Deaths
(A listing of deaths of which word has been received within thepast month. Full notices may appear in this issue or a later one.)
Osgood, Paul M. '99, October 22 Lane, Robert R. '07, October 19 Cogswell, Harold B. '08, September 29 Hitchcock, C. Carleton '16, October 21 Stamatiades, Philip E. '16, October 23 Boynton, Robert C. '17, October 20 Gates, Frederic W. '17, July 29 Tracy, Gordon S. '17, October 10 McElwain, Leicester K. '18, July 18 Merrell, Nathaniel E. '19, May 13 Printz, Harold '21, April 10 Ryder, Daniel F. '21, October 2 Kaplan, Edward E. '22, October 17 Dettenborn, Lewis F. Jr. '22, October 13 Harris, Harry '24, August 24 Manchester, Morgan E. '24, October 25 Kruse, Frederic H. '25, September 20 Phillips, Bernerd D. '25, October 1 Bengtson, Walfrid E. '26, October 2 Cannon, John D. '26, September 1 Wheeler, Thomas B. '27, October 12 Wilder, Evan A. '27, September 6 Davis, Charles F. '28, August 2 Delaney, Daniel H. '29, September 25 Moulton, Ralph A. '29, July 8 Stokes, Edward P. '31, September 19 Valensi, Randolph E. '33, November 3 Noble, Arthur D. '34, October 6 Elsenhans, G. Edward '35, September 13 Stearns, Charles H. Jr. '35, October 20 Greenleaf, John A. '37, October 4 Clippinger, H. Foster '39, September 14 Goldstein, Max R. '39, October 19 Newton, Ray L. Jr. '39, October 19 Lade, Donald '41, August 9 Woolman, Edward E. '46, September 6 Thomas, Arthur R. '53, October 24 Hennessy, Terence J. '73, August 4
Faculty
HERBERT FAULKNER WEST '22, Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus, a favorite teacher of thousands of Dartmouth students over his 40-year teaching career, died November 9 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction, Vt., after a long illness. He was 76, and because of a heart ailment had been increasingly enfeebled over the past two years.
Professor West was a man of many talents. He was teacher, writer, critic, bookman, publisher, and artist. In both philosophy and practice he was a rugged individualist; a defender, even a preacher, of nonconformity (Thoreau was one of his heroes). Students flocked to his courses in large numbers, and in January 1962 he presented one of his watercolors to his 10,000th student at Dartmouth. Many of these students kept in touch with him after graduation, and no member of the faculty had a larger circle of friends among the alumni.
Professor West's teaching methods were not those of the formal scholar. He was accused of being a popularizer and of being too entertaining in his lectures. But this did not bother him; his aim, he said, was to get students to examine their beliefs, to think for themselves, to love reading, and to seek the truth not as a static but as a changing thing. His popularity and his non-conformist methods made him a campus personality, and this was not lessened by his frequent attacks on Dartmouth's educational and administrative policies. He denounced the growth of science and computerism at the expense of the humanities, and was caustic about what he considered an unnecessarily large administrative bureaucracy. When he gave his last lecture before retirement in 1964, he received the unprecedented tribute of having nearly a thousand students jam 105 Dartmouth Hall to hear him and to give him a seven-minute standing ovation at the end.
Professor West was for many years the chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature. He taught a variety of courses covering literary criticism and the philosophy and thought of English, French and German writers; but the two courses most identified with him were "Rebel Thought" and "The Nature Writers." In all his courses he hammered away at the theme of "free men' who will not be pushed against their will into the channels of conformity."
He was a voracious reader, and his love of books was as great as his love of teaching. He was one of the country's noted bibliophiles, and his collections of the first editions and manuscripts of English and American authors were outstanding. Nearly all of these he gave to the Dartmouth College Library after he had founded, in 1938, The Friends of the Dartmouth Library, an organization which since that year has greatly enriched the rare book collections of the College. Notable among the collections he gave were those of the works of Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham, whose biographer he was, Henry Williamson, Wilfred Scawen Blunt, Charles Doughty, and Henry Miller. Professor West served as director of The Friends for 25 years and assembled a group of alumni and friends of the College who over the years gave either books or money for their purchase, resulting in special collections now valued at millions of dollars.
In his travels to England he became the friend of Graham, Williamson, and H. M. Tomlinson. In this country his literary friends included Robert Frost, Ben Ames Williams, Kenneth Roberts, Henry Miller, H. L. Mencken, Henry Beston, J. Frank Dobie, and Charles Jackson.
The interest in books and authors led in turn to much writing about them. Professor West's first volume was The Dreamer of Devon, a small book about Henry Williamson, published in England in 1932. In that same year appeared A Modern Conquistador, a biography of Cunninghame-Graham, about whom he also wrote Don Roberto, a memorial essay, in 1936. One of Professor West's best known books, ModernBook Collecting for the Impecunious Amateur, was published in 1936, followed by The Nature Writers (1939), The Mind on the Wing (1947), Rebel Thought (1953), and Here's to Togetherness (1961), written with Corey Ford. His autobiography, The ImpecuniousAmateur Looks Back: The Autobiography of aBookman, appeared in 1966. A 12-volume journal, patterned after that of Thoreau, is now in microfilm.
Most of his shorter works were published by Westholm Publications, which Professor West founded in 1955. Perhaps the most notable of these was TheCoronary Club (1956), a short account of his experience with a heart attack in 1947 which he considered a boon because it led him into new endeavors and a more satisfying way of life. He also wrote a Dartmouth Alumni Magazine column, "Hanover Browsing," for 25 years, telling the alumni about the books he had read. He was associate editor of the Magazine and during World War II wrote and edited two special departments about Dartmouth men in service, "The Laureled Sons of Dartmouth" and "Round the Girdled Earth." He wrote many book reviews for the NewYork Times Book Review and was a frequent contributor to book journals.
Professor West engaged in bookselling by mail, and in this connection made many trips to England and throughout this country seeking rare volumes for his clients and for his own collection. After retiring froni the Dartmouth faculty in 1964, this business and his own publishing venture occupied the greater part of his time.
During a year's recuperation from his 1947 heart attack Professor West turned to painting, which he studied under his good friend, Paul Sample.
Professor West was born in Jamaica Plain, Mass on January 6, 1898, and attended Beverly High School' He enrolled at Pennsylvania State University but left to serve as an artilleryman with the A.E.F. in Europe during World War I. One of his war experiences is recounted in HMS Cephalonia (1969). After the war he came to Dartmouth and received his A.B. degree in 1922. He was a teaching fellow in English from 1922 to 1924, earning an A.M. degree. A graduate fellowship from the College enabled him to study abroad for one year, and in 1925 he returned as instructor in com- parative literature. He became assistant professor in 1928 and full professor in 1937. He did graduate study at the Sorbonne and at Harvard where he earned another A.M. degree in 1933. A grant from the Verney Foundation enabled him to go to England in 1963 for literary work.
Professor West was president of the Thoreau Society in 1955-56. He was elected president of the Howe Library Corporation of Hanover in 1960, and also served as a library trustee. He was a member of the Grolier Club, the New York American Club in London, Delta Upsilon fraternity, and Dragon senior society at Dartmouth.
During his fellowship year abroad, Professor West was married to Carin af Robson in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 23, 1925. She survives him with a son, Herbert F. West Jr. '56, who is an English professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Also surviving are four grandchildren.
After cremation, a private family burial took place November 13 at Pine Knolls Cemetery, Hanover. Memorial gifts are being made to the Howe Library, Hanover, N.H.
C.E.W.
1899
PAUL MOODY OSGOOD, the last surviving member of a 19th century Dartmouth Class, died October 22 in Somerville, Mass., at the Clarendon Hill Nursing Home. He would have reached his 97th birthday on February 26. His birthplace was Amesbury, Mass., but he had been a lifelong resident of Somerville.
P.M., as he was known to fellow undergraduates, was a member of Sigma Chi and of Dragon Society. He did office work for a Boston firm briefly following graduation. His life career was as a chemist with North Packing and Prov. Co. in his home town from 1905 to 1932 and in the same capacity for Swift and Company in Cambridge from 1932 until his retirement in 1938. He had belonged to the American Chemical Society and the American Oil Chemists Society.
In 1922 he married Marcella F. Kendall, daughter of Henry P. Kendall, Class of 1866. Mrs. Kendall survives him at 55 Oxford St., Somerville. There were no children.
In 1953 Paul wrote some details of his retirement years for a class publication, "Fishing is still our principal outdoor pleasure, and it took me many years to top my wife's record bass ... Yes, I'm enjoying my retirement. Plenty of odd jobs about an old house, but no one to boss and no alarm clock in the morning." The Osgoods were unable to attend the 60th Reunion in 1959, but maintained interest in the Class and College, an interest and family connection which spanned well over a century.
Interment was in Union Cemetery, Amesbury.
1908
HAROLD BICKFORD COGSWELL passed away on September 29. He had been taken ill on August 20 an" admitted to Symmes Hospital September 3. Funeral services were held in Arlington including a service. His body was flown to Chicago for in the Memorial Estates Cemetery in North Ridge near Oak Park, where he had lived for many years.
Harold was born October 20, 1885 in Haverhill, Mass. He moved to Concord, N.H., and prepared for Dartmouth in Concord High School. After graduating he began his career in the Mechanical Engineering office of the Boston and Maine R.R. In 1910 he moved to Schenectady, N.Y., with the American Locomotive Company, the beginning of a succession of advancing positions with such well-known companies as General American Tank Car Co., Illinois Central, and Electromotor Division of General Motors, from which he retired October 31, 1952.
After retirement he taught mechanical drawing at the Chicago Technical College until final retirement in December, 1964. Harold was married December 12, 1914 to Helen Howe Waterbury of Schenectady, N.Y., who passed away in September, 1952. There are no children. On January 6, 1971, Harold was married to Helen Wright Thomas, a widow with two grown sons. Helen had lived one year of her life in Hanover, teaching in a small boys school.
1909
MAURICE GORDON JEWETT died in a Milford, N.H., nursing home on September 13 following a long illness.
Maurice was born in Milford, N.H., on December 9, 1887 and came to Dartmouth from Milford High School. He was with the Class one year, rooming with Ben J. Barstow '09 in Thornton Hall.
Returning to Milford, he was employed at the Souhegan National Bank, became cashier, and served many years. In 1933, he formed the Jewett Insurance Agency and operated it many years. During his active career, he served Milford for 10 years as selectman, several terms as representative to the New Hampshire General Court, and as a member of the draft board. He was treasurer of the School District for over 40 years. He was president and director of the Milford Cooperative Bank, director of the Milford Building and Loan Association, director of the Milford Educational Fund, and director of the McLane Manufacturing Co. He served the First Congregational Church as trustee of the Trust Fund for over 40 years. He was one of the oldest past masters of Benevolent Lodge #7 F. & A.M. and past high priests of King Solomon Chapter #l7 R.A.M.
He was married to Alta S. Hayden on October 24, 1914 at Milford, N.H. She survives as do their three daughters, Mrs. Shirley E. Wheeler of Syracuse, N.Y.; Mrs. Marion Jackson, Milfoftt, N.H.; and Mrs. Dorothy Barry, Arlington, Mass. There are seven grandchildren, one of whom is Craig Jackson D'67, and six great-grandchildren.
Services were held in the First Congregational Church on September 16 with burial in Riverside Cemetery in Milford.
THOMAS OSCAR PARKER died suddenly at his home on King Hill Road, New London, N.H., on September 23.
Tom was born December 26, 1886 at Pepperell, Mass., and prepared for Dartmouth at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass.
Most of his life was spent in the educational field. He served at Kentucky Military Institute, Lydon, Ky.; Friends School, Wilmington, Del.; Berlin (N.H.) High School; Colby Academy, New London, N.H., when it was a boy's school; and Goddard School, Barre, Vt. From 1933-1935, he was a field secretary for camp, college, and school enrollment work. He then was at Stoneleigh College as an enrollment counselor and in 1944 was headmaster at Austin-Cate Academy. His last teaching was at Tilton Academy, Tilton, N.H.
Retiring from teaching, became associated with the Child Safety Council of Jackson, Mich., and Promoted its interests until his death.
Tom was married to Lucy E. Woodward at pepperell, Mass., on June I, 1910. She survives, as do sons ichard A. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. and Philip W. of New London, N.H. Daughter Ruth, Mrs. Edwin L. Wilkins, lives, at 5 Warimoo Ave., N5 W St., Ives, Australia. There are 12 grandchildren.
Funeral Serv'ces were held at the convenience of the family
1913
LOUIS MORSE FISHEL of 71 Edmont St., Brookline Mass., died July 16. He was born in Boston October 12, 1891 and graduated with a B.S. degree in '13. He married Helen M. Ehrenfried in Boston December 29, 1919. She died in 1925.
Lou volunteered as a private in World War I, served in France, and received an officer's commission. Upon his return, he joined the family firm, Leopold Morse Co., one of the nation's first clothing (mens) manufacturers.
Lou suffered many tragedies in his thirties both his brothers (who graduated from Wharton School and Brown) died, as did his wife.
He became associated as a stockbroker with Hornblower and Weeks of Boston. Then, in his later years, he worked with an industrial engineer, William F. Collins. His family, friends and all associated with him fondly remember him for his never-failing sense of humor and good nature.
Besides his daughter, Helen Fishel Berman, Lou leaves two grandchildren with whom he had lived for 15 years. The Class extends sympathy to the family.
1915
THOMAS JAMES CONNELLY died September 3 in Portsmouth, N.H., after a long illness.
Tom was graduated from Exeter Academy and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1915. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
For many years he made his home in Rye Beach, N.H. He served as deputy collector in the Portsmouth office of the Internal Revenue Service. He also operated an insurance agency. He was a selectman in the town of Newmarket for a number of years.
He is survived by his widow, Jennie (Stanina) Connelly, to whom a letter of sympathy has been sent.
1916
CHARLES CARLTON HITCHCOCK, affectionately known to his friends and family as Shorty, died October 21 in a California hospital where he had been a patient for five days following a heart attack.
Born December 1, 1894 in Detroit, he grew up and received his early education there. As an undergraduate he became a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and won his numerals in football and track.
Early in World War I, Shorty joined the Navy as an ensign, based in New York City. There he met and married Lucy Madeleine Hoar. Their marriage was dissolved in 1936 and she died in- 1941. After the war the Hitchcocks lived in the East until moving to California in 1923. Entering the insurance business with the Loyalty Group, which became Continental Insurance Corp., he served as a special agent with the company for 35 years until his retirement in 1960.
In 1937 Shorty married Lillian Stanton who predeceased him in 1967. Following her death, he went to live near his son Robert in Orange, Calif.
During World War II he returned to active Navy service as a lieutenant, serving on a seaplane tender in the South Pacific and being discharged with the rank of commander.
Shorty was a strong personality: He was kind, friendly, and had a keen sense of humor. Enthusiastically patriotic, he was active in the American Legion, V.F.W., and Reserve Officers Association. An omniverous reader, he had a special appreciation for poetry. He loved the sea and ships, and enjoyed being referred to as "The Ancient Mariner." He gave three days a week as a volunteer for the American Red Cross.
Surviving beside his son are a brother David I. '15; two grandsons, and one great-granddaughter and two great-grandsons. Shorty was the grandson of Homer O. Hitchcock of the Class of 1851.
1917
ROBERT CLARK BOYNTON passed away in Hanover, N.H., on October 20. He had been ill for some time and succumbed at the Hanover Convalescent Home after a relatively brief illness.
At Dartmouth he joined Tri Kap. Following graduation, Bob served as YMCA secretary in Newport, R.I. Turning to business, his first connections were with the Universal Winding Company of Providence, and later with the New York Telephone Company as a methods accountant. But the lure of his homesite in Rutland, Vt., brought him back to that city where he decided to enter the hotel business. For many years he operated the Hotel Berwick as well as a motel known as the Topside in Booth Bay Harbor, Me. Bob still maintained a summer home at that address as well as his year-round residence in Hanover, N.H., to which he moved after retirement from business in 1958.
In 1922 Bob married Gail Wilson who died last year. He is survived by two sons, Wilson C. of Holyoke, Mass., and John W. of Southport, Conn., as well as nine grandchildren. Memorial Services were held at the White Church in Hanover, N.H., on October 25 with the Rev. Davenport presiding. The Class of 1917 was fortunate in having Bob with us as its president over the last three years. As we had closer personal contacts with him his loyalty to the College, his interest in people as well as his dependability as a leader of our Class, was recognized. The loss to the Class and his community will be great.
FORREST SMITH EMERY died in Boston, Mass., on September 6. Like the majority of Seventeeners, Forrey enlisted to serve in World War I as early as May 15, 1917. He was commissioned second lieutenant of Infantry in August of that year. Subsequently he was transferred to the Air Service and served in the Royal Flying Corps in Canada as well as the U.S. Air Service in Texas. At the time of his discharge in January 1919 he was rewarded with the rank of first lieutenant, Air Service.
Turning to business interests after the War, Forrey was employed by J. G. White and Company Investment Bankers in Boston. Shortly thereafter he started his own investment business, F. S. Emery and Company, in that city. This interest was maintained from 1828 to 1966, at which time he decided upon semiretirement. From 1966-1974 he still kept contact with his many friends and clients through associated brokers.
Funeral services were held at the Waterman Chapel in Boston on September 9. Interment followed at Durham Cemetery in Durham, N.H.
He is survived by his widow Aletha (Cann), a daughter Mrs. Francis Hills of Cleveland, Ohio, two stepsons, William Hayward of Rye, N.H., and Claude Hayward of Honolulu, Hawaii, and five grandchildren.
Forrey was the type who quietly was of great help to many of his classmates during his, business career in Boston. He was a loyal friend and in his passing the Class of 1917 has lost one of its respected and devoted members.
FREDERIC WILLIAM GATES passed away on July 29 at his home in Massillon, Ohio. Following graduation from Dartmouth, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a machine gunner at Camp Sherman, Ohio, on May 31, 1918. He was soon assigned to the 323rd Machine Gun Bat. which operated in France where he served for a period of months, returning to his home in February of 1919.
Fred then went to work for the Central Steel Company. Always a fine student, he decided to take up the profession of accounting, and at the same time studied law. He was soon rated a senior accountant in the employ of Ernst and Ernst in Canton, Ohio. He received his law degree from the former William McKinley Law School in Canton, and was admitted to the bar in 1932.
His civic interests included numerous appointments such as secretary of the Massillon Public Library, treasurer of the Massillon Museum Committee, and post historian of the American Legion. He also served as secretary-treasurer of the Charity School of Kendell from 1944 to 1972. As a member of the St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, he was elected to the Vestry, was church historian, and treasurer. During this tenure he also published a history of the church. An active leader in the Boy Scouts, he served as Scout Master locally and was a member of the Buckeye Council of the Boy Scouts of America from 1929 to 1946. He is survived by his widow Madaleine and several neices and nephews.
Our classmate JULIUS FREDERICK KUECH died in Brattleboro on August 30. He was born in Brattleboro, Vt., May 5, 1984, and was a graduate of Brattleboro High School.
Julius was one of the Class who enlisted in July of 1917 with the American Field Service in the French Army and served with that army until October 1917. At that time he transferred to the American Army and served with the Motor Transport Corp until August 1918. He was discharged with the rank of sergeant in June of 1919.
Julius returned to Brattleboro and became affiliated with his father in the F. W. Kuech and Company store on Main Street, a women's apparel store. At his retirement in 1965 he had been associated with Main Street's oldest store for nearly 50 years. He was a member of the Center Congregational Church, a former auditor of its Sunday School, a member of the American Legion Post 5, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Mount Sinai Shrine Temple in Montpelier. Among his several civic duties, he was most active in performing final military rites for deceased veterans. Unless prevented by illness or absence from town, he officiated at folding the American Flag at the services held in honor of veterans.
At his funeral, delegations represented the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Daughters of Isabella, and the Brattleboro Lodge of Masons. Julius did not marry. There are no surviving relatives. As indicated above he was a quiet, consistent business man. He maintained an interest in his college over the many years, and was a regular contributor to the Alumni Fund.
1918
LEICESTER KENT MC EL WAIN sustained a severe head injury in September 1973 and was hospitalized for about a month. He never really recovered from the severe fracture and after returning to the hospital twice he passed away in his sleep July 18.
Leicester was born in Holyoke, Mass., and is survived by one sister, Mrs. A. Charles (Louise) Waghorne. He was 79 years old and retired from service in the Chase Manhattan Bank in 1960. For many years he lived at the Dartmouth Club of New York and was an ardent Dartmouth alumnus.
1922
LEWIS FRANKLIN DETTENBORN JR., retired officer of the L. F. Dettenborn Woodworking Co., passed away October 13, in a Hartford, Conn., convalescent home. His health had been failing for quite some time.
A native of Hartford, Dett was born February 1, 1899. Transferring from Trinity College, he joined 1922 at the beginning of our sophomore year. He was a sincere, friendly, highly regarded classmate, and a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
He was a lifelong resident of the Hartford area where, after graduation, his business career was in the L. F. Dettenborn Woodworking Co. Founded by his father, the firm made store fixtures, cabinetwork, architectural woodwork, and church furniture. For many years Dett was active in the management of the company before he retired about five years ago.
He belonged to the West Hartford Congregational Church, the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, and the Old Guard of West Hartford. He was also an adviser of Junior Achievement.
Dett in 1930 married Jane M. Salmonsen. The sister of Christian Salmonsen '17 and John Salmonsen '22, she passed away in 1959.
He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Deborah Cheney of Pendleton, Ore.; two grandchildren, and three sisters in West Hartford.
Dett was a loyal alumnus and it is significant that the obituary in the Hartford Courant closed by stating that memorial donations might be made to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. The Class joins the family in sorrow
EDWARD EVERETT KAPLAN, retired merchant and farmer, died October 17, 1974, in St. Vincent Hospital Worcester, Mass., after a brief illness.
Ed was born November 5, 1900, in Ware, Mass., and prepared for college at the high school there. Being under age 18 when he entered Dartmouth in September 1918, he was a member of the distinctive Company I in the Student Army Training Corps. He was a proficient scholar, attended Tuck School in his senior year, and graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key and the respect of all classmates.
He then returned to Ware and entered the firm of his father and brother, S. Kaplan and Sons, which owned clothing and department stores in five central Massachusetts communities: Athol, Barre, South Barre, Gardner, and Ware. From 1929 to 1931 he worked in the retail merchandising department of R. H. White Co. in Boston. He next went to manage the Kaplan store in Athol and in 1936 he returned to the Ware store as its manager. He continued there for 15 years until he retired from business and began the management of his farm in Oakum, Mass., where as he expressed it, "I do a little farming in season."
He belonged to B'nai B'rith of Worcester, the Masonic Lodge, and the Republican Party,
Ed did not marry. He is survived by two brothers and several nieces and nephews. The Class offers its deepest sympathy to them.
1924
HARRY HARRIS died on August 24. He was a resident of Newport Beach, Calif., and had been associated with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company since 1924.
He was with the Class in Hanover for freshman year after which he attended the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Mason and a member of the Friends Meeting. He was also a member of the Million Dollar Round Table in 1953.
He is survived by his widow Alice whom he married in 1939.
1925
FREDERIC HARMAN KRUSE died suddenly September 20 at his home in Vermont. He was born May 30, 1904 in Brooklyn, N.Y., and came to college from Erasmus Hall High School.
Fred was with the Para Manufacturing Co. in New York City during most of his business career and was executive vice president and a member of the board of directors prior to retirement.
He lived and worked in the New York area all his life until the later years when he divided his time between Connecticut and Vermont. While he was with us in college only a year or two, Fred was devoted to Dartmouth and he and his wife had spent a happy Labor Day weekend in Hanover shortly before his death.
Fred is survived by his widow Marion, a son Frederic Jr., and a daughter Carolyn.
CYRIL FRANCIS PENNEY died September 6 in Hahnemann Hospital, Worcester, Mass., of cancer of the liver. He was born June 15, 1903 in Worcester and graduated from North High School there.
Jake played freshman baseball in college and was a member of Alpha Chi Rho. He remained actively in- terested in Dartmouth following graduation, served many years as a class agent, and was active in the Dartmouth Club of Worcester, being president in 1953. His son James F. '53 wrote of his father, "His devotion to Dartmouth was deep and well known."
His business career was with the Tatnuck Ice Co., founded by his father, and Jake was president for man) years. He was a member of the Congregational Church and served as president of the Churchman's Guild.
Jake is survived by his widow, the former Rut'1 Dodge; his son in Amherst, N.H.; a daughter, Mrs' David W. Barnard, of Worcester; a brother, a sister, and seven grandchildren.
BERNARD DAVID PHILLIPS died October 1 in Boston, Mass. He was born there July 11, 1904 and came to Dartmouth from Herblit's Preparatory School. He was a member of Pi Lambda Phi.
Bernie was president of the Rex Co., Cambridge, manufacturers of plastic coated wire and cable, and retired in 1947. After that he devoted himself to volunteer hospital work and his hobbies of photography and travel.
He was married in 1933 to Beatrice Feingold, who survives him. Funeral services were at the Levine Chapel in Brookline on October 3.
ROBERT CUSHMAN SAWYER died September 30 in Ossipee, N.H., after a sudden illness. He was born March 13, 1899 in Concord, N.H., and came to Dartmouth from Concord High School and New Hampshire College. He was a member of Kappa Sigma.
After leaving college Bob was engaged in engineering and general contracting from 1924 to 1933. In that year he became Clerk of Superior Court in Carroll County, N.H., and continued in this position until retirement in 1964. He was then engaged in real estate development as vice president of White and Sawyer, Inc., Ossipee, N.H.
Bob was a private in World War I. In the second one he was involved in civil defense and then in the local draft board. He was a deacon in the Second Congregational Church.
He is survived by his wife, the former Phyllis Hodgdon, a son Robert C. Jr. '49 of Greenfield, Mass., a brother, two sisters, and six grandchildren.
1926
WALFRID EUGENE BENGTSON passed away October 2 at Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, Conn., of cancer of the lung after two years of progressive illness. He was born December 17, 1902 in Stamford, Conn., graduated from Greenwich High School and continued to reside in Greenwich all his life. After taking his B.S. degree at Dartmouth in 1926, Shorty continued at Thayer School and graduated in 1927 with a Civil Engineer degree.
Shorty spent his entire business career with the New York Telephone Co. as an engineer on the operational staff which set rates on new equipment. He was responsible for rates set on the first telephones installed in automobiles, trains, boats, etc.
He married Margaret Yeager in New York City February 23, 1929 and their family consists of: Peter, a graduate of Duke University who took a Master's degree at Leland Stanford and is in the Public Health Service; Mrs. Basil (Ann) Clark, a graduate of University of Connecticut, who took a Master's degree at Ohio State; and Mrs. William (Elizabeth) Swan who graduated last June from University of New Hampshire.
The Class shares the loss of Shorty with Margaret, who is continuing her residence at 131 E. Elm Street, Greenwich, and her family.
JOHN DONER CANNON died suddenly September 1 at the Memorial Hospital, Pottstown, Pa., of an aneurysm. He was born in Chicago, Ill., August 1, 1904 and graduated from Nicholas Senn High School. At Dartmouth Jack was president of the Interfraternity Council and was a member of Sigma Chi and Delta Omicron Gamma. He was an active, well-known classmate who gave and received much during his Dartmouth experience.
During his early business career Jack was in various ventures starting with being with the Chicago Board of Trade, then with Central Chemical Co., McColl Corp., Tobey Furniture Co. and Harpers Bazaar. In 1951 he joined the U.S. Marines while living in Hanover, became a major and served in the Pacific theatre during World War II and later in Korea. He was awarded the PUrple e Heart and retired as a full colonel. He then became affiliated with Chrysler Corp. in the Defense SPace Group from which he retired in 1969.
Jack married Marjorie Pierson September 1, 1954 in Arlington, Va. After retirement an antique shop in St. Peter's Village, Pa., together with a specialized mail order business of home-fashioned quilts had been their hobby.
A full military funeral was accorded Jack by the U.S. Marine Corps at the Arlington, Va., National Cemetery. 1926 sends its sincere sympathy to Margaret, who will continue her residence in Barto, Pa.; to their son Dexter, who is at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence; and to their daughter Lisa.
WILLIAM KENNETH KORTEN died July 21, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Il. He was born in Chicago January 19, 1904 and graduated from Morgan Park High School. At Dartmouth he played in the band all four years and in the Players orchestra for three years and was managing editor of Dartmouth Pictorial. He was a member of Sigma Nu.
Ever since graduation Ken was in the hospital dietary supply business under the name of Korten Bros. Co. of which he became president and owner.
In 1930 he married Paula Smutz in Ames, lowa. His wife predeceased him and his only survivor is his brother Richard. The Class sends its sincere sympathy to him.
1927
CLIFTON BOSWELL CHEATHAM JR., 70, of Sebring, Fla., died September 15, in the Winterhaven, Fla., hospital from pneumonia and heart complications following an operation on his esophagus.
Bull Cheatham came to Dartmouth from Henderson, N.C., following preparatory school at Culver. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Dragon Senior Society. He majored in English literature.
Following graduation C. B. went to work for a subsidiary of Universal Leaf Tobacco Co., using his own plane to cover the southeastern part of the country. Then for several years he represented the company in Europe.
In 1940 he married Anne Smith. Later they bought a farm near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and he turned to raising Black Angus cattle. Shortly after World War II he entered government service for a short time, helping European nations reorganize their tobacco industry. He then returned to farming until his retirement to Florida a few years ago.
C.B.'s wife died in 1948, and he is survived by a stepson, John F. Smith Ill, of San Francisco, as well as two brothers and four sisters.
EVAN ADAMS WILDER died Friday, September 6, at the Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital, Whitesburg, Kentucky. He was born May 1, 1905, being 69 years of age at the time of his passing.
Ev is survived by his wife, Eula Naomi Kissee Wilder, whom he married June 2, 1931. Also surviving are two sons, Paul Evan Wilder, of Kingstree, S.C., and Frank Adams Wilder, of Burlington, Vt.; two daughters, Lorraine Gertrude Hayes, of Ashland, Ore., and Rachel May Wilder, of Chicago, 111.; and one sister, Grace Larudee of Beirut, Lebanon; and two grandsons.
Ev was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1927, with a B.S. degree in mathematics and received his second degree in civil engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering.
He retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1965, as a civil engineer after 30 years of civilian government service.
Following his retirement he entered teaching at Wentworth Institute in Massachusetts. In the spring of 1966 he received a call from the founders of Calvary College in Letcher, Ky., and became a charter member of the faculty and business manager of the College.
The time and energy of both Ev and Eula had been donated to the College where he served for eight years.
ROY LEONARD FLANNERY, 71, died August 9, in St. Joseph's Hospital, Chicago, after a short illness. Funeral services were held at St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church.
Roy came to Dartmouth after graduating from Worcester Academy. At Dartmouth he was active in The Players and was a member of Sigma Chi.
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