Deaths
(A listing of deaths of which word has beenreceived within the past month. Full notices mayappear in this issue or a later one.)
Larson, J. Fredrick, faculty, May 6 Nichols, Chester W. 'OB, July 13 Little, Lester K. '14, October 27 Potter, Herbert S. '15, October 29 Cross, Walter W. '19, October 21 Wilder, Richard N. '19, October 17 Grandfield, Ralph E. '22, July 10 Johnson, John S. '22, October 15 Painter, J. Henry '22, July 1980 Siegfried, N. Osborne '22, October 22 Booth, Howard M. '24, October 26 Horton, Albert C. '25, October 9 Mickelson, Howard '25, October 15 Sawyer, Walter F. Jr. '25, October 23 Lower, Martin E. '26, October 26 Gintzler, Joseph H. '27, July 19 Neale, Joseph V. '3O, June 29 Dillon, James C. II '32, September 14 White, Benjamin '32, November 3 Woodcock, Robert L. Jr. '33, August 12 Taggart, Daniel B. '34, October 24 Wagner, Frederick E. '38, November 1 White, Graham U. '38, December 29, 1980 Hale, Winthrop F. '39, November 4 Larkin, Arthur E. Jr. '39, October 14 Dreffin, William B. '4l, September 15 Schwer, John L. '41, August 10 Monahan, John F. '45, August 13 Neizer, Raymond G. '52, October 13
Faculty
JENS FREDRICK LARSON, architect of Baker Library and many other College buildings, died on May 6. He was for many years the College architect, he was an instructor in modern art and architecture at Dartmouth from 1926 to 1934, and he was awarded an honorary degree by the College in 1928.
He studied architecture at Harvard and abroad from 1910 to 1914 and served as a captain in the Canadian Air Force during World War I.
In 1920, he began a private practice as a consulting architect, specializing in college and university buildings and planning. Among other campuses that benefited from his vision were Colby College, Bucknell University, Washington-Jefferson College, and many more. In addition, he designed many residences and other private buildings in the Hanover area during the years he and his family spent at Dartmouth. In 1951, he moved his practice from New York City to Reynolda, N.C., where he made his home at the time of his death.
He was a member of numerous professional and civic associations and had published a book on college architecture and several articles in his field. He was also awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1937.
He was married in 1920 to Elisabeth Frost, who survives him, together with a daughter, a son, seven grandchildren, and two greatgrandsons.
1908
CHESTER WARREN NICHOLS passed away on July 13 at the age of 94. Born in Reading, Mass., in 1886, he prepared for Dartmouth at Reading High School.
After graduation from college he returned to the Tuck School for a special course and then in 1911 entered the American Telephone and Telegraph Company as a student. In 1912 he was assigned to the commercial department of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company in Maryland, where he remained until his enlistment in 1917 in the Army Signal Corps. He served overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces and was discharged in 1919.
Upon his return to civilian life, Chet resumed his employment with AT&T, requesting a transfer to the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company office in Boston. He remained there, in the commercial department, until his retirement in 1951.
When he returned to New England, Chet made his home with his sister Hilda on the family homestead in North Wilmington, Mass. Later, in 1942, they moved together to Duxbury, where she survives him.
Chet was active in civic affairs, serving as a trustee of town and cemetery trust funds and as commander of the American Legion in Wilmington. In Duxbury, he served on various town committees, was president of the Duxbury Nurse Association, and was on the parish committee of the Episcopal Church.
While in Baltimore, Chet served as the first president of the Dartmouth Club there, and his sister wrote that ,"he was very proud to be a graduate of Dartmouth."
1911
FRANK SUMNER WHITCOMB passed away on June 19 at the Masonic Homes in Elizabethtown, Pa., where he had resided for the past several years. He would have been 92 August 20.
Born in Lowell, Mass., he entered Dartmouth from Lowell High School. He followed in the footsteps of his father, a Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa graduate in 1873- Frank graduated Phi Beta Kappa and went on to earn a C.E. degree from the Thayer School in 1912. After college, he was employed by several concerns in the Philadelphia area, where he married Elizabeth Fox in 1915. In 1919 he went to work for the Belmont Iron Works and continued his employ ment there until his retirement in 1962. His wife died in 1965.
Frank joined the Masonic Lodge in Hanover in 1912 and transferred his membership to Roxborough Lodge #135 in Philadelphia upon his graduation. He also belonged to the Thayer Society of Engineers and maintained his interest in Dartmouth throughout his life and was a regular contributor to the Alumni Fund. He is survived by a sister in Lowell.
1914
LESTER KNOX LITTLE, the only American to ever head the Chinese Customs Service during its 100-year history, died at Mt. Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, Vt., on October 27. He was 89.
"Lay" majored in modern languages at Dartmouth and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, Casque and Gauntlet senior society, Palaeopitus, and the track team; he was president of the Dartmouth Christian Association; he chaired the Interfraternity Council; and he was editorin-chief of the Aegis. He later earned a master's degree from Brown University, in 1921.
Shortly after graduation, Lay joined the Chinese Customs Service and remained with it for 36 years. Early in World War II he was placed under house arrest by the Japanese and was repatriated to this country. He returned to China in 1943 as inspector general of Chinese Customs, which is recognized the world over as a model of governmental efficiency and integrity.
After leaving the Service in 1950, Lay served as adviser to the Ministry of Finance in Taiwan for four years, and in 1.955. became director of personnel for the U.S. Information Agency, from which he retired in 1960. Even then, he continued to remain active as a consultant.
In 1963, he purchased a home in Cornish, N.H., where he lived until his death. He was always active in Dartmouth affairs, serving as secretary of the Dartmouth Association of North China from 1925 to 1927, as president of his class from 1964 to 1969, and as grand marshal of the Dartmouth Night parade in 1978. In 1950, the College awarded him an honorary degree for "advancing the work of good government everywhere." In 1972, his son, John W. Little II '40, set up a scholarship fund in honor of his father to help defray the costs of a Dartmouth education, preferably for students from China.
Lay was married in 1917 to Elizabeth Freeman; she died in 1939. In 1940, he was remarried to Alice Macdonald, who died in 1941. Finally, he married Ruth Stoddard Smith in 1963. She survives him, together with two children by his first marriage, including his son John; nine grandchildren, including Carl '76; four great-grandchildren; two step-children; six step-grandchildren; and a brother, Arthur '23.
1918
After a long illness, GEORGE PIERCE GERAN died at the age of 85 in Brooklyn, N.Y. Gerry, as he was called, came to Dartmouth from Holyoke, Mass., High School. In college he was a member of Chi Phi fraternity and played center "or rover on the varsity hockey team. During World War I he enlisted in the Navy and was discharged as a quartermaster at the end of the war.
Gerry became a national figure in professional hockey and was well known for his even temperament and for never being charged with unsportsmanlike conduct on the ice. In his playing career, he starred with the Montreal Wanderers and the Boston Bruins. While living in Boston, he was employed in the leather business and when he went to Antwerp for the 1920 Olympic hockey games, he introduced his product in five European cities. After he stopped playing hockey, the French government invited him to return to that country, where he played and coached for eight months. Gerry finally retired after serving for a number of years in the government General Services Administration.
He is survived by his wife Frances.
On September 10, MAX HILL OLNEY, age 87, died suddenly at his home in Westernville, N.Y. He came to Dartmouth from Rome, N.Y., High School, and he was a veteran of World War I, having served in the Army chemical warfare branch.
Max was president and owner of Olney and Floyd Inc., a fruit and vegetable processing corporation with canneries in Westerville, Lee Center, Camden, and Canastota, all in New York State. He retired in 1968. He 'was a member of the State Canners Association and a former member of the board of trustees of the Rome Trust Company and Oneida National Bank. He was also a member of the Tengega Country Club, the Rome Club, the Fish Creek Club, the American Legion, the Shrine, the Commandary, the Elks Club, and a 50-year member of the Baron Steuben Masonic Lodge.
Surviving, besides his wife Marjorie, are three sons, ten grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
In Beverley Hills, Calif., on September 27, JULIUS RAPHAEL VAN RAALTE died in his sleep of a cardiac arrest at age 85.
Jules, as he was called, came to Dartmouth from Smith Academy in St. Louis. In college, he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. During World War I he was a second lieutenant in the artillery. For ten years after the war, he continued as a lieutenant in the U.S.R.C.
After his war service he became active in real estate in St. Louis. In 1945 he moved to New York City, where for ten years he was vice president of Thompson Starret Company. In 1955 he was named to chair the board and to be president offices which he held until his retirement to Florida in 1968. For many years, he had also been active in equestrian sports.
Jules is survived by his wife Janet, a daughter, a son-John A.'48, a sister, and six grandchildren.
1919
RICHARD NOYES WILDER died on October 17 in Clearwater Fla., where he had made his home since 1956. While there, he built and ran the Ivy League Motel.
Dick enlisted in the Navy in World War I and was sent to the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was commissioned. He left the Navy in 1924 with the rank of full lieutenant. He served as an official delegate to the ceremonies held in Westminster Abbey during which the Congressional medal of honor was awarded to the United Kingdom's unknown soldier. He was also a member of the delegation which accompanied the body of the American unknown soldier home from Europe.
Most of his after-the-war years were spent in civil service, and he was a major figure in the drafting of the Social Security system. After his stay in Washington he had headquarters in Springfield, Mass. In his later years in Florida, he was active in boating circles and received many honors from different organizations for his unselfish work. He was also a member of many public service organizations in the Pinellas County area.
He is survived by his wife Jeanne and a daughter.
1923
THEODORE AUGUSTUS HELLWIG JR. died of a massive heart attack in June in the intensive care unit of a Tucson, Ariz., hospital. Word of his death came to Babe Miner '23 from Ted's widow Berta, whom Babe first met in Grand Central Station when he was on his way to Dartmouth with his brother Stan '22 and she was going to the Castle School in Tarrytown, N.Y. Berta is a native of Bolivia.
Born in Asbury Park, N.J., Ted graduated from Peekskill Military Academy. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
After college, Ted was first associated with the New York securities firm of Keppler Company and later with C. D. Halsey Company and Laird, Bissell and Meeds. In 1936 he became a partner in the Sweetser Company and in 1939 vice president of Investors Counsel Inc. In 1942 he joined the aviation branch of the U.S. Navy, where he served until October 1946,. retiring with the rank of lietuenant commander. Following his service in the Navy he became associated with Caffette Inc., an instant food beverage company, and was made its president in 1965. He was a member of the Fairfield County Hunt Club and the Pequot Yacht Club.
Ted's survivors include his widow Berta, two sons, a daughter, and five grandchildren.
1924
HOWARD MASON BOOTH died on October 26 following a long illness. He spent his entire business career with the Worcester Telegram andGazette, starting as the driver of a delivery truck and proceeding through all phases of the business. He became publisher on the death of his father in 1963 and was also president of radio station WTAG in Worcester.
"Pinky" was an active member of the class in college. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and the Dragon senior society.
The list of activities in which he took part during his lifetime includes practically every community endeavor, ranging from service as president of the Worcester Area Boy Scout Council (he received the Silver Beaver Award in 1941) to director of the Worcester Five Cent Savings Bank and Mechanics Savings Bank, and director of State Mutual Life Assurance; he was also a member and took an active part in many social and philanthropic organizations, including Quinsigamond Lodge A.F. & A.M., Eureka Chapter, and the Unitarian Church.
He is survived by his wife Barbara, a son, two daughters, and one granddaughter.
HARRY WARD BROUGH died on May 4. At the time of his death his home was in Carlsbad Calif.
He was with us in Hanover for only one year and was a member of Sigma Nu. We have little information regarding his subsequent life or the surviving members of his family.
1925
ALBERT CONANT HORTON died on October 9 He lived in Somerville, Mass., and had been ill and unable to be active for some time. A1 was born in Mt. Vernon, N.H., and graduated from Somerville High School.
In college he was an officer of the Dartmouth Christian Association. Following graduation from the Harvard Business School in 1927 he undertook a career in real estate development and accounting. In the latter field he was a partner in a public accounting firm.
A1 is survived by his wife, the former Constance Bucuvalas, a daughter, a son, and three grandchildren.
HOWARD MICKELSON, a long-time resident of East Lansing, Mich., died of cancer on October 15. Although his was a lingering death, modern home service made it possible for him to remain in some comfort in the house he had personally helped build more than 50 years before.
"Mickey", was born in Milwaukee, Wise., in 1902, but his family moved to the Newtons in Massachusetts when he was young, and he prepared there for Dartmouth at Watertown High School. Mickey was a happy person, full of quiet humor. His long career as a banker (he became president of the Central Trust Company of Lansing, Mich., as a very young man and, after a merger, was executive officer of the trust division of the American Bank and Trust Company of Lansing) was always subordinate to his love of home, golf, the East Lansing Public Library, and wonderful dinner parties in his home.
Eschewing public limelight, he was a devoted husband of Lucille and father of Howard jr. (Dartmouth '59 and Tuck '62) and John (Dartmouth '66), all of whom together with four grandchildren survive him.
BARRETT LYONS '25
1926
WILLARD HOSMER BLANCHARD died peacefully at his and his sister's home in Somerville, Mass., on September 20. Bill was stricken with polio when he was five years old and was living in Leominster, Mass-.; but despite the loss of use of both legs, he gained an excellent education at both Worcester Academy and Dartmouth by his great determination and his powerful physique which enabled him to participate in school life successfully.
At Dartmouth, Bill was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Green Key, of which he was secretary his junior year. He took his M.C.S. at Tuck School in 1927. He had two cousins in college with him George '27 and Royal 27 (both now deceased). Royal on some .occasions would give Bill a ride on his back across the campus.
After graduation Bill lived with his widowe sister, Grace Mitchell, and became an investment analyst with Russell, Berg and Company, which later merged with and became Franklin Management Company of Boston. Bill kept in touch with classmates in the Boston area, attended some class reunions, served a term as manager of the Boston branch of the Tuck School Clearing House, and was always loyal to Dartmouth. He was a member of the Class of 1926 Funding Associates, having established a substantial trust which, when it reverts to the College, both he and his sister hope will have a significant connection with Dick's House. Bill also kept active with hobbies of chess, reading, photography, and church, where he taught Sunday school and was auditor.
The class of '26 was represented at his services by Gardner W. Brown. The deep sympathy of the class goes to his sister Grace, who survives him.
1927
ALFRED THEODORE CHABOT, 76, died on August 16 after a short confinement at the hospital in Danbury, Conn., where he was visiting his daughter. For several years he had been seriously incapacitated because of circulatory problems and had been confined to a wheelchair under the attendance of a nurse. Survivors include a daughter, a son, and four grandchildren. His wife Helen died in 1968.
A1 was born in New York City and attended Fordhatn Preparatory School before coming to Dartmouth, where he was a member of the Dragon Society and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. After graduating from college he attended Harvard Law School, which granted him the LL.B. degree in 1930. His entire professional career was spent as an attorney for American Water Works, first in New York City, during which period he and his wifg resided in Darien, Conn. In 1950 his company moved its office to Philadelphia, and the family moved to Haverford, Pa. On retirement in 1952, they moved to Vero Beach, Fla., where they built a lovely home and spent the remainder of their lives.
A1 was an out-of-doors person through and through and enjoyed puttering around in the gardens surrounding his home. He particularly looked forward each summer to visiting his daughter in Connecticut and helping with the gardening there. He maintained a keen sense of humor to the end in spite of his many discomforts.
ALBERT VIRGIL HOUSE of Endwell, N.Y., died July 28 in the Wolfboro, N.H., Hospital after a brief confinement. He had been suffering from cancer for several years, during which time he was hospitalized several times.
A1 was born in Worcester, Mass., in 1906 and attended Cushing Academy before entering Dartmouth, where he was a member of Theta Chi fraternity. Always interested in the study of history, he went on to receive his M.A. in 1932 and a Ph.D. in 1934, both from the University of Wisconsin. During World War II he served four years with the Army Air Force Intelligence, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel at the time of his retirement in 1946.
He began his teaching career at Wilson Teachers College in Washington, D.C., but moved shortly to the State University of New York in Binghampton, where he was professor of history. He was the author of many articles and reviews in professional historical journals all on various phases of his specialty, 19thcentury American history.
For the past two decades he had followed a summer routine of spending Monday to Friday at the Baker Library in Hanover carrying on research. Then he would spend the weekend with his family at their summer home in Wolfboro, N.H. He is survived by his wife Laura and three sons, including Richard '69.
1928
GORDON SINCLAIR MILLER died of a heart attack on August 7 at the hospital in West Haverstraw, N.Y. He had been convalescing for 11 months from an operation for an aneurysm.
He was a native of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., and graduated from Tuxedo High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Theta Chi. Scotty was a loyal supporter of Dartmouth and attended his 50th reunion.
He was a research engineer at Sperry Gyroscope Company of Great Neck, N.Y., from 1949 until his retirement. He served three years in the Army, from 1943 to 1945, part of that time with a signal repair company in Burma.
He is survived by his son Bruce and daughter Carolyn, a brother, a sister, and one grandchild.
1930
JOSEPH VIOLAND NEALE of Mt. Ephriam, N.J., passed away on June 29.Joe had retired as president of Neale's Inc. and had been active in the retail business for over 46 years. In addition to his business interests, Joe had been active in various civic enterprises. He was a charter member and past president of the Mt. Ephriam Rotary Club and enthusiastically pursued a variety of hobbies including gardening, photography, and travel until he encountered increasing health problems a few years ago.
Joe, or "Tiger," as he was known by classmates and fraternity brothers at Tri Kap, is survived by his devoted wife, Violet Chase (Keene-State College), whom he married in 1932. He is survived also by two sons and a daughter. There are seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren who provided great joy and happiness to Joe during his busy and productive life.
H. MEADE ALCORNJR. '30
We have learned of the death of HORST HANS ORBANOWSKI on June 19 at the Greenwich, Conn., Hospital, following a lengthy illness, and after a life filled with a variety of successful activities in this country as well as in Europe.
He received a B.S. from M.I.T. in 1931 and for most of the following years worked in Germany in a variety of increasingly responsible technical positions, mostly in the steel industry. He played on the national German hockey team, which won the European championship in Milan. In 1950 he returned to the United States and became vice president of Kurt Orban Company of Jersey City, traveling extensively on business throughout Europe and Japan. He was a member of many athletic and professional technical societies here and overseas.
He found time to earn his Ph.D. at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and became an ardent sailor in the Atlantic Class.
His direct contacts with the class have been limited, although he was in touch with Charlie Raymond occasionally. And I remember when I was serving an earlier stint as secretary in the late forties, he looked us up in Barrington, R.I., for a very pleasant visit. He regretted he could not attend our 50th because he was afflicted with Parkinson's disease, but he reported that his wife Annelotte was a wonderful nurse.
He leaves her, two daughters, and a son Peter Dartmouth class of 1966.
JOSEPH FRANKLIN TRAGLE JR., known to all of us as Frank, died September 25 in Wyomissing, Pa., nine days after his 75th birthday.
In Hanover Frank was active in the Arts, the Interfraternity Council, the Intercollegiate Pictorial, and The Dartmouth. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Sphinx, and Alpha Delta Sigma, and in his senior year was president of the Beta chapter. After graduation he spent a term at Columbia and then traveled for two years as a free-lance writer and photographer in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, returning then to. ten years with the Reading, Pa., Times as a reporter, columnist, and editorial writer. In 1936 he married Dorothea Burk Sigel (Dottie), who had attended Mt. Vernon Junior College and Geneva Cpllege for Women in Switzerland. A daughter and a son were born in 1939 and 1941, respectively.
In 1942 Frank moved to Washington, D.C., and the Associated Press, where he stayed for 29 years until his retirement in 1971. He and Dottie subsequently went back to the Reading area, settling first in Flying Hills and later in Wyomissing. There he was a member of the Wyomissing Club and the Berkshire Country Club.
I regret that I've had little contact with Frank since 1930, but one characteristic I'll never forget was a nice sense of humor and an appreciation of a laugh at his own expense. I recall that Frank was the justly-proud owner of a beautiful Packard phaeton, the envy of those who drove Model T's or old junkers, if anything. One day in front of the Beta house, in daylight and complete sobriety, Frank backed his car directly into a sturdy tree that had been in that spot for 20 or 30 years. Others would have been too embarrassed and chagrined to find any humor in the mishap. Not Frank after one wry glance at the damage, he joined in the guffaws of his unsympathetic brethren. The class extends its sympathy to Dottie and the two children.
ROBERT M. MARK '30
1932
JAMES CANBY DILLON 11, 70, of Wilmington, Del., died on September 14 after a long illness. Jim came to Dartmouth from Wilmington High School; he majored in economics and went on to earn an M.C.S. degree at Tuck School in 1933In college he was active with the track team during his junior and senior years and belonged to the Sigma Nu fraternity.
After graduation Jim was active in the Dartmouth Club of Delaware and spent much time in Naples, Fla., during the winter before eventually retiring there. Jim's business career started in 1933 as clerk with the Wilmington Sash and Door Company. In 1950 he became president of the company. Jim also served for almost three years with the U.S. Air Corps in World War II, starting as a private and leaving as sergeant, with three battle stars for service in the Southwest Pacific Area.
He is survived by his wife Adelaide (Mahoney) and two children. The class extends its sympathy to them.
1933
ROBERT LINDSAY WOODCOCK JR. died on August 12. The place and the cause of death are not known. At the time, Bob was retired from business, and he and his wife Frances were living in Laguna Hills, Calif.
Bob was born in Illinois and came to Dartmouth from Hinsdale, Ill., Township High School. During the 1930-31 academic year, he attended Northwestern University, returning to Dartmouth as a junior. At Dartmouth, he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, served on the news board, and played in the band. He attended Tuck School senior year.
Upon graduation, Bob joined Montgomery Ward, then went with Marshall Field, and ended with Hallmark Cards Inc. in Kansas City, Mo.always in management.
During the war years, from 1942 to 1945, he served in the U.S. Navy, starting as an ensign, and he was discharged to the inactive reserves as a lieutenant commander. He received a Letter of Commendation for his "intelligence activities" in the Rome-Arno area and was awarded the Bronze Star. He was called back into service for the Korean engagement and was finally discharged as a captain, U.S.N.R.
Bob's father was in the class of 1910, and an uncle was in the class of 1911. We of the class of 1933 extend our sympathy to Frances and their two sons in their loss.
1934
We have learned that CARRINGTON WOODBURY HILL died of a massive heart attack on June 22. He was working at Publicover in Boston on the day of his attack, in a part-time job he had taken following retirement from the National Shawmut Bank. He lived in Massachusetts throughout his career, mostly in the Boston area, but was devoted to New Hampshire as a vacationland and to sports in general, baseball in particular.
It was in Portsmouth, N.H., 46 years ago that he married Margaret Duerr, a Colby College graduate. They had four sons (three surviving) and a daughter who gave them seven grandsons, a granddaughter, and, recently, two greatgrandchildren.
The class sends its deep sympathy to Margaret and the rest of the Hill family.
1937
FREDERICK STUART LAUGHTON died on September 22 in Pennsville, N.J. He had suffered increasingly with emphysema for many years.
He came to Dartmouth from St. Johnsbury, Vt., Academy, and majored in economics and political science.
Following service in the Army, he attended Ohio State, from which he received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. In 1957 he supplemented that with a master's degree from Northeastern in Boston. His work took his family to Bucksport, Maine, with the St. Regis Paper Company, then as a construction engineer with the Oxford Paper Company to Rumford, Maine, where they were at the time of our 25th reunion. He was active with the P.T.A. and church there in Dixsfield. Later he went with the Bechtel Power Company near Pennsville, where he remained until his death.
Fred and his wife Rachel were married in 1944. They were a great team, as he had a quiet, unassuming manner, while she was a warm and bubbly personality. They both had a great affection for Dartmouth.
George Caldes '37, now retired from Dupont, attended the services. Fred leaves his wife and two sons.
1938
JOHN MAHONEY DONOVAN died on October 5 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction after a long battle with cancer.
Jack was born in Lawrence, Mass., and prepared for Dartmouth at Phillips Exeter Academy. At Dartmouth he was a member of the varsity track and baseball teams for three years each, beating the world record-holder in the 45-yard high hurdles at the B.A.A. meet in February of his senior year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet.
Except for the World War II years, which he spent as a captain in military intelligence, Jack's entire business career was with General Motors in its overseas operations. Over the years he served in Egypt, India, Hawaii, Norway, Denmark, and England, and as area manager of the Middle East and African operations.
He married Dorthe (Rasmussen) Donovan in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1962, and they had a daughter. In addition to both of them, Jack is survived by his brother, Charles M. '43, a niece, Mary '74, and a sister.
, Memorial services were held October 17 at the Church of Christ in Hanover, with the Reverend Park Dickerson officiating.
1939
ARTHUR EDWARD LARKINJR., 64, died October 14 at his retirement home in Pauma Valley, Calif. Art came to Dartmouth from Blake Country Day in his native state of Minnesota, where he played football, hockey, and baseball, was a member of the choir, and participated in dramatics.
At Hanover he played varsity hockey and was a member of Beta Theta Pi and Dragon. He started his business career in sales with Reilly Tar and Chemical Corporation before joining the U.S. Navy, rising from apprentice seaman to lieutenant commander from 1940 to 1945.
In 1945, he joined George A. Hormel Company, a major meat packing firm, and he became a vice president and director of the company before leaving in 1958 for General Foods, Maxwell House coffee division. He was made vice president in 1962 and became the president and chief operating officer of General Foods Corporation in 1966, a position he retained until 1972. After resigning from General Foods, he was elected president and chief executive officer of the Keebler Company of Chicago. He retired in 1979 but then continued to chair the finance committee of United Biscuits Ltd. in Britain, parent company of Keebler. Art served as a director for the Grocery Manufacturers of America, the Gillette Company, the Advertising Council, the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University, the American Management Association, the First National City Corporation, Kemper Insurance Company, Hercules Inc., H. P. Hood, and United Biscuits Ltd.
He is survived by his wife, the former Ellen Keerian, three daughters, three step-sons, and a step-daughter.
1941
WILLIAM STOKES BLANCHARD died on September 8 of a sudden and massive heart attack at a hospital near his home in Fairfield, Conn.
He and Lally were among those in Hanover for the 40th, and she wrote: "He loved his college and was loyal to it in every way. I am so glad we made the reunion last spring-he enjoyed seeing his old friends, as did I."
Bill was a chemical engineer with the Reichold Chemical Company, headquartered in New Jersey. Earlier he had worked, for Monsanto as a sales representative in the plastics division and before that for Stokes Rubber Company.
Bill was born in Philadelphia, attended Berkshire Academy, and was Phi Gamma Delta at Dartmouth. He was active in the Players as an undergraduate and in the Comedy Club in Fairfield later. He also served as a volunteer at Norwalk Hospital in its alcoholism rehabilitation program.
He leaves his wife, Althea Eldredge Blanchard, three daughters, and five grandchildren. His brother, John Blanchard, graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1935.
MARSTON BAILEY GIBBS of Bronxville, N.Y., died of cancer at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City on September 13. He leaves his wife, the former Nancy Gongwer, two sons, a daughter, and two grandchildren. Classmate Rich Fisher, Gibby's close and longtime friend, sends this tribute:
"Dartmouth and '41 have lost one of their most loyal supporters a letter athlete in football and track at Bronxville, N.Y., High in his hometown of many years, and, at Dartmouth, a freshman football player and a member of Zeta Psi and Dragon.
"Gibby was a man of sail, having saved up to buy his first boat, a frostbite dinghy, at the age of ten. He went on to class-boat racing and eventually ocean racing before he retired to power, a 40-foot cruiser based at the Hugenot Yacht club in New Rochelle.
"His sailing ways made it inevitable that wartime service would be with the Navy. He commanded the destroyer escort U.S.S. Rednour in the Pacific until the ship was crippled by a kamikaze pilot.
"He began a postwar insurance career with Factory Mutual in Providence, R.I., and Firemen's Mutual in Charlotte, N.C., later returning to his hometown to become a recognized national-accounts broker associated with the Murray, VanderPoel and Baker and the Schiff Terhune agencies in New York and with Mark Rollins in Bronxville.
"Gibby was dedicated to his family and was community-spirited. He worked with the Boy Scouts, the United Way, and other civic causes He loved model-making and created detailperfect boats and planes. His gift of the ship model, The Great Republic, to Mystic Seaport will be a lasting memorial both to him and to his father, who researched and contributed heavily to the project."
We learned just this summer that CAMERON BACON HOSMER died on October 26, 1980, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He lived in Chagrin Falls.
Cam was born in Chicago, but came to Dartmouth from Syracuse, N.Y., via Deerfield Academy. As an undergradaute, he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, managed the freshman football team, and played varsity lacrosse. During World War II, he was a cryptoanalyst with the Army Signal Corps, enlisting as a private and emerging as a first lieutenant after service in the India-Burma theater.
After the war, Cam did postgraduate work at Syracuse University and then spent a year with the accounting firm of Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery before joining the Hupp Corporation in Cleveland, where he became supervisor of the accounting department.
At the last report we had, he was general accountant for the Holan Corporation, in the same city, which manufactures specialized truck bodies and equipment for utility companies.
Cam is survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Carr. She graduated from Pembroke and they were married in Newport, R.I., in 1942. His two older brothers were also Dartmouth alumni Robert '32 and David '38.
JOHN LEE SCHWER died of cancer at his home in Southwick, Mass., on August 10.
Jack was born in Newton, Mass., but lived most of his life in Westfield, where he married Marjorie Canfield in 1950 right after her graduation from Smith.
He prepared for Dartmouth at Lenox School and in college played freshman hockey and varsity baseball and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. His interest in sports continued in later life; he coached Little League baseball, was active in the Southwick Recreation Center, skied, played tennis anfl golf, and belonged to the Longmeadow Country Club and the Misquamicut Club of Watch Hill, R.I.
Jack served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy in the Atlantic during World War II. For 25 years he was president of the Charles C. Schwer Company, a family mail-order and greeting card business. In 1969 the firm was purchased by the Sunshine Arts Studio of East Longmeadow, Mass., and since then Jack had been .sales manager for Sunshine.
Besides his wife, Jack is survived by three daughters, a son currently attending St. Lawrence University, and one grandson.
1945
JOHN FRANCIS MONAHAN JR. of Fanwood, N.J., died on August 13 at Muhlenberg Hospita in Plainfield, N.J., after a brief illness. At the time of his death he was district sales representative for A.C.F. Inc., Shippers Car Line, in Fort Lee, N.J.
"Mo" graduated from West Haven High School in Connecticut and Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, where he received letters in football, basketball, and lacrosse. At Dartmouth, he was a member and president of both DKE fraternity and the Sphinx senior society; he was also a first-string all-America football player and second-string all-America in basketball. He served in the Navy as a lieutenant junior grade from 1943 to 1946 and returned to Dartmouth after the war to receive his degree.
Mo is survived by his wife, the former F. Shirley Durkin, whom he married in 1944. They had four children, who also survive him, together with his mother, a brother, and three grandchildren.
His classmates extend their sympathy to his wife Shirley and to the other members of his family.
1955
JOHN WILLIAM FORLINE was killed, along with his only child, a daughter, Candice, on April 21 on the Nile in Egypt. They had been in Egypt for about a week when they took a cruise which ended in disaster. Their ship was battered by a sudden rainstrom 500 miles south of Cairo, ran into a sandbar, and sank, killing six. Since John's wife Marianne died seven years ago, John had taken many trips with his daughter.
As an undergraduate, John was an Alpha Theta and a member of the baseball team his freshman and junior years. A graduate of Dartmouth Medical School, John went on to the Duke School of Medicine and served his residency at the University of Cincinnati and at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
He had practiced dermatology in Belleville, N.J., for the past 15 years and was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War. He was a member of the Essex County Medical Society, the Medical Society of New Jersey, and the American Academy of Dermatologists.
A lecture fund has been established to memorialize John. The class extends its sympathy to John's two sisters and two brothers.
1967
ALEXANDER COOPER NAGLE III, of Atlanta, Ga., died unexpectedly on September 18 of a heart attack while attending the Radio and Television News Directors Association convention. Alec is survived by his wife Dial and a daughter.
Any similarity between Alec and characters in recent movies depicting the fraternity life of the '6os is not coincidental. We'll always remember Alec on a Sunday afternoon at the Alpha Delta Phi house, perched on a beer keg, listening to "My Girl." Alec majored in English as an undergraduate and was AD's social director in his senior year. He also made choice contributions to the Jack-o-Lantern as a member of the notorious "Westchester Gang."
After Dartmouth, Alec received an M.A from the Syracuse University School of Journalism and thereafter went to work as a newswriter and producer at KYW News Radio in Philadelphia. In 1971, he became editor of the Hampton Chronicle in Westhampton Beach Long Island, but in 1973 he returned to his first love production of television news, as producer for KGO-TV, San Francisco. In 1975 Alec joined WABC-TV in New York, where he produced the 6:00 p.m. Eyewitness News. He returned to San Francisco in 1976 as the executive producer for both KPIX-TV and KGOTV.
Because of the formidable accomplishments outlined above, Atlanta entrepreneur Ted Turner selected Alec to be senior producer for Turner's Cable News Network, the 24-hour news broadcasting service provided on nationwide cable networks. At the time of his death, Alec was considered one of the leading news producers in the nation and a member of the vanguard in the expansion of the broadcast news media.
TED LAROCHE '67
