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 secretaries, may appear in this issue or a later one.)
Robert A. Crenner '13, February 25 Thomas R. Carpenter '2O, October 7, 1982 Ned B. Allen, '22, August 31 Sherman M. Clough '23, August 31 Stephen H. Cross '24, September 4 Robert S. Wilkinson '24, August 17 Arthur C.C. Hill '25, July 19, 1983 William Pugh '25, September 4 Robert W. Patten '26, August 7 Albert G. Macdonald '27, August 23 Clifford A. Randall '27, September 17 Frederick E. Adams '29, June 16 Edward R. Butterworth '30, September 7 John R. Bell '32, September 25 F. Pettus Kaufman '33, September 19 Orville P. Richardson Jr. '39, August 11 John T. Newman '40, August 14 Richard O. Wilson '40, July 14 Arthur G. Chimiklas '41, June 22 Herbert L. Smith '47, March 12 Carter H. Hoyt Jr. '49, September 5 John H. Lucas '55, August 27 J. Mark Brunner '72, August 14
1918
After a long illness in a retirement home at Schaumbury, Ill., CORTLAND BLISS HORR died on July 31.
-At Dartmouth he. was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the debating society.
tDuring World War Ihe was in the ordnance Service of the U.S. Army. He became a charter member and post commander of the LaGrange American Legion. He had been vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Chicago and president of the Dartmouth Club of Central New York. He was a member of the University Clubs of Syracuse and Chicago and of the Shriners and of the Chicago Executive Association.
Cort, throughout his life, was a most loyal alumnus. In his travel as a salesman he was a thoughtful reporter on class matters to class secretaries. From 1920 to 1943 he worked for various companies. In 1944 he joined Assodated Stationers Supply Company, which he left in 1959 as vice president of sales. He then joined Trussell Manufacturing Company of which he was vice president of sales at the time of his retirement.
His wife, Marion C. Hulce, predeceased him. Survivors are daughter Judith Grace Benge and nephew Thomas C. Sprague.
1920
HARRY SHERIDAN BAKETEL JR., 86, died August 11 at the Bryn Mawr Hospital after a long illness. He was born in Derry, N.H., on September 26, 1898.
After 40 years with the Union Central Life Insurance Company, Sherry had clearly earned the title "Mr. Life Insurance of Philadelphia." A member of the Million Dollar Roundtable, past president of two major life insurance associations, he was also cofounder of the Life Insurance Digest and author of many life insurance articles.
In 1962 when he received the coveted Alumni Award in recognition of his many contributions, the citation read: "Since the day of your graduation you have demonstrated your devotion to Dartmouth and 1920 as class president, long-time Alumni Fund agent, member of the Alumni Council, stalwart trustee of your Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and active worker in each and every capital gifts campaign."
As bequest chairman for the class Sherry established new records in addition to building a substantial scholarship fund honoring the memory of his father, H. Sheridan Baketel, class of 1895. In 1972 he was proclaimed Bequest Chairman of the Year.
In spite of his unmatched record in the arena of Alumni Affairs, we shall remember Sherry best for his buoyant personality and positive attitude toward life. A gifted speaker, he was an even better listener a quality seldom found in such a skilled raconteur.
Sherry is survived by his lovely daughter, Bobbie (Mrs. Barbara Leonards), her husband, Tommy Leonards, four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. His wife Betty, sister of 1920 classmate Rick Kimball, had already died 11 years ago, leaving a void formerly filled with many happy memories. Funeral services were held in the church founded by his grandfather the old North Church in Canaan, N.H. The College was represented by the Robert Kaisers '39 and the Orton Hickses '21.
ORTON HICKS '21
1922
Dr. RONALD PAYNE HALLETT died July 18 in Gloucester, Mass., where he had been a physician for 50 years.
"Doc" was born May 23, 1896, in Gloucester. He prepared for college at Worcester Academy, and he joined the class of 1922 in the spring term of our freshman year. He was a well-known classmate, a fast middle-distance runner on the track team, and a brother in Chi Phi. He was a pre-med student, and he completed two years at Dartmouth Medical School before he transferred to Boston University where he received his M.D.
He interned at Salem, Mass., Hospital and at the Nursery and Children's Hospital, New York City. He then returned to Gloucester and began his professional career. He was on the staff of the local Addison Gilbert Hospital and for many years he was chief of obstetrics. He also served as a physician in the U.S. Public Health Service, caring for the seamen and the U.S. Coast Guard personnel in the Cape Ann Area. He was on the Gloucester School Committee from 1944 to 1960.
He was a member of the American Medical Association, and he was a former president of the Essex (County) South District division of the Massachusetts Medical Society, which in 1977 honored him with a special award in recognition of 50 years of medical devotion.
He was a sports enthusiast, a golfer, a tennis player, and an ardent supporter of Dartmouth athletics. He was a Republican and a member of Trinity Congregational Church.
In addition to his wife Doreen, Doc leaves two sons, four daughters, and ten grandchildren. At the funeral services the U.S. flag was presented to Doreen in recognition of Doc's service in World War II.
MAURICE SAUNDERS JR., a retired Chicago businessman, died July 2 in Florida where he had lived at John Knox Village, Pompano Beach. He had been in failing health in late years and recently was intermittently a hospital patient.
"Spic," as we all knew him, was born May 4, 1899, in Sewickley, Pa., and entered Dartmouth from Worcester Academy. In college he was widely known as a personable, affable classmate and as a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
He began his business career as a salesman with Vitamin Food Company, Chicago, later switched to the securities business, and in 1936 began a long career with R.R. Donnelly and Sons, Chicago. He developed and was manager of the financial printing division of the company.
For 27 years he and his family lived in Park Ridge, Ill. He was active in scouting, becoming a district commissioner, and for many years he was a member of the Park Ridge Park Board. He was also a member of the Chicago Yacht Club.
Following retirement in 1963 he and his wife Mildred moved to Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, where they had often vacationed. He belonged to the Ha'Penny Bay Beach Club and the St. Croix Tennis Club. Four years ago, the need for closer and better medical care prompted their return to the mainland at Pompano Beach.
As a loyal alumnus he was unwaveringly proud of Dartmouth. His son, Kenneth D. Saunders, is Dartmouth '48 and his brotherin-law, Robert D. Cochrane, is Dartmouth '32.
Spic and Mildred Cochrane were married 63 years ago. She, their son Kenneth, their daughter Ann, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren are his survivors.
CHRISTOPHER EMIL SUTTMEIER died at his home in Morrisville, Pa., on August 2 at the age of 84. Chris was born in Richmond Hill, N.Y., on December 25, 1899, and graduated from Richmond Hill High School in 1917. At Dartmouth, he majored in economics, was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, and centered the football team. The love for the College which developed during his undergraduate years was a part of him throughout his life.
Chris married Harriet Klein on February 22, 1925, and settled in Richmond Hill. He worked for many years for the Ford Instrument Company of Long Island City. Upon retirement in 1964, Chris and Harriet moved to Morrisville where they enjoyed the growth and development of their family, were active members of Lutheran Church, of the Resurrection, and where Chris indulged his love of gardening.
Chris is survived by his wife Harriet, by five children (including Pete '63), 17 grandchildren (including Bill '74), and 13 greatgrandchildren.
RICHARD P. SUTTMEIER '63
1923
HENRY SPROAT MOORE, retired outdoor editor and one of America's rod and gun writers, will be sorely missed by those who try to maintain his lofty standards, wrote Frank Woolner, senior editor of Salt Water Sportsman magazine. Henry, who left Dartmouth early to write for The Boston Herald, devoted his whole life to fishing, hunting, and writing columns for the Herald, The Boston Globe, Outdoor Life, and Salt Water Sportsman. He edited the "Rod and Gun" columns on virtually every subject germane to the outdoors. He concentrated extensively on wildlife preservation and conservation long before such became popular. Henry was a life member (and second president) of the New England Outdoor Writers Association. He remained with The Boston Herald from 1922 until July 1966 when the paper merged and he was released, only to be hired the next day by The
Boston Globe where he stayed until his retirement in 1973. Henry will be sorely missed. He leaves his wife Marjorie, a sister, Helen Foley, and two granddaughters and four great-grandchildren. He had donated his body to Harvard Medical School.
JAMES RICHARD TOWNSEND died August 4 in a hospital near his ranch in Martinez, Calif. Sometime in the dark hours of July 13 he had fallen in the driveway of his hilltop home, breaking his neck. He was found the next morning by his housekeeper and never regained consciousness.
Despite rooming freshman year in Middle Mass (across the hall from Pudge Neidlinger and Kully Lundberg) Dick took off with a four-point pace (graduating as a member of Phi Beta Kappa) and held it the rest of his life, through Tuck '24 and Harvard Law '26. He was associated with a leading law firm in San Francisco until 1933 when he opened his own offices in the Mills Tower and practiced there until his retirement. He married Nan Owen-Morris of England in 1939, and together they maintained cattle ranches in Marysville and Martinez.
In recent years, since Nan's death, Dick's major personal concern has been his work as regional agent for the Alumni Fund where he applied such unremitting effort that his group has rated 100 percent participation for seven consecutive years. It was particularly fitting that he could write his "thank you" letters to the group just a few short weeks before his death.
Dick was born in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and grew up in Berkeley in a strong Dartmouth family: father James A. '94, brothers Edward '19 and Robert '38. Regretfully none survive. But, in truth, there are many Dartmouth survivors in the years to come because he has left his entire estate to the College, unrestricted, as a Memorial Fund to his Dartmouth father and brothers four-point all the way.
CHARLES A. PALMER '23
1924
HENRY BANCROFT ROBINSON died on August 25 at his home in Manchester, Vt., after a short illness.
Robbie was born in North Adams, Mass., and attended high school there. After graduation from Dartmouth he entered the hotel business and worked at the Bonair Vanderbilt Hotel in Augusta, Ga. He later worked at the Miramar Hotel in Miami and the Greylock Hotel in Williamstown, Mass. From 1957 to 1968 he and his wife Ethel owned and operated the Orvis Inn in the Manchester area, and from 1960 until retirement in 1973 they operated the 1811 House in Manchester Village. After retirement they divided their time between their home in Manchester and another home they owned in Edgefield, S.C.
Robbie was a member of the First Congregational Church of Manchester where he had held various positions including treasurer, deacon, and choir member. He was also very active in community affairs in the area and was a past president of the Mark Skinner Library, past president of the Manchester Village Association, a trustee at Burr and Burton Seminary, and during World War II, a teller at the Factory Point National Bank, a math teacher at BBS, a tax assessor, a justice of the peace, and an auditor, and in his spare time he was a cellist with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to Ethel, Robbie is survived by one son and three grandchildren.
STEPHEN HENRY CROSS died on September 4 at Connecticut Hospice in Branford after a long illness. His home was in Madison where he had lived for the last 16 years. Prior to his retirement Steve was vice president and general manager of Stanley Power Tools Division of Stanley Works in New Britain. He had worked for that company for more than 40 years. After graduating from Tuck School Steve worked for Jordan Marsh in Boston for four years before moving to New Britain.
Steve's fraternity was Sigma Kappa. He was a cross-country skier. His loyalty to and interest in Dartmouth is reflected in his services as president of the Dartmouth Club of New Britain and of the Dartmouth Club of Connecticut and also as a class agent. His civic services included six years as a member of the Common Council in New Britain and four years as a selectman in Madison. He was a member of the Madison Congregational Church and a former member of the Madison Exchange Club.
Steve is survived by his widow Grace, a son, Richard S. Cross '75, of Bristol, a daughter, Ellen Cika, of Portland, and six grandchildren.
1925
We learn with sorrow of the death of KENNETH CLEAVES SIMONDS in Mount Dora, Fla., on July 4.
In college he participated in freshman track, performed with the Players, and was a member of Delta Upsilon. After college he took courses in electrical engineering and night-school courses at Harvard in accounting. He started his professional life in engineering in Florida, but in 1930 came to Boston and was associated with Jackson and Moreland, consulting engineers. He specialized in research planning and in the design, supervision, and construction of transmission lines and distribution systems and appraisals.
His work was so exacting and tightly scheduled that he never was able to make a reunion. From the time he married Blanche Elizabeth Sullivan of Macon, Ga., in 1928 they have called more than 30 places home; his comings and goings, if traced on a map of the United States, would look like a jigsaw puzzle. His favorite avocation was fly fishing, tying his own flies, and archery.
He retired in 1960 and had been active in Kiwanis, Men's Garden Club, Concerned Citizens, and the United Methodist Church, all in Mount Dora, Fla. He was also a member of the Dartmouth Club of Central Florida.
Ken had been in failing health for the past two years, but his death was unexpected and came as a. shock to his many friends. The Simondses would have celebrated their 56th anniversary on August 19. The family received many messages from friends all over the country, telling how they felt enriched by his warmth and his unfailing and unceasing caring and love. He is survived by his wife and his daughter Emily (Mrs. Robert A Woodworth) of Indianapolis, Ind.
1927
PHILIP HUNT died May 26 in Vista, Calif., after a short illness. He was born April 24, 1905, in Minneapolis, Minn., where he attended Central High School before entering Dartmouth. During the three years that he was in Hanover, he was known to his classmates as William Chandler French, a name which he had adopted. He played xylophone with the musical clubs for several years and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.
Bill, as he was known to us at that time, left college at the end of his junior year to go into the interior decorating and design business. He followed this business during his entire working career and was widely accepted as a man with tremendous talent and artistic ability in designing furniture and interior decorations of all kinds. His career began with several years with the William A. French Company, continued as head of the decorating department at J. W. Robinson's in Los Angeles, and concluded with a long affiliation with the J. H. Biggar Furniture Company of Pasadena, Calif. He was a member of the American Institute of Interior Designers and the author of numerous articles and talks on interior design as well as a former director of the Pasadena chapter of the American Association for United Nations and past president of the San Marino Toastmasters Club.
He is survived by his wife Maudie (Van Dyke); a sister, Sally Hunt; a daughter, Susan Hunt Osier; and several nieces and nephews.
1928
WATSON BRADLEY DICKERMAN, a professor emeritus at UCLA, died August 6 in Merritt Hospital, Oakland, Calif., of pneumonia. He wrote six months before his death that in addition to Parkinson's disease, he was "busy fighting a phalanx of ailments."
Wat will always be remembered for the joy he got (and gave all of us) in playing in jazz bands. It started with his playing drums in high school and with the Green Serenaders as an undergraduate and continued the rest of his life. Before regular reunions and minireunions, and particularly our 45th and 50th, he wrote and called members of the Green Serenaders and other jazz fans to organize the music.
Wat came from Springfield, Ill., High School and Choate. At Dartmouth he majored in political science and played in the College band and the aforementioned jazz band. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta. He received his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.
He taught at the American University at Beirut from 1929 to 1932, and at the Universities of Chicago and Minnesota before moving to Los Angeles as a professor in the department of education at UCLA. In 1951 he was head of the U.S. Delegation to UNESCO's International Seminar on Adult Education at Mondsee, near Salzburg. He was consultant to the U.S. High Commissioner for Western Germany later that year. The following year the Turkish Ministry of Educa- tion asked him to serve as a consultant. He retired in 1968 and moved to Oakland, Calif. He wrote many books and articles on education and travel.
He and Eleanor Ireland were married in 1934 and enjoyed traveling together, mostly in Europe, but also in Africa and South America every year since their marriage.
He is survived by his wife and a brother, Vance '31.
BRADFORD ELLSWORTH PARKER died July 3 at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., three months after an operation on his lungs. Born in West Hartford, he had been a resident of the Hartford area all his life. At Dartmouth Brad was a member of the Glee Club and the musical clubs, where he sang in a popular trio with D. Gordon Graham '28 and Karl Michael '29. He was also a member of the Dartmouth Christian Association and a member of Gamma Delta Chi.
He was associated with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft for over 30 years, retiring in 1972 as a quality review inspector. In his younger days, Brad was active in the Hartford Choral Club and was an actor and producer of plays in the Hartford area.
He is survived by his wife, Constance (Rendell) Parker, of Avon, Conn., two sons, and a brother, John D. Parker '24.
RICHARD WOLFF SCHMELZER, secretary emeritus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, died July 18 of heart failure at Samaritan Hospital, Troy, N.Y., after a brief illness.
A native of Brookline, Mass., Dick graduated from Worcester Academy. At Dartmouth he majored in English, was a member of the Glee Club for three years, and a member of the Players and the Camera Club. After graduation, he received an M.A. from Harvard.
His alumni activities included several years as an assistant class agent and serving as a member of the class executive committee since 1970. He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of Eastern New York and the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Tampa-St. Petersburg.
Since graduation Dick had only one employer R.P.I. He taught English for 18 years and became a professor. Then he switched to administrative work and was appointed director of development and later served as special assistant to the president and as secretary of the institute. He was named secretary emeritus in 1971 and served in that position until his death.
Dick was a director of the RPI Players and a tennis and soccer coach. He was a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association and the American Society for Engineering Education. In 1956 he received the Outstanding Contribution to Soccer Award.
He was active in community affairs, serving as director of Troy Community Chest, president of the Rotary Club, a director of Samaritan Hospital, and president of the Mohawk-Hudson Chapter of the Council on World Affairs.
After his retirement in 1971, Dick and Helen ("Wally") divided their time between their homes in Troy and Clearwater Beach, Fla. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, and two grandchildren.
1929
ERIC TURNER BURGESS, of Pottstown, Pa., died on August 30 in Reading Hospital.
Born in Euclid, Ohio, "Yike" came to us from Northeast (Pa.) High School. He belonged to Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and was active in baseball and the rifle team. He received his C.E. degree from Thayer School in 1930.
After Thayer he worked for American Bridge Company and then in textile manufacturing. In 1940 he became active in the marine corps and rose to the rank of major before his discharge in 1945, having served in this country and in the eastern Pacific area.
In 1945 he joined Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron in the purchasing department. Later he became purchasing agent in Pottstown until 1981! He worked in purchasing at Wastex Industries in Pottstown until his illness. He was a former trustee of the First United Presbyterian Church of Pottstown.
He leaves his wife, Ruth (McNees), two sons, and four grandchildren.
1930
It is with regret that our class reports the death of JOHN GILMAN CHENEY on July 8. John lost an uphill battle with cancer.
Born in Cleveland in 1908, John moved to Buffalo and attended Lafayette High School, where he excelled in basketball, baseball, and golf. At Dartmouth John worked his way through college and at the same time starred on the basketball and golf teams, receiving six varsity letters. He was elected captain of the golf team in his senior year.
John received a law degree from the University of Buffalo Law School in 1937 and was a practicing attorney for 31 years. He was elected a police court judge in 1949 and held this position until retirement in 1973.
John was married in 1938 to Frances Reuter, who died last year. They had two sons who survive; John Jr., a computer technician, and Frank, an architect.
At Dartmouth John was a member of Psi Upsilon, Dragon, and Green Key. He was an outstanding golfer most of his life and won numerous championships both before and after college. One notable event was his winning the Buffalo Junior Championship with borrowed golf clubs.
Affiliations included the American and New York State Bar Associations, Rotary Club, Mercy Hospital Board, and Country Club of Buffalo.
LEE A. CHIL,COTE '30
JOHN FRENCH JR., 75, New York lawyer and longtime leader in Dartmouth alumni affairs, died of a heart attack August 15, while hiking in the Grand Tetons at Jackson Hole, Wyo. For 30 years John practiced corporation law with the Wall Street firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt, and Mosle, becoming a partner in 1952 and acting as counsel after retirement. Before joining the firm he was a captain in the U.S. Army and served with the U.S. military government in Germany from 1945 to 1949.
John was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council from 1976 to 1979, and past president of the General Association of Dartmouth Alumni. He served on the Board of Overseers of Hopkins Center and the Dartmouth Arts Council and was active for both the Third Century Fund and the Campaign for Dartmouth. He had a leading role in raising funds for the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences.
Class president in senior year, he was president again from 1970 to 1976, and in other 1930 roles was executive committee member, Alumni Fund agent, and bequest the position he held at the time of his death! As an undergraduate, he was editor in chief of The Dartmouth, president of Palaeopitus, and a Senior Fellow.
John had many interests beyond the law. He was trustee and counsel of International House in New York, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the New York City Commission to the United Nations and the New York City Commission on Human Rights. He maintained a second home in Woodstock, Vt., the native town of his father, John French, class of 1886.
He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Clark French; three children by his first marriage: John III '55 of New York, Roberts '56 of Amherst, Mass., and Mary French Minier of Cheyenne, Wyo.; a sister, Mary French (Mrs. Laurence) Rockefeller; and nine grandchildren.
A memorial service at the Woodstock Unitarian Church on August 22 was attended by 1930 and College delegations, headed by President McLaughlin.
1932
The class of '32 and, of course, Dartmouth lost one of its most unfailingly devoted members on August 25. After a brief illness, JAMES EDWARD GARDNER died in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., whence he had hailed when he entered Dartmouth and where he lived and worked all his life. We all offer our sympathy to his wife Kay and their children, Jim, Caroline, and Judy.
As an undergraduate, he was a member of Sigma Nu and very active in the Ledyard Canoe Club. After commencement, he joined the Poughkeepsie Savings Bank, and except for World War II service in the navy, made mortgage banking there his career. In addition to participating in College and class af- fairs, he was very active in such community enterprises as the YMCA, Rotary, and United Way as well as the Presbyterian church.
He enjoyed the outdoor life and was an authority on bird and plant identification. While he annually joined his friends for hunting in the nearby mountains, he rarely used his rifle, because he derived more enjoyment from watching the deer roam the woods.
We will miss our steadfast, loyal friend.
DONALD MARCUS '32
1935
KENNETH MACLAREN HART of Sarasota, Fla., and Sapphire, N.C., died on August 2 in Sapphire following a short illness. Ken was a marketing director of Kraft Foods in Chicago until 1969 when he retired to Florida.
He was a graduate of Episcopal Academy and a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Dartmouth. He served in the U.S. Army and was a prisoner of war in World War II.
He was active in the U.S. Power Squadron and taught computer science in the junior high school as a volunteer teacher for the Talent Pool of Sarasota.
Surviving are his wife, Priscilla Santamarie Hart, and his sister, Dorothy Warren of Bryn Mawr, Pa.
1939
RICHARD LUTHER RUEBLING, 66, of Morris Plains, N.J., died on July 28 at Morristown Memorial Hospital after a short illness.
Dick came to Dartmouth from York Community High School in Elmhurst, Ill., where he played football and was sports editor of the school newspaper. At Dartmouth, Dick majored in economics and was a member of Delta Tau Delta (now Bones Gate) fraternity. After Dartmouth, he received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1941. Dick then joined the army and served as an artillery officer, primarily in the Asiatic theatre, during World War II.
After the war, Dick worked for a number of companies, including the Chase Manhattan Bank, National Cash Register, and Burroughs Corporation, before settling into the education field. He was supervisor of vocational programs for the handicapped for the department of education of the state of New Jersey for many years and retired in July 1983. He was active in the Catholic church, including raising funds for the erection of a chapel for the Carmelites in Chester, N.J., and was a member of the Rotary Club of Morris Plains, the American Vocational Association, and the New Jersey Education Association. Dick also worked in enrollment and interviewing for Dartmouth and was recently a vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Essex and Morris in New Jersey.
Dick is survived by his wife, Eleanore, and their son, Charles. Dick was a compassionate and friendly person and will be missed by his many friends.
WILLIAM R. CARTER '39
ROLAND LESLEY TOPPAN JR., 68, of Snowville, N.H., and Bradenton, Fla., died at Maine Medical Center, Portland, on July 25 after a short illness. He succumbed to a rare disease known as vasculitis which he had been fighting for the last three years. Roland prepped for Dartmouth at Governor Dummer Academy where he was on the golf and hockey teams for four years. At Dartmouth he majored in geology and was a member of the Gamma Delta Chi fraternity.
He was a U.S. Army Air Force veteran, having served in World. War II from 1942 to 1946. In 1947 he was a hypoponic farmer in Miami, Fla., and in 1948 was in the tool and die business in Newburyport, Mass., the town of his birth. He was, for the better part of his life, a general contractor in excavation and grading.
Besides having served as a selectman in the town of Eaton, N.H., he was a member of the town conservation commission and a former Eaton road commissioner.
He is survived by his wife Virginia (Pond), whom he married in 1942, a daughter, and three grandchildren.
1941
RUDOLPH JOHN MAJOROS, of Flushing, N.Y., died August 6 in New York Veterans Hospital of a stroke. He had been in and out of a number of hospitals with a variety of illnesses, including cancer, for more than five years.
Rudy was born in New York City and came to Dartmouth from Scarsdale, N.Y. As an undergraduate, he was manager of the freshman hockey team. After college, he worked for W.R. Grace and Company for a year and then joined the navy. He served in the Supply Corps, attaining the rank of lieutenant, until 1947. It was while stationed in England at the end of the war that he met his wife, the former Marian Harris-Parker.
He was with the state department for a year overseas, then worked for B. Altman and Company and the New York Furniture Company before his first hospitalization.
In addition to Marian, Rudy is survived by a sister, a stepdaughter, and two stepgrandchildren.
WILLIAM JOHN MORROW died at Community-General Hospital near his home in Onondaga, N.Y., just outside-Syracuse, on July 14.
Bill was born and raised in Clinton, N.Y. He played on both freshman and varsity hockey teams and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. After graduation, he worked briefly for the Beech-Nut Packing Company before joining the Air Force at the start of World War II. He emerged as a major, earning five battle stars in the Central and Western Pacific theatres.
After three years with Minneapolis Honeywell, Bill went to work for Syracuse Heating Supply, of which he in time became a partner and eventually president. He was a director and past president of the Onondaga Association for Retarded Children and also active in a number of other Syracuse-area civic organizations. For Dartmouth, he served as an enrollment worker and as president of the Dartmouth Club of Central New York. In his spare time, he was an avid golfer. Bill leaves his wife, the former Julia E. Riley, four daughters, a son, and six grandchildren.
JOSEPH DEAN PATERSON JR. died at his retirement home in Naalehau, Hawaii, on May 20 of a massive heart attack.
Dean came to Dartmouth from Rochester, N.Y., and Western Reserve Academy. In college, he ran freshman track and was a member of Delta Tau Delta. Following a year at Tuck School, he worked three years for Eastman Kodak and served for a year with the Army Signal Corps.
From 1948 on, Dean was primarily engaged in the construction business in the Fresno, Calif., area. For part of that time, he headed his own general contracting firm, Western-Desert Inc. He managed a farming operation in the Napa Valley for a while and also spent several years as assistant sales manager for a private plane sales and service firm. In the mid-1960s he went back to school, studying for a doctorate in business administration at the University of Santa Clara and completing all work except his dissertation.
Dean's avocations were private flying and ham radio. After his retirement to Hawaii at the end of 1977, he was particularly active in the latter field. He was a member of the American Radio Relay League and of the Big Island Emergency Net.
He is survived by a daughter, three grandchildren, and two brothers one of them, Robert L. Paterson, a member of the class of 1936.
1942
We have received notice of the death of EASTMAN BIRKBTT, who died July 9 in a Long Island hospital following a very short illness.
A native of Penn Yan, N.Y., East came to Dartmouth via the Culver Military Academy. In Hanover he was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa, graduating magna cum laude. His Dartmouth piano playing led to an army band in New Orleans where he was a glockenspiel expert, but the Army rediscovered him, and he was off to anti-aircraft O.C.5., then California, the Philippines, home, and out. Next stop was Harvard Law School where he graduated in 1949, again magna cum laude and as editor of the Harvard Law Review.
He then began a lifetime of the law as an attorney in the private sector, the public sector, and as a college law professor.
Our thoughts are with his wife, Kay, and their children, Peter '70, Sally, and Joel.
We have been advised of the death of PHILLIP GORDON which occurred in Boston on July 26 following a short illness.
Phil came to Dartmouth from Nashua, N.H., via Worcester Academy, and in College he was a member of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. Following graduation he entered the Army Air Corps and was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant. He was a cofounder and treasurer of Alexanders Markets, a very successful group of supermarkets in the Lowell, Mass., area, and although most of his adult life was spent in Lowell, two years ago he and his wife, Muriel, moved to Key Biscayne, Fla.
The class extends sympathy to his wife, Muriel ("Mickey"), and two sons, Charles and Peter.
I regret to inform you of the death of RAYMOND WILLIAM WATTLES JR. which occurred in Cambridge, England, on July 23, following a long illness.
Ray came to Dartmouth from the Nichols School in Buffalo, N.Y., where he then resided. In college he lettered in soccer, hockey, and track and was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. In July of 1942 he entered the navy unit at Dartmouth and became an aviation ordnance officer. Me saw action with the Atlantic Fleet and was honorably discharged as a lieutenant.
Since then Ray has pursued a teaching career in England and little is known of his activities.
The class extends sympathy to his wife, Beryl, and their children, Gurdon and Michael.
1948
We regret to advise his many friends, Marine Corps associates, and '48 classmates of the death in Michigan on February 5 of JOHN RUSSELL COSTELLO JR. of the lung cancer which had been first diagnosed five months earlier following a triple bypass operation in 1982.
Cossie, a native of Homer City, Pa., initially arrived in Hanover in November 1944 as part of a contingent of 90 marines selected as officer candidates. He had joined the Corps immediately after Pearl Harbor and had spent more than two years in the South Pacific, much of it in jungle fighting. Included had been service with the rightfully famous First Marine Division on Guadalcanal.
In Hanover Cossie contributed significantly to the life of the College, participating in football, baseball, and boxing. He stayed on after the end of the war in his honorable discharge and married Lucetta Cassel of Indiana, Pa., in June 1946, after which they lived in Wigwam Circle behind Thayer School until Cossie received his degree in economics in 1948. He also became a Phi Gamma Delta.
After a year at Duquesne Law in Pittsburgh and four years with General Motors, Cossie in 1954 joined Ford Motor's manufacturing department to which he was a significant contributor until his retirment in 1980. He was manager of the Ypsilanti Parts and Equipment Plant for a number of years. He and the family moved to Northern Ireland in 1964 where he initiated the first three years of operation of the new. Ford plant in Belfast in what Lucetta describes as "a beautiful experience." After retirement in 1980, from his farm in Tecumseh, Mich., he continued to consult for Ford, and as his last work he also provided manufacturing know-how to the illfated DeLorean new car enterprise.
In addition to Cettie, he is survived by four daughters and a son. His passing is noted with sadness; a great host of friendships were developed over his productive lifetime.
1960
MART HAWYARD HUMPHREY of Chester, Vt., died on August 16, 1982. Little is known of his life following graduation from Dartmouth. He was a production supervisor for White Metal in North Walpole, N.H., for eight years and a partner in a family-owned gift shop in Johnson, Vt. His record indicates no survivors.
THOMAS LEON LANIER, M.D., of Newport News, Va., died on August 20, 1983, in Norfolk General Hospital. After graduation from Dartmouth Tom attended the University of Virginia Medical School. He interned at Hartford (Conn.) General Hospital. His residency training was at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Ga., and the University of South Carolina in Charleston. He did specialty training at the Lahey Clinic in Boston and the Methodist Hospital in Houston. He had practiced general and vascular surgery in Newport News for the last ten years. Tom served in Vietnam as a combat military surgeon for two years.
He had a deep love for Dartmouth, and the years he spent in Hanover were always special to him. A memorial fund has been established in Tom's memory at Riverside Hospital in Newport News. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Lanier Sr., of Newport News; his twin sister, Mrs. Nancy Lanier Player, of Florence, S.C.; and a brother, Robert F. Lanier, of Newport News.
JOHN COWDIN LITCHFIELD, of White Plains, N.Y., died on November 19, 1982, of heart disease.
While at Dartmouth, John was a member of Gamma Delta Chi fraternity, the Aegis staff, and the DOC. Following graduation he served for one year in the army. He was in sales administration for P.R. Mallory Company and held several positions with Miles Laboratories. He earned an M.B.A. degree from New York University. Since 1973 he had been with Ferrero, USA, an Italian confectionary company, where he was vice president of marketing.
Jack is survived by his wife Susan and two children, Rebecca and Andrew.
NED PARKER NABERS died suddenly on March 13 in Nashville, Tenn. A native of Georgia and a graduate of West End High School, Ned started out at Dartmouth as a Latin major; Royal Nemiah, his beginning-Greek teacher, soon pronounced him "the best I ever taught."
After graduating summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa, Ned went to Princeton University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and there began to concentrate on classical archaeology. He participated in many excavations in Southern Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia, and as his publication of the Macellum at Morgantina most clearly attests became especially knowledgeable about the contacts among the various people in that part of the ancient world. He wrote articles on a variety of subjects, and his photographic work alone was a significant contribution to archaeology. Before becoming a permanent member of the faculty of Vanderbilt University in 1966, Ned taught at Dartmouth and the University of Kansas.
Throughout his career, he remained the same kind, unpretentious, and humorous person. He is mourned by colleagues and classmates, who extend their deepest sympathy to his family.
STEVEN LATTIMORE
PETER WESTLAKE RALPH of Glenside, Pa., died on October 23, 1983, in Philadelphia, Pa., of a heart attack.
After graduation from Dartmouth, where he was a philosophy major, Peter received a master's degree in public health from Yale University. He worked at Frankford Hospital in Philadelphia and as an insurance underwriter for the Insurance Company of North America in New York City.
He is survived by his wife Audrey (Clark) and one son.
1963
EDWIN LOUIS LAMIE died on December 27, 1983, of a heart attack at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn., where he had served as director of personnel administration since 1976.
He was born in Portsmouth, N.H., the son of Howard and Virginia Lamie. At Dartmouth, he majored in English and was a member of the Dartmouth Outing Club. He lived in Cheshire, Conn., with his wife Audrey and their daughter Jennifer.
Ed's career began with Prudential Life Insurance following graduation. He left Prudential to establish his own consulting and recruiting firm. He later joined Yale-New Haven Hospital. Ed once said his position there required a "blend of social worker orientation and the skills of a hard-nosed businessman."
Ed's colleagues at Yale-New Haven were, and remain, deeply saddened by his passing. An associate at the hospital said, "Ed Lamie represented all that is good. He possessed flawless integrity and consistently worked within strict principles of fairness, openness, and honesty. He was highly respected throughout the hospital and loved by those of us who had the good fortune to work closely with him. We will miss him for a long time to come, but what he gave us and what he taught us through his example will remain with us always."
Ed spoke often of his years at Dartmouth, reflecting upon those times as a significant part of his development. He was proud of his association with Dartmouth as he was of his New England heritage.
Besides his parents, wife, and daughter, Ed is survived by three children of a previous marriage, Christopher and Susan of Wilton, Conn., and Daniel of Hampton, N.H., and one brother, Charles, of Hampton.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Edwin Lamie Memorial Fund, c/o YaleNew Haven Hospital Development Office, 25 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06519.
1966
JAMES PHILIP MORENO, an attorney with the New York firm of Jackson and Nash, died suddenly at his home in Chappaqua, N.Y., on July 24 of cardiac arrest following complications with pneumonia. He was 40 years old.
Born in Jamaica, N.Y., on March 3, 1944, Jim was the son of Salvatore and Frances Moreno, of Pleasantville, N.Y. After graduation from the College, he served as a first lieutenant in Vietnam in the army and then went on to Fordham University School of Law where he earned his J.D. in 1972.
Jim attended Pleasantville High School and was a 1962 graduate of Deerfield Academy where, in addition to playing soccer and squash, he worked on the school paper. At Dartmouth, where he majored in history, Jim played freshman golf, soccer, and squash. A member of Casque and Gauntlet, he was also vice president of Alpha Theta fraternity and captain of the varsity squash team.
As some of his classmates will recall, graduation week found the good-natured Moreno holding on for dear life to the wet end of a towel as he was dragged up and down the pool in Alumni Gym to pass the College's 50-yard swimming requirement. He was blessed in life with a ready grin, deep-seated integrity, and an irrepressible sense of humor.
In addition to his parents, Jim is survived by his wife, Laura Tread way, two daughters, Amy Frances and Andrea Cole, and one son, Paul Treadway, all of Chappaqua; and two sisters, Betty See of Windsor, N.Y., and Nancy Bush of Dolgeville, N.Y. The class extends its deepest sympathy to his family and the many friends whose lives he touched.
DOUG GREENWOOD '66
1980
DOUGLAS RICHARD BANGS, of West Burke, Vt., was killed in a tragic boating accident on May 21 in Alaska. He had been living there and was in the business of building log cabin homes.
While at Dartmouth, Doug was a member of the ski team for four years and also a member of the Ivy League and Eastern Collegiate champion bicycling team. He was an earth sciences major and participated in the geology off-campus "stretch" program.
Please keep Doug and his family and
