Deaths
(This is a listing of deaths of which word hasbeen received since the last issue. Full notices, which are usually written by the classsecretaries, may appear in this issue or a laterone.)
Raymond H. Foss '14, March 15 Donald K. Howe '15, April 5 Edwin E. Smith '17, April 1 Alden G. Vaughan '17, April 30 G. Myron Savage '18, April 7 Carl A. Babcock '19, March 13 Roger A. Clark '19, March 29 E. Grosvenor Plowman '20, March 11 Carl N. Reed '23, March 19 Edward C. Snyder '23, March 21 Roland Barker '24, March 31 Phillips M. Van Huyck '24, March 27 Edward C. Cole '26, March 24 Freeman W. Metzer '26, February 5 John P. Waters '28, March 18 Arthur F. Clifford '29, November 30, 1981 Mason I. Ingram '29, April 7 William T. Doran Jr. '30, January 26 Julien A. Ryan '30, January 18 William G. Swartchild Jr. '30, March 15 Henry N. Wood '30, March 22 Henry W. Galley Jr. '31, April 6 Arthur J. Moreau '32, December 31, 1983 James J. Duby '33, March 26 Stanley D. Lucas '33, February 4 Theodore V. Purcell '33, March 21 George B. Applin '34, February 18 Eliot B. Thomas '34, March 21 Ward B. DeKlyn '38, April 8 John P. Merrill '38, April 4 John H. Gaul '39, March 21 John P. Ledyard '39, December 8, 1983 A. Wayne Shrodes '39, February 16, 1983 Richard H. Handy '40, February 1 Lawrence A. Herman '40, March 23 Albert J. Holzhauer Jr. '43, December 19,1983 John G. Dingwall '44, April 1 Richard C. Fuller '45, March 31 Robert L. Samilson '45, March 10 Francis R. Sullivan '55, January 29, 1979
1914
RAYMOND HASKELL Foss, of Duxbury, Mass., retired construction manager for Stone and Webster Engineering Company in Boston, died on March 15 in Plymouth, Mass. He was 91.
Gov, the son of late New Hampshire Teamster leader and state representative Eugene Foss and the former Fannie Haskell, worked on large construction projects around the world and was project manager for construct ion of oil refineries and processing plants.
Gov was born in Dover, N.H., At Dartmouth he was one of the first members of the Outing Club. According to his daughter, Nancy Delano, he once lent his skis to the famed stage star Lillian Gish, when she was in a theater troupe visiting Dartmouth in 1912.
In 1915 he earned a civil engineering degree from the Thayer School. He worked as field engineer and construction superintendent for several companies. In the early thirties, when the dams for the Tennessee Valley Authority were begun under the Roosevelt Administration, Gov was selected as project manager for the building of the model town of Norris, Tenn., the site where families of workers would live during the construction. He was head of construction maintenance for TV A, trekking the wilderness sites to supervise preparatory construction for the series of dams.
He was involved in the building of the refinery on the Isle of Grain in England's Thames River in the early fifties. His daughter said that Gov declined an invitation to sit with dignitaries, including Queen Elizabeth arid Prince Phillip, at the head table at a luncheon celebrating completion of the refinery. "He would have none of it," she said. "He felt he was just a boy from Dover and left the head table seats for the English notables."
He was a member of the Strafford Masonic Lodge 29 for 66 years and was made a member of the Antiquarian Society in England after the English noticed his interest in old cathedrals and flying buttresses.
His wife, the former Sarah Winifred Bishop, died several years ago. He is survived by his daughter, three granddaughters, two great-grandsons, and two nieces.
1917
EDWIN EVERETT SMITH, a teacher of English for 40 years, died in Key Biscayne, Fla., on April 1.
Ed was born in White River Junction, Vt. Following graduation from Dartmouth he taught English and Spanish for a few months at Spaulding High School in Barre, Vt. When his father died later that year, he had to resign teaching and manage his father's several businesses until his older brother returned from World War I in 1919. Ed then became a teacher at Classical (then Central) High School in Springfield, Mass., where he taught for 40 years, eventually being named chairman of the English department. In 1929 he earned a master's degree from Harvard.
Ed was a president of the New England Association of Teachers and a member of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Council of Teachers of English. He was the author of An Introduction to Literature and The Enjoyment of Literature.
He retired in 1959 and moved to Key Biscayne with his wife Florence, who survives him.
ALDEN GIBSON Vaughan, known as "Mr. 1917" because he held every office in his class, died at Hanover Terrace nursing home on April 30. Alden had been fighting cancer, in his own quiet and determined way, for several years, and he had been in Mary Hitchcock and the Terrace since mid-January.
Alden was an educator who taught classics in high school and college. He came to Dartmouth from Middleboro, Mass., and took a double major in Greek and Latin. After graduation, he taught for 12 years at private and public secondary schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, taking a year out to serve during World War I as a sergeant of ordnance in the Army. He earned a master's degree (1931) and a doctorate (1942) at the University of Pennsylvania, also serving during that period as an instructor in Latin at Penn and Brown. He then moved to Minnesota to teach at the Blake School, and in 1948 he went to Danville, Ky., to take up a professorship at Centre College. There, he was active on numerous faculty and civic committees, was president of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and was advisor to a number of student organizations. After 19 years at Centre, Alden retired as professor emeritus and was awarded an honorary doctor of humanities.
Alden was married in 1923 to. the former Lehrma Clows. They had no children but both lavished care on the students wherever they were. "My wife and I are having a wonderful experience bringing up other people's children," he once wrote. The two had looked forward to retirement travel in the parts of the world where Alden's academic interests lay, but Lehrma died in Rome, Italy, on their first such venture abroad in 1968. Alden moved to Hanover in 1974 and two years later took over as 1917 president, secretary, treasurer, and newsletter editor; in 1980 he was prevailed upon to add the office of head agent to his duties. Alden discharged them all with a sense of responsibility, a charming deprecation, and a love for Dartmouth that endeared him to all at the College who knew him.
Alden is survived by two nephews - Alden T. Vaughan of New York City and Dana P. Vaughan of San Gabriel, Calif. The family has suggested memorial contributions to the Alumni Fund.
1918
DONALD LIGHT BARR, 86, died on March 10 at the Brookside Nursing home in Wilder, Vt., after a long illness. After one year at the Tuck School, he served as a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery in World War I. "Stump," as he was affectionately called, was a member of Kappa Sigma, Sphinx, the Dramatic Association, the cheerleading squad, and the cross-country team.
After several years in the investment business In New York, he returned to Hanover in 1937 to serve as assistant treasurer of the College. He resigned in 1952 to join Investors Diversified Services in Minneapolis, Minn., retiring in 1962 and returning to Hanover.
He had been class treasurer for 30 years, having been president of that association and received the Class-Treasurer-of-the-Year award in 1964. Active in Hanover affairs, he had been town auditor and a member of the corporation of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and the Dartmouth Savings Bank. On moving to Norwich, Vt., in retirement, he became town auditor until illness forced him to retire. He was a member of the vestry of the Episcopal Church.
He is survived by his wife, Ethel B. Wood Barr; two children by his first wife Donald W. Barr '46 and Helen B. Cafasso; an adopted son, John P. Wood; nine grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and a sister. Funeral services were held at St. Thomas Church in Hanover with burial in the Hillside Cemetery in Norwich.
GEORGE CLEMENT MCBRIDE, 89, of Annapolis, a retired school administrator, died of heart failure on February 20 at the Annapolis Convalescent Center after a brief illness.
A native of Denver, Colo., George studied pre-medicine at Dartmouth. While in college he was a member of Chi Phi fraternity and a pitcher on the freshman and varsity baseball teams.
After graduation from Dartmouth he moved to New Mexico, where he was an administrator for several high schools. In 1931 he received an M. A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Following his retirement he became a health administrator for the city of Albuquerque, N.M. He had lived in Annapolis since 1977.
For several years he was an assistant class agent.
Surviving are his wife, the former Mary E. Terrill, together with one daughter, Mary M. Shankin of Bay Ridge, Md., and two granddaughters.
1920
MARSHALL LYMAN LOMBARD, a retired executive with the Western Electric Company, died January 23 in Connecticut.
Born in Colebrook, N.H., "Tink," as we knew him, was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy.
At Dartmouth he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. He graduated from the Tuck School in 1921.
Tink worked for the Western Electric Company for 40 years. He was president of the New York chapter of the Telephone Pioneers, active as a deacon and elder of the Central Presbyterian Church of Summit, N.J., and president of the men's Bible group there. He was a free mason of Evening Star Lodge Number 37. He also directed SAGE, a welfare organization in Summit.
He is survived by four grandsons, a granddaughter, and two great-grandchildren.
EDWARD GROSVENOR PLOWMAN, former deputy undersecretary of transportation in the U.S. Commerce Department and former University of Maine lecturer, died on March 11 in Portland, Maine.
Grover was born in Brookline, Mass. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Outing Club and a founding member of the Canoe Club. He graduated magna cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He earned an M.S. in commerce from the University of Denver and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago School of Business.
Widely recognized for his knowledge of transportation, Grover held many positions in that field, including: traffic manager for Colorado Fuel and Iron Company; vice president in charge of traffic at U.S. Steel, 1944-1962; chairman of the Maine transportation Commission, 1965-1968; president of the Transportation Research Foundation, 1968-1970, and chairman, 1971-1973; and consultant for the Maine Department of Transportation, 1972-1979.
He received many awards for his work in transportation, including: the Department of Defense Award for exceptional civilian service in 1952; the Salzberg Transportation Medal from Syracuse University in 1955; the Seley Gold Medal from the Transportation Association of America in 1962; and the Sheehan Award from the National Council of Physical Distribution Management in 1967.
He was a fellow of the American Statistical Association, a member and past president of the Association of Traffic and Transportation, a past president and chairman of the board of the National Defense Transportation Association, and a member of the Executive Reserve of Washington. He was a trustee of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company Charitable Foundation.
He was also the author of numerous articles and a member of the Portland Rotary Club.
His wife of 59 years, Genifred, died last year. He is survived by two daughters, as well as eight grandchildren, and a greatgrandchild.
1921
Carleton ELMORE McMackin, 86, of Tucson, Ariz., died on February 22. "Mac," as he was called, was a heavy smoker and had suffered from emphysema for a long time. Before Dartmouth, he came to us from Brookline, Mass., High School.
Soon after graduation in 1921, Mac became a creative writer in the field of music. In later life he wrote principally on the subject of gems and minerals for the national magazine Lapidary Journal, in which 55 of his articles were published.
When Carl moved to Arizona in 1968 for health reasons, he became a prolific writer for all magazines devoted to gem and mineral hobbyists.
He is survived by his wife Frances, two children, David and Olive, and three stepchildren.
1922
RALPH ERNEST CUNNINGHAM, 83, of East Aurora, N.Y., died on January 23 in Kalispell, Mont., where his son, the Reverend Bruce B. Cunningham, lives.
Ralph was a Vermont boy and he came to Dartmouth from Bradford (Vt.) Academy. He was at the College for the September-December 1918 term and he was a member of the Student Army Training Corps.
In reply to a request for information three years ago, he wrote the following laudable report which supersedes a conventional obituary:
"I have nothing to report. I have worked all my life (chiefly as a credit manager in Buffalo, N.Y.). Have one son and four grandchildren. Son is ordained Presbyterian minister, has master's degree ... lam proud of him. My first wife died of cancer in 1959. My second wife and I will have been together 20 years in a week or so. Never have received help from the government at any time. Owe nothing we can't pay. Retired 15 years ago."
1923
CARL NORTON REED died March 19 in Buffalo, N.Y. He attended Dartmouth for two years and was a member of DKE.
On leaving Hanover he joined the Niagara Lithography Company and became its president in 1960. He was also president of the National Lithographers Association (1954-1956). Carl was past president of the Country Club of Buffalo and the Wanakan Country Club. He was director of H.L. Reed Company, a member of the Windfall Fish and Game Club, and a former trustee of the Nichols School and the Buffalo Seminary.
Carl is survived by Margaret, his wife of 60 years; two sons, Carl Jr. '50 and David; a daughter, Nancy; nine grandchildren, including Jeffrey '76; and five great-grandchildren.
Edward Courtland Snyder of Joplin, Mo. died March 21.
A graduate of St. John's Military Academy, Ed entered Dartmouth as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. At the end of his junior year at Dartmouth he transferred to the University of Oklahoma and obtained an LL.B degree in 1925. After practicing law from 1925 until 1940, he became director of personnel and labor for Brown, Bellows, Columbia Company and in 1943 went into business by himself on various Army and Navy projects. In 1951 he entered the Department of the Army. He was a senior administrative specialist when he retired in 1968.
He was a member of the American Bar Association and the Oklahoma Bar Association. At Dartmouth he was a Phi Thelta Delta.
Ed is survived by his wife of 40 years, the former Ruby Lavender, who holds an M.S. in music from Kansas State College; and by two sons, one an Annapolis graduate and a Navy commander and the other a graduate of Pittsburgh State College.
1926
FREEMAN WEEKS Metzer died on February 5. Born in Riverside, N.J., where he returned after his schooling to spend his entire life, he graduated from nearby Palmyra High School. Following graduation from Dartmouth where he had an active undergraduate career, "Doc" earned his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He served his internship and residency at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia and then entered general practice and surgery in Riverside until retiring in 1978.
Doc was on the staffs of Zurbrugg Memorial Hospital in Riverside, Episcopal Hospital, and Burlington County Memorial Hospital in Mt. Holly, N.J.; he served a term as president of Burlington County Medical Society; and he was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. During World War II he was in Africa and Italy from 1942 to 1945 as a surgeon with a station unit; he left the service as a lieutenant colonel.
He was a member of Riverside Kiwanis Club and was a member, former vestryman, and senior warden of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Riverside. Doc was a very regular and generous contributor to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, maintaining a strong interest in the College.
He is survived by his wife, the former Evelyn Heap, a daughter Patricia, a son Robert, and two grandchildren.
1927
BURTON LEWIS SNOW died August 31, 1983, according to information which has recently come to our attention. His death occurred in the Maria Manor Nursing Home in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he had been confined during a long illness.
Burt was born in Brockton, Mass., in 1902 and attended Mercersburg Academy before entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1923. Although he entered with the class of 1927, he received his degree with the class of 1928. In college, he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, the Carnival Ball committee, and the freshman handbook committee. He is believed to have been in business for some years in Chicago, III., moving later to Tampa, Fla., where he resided for over 30 years and at one time owned and operated a laundromat.
His wife for over 40 years, Ruth (Forman), died in 1981, and he was also preceded in death by two brothers and a sister. He is survived by one sister, Isabell Snow, of Hawaii, and by several nieces and nephews.
1928
JOHN PHILIP WATERS died March 18 at his home in Glastonbury, Conn., where he had lived since 1959.
Born in Bridgeport, Conn., he was graduated from high school there. At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and editor-in-chief of the Jack-o-Lantern.
Johnny worked for eight years for the Armstrong Cork Company in Lancaster, Pa., followed by six years with the Sylvania Electric Products Company, as advertising manager of the lighting division. He was an account executive for advertising agencies in New York and Hartford and at the time of his retirement in 1972 he was a writer for the PeckAdams Company in Hartford, Conn.
After 40 years of writing advertisements and editing, Johnny, at age 71, started a new job. He was hired by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency to help state environmental agencies meet federal standards. He was the author of a series of articles on Connecticut state parks and forests, including one on cross-country skiing in public preserves. In 1979 he received a certificate at a White House ceremony in appreciation of his work in the information and education section of the Connecticut Senior Employment Program, designed to assist people over 55 in working part time at environmental work.
Besides his wife, Isabella (Small) Waters, he is survived by two daughters, a sister, and four grandchildren, to all of whom the class extends its sympathy.
1929
Arthur Farnsworth Clirrord died in Santa Barbara, Calif., on November 30, 1981, of a massive heart attack, having been in failing health for three years.
Red was graduated from Brookline, Mass., High School and majored in psychology. He was born in Grand Forks, N.D., and later lived in Minneapolis and in Bronxville, N.Y. He was an economist for General Baking Company.
Before his illness he was accountant and treasurer for Santa Barbara County. He leaves one daughter, his wife Rella (Parker) having died in 1963.
ARTHUR GUSTAF JACOBSON of Randallstown, Md., died on February 27. He was graduated from Pleasantville, N.Y., High School and majored in physics at Dartmouth.
Art worked as a general contractor until 1931, then in the claim department for Metropolitan Distributors until 1942. He then became safety supervisor for Lever Brothers Company in Baltimore. He was a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and of the Safety Engineering Club of Baltimore. He was a member of the Ragnal Methodist Church and was at one time president of the Dartmouth Club of Maryland.
His wife Irene died some years ago. He leaves three daughters.
Porter Sawyer Kier died on November 14, 1983, at his home in Glenshaw, Pa. from a heart attack brought on by advanced diabetes, which he had fought for over 30 years. Saw Kier came from Shady Side Academy of Pittsburgh. He majored in chemistry and joined Alpha Tau Omega. He was on the "Green Book" staff, was active in the Round Table, and went on to Tuck School.
He worked for several companies, then in 1949 founded his own business, Service Enterprises, handling accounting and insurance. He and Kay were active in a players group for which he wrote two shows which he said would not hit Broadway. In addition to other social and political activities he was once president, then secretary, of the Dartmouth Club of Western Pennsylvania, president of the Glenshaw Players, and president of the Pittsburgh Optimists Club.
He leaves his wife Katherine (Stewart), two daughters, and two sons, including Porter S. Kier III '56.
1930
Robert Louis Barker died suddenly at his home on December 15, 1983, after a year of failing health. The following obituary was prepared by his wife and two sons.
Bob was born in Newington, Conn., in 1907, grew up on the, family farm in New Britain, and graduated from New Britain High School. He matriculated at Dartmouth in the fall of 1926 and there became a member of the Outing Club, the Ledyard Canoe Club, and Phi Kappa Sigma. His senior year was spent at Tuck School.
Upon graduation he joined the Chase Bank, later the Chase-Manhattan Bank, and remained there until he retired in 1971 as a vice president in the trust area, involved in investment advisory matters. He was a charter member of the Chartered Financial Analysts and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.
Bob was active in his community on Staten Island, where he settled with his wife Mae and raised two sons, Robert B. '60 and David G. '63. He founded Boy Scout Troop No. 25 in Richmondtown, Staten Island, and served many years as a director of the troop. He was senior warden and vestryman of historic St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Richmondtown, where his. funeral was held December 19, 1983. Serving as pallbearers were his son David; grandsons David and Robert; and nephews John Blakey '64, William Blakey, Tuck '69, and James Blakey '75. The nephews are sons of the late Wally Blakely '30 and Elizabeth Barker Blakey, Bob's sister, who died in 1955. Son Robert accompanied Mae at the funeral.
In retirement Bob spent much of his time traveling with Mae. With Robert in San Francisco and David in Kansas City, a visit to the whole family was possible in one cross-continent trip. Bob's last visit to Hanover was last October, when he and Mae celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary. Among other things they visited the Rockefeller Center and the 1930 Seminar Room, enjoying the memorabilia there.
Bob is survived by his wife, two sons, and six grandchildren.
The class received word only recently that Philip Hadley Bassett of Laguna Hills, Calif., and Lihue, Hawaii, died of cancer in April 1982.
Phil received his B.A. as a member of our class and remained for another year at Dartmouth Medical School before going to Washington University, where he received his M.D. in 1933. Rolf Syvertsen '18 was the dean.
Phil had a varied career in the field of medicine. He studied at the University of Vienna in 1936-37 to acquire some European medical experience. He served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy from 1937 to 1942 and left as a commander at the end of World War II. He practiced internal medicine in Corona del Mar, Calif., from 1943 to 1951 and then became associated with the University of California, Los Angeles, and specialized in psychiatry, working also at the Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles, where he finished a residency in 1958. At this time he was obliged to retire for several years for reasons of health but eventually went back to Europe for additional studies from 1966 to 1968, when he returned to the practice of psychiatry in Laguna Hills. He retired in 1974.
Phil's family had many M.D.'s: his father was a doctor, as were two brothers, Samuel '28 and Schyler, both of whom predeceased him. Three nephews attended Dartmouth: Samuel Bassett III '57, Dennis '63, and Randall '64.
Phil was the epitome of a good family man. He and Edyth had 43 lovely years of marriage and four excellent children: Bonnie, Caroline, Martha (named after Phil's mother), and Schyler. They are a close and wonderful family, courageously carrying on after their tremendous loss. Phil and his family have always been strong Dartmouth people. Their many friends, his many grateful patients, and all his medical associates deeply mourn his loss.
Henry L. Birge, '30, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Gilman Henry Lowery died in Mesa, Ariz., January 28 of heart and lung complications following a long history of heart problems. He was 76.
Gil came to Dartmouth from Framingham (Mass.) High School and Exeter Academy. He was a member of the band and Phi Sigma Kappa. On January 15, 1931, he married Norma Howard, his childhood sweetheart and regular House Parties and Winter Carnival date.
Gil was employed by General Electric from 1930 to 1937, when he became the first manager of the Johns-Manville plant in Tilton, N. H. He remained there 20 years. Following brief periods with Raytheon and an electronics lab in Massachusetts, he was program manager of the Sippican Corporation, Marion, Mass., from 1963 to 1970, when he retired temporarily after a heart attack. He subsequently entered the real estate business in Marion but moved to Mesa in 1975 to get out of the ice and snow. After a year of "doing nothing except putting on weight," he became a department manager of the local hardware store in Mesa and remained there until he suffered a disabling heart attack last August.
Gil had engaged in a wide range of community activities. He was a director of the Iona Savings Bank, Tilton; director and vice president of the Franklin, N.H., Hospital; president of the New Hampshire Manufacturers' Association; a member of the Rotary Club and the New Hampshire Business Development Corporation; and, in Marion, chairman of the Tobey Hospital fund drive in 1971. He was also the 1957-1959 president of the Dartmouth Club of the Lakes Region, Laconia, and, in recent years, a member of the Dartmouth Club of Phoenix. During their New England days he and Norma were frequent attendees at Dartmouth football games.
In addition to Norma, Gil is survived by two daughters, a son, two granddaughters, and two brothers, to all of whom the class offers its condolences.
1931
George Martin Robins died in Barre, Vt., where he had lived throughout his life, on February 22. He spent his career in the grocery business, as a partner, then owner, of the firm of Houghton and Robins.
Known as "Tubby" in college (a nickname that did not follow him in later life) George was very active in the community life of Barre as a director of the Chamber of Commerce, the treasurer of the Merchants Bureau, and a member of the Elks, Rotary Club, American Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He also served as a director of the Vermont Retail Grocers Association.
He served four years with the Ninth Air Force in World War II, two and a half years of it overseas as an air operations specialist. He was mustered out as a staff,sergeant with four battle stars.
Dorothy Jurras and George were married in 1946 and she survives him, living in Barre.
1933
STANLEY DEARBORN LUCAS died of cancer on February 4. At the time of his death, he and his wife Alice, who survives him, lived in Canoga Park, Calif.
Stan attended Dartmouth only during our freshman year. Little is known of his subsequent life except that, in 1939, he worked for the Marshall Field Store in Chicago, III., the city of his birth. He served as an enlisted man in the U. S. Army during World War II.
Theodore Vincent Purcell died of heart failure in the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., on March 21. He was a professor of management at Georgetown and a research professor at its Jesuit Center for Social Studies at the time of his death. He was a co-founder of the Jesuit Center.
Ted was born in Evanston, III. He prepared for Dartmouth at Loyola Academy in Chicago. In college, he majored at Tuck School and was a member of the gym team and Le Cercle Frangais. He received B.A. degrees in 1933 from Dartmouth and also from the University of Paris, where he had studied in his junior year. For the three years following graduation, Ted was a salesman for Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, but he then resigned to enter the Jesuit order and to further his education at its Loyola University in Chicago. There, he received his M.A. in economics in 1945 and his licentiate in theology in 1946.
For Ted, education was a continuing process, whether it was gained from living and working with blacks employed by meat packers in Chicago, where he was known as the "packinghouse padre" or attending classes at Harvard, where he received his M.A. in 1949 and his Ph.D. in 1952. This continuity was recognized last June, at his 50th reunion, when he was awarded an honorary membership in Dartmouth's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Learning is a receiving; teaching is a giving. In his career, Ted taught at Loyola and Harvard, was a William Jewett Tucker lecturer at Dartmouth, taught at M.I.T. and the University of California and then in his last positions at Georgetown.
As part of his teaching, Ted was the author of five books on labor and management and scores of articles and book chapters on related subjects. Quoting from the citation at his induction to Phi Beta Kappa: "Seldom does one find such an impressive blend of scholarship, teaching, social conscience, and commitment to high ethical values in a single career." Ted is survived by a sister.
George Hans Werrenrath died at his home in Watertown, Conn., on February 14, following a brief illness. George was born in New York City and prepared for Dartmouth at Mt. Tabor Academy in Massachusetts. The fact that his father was a Metropolitan Opera star fostered George's love of music. He was a member of orchestra, band, and glee club in both preparatory school and college. At Dartmouth, he majored in French and was also a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity and Le Cercle Frangais.
George taught modern languages at various secondary schools, one of his longest tours being at the Englewood, N.J., School for Boys, where he headed the modern language department. He received his M.A. from Middlebury College and also studied at Columbia University's Graduate School and Teachers' College.
During World War II, George entered the U. S. Army as a private. His knowledge of languages earned him a quick transfer to military intelligence. As a technical sergeant, he moved through North Africa, Italy, Corsica, and southern France.
A fitting epitaph is his comment on his life, up to then, at our 25th Reunion: "The greatest reward that a teacher can have is seeing his pupils grow up to become fairly normal, self-respecting, and socially-conscious human beings. This, I have occasionally had, and it has made me all the more willing to teach for the rest of my life."
George married Elsie Gertrude Randall in 1949. A brother and a sister survive him.
1935
Charles Sanrord Parsons died of a heart attack at his winter home on Edisto Island, S.C., on February 25. Services were held in Center Congregational Church in Torrington, Conn., which had been his home since 1956. San is survived by his wife Edwina, whom he married in 1937, two sons, a brother, and five grandchildren.
In college we knew San as a good student, a participant in athletics, particularly baseball, and a member of Psi Upsilon and Dragon. Since college days he had served as a longtime interviewer of prospective freshmen in northwestern Connecticut.
San's banking career started in Quincy, Mass., and continued in Torrington with the Torrington National Bank. The bank later merged with the Hartford National Bank, of which San was vice president and northwest area manager at the time of his retirement in 1977. Community activities were a big part of San's very active life, and he served the local hospital, community chest, country club, Boy Scouts, a preparatory school, YMCA, Chamber of Commerce, city board of finance, Rotary Club, and his church.
Your class secretary, author of this report, has received a long and very moving appreciation of the life of his father from John S. Parsons '62. The letter from Jay, now in government service in Bangkok, will be part of the permanent College record of our late classmate. One paragraph helps us all remember our friend, San Parsons:
"Last summer I had the opportunity to take my wife, daughter, and son to Hanover for the first time, and it was then that we saw Dad for the last time. I feel it is fitting that these two events be linked. My children finally saw the school that so shaped the character of their grandfather and their own dad and at the same time they will always associate Dartmouth with the memory of the grandfather they so loved."
1937
William Caldwell Clay Jr., died January 31 in his sleep. He had a long history of heart problems.
He came from Mt. Sterling, Ky., and Sewanee Military Academy. At college he majored in political science, belonged to SAE and the Dragon senior society, was president of the Young Democratic Club, was on the board of governors of Junto, was a member of the Forensic Union, and was commencement class orator. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1940 and married Esther Briggs in 1946. As a first-year law student he wrote a brief for a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case. He worked for the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice from 1938 to 1940.
He was a member of the firm of Clay, Williamson, and Rabe in Mt. Sterling. Law was only one of his diverse interests. He was chairman of the board of the Exchange Bank of Kentucky, a vice president and director of both the Mt. Sterling Broadcasting Company (WMST) and of the Kentucky Publishing Company. He was a director of Top Yield Industries, Cowden Enterprises, and Highway Drainage Pipe Incorporated. As an outstanding authority in the field, he wrote manuals on estate taxes and planning. He wrote a book on how to read and understand the Bible.
He was a member of two bar associations, the Rotary Club, Odd Fellows, and the Masons. He was a church deacon and a past president of the Chamber of Commerce. He was listed in Who's Who in the World. In 1973 he received an honorary degree from Transylvania University.
Bill was a very giving person and believed that to love and be loved was of the utmost importance in life. His generosities were legion.
He leaves Esther, three daughters, a brother, and five grandchildren.
1939
On February 15, Howard Porter Chivers, his brother Warren, Don Cutter, and David Bradley ran a ski relay race as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Gilbert's rope tow in Woodstock, Vt. The old-timers there remembered Howie racing before the tow was built. They remarked on how well he had weathered. His affable smile and quick greeting gave no indication that he was involved in another race, and he was well aware his wax was wrong. It was typical of Howie that he faced reality so gracefully . . . and splendid that the old Dartmouth team won its race.
Howie died of cancer March 8.
He leaves his wife, Jane (Gile); two daughters; one son; and three brothers - Warren, Ross, and John. Besides the family, he leaves a legend both of a man and a skier.
The memorial service filled the Old White Church. The music and the gathering which followed unleashed memories. There was the Hanover kid who went to Dartmouth. The Navy man of World War II. The schoolteacher. Especially brought to mind was the 30 years at his Camp Keewaydin, Ontario, where he and Jane taught the wilderness to urban souls. More vivid perhaps was the image of the Howie who built and managed the Dartmouth Skiway and helped the junior ski program.
Some of us with grey in our hair felt the presence of the tall, slim form clad in white, moving his narrow cross-country skis with a grace and speed which few on this continent could match and none with consistency. We saw the co-captain of the 1939 Dartmouth team who was outstanding in an era when Dartmouth skiing was world-renowned. He was three times Intercollegiate Langlauf Champion and won the U.S. and Canadian titles. He was a four-event skier and capable of winning any event.
His achievements earned him a place on the 1940 Olympic team and membership in the National Ski Hall of Fame. The quiet and unassuming manner with which he established his prowess won him eternally to our hearts.
Sel Hannah '35
Paul Hayrs Guilroil, 67, of Spokane, Wash., died on February 3 of causes as yet unknown by the writer. Gil came to Dartmouth from Columbia High School in New Jersey, where he participated in football and basketball and was the vice president of his senior class. Following graduation from Dartmouth, he earned his M.D. at Long Island College of Medicine in 1943, putting in nine months of residency at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., and a like amount of time at Kingston Avenue Hospital in the same city. He served in the Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 and was discharged with the rank of captain. From April 1946 until June 1948 he was occupied as a resident in general surgery at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, followed by residencies in thoracic surgery at Emory Hospital and then Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital, both in Atlanta, Ga. He remained associated with Veterans Administration hospitals until his death, serving in West Haven, Conn., Wadsworth, Kans., and with the V.A. Center in Dayton, Ohio, as chief of thoracic surgery. From 1967 to 1973, he was with the V.A. hospital in Spokane, Wash. From there, he was made chief of staff at the V.A. hospital in Huntington, W. Va., and was a professor of surgery at Marshall University School of Medicine. In 1976, he moved to the V.A. hospital in Walla Walla, Wash., and in 1979 returnedto Spokane as chief of staff. He was widely published in his field of expertise, was a member of the American College of Surgery and the American Board of Surgeons, and was a diplomate in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
Gil leaves Elizabeth ("Libba"), his wife of 36 years, and four children, Elizabeth, Sylvia, Paul Jr., and Michael, to all of whom the class extends its sympathy.
John Peregrine Ledyard, 68, of Cazenovia, N.Y., died on December 8, 1983, from pulmonary disease and cancer of the lung. John was a direct descendant of Dartmouth's most illustrious canoeist of the same name and the class of 1772.
John attended the Clark School, where he participated in both tennis and golf, before entering Dartmouth. He served in the Air Force during World War II from October 1940 until his discharge in November 1945 as a first lieutenant. We note that from 1946, at least until 1950, he was engaged in the business of general insurance. However, according to our records, by the time of our 25th yearbook John had become an advertising salesman with The Syracuse Post-Standard, the newspaper of his hometown. We believed he remained in this capacity until his death.
He served as president of the Rotary Club of Cazenovia, and was a member of the Civic Club, chairman of the governing board of American Legion Post 88, and Sergeant-atarms of the Madison County American Legion Post.
He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Alice P. Ledyard, one son, J. Perry Ledyard, and five grandchildren.
1943
Albert John Holzhauer Jr., a noted West Coast trial lawyer, died December 19,1983, in a Ventura, Calif., hospital after a long illness. He was 62.
An outstanding athlete at Fairview High School, in Dayton, Ohio, where his father was director of music for the city schools, Al was named to the all-city football and basketball teams. He was a halfback on the undefeated class of '43 freshman team, but a serious knee injury ended his athletic career at Dartmouth near the end of the freshman season. A member of Gamma Delta Chi, he received his degree from the Tuck School in 1943.
Following World War II, in which he served as a Naval Officer in both the European and Pacific theaters, Al entered the University of Southern California Law School and graduated in 1951. That year he moved to Ventura and became the chief criminal deputy district attorney. According to records, he won 161 of the 166 non-jury criminal cases he prosecuted and 40 of the 48 jury criminal cases he tried from 1951 through 1956.
In 1957 he moved to Los Angeles and formed the law firm of Morgan, Holzhauer, Wenzel, and Burrows and subsequently was a partner in Holzhauer, Reilly, Denver, and Mac Lean. He returned to Ventura in 1972 and practiced law under his own name until illness forced his retirement in 1982.
Active in both Little League and Pop Warner youth sports, Al was a member of the Ventura Downtown Lions Club and was commander of the Ventura American Legion Post from 1954 to 1955. He also served as vice president of the Ventura Chamber of Commerce and the Ventura Jaycees. Al was a competent golfer and a collector of records and books of the big band era. He was a close friend of clarinetist and band leader Artie Shaw.
He leaves his wife Bretice and sons Albert Jr. of Ventura and Kurt of Whittier.
Roger K. Wolbarst '43
1945
Robert Leblang Samilson of Belvedere-Tiberon, Calif., a town across the bay from San Francisco, passed away on March 10. A native of New York, he came to Dartmouth from Mamaroneck High School and joined the Navy V-12 program. He saw duty in Europe, in the Mideast waters of the Mediterranean, and in the Pacific as an ensign on the destroyer escort U.S.S. Naifeh and was discharged in 1946 as a lieutenant (j.g.). He received his B.A. from Dartmouth and went on to New York Medical College, where he was awarded his M.D. in 1950, ranking second in a class of 110. While in medical school, he was married in 1947 to the former Marjorie Rubin, whom he had met while she was a student at Columbia Teachers College.
Bob completed his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital and residencies for surgery at Bellevue Hospital and for orthopedic surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center all in New York. He also took a postgraduate course in bone and joint pathology at the Hospital for Joint Disease, New York.
He was not only in the private practice of orthopedic surgery, but also an associate in bone and joint surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, a clinical professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California, and on the staff of several area hospitals. His service to educational and governmental agencies, his memberships in honor societies, and the awards he has received are too numerous to mention here; and yet had time to be an active member of the Masonic Scottish Rite, San Francisco Bodies, Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California, Sierra Club, Black Point Game Bird Club, American Rhododendron Society, and Golden Retriever Club.
With all his achievements, awards, and honors, Bob remained a modest and unassuming man with a quick and gentle sense of humor. He was a devoted husband and loving father and always looked forward to returning home whenever the demands of his profession took him to far-away places. He is survived by his wife Marge, four daughters - Terry, Leslie, Linda, and Cathy; and a brother, Norman. The class extends loving sympathy to each member of his family.
Walter Joseph Zebrowski of Enfield, Conn., died of a heart attack on December 2, 1983. A native of Westfield, Mass., Walt attended Trinity and Dartmouth College before he joined the Bigelow Sanford Carpet Company in Thompsonville, Conn. He became plant manager in 1966 and held that position until his retirement. He is survived by his wife Frances; two brothers, Stanley '33 and Edward '50; a son, Mark '66; and a nephew, Stephen '76. His classmates extend their sympathy to members of his family.
1951
John Will Noble died suddenly on April 19, 1983, as a result of an accident. He resided in San Antonio, Tex.
John was a teacher, associated since 1974 with the Northside Independent School District of San Antonio. Prior to that, John had been in the U.S. Air Force, where he served in engineering management and achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel. John had joined the Air Force in 1952 after Dartmouth.
At Dartmouth, John was a member of Kappa Phi Kappa fraternity, the Glee Club, the Forensic Union, and the Interdormitory Council. John did post-graduate work at both the University of Oklahoma in 1964 and at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he received his master's degree in 1973.
John's interests were flying, photography, and young people, and he was always active in Toastmasters as well as in Scouting. He is survived by his wife Patsy and a son, Richard.
1971
Bruce Glaze Kitchen died June 6, 1983, in Brookline, Mass. He is survived by his parents, Margaret D. Kitchen of Bedford Hills, N.Y., and Merle L. Kitchen of Katonah, N. Y., and by two brothers, Douglas and Scott Kitchen of Katonah.
Bruce and his family moved to Katonah from Bethpage, N.Y., in 1960. He attended Katonah Elementary School and was graduated from John Jay High School in 1967 with honors as valedictorian of his class. He was an Eagle Scout and active in sports.
At Dartmouth, he was active in student government and a member of Phoenix senior society. He was graduated cum laude with a major in English literature and a minor in art and architecture. He continued his interest in art and architecture, traveling throughout Europe. He also worked with the Amigos de las Americas as a volunteer and spent several weeks in Honduras inoculating natives.
He moved to the Boston area in 1974, becoming an active member of the macrobiotic community. Beginning in 1980, he worked as a brick tuck pointer and assisted in the restoration of several Boston landmarks including the Diamond Union Building, the Heath Company Building, the old Wool worth Building (now part of the Harvard Coop), and the Marcus Garvey Building in Roxbury, Mass.
Hazel Carlson, familiar to generations of Dartmouth students from the sixties and seventies as the piano player at Film Society programs, died on March 20 at her home in Stowe, Vt. She came to Hanover to take up a nursing job at Dick's House and was also able to find an audience for her musical talents with the Film Society. She had studied piano and played for the silents during her formative years in her native Stowe. In Hanover, she did sound track recordings for Birth of a Nation, the Lillian Gish film Way Down East, and Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton movies; these sound tracks are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She also opened her home to the Film Society directorate and became a good friend and adviser to many students. She was recalled in an obituary in the Stowe paper as a "small, feisty" woman who "had a marvelous way of helping, advising, and enjoying her many friends, from seven to seventy." David Stackpole '56, a lawyer in Stowe, delivered the eulogy at memorial services in Stowe. She is survived by two sons, two grandchildren, and a brother.
