Deaths
(A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices may appear in thisissue or a later month.)
Clement, Ralph B. '09, August 21 Bissell, Malcolm H. '10, August 21 Emerson, Arthur T. '14, July 28 Tucker, Charles W. '20, August 8 Weis, Erwin T. '20, September 6 Newcomb, Millard W. '21, August 28 Ziegler, August H. Jr. '23, August 21 Clapp, Milo F. '25, August 30 Elmquist, Carl V. '25, July 23 Crawford, Henry B. '25, September 12 Sprague, George E. '25, September 22 Rich, James H. '27, June 4 Jacobson, Parker L. '28, December 1 Kramer, Howard D. '29, September 8 Curtiss, James E. '30, September 13 Soule, Parker F. Jr. '31, October 8 Baldwin, Frank L. '34, January 23 Palmer, Robert C. '34, September 10 Lake, Wendell E. '38, September 8 Magill, Hugh S. 3rd '53, July 4 Cusick, James F. '44hon, September 29
1910
MALCOLM HAVENS BISSELL died August 21 in Hyannis, Mass., at the age of 85.
Born in Norwalk, Conn., Mai attended schools in New York and Europe before entering Dartmouth. After one year in Hanover he decided to join his brothers at Yale and enrolled in. Sheffield Scientific School from which he was graduated as an electrical engineer in 1911. He joined Sigma Chi fraternity. He worked for several years in Pittsburgh and for a year in Chicago and then returned to Yale to study geology. He received both his Master's and doctoral degrees at Yale.
In the fall of 1918 Mai accepted a position in the geology department at Bryn Mawr College where he remained until 1927 when he undertook further study, this time in geography at Clark University and, the next year, at Yale. In 1929 he became professor of geology and geography, and head of the geography department at the University of Southern California where he remained until 1943 when he took leave to serve with the OSS in Washington.
At the end of the war, he retired to a ranch north of San Francisco and his years were filled with travel, reading, writing, and farming until in 1974 declining health forced him and his wife Ella (Taylor) to move east to live with their daughter Elinor Bissell Offile and her husband in Orleans, Mass. Mrs. Bissell died in January 1975. Surviving are Mrs. Offile and a son Malcolm Jr.
HENRY CHEEVER COMEY died August 16 at the home of his daughter Natalie in Toledo, Ohio.
For many years Cheever, as he was called by his classmates, had been factory manager for the Patterson-Sargent Paint Company in Cleveland. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II, being discharged with the rank of major. He returned from business in 1952 and moved to Fort Myers, Fla., until last March when he returned north to Toledo.
Cheever was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Dragon Society, and the York Rite Masons. He was proud of being one of the originators of Dartmouth Winter Carnival in 1911.
In 1917 he married Esther Stevens who pre-deceased him several years ago. Surviving are his daughter Natalie Gerebenics and a son John H. II, an M.I.T. graduate.
1911
The Rev. ERNEST EVERETT MORRILL was released from his long and trying illnesses in Sonoma, Calif., early Monday morning September 15. Ernest joined our Class from Amesbury High School, Amesbury, Mass. As early as his second year at Dartmouth, he became deeply impressed by the oppor- tunities for Christian service as presented by a Reformed Church missionary home on furlough from his work in Arabia and Egypt who spoke in the College Church and at a meeting of the Dartmouth Christian Association. Ernest ultimately became a Student Volunteer for foreign missionary work.
He put in a fifth year at Dartmouth, working mostly under the direction of "Duke" Colby and Prof. Updike and received his Master's degree in 1912 along with Walter Morgan of our Class. Three years of study at Hartford Theological Seminary followed and he received a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1915. Because his financée and later his wife Mabel Wilder failed to meet health requirements for a missionary appointment, there was a delay of three years before reaching India in January 1919. More sickness forced their return to the U.S. in June 1920, with Ernest serving first as director of religious education and later as pastor at the Grand Avenue Congregational Church in Chicago 1935 to 1943 and at the Denison Avenue Congregational Church in Cleveland 1943 to 1950.
In Chicago he was also a member of the Commission on Civic Relations of Chicago Church Federation and in Cleveland a member of the board of directors of the Cleveland Congregational Union for years and chairman for two years of its Outlook and Strategy Committee. In both Chicago and Cleveland he was a member of the Pastors' Section of the International Council of Religious Education.
The Morrills raised twin sons and in the 1960's Jim was an Army Chaplain and Doug a missionary in Japan, at which time Ernest had seven grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. In January 1962 the mother of his two sons died and in March 1963 he married Cora Turner who was a member of his flock in Chicago many years before.
Cora writes that two memorial services were planned so that all the widely scattered families could be together at one point or the other - at the First Congregational Church in Sonoma, Calif., on September 21 for the Morrill family and at the Congregational Church of Jefferson Park, Chicago, Illinois on September 28 for the Morrill, Turner, Foss and Rosenfelder family representation. Cora requests that gifts in the memory of Ernest Everett Morrill be sent to the United Church Board for World Ministries, 475 Riverside Drive, New York City, New York 10027.
1912
Chip Farrington slipped away quietly on June 22 at his home in Gwynedd, Pa., following a short illness. Retiring and unassertive in life, his departure was of the same order.
GEORGE HOBART FARRINGTON was born at Kingston, Mass., on April 9, 1889. He prepared for college at the local high school and at Phillips Andover Academy. At Dartmouth he was on the honor list. After receiving his B.S. degree in 1912 he attended Thayer School from which he received a degree in civil engineering in 1913. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Gamma Alpha.
Following graduation he became a draftsman for Republic Steel Company's northern coal mines in Pennsylvania. From 1916 to 1918 he was in Massachusetts as civil engineer for Atlantic Maritime Co. of Boston. With the coming of the war in 1918 he left Boston that June to become expediting engineer for the Emergency Fleet Corporation's concrete ship section at Philadelphia. After two years there followed ten years with Turner Construction Co., first as estimating engineer and then as purchasing agent, and for four years with John P. Hollahan, Inc., builder, doing engineering and sales. From 1938 to 1960 Chip was sales engineer with Victor C. Smith Engineering Co. in Philadelphia. He retired in 1960.
Chip was a Mason, a member of the planning committee of the Unitarian Church of Germantown, Pa., and of the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Philadelphia.
On July 11, 1914 George Farrington married Marion Bean Wright of Kingston, Mass., who survives him together with a son Richard E. '38 and one grandchild.
A memorial service was held on June 27 at the Gwynedd Friends Meeting House assisted by the pastor of the local Unitarian Church.
1913
Dr. LESLIE ORRELL ASHTON, 82, died September 2 in Doctors Hospital, New York City. He had not been feeling well for some time and underwent surgery in May and June of 1974. He succumbed to respiratory and cardiac failure while under the care of three close doctor friends. He had suffered no pain, his mind was clear, he was in good spirits but looking forward to the end, fully aware that he would not leave the hospital.
Les was born December 4, 1892 in Lawrence, Mass., the son of John Ashton and Rebecca Wood worth Ashton. He entered Dartmouth from Bruce High School, played freshman football, joined Sigma Chi fraternity and then went to Harvard University Medical School from which he graduated in 1917. His internships were in Boston General, Hartford, and N.Y. Presbyterian Hospitals and he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, receiving his discharge in 1919 as a captain. He was professor emeritus of pediatrics at New York University Hospital.
Les had established a private practice in New York City as a pediatrician and took care of thousands of children. He was a specialist in infant feeding. He was a member of the pediatric section of the Academy of Medicine, a member of the Medical Society of New York City, and of all the New York State Medical Societies.
On April 25, 1930 Les married Louise Ledtje who survives him as do a sister Mrs. Stella Ashton Shackleton and a nephew Dr. John H. Shackleton Jr., both of Jacksonville, Fla.
It was his wish that there be no services and that he be cremated and interred privately in the Ashton family plot in Lawrence, Mass.
1914
Captain ARTHUR TENNEY EMERSON (U.S.N. Ret), was born in East Weymouth, Mass., December 3, 1893 and passed away in Coronado, Calif., on July 28, 1975 where he had made his home for many years and had taught mathematics at San Diego State College.
Captain Emerson was with us at Dartmouth during 1910-1912 when he transferred to the United States Naval Academy as a midshipman graduating in 1916 as an ensign. He had a notable career in the Navy on convoy duty out of Queenstown, Ireland, in WW I and afterwards in China Turkey, The Philippines, American Samoa, The Mediterranean, Europe, and the West Indies.
He retired in 1937 but was recalled to active duty in 1939 and served through World War II in the Office of Naval Intelligence as captain and officer-in-charge of Fleet Service Schools.
At one time he was acting governor of American Samoa and he received such honors as Tunis' Nichan el Iftikar and the U.S. Navy Commendation Medal. He had 32 years active service in the Navy and was also the author of numerous short stories and articles.
Captain Emerson married Mrs. Gertrude Boucher Childs and had one son Arthur Jr. and a stepson, Earle B. Childs, and seven grandchildren.
The sympathy of all of the members of the Class of 1914 is extended to his survivors.
WILLARD AUSTIN KINNE was born May 8, 1892 in Littleton, N.H., and passed away May 22 in Cincinnati, Ohio where he had made his home.
Kin came to Dartmouth from Littleton High School. He played in the College Band and the orchestra. After receiving his A.B. he went on to receive his master's degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Columbia. He also attended Harvard, and the universities of Paris and Madrid and became professor of Romance Languages at the University of Cincinnati. He served with the Army Medical Corps in France from 1917 to 1919 and, in 1924, married Clara Addison Harris.
Kin travelled extensively in Europe, Cuba, Mexico, and Canada and wrote a book entitled Revivals andImportations of French Comedies in England 1749 to1800 and a review of Spanish Grammar.
The sympathy of the members of the Class of 1914 is extended to the members of his family.
JAMES MULLINS was with us at Dartmouth only during freshman year. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in '15 and '16 and had been a patient in a Veteran's Administration Hospital since 1916. He was born September 29, 1891 in Worden, Ohio, and died November 19, 1974.
JAMES PARKER MARGESON was born in Brookline, Mass., October 2, 1892 and passed on in West Harwich, Mass., where he had made his home since his retirement from business, on August 8, 1975.
Jim, as he preferred to be called during later years, came to Dartmouth from Winthrop, Mass. He played on the famous 1914 freshmen basketball team and, the following year, moved up to star on the varsity. After graduating with a degree of B.S. he went on to Thayer School where he was awarded a C.E. degree. He married Anne Jane Flieger June 23, 1917 and she passed away several years ago. The loss of his wife was a severe blow to Jim. They had a daughter Jean and four grandchildren.
Jim had a varied and very successful business career with Simmons Hardware Co. as vice president; Sulloway Mills, general manager; Phoenix Hosiery Co., vice president and general manager; J. O. McKinsey Co. Management Engineers, partner; Marshall Field & Co., manufacturing division vice president and general manager; Megowen Educator Co., vice president; and International Minerals & Chemical Corp., executive vice president. He was also a director of Eastern Clay Products Co., Consolidated Feldspar Co., and Potash Export Association.
The sympathy of the members of our Class is extended to his survivors.
1920
CARL KURZ LENZ died August 2 in his home at Scarsdale, N.Y. He had lived in Chicago through his high school years and spent only his freshman year at Dartmouth, rooming in Middle Fayerweather with Fred Hamm. He left college in the spring of 1917 for service in the Navy, where he was commissioned ensign for the duration of World War I. He was well known to and popular with many of his classmates and evidenced a close personal interest in the College throughout his life. His fraternity was Phi Kappa Psi.
He was located in Cleveland from 1919 - 1937 with Chase Brass (a Kennecott subsidiary) and then was transferred to New York.
Carl retired in 1964 from the presidency of Kennecott Sales Corporation and his position as a director of Kennecott Copper Company after 45 years of devoted service. The same qualities of generosity, dedication and loyalty inherent in his role as son, husband, and father were also apparent and served him well in his business relationships, where his duties required much travel and sometimes involved labor negotiations.
Carl was a member of Hitchcock Presbyterian Church and the Scarsdale Golf Club and had served as a volunteer for Lighthouse for the Blind.
Carl and Dorothy Gibson of Chicago were married in 1920. Dorothy, their two daughters, (Mrs. V. A. Andrus of Orange, Conn., and Mrs. Henri Van Bemmelen of Rye, N.Y.) five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a sister, Marie Lenz Roberts, Evanston, Ill., survive and to them his classmates extend their sincere sympathy.
N.H. WHITESIDE '20
1922
WILLIAM DEWEY MANN, a very popular and highly esteemed classmate, passed away June 13 at his home in South Orleans, Mass. He had only recently returned to Cape Cod after a long period of medical care in Hanover.
Bill was born June 16, 1899 in Quechee, Vt. He entered Dartmouth from Phillips Andover and he became Twenty-Two's first class president. He was a member of Psi Upsilon, Proof and Copy, Delta Omicron Gamma and Dragon.
Following graduation he was in Cairo, Egypt, for seven years as commercial attache in the U.S. Department of Commerce. He was eminently successful in promoting cordial trade relations between Egypt and the U.S. and he had lifelong interest in the Middle East. Upon his return to the U.S. he became a specialist in international finance with the Department of Commerce in New York City.
Some years later he and his wife Betty moved to Boston and lived for many years in West Newton, When he retired from the Department of Commerce in 1958 he was the business analyst in charge of domestic commerce functions in New England. He also served in behalf of the New England Council and the City of Newton. Ten years ago he and Betty moved to South Orleans and joined many other classmates living on Cape Cod.
Bill and Elizabeth Palfrey were married November 23, 1932 in New York City. She survives him together with their son John '62, his wife Beth and their three children who live in Hanover. Bill's family was thoroughly Dartmouth: his father George E. Mann was class of 1894, Bill's brothers Robert D. and Thomas D. were '26 and '33 respectively, and as cousins Bill had John L. Mann 1894, William T. Dewey '33 and Justin M. Smith '37. With those surviving the Class joins in profound bereavement.
Ray and Doris Atwood, Bob Bartlett, Charlie Earle, Larry Healy and Ted Laycock represented the class at the EpiscoPal service in Orleans. Allie Hoyt, Ike and Harriott Miller, Stan and Catherine Miner, Louise Olsen, Oscar and Bea Rice attended the interment service in Quechee.
Consistent with Bill's love for Dartmouth the newspapers noted that in lieu of flowers contributions might be made to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. And Bill would have sincerely thanked the many who so remembered him and his College.
CHARLES JOSEPH WINKLER JR., prominent Boston lawyer, died June 22 at his Beacon Hill home, 58 Chestnut St., Boston. Following a severe stroke he had been physicially restricted, though he continued mentally alert, for the past five years.
Bud, as all classmates knew him, was born April 21, 1901 in Springfield, Mass., and he came to Dartmouth from Springfield Central High School. As a 17-year old freshman he was a member of precocious Company I in the Student Army Training Corps. Throughout his years at Dartmouth he was a highly esteemed, congenial, proficient student. He majored in economics, he was a lineman on the varsity football squad and he was a member of Sigma Nu.
After graduation Bud entered Harvard Law School and received his LL.B. there in 1925. He then received the prestigious position of secretary and research assistant to the Judicial Supreme Court of Massachusetts. A few years later he went into private practice with the Boston firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden and Perkins. In 1931 he joined Bingham, Dana and Gould where he became a partner in 1936 and continued a career of 30 years. Prior to his retirement approximately five years ago, he was senior partner in the firm where he had specialized in banking and corporate law.
He was a director of several Massachusetts business corporations and was a member of the Union Club, the Harvard Club and the Algonquin Club. For many years he and his wife Barbara lived on Beacon Hill and they summered for 35 years in Marion, Mass., where they were members of the Kittansett Yacht Club. He also belonged to the wamsutta Club in New Bedford and the Beverly Yacht Club. But the affiliation Bud cherished most was Dartmouth College which he greatly loved. He particularly enjoyed Big Green football games and he wanted to see Dartmouth preeminent in all respects.
Ray Rambach, fraternity brother and lifelong friend, was at the memorial service in Boston's Church of the Advent.
Bud and Barbara {Catherine Aumann, Smith '24, were married October 30, 1925 shortly after he received his law degree. She and their daughter, Mrs. Gretchen Winkler Sinclair of Boston, survive him. The Class offers its deepest sympathy and joins them in sorrow.
1924
Dr. ANTHONY CAESAR CIPOLLARO died July 5 in Mew York Hospital following a heart attack. A prominent dermatologist and teacher, he was one of the leading authorities on radiation therapy and the treatlent of diseases of the skin.
Following graduation from Dartmouth, he received a medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He was emeritus clinical professor of medicine (dermatology) at Cornell University Medical College, former professor and director, department of dermatology and syphilology, New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, and a consulting physician at New York Hospital.
Tony, as he was known to the Class, was also a past President of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Dermatological Association, the New York Dermatological Society, the American Board of Dermatology, and a past secretary of the New York Academy of Medicine. He was a former president and chairman of the executive and education committees of the New York Cancer Committee of the American Cancer Society. In 1959 he received the society's bronze medal and in 1961, the Clement Cleveland Award, both for contributing to cancer control. He was also the recipient of a gold medal from the Italian- American Charitable Society of Boston to a "distinguished American of Italian ancestry who has made notable contributions to the progress, defense, and welfare of the Nation." He was an honorary member of Australian, Venezuelan, and Rhode Island Dermatological Societies and a corresponding member of the French, Italian, and Swedish Dermatological Societies.
The author of many articles and four major textbooks, Tony was listed in Who's Who and Men of Science.
In 1925 he married Rose Sullivan while still in medical school. They were inseparable companions and her contributions to his successful professional life were immeasureable. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary three days before his death.
A Mass of the Resurrection was held in St. Vincent Ferrer's Roman Catholic Church and a eulogy delivered by Tony's nephew, Dr. Vincent A. Cipollaro of the Department of Dermatology, The New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical College. In it he quotes, " 'The obligation of knowledge is two fold. First it is only loaned for the good of all. Second, it can only be repaid by teaching to others during your lifetime,' " adding in his own words, "That was his great motivation and living example to all. When combined with great ability, charm, energy, and self sacrifice we found in him one of the finest of our human relationships."
In addition to his widow Rose, Tony is survived by a son Michael, a daughter Patricia, and eight grandchildren.
1925
MILO FORD CLAPP died of a heart attack on August 30, 1975. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio September 21, 1902 and came to Hanover from the University School of that city.
Milo was with us at college for two semesters. His fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. He spent some time in the paint and varnish business and in the beverage distributing field but since the thirties had been in the securities business in Columbus, Ohio. He had been active in the Cleveland Dartmouth Club.
He was married in 1929 to Helen Peoples of Athens, Ohio, who died in 1945. Two years later Mike married Mrs. Iver Young in Columbus. She survives him, as do one son, William '52, one daughter Sarah, and a stepson Ivor, and nine grandchildren.
Dr. HENRY BAKER CRAWFORD died September 12 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. He was born January 31, 1903 in New York, N.Y. and came to Dartmouth from Mount Vernon High School.
In college Harry was on the cross-country and track teams and was active in various musical groups. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Following graduation Harry went to Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. degree in 1929. He was a resident at Massachusetts General and also studied at Children's Hospital in Boston. In 1932 he commenced his career in orthopedic surgery in Rochester and was chief of orthopedic surgery at the Rochester General Hospital from 1944 to 1957.
Harry also was a teacher, being for many years clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Rochester. He retired from this post seven years ago and since that time had been professor emeritus. He was associate editor of Bone and Joint Surgery from 1967-1969. In 1961 and 1962 he spent a year as visiting lecturer in orthopedic surgery at King George's Medical College, University of Lucknow, India.
He was a member of a number of medical societies and gave the benefit of his medical knowledge and experience to several public service organizations. He was an elder of the Third Presbyterian Church where a memorial service was held September 16 and Harry's son James delivered the eulogy.
In addition to being a surgeon and a teacher Harry was an accomplished artist and musician. He was noted for his oil paintings, many of which were of New England landscapes and seascapes, some inspired by the country around Squam Lake in New Hampshire where he had a summer home. Money received from sales of his paintings was donated to charities helping children.
Harry played the cello and his wife, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, is an accomplished pianist. They often played together at their home and in public.
In 1935 Harry married Elizabeth Keenholts, who survives him. He also leaves three children. His son, the Rev. James W. Crawford '58, is senior minister at the Old South Church in Boston. There are two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilwee of Richmond, Va., and Mrs. Sarah Palmer of Bowdoinham, Maine, seven grandchildren, and his twin brother and our classmate Francis, who lives in Seaford, Delaware.
CARL VALORA ELMQUIST died July 23 in St. Paul, Minn. He was born in Rush City. Minn., March 24, 1903 and graduated from Central High School in St. Paul.
In college Twist was active through all four years in the Glee Club and the Players, and was both a cheer leader and a song leader. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Phi.
Following graduation he attended law school at the University of Minnesota where he obtained his LL.B. degree in 1928. He was ail attorney in St. Paul through the thirties and was in the U.S. Army Air Corps for four years in World War II, advancing from Ist lieutenant to major.
the thirties and was in the U.S. Army Air Corps for four years in World War 11, advancing from Ist lieutenant to major.
In 1947 Twist became executive secretary of the Minneapolis Building Owners and Managers Association, a position he held for 23 years until his retirement in 1970. He was the first man to hold this position and after leaving it he took a similar job in St. Paul for three years.
He was active in civic and church affairs throughout his career, and also in Dartmouth alumni associations and projects.
His widow is Nannatte Jayne. They were married in 1928. Three married daughters and their children also survive.
JAMES WADE MCCLEERY died in his sleep, peacefully and without pain, at his home in North Hollywood, Calif., on August 20. He was born June 7, 1903 in Sewickley, Pa., and came to Dartmouth from Salem High School in Salem, Ohio. In college he was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
Following graduation Jim earned the degrees of M.A. and PH.D. at Edinburgh Medellen and joined the faculty of the Harvard School in North Hollywood Calif. He served for 48 years on the faculty there, retiring two years ago. He was head of the foreign language department, teaching Latin and Spanish, and in the early years coached all sports.
He not only took part in the school athletic program but served as a track and swimming official for the A.A.U., attended the Olympic summer games regularly, and was an official at the games in Los Angeles in 1932.
Jim travelled extensively, going around the world several times, and in the summers worked for a travel agency. He was a consultant for manuscript reading in Latin and Spanish for the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
He was greatly loved and admired at the Harvard School and his name was inscribed on the plaque in the chapel of "Harvard's Great Teachers."
GEORGE EDWARD SPRAGUE died September 22 in the Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. He was born January 17, 1904 in Fitchburg, Mass. and was a graduate of Fitchburg High School.
In college George was a member of Gamma Delta Chi and following graduation went to Tuck School where he received his M.C.S. degree in 1926.
He was with the Hy-Grade Lamp division of the Sylvania Corp. prior to beginning his carrer with the Kendall Co., international textile manufacturing firm. There he held a variety of positions in the sales and merchandising areas in both the Walpole and New York offices and from 1968 to 1971 he headed the company's international division in London.
George lived in Dedham for 20 years and was active in town affairs, a town meeting member and chairman of the personnel board. For several years he was a trustee of Norwood Hospital. For the last five years he lived in Old Lyme, Conn.
In 1930 he married Helen Black, who survives him, as does his son George, a member of the Massachusetts legislature from Sherborn, and a daughter, Mrs. Richard C. Marvin of Bloomfield, Conn.
1926
WILLIAM FREDERICK GORDON BELL died July 27, 1975 in Templeton, Mass. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, October 16, 1906, graduated from Highfield School there, attended Bishop Ridley College in Ontario and was at Dartmouth from 1922 - 1924. Gordon was a member of Zeta Psi. In 1924 he transferred to Bowdoin College from which he graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in English Literature.
His business career was in the newspaper, commercial photography, and printing fields with the exception of his service in the Navy as a lieutenant when he taught navigation at the Officers Training School in Boston. He was navigation officer on the U.S.S. Blue Ridge in the Pacific and later served in the Naval Intelligence Section as photo officer.
After the death in 1962 of his wife Dorothy Hubbard Bell who was president and director of The Gardner(Mass.) News, Gordon succeeded her in these offices until his retirement in 1972. The News is now owned by his two sons Charles, the present publisher, and Walter of Peekskill, N.Y. '
Besides his sons Gordon is survived by his second wife Evelyn who continues her residence on South Road, Templeton, and by a sister. 1926 expresses its sincere sympathy to the family.
1928
A letter has just been received from his old law firm that PARKER LOCKE JACOBSON died December 1, 1974 as a result of injuries suffered in a fall at his home in Wilmette, Ill. The letter also said that his widow Louise died April 26, 1975 while visiting a daughter in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Jake was born May 10, 1907 in St. Paul, Minn. After Dartmouth he received his LL.B. from De Paul University in 1934 and in 1936 joined the law firm of pope & Ballard in Chicago. He served with the same firm until his death, except for four years active duty in the Navy.
He is survived by two daughters Barbara and Catherine and six grandchildren.
WILLIAM FRANCIS FLYNN died April 15 in Marshifeld, Mass.
Bill entered Dartmouth from Dedham High School, but transferred after one year to Lehigh, where he received his degree in geology.
He was a lieutenant in the Navy 1943-46. He then worked on waterfront erosion projects in Florida until he returned to active duty in the Navy in 1950. In 1957 he was appointed commanding officer in charge of the Davy's Seabees manning seven Antarctic research stations.
He retired from the Navy in 1965 with the rank of commander, returned to Marshfield, and became associated with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Natural Resources.
He is survived by three sons William F. Jr., Michael, and Timothy.
1930
Notification of the death of JAMES EBENEZER CURTISS on September 13, 1974 has been received from his brother Elbert of Pompano Beach, Fla. No details were furnished but the last address for Jim indicates he was living in Pompano Beach. He earned a law degree from New York University Law School in 1936 and specialized in patent law both in private practice and as a patent attorney and later patent counsel with National Biscuit Co., in New York. In 1961 he was a partner in the firm of March and Curtiss.
1931
The Class lost one of its most loyal and dedicated members when PARKER FERNANDO SOULE JR. died on October 8 at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.
After graduation, Park taught English and French and coached hockey at New Preparatory School in Cambridge for a year, and then joined the circulation department of the old Boston Herald in 1932. In 1937, he returned to Hanover as associate editor and circulation manager of the Hanover Gazette.
In 1939, he went to New Mexico where he spent two years on a special research project for the U.S. Government on unemployment and employment patterns.
He returned to Dartmouth in 1941 as business manager of the Alumni Magazine and an associate of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, and a year later rejoined the Boston Herald as circulation supervisor.
In 1944 he moved to Philadelphia to join the Curtis Publishing Co. as an assistant manager of subscriptions, and 12 years later became manager of subscriptions of the Farm Journal there.
He returned to New Hampshire again in 1961 as Advertising and Sales Manager of Equity Publishing Corp. in Orford, and the following year became once more associated with Dartmouth as an associate in the Development office. He retired in 1972.
At College, Park was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, later becoming president and a director of the Dartmouth Association of Phi Kappa Psi. He was also a member of the Dragon Senior Society.
He had many hobbies - reading, painting, music, the theatre, and at one time even built boats in bottles. His overriding interest, however, was always Dartmouth. Throughout his career he was active in Alumni affairs, serving as a member of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston, and later as president of the Philadelphia Alumni Association.
He was also very active in class affairs, having served many years as a member of the executive committee, as class treasurer, and, for the past three years, as class newsletter editor. As a member of the Development staff at Dartmouth, he gave invaluable advice, assistance, council, and encouragement to our class head agents. Even after he retired, he continued to give strong support to the head agent through his writing in the newsletter. He will be sorely missed.
Parker is survived by his widow, the former Helen Chaddock, and a sister, Mrs. Kenneth McCabe, of Pueblo, Colorado. The Class extends its deepest sympathy to them.
Memorial donations may be sent to the Class of 1931 Alumni Fund.
JOHN COGSWELL '31
1932
The College has been informed of the death of JOHN FREDERICK CHESTERMAN on March 31. Jack was born at Montclair, N. J., on November 7, 1910. At the time he came to Dartmouth his family was living in Pittsburgh, where he had attended Shady Side Academy. He majored in economics, was associate editor of The Aegis, and a member of Sigma Chi.
After graduation he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his B. S. in electrical engineering in 1934. He joined New Jersey Bell Telephone Company as an engineer and was with that company until 1952. He than became a member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, N. J. He was a member of the U. S. Defense Department's' Advisory Committee on Business Computers.
He was living in Hampton Falls, N. H. at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow Dorothy, three daughters, Barbara, Marilyn, and Anne, and four grandchildren. The Class extends its deep sympathy to his family.
NATHAN WILLIAM HAWKES JR. died at a Brunswick, Me., hospital on June 24. Nate was born in Belmont, Mass., on November 18, 1908 and attended Phillips Exeter Academy. At Dartmouth he majored in psychology. He played hockey his sophomore and junior years, was a member of Green Key, and of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Sphinx.
A year after graduation he attended Tufts Medical School for one year. In 1936 he went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he became a district sales manager in 1954.
Nate married Carolyn Lampee of Winchester, Mass. in 1936. He retired from the railroad in 1965, and the following year they moved from Dayton, Ohio to Cundy's Harbor, Maine. Surviving beside his widow are two daughters, Mrs. Clarence (Susan) Cook of Atlanta and Mrs. Eugene (Carol) Dima of Cundy's Harbor; a son Nathan W. III of Washington, D. C.; and four grandsons. The Class offers its deep sympathy to his family.
ROGER WALTER HOFHEINS died in the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction on June 26. Rog was born in Buffalo, N. Y., on November 6, 1909 and he attended Lafayette High School there. He left college in 1931 and went with the Merchants Mutual Casualty Company. He operated his own insurance brokerage office from 1932 to 1936, when he became production manager of R. L. Wood & Co. Prior to World War II he became a field technical engineer with Willys-Overland Motors and then was with the A. C. F. Brill Motors Co.
In 1939 Rog was among the first to perceive that the war was going to require amphibious vehicles. With his Amphibian Car Corporation he pioneered the design of the Aqua-Cheetah XAC amphibian car for the Army and the Water Buffalo amphibian for the Navy. He was a captain in the U. S. Army in 1944-45, and acted as technical adviser to the Navy in the South Pacific. Rog married Martha Kicklighter in Giennviile, Ga., in 1937. In recent years Rog lived in Lyme. He was seriously crippled by arthritis, but usually managed to make the annual fall dinner get-together of the Class held on one of the football weekends. He is survived by his son Roger J. Hofheins of San Francisco, to whom the Class extends its deep sympathy.
1933
BURT HENRY HACK, 65, of Mt. Prospect Road, Holderness, N.H., died on August 30, 1975 at the Sceva Speare Memorial Hospital, Plymouth, N.H. after a short illness.
He was born in Proctor, Vt., was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, a member of the Class of 1933 of Dartmouth and received his B.S. degree from New York University in 1937.
Burt moved to Holderness from Norwich, Vt., after spending 25 years with the Whiting Milk Company, and became proprietor of Kendrick Oil Co. until his retirement in 1972.
He belonged to three Masonic bodies, was a charter member of the Plymouth Elks Lodge 2312 and a past Rotarian of Plymouth.
The Class extends its sympathy to his widow Marion (Scown) Hack of Holderness; one son Bruce '57 of Lakewood, N.Y.; three grandchildren; and one sister Mrs. Rachel Dorin of Torrington, Conn.
GEORGE SCOFIELD TART of Tacoma, Wash., died in May, 1974 at the age of 63.
Born in Tacoma, he prepared for the College at the Moran School, Bainbridge Island, Wash. After graduation, George worked for the Puget Sound National Bank of Tacoma and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Later he worked in commercial real estate with the Forrester Realty and Mortgage Company.
He is survived by his widow Jean (MacGillivray) and
1934
Word has been received of the death of FRAZER YATES THORNLEY on April 8. Frazer was associated with Kopec Insurance Associates in Chicago.
At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and had participated in football and hockey.
Frazer married Betty McTaggert in 1939 and they became the parents of two children, Ross and Linda. Our Class extends its sincere sympathy to the family.
1938
WENDELL ELMER LAKE, 61, died September 8 in the Salem (Mass.) Hospital after a long illness.
Born in Boston, Wendell graduated from Latin School there. He went into sales as a profession following graduation from the College and sold for Scholastic Publications, White Motor Co., Sylvania Electric Company and The Carter's Ink Company, becoming head of the marketing division at the last written. He also did advanced work at M.I.T.
In 1960 he went into business for himself, founding Holidec Associates of Marblehead, a nationally-known firm which plans Christmas displays for cities and shopping centers. He was also a co-founder of the Marblehead Reporter, a weekly newspaper.
Wendell was a member of the American Management and the American Marketing Associations, Zeta Psi fraternity, Green Key, the Corinthian Yacht Club, and the Marblehead Arts Association.
A previous marriage terminated by divorce, in 1968 he married Mary Coit whom classmates will remember from our 35th Reunion and Dartmouth-Harvard games. She survives him at 23 Lorraine Terrace, Marblehead. Also surviving are a son Peter A. '66, four stepsons, and two stepdaughters. To them all 1938 sends sincere sympathy.
1939
ROBERT BASSET WHITCOMB, 58, died suddenly during the week of August 3. Bob was born in Brockton, Mass., and entered Dartmouth from Brockton High School. At college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Sphinx, and was elected to Palaeopitus and Green Key. He was the manager of The Players, sang in the glee club and was a member of the Council on Student Organizations. He majored in National Problems.
He formerly spent many years with United Shoe Machine Co. in his home town of Brockton, and was later the director of the Massachusetts Blue Shield.
Bob lived in Norwell, Mass., at the time of his death and was the administrator of the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart.
He lived an active and busy life having been president of the New England Branch of the American Legal Association, active in the United Fund campaign as chairman of the Commerce and Industry Department, and served on various committees in the towns of Cohasset and Norwell.
He leaves his widow Jill; two sons Robert B. '70 Jr. of Philadelphia, David M. at home; three daughters Anne G. Jacob of Weymouth, Margaret Benderey of Oxford, and Jane B. at home. Also a sister, Mrs. Martha W. Strom of West Falmouth and one granddaughter.
One of the regrets of his friends in the Class was that we could not pull Bob from his busy local duties back to Hanover for one of our recent reunions. His passing will leave a gap in the '39 lists.
1942
HENRY SWAN REYNOLDS of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., passed away at the age of 55 on March 14, following a short illness. Hank prepared at Deerfield Academy prior to attending Dartmouth where he was a member of Theta Delta Chi Fraternity. Later he attended Harvard Business School and obtained his master's detree from Wayne State University in 1962. He was in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1943 to 1945 and worked with the Federal Mogul Corporation from 1945 to 1957.
Hank then taught in the Grosse Pointe Public School System, but at the time of his death was with the League Shop, Inc. He had been active in the National, Michigan and Grosse Pointe Education Associations as well as the Dartmouth Club of Detroit. Hank was a member of the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church and had been a ruling elder from 1949-1952. He also was a member of the Country Club of Detroit.
Surviving are his widow Patricia, a daughter Ellen, and sons Charles and Jonathan. Representing the Class at services were Brad Bowman, Jim Rendall, and John Wyper.
1944
Dr. PETER ALLISON BRUCH, a staff physician at St. Luke's Hospital,in Cleveland, died June 12 after a three-year fight against cancer.
Pete came to Dartmouth from the University School in Cleveland, and was one of the 30 Dartmouth undergraduates who went into the first Naval Air Corps Unit in June 1942. He served just under four years, including tours of the Pacific, and he was discharged as a lieutenant junior grade.
He returned to Hanover for the summer term in 1946, but then transferred to Western Reserve University. He received his A.B. degree in 1948 and then his M.D. for the Western Reserve Medical School in 1952.
He joined the staff of St. Luke's Hospital that same year. He was medical director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland for 19 years and an internist with the Ohio Permanente Medical Group since 1974.
According to his family, Pete's main hobby was trying to be a farmer on a city lot, and had he lived he might well have developed new strains of the many things farmers grow.
At Dartmouth he won freshman numerals in swimming and was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
Survivors include his widow Martha; daughters Judith Beavers, Margaret 0., Cathy A., and Martha E., a son Michael P., two grandchildren, and brothers Karl '40 and Frank '51.
1956
HOWARD MILTON WISOTZKEY, M.D., 40, died of cancer at his home in Glenshaw, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, on August 17.
Dr. Wisotzkey was assistant professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was neuropathologist to the Presbyterian University Hospital and on the staff of the Eye and Ear Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Wiz, as he was nicknamed by classmates, prepared for Dartmouth at Friends School in Baltimore, Md. As an undergraduate in Hanover, he played varsity lacrosse and was a member of Theta Delta Chi and the Dragon Society. He graduated with a B.A., majoring in zoology.
Howard received his M.D. degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, in 1961. From 1961-67 he received training at the same institution in pathology, neuropathology, and neurology, his specialty being neuropathology.
While living in Baltimore he was active in the Dartmouth Club. He always maintained a fondness for Hanover and Dartmouth.
From 1967-1969 he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a major at Walter Reeds' Armed Forces institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C.
A diplomate of the American Board of Pathology in anatomic pathology and neuropathology since 1968, Howard took his first academic position at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and served there from 1969-72. In the latter year he joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
He was a member of the American Association of Neuropathologists, an organization in which he was active until the time of his death. He also belonged to the Pittsburgh Pathology Society and was a former member of the Baltimore Neurological Society.
In addition to his activity as a teacher of medical students and residents in neuropathology, pathology, nerology, and neurosurgery, Howard also contributed 14 publications to medical literature dealing with various aspects of neuropathology.
He was known as a man of great loyalty to his friends, family, and the institutions he served and was widely regarded as a superior teacher and compassionate physician.
In his last few months, though ill, he finished his term of office as PTA president and helped coach baseball in the DeHaven Athletic Association.
Howard married Carol Story, a Mary Hitchcock graduate, in 1958. Survivors include his widow, (laughters Laura and Beth and son Sam, all of 804 Scott Ave., Glenshaw, and his mother Mrs. Ruth Wisotzkey of Baltimore.
CAROL WISOTZKEY
1958
ROBERT GRAYSON MCGUIRE III was killed on August 16 in an automobile accident near Frogmore, SC. This tragic event cut short a brilliant academic rareer in full stride toward its zenith and deprived our Class of one of her most gifted sons.
After graduation, Mick continued his studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies from which he received a masters degree in Soviet studies in 1961. He then began a four-year period of service with the Peace Corps. For the first two years he was a volunteer visiting lecturer in international relations at the University of Rajshani in what is now Bangladesh. He then served as an evaluation officer on personnel matters and made several inspection visits to North and West Africa. These studies and travels resulted in his becoming fluent in French, Russian, and Bengali.
He began his teaching career at Franconia College in New Hampshire in 1968 after completing the course work toward his doctorate. He returned to Dartmouth in 1969 where he became chairman and founding coordinator of the College's Black Studies program with the rank of assistant professor. This was a very critical time for the College as there was a significant increase in the numbers of black students during the late sixties. As one of the few black faculty members at that time, Mick played on important role as a resource person and advisor to minority students and provided a much needed black perspective in policy and curriculum developments.
The opportunity to join the faculty of Howard University arose in 1971 and the McGuire family relocated to Mick's native Washington, D.C., from their home in Thetford Center, Vt. This gave him the chance to pursue his interest in black political protest in the context of a leading black university and to add his teaching skills to the institution's Afro-American Studies Department. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1974 in political science. For the past year, he was a Public Policy Research Fellow at the Joint Center for Political Studies on a project funded by the Ford Foundation. He had just completed his book entitled Black Social and PoliticalOrganization in Washington, D.C. 1900 to 1975 at the time of his death and was preparing to resume his full-time teaching responsibilities in the fields of Pan-African thought and politics and Afro-American studies.
A major in English at Dartmouth was complemented by his activities in the Human Rights Society and the Newman Club. He was also secretary of both the Pi Lamda Phi and the Kappa Phi Kappa fraternities. He entered the College, from which his father graduated in 1932, after preparatory education at St. John's College High School in Washington. He continued his interest in Dartmouth affairs and organized several activities involving black alumni in the District of Columbia area.
He also found time for significant involvement in community activities which reflected his concerns for education and the social and economic development of black people. He was chairman of the board of directors of Washington's Midtown Montessori School and a board member of the Negro Student Fund in D.C. He was in South Carolina in August for a board executive committee meeting of Penn Community Ser- vices, Inc., a community development corporation, which was established as the Port Royal Experiment in 1862 to resettle freed slaves. His professional affiliations included the African Heritage Studies Association and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
Mick regarded his academic and personal involvement in the preservation and advancement of the rich black cultural experience in this country and in the Afro-Caribbean community as the natural outgrowth of the familial, personal, and ideological influences which had shaped his own life. He paid moving homage to these sources of inspiration in the foreward to his book, Streams of Consciousness: Continuity in BlackPolitical Protest which will be published this fall. The tribute begins with Mick's acknowledgement of his debt "To the generations of black men and women whose struggles have set the context in which we live and whose strength provides inspiration for us to move into the future" and includes words of admiration, reverence and love for his family, friends, and associates. Fittingly, these beautiful passages were read as a form of eulogy at the funeral service in late August.
The Class joins Mick's many friends and colleagues in expressing its collective sympathy to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. McGuire Jr., to Georgianna and their sons Eric and Matthew; and to the rest of his family. We will remember him fondly for all that he was even as we wonder, sadly, what he was yet to be.
1973
ROBERT LEWIS HENRY died August 28 at Manry Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He was a second-year student at the Medical School and a graduate assistant coach of the freshman football team. Bob was stricken two days previously while jogging with classmates near the campus.
Born in Alexandria Bay, N.Y. on December 2, 1950, Bob grew up in Gloversville and competed in football, basketball, and track at high school there. At Dartmouth, he earned his freshman numerals in football and played defensive end on two Ivy championship teams, 1971 and 1972.
Bob was a biology major and graduated with distinction. He was treasurer of Beta Theta Pi, and also a member of Dragon and Aquinas House.
He had worked as a technician at Nathan Littauer Hospital in Gloversville for a year before entering Medical School in the fall of last year.
Surviving are his widow Nancy (Hartnett) of Hanover, his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Henry of Gloversville, two brothers Bruce '69, White Plains, N.Y., and Brian of Gloversville, and two sisters, Mrs, Karen Glover and Kathy, both of Gloversville. To them all 1973 extends heartfelt sympathy.
Contributions in Bob's memory may be made in care of Dr. G.G. Cornwell at the Medical School.
Medical School
DR. ROBERT OSCAR BLOOD M'13, Governor of New Hampshire from 1941 to 1945, family doctor and dairy farmer, and a first citizen of Concord, N.H., died in a nursing home there August 4.
Born November 10, 1887 in Enfield, N.H., Bob drove stagecoaches and baked bread in order to get through his studies. He established his practice in Wells River, Vt., and in 1915 moved to Concord where he continued to practice medicine until last February. He continued to see patients in early morning and evening hours during his governorship and sometimes in emergencies treated members of the legislature in his executive office.
Since 1926 Bob had also operated Crystal Springs Farm in East Concord and he was past president of the National Ayrshire Breeders Association. He was elected to the New Hampshire House in 1935 and four years later was elected president of the New Hampshire Senate. His administration established a civil service classification system for state employees, biennial capital budget, and full-time attorney general.
He served as a major in the Army Medical Corps in World War I and received the Distinguished Service Cross and the Croix de Guerre. He was a past president of the New Hampshire Veterans Association and former chairman of the State Y.M.C.A. executive committee. His directorship and memberships were many, and he had been president of the Concord American Red Cross and the Community Chest. He was elected a delegate to five Republican National Conventions.
In 1919 Bob was married to Pauline Shepard who pre-deceased him in 1974. Surviving are two sons, Dr. Robert O. Jr. '42 of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dr. Horace Blood '44 of Concord; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
More than 200 people, including Governor Thompson and former Governors Gregg and Dwinell attended his funeral and the Concord Monitor paid tribute to him as . .a symbol of old virtues," saying, "He left an indelible imprint on New Hampshire."
Dr. Leslie Orrell Ashton '13
Dr. Anthony Caesar Cipollaro '24
Dr. Henry Baker Crawford '25
Parker Fernando Soule Jr. '31
Robert Lewis Henry '73
Dr. Robert Oscar Blood M '13
