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.)

Pettengill, Frank G. '16, September 17 Potter, Carleton A. '18, September 25 Reilly, John B. '19, October 14 Chandler, Horatio H. '20, August 12 Kimber, Frank H. '20, September 10 Shoninger, Richard A. '20, December 12, 1974 Putnam, Lewis A. '23, October 1 Ritter, Thurston '24, June 1, 1972 King, Lester A. '25, October 10 Webb, David '25, September 20 McCarthy, F. Jordan '26, October 22 Holmes, Oliver W. '29, October 9 Dobson, John W. '30, October 13 McGrath, Norman E. '30, October 25 Jackson, Richard '33, October 19 Cahn, William B. '34, October 13 Chase, Francis C. '35, September 24 Marsh, John L. '36, October 17 Chase, Richard G. '38, October 11 Freeman, David B. '38, October 24 Sampson, James O. '39, October 17 Underwood, Walter B. '42, October 18 Silverstein, Leo Jr. '43, October 21 Lothrop, John P. '45, July 6 Shelly, Mark '46, August 1, 1971 Riley, Joseph A. '49, October 27 Arens, Matti '64, July 16 Price, James L., 11l '68, October 11

1910

HORACE B. CHADBOURNE passed away in his sleep May 29 at the Montana Veterans' Home in Columbia Falls, Mont.

Born in 1888 in Wellington, Me., he was raised in Lowell, Mass., and came to Dartmouth from the high school there. After taking his degree, he taught English and history and coached baseball and football at Groton School, Groton, Mass.

He once coached baseball at Dartmouth, too, and recalled the time this way: "It was the only varsity team at Dartmouth that never lost or for that matter won a game. The war had started."

Chad joined the army as aerial observer for artillery and later taught at Fort Sill, Okla. After the war he managed a phosphate plant in Tennessee and than became an editor for Youth's Companion, a Boston magazine for which he had written articles for several years. He was a Glacier ranger from 1942-1951.

Chad and his wife Cecilia first went to Montana to vacation in 1925. They enjoyed it so much that they bought lakeshore property and stayed.

His survivors include his only daughter Melissa Anderson of Spokane, Washington, four grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

1911

JOHN O. NORRIS, hospitalized in February for a heart condition, passed away at his home in Hewlett, L.1., New York, on October 21. He failed slowly and died suddenly.

John joined our class from Melrose High School, Melrose, Mass. In college he was a member of the Aegis Board and the Mandolin Club and was class secretary in 1913. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

Just before our entry into World War I, John served in our cavalry force on the Mexican border, and later in France as a captain in field artillery. After the war he went into the insurance business as agent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, from which business he retired at the age of 65.

He was actively involved in the founding of a Unitarian Church embracing communities along the South Shore of Long Island, and, as president of the board of trustees, was instrumental in the purchase of property for a building site. Starting with 50 families, the total incorporated membership has reached some 400.

In the early 19605, he was reelected to a second five-year term as sanitation commissioner in his so-called Five Town Area.

John is survived by his wife Anne, his daughter Dorothy, and 3 grandchildren.

1916

FRANK GORDON PETTENGILL died at the Portsmouth Hospital in New Hampshire September 17. Frank came to Dartmouth from Milford (N.H.) High School and graduated in 1916, continuing his studies at the Dartmouth Medical School in 1917. He was a member of the medical honorary fraternity Alpha Kappa Kappa and of Cosmos Club. He received his M.D. Degree in 1918 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. His internships were at New York Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital for Children in New York City. In 1920 he went into medical practice in New York City, first as a specialist in children's medicine and later as internist, retiring in 1975 after 55 years of medical work in New York City, during which he served on the staffs of St. Mary's Hospital for Children, New York Hospital for Special Surgery, and the Mid-Town Hospital.

His memberships included the Century Association, the Hospital Graduates Club, the Riverside Practitioners, and the Medical Society of the County of New York.

In 1923 Marguerite Shepard and he were married. She died shortly after their 49th wedding anniversary. In 1973 he married Mrs. Rodman Parvin. Jessie and he had been regulars at the recent post-50 reunions and were at the 60th reunion this past June.

1918

CARLETON AMES POTTER died September 25 in Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach, Calif., following surgery. He had suffered from diverticulosis and emphysema for several years.

Pot left college in 1916 to drive an ambulance at Verdun. He continued in the armed services and received his degree in 1918 in absentia.

He was in the advertising business in various places in the U.S. and in foreign countries. He had lived in California for many years and had been retired because of his failing health.

In college he was active in track and cross country.

1919

CHESTER ORMSBEE GALE died November 2 at his home in Buffalo, N.Y. He had gone to the Buffalo Club for luncheon and afterwards returned to his home and died while sitting in a chair. Earlier in the year he had had a slight heart attack but of late had been in fine fettle. He had an active and full life.

As class vice president, he participated in all class affairs and was extremely popular. His presence will be sorely missed.

In College Chet was active in athletics, winning letters in hockey, baseball, and tennis. He still holds the college record for the most shutouts by a goal tender in any one season. He won the College tennis championship in 1920.

Most of his business life was spent in the banking and securities field, and for many years he was a partner in the firm of Trubee, Collins and Co.

He was a director of the Buffalo Club and of the Cherry Hill Club, and for thirty years he was president of the Turtle Lake Fish and Game Club of Maniwaki, Quebec.

He is survived by his wife Emily and two sons, Chester Jr. '55 and Richard '60.

JOHN F. REILLY, originally of Nashua, N.H., died October 14 in Lowell, Mass., after a long illness. With his passing the College and the Class lose a loyal and devoted alumnus who will be greatly missed.

After graduation in 1919, he attended Tuck School. Until his retirement several years ago, he was executive vice president and vice chairman of the board of directors of the Courier Citizen Company of Lowell, where he was employed for nearly 50 years.

Jack was the first chairman of the board of governors of St. John's Hospital, where the new John F. Reilly wing was recently dedicated in his honor. He was also a founder of the Catholic Student Center at Dartmouth and was a president of the Dartmouth Club of Lowell. Over the years he was in the forefront of all fund-raising activities in Lowell.

He is survived by his wife Helen; a daughter Carol; and four sons, John F. '54, Phillip S. '55, Thomas J. '60, and David A.; and a stepson, Frank E. McGuire.

1920

HORATIO H. CHANDLER, known to his many friends as Hersh, died at Vero Beach, Fla., on August 12 at age 77. He was an insurance broker in Chicago for many years. While living in Chicago he was a member of the University Club.

He entered Dartmouth in 1916 and became a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was well-known and popular.

He retired to Florida many years ago, establishing his home in Vero Beach, where he became a member of the Riomar Yacht Club. During the latter years of his life, Hersh suffered ill health and had to forego many things of interest to him. Despite his illnesses he retained his optimism.

To his wife Eleanor Cloudman Chandler the class extends its deep sympathy for the great loss she has sustained. We have lost a loyal member from our midst.

Word about the passing of RICHARD ADDISON SHONIGER of St. Louis was transmitted to us only recently. Dick died December 12, 1974, leaving behind him his wife, Jeanne Bauman Shoniger, a daughter, Orley Carilyn, and a son, Richard A. Jr. The Class extends its deep sympathy to his family.

Dick was in the wholesale fine jewelry business and was the first vice-president of the Bauman Massa Jewelry Company of. St. Louis.

At Dartmouth, which Dick entered in 1916, he was well-known among his classmates, for it was he who at the annual fall football rush presented the football to Captain Gerrish, head of Paleopitus, on the steps of Webster Hall - much to the chagrin of the embattled sophomore class. Dick left college during his freshman year to enter the war and did not return thereafter.

In St. Louis he was a 32nd degree Mason, Scottish Rites.

1921

DOUGLAS RICHARD FAY of 1732 Gentilly Boulevard, New Orleans, former president of the First National Bank of Urbana, Ill., and a former manufacturers' representative for textile products, died September 13 of lung cancer. Though he left Hanover at the end of his freshman year, he retained his interest in the College and remained a loyal member of his class, partly because of his devotion to three 1921 friends, Homer Cleary, Art Foley, and Abe Weld.

Born April 24, 1900, in Urbana, Doug prepared at the Urbana High School for Dartmouth, where he joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity along with Jack Hubbell and Cory Litchard.

By his marriage in 1924 to Clara Dunseth (from whom he was divorced in 1935) Doug had three sons, Andrew F. III, Douglas R. Jr., and Donald A. In 1940 he married Elizabeth St. Clair, a graduate of the University of Missouri.

As a wealthy man, Doug was once kidnapped and held for ransom but escaped by a ruse. At another time he was guest at a Chicago party taken over by a hold- up gang which finally lost out to police pressure and police guns.

His banking career ended abruptly and sadly in 1933, after he had headed the First National Bank of his home town for eight years. It was closed by the Roosevelt moratorium, and he was forced into less remunerative and less congenial activities. For a time he was purchasing agent for American Air Lines, and later he threw in his lot with Fay Textile Products in Jackson Heights, N.Y., where life was made more bearable by his association with Abe Weld, whose apartment was in the same house.

1923

ROBERT ARDEN PATERSON died on September 9 in a Spokane hospital. A graduate of Lewis and Clark High School, he spent two years at the University of Washington, transferring to Dartmouth in 1921. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.

Bob began work in 1923 at the Crescent Store in Spokane, of which his father had been co-founder in 1881. He was elected vice-president in 1934, president and general manager in 1944, and chairman of the board in 1966. He retired in 1970.

Active in both community and business affairs, Bob was a member of the board of Old National Bank for 30 years, president of the Spokane County Good Roads Association and of the Retail Trade Bureau. He was also vice-president of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, director of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, and chairman of the Downtown Development Committee of the National Retail Merchants Association.

Margaret, Bob's wife of 53 years, and his Dartmouth Winter Carnival date, died in June following a long illness. He is survived by a son, Robert L., and two grandchildren.

LEWIS ADRIAN PUTNAM died of cancer in a Morrisville, Vt., nursing home on October 1. He had been in poor health for over a year.

A native of Danvers, Mass., and a graduate of its local high school, Lew received his M.C.S. from Tuck School in 1924. Following graduation he became an auditor for the White River Railroad. There followed some 42 years' association in executive capacities with various Vermont railroads. At the time of his retirement in 1966, he was president of the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad and also vice-president of the American Short Line Railroad Association. He had served on the Morrisville School Board, which presented him with its Layman's Award for his contribution to education, and he was at one time a member of the Morrisville Water and Light Commission and a director of the Montpelier National Bank.

Lew married the former Edith Milner in 1927. She is in ill health at present in a Morrisville nursing home, recovering from a recent stroke.

Other survivors include three Dartmouth sons, Earle W. '50, Nelson B. '54, Frederick M. '59, and ten grandchildren, one of whom, a granddaughter, is a Dartmouth undergraduate.

A loyal and generous alumnus, Lew served for many years as a class agent. We will miss him greatly.

1924

After a long illness including 20 months' hospitalization, KENNETH WILLIAM FOLEY died October 23 of Parkinson's disease and complications. Ken was born on January 28, 1902, in Framingham, Mass. After graduation, he began his career in Littleton, N.H., with the Courier Printing Company, of which he subsequently became co-owner. In 1934, he joined the Abbott Hotel Organization as assistant to the director of several hotels and was manager of the Forest Hills Hotel in Franconia, N.H. Printing called him back, and in 1938 he joined with A. B. Rotch '08 to buy the then-bankrupt Dartmouth Press, of which he became sole owner in 1939. He built a very strong business; the story is in his Alumni Records file in an article from the New England Printer & Lithographer or December 1965, which describes the great success en made in 30 years. "Leading from strength," Ken merged in 1969 with another Hanover firm, Computer Environment Corporation (a subsidiary of Time-Share Company in Hanover). This was a modern blending of printing methods with the newly-developed computer. Ken was chairman of the board until the merged firm was sold a year later to South Shore Publishing Company of Boston. Ken in 1965 had built out on Lyme Road a new, modern printing plant, where he employed 75 people. In addition to printing The Dartmouth undergraduate paper, he printed the prestigious American Journal of Psychiatry and several other publications, including ones for the American Heart Association and the Audubon Society.

Ken married Ina Macaulay on March 2, 1929, in Littleton, N.H. The first child, Mary-Jean, survived only two years; their second, Katrina, graduated from the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn., and Vassar College and currently lives in Norwich, Vt. His wife and daughter and his older brother, Professor Allen Foley, '20, survive Ken. Ken and Ina maintained another home in Venice, Florida. His social activities were many and diverse, starting with Delta Upsilon while in college. Doc Christophe '24 was his roommate for three years. Ken was a 32nd degree Mason and Shriner, a member of Hanover Rotary, of the Hanover School Board (1944), and Chairman of the local Republican party for several years. He was a strong member of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College (Congregational), of which he was a Deacon (1948).

A private graveside service was held October 26 in Littleton, N.H., where he had lived for many years. A memorial service followed the next day in the "White Church" he loved. I was privileged to represent the class at both; in Hanover, other classmates included Doc Christophe (and Ethel), Putty Blodgett (and Charlotte), Ives Atherton, and (Margaret Allen).

C. N. ALLEN

Word has been received of the death of THURSTON RITTER about a year ago in Barranquila, Columbia, S.A. Details as to the date of his death are not available. He was with the class in Hanover for two years, after which he attended the University of Colorado and Harvard Business School. He is survived by his wife.

1925

LESTER ALONZO KING died October 10 at his home in Kennebunkport, Me., of cancer. He was born April 18, 1902, in Roxbury, Mass., and came to Dartmouth from Melrose High School and the Irving School of Jamestown, N.Y.

Les was an investment broker in Boston, being connected with several firms in this field during his career. He retired in 1970 and lived at Goose Rocks Beach, which had been his summer home for almost 40 years.

In college he was a member of Sigma Chi. He was active in Dartmouth affairs as an alumnus, serving as both president and secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Melrose, where he belonged to the Melrose Highlands Congregational Church.

Les is survived by his wife, the former Jessie Mcßae; two sons, John T. II of Wellesley, Robert E. '57 of Menlo Park, Calif.; and a daughter, Marilyn King, of Denver.

DAVID WEBB died at his home in Bar Mills, Me., September 20. He was born in Lisbon, N.H., and graduated from Lisbon High School.

After one semester at Dartmouth, Dave went to Boston University, where he majored in physical education, and then graduated from Cortland College in New York. His career was coaching football and baseball.

He is survived by his wife, the former Virginia Farrington.

1926

FRANCIS JORDON MCCARTHY died of a heart attack October 20 in Baltimore, Md. Too soon after our 50th reunion, when Jud was with us all, 1926 has lost a classmate greatly admired and respected. He was born June 29, 1903, in Riparius, N.Y., in the Adirondack Mountains and graduated from nearby Chestertown High School. At Dartmouth he was in the Glee Club three years, was a member of Theta Chi, and was a widely-known classmate active in many ways.

Shortly after graduation, Jud married Mary Elizabeth Mackey in Mt. Vernon, Ind. Their first home was in New York, where he was with Salts Textile Company. For six years he was with Genera! Outdoor Advertising Company in Baltimore, and since 1934 had been successively partner, president, and chairman of the board of McCarthy-Hicks, Inc., Baltimore, the largest Seagram distributor in the United States. He was a director of the Baltimore Better Business Bureau, chairman of a capital gifts drive for Gilman School (a local private school for boys), and a member of the Baltimore Country Club.

During World War II he was a colonel, General Staff Corps, U.S. Army, an assistant director of special services, and was decorated in the Legion of Merit.

Jud took a very active role in alumni affairs, being president of the Dartmouth Club of Baltimore 1938-39, member of the Alumni Council for two terms, assistant class agent, member of the 50th reunion giving committee, and member of the class executive committee, giving much of his time, talents, and resources for Dartmouth. He established the McCarthy-Hicks Foundation, which besides providing college aid funds for deserving students and contributions for civic and religious drives, has a $2,000 annual scholarship for a Maryland boy to attend Dartmouth.

Besides his widow "Mackey," who is well-known in 1926 circles, Jud is survived by his son William J. '53 and his grandson Michael J. '79.

1927

DONALD W. PROUDMAN, of Southbury, Conn., died suddenly August 12. Born and raised in New Britain, Conn., he graduated from the high school there. He was at Dartmouth for two years and later attended Hartford College of Law.

Don was a trust officer with the New Britain Trust Company from 1925 to 1945. He then became vice president and trust officer of the State National Bank in Stamford, Conn. For several years he was an active member of the Trust Committee of the Connecticut Bankers Association. In 1971 he retired to Heritage Village in Southbury.

He was active in local civic affairs, serving as director of admissions at Jerome Home in New Britain, chairman of the board of Family and Children Services for Fairfield County, treasurer for both the Salvation Army and the Red Cross, trustee for the Rebay Foundation, member of the Southwestern Connecticut Girl Scout Council, and president of the board of trustees of the Low Heywood School. He was a member of the Stamford Yacht Club.

Don leaves his widow, Marjorie Norris Proudman, and two daughters.

Ken Murray, Tom Gillespie, Frank Strong, and Bob Mix represented the class at the funeral service.

1930

NORMAN EUGENE MCGRATH died in Buffalo, N.Y., on October 26. From 1965 until his recent retirement, Norm had been vice president and a director of Savoy Shop Inc. of Buffalo. Much of his business activity had been spent with the Percy Kent Bag Company, Inc., which he joined in 1940 as a salesman, becoming sales manager in 1950 and general manager in 1955. Norm was active in trade associations with membership in the Buffalo Flour Club and the Buffalo Corn Exchange. In 1950 he was president of the Dartmouth Club of Western New York.

Hugh Johnson represented the Class at the services. The Class extends its sympathy to his widow Frances and sons Edward and David.

1933

RICHARD JACKSON of 13805 Shaker Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy, died on October 19 after a short illness following a recent heart attack.

Born in Medford, Mass., Dick graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1929 and in 1933 from Dartmouth, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, Casque and Gauntlet Senior Society, Green Key, Palaeopitus, varsity hockey and Interfraternity Council, The Players, and The Arts and Philosophy Club. In 1938 he was granted the LL.B. degree from Columbia University Law School in New York City.

He practiced law for 24 years, including 11 years as General Counsel for the Boston and Maine Railroad.

From 1957 to 1961 Dick served the U.S. Navy as assistant secretary for personnel and reserve forces, after which, until 1966, he was vice president of and general counsel for the Fram Corporation, East Providence, R.I. and vice president-law of the Erie Lackawana Railway Corporation, Cleveland, for the past ten years.

He was a member of the American, Cleveland, and Ohio bar associations, as well as of the New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island Bars; National Legislative Committee; and National Defense Committee. He was involved locally in church and health field affairs and skating.

Dick is survived by his wife, Helen Pfeiffer Jackson, and two daughters, Mrs. R. H. Wadhams Jr., and Mrs. C. B. Shelton II, to whom the Class extends its sympathy.

1934

WILLIAM BERNARD CAHN, writer, of New Haven, Conn., died October 13 at the Yale New Haven Hospital. He was 64 years old.

Bill worked on a newspaper and in public relations before he became a free-lance writer. During his years as a reporter for the Bridgeport Times Star, he became interested in the rise of industrial labor unions. His interest led him to write a number of successful books, among them Labor USA, the Story of AmericanLabor; Out of the Cracker Barrel: the Nabisco Story; and (with his wife Rhoda) No Time for School, NoTime for Play, the Story of Child Labor in America. Bill's involvement with labor unions also produced several award-winning advertisements published under the auspices of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, among them one which won him the New York Advertising Club's ANDY, the second highest award in the industry. He was a founding member of the Connecticut State Industrial Union Council, representing unionized newspaper employees.

Bill had wider interests, as the titles of some of his other books indicate. The Story of Writing, a history book for children about the development of graphic communication, was written with Rhoda, and it received high praise. Einstein; Good Night, Mrs.Calabash (about Jimmy Durante); Harold Lloyd'sWorld of Comedy; Van Cliburn and The Laughmakers are all pictorial biographies. The Story of PitneyBowes and A Matter of Life and Death are highly readable corporation histories.

Bill was born in New York City. He married Rhoda Lipofsky in 1941, and they had three children, Susan, Kathe, and Daniel. His wife, his children, a sister, and an aunt survive him.

When NELSON B. KROGSLUND died on October 16 of complications following an aortic valve operation, the class of '34 lost one of its most stalwart members. Handicapped by a boyhood injury that cost him a leg, as well as by the financial shortages that beset many of us in the depression years, .Nels left Dartmouth after his sophomore year. He began at the bottom in the automobile business in his hometown of Greenwich, Conn., and progressed to a partnership in the Cadillac agency there, thence to his own Cadillac-Olds dealership in Middletown, Conn., where he became the area's leading citizen. Said an editorial in the local newspaper, "Nelson B. Krogslund helped shape the community in which he lived more perhaps than any other single individual in the past quarter-century." He served as chairman of the Mount Hope Planning Board, president of the Greater Middletown Citizens Council and of the Middletown Chamber of Commerce, and was the town's Citizen of the Year in 1959 and also in 1974, shortly before his retirement from Krogslund Motors to enjoy the good life at his and Dottie's summer home in Martha's Vineyard, a retirement which was, unhappily, to be denied him.

Nels was a big guy with a big heart. Undaunted by his difficulty in getting around, he sailed his boat, farmed and planted, raised dogs, built additions to his house, and threw wonderful summer picnics for his '3 classmates and their children at his Long Island Sound-side home in Greenwich and at his farm in Middletown. He had a great zest for both the material and the spiritual sides of life. The class's heartfelt sympathy goes to Dottie and his three sons, Ned, Chuck, and Bruce, and his daughter Kathy.

BILL SCHERMAN

1935

FRANCES CLARK CHASE died September 24 after a month in Newton-Wellesley Hospital, leaving his wife Bobbie, two sons, four daughters, and seven grandchildren. A life-long resident of Newton, Mass., Fran prepared for Dartmouth at Newton High School and spent the major part of his working career as treasurer of the West Newton Cooperative Bank. He was very active in church work and in civic organizations in Newton. At Dartmouth, Fran majored in sociology and was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He was a long-time member of the Charles River Dartmouth Club and did a five-year stint as treasurer for our class. We shall miss a loyal friend and classmate.

BENNETT E. GOODMAN died on August 28. Born in Chicago, he prepared for Dartmouth at DeerfieldShields High School in Highland Park, Ill. His college major was business and he completed his graduate year at Tuck School in 1936. Bennett was with Florsheim Shoe until 1948 and then became vice president of American Brush Corporation. He is survived by his wife, Irma; two sons, Thomas, Claremont '60, and James, Dartmouth '64; and a brother Jerome, Dart- mouth '30.

1938

DAVID B. FREEMAN died October 24 at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, Mass., after a brief illness. He was 59 years old.

He was born in Somerville, Mass., and lived in Lexington before he moved to Plymouth to become director of Plimoth Plantation, the Pilgrim village development whose growth he directed for 20 years. David was one of the ten original incorporators of the village as well as one of the 20 who raised funds from the public to finance the Plymouth Industrial Park.

After graduation from Dartmouth, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, he took a job with the now defunct BostonPost and later worked for United Press International. From 1943 to 1946 he served in the U. S. Navy, and in 1950 he became a deputy director of the Boston Museum of Science, a post he held until 1956, when he moved to Plymouth.

David is survived by his wife, Constance Truran Freeman, two sons, three daughters, a sister, and three grandchildren.

1939

RICHARD M. (MOOSE) WYMAN JR, 60, died on November 6 at Newton-Wellesley Hospital after a long illness. At the time of his death he was owner and president of Commonwealth Centers, Inc., a real estate development and construction company which he founded in 1958. Born in Framingham, he entered Dartmouth from Hebron Academy. He served with an anti-aircraft unit in the South Pacific and with the transportation corps in New York and San Francisco during World War II.

For much of his life he was associated with his father in a family business, Wyman's Framingham Nurseries and Garden Center, during which time he also served as president of the New England Nursery Association and of the Eastern Region of the American Association of Nurserymen.

Moose was involved in the development of the Framingham and Natick commercial and industrial area which materialized into Shoppers World, the New England Telephone Company Center, and Honeywell. He was a former director of the Shawmut Community Bank in Framingham and a corporator of the Framingham Savings Bank, a trustee and former president of the board of trustees of Hebron Academy, and a director of the South Middlesex area Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the Joslin Diabetes Foundation Inc.

In recent years, Moose and Betsy spent part of their time in Pocasset, Mass., and part in Kasey Key, Fla. He was a member of the Western Golf Club, the Kittansett Club in Marion, the Mission Valley Club in Florida, and the Bay State Seniors Golf Association.

Moose was a long-time member of the class executive committee and a strong supporter of the Class and the College.

He leaves his wife, Betsy (Bell); three daughters, Mrs. Ann Bertland and Mrs. Sally Graves, both of North Conway, N.H., and Jane Wyman; his mother, Mrs. Richard Wyman of Weston, Mass.; a sister, Mrs. Harold Graham; and two grandchildren.

1943

LEO SLLVERSTEIN died on October 21, 1976 after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Serving as an officer in the Navy from 1943-1946, Bud joined the Southern New England Telephone Company in 1946. He had a long and varied career with the telephone company serving as general sales manager and subsequently as the company's first administrator of urban affairs.

Bud was an active member of the New Haven community, and made his home in North Haven, Conn, where he was a member of the Republican Town Committee and commissioner of the Park and Recreation Committee. He also served as president of the Quinnipiac Council of the Boy Scouts of America and had been awarded the Silver Beaver. He was a director of the Urban League of New Haven and a director of the YMCA.

While at Dartmouth he was active in all aspects of the Dartmouth Outing Club and served as president during his senior year. He was also manager of the ski team during his senior year.

He is survived by his wife Phyllis, three daughters, and one son, James Silverstein '79.

1946

JOHN HAWES MCNAMARA died September 24 at his home in Davenport, lowa, following an eight-year battle with cancer.

"Jack" graduated from Moline High School in 1942 and entered Dartmouth that fall. He left college in 1943 to serve as a Naval Aviator, Returning to Dartmouth after the war he graduated, magna cum laude, with a B.A. in 1948. While in college he was a member of Sigma Chi, Dragon and Phi Beta Kappa and active in all sports. The summer of 1948 he married the former Judy Mitchell and returned to Thayer School, graduating in 1949 as class valedictorian. He was elected a Guggenheim Fellow that year and graduated from Cal Tech with an M.S.M.E.

In 1950 he joined John Deere, working his way through the organization to become director of facilities planning, a position he held at the time of his death. Many of Jack's business colleagues spoke of his courage and of the way in which he refused to withdraw from active business life though very ill.

His activities in the community were many. He served as county fund drive chairman for Junior Achievement and on the boards of the Upper County Y.M.C.A., Associated Industries of the Quad Cities, and the Villa de Chantal. He was president of East Moline-Silvis Chamber of Commerce for two years, chairman of the Rock Island County United Crusade in 1969, and a director of the First National Bank of Moline. He was elected Man of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce in 1972 and made an honorary life member.

Jack was a staunch Dartmouth supporter andreturned to Hanover the last time for his 25th reunion.Besides his wife, he leaves two daughters, his mother,and brother Jim '43.

1964

The College has been advised, in a brief note fromhis brother, that MATTI ARENS passed away July 16,1976 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Matti majored inchemistry at Dartmouth and upon graduation joinedthe Industrial Testing Laboratories of New York Citywhere he spent two years. From 1966 to 1973 he was achemist for the City Board of Water Supply.

We were all deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic death of NICHOLAS LISTORTI, one of our most popular, loyal and active classmates, on the afternoon of September 16, 1976. Nick's passing from leukemia came just three weeks after a routine physical examination had detected the dreaded disease. His wife Karen, and brother Jim, were at his bedside constantly as the vain struggle to reverse the ravages of the illness was played out. His friends throughout the country prayed and waited by the telephone as the vital signs quietly expired from what just a short time earlier had appeared to be the same strapping, healthy, eternally optimistic and happy person we all knew and loved.

Nick's life can only be characterized as a constant series of successes. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1964 and Tuck in 1966, he served in the Marines for six months and then began his career with Time Inc. in New York City, eventually rising to the position of circulation manager of Life Magazine. He joined Saturday Review as general manager in December, 1971, and when the magazine moved its corporate headquarters to San Francisco in the summer of 1972, Nick followed them west. Along the way, he stopped off in Charlevoix, Mich., where he married the former Karen Urich, with whom he shared the rest of his life. In 1974, Nick left Saturday Review and joined Itel Corporation where he rose steadily to the position of vice president of finance for the Data Products Group. Since his responsibilities required periodic travel to visit the New York financial markets, we among his friends in the East were able to see him for drinks and/or dinner at least three or four times a year.

It is very difficult to express adequately in writing how Nick affected people who were fortunate enough to know him and spend time with him. As we think back upon the most enjoyable and memorable times we have had in our lives, a great many of them were spent with Nick. He had a great love for the outdoors and was skilled in all outdoor activities including fishing, boating, hunting, camping or merely walking along a beach or trail on a clear winter day. But perhaps the aspect of life that Nick revelled in most was people, being with them and making them happy.

Nick's passing leaves all of us who knew and loved him with a feeling of emptiness that will not soon, if ever, be filled. He was the epitome of all that is good in people and lived a life which, though far too short, was nevertheless rich in accomplishments and impact upon friends and acquaintances alike. To those in the Class who attended our fifth reunion in 1969, planned and carried out as only Nick could, that event more than any other, and the spirit of Chief Rufus Potlatch, personify the person that was Nick Listorti and the fond memories that will remain with us forever. We who called him friend and brother continue to wait by the phone for our bi-weekly call from San Francisco opened by that infectiously happy "Hey Baby" signaling the delivery of a few precious minutes of happiness from the West Coast. Though the deep sorrow and pain of his loss will diminish over time, his impact upon our lives and his place in our hearts will endure always. It is too small a consolation for us individually, but vast beyond measure when multiplied by those whom he touched.

To Nick's parents, his brother, and especially his lovely wife Karen, we extend our deepest sympathy and prayers for strength. To those, of us who wish to perpetuate his memory, a memorial fund has been established in Nick's name at the Leukemia Society of America, Bay Area Chapter, 323 Geary, San Francisco, California 94120.

Wayne Sloper '63 Michael Dancik '64

1975

Word has been received of the death of STEVEN HARRISON OBRENSKI on March 25, in Hanover. Steve majored in art and was a very gifted artist and designer. He was awarded several citations for his work and received the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Award in 1975. Most recently he was employed by the New Hampshire National Guard. The Class extends sincere sympathy to his family.