Deaths
(This is a listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past month. Full notices, which are usually written by the class secretary, may appear in this issue or a later one.)
Morrison, Charlotte F., admin., September 13 Gibson, Walter B. '11, presumed dead Holden, Clarence '11, May 27 Johnson, Francis J. '11, presumed dead Leonard, Hartford '11, presumed dead Forsaith, Carl C. '13, August 16 Andrews, Fletcher R. '16, August 30 Whit, Lawrence B. '24, August 22 Duffin, John D. '25, June 12 Smith, Lawrence C. '26, July 7 Wallace, J. Branton '26, September 8 Howe, Herbert A. '27, August 17 Sawyer, C. Murray '28, February 15 Brown, Forest M. '29, August 16 Brownlee, Theodore R. '29, September 9 Sherwood, John B. '29, August 6 Lawson, William Jr. '30, July 29 Porter, William E. Jr. '33, May 13 Squiers, John M. Jr. '36, July 31 Nichols, Herbert C. '39, August 16 Westgate, Ronald A. '42, August 16 Teal, John J. Jr. '42, August 6 Koci, Joseph Jr. '43, August 27 Palmer, Barber C. Jr. '49, August 31 Smith, Raymond C. '52, August 18 Hapgood, Charles T. Jr. '53, July 18 Osborne, David P. Jr. '66, August 6 Hoffman, James W. '82, August 20 Best, Gene L. '82, September 9
Administration
Charlorre Ford Morrison, Dartmouth alumni recorder emeritus, died on September 13 at the Hanover Terrace Healthcare Center.
Born in Hanover the daughter of Jennie Regan and Elmer Thurston Ford, she graduated from Hanover High School in 1913 as valedictorian of her class. She went on to graduate, in 1918, from Simmons College, where she was class and student government vice president.
Her early career included two years with the Bridgeport, Conn., Public Library and three years with the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in New York City. She began her association with the Dartmouth Alumni Records Office in 1924, was named alumni recorder in 1926, and was made recorder emeritus in 1962. She also served as alumni editor of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine from 1946 to 1961.
Also active in civic affairs, she was a trustee of Howe Library and at various times chaired the Hanover Finance Committee, the Hanover Planning Board, and the Hanover Democratic Committee. Her state-wide interests included service as president of the League of Women Voters of N.H. for four years, a member of the State Democratic Committee, and a founder and long-time director of the N.H. Council on World Affairs. Also involved in Simmons alumnae activities, she was a trustee from 1947 to 1953 and a member of various Alumnae Association committees; in 1968 she received the college's Alumnae Service Award.
Her professional affiliations included membership from 1930 to her death in the American Alumni Council, in which she was awarded life membership in 1962. In 1964 she was one of a select group to receive from Columbia University an honors award medal for distinguished service to the American Alumni Council.
She was married in 1956 to Hugh S. Morrison, Leon E. Williams Professor of Art at Dartmouth; he died in 1978. She is survived by one nephew, Thornton E. Hard, of Centreville, Md., and by four nieces.
1911
Rolfe Wallace Bond, who did not graduate with the class, is presumed to have died. There is no available data on his career at Dartmouth or in later life.
Bert Edward Dugdald, who did not graduate with the class, is presumed to have died. A report filed in 1949 showed him attending Columbia in 1910-11, his marriage in 1914, a son born in 1917, residence in Irvington, N.J., and employment as a structural engineer. No information has been received in recent years.
Walter Burnap Gibson is presumed to have died. Walter came to Dartmouth from Lowell, Mass., High School. He graduated in 1911 and from Tuck in 1912. He married Edith Seitz in 1915; a son James, Dartmouth '40, was born in 1918; and two daughters were born in 1920 and 1925. He joined Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery, an accounting firm, in Boston in 1920, and was transferred to Los Angeles in 1925, where he later became a resident partner. He was active in Dartmouth affairs in the Los Angeles area for a number of years. His latest address of record was in North Hollywood, Calif. No word has come from him in recent years and attempts to contact him have been unavailing.
Frances James Jonhson, who did not graduate with the class, is presumed to have died. In reply to an Alumni Records inquiry in 1968, it was reported that he was mentally incapacitated and in a nursing home. Other than that, no data on his history is available.
Hartford Leonard is presumed to have died. While in college he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, but he left Dartmouth in his sophomore year to become a ranch owner in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His ties with Hanover were quite remote and news of him came very infrequently.. As far as is known he never married. In late years his mail has been returned.
CHARLES RUSSELL PECK died on April 14, 1971. He was persuaded to enter Dartmouth by his brother Russell 'O7. He attended for one year and transferred to Harvard, from which he was graduated. No information on his career is available, other than that he was a member of the clergy. His death was confirmed by the Harvard Records Office.
Harold Whitomb Raymond is presumed to have died. He attended Dartmouth until April 1909 and was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Information contained in a 1926 class report showed his marriage in 1915, two sons and a daughter, residence in Hingham, Mass., and employment as a sales manager with Paine, Webber Company in Boston. No information was received in later years.
David Salisbury Traitel died several years ago according to information passed along to the Alumni Records office by a '16 alumnus. He attended Dartmouth for part of a year. Early data showed his marriage in 1928, residence in New York City, and employment as treasurer of Traitel Marble Company in Long Island City. A later address indicated residence in La Jolla, Calif.
Harry Freeman Waterhouse, who did not graduate with the class, is presumed to have died. Information received in 1929 disclosed his marriage in 1913, a son born in 1918, residence in Bayside, Long Island, and employment as an engineer with F. G. Shattuck Company in New York City. No later information is available.
Phineas Wescott Whitting died February 9, 1978, it was recently learned through the University of Pennsylvania. He attended Dartmouth freshman year and transferred to Harvard, from which he was graduated in 1911. He also received an M.S. in 1912 and a Ph.D. in 1916 from the University of Pennsylvania. He had a distinguished teaching career at several institutions, the longest post as professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1963. In 1964 he became a consultant in genetic research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He published many scientific research papers and was a member of numerous scientific societies.
Henry Herman Ziegel died December 4, 1972, after a long illness in Belmont, Mass., according to information received from the Harvard alumni office. He attended Dartmouth for one year, then transferred to Harvard. There is no further information on his career.
1913
Carl Cheswell Forsaih, 93, retired forestry college professor, died on August 16 at a Manchester, N.H., nursing home after a long illness.
Carl was born in Auburn, N.H., which had • been settled by his ancestors in the 17305. He was graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H., before coming to Dartmouth. In college, he was a member of Gamma Alpha fraternity, the Glee Club, and the College Choir, and a biology major in which subject he was greatly influenced by Professor Arthur Chivers.
After Dartmouth, Carl went on to earn a master's and a doctorate at Harvard, then returned to Hanover as an instructor in biology in 1916—17. In 1917, he joined the faculty of the New York State College of Forestry in Syracuse as one of the country's first teachers of wood technology the study of the structure and properties of wood. He taught there until his retirement as an emeritus professor of wood technology in 1949, making significant contributions to his chosen field.
A specialist in timber mechanics, he spent a two-year sabbatical teaching at the Imperial Forestry Institute of Oxford University in England in 1925 and 1926 and was the author of numerous technical articles and books, including the definitive Textbook for Wood Technology. He was also a member of several professional societies.
Upon his retirement, Carl and his wife Grace moved back to the 400-acre family homestead in Auburn. He was named a trustee of Pinkerton in 1950, a post in which he served until 1980, when he was named trustee emeritus; he also was at one time president of the Pinkerton Alumni Association. In addition, he was moderator of Auburn from 1953 to 1958 and the author of histories of Auburn and Pinkerton, as well as of several historical pageants.
Carl also gavp of his talents to Dartmouth, serving as president of the Dartmouth Club of Syracuse for two terms in the twenties and as 1913 newsletter editor and secretary from 1978 until his death.
Grace, whom he had married in 1916, died in 1980. They had no children, and the only surviving family members are several cousins.
1917
Ralph Augusting Brennan died of a massive stroke at his home in Arlington, Va., on May 8. He was born in Northfield, Va., in 1893. Ralph came to Dartmouth with several other young men from Northfield but stayed only about two years. He lived a rather quiet life in college, but before he left he became a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. In May 1918, Ralph enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was assigned to Battery B, 302 nd Field Artillery. After two months' training he was sent overseas with the American Expeditionary Force as a mechanic. He was involved in the St. Mihiel offensive. Ralph was always interested in mechanics and devoted most of his life in business to that field.
In 1924 he married Alice Galbraith, who died about three years ago. Ralph is survived by a sister, Maude Edgerton, widow of our classmate Alson Edgerton, and also by a daughter, Priscilla Brennen of Arlington, Va. Our sympathy and best wishes to to the survivors.
1919
Robert William Schrfft Schulz died on June 8 in Berlin, Vt. Bob came to college from Dedham, Mass. He enlisted at the outbreak of World War I and served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. After the war he attended Washington and Lee and Babson.
For many years he was a sales executive with W. F. Schrafft and Sons and also owned A. W. Morse Company of Manchester, N.H. On retirement he lived most of the year in the Squam Lake region of New Hampshire.
Survivors include a daughter, Barbara S. Brown Watts of Waterbury, Vt.; a son, William Schulz of Concord, N.H.; and several grandchildren.
1920
Word was received in July of the death of HAROLD GRAHAM HUNTINGTON on October 7, 1977. Hal, who left college before graduation, had been out of touch with the class for many years, but his Alumni Records file contains a fascinating 1939 article from a North Carolina publication proclaiming him as "Blueberry King of the World" and describing him as "a Yankee from New Jersey who in nine years has built up, in Pender County, the largest blueberry farm in the world." Hal and his wife Mary, a Vassar graduate who died in 1981, had five children. In a letter to Alumni Records reporting her father's death, Ann Huntington Butler wrote: "Both our parents had long, full lives, and for that we are grateful."
1921
Emoty Curit Corbin, 83, died in New Britain, Conn., on June 5 after a long illness. Upon graduating from New Britain High School, Emory enrolled with the class of 1921. He brought with him a love for Dartmouth that he had absorbed from the many Dartmouth friends of the prominent Corbin family of New Britain. His fraternity was S.P.E.
Em took time out to become a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, but this stint did not prevent him from graduating with the class.
Returning to New Britain, Em joined the local stock brokerage firm of Eddy Brothers. In 1948, he became a member of the management staff at New Britain General Hospital. Emory was a former secretary of the New Britain Dartmouth Club and for five years was a deacon at the Congregational Church.
In 1923, Em married Olive Littlehales, a graduate of Connecticut College for Women.
Besides his wife, Emory is survived by a son, a grandson, a granddaughter, and a greatgrandson. In January of this year, the crash at National Airport in Washington, D.C., claimed the life of their daughter.
Paul Nicholson, 83, passed away on July 10 at Port Washington, N.Y., after a long illness. Paul came to Dartmouth from Omaha, Neb., High School.
During World War I at Plattsburgh, Paul became a second lieutenant in the Infantry. He returned to Dartmouth, graduating with the class of 1921, majoring at Tuck. His fraternity was Chi Phi.
Paul's entire business career was in the investment field. He was a partner in the firm of Granberg, Marache and Company, New York City.
In 1922, Paul married Katherine Baird Knox of Raleigh, N.C. He is survived by three daughters and several grandchildren.
Jonh Lawrence Sulliva , 83, passed away at Exeter, N.H., Hospital on August 8.
John's undergraduate activities are recorded in the class notes section of this issue. Af ter Dartmouth, John graduated from Harvard Law School in 1924, then began practicing law in manchester with his father. In 1928, he was named county solicitor for Hillsborough. In 1939, he was appoint ed assistant to the commissioner of Internal Revenue. The next year he was named assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. In 1945. aboard the U,S.S.Shangrila, John was sworn in as assistant secretary of the Navy for air. The next year he became undersecretary of the Navy, and in 1947 he was named secretary of the Navy.
When President Truman canceled plans to build the aircraft carrier United States, John resigned the Navy secretaryship and returned to practice law in Washington, D.C.
In recognition of his service to the nation, he was awarded the Medal for Merit by President Truman and the Treasury Department's Distinguished Service Award and Silver Medal.
John's service to the College was also extensive. From 1957 to 1968 he was a trustee and he chaired the budget committee for several years. From 1951 to 1956, he was president of our class. In 1971, he gave the 50-year address. He was a member and president of the Alumni Council in the fifties. He accepted leadership roles in major fund-raising campaigns. In recognition of these many services to Dartmouth, John was granted an honorary LL.D. and the Alumni Award.
Also active in state civic and political affairs, he was a trustee of the Daniel Webster Boy Scout Council and the Naval Historical Society, state commander of the American Legion from 1937 to 1939, twice Democratic candidate for governor of New Hampshire, and a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and the National Conference of Christians and Jews. John was also a director of a number of major corporations, including Aluminium Ltd., MetroGoldwyn-Mayer, and Martin-Marietta.
He leaves his wife, Priscilla (Manning) Sullivan; two daughters; a son, Charles M. Sullivan '62; and five grandchildren.
At funeral services in Manchester, N.H., the class was represented by the Bill Fowlers and the Orton Hickses. Ort was honored by being one of four pallbearers, assisted by a detachment from the Portsmouth Naval Base. The entire class extends its sympathy to John's survivors. The class has lost its most illustrious and distinguished classmate.
1922
George W. Weed, widely known math ematics teacher and track coach at the Peddie School, Hightstown, N.J., died July 10 at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Boynton Beach, Fla.
George was born in 1898 in Syracuse, N. Y., and, after graduating from Peddie, was a naval aviator in World War I before coming to Dartmouth. He was an outstanding athlete, winning letters in track and swimming. As captain of the latter team he was an intercollegiate diving champion. He was a good student, a thorough gentleman, and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Following graduation he worked for a few years in New York City and did some postgraduate work at Columbia. He then began a 40-year career as a teacher-coach at Peddie, where he was director of athletics for 22 years. He was also a highly successful track coach, winning many state and regional championships, before doctors ordered him to stop coaching in 1956. He continued teaching, however, and received the Peddie Bowl Award for distinguished service to the school. While at Peddie he was also for many years a deacon in the Hightstown Baptist Chruch. He retired from Peddie in 1965 and for the past 11 years had lived in Boynton Beach.
George was married to Ethel Marion Forman in 1928 in.Hightstown. She passed away some years ago, but their daughter, Nancy Cieboter of Boca Raton, Fla., and her two daughters survive George.
1925
Jonh Daniel Duffin died June 12 inUtica, N.Y. He was born in Malone, N.Y., in 1902 and came to Dartmouth from Franklin Academy in Malone.
Dinnie spent all his life in the North Country, working for the John Duffin Company of Malone and later on for the Federal Housing Administration in Syracuse and the American Hardwall Plaster Company in Utica.
In 1933 he married Sue R. Parsons of Terra Alta, W.Va., and they had two children.
1926
Laurence Cortelyou Smith died July 7 at his home in Squires, Mo. He was born in Yonkers, N.Y., and graduated from the high school there. At Dartmouth he was a member of Epsilon Kappa Phi, runner-up in boxing his junior year, and an active member of the class. As an alumnus he attended the 50th reunion, supported the Alumni Fund, and took an interest in College affairs.
After graduation he was in the automobile and real estate business, then became concerned with the abuses in civil service and was secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League. Then he was executive secretary of the Connecticut Merit System Association. He was nine years with the U.S. Census Bureau, which he found to be frustrating and so returned to private business. At one time he headed the New York Liberty Amendment Committee, seeking to reduce government involvement in business thought to be better handled privately. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in a Missouri primary. Missouri backers sent him in 1972 to enter the Florida Republican primary for President, which candidacy was refused on constitutional grounds.
Larry, who was married three times, is survived by his wife, the former Feroll Moore Pyle; two sons by his first wife; a son and daughter by his second wife; three sisters; and ten grandchildren.
1927
Leonard Arthr Challinor Dunn died July 5 at his home in Mesa, Ariz., following a short hospitalization for kidney and heart problems. He was 77.
Len was born in Kansas City, Mo., where he attended the Westport High School before entering Dartmouth. He was in Hanover only from September 1923 to December 1925, during which time he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and a tap dancer for the Musical Clubs, the Barbary Coast Orchestra, and the Players. His solo specialty act was a hit for several Winter Carnival and other shows. Although he did not graduate with the class, Len retained a deep interest in both the class and the College and was a loyal supporter and a regular correspondent. At one time he was vice president of the Baltimore, Md., Dartmouth Club and president of the Dartmouth Club of Virginia.
Most of his active career was spent in the flour business, and he held various positions including office manager, production manager, and sales manager for Kansas Flour Mills of America in Kansas City, and he also opened several offices for that company in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and other states. In 1938, he joined General Mills Company and first covered the state of Virginia, with headquarters in Richmond. Later, in 1953, he was assigned to cover Maine, New Hampshire, and northern Vermont. He retired from active work in 1961 and moved with his wife to Mesa, where he remained until his death.
He is survived by his wife Jane (Price), a son, a daughter, and three grandchildren.
1928
Lauren Miller Sadler, 78, a member of the faculty at Dartmouth for 40 years, died July 9 at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, a few minutes after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Norwich.
Curly was a native of Elmira, N.Y., where he attended Elmira Free Academy. In college he was a star on the gym team and its captain his senior year. The 1927 season was the most successful gym season in the history of the sport at Dartmouth, with the team winning its first Eastern Collegiate Gymnastic Association championship. Curly was also a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity and a chemistry major.
After graduation Curly was appointed to the faculty at Dartmouth, and he became an assistant professor in 1937 and chaired the Physical Education Department for four years.
For ten years before his retirement in 1968, Curly and his wife Laura worked on a forest and land conservation project on their 440-acre Norwich farm, which they expanded after Curly ended his 40-year association with the College.
Active in community affairs, Curly was a member of the Norwich School Board, an original director of the Norwich swimming pool, a charter member of the Ford Sayre Ski Council, and director of its children's ski carnival for two years.
At our 45th and 50th reunions, Curly and Laura helped set up and act as custodians of the popular hobby shows. Due to Curly's problem with emphysema, they moved from their farm to an apartment in Norwich two years ago.
He is survived by his wife, the former Laura Williams, whom he married in 1930, together with a son, a daughter, two brothers, and a sister.
A memorial service on July 17 at the First Congregational Church in Norwich was attended by a host of family and friends, including Curly's classmate Herb Sensenig, who gave a eulogy.
1929
Forets Martin Brown died on August 16 at his home in Rochester, N.H., after a short illness. He was a retired mathematics teacher.
Doc came to us from Milford, N.H., High School. He majored in sociology and was active in the Dartmouth Christian Association. He was a leader in several Masonic orders and the First Church Congregational.
He leaves his wife Eva and four children
Mercedes Sentney writes us: "Kenneth Emil Sentney passed away on June 4 at the Hutchinson, Kans., Hospital after suffering a heart attack at his office earlier in the day.
"He attended Dartmouth for two years before transferring to Kansas University, where he graduated from the law school. Although he was always loyal to Dartmouth, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, he loved his native state and the land. A reserved man who was successful in the investment business, he organized the Sentney Farms Inc., to which he devoted many hours.
"He leaves his wife Mercedes, a son, a daughter, and two grandchildren."
She added that he always read the Alumni Magazine and that some of his friends, including John Dickey, may like to know of his passing. Thank you, Mercedes, from the many of us who are touched by his passing.
1930
The class lost one of its outstanding members with the death of Kaarl Borton Rodi on May 17 in Pasadena, Calif., following a protracted illness.
Karl was with us for two years in Hanover, majored in history, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon; he then transferred to Pomona, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1929 and later served as a trustee. He also attended the School of Political Science in Paris for a year and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1933- As senior member of a prestigious Pasadena law firm, Karl was practicing up to the time of his death. He also tried to keep in touch with his Dartmouth lawyer friends, including Alex McFarland '30.
Karl also maintained far-ranging business interests in which he took active leadership roles. These included extensive properties devoted to cattle-raising and land development in Hawaii and Nevada.lt is indicative of his nature that he used to take part in cattle drives with his riders. He also participated in a variety of sports.
In Beverly Hills, and more recently in Pasadena, Karl assumed many civic responsibilities, and he also was a member of the American, California, and Los Angeles bar associations.
In recognition of his active contributions to class, College, and community Karl was accorded the "Class of 1930 Award" in 1974. Over the years he served as an assistant class agent, executive committee member, and vice chairman of the bequest and estate planning program, as well as supporting the 1930 Fellowship and Third Century Funds. It was he and his good wife Tina who were responsible for the first Ojai reunion in 1971, still an annual '30 highlight on the West Coast. Many classmates have also enjoyed Karl and Tina at the annual Woodstock reunions, for which they made a special trip east each year.
In addition to Tina, Karl leaves two daughters and several grandchildren. To all of them, the class extends its understanding and warm sympathy.
We are sorry to report the death of Osgar Gustave Sandberg on April 6 at his home in Larchmont, N.Y., as the result of cancer.
Oz transferred to Dartmouth in his junior year, majoring in economics, and he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. He also attended. the University of Virginia and Pratt Institute.
Shortly after graduation he joined the New York Telephone Company and remained there until 1967, when he retired as engineer, forecasts.
Until three years ago he had lived in Scarsdale, where he was a member of the Kiwanis Club, treasurer of the Town Club, and active in Scouting. He also was a member of the Telephone Company Pioneers.
Oz had experienced failing eyesight but, despite that and although knowing of his cancer, had lived a normal life until two months before his death.
Oz had lost his wife, the former Joan Larkin, in 1967, but he leaves a daughter; a son, John Stuart Sandberg '60; and four grandchildren, to all of whom the class extends its sincere sympathy.
Herman Theodore Schneebeli died unexpectedly of a heart attack on May 6 in Philadelphia. Following is an excerpt from a tribute to him by classmate Bob McClory on the floor of the House on May 10. Because of space limitations, other facts are in the class notes section.
"Mr. Speaker, it is with a sense of shock and deep sadness that I have learned of the abrupt passing Thursday of our former colleague, Herman Schneebeli. Congressman Schneebeli represented the 17th District of Pennsylvania during the 16 years between 1960 and 1976, rising to become the ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee, as well as a member of the Budget Committee.
Congessman Herm Schneebeli was far more than a colleague of mine. He was a fellow class mate at Dartmouth College, where we were close friends during our undergraduate years there. Herm Schneebeli was one of the most popular and prominent members of the Dartmouth class of 1930, where he became manager of the footall team and was a member of honor societies throughout his college career.
"Mr. Speaker, in addition to his personal attributes, which were many, his business success, which was outstanding, and his public career symbolized by his constructive and honorable service as a U.S. Representative for 16 years, Herm Schneebeli was, beyond all these attainments, a gentle and beloved individual who enjoyed the friendship and respect of his colleagues, his constituents, and all of those other countless individuals with whom and for whom he labored in these halls."
1932
James Hart Swartchild died suddenly on June 19. While playing golf, Jim became ill after about five holes. He rested at the club for a few hours then went home and died in midafternoon of an aneurysm. His home was in Glencoe, Ill.
Jim and his brother Bill spent 45 years in the family jewelry business, Swartchild and Company. Jim also had served as president of the Chicago Jewelry Association. When the business was sold in 1975, Jim, a fine photographer, offered his services to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where he also worked as a volunteer in the Anthropology Department. In addition, he chaired the Cancer Association and was a director of the Community Fund.
Survivors, besides his wife Catherine, include a son, a daughter, and five grandchildren ranging in age from nine to 23.
John W. Sheldon '32
1935
Word was recently received of the sudden death of Richard Dickinson Turner on May 2, while he was hospitalized for treatment of diverticulitis.
A graduate of Thayer Academy, he was an economics major at Dartmouth and a member of Zeta Psi fraternity. For many years he served as a sales representative for H. A. Johnson Company in Boston and resided in Wayland, Mass.
Dick is survived by his wife Ruth and one daughter.
1936
Harry Milton Horn Jr. of Old Saybrook, Conn., died on April 30 at the Veterans Hospital in New Haven, after a long and courageous struggle with emphysema. Bud was born in Port Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y., and attended Curtis High School here. While at Dartmouth he was a comparative literaturephilosophy major and a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
After graduation, Bud went with JohnsManville Corporation and was there from 1936 to 1940. His career was interrupted by five years' service during World War II in the U.S. Navy, where he attained the rank of lieutenant and was executive officer on a mine sweeper in the South Pacific and the Aleutian Islands. In 1947 he joined the publishing firm of F. W. Dodge Corporation and was with this company for many years. Bud's business specialty was advertising and space sales and he became New England district manager for Architectural Record. He subsequently went with Cahners Publishing Company, a publisher of trade magazines and books, as eastern manager for Building Design and Construction. At the time of his death he was retired.
Bud is survived by his wife Allene, four children, and four grandchildren. His late brother John was a member of the class of 1939.
1939
Daniel Hull, 66, of West Tisbury, Mass., died on July 31 after a long illness.
Dan was born in 1915 in Kenosa, Wise. He came to Dartmouth from the Taft School. He was a member of Green Key and chaired the editorial board of The Dartmouth while in college.
Following a brief period as a reporter for the Waterbury American, Dan served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a Russian language specialist. He returned to the American following the war, joining the editorial department. In 1951 he left Waterbury and joined the Worcester Telegram, where he was chief editorial writer, foreign affairs editor, and columnist until 1962. At this time he returned to Waterbury as associate editor of the Republican and American editorial pages.
In 1967 he was named general manager of the Vineyard Gazette in Edgartown, Mass, From 1969 to 1971 he served the Hartford, Conn., Courant as senior editorial writer. He returned to Martha's Vineyard as executive secretary of the Vineyard Chamber of Commerce until retiring in 1981.
He was an early member of the American Press Institute at Columbia University and served on the New England Society of Newspaper Editors board of governors. He was a charter member of the National Conference of Editorial Writers and as a member of Sigma Delta Chi served as director from 1966 to 1967. He was also a secretary of the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Education in the sixties in Waterbury.
He leaves his wife Janice (Tyack) Hull, a son, a daughter, a brother, and two sisters.
1941
William Porter Durkee III died on May 6 at University Hospital in Denver. He had been retired from law practice and living in Colorado Springs since suffering a stroke in 1976.
Born in Chicago and raised in California, Bill was a member of Psi Upsilon, the Corinthian Yacht Club, Casque and Gauntlet, and Palaeopitus as an undergraduate. Along with classmates Chuck Bolte and Jack Brister, he enlisted in the King's Royal Rifles in the summer of 1941 and served in the British Army until being wounded at El Alamein.
In 1947 Bill earned his law degree from Yale and practiced for several years in San Francisco and Denver before moving on to a distinguished career with the government and various international organizations. He worked for the State Department and the C.I. A. here and abroad and served as a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. From 1964 to 1968, he headed the Office of Civil Defense, twice winning the Distinguished Service Medal, the Army's highest civilian award.
Bill was executive director of the American Committee for a United Europe in the early fifties and president of Radio Free Europe from 1968 to 1975. He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, and the Celer and Audax Society of London.
He is survived by his wife, the former Dorcas Mary Dunklee, and by two sons, a daughter, and one grandchild.
RobertColey Memsel died at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover on June 10 after a short illness. He lived in Swanzey Center, N.H., and had been with the Markem Corporation in nearby Keene since 1946, serving most recently as vice president and clerk.
Bob was born in Northampton, Mass., and came to Dartmouth from Williston Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa as an undergraduate. He left college before his senior year to join the Army Air Force, where he earned the rank of lieutenant colonel.
His service in community organizations included posts as incorporator of Keene's Cheshire Hospital, trustee of the Keene Savings Bank, and director of the Keene Family Y.M.C.A., the Monadnock United Way, and the Cheshire County Red Cross. He was a member of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturing Institute and a past president of the Southwest New Hampshire Dartmouth Alumni Association.
Bob was married in 1941 to the former Jane Griswold. Also surviving him are two daughters and four grandchildren. His father, Ernest Mensel, was a member of the class of 1912 at Dartmouth, and his brother, E. Jerome Mensel, graduated in 1950.
In notifying us of his death, Bob's friend and neighbor Sally Frechette wrote: "He had numerous friends, but his principal interest was his family. He loved their charming old farmhouse in Swanzey Center, but also spent many happy times at their Brewster Park cottage on Cape Cod: My children and I feel, as do many others, that we have lost a very special friend."
Armand Brummy Miller, a former Dartmouth boxing champ and a former Eighth Air Force navigator, died on July 20 at Victory Memorial Hospital in Waukegan, Ill. He had learned in May that he was suffering from a terminal cancer, but death came as the result of a massive heart attack.
A lifelong resident of Waukegan, Brummy prepared for Dartmouth at Culver Military Academy. As a freshman, he won the 125pound championship in the college boxing tournament. He was president of Pi Lamda Phi in his junior year and represented that house on the Interfraternity Council.
He joined the Army Air Force in January of 1942, eventually serving as a navigator on 8-24 bombers based in England. He earned an Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and in 1944 was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross "for extraordinary achievement on numerous special operational missions over enemy-occupied Europe."
For the past 21 years, Brummy had worked for the State of Illinois Job Services in Waukegan. In 1955 he graduated from the American Institute of Foreign Trade, in Phoenix, Ariz. He was a member of the Zen Buddhist Temple of Chicago.
In notifying us of his death, his daughter Nancy Jo Smith wrote: "We will always remember our father as a hard worker, an honest man, loving and devoted to his family. He said that if anyone wants to know what he has been doing, tell them he was a student for the last 40 years of science, health, religion, and psychology."
Brummy is survived by two daughters, three stepgrandchildren, and one stepgreatgrandson.
1944
Perry Townsend Banghart, 60, died on September 1 at Massachusetts General Hospital after a brief illness. He was stricken at the family cottage in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and never recovered.
A life-long resident of Massachusetts, he graduated from Quincy High School. He played freshman football at Dartmouth and joined the Air Force when. World War II broke out. He was twice awarded the air medal for distinguished service as a flight leader with the 38th bombardment group in the Pacific theater.
He lived in Weston, Mass., and was a manufacturer's representative for Triangle Conduit and Cable for 23 years. He retired almost ten years ago, but kept active as a self-employed consultant in the electrical and plumbing fields.
He was a past member of the Boston Rotary Club and the Weston Lions Club and a member of the Weston Boosters. He also served as treasurer of the Electrical Manufacturers Representatives Club of Boston and was active in Girl Scouting and a variety of church and youth activities.
He is survived by his wife Phyllis, two daughters, and four granddaughters.
Arthur james Pegler II, 61, died September 6 in Stuart, Fla. "Bud" suffered a heart attack after playing 18 holes of golf with his. wife and another couple. The day before he had been deep-sea fishing.
"Bud had a good catch Sunday and a fine round Monday," said his wife, Nancy. "And a week before he'd been at the tree farm in Maine and sold his office building in Darien."
Bud was a native of New York City and prepared for Dartmouth at the Taft School in Watertown, Conn. During World War II, he served in the South Pacific with the U.S. Navy.
The Peglers moved to Stuart five years ago from Darien, where he was president of the Killen and Hall Company and president of Pegler Enterprises. The latter was concerned with wood and wood products, spices, and wines.
He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Stuart and the Stuart Yacht and Country Club.
Survivors include his wife Nancy of Stuart, four sons, two daughters, a brother, an aunt, and eight grandchildren. Bud was the nephew of the late Westbrook Pegler, a well-known New York columnist.
1948
After a long and gallant fight against cancer, JAMES JOSEPH CARROLL succumbed to a malignancy on May 8, 1975, in Ardmore, Okla. Affectionately known as "the Irishman" to his friends, Jim led a life of singular accomplishment in the investment counseling field and in his voluntary work for Dartmouth. He carried his love of Dartmouth to the very end.
Jim grew up in Dorchester, Mass., went to Hanover after service with Uncle Sam, and graduated from Tuck in 1949. While at Dartmouth he joined Kappa Sigma and spent many hours struggling for the young DBS, the College radio station.
While at Tuck, Jim because a close friend of a Tuck classmate, Sam Noble. In 1955 he joined Noble Affiliates, the well-known independent petroleum producer, in Oklahoma as investment counsel, following several years with the Shawmut Bank in Boston. After his death it was in Jim's honor and memory that the Samuel Noble Foundation in 1980 gave $1 million to Dartmouth to establish the James J. Carroll Chair in Oncology (the study of tumors) at the Dartmouth Medical School.
Jim is survived at his Ardmore home by his wife Frankie and their daughter. He also leaves two older married daughters by his first wife. The class of '48 joins his family in their love and pride for Jim.
With regret for the delay, we sadly report the death on June 17, 1968, of Kenneth WalTer Hall, a lieutenant colonel who was killed by enemy action while serving in Vietnam. Earlier in the same year, Ken, commanding officer of the 7th Battalion, 199 th Infantry Brigade, had been,decorated with the Bronze Star for "performance over and above the line of duty" for bravery on January 31 during the "Tet" offensive.
Ken was at Dartmouth with the Navy from 1944 to 1946 and afterward proceeded to West Point, where he graduated in 1950. Though born in Nashua, he spent an appreciable portion of his life in the Jeffersonville, Vt., area, where he became vice president of the Smugglers Notch Inn.
The newspaper article which reported Ken's medal for bravery in March 1968 advised that during his absence in Vietnam his wife Mary and their seven young children were making their home at Fort Benning, Ga., until his return. He never came back. To them, the class of 1948 extends its deepest sympathy for their husband and father who gave his last full measure of devotion for all of us.
With great sadness, we join his wife Ann, their five children, and those in his community for whom he was such a fine public servant in reporting the death from a heart attack of JACK Ela Tracy in Worcester, Mass., on July 28, 1976.
Jack was a native of Portland, Maine, and first arrived in Hanover for the summer semester of 1944 during World War 11. He was a highly popular leader among his '48 classmates, serving during his undergraduate years on the class executive committee, on Green Key, and as acting president of the class. Having served in the U.S. Army, he received his cum laude diploma in the Bema in 1948 and went on to Harvard Law, where he earned an LL.B. in 1951.
Jack married Ann Wellington, a Smith graduate from Worcester, in 1953. The following year the couple moved to Worcester, where he joined a regional law firm. From then until his death, Jack carried out one important public service function after another for his community and his college, including those of president of the Worcester Area Chamber of Commerce, president or leader of many civic associations and fund drives, and secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Worcester.
At his death he was general counsel and executive vice president of Freedom Federal Savings and Loan Association, whose chairman eulogized him in writing, "The loss of Jack Tracy is not easy to measure. His sudden passing in his prime years, full of vitality, immensely talented, and representing the finest standards of manhood in family, community, and professional relationships, is beyond human understanding." His classmates, including his closest friends, Jay Rutledge and Jerry Wensinger, join in this memorial to their old friend and extend heartfelt condolences to Ann, their children, and to the other members of Jack's family.
1949
Carl Chester Shtruever Jr. died on March 18 at his home in Rochester, N. Y. He had been ill with cancer for the past year and a half. His many Dartmouth friends and classmates mourn the loss of this wonderful, unique individual.
Carl's life was a constant search for opportunities in which he could use his considerable energy and talent in the interest of the common good.
At Dartmouth, this energy led him to be a Rufus Choate Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa; "Green Book ' editor for the classes of' 49 and '50; Aegis editor in 1948 and 1949; and a member of Green Key, the Undergraduate Council, the Glee Club, the Handel Society, Zeta Psi fraternity and the Dartmouth Players. Since graduation he has served the class as secretary, newsletter editor, and editor and publisher of our 20th reunion yearbook.
Carl obtained his master's degree from TuckThayer in 1950 and the following year joined the Eastman Kodak Company, where he was employed until his death. Such was his contribution to Kodak that the company named the project on which he last worked after him and decided that, since no one could replace him, they would carry on in his spirit as though he were still there.
Within the community, he helped to restore the Rochester Oratorio Society as a thriving organization, and, in addition to singing with the society until the year of his death, he served as general manager and chaired the board. In 1955 he was a prime mover in the establishment of the Rochester Bach Festival which is performed yearly.
Carl is survived by his wife Elizabeth, three children, three stepchildren, and his ex-wife, Nancy Schermerhorn Struever of Baltimore, Md. We'll miss you, Carl.
1951
Jonh Miller Mcintyre passed away at his home on July 19 after a long bout with cancer.
Jock was president and chief executive officer of the Meriden-Wallingford Hospital and resided in Cheshire, Conn.
Born in 1929 in Randolph, Vt., he graduated from high school in 1947 in Honolulu, Hawaii. At Dartmouth, Jock received a varsity letter in swimming, was captain of the 1950-51 team, and was on the ailAmerican swimming team in 1949, 1950, and 1951. He was also a member of Green Key, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Sphinx, and the Interfraternity Council. After graduating, Jock received his master's degree in hospital administration at the University of Chicago in 1956, serving his administrative residency at the Strong Memori- al Hospital in Rochester, N.Y.
Following his residency, he was appointed administrative assistant at Strong from 1956 to 1960 and then became assistant director at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. Jock was appointed associate administrator at Meriden-Wallingford in 1967. The following year he was named administrator, and, subsequently, president.
Jock served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1951 to 1953 and was discharged from the reserves in 1963 with the rank of captain. He was a communicant of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Cheshire.
Further personal commentary on Jock is included in the 1951 column in this issue.
Besides his wife Charlotte, he is survived by two daughters.
1952
Raymoond Charles shith died of cancer on August 18 in Hanover. Born in Portsmouth, N.H., Ray entered Dartmouth with the class of 1952. Following his junior year, he left Dartmouth to finance his senior year by working. Although he graduated with the class of 1953, Ray was a proud member of 1952.
Among his activities at Dartmouth were freshman baseball and Phi Sigma Kappa. After graduation Ray entered the insurance field with the Fireman's Fund, where he was employed for 22 years. In 1962 he joined Allstate Insurance, becoming the agency manager for Vermont. Although Allstate preferred to have their managers to reside in their territories, Ray and Madge and the children settled near Hanover in Etna.
Ray was proud of his children James who graduated from the Air Force Academy and is in Okinawa, Japan; Karen, at the University of N.H.; and Gail, who is at home.
Always involved in extracurricular affairs, Ray was publicity chairman of the American Cancer Society, Grafton County Committee; a member of the Richmond School Drug and Alcohol Parents' Asssociation; a member of the Upper Valley Dartmouth Alumni Association; and president of the Air Force Academy Parents' Association of New Hampshire.
In addition to Madge, Ray is survived by the three children and also by his mother.
1953
Chares Tagliabue Hapgood. was an architect who designed most of the schools in the Shoreham and Port Jefferson, areas of Long Island. He died July 18 in the local hospital.
Tony came to Dartmouth from the Lawrenceville School and went on after a few years at Dartmouth to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
In addition to designing over 300 schools, he was an avid sailor.
He is survived by three children; his parents; a brother, John Russell Hapgood '55; and a sister.
David Atkinson Walker died May 7 in San Francisco from a heart attack.
Dave was the fourth generation of his family to come to Dartmouth. His great-grandfather was Augustus Walker, 1862; his grandfather was Sidney Walker '91; his father, Hastings Walker '21; and his brother, Richard Walker '56.
He came to Dartmouth from Punahou High School. He had intended to become a marine biologist, but his interests changed and he received a degree in English, with a minor in fine arts. He also was in the Glee Club. After graduation, he attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; traveled around the world; taught for several years in Boston; and was an artist in both painting and sculpturing. He was a partner in the Sandwich Island Trading Company, which dealt in primitive art and was the founder of the International Child Art Center in San Francisco.
Dave is survived by his father and brother.
1966
It is with sadness that I report the passing of Kirk James Dirzler on March 21. While enjoying his love for the out-of-doors at Point Reyes, Calif., he suffered a heart attack. He was 37. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Ditzler of Sea" Ranch, Calif.
Kirk came to Dartmouth from Walter Johnson Senior High School in Rockville, Md. At Dartmouth he was a member of Green Keyr N.R.0.T.C., and the D.O.C. Ski School and treasurer of Bones Gate. Most notably, he was art editor for the Jack-o-Lantern his senior year. The Aegis said of him that year: "Kirk is an artist; he has his commitments. . . . He can do anything he wants to." After graduation he became a Navy pilot and continued flying for the Naval Reserve after leaving active duty in 1971. He settled in the San Francisco Bay area, pursuing his talent in art and his love for the out-of-doors.
Kirk's classmate and friend Jim Jourdonnais wrote informing us of his passing: "He was an artist and naturalist by profession and was truly a special person to all who knew him. He was a rare individual with an uncompromising sensi- tivity to the world around him. His love for and understanding of the intricate complexities of nature led him to be both student and teacher all his life. As a student he took many classes in the biological sciences and art. . . . As a teacher he taught us about the osprey's nest deep in the woods . . . about tidepool life along the northern California coast . . . and about hawks, eagles, and seashells. But most of all he taught us how to live life to its fullest, how to define success in one's own terms, and how to seek out that which is truly meaningful."
A poem by Kirk's closest friend, Jan, that was read at his funeral also puts into words beautifully Kirk's influence on those around him: "I had never seen/a calypso orchid/until I met you./ Flowers were just/splotches of color,/ birds just feathered planes,/and insects were merely/things to avoid./ You have given me/a gift of sight/that I can never/repay."
The class extends its deepest sympathy to Kirk's family and friends.
1980
Susan Jean Marshall of Northbrook, III., died June 4 in an automobile accident in Colorado, where she was a graduate student at the University of Denver working toward her M.B.A. Susan attended North Shore Country Day School before Dartmouth. She was a psychology major, she sang in the Glee Club, and she was active in Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She is survived by her parents, Earl and Barbara Marshall; by two sisters and a brother; and also by two great-uncles, George Morrell '23 and John Morrell '32. Her family requests that all donations be made to the Endowment Fund for Susan J. Marshall, c/o David T. Eckels, 260 Blunt Alumni Center, Hanover, N.H. 03755.
1982
Gene Lloyd Best fell to his death from the roof of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity on September 10. He had been up through the night with friends at Phi Sigma Kappa, and he had gone up on the roof about 4:30 a.m. to look at the moon through the fog.
His friend and classmate Daniel Kamin has written: "Gene was a passionate intellectual. As an iconoclast, he was skeptical about the openminded, progressive nature of educational institutions such as Dartmouth. He was equally at home in the study of the natural or social sciences, as well as the humanities, though his primary interests were the workings of the human mind, Eastern religious philosophy, and spiritual transcendence. His rational thinking worked hand-in-hand with his natural creativity to give Gene considerable talent as a computer programmer. He had been working for the College at Kiewit for the past two years. The embodiment of the free-thinker, Gene enjoyed using his debating talents in discussing any issue. Despite his belief that morality is a relative, socially-determined concept, Gene held fast to his ever-developing ethical stanards. Gene always tried to live in accordance with his principles. It is a measure of his insight that these principles included friendliness, compassion, and attentiveness. Gene was a sensitive individual, whose emotions determined who he would be on any given day.
"Music was his soul. He channeled much of his energy into rock and other revolutionary musical genres. Gene's intensity could be measured by the many hours he would spend getting to know an album. If a person liked something and played it for Gene, s/he could be sure that Gene would truly listen to the music. He especially liked music that stimulated his passion against social injustice and repression of individual freedoms.
"Most of his energy went into the special friendships which he cultivated while at Dartmouth. He leaves behind a bereaved group of loving friends who will cherish his memory for the rest of their lives."
Gene is also survived by his mother, Carol Best of Missoula, Mont.; his father; four brothers; and two sisters.
On August 20, James Wilson Hoffman died in an automobile collision on the Ledyard Bridge just outside of Hanover. James was a comparative literature major, graduating with highest honors in his major this past June, after completing his thesis during the spring.
From his freshman year, James deeply involved himself in the Upper Valley Committee for a Free South Africa and the Foley House; during his senior year he led that house through a significant crisis in its existence. He is remembered with boundless love and respect as the "father" of Foley House by Foley members.
James also served as an alcohol peer counselor to Dartmouth students. While he lived in the Upper Valley, James tried to make his care felt in the community. Even in his last, most academically intensive, term, James was studying for an emergency medical technician's certificate as well as working at the Headrest Center, helping those with emotional, drug, and alcohol problems. Also in keeping with this philosophy, James obtained a job at the Norwich, Vt., Day Care Center upon graduation. James often expressed a conviction in the inherent goodness of human beings, a belief that every child is born absolutely innocent. In his lift: James worked to create a world where that innocence could flourish unmarred.
James is survived by his parents, of Stuttgart, Ark.; a brother, Lyle '74; and two sisters.
Stephen N. Plotkin '82
