Deaths

(A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices may appear in thisissue or a later one.)

Davis, Orlando C. '07, November 20 Allen, Arthur P. '10, November 11 Dyer, Howard K. '10, November 12 Taylor, Marvin C. '10. November 5 Swenson, Guy A. '12, December 2 Schenck, Ingleton '19, September 21 Johnson, Malcolm F. '21, October 9 O'Malley, Henry F. '21, November 5 Daniell, John H. '24, October 28 Fagan, Richard '24, November 4 Minary, William B. '24, November 15 Moyse, S. Dickson '24, November 4 Blyth, Clark '28, November 19 Titus, Frederick E. '28, November 14 Whaley, William '28, November 26 White, William C. Jr. '29, April 13 King, Frank S. '33, November 13 Dunn, John J. '35, November 2 Osterhout, Robert E. '38, October 3 Hutchinson, Donald L. '46, September 17 Pontius, Paul H. '52, June 3 Terrace, Elward L. '57, November 13 Silverman. Louis L. '24h, October 17 Romer, Alfred S. '59h, November 19 Guthrie, Ramon '71 h, November 22

Faculty

RAMON GUTHRIE 71h, Professor Emeritous of French. died on November 22, and to those of us who had been his student or friend, an era came to an end. Warm student-teacher relations, brilliance, creativity, and sensitivity will continue to thrive at Dartmouth, an almost indefinable other element with which Guthrie fired his students died with him. Guthrie was the rare teacher who had lived as widely as he had studied, and was somehow able to make his students sod that they too had lived his experiences. His exploits World War I, his friendships with the great names of Paris of the 1920's were as real to us as the concepts of he French literature which he so loved.

Guthrie was unforgettable and it was because of this that he happened to come to Dartmouth. In 1930, his friend Sinclair Lewis called President Hopkins to share the enthusiasm for this young man who was, he said, the closest thing to a modern troubadour he had ever met With this telephone call began one of Dartmouth's really inspiring teaching careers.

To understand what he had to offer students — the ability not only to teach, but to touch their lives — one must look to Guthrie's own life and art. It was his abilitv to take the risk of exposing himself that gave confidence, that built the kind of trust that raises teaching above the level of informational transference.

Guthne began by finding his own path, as he put it, and that is what he wanted for us. When he graduated from grade school (the only thing he ever did graduate from he often said). his teacher took him aside to tell him that he was unlike most of his classmates because whole they would travel the broad highway, he would always have to make his own lone path.

This path to him from the nightshift at theMinchester Arms factory in New Haven to the front line in World War I, first as an ambulance driver, the as a squadron leader of a bomber group. In a raid shuch became legendary, he shot his way out of a groupof German fighters, bagging four of them in the process "War," he wrote then, "is a lonesome job. Idon't get homesick because i have't any home to get homesick for, but sometime I wish that I did have one."

This wish was to be granted in two ways, both ofwhich influenced his poetry and teaching. The firsthome he acquired was France. After campaigning inthe Near East. he Wrote "when I came back from the Orem and smelled French air and saw French soil, Imore that I'd never leave France again." In one sense, he never did For when he found his second home in Norwich, his unceasing quest for the spirit of France, its history, its art, its people, pervaded the existence he lived and shared with others.

The quest was not that of the casually interested, but was part of his addiction to what Baudelaire calls "the divine opiate of work." Guthrie's work was to discover himself and France and to somehow blend the two together in his poetry, painting, and teaching. It was not an urge for self-satisfaction or happiness that kept him working hard at these things. Unhappiness and dissatisfaction are the constant companions of those who take the lone path, and Guthrie often said that the man who minds unhappiness overmuch has probably strayed into the wrong world. What kept Guthrie going, and what he had to give to his students and readers was what he himself called love, the gift of perceiving with concern and empathy. "If learning is a means to understanding," he wrote, "understanding is chiefly important as a means to love."

His heroes, in literature and life, were those who were able to care, unselfconsciously and with passion. A long section of his last published book of poems, Maximum Security Ward, is devoted to a group of exemplary individuals whom he calls christoi, individuals who by their unselfish, personal concern, their attachment to life principles above self-interest, have somehow given dignity to the concept of living. Guthrie himself was such a person, capable of responding to the needs of students and friends with a sensitivity that made him one of the first people you turned to with a problem. Even those who had known him only through his poems felt it. One of the last poems he wrote was a response to a woman who had written, signing herself only "Diana" with no address, to say that Guthrie's poems had given her courage and reason to live at a time of total despair. "Courage and reason to live" sum up pretty well what most of us learned from Guthrie.

STEVE NICHOLS'SB

(Professor Guthrie is survived by his widow,Marguerite Maurey of Norwich, Vt., whom he metwhile in France during World War I. Stephen G.Nichols Jr. is Professor of Romance Languages &Literature. Ed.)

LOUIS LAZARE SILVERMAN 24h, ProfessorEmeritus of Mathematics, died peacefully in his sleepat his Houston, Texas, home on October 17, ending ateaching career remarkable in both dedication andlength.

Born April 21, 1884 in what was then Lithuania, Professor Silverman came to this country as an eight- year-old. He graduated from Harvard in 1905 and earned a master's degree there in 1907. A Ph.D. was awarded him by the University of Missouri in 1910. He was married June 17, 1912 to Sonia Paeff who died in 1963.

His Dartmouth teaching career on the Chandler Foundation began in 1918, after he had taught at the University of Missouri and Cornell. "Retirements" became a habit of sorts with Professor Silverman who retired from the Dartmouth faculty in 1954, only to go to Israel and lecture in Hebrew at the Tel Aviv Muncipal College which, during his tenure, increased its enrollment from a scant 19 to 10,000 students. And after "retiring" from Tel Aviv he taught and earned the position of emeritus professor at the University of Houston. Even then he continued to teach at other colleges in that area.

One of the founders of the Dartmouth College Symphony Orchestra, Professor Silverman was an accomplished musician, fathered a musical family, and until a few months ago, was playing for old people confined to their homes. Fascinated by languages, also until quite recently he was occupied in studying Russian.

But perhaps the most outstanding facet of his busy life is best described in the words of his son, Raphael Hillyer '36 "... his whole life was a love affair with mathematics, music, and teaching ... he dealt in pure mathematics, he felt, untouched and unaffected by possible applications to the world about him, but he was himself always involved in that world." Fifty years before present-day concern about the position of scholars and artists in the Soviet Union, Professor Silverman was doing everything possible to help those he knew there, often to the enrichment of the College, as in the cases of the great violin teacher, Serge Korgueff, and the eminent mathematician, J. D. Tamarkin, and he worked tirelessly to save both friends and strangers from the Nazi terror.

His love of teaching will be best attested to in the memories of the many alumni who encountered it during his 36 years on the Dartmouth faculty.

In addition to his son, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Freddie Bluhm and Mrs. Michelle Goldsmith, and 11 grandchildren.

1909

HARVEY WILBUR GRAVES passed away at the Clifton Springs Hospital, New York where he had been a patient for nearly eight years on October 20.

Deac was born in Rochester, N.Y., on October 30, 1885. He prepared for Dartmouth at Rochester East High School. He was the last member of the 1909 delegation of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He graduated cum laude with an A.B. degree.

After graduation, he joined the H.B. Graves Co., a leading furniture store in Rochester which had been founded by his father. He served as president and treasurer from 1937 until his retirement in 1954. He was interested in Florida real estate: a member of the Committee of One Hundred, Miami Beach; president and treasurer of the Sunny Isles Ocean Beach Co., 1936-1964; president and manager of the Sunny Isles Water Co., 1936-1951; and president and treasurer of Sunny Isles Holding Co., 1936-1944. He was a member of the Rochester Historical Society and was one of 1909's members on the Sponsoring Committee, Dartmouth's 200th Anniversary Development program.

He was married to Margaret Catherine Malloy at Rochester, N.Y. on June 26, 1913. She died in January 1971. Surviving are four daughters; Mrs. John A. Stahlbrodt and Mrs. Alfred (Jean) G. Scheible of Rochester, N.Y., Miss Charlotte Dorothy Graves of Mill Valley, Calif.; and Mrs. James V. Gray, La Jolla, Calif.; one son, Harvey W. Graves Jr. '5O of Chevy Chase, Md.; one sister, Miss Ruth E. Graves of Rochester, N.Y.; nine grand children and five great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held in the Hedges Memorial Chapel, Rochester, N.Y. on October 23.

1910

ARTHUR PRATT ALLEN SR. died November 11 in the Norwood (Mass.) Hospital. He had enjoyed excellent health for most of his lifetime, suffering a stroke about a year ago. He was born October 5, 1889 in Reading, Mass., and prepared for college at schools there.

Art stayed on after graduation to earn an M.C.S. from Tuck, and then went to the Plimpton Press in Norwood, publishers of school and college textbooks, where he was purchasing agent for a half century and president in the 19505, retiring in 1958. For some time after that he continued as chairman of the board of the Norwood cooperative Bank.

He was a former president of the Norwood Chamber of Commerce and a lifelong member of Orient Lodge AF & AM.

He served as our class secretary from 1925 to 1930. Art's first wife, Annie Simeneau whom he married in 1912, died in 1942. His second wife, Marion Bartlett., also predeceased him. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Priscilla Colby of Islamorada, Fla.; a son Arthur P.Jr. '44 of South Orleans, Mass.; and five grand eluding Arthur III '72 and Robert B. Allen '75.

1914

HOWARD HUNTINGTON POTTER passed away on June 16 after a long period of disability in Augusta, Me., where he had made his home.

Hod, as he was affectionately called, was born on January 2, 1891 in Worcester, Mass. He received his B.S. degree from Dartmouth in 1914 and C.E. from Thayer school in the following year. He served in the 102nd Machine Gun Battalion in the 26th Division in WW I and participated in action in Soissons, Chemindes-Dames, Seicheprey, Aisne-Marne, and other engagements.

He was engaged in private engineering practice for many years in Norway, Me., and at other times served as Water Works Superintendent for Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Water Works Engineer for the Public Utilities Commission for the State of Maine.

DR. JAMES BURNETT SHIELDS died on June 28, at the Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital.

Jim was born on February 15, 1892 in Hillsboro, N.D., and, after graduation from Dartmouth, receive his M.D. degree from Harvard in 1918. He served his internship in the Boston City Hospital before going, into private practice of internal medicine in Glens Falls, where he became attending physician at the local hospital. He served also in the U.S. Army Medical Reserve in 1918-1919.

He was a member of the American College Physicians, The American Medical Association. New York State Medical Association, the Warren County Medical Association, and the Glens Falls Rotary Club.

He is survived only by several cousins.

HAROLD GRIFFITH VAN RIPER passed away on August 12 at the hospital in Carlisle, Pa.

Born October 8, 1891 in Brooklyn, N.Y.. he graduated from Boys' High School in New York City, from the College in 1914, and received his C.E. degree from Thayer School in 1915. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.

After graduation he was employed as an engineer by the Pennsylvania Railroad, as chief design engineer for the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, and as a consulting engineer with Modjeski and Masters in Harrisburg, Pa.

Van spent a year overseas as lieutenant in the 6th Division of the 11th Field Artillery and took part in the Meuse-Argonne offensive in WW I.

He was a member of various engineering societies and was past president of the Engineers Society of Pennsylvania. He was also -past president of the Dartmouth club of Central Pennsylvania, chairman of the Special Gifts Campaign and of the Capital Funds Campaign, and he represented Dartmouth at the auguration of the new president of Dickinson College.

He is survived by his wife Ruth whom he married 1920; two daughters, Mrs. Richard K. Smith Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. Henry Bachman of N.J.; a sister, a brother, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

RALPH SMITH WOODMAN passed away on March 22 in a retirement home in Mount Vernon, N.H.

He was born in Medford, Mass., on March 30, 1892 and was with us at Dartmouth in 1910-1911.

During the early days after leaving college with Woodman's Green Houses in Milford. N.H., where he made his home and with Woodman's Market Wilton, N.H., and in later years became probation officer for the State of New Hampshire, retiring in 1960.

He is survived by his wife Elizabeth whom he married in 1927, his son Major Richard T. Woodman. U.S. Army, and one grandchild.

1918

NORMAN SHAW. 81, Hancock County Probate Judge of Bar Harbor, died September 22 in a Bangor hospital. He entered Dartmouth in 1914 but was with us for only one semester. His legal studies were interrupted by service in World War I. On his return he finished his legal education at Boston University. He practiced law in Bar Harbor for many years taking his son into the practice in 1953. Over the years he held responsible positions in Bar Harbor, Hancock County. and at the state level. These included leadership posts in his church, the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., the Jackson Memorial Laboratory and a term in the Maine House of Representatives.

1919

FNGLETON SCHENK died on September 21 in Saranac Lake. N.Y. where he has made his home in recent years. After college he was in the paper manufacturing business and at one time went to Pakistan to instruct the natives in the operation of a new government owned mill.

He was an avid fisherman and managed to put in some time at this sport every day. He is survived by his son Ingleton Jr., several grandchildren, and at least one great-grandchild.

1920

RAYMOND ADAMS BELLOWS SR., born June 3, 1898 in Littleton, N.H., was interred there in Glen wood Cemetery on August 4, in a double committa service for him and his grandson, William Benjamin Bellows. Ray's passing occurred on July 28, 1973 following a considerable period of hospitalization. His wife, Pauline Sherburn Bellows; a son, Ray Jr.; and grandsons survive him. To them the Class extends its sympathy in their bereavement.

Kay entered Dartmouth in 1916 and after college he was employed for many years by the Waldorf Restaurant chain. Later he became a manufacturers' agent and followed this experience with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft where he was a supervisor of Source Inspection, handling parts purchased by the company from outside sources. Later he turned to business for himself. handling a varied type of merchandise from coasters, fancy stationery imported from England, and of all figurines of carol singers and skiers which his Polly devised. Prior to his retirement in 1971 he was the New England representative of Koscherak others, importers of European glass and china and Samuel Gold, Inc., manufacturers of antique jewelry.

He loved Connecticut and lived for many years in serveral locations in the lower Connecticut River valley - Chester, Hadlyme, and finally on Joshuatown Road, Lyme.

1921

MALCOLM FISHER JOHNSON died October 16 in Washington, D.C. after a short illnes. He was 74 years old.

He was born May 9, 1899 in Franklin, Mass. and entered Dartmouth from Dean Academy in 1917. He was a Tuck graduate and a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

After working successively in advertising, investment banking, and auditing for J.L. Penney, Inc. in remainder of his life.

He was a member of ther War Production Board as chief of the materials section. From 1941 to 1948 he was an examiner of the War Assets Administration. He was president of the Dartmouth Club of Washington from 1944 to 1946 and was a member of the Dartmouth Fraternity Alumni Advisory Board. He was a life-time member of the Society for Advancement of Management. In 1961 he retired and became active in the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE).

Malcolm was never married. He is survived by a brother Kenneth '19 of Sonoma, Calif, and two nephews. Details of the funeral and place of burial are not available at this time.

1923

From his granddaughter, Phyllis Kilgour, we learn of the death on July 20 of JOHN POTTERSON YOUNG. We have been unable to contact his family for further details.

Born on September 24, 1898 in Jersey City, N.J., Jack was a transfer from Dickinson College. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and Alpha Delta Sigma, honorary advertising fraternity.

John served two years with the U.S. Marines in World War I and rejoined the Corps in World War II. A naval intelligence officer, he held the rank of Lieutenant Commander and served overseas for four years.

Prior to returning to the Marine Corps, John was advertising manager of Armstrong Linoleum Company for 18 years. In 1947 he joined the Gorham Silver Company where he became director of Advertising and Sales Promotion.

John's survivors include his widow Mary and three grandchildren.

1924

JOHN HARRIS DANIELL was a classmate who lived abroad for many years. He was born April 27, 1903, in Menominee, Mich., and came from the high school there to Dartmouth; he died October 28 in Mexico City. Ironically he had planned to move to Heritage Village in Connecticut where his widow now lives.

While at Dartmouth, Dan earned his Phi Beta Kappa key; he was a member of Delta Chi Epsilon. In addition to academic honors, he showed a strong interest in a religious life, serving on the Christian Association Cabinet. Later in life, he served in various charitable organizations - the Red Cross during WW II, the American' Society, and was very active in the 1st Church of Christ Scientist in Mexico City.

After graduation, Dan went to work with B.F. Goodrich Co., in -the Akron plant as chemist for two years; then to Kitchener, (Ont.), Canada, where he was to meet his wife. From 1937-8 he worked in the Technical Control Department. In 1939 he was transferred to Mexico City in the Cia Hluera Euzkadi, SA, an associated firm of BFG Co. as technical superientendent and later as factory manager until he retired in 1965. He served on the Christian Science Committee on Publications for Mexico for the next 18 years. He is survived by his wife, the former Pauline Hanh whom he married in 1930; a son, Philip; and by two grandchildren.

His hobbies included golf (Chapaultepec Golf Club), and the University Club and Atlletic Club in Mexico City. Dan was a strong supporter of Dartmouth in every way although comparatively few of the Class knew him personally.

RICHARD FAGAN will be remembered by some of the Class for his sophomore-year elopment, marriage, and divorce. Thereafter, the story changes radically to about 18 years of service in the U.S. Marines - from September of 1921 to his first retirement May 1939; he was recalled to active duty July 40 and was fiercely proud of being the oldest Marine parachutist. His full war record is found on pages 32-33 of our "1924 Wentto War". He regretted that health kept him from being accepted for service in Korea.

He was in and out of several Naval Hospitals after his second retirement as a lieutenant colonel. In recalling college days, he often spoke of such friends as Joe Butler, Hookie Hagenbuckle. and Al Stopford. News of his death on November 4 came from a friend, Kathleen T. Donovan. She reported that he died in a Dallas, Texas, hospital, and was buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, adding that ". . . he enjoyed receiving his copy of the AlumniMagazine that has been regularly forwarded to him over the years."

1925

HENRY CARL SAILER died October 2 in Riverside Hospital, Boonton Township, N.J. after a long illness. He was born November 25, 1901 in Reading, Pa., and came to college from Reading High School.

Butch was an outstanding basketball player and a leader, being captain of the team one year. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.

Following graduation he entered upon a teaching career and continued his education, receiving his Masters degree and his Ph.D. from New York University. Butch also did graduate work at Teachers' College of Columbia University and at Rutgers.

For 35 years he taught English at Orange High School and was basketball coach there for 20 years. In his last year of coaching in 1948 his team won the Group IV state title.

Butch became Professor of Education at Jersey City State College in 1963 and retired in 1971. Much of his teaching activity was in connection with improving the reading ability of his pupils, and he operated a newspaper in his classroom program as an aid to teaching "thinking and reading." He was a member of the New Jersey Education Association.

He is survived by his wife LeNora of Whippany, N.J., their home for many years, and also by a brother and a sister.

1930

GEORGE ABRAHAM STEERS died suddenly of a heart attack on October 13 in Larchmont, N.Y.

George joined The Sanforized Company, a division of Cluett, Peabody & Co., in 1944, serving successively as director of sales and advertising, vice president in charge of international relations, and executive vice president.

He was named president in 1969 and at that time also became vice president of the parent company. He retired in 1972. The Class extends deepest sympathy to his widow Julia, daughter Julie, and son George. Also the sympathy of the Class goes to classmate William E. (Buck) Steers on the loss of his twin brother.

1932

ROBERT WOOD NEWFANG died of a heart attack while driving his car near Woodbury, Vt. on October 11. He had recently retired as president of the Canfield Paper Company in New York after a 41-year career with that firm.

Bob was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 10, 1910 and came to Dartmouth from the Scarsdale (N.Y.) High School. A political science major, he was active with The Players and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. Following graduation he joined the Canfield Company, of which his father had been a co- founder in 1906, as an office boy. He moved up through the sales ranks and was successively sales manager, secretary-treasurer, and executive vice president, becoming president in 1963. His business career was interrupted by enlistment in the U.S. Navy in 1942. He taught Naval Communications at Harvard in 1944 and wound up as signal officer on the U.S.S. Maryland.

Bob was president of the Paper Association of New York City in 1961-62 and president of the Paper Merchants of New York in 1968-69. He served on various committees of the National Paper Trade Association and was an active member of the Paper Club of New York. He was also active in Dartmouth alumni affairs.

Bob married Gillett Johnson in New Rochelle in 1941. He is survived by his widow; two daughters, Mrs. Duncan Kilmartin and Mrs. Glenn Koponen; and two granddaughters. He was a former trustee and of the Ridgeway Alliance Church in White Plains and served as counselor in two Billy Graham Evangelistic Crusades in New York.

At the time of his 25th Reunion Bob wrote that the greatest influence of his post-graduate years had been "a turnabout from a virtual atheist view to real understanding and love of God, i.e., an acceptance on the Bible as the true word of God and of Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. My greatest regret is that I wasted so many years discovering the above."

The Class offers its deep sympathy to his family.

1933

FRANK SHERWOOD KING, 63, died November 13, at the Akron (Ohio) General Medical Center as the result of a circulatory disorder.

Born in Akron, March 10, 1910 he attended Western Reserve Academy and graduated from Dartmouth in 1933, with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, His fraternity was Chi Phi.

During 18 years at Firestone, he specialized in wire and tubeless tires, leaving to become technical manager of Dunlop Tire and Rubber Co. in Buffalo, N.Y. He became manager of wire tire engineering for Goodyear in 1955 and became known throughout the industry as "the Wire King."

Frank is survived by his widow Betty (Holliday); a daughter, Mrs. Lynn Evans Stuart; as well as by a grand-daughter, Heidi Stuart. To them the Class offers its deepest sympathy.

1936

We have been advised of the death of LEWIS EDMUND FRANKLE on September 22 in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Lew was only at Dartmouth until fall of sophomore year and subsequently attended Temple and Northwestern as well as the University Florida. He served in the Army Medical Corps from 1942 to 1944. He returned from the Army to Society National Bank of Cleveland where remained until his death. He was a senior vice president of Society National Bank, senior vice president Society Corporation, and a director of the Western Reserve Bank of Lake County.

He had been a trustee and vice president of the Hiram House Camp, and a trustee and treasurer of the N.E. Ohio Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation married Peg Schowe in 1940 and she and a daughter Ann survive him. The Class extends its sympathy to his family in their loss.

1937

We have belated news of the death of J. VINCENT SULLIVAN whose wife Helen filled in the green Mint Bag questionnaire indicating he died 13 October 1972. She wrote to the College at the time requesting they please remove his name from the mailing list but must have gotten misplaced.

Vin did not graduate with us and we have had contact with him over the years. He was administrtor of the H.B.G. Shaw Home for the Aged Middleboro, Mass., for about 25 years. He was also the owner of the Middleboro Office Supply Company Inc.

He left five children, three boys and two girls.

1939

The untimely death of ROBERT FISHER BROWN 56, on October 23 was a shock to '39ers who bad a joyed his company two-weeks earlier at the class fall reunion. Brownie died of an apparent heart while winding up the business of Brown's of Gloucester department store of which he had been president until its sale this July.

Born in Gloucester, he had attended local grammar schools and Tabor Academy previous to his years a Dartmouth. He did post graduate work at received his master of arts degree. He became associated with the family store following college, serving as treasurer, and president on the death of his brother in 1972.

He entered the service in February 1941,as a private, attained the rank of lieutenant colonel by war's end and earned the Bronze Star for meritorious action on Mindanao, Philippines.

A popular civic leader. Brownie was associated for many years in various capacities with the Cape Ann Historical Association, the Sawyer Free Library Corporation, the Gloucester Fisherman's Institute, the Gloucester Rotary Club, American Legion, Amvets, and the Cape Ann Bank and Trust Company. With his wife Nancy, he served on the Literature and Drama Committee for the Third Cape Ann Festival of Arts, and published in 1952 in the Cape Ann Summer Sun a Bibliography of Cape Ann, a collection of some 600 titles of books and articles about his local area. One of his early hobbies was sailing, and he served as fleet captain of the Eastern Point Yacht Club in 1953. He was also a vice president of the Addison Gilbert Hospital, a member of the city's Industrial Development Commission for eight years, four as chairman, a four year member on the Council of Arts and the Civic Arts Committee, and was treasurer of the Maritime Museum Inc.

He is survived by his wife Nancy G. (Pierce); three sons. Robert F. Jr. of Manchester, Mass.; Captain Douglas P., US Air Force, Phoenix, Ariz.; and Bruce of Beverly; a daughter, Diana Gay of Marblehead; his mother and two sisters.

Bob Brown, as indicated above was an outstanding and energetic citizen who will be sorely missed in his community and by his classmates.

1944

DR FRANCIS PARNELL MURPHY JR. died October 6 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a brief illness. Murph moved to Florida from Boston in 1960 and had a private practice in psychiatry there.

He was the son of the late Francis P. Murphy of Nashua, former Governor of N.H.

Murph attended Philips Exeter Academy and after graduation from Dartmouth, received his medical degree from Tufts in 1947. He interned at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Brighton, Mass., and was associated with the Boston State Hospital and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center.

During the Korean War he served as chief psychiatrist for the women's division of the Tokyo Army Hospital.

He was a member of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Society, the Florida Psychiatric Association, and the Broward County (Fla.) Medical Association.

Murph never married. He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Katherine Bryant of Newport, N.H.; Mrs. Eleanor Erion of Nashua; and Mrs. Madeline O'Brian of Worcester, Mass.

He was buried in Newport, where he was born. A fund in his name has been established to support Dartmouth scholarships.

1946

ARCHIBALS CATTELL GERNERT died on September 12, 1973 in New Vernon, N.J., after an extended illness.

Arch grew up in Westfield, N.J., and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy before coming to Dartmouth. He served on active duty in the Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II and the Korean War, and retained the rank of lieutenant commander in the Retired Reserved. He spent his entire business career in the insurance industry, and at the time of his death was a chartered ProPerty and casualty underwriter.

Arch is survived by his daughters Daryl and Susan who live with his former wife, Judith Hunter Gernert, in Lake Forest, Ill., and by his brother Herbert, of New vermon

1952

PAUL HOLMAN PONTIUS passed away June 3 in Lancaster, Pa. after a six-month battle with cancer. At the time of his death he was an investment officer with the National Central Bank of Lancaster.

Paul came to Dartmouth from Lancaster where he was a graduate of Manheim Township High School. In high school he was a three-year letterman in football, basketball, and track, served as class vice president, wrote for the school yearbook and newspaper and was a member of the National Honor Society.

While completing his four years in Hanover Paul majored in Economics and was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. His friends recall Paul's enjoying a pipe and getting into good philosophical conversations in class and in the fraternity house. They fondly remember him as a quiet, perspective individual.

After graduating from Dartmouth Paul served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an officer during the Korean war and, following his military duty, he worked for the Fulton National Bank in Lancaster. Later he and his family moved to Baltimore where he worked for Stein Bros. & Boyce and Armstrong Cork Company. He and the family returned to Lancaster about four years ago. In addition to his business position Paul was active in the local Dartmouth Alumni Association.

Paul is survived by his widow, Carol, two sons, two brothers, and one sister. The Class extends deepest sympathy to the entire family.

Ramon Guthrie '71h

Louis Lazare Silverman '24h