Philip E. Wheelwright

PHILIP E. WHEELWRIGHT, former Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College for 16 years, died January 6 in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 68 years old.

Widely known for his writing on the history of philosophy, ethics, literary criticism and philosophy of religion, Dr. Wheelwright received an honorary M.A. degree from Dartmouth in 1939. He was a 1921 graduate of Princeton and received his Ph.D. from that institution in 1924.

Professor Wheelwright taught at Princeton and New York University for 13 years before coming to Dartmouth in 1937. While at Dartmouth, he served for a time as chairman of the Department of Philosophy and of the Division of Humanities. He left Dartmouth in 1953 to become a visiting professor at Pomona (Calif.) College and then professor of philosophy at the University of California at Riverside. He retired in July 1966.

Dr. Wheelwright was married to the former Maude Chase McDuffee of Rochester, N.H., who died two years ago. Her brother, Franklin McDuffee '21, taught in the English Department at Dartmouth until his death in 1940. A poet, he wrote the words for the well-known song, Dartmouth Undying.

Dr. Wheelwright, whose most noted work is The Burning Fountain: A Study in the Language of Symbolism, is survived by his daughter, Miss Linda Jean Wheelwright of Santa Barbara.