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.]

Tabor, Oscar P. Jr. '98, Oct. 29 Cate, HarJand E. '01, Oct. 16 Fitzgerald, A. Harold '02, Oct. 10 Benton, C. King '06, Oct. 13 Chase, Phillips M. '06, Oct. 14 Perkins, Ralph LeR. '07, Oct. 11 Wight, Ralph M. '09, Nov. 3 Miller, Alfred R. '12, Oct. 17 Smith, Alfred L. '12, Oct. 17 Snow, Mark G. '12, Oct. 25 Adams, Wilson I. '14, Nov. 3 McAllaster, Richard V. '14, Oct. 26 Clarke, Robert G. '15, Oct. 21 Crawford, Sidney C. '15, Oct. 25 Craver, Edgar A. '16, Oct. 22 Gaylord, William H. '16, Oct. 20 Osborn, William B. '16, Oct. 14 Lownsbery, William K. '18, Sept. 19 Moyer, Max F. '20, Aug. 22 Thomson, Alexander '21, Sept. 21 Ladd, Richard S. '22, Oct. 3 Gray, Donald H. '24, Oct. 21 Thompson, Lyman A. '24, July 20 Thompson, Reginald E. '26, Oct. 6 Lyons, Leverett S. '27, Aug. 22 Bradford, Howland K. '28, Nov. 6 McCulloch, Walter A. '30, Nov. 11 Gilmore, L. Donald '32, Oct. 12 Charlton, Myles S. '40, Oct. 21 Lilienfield, Edward W. '45, July 1969 Lunt, Richard M. '56, Sept. 26 Cranna, Thomas P. '62, Oct. 17 Porter, John A. '62, Sept. 27 Coggeshall, Allan C. '64, Nov. 4 MacVean, Stephen S. '65, Oct. 29 Nicholas, David L. '66, Oct. 20

1898

OSCAR PERSONS TABOR JR., aged 92, died suddenly October 28, 1969 in Boscawen, N. H., where for the past 20 years he had made his home with a niece, Mrs. Roger C. Sanborn.

Born November 5, 1876 in Woodsville, N. H., Oscar entered Dartmouth from the Orange (Mass.) High School in 1894. A member of Beta Theta Pi, he was on the varsity track team, competing in the high jump and hurdles. In 1895 he won first prize in a freehand draw- ing competition, and in his senior year was editor of the Aegis. After graduating in 1898 he attended the Thayer School of Engineering. He was a member of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers.

His professional career as an Estimator and Designing Engineer began in Connecticut, and in 1903 he became affiliated with Norcross Bros, in Worcester, Mass. He married Emma B. Blanchard that same year in New London, Conn. They were married for 40 years before her death early in 1943. They had no children.

During World War I Oscar served in Washington, D. C., as an Estimator for the Bureau of Industrial Housing in the Department of Labor. He then returned to Worcester, first with Tracy Bros, and then with E. J. Cross Co. In 1933 he was called upon to serve the City of Worcester as construction engineer and there he remained until his retirement in 1946. He moved to Boscawen about 20 years ago. For his 85th birthday his family gave him a bicycle which he rode daily to the postoffice and on errands around town except when snow was on the ground. He was an enthusiastic fisherman during the trout season.

At the time of his death Oscar was serving his 7th term as 1898's Head Agent on the Alumni Fund, having served previously as Secretary and Treasurer. Only a few days before, he made a special trip to Concord to deliver personally his gift to Dartmouth's Third Century Fund. One would have to search far to find a more loyal, devoted Dartmouth man. Winter or spring, Oscar attended regularly the class officers' meetings in Hanover, and at least once each fall he came to watch the football team in action - his last in early October this year.

No one who was privileged to know him would ever forget his erect bearing, the sparkle of his personality, his alertness, and his zest for living - such as would put many a younger man to shame.

P. F. S.

1901

HARLAND EARL CATE, 90, of Juniper Rd., West Dennis, Mass., died at the Milford (Mass.) Hospital on October 15, 1969. Bora in Effingham, N. H., Cate prepared for Dartmouth at Haverhill (Mass.) High School. In 1948 he retired after 36 years with the Draper Corporation where he was at that time Foreign Sales Manager. Since then he had made his home on the Cape. His wife, the former Ethel Stearns passed away in 1960.

He was a member and past master of Liberty Lodge AF & AM in Beverly, Mass., and a member and past priest of the Mt. Lebanon Royal Arch Chapter in Milford, Mass. He belonged to the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Harwich. The past five years he had served his class as Class Agent, and was a member of the Cape Cod Dartmouth Club.

He is survived by two sisters, Rachael and Jeannette Cate of Haverhill, and a brother Stanley of Arlington. Funeral services were held in Milford on October 19.

1906

CHARLES KING BENTON died in his sleep at his home in Carmel, Calif., on October 13. He had previously been in good health.

King, was born in Peoria, Ill., December 25, 1885 and had his first two years of college in Bradley Polytechnic Institute (now Bradley University) in his native city. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1904 as a junior and received his B.S. in 1906.

In 1908 he moved to Hood River, Ore., and for the next 42 years owned and operated a large and prosperous fruit ranch there, specializing first in apples, then branching out into sweet cherries and French pears. He became a successful farmer and at one time operated not only his own ranch but three adjoining orchards. In the early 1920s he was prominently identified with the cooperative farm movement, serving on committees of the Northwest Growers Association, trying to reorganize the fruit industry of the region. In 1951 he turned his ranch over to his two children, retired, and moved to Portland, Ore., devoting his leisure time to marine and landscape painting. In 1956 he moved to Carmel, where he has since resided.

King was a member of the Hood River Rotary Club and the Oregon Horticultural Society, serving both as president; the Apple Growers Association of Hood River; and the Oregon Society of Artists. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Besides his hobbies of painting, tennis, and swimming, he was an accomplished musician and played for some years in the violin section of the Monterey County Symphony. Harold Robinson '10, a close friend and neighbor of Benton, writes: "I shall miss him greatly. He was a very capable and admirable man and will be a great loss to this community. With all his accomplishments and charm he was a very modest man, a son that Dartmouth may well be proud of."

King married first in 1909 Edna Burton, who died in 1937, and second in 1950 Constance Ewing, who survives him at Carmel, with his two children, Julianne (Mrs. James A. C'arr) and C. King Benton Jr., ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren, of Hood River. The sympathy of the Class is extended to all of them.

CONVERSE ALVAH CHELLIS died in Summerville, S. C., September 23. He had suffered a stroke a month before. The funeral was held in Summerville on September 25, and on September 27 in the Gleason Cemetery in Meriden near the Chellis homestead in which Con was born a Masonic burial service was conducted, at which Francis Childs and Lorraine Edgerton represented 1906.

Converse was born in Meriden, N. H., March 22, 1884 and prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. A year after graduation he went to California and was in the employ of Standard and Union Gas Engine Companies in Oakland until 1913. Returning to New England, he spent the next two years farming with his father in Meriden. From 1916-32 he was with the Baush Machine Tool Company in Springfield, Mass. He came back to Meriden in 1933 in semi-retirement, but soon became treasurer of Kimball Union Academy, serving until 1945. Then fully retired but very busy in local civic and social activities he remained in Meriden until 1963, when he removed to Summerville to reside near his son.

A member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Con was later a Mason (Past Master of Cheshire Lodge F. & A.M. of Cornish) and a Rotarian (Past Master of the Lebanon Club). He served ten years as a trustee of the Mascoma Savings Bank; fourteen years as President and Director of the Meriden Electric Light and Power Company and Director of the Meriden Water Company; town moderator 1942-46; member of the Meriden Congregational Church since 1904 and deacon and trustee many years.

Converse married in Suffield, Conn., August 12, 1909 Grace Seymour, who survives him with a daughter Mary, a son Converse Jr. '39, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. To all of them the heartfelt sympathy of 1906 is extended.

Always a genial, friendly, outgoing person, loyal to school and College and to his family and associates, Con will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

1907

RALPH LEROY PERKINS of 265 Lowell St., Lexington, Mass., died October 11, 1969 in Lexington. Ralph was born February 24, 1884 in Walpole, N. H. While in Hanover he became a member of Chi Phi fraternity. He left college at the end of freshman year and entered the brokerage business in New York City. For many years he was associated with the Household Finance Corporation. Ralph's wife Florence passed away on February 15, 1967.

Ralph was a loyal Dartmouth man and the Class has lost a staunch friend. Funeral services were private.

1913

EDMUND ARTHUR FREEMAN, 80, died Oct. 9 at the Randolph (Me.) hospital. He was born March 28, 1889, in Sharon, and after graduating from South Royalton High School, entered Dartmouth. Edmund later taught in the Good Will School in Hinckley, Me., for six years and then attended the Albany Library School. He became a cataloger in the library of the Bureau of Railway Economics of the Association of American Railroads in Washington, D. C., and served in this capacity for 35 years, retiring as Assistant Librarian on Dec. 31, 1958. For several years he contributed several hours a day to cataloging in the library at the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D. C.

He married the former Gladys Mae Godfrey in Worcester, Mass., on January 1, 1941, and after his retirement they returned each summer to South Royalton, Vt., were Edmund loved to hike in the hills of his native state. She survives him at 3024 Porter St., Washington, D. C.

Services were held Oct. 11, the Rev. Benjamin Andrew, a Dartmouth classmate, conducting. Fred Page, Harry French and Robert Conant, all classmates from Hanover, were pallbearers.

1916

WILLIAM BALDWIN OSBORN died at Columbus, Ohio, on October 19, at the age of 75. Born in Cleveland, Bill came to Hanover from Peabody (Mass.) High School. On campus he became a member of Beta Theta Pi, won the freshman tennis championship, and later was on the varsity tennis and gym teams.

In the First World War, he served in the Field Artillery 1917-19, overseas. Between the wars he was associated with the family grocery business in Cleveland; in 1944-45 he was with the War Production Board in Dayton; and thereafter continued as a sales representative of Ohio firms until retirement in 1959.

Bill leaves his widow Nell (Stiles) at 5288 Tamarack Circle East, Columbus; two sisters, two sons, William H. and Lawrence L., eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The deep sympathy of the Class goes out to all of the family.

EDGAR ASA CRAVER - our tall, quiet, friendly Ed - passed away suddenly at Webster, Mass. the night of October 22, aged 75. A native of Binghamton, N. Y., he moved to Dudley in early boyhood and came to Dartmouth from the local high school.

On campus he was a respected member of Phi Kappa Psi. In World War I he served in the Army Air Corps with the rank of first lieutenant. In 1919 he began working in the A. J. Bates Shoe Company established by his grandfather. For many years he was in sales, then became president and later chairman of the board from 1942 to his retirement in March, 1968.

The gracious old Perryville homestead which Ed and Marj renovated and made their home in recent years was straight New England. There they initiated the series of summer class picnics. When Ed was chairman of the executive committee 1961-66, the whole class felt their friendliness, notably at the interim reunion of 1965 at Woodstock, and at our 50th in Hanover. He similarly served Webster and the surrounding community as a senior warden of the Church of the Reconciliation; as a member of the Dudley Advisory Board, chairman of the Webster Memorial Beach Building Committee, and was one of the founders and an active member of the Webster Sailing Association.

Ed Craver and Marjory Parsons were married at Webster on June 12, 1920. She survives him as do four sons: Perry, '44, Nelson, '45, Edgar, and John, '50, and sixteen grandchildren including Perry P. Jr., '69. To the services held at Webster on October 24, Jim and Mary Colton drove over from Sutton with class flowers. To all the family our deepest sympathy is extended.

1917

It is with sadness that we report the passing of our classmate, RALPH EDSON CARPENTER, April 27, 1969. "Carp," as he was affectionately known to us, was born November 3, 1894 in Rutland, Vt. Ralph was a graduate of Rutland High School and during his college years became a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Dragon. Ralph served with the Army Ordance in France during World War I and advanced from the rank of private to sergeant on September 16, 1917. Carp and Hal Weeks were both in the service during that period and were close friends for many years.

A resident of Middletown, N. Y., since 1923, he started his lumber career in Bridal Veil, Ore., in 1919, was a sales representative for A. C. Dutton Company for many years, and was owner and president of the Orange County Lumber Company from 1944 to 1969. Among his civic activities in Middletown, he was chosen for the post of commander of the American Legion, served as president of the Middletown Club and the Excelsior Hook and Ladder Company, and was a member of the local Elks Club and the Webb Horton Memorial Presbyterian Church.

He was married in 1949 to Cora Bishop, who survives him at 13 Lenox Place, Middletown, N. Y. Surviving besides his widow are three daughters, a sister, ten grandchildren, and two nieces. Services were held at the Appleby Funeral Home in Middletown.

1918

Following a cerebral thrombosis on September 3 WILLIAM KENT LOWNSBERY died on September 19 in Lucerne, Switzerland, at the Hotel Wilden Mann, where he had been living since the spring of this year.

Kent was born in Denver, Colo., on February 19, 1894. He came to Dartmouth from Princeton Preparatory School and stayed only through his freshman year. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

In World War I he saw active service in the Navy on mine sweepers in the North Atlantic, Irish Sea, and English Channel. Subsequently he entered the insurance business in Newark, N. J., later moving to Miami, Fla. Upon his retirement in 1953 he began traveling extensively, mostly abroad. His hobby was painting, and in his later years his interest in art made him a familiar figure in museums and galleries in Washington, D. C., New York City, and Paris.

He is survived by his stepdaughter, Mrs. Benjamin R. Richards, of Washington, D. C., and his sister, Mrs. Daniel J. Dalziel, of 1343 Hickory St., Waukegan, Ill.

H. M. P.

1920

JOHN WOLCOTT (Jack) HOLT SR. of West Hartford, died July 9, 1969 at the Hartford Hospital. He was born January 15, 1898 in Hartford, Conn., and attended the Hartford Public High School.

While at Dartmouth he became a member of Delta Tau Delta. After graduating he went with the Hartford-Empire Co. as purchasing agent and in 1929 he entered the Rourke-Eno Paper Co. where he became active in the field of specialty and technical papers for war packasing.

He was a member of Asylum Hill Congregational Church, the Founders of Hartford, the Old Guard of West Hartford, charter member of the Essex Yacht Club and the Sales Executives Club of Hartford. He was also a member of the Fine Paper Advisory Com. to the OPA during World War II, former chairman of the Hudson Pulp and Paper Co. and former chairman of the Merchants Advisory Council of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.

He leaves his widow, Elizabeth (McCurdy); a son, John W. Jr., and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church with burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

The sincere sympathy of the Class goes to the surviving members of Jack's family.

CHARLES (Boots) LE BOUTILLIER of 200 Mockingbird Lane, Englewood, Fla., and formerly of "Havelet," Wayne, Pa., died August 12, 1969 in the Venice, Fla., hospital at the age of 71. He had been in ill health for several years.

He was born December 3, 1897 in Germantown, Pa., grandson of the founder of Le Boutillier Bros., Philadelphia.

He attended St. Luke's School in Wayne before graduating from Abbott Academy. Traveling extensively as a youth, he became a "camera fan" and also showed a great interest in electricity. At Dartmouth he was active in the Camera Club and was an early member of the Dartmouth Outing Club which he enjoyed. Boots decided to continue with his electrical engineering, and after graduating from Dartmouth he went on to get his E.E. at Columbia in 1923. In later years he had several inventions to his credit. He was with the Consolidated Edison Co. of New York City before returning to Pennsylvania.

Surviving are his widow, the former Jean Reynolds: two sons, a daughter, a brother, a sister, and six grandchildren.

A memorial service was held in Florida, August 15 and interment took place in the Le Boutillier family plot at Valley Forge, Pa. The Class extends sympathy to his widow, Jean, and the other surviving members of his family.

PAUL SHELDON GRIFFIN, 208 Moran Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., died on August 3, 1969 in Cottage Hospital of a coronary occlusion. He was born in Keene, N. H., on May 24, 1898, and attended Keene High School. While at Dartmouth he was assistant business manager of Jack O'Lantern and an S.A.E. He graduated from Tuck School in 1921.

Paul was an investment banker, vice president, and one of the founders of First of Michigan Corporation, a leading financial institution which started as a bond company but has expanded to include stocks and is a member of the New York Stock Exchange with many offices throughout the country. He was a'so one of the founders of the Grosse Pointe Congregational Church and he was a member of the Detroit Club at the time of his death.

A service was held in Grosse Pointe with interment in Greenlawn Cemetery in Keene, N. H.

He is survived by his widow Helen M., a son, a stepson, four stepdaughters, and a brother. The Class extends its sincere sympathy to Helen and the other surviving members of his family.

RODERIC GOODWIN HATCH (Rod) died on April 27, 1969 of a coronary. He was born in Hartford, Conn., in May, 1897 and prepared for college at the Lafayette High School.

Rod was inspired to go to Dartmouth by his uncle, the late Dr. George Hatch, 1890, of Milford, N. H. He attended Dartmouth his freshman year only. He then enlisted for Red Cross Service in 1918 and served in France and Germany in 1918 and 1919. Upon returning he started his career as a reporter for the "Old Buffalo Inquirer" and in 1921 accepted a position of advertising manager for Stewart Motor Corp. which he held until the company dissolved in 1939. He then became president of Richardson Boat Co. at Tonawanda, N. Y., then for a short time with Curtis-Wright Co. at Buffalo. He resigned to become a co-founder of Russell Associates, manufacturers representative licensed to sell to the government and Aerospace Program. He retired in 1960 due to the illness of his first wife, Arline, who died on October 18, 1963.

After his retirement he plunged into his hobbies, gardening, flowers, birds, children and dogs, and also became more active in his church school program until June of 1968 when he suffered his first coronary.

Rod was married again in November, 1964 to Edna Day in Buffalo. He was a member of Lafayette Presbyterian Church for 62 years, and was active in the Aero Club of Buffalo, American Legion, Tuscania Post 174, and the Kenmore Rotary Club.

The sympathy of the Class goes to his widow Edna and the other surviving members of his family.

MAX FREDERICK MOYER of Winter Haven, Fla., died August 22, 1969. He was born November 4, 1894 in Halleck, Nev., and attended Mt. Hermon School. He left Dartmouth, went to Yale and joined the Army in 1917.

He was a pioneer in aviation and an internationally known balloonist having joined the Army as a balloon and airship pilot and aerial observer. After World War I he was assigned to Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., in the office of the Army Air Corps Chief of Staff where he carried out the first experiments with Lawrence Sperry on a device for hooking and unhooking airplanes on airships in flight, and conducted early experiments in water ballast recovery for airships. He piloted balloons in many famous races.

Max served in both World War I and II and the Korean War, reaching the rank of colonel. During World War II he was director of the Air Staff Course Command and General Staff School.

Between World Wars he became associated with Goodyear and in 1946 returned to that firm. He retired in 1960 as assistant to the president on special assignments. He was previously manager of the company's Service Sales and Equipment Division. He moved to Winter Haven from Akron, Ohio, upon his retirement.

Surviving are his widow, Gertrude S. of 961 Piedmont Dr., S.E. Winter Haven; a daughter, a son, a sister, a brother Paul '18, seven grandchildren and a great-grandchild. The sincere sympathy of the Class goes to Gertrude and to the other surviving members of his family.

A memorial service was held in St. Paul's Episcopal Church with the Rev. C. Lee Gilbertson officiating. Burial was in Lisle, N. Y.

1922

ALBERT THOMSON LYON died May 15, 1969 at the Herkimer Memorial Hospital, near Mohawk, N. Y. He was president of the Martin Reel Co. in Mohawk where he and his wife Mary lived on Vickerman Hill Road.

Al was 69, a native of Barre, Vt., and he entered college from its Spaulding High School. A, friendly, popular classmate, he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. He was a loyal alumnus throughout life.

Following graduation he began his business career as a salesman with Everett and Barron Co., Bloomfield, N. J. In 1935 he became manager of a retail store in Butler, Pa. Three years later he started an association of many years with Montgomery Ward Co. During these years he was district supervisor in McKeesport, Pa., and assistant regional manager in New York. In the late forties he moved to Mohawk and subsequently became general manager, secretary and treasurer, and, more recently, president of the Martin Reel Co.

Al was a member of the Grace Episcopal Church and the American Legion. Besides his wife he leaves a son Charles M. '52, Tuck '53, and a daughter Sara. The Class joins the family in deep sorrow.

BAILEY DAWSON BERRY died June 19, 1969 at the Town and Country Convalescent Home, Macon, Ga. He was 70 and a native of Cynthiana, Ky. From Lexington (Ky.) High School he entered the University of Kentucky and came to Dartmouth as a sophomore. A member of Phi Delta Theta he was a well-known classmate.

After college he became manager of the Ohio Exchange Co., Cincinnati. Some years later he was owner of the Ship Grill, New York. About 1940 he moved to San Francisco where he was associated with the Matson Lurthe Army Transport Service. Post-war, he was with the Associated Oil Co., San Francisco. Most unfortunately, for many years he had been ill and was a long-term patient at the Veterans' Hospital, Dublin, Ga.

He did not marry and his only survivor is his sister, Mrs. Kitty B. Drake, 120 Hillcrest Drive, Smyrna, Ga. She writes that nothing meant more to Dawson than his college, even after all these years.

HAROLD KEITH WELLMAN, 69, died September 3, 1969 at his home, 451 Brown Lane, Ross Township, Pa. He was a retired personnel manager of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh.

Hal was a native of Windsor, Vt., and entered Dartmouth from its high school. He had many friends in college and he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. He retained his interest through the years.

Like quite a few other classmates, soon after graduation he went to work for the Bell System and began in the Traffic Department at Philadelphia. Four years later he went to Pittsburgh where he continued his career for 36 years. He was successively traffic engineer, department cost supervisor, district traffic superintendent, and division traffic supervisor. His latter years, prior to retirement in 1962, were in personnel management.

He was a member of the Highland Country Club and a life member of the Telephone Pioneers of America. His wife Kathleen (McCarthy), whom he married in 1923 at Windsor, passed away in 1960. His survivors are his son Robert K., 755 Washington Drive, Pittsburgh, a daughter, Mrs. Mary Jean Miklas, and six grandchildren. The Class offers them its sincere sympathy.

1924

Many of us will remember JAMES HAMILTON FISH in his freshman year; I played the drums in the band beside him. He sat in the repeaters' class in Freshman Math (with Red Holbrook and others). He was separated, ironically as his later life showed, in midterm of 1923. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Phi. Some- where the idea has been stated that Ham was "not interested" in Dartmouth, but our records and my knowledge indicate the opposite.

Jim, or Ham, was born July 8, 1902 in Keene, N. H., and grew up there - with Ted Nilsen '24, graduating from the Keene High School. The record after 1923 and until 1940 shows him working in his father's business (screen manufacturer) in Keene, and married in 1927 to Madeleine Howard, to which marriage two children were born: Janet Ann 1928, and James H. Jr. in 1930. In 1938, Jim became president of the family business.

The major turn in Jim's life came with World War II, when he enlisted in the National Guard and served from 1940-1942 with rank of captain. The War Record spells out a long and distinguished service through 1953 when he was with the 3rd Army, Artillery Officer, Chief of the Training Branch and Deputy G-3. He married a second time in 1947, to Vashti Rutledge, and two more children were born to this marriage: Drusilla Elizabeth (Premmie) in 1947 and Hamilton Rutledge, 1950. I have no record of grandchildren.

Jim was discharged as lieutenant colonel in 1943, after serving in Korea, but then came his decade of service, including serving as an instructor in the ROTC at Michigan State, with the Regular Army in 1946, after two years of study. He retired in 1958, after being head of the Mathematics Department which is the irony mentioned above, in a private school in Atlanta, and then a tutor and substitute teacher of the modern Math in a Florida High School (with a Florida certificate). Florida was their latest home, on doctor's orders: New Smyrna Beach. From July 1966, Jim had traveled with "a very sick wife." Jim died, cause not given us, on June 9, 1969.

We have one more classmate who confirms the statistic of one-in-four being victims of cancer in some form. DONALD HEREWARD GRAY died at the Stamford (Conn.) Hospital on October 21.

Few of us have such a long history of working for one employer over the years. After graduation, Don was living in New Rochelle and working for the family business of H. W. Gray, Inc. He was secretary-treasurer in 1935 and president since 1951. This is an old-established music publishing firm, specializing in church and school music. He had been living in Darien for many years, — at least as far back as 1935.

Going back, Don came from the New Rochelle High School and was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He was known as "Jim" back in our college days. He married Sally Miles in Darien, Conn., in 1933. She survives as do their children: Donald Jr. '56 (my son's classmate), H. Willard '59, Sally Miles, and Philip '70. He is also survived by a brother, a sister, and five grandchildren.

In the music publishing business, Don held many honors, starting as editor of The New Music Review, official publication of the American Guild of Organists; member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and a Director from 1942-1957.

1925

ALVA SHATTUCK WILSON died suddenly while attending a board of deacons meeting at the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, Ga., on September 8, 1969. He had lived at 2911 Pharr Court, S., in that city.

Al was born in Brighton, Mass., July 26, 1903. While he did not remain at Hanover for his senior year, he was a most loyal son of Dartmouth, having never failed to contribute to the Alumni Fund a single year and having served as president and secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Georgia and as assistant class agent for 19 years.

Al, a victim of polio, was retired, having served from a wheelchair for 40 years as a manufacturing executive and more recently had busied himself with church finances and accounting consultation. He was president of the Georgia Chapter of American Society for Metals, a member of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club and Allatooma Yacht Club, of which he was treasurer for two years.

Back in 1935, while he was chief auditor of the Warm Springs Foundation at Warm Springs, Ga., he married Maude C. Hudson of Atlanta, who survives him, together with two sons, Arthur Taylor and Alva S. Jr., to all of whom the Class extends its deep sympathy.

1927

LEVERETT SWAN LYONS died August 22, 1969 at Smithtown, Long Island, N. Y. His home was on Judges Lane. Lev entered Dartmouth from Brooklyn Polytechnic Day School. At college he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. In 1927 he married Garetta P. Smith, a Wellesley graduate.

Lev entered the real estate business in 1927 and became a specialist in appraising. In 1955 he became an appraiser with the Army Corps of Engineers and later served in the same capacity for the Federal Housing Administration, the last few years with the Federal Government in the New York area. More recently he acted as review appraiser with the Department of Interior and the Acquisition Program on Fire Island, N. Y., for the National Park Service. He retired in 1968 and was able to devote more of his time to his favorite hobby - boating. He had served as an elder of the Smithtown Presbyterian Church for more than 20 years.

He is survived by his widow and a daughter, Mrs. Ann R. Litz of Greenwich, Conn.

1928

GEORGE CLARKE SLAWSON, a leading authority on U.S. stamps and coins, died July 13 in a hospital in the town of Craftsbury Common, Vt., where he resided.

George was a native of Greenwich, Conn., and prepared for college at the Salisbury School. At Dartmouth he was on the staff of the "Jack O'Lantern," and a member of the freshman and varsity track teams, and a member of Chi Phi.

For 16 years after graduation he was with the real estate firm of Slawson & Hobbs in New York, then went with General Foods Corp. as a buyer. In 1950 he moved to Craftsbury Common, near the Canadian border, where he taught in the Sterling School.

His hobbies were philately, bridge, and travel. He was the author of three books on U. S. stamps, the latest having been recently published, "Vermont Postal History." His extensive stamp collection is being sold at a twoday auction in New York City in October. He was a Grand District Deputy of the Vermont Masonic Lodge.

He is survived by his widow, Isobel, and a sister.

1932

JULIAN HOBSON died after a brief illness in the Overlook Hospital at Summit, N. J., on September 20. Julian came to Dartmouth from New Brunswick, N. J., where he was born on November 19, 1910, and where he attended Rutgers Preparatory School. An English major, after graduation he attended the Harvard Business School, receiving his M.B.A. degree in 1934.

He worked first for the Bankers Trust Company, then the Administrative and Research Corporation. In 1938 he joined the investment banking and stock brokerage firm of Hornblower and Weeks. Except for military service he remained with that firm for 30 years. He was its advertising manager when he left last year to become an independent advertising consultant.

In World War II Julian was in the U. S. Army from 1943 to 1946, serving as a captain in the Eighth Armored Division in the Central European theater. He married A. Elizabeth Crossman in 1940. The Class extends its deep sympathy to his widow and two daughters, E. Anne Hobson and Martha C. Hobson.

1935

ROBERT ELLSWORTH HUBBARD passed away December 17, 1968 in Buffalo, N. Y., of leukemia after an illness of about six months. He was 56 and lived at 125 Overbrook Rd., Tonawanda. Bob was born in Albany, and prepared for Dartmouth at Glens Falls Academy. Although he left college after his sophomore year, he always maintained a keen interest in the college and its activities.

He spent his business life in the insurance business, and was Western New York divisional auditor for Reliance Insurance Company. For the past 15 years, he had lived in Buffalo, where he was active in the Western New York Dartmouth Club and the Westminster Presbyterian Men's Club.

Bob is survived by his widow, the former Olive Brower Tedford, whom he married on June 28, 1941, and by a sister, Mrs. Jeannette H. Thurlow.

1939

HARRY LEIGH MACCREADY JR. died unexpectedly at his home, 2158 Water St., Dighton, Mass. on September 1, 1969. Much of Harry's childhood was spent in Japan, where his father was a representative for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. He later joined his father in business in Taunton, Mass., where he eventually became the president of the Bristol Manufacturing Company.

During World War II, Harry served with Fleet Air Wing 7 in the North Atlantic area, being based in Argentia, Newfoundland for the bulk of the war.

Harry entered Dartmouth from Governor Dummer Academy, He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.

Harry leaves a son, Robert C., who is presently a senior at M.I.T.; a daughter, Ann R., and a sister.

1940

MYLES STUART CHARLTON died suddenly on Oct. 12 in Haverford, Pa. He was a resident of nearby Broomall and was 52.

"Spook" came to Dartmouth from Lansdowne (Pa.) High School and during our freshman year was the drummer in the Commons Orchestra. Subsequently he played in the college band, was the leader of the Green Collegians Orchestra and a member of the Handel Society.

After 5 years with the Army Air Force and Military Government in Europe he returned to ultimately become the owner of the B. M. Young Co., a wholesale fruit firm. Spook is survived by his widow Florence; a son, Myles Jr.; and a brother Ralph '31.

1943

ROY HARLOW CUTTING passed away suddenly from a heart attack on September 6, 1969, at the age of 48, while participating in a sailing regatta in Darien, Conn. Buzz, as he was known in college, came to Dartmouth from Peterborough Collegiate Institute in Peterborough, Ontario. While at Dartmouth, he earned his numerals in golf, was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity and majored in Economics. After leaving college, he served in the Medical Corps from 1943 to 1946.

Harlow, as he was known to his many friends and neighbors in Amherst, Mass., married Olga Westby of Peterborough, Ontario, on November 20, 1943. They moved to Amherst in 1947 and have six boys, R. Westby, Eric H., Arthur B., Stephen 0., Peter D., and Robert B., ranging in age from 24 down to 8. When he came to Amherst, Harlow was associated with the Roy R. Blair Insurance Company and at the time of his untimely passing was president of Blair, Cutting and Smith Insurance Company.

Harlow's deep and sincere desire and ability to work with young people as well as with his contemporaries is apparent from the following report received by the class: "At the service were many young people who had been excused from school to attend - mostly friends of the six Cutting boys - all of whom had come under the direct personal interest and friendship which Harlow gave. I couldn't begin to tell you how many young people to whom he has given skiing instruction."

His interest in boys and civic affairs is also demonstrated by the fact that he was a past president of the Amherst Boys Club, past president of the Amherst Rotary Club and an incorporator of the Amherst Savings Bank. He was also a past director of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers Association of Massachusetts.

Harlow's widow resides at 103 Sunset Avenue in Amherst, Mass. His mother, Mrs. Bertha Cutting, and a sister also survive. He will be sorely missed by his family, his classmates and the townfolk of Amherst.

1950

JAMES HENRY MARONEY of 40 Lake Street, Winchester, Mass., died suddenly on September 14, 1969.

Jim was born in Medford, Mass., on July 27, 1927. He attended Winchester schools and was graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy. He served in the United States Navy from July 1945 to July 1946.

At Dartmouth Jim became a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, and majored in mathematics. His business career involved the paint manufacturing business.

He was married to Eleanor Jean Henry in Grand Rapids, Mich., in April 1953. The sincere sympathies of the Class are extended to her, their four children, Michael A., James H. Jr., Kathleen A., and Lisa C.; his mother, two sisters and two brothers.

1959

RICHARD SPENCER PETERSON died in Santa Cruz, Calif., on September 29, 1969. Class records on Dick are incomplete, however we know he came to Dartmouth from Hamilton High School, Hamilton, Mont., and during his undergraduate days was active in the Outing Club and the Band. After graduation, Dick earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University, did postdoctoral work at UCLA and spent some time at Oxford University as a Natural Science Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow. He was coauthor of two books: "The Natural History and Behavior of California Sea Lions," and "Behavior and Physiology of Pinnipeds." Dick was also active as an Assistant Class Agent.

At the time of his death he was an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is survived by his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Peterson, and his brother Charles '61, to whom the Class extends its sincerest sympathy.

1966

It is with deep regret that we report the passing of DAVID LAMPREY NICHOLAS, the second member of our class claimed by the War in Vietnam.

Dave came to Hanover from Mt. Lebanon (Pa.) High School, and was a member of Kappa Sigma and the varsity swimming team.

He was an action oriented outdoorsman, with a carefree spirit and a warm affection for people. It was the combination of these personality factors which led Dave to the Navy Seals. As a lieutenant j.g. Dave was on a training mission on October 19 or 20 with another U.S. officer and two South Vietnamese trainees. Something happened on the training mission and one man, Dave, was killed.

He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richmond Nicholas Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Oscar Persons Tabor Jr. '98