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.)
Stephen K. Perry '13, December 15, 1983 Arthur G. Boggs '15, January 20 Philip G. Evans '17, January 1984 Leslie M. Brown '18, January 12 William A. Carter '20, February 11 Marshall L. Lombard '20, January 23 Hastings H. Walker '21, January 10, 1981 Albert C. Acker '22, December 2, 1983 Elmer F. Ardiff '22, January 15 Sterry R. Waterman '22, February 6 Luther W. Hussey '23, January 24 Truman T. Metzel '23, January 24 Theodore R. Miner '23, February 5 Pemberton Whitcomb '23, January 22 William W. Jenkins '25, January 31 George T. Stevens '25, January 3 Sylvester McGinn '26, January 13 J. Wesley Smith '28, December 15,. 1983 Raymond C. Hedger '29, November 15, 1983 Henry W. Marshall '29, November 20, 1983 Robert H. Ramage '29, January 21 Robert L. Barker '30, December 15, 1983 Kenneth L. Grevatt '30, Date Unknown Richard W. Howell '30, July 24, 1983 Rolland D. Carlson '31, January 19 William C. Gould '31, February 10 Calvin C. Milans '33, February 7 Robert F. Swander '33, January 5 John T. C. Cavanaugh '34, August 13, 1983 Perry S. Woodbury '34, February 6 Joseph D. Knap '35, February 1 Frederick T. Cleaves '36, January 27 Morgan R. Butler Jr. '37, May 3, 1983 John D. Latchis '37, January 15 Frederick H. Mayne '38, December 2, 1983 Robert H. Peterson '42, December 16, 1983 Warren P. Schleicher '45, December 21, 1983 John W. Noble '51, April 19, 1983 John W. Newey '52, June 1983 J. Chester Allen '55, December 25, 1983 B. William Hochman '55, December 28, 1983 Edward I. Braverman '56, January 11 John P. Newell '58, December 14, 1983 Lawrence C. Wilson '61, October 17,. 1983 Bruce G. Kitchen '71, June 6, 1983
Faculty
ROBERT E. RIEGEL, 86, an emeritus professor of history, died on December 11 at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover after a long illness.
Born in Reading, Pa., he received his B.A. in 1919 from Carroll College, and his M.A. in 1920 and his Ph.D. in 1922 from the University of Wisconsin. He was granted an honorary master's in 1936 by Dartmouth and an honorary LL.D. in 1946 by Carroll.
Appointed an instructor in social sciences at the College in 1922, he was promoted to assistant professor in 1925, professor of industrial society in 1935, and professor of history in 1936. Upon his retirement from Dartmouth in 1964, he became chairman of the history department at Texas Western College until 1968, when he returned to Hanover during the summer to teach several programs at Dartmouth. He had also spent a number of summers earlier in his career teaching at universities across the country.
A prolific author, he wrote a number of books, including The Story of Western Railroads, America Moves West, Young America, American Feminists, and AmericanWomen. He was editor of the two-volume Introduction to the Social Sciences, published in 1941; in 1947 he collaborated with Helen Haugh to publish The United States of America; in 1955 he brought forth a widely-used two-volume American history text, TheAmerican Story, co-authored with David Long; in 1964 and 1971 he published the fourth and fifth editions .with his co-author Robert G. Athearn of America Moves West; and, in addition, he was a contributor to a number of encyclopedias and collections. He was also a member of several professional associations in the American history field.
He was married in 1923 to Mabel Cowden, who died in 1968. A year later he married Gertrude Rheinhardt Smith, who died in 1970. He is survived by his wife, Louise Ljung-Gren, whom he married in 1971, of Hanover, and by a brother and four nephews and a niece.
Memorial contributions may be made to Baker Library.
1913
STEPHEN KINGSBURY PERRY passed away on December 15, 1983, at the rest home in Cleveland, Ohio, where he had lived for some years.
"Gus," as he was known, was a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon fraternity in college and majored in history. He went on after graduation to several positions as an instructor and, ultimately, a principal in secondary schools in the northeast, while earning his M.A. from Harvard in 1917. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War I, Gus joined the Hartford Woolen Company in Hartford, Vt. He spent the bulk of his career there, while also serving in numerous community posts in Hartford: town auditor, 1929-1932; school board, 1932-1939; moderator; clerk-treasurer of the Hartford fire district, 1920-1932; and trustee and deacon of the Congregational Church. In 1943, Gus became chief'of advisement and guidance in the vocational rehabilitation office at the White River Junction Veterans Administration regional center, and in 1946 he assumed a similar post in Boston. He retired in 1949. Initially in retirement he and his wife Alice, whom he married in 1917, had lived in Brandon, Vt., and they later moved to Cleveland.
Gus and Alice had three sons Charles, Nathaniel, and Peter who survive. Gus was also the brother of the late Winthrop S. Perry '10, and his nephew, Fred S. Perry, is a member of the class of '45.
1914
WALTER FORD DALEY, a 54-year resident of Pelham Manor, N.Y., died August 24,1983, a month before his 91st birthday.
Born and raised in Massachusetts, my grandfather was the eldest of six boys and the start of a long Dartmouth tradition for the Daleys. Three brothers (Frederick '19, Wilbur '23, and Carroll '29) and three nephews (Frederick II '44, Ford '61, and Daniel '68) also became Big Greeners. Grampa took a ribbing when his son Bill decided on Holy Cross, and in my case he considered West Point an upstart it having been founded in 1802.
Grampa served as a pursuit pilot with the 638 th and 138th Aero Squadrons of the AEF in World War I. He was immensely proud of his time as a "First Lieutenant, Air Service, Signal Corps, U.S. Army" and always made sure I got this protocol correct. Among my early memories are pictures of him striking a gallant pose beside his SPAD 13. His last assignment, as a staff officer in Coblenz, entitled him to a car and driver; at his 90th birthday party he mentioned that this duty had required long rides along the Moselle, and we learned at last the source of his long-standing devotion to Cadillacs.
After returning from Europe, Grampa resumed his business career with Western Electric and married Sarah Gertrude Darney in 1922. Between various promotions and job changes, he and Grandma had three children William, Elizabeth, and Alice all of whom survive. The family settled in Pelham Manor in 1929, there to remain until his death. Grampa retired in 1959 as a vice president of New Haven Board and Carton Company.
Grampa loved flying, Dartmouth, gardening, his tools, their summer home in Gloucester, and, of course, Gert, whose death in 1972 saddened him greatly. He was not always the easiest soul to get along with a fact I attribute to his Yankee penchants for being particular how things are done and not being reluctant to say so. But as the eldest of his 14 grandchildren, I grew up understanding that this was simply the way he was, and it was easier for me to adapt to his ways than vice versa. I learned a lot in the process; thanks, Grampa, I hope I can do the same for my grandchildren.
THOMAS E. MANNLE Jr.
1915
ARTHUR GORDON BOGGS died on January 20 in a nursing home in Boise, Idaho, after a brief illness.
Arthur was born in Ramapatnam, South India. After graduation he went to Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1919. He served a surgical internship in Boston for 15 months and in New Haven General Hospital for one year. From 1922 to 1959 he was a medical missionary in South India under the auspices of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. On retirement, he served as a rating board member of the Veterans Administration in Portland, Ore., until 1973. Arthur was a member of Kappa Sigma while at Dartmouth.
The class extends sincere sympathy to his daughter.
We have learned of the death on November 27, 1983, at Arlington, Mass., of HAROLD CHADBOURNE HARLOW SR. Classmate Dale Barker was kind enough to send in a clipping noting his death. Harold was a member of the Minuteman Club.
He is survived by his wife Cora and two children. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the family.
The College has been notified of the death on March 8, 1983, of HAROLD HARRISON MATTISON, at Mercy Health and Rehabilitation Center in Auburn, N.Y.
Harold's wife Louise died in 1971. He is survived by a son.
1917
PHILIP GRINNELL EVANS of West Medford, Mass., a loyal supporter of the class and the College, died in January.
Phil, a member of SAE in college, enlisted in May 1917 with the 14th Engineers, serving overseas in several campaigns. After his discharge from the service, Phil landed out in Ohio as an agent for the American Chair Company of Sheboygan, Wis. He was the fourth generation of his family to enter the furniture business, and he stayed in the field for his entire career, moving in 1921 to the Prufrock Litton Company of St. Louis as a representative, then in 1925 to Conant, Ball Company. He later served as sales manager of Paoli Chair Company of Paoli, Ind., and sales representative for the Pilgrim Pine Furniture Company of Reeds Ferry, N.H. He played a major role in popularizing the reproduction chairs such as those in Baker Library. In 1970 he was presented with the Golden Travelers Citation of the New England Furnishings Association for his 50 years of continuous service in the field.
Phil was married in 1920 to the former Josephine Schoonmaker of Orange, N.J., and they had two children Philip Allston Evans and Josephine Du Comb. Phil and Josie celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the home of their daughter in Detroit.
Active in many community organizations including as past president of the Wychmere Association on Cape Cod and in the Congregational. Men's Club he also did much in Dartmouth's behalf as long-time chairman of interviewing in his area, as an assistant class agent, as a member of the 1917 executive committee, and as a member of his local Dartmouth club. In addition, Phil was a regular at class reunions and mini-reunions, where we will miss his presence.
1918
On January 12, at the age of 88, LESLIE MORTON BROWN died in the Haverhill Manor Nursing Home in Massachusetts. He came to Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter Academy. In college he was a member of the Cosmos Club, now Alpha Tau Omega, on the cabinet of the Dartmouth Christian Association, and a director of Boys Work at Newton House.
Les served with the 301st Field Signal Battalion of the Sixth Army Corps in France during World War I. After the war, his life work was as a high school teacher of English. As a Mason he became a De Molay "Dad," he was a lay leader for the Gleasondale, Mass., Methodist Church, and he was a member of the American Legion. He also became an interpreter of sign language in the Church for the Deaf of St. Andrew's Silent Mission of Brookline.
Les was the only child of parents who were both deaf and mute, and he had a life-long interest in helping handicapped persons of all ages.
On January 2, WILLIAM ERSKINE SHELLMAN, age 88, died in Palatine, Ill. A graduate of New Trier High School, Bill was active in college in the camera club and on the track squad. For many years after graduation he was an assistant class agent. During World War I, Bill served in the Army Signal Corps in France. He worked with the Electrical Manufacturing Company for ten years and retired in 1966 from Hartford Fire Insurance Company of Chicago. He was a member of the Masons, the Eastern Star, the American Legion, and the Wilmette, Ill., Congregational Church. Bill is survived by his wife Gladys, daughter Bernice, and a brother and a sister; a son, Harland, predeceased him.
It is my sad duty to pass along word that my wife's uncle, HERMAN KOTZSCHMAR WMORE, 88, died on December 2, 1983, in Laguna Beach, Calif. Herman came to Dartmouth from Haverhill, Mass., and in school he was a member of DKE and Sphinx and played freshman and varsity football.
He was a pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I and at his death was one of only eight remaining members. During World War II he was one of Roosevelt's dollar-a-year men and was proud of a check for 681 he received for a year's work less taxes. His business career was as vice president of Robert Gair Company, a box board company in New York, N.Y., during which time he made his home in Pelham, N.Y.
He moved to Laguna Beach during the fifties and spent the last years of his life there.
He is survived by his wife Laura (Osterman), and by a daughter, Jean, of Laguna Beach. She is his daughter from his first marriage, which ended with the death of his wife Tillie (Fraser). Other survivors include Lola Fraser Proctor, his sister-in-law, of Laguna Beach.
Edmond T. Freeman '35
1920
CHARLES FRANK HILLS CRATHERN, 86, died on December 14, 1983, at his home in Mason, N.H. after a brief illness. Born in Braintree, Mass., he attended Classical High School in Worcester and was graduated from Worcester Academy in 1916. After graduating from college he attended Tuck School.
He was manager of the major electrical appliance department of Bernard, Sumner and Putnam Stores of Worcester. He was a U.S. Army infantry veteran of World War I and was a U.S.. Army Air Force veteran of World War II; he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He served for 20 years as town clerk and 28 as town treasurer in Mason. He was also on the Mason Bicentennial Committee and served in the police and fire departments for several years. He was president of the Monadnock Region Association, was a member of the Bethel Souhegan Lodge 24, F&AM, of New Ipswich. He was a former member of the Worcester Rotary Club, a member of the Retired Association and the Reserve Officers Association, a past commander of VFW Post 4268 of Milford, and a deacon of the Mason Congregational Church. He is survived by his wife Elsa; a son, Charles III; a daughter; many grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held in the Mason Congregational Church, and military graveside services were held in the Prospect Hill Cemetery.
1921
WILLIAM HENRY OWEN JR., 85, died at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., from a heart attack in August of 1983. Bill came to Dartmouth from Troy, N. Y., his birthplace. In college he was a member of SAE.
After graduation he settled in Boston, attended Boston University, and joined the prestigious investment banking firm of Lee Higginson and Company. The firm soon moved him to New York, where he became a vice president and comptroller. In 1955, he was made a director and member of the board.
In the early sixties, he retired and moved to Boca Raton, Fla., but he still remained a director and consultant to Lee Higginson.
By 1965 he retired from active business and continued to live in Boca Raton. His closest friend was his college roommate, Howard Anger, who informed us that he left no descendants. His wife died in 1969.
EDWARD SIMPSON PRICE, 83, died August 25, 1983, while visiting in California. The cause of his death is unknown. Ned's home was in Chicago. He had retired from the practice of law by 1971.
Ned came to Dartmouth from Evanston. His fraternities were Sigma Chi and Phi Delta Epsilon. His undergraduate activities were numerous. He. was editor-in-chief, of TheDartmouth, board editor of Jack-o-Lantern, member of Palaeopitus, member of the Arts, on the board of the Aegis, and active in several other organizations for undergraduates.
Obtaining a degree from Northwestern University Law School in 1924, he still found time to be class treasurer from 1921 to 1926; he was also class agent from 1941 to 1946 and vice president of the Chicago Alumni Association.
Ned was a member of the American, Illinois, and Chicago bar associations. He was a partner in the law firm of Notz, Craven and Price.
,In 1936, he married Pemala Harrison, a Smith graduate. There were no children. Pem survives him.
THOMAS WELDON STALEY, 85, died November 10,1983, in Kansas City, Mo., after a short illness. As one of the most admired and respected members of our class, Tom was devoted to Dartmouth all his life. He was an active class treasurer from 1971 to 1976. His fraternity was Kappa Sigma.
Tom spent his career in the milling business. The Staley Milling Company was known throughout the U.S. as manufacturers of animal and poultry feeds, and also of cornmeal and corn grits for human consumption. He joined his father in this business after obtaining his M.B.A. from Tuck in 1922. In 1958, Tom merged Staley with Spencer-Kellogg Company, which became the largest firm of its kind in the country. He remained president of the company until 1961, when it became a division of Textron. After this merger, Tom established the Staley Investment Company, which became his main business activity until his recent retirement.
He was a director of many Kansas City organizations and a member of several clubs, which will be reported in the "Smoker." He is survived by his daughter, Nancy Hatfield, whose charm did so very much for our 60th reunion.
1922
WALTER JAY ASHENBACH JR., 84, highly acclaimed teacher-coach, died on January 7 in a Florida nursing home after an illness of some years. Previously he had lived in Longboat Key.
In college Walt was a well-known classmate, a competent student, and an athletic enthusiast. He played football and baseball, and he was a member of Sigma Chi. In later years he was also a member of Kappa Phi Kappa.
After graduating he began his career at Plymouth (N.H.) High School, transferred to South Orange (N.J.), and then started his two-score years at New Trier High School, Winnetka, Ill. He also began working for hismaster's degree in education at Harvard in 1923, and he received the degree from Northwestern in 1931. He retired from New Trier in 1966.
As New Trier's football coach, Walt had outstanding success with community admiration. His teams won many state championships and he developed innumerable boys who achieved distinction in colleges throughout the country. He was the only Illinois high school football coach named to the Illinois Football Coaches Hall of Fame. To perpetuate his memory Winnetka citizens established the Walter J. Ashenbach Scholarship to be awarded to outstanding New Trier students.
He was a loyal Dartmouth man, a class agent on the Alumni Fund, and a member of the Dartmouth Club. He was also a Rotarian, an Episcopalian, and a member of the Ivy League Club.
Walt and Anne Porter were married 60 years ago in Brookline, Mass. She, their daughter, Shirley Hasbarger of Champaign, Ill., and six grandchildren are his survivors. The class joins them in bereavement, and gratefully acknowledges the love and devotion Anne gave our classmate during the difficulties of his long illness.
SAMUEL MYRON JACOBS died June 20, 1983. In recent years he had lived in Palm Beach, Fla.
He was born in 1901 in Sudbury, Ontario. After graduating from Polytechnic Preparatory School in Brooklyn, N.Y., he worked some months in his father's New York office before he came to Dartmouth in March 1919, at the beginning of third-term freshman year. He left Hanover during the following year.
Before his retirement to Palm Beach he was in the real estate business in New York City. He was a member of the New York Athletic Club.
His wife Sylvia was interested in painting and sculpture, and he and she were patrons of the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach.
He retained an interest in Dartmouth throughout his years, and though he paid the full 60th reunion tax, he earnestly regretted his inability to attend.
RALPH BREWSTER MAREAN JR., former telephone executive, died November 27, 1983. Since retirement from New Jersey Bell Telephone Company in 1963, he had lived in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Brews was born in Washington, D.C., in 1900 and prepared for college at its Central High School. He was a highly regarded, amicable. classmate, a letter-winner on the gymnastic team, and a member of Delta Tau Delta.
In May 1923 he started working with Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania. Four years later the New Jersey area became a separate company, New Jersey Bell, and Brews transferred to it. There he had a 36-year career in traffic, the essential call-processing department of a telephone company. About 1940 he was district traffic superintendent for the Paterson area, and after some years of experience in similarly responsible positions he was promoted to general headquarters in Newark. Before retirement he was senior supervisor of traffic facilities for New Jersey.
Both before and after retirement, Brews was an active participant in the Telephone Pioneers, a country-wide organization of senior telephone people dedicated to assisting the disadvantaged.
He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of the Gold Coast in Fort Lauderdale. He never lost interest in the welfare of the College. His daughter, Judith Green of Fort Lauderdale, sending a memorial gift to the Alumni Fund, wrote: "I know he was always interested in news about Dartmouth. I am very grateful we had him with us so long, and that he was able to attend his 60th reunion in 1982."
Brews and Eleanor Bothwell were married in June 1926. She, sadly, passed away in 1962. His survivors are Judith, a grandson, and a granddaughter. Twenty-two is likewise grateful to have had Brews with us so long.
1924
JOSEPH MORTIMER MOYES died December 30, 1983, at Bon Secours Hospital in Methuen, Mass. He was not only a lifelong resident of Lawrence, but he spent his entire life living in the same house. Joe belonged to Theta Chi as an undergraduate.
From 1927 to 1947, Joe was associated with Silver Burdett Company and subsequently until his retirement in 1969 was New England sales manager for D. C. Heath and Company. He thus spent his entire working career with publishers of school and college textbooks. He had served as president of the New England Educational Salesmen's Association and also as president of the New England chapter of Professional Bookmen of America.
Joe served as an assistant class agent for many years and was a loyal alumnus. In addition to his wife Winifred, he leaves a son, William Charles Moyes, of the class of 1970, three daughters, and four grandchildren.
1925
RAYMOND VAIL GUERNSEY, known to us as "Jamer," died suddenly on December 18, 1983, in Lorida, Fla., of a heart attack at age 81. After leaving college he was with Pan American Airways until 1942, when he was inducted into the Air Corps, where he served with the rank of captain, flying with the Air Transport Command throughout the war. He held the American, African, European, and Asiatic Zone ribbons.
After the war he became president of Guernsey Realty Company Inc., which he built into a multicorporate real estate development complex in Florida, with his office based in Florida Shores. He was married to Mary Price in 1928. They had no children. After her death in 1944, he married Marie Carpenter Anderson, widow of A. N. "Pinky" Anderson '25. He traveled widely and also indulged in bridge and golf. His son-inlaw, Bob Pierce '53, reports that Jamer shot an 85 on the golf course the day before he died. He was a regular contributor to the Alumni Fund, attended most of the 1925 reunions, and was looking forward to joining the class for the 60th.
Besides his widow, he leaves a stepdaughter, Ann A. Pierce, wife of Bob, who is the son of Bob Pierce '25.
1926
SYLVESTER MCGINN of Forestdale, Mass., died on January 13 while visiting in Bradenton, Fla. He was born in North Attleboro, Mass., and was graduated from the high school there. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Glee Club and Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and was head usher for the Players. He took pre-medical courses at Dartmouth Medical School and went on to Harvard Medical School, earning his M.D. in 1929.
Syl specialized in cardiology, at one time being associated with Dr. Paul Dudley White, the well-known attending physician of President Eisenhower at the time of Ike's coronary seizure. He served on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital, was chief of medicine at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, Mass., and also for 35 years was on the staff at Cape Cod Hospital. He contributed many articles to the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Medicine.
He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the New England Medical Society, and the American Medical Society and was past president of the Boston Heart Association. During World War II he served in New Zealand as a commander in the U.S. Navy. He kept up his interest in Dartmouth with classmates and alumni in the Falmouth area.
He leaves his wife Janice (Barkley), a son, a daughter, five grandchildren, and a greatgrandchild.
EDWIN CUMMINGS PARKER died November 7, 1983, in Tucson, Ariz. He was born in Evanston, I11., and was graduated from Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass. He enjoyed his Dartmouth experience from 1922 to 1924 as an active, well-known classmate and a member of Chi Phi.
Ted was in the investment business in Chicago from 1928 until his retirement in 1976, having been with Glore and Forgan Company, Ames Emerich and Company, and as vice president with Blair and Company. He had been a trustee of Tabor Academy and the Clark Halladay Memorial Foundation and director of Davis Regulator Company. Since 1976 Ted had made his home in Tuscon, where he was a member of the local Dartmouth Alumni Association. He was a regular and a generous supporter of Dartmouth.
He is survived by his wife Anna (Parker) and by his twin sons by his former wife, Caryl Bloomington.
DONALD WALLACE ROBINSON died November 16, 1983, at the Goldenview Health Care Center in Meredith, N.H., after a long illness. He was born in Cranford, N.J., and was graduated from the high school there. At Dartmouth he was an active member of the class and Beta Theta Pi, and he won his letter on the tennis team.
For 25 years Don was editor, publisher, and owner of The American Press in New York City, a trade journal for the small-town newspaper business. He commuted from his home in New Jersey during this period, and in 1947 moved the publishing business to his farm in Stanton, N.J. After retiring he and his wife Margaret moved to New England first to Hampton Falls, N.H., and then to Wolfeboro, N.H., where they lived until his death.
Don was active in Wolfeboro affairs trustee of the First Congregational Church and publicity director for Huggins Hospital and the American Red Cross. He and Margie, who celebrated their 50th anniversary in 1982, operated from their home a side-line business of writing and selling features to small-town newspapers. Don also kept up a keen interest in Dartmouth and class matters.
He is survived by his wife, his son Jerome '59, five grandchildren, and a sister.
1928
ERNEST SLEDDON BESSETTE of Swampscott, Mass., died November 11, 1983, of cardiac arrest in the Salem Hospital, where he had been since he suffered a stroke in July. He had his first stroke a year ago.
Ernie came to Dartmouth from North Attleboro, Mass., via Moses Brown School. At Dartmouth he played tackle on the freshman football team and for four years won the College light heavyweight boxing championship. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sphinx, and Green Key. After graduation he was a steel salesman for the Joseph T. Ryerson and Son Company in Cambridge for nine years. He left to become a partner and treasurer of the B. D. Brooks Company Inc. of Boston, dealers in metal-working machinery; he retired from the firm ten years ago. Ernie and Erwina "Wink" Knight were married in June 1938, and they joined us on our tenth reunion as part of their honeymoon. Ernie was a special person in the eyes of all who knew him warm, gentle, outgoing, and devoted to his family and friends. Survivors include Wink, two daughters, two sons, and five granddaughters.
In September 1924, a well-mannered, lowkey guy from La Jolla arrived in Hanover along with dozens of other similar characters. When he left, just about everybody there knew JOHN CLARKE ROSE.
Ted Geisel '25 (Dr. Seuss to you) was editor of the then-famous Jack-o-Lantern, and before Jack unpacked he was on his way to becoming the Jack-o's most hilarious cartoonist. Jack had a sense of humor as infectious as a virus: sorta very high class raucous. Ted recently commented, "Jack was the most talented artist I have ever known. He taught me 90 percent of all I know about drawing."
(Because of space limitations for obituaries, many details of Jack's fascinating life will be included in the 1928 notes. Jack's consuming interest in his last years was preserving Dartmouth traditions. I am confident he would prefer my devoting the remaining space here to that subject.)
Jack produced 25 woodcuts for the 1926 Aegis. Each depicts one or more Indians in a delightfully accurate introduction to the following section. Jack not only drew Indians. He was very interested in their tribes. And in the seventies he simply wouldn't believe they resented being depicted as a dignified symbol for Dartmouth. All his many friends agreed. He wrote many letters all in longhand and soon became the distribution point for correspondence between nearly 100 names. We called it the Rose Network. He invented the acronym FADDIS, For A Dignified Dartmouth Indian Symbol. And to put the icing on all this, he suggested his fellow La Jollian, Dr. John Steel '54, who favored the return of the Indian, as an opposition candidate for trustee. When John was elected two-to.-one, Jack wrote, "This proves conclusively that alumni young and old will never believe that our Indian is demeaning."
During this period we spent Christmas in Laguna Beach, and always met with Jack for lunch. In 1980 I tried to reach Jack to arrange our usual lunch. On Christmas morning Jack's phone was answered by John Steel. He and Jack's sister had just discovered Jack on his kitchen floor. His sister cried, "He's dead!" Jack stirred and murmured, "The hell I am."
Two days before Christmas 1983, others found Jack apparently dead in his nursing home. This time he was.
Jack Herpel '28
JAMES WESLEY SMITH of Tamarac, Fla., died December 15, 1983, of a ruptured aneurysm.
Wes was born in 1904 in Philadelphia and attended West Philadelphia High School and the Perkiomen School. At Dartmouth he was the head cheerleader, a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Sphinx, and a member of the swimming and gym squads.
After graduation he worked as a salesman of grocery products for Standard Brands and later becarrfe merchandising superintendent for the Reading, Pa., area. During World War II, Wes was an investigator for the U.S. Civil Service Commission, an interesting job which was interrupted by a year's service in the Army.
At the end of the war he transferred to the Veterans Administration, where he became a training specialist in the special rehabilitation procedures unit in Philadelphia. He worked with paraplegics, amputees, and veterans with orthopedic handicaps. After 23 years of service dedicated to helping others, Wes had a heart attack and had to retire. He and Grace moved to Hollywood, Fla., in 1968.
Wes and Grace were married in Philadelphia in 1947, having been brought together by the common interest of work in their church. He liked to point out that Grace's maiden name was Smith and that his mother's maiden name was also Smith.
Wes served as an elder and Sunday School Teacher of the Bible Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and as a director of the Faith Theological Seminary in Elkins Park, Pa.
He is survived by Grace.
1929
GILBERT LAWRENCE GRIFFIN died of cancer on December 25, 1983, in Old Greenwich, Conn.
Gil came to Dartmouth from Memorial High School in Pelham, N.Y. He belonged to Sigma Chi fraternity and majored in sociology. He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of New York and an assistant class agent.
He spent most of his business career in New York with American Chain and Cable Company. He was an enthusiastic sailor and belonged to the Cruising Club of America and the Storm Trysail Club. He leaves his wife Savilla. His brother was W. J. Griffin '25.
EDWARD KING How died at his home in Severna Park, Md., on Decemer 9, 1983, of a heart attack.
Ed came to us from LaPorte, Ind., by way of Lake Forest Academy. He belonged to Kappa Sigma fraternity and majored in economics.
From 1929 until he retired in 1964 he was with General Electric Company, working in Schenectady, Bridgeport, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, and York, Pa. He worked until 1969 for Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. He was an active member of Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church in Severna Park until his death.
He leaves his wife Katherine, three children, and a brother, Burton '17.
1930
HAROLD ELLSWORTH BOOMA died December 8, 1983, at age 75, following a year-long battle with cancer. Hal was predeceased by his twin brother, Ronald C., also '30, who died May 8, 1977. He is survived by his wife Dot, sons Scott C. '59 and Richard A. '63, and four grandsons, to whom the class extends profound sympathy in their loss.
Scott, his wife Moonyeen, and John F. Fitzgerald, an old family friend, have kindly prepared the following summary of Hal's career and interests.
"While at Dartmouth, Hal was recognized as one of the great ends of Dartmouth football. In his senior year he was the only representative from Hanover on the all-East team in the post-season East-West Shriners game. He also played varsity hockey and baseball and was captain of the hockey team in his senior year. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Green Key, Sphinx, and Palaeopitus. In 1930 he was awarded the Morrill Allen Gallagher Memorial Scholarship.
"After graduation, Hal returned to Dartmouth as an assistant football coach under Jack Cannell. Two years later he joined the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, where he remained until retiring as executive vice president and director in 1972.
"The following year, Hal and his wife Dot moved from Marblehead to Osterville on Cape Cod. In retirement Hal continued his life-long interests in outdoor activities. These included yearly hunting trips to the College Grant, shooting at the Falmouth Skeet Club, skiing, gardening, and attending Dartmouth athletic events. But it was golf that was Hal's main interest, both before and after retirement. After moving to Cape Cod he joined the Oyster Harbor Country Club, serving as an officer of the club for several years and practicing or playing almost daily. He was also an officer in the New England Seniors Golf Association and played in many seniors tournaments."
We will miss Hal's deep interest in the College and the class and his attendance at future gatherings.
We have just learned that FREDERICK HENRY SCHMIDT died "about two years ago." Ave Raube found out the news upon trying to reach Fred. Fred came to Dartmouth from Wilmette, Ill., and New Trier High School. He was a member of Psi Upsilon, Palaeopitus, Green Key, and Casque and Gauntlet. He played guard on our undefeated freshman basketball team and subsequently was a three-year letterman in basketball. The 1930 Aegis commented that "Fred Schmidt and Ben Burch '32 were the most consistently dependable members of the Green outfit."
From Hanover Fred went on to Northwestern University Law School, where he took an LL.B. degree, and he did additional studies at Kent College of Law. In 1933 he established a law practice in Chicago, and in 1936 he married the former Frances McConnell (an alumna of Smith College and the University of Illinois).
Since then there has been a dearth of information about Fred. For his last seven years he had lived with his son in Bonita, Calif., much of the time in poor health. His wife predeceased him by about a year. He is survived by two daughters and the son, Fred W., who was a member of the 1964 U.S. Olympic swimming team. The class extends its belated sympathy to members of the family.
1931
The College lost one of its most devoted supporters with the death of WALTER DONALD DOUGLAS II on November 12, 1983, at his home in Newport Beach, Calif. He had been in failing health and passed away in his sleep.
As all who have been associated with 1931's Alumni Fund campaigns know, Walt was consistently one of the most generous supporters of both annual and special fundraising efforts. He served as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Southern California from 1933 to 1935, as its secretary from 1935 to 1942, as a member of the Aumni Council for two terms 1941-43 and 1947-49, and as president of the Dartmouth Club of Orange County, Calif., from 1966 to 1968. He was also a member of the major gifts committee for the Third Century Fund in 1967.
Walt's commitment in terms of financial support and service to charitable institutions in his home area was also outstanding. He was a great benefactor of the Children's Hospital of Orange County and president of its board for many years; a wing of the hospital is named for him. He also served on the board of a local day school and as a volunteer school librarian, among other similar activities.
His successful business career included several posts as a financial officer or owner of a number of retail and wholesale distribution and manufacturing concerns. He once said his job changes "were dictated by a desire to stay with relatively small concerns and move along when they became 'big business.' "
He served as a captain in the Naval Reserve in World War II, doing cruiser duty throughout the South Pacific and up to Iwo Jima. He continued with the Naval Reserve throughout his life and was named an honorary rear admiral shortly before his death. He was buried at sea.
Walt is survived by his wife, Mary Elaine, and by four daughters, two sons, and ten grandchildren.
ARTHUR SUMNER LULL died on December 23, 1983, in Oakland, Calif., after a brief illness. He had made Oakland his home following his retirement from Crocker National Bank in 1974.
A memorial service was held for Jim on December;, 23 at St. Theresa's Church, Oakland. In attendance were Carl Ward '32; Dave Smith '35, who had been Jim's best man; and Len Vines '39.
Jim prepared at Andover and as an undergraduate majored in business administration at the Tuck School. He spent his junior year in France, as one of the first Dartmouth students to have a year abroad. A Texan, he went to California after graduation and worked successively for the American Trust Company and the Wells Fargo and Crocker National banks, in the international division of each. He was an acknowledged expert in foreign trade.
In World War II, he was a first lieutenant in the Army's language school, teaching French.
Joan Hardy and Jim were married in 1950, and they had three children. Following Jim's retirement, during which until recently he had excellent health, they enjoyed travel, particularly a summer spent in France in 1982, visiting many of the places Jim had seen during his undergraduate year.
Jim maintained an active interest in Dartmouth affairs, working for the Alumni Fund and as a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and of the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California.
His late father, Henry Morris Lull, was a member of the class of 1897 and also preceded Jim at Andover.
1933
JOHN TREVETT ALLEN SR. died on October 1, 1983, in Danville, Ill., after a brief illness. He is survived by his wife Rose, two sons, a daughter, and seven grandchildren. Danville was the city of his birth, of his marriage to Rose, and, almost entirely, of his residence and the site of his law practice.
John entered Dartmouth from the Swavely School of Manassas, Virgin Islands. At Dartmouth, he was a member of the Glee Club and of Delta Tau Delta. He left Dartmouth before graduation and continued his education at the University of Illinois, receiving his B.A. in 1934 and his LL.B. in 1935. After graduation, he joined a law firm in Chicago, staying there for five years. He then formed a partnership with his father, and later his brother, back in Danville, and, finally, practiced alone until his death.
During John's career, he served as city attorney from 1947 to 1950 and was state's attorney and an assistant attorney general for Illinois. He was a member of national, state, and county bar associations, and president of the last in 1958. During World War II he was a lieutenant, a legal officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
John was active in many civic associations and past president of the Big Brothers Association, the Eastern Illinois Mental Health Clinic, and the American Business Club. He represented the fourth of five generations of lawyers in the Allen family, the first being Samuel Clesson Allen, lawyer and clergyman, Dartmouth class of 1794.
JOHN BOWMAN died December 10, 1983, in Bradenton, Fla. following surgery required by heart and lung ailments. He was retired from business and lived in Bradenton in the winter, in Littleton, N.H., in the summer.
Jack came to Dartmouth from Bridgeport, Conn., High School. He attended Dartmouth only during freshman year, but subsequently received his M.A. from St. Magdelene College, Oxford University, England, in 1935.
His business career was varied freelance correspondent in the Far East; accounting positions with Singer Company and Remington Rand in Bridgeport; a period of war service with the Field Artillery in the ETO during World War II; and back to accounting in Bridgeport. Finally, he became owner and manager of three radio stations in the Berlin and Littleton, N.H., areas. He was active in civic affairs in Littleton and a trustee of the Littleton Hospital Association.
Jack is survived by his wife Elizabeth and their daughter Barbara.
1934
It was apparently not reported here earlier, but EDGAR FRANKLIN BITNER JR. died some years ago. A native of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., Ned came to Hanover from Mercersburg Academy, where baseball and swimming were his sports. He was a roommate of Gene Orsenigo in Hitchcock before transferring and graduating from Babson Institute. He was with the Army Engineers during 1942-43.
ROBERT MIDDLEBROOK BOGUE died on August 14,1983, after a long illness. Bob came to Hanover from Lynbrook, N.Y., High School. He was one of the Dartmouth Medical School majors to graduate with the class of 1934 and was a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity. He received his M.D. from New York University College of Medicine in 1937, serving his internship at Brooklyn Hospital and practicing for three years in Lynbrook prior to military service with the 117 th Infantry, 30th Division. He returned to Lynbrook and practiced general medicine there until 1971, when ill health forced his retirement. He made his retirement home in Montauk, moving to Rochester in 1982 to be nearer his children. He is survived by his wife Charlotte and by a son Charles and a daughter Sarah.
WILLIAM EDWIN RICHARDSON died some time ago, we have recently learned. Will came from West Newton, Mass., and initially lived in New Hampshire dorm. He was a member of Chi Phi and was graduated as a sociology major. He was active before the war in marketing a new soap formula for mechanics. He was married and had a child and was living in Springfield. The last address we had for Will was Auburndale, Mass.
We have learned that JOHN THOMAS CRONIN CAVANAUGH died August 13, 1983, in New Britain, Conn. He had had a heart problem for some time, but thanks to by-pass surgery in 1978 had been active in community affairs and his favorite sport, golf, until just before his last month's illness.
Jack came to Dartmouth from Stamford High, where his activities included baseball, hockey, debating, and the orchestra. At Hanover he roomed in New Hampshire dorm with fellow townsman Nick Nanos, and he was known for his outgoing exuberance. After he left Dartmouth, Jack joined Prudential for a while until Machlett Laboratories, a division of Raytheon, offered him a career at their Springfield, Conn., plant. When he retired, Jack was the production control manager.
He is survived by his wife Olga and daughter Jan, living now in Florida; by his son John, daughter Eleanor, and four grandchildren, all in Connecticut; and by three brothers and a sister.
1937
SIDNEY LANSBURGH JR. died November 14, 1983, in Baltimore, Md. He suffered from cancer for a number of years but remained active until two weeks before his death. His illness was not apparent except to those with whom he shared the knowledge.
Sid came to Dartmouth from the Park School in Baltimore. He majored in economics, received his "D" as captain of the lacrosse team, and was graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School in 1939. Sid served in the Navy during World War II, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.
The son of Sidney Lansburgh and grandson of Jacob Epstein, well-known Baltimore merchants and philanthropists, Sid dedicated his life to charitable causes. He served as a member of the board of the Federal City Council of Washington, D.C.; chairman of the board of overseers of Dartmouth Medical School; member of the board of the United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Washington; president of the Associated Jewish Charities and Welfare Fund of Baltimore; commissioner of the Maryland State Hospital Commission of Baltimore; and president of the Park School, the Peabody Institute, and Sinai Hospital, all in Baltimore.
His business activities, other than president of Raleigh Stores Corporation, a Washington-based chain of 12 men's and women's apparel stores, included president and chairman of the board of American General Corporation, a closely-held family investment company, and a member of the board of the Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust and the Mercantile Bankshares Corporation, all of Baltimore.
There were four eulogies given at the services, one by former Dean Strickler of the Dartmouth Medical School, and another by his lifelong friend and roommate, Judge Frank Kaufman '37.
Sid is survived by his wife Natalie; a son, Sidney III; a daughter, Margaret; two stepchildren; a sister, Elizabeth; and two brothers, Richard '43 and Robert.
HENRY FREDERICK LENNING (ne Henry Sutro Esberg) died October 19,1983, in Palm Beach, Fla.
While at Dartmouth he majored in art history and was involved with both the Players and the German Club.
He received an M. A. at NYU and his Ph.D. from the University of Paris and was a retired professor of art at the University of Sorbonne in Paris. In 1951 he published a book entitled The Art Nouveau, which was reviewed in this magazine in 1952. He was a member of the Italian Club and the French Club in Palm Beach.
He notified the College in 1966 that he was divorced. During the war he served at some time with the Merchant Marine.
He leaves a daughter Anne of New Zealand, two grandchildren, and a niece, Florence FlusSer, of New York.
JAMES OLIVER SAGE died of a cerebral hemorrhage on October 15, 1983, in Torrance, Calif.
Because of his father's death and the economics of the time, Jim was in Hanover for his freshman year only, but pride in Dartmouth continued throughout his life.
He began his career in advertising with Sterling Drug Company and later enjoyed a long association with Compton Advertising in both New York and Los Angeles before going into business for himself.
Jim was an ardent sailor and his wife, the former Nancy Warner, along with their two daughters, shared his love of the sea on both coasts.
After Nancy's death in 1964, Jim married Bette Jeanne Cannon in 1966. Her late husband Morris had been Jim's friend and client. Through Jim's encouragement, his stepson Kim Cannon entered Dartmouth and graduated with the class of 1970. Recently Jim visited Kim and his wife in Big Horn, Wyo., where they reside.
A man of exceedingly good wit and humor, he will be missed by all those fortunate to have known him.
He is survived by his wife Bette Jeanne, two daughters, his sons Kim and Stan Cannon, a brother, and five grandchildren. We are indebted to Bette Jeanne for this obituary.
THOMAS RICHARD WATSON died July 25, 1983, in Hanover of lung cancer which had developed about a year before.
Dick came to Dartmouth from Portsmouth, N.H., High School. He was graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1939 and the Columbia University School of Physicians and Surgeons in 1941.
He served his internship at Mary Hitchcock, then spent four years in the Navy as a lieutenant commander in the Medical Corps. He returned to serve his residency at Mary Hitchcock and the VA Hospital in White River Junction. He was on the staff of the Rutland, Mass., VA hospital for five years. Dick came back to Hanover in 1953 to serve at the Hitchcock Clinic until early retirement in 1982.
He was a member of a research team in 1959 that introduced a radical new light anesthesia technique being used today, with nitrous oxide administered at carefully controlled levels in combination with muscle relaxants.
Ellenor wrote that he was a dedicated doctor who never refused a patient and a devoted husband and father. Although he eagerly followed the news of his classmates, he had a shyness about him that kept him on the sidelines during reunions.
He was a member of several medical societies, Sigma Nu fraternity, and the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley.
Dick leaves his wife Ellenor, two sons, including Thomas III '67, a daughter, and two grandchildren.
1938
GEORGE STUART ALLBRIGHT died on September 6, 1982, after a long illness at Lisbon, N.H. He was 67. Born in Quincy, Mass., he attended Quincy High School and came to Dartmouth from Andover Academy.
While at Dartmouth he was a member of Kappa Sigma and was commodore of the Dartmouth Corinthian Yacht Club; He was also president of the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association and chairman of the McMillan Cup Committee. He majored in zoology.
Stu attended Field Artillery Officers Training at Fort Sill, Okla., and was discharged in 1946 after seeing service in Okinawa.
He spent most of his years as a salesman selling office, school, and stationery supplies, covering New Hampshire, Vermont, and upper New York state. For ten years prior to his retirement in 1975, Stu was manager of the bookstore at Vermont College in Montpelier, Vt.
He is survived by his wife Carolyn (Kittredge), a son Jeffrey, a daughter Meredith, and two granddaughters.
WILLIAM JAMES WIGGINS, of Walloon, Mich., died of a heart attack on May 2, 1982, while in Tampa, Fla. He was 67.
A native of Detroit, Mich., Bill came to Dartmouth from Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Ill. Upon graduation from Dartmouth, with a major in English, Bill became part owner of the Kinsel-Wiggins Agency, a general insurance company located in Birmingham, Mich. He was associated with the agency until his death.
Bill was actively involved with the Birmingham Rotary Club and the Detroit Athletic Club and served as a board member of the Bloomfield Hills Vaughn PTO. He served as president of St. Anne's Mead Retirement Home, after several years as a member of its board of trustees.
Bill is survived by his wife Helen (Kinsel); a daughter, Marilyn Giles; and two sons, William J. III and Christopher.
1939
CHARLES CLINTON GOODRICH 11, 67, died at his home in Avon, Conn., on December 24, 1983. "Bud" entered college from Tabor Academy, where he played football and was a member of the crew in his junior and senior years and in his senior year played hockey, was vice president of the student council, and was president of his class. At Dartmouth he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Bud was a marketing engineer with United Aircraft Corporation, Pratt and Whitney division, from which he retired a few years ago.
He is survived by his wife, Bettie Gilman Goodrich, whom he married in 1940, and by five children Charles III of West Hartford; Reginald of Chester, Vt.; Tina of Portland, Maine; John of Las Vegas, Nev.; and Mark of Avon, Conn. Also surviving are six grandchildren.
JOHN THOMPSON MAFFETT, 66, died on December 10, 1983, in New Rochelle Hospital shortly after suffering a ruptured aortic aneurysm.
Jack entered Dartmouth with the class Of 1939 from the Webb School in California, where he won scholarship awards in his sophomore and senior years and played baseball in his senior year. He suffered from rheumatoid arthritis in college, which necessitated his losing an academic year. He was graduated with the class of 1940 as salutatorian. He was a Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, a member of Zeta Alpha Phi, and chairman of the Prokofieff Society. Because of his illness Jack could not be a member of the armed forces during World War II, but from 1942 to 1949 he worked with the Electric Boat Company at Bayonne, N.J., doing designing and drafting work on PT boats.
Following the war he was co-founder with his brother Robert of Maffett Brothers and of Charter Machine Company in Metuchen, N.J., where he resided. Jack was vice president of the former and secretary-treasurer of the latter until his death. A lifelong devotee of music, Jack earned a master of music degree from the University of Arizona in 1942. He regularly attended Metropolitan Opera, New Jersey Opera, and Philharmonic Symphony of Westchester productions, and he was a generous supporter of those groups. He leaves a sister, Rhoda Clarke, of 15 Witherbee Avenue, Pelham Manor, N.Y., with whom he resided the last few years of his life.
RALPH CLARENCE WRIGHT, 68, of New Britain, Conn., died at his home on December 29, 1983, after a brief illness. Ralph was a graduate of Metuchen (N.J.) High School, where he played basketball and golf and was a fouryear member of the orchestra. At Dartmouth he was a member of the varsity golf team and Zeta Psi fraternity. He earned his M.D. degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia in 1943, then served two and a half years in the Pacific Theater as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II.
Following the war, he interned at Johns Hopkins Hospital and spent three and a half years in a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as chief of obstetrics and gynecology at New Britain General Hospital from 1963 to 1970 and as associate chief from 1970 to 1978. In addition, he was a clinical associate at the UCONN Medical School in 1970-71 and an associate clinical professor in 1977. Author and co-author of many articles, he gained nationwide attention in 1959 when he proposed in the American Journal of Obstetrics that a routine cesarean section be performed for all breach presentation babies. Though controversial at the time, the procedure he advocated is now a matter of practice. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the American Board of Medical Examiners and a member of numerous medical organizations. He was also a member of the Saturnites literary club and moderator and a deacon of First Church of Christ Congregational. An ardent golfer, he was a member of Shuttle Meadow Country Club and a club champion. He was a former junior state amateur champion in New Jersey.
The president of the New Britain Hospital said of Ralph's passing, "In Dr. Wright the hospital has lost one of our most skilled physicians and surgeons, and we will feel the loss deeply. But our sense of loss will be even greater for his compassion, gentleness, and dedication to his patients and to the community."
He is survived by his wife Bettie and by a son Robert and a daughter, Roxanne Wright Friedman.
1941
WILLIAM FERGUSON FLANDERS died of a heart attack on October 31, 1983, at his home in Alexandria, Va. Bill had retired in 1980 as an assistant vice president of First Virginia Bank. He had been with First Virginia and one of its predecessors, Mt. Vernon Bank and Trust, for more than 20 years.
A native of Concord, N.H., he came to Dartmouth from Holderness Prep. He entered the Marine Corps upon graduation and was serving as a first lieutenant when he left active duty in 1946. He worked as a salesman with the Page Belting Company in Concord until 1950 and then was a bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston for about five years before going to the Washington, D.C., area in 1956.
He was a trustee of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Annandale, Va. Bill leaves his wife, Henrietta (Thomson) Flanders, a son, two daughters, and three grandchildren.
1943
LEWIS PATTEE JOHNSON died December 29, 1983, at his home in Weekapaug, R.I., after a brief illness.
"Bud" had moved to Rhode Island in 1981 and established a real estate appraising company after spending 27 years in the real estate and insurance business in Pittsfield, Mass.
Bud came to Dartmouth from Holderness Academy and graduated in 1946. He served three and a half years in the U.S. Army Air Corps, mostly in England, during World War II.
A native of West Hartford, Conn., and son of Harold T. Johnson '14, Bud had been a director of the Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents, president of the Pittsfield Association of Independent Insurance Agents, a director of the Union Federal Savings and Loan Association in Pittsfield, and president of the Berkshire County, Mass., Dartmouth Alumni Club.
Also, he was a director of the Berkshire Mental Health Association, the Berkshire County Home for Aged Women, and the Girls Club. He had been a vice president of the Pittsfield Country Club and a deacon of the Congregational Church.
He leaves his wife Harriet; two daughters, Helen J. Noland of Newport News, Va.; and Frances Terwilliger of North Palm Beach, Fla.; a son, Lewis E. Johnson of Perugia, Italy; a sister; and six grandchildren.
1945
WARREN PETER SCHLEICHER died December 21, 1983, in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Buffalo, N.Y. He had been general manager of the Buffalo Club for nine and a half years, and prior to that was manager of the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, Fla. He was a member of the Conferie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs, the Club Managers of America, and the Club Managers of Western New York.
After serving in the Marines during World War II, he returned to Dartmouth where he was a member of KKK fraternity and the Dragon Society. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1949 and joined Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation as an associate in their container sales division.
Warren is survived by his wife Gloria, a daughter Carol, a son Warren G., his brother John '40, and nephew Mark '69. His. classmates extend their sympathy to members of his family.
1950
ROBERT GEORGE GRIFFITH died in Brookfield, Wis., of unknown causes on February 26, 1983.
After graduating from high school in Wauwatosa, Wis., Bob attended Northwestern Military and Naval Academy for a year. He then entered the U.S. Army and participated in the drive across France and into Germany as an infantry corporal. He won three battle stars and a purple heart.
At Dartmouth Bob majored in engineering and was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma. He was also an active member of the DOC.
Bob married Margaret Ford in Fargo, N.D., in 1955. He is survived by a daughter, Mary E. Griffith.
On February 4, 1983, FRANCIS ALAN LIVINGSTONE succumbed to cancer after a long illness.
Al arrived in Hanover from Maiden, Mass., after 30 months in the U.S. Navy as an aviation cadet. At Dartmouth he majored in chemistry and was a member of Sigma Chi.
Soon after graduating, Al joined Fairbanks, Morse, and Company as a field engineer specializing in pumps and electrical machinery. Within a few years he shifted his activities to sales and by 1965 had moved to Kansas City as national sales manager for Colt Industries, the pump division of Fairbanks, Morse. In 1970 A1 joined the Pacific Pumping Company and became vice president of sales; at that time he moved to California and settled down in Huntington Beach.
A1 relaxed by playing tennis and sailing. A registered professional mechanical engineer, he was a member of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
In 1950 Al married Mary Jane Greene of Tarrytown, N.Y., who survives him. They had three daughters Gail, Anne, and Beth.
1951
BURGESS CLINTON TAYLOR JR. died suddenly on December 4, 1983, of a heart attack at age 53. Burge lived in West Acton, Mass. He was active in the Lions Club and was an enthusiastic philatelist.
In college, Burge was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and was active in the DCAC. After graduation from Dartmouth and the Tuck School, Burge joined Western Electric. In 1960, he moved to the Polaroid Corporation, where he was employed up to his death.
He is survived by his wife Marjorie (Hughes); four sons ; Craig, Mark, David, and Douglas; two grandchildren Lindsey and Scott; his mother, Inez Taylor, widow of the late B. Clinton Taylor '25; and a sister, Jean Donovan.
Burge was an outstanding family man and spent many years encouraging all of his sons in hockey during their younger years. He was well liked by his neighbors, friends, and coworkers. He was a quiet man with a dry sense of humor.
He will be missed by all.
1952
JOHN WILLIAM NEWEY died of cancer at his home in Littleton, Colo., in June 1983. We were the best of friends from 1939 through endless afternoons of football and hockey, at Boy Scout camp, in high school, as Dartmouth roommates and fraternity brothers for four years, and since. John was such a fine man, so much a part of me, and he leaves so many good memories.
After the army and Korea, John met Nicole Desmacieres on his way to Europe, and they were married in Lille, France, in 1956. Three of their four children Jacques, Nicholas, and Sophie live in or near Littleton, and John and Nicole attended their daughter Natalie's graduation from Pratt Institute in New York shortly before his death.
John earned an M.B.A. at Northwestern, and worked in the financial area in Chicago, with International Harvester and Arthur Young and Company. John and Nicole moved to Denver in 1970. There he was one of the founders of a firm leasing heavy equipment to municipalities. He served on the boards of the Littleton Housing Authority, Arapahoe Community College, and Jefferson Hall.
John had a delightful, dry sense of humor. He was resilient, imaginative, and brave. Much of the best of Dartmouth is friendship. John and I had the best of that.
Peter Zischke '52
1955
The class has just been informed of the death of PHILIP GAGE CAMP of Norwich, Conn., who died of a heart attack while playing tennis on July 17, 1982.
Phil entered Dartmouth with the class of '55, left college for a period of time, and returned for the years 1954 to 1956.
After serving in the Army, he entered the family insurance business and helped build this firm into one of the largest in southeastern Connecticut. He served on the board of directors of the William H. Backus Hospital, as chairman since 1978. Active in his church as head of the deacons, he was also past president of the local Rotary Club and did volunteer work with local charitable fundraising organizations. His family, the community, and Dartmouth have lost a very devoted and concerned citizen.
The sympathy of our class has been extended to his wife Nancy and their three children.
1961
LAWRENCE CHASE WILSON died on October 17, 1983. He was a tax lawyer who spent much of his professional career with the New York law firm of Reid and Priest.
At Dartmouth, Larry was a government major and a debater, winning the "Best Debater" trophy at the Eastern Regional Debating Tournament in March 1958 and serving as a member of a four-member Dartmouth team that beat out 107 schools to win a Northwestern University debate tournament in 1959. During senior year he was president of the Forensic Union as well as the freshman coach. Junior year, he was the union's Green Key representative. He was a member of Delta Sigma Rho, the debating fraternity. He also was a member of the pre-law club and the Young Republicans.
From Dartmouth, he went to Harvard Law School, where he got an LL.B. degree. He joined Reid and Priest in 1966, after six months of Army active duty.
Larry was from a distinguished line of lawyers a descendant of Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and of Salmon Portland Chase, who was a U.S. senator, governor of Ohio, secretary of the treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and chief justice of the United States.
He was married to Susan Perkins and they had one son, Herbert, 13.
1968
With great sadness, I report the death of EUGENE ROBERT LENDLER due to an auto accident on his way to work on November 30, 1983. Gene was living in Branford, Conn., with his wife Susanne and their three children Rob (13), Amanda (11), and David (six).
Gene ("Jeeps") had recently founded Erlan Corporation, a cash management consulting company, and he was organizing a subsidiary partnership Payment Services Group to design and market related software products. Gene received his M.S. from RPI in information and computer science and had worked at Hartford National Bank prior to founding Erlan.
Gene's Dartmouth activities included Green Key and student representative to the DCAC. He remained active in the Dartmouth Club of Hartford. Susanne wrote a touching letter, noting that "I will always be grateful for Jeeps's 15th reunion this spring. It was such a joy to him to touch base with old friends. . . . His memories of Dartmouth years were so valuable to him he never lost his affection for the 'College on the Hill.' " Hartford friends were asked to contribute to the Dartmouth Memorial Fund in lieu of flowers.
1969
CHARLES WHITNEY SHUMAN drowned on October 7, 1983, in a kayak accident on the Mississippi River. Charlie was an experienced kayaker, but when his kayak was caught in a churning undercurrent he became tangled in a towline and could not free himself.
After graduating from Dartmouth, Charlie earned his master's degree in mathematics from Washington University, where he also served as an instructor. Since 1978, he had been an instructor of mathematics at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. Charlie was a member of the Arnold Whitewater Association, an organization of rough-water enthusiasts, and he taught classes in kayaking at UMSL. While at Dartmouth, Charlie was a member of the marching band, the symphonic band, and the Ledyard Canoe Club.
Charlie will be remembered as someone who enjoyed life, and his enthusiasm and energy made life more enjoyable for those of us who knew him.
Charlie was single and is survived by his mother, his father, a sister, and a grandmother, to all of whom the class extends its deepest sympathies.
