Deaths
A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices may appear in thisissue or a later one.)
Redington, Theodore T. '07, March 30 Taylor, Wilbur L. '10, March 3 French, Walter M. '12, April 8 Harvey, Maurice G. '14, March 11 Blaney, Porter H. '16, October 22, 1979 Drury, Chester '16, March 12 Bean, Harold A. '17, April 5 Smith, Vincent K. '17, March 9 Cooper, Walter W. '19, March 3 Kohl, P. Tracy '19, February 23 Shields, Henry E. '19, February 14 Wylde, Albert F. '19, March 7 Auger, Emile '20, March 15 Cereghino, Harold L. '24, February 18 Crouter, Gordon '24, April 3 Canfield, Robert E. '25, March 16 Hardy, Robert C. '25, April 11 Stickney, William W. '26, March 1 Edmonds, G. Clark '27, February 9 Knapp, Edwin M. '27, March 5 Learnard, Richard B. '28, March 4 Jaquith, Morton C. '29, March 16 Leavitt, Benjamin B. '29, February 12 Kidder, Henry W. Jr. '30, March 13 Rosen, Ned N. '31, January 4 Sullivan, Clarke Jr. '32, January 25 King, William L. '33, January 18 Brown, Henry B. '34, February 12 Ellis, William H. Jr. '35, March 21 Knott, Harry J. '35, March 31 Heneage, William C. '37, March 2 Hogerton, Sydney F. Jr. '38, November 7, 1975 Sloane, Chester B. '43, January 21 Crawford, Harry C. '46, August 20, 1974 Morse, Richard L. '46, September 5, 1979 Varnum, John C. '54, March 8 Smith, Harold L. '56, February 24 Wickliffe, John C. III '68, February 18
1907
THEODORE TOWNE REDINGTON, whose family's association with Dartmouth has been long and devoted, died on March 30 in Laconia, N.H. He'was 94 years old and one of the oldest living graduates of the College at the time of his death.
Ted came to Dartmouth from Evanston, Ill., following in the footsteps of his father, Edward Dana Redington, who was an 1861 alumnus, and his greatuncle, Cyrus Stone, class of 1822. Ted also had two step-brothers, Paul G. and John C. Redington, who were 1900 graduates. During his four years in Hanover, Ted was an English major, a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Sphinx senior society, and on the board of the Aegis.
He spent most of his business career in insurance, especially life underwriting, working for a number of firms across the country and retiring from the W. H. Shaw Agency in Manchester Center, Vt., in 1954. His insurance career had been interrupted only during both world wars by service with the Army YMCA in 1918 and with Lockheed Aircraft from 1942 to 1944.
Ted was active throughout his life in the Dartmouth alumni associations wherever he lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara. He had also been a deacon in various churches and had been a member of the Evanston, Ill., Club, the University Club of Chicago, the Loyal Legion, and the Equinox Links Club. He was also a member of the Rotary in Manchester, Vt.
In 1909, Ted married the former Katherine May Sherer, who died in 1975. They had six children three sons, all of whom came to Dartmouth, and three daughters. Ted is survived by one son, Dana S. '34, and one daughter. His other two sons were Theodore T. Jr. '41 and Richard '44. Other Dartmouth alumni in the Redington family include two grandsons, Robert D. Redington '61 and Richard P. Redington '64, and a nephew, John S. Redington '28. An indication of the Redingtons' long-time devotion to Dartmouth is the fact that Ted's son Dana, as a freshman in 1931, accompanied his grandfather to his 70th reunion, and then in 1977 brought his father to his 70th reunion, at which Ted was one of four 1907 classmates in attendance.
In addition to his son and daughter, Ted is survived by 13 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
1909
ASHER AVERAL CLEMENT died on November 30, 1979, in Las Vegas, Nev., three days after his 95th birthday. At the time of his death he was the oldest 1909 classmate and one of the oldest Dartmouth alumni. In September, he had had a fall in the nursing home and fractured his hip. The hospital inserted a pin and returned him to the nursing home, but he failed rapidly until his death.
Asher was born in Kenduskeag, Maine, in 1884. The family later moved to Francestown, N.H., and he entered Dartmouth from its high school. After two years, he started a western trek and in 1909 entered Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Ind., graduating in 1911. He continued westward as a high school principal, stopping to teach each school year, and reached California in 1921. Teaching pay being low, he then entered the construction field as a welder with the Southern California Gas Company, which was head- quartered in Whittier. He retired in 1949 at age 65.
He was married to Sadie Malloch in 1940 in Whittier, Calif. She survives him.
Asher was a member of the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks. They conducted the funeral services and the interment in Eden Vale Cemetery in Las Vegas.
1910
WILBUR LEYLAND TAYLOR, who had retired from General Mills, died on March 3. He was born in 1887 and came to Dartmouth from Lawrence, Mass. He had lived in retirement in Boynton Beach, Fla., for some years.
Bill was a long-time friend and business associate of classmate Whitney Eastman. They were closely involved in the soybean processing industry. From 1925 to 1930, Bill worked as a chemist for the William Goodrich Company, and he then became manager of the Chicago plant of Archer-Daniels-Midland Com- pany. In 1945, he joined Gpneral Mills Inc., from which he retired in 1953 as technical director of soybean processing.
Bill was active in Dartmouth affairs, serving as president of the Dartmouth Club of Palm Beach County in Florida in 1961-62. Bill's brother Otto, who died 15 years ago, was also a member of the class of 1910 at the College.
In 1931 Bill was married to the former Ella Chapin. who died in 1957. He is survived by two nephews who are Dartmouth alumni Robert G. Taylor '43 and John F. Taylor '48.
1912
WALTER MERRILL FRENCH, one of the most beloved members of the class, died on April 8 at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover.
"Quech" was born in 1890 in Pomfret. After graduating from Dartmouth, he taught in Canton. Pa., High School.
In 1918, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and completed his duties as a sergeant in 1919 at the conclusion of World War I.
He had become associated with the Consolidated Rendering Company in Boston in 1916, and he remained associated with this firm for 40 years, retiring as division manager in 1956.
He married Bertha Hitchcock, a graduate of the Burdette School in Boston, in 1939.
"Quech" was a great organizer and had chaired 1912's class reunions since 1971.
Funeral services were held on April 9 at the Congregational Church and burial was in the Hilltop Cemetery in Quechee, Vt.
He is survived by his wife Bertha, a niece, and two nephews.
1916
PORTER HAMILTON BLANEY died on October 22, 1979, at Bothell, Wash. He came to Dartmouth from Peabody, Mass., High School. Throughout his college days he was known among his classmates as Hank. His fraternity was Phi Sigma Kappa.
He spent many years selling and appraising real estate and later became a salesman for Swift and Company.
In July 1916 he married Marion Hamson, and they made their home in Seattle, later moving to Bothell. His survivors are his wife, two daughters, a grandson, T. Dan Brachen '63, three granddaughters, and seven great-grandchildren.
CHESTER DRIJRY died on March 12 in Eustis, Fla. Chet came to Dartmouth from Lowell, Mass., High School. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi. He served in World War I as a second lieutenant in ordnance.
In 1920 he went with the First National Bank of Cincinnati, leaving in 1922 to become treasurer of a wholesale paper house in St. Louis. In 1926 he returned to Cincinnati as president of the Fox Paper Company. He retired in 1959 to Mt. Dora, Fla., where he was a member of the Wyoming Golf Club and the Mt. Dora Yacht Club.
He was married in 1925 to Efale Brown, who died in 1969. He is survived by two nieces and a nephew.
1917
The class has suffered a most unfortunate loss in the death of our Head Agent HAROLD ARTHUR BEAN, who died in Norway, Maine, late on the night of April 5, the day before Easter Sunday. Harold was born in 1894 in Newport, N.H. He came to Dartmouth from Newport's Richards High School, where he was interested in football, baseball, track, and debating. At the College he was a member of the Cosmos Club and Gamma Alpha and spent much time skiing, bike riding, and mountain climbing. After graduation he entered Thayer School, but left before completing studies for his degree in civil engineering. He is, however, a life member of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers.
For two years during World War I, Harold was dispatched over much of the United States to do military mapping for the War Department. After a few years in the wholesale candy business, he returned to his first profession and worked with the United States Geological Survey, from which he retired in 1961.- In this work he established the highest point in Pennsylvania as Mt. Davison on Negro Mountain. He also became involved in the American Society of Photogrammetry and the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping.
Retirement did not end Harold's involvement in many community and social activities. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club, Oxford Lodge, and the Garden and Iris Clubs, chaired the local Red Cross, was active in the Kiwanis fund drive, was a deacon of Norway Congregational Church, and was a town councilor. Harold also compiled a history of Oxford Lodge and a history of the Bean Family Association. He and his wife were also staunch members of the Contract Bridge League.
In 1919 Harold was married to Esther Conrad, by whom he had a son and two daughters. Esther died in 1968, and several years later he married Blanche Noble, who survives Harold. Blanche was a widow when she married Harold and had one son. All the children survive, and there are 14 grandchildren and 14 greatgrandchildren. We extend our sincerest sympathy to the family in the loss of this versatile and helpful extrovert.
The class of 1917 has lost another stalwart son of Dartmouth. VINCENT KINSMAN SMITH died on March 9 near Cleveland, Ohio. Vin was born in 1896 and entered Dartmouth from East High School in Cleveland. In high school he was interested in the Mandolin Club, debating, and the school annual. His college career included membership in Kappa Kappa Kappa fra-
fraternity and Palaeopitus, the student governing body, work on the prom show, and service as manager of track, for which he was taken into Rake and Roll, the senior society for team managers. This reveals the wide variety of interests which Vin displayed in later life activities.
About a month before graduation from college, Vin entered the infantry in World War I and rose to become a second lieutenant. After the war he was a courier for the Peace Commission. This gave him an opportunity to travel much in France Bel Austria, Italy, and Turkey.
Upon Vin's return to the United States he received a law degree at Western Reserve and then went on f further study in law at Harvard. He practiced law f0r a few years, but eventually went into business. In 1928, he was one of the founders of the Lubrizol Corporation, a manufacturer of additives for the petroleum in dustry. He served the firm at various times assecretary, legal counsel, vice president, and director until his retirement in 1969. While maintaining hi, relationship with Lubrizol, Vin was also active founding and operating several other businesses in eluding the Electric Motor Development Company (later EMD Components Inc.), Aquarium System's Inc., Aquarium of Niagra Falls, and Mystic Marinelife Aquarium. He had also served as a director of a number of companies, including the Security Federal Savings and Loan Association.
In social and community affairs, he joined several clubs, and he had been a councilor of Gates Mills Village, Ohio, for many years and was later mayor of the same community. He was also active in his church vestry and had served as a trustee of Hillcrest Hospital. Vin was always a great booster in class projects and the Alumni Fund, and he was on the national ex- ecutive committee, the major gifts committee, and the local committee for the Third Century Fund. How he crowded so much so successfully into one life is hard to understand.
In 1926 Vin married Anne Jessop, who died in 1964. Later he married Edith Hutcheson, a graduate of Ohio State University who had great interest in the arts and music. Edith survives Vin, together with a son from his first marriage. Two brothers of Vincent's were also Dartmouth alumni Kent '15 and Kelvin '20. Another great Dartmouth family! Our condolences go out to the family of this philanthropic man.
1919
WALTER WHIPPLE COOPER, a retired partner in the investment banking concern of F. S. Smithers and Company, died on March 3 in Montclair, N.J., after a brief illness. He had been a resident of Montclair since 1928 and continued to live there after his retirement in 1968.
Walt left college at the outbreak of World War 1 and served in the Air Force branch of the Signal Corps. After the war he went into the investment business. He was active in civic affairs in Montclair. He was a loyal member of the class.
He is survived by his wife Louise, a son, and iwo grandchildren.
PHILIP TRACY KOHL died on February 23 in Tucson, Ariz., where he had made his home in recent years, having moved there from Sedona, Ariz., where he first lived after retirement.
During World War I, Trace served in the Navy, and after graduation he attended Oxford University. Later he served under Herbert Hoover in the American Relief Administration, and in this work he was in central Europe and Russia. Finally he entered the hotei business and for 22 years was manager of the Oak Park Arms in Oak Park, Ill. In Oak Park he was active in many civic affairs. He was also a past president. of the Dartmouth Club of Chicago.
His wife died in the fall of 1979, and his nearest sur- viving relative is a sister-in-law.
HENRY EARL SHIELDS died on February 14 Houston, Tex., where he had lived since 1943.
After World War I, Henry did not return to college, but he later received a degree from Syracuse Univer- sity. For most of his business life he was in the real estate field and in later years had his own firm in Houston.
He is survived by his wife Helen and one son.
ALBERT FRANCIS WYLDE died in Quincy, Mass.,on March 7. He had lived there since 1932.
After graduation, Ab was in the shoe business for several years. He became associated with Metropolitan Life Insurance in 1932 and continued with them until retirement in 1962.
He is survived by several nieces and nephews.
1920
EMILE AUGER passed away on March 15 at the Sacred Heart Nursing Home in New Bedford, Mass. He had acquired an LL.D. degree from Boston University in 1921 and shortly thereafter he joined the Internal Revenue Service as a lawyer. In 1935 he became an estate tax examiner, serving in the field. He retired from IRS service in 1965.
He belonged to the Rhode Island Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He had also served the city of New Bedford as a common counselor and was active in scouting for many years. During World War I he served briefly in the U.S. Army in 1918.
His wife Mary survives him, together with his two sons, a brother, Roland '21, a sister, and a nephew, Daniel Paradis '61.
The Auger family was very Dartmouth oriented. Other alumni in the family in addition to Emile, Roland, and their nephew, include a deceased brother, Ulysses '22.
1924
GORDON CROUTER died on April 3 at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia, following an illness of several weeks. He had been active in financial circles in Philadelphia since graduation.
Gordon was a founding partner in the firm of DeHaven and Town send, Crouter and Bodine, stock brokers, and at the time of his death was associated with W. H. Newbold Sons and Company. He was a former member of the New York Stock Exchange, a former president of the Bond Club of Philadelphia, and a former governor of the Securities Institute of America.
He was a former warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and a former president of the board of trustees of Chestnut Hill Academy. Gordon was also a member of the Philadelphia Club, the Sunny brook Golf Club, the Pohoqualine Fish Association, and the Fourth Street Club, and a past president of the Ritten house Club.
He is survived by his wife Emily, a son, a daughter, and four grandchildren.
1925
ROBERT ELLIOTT CANFIELD died on March 16 of pneumonia at the Stonewall Jackson Hospital in Lexington, Va. He was born in 1903 in Columbus, Ohio, and entered Dartmouth from Pleasantville High School in Pleasantville, N.Y.
Bob was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, played on the freshman football squad, and belonged to the Canoe Club. After graduation he went to Harvard Law School and obtained his LL.B. degree in 1928.
His law career was involved largely with the paper industry, both in a legal capacity and in trade association activities. He was in charge of the Groundwood Paper Manufacturers Association from 1934 to 1956 and then president of the Printing Paper Manufacturers Association. Bob wrote a number of articles for industry trade journals and was an active speaker on legal and paper industry problems and affairs.
In recent years he had lived in retirement in Buena Vista, Va. Bob is survived by his wife Althaea, a daughter, a son, David '57, and six grandchildren.
ROBERT CARLISLE HARDY died on April 11 at Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Fla. He had been under treatment for a malignancy but had been hospitalized only a short time.
Bob was born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1904 and came to Dartmouth from the Mcßurrey School in New York City. He obtained his law degree at Columbia in 1928 and was a member of the New York bar and of the law firm of Wilkie, Farr, Gallagher until 1949. He had been a director of numerous business and financial corporations and continued in law consulting and financial planning until he moved to Florida in 1956.
In Sarasota, Bob and his wife Hilda, who survives him, conducted an investment counseling service, specializing in the problems of retired persons. They sold their firm in 1976 but Bob continued as a senior vice president and financial planner for the purchaser, Raymond Jones and Associates. He enjoyed golf and he and Hilda traveled extensively.
Bob was active in Dartmouth affairs all his life and was president at one time of the Dartmouth Club of Sarasota and had been a member of the Alumni Council. He devoted much time to fund-raising for the College and to 1925 class affairs.
1926
WILLIAM WALLACE STICKNEY, retired Marine Corps major general, died on March 1 at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was born in New York City and attended Colby Academy in New London, N.H., until November 1917, when he enlisted in the Navy, serving until his discharge in 1919. He graduated from Vermont Academy in 1922 and at Dartmouth was a member of Sigma Chi and president of the Round Table. Bill was a well-known, very active member of the class, interested in many sports.
Bill earned his LL.B. degree at National University Law School, now part of George Washington University. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C., and had appeared in the District and Supreme Courts of D.C. as well as in the U.S. Supreme Court. He also served as counsel for the National Recovery Administration and was principal attorney in the corporation finance division of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Bill was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve in 1930, and in 1942, as major, he participated in the capture and defense of Guadalcanal, after which he was awarded the Legion of Merit with Combat "V" and was named a lieutenant colonel. He was released to inactive duty as a colonel in 1946 and was promoted to major general and named director of Reserve in 1959.
Bill retained a keen interest in Dartmouth and class affairs as a member of the Dartmouth Club of Washington and served on class reunion and Alumni Fund committees. He was a member of the D.C. Bar Association, the Lawyers Club of Washington, and the Globe and Anchor Club.
He leaves his wife lone Lee, his son William III, and three grandchildren, to whom goes the sincere sympathy of the class.
1927
GEORGE CLARK EDMONDS died unexpectedly on February 9 in Clearwater, Fla., of a stroke. He and his wife had vacationed there for the past several winters and both were active and enthusiastic golfers up until the time of his death.
Clark, as he was called, was born in 1905 in Arlington, Mass., and later moved to South bridge, Mass., where he attended high school. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. Most of his business career was spent with the National Shawmut Bank of Boston in automobile sales financing. During this time he resided first in Needham and later in Dover, Mass.
He leaves his wife Grace (Wesselhoeft) and two daughters.
EDWIN MIXER KNAPP died on March 5 in the Halifax Hospital of Daytona Beach, Fla., after a long and unsuccessful fight against cancer.
He was born in 1906 in Waverly, N.Y., where he attended the public high school and where he returned after graduating from Dartmouth to operate a hardware business for 11 years in partnership with his father. In 1938 he joined the Casco Mills, also in Waverly. At the time of his retirement 22 years later, he was vice president in charge of sales of that company's dog food division. He had also served as vice president in charge of sales of Corn Products International in New York City.
In 1960 Ed and his wife moved to Daytona Beach, where they owned and operated an apartment house on Grand view Avenue. All of his life Ed was an avid sportsman. He was five times golf champion at Shephard Hills Country Club in Waverly and a noted field trial handler and judge of English setter and pointer hunting dogs, as well as the owner of dogs that won many prizes in both show and field in such competitions as Madison Square Garden. He was also active in the Presbyterian church, in which he had held many different offices over the years. Besides his wife Lucia (Crowell), he is survived by a sister. His brother, J. Warren Knapp '30, died of cancer in 1974, and his two sons died while students at Colgate University.
1928
RICHARD BENSON LEARNARD died at age 76 in Concord, N.H., on March 4 after a period of failing health.
Born in Boston, Dick attended various Massachusetts public schools and graduated as valedictorian of Hanover, N.H., High School. Following receipt of his B.S. cum laude, he stayed on at Dartmouth for an M.S. in physics.
After graduation, Dick taught at a number of institutions, including Gettysburg College, Keene State College, and the University of Maine. During World War II he became a technical writer at Radio Research Laboratory, Harvard University, continuing this work at Northeastern Engineering Company in Manchester, N.H.
He was proudest of his eight years atop Mt. Washington from 1937 to 1942 and from 1949 to 1952, first as meteorological observer with the Mt. Washington Observatory and later as engineer with the pioneer frequency-modulation broadcast system operated by the Yankee Network. For a time after leaving Mt. Washington, he continued in broadcasting with WGAN-FM in Portland, Maine.
From 1955 through 1957, Dick served as associate director of the Mt. Washington Observatory technical program, keeping in daily touch with scientific projects by radio from his home in Epsom, N.H. His pattern of employment was influenced somewhat by his investments in real estate, including purchases in Freeport, Maine, and in Epsom.
Dick was a natural gentleman who loved honesty, simple life, sincere friendships, and the land. He is survived by a. brother, Everett F. Learnard '25.
Alexander A. McKenzie '32
1929
BENJAMIN BURTON LEAVITT died on February 12 in Gainesville, Fla. He had seemed well at our 50th reunion but had been in poor health for two years. He began to slow up last fall and was failing by Christmas.
After graduating in 1929, Ben taught biology at Dartmouth for two years. He then earned his Ph.D. at Harvard and taught at preparatory schools in Massachusetts, North Carolina, and New York City until the war. After wartime service in the Air Force, which he left as a major, Ben became a professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville until his retirement four years ago.
His wife Peggy wrote that he had become a gentleman farmer on five acres near Gainesville, raising chickens and a marvelous vegetable garden.
Ben leaves his wife, two children, five grandchildren, and a brother, Joseph Leavitt '25.
1930
HENRY WORCESTER KIDDER JR., a resident of Twin Lakes Village, N.H., for 50 years, died on March 13 after a long illness. He was born in Medford, Mass., graduated from Colby Academy, and attended Dartmouth for two years. Henry was proprietor of Twin Lakes Villa Hotels and Cottages and had served as a director of the Sugar River Savings Bank of Newport and as selectman of Springfield. He is survived by his wife Ruth, a son, a daughter, and four grandchildren.
1931
NICKERSON ROGERS, 71, died on January 4 of cancer at Exeter, N.H., Hospital. Nick came to the Hanover Plain from Tabor Academy. While on campus, he was a member of the Round Table and Cabin and Trail. His major was physics.
From 1934 to 1940 he was employed by the Polaroid Corporation, and in 1941 he worked for the Worcester Film Corporation. He taught in the Navy V-12 program at Dartmouth during World War II and had worked at the Dartmouth Eye Institute. He also taught for many years at the Loomis-Chaffee School. He received his M.A. from Trinity College in 1949. In 1967 Nick moved to Phillips Exeter Academy, where he taught physical sciences and oceanography.
His first marriage to Barbara New hall Follett ended in divorce. Anne Bradley and Nick were married in 1944. They had two daughters.
He was an incorporator of the New England section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and chaired the group in 1959-1960. Nick had written articles on ground water recharge and helped rewrite high school physics texts.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
1932
CLARKE SULLIVAN JR., a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, died at the age of 68 on January 25 in St. Petersburg, Fla., after a long illness. Clarke, who came from Dayton, Ohio, did not graduate with our class and pursued a long and illustrious military career starting in 1941. During World War II he served as staff officer with intelligence in England and was also attached to the 12th Army group under General Omar Bradley. He was later aide-de-camp and administrative assistant to the director of the National Security Agency in Washington, D.C. He had been awarded 12 medals and citations, many signed by General Bradley or General Douglas MacArthur, covering both World War II and the Korean conflict. Clarke was retired due to wartime disabilities. The class extends its sympathy to his wife Iris, a daughter, a sister, a nephew, and two nieces.
1933
WILLIAM LUDLOW KING, a resident of East Lansing, Mich., died on January 18 from complications arising two weeks after surgery. He is survived by Margery, his wife of nearly 41 years, a daughter, and two grandchildren.
Bill entered Dartmouth from Calumet, Mich., High School, where he was a three-letter athlete in football, track, and basketball, on the student council, and active in the Hi-Y. At Dartmouth, he marched to his own drummer. Classmate Richard W. Graves wrote about Bill: "For four years, he reigned supreme on the first floor of Streeter Hall. By judicious over-cutting, he missed graduating with the class, though he had completed his major (economics) and certainly had sufficient hours. This gave him an extra year in Hanover before facing the Great Depression."
Because of the Depression, Bill once said, "Until 1935, I lived the life of an Irishman." From then on, except for a brief interlude with the U.S. Army during World War II, he spent his entire business career with the Public Service Commission of Michigan, retiring in April 1976 as director of the transportation division.
After retirement, he and Margery spent their summers on Lake Michigan. "He loved the water and would buy a different boat every day at the marina." The sympathy of the class goes to Margery, his family, and his many friends in the loss of this blithe man.
1934
HENRY BARBER BROWN died on February 12 in Choate Memorial Hospital in Woburn, Mass. He had been in the hospital since January 26, when he was in-jured in a car accident in Woburn.
JurBrownie was born in Winchester, Mass., and red for Dartmouth at Winchester High School A Tilton Academy. Freshman year he roomed in North Massachusetts with Phipps Cole '34. He was a ember of Alpha Chi Rho. He worked on the business "tiff of The Dartmouth and was in the band and the Freshman Glee Club. His major was sociology, and he later received a master's degree in social work from Boston University.
After graduation from Dartmouth, Brownie worked for the New Hampshire State Industrial School for Boys in Manchester, and then for the Worcester Children's Friend Society, as a social worker. This latter was an affiliation he retained for life, serving as president of the society at one time and as an honorary director for life.
In 1941, Brownie changed his profession to sales engineer and became a partner in Brown, Pfau, and Worthern Company, dealers in castings and forgings. He retired in 1971, but for the class 40th reunion book in 1974 he wrote, "Three years of retirement was enough. I've gone back to work!" What he went back to was his first love, social work, becoming director of the Worcester Vocational Adjustment Center.
He was a resident of Shrewsbury, Mass., for many years. He was very active in community affairs, for 18 years chairing the Shrewsbury Finance Committee and serving as a scoutmaster and an active participant in innumerable committees, clubs, and social agencies.
Brownie leaves his wife Hazel (Rees), a daughter, a son. and four grandchildren. To his family, we, his classmates and Dartmouth friends, extend our sympathy for the loss of this fine man.
1935
WILLIAM HERBERT ELLIS JR. died at his home in West Roxbury, Mass., on March 21 after a long illness. Duke, as he was known to classmates, attended the University of Notre Dame for the first two years of college and then spent his last two at Dartmouth. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
At the time of his death he was serving as president and treasurer of W. H. Ellis and Son Inc. of East Boston, one of the oldest pier and bridge building firms in the region. He was also at one time editor and publisher of the East Boston Free Press and the Winthrop Transcript. Other interests included serving as president of the boards of trustees of Boston City Hospital, Long Island Hospital, and Boston Sanatorium and as trustee of several banks. Community activities included the presidency of the Newton Community Center and Community Chest, membership on the Newton Board of Health, and service as a trustee of the Parkway Boys Club. He also held the title of Knight of St. Gregory, conferred on him by the late Richard Cardinal Cushing.
William Ellis leaves his wife Rose, a son William H. III '68, and a daughter Mary. The sympathy of his classmates is extended to the family.
HARRY JOSEPH KNOTT, born in Unionville, Conn., enjoyed being first among his colleagues in nearly everything he did, but he lost his battle against cancer on March 31 in Mt. Carmel Medical Center inColumbus, Ohio.
Harry graduated in 1931 from Farmington, Conn., High School and in 1935 from Dartmouth, where he majored in education and played varsity lacrosse. He was named to the all-America lacrosse team in 1933 and 1934. By vocation a hard-working salesman who could sell anything he believed in, he was familiar with many of this country's new developments in appliances, furniture, and sporting goods. In recent years he had given up traveling to work directly with the public in retail sales and had devoted time to other favored projects. Most notable were promotion of lacrosse in high schools as he worked closely with the Columbus Lacrosse Club, the Crippled Children's Center of Central Ohio, and the Columbus Zoo. He was a board member of the last two organizations and an active member of the Gahanna, Ohio, Rotary.
Harry is survived by his wife Beverly, five children, and 11 grandchildren.
1941
DONALD CAROL SAMUEL, co-founder and president of the Energy Fund Inc. and an active participant in many philanthropic and community organizations, died suddenly in New York City on February 20. His home was in New York City.
Don left college at the start of our senior year and later attended the New School for Social Research. After World War II service as an Air Force major, he worked with the Robert Hall clothing chain and then joined his father, the late Ralph E. Samuel '13, as a partner in his securities firm. The two set up the Energy Fund, one of the first mutual funds to specialize in energy stocks, in 1955, and Don became its president in 1959. He was also executive partner of Neuberger and Berman, an NYSE member firm.
His many public activities included service as a trustee of Sarah Lawrence College until 1975 (his wife Berelle, and alumna, is currently a trustee) and of the Dalton School. He has been an officer or trustee of the Jewish Family Service and a successor organization, the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, as well as of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and Mobilization for Youth. He had earlier been president of the No-Load Mutual Fund Association.
Don leaves his wife, the former Berelle A. Katz, and three daughters the eldest, Wendy, an exchange student at Dartmouth while attending Sarah Lawrence. He is also survived by a brother Howard '46 and a nephew Ralph '67.
1954
JOHN COTTRELL VARNUM, a well-known actor at the Old Log Theater in Simpsonville, Ky., for 15 years, died on March 8 after a long illness. He was 47.
John was born in New York City and devoted his whole life to the theater. After majoring in drama at Dartmouth, He headed an Army Special Services unit in Germany and appeared with several national touring companies, including with Vivien Leigh in Duel ofAngels.
He joined the Old Log Theater in 1963 and remained there until his death, appearing in more plays than any other actor in the theater's history. His repertoire ranged from the detective in Catch Me IfYou Can to Beckett's Waiting for Godot to Neil Simon comedies. The producer-director of the Old Log called John "one of the quickest studies" he had ever known in the theater. He is survived by two aunts.
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JOHN CREPPS WICKLIFFE III was tragically taken from the world he loved, at the age of 34, when struck by a bus in Madison, Wise., on February 18. At the time of his death he was unmarried and a salesman for a local newspaper. He was planning on graduate work in computer science.
Crepps came to Dartmouth from Wisconsin and spent one year at the Mount Hermon School immediately prior to entering the College. He was a mathematics major and will be remembered by many of us as a dedicated skier, expert chess player, and fine poet. He was a lover of nature and took the time in his life to appreciate it and write about it. He was loved in his home community, and no less than seven memorial services were held in his honor.
Crepps is survived by his parents and a sister. It is fitting that one of his own poems should grace these pages as a tribute to this fine man. Following is the final verse of one of his works, written in September 1977.
"For what we have is the doing and the living the taking care and the growing, the searching and the loving. I accept this night, the peace it brings, and the sun tomorrow. I offer myself."
