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.)
Hills, Clarence C. '05, February 6 Powers. Waiter '06, February 3 Crocker J. Franklin '07, February 15 Cheney. Joseph Y. '13, January 24 Herring, Albert C, '14, January 20 Miller Rudolph N. '17, October 19, 1976 Norris. Elton R. '11, January 17 Bates Henry A. '16, February 10 Gottschaldt, Allan C. '18, February 16 Morse. Fred W„ Jr. '18, January 14 Maze. James S. '22, January 20 Broe, James A. '23, February 3 Turnbull, Leonard F. '23, January 22 Stephenson. Roger V. '24, January 23 Tagney, John G. '25, February 1 Riotte. Robert C. '26, January 20 Copeland, Mark A. '27, January 28 Murray, Donald A. '33, February 11 MacLaren, Robert J. '35, December 31, 1976 Emslie, Lloyd J. '42, January 23 Holmes, William T. '42, July 8, 1976 Hooker. Burton S. '43, February 6, 1976 Chapin. James 1., Jr. '52, January 15
1906
WALTER POWERS died February 3 at the Frank Wood Convalescent home in Mattapan, Mass.
Born in Hyde Park, Mass., in 1885, Walter spent his adult life in the Boston area, practicing law. He was a dedicated, nationally known trial lawyer (Harvard '09), a member of the Boston firm of Sherburne, Powers & Needham, which he helped found in 1919 upon his return from military service in World War I. "I always intended to become a lawyer," he wrote in the 1931 class report, "and I did." To what extent he did was recognized by his 1958 Dartmouth Alumni Award citation, which speaks of him as "a lawyer's lawyer." "Your concern for the law," it reads, "has been manifested by your work to raise the standards of legal education. You have been a president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners, chairman of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, and a director of the Boston Legal Aid Society." He was a member, too, of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the American Trial Institute.
His concern for Dartmouth was manifested by service as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston, vice president of the General Alumni Association, and president of his class for many years. While in Hanover, he was a member of Casque and Gauntlet, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Turtle, and Palaeopitus. Later he joined the Union Boat Club, the Curtis Club, Nisi Prius, and the Boston City Club.
Walter was a man of trenchant wit, who took a great delight in the living of his busy life. He himself described it thus, in an undated class letter written sometime after the birth of his fifth grandchild and before that of his sixth: "My rut is now so deep that passersby don't even know that there's anyone down there in it. [ enjoy a televisionless home, a rather busy office, a small fleet of kayaks, a highly satisfactory wife, and two sons who will go a good deal further than 1 have gone. I learn something new every day, my bills are paid, my luck is better than I deserve, and my health is excellent. If there is something more that 1 ought to want out of life I am fortunate enough not to know it."
Later his fifty-year report closed with a moving paragraph which bespeaks both gracious ambition and wise humility. "The end of college," Walter wrote, "is called, most appropriately, commencement. I wish I had learned much more before 1906. Headed now for another commencement, I am trying to acquire as much understanding and usefulness as I can to carry with me then."
Walter's wife of 60 years, Ethel Carver Powers, died in 1970. His children, Langdon '34 and Walter '43. predeceased him also; he is survived by his grandchildren.
1907
JOHN FRANKLIN CROCKER, born in 1885 in Cambridge, Mass., prepared for Dartmouth at the Cambridge Latin School. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Sphinx, the Glee Club and the college choir, the varsity hockey team (of which he was manager his senior year), and was an assistant class agent for the Alumni Fund.
He was manager and treasurer of LeRoy Cold Storage and Produce Company, Leßoy, N.Y., from 1910-1927, and from 1927-1929 was treasurer for Eyers Woolen Company in Keene, N.H. He was trust officer. Day Trust Company in Boston, Mass., 1930- 1945, and trustee for years. He retired, but still did trustee work for some years.
He spent his summers in South Strafford, Vt. He served as warden and vestryman in the Episcopal Church. In 1913, he and Abby Chandler were married at Wellesley, Mass.; their children are Mrs. Eunice C. Gilmore, graduate of Radcliffe; Seth C. Crocker, graduate of Harvard; John F. Crocker 3rd, who died in 1932; and Mrs. Martha C. Boyajian, graduate of Smith College.
Abby Chandler died in 1961, and Crick married Helena McDade in 1964. She would like us all to visit her at South Strafford, Vt., when we have our 70th reunion this June.
Crick was very loyal to Dartmouth down through the years until he died February 15. He will be long remembered by all his classmates.
1911
Services were held for ELTON R. NORRIS at St. Martin's Episcopal church in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on January 17. Elton joined our class in 1907 from East High School in Cleveland, from which came also Gene Gardner, Walt Greenwood, and Bob Keeler, all '11, and many other Dartmouth men. He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and remained with us for two years. He then decided to study architecture and transferred to Cornell, where he graduated in 1913 and again, with a master's degree, in 1916.
Elton served in World War I with the 107th Infantry and later in France with the 165th Infantry. He was mounded and after recuperation met and brought home with him a Russian boy, Oleg, whose well-to-do family had lost everything in the revolution.
He and Oleg lived with his parents in Shaker Heights until that home was lost during the depression when there was no work available in architecture. They then moved to Chagrin Falls, and Oleg finally went to Corpus pus Christi, Texas, where he became safety director of Columbia Southern Alkali, a subsidiary of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company.
Elton became associated with the large architectural firm of Dalton, Van Dijk, Johnson & Partner in Cleveland, with whom he stayed for 20 years, retiring in 1969
Surviving are a niece, Betsey Metzenbaum, of Chagrin Fails, and nephews, Stewart Norris of Marion, Ohio, and Curtis Norris of Philadelphia.
1912
With the death of EVERETT WARREN GAMMONS in a nursing home in Hingham, Mass., on December 10, 1976, the 1912 varsity baseball battery of Gammons and Steen was broken up. Gammons had been confined to the nursing home for over three years but was able to enjoy rides with his wife along the Cohasset shore in warm weather.
Everett Gammons was born in Cohasset, Mass., in 1890. From Cohasset High School he entered Dartmouth, where he was on the freshman and then the varsity baseball teams for four years. Gam, as he was called, was very popular, becoming a member of Phi Gamma Delta, of Turtle, and of Casque and Gauntlet. He was president of the class in 1909 and 1910, and later he served as treasurer for ten years.
Gammons was a banker for 34 years, first with Cohasset Savings Bank and later, until retirement in 1956, with Franklin Savings Bank of Boston. He also spent seven years in life insurance in Boston and three in manufacturing in Cohasset. In retirement he enjoyed gardening, photography, traveling, sailing, and golf.
He served on Cohasset's school and finance committees, was a clerk of the First Parish Church, a past president of the local camera club, and a member of the Cohasset Yacht Club. He directed for many years the Second Bank-State Street Trust Company of Boston and the Hingham Trust Company of that town and was so highly respected in his home town that in his honor Old Glory hung several days at half mast.
In 1914 he married Drusilla P. Brigham of Brookline, Mass., who died in 1965. In 1966 he married Gunhild Ahlstrom, who survives him, together with one daughter, two step-daughters, two brothers, five grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
Ushering at the funeral services in Cohasset were Hamill Cotton '35 and Richard Leggat '48. Burial was in Cohasset Central Cemetery.
1913
JOSEPH YOUNG CHENEY (85) died January 24 in St. Petersburg, Fla., after several years of failing health. He was a member of a pioneer Orlando, Fla., family, the younger son of U.S. Judge John M. Cheney. As a youth he was a member of the first football team of the old Orlando High School.
At Dartmouth, Joe was a popular member of Chi Phi, an expert skier, and the first secretary of the Outing Club. Fred Harris '11, Carl Shumway '13 and Joe were the first to ski to the top of Mt. Washington.
After graduation in 1913, he became manager of the water and gas departments of the family's Orlando Water and Light Company, predecessor of the Orlando Utilities Commission. During WW I Joe was awaiting overseas assignment when the war ended. Afterward, he helped organize the Orlando Memorial Post of the American Legion and served as its adjutant and commander; in 1921-22 he was adjutant for the department of Florida; in 1922-25 he was a national executive committeeman and vice commander of the Legion. At that time he was active in the Boy Scouts of America, was a member of the Florida Children's Commission, and of the Kiwanis Club of Orlando.
Joe then became interested in probation and parole work, and in 1941 he was appointed to the newlycreated Florida Parole Commission. He served as chairman of the commission for several terms and was also active in the Florida Probation Association and the National Probation and Parole Association, serving as chairman of the professional council of the latter from 1947 to 1949 and as trustee of the national association from 1957 until his retirement in 1960. He was the author of Saving Men and Money throughProbation and Parole in Florida.
In 1914 he married Hazel Locke in Lebanon, N.H., and she survives him, as do his son, John L. Cheney, a brother, Donald A. Cheney '11, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
His loss is deeply felt by the Class of 1913.
1914
ALBERT C. HERRING, born in 1892 in Brooklyn, N.Y., passed away on January 20 in Barranquilla, Columbia, S.A.
Al, who was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, was with us at Dartmouth from 1910-1912, after which he went to Columbia University, where he received his B.S. degree in 1914 and his M.D. degree in 1918. He was on the consulting staff of St. Lukes Hospital, N.Y., and served with the medical corps of the United States Army 1917-1918, after which he went into private practice.
On November 25, 1921, Al married Teresa Robles, and the marriage was blessed with two children. Unfortunately, the boy, Albert C. Jr., died, but the daughter, Mrs. Louis S. (Teresa) Weeks Jr., gave him th grandchildren.
He was a member of the Rockaway Hunting Club and the Century Association of N.Y.
The sympathy of the members of the Class of 1914 is extended to his survivors.
1916
HENRY ANSON BATES died February 10 in Sarasota, Fla. Anson came to Dartmouth from Middletown (Conn.) High School. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He was one of the few who received his officer candidate training at Annapolis and served in the Navy during World War 1 He spent his life in government service with the ship ping board, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Service NRA, Labor Dept., and the Ship Building Stabilization Committee WPB. Ten years ago, he retired to Siesta Key, Sarasota. He is survived by his wife Leila
WILLIAM ARTHUR HALE died January 24. Bill came to Dartmouth from Manchester (N.H.) High School, graduated with us, and went on to Tuck School for his master's degree. His fraternity was Phi Sigma Kappa. In World War I he went to France as an officer in artillery observation.
He trained with the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York City, and the bank sent him to China. He became president of the Underwriters Bank of Shanghai. Interned by the Japanese, Bill and his family were repatriated on the second trip of the Gripsholm. From then until he retired in 1961, he was located in Bermuda, where the company had relocated after the Communists took over in China.
He is survived by his wife Bess, his sister Olive, a daughter Margaret, two sons, Ted and Rich, and 9 grandchildren.
PHILIP GARDINER NORDELL died November 11. 1976. He came to Dartmouth from Brookline (Mass.) High School with great promise as a broadjumper. He fulfilled that promise by winning both the New England and I.C.A.A. broadjumping championships in 1914, but shortly afterward he injured a foot and never jumped again. He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity and of Casque and Gauntlet.
During World War I he served as an officer in the Navy.
In the late 20's he left his own food-manufacturing business to devote his life to research and writing on the history of early American lotteries. He often lectured on this subject, published 25 or more magazine articles, and also wrote the manuscript of a book on lotteries now awaiting publication. He was elected an honorary curator of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
He is survived by his wife Julia, an illustrator and writer at RD 1, Ambler, Pa., and by a sister, Mrs. Demareat Lloyd of Washington, D.C.
1917
RUDOLPH NELSON MILLER of White Plains, N.Y., died on October 19, '1976. He had been ill for more than a year with anemia and lung congestion. A tracheotomy was performed, but Rudie passed away shortly after the operation.
At Dartmouth, Rudie received his degree in civil engineering and was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. After graduation, he worked with the New York Reciprocal Underwriters and in official positions with the Village of Bronxville until 1958. From that time on he had been a self-employed consulting engineer. Rudie was a member of the American Society of Professional Engineers and the American Public Works Association.
In 1929 Rudie was married to Betty Paige, who diec in 1948. The couple had one son and one daughter, both of whom survive him, as do five grandchildren an a sister-in-law.
1922
JOHN PORTER CARLETON, distinguished attorney and gifted classmate, died January 21 in a Manchester, N.H., hospital. He had practiced law in Manchester for some 40 years and lived at 90 Meetinghouse Lane, Bedford. N.H.
The college of Johnny's choice was Dartmouth, for which he prepared at Phillips Andover. At Dartmouth he majored in economics, won Rufus Choate and Phi Beta Kappa honors and a Rhodes Scholarship. He was an intercollegiate skiing champion, a New England tennis champion, and a quarterback on the football d He received the Barrett Cup for all-round Achievement. He was a member of Paleopitus, Delta Omicron Gamma, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Casque and Gauntlet. At commencement he was the 1922 class marshall.
As a Rhodes scholar, John went to Magdalen College, Oxford, and studied law there. He was also captain of the Oxford tennis team.
In 1924 he coached the first U.S. Olympic ski team to compete at Chamonix, France, and he is honored in the National Ski Hall of Fame in Ispheming, Mich.
Upon his return from Oxford, John was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar and joined the Manchester firm of McLane & Davis. Sometime later he was assistant attorney general for New Hampshire, and in 1929 the law firm became McLane, Davis & Carleton, from which John retired some years ago.
In World War II he served as a major in the American Air Force and received a Bronze Star.
John was president of the National War Fund for New Hampshire, chairman of the New Hampshire Board of Bar Examiners, chairman of the Manchester Finance Committee, a member of the Bedford School Board, and president of Amoskeag Fabrics of Manchester, a 1200-employee firm. He was a trustee of New England College, Henniker, N.H. the Holderness School for Boys, and Camp Carpenter, Manchester. He was an active member and past officer in the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Manchester.
John had Dartmouth in his heart from the day in 1899 on which he was born in Hanover, N.H. His father was Elmer H. Carleton, '93, and his maternal grandfather was John F. Porter '53.
John and Alicia Prescott Skinner (Smith '31) the daughter of our French professor, Prescott Orde Skinner, were married in 1931 in Paris, France. She, their children, Janet C. Lewis of Bedford, Anthony W. "56, Alice C. Jacklet of Altamont, N.Y., and 12 grandchildren are survivors - and every '22 classmate must be included, because we will always cherish memories of our Johnny Carleton.
1923
JAMES AUGUSTINE BROE JR. died February 3 at his home in North Grafton, Mass., following a long illness.
Jim was a graduate of Portland (Maine) High School. In 1923 he became associated with John Hancock Insurance Company and remained with that firm during his entire business career. The company, in recognition of his outstanding sales ability, awarded him top honors on several occasions.
Aggressive and outgoing as he was in business and in is work for Dartmouth and the Class of 1923, Jim was a modest and retiring man in private. Few of us are aware of the help he gave young men in their efforts to get into Dartmouth or of the time he spent helping and counseling many of those already there.
There is very little in the class scrapbook about Jim's accomplishments, and at his express wish there was nothing in the Golden Review. The very little I have been able to rind written about him is in the form of a letters from his longtime secretary to Chet Bixby in 1960. She describes his work with young people, his many kindnesses, and his generosity, and his business Recesses. She concludes by saying: "Jim has worked untiringly for Dartmouth. The 30th reunion was a tremendous success, and no one knows better than I how hard he worked to bring that about."
Jim's widow Grace tells me that he was cremated and that, as he wished it to be, there was no church or memorial service. We will miss him greatly in the years to come.
FRANK GERALD DAMON died on December 18, 1976, in Imperial Beach, Cal., where he had lived since his retirement in 1966.
A native of Wayne, Neb., Frank came to Dartmouth from the Council Bluffs (Iowa) High School. He was a member of Cosmos, which later became Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.
After filling several banking assignments in the Midwest, Frank moved in 1941 to Southern California and became associated with the Coronado branch of the Bank of America, where he remained until his retirement.
Frank served for three years as a first class petty officer with the U.S. Coast Guard, was past master of the Coronado branch of Toastmasters International, and was a member of the board of governors of the Coronado Golf Club, of which he was also treasurer for five years.
Frank, a bachelor, left no close survivors.
Our beloved classmate WALLIS HOWE JR., born 1901, passed away on the last day of 1976 after a courageous two-year fight with cancer. "Pete" attended Loomis School, from which he entered the Dartmouth Class of 1923.
In 1922 he became editor of the Daily Dartmouth and excelled at the work as perhaps few men have. His gift of the Home Prize for Journalism is indication of his lifelong literary interest. He was a member of Paleopitus, Casque and Gauntlet, Green Key, Bema Board, Press Club, and The Arts. Pete's competence in athletics made him varsity tennis captain and New England champion.
His business career included literary activity throughout, it seems, and he made contributions to Atlantic Monthly and the Herald Tribune and worked for "Pocket Books" and American Publishers. At one point he bought all the books and magazines for American troops.
Perhaps more important than anything above, though, was his warm, enthusiastic personality and friendliness known to his college associates. Evidently these characteristics stayed with him all his life.
He married lovely Louise Piatt and had two daughters and one son. This marriage lasted 52 years.
Pete was a devoted communicant at the Cathedral of Incarnation, the Episcopal Church in Garden City.
Clifford D. Couch
1924
ROGER VICTOR STEPHENSON died January 23 at his home in West Hartford, Conn., where he had been a resident for 40 years.
He graduated from Choate School before coming to Dartmouth and was with us in Hanover for one year.
He retired in 1968, at which time he was executive vice-president of W. C. Mason & Company, retail and wholesale dealers in fuels. He was active in many medical, educational, and civic organizations in the Hartford area and was head usher and vestryman at St. John's Episcopal Church in West Hartford for many years.
He is survived by his wife Mary, a son Roger '60, a daughter, Mrs. William B. Martin, and four grandchildren.
1925
JOHN G. TAGNEY of 14 Berry wood Lane, Beverly, Mass., died February 1 after a brief illness. He was born in 1904 in Lynn, son of John H. and Sarah Greenleaf Tagney. He came to Dartmouth from Lynn Classical High School. Active in recent years in real estate, Tagney retired in 1965 after a long, distinguished record as an executive with International Business Machines Corporation, which he served as a branch manager in the Boston and Salem offices. A member of Dane Street Congregational Church and active in numerous community and civic affairs, Tagney was a prominent Masonic leader on the North Shore, being a member and past master of Budleigh Lodge in Beverly, (A.F. & A.M.) member and past High Priest of the Washington Royal Arch Chapter in Salem, past District Deputy Grand High Priest for the second Capitular District and past District Deputy Grand Master for the Salem Eighth Masonic District. Tagney is survived by his wife Jane K.; a son, Ronald '62, of West Newbury; a daughter, Rosemary, of Manchester, Conn.; and another son, John, of Saugus, from a previous marriage; as well as by eight grandchildren.
1926
HAROLD STRONG LEWIS died February 14 in Cape Coral, Fla. He was bom in Chicago, Ill., in 1902 and graduated from Oak Park (Ill.) High School. At Dartmouth, Hal was an excellent student and became Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity and for three years was in the Radio Club, of which he was president his senior year. His keen interest in radio in its infancy in the twenties - continued through his life, and he received his amateur extra class radio license in 1962 and was a member of the Cape Coral Radio Club and the DX Century Club.
After graduation Hal joined the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, from which he retired in 1964, after 39 years with the company. He was a life member of the Thomas Vail chapter of Telephone Pioneers in Chicago and, more recently, a member of the Cape Coral Telephone Pioneers. Hal-took early retirement, and he and his wife Cathryn built a home on the water in Cape Coral. There they enjoyed boating, fishing, gardening, and housework - anything but "rocking chair retirement," as Hal put it.
Cathryn L. Cullen, whom Hal married in Chicago in 1927, survives him, as well as two daughters, Mrs. Robert Valentine of Sacramento, Cal., and Mrs. William Mihm of Miami, Fla., and four grandchildren.
ROBERT CLIFFORD RIOTTE died January 20 in Naples, Fla., after a long emphysema illness. He was born in 1906 in Union City, N.J., and graduated from East Orange (N.J.) High School. At Dartmouth Bob was a member of the Mandolin Club, Glee Club, The Arts, was accompanist for the Glee Club, and manager of the tennis team. His fraternity was Beta Theta Pi, and he -was one of the busiest and best-known classmates on campus.
Bob's great talent at the piano - so much enjoyed by all in Hanover during his years in college - led to a career in music. He graduated from the Julliard School of Music and from the Institute of Musical Arts, and made his professional debut in 1934 at Town Hall in New York City. He was best known as a member of the touring concert team of Riotte and Schlaaff. He taught music in the Montclair area where he lived for many years, and was accompanist for the Montclair Glee Club. He retired in 1974, moving to Naples.
Bob was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Field Service, 1943-44, and in 1945 he married Francena C. Walwyn, who was active in real estate in the Montclair region. She and Bob vacationed every July at Martha's Vineyard, Mass. We were sorry to learn just recently that she died in Naples last June.
Bob is survived by his sons Jeff and Wyndham; his daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Leidal; two sisters; and five grandchildren.
1927
MARK A. COPELAND died January 28 in Chicago He had been an accountant most of his life and hr retired in 1972.
Son of one of Cleveland's leading attorneys, Mark attended Shaker Heights High, where he participated in football and dramatics, was circulation manager of the annual, and manager of the baseball team. After graduation from Dartmouth, Mark studied accounting at Dyke's School in Cleveland. He then secured a position in Chicago. His military service included 29 months in CDD.
Mark never married. He is survived by a brother Thomas W. Copeland, of Amherst, Mass., and a sister, Margaret Blanche Copeland, of New York City.
1928
A retired executive of Olin Industries, Inc., in St. Louis, Mo., CLINTON LEVERING WHITTEMORE JR., died of a heart attack November 30, 1976, in that city Clint left Dartmouth after his first year to transfer;; the University of Virginia. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
He retired 15 years ago as director of trade relation; for Olin. Earlier he had succeeded his father as president of the Levering Investment Company of St. Louis.
Clint served as chairman of the lay board of trustees of St. Louis University. Several years ago the Whittemores donated two houses to Washington University, including the chancellor's residence. He served as a director of the St. Louis Trust Co.
His first wife, Anne West, died in 1971. His second Elizabeth K. Carrott, survives him, as do three children, Allen, Barbara, and Clinton III, his sister Elise and five grandchildren.
1929
THERON O. (CY) WORTH died February 22 in Bridgehampton L.I., N.Y., which was his birthplace Cy had lived in Houston, Tex., for the past 40 years but because of his lengthy bout with diabetes, his wife Ellie recently moved him to their home in Bridgehampton, the area he loved so much.
He entered Dartmouth from Blair Academy, and though he spent only two years with us, he was a most popular and highly respected member of the Class. A man of great stature, he was a superb athlete, excelling in baseball, tennis, and soccer. He remained loyal to Dartmouth and to his many Dartmouth friends. He led a very active and successful business life, first with the Plymouth Cordage Company of Massachusetts and later with Frank M. Winne and Son, Inc.. of Philadelphia. Cy often combined business and pleasure. Fortunately, he and his wife traveled the high seas often until he was stricken with this dreadful disease a few years ago. His famous saying was, "You can't beat a lot of fun." It typified his good life.
The sympathy of the Class is extended to his widow Ellie and to his children, daughters Winnie Hatch and Courtia Worth, son Toby Worth, and his seven grandchildren.
Robert B. Sparks
1932
PAUL HAEFNER FOX died in St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla., on January 22, following several months' illness.
Paul attended Trinity School in New York City until his family moved to Scarsdale, where he graduated from the local high school. At Dartmouth Paul was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and was student director of The Players. He attended Tuck School his senior year and then went to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1935.
Paul had a distinguished law career, specializing in estates and trusts. He joined the New York firm of Cotton, n Franklin, Wright & Gordon after law school and was manager of their Washington office from 1939 an! 941. he became a partner in 1952; and he retired in ■974 at which time the firm's name was Cahill, Gordon & Reindel. During World War II Paul served in the Savy as assistant counsel for the Bureau of Personnel with the rank of lieutenant. Also, for a number of years he was a member of the committee on estate and gift taxation of the New York Bar Association.
The Class has lost one of its most active and loyal members. Paul helped with the Alumni Fund for many years and did bequest legal work for Dartmouth. He was our 40th reunion chairman. His ability to organize, plus his unflappable nature and gentle good humor made the 40th a most successful and memorable one.
We extend heartfelt sympathy to his wife June (who is well known to those of us who have attended reunions and football weekends) and to their son, Paul Jeffrey.
RICHARD G. PIKE of Nashua, N.H., died January 9 after a short illness. Dick was president and treasurer of the Pennichuck Water Works in Nashua at the time of his death. He had gone to Tuck School in 1933 and begun his career with the former Second National Bank of Nashua. He joined the Pennichuck Water Works as its treasurer in 1953. Twenty years later, he was named the president and was active until his death with this company, which supplies the water for Nashua.
Dick was a member and past worshipful master of the Rising Sun Lodge No. 32, All Scottish Rite Bodies in the valley of Nashua, and a 32nd degree Mason. He was a past president of the Young Men's Business Club, a member of Nashua Rotary Club and treasurer of the Hammond Organ Society in this city.
Dick is survived by his widow Virginia (Collins), two sons, Kenneth G. and Robert E., both of Nashua, a granddaughter, and a sister, Mrs. Daniel Brocklebank. The Class extends its sympathy to his widow and family.
1933
DONALD ALAN MURRAY, 64, of 2524 Hawthorn Drive, Beloit, Wise., died February 11 in Beloit.
Born in Hanover, N.H., he prepared for Dartmouth at Hanover High School and Tilton School, Tilton, N.H. At Dartmouth Don was a member of the varsity swimming squad, Dragon Society, and Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. He was a Senior Fellow, and graduated Phi Betta Kappa. He also received a master's degree from Harvard in 1934 and a doctorate from Stanford in 1951.
Don was a member of the Beloit College faculty from 1936 until 1975, with the exception of four years (1942-1946) when he served in the US A AC. He was for 15 years chairman of Beloit's department of modern languages and literature. He also held prominent committee positions there in addition to his teaching, and he served as director of the Porter Scholars Program.
He leaves his wife Arlene (Taylor); a daughter, Andrea, and a son, Cameron.
1935
ROBERT J, MACLAREN died December 31, 1976, in Towanda, Pa., after a five-year battle with cancer. Bob came to Dartmouth from Towanda High School but was with us only during the freshman year, after which he transferred to Hamilton College. There he won a varsity football letter and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. After completing college, Bob graduated from Temple University Dental School in 1938. Following a two-year residency at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, he joined his father in the practice of dentistry in Towanda. This was interrupted by five years of army service in World War II during which he performed oral surgery in both the European and Pacific theaters. He then returned home to follow a distinguished career in dentistry and community service until his retirement in 1974. Bob is survived by his wife Alice, whom he married in 1946, and by two children, Robert James Jr. and Laurie Elizabeth.
ROBERT E. ROUNDEY died suddenly at his home in Winchester, Mass., on January 21. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, he was a prominent participant in athletics - freshman and varsity baseball, tennis and squash. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx. His major was economics. After college, Bob worked for American Chain and Cable until he joined the U.S. Navy in 1942, where he served until 1946. He later formed his own construction equipment company and more recently was associated with Clark-Wilcox Company in Boston. Bob's avid interest in athletics continued throughout his life. He was an excellent golfer and an accomplished curler as a member of the Winchester Country Club.
Bob married Jean Flanders in 1942. Our sympathy goes out to her and the children, Peter and Carolyn.
1938
DAVID ROBINSON, 59, prominent obstetrician and gynecologist of West Hartford, Conn., died January 22 at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
David entered Dartmouth from Weaver High School in the Hartford area where he was born and spent most of his life. He graduated from the College magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and in 1942 was selected for an Osier Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, where he took his medical degree.
He did residencies at Boston Lying-in Hospital and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center-Sloan Hospital for Women in NYC and served in the Army Medical Corps during WW II. In 1950, he set up a private practice in Hartford, which expanded to become Hartford Associates in OB-GYN, P.C., with offices in Hartford, East Hartford, and Windsor Locks.
David served Mt. Sinai Hospital as attending physician, as vice-president and president of the medical staff, and as chief of obstretrics and gynecology, and he was the first physician elected to the hospital corporation's board of directors. He served many other medical organizations in the area, among them Hartford Hospital, the University of Connecticut Health Center, and Planned Parenthood of Connecticut. His medical memberships were many and included the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Surgeons. He was a director of the Connecticut State Medical Society.
David belonged to Temple Beth Israel in West Hartford and once chaired the doctors' division of the Hartford Jewish Federation.
He is survived by his wife, Irene Edelson Robinson, and by his daughter, Mrs. David Sandberg.
1941
IRVING G. JACKSON, 57, a retired Sears executive, died in January at his home in Winnetka, Ill. Since retirement in 1974 he and Betty had been dividing their time between Winnetka and Florida.
Irv came to Dartmouth from the Chicago suburb. On campus he was active in Phi Psi, the DOC, golf and skiing. He served in the Navy in World War II as a bomb disposal officer in the European Theatre, then on the cruiser Cleveland in the Pacific.
Joining the Sears training program in Chicago in 1946, he concentrated on purchasing activities at corporate headquarters and was an inventory control manager there at retirement. Most of his career was in the Chicago headquarters. In Winnetka he was an ardent golfer and had been active in a variety of civic and community activities as well as with the Church of the Holy Comforter.
He is survived by his widow Betty, at 554 Orchard St., Winnetka, a son and a daughter.
1942
GEORGE BRICKELMAIER died February 25, 1977, at his new home in North Chatham, Mass., following exploratory surgery at the Lahey Clinic in Boston during January.
He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1920 and came to Dartmouth from Spring Valley (N.J.) High School. He was on the editorial staff of The Dartmouth and one of the founding members of radio station WDBS, forerunner of WDCR.
George served with the O.S.S. in the China theater during World War II and with the Central Intelligence Agency for several years after. In 1950 he left government to engage in real estate development in Fairfax County, Va. He returned to government in 1958, first with the Redevelopment Land Agency, then the Urban Renewal Administration, and finally as program officer with the Department of Housing and Urban Development when it was established in 1965.
He retired from government service in 1972 and moved from Alexandria, Va., to La Jolla, Calif., when he became general manager of the California office of American Medical Buildings, Inc. In the spring of 1976 he moved to Cape Cod where he and his wife built a home, the first on the Cape to incorporate solar energy a newsworthy event duly reported by Boston TV.
A memorial service was held for George on March 12 in the Mount Vernon Unitarian Church of which he had been a founding member.
George will be remembered fondly by his classmates for his love of music, particularly jazz, his gentle humor and his stoical acceptance of life's ironies. He was the finest of family men and a warm friend.
He is survived by his widow, .the former June Bradford, his mother, a son and a daughter.
William J. Mitchel Jr. '42
LLOYD J. "CHICK" EMSLIE died January 23, 1977 after a prolonged illness. He had been a resident of Garden City, N.Y., for 18 years. Born in New York City on December 16, 1919, Chick was methods and procedures chief, Court Administration, City of New York. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Elinor Kingsbury Emslie, two daughters and two sons, including Mr. Robert Sim Emslie '75 of Lebanon, N.H.
Chick entered Dartmouth from Pelham High School, Pelham, N.Y. During his undergraduate years he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and Casque and Gauntlet. Following his graduation he served four years as a lieutenant aboard the U.S.S. Wilson during World War II in the Pacific. After his naval service he was with the U.S. Rubber Co., International Latex Corp., Union Carbide Corp., and Borden, Inc.
Chick was active in Dartmouth alumni activities on Long Island and his friends will long remember his warm, friendly, and generous approach to people and life in general.
WILLIAM TUCKER HOLMES, Verona, N.J., died of emphysema on July 8, 1976 after an illness of one and one half years. He is survived by his widow, Karen Bausum Holmes, and four sons.
Bill had owned and operated the United Rental Co. in Verona for the past seven years. Before that he had been president of the Holmes Oil Co. in Orange, N.J. He had resided in Verona for the past 21 years and was a member of the First Presbyterian Church where he was a deacon. He was past president of the Kiwanis Club of the Oranges and past chairman of the Republican County Committee of Verona. A veteran of World War 11, he was a Technical Sgt. in the Army and served in New Guinea and the Philippines.
Bill's father Max was a member of the Class of '10, his uncle, Robert W. Holmes, a member of the Class of '09, and two cousins, Stephen Holmes '44, and Robert Whelden '42, are also alumni of the college.
1944
SHIH-YUEH WANG died in Hong Kong December 31, 1976, of a heart attack. He had been in poor health for the past year.
A lawyer, Shih served as a legal consultant for most of his 23 years in Hong Kong. He was a judge in a Taipei District Court 1946-48 and served as counsel to the Chinese Petroleum Corporation in 1948. He was counsel to the Shanghai Commercial Bank in Hong Kong from 1966 until the time of his death.
He was also a director of Overseas Land Investment Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Business Consultants, Ltd., and Overseas General Investment Co., Ltd.
Shih received a law degree from Soochow University Law School in 1941 and then came to the United States to attend the Detroit College of Law. After two years at Detroit, he transferred to Dartmouth, where he became a member of the Class of 1944 and completed his junior and senior years.
He is survived by his wife Carol, two daughters, his mother, a sister and two brothers.
1945
ROBERT O. BEATTY died last December at a Boise, Idaho, hospital after a long illness. He was president of R. O. Beatty & Associates, Inc., a publishing company. He wrote Idaho - A Pictorial Overview, and had just published a similar book on Nevada, which he wrote with his son David.
Following a year at Dartmouth, he received a degree in forestry, communications and wildlife management from the University of Michigan in 1946 and went to work that year for the Izaak Walton League of America, Inc., a volunteer group of conservationists. He later worked as a public relations officer and administrative assistant for major forest products companies, including Boise Cascade Corp., where he was director of communications from 1965-1971.
He went to Washington, D.C., and served as assistant secretary of HEW for public affairs from 1971-1973 under HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson. Bob was a member of the Wildlife Management Institute, American Fishery Society, Wildlife Society, Wilderness Society, National Audubon Society, and the Sierra Club, among others.
He was founder of Boise's Fundsy Charity Auction, director of the Boise Chamber of Commerce from 1965-1968, a trustee of the Ore-Ida Boy Scout Council and the Boise YMCA, 1973 state chairman of the Boys Club of America and director of the Boise Gallery of Art.
He is survived by his widow Louise, two daughterson, and two grandchildren. His classmates extend their loving sympathy to his family.
DAVID D. HEWITT died last December of a heart attack while driving his car on Route 5 in Norwich Vt. He was born in Bristol, N.H., but resided in Hanover most of his life and at the time of his death was pre; dent and treasurer of Cory-Hewitt Press, Inc., in Lebanon.
Following graduation from Dartmouth, he joined the Hanover Gazette which had been purchased in 1931 by Cory-Hewitt Press, where his father served as editor and publisher until his death in 1959. At that time David became editor and publisher until the paper, which merged in the mid-1960's with the Granite State Free Press to become the Granite State Gazette, was sold in 1973. He was a veteran of World War II, a member of the Hanover Rotary Club, president of the trustees of the Upper Valley Training Center, member of the Historical Society of Norwich air Hanover, and was active in town affairs.
He leaves his widow Elizabeth, three daughters, and two sons. His classmates extend their deepest sympathy to the members of his family.
1950
He called himself an educator and a researcher: his subjects were the land and the seas. That was his life before WILLIAM W. WILES passed away in September 1975.
Will was born and reared in Glen Ridge, N.J. He spent a year in the Army at a time that delayed his entry into Dartmouth until the winter of 1947. For the last years of his life he simply moved over the ridge to Verona.
After graduation Will entered Columbia with a Kramer fellowship to pursue his interests in geology. He earned his Ph.D. in 1960. In the process he lectured at both Columbia and Hunter College and was a scientist on Vema Cruise 10 in 1956. Will joined the faculty at Rutgers in 1960 and became professor of geology and oceanography several years later.
With his interest in science Will became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Sorrento (Maine) Society, and the American Society of University Professors. In his community he was active with the Eagle Rock Council of the Boy Scouts, served on the Verona Bicentennial Committee, and was a founder of the Horse Neck Militia in Verona.
Will married the former Mary Waterman, a graduate of Vasaar, in 1954. He is survived by Mar and by their son.
1952
JAMES IRWIN CHAPIN JR. died suddenly of a heart attack on January 15, 1977 while participating in a: antique show in Miami, Fla.
Jim joined the Class from Glencoe, Ill., where he had graduated from New Trier High School. In high school he was active in student council, was a member of the National Honor Soceity and was a four-sport letterman. He was a letter member of the football team for four years. At Dartmouth Jim majored in sociology and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
Following graduation Jim returned to the Chicago area and joined the family automobile agency business. He remained in this business until 1962 when he sold his Volkswagen agency and moved to southern Florida. He was active in private business interests in Florida and was a retired member of the Fort Lauderdale Board of Realtors.
Jim married Jean Mickle, also from the Chicago area. He is survived by Jean and two children.
D.D. Hewitt '45
