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.)

Treadway, Lauris G. '08, September 4 Learoyd, John S. '11, September 23 Waterbury, Carl A. '11, September 17 Paul, Joseph N. '12, September 8 Stackpole, Philip W. '16, September 4 Richardson, Guy L. '17, September 7 Taylor, Walter N. '18, August 29 Batchelder, Windsor C. '19, August 24 Bender, Daniel W. '20, August 28 McKenzie, Charles W. '20, July 31 Loew, Arthur '2 lad, September 6 Jones, Ralph G. '24, June 1 Harvey, John '25, August 31 Kyburg, Paul E. '26, August 30 Gardner, John W. '27, September 2 Fisher, Harvey S. '28, July 9 Leigh, Robert H. '29, September 6 Mahoney, Daniel J. '29, prior to May (presumed dead) Barrett, John T. '31, September 2 Esers.ky, Joseph '31, August 29 Flood, Wallace K. '33, August 23 Martin, Burton E. '33, September 4 Spain, Frank J. '34, June 23 Judd, David B. '35, July 2 Millane, Robert L. '35, August 25 Lando, Santino F. '36, August 18 O'Hare, Richard C. '36, September 7 Crane, Grant '37, August 23 Temple, Edward H. '37, September 22 Jamison, William L. '41, August 8 Batchedler, Sydney H. Jr. '52, August 16 Kurtz, John G. '53, August 14 Prudy, Andrew J. '60, August 14 Runge, Dale E. '64, September 2 Penfield, Wilder G. '60hon, April 1976

1908

LAURIS GOLDSMITH TREAD WAY, one of the most popular and outstanding members of the Class of 1908 died September 4 at Williamstown, Mass., where he had resided for many years. His College successes foreshadowed others, and he became one of the leading hotel men in the country. His death will be mourned by many and by many of his surviving classmates. Larry was born in 1884 in Somerville, Mass. and entered college from Boston English High. He worked his way through College, starting as dishwasher in the college grill and rising to an executive position under the famed "Hen" Teague. Larry was a selfmade man in the best sense of the phrase.

. Although he worked probably six or eight hours a day, he managed to find time for College activities. He was manager of the hockey team and a member of the junior prom committee, among other honors. His fraternity was Tri Kappa, and he was a member of Dragon senior society.

Larry went into hotel work at once after graduation, and in 1912 he founded the Treadway Inns Corporation, which grew into one of the leading small hotel chains in the country. At present it operates more than two dozen inns in New England. Florida, New York, and Canada. Larry was chairman of this corporation for many years and was honorary chairman at the time of his death.

He was always active in community affairs as well, including Republican politics, the Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and the school board. He was a Mason and a Shriner and an active member of the Congregational Church. In 1959 he received a Dartmouth College Alumni Award.

Those of us who were fortunate enough to be present will always remember his address at the alumni luncheon on the occasion of 1908's 50th reunion. His dry humor, the charm of his presentation, and the nostalgic interest of his material were all distinctive.

Larry and Helen Fowle were married in 1911, and they had five children, Richard, John, Antoinette, David, and Jane. Helen died several years ago, but the children and numerous grand- and great-grandchildren survive. To them go the sincere sympathy of Larry's classmates.

1910

RAYMOND B. SEYMOUR, 89, longtime New York City attorney, died at his home there September 22 after a short illness.

After Dartmouth, .Ray attended Columbia Law School, where he was editor of the Law Review and where, in 1913, he took both M.A. and LL.B. degrees. A native New Yorker, Ray had practiced law with a number of firms in the city before founding in 1926 his own general practice firm, McNamara & Seymour. He was a member of the American, the New York State, and the City of New York bars. He retired from McNamara & Seymour three years ago and became enthusiastic about gardening.

Ray served in the Army during the Mexican border clash in 1916 and again in World War I, when he was first lieutenant of infantry. He belonged to the Society of the Mayflower Descendants, the Society of American Wars, the Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and Post #400 of the American Legion - of most of which he was at one time an officer.

As an alumnus, he served his College as class agent, as reunion committee member, as class vice chairman of bequest and estate planning, and as an interviewer of student applicants.

Ray was married in 1929 to Marie Webster, a Columbia graduate who died in 1954. In 1959 he married Sarah McCaulay Mihalke, a University of Pittsburg alumna who also predeceased him, in 1976.

1911

JOHN S. LEAROYD passed away on Friday, September 24, at Hunt Memorial Hospital in Danvers, Mass. Born in Wakefield, he graduated from Danvers High School in 1907 and entered Dartmouth in the fall. His senior year was spent as a first-year Tuck student, and as a result he decided to become an accountant. From 1911 to 1916 he worked for three different companies and increased his knowledge of accounting procedures.

In the fall of 1916 he joined Higrade Lamp Company in Salem and took charge of its accounting. John stayed with this company and its successor, Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., until his retirement in 1954. With Sylvania for twenty years, he served as comptroller, assistant treasurer, clerk of the corporation, secretary to the board of directors, as a member of all of the board committees, and as administrator of the company's contributory retirement plan.

In 1917 he married Dorothy Palmer in Salem, Mass., and they had two sons, John Palmer and Benjamin Sperry. The "Shorty" Mayos of 1911 were married on the same day, and many appropriate celebrations followed from time to time.

In civic life, John was a member of the Financial Executives Institute and the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, Inc. He was also a member of the town of Marion's finance committee for nearly five years and its chairman one year. He belonged to the Danvers Lodge AF and AM and the Dane Street Congregational Church of Beverly, Mass. He is survived by his two sons and a sister.

CARL A. WATERBURY passed away on September 17 at Memorial Hospital Center, Utica, N.Y., after suffering a stroke in early August.

"Dutch" was born in Oriskany, N.Y., in 1890 and joined our class from Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire. In College he sang in the choir and did some running on the track squad. In the fall of 1912 he went to Cuba to work in the Camaguey branch of El Banco Nacional de Cuba. After one year there he returned to Elmira, N.Y., to join the American La France Fire Engine Company for four and a half years. In 1915 he married Sally Palmer. Dutch left Elmira in 1918 and entered the employ of Wright-Martin Aircraft of New Brunswick to do systematizing work. After the war's end, he joined the Corning Glass Works and continued systems work. The depression of 1922 ended that career, and he went into investment work with Hallgarten & Company of New York, with which he enjoyed twelve years association.

In 1926 came the death of his wife Sally, and in 1927 he suffered the death of his younger son, Arthur. During the big depression he left Hallgarten, and in 1938 he started his own investment business in Utica.

In 1942 war work again appealed to him, and he joined Remington Arms in Ilion, where once again he did systems work. In 1945 he moved to Rochester, N.Y., and he and Helen Catherine Owen were married at Rye, N.Y. He returned to Utica in 1947 to work with the New York State Department of Public Works determining property lines for highway land until his retirement in 1960. Dutch and Helen lived for fifteen years in Clinton, N.Y., home of Hamilton College, before moving to Utica where they remained until his death. He is survived by Helen.

1912

In spite of his advancing years, Joe Paul seemed to snap back from his several recent misfortunes. He suffered a fractured hip in 1975, lost his wife by death the following year, suffered a siege of pneumonia early last summer, and finally succumbed to a second attack of pneumonia in August. He died in a nursing home in Trumbull, Conn., on September 8.

JOSEPH NAIRN PAUL was born in Wakefield, N.H., in 1890. He prepared for college at Brewster Free Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., and was at Dartmouth for one year. He then transferred to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in 1913.

Joe was an electrical engineer who began as a signalman for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Following this he was employed by different signal companies in New York and Indiana and finally was with the Automatic Signal Company in East Norwalk, Conn. Except for five years with a similar company in New York, Joe remained in Norwalk, where, together with his son, he established his Own business, the Paul Company, electro-mechanical and electronic developers. He was a member of Shore and Country Club and served on its board of governors.

In August 1917 Joe enlisted in the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Fort Niagara, N.Y., and was commissioned first lieutenant in the Signal Corps. In January 1918 he went into the A.E.F. and became an instructor at a training center at Clermont-Ferrand, having charge of signal instruction for several coast artillery corps. He was discharged March 5, 1919.

Joseph Paul married Edna E. Frank of Rochester, N.H., in 1920. They had one son, who survives him, together with one brother, a sister, and two grand-daughters.

Services were held September 10 in a funeral home in East Norwalk, conducted by Rev. Zdenek F. Bednar, pastor of Wilton (Conn.) Congregational Church. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery, Norwalk.

1916

PHILIP WEST STACKPOLE died September 4 at Lyons Veterans Hospital in New Jersey after a long sickness. Phil came to Dartmouth from Riverhead, N.Y.

During World War I he served first in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps and then as a captain in the infantry. In World War II he served as major in the infantry during the invasion of France and Germany, receiving the Purple Heart in the Battle of the Bulge.

Between wars he headed the municipal bond department New York University Law School and graduated in 1941. After World War II he appointed assistant director of the budget for the State of Washington. Returning East he became financial advisor to the Terry Steel Company at Queens, N.Y., and later in the Azores and Iceland.

He is survived by his widow Sarah, a son, Robert H Stackpole, and four granddaughters.

1917

We are sorry to report the death of GUY LEWIS RICHARDSON on September 7 after a long illness. Guy and his wife came back to Hanover whenever possible to enjoy class activities.

Guy was born in Littleton, N.H., in 1895. He entered Dartmouth from Littleton High School, and after graduation from college he studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia, receiving his M.D. in 1920. Since that time he had been busily engaged as a physician in Haverhill, Mass. Guy had been chairman, vice president, or president of many medical clubs and organizations. He also was president at one time of the Haverhill Safety Council and Automobile Club, as well as member of other Haverhill public governing bodies.

In 1972 Guy was honored as a 50-year member of the Massachusetts Board of Ethics and Discipline. In 1961 he became the president of the Board of Trustees of Hale Hospital and later retired as vice president and emeritus staff member. Guy was also a World War I Army Medical Corps veteran.

It is unfortunate that we have lost such a publicly devoted classmate and family man. We extend our whole-hearted sympathy to his survivors - his wife Marjorie, his son, two daughters, and his brother Garald K. '15.

1918

WALTER N. "ZACK" TAYLOR, 81, of 316 Brook Hollow, Hanover, N.H., died August 29 at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover following a long illness.

Walter was born in Derry and graduated from Pinkerton Academy. His Dartmouth education was interrupted by service in World War I, and apparently he received his degree in absentia. The following year, 1919, he graduated from the Thayer School.

Walter spent most of his working life in New York state. Prior to his moving to Hanover he was with the Portland Cement Association and later the New York state highway department. After his retirement he continued to reside in the Rochester, N.Y., area until a year or two ago, when he moved to Hanover.

Walter is survived by his wife Marian and by one son, two daughters, and eight grandchildren.

1919

WINDSOR CHARLES BATCHELDER died August 24 in Salisbury, Conn., after a long illness. No more loyal Dartmouth man ever lived, and in his death the College and the Class suffer a tremendous loss.

After graduation he was with the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City and then for 35 years with the National Credit Office, eventually becoming president and then retiring in 1957.

He was a member of the board of overseers of Old Sturbridge Village and at one time served as president of the New England Society of the City of New York. In 1963, he was awarded the J. P. Morgan medal.

A resident of both Darien and Salisbury in Connecticut, he was extremely active in a variety of civic works in both towns. To name them all is impossible. He was a veritable work horse and took great pleasure from the contributions he made.

His activities in behalf of Dartmouth were many. He was president of the Dartmouth Club of New York, a member of the Alumni Council, president of the Dartmouth Club of Western Connecticut, editor of the 1919 "Smoke Signal," and secretary of the Class. As class secretary he toured the entire country visiting all of the over 400 members of the Class except two, and it was not for lack of trying that he missed these. He was the recipient of the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

He leaves his wife, Harriett Wilcox Batchelder, three children, David '51, John '55, and a daughter, a sister, and nine grandchildren.

Memorial services held in Salisbury were attended by a number from' the Class.

1920

DANIEL WILLIAM BENDER, affectionately known by his classmates and friends as "Chief," came to Dartmouth in 1916 from New Jersey. He was older than most of us, having been born in 1895. With the outbreak of World War I, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, but he was with us long enough to join Alpha Delta Phi and to make a great impression on those of us who knew him in those early days. He did not return to college after the war, but he was a very loyal Dartmouth man. He passed on August 28 at the age of 82.

Except for wartime service in the Forties, he was active in business in New York City. During World War II he served the U.S. Marine Corps as assistant director of the division of public relations in the West Coast area, handling all phases of the corps's public relations. Troops were moving continually in and out of the West Coast, and Dan's position was a highly responsible one which he handled adroitly.

For many years until retirement in 1971 Dan was with Benedict & Benedict, insurance brokers in New York City. In 1970 he returned with his wife Isobel, whom he had married in 1924, to Dartmouth for the 50th reunion of his class. Needless to say, Lt. Col. Dan Bender, retired Marine officer, and his wife were warmly welcomed.

Dan's love of Dartmouth never faded. He was ever loyal, a man of courage, a man of dignity, a man who had a true sense of values, with a strong interest in everything and everyone.

He is survived by his wife Isobel and their daughter. To them we extend our deepest sympathy. Their loss, which we his classmates share, is great.

CHARLES WALLACE MCKENZIE passed on in Chapel Hill, N.C., on July 31 after a long illness.

Charlie entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1916, coming to Hanover from Milford, N.H., to live in Reed Hall. In College he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, was active in the Outing Club (where he founded the Dartmouth Canoe Club), and ranked so high scholastically that he was awarded a William Jewett Tucker fellowship for graduate study at Columbia University. During W.W.I he was enrolled as a member of the Student Army Training Corps at Dartmouth.

Following College he undertook graduate study in political science. He was appointed to the Dartmouth faculty in 1922, a post he held until 1925, when he took up his duties at Washington University, St. Louis, as an assistant professor. He served that institution until 1942, when he entered the U.S. Air Force. His last assignment was as adjutant of the San Antonio pre-flight school for pilots, largest school of its kind in the country.

In 1946 he returned to his academic career, first as head of the political science department and dean at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., 1946-1950. Then he took three years off for further graduate study at the London School of Economics. He then accepted the presidency of Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va. for several years before retiring to Chapel Hill.

Charlie was an active Dartmouth man. He headed the Dartmouth Club in St. Louis for several years and also served a term on the prestigious Alumni Council. His connection with Dartmouth was close: his brother .'William was a 1916 man, and two nephews, William '45, and James W. '51, attended Dartmouth.

Wherever he lived Charles was active in one way or I another: at the University Club in St. Louis, as speaker for the League of Women Voters in St. Louis; and even in retirement in Chapel Hill as charter president of the Sertona Club and president of the English-Speaking Union in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill triangle in North Carolina.

In 1932 he married Margaret Hines, a Bryn Mawr graduate, and took her with him to St. Louis. The couple had no children. Margaret survives him in Chapel Hill. To her we extend our deepest sympathy.

Charles W. McKenzie will long be remembered by his classmates and friends for his loyalty to Dartmouth, for his service to his college, and for his contributions to education and educational administration.

1921

ARTHUR M. LOEW, an adopted member of the Class of 1921, who headed and greatly expanded the international division of Loew's Inc. for more than three decades, died September 6 of cancer at his home in Glen Cove, Long Island. He was 79 years old.

In 1956 he was president and chairman of the board of Loew's, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer parent company, and of the movie empire founded by his father, Marchus Loew, the film pioneer, who died in 1927. Reluctantly, the son assumed the top post to soothe stockholders who had been dissatisfied over dwindling profits in the face of television competition. He was also president of Loew's International Corporation from 1955 until 1958, when he retired.

Noted for business acumen and skill, Mr. Loew was the driving force in the aggressive and highly profitable development of Loew's sales, distribution, acquisitions, and theatre construction abroad from the time he became head of the company's foreign department in 1920, soon after his graduation from New York University. He was widely respected in the industry as a straightforward man of enlightened interests and tastes. In 1939 he traveled more than 62,000 miles around the world, much of the time with Orton H. Hicks '21, to check the effectiveness of distribution agents for M-G-M pictures. He also produced a number of films, including The Search, starring Montgomery Clift in 1948, and Teresa, introducing Pier Angeli in 1951.

Mr. Loew served as a chief machinist's mate in the Navy in World War I and was a major in the Army's Signal Corps in World War II, responsible for distributing movies to military posts around the world. Among his many commendations during the war was promotion to officer of the French Legion of Honor.

1923

JOHN NEVIN CARSON died on September 16 at a Denver, Colo., nursing home following a long illness. A native of Denver, Nev attended its South Side High School. He then served in the U.S. Navy before entering the University of Denver, where he spent two years before transferring to Dartmouth. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.

In 1940 Nev succeeded his father as president of the Carson Crockery Company, and he became chairman of the board in 1973. This business, begun in 1887 in a small pioneer town, eventually became a large wholesaler of commercial food service equipment and supplies.

A past president of the Denver Retail Merchants Association, Nev was active in the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, Big Brothers, and the Denver YMCA. He held memberships in the Westerners, Denver Athletic Club and Pinehurst Country Club, and was a vestryman of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church. He was also a 1923 class director.

Nev and Hazel Kearney were married in Hanover in 1923. She survives him, as does a daughter, Patricia Anderson, and seven grandchildren. A son Bruce, who attended Dartmouth as a freshman, was killed in a 1955 automobile accident.

1924

THOMAS FLINT JR. died on September 7 in Vallejo, Calif., as the result of lung cancer.

He was a native of Hollister, Calif., and prepared for college at St. Luke's School in Wayne, Penn. He received his M.D. degree in 1928 from the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco.

He was associated with the Permanente Medical Group for 32 years, specializing in orthopedic surgery and emergency room medicine, and he was the author of a medical text, Emergency Room Treatment, which is now in its fifth edition.

He is survived by his wife Bessie and one sister.

RALPH GARFIELD JONES died suddenly June 1 at his home in Sheffield, Mass. He passed away quietly while reading the daily newspaper. In college, Ralph was active in The Players and appeared in many productions and Carnival shows. He was a specialist, collector, and dealer in American pottery.

1925

JOHN HARVEY died August 31 at Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Mass. He was born in 1904 in Lowell and graduated from high school there.

Following Dartmouth, Jack obtained his law degree at Harvard and practiced law in his home city, where he was a partner in the firm of Qua, Hall, Harvey & Walsh.

He was a trustee of Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank, a corporator of Lowell General Hospital, a member of the city's art association, and a director of the Salvation Army. He was active many years in the Masons, holding various local and regional offices.

Jack is survived by his wife Carol, a daughter, and two granddaughters.

1926

PAUL ELY KYBURG died of a stroke at the New London, N.H., Hospital August 30.

He was born in Brooklyn in 1903, grew up in Springfield, Mass., graduated from Deerfield Academy, and at Dartmouth was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Dragon senior society, and The Arts. Paul was a well-known undergraduate with many friends in college. As an alumnus he continued his deep interest in the College, interviewing prospective students, serving as assistant agent for the Alumni Fund, and attending numerous alumni association and class functions.

Paul spent 15 years as export manager of Package Machinery Company, Springfield, a company cofounded by his father. After 10 years as procurement manager of York Corporation in York, Pa., he and his wife Harriet decided to retire, and in 1957 they bought the Verndale General Store in Sutton, N.H., which they operated until 1962. Ky took an active part in the town affairs, being at one time supervisor of the Sutton checklist, member of the local fire department, and member of the Free Will Baptist Church.

In 1938, he married Harriet E. Greene, a friend of many years from Springfield. Harriet is well-known to many 1926 classmates and is continuing her home in Sutton. Paul is also survived by his daughter, two granddaughters, a sister, and nieces and nephews. The Class has lost yet another devoted son of Dartmouth, a man of considerable humor, especially in writing, with a great interest in literature. A quiet, reserved person, best described as a gentle man.

1927

NIELS B. FOSSUM died July 27. Born in New York City in 1905, Niels moved in 1910 to Greenwich, Conn., where he spent the remainder of his life.

After his graduation from Dartmouth, Niels operated the Yellow Cab Company in "Larchmont, N.Y., for a number of years and later the Greenwich Cab Company, the town's Pontiac franchise and taxi company, where he served as secretary/treasurer and then vice president until his retirement a few years ago.

During his years with the Cab Company (later changed to Car Company when it no longer operated cabs), he was a member of the Rotary Club. An avid sailing enthusiast, he was also a member of the Riverside Yacht Club. During his years of sailing with Lightning Fleet #7, he won local as well as sound-wide races and championships.

Niels is survived by his wife Teresa, his two sons William and Robert, and a brother E. William Fossum, as well as three grandchildren.

JOHN WAITE GARDNER died September 2 in the Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Conn. John and his wife, Margaret Napier Gardner, moved a few years ago from New Canaan, Conn., to Stratford, where they resided at the time of his death.

Born in 1904 in. East Orange, N.J., John entered Dartmouth from the high school in that city. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and later attended Clark University and the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He was associated for 43 years with the American Can Company, where he headed industrial relations and, later was assistant vice president for manufacturing. For two years after retiring, John served as an international consultant for the firm, supervising the acquisition of a number of foreign plant sites.

John was a member of the Congregational Church, belonged to the Oronoque Golf Club, and formerly served on the board of governors of the New Canaan Historical Society. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Jeffrey W. and John N., a daughter. Leigh Venable, and two grandsons.

1928

HARVEY SOMERS FISHER died July 9 in San Francisco after being in a coma for over four months. He underwent surgery October 1, 1976, for three brain aneurysms and came home before Thanksgiving. In January he had a viral infection, and despite the best medical help, he went downhill.

Harv graduated from Central High School, Washington, D.C., was advertising manager of the Aegis at Dartmouth, and a member of Lambda Chi Alpha.

He worked for Hills Brothers Coffee, Inc., in San Francisco and the Walworth Co., New York, where he was general purchasing agent. He moved to California and was purchasing agent for Aerojet-General in Azusa until a brain aneurysm forced his retirement in 1961. He was able to travel about the country, including a three-week trip to Alaska and summers at their home in Andover, Me.

In 1939 in Andover, Me., he married Betsey Poor, who survives him, along with their children, Harvey Jr. and Betsey Fisher Mosher, and five grandchildren.

1929

The College has been informed that DANIEL JOSEPH MAHONEY of Brockton, Mass., died some months ago. Dan came to Dartmouth from Dean Academy, but did not graduate with his class. We regret that no additional information is available.

1931

JOHN THOMAS BARRETT, 70, died September 2 in Orlando, Fla. He succumbed to lung cancer.

Johnny came to Dartmouth from the Clark School and Weaver High School, Middletown, Conn. As an undergraduate, he joined Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. He apparently left Dartmouth sometime during our junior year and went into the insurance business in Middletown in 1930.

By 1959 he was a U.S. Army colonel stationed in West Germany. He was a veteran of World War II, Korea, and the Vietnam conflicts. John retired with the rank of colonel and moved to Orlando 15 years ago.

A prayer service was held September 6 in Cox-Parker Chapel, Winter Park, Fla., with Father Eamon O'Dowd officiating.

He is survived by his former wife, Amy Akers, and by a daughter.

JOSEPH ESERSKY, 68, died August 29 at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital after a short illness.

Joe came to Dartmouth from Stevens High School, Claremont, N.H. He majored in zoology and went on to Harvard School of Dental Medicine, receiving a D.M.D. degree in 1936.

He practiced on Long Island, N.Y., and later in Manchester, N.H., served three years in the U.S. Army as a captain in the dental corps, and in 1946 opened an office in Claremont.

Joe was a member of the Grafton-Sullivan County Dental Society, the New Hampshire Dental Society, the American Dental Association, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. He was chief of the dental staff at Claremont General Hospital.

He held membership in the Temple Meyer-David, B'nai Brith, Hiram lodge No. 9 F & AM, Webb Royal Arch Chapter No. 6, Bektash Temple, American Legion Post 29, the Stevens Alumni Association, the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley, the Senior Society of Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and its alumni club. He was also a member of Alpha Omega Fraternity, the Kiwanis Club of Claremont, and the friends of St. Paul's School, Concord.

Rheta Ekman and Joe were married in 1949 and had two daughters, Gareth, currently working on her doctorate at Tufts, and Martha, a Princeton graduate now studying at Brown. His wife and daughters survive him.

Joe was a "gentle man and a gentleman," by whose professional skills and caring suffering was alleviated.

1933

WALLACE KENNETH FLOOD, 66, of Clinton Road, Antrim, N.H., died August 23 at the Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterboro, N.H., after a brief illness.

A native of Brandon, Vt., he prepared for Dartmouth at Peterboro High School. After college he graduated from the New England Aircraft School and Wentworth Institute.

He had lived in Antrim for 43 years. He had been police chief from 1953 to 1969 and had been a member of the fire department for 30 years. He also served as town selectman from 1949 to 1951.

He leaves his wife, Norma (Cuddihy) Flood; two sons, Peter M. Flood and Daniel B. Valley; a grandson; and two nieces and a nephew.

BURTON EDWARDS (TONY) MARTIN came to Japan rather late in life. Having served in United Nations relief work in Italy in the early postwar years, he was invited to Japan as an advisor on higher education. Tony first lived in Sendai, where he lectured to Japanese educators. He later did the same in the Chukoku District. But his reputation in northern Japan was such that he was invited to become a lecturer in English language and literature at Tohoku University, where he served for some nine and a half years. About 1959, Tony was invited to join the faculty at Waseda University, where he gave lectures in English and American literature, with a special affection for Shakespeare and Frost, until almost the day he died. He was the only foreign full professor on the Waseda faculty. He also lectured at Tokyo University and at other Tokyo institutions and was prominent among those in Tokyo who sought to give foreign residents a deep understanding of Japan and Japanese culture.

Tony was a longtime contributor to the Mainichi Daily News, and he wrote a book on his experience with Unnra, the Unpromised Land, as well as numerous articles on English literature (his first love), music, Japanese culture, and the tea ceremony.

With all of his intellectual accomplishments, Tony was, first of all to all of us, a very dear friend. I first met him some 18 years ago when he was enthusiastically planning his Mejiro house and confounding the architect with rooms proportioned to accommodate oversize doors through which he, with his large frame, could pass easily. Despite the odd proportions, the house won wide acclaim in Japan and was later the scene of numerous and diverse gatherings and discussions ranging from Shakesepare through German, Italian, and French opera to Kabuki and the latest movement in Japanese theater.

Tony was also an active member of the Dartmouth Club of Japan and provided wise counsel and unstinting help to both alumni and students, not without a touch of humor, during all the years he lived in Japan.

Tony was a gentle man, with a word of kindness or advice for all. He struggled mightily and patiently with generations of Japanese students in teaching them the subtleties of Shakespeare and Frost, at which he succeeded significantly.

Tony's was a rich and full life. He enjoyed the respect of and will long be remembered by literally hundreds of friends. So, while we all regret his sudden passing, we should take comfort from Tony's example, for he has left the world a better place and left us with marvelous memories.

Bill Breer '57

1934

Word has been received of the death of CARROLL JORDAN in Paris, France. Unfortunately no details are available. Carroll started with our Class but graduated in 1934 from Yale. He was not married as far as we know. We extend our sympathies to his family.

LESTER G. LITTLEFIELD died four years ago, but we were just recently informed of this by Susan Stine '76, who is secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Paris, France. Lester retired in 1961 and spent his winters in St. Petersburg, Fla., going to Paris in the fall and to Venice in the spring. Apparently Lester never married, and little is known about his activities since his retirement. We extend our sympathies to his family.

1935

ROBERT LANDERS MILLANE died in Woburn, Mass., on August 25. A native of Holyoke, Bob came to Dartmouth from Central High in Springfield, where his father was a prominent druggist. At Dartmouth, Bob was a member of Sigma Nu and attended Tuck School. After graduation he went to Western Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and became a registered pharmacist in 1938. He was employed in the pharmaceutical business until 1952, when he became a stockbroker with Harris, Upham & Company in Boston. At the time of his death, he worked with Fahnestock & Company. Bob was never married.

WILL CARLTON SPARKS JR. passed away on June 14 at North Rockford Convalescent Home in Rockford, Ill. He had been confined in the nursing home for five years.

Will came to Dartmouth from Rockford High School and Andover Academy. At Dartmouth he was a member of Theta Delta Chi. Early in his sophomore year he was stricken with multiple sclerosis. Despite two attempts to continue his studies, he was unable to do so. When he had been bedridden for 18 months, his health improved substantially. He became vicepresident of Sparks, Crawford, and Sparks, an insurance agency, was married, and had twin sons who survive him. The disease returned, however, finally ending a courageous 44-year battle for life.

1936

RICHARD WORTHINGTON TUCKER of Chappaqua, N.Y., died on August 11. Dick had suffered a mild coronary last February and was put on a restricted work schedule. He was stricken fatally en route home from his position as assistant general counsel in charge of corporate and secretarial matters for C.I.T. Financial Corporation in New York City.

Dick was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended St. Paul's School in Garden City, N.Y., before entering Dartmouth. While in Hanover he played in the band, was on the freshman and varsity track teams, was a member of the Gamma Delta Chi fraternity, Boot and Saddle, and the German Club. One of his favorite memories was of playing his way to Europe in the German band. After graduating from Dartmouth he received an M.C.S. degree from Tuck School in 1937 and an LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1940. Dick went to work for Barry, Wainright, Thacher & Syms in Wall Street until September 1941, when he began active duty as a second lieutenant in the finance department of the U.S. Army, serving at Governor's Island, Fort Dix, and in the Panama Canal Zone.

In April 1946, Dick returned to inactive duty as a major, and in June he joined the legal department of C.I.T. Financial Corporation, with which he remained in various legal capacities until the end. In 1942 Dick and wife Margery moved to Chappaqua. There he served two terms on the architectural board of review and also two on the New Castle zoning board of appeals, of which board he had been chairman since 1974. He was a vestryman at St. Marks Episcopal Church in Mount Kisco. Dick was a member of the American Bar Association, of the New York State Bar Association, and also of the federal bar association.

Dick was predeceased in January by his father, Dartmouth Class of 1909, and is survived by his wife Margery and two married children, to all of whom the Class extends its deepest sympathy.

1937

With great sorrow we report the death of GRANT CRANE, August 27, of a heart attack while playing golf with his son, Jay '72, in New Hampshire. He had shown no signs of any problem prior to the attack. He was attending the Gordon Research Conferences at Holderness School in Plymouth, representing Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, where he had long been a research chemist. Grant and Phyllis had immensely enjoyed our 40th in June.

He came to Dartmouth from Upper Arlington High School, Columbus, Ohio, majored in chemistry, was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He received a Ph.D. from Ohio State in 1940 and was married to Phyllis Hamilton, a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Grant's 31 years of business life was spent at Firestone Research Laboratories as an associate scientist engaged in chemical and polymer research. He was a retired colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve.

Grant's daughter told us that Dartmouth was one of his great loves, that his desk was always full of Dartmouth mail. He always visited Hanover whenever he was nearby, although the 40th was the only reunion he had time to attend. As a retired colonel he had a military funeral at a military cemetery in Dayton, Ohio, with a detachment of marines as an honor guard.

He leaves his wife; two sons. Jay '72 and Charles; a daughter Janet Vitkevich; and his mother.

FRANK V. LOWDEN died of cancer at his home in Richmond, Va., August 29 after a long illness.

Frank was graduated from Pingry School, Roselle, N.J., and at Dartmouth he majored in economics. He participated in freshman swimming and football and was a member of Beta Theta Pi.

He received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1942. At that time he joined the law firm now known as Hunton & Williams, taking time out to serve in the Navy from 1943 to 1946. His specialty was labor relations. He served as chairman of the labor law committee of the Virginia Bar Association as well as of various other committees and commissions.

His wife died about a year ago.

Survivofs include two sons and a daughter, all of Richmond, as well as a brother and sister.

EDWARD HASTINGS TEMPLE III died unexpectedly at his home in South Dartmouth, Mass., September 22. He had recently suffered from ulcers and high blood pressure.

Ed was born in Belmont, Mass., came to Dartmouth from Tabor Academy, and was a member of Beta Theta Pi. Since he did not graduate, we have no information about his undergraduate activities.

He was somewhat of an entrepreneur, a man of many and varied business pursuits, all financially favorable to him, including a stint in housebuilding. His regular work was as sales representative for the U.S. Plastic Molding Company, whose products went mostly to the medical field. His father was Edward Temple Jr. '07, of the old Boston construction firm of Temple & Crane.

He leaves his mother; two sons, Edward IV '42 and Wilbur; a daughter Suzanne; two sisters; and a grandchild.

1941

Dr. WILLIAM LIPSCOMB JAMISON, a nationally prominent heart surgeon, died August 8 as a result of complications following a gall bladder operation.

Bill came to Dartmouth from Manassas, Va., and was living and practicing there at the time of his death. He helped found the Prince William County Hospital in Manassas and was active in other civic affairs.

In college, his chief interest was the outdoors Outing Club, Ledyard Canoe Club, Cabin and Trail and his fraternity was Alpha Kappa Kappa. He went to Dartmouth Medical School, got his M.D. at the University of Virginia, then served his internship and a surgical residency at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. During World War II, he was a Navy doctor attached to Marine Corps units.

Bill practiced in Washington for a number of years, where he was also head of cardiovascular surgery at Doctors Hospital and an associate in surgical research at Children's Hospital. During the years after the war, he taught anatomy at George Washington University Medical School and held various research and staff positions at Hahnemann Hospital, and Hahnemann Medical School, Bailey Thoracic Clinic, and Doctors Hospital, all in Philadelphia; the Guthrie Clinic, Sayre, Pa.; and Overhold Thoracic Clinic, Boston.

Along with the predictable hunting and skiing, machine-shop work was one of Bill's hobbies - he was credited with developing a number of instruments used in heart surgery and building a couple of heart-lung machines.

He left his wife, Thelma Homschek Jamison, a son. and a daughter, all of Manassas.

1944

MARK D. BATCHELDER died last February 16 in Louisville, Ky., after a four-year fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He had been a vice president of The Batchelder Company, transit advertising, until illness caused his retirement in 1976.

Mark was born and raised in Peoria, Ill. During World War II, he left Dartmouth for U.S. Navy and liberty-ship duty in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean.

After the war, he joined the family transit-advertising business in Peoria. He ran a branch office in Little Rock, Ark., from 1950 to 1955, when he moved to Louisville to open an office there. He remained in Louisville until the time of his death.

Mark was a member of the Louisville Rotary Club, Sales Marketing and Executive Club, and the Advertising Club of Louisville. He was also active in scouting.

He is survived by his wife Arlyn; a son and a daughter; a brother, Joseph H. Batchelder Jr. '39, of Peoria; two nephews; and a niece.

1953

JOHN GEORGE KURTZ of Boonton, N.J., died suddenly August 14, 1977. He leaves his wife Anita, a son, and a daughter.

John came to Dartmouth from Hasbrouck Heights High School in New Jersey. He graduated from Tuck School. After Dartmouth he went into the Army for three years, serving in Germany. Upon his return he went to work for Federal Paper Board Company and stayed with them his entire business career. He rose to the position of sales manager.

1957

We are sorry to report the death of Dr. ALDEN HIRSH BLACKMAN '57, who died at his home in Providence, R.I. on June 3 after a six-month illness.

After graduating from Dartmouth, Alden received his medical degree from the University of Vermont in 1961. He completed his internship at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., was the assistant resident at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, and served as chief resident in medicine at the District of Columbia Hospital in Washington. He was a fellow of gastroenterology at the Rhode Island and Veterans Administration Hospitals in Providence, at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and at Lemuel Chattick Hospital in Boston. He entered private practice in 1969, was the chief of the gastroenterology section at Rober Williams Hospital, and taught at Brown University.

Alden was active in a number of professional organizations and was a dedicated community leader. He was recently appointed to the national campaign cabinet of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropists, was a member of the board of directors of the Boy Scouts of America, and was chairman of the Jewish Committee on Scouting. He was also on the board of trustees of Temple Emanu-El, the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island, the Jewish Home for the Aged, and was a member of the education committee of the American Cancer society.

Alden is survived by his wife, two children, his mother, and two sisters, to whom the Class extends its sympathy.

1964

It is with great sadness that we report the death of DALE E. RUNGE on September 2, 1977. Dale achieved great academic and social distinction while at Dartmouth. In 1964 he received the Barrett Cup. He was an outstanding tackle on the football team, an outstanding student, president of S.A.E. fraternity and Dragon senior society, and vice president of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers.

Dale received an B.M.E. degree in 1965 from the Thayer School. He participated in the Peace Corps from 1965 to 1967 and from 1968 to 1970 he did research at U.C.L.A. In 1971, he joined the Auto Club of Southern California as a research associate and was involved in traffic safety research. He recently lived in Arlinton, Mass., before moving to Belchertown, Mass. He is survived by his parents.

Dale was one of those exceptional people who became instant leaders. His giant physical size was balanced by his soft-spoken, considerate manner. Dartmouth can be proud that one of its issue was Dale Runge.

Windsor Charles Batchelder '19

Alden Hirsh Blackman '57