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.]
Sylvester, Charles B. '05, Apr. 4 Hansbury, John E. '09, Mar. 1 Holmes, Talley R. '10, Mar. 10 Kinne, Arthur L. '12, Mar. 26 Grout, Joe C. '13, May 3, 1967 Higgins, Leo A. '14, Nov. 30, 1968 Aronowitz, Leon '15, Mar. 26 Emerson, Sumner B. '17, Apr. 3 Sewall, William '17, Mar. 24 Duke, Florimond '18, Apr. 5 Kurtz, Wilbur F. '18, Nov. 7, 1968 Sisk, Richard T. '18, Mar. 24 Anderson, William R. Jr. '20, Dec. 18, 1968 Shipton, W. Harvey '22, Mar. 3 Ford, Burton L. '23, Mar. 23 Sawyer, Frank E. '23, Mar. 6 Smart, Preston B. '24, Mar. 26 Murray, James A. '27, Mar. 8 Lane, Wendell G. '28, Mar. 14 Gray, Douglas M. '29, Apr. 9 Mackay, Charles E. '29, Sept. 1968 Mullan, Joseph J. Jr. '31, Mar. 28 Ayres, Wallis H. '33, in 1964 Chesnulevich, James W. '33, Apr. 5 Hixson, Henry H. Jr. '33, June 22, 1968 Sampson, William S. '34, Feb. 17 Hollis, James E. '35, Feb. 13 Kettle, Franklyn R. H. '38, Apr. 13, 1941 Weller, Charles Jr. '38, Feb. 27, 1945 Riley, Gerard C. '43, Mar. 12 Tuffly, Louis E. '43, Apr. 2 King, Richard M. '46, Dec. 28, 1968 Stein, Herman W. Jr. '49, Mar. 14 Foote, Don C. '53, Mar. 1 Kernan, Lytton W. 3rd '58, Mar. 19 Schuler, Paul C. '65, Feb. 21 Eisenhower, Dwight D. '53hon, Mar. 28
1906
LEIGH SHEPHERD MARTIN died in Portland, Ore., on January 20. He had suffered a coronary attack on August 31 of last year and had been in a hospital and later in a nursing home since that time. The end came following a second coronary.
Leigh was born in Rockford, Ill., January 7, 1884. He prepared for Dartmouth at Rockford High School, and in college was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and played on the tennis team. Pleasant, gentlemanly, good humored, he quickly made and long preserved firm friendships among his classmates. He was always a loyal supporter of both the College and the class.
After graduation he settled in Portland and for nearly fifty years was engaged in the fruit commission business, shipping and receiving fruits and vegetables in carlots. He was manager and owner of Martin Distributing Company from 1907 to 1952, when he retired. He was a member of the Arlington Club, Waverley Country Club, and Multinomah Athletic Club, all of Portland.
Leigh was married to Edith Ash, in September 1908. She survives him, with a daughter Elizabeth (Mrs. E. D. French) of Dallas, Texas, two grandsons, and two great-grandsons. The sympathy of the class is extended to all of them.
1910
MAURICE CARY BLAKE died in Brookline, Mass., on February 20, 1969. Funeral services were held in the Harvard Church in that town,
Maurice was born November 1, 1888 in Ingram, Pa., and entered college from Brookline High School. While in Hanover he became a member of Chi Phi fraternity, C and G, and Palaeopitus. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and active in the Dartmouth Christian Association, having been elected vice president in his senior year. He was also a Rhodes scholar.
In WWI he was a first lieut. in the Army, and during that time he served as an instructor at Robert College, Army Occupation, Constantinople.
He was a member of the Brookline Country Club, the Philatelic Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, a trustee of the Dorchester Historical Society, and chairman of the board of the Prudential Committee of Harvard Church. His interest in stamps led him to write "Postal Markings of Boston, Mass., to 1890" and other similar articles.
Survivors include three nephews, Francis Gillman Blake, William Dewey Blake '40, and John Ballard Blake.
TALLEY ROBERT HOLMES died in Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D. C., March 10, 1969.
He was born December 9, 1888 in Washington, D. C., and prepared for college at M Street High School. He served as an interpreter and intelligence officer in World War I. He resturned to Washington where he taught in the District school system and studied law at Howard University, receiving a degree of LL.B. in 1924. Among his business interests was the ownership of the Whitelaw Hotel at 13th and T Streets, NW. He began investing in it in 1933 and eventually owned it outright. At the time, the Whitelaw was the largest hotel available to Negroes in Washington. He also served on the board of directors of the Industrial Bank of Washington.
One of his lifelong interests was tennis. He was a founder of the American Tennis Association an organization that was set up because the National Tennis Association at that time excluded Negroes and members of other minority groups. He was national champion of the ATA in 1917, 1918, 1921 and 1924. He won the doubles championship eight times.
Talley married Ida Theresa McDougald November 17, 1917 in Philadelphia, Pa. She, two sons and three grandchildren are the survivors.
1914
ERNEST ROY KITTREDGE passed away on 10 July 1969, leaving his widow, Zola, at their home, 74 Bates Street, Dedham, Mass.
Kitt served in the Army during WWI and was associated with Lybrand, Ross Bros, and Montgomery from 1919 to 1927. In 1927 .he became treasurer and director of Capital Managers, Inc., and in 1929 executive vice president, treasurer, and director of General Capital Corporation. Our sympathy is extended to Mrs. Kittredge.
A veteran Far Eastern bank official, WALTERKENNETH LECOUNT passed away on May 18, 1968 in Bronxville, N. Y., where he resided at 3 Brooklands.
He began his banking career with the International Banking Corp. of the National City Bank of New York as a foreign service trainee, later becoming an officer of that corporation. In 1946 he joined the civilian service attached to the occupation forces in Tokyo, as Chief of the Finance Division of the Economic and Scientific Service of SCAP; and in 1950 he opened a branch of the Bank of America Bangkok.
We send our sympathy to his widow, Margaret, and son Walter Jr.
FRANZ RAPHAEL MARCEAU died on May 20, 1968 in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he and his bride of four weeks lived at 450 32nd Ave., North Apartment, 207 West. Mrs. Marceau now resides at 1740 Polk St., Hollywood, Fla. Franz is also survived by a son, Paul.
Prior to his retirement, he was associated with Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward where he purchased merchandise for distribution to their stores.
HARVEY HODGES SMITH, 75, of Bay Village, Ohio, passed away on July 6.
He prepared for Dartmouth at Arms Academy and earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry. His career included 10 years with the Glidden Paint Co. and the Franklin Paint Co. He founded the Chemical Industries, Inc., which he operated as president and treasurer until his death.
His wife passed away in 1964. Survivors include his son, a sister, two brothers, and several grandchildren.
1915
ROBERT GORDON GUEST, retired proprietor of the village grocery store in Walpole, N. H., died on February 26 in Newport, R. I. He and Pauline had made their home at 383 Mail Coach Rd., Portsmouth, since 1963.
Bob was born December 18, 1892 in Melrose, Mass., attended Melrose High School and graduated in 1915 with a B.S. degree from Dartmouth where he was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
He was married October 6, 1917 at Brookline, Mass. to Pauline Lyman. Besides his widow he is survived by three children, Robert G. Jr., Lyman H., and Elaine, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
During World War I, he saw service at Plattsburg Camp and as a first lieutenant with the 76th Division overseas from July 1918 to February 1919.
Services were held March 1 in the Hambly Funeral Home in Newport, R. I.
1916
EUGENE FORREST MCQUESTEN, 76, died suddenly at his Nashua, N. H., home on March 9. Born in Nashua, Gene had lived there all his life. He was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1912 before attending Dartmouth and then the Tuck School. On campus he became a member of Chi Phi and of Dragon.
After two years of World War I service in ordnance, Gene joined the Nashua Manufacturing Company and for many years before retirement was an executive of that and of the Nashua Textile Co., Inc. For twelve years he was a member and chairman of the Nashua Police Commission. He was also a long-time member and past president of the Nashua Country Club, an active member of the local Legion Post and Veterans of World War I, high Masonic orders, and the Unitarian-Universalist Church. As any friend of Gene's would know, he served his community well.
Gene and Marjorie Hunt, also of Nashua, were married on June 21, 1924. She survives him at 15 Berkeley St., Nashua, as do a son Eugene F., a daughter, eight grandchildren, and a sister. To them all the deep sympathy of '16 is extended.
1917
WILLIAM SEWALL, a popular undergraduate and a respected alumnus, was overwhelmed by several infirmities, including a malignancy, and succumbed in his 75th year at the Akron (Ohio) City Hospital, near his Hudson home, on March 24, 1969. A March 31 memorial service at the Hudson Congregational Church will be followed with another at Norwich, Vt., in early summer when his ashes will be buried in the family plot.
A native of Kansas City, Mo., Bill prepared for college at the Worcester (Mass.) South High School. Son of a Dartmouth father, John Ladd Sewall '77, he accepted the tradition enthusiastically and later entrusted its heritage to his son, another John Ladd '42. In extracurricular activities Bill concentrated most of his peripheral time upon The Dartmouth and became its managing editor. He was an associate editor of the 1917 Aegis and a member of Kappa Sigma and Casque and Gauntlet.
With characteristic public spirit, Bill volunteered for World War X service in May 1917 and received a Plattsburg infantry commission in August. After distinguished A.E.F. combat duty in France and incapacitation by enemy gas, he was discharged in January 1919. Before this latter event, however, he had wed, on October 11, 1918, Sarah Elizabeth Trask of Augusta, Me. Through more than fifty years of constant and devoted companionship, "Sally" has always been an inspirational wife and dedicated mother.
Directly upon his release from the Army, Bill commenced an auspicious career in the rubber industry. Following introductory service with the Converse Rubber Co. in Maiden, Mass., he moved in 1926 to the Hood Rubber Co. in neighboring Watertown. When that organization was merged into the B. F. Goodrich Co. in 1929, Bill was transferred to headquarters in Akron and established a residence in Hudson. He applied his unique creative talents to sales promotional work and subsequently became manager of the company's department of special accounts. Upon his retirement from Goodrich in 1960, Bill used his fluent journalistic prose style in the inditement of a monthly commentary for the trade journal, Modern TireDealer. Anticipating physical inability to continue this avocational assignment, he had actually and ironically "signed off" in his final stint which appears in the March 1969 issue.
Despite family and business priorities in the immediate pos*-World War I years, Bill, with essential assistance from Sally, miraculously accomplished crucial adjustments for the Class of 1917 as its first graduate secretary. With the aid of his ingenious creation, The 1917 Sentry, he performed the herculean task of amalgamating Dartmouth's War Class which had been badly disrupted by the conflict. In 1922 he was elected to be the second graduate president of the Class. Since the termination of that fiveyear term, he had responded avidly and regularly to every call for service to 1917 and to Dartmouth College.
Sally in Hudson, son John and his family in Newport News, Va„ daughter Cynthia Baker and her family in Cincinnati, together with an older sister Mary Whitbeck in Northampton, Mass., mourn their irreparable loss. And the enduring memory of sincere friendship becomes his bequest to the Class as he leaves a mammoth void in the diminishing and sorrowful ranks of fellow Seventeeners.
U.S.
1918
Our able, vigorous, and popular classmate THOMAS JOSEPH O'CONNELL died instantly on February 6, 1969 of a coronary heart attack in his Worcester home. He had not been ill. That his swift and quiet going spared him pain and anguished parting is cause for profound thankfulness shared by all who sorrow to lose him, and may in some measure mitigate the grief of his bereaved family.
He was the first of seven O'Connells to be graduated from the College: besides Tom there were his three brothers, Philip C. 25, Paul R. '27, John D. '36; two of his three sons, Thomas E. '50 (Barrett Cup winner, then assistant to President Dickey, now himself president of Berkshire Community College), Jeffrey T. '51, now a professor of law at the University of Illinois; and his nephew Paul R. Jr. '64. Tom's third son, Brian, a Tufts graduate, is now executive director of the National Mental Health Fund.
Well warranted as was Tom's pride in his boys and their three lovely sisters — with a wink he'd declare "They have a smart mother," and lie was right—yet his own career of worthy accomplishment bespoke his character and the quality of his contribution to his children's success. In college he was a member of Sigma Nu. A veteran of both World Wars, he came out of the second a lieutenant colonel. As a real estate broker he was formerly associated with his father as a developer of Westwood Hills and others of Worcester's most attractive suburbs. A past president of the Worcester Players Club, he directed some of its productions, and he was instrumental in forwarding the Club's successful effort to gain the permanent quarters it now occupies.
Tom is survived by his widow, Mary E. (Carroll) O'Connell, their three sons and three daughters, by his three brothers and one sister; seventeen grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. .
Memories of Tom's geniality and wit and warmhearted neighborly kindness his classmates gratefully cherish.
PHILIP FRANCIS BOYNTON passed away on 13 February in Salem, Mass. Since 1941 he had lived at 385 Puritan Road, Swampscott.
A member of Phi Gamma Delta, Phil was in the sheepskin tanning business and since 1939 owned his own company. Before the death of his wife, Marjorie, in 1966 they were often found in Florida in the winter months.
Survivors include his daughter Barbara (Mrs. Richard J. Brown) of 11 Mohawk Rd., Marblehead, Mass., a son John, and five grandchildren.
1919
FRED LESLIE LAIRD passed away on February 18 at his home in Montpelier, Vt. Fred was born in Montpelier and came to Hanover in 1915 from Phillips Exeter and Holderness School. Most of his business life was spent in insurance where he was a special agent for the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. He was also an expert bridge player, a member of the Apollo Bridge Club, and a well known football and baseball official in Vermont. In Hanover he played both football and basketball.
Surviving are his widow Blanche; two sons, Lt. Colonel Fred L. III '50 with the Air Force in Vietnam, and Norman M. '48 of Silver Spring, Md.; two brothers; and grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.
To the family 1919 extends its most sincere sympathy in their great loss. Fred always maintained his interest in the Class and College and will be greatly missed by all of us who knew him so well.
1920
CLIFFORD ELWIN AULIS passed away on 21 September 1968. The past few years he had made his home at 80 Dockray St., Wakefield,
He became a member of Sigma Chi while at Dartmouth, the place where he had grown up. His father was a steward in the Commons. When he left college he became an apprentice, designer, superintendent, and manager in several woolen plants. In 1936 he purchased the plant of the Wakefield Woolen Co. and served as its president and treasurer until his retirement in 1947.
He is survived by his widow and a daughter, to whom the class sends its sympathy.
DR. SAMUEL SOMMERVILLE STRATTON, president emeritus of Middlebury College, died of a heart attack on March 1, 1969 aboard a Seaboard Coast Line train on his way home from Virginia where he had been having treatment for emphysema.
He was born February 23, 1898 in Lynn, Mass., son of Samuel and Emma (Bluston) Stratton and prepared for college at the Newburyport High School. While at Dartmouth he was' on the Dartmouth Board, Varsity Debating Team, a member of Delta Sigma Rho, and was graduated Phi Beta Kappa after having served as an ensign in the Navy Flying Corps. He took his master's and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University in 1926 and 1930. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Vermont, St. Michael's College, Bowling Green University, Kentucky, Middlebury, and Dartmouth.
Sam gained prominence as an economic research consultant and three times was called into government service. He went to Middlebury as president in 1943 from Harvard where he was associate professor of business economics in the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 1927, Dr. Stratton was engaged in the steel industry. During the summer of 1928, while a Harvard Sheldon fellow, he made a study of the United States alloy steel industry.
He worked for the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Pittsburgh and was economic research consultant on steel price problems for the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City. Later affiliated with Harvard's Bureau of International Research he studied the international cartel in steel in London, Brussels, and Geneva. He served in the office of Production Management and on the War Production Board in Washington for two years during World War II. He was a member of the American Statistical Association. Committee to Study the Cost of Living Index.
Sam took leave of absence from Middlebury in 1952 and 1953 to serve the government as director of the Technical Cooperation Administration for Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
During his twenty-year administration at Middlebury, enrollment nearly doubled, endowment tripled, and faculty and physical plant were greatly expanded. Following his retirement from Middlebury in 1963 he became vice president for education at Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York City, and consulting director of the New York Institute of Finance.
He was married in March 1925 to Marjorie Austin who died in January 1964. He later married Mrs. Janet McLeod who survives him. They lived in Rutland, Vt., and New York City. Also surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Nancy Hall, of Wayne, Pa., and three grandchildren. Funeral services were held at Mead Chapel on the Middlebury Campus.
1922
EDWARD HOLLISTER GILLETTE, as reported in the New York Times, died March 3. Age 68, he was a native of Sheridan, Wyo., and came to Dartmouth from its high school. As one of the relatively few Mountain States boys then in Hanover, he was well known and highly regarded on the campus. From Hanover he apparently returned to Sheridan, but for the past thirty years or more he had lived in New York City and had been engaged in electrical manufacturing.
His residence for twenty years had been 120 East End Avenue. His widow is Edith Page St. Clair Gillette. He was the father of Linda Gillette Cornet and the grandfather of Edward Gillette and Olivia Page Cornet. The memorial service was held in the Chapel of The Beloved Disciple at the Church of Heavenly Rest, New York. Memorial contributions were directed to the Heart Fund.
DANIEL WHITE KINCABD JR. died April 27, 1968. He had lived at 254 Martine Avenue, White Plains, N. Y.
Dan was born September 10, 1900 in White Plains and came to Dartmouth from its high school where he played baseball and football. He is well remembered by all classmates. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, a loyal alumnus, and a classmate who frequently returned to reunions.
His business career was almost entirely in the Wall Street area. He began by working for the Union Dime Savings Bank of New York. He then went into investments and at various times he represented George H. Burr & Co, White Weld & Co., Eastman Dillon Co., and others. In later years he was an institutions representative for one or more highly regaroe firms. In recent years he had retired from business.
According to alumni records, Dan left two daughters, Anita and Priscilla, and his brother Joseph. Belated though it is, the sympathy the Class sincerely goes to them.
DR. WALDO HARVEY SHIPTON, retired physician and surgeon, died March 3 at his home in Bonita Springs, Fla. A press report said & bably died from smoke inhalation, the result caused by a faulty electric blanket. at lived alone and had retired from medical practice some years ago after a stroke left his right arm and leg paralyzed. He was 69.
Wally came to Dartmouth from Pittsfield (Mass.) High School. A dedicated pre-med student he was a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa and Kappa Sigma. He was a roommate of rharlie Earle and Larry Healy. After graduation he attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received his M.D. For many years he was an outstanding doctor and surgeon in Detroit, while he and his family lived in Grosse Pointe Farms. In the mid-fifties he moved to Naples, Fla.
He is survived by three daughters, Sally, a student at the University of Florida; Mrs. Dolores Jordan, Palo Alto, Calif.; and Mrs. Barbara Morris, Palatine, Ill. The sympathy of the Class goes to his family.
1923
Word comes to us from William N. Ford '52 of the death on March 23, 1969 of his father BURTON LINCOLN FORD at Sioux City, lowa, following a short illness.
Burt came to Hanover from Hartford (Conn.) High School and Shattuck Military Academy and left college at the end of two years to take over the management of the family lumber business in Sioux City, following the death of his father. He continued to run the company until it was liquidated in 1968.
A past president of the Rotary Club, the Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the Lewis and Clark Historical Association, Burt was active in many community projects including the United Fund drive which he directed in 1955. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
Burt's survivors include his widow, the former Margaret Jordan, a Smith girl whom he married in 1929; two fine sons, William of Sioux City, whose graduation he proudly attended in 1952, and Alvin N. of Des Moines; and six grandchildren.
FRANK EARL SAWYER passed away in a Florida Hospital on March 6, 1969. Death resulted from a heart attack.
Born in Greenville, N. H., Frank came to Dartmouth from Cushing Academy. He was a member of Epsilon Kappa Phi. Starting his business career with Remington Rand he joined Bendix International in 1940. From this company he retired in September 1968 as Office Operations Manager at their New York City headquarters.
Following his retirement Frank gave up his New York apartment and came to live with his sister, Marion, in the family homestead at Greenville. He never .married. His survivors include his sister and a brother, Charles, both of Greenville.
PHILIP THEODORE WAGNER died February 9, 1969, in Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, N. J. Phil came to Dartmouth from Richmond Hill High School, New York. Immediately after graduation he became an accountant in the New York office of Western Electric and spent his entire business career with this organization, retiring in November 1965 as comptroller.
Phil led a busy and productive life and was particularly active in the work of the Community Reformed Church where he served on the Consistory for many years. He and Gertrude travelled extensively in this country and made three trips to Europe. He especially loved his frequent trips to Hanover.
Survivors are his widow, the former Gertrude A. Weber, two daughters, Mrs. Judith Van Cleve of Sumter, S. C., and Mrs. Alice A. Lindstrom of New York City, and six grandchildren.
1925
Delayed word has been received of the death of RICHARD EARNEST HENDRIAN, March 27, 1968, at Colorado State Hospital, Pueblo, Colo., where he had been a patient since 1941.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, March 15, 1902, Dutch went to Northwestern High School in Detroit. He was a member of DKE and Green Key and played on the football squad his last three years at Hanover.
There are no known survivors.
LEONARD PRESTON LARRABEE died at his home in New Rochelle, N. Y., March 6, 1969 after a lengthy illness. Born in New York City August 18, 1902, Larry attended the DeWitt Clinton High School. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He spent his entire working career with American Bank Note Co. until his retirement several years ago because of ill health.
Surviving are his widow, the former Simone Delmarre; a daughter, Jeanne Pierce; a son, Leonard P. Jr. '52; and two sisters, to whom the deep sympathy of the class is extended.
DR. ROBERT ALVORD READING died February 28, 1969, of an apparent heart attack in his home, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, January 21, 1903, Bob prepared for college at Clark School, Hanover, N. H. He was a member of Psi Upsilon, Delta Omicron Gamma, and Dragon, and president of the Interfraternity Council. He got his M.D. degree at Northwestern University and took postgraduate work at institutions in London and Vienna.
He was on the staffs of St. Luke's and Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospitals and a fellow of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons as well as a member of the American Medical Association. His outside interests were in hunting and fishing which found him a member of the Hermit Club and Pine Lake Trout Farm. He served four years as a physician with the Navy during World War II, holding the rank of commander.
He is survived by a son, Robert A. Jr., in the Marine Corps, and two brothers, one of whom is E. H. Reading '29. His wife, the former Virginia Benjes, died last year.
1926
1926 was lessened and once more saddened with the sudden death of LOHMAN KING DICKASON at his home, 3939 S. Harvard Ave., Tulsa, Okla., January 2, 1969, while preparing to attend the funeral of Ms sister. "I stepped out of the room and when I returned he was dead" his wife was quoted as saying. He had been under treatment for a heart ailment for about 15 years. The fatal attack came after a week-long bout with the flu.
King had returned to Tulsa in 1926 to work in one of the 33 lumber yards owned by his father. At the time of his death he was president and general manager of Dickason-Goodman Co., a corporation which includes a lumber yard and Tulsa's oldest retail firm, a furniture store.
He was a director of the Brookside State Bank, the State Federal Savings and Loan Association, and a past president of the Oklahoma Retail Merchants Association. The National Retail Merchants Association had honored him as an "All American" retailer. Other memberships included the Financial Club, the Indian Nations Boy Scout Council, the Tulsa Better Business Bureau, Southern Hills Country Club, and charter membership in the University Club of Tulsa.
King was also an amateur chef of note, and readers of Class Notes will recall the modesty and charm of his contributions to the Escoffier Contest. In college he became a member of Kappa Sigma and circulation manager of the Jack-o-Lantern.
Survivors include his widow Irene, a daughter, and a son L. King Jr. '64. The Class extends their heart-felt sympathy to them.
LAWRENCE WHITTAKER OATMAN passed away on 14 December 1967 in Dundee, Ill., the victim of a heart attack. Larry moved from Wisconsin to Oklahoma to Illinois after graduation, and finally became president of Oatman Farms Corp., in Dundee, producers of dairy products. As a sideline he raised quarterhorses and found it to be "fascinating if not remunerative."
Larry never married and his brother Bill '24 survived him, but has since passed away.
1931
DAVID JULES BENDER died in a Walnut Creek (Calif.) hospital on February 23, 1969 at age 61. The family requested contributions to the American Cancer Society instead of flowers.
Dave resided at 105 Jackson Way, Alamo, Calif., and made his career in marine transportation. He had been manager of the Bulk Materials Department for the Port of Stockton, Calif., and during the war he was assistant coordinator for ship repair and conversion. In recent years he was secretary of the National Defense Transportation Association and a member of the Transportation Club of San Francisco.
He leaves his mother; his widow Evelyn; two sons, Philip E. '63 of Cleveland and David C. of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; and three stepchildren.
1933
Word has just been received of the passing in 1964 of WALLIS HAVEN AYRES of Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. He did not graduate with us but rather went to sea. He spent six years in Hawaii before returning to the mainland where he took engineering at the University of California.
He is survived by three daughters and to them the Class expresses its sympathy.
HENRY HALLEY HIXSON JR. of 400 East Randolph Street, Chicago, Ill., died on June 22, 1968. Hal prepared for college at Evanston Township High School where he played football, basketball, and tennis. In college he majored in sociology and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
The Class extends its sympathy to his widow Jane and the other members of his family.
CHARLES ELWOOD SAGER of 3828 Cathedral Avenue N.W., Washington, D. C., passed away on August 11, 1968. During college he was on the staff of the Jack-o-Lantern, belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon, and majored in biography-comparative literature.
Ellie never married. He was a member of various Republican clubs in Washington and active in the real estate business. At the time of his death he was developing a skiing, fishing, and golfing resort at Mattaponi Estate, Croom, Md.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Rebecca Sager, and a brother, Douglas. The sympathy of the Class goes out to them.
1934
WILLIAM STEDMAN ("Billy") SAMPSON, of Falls Church, Va., died suddenly on February 17, 1969 on his way from his home to his office at the Navy Department in Washington, D. C. A lieutenant-commander in World War II, and subsequently an officer in the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, Billy had been serving in recent years as Chief of the Navy Disbursement Department.
Billy prepared for Dartmouth at the Lynn (Mass.) Classical High School. Though weighing only 162 pounds, he starred as fullback of the 1928 Classical football team, which posted a never-equalled 9-0-0 record. At Dartmouth, Billy played freshman football. A brother in Phi Kappa Sigma, he was a member of the Interfraternity Council. His major was philosophy-English.
Billy was married to the former Wilma Clayton, who survives him. Also surviving are their two sons, William S. Jr. of Falls Church and Jonathan C. of Monterey, Calif., as well as a sister, Mrs. Geraldine S. Quinn of Marblehead, Mass.
His was a career of quiet devotion and diligent service. In Billy Sampson the Class has lost a man in whom we could all take pride. To his widow and his family go our heartfelt condolences.
1935
JAMES EUGENE HOLLIS of 26 Larkspur Road, Lower Orchard, Levittown, Pa., died February 13, 1969 after a short illness. He was 57.
Although Jim did not graduate, Dartmouth held a strong spot in his affections. He and his family visited Hanover nearly every summer, and his widow Madeline notes: "We have many pictures of the buildings and the campus, which held so many fond memories for both of us."
Jim made his living in the construction business, and at the time of his death was employed by James D. Morrissey, Inc. He was a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Local 1462 in Bristol, Pa., a former member of the National Guard and of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Vermont. He had resided in the Bristol area for 18 years.
Jim is survived by his widow, Madeline (Pollard); four children, Bradford Hollis of Enfield, N. H., Mrs. Pamela Jobson of Bristol, Pa., Coral and James, both at home; two grandchildren; and a sister. The Class extends deepest sympathy to the family.
1939
HOWARD KENYON BEMIS passed away in Suffield, Conn., on November 30, 1968. Ken attended Choate, was with our class at Dartmouth for a short time, then went on to the University of Pennsylvania, and received a B.S. degree there. He later attended law school there.
Ken was co-owner of Gravure Engraving Corp. in Holyoke, Mass., which was sold to Litton Industries a few years ago. Following the sale, Ken travelled and managed his family investments. He had survived a serious ill. ness prior to his sudden death. Ken was a former director of Valley Bank and Trust Co. in Springfield, Mass.
He is survived by his widow Ann and two sons, David, born in 1951, and Bruce, born in 1954, both of whom are in prep school. The family lives at 215 Halladay Ave. in Suffield, and to all of them we extend our sincere sympathy.
1940
One of the class' most active workers in alumni affairs and staunchest supporters, ROBERT SMOCK THOMPSON died unexpectedly February 25, 1969 in Kansas City, Mo., his home all his life. His counsel and friendship and interest in all things pertaining to his alma mater and his class will be missed beyond easy acknowledgement.
Smock was a brother of Chi Phi and a chemistry major, which prepared him for work at his family's business, Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company. He was on the freshman swimming squad. Following graduation, he went to MIT Graduate School of Business, leaving in May 1941 for active duty as a Navy ensign. His service in the Submarine Corps earned him the Bronze Star Medal and the rank of It. commander when he was discharged in January 1946.
Just a mere listing of his extracurricular titles indicates the breadth and scope of our friend. He had been president, and also secretary, of the Kansas City Alumni Association and worked as a class agent throughout many Alumni Fund drives. He became president and director of Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company in 1955, which later became affiliated with Philips Electronics and Pharmaceutical Company of Holland. Smock served many organizations at the top echelon, among which he was director of the National Agricultural Chemical Association, City National Bank and Trust Company, Jersey Realty Company, and a trustee of the Sunset Hill School, Midwest Research Institute, and the Kansas City Art Institute. He was president of the Greater Kansas City Council on Alcoholism and a lay reader at St. Andrews Episcopal Church.
The deep sympathy of the class is extended to his widow Patricia and three daughters who survive him at 1249 West 58th Street, Kansas City, Mo. He is also survived by his brother Charles M. '36.
1944
Lt. Col. FREDERICK F. HICKEY JR. passed away on April 4, 1968 at Fort Belvoir Army Hospital, after a long illness.
Following his graduation from Dartmouth he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1946. In 1957 he received his master of science in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and in 1961 was honor graduate of the Nuclear Weapons Employment Officers Course at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. His overseas assignments included Japan, the Antilles, and the Caribbean.
Our sympathy is extended to his widow Jane and their son and daughter.
Word has been received that ALAN COMPTON WHITLOCK was killed in an accident in Florida on 9 February, 1968.
While at Dartmouth he was a member of the Fencing Team, the Cross Country Team, and the Glee Club. He listed his WWII service as Marine Corps, and his highest rank second lieutenant. He was discharged in April 1946.
Alan's brother Victor Jr. '39 survives him.
1946
LAURENCE ELLIS SILBEKSTEIN died suddenly at his home at 17 York Rd., Larchmont, N. Y., on January 27, 1969. Larry was born in New York City on July 3, 1925 and came to Dartmouth from Franklin School there. He was an English major and art editor of the Jack-o-Lantern before graduating in 1948.
After serving in the Army for three and a half years in WWII, he was associated with a family dress business for some time. He then worked for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, and at the time of his death was a stockbroker with Oppenheimer and Co.
In 1948 Larry married Enid Berkeley, who, with their three children, Bobby, Tommy, and Terry, survives him.
E. K. S. JR.
1953
DR. JOHN MARKOE WILLIAMS III, of 34 Scarsdale Ave., Scarsdale, N. Y., was the victim of a heart attack at the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pa., on January 4, 1969.
After graduation Jack became an employment interviewer at R.C.A. in Indianapolis but found the call of the medical profession more appealing, and in 1960 he received his M.D. degree from Temple University Medical School. At the time of his death he was Medical Director of Ives Laboratories, Inc., in New York City and was in charge of research with experimental and established drugs.
In 1951 Jack was married to Lisa (Hansell), and their first child was born in Hanover while he was still a student at Dartmouth. Lisa survives as do their three daughters, and we hope they will continue to feel a part of the Dartmouth family.
1958
The class extends its deepest sympathy to the family of LYTTON WARNICK KERNAN who passed away on March 19, 1969 in Charlottesille, Va., where he was secretary-treasurer of Arkay Music Mart. Originally from Washington, D.C., Lytton attended Sanford Preparatory School where he was class president, student council president, yearbook editor, and a member of National Honor Society. At Dartmouth Lyt was a Daniel Webster National Scholar and a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
Expressions of sympathy may be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ribas, stepfather and mother at 111 Fourth Street, N.E., Charlottesville, Va. 22902.
William Sewall '17
Thomas Joseph O'Connell '18
