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.)
Chauncey D. Merrill '19, February 25 William H. Perry '21, February 11 Theodore S. Barstow '23, February 3 Carey F. Goddard '23, November 29, 1983 Beach C. Soule Jr. '24, August 21, 1984 Richard H. Aldrich '25, November 11, 1984 Thomas P. Carpenter '25, February 17 George R. Lyon '25, February 2 William C. Jamieson '27, July 21, 1983 Gerard Johnston '28, December 22, 1984 Richard C. Rockwell '28, January 28 William O. Page '29, December 3, 1984 Joseph S. Piazza '29, February 10 Roger B. Donner '31, January 27 Arthur I. O'Brien '31, January 3 Albert J. Ochsner II '35, January 30 Richard H. Tisdale '38, February 21 Louis H. Bradley Jr. '39, February 12 William N. Mulkie '39, February 5 Jerry Donohue '41, February 13 James V. Jacobs '41, January 17 Bruce W. Jones '43, February 7 James M. Mullins Jr. '43, February 3 Stephen W. Rothermel '44, January 10 Donald W. Behnken '46, January 30 Kenneth C. Drew '47, February 9 W. Dennison Brown '52, December 14, 1984 Karl F. Pelkan Jr. '54, January 5 Chester O. Gale Jr. '55, January 30
Faculty
FREDERICK J. HOOVEN, a member of the faculty of the Thayer School of Engineering, a noted inventor, and an adopted member of the class of '25, died on February 5 at his home in Norwich, Vt.
He had been an adjunct professor at Thayer since 1967. He graduated from MIT in 1927 and joined General Motors. His research there was devoted to a type of brake shoe which was used for 25 years in all GM vehicles. After leaving GM, he did independent research in conjunction with various radio and aviation companies. He had met Orville Wright in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio, when Fred was five years old, and when Fred was 15, he and some friends had sought Wright's advice with an airplane they were building. He subsequently spent many hours in Wright's laboratory.
He joined Ford Motor Company in 1956. While there he authored three books, including The Future of the Automobile in the U.S.
He developed or helped develop radio direction finders and short-range radar for World War II bombers, ignition and landing systems for other aircraft, front wheel drive and suspension systems for GM and Ford automobiles, phototypesetters, computers, and the first successful heart-lung machine.
He is survived by his wife, Martha, whom he married in 1928; three sons; a daughter; a sister; and ten grandchildren.
Contributions in his memory may be made to the Thayer School of Engineering.
1909
The Dartmouth family lost a loyal son with the death of HAROLD SYMMES CLARK on January 18 in a nursing home in Hingham, Mass.
Hal had a rich Dartmouth heritage: his grandfather, Edward W. Clark, was class of 1844; his father, Francis E. Clark, was class of 1873. Two brothers attended Dartmouth, Eugene 'Ol and Sydney 'l2, as did several nephews, grandnephews, and a brother-inlaw.
At Dartmouth Hal earned his "D" in track and sang in the choir. He went on to earn a master's degree from Harvard. He taught English, German, and Latin in various schools for most of his life. He was assistant headmaster of the Groton School, in Grotori, Mass., and was, headmaster of the Rumson Country Day School in Rumson, N.J., for 20 years.
He was very active in church and community affairs, and served as president of his class for many years.
His wife, Harriet (Adams), whom he married in 1912, died in 1980. He is survived by a son, Francis E. Clark, of Massachusetts.
1918
ERIC THOMPSON BALL, 90, died on December 23, 1984, at Yale-New Haven Hospital after a 'brief illness. He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity at Dartmouth. He left college to join the U.S. Navy in World War I, becoming an ensign.
He is of the ninth generation of a family whose ancestors settled in the 1600s on the banks of the Quinnipiac River in the Fair Haven section of New Haven, Conn. It was here that his grandfather in the 1800s established the Ball Oyster Company, of which Eric became president; he also became president of the Ball Machine Products Company.
His main interest as an adult was the oyster industry, but he gave continuously to the rejuvenation of the neighborhood of the Quinnipiac River and the New Haven Harbor and realized a dream in seeing the creation of a riverfront historic district.
He received President Eisenhower's commendation for ten years' service on the Selective Service Board.
He was a trustee of the Congregational Church, treasurer of the New Haven Library Board, chairman of the Connecticut Shellfish Commission, and a member of the Shriners, of the Knight Templar Sojourners, and of the Retired Officers Assocation.
Eric is survived by two sons, Ernest E. Ball '43 and Robert H. Ball, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife, a brother, and a sister.
1921
WILLIAM HARTWELL PERRY, 85, died February 11 at Hanover Terrace Healthcare after a long illness.
He was born in West Somerville, Mass.", and graduated from Somerville High School. At Dartmouth Bill was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Sphinx. He was captain of the hockey team in 1921. Since he played the drums, he was a member of all of the musical organizations, where his talent was outstanding.
As an alumnus he was head agent for the Alumni Fund and in 1954 received the James B. Reynolds trophy. Bill was secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston from 1948 to 1952 and received the Tichnor award. He established the Memorial Book Fund in 1965, and the Dartmouth College Library has received many important volumes over the years, each containing a bookplate citing its memorial nature.
All of his business life was with the family business, the Cambridge Paper Box Company, of which he became president. He was a director of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce from 1945 to 1950.
Bill's love of the sea was well known, and he cruised his schooner and raced many summers for the Corinthicin Yacht Club in Marblehead.
He lived in West Newton, Mass., for 35 years and retired to Hanover in 1971. He was a member of the Second Church in West Newton and the Bostonian Society.
Bill is survived by his wife of 59 years, Edith (Picken); a son, William Hartwell Perry Jr. '55, who is an administrator at Kent School, Kent, Conn.; and three grandchildren. Bill's devotion to Dartmouth and his dry wit and ready humor will be sorely missed at future Dartmouth gatherings.
1925
ANTHONY WILLIAM REDDY died December 12, 1984, at his home in his native town of Amesbury, Mass. Tony came to Dartmouth from Amesbury High School; he was married and, having had a son born while he was in college, claimed to have the class baby. Unable to return after his freshman year, he worked as a salesman and at other jobs. He served as clerk of courts in Somerville and studied law at Boston University, where he finally earned his LL.B. He opened a practice in Amesbury, where he continued, until his death, as the "dean of Amesbury lawyers." He formerly served on the school committee planning board and as town counsel and was a member of the Knights of Columbus and St. Joseph's Church.
He is survived by his wife, Loretta C. (Hanley) Reddy, four sons, a daughter, 14 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
1926
WILLIAM ALEXANDER BEHRENS died in his sleep at his home in San Francisco on October 29, 1984. He had been active and attending to family business until his death. Bill was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and was graduated from Niagara Falls High School. At Dartmouth \he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and Alpha Delta Sigma journalistic fraternity and was advertising manager of both The Bema and The Dartmouth Pictorial.
He was an accountant for the city of San Francisco, retiring in 1968, and was honored by the board of supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco at the time of his death. Prior to his connection in California he was with General Electric Company, Colonial Airways, and Air Reduction Sales Company.
Bill was a bachelor until his marriage in 1963, and his wife, Gladys, survives him, but she is in a convalescent hospital in Sacramento, where her niece sees to her needs.
Dartmouth College and the class of 1926 suffered a sad loss with the death of JAMES EDMOND TRAQUAIR, who died January 5 at Deaconess Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, after a long, gallant fight with cancer. He was born in Paisley, Scotland, and came to the United States with his family when he was nine years old to live in Ayer, Mass., then in Chillicothe, Ohio, where he graduated from the high school there. At Dartmouth he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and was an active undergraduate with many friends in the class and College.
He continued his education, taking an M.B.A. at Harvard Business School, and then was with Mead Corporation and subsidiaries until joining the U.S. Navy Reserve in 1942. He had overseas duties in Africa and Italy, being discharged as commander in 1948. Jim then joined Hospital Care Corporation, Cinc innati, and became director of the fiscal division until his retirement in 1979. Thereafter he taught accounting at the University of Cincinnati.
Jim's love for the College was manifested by his several terms as president of the Dartmouth Club of Cincinnati, his serving on the Alumni Council, his membership on the 1926 executive committee, and by his very generous participation in Alumni Fund and capital campaign giving. He served on alumni interviewing and campaign committees as well. He was an active volunteer at the Cincinnati Historical Society and was a member of the Literary Club and the Cincinnati Country Club.
He leaves his wife, Henrietta Esselborn Traquair, and three sisters. Betty Orr, to whom he was married for 29 years, lost her life in automobile accident in 1963.
1928
RICHARD CHADWICK ROCKWELL, 77, of Loudonville, N.Y., died on January 28 after a long illness.
He was born in Leominster, Mass., but lived most of his life in the Albany area. At Dartmouth he was captain of the golf team and a member of Beta Theta Pi. In 1930, he graduated with honors from Harvard Business School.
He was president of and owned textile companies in Leominister, Mass., Rensselaer, N.Y., Manheim, Pa., and several other manufacturing concerns in New Hampshire and New York. He was a director of the State Bank of Albany (now known as Norstar Bank of Upstate New York) and served 30 years be _ __ _ fore becoming an emeritus director. In addition, he was a charter member of the board of directors of United Bank Corporation of New York (now Norstar Bancorp). Active in many community affairs in the Albany area, he was a trustee of Russell Sage College and vice president and director of the Albany Boys' Club.
Dick was an avid golfer, winning many tournaments and club championships. He was a member of Schuyler Meadows Clu(Loudonville, N.Y.), Fort Orange Club (Albany, N.Y.), and Wianno and Oyster-Harbor Clubs in Osterville, Mass.
In 1932, he and Marjorie Doyle were married. Survivors include his wife, two sons, Richard Doyle Rockwell of New York City and John Chadwick Rockwell of Ridgefield, Conn., and three grandchildren.
1929
KARL BENNDORF MICHAEL, former Dartmouth and U.S. Olympic swimming coach, died on January 18 in Hanover. Karl came to us from New Haven High School and Mercersburg Academy. He belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Sphinx, and Green Key, and majored in chemistry. He played baseball and hockey and was student leader of the Glee Club, but his outstanding achievements were in swimming, where he won several N.C.A.A. and A.A.U. championships.
His 28 years as Dartmouth's swimming coach show a win-loss record of 219-91-1. The Karl Michael Pool was named for him, at the urging of the men he had coached. He won many national awards for his work as a college and Olympic coach, including the National Collegiate and Scholastic Trophy and the Red Rolfe Award for his contributions to the field of athletics. He served in the navy from 1942 to 1946, retiring as a lieutenant commander.
His final years found him in poor health with failed eyesight, but he earlier described his career as that of "a guy who is happy in what he is doing." He leaves his wife, Doris, and two sons, David and Robert '53.
WILLIAM ORVILLE PAGE died on December 3, 1984, in Tulsa, Okla. He had been ill with cancer for a year but was active until a week before his death.
Bill came to us from Potsdam (N.Y.) High School, was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and graduated from Tuck School in 1930.
He retired as secretary and treasurer of the Page Milk Company, where he was among the third generation of Pages in the milk business. His grandfather started the evaporated milk business in Switzerland. His father established the business in Potsdam and later in Merrill, Wis., where Bill worked for many years. Bill went to Tulsa when the company bought another plant there.
He leaves his wife, Virginia (Castle), a son, David, a daughter, Ann Page Kittell, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
JOSEPH SALVATORE PIAZZA died on February 10 in Holyoke, Mass.
Joe was born in Castel di Lucio, Sicily, and came to us from Cashing Academy. He belonged to Tri Kap and to Kappa Phi Kappa educational fraternity. He majored in Romance languages, was active in the Glee Club and choir, and was president of El Centro Espanol. He was an assistant class agent for many years.
He studied at the Universite de Lyon in France and earned his master's degree at Columbia. He taught languages at Dartmouth, the Taft School, and Pingree School. He founded the American School at Rio de Janiero, Brazil, was active for our state department, and later became a senior official of the World Health Organization in Washington, D.C., French Equatorial Africa, and the Philippines.
He retired to Lyme, N.H., where he served as selectman, moderator, and in several other offices and later moved to Massachusetts.
He leaves his wife, Helen (Geiger), a daughter, and a son.
1931
JOHN MERRITT LENTZ JR. died on September 26, 1984, at Marysville, Ohio, where he had always made his home, after a long illness.
Following graduation, John worked for several years for the Fisher Brass organization in Marysville but in 1938 joined the Nestle Milk Products Company there, doing administrative work in their plant. He remained with Nestle until his retirement.
During World War 11, John served with the navy.
As he had lost touch with the College and the class over the years, we are unable to enlarge on this report. ■ ■ ■
Late word has reached us of the death of DAVID EDDY TOOMEY on last December 9, 1984, at Delray Beach, Fla., where he had made his retirement home for a number of years.
Dave was born in Dover, Ohio, and lived there all his life until retiring. He went from Dartmouth to the Harvard Law School, where he received his LL.B. degree in 1943. He returned to Dover to practice law until 1943, when he joined the army's 789 th antiaircraft battalion as a private.
He trained in this country for a year and then went overseas, serving in England, France, Belgium, and Germany until 1945 and rising to the rank of first sergeant. He earned the ETO medal with four bronze stars and the Bronze Star medal for distinguished service.
After being mustered out, he joined his family's automobile dealership business in Dover as an officer and continued with the S. Toomey Company until his retirement in 1952.
Dave's community services included a directorship of the Ohio Savings and Trust Company, New Philadelphia, Ohio, and serving as a trustee and vice president of the board of the Union Hospital Association, Dover.
Dave's wife, Almeda, survives and is living in Delray Beach.
1932
JOHN AMOS WRIGHT died in Chicago of heart failure on January 26. He was 74, having been born near Edison, Neb., on April 5, 1910.
In the Omaha Central High School, he made the Honor Society and track squad, played football and basketball, and served in the Cadet Corps.
At Dartmouth, John Amos majored in European history, played varsity lacrosse, and was a member of Alpha Delta Chi, Green Key, and Sphinx. His quiet chuckle and quick smile were unfailing evidence of his pleasant personality and constructive philosophy.
A Harvard Law graduate in 1935, he practiced law in Chicago until his death, except for two terms of service in the Army Judge Advocate General's office in World War II and in the Korean War. He taught at the John Marshall Law School, wrote articles for legal periodicals, and was an active member of several committees of the Chicago Bar Association. He was president of Curtis Lighting, a trustee of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, and an officer in local and national squash racquets associations.
John Amos was involved in a number of Dartmouth alumni activities. He served as class treasurer (1932-1942), class secretary (1952-1954), as an officer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago, and as a class agent on numerous occasions.
He leaves his wife, Evelyn; two sisters, Mrs. Mable Musgrave and Mrs. June Borgeson; two brothers, Max and Frank '35; and several nieces and nephews, including Thomas F. Wright '62 and John H. Wright '65.
ROBERT E. ACKERBERG '32
1934
JOHN JOSEPH DINEEN died in Salem (Mass.) Hospital on January 18, following a heart attack. He had been owner of the Hampton Beach Casino. He was widely known and respected in New England resort circles, having been president of the New England Parks and Beaches as well as president of the Hampton Beach Chamber of Commerce and a director of Indian Head Bank and Trust Company.
Jack's hometown was Lawrence, Mass. He came to Dartmouth after graduating from Phillips-Exeter Academy. He majored in economics, was on freshman football and varsity track teams, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and served as president. After graduation he obtained a law degree from Boston University. He was a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1942 to 1946. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and enjoyed skiing, golf, swimming, and dancing.
Jack and his wife, Eileen, were living in Seabrook, N.H., at the time of his death. She and their daughter, Lee, and two sisters survive. A son, John J. 111, predeceased him.
1937
WILLIAM LIPPITT MAURAN, M.D., of Providence, R. 1., died November 23, 1984, in Boston. He came to Dartmouth from Providence Country Day School and majored in zoology/ chemistry as a pre-med for Tufts Medical School. He was a brother in Phi Delta Theta.
He served as a pediatrician on the staff of Rhode Island Hospital.
He leaves his wife, Grace; a son, Christopher and a daughter, Angela; a sister; and two grandchildren.
1938
Word has reached the College of the death of JOHN LAWRENCE AHERN. Jack came to Dartmouth from Arlington, Mass. He went on to earn his LL.B. degree from the Boston College of Law in 1941. His last known address was Boston, and he had no known survivors.
HENRY BARNARD SAFFORD JR. died April 25, 1972, in Santa Barbara, Calif., of heart failure.
Barney came to Dartmouth from the Tilton School in Tilton, N.H. Little is known of his life following graduation. In 1965 he was working for McCann Erickson advertising agency in San Francisco as a vice president and account supervisor.
His wife, Katie, predeceased him. He is survived by three children.
CARL MORTIMER SHARPE JR. died in May 1978 in Shrewsbury, Mass.
Carl came to Dartmouth from Putnam High School in Putnam, Mass. Little is known of his life after Dartmouth. His first wife, Mary, died, leaving Carl and two children, Mary and Carl 111. He later remarried, but his second wife's name is unknown to the College. In 1939 he was manager of the Carl M. Sharpe Company, an electrical appliance store, and in 1943 he was working for United States Steel, helping with defense work. In 1962 he owned a laundromat in Worcester, Mass.
1939
EDWARD MURRAY DALEY died in the Bay State Medical Center, Springfield, Mass., on January 13 following an illness. Funeral services were held in St. Mary's Church in Longmeadow, and I was one of the pallbearers.
I can't remember when I didn't know Mike or Eddie, as we called him during childhood. He was my closest friend during our teen years. An outstanding student, he was uncertain where to go to college, but my brothers and I finally convinced him to apply to Dartmouth. He completed his application about the first of August and was readily accpted for-our class.
We roomed together one year and saw a lot of each other during college and in the years after. Indeed, he married my cousin Elizabeth, so that ties became even closer. We hadn't seen so much of each other in recent years; but Barbara and I did spend a relaxed, pleasant visit with the Daleys on Thanksgiving eve, shortly before he was struck with his unexpected illness.
Mike won his freshman numerals in soccer. He became a DKE and majored in chemistry and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. Following college, he took a year of chemistry at MIT and then, at the army's request, another year at MIT in meteorology. He was one of the first to be sent overseas to Australia in 1942. He later served in the Philippines and emerged from the service as a lieutenant colonel.
Mike returned to Springfield and worked there for Monsanto for a couple of years. He then went into the milling business as a partner in the T.M. Walker Company. In later years/ he was the principal owner until he arranged for the sale of the corporation within the past years.
He leaves his widow, Elizabeth, and his daughters, Jennifer, a physician on the faculty at Tufts Medical School, and Pamela, a lawyer in Philadelphia.
ALLYN B. LEY '39
ROY CARLETON DEMMON, 67, of Northfield, 111., died on December 15, 1984. Roy grew up in Kenilworth, 111., and entered college from New Trier High School, where he was assistant editor of the yearbook, a member of the rifle team for four years, and a member of the student council his junior and senior years. At the time of his death he was in the process of planning to return with classmate Jim Donovan to his 50th class reunion at New Trier.
At Dartmouth Roy was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, a staffer of The Jack-OLantern, and was cum laude at Tuck School where he earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
He started work in 1939 with U.S. Gypsum Company in industrial sales until 1945, when he moved into purchasing. In 1948 he settled into trust investments with the Harris Trust and Savings Bank. Roy was elected an sistant vice president in 1962 and retired as the vice president in charge of the investment division in 1972. He was a chartered financial analyst.as
Beyond investments, Roy listed his interests in our 40th reunion directory as swimming, walking, cooking, reading, music, andogs, in that order.
He was married to the late Mary Jane Scofield in 1947 and is survived by a daughter, Mary Josephine Blank of Elk Grove, 111., a brother, Clinton W. Lemmon '37 of Winnetka, 111., and four nephews.
1940
ROSCOE CONKLING GILES JR. died in Chicago, 111., of unknown causes on December 7, 1984.
After graduating from Chicago's Englewood High School, Ros entered Dartmouth with the class of '40 and attended the College during the years 1938-1939 and 1940-1941. He further prepared for his profession at Chicago's Berlitz School and at the Stenotype School in San Francisco.
During the years 1948 to 1953 he was a stenographic reporter for the Oakland Police Department; he was serving as staff assistant court reporter in the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 1963, when he was elevated by appointment to U. S. court reporter of the district. During his career, he had many top court reporting assignments and had been one of the chief reporters for some of the nation's top court reporting firms.
Ros is survived by his wife, Virginia, and two sons.
JOHN CONWAY HARLEY suffered a stroke and died in San Francisco on November 28, 1984. John had retired during the year from the company he had founded and led as chief executive officer, United Grain Corporation of San Francisco.
Born in Atlantic City, N.J., he prepared for Dartmouth at Lansdowne High School. He attended Dartmouth from 1936 until 1938, when he left to attend the Sorbonne and then the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
He was a lieutenant commander in the navy at the end of World War II and served on the destroyer Beryl in the Pacific and the Bostwick in the Atlantic. He told his children he was on the hazardous run to Murmansk, convoying merchant ships carrying food and armament to Russia.
His postwar career spanned the fields of diplomacy to banking to the import/export business. John joined the foreign service after World War 11. He was vice consul in Guayaquil, Ecuador, until 1948, then worked for the Bank of America in Mexico and Pacific Vegetable Oil Corporation. After heading a subsidiary of P.V.0., he became its president in 1967, and in 1968 he founded his own firm.
He leaves his wife, Antoinette, two daughters, two sons, and seven grandchildren.
1941
JAMES VINCENT JACOBS of Glendale, Ariz., died January 17 at the Boswell Memorial Hospital in nearby Sun City. He had moved to Arizona from New Jersey in 1970 and until his retirement owned and operated the Arizona Rental Center there.
Born in California, Jake was living in Sydney, Australia, where his father represented a U.S. oil company, at the time he entered Dartmouth. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, active in Cabin and Trail, senior activities manager for the Intramural Athletics Department, and president of the Interdormitory Council, where he represented South Fayerweather.
Jake received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1943 and then spent three years in the navy, leaving as a lieutenant. He worked for the H.J. Heinz Company in Pittsburgh for several years and then was with Robert Heller and Associates, management consultants, in Cleveland. In 1964 he became a vice president of the Bank of New York, living in Smoke Rise, N.J., until the move to Arizona.
He leaves his wife, the former Marjorie Cox, a son, two daughters, and four grandchildren.
1942
FREDERICK WILLIAM SLACK JR. of Meadow- brook, Pa., died of a heart attack at his home on January 8, just one day after his retirement from business.
Fred came to Dartmouth via the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, and although he left Hanover in late 1941 to join the U.S. Navy, while an undergraduate he was a member of Psi U and the Dragon Society. His navy career was long and distinguished; while he served aboard the destroyer escort USS Jenks, his ship was the first to capture a German submarine. He was recalled to active duty in the Korean War and concluded his active duty as a negotiator representing the navy in the peace talks at Panmunjom. He remained in the Reserves and taught intelligence courses at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, retiring as a commander.
Following his graduation in 1946 he succeeded his father as head of the Slack Coal Company, a family firm he liquidated. Prior to his death he was vice president of Lotz Builders and Construction Company, president of Lotz Property Management Company, and was the founder of the Prudential Business Campus Association.
Fred was a member of the Union League of Philadelphia and the Huntington and Seaview Country Clubs as well as the Sky Top Club.
The class extends sympathy to his wife, Margaret, and their two children.
1943
BRUCE WILSON JONES, a retired New York advertising executive, died unexpectedly of a heart seizure on February 7 in his automobile in Stamford, Conn.
A skeet enthusiast, he just had bought skeet shot in a gun store and was preparing to return to his home in nearby New Canann when he was stricken.
Bruce retired in 1975 as principal owner and president of Humbert and Jones, a New York advertising agency. He remained with the firm as chairman of the board and consultant, even after the firm was moved to Stamford in 1982.
He entered Dartmouth from Geneva, N.Y., High School. He majored in English and was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity. After his graduation from Dartmouth, Bruce joined the Army Air Corps and entered pilot training. He won both the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross as a pilot of army transport planes in the China-BurmaIndia theater during World War 11.
Following the war, he attended the University of Missouri Graduate School of Journalism.
Bruce was a member of the Board of Governors of the Dartmouth Club of New York from 1949 to 1950 and again from 1964 to 1967. From 1956 to 1957 he was president of the Dartmouth Club of Rochester, N.Y.
He is survived by his wife, Mary, in New Canaan and a daughter, Mary, in San Francisco, Calif.
1944
LAWRENCE GEBHARD BAILEY died October 22, 1983, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a long illness. He had had heart surgery eight years ago, and that led to early retirement and a somewhat restricted life-style. He was associated most of his life with an electrical engineering firm.
Larry served in the U.S. Navy during World War" 11,-and he remained in the service for another seven years. His great loves, according xto his wife, were flying he owned his own plane and the Bailey farm in the Everglades.
His wife, Fran, wrote: "We were married 38 years, and it was an honor to be married to Larry." Besides Fran, he is survived by two sons, Lawrence G. ILL and Douglas B.
STEPHEN WILSON ROTHERMEL, 62, died January 10 in Winnetka, 111., from a heart attack. He had had heart surgery last fall and had seemed to be on the mend.
Steve was a real estate mortgage firm executive with Dovenmuehle, Inc., a mortgage banking firm in Chicago. He was a vice president with Dovenmuehle when he retired a few years ago. The Rothermels made their home recently in Tequesta, Fla.
Steve played football at Dartmouth and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 and served as a lieutenant in the Pacific. He worked in a family insurance company until 1958 when he joined Dovenmuehle.
He was a member of the Union League Club of Chicago, the Skokie Country Club, and the Winnetka Congregational Church. He is survived by his wife, Beth, four daughters, and four grandchildren.
1945
PHILIP OWENS GRAY of Locust Valley, N.Y., died of a cardiac arrest on November 3, 1984. He was born in London, Ontario, and then moved to Pelham Manor, N.Y., where he attended Pelham Memorial High School from February 1937 until graduation in June 1941. Upon entering Dartmouth, he followed in the steps of his great-great-greatgrandfather, Nathaniel Bruce, class of 1813, and a member of the second graduating class of the Medical School.
Phil was a member of Theta Delta Chi and went on to attend Tuck School. He entered the home health care service and assumed the presidency of Scully-Walton, Inc., in New York City in 1965.
He is survived by his wife, Lorraine, and three sons: David '74, Robert, and Bruce. His classmates extend their sympathy to the members of his family.
DONALD STREET KLECKNER of Chatham, N.J., died of kidney cancer on August 13, 1984. He attended Allentown (Pa.) High School and then went on to the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., graduating in 1941 before entering Dartmouth the following fall. In January 1943 he entered the U.S. Marine Corps, and in 1946 he married Henrietta Miller. Returning to civilian life, Don attended the University of Maryland, earning a B. S. in military science in 1953. From there he went to work for E.I. Dupont de Nemours and Company in New York City as a sales engineer and became marketing manager in 1964. Subsequent to that he worked for a textile company, Cotton, Inc., becoming marketing director in February 1971.
Don is survived by his wife; two daughters, Karen and Karlene; a son, Donald; and a brother, Martin Jr. '42.
1949
LEWIS VANCE GRANGER was an exceptional man. and classmate. Born and brought up at Fort Ann, N.Y., where he graduated from high school as an all-around athlete, he died in his hometown on October 22, 1984, from heart failure. Married in 1947 to the former Dorothy Rymanowski, Lew was the father of four children: James graduated from Cortland State College and is a correctional officer at the Mount McGregor Facility of the State of New York; Denise Baker is a psychiatric nurse at Baltimore's Shepard-Pratt Hospital; Patrice is a social worker in Springfield, Vt.; Lew's youngest daughter, Cherice Sharrow, is a secretary at the Clinton Correctional Institution in Dannemora, N.Y. Lew is also survived by three grandchildren, Garrett Granger, Brittany Granger, and Christopher Sharrow.
A brother of Delta Upsilon at the College, Lew operated his own building supply retail business after graduation and until 1959. He then became a guidance counselor engaged in the rehabilitation of inmates for the New York State Department of Corrections. He was a member of the American Legion and Rotary International, of which he was a past local president. Lew retired in April 1984 and was looking forward to a life of leisure and travel with Dot prior to his death. We remember Lew as an unassuming and sincere person, who epitomized good character and the roots of his beloved upstate New York origins, which similarly endeared him to Dartmouth classmates and all of his many friends.
1979
BRADFORD HUNTER EATON died on December 21, 1984, after being hit by a truck when he slipped on the street near St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, the place of his residency.
Brad was born in Boston, Mass., on February 28, 1957, while his parents were in medical residency training. In 1965, Brad moved with his family to Pelham Manor, N.Y. He entered the Pelham Public Schools in the third grade and continued to graduation with honors from the Pelham Memorial High School in 1975. He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, played football, and was a class officer. In his senior year he was a peer counselor with the Pelham Narcotics Guidance Council, a youth member of the 1979 Huguenot Pastoral Nominating Committee, and organized a soft rock band called White River Junction.
At Dartmouth College, Brad studied a premedical curriculum, receiving special commendations in English, music, and physics, and graduated cum laude in 1979. He took full advantage of Dartmouth's liberal arts education by participating in the Tucker internship at Ricking Horse in Montana, the Environmental Studies program in Sweden, and many music department courses. He was a member of Zeta Psi and the Gold Coast Council, and a director of the Film Society. After graduating, Brad attended Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.
At the time of his death, Brad was a resident surgeon at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York. He was soon to have begun a residency in orthopedics at the Cornell Hospital for Special Surgery.
Classmates and friends will best remember Brad for his love of music. With guitar and harmonica, he entertained many at gatherings around campus. His deep concern for his fellow man was well-expressed through music and medicine. We extend our deepest sympathy and kindest thoughts to Brad's family.
DAVE SPEARS '78
RICK SUNSHINE '78
1984
It was with a deep sense, of sadness and loss that I learned that JAMES FRANK MCNEIL of Sandy, Utah, died at home in October of last year. He was 24.
In high school and college Jim was a distinguished athlete and student. During his freshman and sophomore years at Dartmouth he received citations in both drama and classics. He also rowed on the crew and played for the tennis team.
However, it was his personal warmth and extraordinary creativity that singled him out as a very special human being. This was expressed most graphically on the stage. Jim had an enormous capacity for kindness, and it may have been his innate sympathy for the people around him that made him such a talented and powerful actor.
His later performances at Dartmouth, particularly in Buried Child and Hecuba, demonstrated a development of technique that would have made him a performer of real stature. That he had the gift of genuine power on stage, as rare as it is God-given, was obvious from his first performance in the Bentley Theater in a 12:30 Rep production of American Buffalo. As his interpretation of the part progressed, moving many of us to tears, it was impossible to ignore the fact that one was in the presence of a truly great talent.
None of us will ever know the reasons that led to Jim's decision to take his own life. What we can, and must, continue to know is the beauty and richness of that life. Jim's was a strong and glorious spirit. In the too-short time that we were privileged enough to know him, he left many-gifts. Those will live on for each of us, and we cradle that flame in the sure knowledge "that no shadow ever broke a rock."
LUCRETIA W. GRINDLE '83
