Deaths
(A listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past month. Full notices may appear in this issue or a later one.)
Cooper, Brown '10, May 24 Hamilton, McGregor '11, May 1975 Scotford, John R. 11, September 9 Bemis, William H. 18, September 16 Janes, Harold B. 19, December 23, 1975 Rice, Kenneth H. 19, August 21 Fay, Douglas R. '21, September 13 Moore, Hewitt F. '21, August 24 Smead, James L. '21, September 8 Cravens, J. Rorick '22, August 18 Crowley, Edwin D. '23, September 10 Paterson, Robert A. '23, September 7 Carqueville, Jeffery A. '24, August 2 Little, F. Davis '24, September 11 Williams, Bleecker R. '26, September 1 Ward, Frederic K. '27, August 26 Finfrock, Charles M. '33, July 1973 Mosher, Richard T. '33, August 28 Goodman, Bennett E. '35, August 28 Crosby, Richard '36, August 4 Collyer, Donald M. '39, May Boothby, Lawrence W. '40, September 12 Rainie, Donald G. '40, September 23 McClintock, Henry H. '45, September 9 Listorti, Nicholas J. '64, September 16
1903
Word has belatedly reached the College of the death of HAROLD ARIEL BULLARD on March 11. He was born on May 9, 1880. At Dartmouth he was a charter member of Chi Phi.
Bull worked as a salesman for the Phillip R. Park Company of Chicago and later for the D. H. Grandin Milling Company of Jamestown, N.Y. After retirement, he remained active in civic affairs. He was the town clerk, tax collector, and constable for the town of Lyman, Me., a member of the North Parish Congregational Church of Sanford, Me., and a past master in the Masons.
He is survived by his widow Iris.
1910
BROWN COOPER died May 24 in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he had lived for many years. Born July 10, 1888, in Lafayette, Ind., he married Camille Robinette June 10, 1933, in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the lived for many years at 4815 Old Mill Road in Fort Wayne. In later years he operated Cooper's Restaurant in Fort Wayne.
He received his B.A. degree with the Class of 1910. After college he was agent for the New York Life Insurance Company until 1935 and served later as vice president, secretary, and treasurer of North Eastern-Life Underwriters Association.
Brown was active in civic work in Fort Wayne, serving as president of Fort Wayne Historical Society and governor of the Society of Indiana Pioneers. He was active in the Masonic Order and became an honorary 33rd degree Mason. For 21 years he was editor and publisher of Square and Compass, Masonic magazine of northeastern Indiana.
In 1918-19 he served in the military. Brown's survivors include his widow and a son.
1911
The REVEREND JOHN RYLAND SCOTFORD passed away in his sleep in Hamilton, N.Y., on September 9, two days after his 88th birthday. John joined our class from Englewood High School in Chicago. He completed the requirements for his degree in three years, and while in Hanover was on the Class debating team and the Dartmouth Magazine board.
After leaving Hanover, he attended Union Theological Seminary and was called to his first pastorate by the Congregational Church in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, in 1912. He served Congregational churches in Dallas, Waukegan, and Cleveland. World War I was in progress during his service in Waukegan, where he was a chaplain at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
Beginning in his high school days he was an incessant writer for all sorts of publications, mostly religious magazines of all denominations, but also others such as Parents. In the late twenties he added a third career when he made his first trip to Mexico. Numerous trips to South and Central America followed, and as he wrote to us, "I have been living by my wits and doing enough talking and writing to pay my way." Traveling by ship, train, riverboat, car, truck, horse, and burro over the Andes, he eventually visited every republic in South America. Armed with the photographs he took on his travels, he lectured and wrote about them as a free-lancer for four years.
His first two interests, the Congregational Church and writing, merged in 1931 when he was made editorial secretary of the Board of Home Missions. From 1943 to 1950 he was editor of Advance, the national magazine of the Congregational Christian Church. An interest developed in church architecture and the ways in which a church building works or does not work in helping the church function as an organization. When he retired as editor of Advance. John once again hit the freelance trail, this time as a church building consultant.
He visited and preached in more than 1,400 churches of all denominations, helping them find the best solutions to their various problems and aspirations. He served as president of the American Conference or Church Architecture from 1948 to 1952 and in 1956 was interim director of the National Council of Churches' Bureau of Church Building. The Church Architectural Guild of America awarded him its Conover Award in 1958 for his contributions to church architecture. He was also director of the Superior Marking Devices Co. in Chicago during the '50s.
In 1965 he and his wife Mable moved to Hamilton, N.Y., where he continued to write and to preach. There was an article in his typewriter the day he died. He was the author of five books, one on Latin America, one on how ministers find churches and churches find them, the others on church architecture. The ChurchBeautiful and When You Build Your Church are the best known.
John served a term as editor of our class newsletter, and attended many reunions including our 65th this past June. He had a knack of finding Dartmouth men all around the girdled earth.
John married Mable Matteson in 1912, and they had a daughter Ruth and two sons, John Jr. '38, who serves Dartmouth as College Designer, and David '44. He leaves 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
1915
CECIL WHITNEY died August 13 at his home in Norwell, Mass. After graduating from Dartmouth in our Class, he attended Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1918. He was a retired partner of the firm of Gaston, Snow, Ely and Bartlett of Boston.
Whit was active in Masonic affairs for many years and moderator for 15 years of the town of Norwell. He is survived by his wife Bertha, two sons, a daughter, a stepson, two stepdaughters and five grandchildren.
1918
WILLIAM HAY BEMIS died September 15 in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Bill had a lengthy and illustrious law career as a partner in the firm founded by Newton D. Baker, who was Secretary of War under President Wilson.
Bill entered Dartmouth in 1914 from Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated with the class and obtained his law degree from Western Reserve in 1922.
In college Bill was on the Aegis and Bema boards and was a member of the Dramatic Association and of Delta Tau Delta. Just before graduation he was elected vice president of the Class for our early alumni years.
Bill's specialty as an attorney was industrial law, in which field he enjoyed an enviable reputation.
He was a former director of the Shaker Square Association, the Lincoln Foundation, and Wade Park Manor, and a member of the Union and Highland Park Clubs, Lake Wales, Fla.
Bill was interested and active in alumni affairs and was extremely generous in support of the Alumni Fund.
Bill is survived by his wife Wilma, two daughters, Elizabeth B. Cameron and Rebecca B. Amiot, and six grandchildren.
STEPHEN PATRICK MAHONEY died September 29 at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y., at the age of 82. He was dead when his wife Dorothy went in to waken him.
Steve spent his entire business life in newspaper advertising. He began in 1919 with the St. Louis PostDispatch and went on to the Boston Herald and Chicago Tribune. He was in Chicago in that colorful era when William Hale Thompson was mayor. In 1924 Steve joined the newspaper advertising concern of Knill-Burke in Chicago, and by 1928 the company had became Burke, Knipers and Mahoney, Inc., with offices in New York and with Steve as president, a position he occupied until his retirement in 1958. Steve served as president of the New York Newspaper Representatives Association in 1955 and of the national association in 1957. In 1958 the bureau of advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association voted him its distinguished service award.
Steve entered Dartmouth from North Brookfield, Mass. His college career was interrupted by World War I, and he received his A.B. degree in 1918 in absentia. He went back into service in World War II as a lieutenant commander in charge of a naval air base in Oregon.
Steve served as a class agent and was always actively interested in 1918 and the College.
He is survived by his wife Dorothy, a daughter, a son, a brother, a sister, and two grandchildren.
The Class was represented at the services by co-presidents Hulbert and Sargent.
1919
HAROLD B. JANES died on December 23, 1975, in Framingham Mass., where he has made his home in recent years. Coke spent most of his business career with A&P. He is survived by a son, Phillip R., also of Framingham.
FORREST L. PITMAN died in Boynton Beach, Fla., on October 10. For many years he lived in Winchester, Mass., and was president of the McQuesten Lumber Company until his retirement in 1962.
Pete left college in April 1917, served in France, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. After the war he settled in Winchester, where he was very active in civic affairs and was a director of the Winchester Country Club.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Joyce P. Schardt of Chesterfield, Mo., and several grandchildren.
KENNETH RICE died August 21 in South Deerfield, Mass., where he practised medicine for 48 years before retiring to Ormond Beach, Fla., in 1971. Ken attended Dartmouth Medical School and later the University of Vermont Medical School. After internship in Worcester, he settled in South Deerfield.
At a public testimonial several years ago it was said that his family was everyone within a 10-mile radius of South Deerfield and that to that neighborhood he was physician, clergyman, and psychiatrist. During his long career he was head of the hospital, an active worker on school committees, and a member of several fraternal organizations.
Charlotte, his wife of almost fifty years, died several years ago. He is survived by a daughter and two sons, Kenneth H. Rice Jr. '56 and David H. Rice '58.
STEWART WARK died September 23 in Hanover, where he has lived in recent years. His business life was spent in the advertising and newspaper fields, first in New York City and later in Woodstock, Vt. In 1940 he purchased a home in Woodstock and founded an advertising business known as Wark Associates. He was a member of the Woodstock Rotary and also of the Woodstock Country Club and Lakota Club.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Stephen Peuser of Metronome Springs, Col., and Mrs. Andrew Jennison of Bar Harbor, Me.; a sister, Mrs. Lawrence Angel of Woodstock; and several nieces and nephews.
1920
ROBERT CHARLES MANGAN MULCAHY was one of many greater Boston lads who entered Dartmouth in the autumn of 1916. Illness forced him to leave college that December to recuperate at home. His absence continued well beyond mid-years, 1917, so he sought a job temporarily with the Massachusetts Department of Corporations and Taxation. He remained in the employment of the Commonwealth until his retirement in 1967 - a veteran of 50 years continuous service - a record which few have equalled.
While working as an employee of the state he undertook the study of law evenings at the Suffolk Law School from which he received his LL.B. degree in 1922. He took his bar examinations shortly thereafter and was admitted to practice in the Massachusetts Courts and a little later in the U.S. District Courts. Bob also studied at and received a certificate from the Harvard School of Business Administration.
In 1923 he married Mary C. (Mollie) Gargan and to them two sons were born. Mary died in 1974. The Mulcahys lived for many years in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Bob probably holds the class record for continuous service with a single employer. He served the Commonwealth of Massachusetts well as a competent, dedicated public servant, 'well informed in the intricate and demanding field of taxation and tax law.
Although associated but briefly as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, Bob was a loyal son and attended his class and college functions in Boston quite regularly during his younger years.
The class extends its sympathy to his family for the loss they have sustained. We have lost a highly respected individual of great tenacity and capacity.
1921
JAMES LAWTON SMEAD of Greenfield, Mass., died in Franklin County Hospital September 8. He was the former surgeon-in-chief and one-time president of the former Springfield (Mass.) Hospital. In 1960 he was appointed director of medical education and research at the hospital, now Baystate Medical Center.
A veteran of World War I, Jim enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve in World War II and served 18 months in France and Scotland as chief of surgery at U.S. naval bases. At the time of his death he held the rank of captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
Jim was born in Greenfield January 9, 1900. After graduation from Dartmouth, where he was a member of Cosmos Club, he took his M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1924. In 1926, after internship at Hart-ford Hospital, he began a practice in Springfield.
Though very active as a surgeon, Jim found time for many activities. He served as president of Hampden Country Medical Society. He was on the committee which established the state soldier's home in Holyoke. He was a member of the New England Surgical Association, the American College of Surgeons, Springfield Academy of Medicine, the Osier Club of Springfield, the Retired Officers Association, the South Congregational Church of Springfield, and Kiwanis.
Jim was always much interested in forestry and he developed some 90 acres of trees at his camp. In 1957 he bought a 210-acre farm and repaired farm buildings and sheds as a hobby.
Jim is survived by his widow, the former Dorothy Wise, and two daughters.
Born November 6, 1897, in West Barrington, Rhode Island, HAROLD HOLMES SMITH of 36 Wakefield Avenue, Port Washington, N.Y., died suddenly of a heart attack July 9.
At Dartmouth he joined the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. After graduation he entered the textile field and later was occupied in real estate on Long Island.
His widow Marion, whom he married in 1953, survives him. A son, Warren W. '53, died in 1969.
1922
JAMES RORICK CRAVENS died August 18 in Houston from pneumonia following surgery.
Born April 15, 1903, in Houston, Jim was the youngest man in the Class of 1922. His many friends among classmates and the brothers in Kappa Sigma fondly remember him with high esteem. He was with us for three years before he transferred to Princeton to take his A.B. degree.
Jim's business career was spent almost entirely in Houston. 52 years ago he began managing insurance, mortgage loans and investments with Cravens, Dargan & Company. During World War II he served as a major in the A.A.F. Central Flying Command. In later yearshe became president of the Gulf Coast Investment Corporation and chairman of the board of Cravens, Dargan. He also served as a director on the boards of the Second National Bank of Houston and the Texas Commercial Bank.
Jim's avocations were ranching, hunting, and golf. He belonged to the Houston Country Club, the Bayou Club and the Tejas Club, both of Houston.
Jim and Mary Cullinan, Smith College '24, were married 47 years ago. She, daughters Nancy and Patricia, and son James Jr. are his survivors.
KENNETH WELLINGTON CHAMBERLAIN, 77, passed away July 9 after a long illness in his home town, Alton, N.H.
Ken was born in Berwick, Me., and entered Dartmouth from Alton High School. He was a widely known semi-professional baseball player in Connecticut and New Hampshire before he began a 42-year association with the, Boston and Maine Railroad. He became an engineer, and prior to his retirement in 1960 he was recognized as a supervisory expert on air brakes. Also an Alton selectman, he represented the town in the New Hampshire legislature.
Ken and Anna Ullrich were married in Dover, N.H., 55 years ago. Sadly, she passed away only a week before his death. They are survived by four daughters, three sons (two of whom are doctors), 22 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
1923
HOWARD VICTOR BARNEY died on August 22, following a long illness. Born on January 17, 1903, in New York City, Vic - as far as we can determine - was the youngest member of the class of 1923. A graduate of St. Johnsbury Academy, he was a member of Epsilon Kappa Phi at Dartmouth and went on to take a business degree from Tuck School.
Immediately following graduation Vic became associated with the New England Telephone Company and remained with that concern for 43 years, until his retirement as commercial supervisor in 1966.
During all of his adult life Vic was a devoted and tireless worker in the Boy Scout movement. In 1960 he received the Silver Antelope Award, scouting's highest regional award. He had previously received the Silver Beaver award and the St. George Medal, the highest Catholic layman award in scouting.
Vic's survivors include his widow, the former Mary Lorden, a son, and three grandchildren.
EDWIN DAVID CROWLEY died September 10 at Union Hospital in Lynn, Mass., after a brief illness.
A Lynn native, Ed graduated from Lynn Classical High School and received his M.C.S. at Tuck School in 1924. He was also a graduate of Suffolk Law School, a member of the Massachusetts Bar and of Phi Beta Kappa.
Ed began his law practice with the firm of Pearsons, Wadleigh, and Crowley in Lynn before being elected treasurer of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co. He served as president of the company for eight years prior to its being taken over by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Before his retirement in 1974, he was a business consultant and tax adviser.
Ed's survivors include his wife, the former Edna Conway, two sons, E. David and Dennis P., and a daughter Margaret, all of Peabody, Mass.
GEORGE ALFRED MORRELL died on August 12 at the Ottumwa, lowa, hospital. He had been in failing health for several years.
A graduate of Lawrenceville School, George was a member of Chi Phi at Dartmouth. In 1924 he became associated with the family firm of John Morrell and Co. and served successively as assistant treasurer, vice-president and treasurer, and a member of the board of directors. He retired from active participation in the business in 1954.
George was a director and past president of the Ottumwa Chamber of Commerce, past president of Rotary, and chairman of the board of directors of lowa Wesleyan College. For a number of years he served on the boards of directors of the lowa-Des Moines National Bank and the Employers Mutual Casualty Co. In 1960 he received the honorary degree of doctor of business administration from lowa Wesleyan.
On October 28, 1925, George was married to the former Mary Elizabeth Bowden, who passed away on January 18, 1970. Survivors are a son John N. and a daughter Constance Curtis, both of Ottumwa. His brother John is a member of the class of 1933.
George was a loyal and generous member of the class - qualities that were first apparent during his undergraduate days and continued during his entire life time. Cap Palmer, who was very close to him, writes affectionately of their early days together in Chi Phi fraternity.
A quiet and modest man, George was eminently successful in business, active in the affairs of his church, and a leader in his community. We will miss him greatly.
1924
JEFFREY ALEXANDER CARQUEVILLE died August 2 at his home in Phoenix, Ariz., following a long illness.
Jeff was with us in Hanover for two years, following which he attended Colorado College. The forty-year book records that he was a cattle rancher at that time.
He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Catherine LeClercq.
FRANK DAVIS LITTLE died September 11 in A Portland, Me., hospital after a long illness.
He had been an architectural draftsman with the Saco Lowell Shops of Saco, Me., prior to his retirement. He was a member of Sigma Nu.
He is survived by his wife Anna; three daughters, Mrs. Frederick Basserman, Mrs. Cortland Tice, and Mrs. Religh Mann; two sisters; and ten grandchildren.
FREDERIC (ROSENBACH) WEYBURNE, former vice president and group executive of the automotive division of the Bendix Corporation, died January 24 in Jupiter, Fla. of pneumonia following brain surgery.
Fred was with Bendix for 43 years, starting in 1925. Following retirement, he and Harriet moved to the Jupiter Inlet Colony, where he most enjoyed golf and fishing.
In addition to his widow at 144 Beacon Lane, Jupiter, Fred is survived by a daughter and two granddaughters.
1926
BLEEKER RATHBONE WILLIAMS died at home in his sleep September 1 in Madison, Ct. Born October 10, 1903, in Bogota, N.J., he graduated from Hackensack (N.J.) High School and at Dartmouth went on to graduate from Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Bleek was a well-known, active member of the Class as undergraduate and as alumnus. He was on the Bema board, Dartmouth Pictorial staff and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.
Bleek married Marion E. Smith in 1934 and for many years they lived in Ridgewood and Saddle River, N.J. He was for 22 years an officer of the Peoples Trust Co., Hackensack, and served also as president of the American Institution of Banking. In 1948 he became executive vice-president and director of the Barco Co., Patterson, N.J. He was treasurer of the Patterson General Hospital, member of the Charter and Hamilton clubs in Patterson, and the Areola Country Club. After his retirement they moved to Madison, where they had spent summers, and Bleek joined the Madison Beach Club and the Madison Winter Club.
Marion wrote saying Bleek's greatest love was Dartmouth, where he spent happy years, and quoted from the services held for him: "The hallmark of faithfulness is notable in his life, to his college, in his career across the years, to family and friends, to the ideals in which he believed." Bleek had requested that in lieu of flowers contributions to Dartmouth Alumni Fund - Class of 1926 be made.
Besides his wife Marion, he is survived by his son. Bleeker R. Jr., and his sister, Dr. Edith B. Williams.
1927
PHILIP GORDON CORLISS of San Diego, Cal., died April 11. He had been in ill health for some time, suffering from emphysema and a failing heart.
Phil grew up in the Boston area and graduated as valedictorian of his class at Winchester High. At Dartmouth, he was on the Pictorial staff, in the Glee Club, The Players, and the French Club, and he wrote for the Bema. In 1926, he transferred to Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1930.
Dr. Corliss established his practice in Somerton, Ariz., where he was active in civic affairs, particularly as president of the Yuma Community Concert Association. He collected over 25,000 records.
An interest in horticulture led to his developing Mineola tangelos, which he marketed nationally, various irises and gladioli, and over 1,000 cacti. He wrote articles, gave lectures, rented colored slides, and conducted European garden tours. He also participated in national duplicate bridge tournaments and held a master's rating.
Phil's wife Carmen died in the fall of 1956. He later gave up his practice and moved to beach front property at San Diego where he worked with new cacti.
As his fellow resident of San Diego, Howie Mullin, expressed it, Phil was colorful, albeit eccentric, but never dull."
FREDERIC KEMP WARD, of Rochester, N.Y., died of advanced emphysema August 26. Ted attended Peddie School, where he participated in track, debating, and band. At Dartmouth he was a member of The Arts, Delta Omicron Gamma, Cabin and Trail, was on the board of the Christian Association, and was director of the Carnival Ball. He belonged to Psi Upsilon fraternity and Casque & Gauntlet Senior Society.
He is survived by a sister, Caroline Ward, of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
1928
LESTER ELY BENIOFF of Beverly Hills, Cal., died January 25 of lung cancer. He entered Dartmouth from Bryant High School, Long Island, N. Y., and was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa. He received an LL.B. degree from Columbia Univer- sity in 1931 and practiced law in New York City.
Les served as lieutenant in the Navy 1943-45. After the war he opened and operated a ladies' sportswear store in Los Angeles. Nothing is known of his activities since that time. He is survived by his widow Ida, a daughter, a son, and two grandchildren.
JOHN GULIAN died September 4 at his home in Rochester, N. H., after a brief illness. He came to Dartmouth from the Lawrence (Mass.) High School.
John was a special education teacher for 15 years until his retirement in 1972. Prior to this second career, he owned a store in Greenville, N.H.
He was a member of the Rochester Kiwanis Club and served as delegate to the State Republican convention this year. He was active in Class affairs and attended all the reunions.
Survivors include a brother and a sister.
1929
WALTER YORK LEE KONG died of pneumonia on January 12. He had had several severe heart attacks in previous years and suffered from aplastic anemia.
Born in Honolulu, he came to Dartmouth from Canton, China, where he had graduated from the Kan Yen School. He was Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth, majoring in education. He took a master's degree in education at Columbia with the intention of teaching at Yen Ching University, at that time a branch of Yale. Because of unrest in China, he remained in this country and entered the business world by opening an art shop in California: He was eminently successful in operating several stores in southern California dealing in oriental imports. He also contributed articles to such magazines as Asia and Survey Graphic.
Walter is survived by his widow, the former Helen Quin, whom he married in 1931, and a son Thomas '54.
1932
DONALD B. MACPHAIL of North Conway, N.H., died August 26 following a tractor accident the day before. He had attended our 45th reunion in June, and it is with deep sorrow that we announce this tragedy to our classmates.
Don was a very popular member of his Class, having graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors and served as manager of the soccer team. He was always active in Dartmouth and Class affairs and had attended many of our reunions.
Don majored in English and after graduation was employed as a newspaper reporter for The BostonAmerican and later for The Manchester Union Leader. Subsequently he was hired by the Wrigley Company of Chicago to write radio commercials.
Don served two years in the Navy during World War II after which he worked for the Office of Price Administration and the Bureau of the Budget and with U.S. Economic Aid Missions in both Tunisia and Lybia. He was director of productivity and technical assistance for the Administration of Economic Cooperation in Paris, France, from 1952 to 1957.
Don retired from government in 1968 after a distinguished career and then served as administrator of health sciences at the University of Vermont. He retired from this position in 1974.
He is survived by his widow Joan (Magee), three sons, including Bruce '62 and Hugh '77, three daughters, and three grandchildren.
1933
RICHARD THAYER MOSHER, 64, of 200 Morningside Terrace, Syracuse, N.Y., died at the Veterans Administration Hospital on August 28 after a short illness.
Born in Oberlin, Ohio, he resided in Syracuse most of his life. He attended The Taft School and Dartmouth College and graduated from Syracuse University (1933) and Yale Law School (1936).
He was a member of the legal staff of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and he later had a private legal practice in Syracuse until his retirement.
He served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946. His duties included a tour on the USS Enterprise in the South Pacific; later he served as a contract termination officer for the U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics.
Dick is survived by his wife Katherine (Daniels) Mosher; three sons, Richard T. Jr. '65, Philip S. and Alexander C. Mosher; two brothers; and several nieces and nephews.
1936
RICHARD CROSBY of New London, N.H., died after a long illness on September 4 at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.
Born in Danvers, Mass., on June 13, 1915, Dick attended Holten High School there before coming to Dartmouth, where he was an English major and a member of Alpha Tau Omega.
Most of his life was spent in education. For three years before World War II, he was instructor in English at American University at Beirut, Lebanon. During the war he served with the O.S.S. in Africa and Europe, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After teaching at Bates College, he spent three years in Palestine as Vice Consul. In 1952, Dick returned to the U.S. to take his master's degree from Boston University, and then he began a long career at Colby Junior College as an instructor in English. In 1965 he became chairman of the English department and in 1969 full Professor of English at the now Colby-Sawyer College.
Dick is survived by his brother Walter and a number of other relatives, to whom the Class extends its sincere sympathy.
ROGER AINSLEY MORSE of Cincinnati, Ohio, died on June 20, after a debilitating illness which required his being on a kidney machine at the Hemodialysis Unit of the Good Samaritan Hospital.
A native of Marblehead, Mass., he attended Marblehead High. While at Dartmouth he was active in baseball and hockey and became a member of Sigma Chi. After graduation he undertook graduate study at Harvard Business School.
In 1937 he became a salesman for B. F. Goodrich and in 1968 switched to selling insurance. In 1940 Rog became general account, Sylvania Electric Products at Salem, Mass. In November 1942 he enlisted in the Navy Seabees as storekeeper, saw action on LST's all over the Pacific and in January 1946 received an honorable discharge as Lt. (j.g.).
Rog returned to Sylvania but in 1948 joined the General Electric Co. in West Lynn, Mass. Five and a half years later he was transferred to G.E. in the Cincinnati area where he remained until his death. At the G.E. Jet Engine Plant there he was an Analyst in Manufacturing Control until his retirement a year and a half ago.
Rog is survived by his widow Marion of 7263 Jethre Lane, Cincinnati, whom he married in 1942, two daughters, a son, and a grandson.
BENJAMIN GILBERT SOUTHWICK was killed on July 30 when he surprised burglars in his home in Plainfield, N.J. He could only speak in a hoarse whisper because of a throat operation for cancer some five years ago.
He was born in Boston, Mass., in 1914, but attended high school in White Plains, N.Y. At Dartmouth he majored in chemistry and was a member of Alpha Theta Chi.
After graduation Ben was with the Hooker Electrochemical Company at Niagara Falls through 1937. In 1938-39 he attended the Graduate School of Chemistry at Columbia University. He was an industrial chemist for a number of firms. His last position was as a chemical engineer with Engelhard Industries in Newark, N.J.
Ben is survived by his widow Martha, two daughters, and a son. 1936 extends its sincere sympathy.
1940
DONALD G. RAINIE, treasurer of the Class for more than 25 years until forced by illness to retire this year, died at the Concord, N.H., Hospital on September 23 of a brain tumor.
His death came only three weeks after his wife Ruby had received in his behalf the prized Dartmouth Alumni Award presented in a special ceremony at the Rainies' Concord home by Michael McGean, '48, secretary of the College. Also at the ceremony was Bob MacMillan, past president of the Class.
The citation accompanying the award noted that Don had served his family, college, church, and community "with uncommon love and devotion" and that "those you serve respect and love you with like devotion."
After service in the U.S. Army during World War II, Don earned a law degree from Cornell in 1947 and became associated with his late father, Herbert W. Rainie '06, in his home town of Concord, specializing in probate and real estate work. He was also a director of the Concord Natural Gas Co. and the Rumford Building and Loan Association.
He was active in Concord civic affairs, and served as moderator of the South Congregational Church, as chairman of the Concord Red Cross campaign in 1962, and for many years as a member of the Concord Red Cross Board of Governors.
Music was always important to Don, and in Concord, as at Dartmouth and Cornell, he played band for many years. He was also a trustee of the Gile Community Concert Fund and director and treasurer of the Concord Community Concerts Association, earning the title of "Mr. Music of Concord."
As an undergraduate, in addition to leading the band, Don was a member of Palaeopitus, Green Key, the Interdormitory Council, the Class executive committee, and Delta Tau Delta.
Active in alumni affairs, Don became a class agent in 1946 and was elected class treasurer in 1950, serving until early 1976 and earning election as president of the Class Treasurers' Association in 1964. He was Alumni Councilor 1954-57, a district enrollment director for years, and a member of the Concord area executive committee for the Third Century Fund.
In addition to Ruby, his widow, he leaves four sons, James, '70, Duncan, Mitchell, and Brooks, '80; two daughters, Betsy and Sue; a brother, Robert, '41; and a nephew, Joel Monell, '62.
LAWRENCE W. BOOTHBY, long-time physics teacher at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt., died September 12 of a stroke at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He was stricken following a gall bladder operation undergone in preparation for a new teaching assignment in Salzburg, Austria.
Larry transferred at the end of his junior year to Reed College, where he received his B.S. in physics in 1942. During World War II, he did research at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., earning five U.S. patents in the process. He also helped locate the Japanese radar blindspot which enabled American planes to make their successful surprise strike against Tokyo.
He began his teaching in 1947, joining the faculty of the Milton Academy and then of the Putney School. In 1952, he returned to research, working for General Electric on a sonar computer and the monitoring equipment for atomic submarine Sea Wolf. Later he went back to education, teaching at the Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y., for a decade, with breaks for graduate study at MIT and Harvard. In 1961 he joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as research assistant; the next year he took an M.A. in education from Harvard; and then he moved to the Green Mountain College to teach physics, becoming associate professor in 1967.
In recent months, while preparing to go to Salzburg, Larry had been doing graduate work at Castleton State College in Vermont and serving as an electronic engineering consultant.
Active in DOC and the ski team as an undergraduate at Dartmouth and at Reed, Larry continued his interest in mountain climbing, skiing, and photography throughout his life.
He leaves four sons by his first wife, the former Frances Holmes of Weston, Vt„ from whom he was divorced in 1965, and two children by his second wife, the former Marimne Zipp of Whitehall, N.Y., from whom he was recently divorced. He also leaves his mother, Marion L. Boothby, of Weston, Vt.
1945
KENNETH C. FRANCIS, a professor of orthopedic surgery at New York University Medical Center and a leader in bone cancer study died May 18 in Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center after what was ap- parently a stroke at his home, 336 Engle Street, Tenafly, N.J. He was 53.
A native of Denver, Colo., he was acting chief of the bone-tumor service at Memorial Hospital from 1958-64, when he joined the N.Y.U. medical faculty as associate professor, becoming full professor in 1968.
He was intern and resident at St. Luke's Hospital, N.Y., and served in the Navy Medical Corp in 1950-52. In 1953 he became special fellow in the bone-tumor clinic at Memorial Hospital and fellow and resident surgeon at New York Orthopedic Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian, where in 1957 he became chief of the orthopedic tumor clinic.
Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and former chairman of its section on orthopedic surgery, he published many professional papers. With Austin D. Johnson of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center he was completing a textbook on diagnosis and treatment of bone cancer.
HENRY HUHN McCLINTOCK passed away on September 9, after a short illness, in Hope Valley, R.I. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 until 1946, remained active in the Naval Reserve, and retired on August 10, 1969, with 27 years service. After World War II, and completion of degree requirements, he worked in private industry in the Philadelphia area with most assignments centering around management controls and data processing. After 12 years, he returned to Dartmouth as assistant to the registrar and was director of the Data Processing Center. He leaves his wife Edythe and three children.
1974
On April 3, 1976, ALBERT NORMAN PELZ JR. died near his home of Richboro, Pa., following an automobile accident.
His death can be better accepted through the conviction that his zest for life had taken him far afield on quests and had brought him close to the hearts of a multitude of people, so that his 23 years had a fullness which is truly rare.
While at Dartmouth Al pursued many paths. In the summer of 1969 he participated in the Colorado Outward Bound Program, which was to have a lasting effect on his life. He traversed the country many times, climbing the mountains of the Northeast and West. He was always the first to try out the spring waters of Union Village. He could, in his last year at Dartmouth, be found working and sleeping long hours in the English Honors Library.
He left Dartmouth with an honors degree in English, a matured skill in writing and a large group of friends. At the time of his death, Al was teaching his second year at the Middle Earth School in Doylestown, Pa., an alternative educational program for pre-delinquent adolescents. He was concurrently working toward his Master of Education degree in the social restoration program at Lehigh University. This past summer, Al had planned to lead an Outward Bound-type program for the students of Middle Earth.
Albert is survived by his parents and his maternal grandparents.
In the belief that Al's energy toward learning and educating must remain alive, a memorial fund has been established to carry out some of his plans. Al felt that one of the major problems facing the Middle Earth students was their lack of motivation, their feeling that they had no control over their lives. In the hope that he could awaken some self-awareness in them and get them to take themselves and their lives more seriously, Al had begun to organize an Outward Bound-type of program which would have provided Middle Earth students with some kind of wilderness experience this past summer. With this in mind, it is the purpose of this fund to enable at least one student per year to participate in an Outward Bound course.
Contributions to this fund should be made out to Dartmouth College and mailed to Mrs. Elizabeth Ely, 101 Crosby Hall, Hanover. Donors should designate that their gifts are to be used specifically for the Albert N. Pelz, Jr. Memorial Fund. For more information contact Timothy D. Cross '73, Middle Earth School, Tabor Home, Doylestown, Pa.
