Deaths

(A listing of deaths of which word has beenreceived within the past month. Full notices mayappear in this issue or a later one.)

Page, Fredericks. '13, faculty, October 1, 1981 Leavitt, Arthur H. '07, November 2, 1981 Castle, Edward C. '11, October 3, 1981 Clark, Kenneth F. '11, November 21, 1981 Brown, Ralph W. '15, November 19, 1981 McTigue, Andrew C. '15, November 18, 1981 Pitman, Joseph P. '15, October 17, 1981 How, Burton L. '17, October 28, 1981 Ingersoll, Harold B. '17, October 21, 1981 Streeter, Percival '17, July 7, 1981. Draper, John R. '18, November 1981 Wallace, Clayton M. '20, November 16, 1981 Wright, Joseph E. '20, June 2, 1981 Yuill, Ralph W. '20, October 1, 1981 Thyberg, George J. '21, November 1981 Bingham, Sylvester H. '22, November 4, 1981 Morris, Raymond B. '22, date unknown Downey, Francis T. '23, November 8, 1981 Durham, John F. '23, November 24, 1981 Wolfe, Milton G. '23, November 5, 1981 Butler, Joseph G. III '24, June 17, 1981 Emerson, Walter R. '24, November 27, 1981 McElwain, John A. '24, November 23, 1981 Wood, Edward S. '24, October 26, 1981 Graydon, Charles W. '25, November 21, 1981 Matteson, Hobert V. '25, October 1980 Reber, Paul V. '25, October 20, 1981 Keyes, William O. '29, November 5, 1981 Norton, William H. Jr. '29, September 30, 1981 Stone, George R. '30, October 20, 1981 Hawkins, George A. '31, November 27, 1981 Farrell, Edward J. '32, October 20, 1981 Gerstley, William II '32, November 19, 1981 Compton, Richard M. '34, November 22, 1981 Brown, Sanborn C. '35, November 28, 1981 Chollar, Robert G. '35, November 7, 1981 Whitehill, Alvin R. '37, November 1, 1981 Wallis, Malcolm '39, October 15, 1981 Dwyer, Lawrence P. Jr. '41, January 19, 1981 Boomer, Arnold E. '47, November 15, 1981 Patterson, Roger F. '46, November 1981 Gluek, Louis A. Jr. '49, October 1981 Hoy, Bernard J. Jr. '50, May 1981 Collins, Thomas D. '52, November 22, 1981 Marrs, Robert S. '54, October 27, 1981 Foote, James A. '80, December 3, 1981

Faculty

FREDERICK SMYTH PAGE '13, a member of the Dartmouth botany faculty for 42 years, died on October 1.

Fred came to Dartmouth from Candia, N.H., and in college was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He went on to do graduate work at the University of Vermont, earning his M.S. there in 1914. After teaching briefly at UVM, he joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1915 as an instructor in the biology department under Arthur Chivers '02. He spent the rest of his career at Dartmouth, except for a period of service in the Army during World War J. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1921 and to full professor in 1931, retiring with emeritus rank in 1957.

Also active in town affairs, Fred served as supervisor of the checklist in Hanover for many years and, after his retirement, as tree warden. He reportedly would accept no payment for this service, and the Hanover selectmen termed him "an institution, like the trees you've planted and cared for over many years." And the beautiful lawns and flowers at his long-time home on Ripley Road in Hanover were his pride' and joy. He was also involved in class activities serving on the '13 executive committee from 1975 until his death.

Fred married the former Marion Leavitt in 1923; she died in 1938, and he is survived by a son, Donald F. '47, and a daughter.

1907

ARTHUR HOWLAND LEAVITT, the last surviving member of his class, died on November 2, 1981, a month short of his 97th birthday. He was the treasurer of his class and until his death had been well and active.

Arthur came to Dartmouth from Spencer, Mass. He majored in Romance languages and took courses at the Tuck School for two years after graduation.

In 1909, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service and was assigned as a student interpreter to the U.S. legation in Constantinople. Except for temporary assignments in Salonika and Cairo, he served in Turkey continuously until 1917, when America's entry into World War I forced the closure of the U.S. Embassy there. While in Constantinople, in 1912, Arthur married Edith Elsie Baker.

Arthur and his wife left Turkey for Paris, where he volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving as a liaison with the French Army. After the Armistice, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, which brought him into contact with many political notables.

In 1919, the Leavitts returned to Turkey, and Arthur spent seven years as a director of G. and A. Baker Ltd., a British import-export firm in Istanbul headed by his father-in-law. Then in 1927, the family returned to the United States After a brief stint in banking, Arthur went into teaching and earned an M.A. in Romance languages at Columbia in 1931.

Then in 1933, he left teaching and moved to Washington, D.C. After several months' service in the Commerce Department he transferred to the then-newly-established National Archives. He was there for 16 years, for most of the period as chief of the commerce department division. He maintained a life-time interest in foreign languages and among his many accomplishments was the translation from the Dutch of a book considered the authoritative work on archives.

In 1950, Arthur entered yet another new profession, obtaining a position in the operations directorate of the C.I.A. as a Near Eastern specialist. He was forced to retire in 1955 at age 70.

Arthur and his wife had two daughters and two sons. His wife died in 1962, and he spent many years after that traveling from New England to Bogota, Colombia, to Europe, to Turkey, and elsewhere to visit the far-flung members of his family.

He is survived by his four children and by three sisters, 16 grandchildren, and 13 greatgrandchildren.

1911

EDWARD CARRICK CASTLE passed away on October 3, 1981, in a hospital near his home in Claremont, Calif. He was in his 93rd year.

"Rick," as he was known in college, entered Dartmouth from Quincy, Ill., High School. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Following graduation, he became the Quincy resident manager of the Continental Oil Company of St. Louis for a period of over five years.

In April 1917, he joined the armed forces and was sent overseas, where he served as infantry officer from May' 1918 to May 1919. After his return to this country he suffered a physical breakdown and was sent to a government hospital in New Mexico. Following a long period of recuperation, he finally regained his health.

In 1924, Rick married Marian Johnson, a University of Chicago graduate, in Denver, Colo., and he then earned an M.B.A. degree from Denver University. The balance of his active years was devoted to cost accounting in the public and private sectors.

He retired in the early fifties, and in 1961 the Castles moved to California, after 37 years in Denver.

Rick is survived by his wife Marian and a niece.

KENNETH FRANCIS CLARK died in his sleep at the Greenwich, Conn., hospital on November 21, 1981, after several months facing health. He was 91.

Ken prepared for Dartmouth at Boys' High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. As an undergraduate, he sang in the chapel choir and participated in public speaking competitions. He was a member of Chi Phi fraternity.

After graduating, he attended Columbia University Law School, where he earned an HE. degree in 1914. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1915 and subsequently became a partner in a law firm in New York City. In 1920, he married Elizabeth Marshall, and they settled in White Plains, N.Y., where for over 25 years they were both active in the civic life of the community. In 1946 they moved to Greenwich, and Ken established a law firm which he maintained up to the time of his death.

He served as an officer in Navy Intelligence during World War I and as a counsel to the Maritime Commission in World War II.

Over the years, the Clarks had traveled quite extensively, and the record of their travels indicates that they had visited, however briefly, in most areas of the civilized world.

Ken was deeply devoted to Dartmouth throughout his adult life. This is confirmed by his perfect attendance at every 1911 reunion from the fifth through the 70th last June. He was selected to deliver the 50-year address at our reunion in 1961, and he was the central figure in the development and implementation of the 1911 Samson Occom Scholarship Fund. He made frequent trips to Hanover on class business and for personal pleasure.

Ken is survived by two sons, Marshall '44 and Kenneth Jr. '50; a daughter; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. His wife Elizabeth died in 1980.

1915

RALPH WOLCOTT BROWN, retired vice president and general counsel of the New York Telephone Company, died November 19, 1981, at his home in North Brooklin, Maine.

Upon his retirement, he had moved to Brooklin, where he became involved in local affairs. He served as a selectman and moderated town meetings, he chaired the town planning board, he was a member of the Hancock County Planning Commission, and he was treasurer and trustee of the Friends Memorial Public Library, director of the Blue Hill Memorial Hospital, and trustee of the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill.

After graduation from Dartmouth he went on to Harvard Law School, where he was awarded a J.D. degree in 1920. He began the practice of law in New York City in 1920 after serving as a ship's officer in the Merchant Marine and later as a lieutenant, junior grade, U.S.N.R., in the Nava' Overseas Transportation Service. In 1934, he was appointed special assistant to the general counsel, U.S. Treasury Department. Two years jater he resigned to join the legal department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. In 1939, he joined the New York Telephone Company as its general attorney and four years later became its vice president and general counsel, a position he held for 15 years until his retirement. Ralph was a member of the state bars of New York and Maine and of several Federal bars, including of the U.S. Supreme Court. He also belonged to the American Bar Association.

Ralph was a member of Phi Delta Theta, the Harvard Club of New York City, the Blue Hill Country Club, and the Center Harbor Yacht Club. He was also a life member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and took an interest in the Hancock County Telephone Pioneer Bangor Chapter.

Ralph is survived by his wife Esther, three sons, a daughter, and three grandchildren. Memorial services were held at the First Congre- gational Church in Blue Hill on November 23.

HERBERT SEARS POTTER died on October 29, 1981, at the William Beaumont Army Hospital, and was buried with military honors on November 2.

Herb was born in Roxbury, Mass., and moved to El Paso, Tex., where he was chief deputy clerk, Eighth Court of Civil Appeals. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1950.

He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Masons, Shrine, First Cavalry Division, Seventh Cavalry, and Elks.

Herb is survived by his wife Kathryn and a daughter.

1917

BURTON LENOX HOW died on October 28, 1981, after a long illness. He was born in 1894 and came to Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter. After a couple of years in the class of 1917 he transferred to Chicago University. At Dartmouth, Burt was interested in track events and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He enlisted in the infantry as a second lieutenant and became a first lieutenant before

spending over a year in France. Burt was engaged for many years as a manufacturer's representative with the Graybar Elec- tric Supply Company. With his characteristic modesty, he once wrote with pride of the fact that his son, B.L.H. Jr., was very successful in business as vice president and general manager for marketing in the international division of the Allied Chemical Company in New York, while also noting that "B.L.H. Sr. [had] no claim to fame."

In 1926, Burt married Janet Crawford, a 1924 graduate of Connecticut College for Women, which in 1964 awarded her its Agnes Leahy Alumnae Award. The couple had two children, a son and a daughter, who survive him, along with their mother. Burt also had a brother, Edward K. How, who was in the class of 1929 at Dartmouth.

After a period of failing health, PHRCIVAL STREETER passed away at St. Joseph's Hospital in New Brunswick, Canada, on July 7, 1981. He was born in Medford, Mass., in 1895. Perc left Dartmouth early in his senior year to join the U.S. Navy in World War I, giving service for two years. After the war he was active in business around Boston, but later moved to Canada, where for a time he was manager of the Nashwaak Pulp and Paper Company Ltd. Later he served many years as president and general manager of the Avon Coal Company Ltd 0f Minto. Here Perc organized the Coal Producers Association, in which he prepared many briefs for government action, and for a number of years was on the Dominion Coal Board.

Along with all his businesses, Perc was also active in civic affairs. He was on the board of directors of St. Joseph's Hospital for over 20 years and was on the advisory board of the Royal Trust Company from 1954 to 1971. Perc was especially interested in golf, for he won many championships and was inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame. He became a great inspiration to young.golfers through his excellent playing and his display of sportsmanship. He was also an avid tennis player.

In 1929, Perc married Hortense Maher. There were four sons and two daughters born of this marriage. The couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with all the family present, including the 21 grandchildren. Hortense died in April 1981 about three months before her husband's death. Of the four sons, two of them graduated from Dartmouth James in 1956 and Richard in 1957. Our sympathy goes out to this fine family.

1919

WALTER. WYMAN CROSS died on October 21, 1981, at the New London, N.H., Hospital after a brief illness.. Born in Boston, he had lived in West Roxbury, Walpole, and Medfield. For most of his business career he was with the Brinks System. After retirement he lived in Warner, N.H.

During freshman year he played on the football team but had to leave college because of an eye infection. He served in the Navy during World War I.

He is survived by his wife, Frances (Merrill) Cross; two daughters; a sister; and several grandchildren.

1922

RALPH EDGAR GRANDFIELD died peacefully in his sleep on July 10, 1981, at his home in Reading, Mass. Though he was generally active and in good health, in recent years he had developed arteriosclerosis which caused heart problems and

severe leg pain. Ted, as classmates knew him, was associated with the First National Bank of Boston for 43 years and he retired in 1966 as a loan officer.

He was born in 1901 in North Fayston, Vt., and he entered Dartmouth from Montpelier High School.

Classmates will 'remember him well as a loyal, honest, fine young man. He was a member of Company I in the Student Army Training Corps and he belonged to Gamma Delta Epsilon. Throughout life he was a loyal alumnus.

In 1923 he married Priscilla D. Slayton, and they were the parents of a son and a daughter, Priscilla died in 1943,. and in 1946 Ted married Doris M. Pierce; they were the parents of Richard P. '74. Doris and the three children are Ted's survivors.

JOHN STEARNS JOHNSON, 80, retired industrial executive and former mayor of Pelham, N.Y., died October 15, 1981, at his home in Pelham.

Following graduation, Johnny began his business career with Dennison Manufacturing Company in Framingham, Mass. In 1928 he became secretary and a director of King Leather Goods Manufacturing Company in Indiana, Pa., and three years later he started a 38-year association with the Uniroyal division of United Rubber Company. He became an acknowledged authority on the manufacture and distribution of automobile tires. During World War II he was director of the tire section of the War Production Board. Later, after dealing with the company's overall corporate activities for 18 years, he retired in 1969.

He also had a strong interest in community affairs that continued after his retirement. He was a village trustee and former president of the North Pelham board of education. From 1970 to 1977 he was mayor of the village of North Pelham, and when North Pelham merged with the village of Pelham Heights, Johnny became the first mayor of the incorporated village of Pelham.

He was also past president of the Pelham Men's Club, he chaired the Metropolitan Association of the Church of Christ, and he was a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Rotary Club, and the Pelham Country Club.

College contemporaries will always remember soft-spoken Johnny as an affable, diligent, competent classmate. Senior year he was managing editor of The Dartmouth; he had also worked on the Aegis and the freshman "Green Book." He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a very loyal Dartmouth alumnus.

Johnny and Elizabeth Chapman Brown, a Smith alumna, were married in 1928. She; their three children including John S. Jr. '50; and a grandson are John's survivors. The class shares deep bereavement with them.

1923

FRANCIS TIMOTHY DOWNEY died on November 8, 1981, following a period of failing health. He was a native of Marlboro, Mass., and a graduate of the local high school. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa.

After two years at Dartmouth Medical School, Frank completed his training at Tufts University Medical School in 1926. He then interned at Cambridge, Mass., City Hospital and later at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City, where he roomed with Jim Hennessy '23. A general practitioner, Frank spent 30 active years on the staff of the Cambridge City Hospital. He also served as Cambridge School Department physician and as staff surgeon at Sancta Maria and Mt. Auburn hospitals. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Society and was also an Elk and a member of the Knights of Columbus. He retired from active practice in late 1975.

Frank was justly proud of his large family. He and Gertrude were the parents of six sons and two daughters, all of whom are college graduates. His son Francis Timothy Jr. is Dartmouth 1955 and his brother William 1931. we are 21 grandchildren.

rank and Gertrude observed their 50th weding anniversary earlier this year. She survives him, together with their children and grandchildren.

1924

We have received belated news of the death of JOSEPH GREEN BUTLER III at Southside Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, on June 17, 1981.

He had been president of the board of trustees and a director of the Butler Institute of American Art, a museum founded by his grandfather in Youngstown, since 1934. He was a partner in Butler, Wick and Company, stockbrokers, for most of his business career and was also a trustee of several other art institutes and organizations. An artist in his own right, he had exhibited in over 100 national shows. He was given an honorary degree in fine arts by Youngstown University in 1973. He was also active in community affairs such as Red Cross and Jaycees.

In college he was a member of Round Robin and the Dartmouth Players, and a cartoonist for the Jack-o-Lantern. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.

He is survived by his wife Dorothy, who is also a painter, together with one son, three daughters, and 11 grandchildren.

We have received word from Nate Whiteside '20 of the death of JOHN ALLEN McELWAIN on November 23, 1981, in Hinsdale, Ill., Sanitorium and Hospital. John had been a resident of Hinsdale for 55 years. He was appointed trustee of the Sanitary District in 1946, and subsequently was named president. During his tenure, the district was acclaimed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a model facility. The present facility was named in his honor at the time of its dedication in 1976.

He served as president of the Illinois Association of Sanitary Districts. He had also been presi- dent of the Chicago District Tennis Association and founder of the Hinsdale Tennis Club. He was owner of John A. McElwain and Company, printing and direct mail service.

He is survived by his wife Jane, two sons, a daughter, and eight grandchildren.

1925

HOBERT VAN MATTESON of West Roxbury, Mass., died in October of 1980. He was born in Wilmette, Ill., in 1901 and went to Berkeley Preparatory School in Boston.

He was in college with us only one semester but always retained an interest in Dartmouth. He was an accountant with Charles H. Tenney Company and then with New England Power Service Company, both in Boston. He was married in 1927 to Marian Gray.

PAUL VALENTINE REBER died on October 20, 1981. His home for 50 years was in Dunkirk, N.Y. Bud was born in Schuylkill Haven, Pa., and graduated from high school there.

In college he was on the freshman basketball team and a member of Beta Alpha Phi. He taught in Pennsylvania for four years before moving to Dunkirk, where he joined the high school faculty. Bud did post-graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, Columbia, and St. Bonaventure, where he obtained master's degrees in education in 1937 and in mathematics in 1939. At retirement he was director of pupil personnel services in the Dunkirk schools.

Bud was active all his life in Masonry and Chautauqua and received many honors from his associates in these fields. He served four years as resident of the Dunkirk Teachers Association and two as a director the Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce, and he was a director of the New York State Teachers Association, on the Guidance Committee of the Y.M.C.A., and president of the Friends of the Dunkirk Library.

Surviving are his wife, the former Frances Glenn, whom he married in 1968, a son David (Dartmouth '59), and a daughter June. Bud was among our most active and loyal classmates and joined us at many Hanover gatherings.

1926

MARTIN EDWARD LOWER died October 26, 1981, in Syracuse, N.Y., after a long illness. He was born in Auburn, N.Y., and he graduated from the high school there. He was in our class at Dartmouth through the junior year and was a member of Zeta Psi.

Marty was with Franklin Automobile Company in Syracuse from 1925 to 1935, when the company went out of business. He then joined Sealright Company of Fulton, N.Y., becoming vice president in 1954 and retiring in 1963 when the company became part of Phillips Petroleum and moved to Kansas City. During World War II he served on the War Production Board as chief deputy of the containers division. He was on the boards of the National Dairy Council, the Paper Cup and Container Institute, and the National Sanitary Milk Bottle Cover Association. A loyal and generous supporter of Dartmouth, he was a member of the Alumni Club of Central New York. He was also an avid golfer and belonged to the Seneca Golf Club of Baldwinsville, N.Y.

He is survived by his wife, the former Nancy Morgan; his two sons Martin A. '60, Tuck 61, and James M. '63, Tuck '65; a daughter; and nine grandchildren including Virginia '83 and Pamela '85. Marty's brothers, James W. '27 and Philip A. '29, are both deceased. Truly a Dartmouth family!

1927

JOSEPH H. GINTZLER died July 17, 1981, in Pompano Beach, Fla. He was born in 1905 in Buffalo, N.Y., and came to Dartmouth from Lafayette High School in that city. He was in Hanover for only one year and later attended the University of Buffalo Law School, from which he received the LL.B. degree in 1928.

For a number of years he practiced law in Buffalo, where he was a member of the Blackstone Legal Society and the Montefiore Men's Club and was a 32nd degree Mason. From 1935 to 1940 he was president of the Gintzler Press, a family printing business also in Buffalo. The next seven years he spent in Miami, Fla., first as instructor at the Embry-Riddle School of Avia- tion, where he taught soldiers aero-dynamics, and later, during World War II, as an inspector at the Miami Air Depot. He was also affiliated with Wometco Theaters in their advertising department during these years. In 1947, on the death of his father, he returned to Buffalo to continue the management of the family printing business until 1971, when he retired and moved to Pompano Beach.

Although Joe attended Dartmouth for only one year, he had many friends in 1927 with whom he kept in contact during his entire life. He had a deep affection for Dartmouth and was a loyal supporter of both the class and the College. He is survived by his wife Goldie, two sons, and five grandsons.

1929

WILLIAM OSCAR KEYES passed away at his home in Sequim, Wash., on November 6, 1981, three months after the discovery of cancer in his lungs, for which he was treated in Seattle.

Bill came to Dartmouth from Malone, N.Y., High School. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Dragon. Bill enjoyed outdoor life, especially canoeing and fishing trips and skiing. He was an enthusiastic member of the 1929 executive committee and was class agent from 1935 to 1937 and vice president from 1969 to 1973.

Bill started working for Charles D. Barney and Company, investment bankers and brokers in New York, in August 1929. In 1937 he became one of the founders of Barrett Associates Inc., investment counselors, in New York. He was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve and did special work for the Defense Council. He was called to active duty in October 1941 and served until January 1946 in the Pacific theater.

In 1937 he married Marianne Briggs, who died in April 1939. In 1944 he married Marion Herwood and after the war moved to Los Angeles, where he joined William R. Staats and Company, Investments. They bought a home in Santa Monica and later moved to La Canada Calif., where they lived until Bill's retirement in 1973, after which they moved to Sequim.

To quote Phil Fitzpatrick '29, "Bill was a great guy, a good and loyal friend, and a sincere lover of Dartmouth." Hal Ripley '29 said, "Bill was a special person."

He took part in the 1929 senior Mt. Washington trip, where we "almost froze" at Joe Dodge's base camp with laughter. He took an extended canoe trip in northern Quebec with Charley Proctor '28 and Fred Breithut '29 in the summer of 1929. I was fortunate to be included in a special repeat performance with Bill and his father in 1935, with the same guides. Among his skiing episodes was the time he jumped off the"new" ski jump at Vale of Tempe and made a perfect landing.

He is survived by his wife, his son Peter, and his brother, Charles Keyes '38.

ELLIE CAVANAGH '29

WILLIAM HENRY NORTON JR. died in Blake Memorial Hospital, Bradenton Fla.

His wife Ruth writes, "Bill died September 30, 1981, after a long illness. He was a kidney dialysis patient for three years. He was a longtime resident of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and was employed for 25 years in the order department of Payne Webber Jackson and Curtis's New York office."

Bill came to Dartmouth from Dwight Preparatory School and lived in Mt. Vernon most of his life. He leaves his wife, Ruth (Hert), and one son.

1930

GEORGE RICKERT STONE died October 20, 1981, after having been ill for several months with cancer. He leaves his wife Marjorie; a daughter, Dr. Elizabeth Stone; and a son, George S. '79.

George was the owner of the firm of Hill and Stone, Insurance Brokers, in Highland Park, Ill., and he was fully active in business up to a few months before his death.

He owned a summer home in northern Wisconsin, and his avocation was forestry. He was awarded citations several times as the

"Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year for northern Wisconsin.

George served in both World War II and the Korean War in the intelligence branch of the U.S. Navy, attaining the rank of commander. He received the Bronze Star for Japanese codebreaking during World War II.

MARJORIE STONE

1932

BENJAMIN WHITE, 70, died unexpectedly on November 13, .1981, in Hanover, N.H. Ben had recently moved to Grantham, N.H., from the Boston area and died while • undergoing diagnostic tests for possible heart surgery at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital.

Ben had had a long career in the food and restaurant business and was the owner of Hampshire House restaurant on Beacon Street in Boston as well as of Ben White's in Norwood, Mass.

Ben served for three years as a warrant officer in the U.S. Navy Seabees during World War II and saw service in the Solomon Islands and New Hebrides. In 1942 he was awarded the Carnegie Medal for saving a woman from drowning in Lynn, Mass.

Ben had retired and had planned to be more active in his class and in Dartmouth affairs we shall miss him. He leaves his wife Ruth (Worthylake), two daughters, two granddaughters, and two brothers. The class extends its sympathy to them.

1935

SANBORN CONNER BROWN, a true Dartmouth Girdled-Earther, died of cancer at his home in Henniker, N.H., on November 28, 1981.

A great-great-grandson of Francis Brown, Dartmouth's third president, "Sandy" was born in Beirut, Lebanon, where his Dartmouth '02 physicist father was a teacher and later dean of the American University. A physics major, in 1937 Sandy added an M.A. from Dartmouth, which also helped, by awarding him a Kramer Fellowship, to launch his long and distinguished career in physics at where he was associate dean of the Graduate School for a dozen years before retiring in 1975.

His major interests? Almost too many to list. He was a world authority on plasma physics, which includes thermonuclear reactions; his basic 1958 text even appeared in a pirated Russian edition. (Years later he edited an Englishlanguage edition of a Russian text based in part on his pirated work.) He traveled, spoke, and wrote widely on plasma physics on both sides of the Iron Curtain. He was the world authority on the great colonial scientist Count Rumford, a new edition of whose papers he published (he gave his own Rumford collection, plus his professional papers, to Baker Library) and on whom he wrote several scholarly and popular books. His 21 major published works include Wines and Beers of Old New England: A How-to-do-it History on getting tight the oldfashioned way. He was active in a spate of learned societies, yet he found time for Dartmouth affairs, too; he was a member for three years of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, he chaired its continuing education committee, and his books include Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth, which he co-authored with Provost Leonard Rieser '44.

He was my close friend for years, yet I was forever discovering some unknown-to-me interest that he followed with his typical gentle zeal. Only months before he died, for example, did I learn that he had been a founder of and for many years active in the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. The last time I saw him, a few weeks before his death, he was well into a book on the design of fireplaces, which he nought had a bad press. We shall not soon see such another.

Sandy is survived by his wife, the former Lois Wright; three children, including Stanley W. '67; five grandchildren; three brothers; and a sister.

DERO A. SAUNDERS '35

Word has been received of the death of ROBERT GA NUN CHOLLAR on November 7, 1981, at the Kettering Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio.

Bob is well remembered as a brother of Chi Phi, but he attended Dartmouth for only two years before leaving, in 1933, for Antioch College and the position of research chemist at the National Cash Register Company. He rose rapidly through the ranks at N.C.R. to director of research, vice president for research and development, and to membership on the board of directors in 1959.

In 1956 Bob was named to the Kettering Foundation board by Charles Kettering, a close personal friend. He became president and chief executive in 1971 and was chairing the board at the time of his death.

While on the board, Bob was deeply involved in research into cable television and became a trustee of the Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association and the National Public Affairs Center for Television. He served as a technical adviser to the Secretary of Commerce on Soviet and China relations and in 1975 accompanied Secretary of State Vance to China. In 1978 he was a delegate to the White House Conference on Balanced National Growth and Economic Development.

Bob also served on the board of trustees of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York from 1975 to 1978 and on its board of overseers from 1978 until his death. He was also widely involved in civic, educational, and community activities in Ohio, giving his time to the boards of many organizations.

Bob is survived by his wife Thelma and three sons.

1937

ALVIN RICHARD WHITEHILL died November 1, 1981, in Bangor, Maine. His wife Marie wrote, "After seven major heart attacks, one of which resulted in a stroke from which he had mostly recovered, and six years of crossed fingers, he finally had to let go."

He came from St. Johnsbury, Vt., Academy and graduated from Dartmouth cum laude. He was the recipient of the Cramer Fellowship and the Earl of Dartmouth Achievement Award and was a Rufus Choate Scholar. In 1942 he got his Ph.D. from Cornell. From 1944 to 1961 he was a research scientist with American Cynamid; his work produced many antibiotic and poultry nutrition developments in their Lederle Laboratory Division. In 1952 he received a citation for one of the most important scientific developments of that year. In 1961 he became head of the bacteriological department at the University of Maine in Orono, where he served as a professor until retirement.

He had many scientific memberships, including one in the New York Academy of Science. He served as a consultant with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He held patents on antibiotics and vitamins. He was a member of Gamma Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Chi, Kiwanis, and the Methodist Church.

Al was a quiet, unassuming man who sacrificed the financial rewards of private industry to devote his life and love of profession to the advancement of young people in scientific achievement. He and Marie enjoyed the small town atmosphere. He cared deeply for Dartmouth and was very proud that his son Austin followed in his footsteps there as a member of the class of 1976.

He leaves Marie, Austin, three daughters, six grandchildren, and a brother, Albert '32.

1938

FREDERICK EDWARD WAGNER died in Lyme, N.H., on November 1, 1981. He came to Dartmouth from Milwaukee University School, and at Dartmouth he was Phi Beta Kappa, a senior fellow, and co-editor of the Jack-o-Lantern. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, of which he was president, and the Ledyard Canoe Club of which he was vice president.

Fred was a bright guy and fun. He was in the Navy during World War II, serving, among other things, as skipper of a PT boat in the Pacific. He worked briefly in Milwaukee for the Wagner Company, went to Harvard Business School, and in 1955 moved to Lyme to a shack he called a farm. He made the shack into a lovely home, formed Wagner Woodlands, and became the largest timberland-owner in New Hampshire. He also owned land in Vermont and Canada.

He married, had three daughters, and went into the international timber business. He also owned a house on Bequia in the West Indies. As might be expected, he belonged to a number of clubs.

CARL VON PECHMANN '38

1939

MALCOLM WALLIS, 64, died at his home in Los Alamos, N.M., on October 15, 1981. Mai entered Dartmouth from Browne and Nichols, where he had played football in his junior and senior years. At college he was a member of the Glee Club and majored in physics, a calling he was to pursue throughout his life.

Mai started work with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation and in the same year shifted to Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute. During the World War II years he was primarily engaged in work at Oak Ridge, Tenn., through the University of California, until moving to Los Alamos in 1951. He remained at Los Alamos National Laboratory until his death, working in the physics division.

One of Mai's continuing interests was in skiing, and he raised his family to be more than competent in the sport. Our 25th year book indicates that the entire family entered into competitive ski-racing. As recently as last year, Mai tried his hand in the veteran class races in Colorado and Europe and then went to the U.S. National Championships, where he placed third in two events in his age class, defeating a number of professional instructors in the process. He was also an avid tennis player, active in the Los Alamos Tennis Club, and involved in Little League and Sandy Koufax baseball leagues.

He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Phyllis Sampson Wallis, together with four children an seven grandchildren.

1952

Although he never graduated, RAYMOND GERALD NEIZER always kindled the Dartmouth spirit. Jerry died on October 13, 1981, in Salem Mass., after a long illness. He left Dartmouth and entered the Air Force as a corpsman, which led him into the field of medical technology While in the service, Jerry became disabled with multiple sclerosis; he retired from the Air Force in 1961. Living at home, he worked with Salem's New Tourist Commission and was active in Dartmouth alumni activities. He leaves his mother, a brother, and a sister.

1955

HUDSON YIELDING AYLWIN II died suddenly of a heart attack on September 18, 1981. Pat entered Dartmouth from Bexley, Ohio, High School and in college was a member of Sigma Chi. He lived most of his life in Columbus, Ohio.

At the time of his death, Pat was a stockbroker with Butcher and Singer Inc. He leaves his wife Corle and their three children; two daughters from a previous marriage also survive him.

Those 'of us who knew Pat well will miss a loyal friend.

1980

On December 3, 1981, the class lost a dear friend in JAMES ANDREWS FOOTE. His life was taken in a tragic automobile accident in New York City. That Jim was taken from us so suddenly has left us all with an overwhelming feeling of shock and helplessness. Jim was so young and his life held such promise. He was a close friend to many, and all those who knew him will deeply feel the loss.

Jim came to Dartmouth from Darien, Conn. In high school, Jim was an active and concerned member of Explorer Post 53, a volunteer ambulance and emergency care group which served his community. During his tenure as president, and largely due to his unselfish dedication, Post 53 earned designation as the primary response unit in Darien. In addition, Post 53, under Jims leadership, received numerous national awards recognizing its significant contribution to the community.

This typified Jim's efforts at the College. He gave so much of himself to his friends and asked so little in return. His dependability, quiet competence, and loyalty are some of the virtues for which we admired Jim.

In many ways, Jim represented the true importance of Dartmouth. His unfailing loyalty to his College, his fraternity, and his friends, in his own unpretentious manner, was appreciated as one of his finest qualities. Those who shared his friendship will always remember the warmth and happiness he exuded through his fine sense of humor and his fondness for life.

Many friends came from all over the country to honor Jim's life. The class, as well as count less friends, extend their deepest sympathy to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Foote '47, his brother John '78, his sister-in law Mary are and the entire Foote family.