Deaths
(This is a listing of deaths of which word has beenreceived since the last issue. Full notices, whichare usually written by the class secretaries, mayappear in this issue or a later one.)
Betrand C. French '09, March 12 Fletcher Clark Jr. '12, March 1 Myron J. Files '14, November 25, 1984 Mortimer F. Coon '18, February 24 Richard E. Hazen '20, November 22, 1984 James M. Osborne '23, February 15 C. Burton Prouty '23, March 11 Ruel S. Smith '23, March 6 David K. Rubins '24, March 6 Thomas C. Colt '26, March 6 George E. Manser Jr. '26, March 23 Laurence M. Scoville '26, January 23 Reeve W. Brokaw '27, February 1 Merton L. Cotton '27, March 26 Michael H. Ross '27, March 14 Francis C. Thurston '28, February 18 Gordon Hoxie '30, March 6 Philip J. Troy '30, February 4 Franklin T. Nichols '31, February 8 Philip W. Burleigh '32, March 8 Joe L. Stetman '32, March 20 Walter S. Douglas '33, March 15 Harry V. Osborne Jr. '33, March 19 Preston D. Belknap '34, March 13 Arthur C. Allyn '35, March 22 William E. Ballou '36, February 6 Leo F. Glynn '36, March 7 Norman Simon '36, March 23 George C. Young '36, March 6 C. Harvey Barker '38, March 3 Winthrop I. Clarke '38, January 12 George W. Dana '38, January 30 Paul F. McLaughlin '38, March 1 R. Jordan Gotshall '41, March 30 William A. Lowry '41, March 8 Eugene Roitman '43, December 8, 1984 Roland F. Beers Jr. '45, March 20 William H. Pruden II '48, March 18 Augustus Farnsworth '49, December 19,1984 Edward A. Price '56, October 16, 1984 Richard J. Vaules Jr. '57, March 18
1908
ALLAN MOORE PERKINS, 99, of La Jolla, Calif., died on February 24. At the time of his death, he was the third oldest alumnus of Dartmouth. He had served his class in recent years as president.
"Perk" prepared for Dartmouth at Wellesley (Mass.) High School. From 1908 to 1916 he was in the brokerage business in Boston. In March 1916 he transferred to New York to open an office for W.O. Gay and Company, investment brokers, but made his home in Greenwich, Conn. From 1918 to 1922 he was with Hathaway, Smith, Fold, and Company in New York City. During World War II he served as lieutenant commander in the navy.
He was married in 1912 to Kate Van Ostrand of Watertown, N.Y. They resided in Greenwich, Conn., for 44 years. They had two sons, one of whom was killed during the invasion of the Philippines in 1944. His other son, Woodbury, is Yale '38 and received his M.D. degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1942. Two grandchildren also survive.
1909
Bertrand Carr French, youngest member of the class of '09, class secretary and treasurer, and Treasurer of the Year in 1952, died on March 12 at Whitehall Manor Nursing Home, Hyannis, Mass.
He lived most of his 95 years in his hometown of Sandwich, Mass., holding these positions: civil engineer, Cape Cod Canal Construction Company, 1909-14; civil engineer, Massachusetts Harbor and Land Commission, 1914-1917; and civil engineer, Massachusetts Department of Public Works, 1919-1957, when he retired.
He was a World War I veteran, serving in the army as a first lieutenant; a charter member and first commander of Clark Haddad Post 188, American Legion; charter member of the 40&8 Club; charter member of Cape Cod chapter, American Military Engineers; charter and life member and former vice president, Massachusetts State Engineers Association; associate member, Barnstable and Dukes County Highway Surveyors Association; and member of Cummaquid Golf Club.
In Masonry he held important positions, such as past master, past district grand master, past high priest, past deputy grand high priest. His other Masonic affiliations included New Bedford Council, Royal and Select Masters, Bay State Commandery, Brockton, Alleppo Temple, and Cape Cod Shrine Club.
He was senior warden emeritus of St. John's Episcopal Church, where he had been an active officer since 1911, starting as clerk.
He was the husband of the late Hazel Blake French, who was a well known crafter of fine jewelry, and the father of the late Eleanor Louise Gartrell.
He is survived by a son, Bertrand C. French Jr., Dartmouth class of '41, of Cummaquid; one daughter, Lucy F. Morrison of South Yarmouth and Medford; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
1912
Attorney FLETCHER CLARK JR., 94, of Middleboro, Mass., died on March 1. A native of Sandwich, Mass., Fletch had lived in Middleboro for the past 70 years. After graduation from Dartmouth, where he was a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon fraternity, he earned his law degree from Harvard University in 1915. He entered the U.S. Army two years later and served as a lieutenant in France during World War I.
He was elected town moderator of Middleboro in 1922 and served for 52 years. He served as director and member of the executive committee of the Middieboro Trust Company; as president and trustee of the Middieboro Savings Bank; as a member of the American and Massachusetts Bar Associations; as a member of several Masonic organizations; as a member of the vestry of the Church of Our Saviour for 55 years; and as a trustee for the Thomas S. Peirce Fund, which provides funding for projects benefitting townspeople.
He was a loyal Dartmouth alumnus, serving his class as treasurer for many years. He was elected president of the Class Treasurers Association in 1961 and named Class Treasurer of the Year in 1968.
His brother, Edward E. Clark '14, died the year after his graduation. Fletch is survived by four children: Edward '52, Fletcher III '45, Margaret Atkins, and Charles; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. His wife, Marguerite (Swift), whom he married in 1918, died in 1982.
In an interview with the local newspaper in 1982, he said of his full and active life in Middleboro, "If I could live over again, and foresee the life I've had here, I'd do it again."
1914
Myron Jennison Files of Gorham, Maine, died on November 25, 1984.
Myron majored in English at Dartmouth and earned a master's from Harvard in 1916. He taught English at Tufts University and at Dartmouth before serving in World War I.
After the war he taught English for 35 years at Tufts, retiring in 1954 and moving to his farm in Appleton, Maine.
He later maintained a home in Northwood, N.H.
He is survived by his wife, Esther, and three children, Myron Jr., George, and Flora Ann.
1918
On February 2 Mortimer Fremont Coon, 91, died at Shnango Valley Hospital in Farrell, Pa. At Dartmouth Mort was a member of the Cosmos and Outing Clubs. He received a degree in civil engineering from Thayer School in 1919.
Until his retirement he was assistant chief engineer for the Sharon Steel Corporation, in Sharon, Pa. For years he was a solicitor for the Dartmouth Alumni Fund and for the Thayer Society of Engineers.
Civic life found Mort on Sharon and South Pymatuning Township planning commissions. He was a member of Shnango Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Shriners and was a deacon in the Baptist church. He is survived by his wife, Gertrude, two daughters, and a grandson.
1919
Chauncey Dean Merrill died suddenly on February 25 at his home in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Up until that time he had been in good health.
His passing represents a tremendous loss to the class. He was always present at our various reunions, and as editor of the "Smoke Signals" since 1977 he did an outstanding job in making the class a well-knit group.
Volunteering for service at the outset of World War I, he attained the rank of lieutenant. He returned to college and after graduation spent six years as a U.S. Forest Service ranger in California and Arkansas and two more years as assistant forester for the Society for Protection of New Hampshire forests.
At the beginning of World War II he returned to service with the Fifth Infantry division in Iceland. After the war he remained in the reserve and earned the rank of major general in 1962.
In 1928 he joined the Equitable Life Assurance Company in Boston and remained with them until his retirement in 1963. He was made a Chartered Life Underwriter in 1932.
"Jigger" was involved in a broad range of civic activities. He was a deacon and moderator of the East Congregational Church in Milton, Mass., for many years. He was district deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Massachusetts and a member of the Scottish Rite in Boston.
He married Victoria Ernestine Austin in 1924. They had three children, Willard Dean Merrill '49 of Woodstock, Vt., Will Austin Merrill of Beaufort, S.C., and Mrs. Lucille Birch of Lyme, N.H. They have ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
1920
Richard Ellworth Hazen died on November 22, 1984, in Seattle, Wash. He was predeceased by Mabel, his wife of 50 years. He is survived by a son, Richard Jr.
1923
Theodore Smith Barstow died on February 3, following a long illness.
Following high school in Rochester, N.Y., Ted entered Dartmouth, graduated, and then taught school. He then joined the New York Telephone Company and stayed with them for almost 40 years, retiring in 1966. He became during that time supervisor of personnel and editor of the company's personnel handbook and was responsible for salary administration and college trainee programs. Following retirement, he and his wife, Jane, returned to Hanover, where he was of great help to his fellow classmates. Just a few years ago, because of physical disability, he moved to Hamden, Conn., into a nursing home, where he could be near and more under the care of his daughter.
In college Ted was a member of Kappa Phi Kappa and Chi Phi. He was married in 1928 to Jane Henderson; they had two daughters, one of whom graduated from Oberlin and the other from the University of Rochester. Ted loved to ski in the winter and loved sailing and birdwatching in the summer. He was also, between times, a woodworker of note. We shall all miss Ted's jovial ways and his love for his fellow classmates.
Philip Edwin DeBerard a resident of Knox Village, Orange City, Fla., died November 11, 1984.
He spent one year at Dartmouth and transferred to Northwestern University where he met his bride-to-be. They had three children, including Philip jr. '45. He and his wife were lost in an airline accident and never found.
Philip spent most of his years in banking business with the First State Bank of Florida (Florida Bank at Deland). After retirement he devoted his time to yachting, duplicate bridge, and orchid growing. His wife, Bunny, devotes her time to writing plays and books, painting in oils, acrylics, and water colors, and lecturing on a woman's role in her husband's retirement.
Carey Frank Goddard died in Gainesville, Fla., on November 29, 1983.
Carey entered Dartmouth and graduated with the class of 1923. He was on the wrestling and football squads at Dartmouth.
He entered the business world, first in insurance and then selling hardware. He taught physics at the University of Florida and did some public accounting. Then he took up law and got his LL.B. in 1945 and his J.D. in 1967 from the University of Florida. He was the senior partner in the law firm of Goddard, Weeshaw, and Chance in Gainesville, Fla.
Carey was twice married and had two children from the first marriage and one more from the second.
James Morris Osborne of Chardon, Ohio, and Sanibel, Fla., died at the age of 83 on February 15 at Community Hospital, Fort Myers, Fla. He had suffered from emphysema for several years and died of congestive heart failure. His wife of 60 years, Alice Quayle Osborne, and several members of his family were with him at the time.
Jock graduated from the University School in Cleveland and while at Dartmouth was a member of DKE, Casque and Gauntlet, and Green Key and captained the hockey team in 1923- He retained his love of Dartmouth and served as a class agent and helped to provide the hockey warming area in the Thompson Arena as well as scholarship aid. He was instrumental in encouraging several of his nephews of the Mills and Bruch families to attend Dartmouth. He was a life member of the Dartmouth Educational Association, and there is now a James M. Osborne '23 Memorial Fund established with that organization. He thoroughly enjoyed attending the "Wearers of The Green" dinner in Boston last spring.
Following graduation from Dartmouth he worked for the Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Company in Cleveland and was president of the YOC when it was acquired by Panhandle Eastern Pipeline in 1976. He was also president of the Osborne Estates Company and the Ravencliffs Development Company and a member of the University Club of Cleveland and the Trout Club of Deep Springs.
He and his family lived at Grayhorse Farm in Chardon, Ohio, and in addition to his wife, Alice ("Toot"), he is survived by a daughter, Allison O. Titgemeier of Chardon, and two sons, James M. Jr. '47 of Sandy Hook, Conn., and David A. of St. Clairsville, Ohio; ten grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Two of his grandchildren have attended Dartmouth College. Dorothy Osborne Cox, Smith '76, spent her junior year at Hanover, and his eldest grandchild, James Robert Osborne, graduated in 1971.
James M. Osborne Jr. '47
Charles Burton Prouty died at his winter home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on March 11. He is survived by his wife, dermatologist Dr. Mildred Ryan; a sister; and many nieces and nephews. He was an avid bridge player and life-master and won many local and national prizes.
His life work was in the lumber business, and before retirement he was treasurer on the Taunton Lumber Company. He was also president of the local Red Cross and a member of the Brockton Rotary Club, Commercial Club, University Club, Chamber of Commerce, and YMCA. He was executive board and district commissioner of the Council of Boy Scouts, served eight years as director of the Taxpayers Association, and served in the Signal Corps in World War II.
In college he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. His brother, the late Richard Prouty, was in the class of 1928.
Ruel Stevenson Smith of Wilton, Conn., died on March 6 at age 84 in the Norwalk, Conn., Hospital after a long illness.
A graduate of Poly Prep Country Day School, Brooklyn, N.Y., Ruel had attended Princeton University for two years when in 1921 he transferred to Dartmouth to become a member of our great class. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Dragon Senior Society, the Christian Association Cabinet, The Arts, and Round Robin.
In addition to masterminding 1923's "Golden Review," he was also a member of the 50th reunion committee and a class director.
Ruel had a brilliant business career, starting with the New York Telephone Company and moving to Doremus and Company, (advertising), before joining Time magazine, where he spent the next 30 years in management assignments, eventually occupying the position of associate advertising director until his retirement in 1961. An author of articles on advertising, public relations, and foreign trade, Ruel had also been active in civic and social organizations. Long a member of the Financial Public Relations Association, he was cited for his year of service to that group on its 50th anniversary in 1965.
A vestryman of his Wilton Church, he was also a trustee of Union Chapel at his summer home on Martha's Vineyard. He is survived by his wife, the former Margaret Trotter Smith; son Ruel Jr. '54 of New York City; and grandsons Ruel and Andrew and granddaughter Linda Sakes of Toronto.. Ruel Jr. and his late brother Michael were children born of Ruel's marriage to the late Helen Mack Catlin.
Ruel was a prominent member of the class and was beloved by all who were privileged to know him well.
The class extends its deep sympathy to his wife, "Marg," and all his family.
Clarence E. Goss '23
1924
David Kresz Rubins died at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind., on March 6. Dave was in our class for two years and then continued his education at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design in New York and at the Julian Academy and Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. He also studied in Rome.
Dave was a sculptor. His best known work is his statue of Abraham Lincoln on the lawn of the Indiana State Capitol. He also is author of The Human Figure An Anatomy for Artists. He taught sculpture and anatomy at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. He retired as a professor in 1970 and continued his affiliation as artist-in-residence thereafter. He exhibited in New York, including the Metropolitan Museum, and also throughout the Midwest.
He is survived by two sons, James A. Rubins, Princeton '55, and Harry L. Rubins, Purdue '61.
Beach Carter Soule Jr. died on August 21, 1984. Beach was born in Oakland, Calif., and entered college from Santa Barbara School. He spent only one year at Dartmouth and subsequently studied at the University of California. He worked for a time as a merchandise manager for a department store in Oakland, followed by 14 years in the cannery and food processing business in San Francisco. Subsequently, he was a business consultant in San Francisco. His only survivor is his wife, Rebecca.
1925
Richard Hodgdon Aldrich died November 11, 1984, at his home in East Douglas, Mass. After graduating, he entered the woolen mills in East Douglas; he became assistant treasurer and then comptroller of Hayward-Schuster Woolen Mills.
He is survived by his wife, Florence (Higenbottom), and a son, Ralph.
THOMAS PHELPS CARPENTER died on February 17 after many months in the Sprain Brook Manor Nursing Home in Scarsdale, N.Y.
Following graduation from Dartmouth, he received an M.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1927 and took additional work in sociology from 1929 to 1933. He was president of Oak Park Junior College from 1933 to 1938 and director of admissions and dean of freshmen at Knox College in Illinois from 1938 to 1943. From 1943 to 1945, he served in Washington, D.C., as Secretary of the Joint Committee of the United States Navy, Air Force, and War Manpower. He received the Navy's Distinguished Civilian Service Award. He was general secretary of Stanford University from 1945 to 1952. From 1952 to 1955, he headed the Empire State Foundation of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges.
Following his retirement in 1955, he devoted his time to the problems of alcoholism, serving in many local state and national organizations in various capacities, including as president of the National Council on Alcoholism and of the New York State Council of Committees on Alcoholism, and vice chairman of Governor Rockefeller's Advisory Council, as well as serving in important positions on task forces of the State Council and of the National Council of Churches. He received the highest award of the National Council on Alcoholism and also of the National Health Council.
He is survived by his wife, Betty, a daughter, Elizabeth Harrington of Boulder, Colo., and a son, Thomas of Madison, Wise. A daughter, Dorothy Miller-Cummings, was killed in an automobile accident about 1965. There are nine grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.
George Reed Lyon died February 2 in Lake Forest, 111. After graduating, "Tige" obtained his J.D. at Northwestern University Law School and practiced business law in Chicago, becoming a partner in the firm of McCarthy, Witry, Lyon, and McCarthy until his retirement. He served as president of the Chicago Dartmouth Alumni Association from 1949 to 1950' and as a member of the Alumni Council from 1957 to 1959. He also served as a member of the Waukegan Grade School board and the Lake Forest High School board. He was a member of the Law Club of Chicago, Legal Club of Chicago, University Club, Ontwentsia Club, and Phi Delta Phi. He spent part of each summer on Squirrel Island, Boothbay, Maine; Maine was the home state of his wife, Mary.
He is survived by Mary and three sons, William S. '55, Whitney R., Bowdoin '57, and John P., Colgate '63.
1928
Bernard Stevens Goodrich died on November 20, 1984, at Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Conn. He was born June 27, 1909, in West Hartford, graduated from high school there, and lived in the area all his life. He had lived in Simsbury, Conn., for the past 22 years.
In college "Bun" majored in chemistry and was a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon, the Press Club, and the business staff of The Dartmouth. He was active in alumni activities and served as secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford.
After graduation Bun taught at high schools for two years while attending graduate school summers at Columbia University. He began his insurance career in 1930 in the main office of the Travelers Insurance Company and was assistant secretary in the group department when he retired in 1972.
During World War II he tried to help reduce the shortage of nurses by teaching chemistry evenings at Hillyer College (now part of the University of Hartford), and later taught courses there on the principles of group insurance. He was the former chairman of the Newington board of education. He is survived by his wife, Alma (Arnurius), two sons, including John A. '59, a daughter, a brother, and four grandchildren.
Gerard Johnston died on December 22, 1984, of a heart attack in Wilton, Conn., which had been his home for 40 years. He retired over a year ago from his own advertising agency in New York City. He was well known as the man who 25 years ago put together his own network of the 250 radio stations that constitute the Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network every Saturday afternoon from December to April.
Jerry was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and entered Dartmouth from Erasmus Hall High School in New York City along with his classmate the late Paul Kruming. Jerry played on the varsity lacrosse team for three years and was its captain his senior year. He majored in economics and was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Jerry worked for General Motors in New York from 1928 to 1948. He participated in many interesting projects, such as the Futurama at the New York World's Fair. In 1944 he was appointed assistant to Alfred P. Sloan, GM's chairman of the board. Jerry joined the J. M. Mathes advertising agency in 1948, leaving in 1951 to go with the Kudner Agency to handle Texaco's radio and TV advertising. He started his own agency, G. H. Johnston, Inc., in 1957. He and his wife shared the hobby of raising and showing Great Danes for more than 47 years.
His wife, Mary, died recently. The late B. Lytton Johnston '29 was his brother.
William Churchill Lary died on January 2 of cancer of the throat at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover. He had lived in Sunapee, N.H., since 1948. Bill prepared for Dartmouth at a Gorham, N.H., high school, where he was valedictorian. In college he played on Dartmouth College's first varsity lacrosse team for three years, majored in sociology, and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
He started working for Texaco after graduation. For 20 years he was on different assignments in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. For the next 24 years he was district sales engineer, covering New Hampshire and Vermont, and he retired in 1972.
Bill's hobbies were working for the Dartmouth Alumni Fund (which led to five years as head class agent), serving as town auditor and volunteer fire department dispatcher, working on his garden and 112-year-old house, and being a member of Mt. Vernon Lodge 15 and F&AM and he still found time to enjoy candlepin bowling, reading, and crossword puzzles.
He leaves his wife of 52 years, Esther (Caney), three sons, the eldest being William C. Lary '56, and five grandchildren. Ed Flanders, Herb Sensenig, and Joe Tidd represented the class at the funeral.
Harry Leslie Stone, retired executive of the International Harvester Company and longtime resident of Wilmette, III., died on December 12, 1984, in a hospital in Carmel, Calif., following a severe stroke suffered two months earlier. He and Margaret had moved to Carmel in 1979.
Harry and his twin brother, Fred, were born in Chicago, brought up in Wilmette, and entered Dartmouth together from the New Trier High School. Fred died 19 months before his brother, also of a stroke.
At Dartmouth Harry played on the varsity soccer team, was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and majored in economics.
After graduation he was assistant cashier of the Wilmette State Bank, then moved up to assistant treasurer of the International Harvester Company. He became treasurer of the International Harvester Credit Corporation.
He was president of the 2,400-member Executives Club of Chicago for two years and enjoyed presiding at the weekly meetings and introducing the famous speakers. He was a director of the Wilmette State Bank and the Racine Steel Casting Company.
He was a member of the Chicago Yacht Club and active in local town government and community activities. His hobbies were golf and curling.
Survivors are his wife, Margaret (Stedman), whom he married in 1970, two daughters, a son, Judson Stone '63, three stepchildren, and four grandchildren.
Francis Chandler Thurston, a wellknown textile engineer, died February 18 at the New England Medical Center, Boston, after a very short illness. He was a resident of Wakefield, Mass., for over 50 years.
Frank graduated from high school in Maiden, Mass., and at Dartmouth he majored in English literature and was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
After graduation he entered the textile field with American Woolen and did a great deal of traveling on special management jobs at mills in Maine and Connecticut. In 1947 he started his own consulting company with offices in Boston, servicing woolen mills throughout the eastern states. He also was in demand for consulting work for banks and factories. In 1958 he moved his offices to Andover, Mass.
His hobbies were golf, tennis, and history. He maintained an active interest in his class and in Dartmouth activities, and was a frequent visitor to Hanover.
Frank never married, and his only relative was a distant cousin. His father was the late H.R. Thurston, class of 1894. Cuddy Gardner, Larry Martin, and Skip and Beryl Drayton attended his funeral, as did his friends Warren Phinney '30 and his wife.
1930
With regret we must inform you of the death of Jack Kenneth Alexander on October 21, 1984. At Dartmouth Jack majored in economics and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. After graduation he continued his studies for several years at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, now the University of Alaska, where he earned a varsity letter in hockey. He remained in Alaska until 1938, employed as a mining engineer by U.S. Smelting Company.
At that time he returned to Massachusetts with his bride, the former Rebecca Hopkins, who also attended the University of Alaska. He was employed as traffic manager for the Charles M. Cox Company, Maiden, Mass., from 1938 to 1952, and as a process control engineer for Johns-Manville in North Billerica, Mass., from 1952 until 1970.
After his retirement in 1970 Jack worked for four and a half years as a teacher's aide in a class of trainable mentally-retarded children, work which he described as the"most satisfying job I ever had." Though he had little direct contact with members of the class in recent years he remained a faithful supporter of the College and was a 46-year donor to the Alumni Fund.
Jack is survived by his wife, Becky, two married daughters, and a nephew, E. John Alexander '45, to all of whom the class extends its sympathy in their loss.
The College has only recently learned of the death on October 14, 1984, of Charles Ignatius West, M.D. As an undergraduate "Buck" transferred to Howard University, Washington, D.C., where he earned his bachelor's degree and, in 1933, his doctorate in medicine, as his father had in 1898. After residency in surgery at the Tulsa Municipal Hospital he practiced briefly in Washington and served in the Army Medical Corps in World War II and then in the U.S. Public Health Service. In 1946 he cofounded the Barefield-West Clinic in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale, and in 1954 he established a general practice in Las Vegas, where he remained the rest of his life.
Buck was reported in 1961 to be the only black physician practicing in Nevada. In addition he was the founder in 1963 of the LasVegas Voice, a weekly tabloid and the only black-oriented newspaper in the state. As publisher of the Voice he authored a weekly column on Africa and another called "Hidden History," which revealed some of the great contributions of blacks in history. He was also active in the community as founder of the Nevada Voters League, as a member of the Las Vegas Urban Renewal Commission and the Medical Advisory Committee of the Ne- vada Athletic Commission, and as vice chairman of the Nevada Democratic Party.
The sympathy of the class is extended to his wife, Dorothy, and two sons.
1931
After a distressingly long and severe illness, Roger Babcock Donner died on January 27 while hospitalized in San Diego, Calif. He and Mary Ellen had made their home there for a number of years since his retirement.
Rog spent his entire business career in banking, holding offices as vice president and trust officer. While during most of this time he was associated with institutions in Albany, N.Y., his birthplace, at the time of our 25th reunion he was vice president and manager of the trust investment department of the Peoples First National Bank and Trust Company, Pittsburgh, Pa.
He retired in 1967 when he became disabled through the loss of a leg. Despite his disabilities, he continued to maintain a keen interest in the affairs of the College and our class.
He was president of the Dartmouth Club of Eastern New York in Albany in the 1930s and was an active class agent for a number of years.
As our newsletter has reported, Craig Thorn called the Donner home while in the San Diego area in early January and learned from Mary Ellen of the seriousness of Rog's condition. When he called back about two weeks later, he found that Rog had passed away but was told by Mary Ellen that Rog had gotten great happiness from being told of Beany's call. They had been prep school classmates at Albany.
Mary Ellen and Rog were married on May 31, 1931, just before our graduation. They have a daughter and a son. Rog's brother, the late Ward Donner, was a member of the class of 1933.
We regret to belatedly report the death of Willard Francis Johnson on March 15, 1984. Johnny died in Athens, Ga., where he was undergoing medical treatment. His home was in Abington, Maine, where he had moved after retirement from a long career as a practicing psychologist.
He majored and won scholastic honors in psychology at Dartmouth and from graduation until 1936 served as a psychologist with the Rockefeller Foundation Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Rochester. He then joined the New York State Department of Social Services, and his position at his retirement in 1968 was assistant commissioner for Children's Services.
He earned a master's degree in Russian at Middlebury College in 1955. After his retirement he traveled widely in Scandinavia and spent nearly a year studying Norwegian in Bergen, Norway.
During World War 11, he was a seaman in the navy, with most of his service on Okinawa and in other parts of the South Pacific as a seabee".
While living in Rochester and Albany during his active professional career, he was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Rochester and the Eastern New York Association and was secretary and president of the latter. He also was very active in interviewing committee work.
Johnny never married. He is survived by his brother, Paul, a member of the class of 1934.
After a long illness, Arthur Ingenhoven O'Brien died on January 3 at St. Petersburg, Fla., where he had lived since his retirement in 1973.
Art spent his entire career in secondary education. After our graduation, he earned his master's degree at Tuck School and then entered the Framingham, Mass. (his hometown), school system in 1934. There, he taught mathematics and business education. He received a master's degree in education from Harvard in 1941. According to our 25th yearbook, he pursued a sideline of selling concrete for a time. During World War II, Art served in the navy as a lieutenant.
He had a fine tenor voice and, after membership in the Dartmouth Glee Club and Quartet while in college, he continued to use his talent with local choral groups and in personal performances throughout his active later life. He was a member and sometime secretary of the Dartmouth Club of South Middlesex, Mass.
Art is survived by his wife, Helen, whom he married in 1935. They have two children, a daughter and a son, and several grandchildren.
Art spoke of his educator's philosophy in an interview with the high school paper where he taught when he said in 1970: "These young people with whom I have been associated now for 40 years are going to bring this country out of its present conditions of being too fat-headed and fat-bellied and will bring the nation to a situation where it will do a real constructive job throughout the world."
1932
Philip Whitiemore Burieigh passed away in North Edgecomb, Maine, on March 8. Phil had been a widower since 1976 and had been in rather poor health since that time, having undergone heart surgery twice. Phil and his wife, Eunice, had retired to Maine in 1972, where they had spent summers and vacations for many years. His business career had been as purchasing agent for the Raytheon Company of Waltham, Mass. He had been treasurer of the All Saints Episcopal Church in Ashmont, Mass., and had recently been a member of the St. Phillips Episcopal Church in Wiscasset, Maine.
The Burleighs are survived by a son, Philip Jr., and a daughter, Gretchen, neither of whom have married, and a sister.
While at Dartmouth, Phil was a member of the freshman and varsity hockey teams and the varsity lacrosse team. He was a member of Chi Phi fraternity and of Dragon Senior Society.
To his family, our class extends its deepest sympathy.
We have a note from Mrs. Carl Parsons, stating that her brother-in-law, Edward Kenneth Parsons, had passed away some time ago! Apparently Edward, who did not graduate with our class, had been out of touch with Dartmouth connections, and so we have no record of his career. He had resided in North Kingston, R.I.
1934
An attack by an unknown assailant at his St. Armands Key home caused the death of Preston Dewey Belknap. He was struck down while investigating a noise in his garage on March 10 and suffered a fracture of the skull. He died three days later, without regaining consciousness.
Pret came to Dartmouth from Bellows Falls, Vt. He was on the staff of The Dartmouth, a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, and an economics/political science major. Soon after graduation he joined his two brothers, Paul '21 and Roland '30, in publishing four weekly newspapers for the Vermont Newspaper Corporation: The Bellows Falls Times,The Springfield Reporter, The Vermont Journal of Windsor and The Vermont Tribune of Ludlow. In 1965 he divested these interests and moved to Sarasota, Fla., where he owned and operated the Town and Beach and the Tahiti Sands apartments on Golden Gate Point. He was also vice president of Thomson Newspapers, Inc., an international newspaper chain.
Pret is survived by his wife, Kathryn; by daughters Susan Pendergast of Westboro, Mass., and Nancy Flinn of Charlotte, Vt.; by son Peter of Putney, Vt.; and also by two sisters and nine grandchildren. His brothers predeceased him.
1935
Albert John Ochsner II, M.D., died in Yuma, Ariz., on January 30. Albert spent three years with the class of 1935 before transferring to the University of Richmond, where he graduated in 1935. His M.D. degree was from the Medical College of Virginia in 1940. His anesthesiology training was at the Mayo Clinic and in the U.S. Army, from which he retired as a major.
Early in his medical career Albert practiced in Louisiana and then moved to Yuma. He was named Yuma "Man of the Year" in 1962 for his professional and civic endeavors and came to feel that Arizona was his real home. Despite the distance from Hanover and the fact he did not graduate with the class, he felt a continued friendship for the College and several of his intimate classmates. Albert's brother, Seymour, is a member of the class of 1937 and his granddaughter, Lissa Ochsner, is a freshman at Dartmouth this year.
1937
Robert Francis Sullivan died on September 8, 1984. He came to Dartmouth from Boston English High School, majored in sociology, worked on the business board of The Dartmouth, and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Bob wrote in our 25th yearbook that he never connected with a meaningful job, having moved from the oil business to selling liquor. He finally ended up as a social worker for the state of Massachusetts, which paid little by comparison but gave him an immense amount of satisfaction as he enjoyed helping the elderly.
During the seventies his eyesight began to fail, getting worse over the years, until he became legally blind with only peripheral vision. He and Rita had a friendly divorce, and he continued to live in his home on a small pension. She lived just around the corner from him and continued to cook and look after him until he died.
Bob was perhaps one of our most loyal classmates and extremely proud of his Dartmouth experience although he was never in a position to participate in our normal alumni activities.
He leaves Rita and three grown children. His brother, Charley Sullivan '31, died several years ago.
1939
Louis HARRISON BRADLEY, 69, of Brewster, Mass., died suddenly of a heart attack at his home on February 12.
Lou was born in Derby, Conn., and lived in Orange, Conn., before retiring to Cape Cod in 1971.
He was a 1934 graduate of Cheshire Acad- emy, where he played on the basketball team for four years and the soccer team in his senior year. At Dartmouth he was an English major and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
He worked for 29 years for the Farrel Division of Emhart Corporation, retiring in 1970 as manager of production engineering.
He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of Cape Cod and before that of the Dartmouth Club of New Haven. He was also a member of the Orange Fire Department.
A memorial service was held at the First Congregational Church in Derby, Conn., highlighted, by the reading of touching tributes from his children. Bob Dickgiesser, Ted Wolfe, and Duke Lyon were on hand to represent his class.
Lou is survived by his wife of 45 years, Elizabeth Downs Bradley; a son, Sheldon of Rochester, N.Y.; two daughters, Carol Sullivan of Bellingham, Mass., and Lynn Benjamin of Westbrook, Conn.; and three grandchildren.
A note from his wife, Betty, said, "I don't believe one week in our married life ever went by that Dartmouth was not mentioned in a very fond and nostalgic way. There seems to be a feeling of closeness among the 'Men of Dartmouth.' "
Lou's warm heart and keen sense of humor endeared him to his many friends and relatives. He will be sorely missed but never forgotten by anyone who knew him.
Erwin L. Lyon Jr. '39
William Nesbitt Mulkie 68, of Erie, Pa., died on February 5 at Saint Vincent Health Center, Erie.
Bill, known to his friends by the nickname of "Monk," was born in Erie and prepared for Dartmouth at Union City High School and Strong Vincent High School. He played football and basketball for four years and was manager of track, was class president his junior year, and was a member of the student council for two years. At Dartmouth Monk majored in economics, played baseball in his freshman year, and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
He served as a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Until his retirement in December of 1981, Monk had been a vice president of Yates Company, an organization engaged in making plastic extrusions.
He was a member of Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul where he was a former head of the Sunday School. He was also a former chapter member of Lawrence Lodge 709, F&AM, and Scottish Rite Bodies of Erie. He was active in United Fund drives, Masonry, Kahkwa Club, and the YMCA.
He is survived by his wife, Susan Missimer Mulkie, a son, John R. Mulkie of St. Louis, and a daughter, Elizabeth Jane Mulkie of Erie.
1941
Jerry Donohue III, a professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania since 1966 and internationally recognized in his specialty of X-ray crystallography, died February 13 in Philadelphia after a serious illness.
Just last year, Jerry was one of a half-dozen Penn faculty members to be honored with the University's Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. The citation said that his "teaching has an impact profound and farreaching... cuts across traditional boundaries."
Born and raised in Sheboygan, Wise., Jerry was a member of Gamma Delta Chi fraternity and the International Relations Club at Dartmouth. He stayed in Hanover as a chemistry instructor and received his M.A. in 1943. He earned his Ph.D. and did post-doctoral research at California Institute of Technology. After a Guggenheim Fellowship at Cambridge, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in 1953 and was chairman of the chemistry department there when he moved to the University of Pennsylvania.
Jerry was a member of a number of scientific societies and recipient of many professional honors and awards, including several visiting lectureships in Switzerland. He was the author of more than 200 articles, technical papers, and reviews as well as a book, TheStructures of the Elements, first published in 1974 and reissued in 1981.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia, a son, and a daughter.
William Allen Lowry a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, attorney for 35 years prior to his retirement three years ago, died of cancer on March 8, at his Shaker Heights home.
An obituary in the Cleveland Plain Dealer stated: "While he was a senior partner in one of the city's prestigious law firms, he may well be remembered for his activism for various social causes." The social causes ranged from handgun control to environmental and public-transportation matters. He was a past president of the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and a former officer and trustee of the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association. He served as general counsel for the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Bill once successfully sued the state of Ohio in behalf of Cleveland, winning the city better highway financing. On another occasion, he organized a movement that blocked construction of a freeway in the Shaker Lakes area.
Bill was born in Urbana, Ohio, and raised in Kansas City, Mo. At Dartmouth, he was a Senior Fellow, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was secretary of Palaeopitus and served on the Interdormitory Council and the Interfraternity Treasurers' Council.
He was a pilot and flight instructor in the Army Air Force during World War II with the rank of captain. After service, he entered Harvard Law School and received his degree in 1948. The same year he became a partner in the Cleveland law firm of Hahn, Loeser, Freedheim, Dean, and Wellman, with which he associated until his retirement. Bill is survived by his wife, Frances, two sons, W. Allen Lowry Jr. and Mark Lowry, and a grandson.
1943
James McKinley Mullins Jr., retired eastern division credit manager for the Brown Shoe Company, died of a heart seizure February 3 at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. He was 63.
Jim had worked for the Brown Shoe Company for nearly 34 years before he retired in October 1984. Previously, he worked for three years for the B. F. Goodrich Company.
A native of St. Louis, Jim came to Dartmouth from Cleveland High School in St. Louis. He lived in Crosby Hall, now the Blunt Alumni Center, and majored in international relations.
After graduating from Dartmouth, Jim served during World War II with a military intelligence unit in the China-Burma-India theater of war.
He suffered a heart attack in 1975, which forced him to reduce his community and alumni activities.
He leaves his wife, Mary; two sons, Dr. James M. Mullins III '69 of San Antonio, Tex., and Dr. Richard C. Mullins of WinstonSalem, N.C.; a daughter, Judy Lucas of St. Joseph, Mo.; a brother, Richard A. Mullins of Cincinnati, Ohio; and four grandchildren.
Eugene Roitman, a musician and composer, died in his apartment in Savona, Italy, on December 8, 1984. The cause was attributed to a heart seizure. He was 62.
Gene entered Dartmouth from Winthrop (Mass.) High School and the New England Conservatory of Music. He graduated under the wartime accelerated program in February 1943 and was inducted into the army at Fort Devens, Mass. He served in the army for 39 months, including 13 months with the field artillery of the 75th Infantry Division in the European theater of operations.
Following his discharge, he won a master's of arts degree from Boston University in 1948 and attended the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris from 1949 to 1950.
He played the English horn and the oboe for the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra and for a Porgy and Bess traveling company in the U.S. He also performed in concerts in England, France, Italy, and New Zealand. He was noted as a composer of chamber music.
He leaves a brother, Harold B. Roitman '35, a Boston lawyer.
1947
Word has been received of the death of Kenneth Clifford Drew, February 9, in Bradenton, Fla., of lung cancer.
He was known as Casey and came to Dartmouth in 1943 under the Navy V-12 program from Newark, N.J.
Little is known of his Dartmouth or navy service records, but he was employed by Western Electric Company in Newark, in the personnel and labor relations area. He enjoyed track and was involved in local government, serving a term as borough council president. He retired in 1981 because of a disability. He is survived by his wife, Joyce, and two daughters.
1948
Walter John Palmunen died of cancer in Reading, Mass., on October 21, 1984, after a short illness. Walt graduated from Barnstable, Mass., high school and joined the Dartmouth family as part of the Navy V-5 unit on campus in the fall of 1945. He returned to campus after his discharge a year later. Majoring in economics, he was a member of Theta Chi fraternity. He joined the National Shawmut Bank of Boston following graduation and remained there for 21 years in the area of cost accounting and expense control as assistant comptroller.
Friends in Reading invited him to join Caleb Pierce Real Estate to add expertise in the financial end of the business. He became manager and was active in trade associations locally and nationally. When interest rates slowed down real estate so drastically in 1979, he became comptroller for the Efficacy Re- search Institute, a school for autistic children in Framingham, Mass., where he remained until his death. Walt also served his community and was chairman of the town finance committee.
Walt married Nathalie Johnson, a Sargent College/Boston University graduate and teacher of handicapped children, in 1951. Nat and their three children/Carole, Laura, and Greig, survive him. The son of Finnish immigrant parents, Walt was extremely proud to be a Dartmouth graduate. While not active in alumni or class affairs, he and Nat often revisited the campus.
M. Robert Herrick '48
Kenneth Bernard Schaefer passed away in Sequim, Wash., on July 12, 1984, of cancer after only three months of illness. He had been retired for 18 months from Firestone Synthetic Rubber and Latex Company, which he had served for 32 years, most recently as regional sales manager in Los Angeles.
Ken came to Dartmouth from Hackensack (N.J.) High School, entering as a part of the Navy V-12 unit in July 1943. He was commissioned in June 1945 and served aboard the USS Hatfield.
Returning to campus in 1946, Ken joined Zeta Psi and Cabin and Trail and lettered in soccer. His major was economics. After graduation, he joined B. F. Goodrich Company as a sales correspondent. In 1950, he moved to Firestone, where his specialty was fuel cells that were used in aircraft, boats, and vehicles. His territory covered 11 western states.
Ken was active in community, trade, and fraternal organizations in the Los Angeles area. He enjoyed being with people and attended our 30th reunion, where he spoke of his plans for early retirement to Washington State. In 1982, he and Gwyn built a lovely retirement home on five acres high on a hill overlooking the Straits of Juan de Fuca. A boat at Dungeness gave them water access to the Puget Sound area. Two big labradors dogged his footsteps.
He married Dorothy J. Hart in 1945 with whom he had a son, Scott, in 1948. This marriage ended in divorce, and he married Gwynedd C. Allen in 1964; She and two stepdaughters survive him. Gwyn tells us that Ken lived a full life, albeit much too short.
M. Robert Herrick '48
1951
Terence Patrick Fogarty, M.D., died September 18, 1984, of a heart attack. Terry practiced ophthalmology with a group in New York City. He had been a member of the faculty of NYU Medical Center Hospital and Bellevue Hospital since 1958.
At Dartmouth, Terry majored in chemistry and zoology and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, where he will be remembered as the solo tenor of the fraternity glee club. After Dartmouth, Terry obtained a medical degree from Cornell Medical School in 1955. He then served as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps prior to entering private practice.
Terry is survived by his wife, Monika, and a son, Sascha lan.
1952
Willoughby Dennison Brown died December 14, 1984, after a courageous six-year struggle with cancer. Denny came to Dartmouth from Hudson, Ohio, following graduation from Western Reserve Academy, where he excelled in football, wrestling, and track. At Dartmouth, Denny majored in American literature, was active in freshman football and in track, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was a member of the NROTC, and upon graduation was commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy.
After military service, Denny pursued careers in investment banking and real estate development. He held the title of vice president, investment banking division, of Merrill Lynch in New York. Fourteen years later, after retiring from Merrill Lynch, he went on to pursue his interest in real estate as executive vice president of his own firm, Telluride Investments.
From his naval service, Denny developed an interest in the sea, which culminated in his ownership of a Hinckley Bermuda 40 sailboat which he greatly enjoyed during his last few years.
His classmate and friend, Jim Fowler, gave the eulogy at the memorial service for the family and close friends. Denny will be remembered for his keen, competitive spirit, his physical energy, his deep commitment to his family, college, and friends, and his real sense of personal integrity. The heartfelt condolences of the class go to Shirley and to Margaret, Stephen, Hayden, and Sidney.
1953
One doesn't easily contemplate death, even when you have been out of college for over a generation. As such, deaths of classmates are traumatic and a sobering reminder of our humanness. It is more profound when that classmate was a gifted athlete in superb condition. The class of 1953 lost such a person when CHARLES Ross Luker died on December 8, 1984. Following a successful operation to remove a tumor, he suffered a fatal embolism. Chuck was committed to his family and friends and, while quiet and introspective, left a legacy of leadership in the causes he supported, including Dartmouth College.
Born in Buffalo, N.Y., he entered Dartmouth from Vermont Academy. He distinguished himself as a swimmer, team captain, and all-American, a record that was noted by the College in 1984 when he became a "Wearer of the Green." Following Dartmouth he married Elsa Morgan in 1954, fulfilled military obligations in the army, continued graduate study in finance, and began a career in business.
He and Elsa relocated a number of times. In 1978, at the time of our 25th, they left the corporate world of Hercules, Inc., and moved to Hanover. Chuck settled in as an investment counselor. He served Dartmouth as a class agent, interviewer, and treasurer of his class. He chaired the board at Vermont Academy and had an extraordinary interest in providing educational opportunities to disadvantaged young people. In all these matters, Chuck practiced quiet and effective leadership. The class extends heartfelt condolences to Elsa, their sons, Jamie and Jeffrey, daughter Jennifer, and adopted son Solomon Njie.
The Charles R. Luker Memorial Fund has been established by the class and the College to aid disadvantaged students. Bequests in memory of Chuck should be sent to the College.
