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.)

Rich, Edward D. '09, December 7, 1976 Tucker, Lynde W. '09, January 4 Norris, John O. '11, October 21, 1976 DeVoe, Raymond F. '16, January 15 Welch, John F. '16, December 14, 1976 Smith, Victor C. '17, January 13 McCrea, Frederick H. 'l9, January 1 Rounseville, Cyrus C. '20, January 15 Bixby, Willard W. '21, December 23, 1976 Carleton, John P. '22, January 21 Damon, Frank G. '23, December 18, 1976 Howe, Wallis E., Jr. '23, December 31, 1976 Moore, Quentin H. '23, July 18, 1976 Foley, Kenneth W. '24, October 23, 1976 Staley, Harry R. '24, January 7 Whittemore, Clinton L., Jr. '28, November 30, 1976 Crowley, Walter F. '29, December 6, 1976 Jones, Robert R. '29, December 7, 1976 Parrott, John R. '29, July 13, 1976 Sparhawk, Norman F. '29, December 1974 Parker, W. Herbert '30, October 24, 1976 Findlay, Wallace '32, December 15, 1976 Pike, Richard G. '32, January 9 Krogslund, Nelson B. '34, October 16, 1976 Latimer, J. Harris '35, December 31, 1976 Roundey, Robert E. '35, January 21 Sicher, William D. '36, January 7 Mathes, Hamilton A. '37, December 13, 1976 Robinson, David '38, January 22 Hamilton, Ernest R. '41, December 21, 1976 Wang, Shih-Yueh '44, December 31, 1976 Clarke, Louis C. II '49, September 1976 Rosenthal, Martin R. '56, December 29, 1976

1908

Our classmate SUMNER CROSBY, an outstanding lawyer, banker, and citizen of Falmouth, Mass., died there on January 20. He was sitting in his own easy chair at home when the end came, and so met death with dignity.

Born in 1886 in Centerville, Mass., Sumner entered Dartmouth from Tabor Academy and afterwards, in 1913, graduated from Boston University Law School. In college he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

After three years of law practice in Boston, he opened up an office in Falmouth, where he spent the rest of his life. For many years, Sumner was counsel and later a director of the Falmouth Co-operative Bank and was associated with the Falmouth National Bank, first as counsel, then in 1913 as director, as president in 1949 and finally as chairman of the board.

He was devoted to skeet shooting, at which he won many honors, among them listing with the High Average Skeet Shooters in the United States.

Sumner was always very active in town affairs, being for many years a member of the Falmouth Planning Board, of which he was chairman from 1936-1946. He was a past president of the Barnstable County Bar Association and of the Falmouth Rotary Club. He was also a Mason (Wareham Royal Arch Chapter) and a member of I.O.O.F.

Married in 1919 to Malvina Dean, he had one daughter, Malvina, now married to Charles F. Herberger '42, one granddaughter, and three great-grandchildren. The sympathy of the Class goes to them.

1909

EDWARD DILLON RICH died peacefully on the evening of November 9, 1976, in Wheat Ridge, Colo., five weeks before his 91st birthday.

Born in Denver, in 1885, "Husky" prepared for Dartmouth at Boulder Preparatory School in Boulder. He entered with the class of 1908 but graduated with 1909. He was a football star and earned his D as fullback on the 1905 team. On the 1907 and 1908 teams, he was guard and received Ail-American mention from Walter Camp. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, Turtle Junior Society, and Sphinx Senior Society. He was class marshal at 1909's graduation.

Following graduation, he tried lumbering in Vermont for a few years, but returned to Colorado to take up ranching near Raton. Upon his father's death, he returned to the home ranch just south of Oak Creek in Routt County. He gave up ranching in 1932 to serve as elected sheriff of Routt County for two years. He then moved to Denver, where he was a deputy under the state treasurer and state auditor until he retired in 1950.

In 1911, Ed was married to Edith Foster Moore who died in 1971. He is survived by their two sons, Edward Jr. of Steamboat Springs and Elwin F. of Wheat Ridge, Colo., by four grandchildren, and by two great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held in Christ's Chapel Hill Memorial, Littleton, Colo., with interment in Chapel Hill Cemetery.

LYNDE WORTHINGTON TUCKER died January 4 at the Northern Westchester Hospital in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., after several years of failing health.

Born in Albany in 1887, he prepared for Dartmouth at Albany High School. He was a member of Psi Up-silon fraternity, manager of the Musical Clubs 1908-1909, and co-originator with Burr P. "Bunk" Irwin '09 of the Society Circus.

He was recruited by Western Electric Company in Chicago in July 1909 and rose through various supervisory and executive positions in United States cities and Tokyo, where he was secretary and comptroller of Western Electric's Japanese affiliate. He retired in 1952, when he reached the company's retirement age.

He served New Castle, N.Y., from 1956-1965 as town assessor. Lynde was active during his life in the Episcopal Church, serving in the vestry or as treasurer of several. He was Treasurer of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Mt. Kisco at the time of his death.

In 1913 he was married to Mary Berenice Gallup, who died in 1971. He is survived by a son, Richard Worthington Tucker '36, of Chappaqua, N.Y., and two grandchildren.

1916

RAYMOND FORSYTHE DEVOE Sr. died January 16 in the Community Hospital at West Palm Beach, Fla. Ray came to Dartmouth from DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City. He played-on both the freshman basketball and baseball teams, and in his senior year he was manager of the freshman baseball team. His fraternity was Theta Delta Chi, and his senior society Sphinx.

After serving as a naval aviator in World War I, he went into the investment banking business, forming his own company in 1923. In 1933 he formed the stock brokerage firm of DeVoe, Dykes & Sperry. Later he joined the Robert Gair Company, and when it was merged with Continental Can, he became its financial vice president. In 1959 he went with the investment company of Harraiman Ripley & Company, retiring to Florida in 1964.

He leaves his wife Dorothy, three sons, Raymond Jr. '50, Lawrence H. and Richard M., two daughters, Jacqueline Durstine and Madelon Talley, and seven grandchildren.

JOHN FRANCIS WELCH of Lynn, Mass., died December 14, 1976. Known to the Class as Jack, he came to us at Dartmouth from Lynn Classical High School. After graduation, he spent most of his life in the shoe industry, first as salesman and later as manufacturer at the J. R. Donovan Company. Retiring from that business, he became secretary of the Lynn Welfare Department, moving on later to an administrative position in the Massachusetts Division of Employment Security, from which he retired in 1964.

In 1920 he married Marjorie Canning, who survives him. Jack and Marj Welch both came most loyally to 1916's affairs and were with the Class at its 60th reunion last June.

His funeral mass was at St. John The Evangelist Church in Swampscott.

1917

On January 13 our class suffered a great loss in the death of our long-time treasurer, VICTOR COLLINS SMITH. As treasurer, Vic was most faithful, careful, and efficient, usually keeping us with a comfortable balance. He also took an interest in the members of the Class in a personally cordial manner.

Vic was born in 1890 in West Topsham, Vt. He entered Dartmouth for study in the Thayer School of Engineering, which he followed up with graduate work in that school, earning a degree in civil engineering. As an undergraduate, Vic was well-known and liked by his classmates. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He was a former Alumni Councilor and a member of alumni associations near where he lived - in Philadelphia when he was living in Haverford, Pa., and in Montpelier, Vt., where he lived after retirement. For many years Vic was active in work with the Boy Scouts of America and in the Methodist Church.

During all of his working career, Vic was a manufacturer's representative for various lines of building products. From 1933 on, he had his own business, incorporated in 1958.

Vic was married to Irene Dwinell, better known to us as Peggy, who was in the Class of 1917 at the School of Arts in Skidmore College. She died in 1973. Their survivors are two sons, a daughter, and grandchildren. Son Victor Jr. '45 now lives in Cincinnati.

Farewell, Vic - a devoted and loyal classmate whom we shall all miss very much!

Alden Vaughan

On January 22, MAURICE C. WATKINS, 80, died in a tragic accident which also took the life of his wife of 52 years, Lucy Bailey Watkins. Both were struck down and killed instantly by a car as they walked along a roadway in Ormond Beach, Fla., where they were vacationing.

Maurice was born in 1896 in Brookline, Mass., and attended Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., and Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., before coming to Dartmouth.

He served in World War I as a mechanic with the 120th Monoplane Pursuit Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Corps, from which he was discharged in 1919. He moved to Barre, Vt., and began half a century's association with the granite manufacturing industry. He made Barre his home after his marriage in 1924.

He served as president of the Barre Granite Association, director of the Granite Mutual Insurance Company, president of Cook, Watkins and Patch, Company, and the Smith, Whitcomb and Cook Company, and' vice president of the Granite Manufacturers Indemnity Company before his retirement. He was a member of the Barre Congregational Church and of Granite Masonic Lodge 35.

He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Robert C. (Sylvia) Allen and Mrs. Betty Reid, ten grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, all of Barre. His aunt, Mrs. Mac Wright of Arizona, also survives him.

1919

FREDERICK HOYT MCCREA died unexpectedly on January 1 at his home in St. Helena, Cal., after having dinner with his family. He had made his home in St. Helena since retirement in 1962 from the McCann-Erickson Advertising agency of San Francisco.

Fred came to College from Minnesota and was very prominent as an undergraduate, becoming editor-in-chief of The Daily Dartmouth in his senior year.

He purchased a summer home north of St. Helena on the site which eventually became the Stony Hill Vineyard. Here Fred produced wine which became famous throughout the country. He was a member of the American Society of Enologists, the Napa Valley Vintners Association, and the California Wine Institute.

He is survived by his wife Eleanor, a son Peter '61 of San Francisco, a daughter Mary McNamara of Schenectady, N.Y., and three grandchildren.

JOHN ROSS, one of Dartmouth's most loyal sons, died of heart failure in Corvallis, Ore., on December 16. Jack had come east for the fall class reunion and while at the Cape for a visit with his brother Frank had a heart attack which put him in the Cape Cod Hospital for several weeks. He recovered sufficiently to return home but had a relapse and was in the hospital at the time of his death.

In College Jack won letters in football, baseball, and hockey. He served in the Navy in World War I. Jack was an accountant with Ernst and Ernst and the Birdseye division of General Foods. In 193.4 he was transferred to Portland, Ore., and in 1945 went with North Pacific Canners, from which he retired in 1972. In 1975 he moved to Corvallis.

Surviving are his widow Doris; two daughters, Mrs. Jesse Truax of Corvallis and Mrs. Robert Maris of Spokane, Wash.; a brother Frank '21 of Chatham, Mass.; two sisters, Evelyn Brown of Harwich, Mass., and Lillian Moore of Seattle, Wash.; and seven grandchildren.

1919 and Dartmouth will miss Jack sorely.

RUSSELL SAGE TURNER died in Harmony, R.I., On December 15 after having been in and out of hospitals for four years. His wife, in sending us the news said, "I am so glad we attended the 50th reunion."

He first entered Bowdoin, but after service in naval aviation in World War I he transfered to Dartmouth. He spent most of his business life with White Laboratones and represented them in Southern New England. He retired in 1962 and built a new house in Harmony. He is survived by his widow Mary; one daughter, Mrs. Charles Nold Jr. of Radnor, Pa.; and also by several of his grandchildren.

1920

CYRUS C. ROUNSVILLE, 78, passed away on January 15 in Swansea, Mass., where he retired some years ago. He was born in Fall River, educated in its public schools, and attended the Moses Brown School, after which he came to Dartmouth.

His college career was cut short by World War I, during which he served his country in the Navy. He elected not to return to college after the war, taking instead a position with the Shove Mills, cotton manufacturers in Fall River. There he soon rose to the rank of treasurer. Later he became treasurer of the New England Laundries, Inc., of Boston. Then he moved on to serve the "Union Savings Bank of Fall River in several important capacities; when he retired in 1970, he had been president for four years. Cy's talents as a manager and conservator of money were widely recognized through his service as trustee of the Union Bank for over 50 years, as director of the Troy Cooperative Bank of Fall River, and as treasurer of the Fall River Unitarian Church.

One of Cy's chief community activities was also protective: he was chairman of Fall River's board of fire commissioners and a member of the New England Association of Fire Chiefs and of the Fire Chiefs Club of Massachusetts. Only a few months before his death, Cy wrote that his legs no longer responded quite as they should when a fire alarm sounded, and he regretted that.

He served politically, as well, in the Massachusetts State legislature and on the State's Industrial Accident Board. His life was one of great service to community and State, both rich and full.

He is survived by three married daughters and at least two great-grandchildren. (Cy was a proud member of 1920's great-grandfathers' club.) A popular and loyal member of his class, he was devoted to his college. We shall miss him.

1921

WILLARD WILSON BIXBY of Mendota Heights, St. Paul, Minn., retired commercial printer and lithographer, died Dec. 23, 1976 after a brief illness. After a year in Hanover, 1919-20, he transferred to the University of Minnesota and thereafter was inactive in Dartmouth class and alumni activities.

Born in 1898 in Ironton, Ohio, Bixby is survived by his wife, Mary Fulmerstock, whom he married in 1925; a son, William W. Bixby Jr. of Hacienda Heights, Calif.; a daughter, Ludlow Smethurst, of Ridgewood, N.J.; and a nephew, E. K. Bixby '57.

1922

RAYMOND LEON RAMBACH, prominent Boston attorney, died suddenly December 19, 1976, at his home in Concord, Mass.

Ray was born in 1901 in Boston and prepared for Dartmouth at Berkeley Preparatory School. One of our younger classmates, he was a member of Company I in the Student Army Training Corps. For freshman year , he lived, as so many of us did, in New Hampshire Hall. His fine appearance and affable personality made him a popular and highly-esteemed classmate. He was a member of Sigma Nu, as was his life-long friend, Bud Winkler, who passed away in June of 1975.

Ray's post-graduate career was entirely in Boston. After being in the real estate business a few years, he entered Yale Law School. He received his LL.B. degree there, and in 1927 he started a law practice. Later he was for many years a partner in the law firm of Farrell, Smith and Rambach. In more recent years, he was the senior partner of Rambach, Boyer and Smith.

Ray and Mary Louise Hartie were married in 1926 in Paris, France. She survives him, together with their daughter Joy, now Mrs. Steven Castle of Stonington, Conn., and their son J. Scott Rambach '54 of Palo Alto, Calif., and he leaves as well six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

1923

QUENTIN HAROLD MOORE died on July 18, 1976, in Omaha, Neb., where he attended high school and spent most of his adult life.

He was known at Dartmouth as "Heinz" Moore, and his distinctive carved trademark graces the senior canes of most of us. An accomplished artist even in those early days, he served on the Jack-o-Lantern board for four years, was assistant stage manager of Footlights, a member of The Arts, the Bema board, and the winter carnival and junior prom committees. His fraternity was Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

After graduation, Heinz studied at the Parsons School of Design and the Art Students League in New York prior to enrolling at the London County Council School in England. He then served as art director for several advertising agencies in Omaha and Chicago prior to 1940, when he opened his own design and art consulting business.

Heinz's survivors include his widow, the former Drusa Delahoyde, a daughter Shirley, and a son Quentin D.

1924

DAVID EDWARD MCMILLAN died January 10 in Jefferson Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He was a resident of Charles Town, W. Va.

David transferred from Dartmouth to the University of Wisconsin, where he received a..degree in mining engineering. He was a member of Delta-Upsilon. His talent as a painter resulted in the exhibition of his work at many galleries. He later did magazine and newspaper editorial work, after which he became a design engineer. He was actively engaged in the gathering of local history and the preservation of old buildings.

He is survived by his wife Florence.

HAROLD WILLIAM SPRINGBORN died January 10 at New York Hospital after a brief illness.

He had an extensive background of newspaper and magazine editing, specializing in the natural gas industry. At the time of his retirement in 1972, he was head of publications for the American Gas Association. He was the contributor of many EncyclopediaBritannica and Book of Knowledge articles on the gas industry.

He was a member of Zeta Psi and Phi Delta Epsilon and of the Dartmouth board. A long-time resident of Mt. Vernon and Bronxville, N.Y., he was active in community affairs and had held many offices in the Community Church at the Circle.

He is survived by his wife Helen, two sons, Reynolds and Neil, and nine grandchildren.

HARRY RALPH STALEY died in Research Medical Center in Kansas City on January 7.

Following graduation, Harry received medical degrees from Tulane and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1932 he began the practice of medicine in Kansas City, specializing in dermatology. During World War II he was a captain in the Army Medical Corps.

He was a member of the American Medical Association and the Jackson County Medical Society, of the Shrine and the Carraige Club, and of Kappa Sigma.

He is survived by his wife Florence, a sister, and a brother, Thomas '21.

1925

Word has been received of the death of CHARLES MASON ANNIS. He was born in Stoneham, Mass., in 1902 and came to Dartmouth from Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., and was with us in Hanover one year.

His business career was in the hotel field at various locations in the United States and Canada. The last known address was Cedar Falls, lowa. He belonged to Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

HENRY DODGE LEFFINGWELL died of a heart attack in Manzanillo, Mexico, January 11. He was born in Montclair, N.J., in 1901 and graduated from Montclair High School.

In college Heinie was a member of the Glee Club and of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. After some years in the shoe business in the '30's, he joined the Canteen Company in Hagerstown, Md., and with it moved on to Salt Lake City and then Portland, Ore., where he became its owner and manager.

Retiring at 55, he built a home in Guadalajara, Mexico, and ten years later moved to Manzanillo to be near the sea he loved.

Heinie's 1928 marriage to Marian Tompkins ended in divorce, and in 1960 he married Lovell Lehman, who survives him, as do three children whom Heinie adopted, a daughter by his first marriage, Mrs. Sherman Everett of Cherry Hill, N.J., and two grandchildren. Classmate Deak Blodgett is a brother-in-law of Heinie.

WINSTON NELSON PRESCOTT died of a heart attack January 22 in Delray Beach, Fla. He was born in 1903 in Penacook, N.H., and attended high school in Conway, N.H.

Win obtained his M.C.S. degree from Tuck School and was with several firms in New England and New York state, including J. C. Penney Company and Montgomery Ward, before establishing the Prescott Fuel Company in Stoneham, Mass., in 1942. He owned and operated this business until his retirement in the mid-sixties, and afterward lived in Delray Beach.

He served as a deacon of the First Congregational Church in Stoneham, as president of the Rotary Club there, as a director of the Home for the Aged, and as a trustee and officer of the local savings bank.

Win is survived by his wife, the former Margaret E. Rideout, and a son, John C. '63.

1926

NORRIS EDWARD WILLIAMSON died January 23 of cardiac arrest while visiting friends in Hinsdale, Ill He was born in 1904 in Malvern, Pa., and grew up in Hinsdale, Ill., where he attended high school. At the time of his death he lived at Eastman, Grantham, N.H., where he and his wife Marmie had recently built a retirement home.

As an undergraduate at Dartmouth, Norrie was a member of Sigma Chi and participated in many college activities, becoming widely known on campus. As an alumnus, he served on the Alumni Council 1955-57, was an enrollment officer for three years, trustee of the Dartmouth Club of Chicago, and president of the Colorado Alumni Association when he lived in that state. Norrie was very active in 1926 affairs, having been on the executive committee as a vice chairman for a number of years and having attended many class functions. The Class is the poorer for the loss of one of its friendliest and most highly respected members.

He spent his business career with the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in Chicago, where he became general agent in 1940. Later he was general agent emeritus in Williamson & Williamson and continued semi-active until his death. He was a member of the Chicago General Agents & Managers Association, a member of Chicago Life & Trust Council, and a director of Union League Club of Chicago.

He is survived by his wife Marmion, whom he married in 1974, by his two sons, Norris E. Jr. and Peter D. '59, by his brother Robert M. '34, and by his nephew, William M. '66. The Class was represented at his memorial service in Hinsdale by Hank and Jane Parker and Tubber Weymouth.

1929

WALTER FRANCIS CROWLEY of Franklin, Mass., died December 6, 1976, in a Natick hospital. He came to Dartmouth from Dean Academy and graduated afterwards, in 1933, from Tufts Medical School. In 1935 he took over his father's medical practice in Franklin and continued that general practice until his recent retirement.

Walt served as area medical examiner from 1946 to 1973 and was Franklin's Board of Health physician for 30 years. He also served as the Franklin school physician and as Dean Junior College physician for several years. During World War II he served as a Selective Service Board physician. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Thayer Medical Society. In 1968 he was named "Citizen of the Year" by the Franklin Rotary Club. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Council, Knights of Columbus.

Survivors include a son, Michael P. Crowley, and two daughters, Mrs. John Dunn and Mrs. Karen C. MacGillivray, to whom the Class of 1929 extends its sympathy.

ROBERT RIKER JONES died December 7, 1976, in Cleveland, Ohio. He came to Dartmouth from Cleveland Heights High School, left after one semester, and was graduated from Hillsdale College in Michigan. His interests lay in agriculture; he served as director of the Cuyahoga Agricultural Society and the Farmers' Club of Greater Cleveland and was district director of the Ohio Fair Managers' Association. He and his wife Florence had one child, Mrs. Carolyn T. Jones.

JOHN ROWLAND PARROTT died July 13, 1976, in Pasadena, Calif., after a long illness caused by a heart condition. He entered Dartmouth from the Pasadena Military Academy, where he had made an outstanding athletic record. In college he was active as a lightweight boxer.

After graduation, Polly entered the magazine advertising field on the Pacific coast, in Seattle, San Francisco, and Pasadena, where he represented such national publications as The American Home, TheFarm Journal, and The Town Journal. During World War II he served as lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, discharging combat intelligence duties with carrier-based air squadrons in many campaigns all across the Pacific.

In 1930 he married Helen Elizabeth Tobias; they had a daughter, Patricia, and two sons, John and Thomas. The Class of 1929 expresses its deep sympathy in their loss.

Those who knew Polly in college will always remember with affection his generous and light-hearted spirit.

1930

The death of WILLIAM HERBERT PARKER on October 24, 1976, in Madison, N.J., has been reported recently by his widow Clara. Herb was not in touch with the Class and little is known of his activities over the years. A photographer, he operated the Parker Studio in Morristown, N.J. The Class extends sympathy to Mrs. Parker.

1932

WALLACE FINDLAY of Athol, Mass., died on December 15, 1976. He had been a patient in Massachusetts General Hospital for three and a half weeks. Wallace attended Harvard Business School after graduation from Dartmouth and retired last July as executive vice president and treasurer of the L. S. Starrett Company of Athol. He served as treasurer of Athol Memorial Hospital from 1956 to 1975 and had been a hospital trustee until his death. Wallace also was a former director of Athol Chapter, American Red Cross, and served as trustee of the Athol Savings Bank and Athol High School Scholarship Association. He was a member both of Star Lodge of Masons and of Who's Who.

He is survived by his widow Geraldine (Wood) Findlay, as well as a daughter Ann Williams of Athol, a son Douglas Findlay, a brother Robert T. Findlay, and four grandchildren. The class extends its sympathy to his wife and family.

1934

J. CLARENCE DA VIES "died February 2nd in Cleveland, where he had gone on a business trip.

Clarence was foremost among us in service and devotion to college, community, and country. A native New Yorker, he was the fifth generation of his family in the real estate business. As head of J. Clarence Davies, Inc., realtors, almost since our graduation, he was appointed the first commisssioner of New York City's department of real estate in 1958 and worked for four years to revitalize the city's slum-clearance and housing programs. He was chairman of the city's Bicentennial program, and despite crippling budget cuts during the year, was largely responsible for the city's memorable July 4th celebration, right down to the fireworks. He was chairman of the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged, a former president of the New York Chapter of the American Jewish Com- mittee, and was, or had been, an officer of more than 20 other civic, professional, and charitable organizations.

In the 8th Air Force during World War II, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and toward the end of a distinguished and continuing career in the service, was commissioned a major-general in the Air Force Reserve.

Clarence won his varsity letter in boxing at Dartmouth, and was lightweight champion of the College in his junior year. After college, his passion became tennis. Characteristically, he became head of umpires for the U.S.L.T.A. and for many years officiated at Forest Hills and elsewhere in the tennis world.

He was one of ten '34 classmates to come to Dartmouth from the Horace Mann School in New York. He served two terms on the Alumni Council, was a member of the '34 executive committee from its inception, was an indefatigable assistant class agent, and served the College on innumerable interviewing and enrollment committees. He was president of Theta Chi in our senior year. Most recently, as head of a committee of alumni, faculty, and students, he helped defuse the touchy issue of R.O.T.C. on campus.

There may be other claimants to the title, but until they are validated, Davies will stand as '34's leading Dartmouth football fan. It was a bad year when ne made only 8 of the 9 scheduled games, and he would usually get there early, rain or shine, for the freshman game as well.

From the foregoing, it would seem that Clarence had discovered the secret of being in two places at once. He had, and sometimes three; but his warm nature made you feel that he had come to the place where you met him just to see you and you alone.

Clarence was married only hours after graduation to Helen Wolfe, who with their sons J. Clarence III ("Terry") '59 and Alan '63, we know will carry on the countless friendships he made at Dartmouth and in so many other endeavors in his full and fruitful life.

Bill Scherman

1935

Word has been received of the death of FRANK J. DONAHUE JR. on January 24 at his home in Hull, Mass.

A native of Needham, Mass., Frank came to Dartmouth from Boston Latin School. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Leaving Dartmouth, he completed his education at Franklin Technical Institute. He was employed for many years by General Dynamics in Quincy before joining Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation in Boston. He served with the U.S. Army Air Corps prior to World War II, and during the war he was chief inspector with the U.S. Navy in the Philippines.

Frank is survived by his wife Catherine, two sons, Frank J. III and David, and a daughter, Geraldine.

J. HARRIS LATIMER was murdered in his apartment in Naples, Fla. on December 31, 1976. At the time of this writing, no formal charges have been made against the perpetrator of the crime.

"Bus" joined us at Dartmouth from Governor Dummer Academy. An Economics major, he was a member and president of Chi Phi fraternity. After college he continued to be an active, loyal, and generous alumnus. He served the class as head agent for a three-year term and was a member of Dartmouth clubs in Philadelphia and Naples. His other clubs inluded the Union League Club and Merion Golf Club.

After service in the U.S. Navy in World War II, Bus ined the mortgage department of John Hancock in Boston, but in 1950 he formed a partnership in Philadelphia - Redding and Latimer - engaged in mortgage banking and as mortgage loan correspondents for John Hancock and New England Mutual. This was succeeded by Latimer and Buck, Inc which Bus served as president and chairman of the board. In 1969 the company was bought by Fidelcor, Inc parent company of the Fidelity Bank. Bus retired In 1973 after a very successful career.

He is survived by his widow Nancy, from whom he was separated, a son, James Harris Jr. '67, and two daughters, Lindsey (Mrs. Bruno La Rocca), and Nancy. a student at Boston University.

1936

ALBERT WILLIAM MOMENEE of Harper Woods, Mich., died of cancer December 14, 1976, in the Henry Ford Hospital. Al's first wife predeceased him by almost 15 years and his second marriage ended in divorce in 1968.

Born in Detroit, Al attended Southeastern High there before entering Dartmouth, where he was an economics major. After graduation Al obtained a degree in cost accounting at the Walsh Institute of Accounting. He went to work for the National Soap Company, a small concern of which he learned every phase. He was a vice president when he entered the service in 1942. He obtained a degree in Army Administration at the U. of Florida. Al spent five years in the service, rising to the rank of lieutenant before being discharged.

On return to private life, Al spent several years with the Industrial Bank of Detroit and then with a couple of medium-sized manufacturing firms where he was chief accountant and office manager. He was absorbed into the Chrysler Corporation when it purchased the plant for which he was working. Al spent most of his working career with Chrysler, remaining there until forced into early retirement in 1975. Since then, he had been working for Korvette's in Roseville, Mich.

Al was active in college and community affairs having served as an assistant class agent and as president of the Dartmouth Club of Detroit from 1972 to 1974. He was appointed the first treasurer of Harper Woods and was active in his church.

The Class extends its deepest sympathy to his daughter Claudette and his brother Thomas.

RAYMOND ELLIOTT REITMAN of South Orange, N.J., died October 31, 1976, failing to survive openheart surgery. Funeral services .at Congregation B'nai Jeshuran were attended by a number of classmates, including his college roommate Pep Minte, and Eddie Chamberlain, who came down from Hanover.

Ray, born in New York City, spent most of his life in New Jersey. He attended Thomas Jefferson High in Elizabeth before entering Dartmouth, where he majored in sociology and participated in freshman football, swimming, and varsity football. He was a member of Pi Lambda Phi, Junto, and the Spanish Club. He went to graduate school at N.Y.U. night school while working for an accounting firm in Newark during the day and received his MBA in 1939.

After several accounting jobs, Ray went into the liquor business with Galsworthy, Inc., of Newark. He joined the Navy in 1943 and came out a lieutenant in 1946. After four years in the liquor business in N.Y.C., he rejoined Galsworthy as a vice president and in 1958 was made president. In 1963 in West Caldwell, N.J., he formed Reitman Industries, which he served as president and chairman of the board. The company imports and distributes wines and spirits.

Ray was active in Dartmouth affairs. He served several times on the class executive committee and was a class agent. District 56 Enrollment Director, and also c airman of the admissions committee of Northern New Jersey and governor of the Dartmouth College of Essex and Morris Counties. For a dozen years Ray and Eddie Chamberlain scouted the Columbia football team, until Eddie became director of admissions.

Ray is survived by his wife Margaret ("Peg") and three daughters, Margaret Jacobs, Elizabeth Lowenstein, and Kathryn Reitman. The Class extends its deepest sympathy to all of them.

1937

CHARLES EDWIN COOKE JR. died of a sudden heart attack in 1966 while watching his son play in a high school football game in Chelmsford, Mass. Charley left us his sophomore year, transferring to Bates, where he graduated with Tel Frazier. We have had no news of him over the years and only learned of his death through a business friend who attended Bates with him. Charley came to Dartmouth from Lowell High School and Worcester Academy. His widow, Dorothy, has since remarried.

HAMILTON A. MATHES died December 13, 1976, in Groton, Conn.

Ham came to Dartmouth from Lynn Classical High School, Mass., was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi and majored in romance languages. After graduation, he received advanced degrees from Harvard and then taught at Tufts and the University of Massachusetts.

During the war he served in North Africa and the ETO, ending up in military government as an Italian interpreter. In 1950/51 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Italy. For many years following, he worked for the Department of State and the U.S.I, as a foreign service cultural affairs officer. In 1971 he was forced into early retirement because of an undiagnosed illness. His retirement pay from the government was a mere pittance, but he managed to get a part-time job teaching Italian at Connecticut College. His wife Lucy died, and the job ran out, forcing him to sell his farm; he was left practically on welfare and very sick. He became so depressed he asked to have his name removed from our mailing list because he was unable to cope with reading about the successes of his classmates. He was proud and wanted to be left alone. Some of us talked to him on the telephone and it was all very sad.

He leaves two married daughters and a brother.

1940

JORDAN G. VAN CLEVE, nationally-recognized property tax consultant and one of the youngest members of the Class of 1940, died January 27 at Morristown, N.J., Memorial Hospital following a cardiac arrest. He was 57 years of age.

Van was bom in 1919 in Newark, N.J., and prepared for Dartmouth at St. Benedict's Preparatory School there. Following graduation from Dartmouth, he went on to Columbia Law School and received his law degree there in 1943.

After World War II service in the Navy, he became associated as legal counsel with the Erie Railroad in 1948 and J. J. Newberry in 1953 before helping to found the property tax consulting firm of Desmond, Van Cleve, Schwab and Nevins in 1953. From their offices in Springfield, N.J., the firm represents companies in property cases from coast to coast.

Van's fond memories of Dartmouth and love of golf led him to purchase a vacation home in Quechee, Vt., which became unofficial preview headquarters for regular and mini-reunions. There he hosted his many friends on the golf course.

He was a member of the New York Bar Association, the National Association of Property Tax Representatives, the Association of Municipal Assessors of New Jersey (having served several years as a tax assessor of Madison, where he had lived for the past 16 years), and the International Association of Assessing Officers. He was also a member of the Evaluators Institute of New York City, the International Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, and the Canoe Brook Country Club in Short Hills.

He leaves his wife, the former Jean Thomas, to whom he was married in 1943; two sons, Michael B. and Patrick J. Van Cleve; and grandchildren.

1941

ERNEST R. HAMILTON, an education officer for the Department of Defense, died in December in Boston, according to word received in January. His home was in Groton, Mass., and his widow Etty has since moved to 60 Main St., Osterville, Mass. 02655.

He had been an instructor in Dartmouth's department of education in 1948-50, and was an admissions officer at the College in 1947-49. He obtained a master's degree from Dartmouth in 1949 and attended the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in 1950-51.

Ernest then joined the U.S. Air Force as an education officer, coordinating, analyzing and evaluating Defense Department training programs in New England; he held the title of director, training analysis and development, USAF. He contributed a number of articles to professional journals and wrote a short story, "Darrity Discovers Texas," published in Esquire.

He is survived by his widow Etty and by four sons.

1948

The friends of ARTHUR JAY KOSSE JR. '48 will be sorry to learn of his death from multiple sclerosis in March 1974, on Long Island. He spent his final days there after a long period of illness.

Art arrived in Hanover during wartime in July 1944 with the second small contingent of '48 civilian freshmen. At Dartmouth Art was admired for his internal strength in dealing with the fact that as a boy he had lost an eye from a firecracker (notwithstanding which he spent 18 months in the Merchant Marine) and for his quiet good humor and dependability as a friend. He was a Phi Psi, on the staff of The Dartmouth, and majored in journalism.. His closest Dartmouth friend was probably classmate Dick Greene, with whom he roomed in Wheeler, and he also held Dick Barlow, Don Gilmore, Ed Leede, Bud Thorne and Carl Ward in high esteem.

Art worked as a civilian with the U.S. military in Europe for four years after his graduation, and since 1953 worked for the Rocky Mountain Bank Note Co. out of Denver. He was married in 1959 and is survived by two daughters, his father, and his brother.

1949

The Class is saddened to hear of the death of LOCK CLIFFORD CLARKE in September 1976 at Port Clinton, Ohio, and wishes to express its concern to his wife Sandra.

Ted graduated from Thayer School in 1954 as an aerospace engineer. From 1954 to 1960 he worked in Kansas City for Westinghouse Electric Corporation From 1960 to 1970 he was employed by General Corporation, Sacramento, Calif. He spent most of his time as configuration manager/senior development engineer on Polaris, AIM-4D, Maverick SVM-3 and four solid motor rocket programs. In May of 1972 he joined Space Research Corporation in North Troy, Vt., where he worked until October 1972 Since 1972 he had been a designer with Consultants and Designers, New York City.

Ted is survived by his widow Sandra Linn, whom he married in 1972, and by their son. He is also survived by two sons from his previous marriage.

1950

He had his music wherever he went. In 1958 ROBERT S. KARNAN wrote, "I've been working in L.A. since April as a pianist at the Seven Seas night club. I have always had a ball on the West Coast and have decided to make my permanent home here." And that was home until his death in Aptos, Calif., in early 1975.

After leaving Dartmouth, Bob attended Lycoming College as his interests in the entertainment field developed. One of his first jobs was nearby as an announcer for station WLYC in Williamsport, Pa. Early after his trek west he worked in the publicity department of ABC in Hollywood. Later he became director of public relations for the Pasadena Playhouse.

Music, however, remained his first love and primary interest. After his stint at the Seven Seas, Bob moved on to a variety of engagements as pianist and vocalist throughout the West and in Hawaii. His reputation grew with his popularity. During his wanderings he took pains to contact local Dartmouth clubs to check in with classmates scattered here and there.

Bob, who remained single, is survived by his father Parker '17 and by his brother Richard '52.

He was a banker and a good one. But on August 24, 1976 RICHARD E. "DOC" KERWIN died suddenly in Oxnard, Calif. He is survived by his widow, nee Mary Luhman, and their three children.

Born in Worcester, Dick grew up in Oak Park, Ill., attended Kimball Union Academy and, before joining us in the autumn of 1946, spent almost two years in the Navy as a fledgling signalman. At Dartmouth he majored in English and was a member of Sigma Chi.

After graduation Dick migrated west and held several jobs as a salesman before joining United California Bank in early 1952 as a credit analyst. By 1961 he had become v.p. of the bank's Hollywood office before moving to headquarters in Los Angeles in 1963 to take over as district administrator of the national division. In 1966 he was appointed branch administrator to direct 29 commercial banking offices in Riverside, San Bernardino, and eastern Los Angeles counties.

The bank elected Dick senior v.p. in 1970. Only a year before his death Western Bancorporation, a multibank holding company that includes United California Bank as the largest of its 23 affiliates, appointed Dick executive v.p. His efforts had contributed significantly to the growth of United California Bank and to the influence and prestige of Western Bancorporation in communities throughout eleven western states where it operates.