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.)
George C. Carpenter '18, August 12 Donald E. Cobleigh '23, August 15 Robert B. Hall '24, September 8 George H. Ferguson '25, June 13 Karl D. King '25, August 26 Harry A. Wallace '27, June 6 Eugene L. Magenis '28, August 14 Charles J. Magnaghi '28, June 26 Harry W. Baehr '29, September 2 Kenneth M. Moran '29, July 4 Edward M. Conklin Jr. '30, August 13 Arthur P. Schwartz '30, July 28 Kennth W. Fraser '31, August 16 George N. Proctor 111 '31, April 10 Jamie H. King '34, July 19 Maurice S. O'Connor '34, August 3 George N. Stainsby '35, July 13 James V. Buyoucos '36, August 9 Theodore Lewitt '40, August 15 John M. McDonald '40, August 19 Clement C. Costello '41, August 26 Thomas F. Cass '43, July 12 Charles Walter Howe '43, August 23 George E. Dyke Jr. '44, September 1 Edwin G. Bennett '45, May 17 Arthur D. Raybin '58, September 18 Albert N. Graves III '61, March 9 John D. Fitzsimmons '71, July 27
1918
George C. Carpenter Jr. passed away August 12 in Hillsboro Beach, Fla., following complications from pneumonia. Born in Nebraska and raised in Des Moines, lowa, George matriculated at Dartmouth in 1914 but left with many of his classmates and Kappa Kappa Kappa brothers to join the Navy in 1917. He served as an ensign on submarine patrol craft and the USS Massachusetts.
He returned to Des Moines, joined 8the Carpenter Paper Company, and married Helen Sigler (Swarthmore '21). At the out-break of hostilities in 1942 George returned to navy duty and served in the South Pacific with amphibious forces. Returning once again to Des Moines at the end of WW II, he managed the Carpenter farming interests. Following the death of his first wife in 1973 he married Beatrice Hood, also a graduate of Swarthmore in 1921. They later moved to Hillsboro Beach, Fla.
George is survived by daughters Nancy Hewitt of Hilton Head Island, S.C., and Sara Hill of Des Moines, a son, George III '50, of Des Moines, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
He was proud of his Dartmouth family, which included a cousin in the class of 1917, his son, grandson George IV '80, and the latter's wife, Jill Frommer Carpenter '81.
1923
RICHARD Mauchard Udall of Largo, Fla., and New London, N.H., and formerly of Valley Stream, N.Y., died of cancer August 3 after a courageous battle. He is survived by his wife, Alma, a son, Dr. Richard Udall, and a daughter, Mrs. Rudolph Schaefer.
After graduation Dick earned a master's in education at Columbia and entered the teaching profession. At his death he was retired from the public schools of Melrose, Mass. Previously he had been a school administrator on Long Island, N.Y. During his tenure there between 1946-64, the school system increased from 1,700 students and 60 teachers in one building to 7,500 students and 500 staff members in four buildings.
Dick earned his way through Dartmouth and was elected to Phi Delta Theta, taught math, and coached swimming. For many years he was director of waterfront activities at a Boy Scout camp.
Married for 60 years, Dick's hobbies included golf, tennis, bridge, gardeningand a longtime dedication to Dartmouth. He was treasurer of his class, and in 1982 was named club secretary of the year for his association with Dartmouth activities in Florida.
1925
George Newell Chamberlain Jr. died August 18 suddenly at his home in Dedham, Mass. George (known as "June" in college) came to Hanover with his twin brother, Stan, from Watertown, Mass., where they both played football, basketball, and baseball in high school. In college, they both were on the football squad and members of Phi Beta Kappa and Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
After college, George spent a year at Oxford University before joining the family business, the Chamberlain Division of Armour & Company in Boston, where he served as assistant manager until the business was sold. He then joined Boston Smart Cos., wholesale meat purveyors, where he remained until his retirement. During World War II, George worked for the government in a civilian capacity in the Office of Price Administration, Farm Products Division. He was a member of the Dedham Country and Polo Club and the Society of Colonial Wars. He was the husband of the late Anna (Dana) and is survived by his second wife, Elizabeth Hamlin Gaither Chamberlain, a stepson, John Gaither, of Jacksonville, Fla., two stepdaughters, Diana Dana Fahrey of California, and Anne Gaither Rivinus of New Hope, Pa. and six grandchildren.
A memorial service was held at the Bigelow Chapel at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, at which the class was represented by Marshall Newton.
George Harland Ferguson died June 13 in Tallahassee, Fla., where he moved from Sanford, Maine, in 1970, following many years with the postal service. He is survived by his wife, Courtney, two sons, Philip of Tallahassee and Lee of Jacksonville, and three grandchildren.
Karl David King, Jr. died August 26 in Evanston, Ill. Karl came to Hanover from Wilmette, Ill., and, while in college, was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the soccer team, the swim team, Cabin and Trail, and the canoe club. After college, he attended night school courses in accounting and law at Northwestern University and entered the insurance field with the Travelers Insurance Co. He ultimately became manager of their Chicago office until his retirement in 1965. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America for many years, serving on the North Shore Area Council and winning the Silver Beaver Award. He served as regional class agent and was a member of Kiwanis and the Highland Park Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his wife, Helen (Wicks), a son, David '51, two daughters, Peggy Kepner, and Janet Smith. A grandson, Scott Kepner, is Dartmouth '77.
Charles Anthony Robinson died August 3 in the Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Mass., after a long illness. At Dartmouth he was on the track and football squads, a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Green Key. He earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and interned in Boston before joining the staff of Carney Hospital in 1933. He became chief of vascular surgery in 1948, from which position he retired in 1985, receiving the title of honorary chief of vasular surgery. An innovator in his field, he was a visiting surgeon at hospitals in the Boston area and at those in southern New Hampshire and Cape Cod. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and former chairman of the State Board of Registration of Medicine. His club memberships included the Milton-Hoosic Club, Harvard Club of Boston, and Kittanset Club of Marion. He is survived by three sons, Lt. Col. Charles A. Jr. (U.S. Army, Ret.) of West Newbury, Paul E. of Dedham, and Henry M. of Lexington, a daughter, Carol Spangenberg of Newton, two brothers, three sisters, nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Burial was in Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield.
1926
Frank Stanton Poor died of heart failure in the Scottsdale Memorial Hospital on July 28. Frank entered Dartmouth from Danvers (Mass.) High School, and for our first three college years he was my roommate in Reed Hall. He was on the freshman football squad and was a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon fraternity. His wedding to Claire Varner took place in 1930 in The White Church in Hanover; I was his best man in that ceremony, as he was at mine eight years later.
Frank's working career was spent mainly in the food industry, starting with seven years as head field auditor for The Great A & P Tea Company in Boston. He then spent over 20 years as franchise operator and owner of several Howard Johnson restaurants, chiefly in New England.
The Poors moved to Arizona in 1960. In Phoenix, Frank held the position of head purchasing agent for the Arizona Baltimore Hotel for ten years. During the summers, he had the same position at Grand Teton Lodge in Jackson Hole, Wyo., retiring in 1970.
Frank was a steadfast Dartmouth alumnus, attending many class reunions and working on the Alumni Fund. He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of Phoenix and was its treasurer for five years. He is survived by his widow, Claire, and son David, both of Sun City West, Ariz., a daughter Sally of Lajolla, Calif., and a nephew, Robert A. Poor '53.
EDWARD Everett Eemerson '26
1927
Granvile Elkan Libby died July 2 at Garden City Hospital, San Francisco. He was 81. A native of Hartford, Conn., he attended the public high school there before entering Dartmouth. In college, he was a member of the Jack O'Lantern staff.
Dan entered the insurance business immediately after graduation, starting off as a compensation underwriter with Century Indemnity Company in Hartford. Shortly thereafter he began a long and successful career with the Fireman's Fund. During World War II he worked at the War Shipping Administration in Washington, D.C. After the war he moved to San Francisco with the Fireman's Fund utilizing his expertise in marine insurance and in 1953 he was made marine secretary and manager of the Pacific marine department of the Fireman's Fund Group of companies. He retired in 1971.
He leaves his sister, Grace Libby Stevens, a niece, Judith Ann Libby, and two nephews, Lawrence H. Libby and Jarvis M. Stevens.
Harry Alvin Wallace Jr. died June 6 shortly before his 85th birthday. A native of Pine Grove, W.Va., he attended high school in Charleston and Green Brier Military School in Lewisburg before entering Dartmouth in 1923.
Leaving college after three years, he went to work in the fuel and gas business in his home town, starting at the bottom and working in all areas of the business, including stints in the fields. He followed his father as president of United Fuel and Gas Company of Charleston. He was also president of Binghamton Gas works of Binghamton, N.Y., and manager and director of Pfaff and Smith Builders Supply Company.
As a resident of Charleston for 77 years, his involvement in community affairs was intensive. He was a charter member of the County Parks and Recreation Commission and of the Charleston Boat Club. He was also a former director of the National Bank of Commerce, the YMCA, the March of Dimes, and a long-time member of the state racing commission before being appointed by the governor to be racing commissioner.
Harry's interest in sports began in high school, continued in college and through the remainder of his life. He was a former state record holder in both the discus and shot put and at Dartmouth was the heavy-weight boxing champion. He was one of Charleston's most ardent baseball fans and was instrumental in bringing Triple A baseball to the city in 1952.
He attended Christ Church United Methodist, was a member of the Elks and of the Beverly Hills Country Club.
He is survived by his wife, Elisabeth (Mathews), sons Harry A. 11l and William, a daughter Elisabeth Wallace Hartman, a brother Robert, and ten grandchildren.
1928
Lore Williston Alford died of Alzheimer s disease on January 3 after over three years in a nursing home in Palm Beach. Fla.
At Dartmouth Bill competed in the 440-dash and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx. He was a direct descendant of Seth Williston of the class of 1791.
After 39 years in the bond business in Chicago, with time out to serve as a lieutenant commander in the navy 1942-1945, Bill retired in 1967 as a general partner of Dean Witter and Company, and moved to a house he owned in Palm Beach.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, whom he married in 1938.
Wallace George Carr, who operated Skylight Antiques in Amagansett, Long Island, died June 10 at Southampton Hospital after suffering from emphysema for many years. He was 81.
Wally was brought up in Ridgewood, N.J., and graduated from high school there. At Dartmouth he was a manager of the basketball team, vice president of the class, and a member of Beta Theta Pi and Sphinx. He majored in Tuck School. He later took graduate courses in banking at Princeton and Rutgers.
He joined the North Jersey Trust Company in Ridgewood and served as president for many years before he retired in 1961. Wally and his family had summered in Amagansett several years before moving permanently to the hamlet in 1961. He and his wife, Natalie, opened the antique shop on Amagansett's main street in 1968. In both of his careers, Wally was very active in community work, including being elected a member of the Board of Education in Ridgewood.
In addition to his wife, Natalie (Stout), he is survived by two daughters, Patricia Walden and Penelope Robb, and five grandchildren.
Eugene Lynch Magenis died August 14 in the intensive care unit of the University of Massachusetts Hospital in Worcester, three weeks after an automobile accident in Milford. Gene arrived in Boston from Coral Gables in June and had visited each of his three children and their families.
Gene graduated from Brookline (Mass.) High School and at Dartmouth was a member of Chi Phi. His devotion to Dartmouth was shown in many ways, including service as an assistant class agent for 53 years, and he was one of the founders of two Dartmouth clubs, Wellesley and Cape Cod.
He worked in Boston and Falmouth as an investment advisor. When he applied for a navy commission in 1942 and didn't pass his physical tests, he was hired by Ham Hankins '28, operations manager of the Africa-Orient Division of Pan American Air-ways, whose office was in Miami. After World War II, he lived in Falmouth.
He retired in 1973 and moved to Coral Gables, but spent summers near his children in Massachusetts.
In 1931 he married Frances (Flanagan), who died in 1983. He is survived by three children, John, Maureen Rook, and Gail Magenis, a sister, Marion, and four grandchildren.
Charles James Magnaghi died June 26 at Thompson House Nursing Home in Brattleboro, Vt.
Charlie was a graduate of the Brattleboro High School and at Dartmouth his major department was Tuck School. He was very active in community affairs in Brattleboro including being a director at the Thompson House and a corporator of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.
From 1937 until his retirement in 1972 he was owner and operator of the C.H. Eddy Company, manufacturer and distributor of beverages. His hobbies were photography and travel.
He married Dolly (Johnson) in 1929. Survivors are Dolly and a daughter, Barbara Dunn.
Thomas Stanley Taylor died February 4 in Tonawanda, N.Y., a victim of Alzheimer's disease. His wife took care of him at home until shortly before his death, when he developed pneumonia for which the doctors had no cure.
At Dartmouth Tom was a member of Theta Delta Chi, and left after his freshman year. He worked in Tonawanda for the Robert Gair Company, became plant purchasing agent and held the same position when it merged in 1956 with Continental Can Company. He retired in 1968. He leaves Mina, his wife of 53 years, a son, two daughters, and seven grandchildren.
1929
Kenneth Matthew Moran died quietly in his sleep on July 4 at his home in Duxbury, Mass. In good health, he had celebrated an early 81st birthday the night before.
A New Hampshire native, Ken came to us from Phillips Exeter Academy. He belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sphinx, Green Key, and earned his "D" in baseball. He majored in English.
In 1929 he joined Halsey, Stuart in New York and Chicago. The same year he married Virginia McElroy, a native of North Dakota. After the crash they moved west where Ken joined her father in farm management, real estate, and insurance. During the grim dust bowl years and the better ones that followed, Ken maintained an unbroken record of support for the Alumni Fund and returned to Hanover for many a memorable reunion including his 25th which coincided with his son's graduation. His quiet philanthropy in recent years included Dartmouth in generous measure.
In 1975 Ken and Gina retired to Duxbury and enjoyed a happy decade until she died suddenly during their annual summer visit to the west. He leaves two sons, Kenneth ex '52 and John '54, a daughter Sarah, 12 grandchildren including Peter Moran '82, and two great-grandchildren. His brother Thomas '37 died before him.
1931
Kenneth WILLIAM Fraser, a former member of the board of overseers of Tuck, died on August 16. Ken came to Dartmouth from Horace Mann. He was a member of Sigma Nu and a Tuck major. After graduation, his considerable work and study in several institutions in the financial community made him a C.P.A. He then began a meteoric career with J.P. Stevens & Co., becoming vice president finance and a member of the board of directors before retiring in 1968. He was also a member of the mid-town advisory board of the Chemical Bank and an arbitrator on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1981 Ken sent biographical and family data to the obituary editors of six newspapers, with copy to the Alumni Office, but he was modest in his use of those words which described his achievements and outside activities. Since retirement he had devoted much time to being a trustee of Pace University, the Union Dime Savings Bank of New York, and the St. Andrews Society, for which he was a member of the scholarship committee.
He is survived by daughters Sally, Virginia, and Kathryn; by son, K. William Jr.; and by eight grandchildren. To them the class extends its sympathy. His wife, Virginia, and son, Lawrence, predeceased him.
George Newton Proctor Ill died on April 10. George had been in the investment business in Boston since the middle thirties, having become a partner in Proctor, Cook & Co. in 1935, and remaining with that firm until 1972. He was then a partner in Adams and Peck, and followed this by representing Tucker, Anthony and R.L. Day, Inc., into the eighties. During WW II he took time out for a stint in the Quartermaster Corps.
George was a sailor out of Marblehead Neck from the Eastern Yacht Club. He loved travel and seldom thought of retirement hence the long years in the investment business.
The Berkshire School sent George to Dartmouth where his father had been in the class of '05. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and an English major.
He is survived by his widow, Dorothy; by daughter, Natalie; by son, Roger; by stepson, C. Bradley Moore; and by stepdaughter, Elizabeth Moriarty. The class extends its sympathy to them.
1932
Albert Clair Bonctter died in a health care facility in Seattle on April 29. For several years he had been disabled with Alzheimer's disease. Al came to Dartmouth from Kelso, Wash. He left in 1931 for study in investment banking, then took a position with the Guaranty Company in New York. After service with the U.S. Navy, he returned to his home state in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant commander. He began a career in insurance, first as partner, later as president of the George C. Newell Insurance Company.
In 1934 Al married Frances (Fraser), who died in 1980. He was a brother-in-law of Donald Fraser '35 and an uncle of Donna Fraser '85. Al was a member of the Alumni Council and also acted as head agent for his class. He was once secretary and later president of the Dartmouth Club of Western Washington. In addition, he was active in civic affairs, including particular devotion to the Children's Orthopedic Hospital. Al is survived by two daughters, Marianne B. Lorenz and Jean B. Rolfe. To them our class extends its sympathy.
Robert Olin Cochrane died in Shenandoah, lowa, on August 8 after a long illness. His Mount Arbor Nurseries had a long mail-order relationship with Montgomery Ward. Later in his career he was auditor for an insurance company in Shenandoah.
Bob is survived by his wife; three daughters, Linda White, Elizabeth Merritt, and Margaret Moore; and a son, Robert B. Cochrane. To Phyllis and her family we extend our sympathy.
1934
Maurice Stephen O'connor of Pomona, Calif., died on August 3 after a brief illness. He was a native of Fort Dodge, lowa, but came to Dartmouth from Los Angeles.
Maury was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Dragon Senior Society, and sociology was his major. He went on to George Washington U. for his law degree. The F.8.1, claimed his services while he was going to law school. He went to a law firm in Los Angeles and then, during the war, was a naval gunnery officer serving in the Pacific.
After the war he moved to Pomona where he became partner in the law firm of Allard, Shelton & O'Connor. He was still active in law practice and in 1983 had ended 30 years service as city attorney, first in Covina and then in Glendora. He was a member of Elks and had been president of Red Hill Country Club where he played his golf.
Maury is survived by his wife, Ann, a Stanford graduate, their daughter Ann Brutocao, and four grandchildren.
Rowland Steele Wilson died at his home in Washington, D.C., on July 18, following an illness of several months. Roily was a prominent member of the class who pursued a career in the navy, rising to the rank of commander. He was also our most widely-traveled classmate, in and out of the navy.
Roily entered Dartmouth from Mercersburg Academy, where he was on the football and track teams. At Dartmouth he was a member of Psi Upsilon, Casque & Gauntlet, Ledyard Canoe Club, and Cabin and Trail.
After attending Tuck School, he worked until the war for the Columbus Dispatch in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Joining the navy in World War II he continued in that service until retiring in 1968. His service included assignments in the Aleutian Islands, the amphibious forces in Korea, the U.S. military assistance advisory group in Taiwan, and the Pentagon. From 1968 to 1970 he served with the Red Cross in Vietnam. In Washington, he was a member of the Explorers Club and St. Andrew's Society.
Roily loved to travel. He visited more than a hundred countries, becoming a member of the Century Club. He landed at both the North and South Poles and explored the hinterlands of Tibet, China, and Siberia. He often regaled his friends and classmates with exotic tales about faraway places.
He is survived by his wife and childhood sweetheart, Mary June (Heaton), a son, Charles, daughters Elizabeth Pearson and Victoria, and four grandchildren. Roily was a warm, friendly person and a loyal classmate. We shall miss him deeply.
Stanley C. Smoyer '34
1935
George Newcombe Stainsby died of an aneurism on July 13 at Bon ecours Hospital in Methuen, Mass.
Newk is survived by his wife, Frances, a daughter, Elizabeth Hamblin of Cody, Wyo., a son, John, of Orlando, Fla., a sister, Margaret Clark, of Brookfield, Conn., a brother, John, of Troy, N.Y., and four grandchildren. Another daughter, Susan Brown, had died, unexpectedly two weeks before her father.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Newk graduated from high school in Glens Falls, N.Y., then attended Tilton School before entering college with our class. An English major, member of Chi Phi and Dragon, Newk is remembered by his classmates as a most pleasant and agreeable person.
Married to Frances O'Brien in 1937, their 50th anniversary was to have been celebrated later in the month of his death.
Except for time spent serving in the Pacific with the marines in World War II Newk spent his life as a commercial lines manager in the insurance industry until his retirement in 1980. He was also a long time member of the Merrimack Valley Country Club.
The class extends its deepest sympathy to Fran and the family.
Jonh Wallace '35
1938
James Boit Wiswall died July 30 in the Bear Hill Nursing Center in Massachusetts after a long illness with Alzheimer's disease. Boit prepared for Dartmouth at Wakefield High and Tabor Academy. He roomed in 101 Gile with Art Robbins and then with Red Stoodley in the same room. His other roommates were Stearns McNutt at Sigma Chi and Bill Baxter. He played freshman lacrosse. A year in Tuck was followed by additional studies at the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance. Marion North of Wakefield and Bradford Junior College became his bride in December of 1941.
Boit saw service in the Quartermaster Corps for 30 months of overseas duty in Africa and Italy, rising to the rank of captain.
The rest of his life was spent in the family company, the Consolidated Paper Company, becoming president and also serving as an officer of various industry associations. His service to the town in which he was born and lived his entire life extended for 22 years first as a member of the town's finance committee, then for six three-year terms as municipal light commissioner. He also was active in Community Chest (heading it in 1956), Red Feather, United Fund, and the Melrose Hospital.
Boit, however, did find time for golf at the Bear Hill Golf Club, where he scored a hole-in-one in 1942 and was subsequently elected to its board of directors.
He is survived by his wife, Marion, of 7 Vale View Road, Wakefield, MA 01880; three daughters, Andrea Whitmar, Cynthia Litchfield, and Debora Woollacott; and six grandchildren in addition to his mother, Alice Griffiths Wiswall.
Marion wrote the class: "Dartmouth was a big part of his life, but he was unable to participate in later years."
Jonh R. Scotford Jr. '38
1940
Philander Lewis Dostai died on May 19 of emphysema. He was 69.
Phil came to Dartmouth from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. As an undergraduate he played varsity football for three years, was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and of Sphinx, and was active on the judiciary council. He went on to Tuck School, graduating in 1941.
After Tuck, Phil served in the U.S. Navy, achieving the rank of lieutenant commander. He was on Admiral Halsey's staff, acting as naval liaison with the 20th Army Air Force. He held the Air Medal with three stars.
Following WW II, Phil worked with McCann-Erickson and the E.S. Browning Company. In 1955 he founded the Phil L. Dostal Company in San Francisco—an industrial chemical distributing company.
He was a member of the Bohemian Club, a director of the San Mateo County Scout Council, and was active in community affairs. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, three children, and three stepchildren.
Theeodore Lewitt died on August 15 after a long illness. He was 68 years of age.
Ted Lewitt came to Dartmouth from Chelsea High School in Massachusetts. At Dartmouth, he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, a manager of intramural sports, and served on the interfraternity treasurers council.
After graduation, Ted worked with Warner Bros., then started his own company, New England Magnesium Co. He joined the U.S. Army in 1942, becoming a master sergeant, serving in North Africa and Sicily.
Following WW II, Ted founded the T.L. Chapman Co. in Boston, which he ran until 1971. He then sold the company and took up a new career, that of financial advisor, which he followed until very recently.
He is survived by his wife, Heidi (Burack), and three sons, Peter, Michael, and Daniel.
Jonh Martin McDonald died on August 19 of a heart attack. He was 68.
Jack came to Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter Academy. While at Dartmouth, he majored in economics and was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He was active in freshman and varsity football.
During WW II, Jack served with the U.S. Army. He was a sergeant. Later, he was assigned to the liberation of concentration camps in Germany.
Following his tour of duty, Jack began his career as a salesman, which continued until 1985 when he retired from the Meredith Publishing Company. He lived and worked in New York and Chicago before moving to Detroit in 1974.
Jack was an active alumnus, serving as an assistant class agent, organizer of minireunions, and chairman of the 45th reunion. He was secretary and later president of both the Dartmouth Club of Chicago and of Detroit. He left three collections of books to Baker Library and established a fund for the acquisition of coins for the Hood Museum. He was a member of the board of directors of the Detroit Boat Club and past president of the Lafayette East Cooperative Association.
He is survived by his brother, Robert '33, three nieces, and a nephew.
1941
Charles Everett Willis JR. died on January 31 of a heart attack on a Piping Rock Club tennis court in Locust Valley, Long Island, N.Y. For Buzz Willis it was not the first brush with cardiac problems, but he had made the cheerful decision several years earlier to live while still alive. Ever since his teens tennis had been the major outlet for his competitive sportsmanship no rocking chairs, thank you.
At Dartmouth Buzz, like his collegemates, may have idled away a little time here and there out of the classroom, but it is hardly evident from his extracurricular Hanover scorecard: Beta Theta Pi, varsity tennis, president of the Glee Club, Paleopitus. Parenthetically, he perhaps established an unsung Dartmouth record worthy of the Guinness Book: as a popular bon vivant and respected campus leader among his peers, he kept his family vow not to smoke or drink before his 21st birthday.
Buzz served as a U.S. Navy Air Corps pilot-instructor (1941-45), and was demobilized a lieutenant commander. Postwar, he did a stint with McCann-Erickson advertising agency, gadded about the globe as director of the Vox Pop radio program, partnered a public relations firm and then, in the mid-1950s, settled into a career of real-estate brokerage and investment on Long Island. He was president of his own firm until his death, always spirited, convivial, generous, and stimulating.
Buzz was twice married: to Catherine Childs during his senior year at Dartmouth with four ensuing daughters and sons; and to Janet Hecht in 1960 with whom he had two daughters. They all survive. His collegemates share with them an appreciation of their loss.
1942
Douglas Stowell died at his home in Waltham, Mass., on July 24. The cause was cardiac arrest.
Doug came to Dartmouth via Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, and soon became a fixture in Dartmouth football, both offense and defense. An injury kept him on the sidelines during his junior year, but he started every game as a senior. He was a member of DKE and Sphinx.
Doug entered the army in November of 1942, but his football injury forced him out and he coached the line at Exeter Academy in 1944. He entered Yale Law School the next year and graduated in 1947. He spent the rest of his career in personnel/labor relations with various corporations. At the time of his death he was manager of labor relations for the W.R. Grace Cos. in Lexington, Mass. Along with family and career Doug found time to assist his community wherever that might be.
The class extends sympathy to Doug's wife, Alyce, and to their two children.
1943
C. Walter Howe, emeritus professor of political science at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Md., died of cardiac arrest August 23 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Cumberland. He was 64.
Walt, who majored in international relations at Dartmouth, was an army civil affairs officer in Europe during and after World War II, and subsequently earned an M.B.A. degree from Tuck School and a Ph.D. degree in African Studies from Boston University.
He was in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1946 to 1955, serving as a consular officer in Indonesia, Iran, and Luxembourg. He received two Ford Foundation grants to study in Africa during the late 1950s and in 1961 joined the American Council on Education where he became executive officer of the Overseas Liaison Committee.
Walt joined the faculty at Frostburg State University in 1968 and taught until 1979. After his retirement he was noted on the campus as a host for faculty and student social gatherings at his home.
He leaves four children, William of Fort Worth, Tex., Lucinda McKevitt ofVacaville, Calif., Richard of South Hadley, Mass., and Bruce of Lajolla, Calif. Other survivors include his sister, Martha Cadle of Montgomery, Md., and his former wife, Margaret, of South Hadley, Mass.
Frostburg State University is establishing a political science scholarship fund in Walt's name, to be administered by the Frostburg State University Foundation.
1944
Russell Jay Smith died April 6 at his home in Simsbury, Conn. He was 64 and died from a combination of Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.
Russ came to Dartmouth from Stratford, Conn. He was a 2nd lieutenant in the air force in World War II and then transferred to R.P.I., whence he received his B.S. He was an engineer with Hamilton Standard Company (aircraft components) in Simsbury for most of his working life. Hobbies included golf and sailboating; he was not active in Dartmouth affairs.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and three children.
1945
Edwin Grow Bennett of Baltimore, Md., died on May 17 at his home of a heart attack. The Reverend Bennett was 62 at the time of his death.
Ted grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa., attended Shady Side Academy, and went on to Dartmouth where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and Casque & Gauntlet. He entered the service in 1943 with the U.S. Seabees in the Pacific. As a chaplain's Assistant, he spent a year on Saipan with the 31st Special Construction Battalion, and then six months in Japan on occupation duty.
Ted returned to Dartmouth, graduating in 1947, and then went to Virginia Theological Seminary for his B.D. in 1950. After serving churches in Homestead, Penn., and Morgantown, W. Va., he returned to school at Columbia and Union Seminary in pursuit of a Ph.D. He interrupted that to take a job on the staff of the Diocese of Pennsylvania as director of college work. In 1962 he joined the national staff of the Episcopal Church in the field in university ministry, and in 1975 he became canon administrator with the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland in Baltimore.
He is survived by a son, Mark, a daughter, Carol, and a brother Willis '37 of Denver, Colo.
1959
Ronald Peter butt died on April 12. If Ronnie Butt had lived as we all expect to live, he and I probably would have had a conversation years from now about the inevitability of obituaries. He would have told me to write his the way he would write mine. We would have argued about who would be the one to write, then he would have laughed and promised I would be left with the task.
Ronnie came to Dartmouth a rugged New Hampshireman and left as he came, with the granite of New Hampshire in his muscles and his brain. He was always just what he appeared to be, no fascade, no mystery. It was hard not to be his friend because he made friendship so easy.
He represented those traditional values we often talk about and seldom see: loyal husband, proud father, hard worker, religious leader, good friend. He was a successful businessman, a model citizen, and he attained the highest office in his beloved Masonic Lodge.
For the past decade Ronnie, in partnership with his wife, Barbara, operated Century 21 Butt & Butt, a real estate firm in Penacook, N.H. He is survived by his wife and three sons, R. Peter Jr., Jonathan, and Matthew. His greatest legacy is the inspiration his life gives to them and to his friends. We will miss him.
Joe Nadeau '59
1961
Albert Nelson Graves Ill, an executive with General Electric Company most of his business career, died March 9 after a brief illness.
Al (Budge) was born in Germantown, Pa., and came to Dartmouth from the Loomis School in Windsor, Conn. He majored in English and was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. On the way to obtaining his Dartmouth sheepskin he served for two years in the U.S. Navy aboard the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He loved writing, sports, and the sea. His ashes were scattered off the coast of Cape Cod, and he was posthumously honored for forming a Little League hockey team in Clifton Park, N.Y.
Al is survived by his wife, Marcia, and three children, Jeffrey, Peter, and Ashley; his mother, Alice Graves; and his sister, Pam Rowley.
