Deaths
(This is a listing of deaths of which word has been received since the last issue. Full notices, which are usually written by the class secretary, may appear in this issue or a later one.)
Vehmeyer, E zmroyM. '11, November 17, 1982 Applin, Paul L. ' 14, July 1981 Goward, Paul F. '16, December 27, 1982 Wolff, Irving G. 'l6, December 5, 1982 Baxter, Raymond H. '17, November 17, 1982 Sperry, Paul A. '18, November 7, 1982 Ransom, Philip W. '19, December 16, 1982 Woodruff, Robert C. '23, date unknown Coffin, Frank S. '24, October 24, 1982 Haile, Pennington '24, December 4, 1982 Louer, Albert A. '26, December 25, 1982 Duncan, Laurence I. '27, December 18, 1982 Treat, Robert B. Jr. '27, November 27, 1982 Annable, Paul G. '28, November 11, 1982 Gillard, James L. '28, December 2, 1982 Goble, Edwin P. '29, November 1982 Sine, Brett F. '29, October 25, 1982 Lucas, William O. '30, December 5, 1982 Saunders, Theodore '30, November 18, 1982 Ingersoll, Robert E. '36, November 6, 1982 Ailbright, G. Stuart '38, September 6, 1982 Llewellyn, John T. II '38, November 7, 1982 Russell, Allen S. '45, November 6, 1982 Hawks, John A. '47, December 14, 1982 Perkins, Read '51, December 18, 1982 Fessenden, John S. '52, November 16, 1982
1909
FRANCIS HENRY BIRD, dean emeritus of the University of Cincinnati College of Business Administration, died on November 2, 1982, in Birmingham, Ala., where he had moved several years ago to live with his son.
"Tubby," as he was known to his college mates, was born in 1887 in Swampscott, Mass. He played on the varsity football team as an undergraduate and was a graduate member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity. After receiving his B.A. in 1909, Tubby stayed on in Hanover to earn a master's degree. He later returned to the College in 1919 to teach a course in labor economics; he had also taught at the University of Wisconsin, Oberlin, and the University of California, and had earned a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in his first ten years after graduation. He then held several positions in industry before being asked to join the faculty of the University of Cincinnati, in 1926, as professor of commerce and head of the commerce department. His association with the university lasted for more than 30 years, culminating with 12 years' service as dean of the College of Business Administration.
Tubby also served on numerous boards and civic organizations, including as a member and chairman of the Cincinnati branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, as an advisor to the U.S. Committee on Industrial Relations, and as a national labor arbitrator. During World War I, he served for a year as a first lieutenant in the Army ordnance department and as an adjuster with the U.S. War Labor Board, during World War 11, he chaired both the National War Labor Board and the Cleveand regional board. He was also a member of several professional societies and of the Cosmos of Washington, D.C., and the University Club in Cincinnati.
His Dartmouth activities included member-ships in the alumni clubs wherever he was located and service as class vice president and executive committee member.
Tubby was married to the former Harriet Smith in 1917; she died in 1953, and he is survived by a son, John C. Bird '44, a daughter, and five grandchildren.
1916
PAUL FRENCH GOWARD died on December 27, 1982. He came to Dartmouth from Lowell, Mass., High School. He was with the Army in France during World War I. After a year with the advertising department of Simonds Saw in Fitchburg, Mass., he went to work for SchoolArts magazine in Worcester, Mass., retiring as business manager in 1963.
In Shrewsbury, Mass., he was a 60-year member of Matthew John Whittall Masonic Lodge and a life member of Ray Stone Post American Legion and Artemas Ward Chapter OES. He was a past patron of Bethany chapter OES of Westboro. In Worcester he was a past president of the Advertising Club and a member of the First Unitarian Church.
In 1971 he moved to Winter Park, Fla. He served the class of 1916 as secretary from 1974 until his death.
He is survived by his wife Agatha and a sister.
1917
RAYMOND HARDING BAXTER died November 16, 1982, after a long illness of two years at a nursing home in Fairhaven, Mass. He was born in 1894 and attended Somerville High School, where he was very active, as a football team member, sporting editor, member of the glee club and the orchestra, and class historian. At Dartmouth, "Slats" was class secretary for his first three years, played football all four years, was in all the musical clubs, and also chaired the junior prom committee and the Winter Carnival. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and Sphinx senior society.
In World War I Slats was night supervisor of the Reconstruction Hospital in New York City, at the same time studying at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he received his M.D. in 1919- In World War II he spent three years as a doctor in the United States Navy.
In 1923, Slats set up practice in Marion, Mass., and became the school physician at Tabor Academy, where he entered into numerous activities, such as football, dramatics, music, etc. A dormitory and an infirmary there were named for Dr. Baxter. During his life, Slats was interested in organizations of many kinds. Scout troops, historical societies, medical societies, and staff work at many hospitals in his district took his time; he was also a Mason, senior warden of his church, county medical examiner, and holder of many more posts too numerous to mention.
Slats was married in 1935 to Helen Ponthan, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. This couple attended many reunions of our class and provided music for us. Helen and a son and daughter survive our great classmate. Our sympathy to them and our very best wishes.
1918
On November 7, 1982, PAUL ALLING SPERRY, age 86, died at the Yale-New Haven Hospital after a brief illness.
Paul left college when he enlisted- in the United States Navy in World War I, and rose to become chairman of the board of the former Pond Lily Company, a textile firm, and presi- dent of Sirocco Screenprints of New Haven. He had previously been the owner of the Sperry Shoe Company and also of the Guider Specialty Company.
Paul also achieved some note as the designer of the Sperry Topsider, a popular boating shoe for many years. His interest in boating found him a member of the Cruising Club of America and the Pine Orchard and Essex Yacht Clubs. He also held membership in the New Haven Country Club and was past commander of the Off-Soundings Club.
Paul is survived by his wife Pauline.
1919
JOHN RAYMOND KEATING died July 19, 1982, in Stratford, Conn., where he had made his home in recent years.
A native of Lyndonville, Vt., John came to college after graduating from West Lebanon High School. He served in the Air Force during World War I and returned to college to receive his degree.
All of his business career was with the General Electric Company. At the time of his retirement he was assistant controller of the General Electric Supply. After retirement he and his wife traveled extensively and spent the summers in Maine and the winters in Arizona.
He is survived by his wife, Irene Head Keating.
PHILIP WALTER RANSOM died on December 16, 1981, at his home in Buffalo, N.Y. He had just returned from a weekend of golf in Florida when the end came. His wife Patricia died 39 days later. They had been married 58 years.
During most of his business life Phil was in the real estate business in Buffalo. He was an avid golfer and at one time was president of the New York State Seniors Golf Association. The Ransoms traveled extensively and took many pictures wherever they went.
They are survived by two sons, including John S. '49 of Mt. Kisco, N. Y., one daughter, and eight grandchildren.
1921
LORIN DANIELS GOULDING JR . died on Octo- ber 2, 1982, in Buffalo, N.Y. His wife Betty wrote to tell us that following an operation, complications developed which caused his death.
Goldie came to us from Phillips Exeter after leaving his hometown of North Conway, N.H., and its high school. At Dartmouth, Goldie was active in football and track. His fraternity was Phi Delta Theta.
After graduation, Lorin joined Swift and Company, but soon left to become a fire insurance inspector with Fireman's Fund Insurance Company throughout the eastern states.
In 193 1 Fireman's moved him to Buffalo and put him in charge of western New York state, where he remained until he retired as manager of the Buffalo division of Fireman's in 1964.
In 1925 Lorin married Marguerite Harlow of Milton, Mass. Their daughter Marcia was born in December 1927. Peg died in 1959, and late in 1960, Lorin and Betty Denison were married.
Lorin was a past president of the Dartmouth Club of Western New York. He was a past president of the Fire Underwriters of New York. Besides his membership in the Masons at North Conway, Lorin held memberships in the Buffalo Athletic Club, the Buffalo Field Club, and the Sons of the American Revolution.
He leaves his wife Betty, his daughter, several grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren, about which he wrote with great joy only a short time before his death.
His brother Chester, deceased, was in the class of 1928.
1925
EDGAR BOND BLAKE died at home in Little Silver, N.J., on November 2, 1982. He was born in Woburn, Mass., in 1903 and graduated from Woburn High School. In college Eddie was on the track team and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
He taught one year at Suffield Academy in Connecticut and then went to Rumson, N.J., where he started the Rumson Country Day School with 23 students. When he retired as headmaster in 1966 the student body totaled 298.
Eddie pursued both his education and his athletic activities far beyond college. He studied English at Columbia in 1927 and 1928 and obtained a master's degree in education from N.Y.U. in 1940. He won the Millrose Games half-mile run on two occasions and was the national A.A.U. indoor 600-yard champion.
He was active in Rumson civic affairs, being a council member for five years and a trustee of the library, as well as a 26-year member of the oceanic fire department and star pitcher for the department's championship Softball team in the forties.
Eddie had an uncle in the class of 1869, a brother in 1930, and a son in 1961. He was married in 1936 to the former Haven Johnstone, who survives him, along with their three sons, all of whom have had outstanding academic and athletic records at Yale, Dartmouth, and the University of North Carolina respectively. Eddie served Dartmouth College in various alumni capacities and was one of our most devoted and interested classmates, one who inspired the admiration and affection of his fellows.
1927
SIDNEY PASHACH VOICE died suddenly on Septemher 28, 1982, in New York City of a heart attack. He was born in that city in 1906 and attended the Lawrence High School in Cedarhurst, Long Island, before entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1923.
After college, Sid embarked immediately on a lifelong career in printing and lithography, becoming associated with the Consolidated Lithograph Corporation in New York City. He later became executive vice president and chairman of the board of the firm. He also was executive vice president and a director of the International Bonding Machine Company and of the Educational Aids Publishing Company as well as secretary of the Hillsboro Printing and Lithograph Company of Tampa, Fla. He was a former president of the Young Lithographers' Association. In 1971, when he retired from all of these associations, he and his wife Evelyn became extensively involved in a large number of volunteer organizations in fund-raising and other capacities. These included the Girl Scouts, Red Cross, and numerous Jewish charities. He was a national trustee of Denver Jewish Hospital and for several years had been a regular volunteer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. For some time, he had also devoted two or three days each week to teaching English to foreign students at the International Language Center, also in New York City.
Sid's interest in Dartmouth was intense. He kept constantly in touch with classmates and the class officers by correspondence, was at one time vice president of the New York City Dartmouth Club, and was active with his local interviewing committee.
He is survived by his wife Evelyn, a daughter, a son, and five grandchildren.
SHELDON SPRAGUE VOORHIS, retired editor and educator, died October 27, 1982, at the one of his daughter in Murfreesboro, Tenn., a-ter a lingering illness. He had only recently celebrated his 77th birthday.
Cal, as he was called, was born in Yonkers, N.Y., but moved at an early age to California, where he attended San Diego High School in La a before entering Dartmouth. In college he displayed a strong literary bent as vice president of the Round Table, president of the Union Club, and a member of the editorial board of both The Dartmouth and the "Green Book."
After graduation, he followed up his literary inclinations for three years as a reporter for several New York newspapers and during this time received his A.M. degree in English literature from Columbia University. Following this was a stint of 17 years as a college editor, first with F. S. Crofts Company, then Appleton Century Crofts, and later as a textbook editor for Prentice-Hall Inc. In 1951, he resigned from the latter company to start his own publishing business but soon thereafter decided to satisfy his lifelong interest in the humanities and to give college teaching a try by joining the English Department faculty at Old Dominion College in Norfolk, Va. Fie later taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and the University of Bridgeport, Conn. After his retirement in 1975, he was appointed "Humanist in Residence" at Roanoke Technical Institute in Ahoskie, N.C., under a grant from the North Carolina Committee for Continuing Education in the Humanities.
During World War 11, Cal served as a "gentleman officer'.' and ambulance driver wirh the Volunteer American Field Service, attached to the British Armies in Italy, Burma, and India.
He is survived by a son, two daughters, nine grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
1928
ROBERT BRUCF. TWEEDY, a physician and surgeon in Winona, Minn., for 47 years, died October 2, 1982, in a local hospital. Born in Winona and a graduate of the high school there, Bob majored in zoology at Dartmouth, was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and was very active in Cabin and Trail. He received his M.D. from Marquette University, and was a former president of the Winona County Medical Society. At Dartmouth and all the rest of his life. Bob was a very active fisherman and hunter. He and his wife went on safaries in Africa in 1972 and 1974.
He is survived by his wife, the former Linna Standfuss, together with a daughter, a son, three grandsons, and a brother.
1929
ARTHUR MARVIN BRAVERMAN died of cancer at his home in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1982.
Marv came to us from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, lowa. He majored in sociology and belonged to Pi Lambda Phi, the Round Table, and the Philosophy Club. If 1932 he received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and practiced law in New York City until moving to Washington in 1935.
He had chaired the Overseas Schools Advisory Council of the State Department, was an attorney with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and was an assistant to the administrator of the Civil Production Board. He also served in the Navy with the rank of lieutenant commander and was a member of the Nations! Commission for UNESCO.
He served on boards of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, the International Oceanographic Foundation, the Red Cross, BoyScounts, and bar associations. He belonged to the 1925 F Street Club, the Army and Navy Clubs, and the American Legion. He also gave of his services to Dartmouth, and had been a member of the Alumni Council.
He leaves his wife Anne Moore (Jones) and a sister.
STEPHEN WATERMANJR. died at his home in St. Johnsbury, Vt., on August 26, 1982, after his third heart attack within a year.
He graduated from Hope High School in Providence, R. 1., and tranferred to Dartmouth from Brown University. He received a Ph.D. from Brown in 1929.
He had been station manager for BostonMaine Airways Inc. of Burlington, Vt., and a pilot instructor for Fli-Rite School of Aviation in Burlington. We have had no news of him in recent years until his widow, M. Bernice Waterman. wrote us of his death.
1933
After a long battle against cancer, JAMES BATCHELDER CAMPBELL died on November 4, 1982. The diagnosis was clear, long before his death, but he maintained his good humor, spirit, and active interest in others throughout his illness.
Jim was born in Rochester, Vt., moved to Manchester, Vt., at an early age, and was a resident there for the rest of his life during the last 20 years, in his childhood home.
He prepared for Dartmouth at Manchester's Burr and Burton Seminary, the school from which his mother, he, and his four children graduated in their separate times, and which he served, as trustee, during the past 36 years. At Dartmouth, Jim majored in sociology and was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi and the Round Table. Following Dartmouth, he graduated from George Washington Law School in Washington, D.C., in 1936, then was admitted to the Vermont bar and began his lifelong practice of law in his hometown.
Except for the World War II years, 1942 to 1946, when Jim served in the U.S. Marine Corps, he served his community: three years in the Vermont General Assembly, a trustee of his school, a trustee of the Bennington, Vt., hospital, administrator of town meetings, town agent, and town planning commissioner, to name some of those services.
Jim is survived by his wife Dorothy, two aughters, two sons, and three grandchildren.
JAMES BATCHELDER CAMPBELL JR. '66
1941
RUSSELL MERRIT GARFIELD died on October 29, 1982, at his home, the Diamond Ranch on Kosebud Creek near Forsyth, Mont. Russ had ten a victim for more than a year of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often called "Lou Gherig's disease." but he remaned active until the end. the day before his death, he had been busy in Forsyth attending to the annual sale of his ranch s cattle.
Russ was born in Hinsdale, N.H., and graduated from Hinsdale High School and Phillips Exeter Academy. At Dartmouth, he was a member of the Rowing Club and of Zeta Psi fraternity.
Upon graduation, he joined the familyowned Ashuelot Paper Company in Hinsdale but then spent four years in the Army Air Force, serving with the 12th and 15th Air Force Headquarters in Africa and Italy and attaining the rank of major. While in the service, he married Genie May Philbrick of Forsyth.
Russ returned to Ashuelot after the war and served as its president and general manager until his retirement in 1973- During that time he was active in Hinsdale's Congregational Church and Masonic Lodge, was secretary of the town's planning board, and was president of the Cheshire County Dartmouth Club.
Just at the time of Russ's retirement, his father-in-law died in Montana and the Garfields decided to move west and take over Genie's family's Diamond Ranch for ten years before going on to conventional retirement. Their ten years would have been up next year. In Forsyth, Russ was a board member of the Northern Plains Resource Council and of the Soil Conservation Committee.
Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter and three sisters, one of whom, Shirley, is married to George Hanna, Dartmouth '39. Two of Russ's surviving neices and nephews are also Dartmouth graduates Thomas R. Hanna '71 and Lucy Hanna '81.
1943
ROBERT LESLIE DUNN died of cancer on August 28, 1982, at the Veterans' Administration Hospital in White River Junction, Vt. His widow, Janice Heggie Dunn, told Class Newsletter Editor Eddie O'Brien, "Bob appreciated beauty, found the best in others, and lieft the world a little bit better." The Dunns1, with daughter Jennifer, had recently taken afyear to travel and discover the people and pjaces of America. Bob is also survived by another daughter, Janice Wentworth of Suffolk, England. A memorial service in Lebanon was conducted by the Reverend Brad Morse '43. Bob was the son of Leslie Dunn 'l5.
Bob attended the Columbia Graduate School of Business Administration and worked in the graphic arts field, for W. W. Norton Company, among other firms. During World War II he served in the Army as a first lieutenant and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross.
1945
ALLEN STOCKTON RUSSELL of Marshalltown, lowa, passed away on November 6, 1982. His business career was in the heating and air conditioning industry and more recently he was teaching classes in the principles of business, marketing, retailing, and business management at Marshalltown Community College.
Al was on the freshman football squad at Dartmouth and on the varsity team as well. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and was very active in inter-fraternity and inter-dorm ice hockey. Following a three-year stint as a gunnery officer in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, he returned to Hanover in 1946 and received his M.B.A. from Tuck School in 1947.
He then went to work for a trade paper in the heating and air conditioning industry, selling advertising. After five years he moved from Detroit to Tecumseh, Mich., to take a new position in advertising with Tecumseh Products Company. In 1963 he moved to Marshalltown, lowa, and joined Lennox Industries as director of their educational division in charge of all training materials for the corporation. He remained there until he took up his teaching duties at Marshalltown Community College.
Al leaves his wife Carolyn, a daughter, and a son. His classmates extend their sympathy to the members of his family.
1948
We report with great sadness the death on December 20, 1977, of J EREMIAH LUDINGTON, at the young age of 49, in Detroit's Harper Hospital after a brief illness.
Jerry, a native of Detroit and a product of Northern High School in that city, arrived on the Hanover Plain with a famous contingent of civilian freshmen injuly of 1944 during World War 11. He soon developed a host, of close friends, among whom were lan Macartney '48 and Jay Rutledge '48, and he was very popular among his classmates for high intelligence, a delightful personality, and a fine sense of humor. The Dartmouth Players and Delta Tau Delta were two among his many campus activities and interests. In June of 1948, after four active years, Jerry proudly shook the hand of President Dickey, receiving his diploma in the beautiful and ancient Bema ceremony.
After Hanover, Lud acted as '4B class agent, served two years in Uncle Sam's Air Force, married, and returned to Detroit where he joined the Ludington family magazine and book distribution business. He became known in the trade for his innovations in educational marketing, becoming one of the founders and later president of the nationally-recognized Educational Paperback Association.
Jerry's early departure devastated his family and his great number of friends. He is survived by both his parents (his father recently celebrated his 85th birthday), by his brother, and by his four daughters. His '48 classmates join them in their bereavement.
