Deaths
(This is a listing of deaths of which word hasbeen received since the last issue. Full notices,which are usually written by the class secretaries,may appear in this issue or a later one.)
Henry A. Loudon '17, August 30 Glendon A. Fuller '19, March 1985 Charles F. Harney '19, February 5 Rudolph P. Blesh '21, August 25 Robert W. Elsasser '21, March 2 Marshall O. Exnicios '21, September 4 James A. Hamilton '22, September 8 Robert P. Turnbull '22, September 2 Albert E. Hadlock Jr. '24, August 18 Howard W. Megee '25, August 26 Walter A. Pillsbury '26, August 22 John C. Watson '26, August 29 James R. Forgie '27, April 10 Alvin H. Burleigh '28, August 23 William T. Ivey '29, July 8 Russell G. Morrill '30, August 28 Daniel F. Kraft '32, June 15 William B. Earl Jr. '33, August 12 David M. Mann '37, August 3 Norman H. Holland '38, August 27 George W. Mahoney '40, September 3 Louis C. Cargile Jr. '42, July 3 Frank Malvasic Jr. '42, August 15 Edgar S. Driver '43, August 20 Paul E. Mallory '43, July 4 Robert D. Allen '44, September 13 Donald T. Sheridan '44, September 6 James H. Woods '44, June 3 John D. Reed '45, September 22 Edwin G. Strasenburgh '45, September 5 Charles A. Gardner '50, July 22 John F. Slamin '52, August 22 Richard T. Mosher '65, August 24 George H. Reese III '66, September 2 Arthur J. Goldsher '73, September 7 John P. Sawyer '74, August 30
1919
GLENDON ABRAM FULLER died in March after a long illness. In recent years he has made his home in Florence, Mass.
Glen entered college from Norwood, Mass. During World War 1 he served with The American Field Service and later with the U.S. Army.
Most of his business life was in accounting and tax consulting. For a period of time he was secretary of the Pioneer Valley Dartmouth Club.
He is survived by his wife, Winifred, and a son, Christopher '51, and several grandchildren.
1922
HARLEY MOORE GREENWOOD, highly respected retired businessman and longtime resident of Lyme, N.H., died July 27 at the Hanover Terrace Healthcare.
He was born February 19, 1901, in Warren, Vt., and he entered Dartmouth in September 1918 from Lyndon Institute, Lyndonville, Vt. Being under age 18 as a freshman, he was a member of renowned Company I in the Student Army Training Corps. He was a well-liked, amiable, proficient classmate who majored in economics. After graduation he attended Harvard Business School, where in 1924 he received his M.B.A.
Harley began his business career in Albany with Standard Oil Company of New York. He later associated with F. C. Huyck and Sons, textile manufacturers of Rensselaer, N.Y., and for many years before retirement, with General Electric Company, Schenectady.
Noted for his competence, friendliness, wry humor, and diligence, Harley was a popular citizen of Lyme. For 20 years he and his wife, Amalia, had lived in a house facing the town green and close to the Lyme Congregational Church, of which he was the treasurer. He was also a member of the local Mount Cube Lodge of Masons, a trustee of the town library, and a member of the water commission.
He was a loyal Dartmouth alumnus, always interested in the welfare of the College. He will be especially missed by his North Country classmates at their frequent meetings.
At the impressive memorial service Dartmouth was represented by Doris Atwood, the Reverend Dick Beyer and Lema Beyer, Warren and Jeanne Daniell, Stan Miner, Len and Margaret Morrissey, Louise Olsen, and Lois Morse, widow of Emerson Morse '19.
Harley and Amalia K. Wagner, a Cornell alumna, were married October 2, 1936, in Albany. She survives him and the class joins her in bereavement.
1923
GORHAM BLISS died June 6 in Cocoa, Fla., of emphysema and bronchitis. In college he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He was married in 1923 to Elizabeth Barr, a graduate of the Sorbonne. Their son, Barr Bliss, attended Vermont Academy and the University of Florida.
They lived in Connecticut for a while, and "Go" was a one-term president of the Connecticut Valley Alumni Association. From there they moved to Florida where he became a grove owner, raising mangos and citrus. His second wife, Harriet, survives as does a stepson.
Go was an avid yachtsman, and he and his yacht, Liberty 3, were well known on the waterways from Manasquan Inlet to Key West.
LYMAN BEERS KING of Cleveland, Ohio,
died July 14 of heart disease. Shortly after leaving college he married Mary Avon Hail in 1922, and they had one child in 1925. Lyman has always been involved in the architectural field and its associated field of construction, specializing in the educational aspect. He worked in investment banking with Otis and Company and First Cleveland Corporation (1927-41). He then went on to Washington (1941-47) with the WPB and SWPCO. He worked for Trundle Consultants, Inc., in Cleveland and New York (1947-64). In 1964 he became director, comprehensive services, of the architectural firm Outcalt, Guenther, Rode, and Bonebrake, and his responsibilities included all phases prior to construction in the design stage such as evaluation of need, site location, and layout.
In college he .was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Dragon Society. After leaving Dartmouth he belonged to the Hermit Club in Cleveland and the Cloud Club in New York.
ARTHUR FOSTER LITTLE died July 24 at the Bay Head Nursing Home in Duxbury. He was the husband of Barbara Coulter Little, who survives him. Arthur was born in Pawtucket, R.I., and moved to Duxbury only four years ago. Arthur graduated from Tuck School and had been associated with the John W. Little Company since 1926 and had served as treasurer before becoming chairman of the board. He was a past president of the Dartmouth Club of Rhode Island and was very active in scouting, having received the Silver Beaver Award in 1953. He was also a former treasurer of the Park Place Congregational Church. Besides his wife he leaves four sons., Peter '51, Arthur '53, Stevan '55, and Lester '57, 14 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Eight of his relatives attended Dartmouth.
In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. After college, while in the printing business, he was chairman of the local chapter of the Red Cross, local drive chairman of the Community Chest, chairman of the executive committee of the Boy Scouts, and chairman of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Rhode Island. He was also assistant class agent for the past 15 years and a member of various Masonic bodies.
He had been ill since last Christmas and now rests in peace.
EDGAR PARKS STOCKER died July 1 in
Cleveland, where he had lived for most of his life. He was unmarried.
Following graduation Ed earned his master's degree in education and taught at Columbia for two years. He then went on to Western Reserve and obtained a law degree in 1929 and was admitted to the Ohio bar. Most of his time thereafter was spent in the practice of law in Cleveland. He was an avid skier and golfer.
Having been in the Ohio National Guard for several years, he went into the army of the United States (AAF) as a captain and was discharged a lieutenant colonel in June 1948. He was stationed mostly in Washington, D.C. He then returned to Cleveland, rejoined the firm of Jones, Day, Cockley, and Reavis, with which he stayed until his retirement from the law except for a period as librarian for his old concern.
1925
HOWARD WILLIAM MEGEE died August 6, at Lewes, Del. In college he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He received a degree at Tuck School and in 1926 became a member of the treasurer's staff at General Motors where he remained for 38 years, finally retiring as assistant general comptroller, after which he made his residence in Rehoboth Beach, Del. He served as a member of the national committee for the Dartmouth Medical School campaign in 1960 and as vice president of the Dartmouth College General Association of Alumni in 1964. His wife, Lucille K., died in May. Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Milton.
1926
JOHN WASHBURNE BLAIR died August 2 of a heart attack at the home of his daughter Ann (Mrs. Denton L. Lyon) in New Haven, Vt. They had just returned from a trip to Hanover as John had wished to see Dartmouth again - it had been over 20 years since he had come east from his Indiana home. He thoroughly enjoyed this nostalgic visit to his alma mater.
He was born in Greenleaf, Wis., grew up in Harvey, Ill., where he graduated from Thornton Township High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Delta Tau Delta, Casque and Gauntlet, and Delta Omicron Gamma, and was on the football squad. He was a well-known active undergraduate and returned to Hanover in 1927 to earn his M.B.A. at Tuck School.
After he was in business for eight years, John's health was such that he decided to retire in part, and he had a farm in Francisville, Ind., where he raised cattle. He was a director for 28 years of the Bank of Homewood, Homewood, Ill., and was county commissioner for three years in Pulaski County, Ind.
Besides his daughter he is survived by his son, John A. Blair, and six grandchildren. His wife, the former Elizabeth A. Alexander, predeceased him.
GEORGE VAN PRAAG MARKS died December 25, 1981, in Sun City, Ariz., according to information received only recently by the Alumni Records Office in Hanover. Van had lived in White Plains, N.Y., for some years and was wintering in Sun City, apparently in good health, when stricken with the heart attack which caused his unexpected death.
He was born July 8, 1905, in New York City, where he attended the McBurney High School. He was at Dartmouth for only his freshman and sophomore years, after which he transferred to the University of Virgina. Not much is known about his business career except that he began in New York City as a purchasing agent for Julian Kayser and Company, a glove and hosiery company, and later became its vice president. Later, he became interested in printing and went to work for Highgrade Printing Corporation. He was assistant to the president of that company when he retired in 1967.
Van was active in affairs of White Plains during his working years, having served as director of its Chamber of Commerce, Community Chest, and Beautification Committee. He was also a director of the National Federation of Textiles and a deacon and trustee of the Ridgeway Alliance in White Plains.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and by two daughters, Virginia and Dorothy.
CARL YOUNG STANLEY died April 7 as reported in a July 1985 survey returned to the Alumni Records Office. His last known address was San Diego, Calif., but no word has been received from him or about him for some years. He was born in Gloucester, Mass., and graduated from the high school there. At Dartmouth he was a member of Chi Phi and played varsity baseball. Carl was a gregarious undergraduate with a great sense of humor. He was one of a trio of Gloucester High School graduates, all of whom were at Dartmouth at one time and all of whom played high school and college varsity baseball. The others were Sollay Thurston '23 and Dan Harris '25, and all are now deceased.
College records do not list a wife or next of kin who may survive him.
1928
GEORGE LEONARD COLE died July 16 in Brattleboro, Vt:, Memorial Hospital after a brief illness which involved heart problems.
Born in Wollaston, Mass., he graduated from Exeter where he won four letters his senior year: in football, basketball, hockey, and tennis, (where he was captain). In college George was right end on the freshman football team, and an outstanding right end his junior and senior years. Injuries kept him from playing on the famous 1925 National Championship Team. He was a member of Green Key, Sphinx, and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
After graduation he joined the firm of Stiles and Cole in Boston, manufacturers agents for food products. He formed his own food brokerage firm in 1955 and moved to Brattleboro. He retired several YEARS ago, and he and Allie enjoyed seven months of the year there and the remainder in Brooks-ville, Fla. He said spinal arthritis curtailed the golf game he missed, but didn't interfere with his enjoyment of his large family.
He leaves his wife, Alice (Blanchard Luke), whom he married in 1954, two daughters, four stepchildren, numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and a sister.
JOHN HOAG DILLINGHAM LAWRENCE, a resident of Sanibel Island, Fla., for 15 years, died there August 1. For more than two years he had suffered from emphysema.
Born and raised in Falmouth, Mass., John graduated from Tabor Academy. In college he played on the soccer team for three years, majored in French, and was a member of Chi Phi. His first job was teaching French and math at Tabor.
In 1929 John joined the New England Telephone Company in Providence and was later transferred to Springfield, Mass. He married Barbara Kempton in June 1942 and went on active duty in the Army Signal Corps three months later. He and Barbara were in New Orleans until John, then a captain, was shipped to England. At that time he was the 22nd member of '28 to go overseas. He was part of the invading forces which landed on a Normandy beach. He was in England, France, and Germany for 26 months and resumed working for the telephone company in Boston at the end of 1945. He soon was appointed supervisor of personnel for the general accounting division.
After commuting from Marion, Mass., to Boston (60 miles) by car for eight years, he decided it was time to retire, which he did January 31, 1967. During their retirement in Florida, he and Barbara spent summers in Marion.
He leaves his wife, Barbara (Kempton), a daughter, and four grandchildren.
BARRETT DAVID STOLER, a longtime insurance
agent, died August 15 in Waltham, Mass., only six weeks after discovering that he had lung cancer.
"Bucky" came to Dartmouth from Dorchester, Mass., and English High School. In college he was active in the Instrumental Club, played in the band for four years, and one summer toured with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and the Ozzie Nelson Band as a saxophonist. He was a member of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.
He worked for five years for Filene's in Boston, leaving as a buyer to run his own company in New York City selling children's knit underwear. In 1940 he changed careers and became a salesman for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. After three years he became the agency supervisor and later the assistant general agent. He was a top salesman for years and a member of the Million Dollar Round Table. He resigned in 1980 but continued to maintain an office within the company and to sell life insurance on a parttime basis. He was very happy in the business he had chosen 45 years ago.
His hobby was golf, and he was a member of the Commonwealth Country Club. He played golf three times a week in season, proud of the fact that he "walked the course." He and Mia managed to get away on several trips a year; the most recent one was a month in Rome and Athens.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Madeline (Hurwitz), two sons, a sister, and four grandchildren.
1929
PHILIP DELMONT DINSMORE died on August 9 at a Falmouth, Mass., nursing home after a long illness.
Phil came from Springfield (Mass.) Central High School, belonged to Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and played baseball. He majored at Tuck School.
His business career was with Union Carbide Company in various parts of the East. In World War II he served in the signal corps as a sergeant, first in Africa and the Middle East, earning the Middle East medal with three bronze stars, then in Normandy and the Rhineland campaign.
His wife died in 1970. He leaves a sister, Dorothy Beardslee, and several nieces and nephews. He was buried in the National Cemetery in Bourne.
1930
HAROLD WARREN KNIGHT died on July 21. At the time of his death he had been living in retirement at his home in Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Harold was born in Charleston, W.Va., in 1907, where he spent most of his life before moving to California. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Gunnery School in Washington, Conn., and spent two summers before college at the Clark School in Hanover.
Harold was a home builder and real estate broker for most of his career. From 1947 to 1954 he concentrated in brokerage and construction until the management of family-owned properties and the rental of various other properties took all of his time. On retirement, the family side of the business was his sole interest.
Harold married Elizabeth Miller of Havana, Cuba, in 1928. They had one son, Harold Warren III, an attorney now living and practicing in California. Harold is also survived by his wife. There are four grandchildren. The Knight family is also responsible for six other Dartmouth graduates: Harold's grandfather in 1861; his father in 1889; his uncle in 1887; his cousin in 1917; his brother in 1931; and his cousin in 1944.
RUSSELL GILBERT MORRILL died on August 28. At the time he was in Woodstock, Vt., where a sister, Mary Peters, has a home, although his permanent residence was in New York City where he had resided for many years.
Rusty was born in 1908 in Norwood, Mass. At Dartmouth he majored in psychology and then took his M.B.A. degree from Harvard in 1932. He then began a fouryear stretch with R.H. Macy and Company in New York before entering the synthetic fiber field where he spent his entire business life. He was first with Wellington Sears as a buyer. In New York he joined Dutton, Mast, and Company, Inc., in 1937, becoming vice president. Specializing in rayon, he continued there until his retirement in 1965.
Rusty never married. A sister, Mary Peters, lives in Woodstock, Vt. His family ties with Dartmouth included two second cousins, Edmund J. Shattuck and Jackman Morrill Shattuck. At college Rusty achieved Phi Beta Kappa. A class leader, he was a member of Green Key and manager of the track team. He joined Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and was a member of Casque and Gauntlet.
1931
After a courageous battle with cancer, FRANK EFPENS HODSON died at Santa Rosa, Calif., on August 18. He and Gwen had made their home there since 1983 to be close to their daughter and her family. Frank took his senior year at Tuck School and then joined his family's business, the Eppens Smith Company, importers and roasters of coffee and tea, headquartered in New York City and later Secaucus, N.J. He spent 35 years with the company, becoming its president. During this period, he lived in Glen Ridge and later in Montclair, N.J. During World War II, he served for two years as a lieutenant in the navy, stationed in Hawaii and operating a navy coffee-roasting plant.
After he sold the Eppens Smith Company in 1966, he joined forces with Russ O'Brien '32 as executive vice president of Russell O'Brien Associates, management consultants, in Princeton, N.J. He continued this association until they moved to California.
Frank's, loyalty to the College and the class ran very deep. He and Gwen regularly attended our reunions, including the 50th, and he was active in local Dartmouth activities.
Gwen and Frank celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last March, during an interim of good health for him. He is also survived by his daughter, Suzanne Sandusky, his son, David '60, his brother-in-law, Bob Schaeberle '43; and cousin, Richard Otto '38.
Frank's loss is a heavy one, and Gwen and her family have our deepest sympathy.
1934
In Warrenton, Va., on August 3 HERBERTNEWTON HESTON succumbed after a long illness: He had Alzheimer's disease and was in a home near the farm where he had retired several years ago after a very active career largely devoted to public relations and college administration.
Herb came to Dartmouth from Ardmore, Pa., and the Haverford School. He was a member of Theta Delt and the Round Table and was a sociology major. For the first 15 years after graduation he was with Heston and Company, wool merchants in Philadelphia. Then he went to Hood College, his wife's alma mater, to be assistant to the president. He was there until 1957 when he headed north again, this time to be director of development and public relations at Smith College. During the sixties, he twice received the American Alumni Council's award for the nation's best mail campaign.
Beginning in 1971 he was an executive of Ivy Graphics and Planning with offices in Northampton and then active in development work for the Deerfield Academy. Summers were spent at their home on Lake Winnipesaukee until their move to Virginia.
Herb is survived by his wife, Molly: by daughters Eleanor Shipley of Frederick, Md., and Patricia Schick of Warrenton, Va., and by son Frank '65 of Northampton, Mass.; and also by nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His extended Dartmouth family includes his brother John C. '28 and nephews, MacDonald '57 and John C. Jr. '54.
Memorial contributions may be sent to the Alzheimer's Research Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH 03756.
1935
MAYNARD LEROY ROGERS died January 28, 1984, of cancer in St. Mary's Hospital, Evansville, Ind. His home has been in Evansville since 1939.
Word of his death was delayed by the serious eye condition of his widow, Martha.
The College was always Maynard's great love, and he enjoyed the "Tear Bag" and this publication. He had always wanted his son, now deceased, to follow his steps east.
Maynard left the College in 1932 and graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1935 and received an M.A. in geology from Ohio State in 1938.
He started his career with the Tidewater Oil Company, first in Kansas and then Indiana and then continued as a private consultant. His fields were exploration and production.
The family, including two daughters, Mary Ruthenburg and Martha Rogers, attended our 25th reunion, and Maynard and Martha had made long-range plans to attend the 50th.
The class sends its sympathy to his widow and daughters. Maynard's love and loyalty to the College never dissipated. Of this strength we are built.
1936
ROBERT DORCHESTER DENSMORE, a lifelong resident of Lebanon, N.H., died May 27 at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He entered Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter Academy, majored in geology, was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, and was active on the winter sports team. For seven years after graduation Bob coached the ski team at Cornell University and later at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H.
From December 1942 until December 1945 he was with the navy air corps as a flight instructor. He then joined his family's business, the Densmore Brick Company, from which he retired in 1970.
He was the uncle of Jason A. Densmore III '73. He leaves two sons, Jeffery and Bruce, both of Lebanon, N.H.; a daughter, Victoria of Massachusetts; four grandchildren; and a brother, A.J. Densmore of Lebanon and of Aspen, Colo.
□ □ □ LEWIS COLEMAN JUDD, a pioneer Broward County businessman responsible for much of Fort Lauderdale's coastal development, died at his home on January 7 after a long illness.
His father, Harold Lewis Judd, was a member of Dartmouth's class of 1910. Coley came to Dartmouth from Lakewood (Ohio) High School and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
When Coley arrived in 1937, Fort Lauderdale was a sleepy riverside town of 10,000 people with only two hotels for the few tourists who cared to come that far south. The ocean was accessible only with great difficulty. In 1938 he opened a one-man office, L.C. Judd and Company. In the next four decades his firm became one of the most well-known and successful in Broward County. By the mid-1970s he had five branch offices, and in 1978, with the company recording sales of $52 million, Coley was named Fort Lauderdale Businessman of the Year. In addition to his real estate development activity, he was associated with and a director of a number of banks in the area.
He spent four years, from 1942 to 1946, as a warrant officer with the U.S. Army Air Force. On his return to Fort Lauderdale he continued his interest in sailing and served two terms as governor of the Fort Lauderdale Yacht Club. He also served on the board of trustees of Nova University and the Church by the Sea.
Coley is survived by his wife of 38 years, Marion Louise Beeler; two sons, Donald Coleman and Richard Lewis; two daughters, Barbara Lewis and Elizabeth Garnett, to all of whom the class extends sincerest sympathy.
□ □ □ ELLIOTT PRATHER PALMER died suddenly on May 27. A large gathering celebrated his life at the Church of the Redeemer in Cincinnati on May 30.
Elliott was born in Cincinnati in 1914, the son of Florence Palmer and renowned surgeon Dudley Palmer. He attended the Choate School in preparation for college. At Dartmouth he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the Dragon Society. He spent the rest of his life in Cincinnati.
In 1937 he married Betty Heizer, a graduate of Wellesley in 1936. They had three sons: Elliott Prather Jr. '62; Thomas and David; and five grandchildren. Two cousins are Dartmouth graduates: Gregory Wright '29 and Dr. Jackson Wright '33. His sister, Peggy, is married to Robert T. Keeler '36.
After graduation Elliott was affiliated with Keelor and Stites Advertising Company for six years, then William S. Merrell Company for 16 years, and finally the Blemker Company, gasket manufacturer, of which he was president from 1959 until his retirement several years ago. He was a member of the University Club of Cincinnati (president in 1967), the Cincinnati Country Club, the Literary Club, the Sons of Colonial Wars, and the Cincinnati Historical Society, with which he was particularly active in his last years, and served on the vestry of his Church from 1958 to 1965.
A strong family man, Elliott was a loyal Dartmouth classmate and alumnus. He was looking forward to our 50th. We have lost a standard-bearer and send our respect, regrets, and sense of proud happiness to his family and many close friends. VD □ □ □
EDWARD ALLEN PHIPFS, a resident of Englewood, N.J., died June 8 at his summer home in Branford, Conn. Allen was born in Manila, Philippine Islands, on December 12, 1912; he attended the Manlius School in Schenectady, N.Y., and the Fresnal Ranch School in Tucson, Ariz. At Dartmouth, he majored in English and History, worked on The Dartmouth, and was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity.
At the end of his junior year Allen married Laura Kautz, Smith '36, and went to work for Muller and Phipps (Asia), Ltd., an export firm with head office at One Park Avenue, New York City. During his working years he and his family traveled extensively and spent many years in South Africa.
Severe health problems brought on his early retirement in 1972, at which time he was chairman of the board. His medical problems no doubt contributed to his keen interest in the Englewood, N.J., Hospital where he was a trustee and a member of the board of directors. He was also active in Rotary International and a member of the Knickerbocker Country Club and the Englewood Club.
His son, Edward Allen Phipps Jr., is a member of Dartmouth '61, and his daughter, Pamela, is married to Samuel Clark Lovejoy '57. In addition to his children and six grandchildren he leaves his wife, Laura, with whom he celebrated their 50th anniversary in April 1985.
"In sum, Norm was a great guy who lived a useful life doing good for people who were in pain and trouble." So wrote a classmate about NORMAN SIMON, a physician and innovator in the radiological treatment of cancer, who died March 23 at White Plains Hospital. Norm was born in Lawrence, Mass., and came to Dartmouth from Lawrence High. He majored in zoology, was on the business board of The Dartmouth, and a member of the scientific fraternity of Zeta Alpha Phi. After graduating from Harvard Medical School he served three years as a flight surgeon and radiologist in the U.S. Army Corps with the rank of major. He established a private practice in Manhattan where his office became the first private physician's office to have its own cobalt radiation machine.
Norm was the inventor of the Simon Afterloader, a system of treating gynecological cancers with radiation implants. When he patented his Afterloader in 1973, he assigned all rights for its manufacture to the Mount Sinai Hospital.
In the 1970s he served as a consultant to the Associated Universities Institute of Nuclear Studies in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and to the Atomic Energy Commision in the area of radiation safety. Since 1972 he had been cochairman of the World Health Organization's working group on the treatment of uterine cancer in developing countries.
In addition to participation in many hospital and other medical appointments, Norm was also the author of more than 100 medical articles. He was an artist as well as a doctor. He collected pre-Columbian art, which in 1984 he donated to the Hood Museum at Dartmouth.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth Elaine Lichtenberg; a son, Roger '64 of Los Angeles; two daughters, Wendy and Martha; a sister, Betty Snider, of Worcester, Mass; and a nephew, Robert Snider '67.
The class of 1936 acknowledges with pride the life and good work of a great and humble man.
□ □ □. We learn of the death from a liver ailment on July 28 of WALTER ALEXANDER STEWART at his home in Gladstone, N.J.
Walter was born in Columbia, Mo., on November 20,1916, and came to Dartmouth from the Lincoln School in New York City. He majored in zoology and was a member of Gamma Delta Chi fraternity. He then graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1941. After four years in the navy, he entered psychiatric practice and psychoanalytic training in New York City. He specialized at the psychoanalytic division of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
He was the author of Psychoanalysis: TheFirst Ten Years and The Secret of Dreams, which he wrote with Lucy Freeman. In addition to his private practice he was also on the staff on Morristown (N.J.) Memorial Hospital.
He is survived by his wife, Marion Raoul Stewart; a son, Walter W. of Bethesda, Md.; a daughter, Helen H. of Concord, Mass.; a brother, Albert of New York; and four grandchildren.
1937
WALTER MORTIMER GREENSPAN died in Metuchin, N.J., on May 15 of cancer. He prepared for Dartmouth at Perth Amboy High School. At college he majored in political science, was a member of Delta Sigma Rho fraternity, was on the varsity debating team, and a member of Forensic Union. He graduated from Tuck School in 1937 and joined the family wholesale food business. He served in the marines in World War II in the Asian theaters and was discharged as a major in 1946.
His business life was entirely in frozen foods. He had numerous executive positions with several companies as well as associations, including his own Banquet Foods, until his retirement in 1980. He was active in civic duties, such as the Recreation Commission. He and Harriet joined the class mini-reunion in the fall of 1984 with great enthusiasm and were looking forward to the one in 1985 and the 50th reunion. Wally was in the process of filling out the class questionnaire when he became ill. He leaves Harriet, three children, and two grandchildren.
THOMAS WALTER JOHNSON died June 14 in Ludirigton, Mich., after having suffered a stroke. He was born in Boston, coming to Dartmouth from Classical High School. His major was history, which became a lifelong interest. "Brud" played freshman baseball and football. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, a Senior Fellow, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
He took a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago where he taught from 1940 to 1946. His doctoral thesis, "The Battle against Isolation," was published during the campaign of Kansas editor William Allen White to mobilize support for the western allies in the war against Hitler.
In 1952 he became cochairman of the committee to draft Adlai Stevenson and was largely responsible for his winning the Illinois gubernatorial and the Democratic presidential nominations. The two became close friends. Brud was later chosen as the editor of Stevenson's papers, a massive task completed in eight volumes over a period of many years.
He was busy during the fifties and sixties with student exchange and civil rights and was appointed by President Kennedy in 1961 to the U.S. Educational and Cultural Commission. He organized the Historians' March on Montgomery, Ala., in 1965 to support Martin Luther King's demonstrations for black voting rights. While still chairman of UNN-Chicago history department, he wrote 12 important books. In 1966 he and Bette moved to the University of Hawaii where he taught until his retirement in 1982. Meanwhile they both became involved with peace and environmental movements like Green Peace, traveling extensively in the Pacific area.
Walter was a major force behind the national life of our country in a very quiet way. This brief obituary barely covers his contributions to history and education. We will submit material to Rog Allen for the "Mint Bag" to illustrate Brad's importance on the national scene. Besides his wife, Bette, he leaves three children.
□ □ □ GEORGE WESLEY LACOUR died July 11 in Stuart, Fla., of cancer. Wes came to college from Floral Park, N.Y. He majored in psychology and was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
We regret our records show little other than that he went into the textile business in New York and served with the navy in World War II. Prior to retirement he was a vice president with Burlington Industries and Erwin Mills in New York City. He retired in 1970, moving to Stuart, Fla., where he was a member of the Power Squadron, Sandpiper Bay Golf Club, and Coconut Point Yacht Club.
He leaves a son, Jeffrey, in Northbridge, Calif., a daughter, Barbara Shoemaker of Villanova, Pa., and a sister in Lakeworth. His wife, Ruth, is deceased.
We are indebted to Gus Farwell for what news we have here. Gus sent flowers from the class and attended the service, which he said pleased the children.
1938
It is my sad duty to report the death of NORMAN HOYT HOLLAND at Cushing, Maine, on August 27. He was 70 years of age. In apparent good health he died suddenly of a heart attack in his own home.
"Dutch" was bom in Athol, Mass., and lived there and in Derby Line, Vt., until the time he first attended Dartmouth. After graduation in 1938 he attended the Yale University School of Drama. He saw service in the U.S. Army during World War II. He married Nancy Lee Keith of Portland, Maine, in 1942. They lived for many years in Cheshire County, Conn., and in Athol, Mass., during which time he worked for Union Trust Drill Company as national sales manager. After retirement the Hollands owned and operated the Gallery Shop in Camden, Maine, from 1973 to 1981. In 1982 he designed and built himself their retirement "dream" house at Pleasant Point Road in Cushing.
He never lost his interest in the theater. Many of you will remember him playing one of the lead roles in the Winter Carnival show in 1938. He continued his acting with the Camden Civic Theater in Maine, playing his favorite roles in You Can't Take ItWith You and Life With Father.
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Katharine of Cambridge, Mass., and a son, Philip of Shaftsbury, Vt.
Dutch is gone but not forgotten. I will never forget his keen sense of humor. He had a great gift of being able to make other people smile or laugh. The class of '38 sends sincere sympathy to his family.
H. ROBERT REEVE '38
1939
WILLIAM CONNORS SEXTON, 67, of Oak Brook, Ill., died July 12 in Chicago.
Bill entered Dartmouth from Georgetown Prep in Washington, D.C., where he played football in his junior year and was a member of the debating team. Previously he had attended Loyola Academy in his hometown in Chicago.
Bill spent his working'years with John Sexton and Company, wholesale and manufacturing institutional grocers headquartered in the Chicago area. Bill was the son of the late president, Sherman John Sexton, and Alice Connors Sexton. Bill did not finish at Dartmouth and started as a laborer in the Sexton Company in 1938. He was promoted to Chicago city sales manager in 1948 and to vice president, sales, in 1956.
Bill had retired and made his home in Palm Beach, Fla., for the past eight years.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret, seven children, and 11 grandchildren.
□ □ □ CHARLES STUART TUPPER, of Cambridge, Mass., died of cancer at the Youville Hospital on March 19. He was 68. The son of Charles S. and Kietha Tupper, he attended Belmont High School, Belmont, Mass., and Worcester Academy. At Worcester he was a member of the football and track teams and the dramatic and science clubs.
At Dartmouth Tup played freshman football, participated in freshman and varsity track, interfraternity skiing, and hockey, and was a member of the DOC, German Club, French Club, and Sigma Nu fraternity. He majored in biology, and after two years as assistant plant pathologist at the Waltham Field Station at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he went on to pursue his life's work in sales and field repairs of scientific instruments including industrial cameras. Our 25th yearbook lists Tup as working for the industrial laboratory division of the E.F. Mahady Company.
He was a member of the Masons in Arlington, Mass., VFW Post 7353 in North Cambridge, Mass., and had been a member of the Boston Camera Club.
He is survived by two sons, Dr. Bruce A. Tupper and Robert S. Tupper, and his former wife, Betty, from whom he was divorced in 1971.
1940
GEORGE WHITE MAHONEY JR., 68, died of cancer on September 3 in St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta. He was former president of HadleyMahoney Insurance Agency, Indianapolis, and a vice president of Gregory and Appel, Inc., at the time of his death. He was also a director of the Rodefeld Company, Richmond.
He was a graduate of Park School, Indianapolis, and after Dartmouth, a member of the Dramatic Club, Woodstock Club, University Club, and Columbia Club of Indianapolis. He was a World War II veteran of the Office of Strategic Services and a founder of the Army-Navy Club of Indianapolis.
"Greek," as he was affectionately known, had a world of friends at Dartmouth, in our own class as well as classes younger and older. He often looked up Dartmouth colleagues in his frequent travels with Ann. He enjoyed reunions and was looking forward to our 45th.
As a member of Bait & Bullet Club, he was instrumental in controlling the crow population in a number of New Hampshire rural communities. He was a good shot and took his share of quail and woodcock back home again in Indiana.
Though a good student in other subjects, he twice failed Geology I, a required course, and his father in desperation sent George a nice check, suggesting that he be tutored by one of the "high-foreheaded rock tappers" so that he could graduate. He squeaked through after Professor Goldthwait showed pity on him.
"Greek" was an enthusiastic participant in anything he tackled - he went all out and knew no Jesser alternative - a hell of a fighter and hell of a man!
He leaves his wife, Ann, sonJohnG., and daughters Marilyn and Jean.
D. LEE BASSETT '4O
1941
JOSEPH EARL GRIFFITH, a Floridian since his retirement from many years of service in the field of building and contracting, including Reynolds Metal Company, died of cancer on November 26,1984, at Fort Myers Community Hospital.
A member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, Joe remained in Hanover until 1942 for graduate work at Tuck School; the following three years consisted of naval service as a destroyer line officer and PBM pilot.
In 1943 Joe married Alice Ann Cross, who survives him together with their children, Peter, Marilyn, James, and Thomas. The Griffiths previously resided in Richmond, Va., where Joe's activities included volunteering for Red Cross, Community Chest,
scouting, and church and the town. Joe's Dartmouth relatives are his brother, Wendell '48, a brother-in-law, Malcolm Cross '40, and his nephew, Malcolm Cross Jr. '68, as well as his son, James '73.
1950
GORDON SANBORN PINKHAM died on July 29 in Mary Hitchcock Hospital after a brief bout with cancer. The Reverend Jim Birney conducted a memorial service at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover. Ben Shaver read a eulogy.
Gordie was graduated from Loomis Academy and served in the U.S. Navy before he matriculated at Dartmouth. He majored in sociology and was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. In 1952 Gordie married Elizabeth Gilbert. Betsy and their three children, Gordon S., Jr., Gilbert C., and Linda, survive him.
Gordie's business career began with the Carter Ink Company. Next he spent about 20 years with the International Paper Company in its container division. In 1976 he joined the Weyerhaeuser Company and became the territory manager for its Westbrook, Maine plant. After 26 years in Wayland, Mass., Gordie moved to Grantham in 1981, returning to the countryside he loved.
The eulogy noted, "Gordie was a most successful man, not perhaps for superficial reasons but because he was thoughtful, decent, and concerned. He served wherever he was needed, save in the church Choir because he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. Every gathering was enhanced by his humor. It was a rare occasion when anyone left a function without Gordie having made him feel welcome."
Gordie served the Episcopal church as a vestryman. He was a member of the Masonic Meridian Lodge in Natick. An avid outdoorsman, he was a longtime member of the National Ski Patrol and the U.S. Power Squadron. On Dartmouth Night the Touch of Class banner will droop a bit without his hand helping to hold it high.
The class of 1950 Memorial Tree program has been augmented by gifts in memory of Gordie Pinkham, our faithful classmate.
ED TUCK II '50
1952
We mourn the passing of our classmate, JOHN FRANCIS SLAMIN, who died suddenly of a heart attack in his home in New York City on August 22.
John was born in Chicago and graduated from New Trier High School (Winnetka) in the class of 1948, of which eight of our classmates are members. During college, he will best be remembered for his roles under Warner Bentley and Henry Williams in numerous theatrical productions, usually in comedic parts.
John's earlier years out of college were involved with a prolonged and painful struggle with alcoholism, a disease he finally overcame in 1972. His recovery involved a realignment of values, and he discovered that his objectives to that point had held little validity for him. John devoted the rest of his life, quite simply, to saving lives. He worked in a detoxification center on the west side of Manhattan. Always ascetic by nature, the absence of material possessions left him unfettered to pursue the thing he could do best — working with those who were afflicted by the tragic disease which he had been able to overcome. Toward this end, his Irish heritage had gifted him with marvelous senses of humor and compassion. To walk down a westside street with John was a Runyonesque odyssey; one was introduced to all sorts of people, each one of whom mattered to John; certainly he mattered to them.
John never married. He is survived by his sister, Peggy, and his brother, Henry. To them, the class sends its deepest sympathy.
JOHN W. SUSEN '52
1974
JOHN PORTEUS SAWYER, who was born in Hanover, March 2, 1952, and christened at the Church of Christ, died August 30 at his home in Boston after a long cancer illness. He was 33 years old. He was brought up in Winchester, Mass., and prepared for Dartmouth at Winchester High School.
A specialist in American art, John had been associated for several years with the Arvest galleries.
While a student at Dartmouth, where he majored in psychology and minored in art, John and a classmate bicycled in the summer of 1972 across the United States, from San Francisco to Portland, Maine, spanning the 3,100 miles in 31 days. As an upperclassman, he also led bicycling' sections of the three-day.freshmen trips operated by the Dartmouth Outing Club, of which he was a member. He also worked in the hometown bureau of the Dartmouth News Service.
He leaves his mother, Mrs. Barbara K. Sawyer of Hanover, retired executive secretary for the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, at Dartmouth; his father, Richard A. Sawyer of Northhampton, Mass.; a brother, Richard A. Sawyer Jr. 70 of Provincetown, Mass.;.a grandmother, Mrs. Corrine Sawyer, formerly of Lebanon, N.H., now of Northhampton, Mass.; and two uncles, Robert N. Sawyer '37 of Woodstock, Vt., and Robert P. Kenney of Aurora, Ohio.
Contributions may be made in John's memory to David's House, P.O. Box 768, Hanover, NH 03755. David's House is a temporary home for parents of children hospitalized at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
ROBERT B. GRAHAM JR. '40
