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.)

Larsen, Arlene S., January 30 Clarke, Harold V. '17, January 16 Pelton, Leonard D. '18, February 4 Spero, Henry '20, January 8 Belknap, Paul C. '21, March 1 McKay, Lewis P. '21, June 27, 1980 Murray, William H. '21, February 11 Bishop, Benjamin L: '22, November 18, 1979 Moses, Harvey H. '22, February 12 Redfield, C. Truman '22, July 1980 Doten, Franklin F. '23, February 18 Howard, Charles R. '23, January 6 Crosman, Arthur M. '24, December 25, 1980 Lyon, Evan B. '24, January 29 Greer, Arthur F. '25, January 26 Ross, Wendell D. '26, October 23, 1980 Lyon, Samuel '27, February 16 Van Loon, James H. '27, August 23, 1980 Schnepel, Herman H. Jr. '28, March 5 Skelly, Henry J. '29, February 24 Bartram, Glenn W. '30, February 17 Stein, Henry L. '30, February 5 Gerould, Albert C. '32, February 20 Merkt, O. E. D. '33, December 20, 1980 Schmidt, Warren G. '34, September 30, 1980 Donnell, E. Fitz '35, November 13, 1980 Meschersky, Walter '38, October 25, 1980 Davidson, Alan II '39, December 28, 1980 Buck, Walter P. Jr. '41, February 3 Walls, Donald L. '43, September 20, 1980 Spaulding, Richard M. '45, March 9 White, Charles B. '47, December 7, 1979 Smutnik, Joseph C. Jr. '54, January 13

Administration

ARLENE SCHWARTZ LARSEN, director of computing services at the Kiewit Computation Center at Dartmouth, died January 30 at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital here after a long illness.

Larsen was appointed assistant director of computer services with principal responsibility for user services in 1976. She worked directly with large numbers of Dartmouth faculty, students, administrators, and staff, supervising their training in computer use. She also handled validation of new users, arranged for tours and visitors, and oversaw Kiewit's many publications, including "Kiewit Comments." She was Dartmouth's representative to EDUNET, a national educational computing network.

Larsen, a feminist, was a member of the Women's Caucus and the staff personnel committee and was involved in affirmative action. An ardent conservationist, she was also a member of the local branch of the Sierra Club.

Larsen came to Dartmouth from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she had been manager of computer user services for five years. Earlier she had coordinated off-campus computing services at Cornell University for ten years. She had also served as engineering assistant at the General Electric plant in Schenectady, as programming analyst at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and as an engineer for R.C.A. in Morristown, N.J.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., she was graduated cumlaude from Wagner College in 1953 as a mathematics major. She did graduate work at the Moore School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, where she specialized in the applications of digital computers to business and industrial systems. She later studied organizational behavior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Larsen leaves her mother, Mamie Schwartz of Ridge, N.Y., and a sister, Carolyn Galonska.

1909

JAMES HITCHCOCK died December 14, 1980, at the Shalom Nursing Home in Mt. Vernon, N.Y.

Jim was born October 12, 1887, at Newark, N.J., and prepared for Dartmouth at Cambridge (Mass.) Latin School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. He played with the freshman Mandolin Club and College Mandolin. He sang in the College Choir and the Glee Club.

Jim received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1920 and served his internship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He had his office in Concord, Mass. He was on the consulting staff of Emerson Hospital in Concord and the Leominster Hospital and the Community Hospital in Ayer, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Massachusetts Heart Association.

He was married on September 1, 1926, to Marion Boardman Reed, who predeceased him. He is survived by one daughter, Alice.

1912

HARRY CASPER WANNER died October 20, 1980, at his home in Broad Run Farms, Sterling, Va. He was born on November 15, 1889. He prepared for college at the University High School. In college he played freshman football, and was a member of the track team. He belonged to Beta Theta Phi Fraternity.

He had an unusually varied and successful life. Much of it was devoted to the iron and steel industry. For many years he owned and operated Wanner Malleable Castings Company in Chicago. From 1931 to 1933 he was Chief of Applied Science and Industry with the Chicago World's Fair. At one time he operated a brewery business. He was also connected with the newspaper of Loudoun, Va. In 1941 he went to the office of Price Administration in the Chicago region, and in 1951 he took a position in the National Production Authority in Washington, D.C. Later he was Chief Analyst of the Castings Branch Iron and Steel Division of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Hap was a Mason and an Elk. He was active in the affairs of the Loudoun Memorial Hospital, and was a member of the Galilee United Methodist Church. He was the secretary of his class.

He leaves his wife, Sybil Wilson Wanner, whom he married on April 27, 1936, and one daughter, Janet Hunter Marsden, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

1916

ALBERT DAVIS LAWTON died February 24 at Essex Junction, Vt.; he was 88. Albert came to Dartmouth from the Chester, Vt., high school. Throughout his college years he was a top student and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

41 years of his life were devoted to education. He served as principal of Chester High School, as supervising principal of Proctor, VL, schools, and as superintendent of the Windsor Northwest District and the Chittenden School District in Essex. He retired in 1957.

Albert opened the first middle school in Vermont, and the town of Essex honored him by naming their intermediate school the Albert D. Lawton School.

He was activ.e in politics, serving as town chairman of the Republican Party and as vice chairman of the county. After his retirement he was a member of the Vermont Legislature for two terms.

His survivors are his wife Myrle, two sons, four grandchildren, and six greatgrandchildren.

1917

HAROLD VARNEY CLARKE died on January 16 after a brief illness in a nursing home in Napierville, Ill. "Click" was born in Alton, N.H., in 1894. After graduating from the Dover, N.H., high school, he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1917 and after service in World War I came back to the College and earned in 1920 a degree in civil engineering at Thayer School.

Click enlisted in the Heavy Field Artillery on September 9, 1917, and spent two years in the service, one in this country and another overseas. He was discharged in April of 1919 with the rank of second lieutenant.

About 1924, after living and working in several places, Click returned to Western Springs, Ill., where he finally setup his own business. He also became very active in civic affairs, acting as commander of the American Legion post, president of West Suburban Council of Boy Scouts, president of the community chest, a trustee and consulting engineer on the Western Village Board, and member of the board of governors for the community hospital in LaGrange, Ill. Click served as justice of the peace of Lyons Township for a term during World War II.

Click was married in 1924 to Gladys Worlein, a Carleton College graduate. They celebrated this happy marriage for over 50 years. Gladys died on December 31, 1979. Two daughters, eight grandchildren, and four great grandchildren survive. Our sympathy is extended to the family of our loyal classmate, who belonged to the Chicago Engineers Club for many years and was for a time the president of the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Chicago.

1920

HLNRY SPERO passed away on January 8 in Portland, Ore. He had lived for many years in the Chicago area, where he had established his business, Type & Press of Illinois, Inc., which he operated successfully. Troubled with ill health, he had moved recently to Portland, Ore., for better climatic conditions.

In 1925 he married Polly S. Susselman, who survives him. To them two children were born, Nancy and Carol, both talented. Henry was a quiet, studious young man while at Dartmouth, qualities he demonstrated in later years in his business life.

The Class of 1920 regrets his passing and extends its sympathy to his wife and family.

Henry had hoped his grandson, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale in June of 1981, might join the economics faculty at Dartmouth, but the young man went elsewhere. A nephew, James Robin Saphir '57, did, however, attend Dartmouth.

1921

PAUL CARPENTER BELKNAP, a well-known newspaper man, died at the age of 82 on March 1 at the Mt. Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, Vt., after a long illness. Paul's wife, the former Carli Reddout, whom he married in 1926, died in 1978. His father and two brothers were all wearers of the green, the father, Willis C. Belknap, having graduated in 1898, his brother Roland W. in 1934, and his brother Preston D. in 1940. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. A. MacKay Stoddard and Mrs. Howard E. Fletcher.

Paul was a member of Theta Delta Chi at college, earned a Phi Beta Kappa key, and was active with the Glee Club and the Daily Dartmouth. In 1918 he served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Infantry, and after graduation in 1922 he was copy editor for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. From 1922 through 1928 he served as advertising manager for Vermont Newspaper Corporation in Bellows Falls, Vt.; from 1928 through 1934 as publisher of the Greenfield, Mass., Recorder; and from 1934 through 1964 as publisher of the Albert Lea Tribune in Albert Lea, Minn. In 1964, Paul sold his Albert Lea newspaper to Thomson Newspapers, Inc., and became executive director of the nine U.S. newspapers owned by that corporation. He was also interested in Thomson Newspapers, Ltd., a Canadian company that owns 34 newspapers in Canada and, through the combined Thomson interests in the British Commonwealth organization, has 104 daily newspapers and 92 magazines. A long-time New York resident, Paul moved to Windsor in 1974 but retained his New York office, to which, according to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE of April 1977, he "whistled down a few days each month."

Memorial services were held on March 3 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Windsor. Burial will be at a later date in Bellows Falls, the place of Paul's birth.

LEWIS POUND MCKAY died on June 27, 1980, at St. Michael's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wise. He was born in Ames, lowa, on March 29, 1899, and at the time of his death was living at 4831 North Sheffield Avenue in Milwaukee.

Lewis spent the first two years of his college career at the University of Illinois, transferring from there to Dartmouth, from which he graduated with the class of 1921. In 1942 he married Gertrude Kuehner, and in 1967 he reported that there were three stepchildren in his family circle. He listed his career as a supervisor for the U.S. Post Office Department.

HARRY RUBENS MOSSER died December 25, 1980, at his home, 156 Fox Chase Road West, in Woodland Hills, Asheville, N.C. Death came unexpectedly on Christmas Day. He was born in Chicago in 1900.

Harry attended Kenyon College 1917 to 1919 and then made the transfer to Dartmouth, from which he received his B.A. degree in 1921. He then went On to the Harvard School of Business Administration, from which he received his M.B.A. in 1923. For 46 years prior to his retirement in 1969, he was connected with the firm of Halsey Stuart & Company, investment bankers in Chicago. Since 1940 he had served as president of Midland Bakeries Company, which conducted the business of wholesale bread bakeries in St. Louis, Peoria, and Terre Haute.

He leaves his wife, the former Carolyn Melchers, and a son, Edwin William Mosser of Casa Grande, Ariz.

WILLIAM HENRY MURRAY of Point View, Williamsburg, Penn., died on February 11. The questionnaire recently sent out from the Alumni Records Office was returned in blank form except for the notice of our classmate's death. We do know, however, from a questionnaire dated April 1924 that he entered Dartmouth in September of 1917 and left Dartmouth in June of 1918. He was born in Altoona, Penn., on May 16, 1897, and served as a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps of the U.S. Army from June until December of 1918. By 1924 he was in business as an automobile dealer in Altoona, operating as The Davis - Murray Motor Company, Inc. The last note that we have of him appeared in the October 1932 issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. At that time a call made on him in Altoona found him negotiating a contract for the power which he was expecting to use in a new manufacturing company that he was forming. Before coming to Dartmouth in 1917 Bill had been at Cornell from 1915 to 1917. and he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. In March of 1923 he married Mary Moore Riddel. The sympathy of his classmates is extended to those of his family who survive him.

1922

BENJAMIN LEE BISHOP, retired Chicago businessman, died November 18, 1979, in Winnetka, Ill., where he and his family lived for many years at 1497 Asbury Avenue.

Ben was born September 14, 1897, and he came to Dartmouth from the Berkshire School. A well-known classmate, he majored, as so many of us did, in economics. He was a fine banjo player and was a brother in Psi Upsilon. Like Gene Hotchkiss and Jack Taylor, Ben is the third member of the '22 Psi U delegation to appear recently in these sorrowful reports.

After graduation Ben began his business career as a salesman with Westinghouse in New York City. He later went with the Utilities Electric and Supply Company, likewise in New York, before returning to Hartford in 1939 as sales manager of the Southern New England Insulation Company. Nine years later he moved to Chicago, where he established his own business in the sale of glass building materials. He retired from business in 1960 because of glaucoma.

Ben and Jack Taylor were especially close friends, and together they enjoyed many evenings of song and college recollections. Chick Hopkins was also a frequently welcomed visitor to the Bishop home in those bygone days.

Ben and Sibyl Grimes were married November 4, 1925, in New Rochelle, N.Y.

He is survived by Sibyl, their two sons - Frederick L. Bishop of Wilmette, Ill., and Charles B. Bishop of Winnetka, a granddaughter, a grandson, and a greatgrandson. ■ ■ ■

RICHARD BOWLER, 81, an unforgettable classmate, passed away January 26 at Tobey Hospital near his home in Little Harbor, Wareham, Mass. In declining health for many years, he had a prolonged illness. Dick will always live in the memory of our class. He was not only friendly and popular, but he was also an expert on skis. By class acclamation, he and Johnny Carleton were the first Dartmouth students to somersault off the ski jump. The two of them skiing hand-inhand at breakneck speed down the jump and flying off into a graceful somersault is an indelible memory of our college years.

Dick was born in Cambridge, Mass., but lived his boyhood in Hanover and "grew up on skis." His father, John W. Bowler, was the fondly-remembered professor of hygiene and physical education who taught all of us as freshmen. Edmund Bowler '14 and John P. Bowler '15 were Dick's brothers. Coming to Dartmouth from Worcester Academy, Dick was an admirable classmate, a brother in Delta Kappa Epsilon, and a member of Dragon.

In business, Dick was president of Bowler Motors, Laconia, N.H., later head of Eastern Process Company, Cambridge, and subsequently owner of Flortex Company, a textile manufacturing firm. Starting about 1945, however, his health forced him into semiretirement and later into further restriction. He had lived in Marblehead, Mass., before moving to Wareham some 30 years ago. Yet despite difficulties, he always kept an active interest in the welfare of Dartmouth.

Dick and Frances Messenger were married May 30, 1924. She, their son Richard, their daughter Muriel Cooke, seven grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren are his survivors.

WILLIAM FRANKLIN GALLAGHER, a highlyrespected educator, died January 2 in Barre, Vt. He had suffered a stroke two years ago in Florida and since then had been in the Berlin Convalescent Home, Barre, where his wife Dorothy is also a patient.

Bill followed his father and his grandfather in being an educator. After his Dartmouth graduation he started teaching at Howard High School, West Bridgewater, Mass., before going to Norwich Free Academy in Connecticut. He next began a 39-year association with the Rivers Country Day School in Brookline, Mass., where he was head of the English department. In a 1932 interim from teaching he received his master's degree in education from Harvard. At Rivers he was also advisor to the school publications, director of dramatics, and coach of the younger class baseball and football teams. During these years Bill and his family lived in Wellesley Hills, Mass., but they enjoyed most of their free time at their farm, Maple Corner, in Calais, Vt., where they lived after his retirement in 1965.

He was a member of the New England Association of English Teachers, the English Lunch Club of Boston, the Friday Evening Club of Wellesley, and the Wellesley Hills Unitarian Society. He was also active in community chest and Red Cross projects.

Bill was born August 12, 1900, in Montpelier, Vt. He prepared for Dartmouth at Roxbury Latin School and Exeter. Classmates remember him well for his fellowship, his proficiency as an English major, as a brother in Delta Upsilon, and as a member of Phi Delta Kappa. Throughout life he was a loyal Dartmouth alumnus.

Bill and Dorothy Hamilton were married 56 years ago. She survives him, together with their son Gregory, a foster son Phillip, and three grandchildren.

1923

We have received belated word of the death in August 1980 of HENRY EDMUND FREEMAN.

Hank came to Dartmouth from the high school of his native Ravena, Ohio. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, In 1966 he retired after 37 years with the Southern Pacific Company, where he had served as district freight agent and eventually as a senior officer of the corporation. During World War II he served for two years in the Transportation Division, Supply Corps, U.S. Navy, and continued in the active reserve until 1961, when he retired with the rank of commander.

In 1925 Hank married Leslie Dickinson, who died in 1970. He then married Edith Bowser, who died in 1978. His community interests and activities were many: the Red Cross, county and city governments as they related to industrial development, and the Explorer Sea Scout troop that he at one time headed.

Hank's survivors are a son, Dickinson; a daughter, Anne Blackman; and two grandchildren.

AUGUSTINE JOSEPH RYAN died on January 25 in Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass.

A native of Lawrence, Mass., and a graduate of the local high school, Gus received his M.B.A. degree from Harvard in 1925. His professional career was primarily in retailing and finance. During World War II he served in the Army for four years, during which he became a captain. In 1950 he was appointed university store manager at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and in 1970 was made assistant manager of finance there, a post he held until his retirement.

In 1938 Gus married the former Marion Snow, who predeceased him. His only immediate survivor is a son, Richard.

1924

ARTHUR M. CROSMAN died on December 25, 1980, after being hospitalized for pneumonia.

In college, Arthur majored in biology and was the president of the Biology Club in 1923. He received an M.A. degree from Columbia in 1927 and a Ph.D. degree from Cornell in 1935. He became associated with New York University's Washington Square College of Arts and Sciences as an instructor in 1925 and was named professor emeritus of biology in 1972. He had chaired the advisement council since 1938. At the time of his retirement he was an associate dean of the faculty.

He was a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, a member of several scientific and professional organizations and had published many scientific articles.

He participated in many community activities in Demarest, N.J., where he made his home, and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega in college.

He is survived by his wife Virginia, four sons, and two daughters.

EVAN B. LYON died on January 29 at his home in Hamburg, N.Y.

He received a C.E. degree from Thayer School in 1925, following which he was an engineer involved in the design of the parkway system in Westchester County, N.Y., and of the Taconic Parkway. He later became associated with the firm of Madigan-Hyland, Inc., consulting engineers, until his retirement in 1970. At that time he was chief engineer of construction.

He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Dartmouth Society of Engineers. He served as an assistant class agent for several years.

He is survived by three sons, William E., Robert J. '51, and David B. '54, and a grandson, James W. '78.

1925

ARTHUR FURBER GREER died January 26 in Bedford, N.Y. He was born in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., in 1903 and came to Dartmouth from University High School in Oakland, Calif.

Remaining at Dartmouth one year, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Art transferred to Yale and graduated in 1926. His career was in investment banking and insurance.

He leaves a wife, the former Alice Chapman, two sons, and five grandchildren.

1926

The class lost one of its most devoted members, CHARLES WARREN ABBOTT when he died of a stroke" January 27 at his home in Kenmore, N.Y. Charlie came to Dartmouth from The Nichols School of Buffalo. An active, friendly, well-known classmate, he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho.

After graduation he spent two years with Manufacturers & Traders Trust Company before joining the Buffalo firm which became Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. He retired in 1969 having been given an award for his long-valued service of 41 years.

Charlie was a member and director of The Buffalo Club and belonged to The Mid-Day Club as well as The Dartmouth Club of Western New York. He served as senior deacon at Westminister Presbyterian Church, where he also was leader of a related boys' group. After retirement he enjoyed being part of the Meals-on-Wheels program.

Very active in 1926 affairs, Charlie was on the executive committee for over 15 years. For an equally long time he served as regional agent in his strong support of the Alumni Fund in upper New York State, and he was on the 50th reunion giving committee. He and Lois his wife for over 52 years were frequent visitors in Hanover, being welcome active participants at many of the reunions, informal August meetings, and football games, as well as for just sitting on the front porch of the Inn. For the past ten years they enjoyed extensive foreign travel, frequently sharing their experiences either personally or through class news items.

He is survived by Lois, their daughter Sally, and son Charles Edward.

Word was received recently at the Alumni Records Office that ALFRED GOODSON RICE died of cancer in May of 1980 in Petersburg, Va. He was born in New York City and grew up in Granville, N.Y., where he graduated from the local high school. Al was with us for one year in the freshman class.

In 1931 he was a civilian employee in the War Department, entering active U.S. Army duty in 1942. He progressed through the ranks, retiring as a colonel in 1962. Serving in a number of foreign countries in the quartermaster division, he won a citation for "outstanding and meritorious service."

Al kept in touch with classmates, maintaining a keen interest" in the College and giving active Alumni Fund support. His interesting letters of Army service appeared in the class notes and newsletter. Besides Al, the Rice family has been well represented at Dartmouth: his grandfather, Edwin T., was class of 1843; his brother, Charles 8., was 1923 (both are now deceased); and his nephew, Edwin T. III, was class of 1952.

His wife predeceased him in 1975 just before their 40th anniversary, and he is survived by his daughter Dama and son William.

WENDELL. DEWEY ROSS died October 23, 1980, after a long illness. This information was recently received by the Alumni Records Office.

He was born in Northampton, Mass., and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. Originally, he was in the class of 1924, was a member of the band, participated in Outing Club activities, was well-known on campus, and graduated with our class in 1926. In 1931 he earned a Master of Arts degree in English at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University.

After Dartmouth, Wen went to Washington as an archivist assistant in the National Archives, later was with the Naval Operating Base in Norfolk, Va., and then with Atlantic Overseas Air Material District, Newark, N.J. He served in the U.S. Air Force in air transport at two stations in Africa and after discharge did some substitute teaching and writing.

In 1945 he married Marguerite Lyons of North Caldwell, N.J., and she survives him.

1928

EDWARD D. BROWN, columnist for the Newsbury, Mass., Daily News and its former editor, died December 12 in Amesbury Hospital of a heart attack. He was stricken at his home the previous day.

For 50 years Ned's "Cabbages and Kings" column was a fixture on the newspaper's editorial page six days a week. His last column appeared the day of his death.

Ned had been a trustee of the Amesbury Public Library for the past 50 years, serving 25 years as the board's chairman. Earlier this year he was honored at a reception held by the trustees.

Though semi-retired in recent years, he continued to write his popular column and devote a great amount of time to covering stories for the Newsbury Daily News, including weekly meetings of the Amesbury Rotary Club. He was honored by fellow Rotarians some years ago, when they presented him the first Paul Harris Fellowship.

He leaves his wife, the former Myldred Okerman.

HENRY S. GERE died January 13 in Manatee Memorial Hospital. He and his wife lived at 5400 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach, Fla.

Henry was a native of Northampton, Mass., and graduated from high school there. At Dartmouth he was a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon and a member of the Press Club.

He worked for Lever Brothers Company in Cambridge, Mass., for 21 years, resigning as assistant manager of sales promotion. For the next 21 years he was advertising manager of the National Fire Protection Association in Boston. Following retirement in 1970, he moved from Needham to Florida. He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of Sarasota and of the Bradenton Country Club.

Survivors are his wife Patricia, a daughter, two sons, a sister, and six grandchildren.

HAMILTON HAGAR of Boynton Beach, Fla., died December 14. Ham came to Dartmouth from Cohasset, Mass., and as an undergraduate was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and a speed skater on the winter sports team. He attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business from 1928 to 1929.

He was a stock analyst at Fenner and Beane for ten years and spent nine years as an investment analyst for the First National Bank of New York. He was a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and chaired its membership and forums committees.

He moved his residence to Sarasota in 1948 and commuted weekends to New York for two years. Since moving to Miami in 1950, he had been active in insurance and real estate. He was a member of the Boynton Beach Boat Club.

He is survived by two daughters, two sons, eight grandsons, one granddaughter, and a sister.

WILLIAM W. HARRIS, the country's most famous travel lecturer, died December 3 at Salem Hospital following the removal of a malignant brain tumor in November. His home since entering Dartmouth had been 33 Aspen Road, Swampscott, Mass. Months before his operation he had been booked to lecture on a cruise on the Sagafjord, leaving in January.

Bill transferred to Dartmouth as a sophomore after a year at the University of New Hampshire. After graduation he earned additional degrees from the University of Madrid, the University of Munich, and the Arcangeli Institute of Milan.

He had been a world wanderer ever since graduation. He worked for the Baker Platinum Company for seven years, traveling extensively in Europe and North Africa. He was the company's representative for Spain, Portugal, and Morocco and became president of the company's Italian subsidiary. But because of the Italian-Ethiopian war, it was forced to shut down in 1935. He resigned and flew home to Swampscott.

For a year Bill traveled over South and Central America, the West Indies, Europe, Africa, and the United States, taking motion pictures as he went. He soon became well-known as "The Vagabond Traveler" and was in demand for radio and television broadcasts and lectures in this country and aboard cruise ships.

During the war he was an official of the Department of State as director of radio communications for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission.

After the war, Bill resumed his travel career. From 1954 to 1964 he was the official lecturer on travel for the American Express Company. He opened his lecture seasons at Carnegie Hall or Town Hall in New York and toured the country, appearing on television shows with his films, lecturing on luxury cruises, and making special trips all over the world to visit odd and exotic spots to determine their tourist possibilities.

Although he said he was retired, he kept accepting requests to lecture on cruises. "I love the work, and the pay is good," he said. He made 27 round-the-world cruises. In 1960 he estimated he had logged 1,500,000 miles and visited over 100 countries, but he hadn't given us a recent total. His hobby was collecting Oriental art.

Bill never married and leaves only his sister Ruth.

MERRILL HODSDON died May 19 at home in Stuart, Fla., of a respiratory arrest. He had been suffering from metastatic carcinoma since 1968.

Merrill attended White Plains, N.Y., high school and Mercersburg. At Dartmouth he was a member of Kappa Sigma and business manager of the Green Book.

He worked for the New York Telephone Company from 1929 until he took early retirement in 1966. For the last ten years he had been manager of the 14th Street business office in Manhattan. He and Grace retired to Hollywood, Fla., where he worked part-time for a local store and Grace did volunteer work in a hospital. They moved to Stuart in 1973.

Merrill married Grace Nichols in 1928. She and their two sons and three granddaughters survive him.

ARTHUR L. HOLDEN died January 28 at the hospital at Port Angeles, Wash., after two weeks of hospitalization following a stroke.

Archie entered Dartmouth from Middleboro, Mass., and was a member of Theta Chi. He was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. He was a member of Cabin and Trail and was manager of winter sports his senior year.

Following graduation, he studied at the Sorbonne, then was employed by the Plymouth Cordage Company in sales, rising to be their assistant sales manager by the time he left them in 1947.

He served with the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander.

In 1947 he became one of three partners in R. L. Pritchard Company, cordage fibre importers with of fices in the New York financial district. He retired the last day of 1962 and moved with his wife Grace to Port Angeles, the spot they had selected close to the activities they loved, fishing and hunting. Archie also relished the chance to leave city life. They attended '28 reunions regularly, including the 50th.

He leaves his wife Grace, his brother Parker Holden '38, and five nephews (one of whom is Peter Holden '74). An older brother, Frederick Holden '27, died in 1970.

HERMAN H. SCHNEPEL JR. died March 5 of a heart attack while operating a snow blower at his home in South Orange, N.J.

Herm attended Blair Academy and at Dartmouth was a member of Chi Phi, the Aegis. Ledyard Canoe Club, and the College band. He served as an assistant class agent for ten years and as class agent for two years. He and Marguerite attended '28 reunions regularly, including the 50th.

He worked in various sales capacities for the A & P and National Dairy Products until joining the Army in 1941. He was assigned to Military Intelligence and participated in three major campaigns in Europe under General Patton's Third Army. After being discharged in 1945, he decided to go into the book business and accepted a position as district sales manager for F. E. Compton and Company in the school and library department. Ten years later he was appointed sales manager for three states for the book publishing division of Benefic Press, with his headquarters in South Orange. He was past president of the New Jersey Bookmen's Club and a member of the Edgartown, Mass., yacht club.

He leaves his wife Marguerite, two daughters, and two sisters.

1930

GLENN WASHINGTON BARTRAM died on February 17 in a Lynn, Mass., hospital after a brief illness. He came to Dartmouth from Lynn Classical High School, majored in economics, and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. In 1936 he received the LL.D. degree from Suffolk Law School, and during World War II served in the Army Signal Corps. For many years he managed the Arthur Bartram & Son Company of Lynn, which was engaged in general insurance and real estate brokerage. In recent years he had concentrated on real estate appraisals. A resident of Swampscott, Mass., for 43 years, Glenn served on the planning board for 20 years as member and chairman.

In 1931, he married Doris Lane of Swampscott, who survives him. He also leaves two sons, a daughter, and 14 grandchildren. Dick Kirkman and Ed Butterworth represented the class at the funeral services.

HENRY LAWRENCE STEIN died of a heart attack in Aspen, Colo., on February 5. After graduation, he worked for his father's Stein Sewing Machine Company and then started his own company, Interstate Smelting and Refining Company, in Chicago. He was married to Marjorie Block in 1935. They visited Aspen as skiers in 1946 and at that time purchased the Red Butte Ranch, which became their residence in 1952. In addition to ranching, Henry became involved with local water rights, conservation, mining, art, skiing, and writing. He served as the first president of the Aspen Chamber of Commerce, was a member of the Valley Improvement Association, board member of the Aspen Historical Association, and participated in many of the programs of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. He made several presentations to the community, including the sculpture "Hunter Creek" in the mall, the footbridge across the Roaring Fork River, and Fisherman's Park at the Slaughterhouse Bridge. He will be remembered as one of the outstanding members of the Aspen community. Henry is survived by his wife Marge, three daughters, and seven grandchildren.

1931

WALLACE P. BERTRAM, 73, died January 29 at his home in Woodstock, Vt.

Bunny wrote on April 12, 1979: "I've had open heart'surgery and a stroke so far this year."

He came to Dartmouth from Rogers High School, Newport, R.I. As an undergraduate he joined Beta Theta Pi fraternity, was a member of both the freshman and varsity cross-country teams, and captain of the winter sports team. He majored in zoology.

For three years after graduation Bunny coached the Dartmouth "B" ski team. In the fall of 1934 he installed a rope tow for the White Cupboard Inn, and a year later he installed his own rope tow in "The Gully" in the Woodstock area. In 1937 he founded "Suicide Six," one of the first ski areas in the U.S., which he operated for 25 years before selling out to Rockresorts, Inc., in 1962.

Bunny served in the Marine Corps from January 1943 to December 1945.

Elizabeth Hathorn and he were married in 1946. They had three children - Suzanne, Lynne, and Frederick.

He was the founding president of the Woodstock Ski-Runners and the creator of the Mid-Vermont Junior Ski Council.

Bunny was elected to the National Ski Hall of Fame last December and was to have been inducted in February.

He is survived by his three children.

1932

EDWARD C. CRAFTS, 70, of Rockville, Md., died in December 1980 of unknown causes. Ed spent only his freshman year (1928-29) at Dartmouth before transferring to the University of Michigan, where he majored in forestry and graduated summa cum laude in 1932. He obtained his master of forestry degree in 1936 and a Ph.D. degree in conservation in 1942 from the same university. After 29 years in the U.S. Forest Service in the Southwest, Ed became the Director of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and was given a Rockefeller Public Service Award for his outstanding contributions in the management of natural resources. The class extends its sympathy to his family.

ALBERT CHAMBERLAIN GEROULD, 70, died February 20 at All Saints Hospital in Philadelphia. Al was a very loyal member of our class and attended all regular and mini reunions. While at Dartmouth he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and majored in history. He was very active with all outdoor sports, especially with the Ledyard Canoe Club, where he served as director and as a member of Cabin and Trail.

After graduation from Dartmouth Al attended the University of Munich in Germany for a year and spent the following year at Columbia University, where he received his B.S. in library science. The son of James Thayer Gerould, once the librarian of Princeton University, Al was in effect born into the profession. His career in library work took him to the New York City Library (1935), Stanford University (1935-1938), and the College of the Pacific (1939-1946). He was assistant librarian at the United Nations from 1946 to 1947, and his last position was as chief of library services for the Free Library of Philadelphia, a position he held for 17 years.

Fluent in French and German as well as English, Al was assigned to Army Intelligence during World War II, interrogating prisoners of war. He attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was a skier, a mountain climber, and an excellent canoeist. He was very much interested in preserving the ecology and in environmental matters.

Al is survived by his wife Alberta, a son Stephen, and three daughters - Rosemary, Sarah, and Susan Criss. Our class has lost a most popular member, and we extend our sympathy to his family.

1933

DOUGLAS STONE KAPUNGER, resident of Springfield, Mass., died in Mercy Hospital of that city on August 2, 1980. Doug prepared for Dartmouth at Springfield's Technical High School, where he was a leader in school activities, both athletic and extracurricular. He did not remain at Dartmouth for the entire four years, leaving early to start a career in business, but he always maintained his affection for and support of the College.

As early as 1937, Doug founded the junior chamber of commerce in Springfield and was its president for its first two years. He was also elected president of the Massachusetts Junior Chamber of Commerce. He founded the Springfield Shopping News, was an industrial engineer with American Bosch, and, later, was a bank examiner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until his retirement in 1976.

During World War II, Doug served in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a colonel. He was a past commander of the Reserve Officers Association and of the Reserve Recovery Group. He is survived by his wife Rita-Lee and by three sons, his daughter, and his ten grandchildren.

O. EUGENE D. MERKT died on December 20, 1980, in an Anderson, S.C., hospital, after a courageous two-year battle with cancer. Gene entered Dartmouth from the Jamacia, N.Y., high school. In college, he was a member of Delta Upsilon, of the Spanish and German clubs, and won senior honors in his major of economics.

After graduation, Gene worked briefly in New York City, but then he entered the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and secured his M.B.A. degree in 1937. His business career was principally in banking, as a vice president of Guaranty Bank & Trust Company of Worcester, Mass., and of Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, and in investment analysis, with Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc., also of New York. He was a member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.

Gene is survived by his wife Nona, whom he married in 1942, and by their two sons.

1934

MILTON A. SPITZ died November 19 in Moss Beach, Calif. He had been afflicted with multiple sclerosis since 1955 and had outlived his prognosis by many years. With the loving help of his daughter Heidi, he had had a succession of living arrangements: nursing homes in his native Milwaukee and in Miami and Chicago, a Chicago apartment with around-the- clock nursing, and finally a Moss Beach nursing home, to which he moved in 1979 to continue being near his daughter.

For many years, for as long as he felt able, he studied multiple sclerosis professionally, as a physician, and corresponded with many medical facilities about possible lines of research in finding a cure. After his death, his remains were donated for autopsy through the local Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, then later cremated. His ashes were scattered at sea near Moss Beach.

Milt came to Dartmouth from West Division High School, Milwaukee. His undergraduate major was chemistry-zoology. He belonged to Studenten Verbindung "Germania" and Zeta Alpha Phi, the scientific society. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated cum laude.

He received his M.D. degree at Washington University Medical School, St. Louis. His active professional career was in veterans' medical affairs, specifically with the Veterans Administration regional office in Milwaukee.

Milt is survived by his daughter, Heidi Spitz Perrey, and by four grandchildren. The class extends its deep sympathy.

A letter from Ida Thomas advised that EDWIN B. THOMAS died peacefully at three a.m. January 4 in a Veterans Administration hospital near his home in Mansfield, Mass. Ed had had a series of strokes, starting several years ago, which led to his giving up his ophthalmology practice. When we saw him last in 1974, he was still able to drive but had difficulty in speaking. A Christmas card from Ida this year said that he was almost totally incapacitated.

Ed came to Dartmouth from Weymouth High School, Weymouth, Mass. In freshman year he roomed in Russell Sage. He joined Delta Tau Delta and Studenten Verbindung "Germania" and was secretary of the scientific fraternity Zeta Alpha Phi. He majored in chemistry.

He went to Tufts Medical School directly from Dartmouth and got his M.D. in 1938. He and Ida were married at about that time, but he then entered the Army and spent most of the war on steamy islands in the South Pacific. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in 1944 for meritorious achievement in connection with military operations at Bougainville.

On his return home he set up practice as an ophthalmologist in Norwood, Mass., where he stayed until he retired in 1977. Ed and Ida had three daughters and 14 grandchildren.

Charles L. Levesque '34

1938

ROBERT L. GRIFFIN, 66, retired general purchasing agent of the H. A. Johnson Company, died suddenly in Los Angeles, Calif., on November 7, after suffering a massive stroke.

Bob and his wife Norma had been living in their chalet in Denmark, Me., since he retired and had just returned from a two-week trip to the Hawaiian Islands.

Bob was born in New York and attended Williston Academy and the Clark School in Hanover prior to entering Dartmouth, where he became a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.

Upon graduation, Bob took up permanent employment with what was then the H. A. Johnson Company of Brighton, Mass., a Bakery and Confectionery Supply House, where he eventually became head purchasing agent. During that time he was an active member of the New England Confectioners Club.

Prior to his retirement, Bob and Norma lived in Wellesley, Mass., after which they moved to Denmark, Me., where Bob was buried. He was a member of the Lions Club of Denmark. He had always been a great outdoor enthusiast, and he and Norma spent much of their leisure time on camping and fishing trips.

Besides his wife, Bob leaves two sons, Robert L. Griffin Jr. of Hollis, Me., and two daughters, Joan Knolla of Conway, N.H., and Marcia A. Ward of Homer, N.Y., along with eight grandchildren. He also has one sister, Ruth Whittemore of Tenafly, N.J.

Bob was a great family man, and his sudden and rather untimely death is a great loss to his family and friends.

John L. Lutz, Jr. '38

WALTER MESCHERSKY died last October 25 at his home, 46 Gordon St., Perth Amboy, N.J. He had been seriously ill for the past four years with a heart malfunction and bed-ridden for the past two because of arteriosclerosis of the legs.

Walter prepared for Dartmouth at Perth Amboy High School. He was a chemistry-zoology major in college.

Following graduation and his stint in the Army (during which, in 1944, he received the Croix de Guerre), he worked as an accountant for 35 years for the American Smelting and Refining Company. He retired when that company closed its Perth Amboy plant.

Walter was married to the former Frances Gromack of Perth Amboy, a 1940 graduate of New Jersey College. She died in 1957. They had one son, Walter Jr., who died three years ago at the age of 29. Walter is survived by his sister, Nina Meschersky, of 46 Gordon St., Perth Amboy, who took care of him in recent years.

1939

A considerable gap in the 1939 fellowship has been created with the passing of our long-time "Thirty- Nine Out" editor, WALTER A. DARBY JR., 62, on February 6, of a heart attack. We know of none who were more devoted to Dartmouth. He served the College steadfastly from the time we left the Hanover plain back on that distant eve of World War II.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Walt came to Dartmouth from the Peddie School, where he played football and was a weight man on the track team. At Dartmouth he was a member of the freshman and varsity track teams and was a brother of Sigma Nu fraternity. He entered the Navy reserve as an ensign in January 1942, serving as an air combat intelligence officer attached to the amphibious forces. He left the service in 1945 as a lieutenant commander.

A graduate of Fordham Law School, Walt specialized in admiralty law and worked in New York City with Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens (1945-48); as a partner of the firm of Foley, Grainger & Darby (1958); and as senior partner of Darby, Healey, Stonebridge, & Whalen from 1972 until 1976, at which time he retired. He worked in enrollment for the college, chaired the class's 20th reunion, and was newsletter editor from 1961 until his death. He was a trustee of the Crystal Brook Park Association. In July of 1973 Walt suffered a stroke, from which he recovered and courageously carried on. Walt lost his first wife, whom he married in 1942, in the early seventies. He is survived by Mary S. Barber Darby, whom he married in 1973, two sons, Walter A. Jr. and Douglas '67, and a brother Richard '41, as well as five stepchildren and 13 grandchildren.

1942

RICHARD CHARLES DUNCAN died of a sudden illness on January 16 in Claremont, N.H.

Dick entered Dartmouth from Stevens High School in Springfield, Vt., and following graduation he served for three years in the Army Air Force. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1948 and joined a law firm in Newport, N.H., to begin a distinguished career in the North Codntry. He was a former New Hampshire assistant attorney general, Sullivan County solicitor, Sullivan County commissioner, and president of the Sullivan County Bar Association. Along with his legal activities he found the time to serve as a member of the Sullivan County Finance Committee, the Board of Trustees of Newport Hospital, and chairman of the Newport School Board.

The class extends sympathy to his wife Theo, their sons Charles '71, William, and Thomas, and their daughters Janis and Barbara.

DAVID DONALD LANGDON died on January 4 in Pompano Beach, Fla., where he had resided for the past 26 years.

Dave entered Dartmouth from Amarilio High School as his parents were then living in Texas. While in college he became a member of Phi Delta Theta and like so many of his classmates joined the Navy V-7 program in Springfield, Mass., went on to Notre Dame, Abbott Hall, then a long tour of the Pacific aboard an LST. He was discharged as a lieutenant and following various jobs in the Midwest, he joined Pictorial Properties of Fort Lauderdale in 1955 where he remained until his death.

He was a deacon of the First Congregational Church of Pompano Beach as well as chairman of its Board of Trustees.

The class extends sympathy to his wife Gerry and their children Brad, Hannah, Chris '73, and Greg.

STANLEY PORTER WYATT JR. died at his home in Champaign, Ill., on December 9, 1980. Stan arrived in Hanover from Medford, Mass., and immediately began to work, one result being his election to Phi Beta Kappa at the end of his junior year. Along with many other '42s, he graduated from the Midshipmen's School at Columbia. He then went island-hopping aboard the destroyer Erben, the islands being the Gilberts, Marshalls, New Guinea, Marianas, Philippines, Okinawa, and Japan. Following the completion of his military service, Stan earned an M.A. in 1948 and a Ph.D. in 1950 from Harvard and then began a lifetime career in education, majoring in astronomy. After a short stint at the University of Michigan, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois, where he became professor of astronomy in 1961. During his career he was the author of seven books and numerous articles on astronomy. He was a member of the American Astronomical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Astronomical Union, and Sigma Psi. Stan purchased a summer home on Cape Cod in 1949 and over the years he and his family spent the summers there.

The Class extends sincere sympathy to Stan's widow Kay and their three sons.

1943

ROBERT STUART GARVIE JR. died December 12, 1980 of a heart attack at his home in West Chester, Pa.

Bob was born on September 16, 1921 in Rochester, New York. His family soon moved to West Hartford, Conn., and it was from Charles E. Gorton High School that he matriculated to Dartmouth in 1939. While in Hanover Bob was a member of the Glee Club and affiliated with Phi Sigma Kappa. He volunteered for the Army Air Corps in July 1942 and terminated his military duty as an armorer serving a B-17 group attached to the Eighth Air Force in England in 1945. Later that same year Bob returned to Hanover to finish his academic studies leading to his B.A. in 1946.

After a short career in the insurance business he joined the Monsanto (Chemical) Company with which he spent the balance of his professional life. He served in marketing and sales capacities with the company's inorganic chemical division in New York City, Springfield, Mass., and Wilmington, Del., electing early retirement in 1977.

Bob is survived by his wife Leilani, three sons by a previous marriage - Robert S. III, Paine, and Graham - and his father.

John R. Englehorn '44

DONALD LATHAM WALLS of Rockville Centre, N.Y., died on September 20, 1980. Don left Hanover in April 1942 to enlist in the United States Marine Corps as a Pfc. and later rose to the rank of captain. He served in Guadalcanal, New Zealand, Tara, Hawaii, Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa and received the Bronze Star.

At Dartmouth, Don was a member of Zeta Psi and Sphinx. He is survived by his wife Belle and by three children.

1945

We belatedly report the death of BRUCE ROWLAND DUNSMORE on December 29, 1979 at Potomac, Md., following a long illness.

Bruce left Dartmouth to attend the University of Southern California where he received a bachelor of architecture degree in 1950. He joined the architectural and engineering firm of Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall and in 1957 became the director of their educational facilities division. He was also a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Bruce is survived by his widow Juanita and two children from a previous marriage Christine and Christopher. The class extends its sincerest sympathy to his family.

JOHN WATSON LITTLI; JR. passed away December 23, 1980 after a long bout with cancer. His last address was Moorestown, N.J., and he is survived by his widow Jean and two daughters, Mary Brooke and Leslie.

After graduating from Dartmouth, John went to work in sales for Decca Records. He transferred to Philadelphia as their eastern Pennsylvania sales manager and did an outstanding job for them. In 1948 he left Decca to become a printing sales broker in San Francisco. He was married to Jean Lee Hartig on December 6, 1952 in the chapel of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City, and moved back East in 1953 to work for the Nashua Corporation of Nashua, N.H., before transferring to their sales office in Philadelphia the following year.

John joined Diamond National in 1957 and was with them for several years as a salesman before going to work for his brother's company, R.K.L. Controls. The sympathy of his classmates is extended to his wife and two daughters.

1954

JOSEPH C. SMUTNIK JR. died January 13 in Evanston, Ill., after a brief illness, three weeks before his 49th birthday.

Joe was born and raised in Philadelphia and attended Northeast Catholic High School where he was a top scholar and played guard on the citychampion football team.

Joe majored in geography at Dartmouth. He was active in almost all aspects of the Outing Club, especially in the Cabin and Trails and Winter Sports divisions. It was there I first met him and learned to count on him to tackle with enthusiasm and vigor any task that was to be done.

After graduation, Joe remained a fifth year in Hanover for further study and also took part in a scientific expedition to Labrador aboard the schooner Blue Dolphin.

Joe went from Dartmouth to Northwestern University in Evanston where he earned a master's degree in geography. Following graduation he went to work in the cartographic research division of Rand McNally & Company where he worked for more than 23 years. Joe was highly esteemed by his fellow workers; the chairman of the board said at his passing, "Joe will be greatly missed by all his colleagues in the cartographic world."

Joe became engaged to his future wife, Barbara Ann (Barb), at the Ravine Lodge at Mt. Moosilauke and they were married in Milwaukee in 1956.

Besides his wife, Joe is survived by his daughter Beth Meyers, his son Joseph III, his mother, and a sister. He will be sorely missed by his many friends. Barb has suggested that any donations made in Joe's memory should be to the D.O.C. Conservation Fund where it will be used to support environmental studies.

John A. Scoville '54

1972

GEORGE F. BUESING JR. died of leukemia at the age of 29 on January 14 in Jersey City, N.J. He is survived by his wife Sondra and ten-month-old son Patrick. A graduate of the Rochester School of Medicine, he began his career as a specialist in internal medicine and served his residency at Cleveland Metropolitan Hospital and Case Western Reserve University.

After learning of his illness in 1977, he returned to work in Jersey City where he had served as a teaching assistant while a senior at the College. During that year and in subsequent summers, George also volunteered at Patrick House, a drug and alcohol abuse center. Upon his return, he became a staff physician at the center. At the time of his death he was also working with a similar center in Newark.

In a 1978 newspaper interview George explained his decision to work in the Jersey City clinic rather than pursue a private practice: " 'I asked myself if I would change my decision if I were to be cured, and the answer is that I still would prefer to work within a humanist framework. There was always the fear in me that if I became a specialist I would drift away from the practice of human primary care.' "

George was a graduate of Westwood (N.J.) High School. At the College he majored in biology, played freshman and varsity football, and rowed on the varsity crew. He was a brother of Alpha Theta and a member of Casque and Gauntlet and of the Interdormitory Council.

George's life, while brief, was rich in personal success. More important, however, than what he achieved for himself and his family was what he gave to scores of persons in Jersey City. He gave them hope and dignity in an environment where both were in short supply.

1979

On February 3 PATRICIA M. PIERCE lost a long battle with cancer. Those who knew Patty, and the College as a whole, will deeply feel the loss.

A sister in Sigma Kappa and a very dear friend, "Piercie" or "p2" radiated a contagious optimism that swept up everyone with whom she came in contact. To Patty, Dartmouth was everything and she most vividly expressed her loyalty through her spirited support of Dartmouth athletics. She wore the green with unequaled pride and, regardless of our standing in any event or on any issue, one could always find Patty chanting "We're number 1."

Patty lived each day full of love and laughs and though she was ill for most of her college experience, there were few who had knowledge of it. She was a policy-studies major and a member of the Fire and Skoal senior society and the Student Advisory Committee. As a charter member of the first sorority on campus, Patty was inspirational in holding the group together during the difficult early days. Because of her thoughtfulness and concern for others she was elected the sorority chaplain. In her senior year Patty played lacrosse on the JV team.

After graduation Patty spent the summer on Nantucket before landing a job with the consulting firm of Arthur D. Little in Boston. Then, in true Patty fashion, she joined the Boston University women's ice hockey team and a local lacrosse club.

Those of us who have shared in life with Patty have lost a special friend who is loved and missed very, very much. Dartmouth has lost one of her most vivacious daughters. The class as well as countless friends extend their deepest sympathy to the Pierce family.