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.)
Bradley, Frederick O. '02, November 6 Barker, Edward B. ’07, December 25 Graves, H. Wilbur ’09, October 20 Langdell, Louis C. ’10, December 16 Mower, Emory D. '10, December 3 Cousens, Lewis H. '18, November 20 Fitts, Dana W. '22, December 21 Weare, John S. '22, November 26 Young, John P. '23, July 20 Kittle, James N. '24, November 28 Smyth, William P. '26, December 23 Reynolds, Victor G. F. '27, December 22 Kerr, Alexander B. '28, December 1 Kerr, John A. '28, December 13 Rendell, Richard G. '28, December 4 Hindes, James G. '32. December 3 Barcella, Ernest L. '34, January 19 Abbott, Brian E. '39, October 3 Peterson, Sumner W. '40, November 30 Hathaway, John S. '43, November 8 Williams, Robert A. '43, December 29 Thompson, Cyril S. '44, December 26 Little, George R. '46, January 1, 1974 Pollard, Rowland P. '57, December 3 Gelinas, Peter J. '62, November 8
1907
ORLANDO CHESTER DAVIS died November 20 at a nursing home in Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Orlando was born May 23, 1884 at Lowell, Mass., and prepared for college at the high school there. He was a memeber of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. His career had been entirely in library work. He served as librarian in public libraries including those in Waltham, Mass., 1910-22; East Chicago, Ind., 1923-24; Hammond, Ind., 1925-26; and Bridgeport, Conn., 1926-34. He was chief librarian of the circulation division of the Boston Public Library from 1934-52 and was a trustee and secretary of the Medway (Mass.) Public Library.
Orlando received various honors in his profession and held various positions in churches. He also was in library service in camps and served in France from 1918 to 1919.
He married Anna May Wilson, a graduate of Massachusetts Normal Art School on April 28, 1909.
Since retirement in 1957 Orlando had been living in Florida, in Clearwater and later in Tarpon Springs. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church and the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Clearwater.
Survivors include his wife Anna; two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Carol) Hamilton, Thornton, Pa.; and Mrs. George S. (Marian) Loaff, Andover, Mass; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held at Moss Fort Harrison Chapel and burial was in the Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park. Clearwater. The Class of 1907 has lost a very loyal classmate.
1912
Johnny O'Connor made a name for himself as a psychometrician and for the past 51 years he had been head of the Human Engineering Laboratory which he founded. Death came to him on July 1 in Mexico City where he was preparing to return home. He had been in Southern Mexico developing a series of work samples to test Zapotec Indians in their native tongue and at that time he contracted an illness.
JOHNSON O'CONNOR was born in Chicago, Ill., on January 22, 1891. He prepared for college at University High School in that city, entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1912, and after one year transferred to Harvard where he received his A.B. degree in 1913 and an M.A. degree in 1914. After years of astronomical mathematical research with Percival Lowell, and of metallurgical research with American Steel and Wire Company at Worcester, Mass., and two years of electrical engineering with General Electric Company at West Lynn. Mass., in 1922 he organized for that company the Human Engineering Laboratory to study applicants and new employees. In 1930 he set up this institution at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he had been a lecturer since 1928, and where he was associate professor and director of psychological studies from 1931 to 1946. In 1942 this organization became the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation of which he was president and director.
He was also president and director of Human Engineering Laboratory at Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Tulsa and Los Angeles; of Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation of New York City. Detroit, and Ontario, and of Johnson O'Connor de Mexico. In addition he was lecturer of psychology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1928-1931, and assistant professor 1931-1934. It was almost by accident that he became a leading authority on English vocabulary, when he found that vocabulary determines how far one will go in attaining the greatest satisfaction. He was carried in Who's Who in America.
Mr. O'Connor wrote several books as well as magazine articles.
He was awarded a Wertheim Fellowship in 1927, and was a Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1946 he was a member of the Secretary of the Navy's Civilian Advisory Committee.
On December 17, 1913 he married Ruth M. Davis of Lynn. Ruth died in February 1920. On June 3, 1931 Johnson married Eleanor Manning of Lynn who died 12 days after her husband. He is survived by one son. A memorial service was planned for a later date. Although Johnson evinced little interest in Dartmouth he has kept in touch with the class secretary during the past decade.
Guy Swenson slipped away from among us on December 2, at Concord, N.H., following a massive cerebral hemorrhage the previous day. Ever since an attack of coronary thrombosis in 1964 he never fully recovered his health and was growing slowly but progressively weaker with increasing difficulty getting about. He had a fall in August 1973 when he fractured one shoulder. He was hospitalized for several weeks and then transferred to a nursing home in the middle of September from which he never returned to his home.
GUY ANDREW SWENSON was born at Concord on November 25, 1888. He was a manufacturer of granite in Concord and was associated with the John Swanson Granite Co., Inc., from 1913 until his death at which time he was honorary chairman of the company.
Guy was at Dartmouth only one year where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He transferred to Massachusetts Institute of Technology from which he received a B.S. in 1913. His association with Dartmouth was enhanced by the fact that he returned to Hanover the day following the Class of 1912 graduation to work on the construction of North and South Massachusetts dormitories. He was a frequent attendant at the home games of the football teams to which he was accompanied by one or more of his sons.
Service in World War I began with two months in the civilian employ of the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Devans, following which he entered the Second Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg, N.Y., on August 24, 1917. and three days later was commissioned a first lieutenant in field artillery. There followed service at Camp Stanley. Texas, Camp Wheeler. Georgia, and Camp Jackson, South Carolina. As a member of Battery B, 116th Field Artillery. 31st Division he went into the American Expeditionary Force in October 1918 and was sent to Camp Coetquidon for training. He was discharged from the Army in January 1919.
Guy was a representative in the New Hampshire House for one term, and served as police commissioner at Concord for 12 years. He was a trustee of Golden Rule Farm in Northfield and of Colt House in Concord in the days when both were active in the care of children. He was a director of the Northern Railroad and the New England Council; a member of the Newcomen Society of North America and the Snow Shoe Club of Concord, the Concord Post, American Legion and the New England Chiefs Association. At St. Paul's Episcopal Church he served as vestryman and junior and senior warden and at the time of his death was senior warden emeritus.
On June 19, 1920 Guy Swenson married Mildred H. Bolan of Providence, R.I. He is survived by three sons, Guy A. Jr. '42, David E., and Malcolm '59; also by two daughters, one sister, and six grandchildren.
The sympathy of his classmates is extended to his family.
1918
He was a hearty man and determined competitor with a good sense of humor and a firm hand shake. Such was LEWIS HOBART COUSENS, on whom the final whistle blew on November 20, 1973 at the Sanford. Maine Hospital.
Born April 6. 1894 at East Boston, Mass., his family later resided in Arlington, Mass., where Lew excelled in athletics, being a member of the Arlington High School football, hockey, baseball and track teams.
At Dartmouth he won his numerals in football and was a member of the varsity football squad his sophomore year. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
After the United States entered World War I Lew enlisted in the Navy, was stationed in Newport, R.I., attended his commencement in a sailor's uniform and became an ensign.
His business career was with the former Hunt-Rankin Co., Peabody, Mass., from which he retired in 1953. He was then living in Salem, Mass. Later he resided in Westmoreland, N.H. He was a 50-year member of Hiram Lodge F & A.M. of Arlington, Mass., member of the Westmoreland Congregational Church, Westmoreland Budget Committee, and the Westmoreland Mens' Club.
He married Helen Greene (Smith 1917) on June 11, 1919. She survives him in Westmoreland as do two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Axtell of Wenham, Mass., and Mrs. Nancy Leigh of York, Me., eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
1919
AVEDIS MIRIDJANIAN died on August 28, 1973 at the Kaiser Hospital in La Mesa, Calif, after a brief illness. Since his retirement he had lived in La Jolla, Calif.
Born in Turkey, he was in the textile business in New York City until his retirement. He was a very loyal and popular member of the Class.
He is survived by his widow Katherine and a daughter Anoush who is a graduate of Yale Medical School.
1920
FRANCIS ELMER TRENT passed away at the age of 74 in the Mercy Hospital, Toledo, Ohio, on July 14.
Fran entered Dartmouth from Scott High School, Toledo, in 1916 and was active on campus as a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity and on the administrative staff of the Jacko. During W. W. I he was absent briefly from college with the U.S. Army. His last tour of duty was as an officer candidate at Camp Lee, Va.
Following graduation he returned to Toledo and was engaged in the silk goods business with his father who conducted the Trent Silk Company until well into the turbulent days in the economy during the 19305.
Fran married at an early date and assumed the responsibilities of a family man earlier than most of us. His first wife was a widow with three children. This marriage ended in divorce in the late thirties. Trentie remarried in 1953 but lost his second wife in 1965.
For many years he made his home in Perrysburg, Ohio, but in the later years he moved to Toledo at 330 Melrose Avenue until his death. His business career was largely in the selling field as a sales representative.
A quiet, conscientious fellow, Fran left his body to the College of Medicine of Ohio and requested that any contributions in his memory be given to the American Cancer Society. His loyalty to Dartmouth was made manifest by his contributions to the Alumni Fund.
He left no direct issue. His nearest of kin was Master Sgt. Ronald Hartman, a foster son, who is married and has a daughter.
1921
HENRY FRANCIS O'MALLEY died November 5, 1973. He was approaching his 73rd birthday. He was born November 13, 1900 in Worcester, Mass., the son of Michael and Julia O'Malley.
He left Dartmouth at the end of the sophomore year and entered Georgetown University Law School.
As a career he went into casualty and surety insurance and joined the Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. at 151 William St., New York City.
He resided in Roslyn Harbor. L.I. until his death. Details of his death and burial are not available. His wife Margaret and four daughters survive him.
SUMNER AUGUSTUS PERKINS passed away December 16 after a long illness. He was born May 15, 1899 in Brooklyn, N.Y., and entered Dartmouth from Holten High School of Danvers, Mass. He was a member of the Cosmos Club.
He was married June 10. 1939 to the former Elizabeth (Betty) Chase who survives him. There were no children.
During World War I Gus served with the Army at Plattsburg N.Y. and Camp Lee. Va.
His business career began in 1922 when he joined the N.Y. Telephone Co. which later became New Jersey Bell Co. He retired in 1954 after 31 years of service. After living for a time in Newton. N.J., he and Betty took up residence in Leisure Village in Lakewood N.J., until his illness.
He was a member of Arcana Lodge No. 60 F. & AM. and served as Worshipful Master in 1941. He was also a member of Camp Mogisca Camp Committee of the Morris Area Girl Scout Council. After moving to Sussex County he formed the Sussex and North Warren Girl Scout Council becoming its first registrar and later served as treasurer.
He belonged to the Branchville Business Men's Club and was treasurer from 1956 to 1972. He joined the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern Jersey and later became its secretary.
At his wish it was decreed that his body be sent to Rutgers University for scientific research.
WILBUR KIRKLAND DORAN passed away October 23, 1973. Born in Dover, N.H. on August 10. 1898 he attended Laconia (N.H.) High School having been a four-letter man in football and baseball, and was class president for two years.
At Dartmouth he roomed freshman year in Richardson Hall with James W. Stanley. He left college after his freshman year.
He was married to Myla Cavis, a cousin of Chan Cavis, on June 27, 1924. There were three children. Sally, Patricia, and Robert. The latter graduated from Dartmouth in 1957.
Wilbur was engaged in the real estate and insurance business.
During World War II he was a member of the local draft board and supervisor of observation posts.
There are no details on his funeral or interment.
1922
GEORGE DEWEY BUSHER. 75, realtor, attorney, and civic leader, died December 8. 1973, at his home, 22 Cassilis Ave., Bronxville, N.Y.
Chick, as all classmates affectionately knew him was a native of the Bronx. In college he was a popular highly esteemed classmate, a member of Chi Phi and Casque and Gauntlet.
Following graduation he joined his father's real estate and insurance firm, Eugene J. Busher Co., Inc. where he continued his business career for more than 50 years. In the early twenties, he also entered Fordham Law School, received his L.L.B. degree in 1926 and was admitted to the New York Bar. In 1935 he was admitted to the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.
He served as president of the Real Estate Board of the Bronx and as president of the Bronx Board of Trade. He was an honorary trustee of Fordham University and former chairman of the advisory board of Bronx Community College. He was also a director of the New York Chapter of the American Red Cross.
He likewise served as a board member of Fordham Hospital, of the Bronx Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Bronx Council of Boy Scouts of America, and as vice chairman of the Greater New York Fund, and Bronx chairman of the committee to Keep New York City Clean. He was a former honorary chairman of the New York City Department of Commerce.
He was a trustee of the Bronx Savings Bank, a former director of Lawyers Title Company, and a member of the Bronx advisory board of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.
He held membership in the Union League Club of New York, the Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, N.Y., and the Rhode Island Country Club, West Barrington, R.I., which was near his summer home in Swansea, Mass.
In all his associations. Chick always kept Dartmouth close to his heart. He was a loyal alumnus and it was particularly pleasing to have him back at our Fiftieth.
Chick and Josephine G. Lane of Evanston, Ill. were married January 18, 1929. She survives him together with their daughter Joan, Mrs. Wallace Kain; their son Eugene L., four grandchildren, and Chick's two brothers. All classmates and Dartmouth alumni join the family in deepest bereavement.
A Mass of the Resurrection was said on December 11 in St. Joseph's Church, Bronxville.
JOHN STEPHEN WEARE, retired vice president of Cambridge Rubber Co., passed away November 26, 1973, at Hot Springs, Ark. He had been intermittently in the local hospital since last April.
Johnny was born December 6, 1900 in Newburyport, Mass., and in September 1918 he entered Dartmouth from Governor Dummer Academy. Being under age 18 at that time, he and 101 other classmates served together in notable Company I of the Student Army Training Corps. A member of Alpha Chi Rho, he is remembered by all classmates as a sincere, friendly student.
His business career was in sales and management. After graduation he initially worked with the Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, Mass., and in the mid-twenties he became manager of its Cleveland office. Sometime later he and his family moved to Evanston and he worked with the Cambridge Rubber Co. as its Chicago manager. Twenty years later he became general sales manager and subsequently vice president. After 40 years with the company he retired four years ago.
Since then he and his wife Ruth had lived at 105 East Borroughs Shore Drive, Hot Springs, Ark. They thoroughly enjoyed retirement and spent many happy hours together fishing on Lake Hamilton. Johnny was likewise an avid golfer and a member of the Hot Springs Golf Club. They both were also active members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Johnny had deep affection for Dartmouth and he frequently remarked how glad he was that he and Ruth were able to be with the Class at our Fiftieth which they and we enjoyed so much.
John and Ruth L. Mason were married July 21, 1926 in Newton, Mass. She, their two sons, John S. Jr. and F. Mason '51; their daughter Carolyn, Mrs. Robert C. Shaw, six grandchildren, and John's two sisters survive him. And what could be more appropriate than Ruth's summary of our classmate, "He was a great guy and we had 47 years of happy, rewarding life together."
The funeral services on November 29 were conducted by the ministers of the Westminster Presbyterian Church.
1923
LAURENCE MORSE CURTIS of 56 Charlotte Road, Newton Center, Mass., died December 11, 1973 at Newton-Wellesley Hospital following a heart attack.
Larry was born in Boston, Mass. on October 30. 1901 and entered Dartmouth from Winchester (Mass.) High School. After two years at Hanover he transferred to Tufts College where he received his B.C. degree in 1925.
A claims executive for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., he retired in 1966 following 41 years association with that firm. In the earlier period of his claims work he was attached to the Southern District of the U.S. and was claims manager of the Washington, D.C., office.
A member of Alpha Tau Omega, Larry acted as Alumni Advisor for the Tufts Chapter, became a member of that fraternity's Golden Circle, and was a past national officer. During World War II he was an officer in the Coast Guard Auxiliary Reserve.
Larry's survivors include his widow, the former Millicent Shaw, whom he married in 1939, also three children, Laurence Jr., of Newton, Craig S. of East Lyme, Conn, and Holly of Brookline, Mass. and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at Trinity Episcopal Church, Newton Center, with interment in Grove Cemetary, Freeport, Me.
1924
When I read the news clipping of CARROLL BENJAMIN FOSTER'S death, on December 16, 1973, I turned to the other sources to help write an appropriate obituary for the Class. Our record was very scanty, the College file was both scanty and impersonal - but I am assured by his widow, Mim, that the excellent writeup in our 40-year book, most of it in Pop's own words, "tells the story as it is." For which I am grateful, and to which I add only the following details.
Pop was born on April 22, 1902, in Wallingford, Conn., and came to Dartmouth from Lyman Hall High School; he was best known at Dartmouth for running the relays all four years; his fraternity was Beta Theta Pi, and he was also a member of Sphinx and Green Key. A year after graduation he married Miriam (Mim) Lum. The first four years of his career were with the Southern New England telephone company; then he came to Hartford in 1928 to the only other employer he ever had: Travellers Insurance Company. His two children - Peter '48, and William '51 - were born in 1927 and 1929, respectively. As our record shows, Pop was an assistant auditor in 1941 and auditor (for multiple line insurance) in 1951 and thereafter until his retirement. There had been warnings of heart trouble, but one is never ready for the big one.
For the rest, the 40-year book reveals more of Pop than all our records put together. As he misses our 50th Reunion which he had looked forward to attending, so he will be missed by us all. He is survived by his wife Mim and also by a brother, Kendall Foster '26 and by a brother-in-law, Edwin Knapp '33.
WILLIAM BOWMER MINARY, of 3610 Lakeshore Drive, St. Joseph, Mich., a retired real estate investor, died Tuesday, November 13, 1973, in Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, following a heart attack. He was visiting his brother in New York at the time of his death.
Bill was born September 23, 1902, in Springfield, Ill., the son of Charles K. and Margaret Minary. His father was the president of the Benton Harbor-St. Joseph Railway and Light Co., and was president of the Berrien County Bank for many years. After graduation in 1924 Bill attended Northwestern University Graduate School of Business. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Benton Harbor (Michigan) High School. Since 1927 Bill spent most of his time supervising family investments in Michigan. In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma.
Surviving is a brother John '29 of New York City.
It is probable that S. DICKSON MOYSE, good friend of the Class and College, is the only one to become an expatriate and a British citizen while living in England and most of his post-college life. He was born May 6, 1903 in Jackson, Miss. He died in London on November 4. He is survived by his wife, the former Kathleen Railing, whom he met and married in London, June 22, 1927; and by one child, Susan Anne, born in 1931 and evacuated to the country during the siege of London in World War II.
There was a short interval when we worked in the Traveler's Bank in Paris, but in 1930 he went to work with General Electric Co., Ltd., starting and managing an associated company, Claude-General Neon Lights, Ltd. This was a very successful venture until the blackouts of WW II, at which time they changed to war products. He also (1950) became a director of a firm making lamp black.
Some of us had the pleasure of meeting Dickson in London; he was a "good Dartmouth man" ... becoming the executive secretary of the newly-founded Dartmouth Club of London in 1944 and remaining so until 1960. We saw him in London in 1962. He retired in 1968.
DR. ROBERT COLLINS TOWSE died on November 11 at the V.A. Hospital in Albany, N.Y. He was born on November 22, 1901 in Fulton, N.Y., and came to Dartmouth from Powder Point School. He completed the two-year medical course here in 1926; his M.D. was from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University in 1928, with internship at St. Vincent's Hospital (N.Y. City) and residency at Grasslands, Valhalla, N.Y. From 1930-1942 he practiced medicine at White Plains, N.Y., after which he served as captain in the Army Medical Corps in World War II. (See page 85 of our 1924 Went to War.)
Upon discharge in 1945, Bob became medical director of the Winthrop Chemical Co. (Renssalaer, N.Y.) for four years. In 1955 he contracted viral encephalitis, recovered, and then returned to practice in 1960 until illness forced his retirement in 1967.
His honors include being a Diplomat of the American Board of Proctology, Associate Fellow of the American Proctology Society, and membership in the A.M.A. and State and Albany Medical Societies. He served on the staffs of the Albany Memorial Hospital and of St. Peter's Hospital (Albany) from 1949-1967. (The family requested any memorial gifts be sent to the building fund of St. Peter's Hospital, or to Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth he was a Sigma Nu, and a member of AKK, the Medical Fraternity. He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of Northeastern New York.
Bob is survived by his wife the former Margarurite Connors' whom he was married in 1932, and by two sons, Seth '57 (the 40 Year Book omitted this fact, confused by Seth's withdrawal and then return to graduate in 1960, but officially as class of 1957 as the record now shows) and by Robert Jr., and by three grandchildren. (We are grateful for help from Seth with this obituary.)
1927
VICTOR GEORGE FASSETT REYNOLDS, long a leading figure in academic publishing in the United States, died at his Hanover home December 22, 1973. He was 68.
He was a past president of the American Association of University Presses, having headed that body in 1953- 55. Previously he had been secretary-treasurer of the association.
Born at Lacyville, Pa., Victor attended public schools in Pennsylvania. New York, and New Jersey before entering the College.
After seven years with the Ronald press of New York City and three with the publishing firm F.S. Crofts and Company, also of New York, he began in 1937 an association with the college department of the Macmillan Company. During 1943 he was called from there to become Cornell's university publisher and director of the Cornell University Press, a position he held until 1963 when he accepted an invitation to go to Charlottesville to develop there a publishing program sponsored by the University of Virginia, which would relate to institutions throughout the commonwealth under the title University Press of Virginia.
He continued at Virginia for seven years, until 1969. In the course of this time at Charlottesville he also taught at the university, giving a course on the geography of the state.
In 1970 when Dartmouth and other universities in New England moved to create a cooperative publishing agency for the region, Victor Reynolds was turned to as the man to organize and launch the new press. He took up the assignment with characteristic vigor and enthusiasm.
Leaving retirement in Charlottesville, he and Mrs. Reynolds re-established themselves at Hanover, and for two years he nurtured the enterprise through its formative stage.
In 1972, having put the University Press of New England onto a sound footing, Mr. Reynolds again went into retirement but continued to live in Hanover and to maintain a keen interest in the program of the new press which made its headquarters there.
Upon his leaving the directorship of the University Press of New England, the Trustees in the spring of 1972 formally saluted Mr. Reynolds, expressing the board's warm appreciation.
At the same time he was hailed by his fellow alumni in a resolution which cited his accomplishments "not only as a long-time and widely-recognized leader in a profession which links the creation of books and the dissemination of the fruits of scholarship, but also and most specifically as a pioneer and prime-mover within the realm of cooperative, regional publishing."
A colleague, August Fruge, director of the Universityof California Press, paid tribute to Victor in thesewords, "He originated many of the activities that we now take for granted in University Publishing. Hisstrong personality and innovative mind did much to make that kind of publishing what it is today. All of us have followed him in one way or another, and we owemuch to him."
A man of searching intellect and creative ideas. Victor Reynolds was well known for his sprightly good humor and lively manner. At the same time, he waspossessed of great dignity, determination, and a highsense of duty.
His death came at the close of many months of failing health. He is survived by his wife, Lucille McCallReynolds.
1928
CLARENCE CLARK BLYTH died of lung cancer at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover on November 19. He had lived in Norwich. Vt., since his retirement in 1969, and he and Marion attended all ’28 reunions - including the Penn game reunion last fall. Clark was in the hospital for only a few days before his death.
Clark came from Los Angeles and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. After getting his degree from Dartmouth he attended Babson Institute the following year.
He worked in the property management division of Fox West Coast Theatres in Los Angeles from 1929 until 1952, when he went into business as an importer in Mexico City. In 1955 he was one of the founders of the Dartmouth Club of Mexico City.
In 1960 he joined the United States Information Service and served nine years in Buenos Aires, Dominican Republic, and in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
In 1944-45 he served as communications officer in the Navy at Pearl Harbor and Barbers Point in Hawaii. He is surviced by his widow Marion, four children, and 12 grandchildren.
A memorial service held at St. Thomas Church in Hanover was well attended by his many friends. '28ers present were Bill and Elizabeth Ballard. Lane and Betty Dwinell, joe Tidd and Herb Sensenig.
His family suggests that friends may make contributions to the American Cancer Society.
ALEXANDER BUNYAN KERR died suddenly of a heart attach December 1 while playing in a shuffleboard tournament in Naples, Fla. He and Mildred had spent winters in Naples since his retirement in 1962 and summers in their home in Cooperstown. N.Y. It had been ten years since his last heart attack and he enjoyed golf, boating, shuffleboard, and other hobbies.
A native of Elizabeth. N.J., Alec transferred to Dartmouth in 1925 from Colgate. After post graduate study at Harvard Business School he went with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington. During World War II he moved over to the O.P.A.
In 1946 he joined the Internal Revenue Service and worked and lived in Plainfield, N.J., until his retirement. He and Mildred attended our 25th and 40th Reunions.
He is survived by his widow Mildred, a son Douglas A. Kerr ’63, of Rowayton, Conn., two sisters, and two grandchildren.
JOHN ALEXANDER KERR died December 13 at Community-General Hospital, Syracuse, N.Y., after a long illness.
Jack was born in Edwards, N.Y., and graduated from Edwards High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Theta Chi. After graduation he worked a few years for the N.Y. Telephone Co. in New York City before moving to Syracuse. While working as an insurance company claims agent he attended night classes at the Syracuse University College of Law, got his degree, and was admitted to the bar in 1946.
Jack became a member of the law firm of Davis and Kerr. He also was manager of the Kemper Insurance Co.'s claims department, retiring in 1969 after 25 years of service. He was former president of the Syracuse Claim Association and the Syracuse Claims Council.
Surviving are his wife Katherine, a Son, two daughters, and nine grandchildren.
FREDERICK ELLIOTT TITUS died suddenly of a heart attack November 14 at his home in Lewes, Del.
Born in New Rochelle, N.Y., Fritz came to Dartmouth from Peddie. He was a member of Zeta Psi.
For the 37 years preceding his retirement in 1969, he was with Madigan-Hyland, consulting engineers, in New York City, and was controller of the firm the last 15 years.
When he and Hazel moved to Lewes, in 1969 they opened an antique shop, the Old Curiosity Shop, on Route 18.
Survivors include his widow Hazel, whom he married in 1927. their son Fred Jr., and five grandchildren.
WILLIAM WHALEY died November 26 in an Omaha hospital of cancer a month after undergoing colonic surgery. He came to Dartmouth from the Morristown, N.J., High School.
While in college Bill was business manager of TheDartmouth and a member of Psi U and Dragon.
For the next 14 years he was with Air Reduction Co. in Chicago, Oklahoma City, and district manager in Ft. Worth. From 1942-45 he was in the Navy, the last part of his service was as a lieutenant commander on the carrier USS Gilbert Islands. After his release he returned to Air Reduction as assistant manager of railroad sales with headquarters in Chicago, but a year later resigned to start his own insurance business in Chicago.
He had built up a nice business when he received orders in 1950 to report in ten days for active duty with the rank of commander in the office of Chief of Naval Operations. He was on the USS Boxer in the Korean area when that ship had a serious fire. He left the Navy the second time in 1955 with the rank of captain.
At the invitation of the late Gil Swanson he moved to Omaha and a job as Gil's assistant. A few years later Bill returned to the insurance business with his own general insurance agency in Omaha.
Bill and Bunny attended our 45th Reunion last June, as well as the 40th. Bill was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the National Sojourners, and a past president of the Reserve Officers Association and the Toastmasters Club.
He is survived by his widow Ann (Bunny), a daughter, Mrs. Kathleen Wiebusch, two sisters, and one grandchild.
1932
ALEXANDER BROWNE BLAIR of Alexandria, Va., died suddenly of a heart attack on July 31. Alex, who was born in South Orange, N.J., on June 9, 1909, came to Dartmouth from Mercersburg Academy. He did not return to Hanover after his freshman year.
Alex received his law degree from National University in 1934. He was a patent attorney and had his own firm in Washington, D.C. During World War II he served on the Manhattan Project. He was a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the Supreme Court Bar, and the American Bar Association. He was active in the Washington area in the rehabilitation of alcoholics and was a member of the D.C. Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. He is survived by his widow Sylvia E. Blair, to whom the Class extends its deepest sympathy.
1934
On the death January 19 of ERNEST LAWRENCE BARCELLA, 63, the Class and the College said good- bye to one of its most loyal and devoted sons. His feeling for the institution are best expressed in his own words, written when he was asked to accept the Alumni Award at the 1934 Reunion Banquet this approaching June: "Above all else, there has been nothing more soul-satisfying and rewarding than my activities for Dartmouth. The reason for that is quite simple: Unashamedly, I have an undying love for Dartmouth and a sense of everlasting gratitude toward her. She accepted my son and me."
Washington manager of public relations for General Motors Corporation since 1961, Ernie preceded that position with 31 years as a reporter, correspondent, and editor for U.P. and U.P.I., and two years as a reporter for the New Haven Register. In assessing his career, he rated high his trip to Russia with then-Vice President Nixon and the resulting eyewitness account of the Krushchev Kitchen debate which won him the National Headlines Award. Among many other top stories, he was pleased to be able to write of the surrender of Japan, and was 30 hours ahead of others in reporting the move to California of the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Born June 7, 1910 in Hamden, Conn., Ernie came to Dartmouth from New Haven High School on a scholarship and "newshawked" his way through four years. As an undergraduate he also found time to work on The Dartmouth, play varsity baseball, and to join The Press Club and Sigma Chi.
His journalistic career was paralleled by a busy second one in which he served as a board member or trustee for the Federal City Council; National Capital Area Council, Boy Scouts of America; and the Washington Heart Association. He was a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America and the Business-Government Relations Council. Ernie was proud to be the instigator of the annual "How's Your Heart Day" at the National Press Club, providing free heart and blood pressure tests for members as a guard against heart attack, ironically, the cause of his death.
His services for his college were legion, including class secretary. (Secretary of the Year in 1967), Alumni Council, president of the Secretaries Association, Alumni Council public relations, assistant class agent, and the Dartmouth Club of Washington.
In 1935 he married Louise Berniere who survives him at their home, 4620 North Park Ave., Apt. 305-E, Chevy Chase, Md. 20015. Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Bruce M. Kelleher; a son, E. Lawrence Jr. '67; and several grandchildren. To all, we extend the sympathy of the Class.
1935
JOHN JEROME DUNN, whose work for the Department of Defense had won him the highest award that can be given a civilian, died November 2. following a heart attack at his home near Gettysburg, Pa. Death came just as he had fulfilled a lifelong dream of living on a farm. Having retired in 1970, he had searched diligently to find the right spot. He and Gina had moved into their new home only three weeks before and were just getting settled when he was stricken. He was 61 years old.
John's career in government began during World War II. He served as associate state rationing board executive for Connecticut, with responsibility for 169 local rationing boards. In 1945, he became policy coordinator in the office of the Administrator of War Assets, prior to joining the Defense Department in 1950.
During 20 years with the Defense Department, he managed programs from which the Army, Air Force, and Navy annually acquired $2-billion worth of engineering data dealing with supply systems and equipment. In later years, he specialized in engineering management and standardization and its relationship to consumer product safety and performance. He also assisted in research on transition to the metric system.
When he retired, John was awarded the Meritorious Civilian Service Medal. He also won distinction as a member of the Consumers Council of the American and National Standards Institute and its subcommittee on consumer product certification.
John had entered Dartmouth from Torrington (Conn.) High School. He worked his way through college as a telegraph operator for Western Union, and his was a familiar face in the press box as he handled the transmission of stories to metropolitan newspapers and the wire services.
After Dartmouth, John went on to Boston College School of Law. He began his apprenticeship in business with U.S. Rubber Company, in Naugatuck, Conn., before moving into government service.
John is survived by his widow Regina; two sons, John Jr. and Joseph; a daughter, Mrs. Leo McManus, and eight grandchildren. All live in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area where John and Gina made their home for so many years.
1938
DR. ROBERT JOSEPH CATALDO, associate medical director of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, died December 10 in Waltham (Mass.) Hospital. He was 58.
A life-long resident of Waltham, Bob entered the College from his local high school. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
From Dartmouth he went to earn his M.D. from Tufts School of Medicine and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps before receiving an honorable discharge in 1943.
He served as intern and then resident physician at Boston City Hospital from 1942 to 1949 and interned for pathology at Peter Bent Brigham, concurrently beginning private practice in his native city in 1946.
Bob also served on the faculty of Tufts Medical School as assistant in Medicine, instructor in Medicine, and assistant clinical professor of Medicine. At Waltham Hospital he was senior visiting physician and physician-in-chief, as well as director of the EKG laboratory there. For 17 years he was medical director of Brandeis University, and was cardiologist at Walter E. Fernald School. He contributed several articles to medical journals and held memberships in the Charles River District Medical Society, Massachusetts Medical Society, American Medical Association, American Heart Association, the Council of Clinical Cardiologists, and the New York Academy of Science. Referring to the above, Bob wrote in our 25 Year Book, "These have kept me busy."
He had never married and is survived by five sisters and a brother, Woodrow A. Cataldo ’40.
1939
BRIAN EDWARD ABBOTT SR. of Kerriville, Texas died, October 3 in the V.A. Hospital in Kerriville, following surgery.
Brian was born in Canton, Mass., on August 15, 1917. He came to Dartmouth from Needham High School in Needham, Mass. He was at Dartmouth for his freshman and sophomore years and then transferred to the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance in Boston, Mass.
After graduation from Bentley. Brian was associated with the Grinnell Company in Cranston, R.I., before enlisting in the Army Air Force. He was an instructor in the Air Forces for two and a half years in Montgomery, Ala.
During World War II, he was assigned to active duty overseas and rose to the rank of captain. He served as lead pilot of group and squadron formations on heavy bombardment missions. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and also held the Air Medal with two oakleaf clusters, the America? European, African, and Middle Eastern Medals, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Distinguished Unit Badge.
After the war, Brian was in business in Ashevillie, N.C. for 12 years, then moved to Boca Raton, Fla., and later to Kerriville, Texas.
He is survived by a son, Brian Jr.; a daughter, Karen; his mother, Mrs. Royal K. Abbott Sr.; his sister, Mona, and his brother, Dr. Royal K. Abbott Jr. ’37.
Burial was with full military honors in the National Cemetery at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio.
1944
PAUL TROWBRIDGE CARROLL, a Columbus, Ohio, physician died July 14, 1973 at the age of 52.
Paul prepared for Dartmouth at Columbus Academy and Andover and following his graduation received his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati Medical School. He also studied at Temple University. During World War II he served as a lieutenant on the USS Coral Seal aircraft carrier.
He practiced medicine in Columbus throughout his life and he was also president and owner of the Trowbridge Storage Co. He was a member of the American Medical Association, Ohio Medical Association, and the Columbus Academy of Medicine. He was on the board of the American College of Surgeons, the International College of Surgeons and Nu Sigma Na Medical Fraternity.
He was a member of the Columbus Country Club and Rock Fork and Hunt Club. He was also a resident at University Hospital.
Paul is survived by his wife, Natalie Cole Carroll; three sons, Paul C., David T. and Stephen R.; daughters Leslie L. and Cynthia A.: and his mother. The family address is 86 Preston Road, Columbus.
CYRIL SHERMAN THOMPSON died of a heart attack in Paris on December 26, 1973.
Cy was born in Paris and lived his early years there. He attended Choate School before Dartmouth, leaving the latter at the end of his sophomore year for military service. He enlisted in the Army and served overseas in both England and France. He met his wife Phyllis in England and they were married in 1944.
Following his discharge with the rank of captain, Cy returned to England in 1948 where he put in a 10-year stint in the export department of Remington Rand. He then joined Xerox in London and was moved to Zurich in 1963. Just last year he was transferred back to London and put in charge of Xerox’s operations in the Scandinavian and Benelux countries. He was chairman of the board of Xerox Switzerland and a director of Rank Xerox Belgium.
The Thompson's two sons, Chris and Noel ’74 had also settled in London and the whole family had gone to visit Cy's sister in Paris for the Christmas holidays. It was on the return trip that Cy suffered his fatal heart attack.
The funeral was held in the American Cathedral in Paris, where Cy had been baptized 51 years earlier. He was buried in Montreux. Switzerland, next to his father. The Thompson address is 103 Drake House Dolphin Square, London, S.W.I.
The sympathy of the Class is extended to the Thompson family in its loss.
1946
DONALD LENDON HUTCHINSON died of cancer in Pittsburgh, Pa., on September 17, 1973.
Hutch was a pioneer in the field of obstetrics and gynecological research and care; he contributed more than 20 articles to the medical literature of the field, and was considered one of the country's foremost authorities in prenatal medicine.
Hutch received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia, served his internship at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, and completed a four year residency at Sloan Hospital for Women in New York City, before going to UCLA Medical School where he was an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
He then returned to Pittsburgh, and at the time of his death was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pittsburgh. Hutch was a diplomate and examiner of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of the Executive Council of the Society of Gynecological Investigation. He was active in local civic affairs, being a trustee of the Pittsburgh Zoological Society and a member of the Athletic Board of the University of Pittsburgh.
Hutch was one of the most enthusiastic alumni among our classmates; although he also attended VPI and Princeton during the war years, he remained a Dartmouth man at all times, all the way. He is survived by his wife Peggy and his three sons, Steven, Scott, and Bruce who is a member of the freshman class at Dartmouth.
To all of his family, the Class extends deep sympathy and the knowledge that we share their loss.
1949
One of the most saddening chores is to write of a departed classmate, especially one from a family steeped in Dartmouth tradition. On September 22, FREDERICK DWIGHT HAIGH succumbed in Perrysburg, Ohio, a victim of an apparent heart attack, leaving his widow Phyllis, and children E. Dwight Haigh III, Robert S. Haigh, and Amy Haigh. Dwight, originally a native of Toledo, Ohio, was employed by Libby-Owens-Ford Co. since 1950, except for a brief stint with the U.S. Army in the Korean war. His career noted assignments in Richmond, Va.; Charlotte, N.C., and St. Louis, Mo., before returning to Toledo in 1962 as manager of pattern and specialty glass sales.
Thereafter, Dwight progressed through head of window glass sales, manager of product services and physical distribution until his appointment as director of marketing for Libby-Owens Ford in 1972.
Besides his widow and children, Dwight leaves his father F. Dwight Haigh Sr. '23 and his brother George W. Haigh '53.
1957
DR. EDWARD LEE BOCKMAN TERRACE, an authority on Egyptian and ancient Near East art, died November 13 in Cairo, Egypt, where he was studying ancient decorative arts with the aid of the Smithsonian Institution and the Kress Foundation. Associates at the headquarters in Princeton, N.J., of the American Research Center in Egypt, which was sponsoring Ed's studies, said they had been advised that the Cairo police were investigating the death as a murder, with robbery as a possible motive.
Ed came to Hanover from Ballard High School in Seattle. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the College, he spent a year at Queens College, Oxford, and then began a long association with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he became associate curator of Egyptian art after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968. In that year his book, Egyptian Paintings ofthe Middle Kingdom was published in New York. Earlier he had written The Art of the Ancient NearEast in Boston.
Ed had been in Cairo since 1971. He and his former wife, Lisa, were among the last 500 Americans to be evacuated from Alexandria in June, 1967, during the six-day Arab-Israeli war. After arriving in Boston from Alexandria, Ed told The Boston Globe: "It is important to understand that the Egyptian is a very warm, hospitable, gentle, loving person, very unwarlike. He responds to sympathy and understanding and he shows it in very tangible ways."
Ed was the author of more than 50 articles in his highly specialized field. He edited the first five volumes
of the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, which is the only scholarly publication devoted entirely to Egypt. As an archeologist in 1961, he joined an expedition to Nubia and in 1963 he conducted research on European private and public collections of ancient art. His quest for knowledge in the field of Egyptian art led him to museums throughout the world.
Ed had been a member of the governing board of the American Research Center in Egypt and of the American Institute of Iranian Studies.
The Class extends its deepest sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Terrace, of Seattle, and to Ed's sister, Mrs. Sharon Rogers of Woodenville, Wash.
Carroll Benjamin Foster '24
Ernest Lawrence Barcella '34
Dr. Edward L. B. Terrace '57
