Deaths
(This is a listing of deaths of which word has been received since the previous issue. Full notices, which are usually written by the class secretaries, may appear in this issue or a later one.)
James H. Colton '16, July 2 Ralph Sanborn '17, August 8 Edward A. Wiesman '17, May 9 E. Paul Evans '23, April 6 Edmond T. Hughes '23, February 13 Richard M. Udall '23, August 8 George N. Chamberlin '25, August 13 Ross E. Pearl '25, July 10 Charles A. Robinson '25, August 3 Harold E. Stevens '25, July 13 Frank S. Poor '26, July 28 John M. Wolf '27, March 28 Herman W. Graupner '28, July 24 Myles J. Lane '28, August 6 John H. Sanders '30, June 14 Stiles W. Burr '31, July 8 Albert C. Boncutter '32, April 29 Robert O. Cochrane '32, April 10 Donald McPhail '32, June 16 Bernard P. Cunningham '33, June 20 William Likoff '33, July 3 Lawrence C. Reeves '33, May 29 Laurence T. Herman '34, August 5 Edward L. Hill '34, July 29 Rowland S. Wilson '34, July 18 Charles A. Pingree '37, June 18 Edwin P. Price Jr. '37, August 3 James B. Wiswall '38, July 30 Robert G. Thomas '41, June 4 Charles E. Willis Jr. '41, January 31 Douglas Stowell '42, July 24 Richard L. Jones '44, August 3 Carl W. Magelin '46, July 28 Charles L. Herterich '48, July 9 William H. Staden '48, March 12 W. Lawson Batty Jr. '50, July 10 Ken H. Tyler, '73, July 19 Michael W. Antonio '77, January, 1987 James R.Carver '83, January 27
1916
JAMES H. COLTON, our class treasurer for many years, died July 2. He had served as chairman of the Sutton Housing Authority and as director of Civil Defense.
In World War I he was an ensign on troop carriers to Europe. In World War II he was a lieutenant commander in Iceland and at Okinawa. For 25 years he was a quality control inspector at Whitin Machine Works. He was a senior warden of St.John's Episcopal Church in Wilkinsonville and past master of Quinsigamond Masonic Lodge in Worcester, Mass.
Survivors include his widow, Mary F. (Thompson) Colton, a son, James H. Colton, a daughter, Mrs. Grace Smith, a brother, Samuel H. Colton Jr.,and three grandchildren.
1917
RALPH SANBORN of Hampton Falls, N.H., died on August 8 at Exeter. Born in Melrose, Mass., Ralph served as a major with the A.E.F. in France immediately after graduation. He then spent 30 years in the insurance business in Massachusets and New York and was the author of a text book and many articles on insurance.
He was also the author of books and articles on drama and served as a member of the reviewing staff of The Boston EveningTranscript. A second avocation, photography, led to publication in this magazine and in horticultural publications. It also led to numerous awards including one that recognized how Ralph combined the raising of miniature gladiolus with photographic research.
Ralph was active in his Dartmouth class, in his church, and in local and statewide affairs, particularly those related to history. A descendant of John Alden, Ralph was instrumental in introducing legislation which established New Hampshire's State Historical Commission; he was its first commissioner.
He is survived by his wife, Ethel P. Sanborn.
EDWARD ANTON WIESMAN died on May 9, in Fairfax, Va., after a short illness. A graduate of the Thayer School in 1919, he had been active in his local Thayer alumni group for many years and was a supporter of the College and Thayer. He was a member of Kappa Sigma, and a cousin of John W. Wiesman '36. Survivors include his wife, Myra, and five children.
1923
E. PAUL EVANS died April 6 in Wellston, Ohio.
After leaving Dartmouth Paul attended the Colorado School of Mines, graduating in 1926. He was married to Dorothy Hauk of the University of Colorado, who survives. They had two children, Diane, who attended Swarthmore, and Lloyd, who attended Miami University. Paul was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Theta Tau, and was a Mason. At his death he was retired from the Milton Banking Company, of which he had been president.
EDMOND T. HUGHES, of Hollywood, Fla., died on February 13. He had come to Dartmouth from Culver Military Academy and following graduation worked on his father's farm in New Jersey. Little else is known of the intervening years. His widow Carolyn survives.
1925
Ross EUGENE PEARL died suddenly on July 10 in Sandy Spring, Ga., following a stroke that caused Ross to move from his long-time home in New Canaan, Conn.
In college Ross was a member of Sigma Chi, Green Key, and manager of the swimming team. After Dartmouth Ross served as master of Lyndonville (Vt.) Institute and was then associated with Lyons & Carnahan, schoolbook publishers in Chicago.
Most of his later business life was with McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York, where he was editorial director and manager of the school department.
He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1942 to 1946, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel and winning the Bronze Star. He was a member of the New England Society of New York, The Dartmouth Club and The University Club in New York, and the Country Club of New Canaan. He is survived by his wife, Louisa (Dallas) Pearl.
HAROLD ELMER STEVENS died on July 13 after a long bout with Alzheimer's. He came to Dartmouth from Somerville, Mass., and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He received his LL.B. From Harvard in 1932 and was a commander in the Navy from 1942-46.
He practiced law in Massachusetts, serving as special counsel to the governor, as- sociate commissioner of the state's Metropolitan District Commission, and town counsel in Lexington. He was a trustee of the Somerville Savings Bank, a member of the American, Massachusetts, and Boston bar associations, and a Mason. He served the class of 1925 in a number of fund-raising positions.
He is survived by his wife, Carolin (Lloyd-Jones), two sons, John H. of Fairfield, Conn., and Robert L. '73 of Salt Lake City, a daughter, Caroline S. Moss of Dix Hills, L.1., and five grandchildren.
1930
JOHN HENRY SANDERS died on June 14 after a long illness in Concord, N.H., of which he was a lifelong resident. John obtained his LL.B. from Harvard in 1933 and continued the practice of law as a partner with Upton, Sanders and Smith until 1983.
John served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy from 1944-46. He was a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association and former president of the Merrimac County Bar. He was a member of the Passaconaway Club, a trustee of the First Congregational Church of Concord, a past commander and judge advocate of the Concord American Legion. John had served as chairman of the March of Dimes, a trustee of Concord Hospital, and was a director of two oil companies. He was a member of Delta Upsilon.
John was married to Jane Branch Sanders, who died in 1973. In 1979 he was married to Elizabeth Meara Battit, who survives, as do his son, Branch, and daughter, Sarah. His brother-in-law Laurence Goldthwait was in the class of '36, his nephew Steven Goldthwait a '68.
1931
STILES WILTON BURR died in the St. Francis Hospital in Chicago on July 8. Stiles came to Dartmouth from Evanston High in Illinois and majored at Tuck. He was very active on campus, being a member of Psi Upsilon and Dragon and secretary of the Intrafraternity Council. He returned to the Chicago area where he studied accounting at Loyola, then joined R.R. Donnelley & Sons in 1939 as a salesman.
His widow, Martha, wrote that Stiles loved his days at Dartmouth, and that he had a great mind and a quick wit—no doubt nurtured during his days in Hanover.
Besides his widow he is survived by a daughter, Louise, and a son, Stiles W. III. The class extends its sympathy to them.
1932
DONALD MCFHAIL died at his home in Baltimore on June 16, a victim of Alzheimer's disease. Not long after retirement from the Navy in 1945 with the rank of lieutenant commander, Don began a distinguished career with Martin Marietta Corporation. After holding sales and managerial positions in several Martin Marietta enterprises, he was named vice president-marketing with the Capital Cement division, and later president. Don retired in 1970.
At Dartmouth Don majored in economics. He was president of Sigma Nu fraternity. Don will be remembered by his classmates as an avid golfer, captain of the team in his senior year.
His enthusiasm for the sport continued, especially at the Baltimore Country Club, where he was golf champion four times, runner-up six times, and a mid-Atlantic golf champion.
Don also made time for civic affairs; he was especially active on the Greater Baltimore Committee. His family had given the Shot Tower to Baltimore.
Don is survived by his wife, Patricia; three children, Charles Richard, Bonnie Jean, and Robert Bruce; and a granddaughter, Katherine Lynn.
1933
BERNARD POLAND CUNNINGHAM died at home in San Diego on June 20 of intestinal cancer.
Born in Bridgeport, Conn., he was a science major at Dartmouth and started his medical career at the Dartmouth Medical School his senior year. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and Alpha Kappa Kappa, and was president of Zeta Alpha Phi scientific fraternity. He earned his M.D. from New York University, interned at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, and at the Mayo Clinic was awarded a master of science.
During the war he was chief oto-laryn- gologist of the 182 nd Army Hospital in Africa and Italy, leaving active duty a lieutenant colonel. He lived and practiced the rest of his life in San Diego and served as chief of the ear, nose, and throat section of the San Diego County Hospital. He became interested in medico-legal problems and attended the University of San Diego Law School, which enabled him to enter the field of arbitration.
Bernie was a strong family man, enjoying skiing and tennis. But his life was really devoted to patient care, at which he continued till several weeks before his death. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn, three sons, two daughters, and numerous grandchildren
WILLIAM LIKOFF, died July 3 of Parkinson's disease.
A nationally known cardiologist, Bill was a chemistry-biology major at Dartmouth. He returned to his native Philadelphia to enter Hahnemann Medical School, the beginning of a life-long association. When he became president of the University Hospital in 1977 he found it $6 million in debt. Eight years later, when he became chancellor, the hospital showed a $15 million profit. At the time he stated: "When I came on board I couldn't read a cash-flow statement, let alone a balance sheet."
Though he proved himself a good administrator, he was better known as a heart specialist for whom a cardiac research institute was named. He was a sound teacher, the author of eight books and some 200 papers, an editor of several journals, and a popular speaker here and abroad. Of the many honors he received he prized most his honarary Ph.D. from his university and the presidency of the American College of Cardiology.
He is survived by two daughters, Jane Yudis and Joy Kanter, and four grandchildren.
LAWRENCE CARTER REEVES, a life-long resident of the Washington, D.C., area, died May 29 of vascular problems and heart disease. Larry was a Tuck School major and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
After graduation he became manager of a sand and gravel company but at the same time studied insurance, found this was his real interest, and started a long association with the Home Life Insurance Company. This was interrupted by four years with the U.S. Navy, in which Larry served as a lieutenant.
After the war Larry rose to the level of manager of Home Life's Washington office, and was well respected in the industry. He was also involved in many community affairs, contributed time and talent to various civic endeavors, and was treasurer of his church for many years. But Larry always reserved time for Dartmouth, serving as recruiter, fund raiser, class agent, and president of two area Dartmouth clubs, Richmond and Washington. His brother, Bradley '35, died recently, but Larry is survived by his wife, Margaret, a son, and a daughter.
1934
LAURENCE TRUE HERMAN died of congestive heart failure on August 5 in Detroit, where he had gone from his home in Florida for a business meeting. All his life Laurie was energy personified. He worked his way through Dartmouth waiting tables in Commons, with a clothes-pressing service, as a caterer of "toast sides" and coffee to us who studied into late hours, and who knows how many other enterprises. He majored in English, played varsity basketball, and was a member of DKE—though it was a mystery when he found time for it all. After Dartmouth he hung up sales records as ad manager at the Chicago News, repeated them as ad director for the Detroit News (during the same period starting an investment syn- dicate, co-owning a restaurant chain, and founding one of the nation's leading vocational schools). After his "retirement" as its vice-president for sales and marketing, he boosted the St. Petersburg Times to eighth in ad linage among all the nation's dailies.
Laurie became president of the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, beat the drums for the Suncoast all though Europe, and was a member of the Pinellas County task force that brought the NFL Bucs to Tampa Bay. His many honors and community services fill a column in Who's Who, and he was 1934's "Man of the Year" when he received the Alumni Award at our 50th reunion. His heartfelt talk on that occasion bespoke a lifetime of devotion to Dartmouth athletics, scholarship, and enrollment, and he was an inveterate writer of letters, sender of clippings, spontaneous phone caller, relentless arm-twister in pursuit of so many of those efforts.
The class's deepest sympathy to Laurie's widow, Betty, to his three daughters and son Laurie Jr. '62 (of his late first wife, Floss), to his grandson, Dave Drury '90, and to his eight other grandchildren.
WILLIAM H. SCHERMAN '34
EDWARD LYMAN HILL of South Yarmouth, Mass., died on July 29 of cancer complicated by heart problems. He was a native of Amherst, Mass., and came to Dartmouth from Amherst High. He was a member of Alpha Chi Rho and elected Thayer School as his major. He continued at Thayer and earned his engineering degree there in 1935.
Ed put his civil engineering skills to work for the U.S. Army for 30 years, mostly in Waltham but with assignments in Puerto Rico. After retirement from the Corps he moved to Cape Cod where he was a consulting engineer. He was active in the Shrine, his church, and local business organizations when not on the golf course or in Orlando for the winter. Ed is survived by his wife, Emily, his son, David, three grandchildren, and his brother and sister.
1937
CHARLES ALBERT PINGREE died at his home in Duxbury, Mass., on June 18 after a short illness. Charles came to Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter Academy and received his master's degree from Amos Tuck School in 1938.
He spent his entire career with the Old Colony Trust Division, starting as a security analyst and later becoming a vice president of the division in 1978.
An Army veteran of World War II, Charles was a past president of the Boston Security Analysts Society and was secretary-treasurer of the Massachusetts Seniors Golf Association.
Our sympathy goes to his wife, Elinor, two sons, Charles A. Jr., and Karlton P., and his grandson Charles Hazen Pingree.
1941
ROBERT GORDON THOMAS died suddenly on June 4 as he slept in his home in Falmouth, Maine. Prepared for Dartmouth at the Boston Latin School, he was preceded by his brother, the late Eliot B. Thomas '34. Bob was manager of varsity basketball, a member of Casque & Gauntlet, and president of Chi Phi.
In 1941 Bob went to work in marketing for Rohm & Haas of Philadelphia, a manufacturer of synthetic fibers. The following year he joined the Navy's V-7 program, serving later as commanding officer of landing barges in Pacific operations, including Okinawa. A recipient of the Bronze Star, Lieutenant Thomas, U.S.N.R., returned to Rohm & Haas from 1946 to 1972.
The Thomases moved in 1974 to Falmouth, where Bob was engaged in volunteer activities, including the local planning board, the library, and the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Loyally devoted to Dartmouth, Bob was his class's head agent for the Alumni Fund from 1970 to 1976, and later served on the class executive committee.
In 1942 Bob married Barbara Bacon Beury, who died in 1981. He is survived by two children, Robert G. Thomas Jr. of Seattle, and Dr. Elizabeth Thomas Noonan of Worcester.
CARL C. KROGH '41
1944
RICHARD LEFAVOUR JONES died August 3 at his home in Jacksonville, Fla. He had been ill for six months with a series of internal disorders. At the time of his death he was owner and operator of the Ramada Inn West in Jacksonville.
Dick was born in Salem, Mass., and prepared for Dartmouth at Phillips Academy, Andover. A B-29 pilot in World War II, he received an M.B.A. from Boston University in 1950.
He spent most of his life in the real estate brokerage business. He was past president of the Boston Real Estate Brokers Association, and a former vice president of both the national association and the Massachusetts association. He was also a former member of the board of the Sheraton Motor Inns and the Ramada Inns, nationally.
Dick moved from Boston to Jacksonville in 1973. From 1975 until 1980 he was president of the Jacksonville Hotel and Motel Association.
A champion racing sailor and avid yachtsman, he was a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead. He belonged to the Dartmouth Club of Jacksonville, and when the Dartmouth Glee Club was in town he put members up at the Ramada Inn free of charge.
Dick is survived by his wife, Ann (Rutledge), two sons, two daughters, and ten grandchildren.
1950
W. LAWSON BATTY JR. of Pittsford, N.Y., died of leukemia on July 10, two days after his 60th birthday and following a valiant struggle to overcome the disease.
Larry came to Dartmouth from Methuen, Mass., following service in the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1947. He majored in chemistry/zoology, played in the College band, was active in intramural athletics, and joined Sigma Nu. After graduation he worked for Mallinkrodt Chemical Works and then spent 21 years with General Electric during which time he attended Yale's Graduate School of Industrial Administration. In 1976 he joined the Nalge division of Sybron Corporation as vice president of marketing.
Larry was a strong supporter of Dartmouth and participated in many class activities despite considerable foreign business travel. He arrived at our 35th reunion directly from Germany showing no jet lag. His enthusiasm and positive attitude always added to our gatherings.
Larry is survived by his wife, Eleanor, his mother, Mrs. Wilfred Batty, sons Robert '74, John, and Paul, and four grandchildren.
1958
GARRETT D. BLANCHFIELD died November 19, 1986, in Pittsburgh, Pa., of a heart attack.
Gary attended Deerfield Academy and Wellesley High School before coming to Dartmouth. After graduation he worked in radio stations in Boston and Pittsburgh as sales promotion director, then became a stockbroker in the Pittsburgh area. At the time of his death he was an associate manager with Prudential-Bache Securities in Pittsburgh. His wife, Lucy, and son Garrett Jr., survive. Lucy Blanchfield provided this information and added that Gary enjoyed his time at Dartmouth and was proud of being at the College. The class extends its sympathy to his family.
