical School and received his M.D. in 1903. He lived for several years in Augusta, Ga., where he was engaged in hospital work. He returned to Baltimore in 1918, where he established a practice and became supervisor of the old Barber Clinic, on North Calvert Street. Dr. Cross was active in several medical associations, including the American Medical Association and the Southern Medical Association.
His wife, the former Maye Hershmer, died in 1966. Ernest is survived by two sons, Dr. Ernest S. Cross Jr., a Baltimore physician, and Hershmer Cross, of New York; to them the Class extends its deepest sympathy. Funeral services were held in Randolph, N. H.
1902
JAMES LINCOLN HUNTINGTON was born in Maiden, Mass., March 10, 1880, son of the Rev. George and Mrs. (Barrett) Huntington. The family moved to Hanover, N. H., in 1891 when the father 'was appointed Rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church. In college, he played football on the class team, was a member of the Aegis Board, class president for a term, and a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.
Following graduation he moved to Cambridge, and obtained his M.D. degree from Harvard in 1906. His specialties were Gynecology and Obstetrics, and he soon built up a large practice in the .vicinity of Boston. On June 1, 1911, he married Miss Sarah Peirce of Brookline, and they had two sons, Benjamin Lincoln (1912) and John Higginson (1916).
The list of medical societies to which he belonged is extensive and from 1921, until his retirement in 1952, he was Chief of Obstetrics at the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. But his main interest is shown by his active association with scholarly work in American history, most clearly demonstrated by the restoration of his ancestral home, "Forty Acres." The house was originally built in 1752 by his great- great-grandfather, in Hadley, Mass., and through the efforts of Dr. Huntington and the Foundation ("Porter, Phelps, Huntington") that he inaugurated, the building and grounds have been restored to their former splendor. He wrote extensively about the town of Hadley in pre-Revolutionary times, and was a popular lecturer on historical subjects. In 1944 he was married to Miss Agnes Genevieve Keefe of Amherst, who assisted him in his work.
James died May 4, 1968, leaving his wife, of 128 River Drive, Hadley, Mass., and sons, Dr. Benjamin Huntington, of Manchester, N. H., and John Higginson Huntington, Esq., of London, England; four grandchildren, and a sister, Miss Katherine Huntington of Boston, Mass.
Dartmouth is honored to be able to number so distinguished a man among her sons.
1906
EDWARD SANBORN FRENCH, chairman of the board of the Maine Central Railroad, former chairman and president of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and Life Trustee Emeritus of Dartmouth College, died at his home in Springfield, Vt., on June 9. He was 84 years old.
Mr. French's life was almost entirely devoted to railroading, and he rose to the pinnacle of that industry in New England. In 1937, when he was being honored with the Boston Herald's first Distinguished Business Leadership Award, he was presented with an antique railroad ice- water bucket, shaped like a long-spouted teakettle with two glasses in an attached rack, one for men and one for women. This recalled for him the way in which he had begun his career. The son and grandson of railroad men, Mr. French as a boy of 13 had carried a bucket of ice water for passengers on the old Boston and Concord line.
Mr. French was born in Portland, Me., December 11, 1883, the son of James M. and Carrie (Sanborn) French. He was educated at the Somerville (Mass.) Latin School and in the fall of 1902 entered Dartmouth, where he was manager of the basketball team and became a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Sphinx. He continued to hold railroad jobs during the college vacations, and upon graduation in 1906 he became a clerk for the Boston & Maine. Two years later he was named general manager of the now abandoned White River Railroad in Vermont, of which he later, in 1920, became president. Other assignments came his way in rapid succession: receiver and president of the Springfield (Vt.) Terminal; president of the Montpelier & Wells River Railroad, and its successor, the Barre & Chelsea; vice president of the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain; and president of the Mystic Terminal Co., the B&M's Boston waterfront subsidiary. In April 1930 he was elected president of the Boston & Maine, and in September 1932 he assumed, in addition, the presidency of the Maine Central and its subsidiary, the Portland Terminal. Along the way Mr. French also became vice president of John T. Slack Corp., Springfield, Vt., woolen manufacturers; and vice president of the Wood- bury Granite Co., Burlington, Vt.
Throughout his executive career Mr. French held to the philosophy that a railroad is people, and he traveled all over his lines keeping in touch with railroad-personnel, and also keeping his eye on things. Progressive in his ideas, and also forced during the depression years to fight hard to keep his railroads solvent, he was .the first in the East to put into service a lightweight, streamlined passenger train. The Boston & Maine also introduced Snow Trains carrying skiers to New England resorts and other special trains to attract holiday customers. He inaugurated the first railroad-owned airline in the country, the first door-to-door bus and railroad shipping service, and the first railroad bus and train connections. New England business as a whole benefited from his ideas and energy, and he was honored and given more directorships throughout the region.
In 1952 Mr. French became chairman of the board of the Boston & Maine. Three years later control was lost to a group headed by Patrick B. McGinnis, then president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, but he continued to fill the post of chairman of the Maine Central, with E. Spencer Miller '31 as president.
Mr. French in 1955 became president of Jones & Lamson Machine Tool Co., Springfield, Vt., now liquidated. His directorships were numerous, including the Association of American Railroads, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, First National Bank of Boston, Union Mutual Life Insurance Co., National Life Insurance Co. of Vermont, Rock of Ages Granite Corp., Oxford Paper Co., American Enka Co., Saco- Lowell Shops, H. P. Hood & Sons, and the New England Public Service Corp. He was a trustee of the National Foundation and of the Dumaine Trust, and was one of the founding trustees of Cardigan Mountain School, where a hall is named for him. He also was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Newcomen Society of North America, the Union and Algonquin Clubs of Boston, and the Century Association of New York.
Mr. French was a lifelong friend and fishing companion of President Ernest Martin Hopkins, with whom he served on several New England boards. They shared an intense and devoted interest in Dartmouth's welfare. Mr. French became an Alumni Trustee of the College in 1935, at which time the College awarded him an honorary Master of Arts degree, and in 1941 he was elected a Life Trustee of the College, serving until he reached the compulsory retirement age of 70 in 1954. Mr. French was president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston and was always active in Class of 1906 affairs. In 1955 the Alumni Council honored him with one of the first Dartmouth Alumni Awards, and in 1966 the College further recognized his long service to Dartmouth by naming one of its new dormitories French Hall. Middlebury College had honored him with a Doctorate of Laws in 1947.
Mr. French in 1911 married Helen Campbell of Rochester, Vt., who died in 1919. Survivors are three daughters: Mrs. Robert F. Gillette of Barre, Vt., and the Misses Elizabeth and Helen French of Springfield, Vt.; a grandson, Edward French Gillette '67; and a sister, Mrs. George A. Campbell of Rochester, Vt.
A memorial service was held June 12 at the First Congregational Church in Springfield. Attending from the College were President Dickey, Vice President John F. Meek, Dean Albert I Dickerson, and Professor Emeritus Francis Lane Childs, who also represented the Class of 1906. Trustee Dudley W. Orr '29 and Trustee Emeritus Harvey P. Hood '18 also attended.
1913
RALPH HOWARD DRURY, 77, of 87 Valencia Drive, died Feb. 20 in Ormond Beach Memorial Hospital.
Ralph was born in Manchester, N. H., Dec. 23, 1890. He attended the Harvard School of Dental Medicine where he received his D.M.D. degree in 1914. He was also a graduate of the Dewey School of Orthodontia.
Ralph settled in Worcester, Mass., where he conducted a highly successful practice for 42 years, mostly as a specialist orthodontist. Ralph retired in 1955 and went to Ormond Beach, Fla., to live.
He was a member of the American Dental Association, Massachusetts Dental Society and the District Dental Society. He was elected to life membership in the American Dental Society in 1955. In January 1964 he was awarded a certificate from the Massachusetts Dental Society recognizing 50 years of devotion to the high ideals of the profession.
He leaves his widow, Isabella G. (Owler) Drury, two daughters, and five grandchildren.
1915
CHARLES HENRY TRUMBULL, resident engineer for the state Department of Public Works, division of roads and bridges, of Rhode Island for 35 years until his retirement in 1955, died May 20, 1968 at South County Hospital in Wakefield, R. I.
"Chuck" was born July 24, 1893 in Winthrop, Mass., the son of Charles E. and Bertha (Rediker) Trumbull. He married Blanche Meadowcroft Oct. 14, 1922 at Wakefield.
He graduated in 1915 with an A.B. degree from Dartmouth where he became a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon fraternity. In World War I, he served with the Army Corps of Engineers as a lieutenant.
"Chuck" was a member of Charity Lodge, F. & A.M. of Hope Valley, Franklin Chapter of Royal Arch of Masons, Hope'Valley, the Narragansett Masonic Council, Hope Chapter, O.E.S., of Hope Valley, Downer-Weaver Post, American Legion of Shannock.
Besides his wife, he is survived by three brothers.
Funeral services were held May 23 at Hope Valley, R. I., and burial was in White Brook Cemetery, Carolina, R. I.
1917
FRANK CHAMBERLAIN HUNTRESS of Keene, N. H., died on April 28, 1968, after a long illness. He was a patient at Elliot Community Hospital at the time. His wife, the former Ruth Plain, died on May 1, 1967.
Frank was born in Keene and before entering Dartmouth, he attended Phillips Andover Academy. At Dartmouth he became a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, and also was a member of the Mandolin Club and the Gun Team.
He saw service during World War I and took part in the action at Soissons-Rheims, St. Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne, and was wounded by shrapnel at Bois de Septsages. As a result he was hospitalized until December 20, 1918. He then contracted pneumonia and stayed in the hospital at St. Aignan until April 2, 1919. At the time of his discharge on May 9, 1919, at Camp Dix, N. J., he held the rank of first lieutenant.
For many years Frank was associated with W. P. Chamberlain Co. of Keene, and later managed the Sears, Roebuck & Co. store. He was a trustee of the Keene Savings Bank, a member of the Rotary Club, a member of the United Church of Christ and a past president of the Keene Country Club.
1919
ROY ELLSWORTH BEAMAN passed away in Plymouth, Mass., on May 27. He made his home in that town, at 28 Middle Street.
Roy enlisted in the Army in 1917 and saw service in France with the A.E.F., 26th Yankee Division. After his discharge he joined his father in the family business started by his great- grandfather, over 100 years ago. The firm name is W. W. Beaman & Son, Funeral Directors.
In 1940 Roy retired from the Massachusetts State Guard with the rank of It. colonel of Infantry.
Survivors include two daughters and a son, Ralph G. '44.
1920
H. STANLEY ANTRIM died on January 23, 1968 at the St. Patrick's Hospital at Missoula, Mont., after a long illness. He was born September 8, 1898 at Freeport, Ill., and attended the Freeport High School. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and although his college was interrupted by brief service in the Naval Air Corps he returned and graduated with the class. He was an auditor for the General Electric Co. in Schenectady, N. Y., for five years but resigned in 1925 to take over farming interests in Bitter Root.
Stanley was married in 1931 to Emily Copa at Stevensville, Mont. He maintained a great interest in life despite his disabled condition as he fought valiantly during his prolonged illness.
He was four times elected to the House of Representatives to serve Ravalli County and Montana in the years 1938, 40, 42 and 44, and served as Chairman of- the Ways and Means Committee during his years in the legislature. Stanley was one of the largest ranchers in his area and ran large bands of sheep in various parts of the valley. He was a member of BPOE No. 1651 and of the Stevensville Lodge No. 28 Masons.
Funeral services were held at the Whitesitt Chapel in Stevensville with a Masonic service at the graveside. He is survived by his Widow, Emily (Copa) Antrim; three children, John, Jacqueline, and Priscilla, and a brother Joel Antrim '25 who was also in the ranching business with Stan.
The Class extends its deepest sympathy to the surviving members of Stan's family.
LEDYARD HOWES (Pa) BIRCH of Wakemen Hill Road, Sherman, Conn., died in the New Milford Hospital, Friday, March 29, 1968 of a heart attack. He was born in New York, and prepared for college at St. Paul's School.
While at Dartmouth he became a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. In Connecticut he was a member of the local Dartmouth Club and also a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in New Milford, Conn.
The greater part of his life had been spent in the banking, mortgage and brokerage business. He was for several years the vice president of Earle and Calhoun but at the time of his death he was operating a real estate and mortgage business of his own.
A daughter, Mrs. Judith Hesse of Brooklyn, N. Y., and a brother, Clement are his survivors. The sympathy of the Class goes out to them.
ELMER WADSWORTH STEWART, a native of Hanover, died May 9, 1968 at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital after a long illness.
He was born Oct. 8, 1897; attended Hanover High School, and the University of New Hampshire, and was a veteran of World War I. His early work was that of a tree surgeon in Ohio but for many years he was a mail carrier in Hanover. He was a member of Bezeleel Lodge 100, F. & A.M. of Hanover.
Among the survivors is a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Marie Rademacher of Springfield, Mass., who was a skier in the 1948 Olympics; a sister, Myrtle; three brothers, Albert, Emery, and Arthur '22; three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. The funeral service was held at Rand Funeral Home in Hanover with burial in the Dartmouth Cemetery. The Class of '20 was represented by Al Foley, John Amsden, and Bud Weymouth.
The Class sends its deep sympathy to Elmer's surviving family.
1923
AUSTIN CHOATE EATON died on June 1 at Exeter, N. H., Hospital following a brief illness. He was 67 years old.
Bub was one of ten of us who came to Dartmouth in the fall of 1919 from Newton, Mass. In high school he had starred in hockey, track, and baseball and was president of the Student Council. In college he played on the freshman hockey and baseball teams and was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
Leaving college in 1921 Bub became associated successively with several organizations, principal among which were American Radiator and Hill and Spinney of Boston. During the last 18 years of his life he lived in Exeter and North Hampton, N. H., and was a manufacturer's representative. During a good part of this later period he also operated a very successful duck hunting preserve. Both he and Virginia were ardent golfers.
Bub is survived by his wife, the former Virginia Gittins, of South Rd., North Hampton, N. H., a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Munro of Vancouver, B. C., a son, Austin C. Eaton Jr., '62 and Tuck School '63, and two grandchildren. Also by his brothers Sargent F. '11 and William C. '17. Funeral services were held on June 4 at the Exeter, N. H., Congregational Church.
Your secretary knew Bub well, both during his high school days and his two years at Dartmouth. He was a fine athlete, an outgoing and generous man, and a good friend. We of 1923 will miss him greatly.
CEDRIC WELLINGTON SWETT passed away on April 13, 1968 in Venice, Fla., following a brief illness. He was 68 years old.
Born in Greene, Me., Ced came to Dartmouth from Kents Hill Seminary. After he left college he was in the ship chandlery business for a time and then took a brief turn at farming. Following this he spent 35 years with General Motors from which concern he retired in 1960. At the time of his retirement he was Chevrolet Zone Manager for Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont with headquarters in Portland, Me. He lived at 290 Baxter Blvd., Portland.
Ced was a member of the Williston Congregational Church in Portland and served a term as chairman of its finance committee. He was a Master Mason, a member of St. Andrews Lodge of Bangor, Kora Temple Shrine of Lewiston and the Portland Shrine Club. Ced was also a member of the Portland Club, on whose board of governors he served, the Portland Country Club and the Lake Venice Golf Club, and was past president of the Maine Senior Golf Association. At Dartmouth he was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
Ced is survived by his wife, the former Ella G. Sowers, a sister, and a brother.
1924
ROGER MILTON HARRIS died January 30 in San Angelo, Texas, after a long battle with emphysema fought "with tremendous and unwavering courage, typically Roger, as his classmates would know." We have had few words from the Harrises but Rog's wife Ethel wrote that he often thought and talked about Dartmouth and Hanover.
Roger was born April 29, 1901 in Dallas, Texas. Classmates will remember him especially for his football but he also participated in track and the Glee Club. Rog left us in September of 1923 and went to Brown University for a short period.
The first job we have listed is in the advertising department of the Literary Digest, in New York City — when this was a top magazine and the rivals hadn't yet been born. He had married in February, 1927 and a daughter was born in 1928. The record is bare except for a notation that he was "an independent oil operator" in 1939. .. and that is how he is listed in the local obituary when he died at 66 years of age. He had lived in San Angelo— 2534 West Ave. J since 1952. We know he was founder and president of Texas-Hanover (N.B.) Oil Co., in 1958. Ten years later, sentiment still was seen in their daily use of the "Dartmouth Plates" with scenes of Hanover. We wish we might have had more news of the intervening years, especially to be sure of the second marriage to Ethel Townsend, of Dallas. He is survived by his daughter as mentioned above, and by two sisters, all of Dallas.
His passing brings back many memories long forgotten; we send our sympathy to his family who wish to remain a Dartmouth family.
1925
SIDNEY DAVIS MILNOR died suddenly, May 19, 1968 at Towson, Md., as the result of a severe aneurysm. Born in Warrensville, Pa., August 28, 1902, Sid prepared for Dartmouth at Harrisburg Academy. He was on the basketball squad for four years and a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. He earned a master's degree in education at Harvard in 1930.
He served in public and private school teaching and administration since 1926, and had retired in Dec. 1965 after being a guidance counselor in the York (Pa.) City School District, where he had been since 1960. During World War II he was a field director for the American Red Cross in both the European and Pacific theatres. Always interested in sports, he had umpired high school football and basketball games, and L.L.B., including several World Series. For several years he was on the executive staff in the organization and development of the Little League Baseball movement.
Surviving are his wife, Jean Black Campbell, whom he married at Williamsport in June of 1928, a son, John Campbell '54, a daughter, Ann Champion, and a nephew, John Champion Milnor '42, to whom the deep sympathy of the Class is extended.
HENRY JOSEPH OCTAVEC succumbed to the effects of cancer February 26, 1968 at Bull Shoals, Arkansas. Born in New York City, April 21, 1901, Henry prepared for Dartmouth at New Rochelle High School. Little is known of his activities. The firm for which he worked moved from Bridgeport, Conn., to Dallas, Texas in 1954. He retired 2½ years ago and moved to Bull Shoals, Arkansas. Our sympathy is extended to his wife, Monie, who survives him. There were no children.
1927
DONALD WATT GARDNER died on May 6, 1968 in Boston after an illness of some months. He was founder and chairman of the board of the Boston advertising firm bearing his name.
Dinty entered Dartmouth after attending Brockton High School and Clark School. He was a prominent and very active member of his class, playing freshman football and tackle on the varsity as a member of Dartmouth's undefeated 1925 team. He was heavyweight boxing champion, skied on the winter sports team, canoed with the Ledyard Canoe Club and was Business Manager of Jack-o-Lantern. A Deke, he was also Green Key and Dragon.
J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency in Philadelphia was Dinty's first employer. In 1929 he married Katherine Seward and they had two children — Katherine, now Mrs. John K. Bryant of Cohasset, Mass., and Donald Jr. — who is now Dean of Williams College.
Don and Kay lived at 7 Adams Circle, Marblehead. He was an ardent sailor first on "Borogove II," then "Borogove III," a 42-foot yawl. World War II led to his enlistment in the Coast Guard as a lieutenant. He was first with the Atlantic Anti-Submarine Fleet and then served as Commander U.S. Coast Guard, Nantucket, subsequently as captain of an LST in New Guinea and Philippines and finally as commander of LST Group 27, Flotilla 7 — 7th Fleet, Pacific.
Don and his crew found a small boat afloat in the Pacific, rigged it as a sloop and Dinty sailed it under a Cruising Club burgee through the fleet during the battle of Leyte Gulf. This famous small boat was eventually gotten back to sail again in Marblehead harbor.
After the war he returned to Boston as N.E. Manager of the Wall St. Journal before he founded his own advertising agency in Boston. He was proud of the number of Dartmouth graduates on his staff.
Don served as Commodore of Boston Yacht Club, later he joined Eastern Yacht Club, and was one of the more active members of the Cruising Club of America serving as Commodore of its Eastern Division, and cruised with them from Long Island Sound to Nova Scotia.
Representing 1927 at his memorial services were Doane Arnold, Bill Cusack, Gordon Smith, Bill Prescott, Barbara and Charlie Bartlett, and Marion and Rog Bury.
1929
WILLIAM FREDERICK GROTE JR. died suddenly of heart disease of many months' duration on November 8, 1967 at his home in Oak Park, Ill. Bill was born at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, on November 17, 1906 and spent the early years of his life at various Army posts in the U.S., and in foreign areas where his father, Col. William F. Grote, was stationed. Bill attended Tabor Academy before coming to Dartmouth and following the death of his father in 1927 he left College. He was employed as a sales representative by E. I. DuPont de Nemours in the Cleveland and Chicago areas for almost 40 years prior to his retirement on January 1, 1967. Bill served as an officer in the U.S. Army during World War II in the U.S., European, and Pacific areas.
Services were held November 10, 1967 at Christ Episcopal Church, River Forest, Ill., and burial was in the family plot at the Wheaton Cemetery, Wheaton, Ill. Bill is survived by his widow, Janette, of Oak Park, Ill., and a brother, Henry W. Grote, of Brussels, Belgium. A nephew, Daniel R. Grote, graduated from the Tuck School in the spring of 1968.
LAWRENCE WILBUR WORTH of 26 Woodcrest Ave., Millburn, N. J., passed away on May 16 at the Marine Hospital on Staten Island. He had undergone an operation for a brain tumor.
Following graduation Larry worked for the United Fruit Company and during World War II served as a Merchant Marine officer on an oil tanker. At the time of his death he was about to retire from the Moore-McCormack Lines on whose ships he had served as purser for the past 25 years.
An ancient language major as an undergraduate, he made a life-long hobby of modem foreign languages to the point where he was able to pass himself off as a native in several European countries, as well as to converse easily with the Eskimos of the far north.
The Class extends its sympathy to his widow, Camila, his son Hector, and his brother Elmer '27.
1930
EWING IVEY BURNS died May 4 of acute leukemia at Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, after a very brief illness. For the past three years he had been General Manager of the Dittlinger Flour Mills, New Braunfels, Texas, a division of Flour Mills of America. Prior to that Cupe had been sales manager for flour for Quaker Oats Co., Sherman, Texas, and had been the owner of his own feed and seed company in Ada, Okla., in the fifties.
Deepest sympathy of the Class, is extended to his widow Dundine who lives at 767 Encino Drive, New Braunfels, Texas, his daughters Winifred, Marilyn, and Marie, and his son Frederick.
Classmates of '30 will be saddened to learn of the tragic accident which ended the life on May 13 of one of our most beloved members, Louis LOTHAIR RICHARDS. "Kel" was unable to cope with a fire and severe explosion which destroyed his house, while he was happily working in his basement on some of his artistic ceramics. Kel was never at a loss for a humorous and cogent story about his favorite "hill folk" to make a point and entertain his many friends. Countless young people will be forever indebted to him for opening their eyes to the great strength to be gained through faith in God" and loving kindness. Since college days, he suffered without complaint severe handicaps, physically limiting his scope of activity — yet he worked for many years for the A. C. Neilson Company of Chicago, Ill.
Few could equal his story-telling which he used as a means of inspiring both himself and his listeners. Early in his Dartmouth days, his eye for picture making resulted in our Aegis frontispiece. Hundreds of beautiful color slides made during holidays from work attest his love for all of nature's glory — winter and fall, especially.
His wife, "Mis' Fran," as he lovingly called her from the first meeting when she taught him in a class at an Arizona Art School, has our deepest sympathy and love. She makes her home at 605 Locust Street, Winnetka, Ill.
Seldom has anyone been called to demonstrate such a triumph of spirit over the ills of the flesh. We shall remember him always for his inspiring example.
R. E. K.
1933
Word has just been received of the death of EDWARD POMEROY STAUDT in December of 1966 after a heart attack.
Ed came to Dartmouth from East Aurora (Ill ) High School. He was a member of Theta Chi. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, he took his Master's at Columbia in 1936. Almost all of his business career was spent in statistical work for the government in Washington with the WPA, the Census Bureau and since 1955 with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He lived at 6708 Radford Rd., Washington, D. C.
He is survived by his wife, Sharleen, a daughter and a son. To them all the Class extends its sincere sympathy.
1935
ROBERT MCCLEAN, staff writer for several newspapers and for the past decade closely associated with public relations activities of the White Sands Missile Range, died of cancer in El Paso, Texas, on March 4, 1968.
Bob had served as information officer for the U. S. Army Electronics Research and Development Activity at White Sands from 1955 to mid-summer of 1967. During his final year, he was assigned to the Strategic Communications Command Headquarters in Fort Hauchuca, Ariz.
A talented writer, he had written njany informative magazine articles on the Missile Base. At various times during his career, he was on the editorial staff of such newspapers as the Washington Evening Star, the Washington Herald Post and the New York Daily News.
Bob was a native of Pittsburgh, but lived much of his life in Washington, D. C. He graduated from Western High in Washington in 1930, and entered Dartmouth from Mercersburg Academy. He began his writing career in advertising, and during the pre-war period was a copywriter for Kenyon & Eckhardt in New York.
During World War II, he served as a commissioned officer in the U. S. Army, with the 31st Infantry Regiment of the Alabama Dixie Regiment. The Army's deep involvement in new technologies provided the challenge, which drew his writing talent into military public relations activities.
Bob was buried March 7, with full military honors in Ft. Bliss National Cemetery, El Paso. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Fanita (Lanier) McClean of 10073 Jamaica St., El Paso, his mother, and a sister.
The Class extends its deepest sympathy to the family.
1949
WILLIAM WADE MEEKER was a victim on May 3, 1968 of Texas' worst air disaster when a Braniff Electra turboprop crashed in a pasture near the town of Dawson. Bill was an independent oil operator with offices in Fort Worth and Midland and was returning from a business trip to Houston when the crash occurred.
He was active in community affairs and was a founder and trustee of Fort Worth Country Day School at the time of his death. He matriculated at Dartmouth from Texas Country Day School where he had been a letter man in track, basketball, and football. His major was geology, he belonged to Kappa Sigma fraternity, and he had time to enjoy two of his favorite pastimes by being active in Bait and Bullet club.
The Class extends its deepest sympathies to his survivors including a son, Charles Roeser, eleven; a daughter, Anne Windfohr, four; two brothers, Larry Meeker and Jim Meeker '58; and his mother, Mrs. Julian Meeker.
1959
A plane crash in Australia took the life of FREDERICK ARTHUR FITCH on November 11, 1967. Pursuing the outdoor life and geological interests he involved himself in so ardently at Dartmouth, Fred was working in the field for a mining company when the accident occurred.
Those who knew Fred as an active member of Cabin and Trail probably remember most his skill as a woodsman and his infectious love for hiking and camping. And with it all he had a genuine care for the feelings and concerns of others; he always took the time to listen and respond.
Perhaps our sorrow and that of his family can be softened a little with the realization that a part of him will always be alive on the trails and in the hills of New Hampshire.
From his parents comes the distressing news that CHARLES PUTNAM HERRICK was killed in a highway accident in Utah on May 2, 1968. Chuck was a busy interior designer at the time of his death, having won several awards for his work over the past few years. After serving in Vietnam up through 1963, he studied environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley.
Chuck was an interesting person. His ideas were always stimulating and his humorous, dry wit changed many a gathering from routine to lively. In short he was a classmate, fun to know, who kept us on our toes.
To his family go our sympathy and the assurance that his years at Dartmouth left many good marks that will last forever.
1965
THOMAS GEORGE KOCHINS died in Miami Fla., on April 10.
He attended Miami Jackson High School before coming to Hanover, and while at Dartmouth majored in music. He also attended Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin, Germany. On June 4, 1968 an informal reading of Tom's music was held at the Buck Concert Lounge, Hopkins Center.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs George J. Kochins, of 2292 S.W. 18th St., Miami, Fla.
Earl P. Hamilton
Edward Sanborn French '06
Donald Watt Gardner '27
