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.)
Blatman, Saul, faculty, December 24, 1982 Goddard, Richard H. '20, faculty, February 11 Pressey, Benfield, faculty, December 25, 1982 Cobb, Stanwood '03, December 29, 1982 Davison, Harold K. '15, January 15 Prindle, George H. Jr. '18, October 28, 1982 Apteker, Louis '19, January 7 Lyford, Amos C. '22, June 20, 1982 Akin, C. Gardner Jr. '23, January 15 Granger, Dwight L. '23, November 12, 1977 Taylor, Alson P. '23, December 31, 1982 Weser, Winfield S. '23, December 5, 1982 Appleton, Francis H. III '26, October 1, 1982 Wyles, Tom R. '26, November 29, 1980 Arnold, G. Doane '27, January 21 McGrath, Hugh A. '27, November 7, 1982 Elliott, F. Scott '28, November 23, 1982 Pollock, M. Crawford '28, January 16 Johnston, B. Lytton '29, January 14 Hayden, William '31, November 21, 1982 Marx, Charles S. '31, December 24, 1982 Sundown, Roland B. '32, December 25, 1982 Jaques, Alan A. '33, January 7 McCloskey, Robert G. P. '34, May 15, 1982 Stein, William M. '34, January 10 Dejourno, Jacques L. '35, November 2, 1982 Levison, Richard L. '35, December 28, 1982 Reed, M. Stafford '37, January 14 Kenney, Richard F. '40, December 22, 1982 Ostrander, Arthur '40, December 23, 1982 Anderson, John S. Jr. '48, January 28, 1982 Freeh, Robert S. '52, December 19, 1982 Fessenden, John S. '52, December 13, 1982 McComiskey, James W. Jr. '52, July 5, 1982 Goodman, Paul J. '55, December 31, 1982 Adamson, William E. '61, January 14
Faculty
SAUL BLATMAN, 64, a prominent pediatrician and founder and former chairman of Dartmouth Medical School's Department of Maternal and Child Health, died suddenly, at his home in Hanover on December 24, 1982.
A tireless humanist with a lifelong interest in health programs for children, Dr. Blatman developed the concept of maternal and child health, which combined the disciplines of pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology. Decribed by a colleague as a "visionary person," Dr. Blatman developed his concepts into the nation's first maternal and child health department after joining the Dartmouth Medical School faculty in 1971. He was the author of a widely-used textbook, Principles of Pediatrics, and had just finished revisions for a second edition before his death.
Born in New York City, Dr. Blatman was a graduate of Brown University and the Duke University School of Medicine. In his early career, while a U.S. Army biologist, he received the Haitian Legion of Honor Medal for his work in malaria control. Dr. Blatman interned at New York Hospital and served his residency in pediatrics there and at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
From 1961 to 1972, he was director of pediatrics at Beth Israel Medical Center and taught at New York University, the Bellevue Medical Center, and the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. There he helped to build a department of pediatrics with emphasis on patient care and teaching. He also began and operated a comprehensive health care program for children on New York City's lower East Side during that time.
Dr. Blatman headed Dartmouth's Department of Maternal and Child Health until two years ago, when poor health forced his retirement. Yet he remained active in the department until his death.
He was a member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society, and an honorary member of the Association for Pediatric Education in Europe. His research included work in asthma, tuberculosis, and the effects of narcotics abuse on the unborn children of addicted mothers.
He leaves his wife, the former Ceevah M. Rosenthal; two daughters, Bettye Ann Emanual and Dr. Holly Blatman, an intern in psychiatry at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; a son, Robert N. Blatman; and a brother and a sister. Memorial services were held at Rollins Chapel.
Contributions may be made to the Maternal and Child Research and Education Fund, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical School, Hanover, N.H. 03755.
RICHARD HALSEY GODDARD '20, a teacher, meteorologist, explorer, and outdoorsman who was a member of the Dartmouth faculty for 36 years, died in Kensington, Conn., on February 1. He was 85.
Professor Goddard, a long-time resident of Hanover and Norwich, had lived in recent years near the home of his daughter, Priscilla Carr of Kensington.
He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1921 and joined the College faculty in 1927 as an instructor in astronomy, earning a master's degree in astronomy from Yale in 1930. He was named director of Dartmouth's Shattuck Observatory in 1934 and was advanced to professor in 1938. He retired in 1963.
As chairman of the board of trustees of the Dartmouth Outing Club for many years, Professor Goddard was in charge of the building committee which oversaw the erection of the Ravine Camp at Mt. Moosilauke. He was also a faculty advisor to the Ledyard Canoe Club and from 1949 to 1955 served on the faculty committee on athletics and on the Dartmouth College Athletic Council. In 1961, he was given an award by the U.S. Weather Bureau for his long service in Dartmouth's "extremely important contribution in the field of weather observations at Shattuck Observatory.
After his graduation from Dartmouth, and before joining the faculty, Professor Goddard was an observer at the Carnegie Institutions Department of 'Terrestrial Magnetism from 1921 to 1927. In that role, he spent two and a half years in the Arctic, engaged in the observation of terrestrial magnetism as a member of the MacMillan expeditions to Baffin Island and North Greenland from 1921 to 1924. He also spent two years as observer in charge of the Huancayo Magnetic Observatory maintained by the Carnegie Institution in Peru. And he was in charge of magnetic observations by the institution's total solar eclipse party in Greenport, Long Island, in January 1925.
An ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve in World War I, Professor Goddard taught celestial navigation to V-12 Naval trainees on the Dartmouth campus during World War II. He then was Civil Defense chairman for Norwich after World War II. He had also served on the vestry at St. Thomas Episcopal Church for many years.
Professor Goddard was married in 1930 to the former Madeleine Shields, who died in 1972. In addition to his daughter, he leaves a son, Paul H. Goddard '55.
WILLIAM BENFIELD PRESSEY, 88, the Willard Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, and former chairman of the Department of English at Dartmouth, died on December 25, 1982, at his home in Hanover after a long illness.
A member of the English faculty for 42 years, Professor Pressey taught courses in drama, Shakespeare, poetry, and advanced composition and was a pioneer in motion picture writing courses. His courses in the latter field, begun in 1939 after he was given a six months' leave of absence from Dartmouth to study the mechanics of movie-making in Hollywood, were among the first to be offered at a college in this country. He subsequently chaired the Film Studies Program when it was organized in 1959.
In connection with his movie-writing course, which he continued to teach until 1952, the Irving Thalberg Library of the Motion Picture was established at Dartmouth and, through the efforts in its behalf of producer Walter Wanger '15, it became the foremost library in the country at the time for the study of motion picture writing.
Professor Pressey was born in Ashton, R.I., received an A.B. from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., in 1915 and an A.M. degree from Harvard University. He began his teaching career as an instructor of English at M.I.T., but it was shortly interrupted by World War I, when he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1917, earning a commission a year later.
He was named an instructor in English at Dartmouth in 1919 following his discharge from the Marines and was promoted to assistant professor in 1921 and professor in 1930. Subsequently named the Willard Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory,, he chaired the English Department from 1935 to 1938. He served twice, during 1945-46 and 1961-62, as visiting master in English at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. He retired in 1961.
For 26 years, he wrote the article on American and British Literature for The New International Year Book and, alone or with others, he published 22 textbooks, mainly in drama, and numerous articles.
Professor Pressey was also a vestryman and lay reader at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover, where funeral services were held.
His wife, the former Elisabeth Sheerin, whom he married in 1918, died several years ago. Professor Pressey leaves a son, James C. Pressey '50; a daughter, Jacqueline P. Henand a sister.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Friends of Hopkins Center at Dartmouth.
1903
STANWOOD COBB, the second-oldest of Dartmouth s 40,000 living alumni at the time of his death, passed away on December 29, 1982, of natural causes at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 101.
A poet, an author, and an educator, Stan was born in 1881 in Newton Highlands, Mass. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian of the class of 1903- He entered Harvard Divinity School to become a Unitarian minister, but left two years later with a master's degree in the philosophy of religion when he learned of the Baha'i faith, which he joined in 1906.
Stan's vocation was in the field of education. He taught briefly in Washington, D.C., and in Europe, then traveled throughout Europe before returning to the United States in 1914 to teach in various schools, including St. John's College and the Naval Academy. In 1919, he and his wife, the former Ida Whitlain, founded the Chevy Chase Country Day School, a progressive, elementary school that he ran for over 40 years, until 1960. He was also founder and president of the Progressive Education Association.
He said, however, that his "real life work" was as a writer. He published some 30 books on religion, culture, and philosophy. His most popular work is Sage of the Sacred Mountain, based on the teachings of Lao Tzu; he also wrote the two leading textbooks of the Baha'i faith, which have been translated into several languages, and he completed his autobiography, Saga, A Tale of Two Centuries, just four years ago. He also edited the Baha'i magazine for ten years and lectured all over the country on Baha'i, and he founded his own publishing company, Avalon Press, in 1935 to publish his books. He was active in the work of the Avalon Press as recently as two years ago.
Stan's long life and wide-ranging works affected many, and he inspired a newspaper interviewer to write about him in 1974, when he was 93: "He is one sharp cookie. You should live so long and be so smart as Stanwood Cobb."
He left no immediate survivors.
1911
EMROY MOORE VEHMEYER died on November 17, 1982, in Birmingham, Mich., at the age of 92.
"Pete," as he was known in college, entered Dartmouth from the Chicago area, along with several other members of the class from the western section of the country. As a freshman, he became a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and was on the varsity baseball squad. Unfortunately, his career at Dartmouth was limited to one year.
After leaving college, he married Marjorie Wetmore in 1916 and eventually became associated with Joseph J. Ryerson and Son, steel distributors, serving as general manager of the Detroit plant until his retirement. He also was a director of the Kysor Heater Company of Cadillac, Mich., from 1924 to 1946.
Although his stay at Dartmouth was brief, he remained an active member of the class throughout his life, always responding to any inquiries directed to him and contributing to the Alumni Fund each year.
He is survived by his wife Marjorie and two daughters.
1914
The College has just learned of the death on July 14, 1981, of PAUL LIVINGSTON APPLIN, a retired petroleum geologist.
Born in 1891 in Keene, N.H., Paul majored in chemistry in college and stayed on after graduation to work for a year in the registrar's office. He then attended graduate school in geology at Yale in 1915—16 and returned to Dartmouth in 1916—17 as an instructor in mineralogy. The rest of his career was with various oil companies from 1917 to 1931; as a consulting geologist from 1931 to 1943; and with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1943 until his retirement in 1961. His work took him to many parts of the United States and Mexico, arid he also published numerous articles in his field (including several with his wife, a micropaleontologist). He was a fellow of the Geological Society of America and a member of several other professional organizations.
He was married in 1918 to the former Esther English Richards, who died in 1972. At the time of his death, he was living in Fort Worth, Tex., with his daughter, who wrote that her father had "always kept a special interest in Dartmouth." He is survived by his daughter, Louise A. Lawless, and a son, Paul L. Jr.
1915
HAROLD KING DAVISON, 89, died January 15 at the Cottage Hospital in Woodsville, N.H., after a long illness.
Harold was born in Woodsville and was a retired attorney and legislator. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1915 and attended Harvard Law School.
In 1917, he enlisted in the army and was commissioned a second lieutenant. Harold was the first New Hampshire man to be decorated for bravery, receiving the French Croix de Guerre. He was cited by General Clarence R. Edwards and was honorably discharged in 1919. He returned to Woodsville and began his law practice and served for four terms as the New Hampshire state representative. He was speaker of the house in 1927 and was on Governor Spaulding's military staff from 1927 to 1928 and in 1929 was president of tfye senate. He served on Governor Murphy's council in. 1939 and was attorney general from 1945 to 1948. Harold also chaired the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission for ten years, retiring in 1961, and the board of managers of the New Hampshire Soldiers Home for 20 years.
Locally, he served as director, vice president, and president of the National Bank of Newbury for 30 years; as town moderator for 16 years and town counsel for 25 years; on the school board for nine years; and with the Red Cross for 45 years. He also wrote extensively on the early history of Haverhill, N.H. In addition, he held long-time memberships in Rotary, which he served as a district governor; Masons; the Shrine; the Grange; and the American Legion, of which he was a past department commander. Harold's distinguished career made him a logical classmate to deliver the 50-year address of the class of 1915 at our 50th reunion.
He is survived by his wife Gladys, a son Robert, six grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren. Funeral services were held at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Woodsville on January 18. The class extends deep sympathy to his family.
1916
IRVING GUTMAN WOLFF died on December 5, 1982, at Princeton, N.J. Irv came to Dartmouth from Ethical Culture School of New York City. After his graduation from Dartmouth he went on to earn his Ph.D. at Cornell in 1923.
In 1924 he became a member of the research staff of the RCA-Victor Company. He had a most distinguished career throughout his years with the company. In 1934, as a member of the research staff, he demonstrated early radar for locating and following moving objects for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. In 1938 he and his associates helped install radar equipment on Navy combat ships. In 1949 the Navy gave him the Distinguished Public Service award, its highest civilian honor. In 1946 he developed teleran, which combined television and radio to guide airplane pilots and air traffic controllers.
There are about 50 patents in Irv's name for his contributions to acoustics, optics, radio, infrared detection, and radio frequency. He was also a frequent contributor to technical magazines.
At the time of his retirement in 1959, he was vice president of RCA Research Laboratories.
His survivors are his wife Consuelo; a daughter, Margaret Elizabeth Way; and two grand-children.
1918
GEORGE HENRY PRINDLE JR. died on October 28, 1982. His home was in Beverly Hills, Calif. He left Dartmouth after graduation and went on to attend the University of Southern California, where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. His career was as a real estate broker, and he owned his own firm.
He was married in 1923 to the former Catherine Girdlestone, who survives him; they had one son.
1919
Louis APTEKER died on January 7 in the Lawrence, Mass., General Hospital, where he had been confined for several weeks. For many years he had made his home in North Andover, Mass.
Lou came to college from Haverhill High School. During World War I he was in the Naval unit at Harvard. After graduation he entered the shoe business, eventually branching out on his own as the founder and sole owner of the Chelmsford Shoe Company, which was first located in Lowell and later in Derry, N.H. He left the business ,in 1960 and since then had been semi-retired.
He was one of the founding members of the Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center and a charter member of Temple Emanu-El.
He is survived by his wife Isabelle; a son Alan; a daughter, Shirely Fox; and three grand-children.
1922
AMOS COGSWELL LYFORD, a retired businessman, died June 20, 1982, at a hospital in Manchester, N.H., after a brief illness.
Amos was born in 1901 in New Boston. N.H., and entered Dartmouth in September 1918 from New Boston High School. Being under age 18 at that time, he was a member of Company I in the Student Army Training Corps, and he is well and favorably remembered by his many associates in that distinguished group. He was also the nephew and namesake of Amos C. Lyford, class of 1885.
Amos was with us for freshman and sophomore years, and a little later he began his 37- year business career with National Cash Register Company. He started in 1922 as a salesman in Manchester, became New Hampshire manager in 1944, and retired in 1959.
He was a long-term trustee of the Congregational Church and of the public library of Candia, N. H. He was a past master and organist of Rockingham Lodge F&AM, and he was an incorporator of the Amoskeag Savings Bank.
Amos and Vera Lindahl were married in 1926 in Deerfield, N.H. She, one cousin, and several nephews and nieces are his survivors.
1923
CHARLES GARDNER AKIN JR. died on January 15 at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford, Mass., following a long illness.
A native of Dartmouth, Mass., Gardner, as we knew him, was graduated from New Bedford, Mass., High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Gardner spent his entire business career in the retail fuel and paint business, working in the family firm of Akin Denison at New Bedford. Here he served as treasurer and later as president until the company's liquidation in 1955.
A quiet and modest man, Gardner was an ardent yachtsman and spent much of his time in later years sailing in the waters of Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound. He and Jeanie also were able to include considerable foreign travel during this period.,
For many years Gardner was a member of the New Bedford Port Authority, the New Bedford Yacht Club, the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, and the executive committee of Cachalot Council Boy Scouts, and he was secretary-treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Southeast Massachusetts. He also served as a director of the First National Bank and the New Bedford Institution for Savings.
Survivors include his widow Jeanie (Galloway); a son, Seth K. Akin; a daughter, Helen Klimowicz; and six grandchildren.
ALSON PROCTOR" TAYLOR died at a Manchester, N.H., nursing home on December 31, 1982. A native of Hopedale, Mass., he Was graduated from Manchester High School. At Dartmouth he was a member for four years of the College orchestra and the College band and was leader of the band during junior and senior years. His fraternity was Alpha Chi Rho.
Al began his business career in the insurance industry in the New York City area. He then came to Manchester in the thirties and was an executive with the Varick Hardware Company. In 1946 he started his own general insurance company, in which he remained active until his retirement.
A past president of the Manchester Rotary Club, Al also served as governor of the local Rotary Club district and as Community Chest chairman. A life member of the Salvation Army advisory board, he served as chairman of their building fund in 1968, a cause that was very dear to him.
Al's survivors include his wife Doris (McClintock); a son, Alson P. Taylor '57; a daughter, Ann Schroer; and five grandchildren.
WINFIELD SCOTT WESER died on December 5, 1982, at the Guilderland, N.Y., Nursing Home, where he and Marjorie had made their home since 1977. Win suffered a severe stroke in 1978 and had been confined to a wheelchair since that time.
A native of New York City, Win graduated from New Rochelle, N.Y., High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Nu. Most of his business life was spent in the Albany, N.Y., area in the employ of the National Lead Company, where he became head of the personnel department. He retired in 1966 and he and Marjorie spent much of the next few years in foreign travel and in the enjoyment of their summer cottage on Lake St. Catherine in Vermont.
In 1943 Win was inducted into the army at Fort Eustis, Va. His letter to then-class-secretary Sherm Baldwin describing his G.I. experiences is a war-time classic. During this period he collected the good conduct medal, infantry combat award, and the E.T.O. ribbon with two battle stars.
The Wesers had no children. Win is survived by his wife Marjorie and several nieces.
1924
FRANK SCALES COFFIN died on October 24, 1982, at the age of 80 in California, where he had lived since retirement in 1962.
Born in Chicago, "Ax" attended Oak Park and River Forest High Schools and was an enthusiastic participant in Dartmouth activities. A member of the track team, he was a brother of Alpha Delta Phi and was in Green Key and Casque and Gauntlet. He maintained his love for Dartmouth throughout his life and was active as a class agent and in the Chicago Dartmouth Alumni Association.
He spent his entire business career in Chicago with the insurance firm of Moore, Case, Lyman, and Hubbard, of which he became a partner in 1938 and was executive vice presient at retirement in 1962. He was an avid horticulturist and served as president of the Glencoe Park District and the New Trier Men's Garden Club. Photography was among his hobbies, and he was on an international championship curling team.
In 1962 he retired to California, first at Rancho Santa Fe and then at Rancho Bernardo. There he took up lawn bowling and was on two championship teams.
He was married twice and is survived by two children by his first wife —John H. Coffin of Longmont, Colo., and Sarah Neuscheler of Denver, Colo. He kept in touch with a number of classmates throughout his life and will be sorely missed by all of them.
ROBIN ROBINSON '24
HENRY PENNINGTON HAILE, a lecturer on international relations, former assistant director of the League of Nations Association, and a long-time benefactor of Dartmouth, died December 11, 1982, at Mary Hitchcock Hospital after a long illness. He was 79 and had made his home for some time in Norwich, Vt.
Penn, as he was known to his many friends, was born in 1902 in Baltimore, Md. In college, he was active in the Outing Club and the Appalachian Mountain Club, and his fondness for the outdoors remained with him the rest of his life. After graduating from Dartmouth, Penn went on to earn an M.A. from Harvard and then returned to Hanover to serve as an English instructor from 1926 to 1931. He later received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1935.
Long interested in international affairs and the cause of world peace, he lectured oh the subject frequently and traveled widely. He also served as assistant director of the League of Nations Association for five years just before World War II, as assistant director of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace from 1940 to 1942, as a lecturer in Army orientation courses during the war years, and as program director for the World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation from 1944 to 1946.
Penn's benefactions to Dartmouth were many and varied. He was instrumental in making possible the purchase of much of the 4,500 acres owned by the College on Mt. Moosilauke; a plaque recognizing his efforts was placed on the mountain's south peak in 1966. In 1971 he climbed Moosilauke to mark the 50th anniversary of his first ascent of the mountain, and remarked at the time that he had been on the summit well over 100 times. "He was one of the best friends Dartmouth out-of-doors ever had," said Charles Merrill, director of outdoor affairs, after Penn's death. He also established a music scholarship at the College in memory of a friend, musician and teacher Gerald Tracy.
At the time of his death, Perm was a member of Dartmouth's Moosilauke Advisory Committee and of the Appalachian Mountain Club. He leaves no immediate family.
1926
FRANCIS HAWKS APPLETON III died October 1, 1982, in Pasadena, Calif., according to recent information received from an attorney handling his estate. He was born in Franklin, Mass., was graduated from St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H., and at Dartmouth was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. His grandfather, James M. Goodwin, was Dartmouth 1848.
After graduation Frank was with Metals and Controls Corporation, Attleboro, Mass., and in 1941 became the West Coast representative in Pasadena. His company later merged with Texas Instruments Inc. After retirement in 1964 he became associated for a short time with Transportation Engineering Company.
Frank and his wife Alice attended the 35th, 40th, and 45th Hanover class reunions, which they particularly enjoyed. He was a member of the Southern California Dartmouth Club and was a regular, generous contributor to the Alumni Fund. He also was a member of the University Club of Pasadena and was a Mason.
Alice died in 1975 and Frank had health problems in 1981, with three operations for cataracts and a detached retina. Having no children, he found it necessary to employ a housekeeper when a strained back was added to his lack of vision.
Dartmouth and the class of 1926 have lost one of their most loyal and dedicated members with the sudden death of ALBERT EMANUEL MANDEL LOUER on December 25, 1982, at his Tucson, Ariz., home. Last year Al had a heart attack, but by early December progress indicated the desirability of the Tucson, rather than Highland Park, Ill., climate.
Al was born in Chicago and grew up in Highland Park, graduating from DeerfieldShields Township High School. He and his cousin Dick Mandel entered Dartmouth together, taking adjacent rooms in Topliff Hall. Both took part in many undergraduate activities. After graduation Al worked in Chicago with Mandel Brothers, the Community Fund, former Governor Henry Horner, and as financial secretary to Edwin F. Mandel, and he was active in political affairs.
Al's services to Dartmouth and 1926 were many and meaningful. As class head agent for the Alumni Fund for 20 years, he won 17 "Green Derbies." Increases in giving every year and citations for his outstanding leadership such as the Fred A. Howland Trophy and Roger C. Wilde '21 Reunion Award were modestly attributed by Al to the efforts of his classmates. His own very generous capital fund and Alumni Fund gifts to the College were an important inspiration for all. He was president of the Dartmouth Club of Chicago and a member of the Alumni Council, served three terms on the 1926 executive committee, and worked on alumni interview committees all of the above earning him the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
Al, a true gentleman a gentle man was a very thoughtful, outgoing person. He greatly enjoyed the Dartmouth fellowship at all gatherings, especially football weekends. He married Ellen Bennett in 1936; she, their sons Edwin, Roger, and Albert, and nine grandchildren survive him. The class was represented at the Highland Park services by Snipe Esquerre, Henry and Jane Parker, and Tubber and Barbara Weymouth.
We recently learned that GEORGE WILSON SNODGRASS died January 19, 1982, at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa. George was with the class freshman and sophomore years, having prepared at Deerfield Academy. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He returned to Hanover for the 50th reunion and enjoyed seeing many old friends.
He spent 27 years with J&L Steel Company, Pittsburgh, as a chemist, retiring in 1964. Geoge's military service included one year with the 176th Field Artillery and four years in England with the 8th U.S. Army Air Corps, for which he was awarded two bronze battle stars.
His wife Lee predeceased him, and a son and a daughter survive him.
Only recently was it learned that TOM RUSSELL WYLES JR. died November 29, 1980, at Porter Memorial Hospital, Denver, Colo., of congestive heart failure. He was born in Chicago, grew up in Highland Park, and was graduated from Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. At Dartmouth he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, was with the Dartmouth Players, and engaged in other activities during freshman and sophomore years.
Tom left Dartmouth to join his father's business, Detroit Graphite Company. After five years he went with Standard Accident Company as chief underwriter and manager of the accident and health department. Twenty years later he moved to Denver, joining Capitol Life Insurance Company in a similar post. When this company was sold he was a consultant until his retirement in 1971 due to illness.
He was president of both the Detroit and Denver Accident and Health Associations and a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve Officers' Corps. He also served with the Denver Y.M.C.A., and he was a life member of the Gilpin County Historical Society and a member of the Dartmouth Association of the Great Divide.
His marriage to Mary O'Malley ended in divorce, and in 1951 he married the former Dorothy Tillesen. Besides Dorothy he is survived by his sons, Tom III and Charles; two daughters, Jane Gray and Mary Ogle; two stepchildren; 21 grandchildren; and two sisters.
1927
With the death of GEORGE DOANE ARNOLD, 77, on January 21, the class has lost one of its most dedicated, loyal, and beloved classmates. For 27 years, from junior year through our 25 th reunion, he was class secretary; he also served as president of the Class Secretaries' Association, a member of the Alumni Council, and president of the Boston Alumni Association. In 1970 he was the recipient of Dartmouth's prestigious Alumni Award.
A native of Boston, Doane attended Newton public schools before entering Dartmouth, where he was manager of swimming, president of the Players, and a member of Green Key, Casque and Gauntlet, and Delta Kappa Epsilon and Delta Omicron Gamma fraternities.
After graduation, he sold life insurance for three years while attending the Sloane School of Business Management at M.I.T. In 1930, he joined New England Mutual Life Insurance Company at its home office in Boston as an underwriter. He rapidly worked his way up, and .upon his retirement in 1970 was vice president in charge of underwriting. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife moved permanently to their summer home in North Bridgton, Maine. In Newton, he had been a member of the corporation of the Hahneman Hospital of Boston, a trustee and treasurer of the Charles Meserve Scholarship Fund, a director of the Tiger Oil Company, and active in many local charitable organizations.
Doane was a proficient golfer and also loved the water. During World War II he was an apprentice seaman with the Coast Guard. Quiet of voice, glib of tongue, and possessed of an endless supply of humorous anecdotes and stories, he was always in great demand as an afterdinner speaker at business meetings and class reunions. A loyal attendant and participant at reunions, he missed only one in his 57 years since graduation. Reunions will never be the same without him.
A memorial service on February 10 in Newton was attended by seven classmates, including Jay Willing, who made some reminiscent remarks.
In addition to his wife Marie (Humphreys), Doane leaves a daughter Barbara; three sons Louis, Walter, and Doane Jr. '71; and seven grandchildren.
LAURENCE ILSLEY DUNCAN died in the Concord, N.H., Hospital on December 18, 1982, after a short illness. He was 76.
A native of Concord, Larry attended high school there and returned after college to marry, raise a family, and, in fact, to spend his entire life there. At Dartmouth, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Sigma Nu and Sigma Nu Delta fraternities, and the Aegis board. After graduation, he entered Harvard Law School with a group of other 1927 classmates and, along with them, took his LL.B. degree in 1930. Immediately thereafter, he returned to Concord, where he engaged in the general practice of law until 1945, when he was appointed an associate justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court. Only two years later, in 1947, he moved up to the supreme court, where he served as associate justice until his retirement, 29 years later, in 1976.
Larry's forte was legal research and at an early date he became recognized as one of the foremost legal minds in New Hampshire in fact, in the country. He had endless patience and incredible powers of concentration which, coupled with an ability to organize facts, illuminate fine points, strip away unnecessary material, and apply deadly logic made him a mainstay of the court. He was widely respected by his peers, who took great delight in his ready, dry wit and quiet humor, which were always just under the surface and ready to emerge.
In addition to his duties on the bench, he found time to serve for 14 years as secretary of the Merrimack Valley Dartmouth Association and as trustee or director for many charitable organizations such as the Concord Hospital, Margaret Pillsbury Memorial Hospital, Congregational Church, League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, Community Chest, and the New Hampshire-Vermont Hospitality Services. He was a member of the New Hampshire and American bar associations and had served on the New Hampshire Board of Bar Examiners for several years.
He leaves his wife Doris (Hackett), two sons - Stuart '55 and James, two sisters, and three grandchildren.
ROBERT BELDEN TREAT died on November 27, 1982, of a massive heart attack in the Waterbury, Conn., Hospital. He was born in East Orange, N.J., in 1904 and attended Andover Academy before entering Dartmouth, where he remained during 1923 and 1924.
Bob's entire business life was spent with the American Brass Company, from which he retired in 1960. During most of this time he resided in Middlebury, Conn. An enthusiastic sportsman, he was the first president of the NAVA Ski Club and treasurer of the Connecticut Ski Council for more than 25 years. He was also the first president of the Mattatuck Sports Car Club and a director of the Cornell Bridge Club.
He leaves his, wife Sibyl (Woodruff), a son Robert, and four granddaughters.
1928
PAUL GOODWIN ANNABLE, prominent Danbury, Conn., industrialist, died November 11. 1982, at Danbury Hospital after a long illnessPaul was born in Salem, Mass., and was graduated from Salem High School. At Dartmouth he was an expert skier.
After graduation he worked six years for R.H. Macy in New York City, leaving as assistant comptroller to join Genung's Department Stores. He lived in Danbury and became supervisor of the firm's four stores in Connecticut.
Paul was commissioned in the Army in 1942, and after a few weeks training was rushed off to Australia and the South Pacific. As a major in the Air Force Communications Command, he saw a lot of duty in unhealthy places. When he got out of uniform in 1946, the Army determined that he had contracted TB in Manila which led to major thoracic surgery and two years in Castle Point Veterans Hospital.
jn 1946 Paul was appointed to the Danbury Airport Commission, and he became chairman in 1959, a position he held until 1972. He was the non-salaried administrator of the Danbury Airport for 12 years, seeing to it that the runways were expanded and airport lighting installed. Paul flew his own plane.
From 1952 until his retirement in 1977, Paul was owner and president of Connnecticut Research Associates Inc., which designed and built automation machines. He remained as a consultant until 1979.
Long active in civic affairs, Paul was chairman of the Danbury Chamber of Commerce in 1961 and worked on the city's charter revision committee.
He is survived by his wife Jane, two daughters, a sister, and four grandchildren.
FLAVEL SCOTT ELLIOTT, a professor of English at Newberry College, Newberry, S.C., for 26 years, died November 23, 1982, at the Veterans Hospital in Columbia, S.C.
Scott was born in New Britain, Conn., and was graduated from the high school there. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the Round Table, and the Forensic Union. He later served Dartmouth as an assistant class agent. He received his M.A. degree from the University of North Carolina and did additional graduate work at Harvard and Duke. He taught at Asheville Teachers College in Asheville, N.C., for five years before moving to Newberry. He retired as professor emeritus of Newberry in 1972.
He was a 32nd-degree Scottish Rites Mason and served for 31 years as secretary. He was a veteran of World War II, serving as an academic supervisor in the Army.
An editorial in the local newspaper said: "He has had a profound influence on the educational progress of our community and state. "
Survivors are his wife Rosalie, a son, and two sisters.
DOUGLAS MACDONALD PEASE died October 20, 1982, after a short stay at Jordan Hospital, Plymouth, Mass. Although Doug had been in and out of the hospital with problems resulting from arthritis, his sudden death was a shock to his family.
Doug prepared at Montclair, N.J., High School. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and of the band, the Glee Club, and the orchestra. As an alumnus he served as an assistant class agent.
Insurance occupied his entire business career principally at the Boston office of the American Surety Company. In the ten years before his retirement in 1972 he was with the Brewer and Lord agency in Boston.
A resident of Plymouth since 1975, he had previously lived for 30 years in Duxbury.
His first wife, Dorothy, died in 1968. He is survived by his wife Lilla (Connell), two sons Douglas Jr. 58 and Alan '62, a stepdaughter, and six grandchildren.
MATTHEW CRAWFORD POLLOCK died January 16 in his sleep at his home in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Ethie and his family were stunned by the suddeness of his death, yet were grateful for the peaceful way in which he went. Although Craw had a heart problem, he was content to stick to his routine of walking and swimming.
Craw came to Dartmouth from Cushing Academy. In College he was president of the Players and took leading parts in student theatrical and muscial productions. His sense of humor was a joy to all his classmates and friends. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Sphinx. Craw served as class agent for three years and was elected vice president of the Class Agents' Association.
In 1930 he joined DuPont as a market investigator for a new test tube product, cellophane, and for the next 16 years he moved up through various marketing assignments, until he was in charge of all advertising and promotion in the cellophane department.
He resigned in 1946 to become vice president and promotion manager for C. A. Swanson and Sons in Omaha and became known as the inventor of the T.V. dinner. After Swanson's merger with the Campbell Soup Company in 1955, he became director of marketing development.
In 1960 Craw was elected vice president of the Green Giant Company of Minneapolis, in charge of all marketing activities. Craw's pet project was introduced in 1963, "boil-in-the-bag" butter-sauced frozen vegetables. He was elected a director of the company and senior vice president in 1966. Craw retired in 1967 for health reasons and moved to Florida. His health improved and for several years he did consulting work for the Green Giant Company and the Weyerhaeuser Company.
Survivors are his wife Ethna, whom he married in 1933; three daughters; a sister; and 14 grandchildren.
1929
EDWIN PERRY GOBLE died in November 1982 in Great Barrington, Mass. Ed and Harry Baehr, also '29, came to Dartmouth together from Woodhaven, N.Y., after graduating from high school in the neighboring town of Richmond Hill.
Ed majored in music and was active in the Round Table and "The Arts." He lived in Forest Hills, N.Y., for 20 years and studied piano and composition while teaching privately and at the Third Street Music School Settlement. He then moved to a farm in Sheffield, Mass., where he played organ, gave piano lessons, and taught at the Hamilton School.
He leaves his wife Joan, two sons, and a daughter.
BULWER LYTTON JOHNSTON died on January 14 at Boca Raton, Fla.
Lyt graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in New York City. At Dartmouth he played soccer, was captain of the lacrosse team, and belonged to Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He majored in philosophy. Many of us cherish his carving on our senior canes of a stick figure leaning on a lamp post that clearly spelled "Lyt."
In 1938 he was in a group that formed a general insurance partnership. It included "Irish" Flanagan '23. Before retirement he was president and chief executive of Frank B. Hall and Company in New York City. He lived in Ridge wood, N.J.
From 1944 to 1945 he was a captain in the Marine Corps. He served on the board of the national Y.W.C.A., was active in other community interests, and was a staunch believer in our private enterprise system.
He leaves his wife Olive, sons George '57 and Robert, a stepson, and five grandchildren. He was a brother of Gerard Johnston '28.
BRETT FRANKLIN SINE died of lung cancer in Calgary, Alberta, on October 25, 1982. His illness was discovered in early summer but had not been caught in time.
Brett came to us from South Calgary High School and Shattuck Military School. He majored in economics and was a member of Theta Chi fraternity.
His business career was with Revelstoke Lumber Company in Alberta and Saskatchewan. He became its president in 1956. He was chairman of the Alberta Forestry Association, a director of the National Forestry Association, and president of the Western Retailers Lumbermen's Association, which gave him its "Mr. Lumberman Award" in 1973. He was also a director of Interprovincial Building Credits Ltd. and a member of the advisory board of the Canada Permanent Trust Company in Calgary.
He served with the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, was president of the Calgary Philharmonic Society, was a Rotarian, and was a member of the Calgary Golf and Country Club and the Ranchmen's Club. He was an ardent golfer, being one of four western members of the Canadian Seniors Golf Association.
His industry honored him at retirement as "a good, ethical lumberman and a good, ethical man."
Brett leaves his wife Elspeth (Sinclair), a daughter, and a brother, Charles '37.
1930
FREDERICK BOWES JR. died on October 29, 1982, in New Canaan, Conn., after a long series of illnesses, leaving his wife Priscilla, sons Frederick III '63 and Warren W., and two grandchildren.
Fred prepared for Dartmouth at Wellesley, Mass., High School. In college, friends will remember him as a friendly, outgoing individual, an English major, and president of Theta Delta Chi. He also played varsity hockey. He subsequently served on the executive committee of the class, he was a member of the 45th reunion committee, and he and Priscilla put on a highly successful campaign to get his fraternity brothers back for our 50th. He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of New Canaan, Conn.
Immediately after graduation he joined Pitney-Bowes, the international business equipment company co-founded by his uncle. Fred devoted his life to the firm, becoming vice president, public relations and advertising, from 1955 till 1959, when he assumed the post of vice president, international operations, the position he retired from in 1973. In the early years he was involved mainly in management and marketing, and he was granted two leaves of absence one to work in a New York advertising agency and a second to serve in executive positions with the War Production Board. He also took courses at Columbia and Harvard Business Schools.
Widespread recognition of Fred's abilities and his willingness to serve led to extensive other involvements, including the presidency of the Public Relations Society of America and memberships on the International Management Association, the International Public Relations Association, and the advertising advisory committee of the secretary of commerce. Locally, he was president of the Boy Scouts, an incorporator of the Stamford Hospital, general campaign chairman of the United Fund, director of the New Canaan Library, and deacon, trustee, and chairman of the building fund of the Congregational Church of New Canaan.
We extend our deep sympathy to Priscilla and to Fred's entire family.
WILLIAM OSBORNE LUCAS died December 5, 1982, in Vero Beach, Fla. Bill came to Dartmouth from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was born in 1908 in Seattle, Wash.
Bill had a great zest for life, was full of humor, was a great raconteur and the antithesis a quiet man. He was a good student, friend, citizen, and soldier. According to Bill, life was made for good fellowship, and he found something amusing in most situations. He made many lifelong friends at Dartmouth and with ease made Phi Beta Kappa. His major was economics, and he prided himself on his knowledge of the subject and happily took either side in any discussion of economics.
After Dartmouth, he, along with 26 classmates, entered the Harvard Business School. He graduated with an M. B. A. in the vintage year of 1932. At that time he wrote: "The prospects are that after graduation I shall embark on a career of a gentleman of leisure. I think I would enjoy it very much, if it weren't for the necessity of eating occasionally." He was hired immediately by the Williams Shoe Company of Portsmouth, Ohio, in the sales department. Soon he became vice president of sales and then president.
After Pearl Harbor he volunteered for service in the Air Force. He said he wanted adventure. After serving as a glider pilot for 28 months in the China-Burma-India theater he emerged from this adventure as a lieutenant colonel. His decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster, and the Bronze Star.
After retirement Bill moved to Vero Beach, where he owned apartment buildings. He spent his alleged retirement in the real estate business in Vero.
He was an articulate (to put it mildly) chairman of the Utility Commission of Vero Beach, a very important responsibility. His voice and his opinions could always be heard. Bill was a loyal member of the immortal class of 1930 and he was present in good form for the 50th reunion of the class. The class extends its sympathy to Bill's wife Lillian and son Edward.
L. L. "PETE" CALLAWAY JR. '30
1931
CHARLES SEAMAN MARX died in Georgia on December 24, 1982, of unknown cause. He was a resident of Suncook, N.H., and had been self-employed as an automobile dealer in New Jersey and as a real estate and investment broker.
In 1981 Charlie donated to the College a fine collection of rare United States coins, expected to be the centerpiece of Dartmouth's exhibit of rare and ancient coins in the new Hood Museum.
During World War II Charlie served for four years as a captain with the Air Force in India and was the recipient of the Bronze Star for meritorious service.
He is survived by his brothers, Arthur C. Marx '31 and Paul F. Marx '36.
1932
ROLAND BURNETT SUNDOWN died in a Santa Fe, N.M., nursing home on December 25, 1982, a few days before his 81st birthday. He had been confined to the nursing home since May 1981 after an accident in which he was hit by a car and sustained a hip fracture.
Sunny was a Seneca Iroquois Indian who came to Dartmouth from Phillips Andover Academy and originally was from Akron N.Y. By one account, one of his forebears was Mary Jamison, who was captured by the Indians in pre- Revolutionary War Days. She refused to return to her family and married into the Seneca tribe. In college, Sunny was widely known; he was a member of the Dartmouth Glee Club and was renowned for his fine tenor voice.
After graduation from Dartmouth, he became an English teacher and had his first teaching position with the Indian Service in Alaska. He held other teaching positions in the Millington, N.J., School for Boys; Canaan, N.H., High School; and Indian Service schools in Concho, Okla., and Fort Yates, N.D. He served in the Army Counter-intelligence during World War II. He was also a tutor at St. Christopher's School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Sunny married Josefina Salazar in January 1951. He is survived by her and by a daughter, Ramona Josephina, and also by two stepchildren.
The class lost touch with Sunny for a number of years, but he was located in Santa Fe last year prior to the 50th reunion after ads were placed in New Mexico papers. He was unable to attend reunion activities, however.
1933
ALAN ARTHUR JAQUES died on January 7 of cardiac arrest following some years of suffering a heart condition. At the time of his death, Al and his wife Grace lived in Hebron, N.H., in Grace's ancestral home, the scene of their marriage in 1935.
Al was born in East Rockaway, N.Y., and came to Dartmouth following his graduation from the Lynbrook, N.Y., High School. In that school, he starred in three sports and also in dramatics. At Dartmouth, he was a member of Delta Tau Delta and majored in chemistryzoology. This was followed by two years in Dartmouth Medical School; while there, he and Grace were married and made their first home in Norwich.
Following Dartmouth, Al was admitted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. After graduation, he entered practice as a surgeon, maintaining an office and home, in Rockville Centre, N.Y. During the World War II years, from 1944 10 1946, he served in the Medical Corps, U.S.N.R., entering as a lieutenant (j.g.),leaving as a lieutenant commander, with active sea duty in the Pacific.
After the war, Al returned to medical practice, becoming chief of surgery and president of the staff at Doctors' Hospital in Freeport, N.Y., and serving on the staffs of six other New York hospitals. For a while he was deputy medical examiner and public health officer for Nassau County. In addition, he and Grace started the Nassau County chapter of the Association for the Help of Retarded Children in the kitchen of their home years ago, and both were active in that work until Al retired in 1976.
In addition to Grace, Al is survived by three sons, a daughter, nine grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
1934
ROBERT GLENN PATRICK MCCLOSKEY died May 15, 1982, in Dayton, Ohio, as a result of cancer of the esophagus, which came on suddenly.
In early years, Bob worked in Cleveland for Fuller, Smith and Ross advertising agency. During the war he was with Fisher Body and composed a book documenting how General Motors converted its factory from building automobile bodies into doing war work. Then he shifted to Dayton and headed up market research for Frigidaire until his retirement seven years ago.
Bob came to Dartmouth from Albany Academy, where he had been captain of track and on the student council. At Dartmouth he was a member of Chi Phi and earned his varsity track letter as a sprinter. He was an English major, and his freshman roommate, George Collins, remembers him as a happy guy whose attitude and personality were infectious.
He is survived by his wife Mary, two sons, two daughters, and a granddaughter.
WILLIAM MICHELS STEIN died January 10 at his home in Connecticut after a brief illness. He had for most of the years since graduation been a manufacturer's representative in the New York area, primarily concerned with hardware products. Larchmont, N.Y., was his home base.
Bill grew up in Manhattan and was one of the 14 coming to Hanover from Horace Mann School a delegation that added greatly to the strength of the class of 1934. He had a year at Columbia School of Business and worked with several hardware firms prior to serving in the A.A.F. as a master sergeant, and then for a while as manager of the CSR Division of Maid Easy Cleansing Products Corporation.
An ardent tennis player, he and his wife had also traveled extensively in recent years to Europe and with Dartmouth alumni tours, including one to the Orient. They retired several years ago to Longboat Key, Fla., but maintained a home in the Greenwich area. He is survived by his wife Jane and by a son, a daughter, and a grandson.
1935
RICHARD LOUIS LEVISON died on December 28, 1982, at Gustin Community Hospital near is home in Laguna Niguel, Calif. He had suffered a massive brain hemorrhage the previous June and fought valiantly for six months before Passing away.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Dick came to Dartmouth from Scott High School and after completing graduate study at Tuck School went to NewYork. He served from 1941 to 1946 in the U.S. Naval Reserve and spent the next six years in publication and advertising sales in New York. He then moved to California and was active in the sales and promotion end of broadcasting and television film production. In 1959 Dick joined Carillon Importers Ltd. as western sales and promotion manager.
Dick is survived by his wife Mary Jane, whom he married in 1955. They had moved seven years ago from Los Angeles to Orange County, where Dick was active in the Dartmouth Club of Orange County. The secretary of the club, Gene Wilkes '45, led the tribute to Dick at a memorial service December 30 in San Clemente.
1940
RICHARD FEREBEE KENNEY died December 22, 1982. The cause of his death is not known. Dick was 65 years old. Born in Baltimore, Md., he prepared for Dartmouth at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.
A member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and Dragon senior society, Dick was active in athletics throughout his undergraduate years. He was a member of the hockey squad in his freshman year and earned his numerals in lacrosse. He went on to letter in lacrosse in each successive year and was team captain in his senior year. He received his degree with a major in economics.
Dick served in the U.S. Navy, earned his wings at Pensacola, and served for nearly three years with Bombing Squadron 11 aboard the U.S.S. Hornet in the Pacific, rising in rank to lieutenant. He was awarded the Air Medal and Gold Star for achievements during his service.
Following the war, he entered Stanford Graduate School of Business, from which he was graduated in 1947 with an M.B.A. degree. Thereafter, electronic business machines occupied his business life, and he was asssociated with Sperry Rand, Litton Industries, and Itel International Ltd. in Hong Kong, for which he was managing director and a member of its board. He had retired prior to his death.
Surviving Dick is his daughter, Carolyn L. Kenney, of Oakland, Calif.
Two days before Christmas, on December 23, 1982, ARTHUR WALLACE OSTRANDER died of an aneurysm at his home in Walnut Creek. Calif. One of the most loyal of Dartmouth's sons, Art labored tirelessly for our class and our college and covered himself with glory in the process. He was our head agent from 1969 until the fall of 1981, when health problems, which had persisted for several years, prompted him to step down. During his tenure he won mam Green Derbies and set dollar goals year year by his skillful management of his band of assistant class agents. His accomplishments were justly recognized in 1978 when the Alum ni Fund committee awarded Art the James B. Reynolds Award as the outstanding head agent of a class 26 to 40 years out of college for the 1978 campaign. He also shared the Roger Wilde Reunion Award for setting a new dollar record for a 40th reunion class. He served on the class executive committee from 1965 until 1981, and his ready wit and hearty laugh brightened many meetings.
Art entered Dartmouth from Minneapolis West High School. He was elected freshman swimming captain and lettered the following three years, setting records in the 220- and 440-yard freestyle along the way. A brother of Chi Phi, he also found time to be on the New Hamp Dorm Committee. He entered Tuck his senior year, leaving with an M.C.S. in 1941. He was active in alumni clubs wherever he worked northern California, Rhode Island, Cleveland, Connecticut, or New York - always in general management and marketing. He retired in 1977 from I.T.T., Grinnel Division, as director of export.
Art married three times and had three children with his first wife. He is survived by a daughter, Deborah Giffith; a son, Douglas '73; and two granddaughters and two grandsons, of all of whom he was very proud. Our class has lost a loyal member and a respected leader. We are all the better for the love and friendship he returned to us.
ROBERT W. MACMILLEN '40
1943
ROBERT LESLIE DUNN died on August 28, 1982, at the Veterans Hospital in White River Junction. As reported in the class newsletter, Bob and his wife Janice had recently taken a full year to devote the time to discover the people and places of America. They took their daughter Jennifer out of school and traveled in a motor home for a "precious year."
The Reverend Brad Morse '43 delivered the eulogy at memorial services in Lebanon. Of Bob, Janice said, "He appreciated beauty, found the best in others, and left the world a little bit better."
Bob was a World War II veteran of the Army Air Force and logged a thousand hours as a navigator on 48 missions. His career included work in the graphic arts field, after attending Columbia School of Business Administration.
He was the son of Leslie Dunn '15. In addition to his wife and Jennifer, he is survived by another daughter, Janice Wentworth, a son, Stephen, and a grandson.
ROBERT JACKSON VARNEY of Nashua, N.H., died of cancer on May 19, 1982. Bob had a varied career in public relations and in early years served as assistant general manager of the Mount Washington Railway Company and with the Greater Vermont Association. He also was employed by the Univac division of Sperry Univac and for many years was with Honeywell Inc.
Bob served as a pilot in naval aviation in World War II and did graduate work at Boston University, where he also was an instructor in public relations and economics. Bob's special interest was in music, particularly opera. He traveled extensively and made at least one trip to Italy each year. He was single and is survived by several cousins.
1947
JOHN ANTHONY HEMENWAY HAWKS, one of the class of '47 entering as a freshman in July 1943, died on December 14, 1982, following a heart attack at his home in Holliston, Mass.
John lived in Crosby Hall as an undergraduate and will be remembered for his activity in the Dartmouth Players and as editor of TheDartmouth in 1947. John joined the Navy and served on the U.S.S. Wilkes-Barre in Chinese waters.
John's interest in journalism continued in associations with The Hartford Courant, The Boston Globe, and Newsweek magazine. He married Sara Kempton and managed her campaign for the U.S. Congress. John leaves Sara and an adopted son, William P.
He was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Framingham, Mass., where services were held December 17. His college roommate and author of these words, Ham Chase, attended the services and burial and will miss the occasional visits with a really fine person.
1948
His 1948 classmates will regret the passing of HARVEY LAWRENCE CLARKE in Longmont, Colo., in August 1979. We do not know the cause of Harv's death, but his many old friends from his undergraduate days in Hanover will join his wife Mary Ann and two daughters, Susan and Kathleen, in mourning his departure.
Harv grew up in Chappaqua, N.Y., and was graduated from Grosse Point High in Michigan before going on to Dartmouth during World War II. He joined the Navy Air Corps in early 1944 and was discharged as an aviation cadet following the end of the conflict in time to rejoin his college for the fall term in 1945. John Sloan Dickey handed him his diploma in June of 1948 before Harv went to work for Westing- house Electric.
While on campus he played for the old Barbary Coast and was an active member of Phi Kappa Psi.
During his working life Harv met, then married, Mary Ann Talbot of White Plains in 1952. The couple and their children lived in Irvington, Cleveland Heights, and just outside Detroit before they moved to the West and Longmont. At the time of his death Harvey was a regional industrial sales executive with Revere Copper and Brass.
The class of '48 extends sympathy to his family, including his parents and an uncle. John M. Clarke '31.
1951
READ PERKINS passed away on December 18, 1982, after a long illness. "Perk" resided in South Strafford, Vt. (only a few miles from Dartmouth), where he was the owner of the Huntington Farm, Joel S. Perkins and Sons, a textile mill supply company, and the Huntington Farm Buildings, and part-owner of Fibar, all-weather riding surfaces.
Born in 1926, in Camden, N.J., he came to Dartmouth from Haddonfield High School in New Jersey, after service in the Navy Air Corps as lieutenant commander, flying Corsairs off the Midway aircraft carriers in World War II
At Dartmouth Perk got his "D" in football and was a member of the swimming team, Casque and Gauntlet, and Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He majored in English. After Dartmouth, he worked in Moorestown, N.J., and in 1964 came to his 300-acre Vermont farm. There, he raised and trained throughbred horses, was a town selectman for 12 years, and chaired the Two Rivers Regional Planning Commission, in addition to serving in equestrian organizations - including as director of the Green Mountain Horse Association, governor of the U.S. Combined Training Association, and advisor to the U.S. equestrian team.
Perk's involvement in Dartmouth activities was also extensive, including service as a class agent, as the regional chairman for the Alumni Fund, and as a member of his class executive committee.
Enjoying "cowboying" and the outdoor rugged environment, Perk wrote that "Vermont has been good to us and Dartmouth served as a 'nurturing' of the urge to live and work in an atmosphere of simplicity and a large degree of personal freedom."
Besides his second wife, Joni Rollins, whom he married in September 1982, Read is survived by two daughters - Beth Perkins and Bea Digrazia - by his first wife Essie, who died of cancer.
1952
Our class was sadly diminished by the death of JOHN STIRLING FESSENDEN, who died of cancer December 13, 1982.
At Dartmouth, Jack was a government major, active in the Green Key Society, manager of the hockey team, and a member of SAE fraternity. One of his daughters, Judy, was in the class of '78, and she is married to another '78, Lars Loren. After Jack was graduated from Dartmouth and finished a tour in the Navy, he was a legislative assistant to a senator from Maine and went to George Washington Law School, where he was graduated first in his class, "with distinction." He was editor of TheGeorge Washington Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
At the time of his death, Jack was a partner in the Washington law firm of Rice, Carpenter and Carraway, specializing in motor carrier law. He was one of the industry's leading authorities on collective ratemaking.
Jack represented several of the major motor carrier rate bureaus and was a frequent speaker and writer on transportation regulation. His published works included Collective RatemakingAn Indivisible System, published in 1979 by American Trucking Associations and the National Motor Freight Traffic Association. He was also a co-author of Collective RatemakingReapproved . . . The Motor Carrier Act of 1980.
Most recently Jack had played a major role in organizing the industry's presentation to the Motor Carrier Ratemaking Study Commission. He was lead counsel for the Committee for the Preservation of Collective Ratemaking, which represents the carrier members of all the major rate bureaus.
He was a member of the American Bar Association and the bar associations of the District of Columbia, Maine, and Virginia.
Jack lived in Annandale, Va., and is survived by his wife Joyce, his daughters Joy and Judy, his son John, and his mother, Olive F. Ripley.
Our love and sympathy go to Joyce, who plans to remain in Virginia until their son John marries in the spring, and then she will return to Maine.
JOSEPH M. WARE '52
1955
The college only recently learned of the death of EDWARD JOHN BUHLIG, who died of cancer on February 7, 1981, in Los Angeles, Calif.
He transferred to Dartmouth from the University of Southern California at Berkeley and became a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the Canoe Club, the Psychology Club, D.O.C., and N.R.O.T.C. He served in the Navy from 1955 to 1959. Class sympathies have been extended to his daughters Ann and Lynn.
1957
We have received belated information that STANFORD WILLIAM VALENTINE JR. died on April 18, 1982, as a result of choking on misswallowed food. Many of his classmates will remember Bill from both Dartmouth and Tuck.
He was an urbane, culturally-oriented man of wide interests. At the time of his death, he was living in Binghamton, N.Y. He is survived by his father, S. William Valentine Sr. of San Diego, to whom his classmates have expended their condolences.
1962
On February 1, 1982, JOHN RALSTON WILLIAMS III was killed instantly in an automobile accident in Norfolk, Va.
After graduating from John received a degree in business administration from the University of Rochester. After a brief stint with U.S. Steel, John joined Bausch and Lomb, becoming the driving force behind the Soflens project. In 1976 John formed his own consulting firm and later worked briefly for American Optical Company before moving to Virginia to become senior vice president of Dow Corning Ophthalmics. John also held the post of president of the Rochester Eye and Human Parts Bank.
John's enthusiasm for life was infectious. Whether he was running, skiing, or operating a business, his ability and willingness to commit all of his energies always made him a person others enjoyed being with. The last time I saw John he was skiing in Vermont with his two sons. His humor and optimism never seemed better. Things were never bad, they were always going to get better. He will be missed but more so, he is well remembered.
John is survived by his two sons, Gordon and Andrew, his mother, and a sister and brother. The class extends its deepest sympathies.
MIKE ROUZEE '62
1971
MICHAEL JON HILLEARY died of cancer on August 27, 1982, in Sausalito, Calif.
He was born in Pasadena, Calif., attended Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, and was graduated from Woodside High School.
At Dartmouth he was active in baseball and was a member of Alpha Theta fraternity. He was graduated magna cum laude with highest distinction in physics and was named to Phi Beta Kappa national scholastic honor society. He received the Haseltine Chemistry-Physics Prize, an honor awarded each year to the student showing the greatest promise in chemistry and physics at the College.
Following his graduation from the College, he attended a graduate program in physics at the University of California in Berkeley. He was employed as division manager, information systems, at International Engineering Company in San Francisco.
He is survived by his wife Sandy.
PHILIP NICHOLAS MANGANO died on April 22, 1982, in Rochester, N.Y., after a long bout with cancer. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Mangano of Rochester.
1980
NANCY GRIFFIN ROCKWELL was struck and killed by lightning on July 19, 1982. Nancy, 24, and her husband, Matthew Watkins, were leading an Outward Bound group on a trail near Mount Lincoln, N.H. Her husband unsuccessfully tried cardio-pulmonary resuscitation for over two hours before Nancy was flown to Littleton Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
A 1976 graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Nancy was a government and environmental studies major at Dartmouth. Her family called Weston, Conn., home. But it was at Kennebunk Beach, Maine, that Nancy spent many precious days. She and Matthew were married there in 1981. Matthew is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania.
The church at Kennebunk Beach was filled with the throng of family and friends who turned out to honor this dear woman. We who knew her cannot help but feel a great loss in Nancy's death. But at least we will always have the joy of having known her.
