Deaths

(This is a listing of deaths of which word hasbeen received since the previous issue. Full notices, which are usually written by the class secretaries, may appear in this issue or a later one.)

Samuel Frederick Jenkins '19, April 19 Albert Wesley Frey '20, September 30 Maurice Gordon '20, May 27 Alden James '22, May 27 Donald Edwards Cobleigh '23, August 16 Richard Bement Kershaw '23, September 29 Philip Kinsell Swartz '23, July 31, 1986 Josiah Williard '24, September 9 Ronald John Michelini '27, September 26 John Godfrey Cook '28, September 18 Daniel Phillips Hatch Jr. '28, September 22 Charles Walter Brooke Jr. '31, September 25 Robert Vivian Simonds '29, September 22 Laurence Henry Tucker '31, September 23 Ralph Elias Benjamin '32, September 6 Charles Richard Brooks '32, December 10, 1986 Frederic Bernard Clark Jr. '32, May 1 Wayne Field Damon '33, October 6 Solomon Jacob Axelrod '34, September 21 Thomas Francis Cass Jr. '34, July 12 Henry Rollie Bradford '36, January 28 James Alexander Briggs '38, September 15 Bliss Kirby Thorne '38, September 19 James Thompson Towne '38, September 19 Oliver Morgan Babcock '39, May 17 Colby Dorr Howe '39, October 5 Earl John Poe Jr. '42, May 7 George Clement Eady '43, August 22 George Theodore Koncevich '43, July 13, 1985 William Read Robinson '43, September 28 Richard Tallmadge Sweet '44, September 14 Charles Leslie Thompson '45, July 30 Donn Crocker Tryon '45, January 4 Vincent Thorpe Burke '47, June 9 William Chandler Foster '50, August 26 Everett Alan Murphy '54, August 12, 1986 Endel Raidmets '54, July 11, 1984 Clifford Joseph Daniels '57, December 24, 1986 Eric Hargrave Frondorf '76, September 22 West Everett Hinkle '79, August 16

1919

Word has been received of the death of Dr. SAMUEL FREDERICK JENKINS in April. He had been ill for some time.

While in College Sam was on the cross country team. After graduation he studied medicine at New York University and Columbia. He specialized in pediatrics.

He was active in civic work. He was a member of the American Board of Pediatrics, a life member of the New York County- Medical Society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He was also a founder and a member of the Harlem branch of the American Red Cross.

Surviving are his wife, Lyn, their daughter Sara, grandson Samuel, and numerous other relatives.

1920

Our long-time class treasurer and former Dartmouth faculty member ALBERT WESLEYFREY, 89, died September 29 at his beloved Dresden, Maine, home after a long and valiant battle with Parkinson's disease. A native of Lynn, Mass., Phi Beta Kappa, economics major, and Tuck School graduate (1921), Al taught in Tuck's marketing faculty from 1920 to 1962, acting also as assistant dean from 1930 to 1937.

From 1961 to 1968 Al was professor of marketing, director of executive programs, and dean (1966-1968) at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Business. He did various teaching or lecturing stints at UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Maine, and in Australia and New Zealand. He served in consultant and other capacities for the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Department (1944-45), General Motors, AT&T, Association of National Advertisers, Marketing Service Institute, and others. He was author or editor of a number of widely used books on marketing and advertising. Among the offices Al held in the American Marketing Association were president, 1961-62; board of directors, 1956-58, 1960-63; editor-in-chief, Journal ofMarketing, 1953-55; Pittsburgh chapter, board of directors, 1963-65.

Al's extensive Dartmouth activities included long stints as class agent, class treasurer, and class president. He was business manager of the Alumni Magazine for many years. He was our class treasurer at his death and kept up personal contact with many classmates. In Dresden he found time to serve as treasurer and trustee of the school district and was a member of the Dresden Planning Board.

Surviving are his wife, Hope (Lincoln); his daughter Janet Frey Harte (husband Ed Harte '45); two sisters; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

We have received word of the death on May 27 of MAURICE GORDON in Fort Lee, N.J. A native of Manchester, N.H., and a veteran of World War I, Maurice was for years one of our "lost" classmates, but a 1965 questionnaire returned from Queens Village, N.Y., revealed that he had just retired from operating the store he had owned since 1931. He is survived by Frieda, his wife of 58 years, and two daughters, to whom the class extends sympathy.

1922

ALDEN JAMES, retired advertising authority and brilliant student, died of cancer on May 27 in Southbury, Conn., where he and his wife, Barbara, lived at Heritage Village. Jimmy, as we knew him, was valedictorian of our class. He was graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In addition to his distinguished career, he was the author of Careers in Advertising and the Jobs behind Them, and for many years lectured in the advertising and selling course of the New York Advertising Club.

He began his business career as southern representative for House Beautiful. He next was eastern manager for Atlantic Monthly and then began an 11-year affiliation with This Week, where he became executive vice president. His following 13 years were with P. Lorillard and Co., where he was vice president of public relations, and as director of advertising for McCall's. Later, he was director of Connecticut Life. He was also a director of the Measurement Broadcast Bureau and a member of the University Club of New York.

Jimmy was born March 15, 1900, in Boston. After graduation from Dorchester High School, he attended Norwich University for freshman year and then transferred to Dartmouth. He was a member of Theta Chi.

He and Barbara Schaffe were married in October of 1934. She and their three sons, Alden Jr. '62, Lawrence, and Thomas survive.

1923

Notice has just been received from his sister, Dorothy Coleman, that DONALD EDWARDS COBLEIGH died on September 15.

We all remember Don for his marked musical talent as assistant professor of music and director of the Dartmouth Glee Club. The Alumni Magazine noted when he retired from the faculty that, "As glee club director he guided the Dartmouth singers to an excellence which was nationally recognized."

In 1943 Don enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and had his basic training at Parris Island before becoming assistant to the Naval Chaplain. Later he saw service with the Office of Strategic Services.

Don also was elected head of the music department at Wilkes College in Wilkes Barre, Pa., and studied at the Ecole Normal de Music in Paris.

RICHARD BEMENT KERSHAW died on September 29, two weeks short of his 85th birthday, at his home in Old Lyme, Conn. Dick's wife, Dorothy, died in 1971 and his nearest surviving relative is a cousin, Louise Alcott, of Wilton. A friend and neighbor has written to the Alumni Magazine that Dick "had not been ill long, felt no pain, refused a doctor, and was ministered to by dedicated friends who knew that his dearest wish was to join his beloved Dolly. He recognized the three friends who were there and whispered 'goodbye' to them shortly before he left us."

Dick's long business career was mainly in advertising and publishing, having served as circulation promotion manager for a number of magazines including Newsweek and American Home. He was active in many clubs and associations, notably Kiwanis, Direct Mail Advertising Association, Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the Harbor Beach Tennis Club.

At Dartmouth Dick was a member of Sigma Nu. In later years he was an active alumnus, serving as secretary of his class from 1938-43, as an assistant class agent, and as a member of the board of governors of the Dartmouth Club of New York. Furthermore, the College is a beneficiary of Dick's estate. His friends, his class, and his College mourn his passing.

1924

ROBERT BARLOW HALL died in New York City on September 8. He is survived by his wife, Virginia, and a son, Robert B. Hall Jr. Red will be particularly remembered from undergraduate days as "a second-team allEastern choice as all-American in football and also as captain of the hockey team. He represented the class at the celebration of 100 years of Dartmouth football.

Red was in the refrigeration business and from 1953 until his retirement was the owner of Con Air Co., an air conditioning company in Long Island City. He was very active in Freemasonry and went through the chairs of all Masonic orders in the York rite. Red was also a Republican and an Episcopalian.

JOSIAH WILLARD died in his New York apartment on September 10. He had been in failing health for several months. He was born in the Philippine Islands, where his father—of the class of 1877—was chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands. Joe started with us at Dartmouth but transferred to Harvard before graduation. He then graduated from the Harvard Law School.

Joe went directly from law school to the prestigious New York City law firm of White and Case in which he became a partner in 1946. He specialized in tax law until retiring in 1978.

He is survived by his wife, Eugenia, a son Charles, and a daughter Margaret Bailey, all of New York City, and by his brother Charles of Somers, N.Y. His clubs included the University Club, the Harvard Club of New York, the Downtown Association, and the Scarsdale Golf Club. He served as a member of the Scarsdale school board for many years.

1927

RONALD JOHN MICHELINI of Avon, Conn., died on September 26 at Hartford Hospital. He had taught at the Westminster School in Simsbury for more than 40 years. Besides being head of the school's mathematics department, he taught Spanish and was Westminster's athletics director and coach for both football and baseball. He also started the school's hockey program. He retired in 1971, at which point an athletic field was named in his honor.

Ron was captain of the baseball team at Dartmouth, a Kappa Kappa Kappa, majored in the Romance languages, was elected to Green Key, and sang with both the Glee Club and the choir.

He was a founder and former president of the Simsbury Light Opera Company, and a member of the Avon Golf Club. His first wife, Frances, predeceased him; his survivors include his wife, Janet, daughters Donna Michelini and Joanne M. Pigott, and two granddaughters. Joanne Pigott writes: "My sister and I were raised on Dartmouth football songs and on 'Eleazer Wheelock was a very pious man.' Dartmouth meant so much to my father. Thank you for the four happy years he spent there and the 60 years since."

R.H.N.

JOHN HENRY WOLF, M.D., died March 28 in Philadelphia, Penn. Although he was not a graduate of Dartmouth, in 1960 he was elected an honorary member of our class.

John attended the Dartmouth Medical School during the 1926-27 year when he was a popular and well-known member of the Dartmouth scene. He met his future wife at the 1927 Winter Carnival. Even though he received his degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1929, he always maintained an intense interest in Dartmouth. This was particularly manifest during the four years that his son John Jr. '58 was at Dartmouth. During these years, he was active in interviewing future prospects for Dartmouth and in financing and providing transportation to Hanover for possible football players. Known survivors include his son John.

1928

JOHN GODFREY COOK died in his sleep on September 18 at a convalescent home in Mequon, Wis., where he had resided for the past year. A native of Chicago, he attended Francis Parker School there before entering Dartmouth. He was a member of Sigma Nu and was very active in Cabin and Trail.

Jack went to work for AT & T after graduation and held numerous sales and management positions in Chicago until his retirement in 1969. In 1942 he was commissioned a lieutenant and was assigned to the Navy's first Officers Indoctrination School at Dartmouth. Later he spent 18 months at the naval base in the New Hebrides, and was discharged in 1945 with the rank of lieutenant commander.

After retirement in 1969 he devoted full time to his stamp business in Chicago as a philatelic broker and wholesaler. He was always an enthusiastic stamp collector and at the same time was an ardent skier and mountain climber. In recent years he traveled extensively around the world with his wife, Marjorie. From 1956 to 1987 he served on the board of directors of the Western Time and Cement Company of Milwaukee.

Besides his wife, he is survived by his son John Jr. '69, his daughter Jill, and four grandchildren.

HERMAN WILLIAM GRAUPNER died July 24 of a heart attack in his summer home in Cape May, N.J. His unexpected death was a shock to his family and to all the friends who saw him every day. His wife, Helen, died in 1980. His home for the past 50 years had been at 7 Gracie Square, New York City.

Before attending Dartmouth Hank attended "La Rose" School in Gstaad, Switzerland for two years, and graduated from the Mackenzie School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho. After graduating from the University of Virginia Law School, he was an attorney in New York City until he retired.

During World War II he served in the infantry from 1941 to December 1945; in his final two years he was a captain in the office of the provost marshal general in Washington, D.C.

His hobbies were stamp collecting and travel. Helen and he traveled extensively all over the world and particularly enjoyed visits to Germany and Switzerland.

Surviving are his children, Sally Shaffer, of Denver, and William, who teaches at the Lawrenceville School, and several grandchildren.

DANIEL PHILLIPS HATCH JR., former general manager of the manufacturing division of Jacob Reed's Sons, died September 22 at Bryn Mawr Hospital of heart failure. He had been a resident of Rosemont, Pa., for many years.

Dan entered college from Westmount High School in Montreal. At Dartmouth he was president of the D.0.C., a member of Palaeopitus, Casque & Gauntlet, and Phi Gamma Delta. He was the class agent from 1929 to 1934.

He served as general manager of the Dartmouth Outing Club and director of winter athletics from 1929 to 1937. He also was a director of the Eastern Ski Association, now the U.S. Ski Association.

During World War 11, he served in the Pacific with the Army Air Corps. A lieutenant colonel, he was assistant chief of staff with the 20th Air Force, whose B-29s carried the war to the Japanese mainland. He received the Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with three battle stars, and the Legion, of Merit.

Dan retired in 1972 as executive vice president of Reed's, the large Philadelphia clothing and uniform firm.

An outdoorsman with an abiding interest in conservation, nature photography, and environmental matters, he served as president of the Valley Forge Audubon Society. He was active in his church and in community affairs.

Surviving are his wife, Mary Alice (Beck), two daughters, and seven grandchildren.

1929

HARRY WILLIAM BAEHR died of heart failure at his Brooklyn home on September 2.

From Richmond Hill High School in Woodhaven, N.Y., Harry came to the famous 21A School Street in Hanover. He majored in history, belonged to Alpha Chi Rho and Phi Beta Kappa, and was active in dramatics. He earned his master's and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia.

He was a class agent and our newsletter editor and was named Newsletter Editor of the Year in 1979, being cited as "a good editor, a great editor."

In 1937 he published a book, The New YorkTribune Since the Civil War. He gave lectures and taught journalism at Columbia. Most notably he was the Herald Tribune's chief editorial writer from 1956 until it closed in 1966, then an editorial writer for the International Herald Tribune until 1979. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

One colleague wrote of him, "He had a rare gift for taking other men's opinions and turning them into essays of grace and conviction." Another said, "He had the most perfect dignity of any man I ever saw." His wives from his two marriages both died. He left no survivors but will always live in the memory of his classmates and in the history of the Trib.

1930

EDWARD MARINUS CONKLIN JR. died on August 13 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Martinsburg, W. Va. At the time he lived in San Jose, Calif., and prior to that at various places in the West. He was born in Mechanicsville, N.Y.

Following college Ed received a degree in graduate study at the Babson Institute of Business Administration. There followed a long career in banking through various affiliations: as executive vice president and director of Birely & Co. in Washington, D.C.; vice president and investment officer for Suburban Trust Co., Hyattsville, Md.; trust investment officer for the United Bank of Arizona in Phoenix; then trust officer of the Hartford Bank & Trust Co.

During World War II Ed went into the Army Quartermaster Corps and served in Europe, remaining an ariny officer after the war with assignment in Washington. He was retired from the army as a colonel in 1954.

In 1931 Ed married Audria Aikman, who died in 1965. They had two daughters, Elizabeth (Mrs. Robert Follert), and Alicia (Mrs. Leonard A. Wood Jr.), and two sons, Schuyler and Edward III. There are ten grandchildren.

Ed had been class regional chairman for Maryland, Virginia, Washington, and Delaware, and later for Arizona and Nevada. He was on the Third Century fund committee for the Phoenix area.

1931

LAWRENCE HENRY TUCKER died of a heart attack at the Venice Hospital in Florida on September 23.

After Dartmouth, and a year at Duke University Law School, Larry began the successful pursuit of a career in the planning of the use of land and in the development thereof, working for the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission until 1936, followed by. similar duties for the federal government in the Cincinnati area up to 1948—with time out for service with the U.S. Navy in 1944--46.

He then entered the private sector in Cincinnati, as manager of the Cincinnati Community Development Co. in 1948, progressing to vice president of the Marvin Warner Co. in 1959, then to vice president

of the Warner Consolidated Corporation in 1972, a position he held until retirement. During his last active years he had also served on the board of directors of the War- ner National Corporation and had become a director and vice president of the Home State Savings Association. He had been ac- tive in Kiwanis and the American Legion in his community, and had served on its school board.

Larry came to Dartmouth from Concord (N.H.) High School. He majored in economics, and was a member of the Glee Club. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

He had been an active member of the Dartmouth Club of Sarasota after his wife and he had moved to Florida following retirement.

Larry is survived by his widow, Blanche, daughter Susan, and son Stephen '62. To them the class extends its sympathy.

1932

We have only just learned of the death of CHARLES RICHARD BROOKS, who left us in December of last year. Dick spent a fifth year in Hanover after graduation, earning the M.C.S. degree from Tuck School. His professional life was spent in Gloversville, N.Y., as cost accountant for Gloversville Knitting Company, manufacturers of woolen yarns, fabrics, and gloves. After retirement Dick and Anna, who survives him, lived in Saratoga Springs but spent winters in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

1934

SOLOMON JACOB AXELROD, of Ann Arbor, Mich., died on September 21 at the University of Michigan Hospital a week before his 75th birthday. For the past few years he had been in failing health. Sy was born in Gloversville, N.Y., and came to Dartmouth from Germantown, Pa. He studied creative writing with Professor Sidney Cox but soon changed to pre-med. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and graduated magna cum laude.

Sy received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1938 and a master's in public health from U. of Michigan in 1949.

Sy was medical officer for the Tennessee State Department of Health and a commissioned officer of the U.S. Public Health Service from 1943 to 1949 when he became a member of the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Sy founded the department of Medical Care Organization at Michigan and devoted his career to raising the standards of medical care available nationally and internationally. With the United Auto Workers he pioneered the establishment of health maintenance. He was a colleague of Wilbur Cohen, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and with Dr. Cohen was instrumental in the development of Medicare. He was known as a superlative teacher. He had a wonderful relationship with his students. Dr. Myron Wegman, former dean of Michigan's School of Public Health said Sy's major contribution "may be the cadre of people who are now spread all over the country, who were trained by him, who got some of his ideals, and who understood the rigor of his thinking. His major goal was clearly defending the poor and downtrodden."

Sy is survived by his wife, Pearl, son Peter of Tucson, Ariz., daughter Joan Zembala of Ann Arbor, and two grandchildren.

NICHOLAS B. JACOBSON '35

THOMAS FRANCIS CASS JR. died July 12 in a Santa Barbara hospital. His home was in Montecito where he had retired in 1976.

Tom came to Dartmouth from Soldan High in St. Louis. He lived in Fayerweather and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. After two years he left and went to work in Philadelphia with Diamond Match Cos. and also pursued his studies at the Wharton School of Business. During the War he served with the Quartermaster Corps in their LendLease Administration.

Then his major career connection started, Container Corporation of America, makers of paperboard and plastics packaging. It was Chicago initially, then California, and in 1961 back to Chicago when he became executive vice president. He was active in paper industry associations and a director of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. After moving to California he became active in local clubs. As he said in our 24th reunion book: "I've never known boredom."

Tom is survived by his wife, Ruth, and their four daughters, Linda, Deborah, Victoria, and Laura, and by five grandchildren, a sister, and two brothers.

JAMIE HARTMAN KING died of a coronary attack at his home in Garrison, N. Yon July 19. He had limitations in recent years from Parkinson's disease but determinedly kept mobile and was still active. He came to Dartmouth as a graduate of Lawrenceville, with Bound Brook, N.J., his hometown. Track was a special interest for Jamie and he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

After leaving in 1933 he went to work for an oil company in the New York area, then began a career with the Lederle Division of American Cyanamid in Pearl River, N.Y. Later Jamie bought and operated Highland Plastics Company in Newburgh.

He found time to be president of the Rockland County Boy Scout Council, a school board member, and a local magistrate. For years competitive sailing had been a favorite pastime, as was fishing, especially in New Brunswick.

Jamie was a warm-hearted person who summed up his philosophy for a reunion book: "Living is a tremendous and wonderful experience." He is survived by his wife, Anne, by sons Jamie Jr., John '57, and Richard '62, and by daughters Kate and Abigail. Also surviving are five grandchildren and his brother Victor '31.

1936

Word has been received of the death last January of HENRY ROLLIE BRADFORD, M.D. While the College has not had much news of Hank in recent years, we know that after Dartmouth he earned his degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1943. In 1960, while he was practicing in Washington, D.C., he was married to Jean Davis, who survives. Hank then spent a number of years in Memphis where he was a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. During this period he was active in professional associations and medical societies. Hank died in Denver, where he was born and attended high school, although he came to Dartmouth from Tabor Academy in Massachusetts. Hank's brother Wilber, of the class of '33, predeceased him.

1937

EDWIN PARDRIDGE PRICE JR. died in Boca Raton, Fla., on August 30. Ed came to Dartmouth from Winnetka, III., graduate of the Berkshire School. During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945 with the rank of lieutenant.

At Dartmouth Ed was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Dragon senior society, and played on the freshman golf team.

He is survived by his widow, Gretchen, and by three children, Gail, James, and Judy Anne.

1938

JAMES ALEXANDER BRIGGS died September 15 in the Damariscota, Maine, hospital after heroically confronting a long illness. Jim entered Dartmouth from the Hotchkiss School and roomed with Dick Morse in South Fayerweather and as a sophomore with Bill Ganter, Bill Lyle, and Bob Bryan '37 in North Fayerweather; then in the Sigma Nu house with Ray Ammarell and Gil Tanis. He was a Phi Bete majoring in history and on the Daily D news board.

After graduation he worked for W. R. Grace & Cos., in New York before signing up with the American Field Service as an ambulance driver with the British Army in Syria, Tunisia, Italy, and Germany. He and Janice Murchie were married in 1945.

After the war Jim worked for a manganese mining outfit in Montana and California. In 1947 he and Jan moved to Maine where he was editor and publisher of the weekly Lubec Herald. In 1954 Jim and Jan bought the Spring Meadow Farm Inn in Damariscota which they ran for a number of years. After Jan died in 1974, Jim spent a term in Hanover auditing a course in Italian and went with the undergraduates on their trip to Italy.

He was secretary of our class for ten years and most recently served on the reunion giving committee.

He is survived by his second wife, Rose Ann (Grosvenor) Briggs, of 750 Quaker Lane, B 102, Warwick, RI 02818, and by his four children, Jessie Gunther, Barbara, George '73, and James '74, and seven grandchildren.

Jim was sustained during his last years by the love of his family and his consuming interest in Dartmouth, Maine, Italy, the environment, and baseball—especially the Dodgers.

G.T. and J.R.S. JR. '38

Buss KIRBY THORNE died September 19 at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover. Ted, as he was known, prepared for Dartmouth at Phillips Exeter. He lived in 210 Richardson our first year and with Bob Forgan in the same dorm as sophomores. Then the famous "happy three" became a unit when Charlie Mann joined Ted and Bob out on the West Lebanon Road. They all joined Sigma Nu together. Ted was a member of The Dartmouth news board and the gym team.

A much decorated captain in the Air Transport Command in the China-BurmaIndia theater, Ted flew 174 trips over The Hump." This experience and a life-long interest in flying led him to a career in aviation journalism. He was on The New York Times editorial staff, executive editor of Skyways, and on the public relations staff of Pan American and AVCO. His book The Hump was published by J. P. Lippincott in 1965. In 1953 he became the first civilian to break the sound barrier when he accompanied Maj. Daniel James in a Starfire (Lockheed F94-C).

Ted returned to Dartmouth in 1971 as a special assistant at the Med School for information and publications. Since his retirement he continued to write for the Alumni Magazine and other New England journals.

He married Charlie Mann's sister, Edna, in 1943. She survives him at Chandler Rd., Box 220, Wilder, VT 05088. Ted also leaves a daughter, Kirby Doyle; a son, Keith; a brother, Van Buren Thome Jr. '34; a sister, Eileen Thorne; and two grandsons.

It is a mark of his professionalism and his devotion to Dartmouth and the class that he turned in his history of our undergraduate days and the dozen reminiscences he solicited and edited for our 50th Reunion book a few days before his death.

JAMES THOMPSON TOWNE died September 19 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction after a long illness. Tommy, as he was known, came to Dartmouth from the Silver Bay (N.Y.) School for Boys. He roomed in Woodward as a freshman, then with Ed Tracy and Paul Wait at 43 Lebanon St. He was a psychology major and a brother in Delta Upsilon.

In 1940 he got his M.B.A. from Wharton, married Bettina Loheed, and went to work for the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Tommy served as a captain in Europe during WWII, earning a Bronze Star and five battle stars.

Subsequently he worked for the Air Reduction Corp. and the Vanadium Corp., became vice president of Howmet Corp., and then an investment banker with Bear Stearns and Co., Neuberger, Loeb Inc., and Evans and Co.

In 1976 Tina and Tommy fulfilled a dream of 13 years by moving to their "North Forty," a farm in West Hartford, Vt. It had been their weekend retreat since 1963. But it was not exactly a retirement move since he became affiliated with Burbank and Co. in Hanover and continued as an investment advisor with Bernard Herrold of New York up to the time of his death.

He was a member of the Union League Club and the Dartmouth clubs of New York, Connecticut, and the Upper Valley; also the Woodstock Rotary Club and the Woodstock Country Club. He was also on the North Pomfret Community Church Committee.

He served the College as a class agent for a number of years and was a member of the Hopkins Center fund-raising committee.

Tommy is survived by his wife, Bettina, of Box 85, Woodstock, VT 05091; his son, James Jr.; two daughters, Mary Doten and Jane Martin; eight grandchildren; and a sister, Frances Conant. A number of his classmates attended Tommy's funeral in Pomfret.

1939

OLIVER MORGAN BABCOCK, 70, of Fort Myers Beach, Fla., died on May 17 in a Boca Raton infirmary following a short illness. The College has only recently learned of his passing.

Ollie came to Dartmouth from Evanston Township High School in Illinois, where he participated in football, track, and basketball, and where for two years he was president of his class.

At Dartmouth he was a member of the freshman football squad, but then transferred to Northwestern University, where he earned his B.S. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta at Northwestern.

Much of his business life was spent with Ruhm Phosphate & Chemical Company of Columbia, Tenn., a supplier of rock phosphate. He served the company as general manager, president (since 1946), and director. Previously he had been a buyer of sporting goods with Sears, Roebuck in Chicago. He was also a secretary of Hoover & Mason.

He married Jane Dawson Hoover, who survives him, in 1940. Also surviving are their two children, Mollie (Johnson) and Philip, and three grandchildren.

Before moving to Florida the Babcocks lived in Columbia in an historic ante-bellum mansion known as "Rattle and Snap," which Ollie was responsible for restoring.

COLBY DORR HOWE, died of cancer at his home in Tiburon, Calif., on October 5. Colby came to Dartmouth from Torresdale, Pa., and the William Penn Charter School. While in college he was a stand-out fullback on the football team, a pole-vaulter in track, member of Alpha Delta Phi, and in Casque & Gauntlet. He was class treasurer his junior year.

In 1937 he joined the Marine Corps Reserve platoon leaders class and, along with other Dartmouth classmates, took summer training at Quantico and San Diego. Upon graduation from college he was was selected by Bethlehem Steel to enter their training program.

In 1941 Colby returned to active duty as an officer in the Marine Corps and served with distinction in the 2nd Marine Division in the battles of Guadalcanal and Tarawa. He was decorated for oustanding performance of duty at Tarawa. After the war he returned to Bethlehem Steel but was called back to duty as a lieutenant colonel during the Korean War, serving in California and Washington, D.C.

Returning to Bethlehem once again, Colby became western sales manager with offices in San Francisco, from which position he retired in 1976.

In addition to raising a daughter and two sons and having six grandchildren, Colby and Pat extended their generosity and kindness for many years to a number of less fortunate children who needed parental care and love. He was a very active Big Brother, founded the Big Brothers of Marin County, and was named the national top Big Brother in 1985. He was president of the group's western region.

Athlete, marine, executive, sailor, duck decoy carver, golfer, Rotarian, Big Brother, devoted husband and father, Colby Howe was a fine friend and a genuinely "good guy." We miss him and extend our sympathy to Pat and his family.

JIM DONOVAN '39

1941

The New York Times first brought news of the death of CLEMENT CONRAD COSTELLO in a AP release from Lowell, Mass., where he had served as editor of The Sun for 30 years. Clem died of cancer, at the age of 68, while he was vacationing in Megeve, France.

Born and raised in Lowell, Clem prepared for Dartmouth at his home town's high school, at Phillips Andover Academy, and at the Clark School in Hanover. A non-graduate of the College, little is known of his activities on campus, but he was in the navy during World War II. Family information is meager although it appears that Clem had one child during his lifetime.

Clem will be memorialized, as are all members of the class, by a book especially selected in the Dartmouth College library.

1944

GEORGE EDWARD DYKE JR., died of lung cancer September 1 in Greenville, S.C. He had been ill for the past year.

He came to Dartmouth from the Briarcliff- Ossining, N.Y., area. He majored in engineering, was a member of Gamma Delti Chi fraternity, served in the navy during World War II, and received an M.B.A. from Tuck School in 1947.

George and his first wife, who predeceased him, lived in Greenville from 1949 to 1958, where he was associated with an engineering company. He moved to Atlanta, Ga., in 1958 and co-founded Eastern Engineering Cos., which subsequently became Simons-Eastern Engineering, specializing in pulp and paper. He was vice president and served on the board of directors until his retirement in 1981, when he remarried and moved back to Greenville.

He was a member of the South Carolina Professional Engineers and was a communicant of Christ Church, Episcopal, in Greenville.

He is survived by his wife, Gladys, a son George III, a brother Gibson '54, a sister, stepsons, and stepdaughters. His father, George Dyke Sr. '15, an officer in his class over the years, died in 1986 at the age of 93.

RICHARD TALLMADGE SWEET, 65, an orthopedic surgeon in Portland, Conn., died of a heart attack September 14 in a Hartford hospital. He had by-pass surgery a dozen years ago but continued working as a surgeon until the day he died.

He came to Dartmouth from Wilbraham Academy and received his medical degree from the College of Medicine at State University in New York. He did his internship and residency at Meadowbrook Hospital in Hempstead, N.Y., and his orthopedic residency at Meadowbrook and St. Charles Children's Hospital in Port Jefferson, N.Y. In 1956 he joined his father's medical practice in Middletown, Conn., and after his father's death he formed a partnership with two other surgeons at Middlesex Memorial Hospital.

He was a member of the American Medical Association and was vice president of the Middlesex County Medical Association.

During World War II he served in the South Pacific as a marine corporal from 1941 to 1945.

He is survived by his wife, Jane, two sons, three daughters, and eight grandchildren.

1945

CHARLES LESLIE THOMPSON of Overland Park, Kans., died on July 30 at St. Luke's Hospital of respiratory arrest. He attended Dartmouth from September 1941 through January 1943 and then transferred to the University of Missouri at Kansas City for the balance of the academic year. He attended Miami University of Ohio from July 1943 through May 1944 as a member of the Marine Corps Reserve. Then at Cornell he was commissioned an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve in September 1944. After the service he attended Rockhurst College in Kansas City, obtaining his bachelor of science degree in June 1948.

He earned his M.D. at the Creighton University School of Medicine in June 1952 and served his internship and residency at Kansas City General Hospital.

Charley's staff appointments have included Saint Luke's Hospital, Truman Medical Center, and Saint Mary's Hospital. He was a member of the American Medical Association, Missouri State Medical Association, Jackson County Medical Society, and Missouri Society of Internal Medicine where he was president from 1980 to 1981.

He leaves his wife, Nancy, and son Tim.

DONN CROCKER TRYON of Springfield, Mass., died on January 4. He attended Classical High School in that city and then joined the Navy V-12 program at Dartmouth.

He was assigned to the Navy radar training program and saw active service in the South Pacific aboard an aircraft carrier. In 1946 he entered Babson College, graduating in 1949 with a B.S. in economics. In 1951 he joined Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis in their Springfield office, becoming office manager in 1967 and then a vice president in 1969.

Donn always felt a close association with Dartmouth and was very pleased when he applied for and was accepted into the class of 1945. He once wrote that this was possibly due to the friends he had made at Dartmouth and the fact that the "atmosphere" of Hanover was infectious, even for those there only a short time—a sentiment truly reflected by his adopted classmates.

1947

VINCENT THORPE BURKE passed away June 9 in California, after an illness with cancer. Vincent resided in Glendale, Calif., with his wife, Dolores, who survives him, as do their three children, Deidre, Sheila, and Julianne. Vincent graduated from Dartmouth in 1946, and received his Thayer School degree in 1947. He also studied at U.S.C. and U.C.L.A. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1951—53, and retired in the Navy Reserve.

He was employed by Pacific Telephone as a communications systems executive. He served as president of the Dartmouth Club of Southern California, and was active in club activities as enrollment director. His Dartmouth classmates were saddened to learn of his passing at the time of their 40th reunion.

ROBERT FRANK TULCIN of Scarsdale, N.Y., died this past May at the age of 61.

Bob was educated at Woodmere Academy in Woodmere, N.Y. He attended Dartmouth under the Navy V-12 program. He majored in economics, was active in intramural sports, and was a member of Pi Lamda Phi fraternity. After graduation in 1947, Bob studied for a year at the Amos Tuck School before joining his family's wool business. When the company was disbanded in 1953, he joined Dreyfus & Co. in New York City as a stockbroker. Bob became a general partner in the firm two year later and remained with Dreyfus until management divested its brokerage activites in the late 19605. In 1971 he was a founding partner in Strasbourger Pearson Tulcin Wolff, Inc., a retail brokerage firm with memberships on the New York and American stock exchanges. He remained with the firm until his death.

A kind and generous man, Bob was a founder of the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was also an active Dartmouth alumnus, interviewing and recruiting students in Westchester and around the country.

Bob cared most about his family, his friends, and his favorite sport—tennis. He leaves his wife, Doris, daughter Ann (who attended Dartmouth in 1974), four grandchildren, and his son, the undersigned.

ROGER H. TULCIN '73

1957

CLIFFORD JOSEPH DANIELS died on December 24, 1986, of an asthma attack.

Joe came to Dartmouth from high school in Stevens Point, Wis. Like his father, Clifford L. Daniels 'lB, Joe was a member of Chi Phi, which he served as treasurer and vice president. Between his junior and senior years, Joe did a tour of active duty with the Army in France. He graduated from the College in 1959 with one year at Tuck toward his M.8.A., which he completed in 1968 at Lehigh University.

After graduation from Dartmouth, Joe joined the marketing department of the International Salt Company. In succeeding years he held increasingly challenging positions in management information functions with First National City Bank, Crowell-Collier, Air Products and Chemicals, and Gulf + Western. At the time of his death, Joe was manager of systems and programming as well as acting director of data processing for Ethan Allen, Inc., in Danbury, Conn.

Though asthma slowed him down in recent years, Joe loved the outdoors and took particular pleasure in hiking and camping with his children. He is survived by his daughter Elizabeth, two sons, Mark and Ross, and his sister, Catherine Daniels Eisinger.

1958

WILLIAM BRUCE KENNEDY died of cancer on January 11 at his home in Arkansas. He is survived by his wife, Louise; by their children, Robert, Britt, and Betsy; and by his mother, brother, and two sisters.

Bruce was a successful businessman. He managed T.H. Rogers Lumber Company and subsequently started his own company, Arco Construction, Inc., in 1982. He was on the board of the Wolfe Street Foundation, and a of director of the Southwestern Lumberman's Association.

I last saw Bruce a year ago on a stormy afternoon. The sky was lumpy with gray clouds, and from time to time lightning linked the horizons. On the wind there was a whiff of rain and the smell of a celestial transformer. It was just the kind of afternoon Bruce appreciated most, good weather for menthol cigarettes, scotch whiskey, and bridge.

When I think of Bruce it is impossible not to remember his dry sardonic wit and his asthmatic chuckle, as he shuffled the cards and smoke curled to the ceiling. Often he would lean back in his chair with the grand and enigmatic style of Sydney Greenstreet, and you knew behind the wide-eyed stare there was some richly amusing thought percolating like black coffee on a stove. All the while the ash grew longer on the cigarette in the ashtray and the smoke rose upwards over the hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds. And ice cubes dissolved slowly in our glasses.

I hope those of you who were friends of Bruce will join me in a memory or two.

RODMAN A. FRATES '58

1971

JOHN DEAN FITZSIMMONS died on July 27 after a brief illness. A native of New York City, Jack was a partner in the law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York.

At Dartmouth Jack was an English major, a member of the Newman Club and the Dartmouth Outing Club, served on the staff of The Dartmouth, and was selected as a recipient of the Charles Howe Woodbury Law Scholarship.

After graduation from Dartmouth, summa cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he received his law degree from Harvard. During his career he authored articles for several legal journals on a variety of subjects and devoted his practice to the areas of banking, taxation, and corporate mergers and acquisitions. In 1981 Jack served as a member of the transition team in the Office of White House Counsel.

Jack cared deeply for his family, his friends, and Dartmouth, and was well-liked and admired by all who knew him. He is survived by his parents, John and Marion Fitzsimmons of Plandome, N.Y., and by his sister, Frances Constabile, and nieces Allison and Susan of Setauket, N.Y.

1973

KEM HARTWELL TYLER died on July 19 in Manchester, Conn., after nearly a year-long battle against colon cancer.

Kem was born in Wyoming, but spent most of his life in Manchester, with summers in Wolfeboro, N.H. He entered Dartmouth in 1969 after graduating from Suffield Academy. To say that Kem was known on campus would be an understatement.

His interests were boundless, and his friendships enduring: winter sports chairman in 1973, ski school, Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity, DOC freshman trips (specialty as cooking crew member), rugby, and golf. We will remember Kem storming down ski slopes, skimming over Lake Winnepesauke on water skis, thundering across New England in his various vehicles, crashing down fraternity row, turning out last-minute history papers.

After receiving his M.B.A. at the University of Chicago, Kem was a supervisor at Taos Ski School, and assistant manager of the White Pass Ski Area in Yakima, Wash. In 1978 Kem joined Manchester Lumber Company.

At the time of his death he was the owner and president of the business formerly owned by his father, Neal A. Tyler Jr. '43. Kem courageously maintained an active role in the business virtually until his death.

He was also active in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, the Lumberman's Mutual Co-op, and the New England Retail Lumberman's Association. During his illness his optimistic attitude and his physical and emotional strength bolstered his family and friends.

Kem's family life was also fast-paced. In 1980 Kem married Lynn Anthony in Wolfeboro in a ceremony featuring water skiing by the wedding party in tails and gowns. By 1985, the Tyler clan included sons Ryan and Keith, and daughter Jamen, plus golden retrievers.

Their home was a happy, energetic place open to all.

To Lynn, Ryan, Keith, and Jamen; to Kem's parents Neal and Millicent Tyler; to Kem's brothers and sister Kel, Jaye, and Maren, the class extends its deepest sympathy.

Dartmouth, however, celebrates Kem's energy, his friendship, and his life.

JAMES G. WHITE JR. '72