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.)
Hazen, Albert R. '07, date unknown Randerson, John E. H. 'l2, August 8 Pinkham, Harold B. 15, February 19 Miner, Paul A. '18, August 25 Chadwell, H. Marshall '19, June 3 Hodgkins, Norris L. '19, August 18 Snedecor, Spencer T. '20, August 23 Slayton, Howard D. '21, August 8 Walker, Joseph A. '21, June 29 Piper, Winthrop D. '22, July 6 Pullen, E. Markey '22, August 1 Montague, Richard '23, July 4 Coe, John B. '24, July 11 Karslake, Frank G. '24, July 26 Thompson, Philip D. '27, June 9 Drake, C. Elwood '28, July 22 Fain, Earl, Jr. '28, July Hanes, Edgar A. '28, June 30 Sokol, Otto O. '28, June 18 Tilton, Frederick A. '28, July 7 Vernon, Roger E. '28, July 5 Bennett, Earle O. '29, April 14 Kotchen, Alfred F. '29, July 25 Covell, George D. '30, August 10 Miller, John C. '30, July 4 Frigard, Aarne A. '32, June 17 Greenleaf, Henry M. '32, June 26 Bill, A. Phillips '33, March 29 Iddings, John W. Jr. '34, April 21 Ely, Morton '37, July 1 Holler, Roger W. '37, June 30 Richardson, Stuart '37, July 28 Perrin, Edward F. '38, July 19 Dawley, Gene H. '43, June 12 Sirignano, John Jr. '46, August 11 Mason, John F. '47, August 5 Tenney, Roger '48, April 4 Moore, John O. '49, June 29 Versfelt, Jay Stuart '49, September 3, 1979 Smith, Harold Lee '56, February 24 Fate, Jessee E. III '66, April 11 van den Steenhoven, Pieter C. '66, August 8 Fifield, Cory B. '78, June 22
1907
ALBERT R. HAZEN died early last spring in his 95th year at his son's home in Oregon, where he chose to spend the last months of his life rather than remain in a retirement home in La Jolla, Calif. He had hoped to go to Hanover later and a make a first ever 75th reunion. But a spill on the dirt road outside his son's house and a broken hip cost him all the remarkable strength and desire for future activity that he possessed.
"Rocky" was born in Hartford, Vt„ in 1885 and prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, where his father, also a Dartmouth graduate, was a trustee. While in Hanover, he was a member of the band and also of Sigma Chi fraternity.
He became a partner in the Bullsley & Valance investment firm on Wall Street, and later, during World War 11, he worked for the government overseeing the distribution of war surplus commodities.
In 1919 he married Dorothy Jackson, a graduate of Rodgers Hall of Lowell, Mass. She passed away while they were living in happy retirement in La Jolla, Calif.
Surviving are his son Jack '50 and five grand- children.
Rocky enjoyed life to the fullest and he was fortunate to have had excellent health for such a long time. He had hoped to be the oldest living graduate not for any personal glory, but only to try to represent those who had gone from a Dartmouth that used to be.
His first great-grandchild is on the way now, writes his son, who says it would have been a satisfaction to Rocky to know there was a possibility that future generations of his line of Hazens might find out what life and sentiment are all about at Dartmouth.
The class of 1907 has lost a devoted member, and the three now left in the class would wholeheartedly extend their deep sympathy to his family.
1912
JOHN E. H. RANDKRSON died in West Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, August 8 as the result of a stroke he suffered in 1974.
He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.
He was formerly of Lake George and Albany, N.Y.
He is survived by his wife Florence; two daughters, Nancy Palmer and Anneke Clark; three sons, John, Tremper, and Roelif; and ten grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the family plot in Albany Rural Cemetery in Albany, N.Y.
1915
We were sorry to learn that HAROLD BATCHELDOR PINKHAM died in Frisbee Hospital, Rochester, N.H., on February 19 of heart failure. Hal came to Dartmouth from Milton, N.H. He attended Bowdoin College in 1912 and 1913, served in the European military service from 1917 to 1919, and then became postmaster in Milton, retiring in 1964.
Hal was well traveled in the United States, especially in his native New England, and he had considerable writings, both prose and verse, published in various newspapers and magazines.
The class extends its sympathy to his wife Edith and his son David.
1918
On August 25, PAUL. A. MINER, aged 84, died of congestive heart failure in the Morton Plante Hospital in Clearwater, Fla.
Paul was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He came to Dartmouth from Vermont Academy, where he excelled in studies, football, track, and tennis. In college he was captain of the track team, starring as a sprinter. By all on campus he was known and loved for his fairness, integrity, and leadership. He was class president his sophomore and junior years, a member of Casque and Gauntlet, Palaeopitus, and like his father, George Miner of the class of 1889, and his brothers Stanley '22 and Theodore '23 was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
With a few classmates in the spring of 1917 he joined the Dartmouth ambulance unit -assigned to the French army. On the entrance of the United States in World War I it became a unit of the American army.
After discharge in 1919 Paul was first employed by the Chase National Bank from 1921-1935, becoming a branch manager. He then joined the Underwood Corporation in New York City. At the time of his retirement in 1958, he was a sales representative and supervisor.
Retiring to Clearwater, Fla., he became active in civic affairs as a member of Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church, St. Petersburg Dartmouth Club, and Sunset Bluffs Property Owners Association of Belleair Bluffs, and the Clearwater tennis club. He was a constant supporter of Dartmouth College, serving as an as sistant class agent from 1938-80.
His wife Helen, sister of the late Hugh Whipple '18, died in 1972. His survivors are his two brothers, who must be inspired in the knowledge that Paul was loved by his peers for his fine qualities.
1919
HARRIS MARSHALL CHADWELL died in Del Mar, Calif., on June 3. He was a loyal class and college man.
After graduation he taught chemistry at Dartmouth for a year and then attended Harvard to get his doctorate in chemistry. Later he taught chemistry at Tufts University.
In 1941 he went to Washington to work closely with James Bryant Conant and Vannevar Bush in the National Defense and Research Committee. As a result of his war work he was awarded the Medal of Merit by the United States government and the King's Medal for Service by the British government.
After some time with the Rockefeller Foundation, he returned to Washington in 1950 as head of the Office of Scientific Intelligence in the recently formed Central Intelligence Agency. Later he went to London as a special attache in our embassy. Returning to this country, he was sent to San Diego on scientific duties and received a citation from Allen Dulles for his work with the C.I.A.
He retired to Del Mar, where he had a beautiful home with extensive gardens and many fruit trees.
He is survived by his wife Margaret; a daughter Margaret Anne Howe; a son, H. Jesse '47; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
NORRIS L. HODGKINS died on August 18 in Southern Pines, N.C., where he had made his home for the past 45 years. "Doc" took a great interest in the College, and he will be sorely missed by us all.
He came to college from Ellsworth, Me., and received an M.B.A. from Tuck after serving in the navy during World War I. He then went to China and was in Hong Kong and Canton for six years with the International Banking Corporation. Returning to the United States, he worked for Hornblower & Weeks in Portland, Me., and then for a short period of time was with Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation in Bangor and Albany, N.Y.
He went to Southern Pines in 1935 with the Citizens Bank and Trust Company and was made president in 1937. This bank merged with the First Union National Bank in 1967, and Doc stayed on with them until his retirement in 1970.
It would be impossible to name all the civic and community affairs in which he was active, and he was often honored for his work. He was particularly active in the Sandhills Community College.
He is survived by his wife Mary and three sons N. L. Hodgkins Jr. of Southern Pines, George Hodgkins of Woodland Hills, Calif., and Lewis Hodgkins of Pomeray, Wash., and also by nine grandchildren.
1920
SPHNCER T. SNHDHCOR, youngest member of our class, was born in 1900 and passed on this.past August 23. A remarkable man known throughout the world as an ambassador of medical science, he had a brilliant career as an orthopedic surgeon.
He was an unassuming yet well-known and popular undergraduate at Dartmouth. He joined S.A.E. fraternity and after graduation enrolled in the Dartmouth Medical School and enlisted in the army's S.A.T.C. After the two-year program at the medical school, Spence went on to Columbia, where he received his M.D. in 1923.
Then he married Mary Overton, a graduate of Elmira College. The couple settled in Hackensack, N.J., where Dr. Snedecor became an eminently successful practitioner. World War II intervened, and from 1942-46 he was in the Army Medical Corps, serving in Walter Reed General Hospital, Valley Forge General Hospital, and Camp Lee Regional Hospital. Treating war injuries at these institutions developed his great interest in trauma, and his prolific pen produced many professional articles based on these experiences.
In 1961 the Dartmouth Club of Bergen County, N.J., gave him its award of merit. The basis of its selection was "the breadth, depth, and worth of a man's contribution to his fellow men."
A deeply religious man, Spence became active in the World Council of Churches and its missionary hospitals. During vacations from his local practice, he and his wife Mary traveled extensively and without compensation, visiting and teaching at far-flung hospitals in Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East, India. An inner urge inspired him to impart his experience and acquired knowledge to others, though as he modestly expressed it, "It was my desire to know what was going on out there." Spence and Mary had two children, Jeanne and Spencer T. Jr. Mary and the children survive the doctor. To them the class extends its deepest sympathy.
Your class, your college for whom you worked most assiduously and your many, many friends mourn your passing. Adios, amigo!
1921
CHARLHS PACKARD GILSON, retired Episcopalian bishop and the secretary of the Class of 1921, died August 11 in New London, N.H., following a massive heart attack suffered several days earlier.
Born in Portland, Me., Charlie attended local schools before coming to Dartmouth. Following graduation, he spent the first 25 years of his career in business, first with the Bank of America and later with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. In 1945 he served with the American Red Cross in the Philippines and Japan.
In 1946 he returned to the United States intending to resume business in New York; but he was offered a position as treasurer of the Episcopal Church Mission in China and returned to the Orient to serve in that capacity for four years. At the same time, he realized that, as he once put it, a Christian mission in China was "the chance of a lifetime to do something in which there was absolutely nothing for me other than satisfaction." So Charlie went back to school, at the age of fifty, to study under Chinese theologians from 1947 until 1950, when he was ordained deacon of the Episcopal Church in Shanghai. Later that same year, he was evacuated from Shanghai and subsequently served as vicar of several churches in Rhode Island.
He became archdeacon of the diocese of Rhode Island in 1955, but after three years in that position, he returned to the East, to become priest-in-charge of Episcopal Church missions in Taiwan. In 1961 he was elected suffragan bishop of Honolulu, and three years later he was appointed bishop of Okinawa, where he served until he retired in 1967. From then until 1970 he was acting assistant to the Bishop of Rhode Island, and in 1972 he retired totally and moved to New London.
Charlie was always deeply involved in Dartmouth affairs, serving more than once as class secretary, and in 1966 the College conferred upon him a doctorate of divinity, honoris causa, acknowledging his work and his devotion to Dartmouth.
Charlie is survived by his wife Dorothy; their two children, Charles Jr. and Benjamin; ten grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
He will be sorely missed.
JOSEPH ALCOTT WALKHR, 80, of Rochester, N.H., died on June 29 after a sudden heart attack.
A native of Newmarket, N.H., Joe came to Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter Academy, and after graduation he joined the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, working for it in Massachusetts, Maine, and Ohio before retiring to Ridgefield, Conn., from which he had moved to Rochester in 197 7.
He and his loyal Dartmouth wife Mildred just last year celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary, and both had looked forward with great enthusiasm to being in Hanover next year for the class's 60th reunion.
Joe was active in the Baptist Church and the Masons.
Survivors include his wife, two daughters, one son. eight grandchildren, one brother, and several cousins.
1922
FREDERICK HHMSI.KY LI-VIS, 80, Philadelphia investment counselor and prominent civic leader, died May 4 at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Pennsylvania.
Fred was co-founder, director, and vice president of Lionel D. Edit & Company, where he worked 34 years before retiring in 1965.
He was a former vice president of both Hannemann Medical College and Hospital and the Philadelphia School for the Deaf. He was also a former trustee of Girard College, the Episcopal Hospital, and the Fairmount Park Art Association.
As a direct descendent of settlers who in 1682 came to Pennsylvania on the ship Welcome, he was active in many historical associations. He was former governor of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania and the Society of Colonial Wars of Pennsylvania. He was former president of the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Society of 1812. He was also a trustee of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania and a member of the Welcome Society.
He belonged to the Union League, the Philadelphia Cricket Club and the Rittenhouse Club.
In World War II he served as a colonel in the North African and Italian Campaigns.
Fred entered Dartmouth from St. Luke's School in Wayne, Pa. He was a member of the 1922 delegation of Phi Delta Theta.
His survivors are his wife Louise, two daughters, a son, twelve grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and a sister.
WINTHROP DE FOREST PIFHR, industrial specialist in textiles, passed away July 6 after a long illness, in his native city, Keene, N:H.
Win was,born in 1899, and he came to Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter Academy. His affiliations with the College included his brother Allison N. Piper '18, father-in-law John Walker '91, and brother-in-law Joseph A. Walker '21. A popular, highly-regarded classmate, Win was on the track team and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
His business expertise developed from his experience in the textile industry. He began with and became assistant superintendent of the Wassockeag Woolen Company, Dexter, Me. He next spent many years with the Keene Silk Fibre Mills. He later became a textiles inspector and procurement official in Philadelphia and New York in the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army. During World War II he was the head of this branch. Post-war, he continued in the Quartermaster Industrial Mobilization Planning and later was in charge of the Boston division. He retired in 1964 and returned to Keene.
He was an active member of All Saints Episcopal Church, Brookline, Mass., and later of St. James Episcopal Church in Keene, where his memorial service was held.
Win's first wife, Barbara Walker, died in 1943. He later married Gretchen Yates, who survives him. Three sons, a daughter, seven grandchildren, and a sister are also his survivors.
EDWARD MARKKY PULL-EN, a dedicated physician for 53 years, died August 1 in St. Joseph Hospital, Stamford, Conn.
Markey was born in 1896 in Syracuse, N.Y. He first attended Syracuse University but left in World War I, when he served as a lieutenant in the field artillery. After the war he came to Dartmouth. Contemporaries remember him well as a highly-respected classmate, a serious scholar, an athletic enthusiast, and a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa. He was a pre-med major, graduated in 1922, and went to Cornell Medical School, where in 1924 he received his M.D.
He became a specialist in otolaryngology, plastic surgery, and allergy. He maintained offices in New York City and South Norwalk, Conrt., and in later years in New Canaan, Conn. He was a Diplomat of Otolaryngology, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and the American Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons. He was the author of several articles for medical journals. He retired from active practice three years ago.
For many years he lived in New Canaan, where he was a charter member of the Rotary Club and the Knights of Columbus.
Markey had a lifelong interest in the College. Two of his sons are Dartmouth graduates: Peter M. '57 and V. Paul '72. By a former wife who passed away some years ago, he was the brother-in-law of Don Tobin '21. With his peeserit wife, Catherine, he frequently visited Hanover.
He is survived by Catherine, three sons, three daughters, 23 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and a sister. Rex Malmquist and Don Tobin represented the class at the funeral.
GEORGE EVERETT SHATTCCK, 80, distinguished educator, died April 21 in Norwich, Conn.
For 25 years he was principal of Norwich Free Academy, where he had awarded diplomas to over 10,000 graduates. His pursuit of excellence won him high acclaim, and when he retired in 1965 he was the dedicatee of the George E. Shattuck Humanities Building at the academy.
His early career consisted of teaching social studies in the high schools of Brattleboro, Vt., Middletown, Conn., and Newton, Mass. Later he was principal of Connecticut high schools in Darien, East Hartford, and Greenwich.
He was former president of the National Associations of Secondary Schools, chairman of the National Scholarship Board, member of the Educational Policies Commission and the Council of the National Honor Society.
George was with our class for two years. He worked on the freshman Green Book and The Bema, and he was a brother in Sigma Alpha Epsilon. For his last two undergraduate years he somewhat reluctantly transferred, receiving his Ph.B. from Brown in 1922 and later an A.M. from New York University. But he always reserved a place in his heert for Dartmouth.
His wife Lea, a son, two daughters, and nine grandchildren are his survivors.
1923
RICHARD HAGENY MONTAGLH died in Denver. Colo., on July 4. A native of Portland, Ore., he prepared for college at the New Rochelle, N.Y. high school.
Dick retired from the federal government in 1968 after working for the Office of War Information and later the U.S. Information Service. As a young reporter, he watched Lindberg's take-off for Paris and covered several other attempted transAtlantic flights. In 1971 he published Oceans, Poles, and Airmen, based on his reporting and many interviews with retired early fliers.
Survivors include two sons and one daughter. His wife, the former Marian Cady, died in 1951.
1924
JOHN BISHOP COE died on July 11 at Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He was with the class in Hanover for two years, after which he studied engineering at Brown University and M.I.T.
He was president of John B. Coe and Company, consultants on building construction and cost, estimates, for several years, and at the time of his retirement in 1965, he did building cost estimates with Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill of Chicago. He was at one time associated with the Bishop Company of Worcester and was a member of the Providence, R. 1., engineering society. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
He is survived by his wife Margaret, a brother, and a sister.
FRANK G. KARSLAKE died suddenly on July 26 in Chatauqua, N.Y., where he had spent summers for more than 50 years. The Karslakes divided their time between Chatauqua and Winter Park, Fla.
Frank retired in 1965 as vice president of sales for Forbes Lithograph Company. During his active years he lived in Kenilworth, I11., where he was active in many community affairs, including the Red Cross, the Community Chest and the Boy Scout council.
He served as trustee of the Chatauqua Institution for more than 20 years and since 1975 had been an honorary trustee. He also served the institution in many other ways, chairing the advertising and publicity committee and the centennial development committee and serving as a member of the building and grounds committee. For 30 years he served as an usher at the Sunday morning church services. He was also a member of the board of governors of the Chatauqua Golf Club.
He served as an assistant class agent for several years and was a member of the Cosmos Club.
He is survived by his wife Katherine; three sons, Richard '56, William, and Donald; two daughters, Joan and Katherine; thirteen grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
1925
ROBERT ALFRED SNYDER died July 10 in Benedictine Hospital in Saugerties, N.Y., after a long illness. He was born in that town in 1904 and graduated from high school there.
In college Buck was manager of the basketball team, a cheerleader, and a member of Green Key, Sphinx, Delta Omicron Gamma, and Phi Gamma Delta.
After college he worked for the Saugerties and New York Steamship Company for six years and then founded his own insurance business. Buck was active in civic affairs and politics, being known locally as "Mr. Republican." He served as supervisor of the town of Saugerties, chaired the Ulster County Board of Supervisors, and was Ulster County clerk. Buck was an elder of the Reformed Church, president of the Lions Club, and active in a number of fraternal organizations.
He is survived by his wife Gertrude (Glass), a son, a daughter, and six grandchildren.
1926
HENRY NEFF COPELAND died June 23 in St. James Mercy Hospital, Hornell, N.Y., where he had been a patient for only a few days following a heart attack. On June 20 he had celebrated his 76th birthday.
Hank was a native of Hornell, where he had attended high school and where, after graduation from Dartmouth, he spent his entire adult life. He first was associated with DeWitt-Boag Silk Company, a textile manufacturer, and became its vice-president and general manager. Later, for 12 years before retiring in 1974, he was tax commissioner for the City of Hornell. During this time he served as president of the Steuben County Assessors' Association and as a member of the New York State Assessors' Association.
For many years he was active in politics as a member of the Steuben County Republican Club and as president of the Hornell Republican Club. He was also deeply involved in local charities, having served as treasurer, trustee, and director of the local YMCA, as director of Steuben County Humane Society, as a member of the Boy Scouts of America Council, and as treasurer and trustee of the Presbyterian Church. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
He leaves his wife Margaret (Kinney), a brother, and two daughters.
LELAND FRANCIS POWERS died July 18 at NewtonWellesley Hospital, Newton Lower Falls, Mass., after a brief illness. He was born in Boston and graduated from Brookline High School. At Dartmouth he played in the band all four years, enjoying the considerable travel and fellowship in the organization, and his many friends in the College.
After graduation with construction background, he developed his own consulting engineering service for casualty insurance companies and lawyers, as well as doing appraisal work. He never really retired, but continued to take commitments of his own choosing. Lee kept an active interest in Dartmouth and his class, attending functions in Boston as well as going to reunions in Hanover with his wife Eleanor. After her death in 1974, he continued residence in Wellesley in his home for over 40 years. The class was represented at his services and visiting hours by Paul and Mary Newhall, Henry Blake, Dick Nichols, and Don Norstrand.
Lee is survived by his daughter Deborah Sexton, his son Lee Jr. '67, and two grandchildren.
1927
PHILIP D. THOMPSON, a native of Chicago, died of cancer June 19 in the Menlo Park, Calif., veterans hospital after a long confinement.
He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and of the Green Key and Sphinx societies and was manager of the freshman football team. His real in- terest in college, however, was music, and for all of his four years he was a popular banjoist and pianist with the Musical Clubs and the Barbary Coast Orchestra. He continued this interest in later years, playing the piano socially at every opportunity, and was active in the San Jose local symphony and light opera groups.
During World War II Phil served with the U.S. Air Force for five years, retiring with the rank of major in 1946. At that time he returned to the investment business with First California Company and was vice president of that firm and resident manager of its San Jose office at the time of his retirement in 1968. In that year he decided to enter the real estate field and became associated with Electronic Realty Associates, Inc., also of San Jose. He continued this association until he was afflicted with cancer in May of 1979.
He leaves his wife Jane, three daughters, and three grandchildren.
1928
SAMUEL JAMES DENNIS, chief of the construction statistics division of the Bureau of the Census from 1959 to 1971, died May 29 of heart failure at a hospital in Fairfax, Va. He seemed well at our 50th reunion but suffered a severe stroke in November of 1979.
Sam had lived in Reston, Va., since 1970 and was active in community affairs and a chief architect of the proposed town charter for Reston, which will be voted upon in November.
Sam came to Boston Latin School. He joined Sigma Alpha, was a varsity letterman of the fencing team for three years, majored in mathematics, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cumlaude.
For the next six years he was an instructor at Harvard and received a master's degree in economics. For the next 38 years he served with distinction in the Department of Commerce. During World War II he was director of analysis, guiding allocation of defense housing allocation, and the War Department requested his services in 1945 for the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey.
Before moving to Reston, Sam lived in Falls Church and served there as a councilman for nine years.
Survivors include his wife Maurine, two sons, Robert '57 and Johns '62, a sister, and three grandchildren, all of the Washington area.
CLARHNCK ELWOOD DRAKE of Heritage Village, Southbury, Conn., died very suddenly of an angina attack while watching television with a granddaughter. He and his wife had just returned from a dinner party.
A native of Whitman, Mass., Elwood entered Dartmouth from Whitman High School. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he received from Columbia a master's degree in 1929 and a doctorate in education in 1941.
He taught in high schools in Montclair, N.J., and Des Moines, Iowa, and from 1935 to 1951 was director of research and guidance and later assistant principal of the Newton, Mass., high school and then director of Newton Junior College. He taught summers at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Maine.
Elwood resigned in 1951 to become director of field service for Scholastic Magazines, Inc., and lived in Scarsdale, N.Y. He retired in 1972 and moved to Southbury.
For five years he had been a member of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Club of Northwest Connecticut. He was active in Heritage Village affairs and the Garden Club, and served for several years as driver for both the local ambulance and the minibus.
He leaves his wife Adelaide (Batz), a daughter, a son, and five grandchildren.
EDGAR ALVIN HANES died June 30 of heart failure at Euclid Hospital, Euclid, Ohio. Since 1937 he had been .secretary and a director of the Cleveland Wire Cloth and Manufacturing Company, a family corporation making many kinds of industrial wire cloth, much of it going into aircraft and navy work.
Ed entered Dartmouth from East High in Cleveland. He joined Delta Upsilon and was active in the Players, being property manager his final two years. From 1929 to 1937 he worked for the American Stove Company.
He was active in community charitable work and in the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church. He and Mary attended the 25th, 45th, and 50th reunions.
Besides his wife Mary Catherine (Crone), he leaves three sons and a daughter.
ROGKR ERDMAN VERNON died July 5 of cancer in a nursing home in Cedar Grove, N.J., where he had lived for several years. He was an advertising representative during his entire career, working for many years for This Week magazine. Services were held at St. Luke's Church in Montclair, where he had hved for over 25 years.
He was born in Montclair and entered Dartmouth from Montclair High School. "Beef," as he was called, was a member of Psi Upsilon and was very popular in College and throughout his lifetime. He left Dartmouth after two years to enter the advertising business. He attended all our Hanover reunions and class gatherings in New York City.
I want to share with you part of a letter from his daughter Sue Swick (wife of Ted Swick '45), which says it all so well: "He left me quite a heritage. His gift of making people laugh was rare, his loyalty to his friends special, and his bravery right to the end in- credible." Roger's family arranged to have his ashes buried beside his mother and father in the old Vernon family plot in the Newport, R.I., cemetery.
He is survived by his daughter, a son, a sister, and six grandchildren. His uncle, the late Professor Ambrose Vernon, gave the very popular courses on biography while we were in College.
OTTO OSKAR SOKOL., 78, died July 18 at a Cape May, N.J., nursing home. He had lived in that city for 46 years.
Born in Vienna, Austria, he completed a year at the University of Vienna and came to this country in 1922. After working as a teaching fellow at Mississippi State College teaching German, French, and Spanish, he transferred to Dartmouth at the start of his junior year. He got a scholarship and helped earn part of his expenses by teaching at the Clark School in Hanover.
Otto was a member of Round Table and president of the International Club. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. In 1933 he received a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
He taught in a private school in Philadelphia but found salaries were so low during the depression that he took over a grocery store in Cape May in 1934. He married Florence Chambers that year, and, working together, they made the business prosper. Otto retired in 1964, and in 1965 they took a trip around the world on freighters, during which they spent half a year visiting Otto's brother and sister in Vienna. They spent winters living in Mexico. Florence died in 1967, and in 1973 Otto married Peggy, a cousin of his first wife.
He is survived by his wife Peggy, his brother Anton (an emeritus professor at Stanford), another brother, and a sister, both living in Vienna.
1929
EARLE OGDEN BENNETT of Toms River, N.J., died on April 14.
Earle took his law degree at Rutgers University Law School in 1931 and practiced in New York City, Asbury Park, and Newark. He worked with several leading political figures and took active part in many public and social activities. He was a lieutenant governor of Kiwanis in Newark, a director of the New Jersey Bar Association, and a vestryman of Grace Church of Madison. He was a 32nd-degree Mason.
He leaves his wife Margaret (Kragness) and a daughter.
1930
GEORGE D. COVELL, who was recovering from surgery, died unexpectedly on August 10. Most of his career was in the insurance business. In 1941 he joined Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and served in managerial positions in Chicago and Pittsburgh. In 1956 he was appointed first vice president of sales, Berkshire Life Insurance Company of Pittsfield. George resigned from that position in 1965 and moved to Mystic, Conn., where he founded George D. Covell Associates, a business and tax consulting firm. He was a Certified Life Underwriter and was active in the Mystic Rotary Club.
His first wife Norma died in 1962. Their children were Sandra and George D. Jr. He is survived also by his wife Marjorie and her three children. Marjorie and George had developed a new interest in 1930 during the past few years, attending the Woodstock gatherings and our 50th in June. Since 1978 they had been dividing their residence between Mystic and Port St. Lucie, Fla. Our sympathy is extended to the members of his family.
1931
CHARLES LEAYTTT SULLIVAN, 70, died July 15 in the Newton-Wellesley Hospital.
Charlie came to us from Boston English High School. He joined Alpha Delta Phi and was a member of Green Key, Sphinx, and the varsity football and track teams. His major was zoology.
He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1935. He interned at Boston City Hospital and served his residency at Boston Lying-in Hospital. He was an instructor at both the Harvard and Tufts medical schools and at Boston College School of Social Sciences. Over the years, he was the author of many papers on the general subject of childbirth. 3He specialized in obstetrics and delivered over 10,000 babies before his retirement in 1975.
Catherine Ryan and Charlie were married in 1940. Their children are Charles L. 11l '63, Moira, Kathleen, Michael, and David I. '73.
During World War II Charlie served as a flight surgeon with the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Obstetrical Society of Boston, American Medical Association, Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Charlie was also a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Boston Medical Library, and a member of the Clover Club of Boston. In 1966 he became a Knight of Malta, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church.
He is survived by his wife, a brother Robert F. '37. and his five children.
1932
AARNH A. FRIGARD, 74, died in Gloucester, Mass., on June 17 of this year. Aarne had been ill for several years, and his death was attributed to a vascular malfunction. Aarne, a very popular member of our class and an outstanding athlete playing on the freshman and varsity football, basketball, and baseball teams, followed a career in education and athletic coaching. He was a teacher of mathematics and coach of the football and track teams in the city of Gloucester. During his college career, Aarne was a member of Green Key, Sphinx, and of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. The class extends its sympathy to his wife Barbara and their children Sandra, Katherine, George, and Johanah.
1933
ANDREW PHILLIPS BILL, 67, died in a nursing home in South Deerfield, Mass., on March 29, of unknown cause. Phil was born in Hanover, the son of E. Gordon Bill, our dean of freshmen, dean of admissions, and professor of mathematics as we of '33 entered Dartmouth. Phil prepared at Hanover High School and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. At Dartmouth, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, was on the varsity golf squad, and active in the mathematics club and Cabin and Trail.
After graduation, Phil went back to Exeter and taught mathematics for 39 years, coached in two sports for 25 years, and ran the school paper for 20 years. In 1953, finding himself not too busy, he took continuing education courses in land surveying and civil engineering, natural extensions of his interest in math and in Cabin and Trail. He was the founding director of the Massachusetts Association of Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers. In 1967-68 he was president of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, traveling thousands of miles each year in the U.S. and Canada, working and speaking toward the improvement of his profession.
Phil is survived by his wife Catherine; a son, E. Gordon 11, who attended Dartmouth briefly; another son, J. Christopher, who received his Ph.D. from Dartmouth; a daughter, Deborah Anne; and many beloved grandchildren. Michael Caleb Bill of the class of 1975 is his nephew.
The sympathy of the class is extended to this family in its loss.
1934
JOSEPH DOLBEN died suddenly on May 4 at the Winchester, Mass., hospital.
Joe came to Dartmouth from Winchester High School and Phillips Andover Academy. His freshman dorm was Gile, where he roomed with fellow Andover graduate Allan (Jake) Jacobson.
In recent years Joe was with the U. S. Office of Preparedness in Boston. For many years previous he had headed his own firm, Dolben & Company, distributor of building materials. That business career was interrupted for only four years, by the war, during which he was successively with the War Production Board and (as a Navy Lieutenant) the Bureau of Ships.
Joe was a member of the Winchester School Committee and active in his community in a number of other ways. He was secretary of the Winchester Country Club for many years.
He is survived by his wife Nina and three children, one daughter and two sons, the older of them Joseph A. Dolben '65. The sincere sympathy of the class is extended to them.
ROGER BURKAHM READ died July 1 in the hospital at Woodland Hills, Calif. He had lived in California since his retirement in 1974.
Rog came to Dartmouth from Walnut Hills High School, Cincinnati. He joined forces with Len Harrison and occupied a dorm room in Woodward. He later became a member of Kappa Sigma.
Rog devoted virtually his entire career to broadcasting, specifically to Taft Broadcasting Company in Cincinnati. He began as a salesman for WKPC-TV and moved up the ladder to become sales manager, general manager, and vice president of administration and planning.
He served as vice mayor for the village of Mariemont, Ohio, from 1952 to 1960.
He is survived by his wife Allee, a daughter, a brother, and four grandchildren. The class extends to them its deep sympathy.
1935
We note with deep regret the passing of WINSTON FEARN GARTH on May 3 in Montgomery, Ala. At Dartmouth Win was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Dragon, and the Junto and participated in varsity track. An economics major, he went on to graduate from Harvard Business School in 1936.
Win spent the early part of his business life in Huntsville, Ala., and then moved to Gainesville, Ga., where he was first in the textile business and then, from 1963 to his recent retirement, with Southeastern Freezer Corporation, a cold storage warehousing operation which he organized.
In Gainesville many civic activities benefited from Win's dedicated participation, among them the board of education, a regional library, the chamber of commerce, community chest, Rotary, Elks, and his church, which he served as senior warden. He won high praise for his work chairing the capital needs study committee for Hall County.
This quotation from an editorial tribute in the Gainesville Times tells what kind of man we have lost. "Winston Garth was not born in and no longer lived in this community at the time of his death, but he always will be of this community. The contributions he made during his quarter-century residence here continue to live as a memorial to his love for the community he adopted for the prime years of his life."
Win Garth is survived by his wife Emily, whom he married in 1940, and by seven children Winston Jr., Robert, Thornton, Thomas Emily, John, and Frederick.
ROBERT DELANO LULL JR. died at his home in Shelburne, Vt., on June 14 after a three-month battle with cancer.
At Dartmouth Bob majored in English and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and the Glee Club. After graduation Bob's entire career was devoted to educatition, starting with the teaching of English. He received a master's degree in education from the University of Vermont in Poultney, Vt. He later became superintendent of Chittenden West District and then served as superintendent of the South Burlington School District until he retired in 1972. Bob was a member of Who's Who in American Education and the Vermont Superintendents Association, was past president of the New England Superintendents Association and a member of the American Association of School Administration.
Bob is survived by his wife Catherine, two daughters, and five grandchildren.
Word has only recently been received of the death of CHARLES VICTORINE on July 2, 1979, in Bergenfield, N.J.
Vic joined us in 1931 from Elizabeth, N.J., but left Dartmouth in 1933 after qualifying for admission to Northwestern University Dental School, from which he received the degree of D.D.S. in 1937. Until the time of his death he conducted in Bergenfield a general practice in dentistry, which was interrupted only by service in the Army from 1943-46. He won two battle stars and later served as chief of dental service at Fort Bragg.
Vic lived a quiet life in Bergenfield, enjoying golf, gardening, and membership in a number of community and professional organizations. His wife Sara passed away before him, but he is survived by two daughters.
1937
There is nothing anyone could do to change or improve this tender and thoughtful letter written by Bill Ely '34 about his brother Mort; they must have been very close. We quote:
'"lt is my sad duty to inform you that my younger brother, MORTON ELY, died July 1 at his home in Moraga, Calif. He had fought a losing battle with bone cancer since last August. He would have been 66 today. My wife Isabel and I took an 18-day cruise with Mort out of Port Everglades, Fla., on the Royal Viking Star to San Francisco last March. He was in pretty good shape at that time.
"Mort graduated from Pittsfieid High School, Pittsfield, N.H., then spent a year at Clark School in Hanover before entering Dartmouth. He was pianist in the freshman orchestra and helped form and played in the Green Collegians, a band he did a great deal of traveling with during his college vacations. Mort was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
"After graduating, he went on to study music at Harvard University, where he ended up with a master's degree in education. Later he earned credits toward a doctorate at Stamford. He taught for many years at various public schools and retired ten years ago as chairman of guidance in Concord, Calif.
"Mort never married. He is survived by me and my family.
To me, he was a great brother: We shall miss him,
1938
EDWARD FRttst PHRRIN died July 19 at the Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn., following open-heart surgery. At the time of his death Eddie was sales manager at Farmington Woods, a condominium complex in Avon, Conn.
He attended Hartford High School and was graduated from Kingswood School, West Hartford, Conn., and in later years was elected to the board of trustees there.
At Dartmouth he played freshman and varsity baseball, sharing the catching duties with Joe Urban '39 during his senior year. In Eddie's words, Jess Tesreau only used him when he wanted a lot of chatter behind the plate. Eddie was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity and Dragon senior society.
He was an army veteran of World War 11, having served in Europe, where he was awarded the Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster.
Eddie, known in the Hartford area as "Mr. Dartmouth," chaired enrollment for Northern Connecticut and also served for three years on the Alumni Council as enrollment chairman.
His desire to work with young people never stopped. He worked for many years with the West Hartford junior league baseball program and had also been president of the northern Connecticut chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. In later years he worked too with the West Hartford Boys' Football League and local high school football programs. During all these many activities, Eddie never missed an opportunity to spot a student athlete he thought might qualify as a candidate for Dartmouth. He made hundreds of trips to Hanover with these young people to introduce them to Dartmouth and acquaint the admissions office with their qualifications.
Eddie leaves his wife Janet, a daughter, and a son. Our class has lost a devoted and loved member. Our sympathy goes to his wife and children.
1943
WILLIAM ELTING BRAYTON died on May 26 in Vero Beach, Fla., where he recently made his home. Formerly of Wellfleet, Mass., Bill served as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946.
Bill was self-employed as head of a merchandising company, Tricks & Tunes, and was formerly vice president of J. M. Mathes Inc., an advertising agency. His wife Rosemary died in 1964.
He is survived by four children and by four grandchildren.
1956
HAROLD LEE SMITH died suddenly at his home in Chappaqua, N.Y., on February 24 of a heart attack.
Lee prepared for Dartmouth at Phillips Andover and was an active member of Psi Upsilon and the Sailing Club. He also was enrolled in the N.R.O.T.C. and served three years with Navy Air, gaining his wings in 1957 and flying S-2Fs. In 1961, during the Berlin crisis, he was recalled for active duty and then retired from the reserves in 1962 as a lieutenant commander. In December 1957, while in the Navy, Lee married Margaret (Peggy) Swanson and returned for his final year at Tuck School, graduating in 1960.
From Tuck School, Lee joined Ogilvy and Mather in their training program and in his 16 years with the company he became a senior vice president and director. He was the first to admit he genuinely enjoyed his work. He took particular pleasure in drawing on his great love for flying while working on the Cessna account. At the time of his death, Lee was senior vice president management supervisor at N.W. Ayer A.B.H., New York, on the De Beers Diamond account. In addition, he managed the Canadair Inc. account where his flying expertise allowed him to contribute significantly to the most successful introduction ever of a new business jet aircraft, the Challenger, in the U.S.
A quiet, personal man, Lee would have been embarrassed if he had known the church at his memorial service was to have been packed with classmates and friends ranging from his boyhood camping days on Lake George to those from the business world and locally from the Chappaqua area. But he shouldn't have been embarrassed. A surprising number of people recognized that it was Lee who had fundamentally changed their whole lives and for the better. He was a man people instinctively confided in with their personal hopes and their qualms. His advice was constructive and inspirational because he followed through and cared.
He is survived by his wife Peggy, two daughters, his mother, and his sister.
Richard P. Liesching '59
