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.)

English, Frank '05, January 29 Harris, Julian C. '07, December 7, 1977 Wilson, Clyde M. '11, March 6 Warren, John A. '14, February 9 Richardson, Garald K. '15, February 10 Cooley, Richard L. '18, February 1 Egan, Howard P. '18, January 24 Hood, Harvey P. '18, March 3 Shelburne, John A. '19, January 29 Loomis, Ralph S. '21, March 6 Vance, Joseph A., Jr. '21, January 28 Vogel, Frederick W. '22, January 29 Gauss, E. Wood '23, February 10 Diehl, Frederick E. '24, February 12 Abbott, William V. II '25, February 7 Cameron, Harry M. '25, January 1977 Ketz, Michael F. '27, February 8 Keith, Rockwood '28, February 20 Aby, Stanton '28, February 1 Kimball, William P. '28, March 17 Seidl, Stuart F. '30, December 19 Wolfe, Gilbert L. '31, December 28 Fitzsimons, Francis R. '32, December 8 Mackey, Harold F. '33, March 12 Meek, John F. '33, March 2 Bryant, John H. '35, October 5 Ireland, Robert D. '36, June 18 Barney, Roger W. '37, March 2 Conant, James B. '38hon, February 11 Levinsohn, Murray '38, September 21, 1975 Cutter, George O. '40, February 24 Warsavage, Joseph G. '50, November 9, 1977 Davis, Paul R. '74, February 10

Faculty

WILLIAM PHELPS KIMBALL '28, retired dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, died on March 17 at his home in Hanover after a long illness.

Kimball was born in Davenport, lowa, in 1905. After Dartmouth, he took a degree in civil engineering from the Thayer School and then did further graduate work at MIT. He returned to Thayer in 1933 as an instructor in civil engineering, was promoted to assistant professor in 1935, to professor in 1939, and to assistant dean in 1941. He served as dean from 1945 until 1962. Under his administration, programs in both electrical and mechanical engineering were added to the curriculum, and the Thayer School of Civil Engineering became the Thayer School of Engineering.

Kimball resigned the deanship in 1962 to concentrate on the teaching of the then new concept of environmental engineering. In 1966, while continuing his affiliation with Dartmouth as an adjunct professor, he accepted appointment with the American Society of Civil Engineering as assistant secretary and later director for education. He served also as head of the Engineering Education and Accreditation Committee of the Engineering Council for Professional Development (ECPD), which established new criteria for accreditation of American engineering schools, among them the integration of basic sciences into engineering programs.

That same year, Kimball also became consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) and traveled through central Asia assessing the condition of engineering programs. He served also as a member of the U.S. delegation to a conference on the engineering needs of West Africa. In addition, he was for many years a member of and later head of the advisory board of Alaska's Engineering Experimental Laboratory.

In 1970, Kimball, retired as professor emeritus of civil engineering. He had published in professional journals many papers m his field, and in 1971 his book, The First Hundred Years of the Thayer School ofEngineering at Dartmouth College, was published. He was a fellow and life member of both the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education and was also a trustee of the American Public Works Administration. He also served on the N.H. State Planning Board's Advisory Commission on Pollution of Public Waters.

As a measure of the wide impact he had during his career, ECPD, which represents all engineering societies, awarded him last year its Grinter Medal for distinguished service to the profession. In all his work in the education of engineers, Kimball, a deeply cultured man, stressed not only basic science, but also liberal arts. One engineering colleague wrote of "the honor that accrues to the profession in having among its ranks such a distinguished humanist as William Kimball."

Kimball was married in 1938 to the former Margaret Sheppard, who survives him. He leaves also a son, a daughter, a brother, and three grandchildren. A second son died in 1966.

1910

OSBORNE H. SHENSTONE, 90, died on January 28 at St. Mary's Hospital in Palm Beach, Fla.

Born in Ontario, Canada, in 1887, Ossie attended M.I.T. after graduation from Dartmouth. He began his career as a surveyor and manager for Vancouver Sewer Construction in 1911. He served in the Canadian Army in France during the First World War and afterwards took a position with Massey-Harris Company as superintendent of its Torontb works. He later became manager of the Racine tractor plant. In 1936 he went to work for Borg-Warner Corporation as general manager of the Norge Machine Products plant in Muskegon. When he retired from Borg-Warner in 1948, he was managing three of its plants.

After retirement, Ossie and his wife Gladys (neé Carman) moved to Lake Worth, Fla., where he did consulting work and whence the two of them traveled widely throughout the United States and Canada.

Ossie kept in touch with the College, though he was never able to make one of his class reunions. In a 1950 newsletter, Ossie described his life and explained his difficulty in keeping in touch with his classmates: "This age business seems to keep right on going on. Nevertheless, a fellow can have a lot of fun after 60 if his health is good. I resigned in 1948 and started as a consulting engineer on my own. It was kind of tough at first but now I have all the work I want with enough time left to do the other things, including a good deal of traveling and a nice, long stay in Florida each year. My wife and I have really enjoyed the last year and a half. I counted up the other day and found that my present car had been in 37 of the 48 states and 3 provinces of Canada, and I have owned it only 17 months.

"During my life I seem to have lived in places where there were few Dartmouth men, and I am consequently very much out of touch except for what I read in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. I know John Sheldon here, but he graduated much later than our class. I also ran across a man during the War."

Ossie lost his wife Gladys in 1976, after 62 years of marriage, and he is survived by their only son, Joseph Shenstone '38, and by a grandchild.

1911

CLYDE MERTON WILSON passed away on March 6 in the United Presbyterian Residence, Woodbury, Long Island, N.Y., from natural causes.

Mert joined our class from Orange High School, East Orange, N.J. In College he majored in history, was a member of Chi Phi fraternity, and was on the track team. For several years in the early seventies he served as class secretary.

He had been a clergyman since 1917. He earned a B.D. degree from Drew Theological Seminary in 1917 and an M.A, from Columbia University in 1927. His previous occupations were office manager of American Steel and Copper Plate Company (1911-1913), commercial correspondent for Colgate and Co. (1913-1914), student at Drew Theological Seminary (1914-1917), Foyer du-Soldat, France (1917-1919), Y.M.C.A. in New Brunswick, N.J. (1919-1920), pastor of N.E. Church in Amityville, N.Y. (1921-1925), and at All Saints Episcopal Church in Baldwin, N.Y., he was lay reader, deacon, priest-in-charge, and rector (1925-1962). He became rector emeritus in 1970.

Mert was associated with Si. Andrews Episcopal Church in Oceanside, N.Y. and Baldwin Historical Society in Baldwin, N.Y., the Baldwin Lodge, F.I.A.M. No. 1047, and Church Historical Society BAR.

He lost his first wife, Katherine Carr, in 1964, and in August 1971 he married his second wife, Alice M. Cellar.

He is survived by his wife Alice and five children, Merton Carr '41, Allan, Lucinda Joan, Christopher Prescott '52, and Nancy Katherine.

1913

RALPH EASTMAN BADGER, 87, died January 18 in Boca Raton, Fla.

He was born in Lowell, Mass., and entered Dartmouth from Lowell High School. He will be fondly remembered from undergraduate days as "Pheny" and as a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. After taking his A.B. degree, he earned in 1914 an M.B.A. degree. In 1921 Ralph was awarded a doctorate in Economics at Yale University, and he served for a time as an instructor at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. He was a professor of Economics at Brown University until 1929, when he resigned to become a security analyst and financial manager, serving as executive vice president of the Union Guardian Trust Company in Detroit, Mich., until 1943. In 1933 he became president of Investment Counsel, Inc. Later he founded Ralph Badger Associates, a New York-based economic advising firm, and served as its president. He was an economic adviser to Iran, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and he was an associate of Standard Research Consultants, Inc., a division of the Standard and Poors Corporation. He was the author of The Valuation ofIndustrial Securities (1925) and Investment Principlesand Practices (1928), which latter is still used as a textbook in many colleges and universities. He also published Problems in Investments (1930) and AComplete Guide to Investment Analysis (1968).

In 1923 Ralph married Agnes Geneve Harrigan, who died in 1946; in 1956 he married Ann L. Lang, who survives him, together with their only daughter.

Ann's description of Ralph is a moving tribute to his memory: "Despite Ralph's demanding professional career," she writes, "he managed to keep lecture engagements, write articles for current publications, enjoy various hobbies, participate in sports, travel, and maintain a happy home life. He was a wonderful raconteur, had a great sense of humor, quietly braved many sorrows, kept physically fit, always immaculate, and, as an avid reader, was always in tune with significant domestic and international events."

1915

GARALD K. RICHARDSON died on February 10 at his home in Winchester, Mass., after a short illness. Born in Littleton, N.H., he attended local schools. After graduation from Dartmouth he served as a lieutenant of infantry in World War I before going on to Harvard to get his law degree.

At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. His alumni activity was distinguished by a record of attendance at more varsity football games than any other living graduate. He was active in the Masonic Lodge and was a member of the American Bar Association and a senior partner in the Boston law firm of Richardson and Tyler.

Classmates who have attended one of the famous brunch parties held at his office before the Harvard-Dartmouth football game will never forget him.

1916

JEFFRIES WATKINS WOOLDRIDGE died September 8, 1977, in Sioux City, lowa. Watt (as he was known to us) was with us the year 1912-13. During World War I he served as a sergeant in the U.S. Infantry A.E.F. Returning to Sioux City, he established the J. Watt Wooldridge Insurance Agency in 1922, and in 1972 he received special recognition from the Hartford Insurance Company for his 50-year service.

He was a member of the First Congregational Church of Sioux City, a 50-year member of all the Masonic Orders, and membership in the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Veterans of World War I.

He leaves a son Elliot W. of Sioux City, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

1917

LUMAN BURR HOWE, our much loved and respected classmate, passed away on February 23 after a long siege of illness. "Duke" Howe was born in 1896, the second youngest of our surviving classmates. Duke graduated from Woodsville High School in New Hampshire. He had to work his way through college, taking out time often to earn money to continue. Ultimately he received an MCS degree from Tuck School in 1921. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Cosmos Club, a non-fraternity group.

From 1921 to 1948 Duke was associated with, banks in New York, Florida, and Massachusetts. In 1948 he became president of the Montpelier National Bank, which position, along with private consultation, he held until his death. Duke was also connected with many business and civic organizations. He was director of Vermont National Bank, trustee of Central Medical Hospital, vice president of O. M. Fisher Home, Inc., and trustee of the Vermont Association of Mental Health. These positions attest to Duke's interest in the welfare of his fellow beings. In alumni affairs Duke was secretary of his class from 1969 on and was also treasurer from 1976 on. He was chosen Secretary of the Year 1976-77. His interest in lodges is clear from his membership in the Elks and the Mt. Sinai #3 Shrine.

In 1924 Duke married Dorothy Hallett, a Vassar graduate who survives him, together with two daughters, a son, and grandchildren. The sympathy and affection of all the Class go out to this close-knit family. His wife deserves special thought for her loyal help in all Duke's activities.

The well-attended funeral service in Bethany Congregational church reflected the high esteem and affection in which Duke was held. The title of the order of service was, "A Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Luman B. Howe." All of us can give a hearty amen to that!

1918

HARVEY P. HOOD '18, longtime Dartmouth Trustee and businessman active in a host of commercial, civic, and charitable concerns, died March 3. He was 80 years old and lived in Manchester, Mass.

Hood spent his business career with H. P. Hood and Sons, a 133-year-old family dairy concern which he expanded to include frozen fruit juices and other foods. He served the Boston-based company in one capacity or another for 47 years and was chairing the board when he stepped down in 1969.

After graduation from Dartmouth, Hood served in the U.S. Navy as a naval aviator. Later he attended Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration.

Hood served Dartmouth long and well. He was a member of its Board of Trustees for 25 years. He chaired the 1941-42 Dartmouth Alumni Fund campaign, was president of the Boston Alumni Association, and was first chair of the board of overseers of the Tuck School. When Hood retired from the Board of Trustees in 1967, President Dickey spoke at length of his great service to the College. Dickey maintained that the College would not have been the same without him and that in effect he chaired the Board of Trustees, though he never accepted the title. Dickey spoke also of Hood's important work as head of the Trustees' planning committee which for 15 years prior to the College's bicentennial undertook strategic planning for the institution as it entered its third century. In 1966 he headed Dartmouth's Bicentennial Celebration committee. "Mr. Hood was one of the great figures of Dartmouth in modern times," said Dickey. Dartmouth awarded Hood an honorary LL.D. in 1969.

The citation which accompanied that honorary degree read in part as follows: "Even in an alumni fellowship that is proverbial for its fidelity, there have been few persons over these two centuries whose service and generosity would warrant the judgment, now permanently recorded of you in the minutes of the Dartmouth Trustees, that 'the College would not have been the same without him.'... Come 2069, may the love of Dartmouth be no less a factor in the well-being of this College than this Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa, testifies it is today."

Over the years, Hood served as an officer of many concerns, including the United Shoe Machine Company, New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, International Paper Company, Boston Museum of Science, Children's Hospital, Cardigan Mountain School, Boston Lying-in-Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Milk Industrial Foundation. He was president of the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers and chair of the Dairy Industry Committee. In 1958 he served on the Boston Community Chest, and he had been a member of the corporation of Northeastern University and of the board of overseers of the Boys' Clubs of Boston. In addition, he had been a member of the visiting committee of the department of' food technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hood is survived by his wife of 50 years, the former Barbara Ellen Churchill, and by their four children, Charles H. Hood II '51, Helen Smiley, Barbara Carpenter, and Olivia Parker.

1919

JOHN ANDREW SHELBURNE died on January 29. He was devoted to the College and there was no one more respected in the Class. He will be missed.

During college years, John was a star in football and track. During World War I he served overseas with the 325th Battalion. After the war, he returned to College and received his degree. Then he played some professional football and also taught in several schools in Indiana.

In the early 30's he returned to Boston and became affiliated with the Robert Gould Shaw House, a settlement house. He remained in social work for the rest of his life.

He was often honored. In 1964 New England College conferred an honorary degree on John. Their citation says it best: "Yours has been a life characterized by excellence; an excellent mind in a hugely excellent body; an excellent heart welling with warmth for the thousands of young people who have often had great need of a friend. These excellent tools you have used with a humility that is always the hallmark of greatness, and with a positive approach no matter how severe the going.... You always strove for excellence."

John is survived by a son, a daughter, a brother, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

1921

RALPH S. LOOMIS, 80, of 338 Lincoln Ave., Amherst, Mass., died at Soldier's Home in Holyoke, March 6, after a long illness.

Born in Greenfield, he was graduated from Green-field High School in 1915. After graduation from Dartmouth, he continued in the employ of his father, a contractor and builder from whom he had learned the carpentry trade. As a journeyman carpenter he followed that trade in various New England areas. In later years he became a newspaper reporter and special correspondent for Springfield, Boston, and other papers, covering such news as the so-called Wendell voting-rights court cases, a number of murder trials, he Crocker National Bank robbery at Turners Falls and its solution, and the long investigation of one of New England's most celebrated crimes, the still unsolved slaying of Headmaster Elliot Speer at Mount Hermon School in 1934.

Ralph played high school and college baseball and other sports and while living in Greenfield was long active in tennis, playing on Greenfield tennis teams and in many tennis tournaments in Massachusetts and elsewhere.

At Dartmouth he was active in writing circles and was a co-founder of what became the Dartmouth chapter of Delta Upsilon fraternity. As a junior and senior he was awarded the Lockwood and Grimes writing prizes and was a co-founder of the short-lived Dartmouth Literary Magazine. During World War I, he was at the Field Artillery Replacement Depot at Camp Jackson, S.C.

Besides his widow, the former Louise V. Dyer, Ralph leaves a daughter, a son, four grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.

JOSEPH ANDERSON VANCE JR., a lawyer well-known in the Middle West, died January 28. His home was at 56 South Deeplands Road, Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.

Born in Baltimore in 1898, he prepared for college at Detroit Central High School. At Dartmouth he joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, was elected to Casque and Gauntlet senior society, managed the freshman baseball team, and won his letter in basketball. At Harvard he was awarded his LL.B. in 1924. In 1931 he married Jeanne Gilchrist, who died in 1943, and his second marriage was in 1954 with Ruth Harper, who survives him, as do two daughters by his first marriage.

Joe's legal and business activities covered a wide area. For 50 years he was associated with Beaumont, Smith & Harris and from 1961-69 was a senior partner with offices in the Ford Building, Detroit. He was treasurer and director of the Gilchrist Timber Company from 1936; president and director of Detroit and Windsor Ferry Company and Boblo Steamers, 1936- 41; (director of Massey Ferguson Inc. and Perkins Engines Inc., 1962-68; special legal counsel in the Surgeon General's Office in Washington, 1942-43; corporation counsel of the Village of Grosse Pointe Shores 1948-64; trustee of Harper Hospital in Detroit (now United Hospitals of Detroit) from 1944; and a member of the board of directors of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Detroit, 1960-74.

Among the clubs of which Joe was a member were Detroit Country, Hundred, Dartmouth and Harvard of Michigan in Detroit, and Grosse Pointe, of which he once chaired the board.

He served Dartmouth well as class agent for the Dartmouth Alumni Fund.

1922

JOSEPH KILLIP ROSS, prominent Albany, N.Y., businessman, died there July 17, 1977.

Albany was Joe's native city; he was born there in 1900, and he prepared for college at the local high school. He entered Union College for his freshman year and joined Dartmouth 1922 as a sophomore in 1919. He majored in economics, and he was a member of Kappa Sigma. His friendliness brought him the high esteem of all classmates.

His business career centered in Albany. After graduating, he joined the Killip Laundering Company, of which he became president in 1937, later chairing the board. During World War II he was in the Chemical Warfare Branch of the U.S. Army. After returning to civilian life he established the Broadvia Corporation, a real estate holding company. He was president and chairman of that firm for many years.

He was past master of the Albany Masters' Lodge F. and A.M. He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of Eastern New York and the University Club of Albany. His brother, Harold K. Ross, was in the Dartmouth Class of 1918.

Joe, who never married, was a loyal member of the Dartmouth family throughout his life. His devotion to the College was evidenced by the many years he was an active worker on the Alumni Fund and by the continuous support he gave his Alma Mater.

1923

ERWIN WOOD GAUSS died of cancer at the Rex Hospital, Raleigh, N.C., on February 10. He had been ill for only five: weeks.

A native of Newark, N.J., Wood was a graduate of its South Side High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Kappa Sigma, sang with the Glee Club for three years, and was publicity manager of the Players, the Musical Clubs, and the Lambs.

Wood spent his entire business career in the field of advertising, promotion, and publicity, first with Western Electric, then as promotion manager for CBS, next with McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, and then as assistant director of Magazine Advertising Bureau. In 1957 he became an independent advertising consultant.

A Manhattanite for most of the years following graduation, Wood was a longtime member of the University Glee Club of New York, of which he was past president. He was also a member of the Association of Ex-members of Squadron A of New York, the Golden K Club, and St. Michael's Church in Raleigh, N.C.

In 1930 Wood married the former Elizabeth Thompson, who survives him, together with a daughter, Caroline Gauss Tait, a son, Everett Thompson Gauss, and six grandchildren.

1924

FREDERICK EDWARD DIEHL died on January 12 from a malignant brain tumor after a relatively short illness.

Although he was a member of the Illinois Bar, he had not practiced law for several years but was associated with Standard Kollsman Inc. as an industrial engineer. He had been retired for several years. He was a member of Sigma Nu and Phi Delta Phi.

His son was a member of the Class of 1963 and his brother Carl of the Class of 1926.

He is survived by his wife Mary, three sons — Frederick E. II, William L. '63, and Stephen B. — and five grandchildren.

1927

MICHAEL F. KETZ, retired financial vice president of W. T. Grant Company, died February 8 at the age of 74 at his home, 9 Hillcrest Road, Port Washington, New York, where he had lived for 30 years.

Mike entered Dartmouth from the Newport High School in Glen Lyon, Pa. He attended Tuck School, was a member of the freshman track team, the varsity track and baseball teams and the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. After graduation in 1927 he worked for a short while with General Electric Company and then left to join W. T. Grant, where he worked until his retirement in 1967. In addition to being vice president of that company, Mike was a longtime director, president of the firm's credit corporation, and a trustee of its charitable trust. During these years, he was a faithful member of the Class and served for many years as an effective class agent for the New York area. He belonged to the Port Washington Yacht Club and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.

In 1937 he married Barbara Barber, who survives him, as do a sister, two brothers, a daughter, and a son Gerard '64.

1928

STANTON ABY died February 1 in Minneapolis after 47 years in the investment business in that city.

After a year at Dartmouth, he transferred to the University of Minnesota, where he received his degree. He always retained his interest in Dartmouth. Stan served three years as a captain in the Army. After 47 years with the same firm, Dain, Kalman and Quail, Stan became associated in January of this year with Dougherty, Dawkins, Stand and Ekstrom.

He is survived by his widow, Janet, son Robert Aby, daughters Katherine Nielsen, Elizabeth Aby, and Jane Aby, and two grandchildren.

ROCKWOOD KEITH died February 20 of a heart attack at his home at 8 Moorings Road, Marion, Mass, He died peacefully, sitting in a chair, reading a magazine, with his wife Ruth near.

Rocky was an attending surgeon at White Plains Hospital and at Grasslands Hospital in Valhalla, arid he also had a private practice in Scarsdale, N.Y., until his retirement in 1972.

Rocky prepared for college at Worcester (Mass.) North High School. At Dartmouth he captained the freshman track team and the varsity track team in his senior year. He was vice president of his class his junior year, a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Casque and Gauntlet, and Green Key.

He graduated from Dartmouth, attended the Dartmouth Medical School, and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine. He took also a D. Sc. from Columbia University Graduate School of Medicine.

In 1942 Rocky served overseas with the Presbyterian Hospital (N.Y. Unit) in Germany and France as chief surgeon of the Fifth Auxiliary Surgical Team, with the rank of major. He received five battle stars. In 1946 he returned to private practice in Westchester County.

He is survived by his widow Ruth, two sons, Richard '61 and Rockwood Jr., and two daughters, Darilyn Smith and Elizabeth Keith.

EDWARD S. WRIGHT, who operated the Wright Grocery Store in Newcastle, Me., for 32 years, died December 26 of a sudden heart attack at his home.

After college he was a high school teacher and principal in Maine until he started his store in Greencastle. Ed was chairman of the local Dartmouth interviewing committee for a number of years and was a loyal and concerned alumnus.

Surviving are his widow Marion, a son Thomas, a sister Margaret Owen, and five grandchildren.

1929

WILLIAM FEWEL COLES died suddenly in Caracas on January 7 after suffering a coronary occlusion. He prepared for Dartmouth at El Paso High School. As an undergraduate he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Sphinx, Green Key, manager of football, and a member of the athletic council. Graduating from Harvard Law School in 1932, he practiced in Boston with the firm of Bartlett, Jennings & Smith until October 1940, when he arrived in Venezuela, associated with Carl Spaeth '29, Nelson Rockefeller '30, and Bob Bottome '30. Shortly afterwards, he became head of the Hotel Avila, the first international hotel in Caracas.

In 1947 he formed a partnership with Raul Valera, a native of Venezuela and later governor of Caracas, in the practice of law. He took part in several business activities and was a director and officer of several corporations. Bill continued to be active in directing the most important one of them, Mavesa, a manufacturer of vegetable oil products, until his death. He was vice president of The Daily Journal, an English language daily published in Caracas.

He was a leader in developing the North American Association, and he was also president of the Centro Venezolano-Americano, an organization dedicated to improving understanding between the two cultures. In 1970 the Venezuelan government decorated Bill with the Order of Francisco de Miranda. In 1975 he was awarded the Order of Labor Merit, First Class.

During his thirty-seven years in Venezuela he found time to take part in many amateur theatrical productions, to become an accomplished classical guitarist, a chess player, and a master tournament bridge player.

In 1936 Bill married Eleanor Ward of Swampscott, Mass., who survives him. In recent years they spent several months a year at their second home in Sunapee, N.H. Three sons also survive and. four grandchildren.

1931

GILBERT LEHR WOLFE, 68, died December 28, 1977. in Ellis Hospital, Schenectady, N.Y.

Gib came to Dartmouth from Rome (N.Y.) High School. As an undergraduate he joined Kappa Sigma fraternity, and he majored in economics.

He was a manufacturer's representative in the field of nonferrous metals, being associated with Revere Copper and Brass Company for many years. Later he set up his own metal sales company.

Gib was a yachtsman and, for a while, skippered the White Lie on runs to Bermuda with a crew of seven. He combined his hobby with business and became a builder of welded aluminum boats. At the time of his death, he was a real estate broker with a Schenectady firm. In his latter years, Gib spent much of his time writing and lecturing on behalf of Zero Population Growth, Inc. He was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Watch Hill (R.I.) Yacht Club, the Mohawk Club and the Mohawk Golf Club.

Betty Drake Norris and Gib were married in 1933. Their children are Caroline D., Betsy Ann, and Nancy G. Betty and his daughters survive him, as do three brothers, including Howard D. '36 and Theodore G. '39.

1933

Dartmouth lost one of its strong supporters and the Class lost one of its most prominent members when HAROLD F. MACKEY died at his home in Bronxville, N.Y., on March 12. He had undergone several operations in recent years and had been in declining health for some time.

Born in New York City in 1910, Hal prepared for Dartmouth at Horace Mann, where he captained three sports and served as class treasurer.

He was one of the great athletic figures in Hanover during our time there. He played on the freshman football and basketball teams (on the latter as captain) and won his letters for three years on the varsity as an end in football and a center in basketball. Perhaps his most spectacular achievement was his last-second, game-winning basket, tossed from mid-court against Yale in 1932. The score of the game was 21 to 20. In addition to these achievements on college teams, in what was probably his most enjoyable activity, he pitched his fraternity to a championship at the annual campus competition.

Hal was known for his loyalty to his friends and for his generosity to those less fortunate than he. These qualities were manifested in his life after graduation through his activity as a class agent for the Alumni Fund and his private scholarship assistance to deserving students. He was also noted as a raconteur and entertained many an appreciative audience with his tales of derring-do. A generous host, he maintained open house for friends and visiting firemen in his capacious South Main Street apartment, abetted by a formidable set of roommates — Paul Crehan '31, Ed Picken '31, Buster Snow '33, and Jack Smart '33.

Hal was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx. He was an education major (even though his Aegis entry listed him as majoring in physics), a devoted follower of Professor Ralph Burns, and a member of Kappa Phi Kappa, the education fraternity.

Until a few years before his death, he followed a highly successful career as a broker on the New York Stock Exchange, where he acted as a specialist in Du Pont and other stocks.

A Mass in Hal's memory was said at St. Joseph's Church in Bronxville on March 18. Representing Dartmouth were Red Gristede '31, Charlie Schneider '31, Johnnie Schneider '33 and John Monagan '33. The eulogy was delivered by Monsignor Joseph Gallagher, Hal's old friend who had played on the Holy Cross team which had met Hal's Dartmouth team in Hanover in 1931. He spoke of Hal's crashing play on that distant day and of his work with boys.

Hal is survived by his wife Ginnye, a frequent participant in Dartmouth gatherings, and by their three daughters.

John S. Monagan '33

JOHN F. MECK '33, retired vice president of Dartmouth, died March 2 at the age of 65. Meck, a resident of Hanover, suffered a heart attack while skiing at Aspen.

For many of his 28 years as an administrator at the College, Meek had the major responsibility for all non-academic aspects of the College, including budget, buildings and grounds, endowment funds, planning of new facilities, and acquisition of real estate. He was also the chief legal officer of the College.

Meek, a native of Altoona, Pa., went to Yale Law School after Dartmouth and there earned a J. D. degree in 1936. The following year he practiced law in New York City, after which he became professor of law at Yale, where he served also as assistant dean. In 1941 he returned to the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and in 1945 he undertook to serve as counsel for the Bureau of Naval Personnel, becoming chief counsel there in 1943. After release from the Navy in 1945, he practiced law again in Washington until 1948, when he served for a year with the Hoover Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government.

Meek came to Dartmouth in 1949 as its treasurer. In 1952 he was named vice president of the College, and he became head of the College's investment committee in 1970. Under his cultivation, Dartmouth's endowment grew from 26 to 160 million dollars, and one of the largest building programs in the history of the College took place, under his aegis. It included the Hopkins Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, Leverone Field House, the Bradley-Filene-Gerry complex of classrooms and offices, the Kiewit Computation Center, the Gilman Life Sciences Laboratories, the Remsen Medical School Building, the Choate Road and Tuck Mall dormitories, the new west wing of the Hanover Inn, and — last but not least — the Dartmouth Skiway at Lyme, where one of the more arduous downhill trails is appropriately named the John Meek Trail.

Teacher, lawyer, college factotum, boardroom habitue, and investment wizard, Meek still somehow found time to play tennis and to ski, to be an overseer of both the Hanover Inn and the Hopkins Center, and to serve on the DCAC. He was a director of the Hanover Water Company, and he chaired the board of the Dartmouth National Bank. He was recently named a trustee of Howe Library in Hanover.

Outside of Hanover-, he was founder of Listening Post, an organization of chief business officers of colleges; organizer and first president of the Common Fund, an investment program sponsored for educational institutions by the Ford Foundation; chair of the investment committee of the National Association of College and University Business officers; and trustee of the Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund. He served also on the board of the Energy Fund, the United Life and Accident Insurance Company, the Colonial Income Fund, Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Hubbard Real Estate Investments, Profile Skiwear, Bradford Junior College, and the Emma Willard School. He was a member of the American Bar Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Delta Chi, and Casque and Gauntlet.

Meek is survived by his wife of 37 years, the former Jean Anderegg, and by their three children, Mrs. Sally Pinkham, John F. Meek III '67, and Mrs. Julie Hamlin.

ELLIOT ELLSWORTH WENTWORTH, 67, of 5955 Park Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, died January 12.

Born in Cincinnati, he prepared for Dartmouth at Norwood High School and Worcester Academy. At Dartmouth he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, and after graduation he attended the University of Cincinnati.

His entire business career was devoted to the Vulcan Copper and Supply Company and the Vulcan Manufacturing Company of Cincinnati. He was a member of the Queen City Club, University Club, and the Cincinnati Club.

He is survived by his son David A. '62 and his daughter Ann.

1934

Word was received in October of the death of our classmate. FITCH BRIGGS. Fitch died after a long fight with cancer. He had owned a real estate company in Falls Church, Va., and had retired in 1968. While at Dartmouth, he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He was married in 1940 to Kate Brice, and they had two children, John and Kearsley. Our class extends its deepest sympathy to the family.

1937

ROGER W. BARNEY died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage March 2, in Ann Arbor, Mich.

He was born in Boston and came to Hanover from Boston English High School. He majored in English and was a member of the Dartmouth Union. Following college he graduated from Union Theological Seminary and was ordained as an Episcopal minister. He married Jane Lockwood in 1941 and with her served churches in North Conway and South Tamworth, N.H. During the war he saw service with the Marine Corps in the Pacific and was in action at Iwo Jima.

Then they came back to New Hampshire, to Ashland, and then went to Concord, where he served as archdeacon and executive secretary to the Episcopal diocese of the state. In 1957 they moved to Michigan, and since 1967 Rog had been associate rector of St. Andrews in Ann Arbor.

Jane wrote that it was all very sudden. She said also that because Rog spent 14 months in Hanover in the fifties recovering from polio, he asked that contributions be made to Mary Hitchcock Hopsital in lieu of flowers. They both loved Hanover and spent time there while working in nearby areas. We shall always remember Rog, standing out as he did with his tall figure and his shock of red hair, always quiet — but you knew he was there.

He is survived by his wife, three sons, a daughter, a grandchild, and a brother Wendall. They were a strong Dartmouth line. Father '99, uncle 'OO, brother Wendall '29, cousin Gilbert Balkam '36, and a son-in-law, Abraham Aronow '64, from medical school.

1938

Information came to the Alumni Records Office only last month of the death of MURRAY LEVINSOHN on September 21, 1975, of amotrophic lateral sclerosis.

At the time of his death Murray was president of Charles Levinsohn, Inc., a men's retail outlet with which he had been associated since 1939 except for four years of service in World War II. Entering the infantry in March 1942, Murray served at Anzio and throughout the campaigns in Italy, being discharged with the rank of captain in February 1946.

At Dartmouth Murray majored in political science and was a member of the Interfraternity Council and president of Pi Lambda Phi.

He is survived by his widow, Lillian (Tumen) Levinsohn, whom he married in September 1945, and by two children, Jacqueline and Charles.

1940

GEORGE O. CUTTER of Melrose, Mass., vice chairman of the board of Gillette Company, died February 24 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 62.

Born in Dorchester, Mass., George prepared for Dartmouth at Boston Latin and at Bridgton Academy in Maine. At Dartmouth, he was a math major and a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He was one of the first of the Class to be married. At the end of his sophomore year he was married to Anita M. Engen of Kittery, Me. She and their four daughters survive him. They would have celebrated their 40th anniversary this year.

He began his career with W. Bowman Cutter, Inc., Boston, in 1940, and he early showed organizational skills that led in World War II to his being appointed by the War Department to keep production moving at the Boston Ordnance plant and the Springfield Armory. After the war, he became president and treasurer of Cutter prior to joining Gillette in 1948.

His rise there was rapid. After proving his mettle in a succession of key manufacturing positions, he was appointed in 1952 as manufacturing manager for Gillette of Canada, Ltd. Two years later he returned to the firm's Boston headquarters as superintendent of the blade division, and in 1957 he was named operations manager for the manufacturing division. He became director of manufacturing in 1959, was elected a vice president of Gillette Safety Razor Company (U.S.), the next year, and in 1964 was promoted to vice president, serving on the corporate staff in manufacturing and product development.

In 1966, he became vice president and general manager of the firm's Western Hemisphere Division, responsible for Gillette activities in Canada, Latin America, Australia, and the Far East, and also with the U.S. military. He was promoted again in 1969, becoming a senior vice president in charge of planning and technical operations, and was named vice chairman of the board in 1970.

On his way up the corporate ladder, George also kept studying at special programs at Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, and the University of Maine, receiving certificates in such areas as engineering, radiography, statistics, and aerial mapping.

He was a trustee of Bridgton Academy and a member of the American Society of Quality Control, the American Association of Industrial Management, and the Society for the Advancement of Management.

1945

Commander WILLIAM SHERMAN BUTLER, U.S. Navy, died on May 3, 1977, from complications of brain cancer, at the age of 55. He retired on July 1, 1970, after 27 years of distinguished service as a line officer. Since then he had served in many volunteer and appointed positions in his hometown of Freemont, N.H., and had just completed three years as tax collector.

Survivors include his mother and father, wife Trudie, a son, two daughters, and five grandchildren, as well as two brothers and several nieces and nephews.

Trudie wrote a very moving letter saying Bill knew that he had terminal cancer and wished that there be little fuss and no fancy trimmings concerned with his death; very similar to the things mentioned about Hubert Humphrey. The main thing that concerned Bill during his hospitalization was that everything possible be done so that others might be helped from what was learned from tests and examinations that he submitted to, from treatments that he had, and from the donation of his brain for further medical study.

When he went to surgery for a craniotomy on January 31, 1977, he made sure that a donation card (legally signed) was on his medical chart so that if he expired during surgery, all parts of his body that could have been used for anyone else, would have been. The donation of his corneas allowed two people to see again.

We are grateful for the wonderful memory of his loving concern for others, and the hearts of his classmates go out to Trudie and the rest of his family.

Luman B. Howe '17

Harvey P. Hood '18

John F. Meek '33