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.)
Raymond W. Sheets '10 • October 1986 Alan M. Overton '14 • May 30, 1988 William Howard Brett '16 • Apr. 10 Philip Henry Lewis '16 • Mar. 25 Parker Robert Karnan '17 • Apr. 17 Earl Henry Blaik 'I9A • May 5 Eben Wallace '20 • Apr. 19 Frederic Perkins Clark '23 • Apr. 11 Arthur Ernest Gordon Jr. '23 • May 11 Alfred Pierce Jr. '23 • Mar. 1989 Donald Bartlett '24 • Apr. 19 Laurence Ilsley Hewes '24 • Mar. 31 William L. Marshall Jr. '24 • Apr. 11 Herbert Selian Talbot '25 • May 16 George Slight '26 A • Apr. 15 Victor Joseph Duplin Jr. '27 * Mar. 19 Charles Newcomb Field '27 • Mar. 22 Bradley Fuller '27 • Apr. 26 Miles Alexander Turpin '27 • Feb. 27 Thomas Patterson Ellis '28 'Feb. 17 John McKenzie Gordon '28 • Apr. 4 John Collier Weeks '28 'Jan. 11 Everett Sturges Bulklev '29 • Mar. 11 Miles Carter Strickland '29 • May 12 Paul Fairfield Clarke '30 • Apr. 21 James Barrett Irwin '30 • Mar. 18 Theodore Day McDonald '30 • Mar. 17 Bruce A. Mackey '30 • October 1988 Edward Dietrich Gruen '31 • May 7 William Edwin Hanlon '31 • Mar. 20 Frank Wilson Hays '31 • Feb. 7 Gray Milburn Magee '31 • Apr. 8 John Butlin Martin Jr. '31 • Mar. 1 Joseph George Rushton '31 • Feb. 26 Henry Park Hodges '32 • Apr. 15 William Hersey Kendall '32 • Mar. 31 William R. Mackinney '32 • Apr. 15 William John Hoffman '33 • Apr. 19 Harding Henry Macdona '33 • Nov. 9 Philip Simon Hemphill '35 • Mar. 23 Liam Eaton MeFadden '35 • Feb. 13 Edward Preble Offiitt '35 • Apr. 20 Rutherford H. Van Doom '35 • Apr. 10 Ralph Hampshire Cockroft '36 • Apr. 6 John William Wiesman '36 • Mar. 19 Arlington Bensel '38 • Apr. 14William Henry Blaney '38 • Mar. 22 C. Conrad Karras '38 • Oct. 30 Ralph Edward Sethness '38 • Mar. 20 Charles E. Sherman '38 • Feb. 23, 1988 Hilleary Fritch Hoskinson '39 • Mar. 20 Henry Morgan Spencer '40 • Apr. 7 Randall Gilpatric '42 • Mar. 11 Theodore Laurence Locke '42 • Mar. 9 Theodore R. Schoonbeck '42 • April Martin Thomas Kane '43 • Mar. 31 William Arnold Jacoby '44 • Mar. 18 Martin Francis Shea Jr. '44 • Mar. 14 William R. Maclntyre '45 • Sept. 7, 1987 Simon Christian Nielsen '45 • Aug. 15 Thomas Coleman Andrews '46 • Apr. 16 Paul Prescott Bristol '46 • January 1989 Clifford Bell Lull '46 • 1986 George Timmins Rein '46 • Mar. 22 Bruce Fergusson CunlifFe '47 • Apr. 6 Peter Alden Larson '47 • Mar. 18 Alan George Winslow '49 • Jan.23 Paul M. McLaughlin '51 • May 1 John Billings Tucker '52 • Mar. 24 Frederick Fedeli '53 • Mar. 21 Donald P. Taylor '54 • June 11, 1988David Mark Levis '57 • Feb. 10Alan Valentine Davies '63 • Mar. 17 Peter Kilham '65 • Mar. 20 David Everett Piekford '65 • Mar. 29 Edward Odell Bailly '66 • Apr. 6 Stewart L. Alleyne '84 Jan. 17 Adam Szczypek '72 • Mar. 25 James Michael Campbell '73 • May 15 Omondi Obura '88 • Apr. 30
Faculty
Carl D. England a professor of speech at Dartmouth for 29 years and at one time chair of the speech department, died on March 16 at his home on Nantucket Island, Mass. He was 89. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Prof. England taught at several universities before joining the Dartmouth faculty in 1938. He also served on the steering committee for the Great Issues course ana as a town moderator in Hanover. Surviving are his wife, Margaret, sons Carl Jr. '53, John, and Peter, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
1909
Reginald H. Colley alert and aware of his surroundings to the end, died quietly on February 6. The last member of his class, he would have been 102 on May 27. Born in Canso, Nova Scotia, Reg spent his youth in Rockport and Gloucester, Mass. He taught botany at Dartmouth after graduation, and at Harvard, where he received his master's in 1912. A Ph.D. in plant pathology followed, at George Washington University. He taught marine botany at Woods Hole and diseases of timber at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1928 he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City and was head of their timber products section until 1950. Following retirement he was a consultant until the age of 86. Throughout his career he was active in industry associations and had received many awards.
Reg and his wife, Molly, regularly attended class reunions—the last being his 70th in 1979. Surviving are four daughters and their families, who remember him for his questing mind and his fascination with the wonders of the world.
Jean Colley Negus
1910
Raymond Ward Sheets one of the College's oldest alumni, died in October 1986, it has recently been learned. He was 97. Although he only attended for one year, he always thought of himself as a Dartmouth man and two of his sons were graduates, Roger '35 and Brice '37. A third son was killed in action during WW 11. Ray, whose early business career was in paper box manufacturing, retired in 195 sas president of a company making silverplated holloware.
He was married twice, losing both wives to illness. Roger survives, along with grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
1914
Alan Maxwell Overton died on May 30, 1988, in Orlando, Fla., at the age of 96. An army captain in France during WW I, Alan lived in the Midwest most of his life, first as manager of a paper company in Ohio, then as owner of a lumber and Duifding material company in Indiana.
His wife for over 50 years, Helen, died in 1969. Surviving are sons Tom and Alan Jr., and several grandchildren.
1916
William H. Brett who served as director of the U.S. Mint during the Eisenhower administration, died of pancreatic cancer on April 10 at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 95.
Appointed head of the Mint in 1954, he served until 1961. This followed a business career in his native Cleveland and in Alliance, Ohio. At Dartmouth Bill was a member of Beta Theta Pi and Dragon, and after graduation he served in the army as a first lieutenant. His wife of 58 years, Ruth, died in 1975. He is survived by his second wife, Mary Lynn, sons William III and Peter, five grandchildren, and seven great-grandchilaren.
1919
William Martin Eads of Fort Smith, Ark., died onMarch 2 leaving his widow Nancy, son William Jr., daughter Nancy, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. An economics major and member of Phi Kappa Psi at Dartmouth, Bill enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve at the outbreak of WW I.
He spent his entire business career with Eads Bros. Furniture Company, established at the turn of the century by his father and uncle. He was its chairman when he retired, having also found time for community service with the Red Cross, Chamber of Commerce, and Rotary, and as a director, for 53 years, of the First National Bank of Fort Smith. He was a 1919 class agent for many years.
Percy Allen Grey of Chatham, Mass., died on March 5, although we do not have details on the place or cause. Known to his classmates as Pete, in his senior year he was both president of the class and captain of the baseball team. An economics major, he was a member of Kappa Sigma, Green Key, Casque & Gauntlet, and Palaeopitus and won the Barrett Cup. Beginning in the early thirties Pete has belonged to his local Dartmouth Club, most recently on Cape Cod.
After College Pete was with several firms which manufactured specialty valves, notably for the U.S. Navy. Then, in 1945, he and his wife, Mary Lou, moved to Chatham where he opened The Sail Loft, a successful retail enterprise offering casual clothing. Pete was also active in the Chatham Conservation Foundation, whose purpose is to acquire and preserve beach, marsh, and wetlands.
Surviving, in addition to his widow, are sons Robert '46 and Spencer '5l, grandson Thomas '79, and six other grandchildren.
1920
Lawrence Kenneth Hussey died on January 25 in Wellsville, N.Y., at the age of 90. Although he did not graduate with the class, he was a loyal supporter of the College all his life. He was born in Swampscott, Mass., where he held membership for over 65 years in the Wayfarers Lodge of the Masons. He retired as a senior inspector of industrial safety for the State of Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries in 1963 to care for his ailing wife, Edna, whom he married in 1928. After she died in 1973 he lived in. Florida where he subsequently married Irene M. Berry. She survives him, as do his two daughters, Dulcianne Hussey Vye and Charmion Hussey Brothers, a grandson Christian Vye, and his wife's family.
Ernest Francis Tillson class bequest chairman since 1982 and class agent 1988-89, died on February 6 at Newton-Wellesley (Mass.) Hospital at the age of 91.
At Dartmouth, Red was a member of Delta Tau Delta. He served as an officer with the U.S. Navy during World War I, and received his law degree from Suffolk Law School in 1928.
Red worked for Harvard Trust Company in Cambridge, starting as a teller in 1923 and retiring as vice president and trust officer in 1962.
An avid golfer, he was a member of the Wellesley and Brae Burn Country Clubs. He belonged to the British Officers Club and the University Club, and was active in Dartmouth alumni affairs. He was a member of the board of directors of Home Savings Bank in Boston, Corcoran's Department Store in Cambridge, and B. L. Makepeace.
Red's wife, Gwendolyn, died in 1983. He is survived by sons Robert '49 and Richard '50, a daughter, six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
1921
David Scott Plume succumbed to a heart attack on February 4 in Waverly Heights, Pa. Dave's health had been poor for several years since his wife, Mary, experienced a bad fall in Florida. During her lengthy recuperation,, however, Dave visited her daily at the hospital.
Dave was always a leader in the class, in recent years serving as a perennial vice president where his counsel was sought by each succeeding president. In addition, he was a trustee of the Jephson Educational Trust 2, which provided the seed money that enabled our class to initiate so many of the projects that are now financial mainstays of the College, most recently-the "1921 Funding Associates."
Chemistry was Dave's major and he remained on the campus until 1924 as a laboratory assistant under the legendary Professor "Cheerless" Richard and Professor Fletcher Low. (There had been a WW I stint in the Dominican Republic with the Marine Corps.) He spent his business career as an executive in the chemical and allied industries, starting with Union Carbide, then American Cyanamid, and eventually rising to a senior marketing position with Rohm & Haas.
Dave always found time for his two great hobbies: fishing and golfing. Most of his fishing centered around the Plume Lodge in Canada, while his feats on the golf course took place at the Scarsdale Country Club where at 80 he shot a hole-in-one.
Three years ago Dave and Mary moved to be closer to his nephew, Dr. Harry Helfrich, who survives him. Dave is also survived by Mary and a stepdaughter Betty Swartout.
O.H.H.
1922
George Edward Brooks an emeritus professor of English and gifted orator, died March 7 at Eldercare Gardens, Charlottesville, Va., at the .age of 89.
George entered Dartmouth from Lynn (Mass.) English High School. In College he was a prominent member of the Debating Team, president of the Forensic Union, and belonged to Alpha Sigma Rho and Delta Ormicron Gamma. At Class Day exercises, June 18, 1922, he delivered a memorable speech, and at Commencement he received the Longwood Debating Prize.
He began his professional career as an instructor at Lake Forest College in Illinois. He continued at William and Mary College, where he received his M.A. In 1945, he won his Ph.D. with honors at Ohio State University. During middle life he held a longterm professorship at the University of Rhode Island. He completed his career with many years as chairman of the English Department at Springfield College in Massachusetts.
George is survived by Bessie, his wife of 59 years, and their sons George Jr. '54, a professor of African history at Indiana University, and E. Willis '57, a professor of Russian history at the University of North Carolina. Six grandchildren also survive.
Leonard E. Morrissey '22
Edward Francis McNamara died on February 2 at a convalescent center in Connecticut. He was 88 and had been in a health-care facility since April 1987.
Mac entered Dartmouth from North Brookfield (Mass.) High School. As a freshman he was in the Student Army Training Corps. Later, he was a member of Cosmos Club and he played centerfield on the '22 baseball team which in 1920 won the interclass championship. He majored in economics and earned a B.S. degree.
Mac's first job was as a floor man in the Brockton (Mass.) store of W. T. Grant Cos. In his 38 year career with Grant, he subsequently managed stores in Lynbrook and Hempstead, L. I.; Rochester, N.Y.; East Liberty, Uniontown, and Johnstown, Pa. He then moved to Hartford, Conn., as regional manager in 1944. In accordance with company policy of mandatory retirement at age 60, he retired in 1960.
Mac was also active in community associations. He was a long-term member of the Lion's Club and was its president at Johnstown. He was a past chairman of the Hartford Retail Trade Board, an executive committee member of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, and a 42-year member of the Manchester (Conn.) Country Club, where he served on the board of governors and loved to play golf.
Mac, his wife, Kay, and son Tom were frequent visitors to Hanover. For many years he enjoyed interviewing student applicants for Dartmouth.
He is survived by Kay, Tom, and three grandchildren.
william Wallace Mountcastle zealous Dartmouth alumnus and well known Florida businessman, died January 23 at North Ridge Medical Center after becoming ill at his Fort Lauderdale home.
Monty was popularly regarded as"Mr. Dartmouth of South Florida." "He was Dartmouth from the tip of his toes to the top of his head," said his daughter. He was a charter member and for 12 years president of the Dartmouth Club of the Gold Coast, Fort Lauderdale. He established a program for interviewing prospective students to Dartmouth from South Florida schools. He was on the Dartmouth Alumni Council (1959-63) and was chairman of the Placement Committee. He also served as a class agent on the 1922 Alumni Fund team.
He had learned hotel management in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, before moving in the early 1950s to Miami, where he managed a motel. Later, he moved to Fort Lauderdale, where he owned and operated one of its first motels.
Monty was a native of Cleveland. In 1919 he transferred as a sophomore from Western Reserve University to Dartmouth, majoring in economics. His deceased brother Charles was Dartmouth '27. William Cossaboom '83 and Eric Mountcastle '84 are Monty's grandsons. After 51 years of marriage his wife passed away in 1976. Surviving are his daughter, Margherita Cossaboom, his son William Jr., eight grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
1923
Joseph Malone formerly headmaster of Boston English High School 1958-70, died January 21 in Yardley, Pa. He began his career in teaching in 1923 at Lynn English High School. He then moved to Boston and became headmaster of Roxbury Memorial High School for Girls. In 1950 he was named Boston's Civil Defense director.
Back in 1968 some black students appeared in school wearing dashikas and were suspended. After Joe initiated some wise thinking and consultation, the boys were reinstated and the ban on black student clothing was abolished and the Black Student Union was recognized.
Joe was born in Lynn and received a master's from Harvard. He leaves a son, a daughter, and 17 grandchildren and great-andchildren.
Robert Evans Maxwell one of the largest individual donors in the history of Dartmouth College, died on February 25 following a stroke.
Bob Maxwell devoted his life to achieving success in a number of fields, but perhaps his deepest devotion was to his College, and he will long be remembered for that.
At Dartmouth Bob earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Casque & Gauntlet. He then attended Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, receiving a master's degree. He taught for a year at the University of Minnesota and then joined the investment firm and Lane, Piper and Jaffray in Minneapolis. He subsequently joined the Greyhound Corporation in Chicago, be- coming its secretary in 1931 and treasurer m 1941. A year later he left a civilian post in the Office of Defense Transportation to enlist in the Army Air Force. He declined a commission and served in Europe until his discharge as a sergeant in 1945. A highlight of his wartime activities was serving at bomber bases at the Russian front.
Following the war he joined Blunt, Ellis & Simmons, an investment firm in Chicago. training and talent contributed to a very successful career as an investor.
But Bob also found time for sports—principally golf anci hunting—ana he was intmmental in helping to finance the Rupert C. ThomPPson Arena. He also contributed the funds for a dormitory and, in 1980, gave the College an unprecedented unrestricted gift of ten million dollars.
Though he himself was never married, among Bob's survivors is a great-niece, Lucinda Fernald '79.
1925
Langston Moffett writer and artist, died on January 15 in Saint Augustine, Fla. A newspaperman both here and abroad, and world traveler, he developed an interest in painting in 1939 and became well known for his work as a visionary surrealist. In 1947 he simultaneously held a one-man show of his paintings and published his first book, Devil by theTail, a novel about a chronic alcoholic who tries to forget his problems in a series of gargantuan sprees in this country and in Mexico. One of his paintings is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum, and others have been on display at the Saint Augustine Art Association, among others.
He is survived by his wife, Claudia, and two sons, Cleveland and Read.
Howard Arthur Schroedel died on February 20 in Gladwyne, Pa. He received his C. E. degree from Thayer School in 1926 and was employed by Turner Construction Co., where he spent his entire career until his retirement as vice president and general manager in 1968. In 1940-43 he was a project manager of U.S. Navy air bases in the Pacific, for which he was awarded the Meritorious Civilian award. Among the 110 buildings for which he was responsible are: Firestone Memorial library at Princeton, Cathedral of Mary in Baltimore, Delaware Hospital in Wilmington, the U. S. Army tank plant in Bethesda, seven RCA plants, and government office buildings in Bethesda. He was a member of American Society of Civil Engineers, Society of American Military Engineers, Seaview Country Club, president of General Building Contractors Association, Union League of Philadelphia, president of Dartmouth Society of Engineers, trustee of Presbyterian Church and trustee of Presbyterian Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. He also served as a class agent and vice chairman of the Capital Gifts Campaign. His wife, Florence, died last August. They had no children.
Llewellyn P. White of Salem, Mass., died there on February 1 after a brief illness. After graduating, he spent a year teaching at Kents Hill Seminary, then went to Bryant and Stratton Secretarial School, where he taught accounting and became president when it became a junior college. He continued in that position until he retired in 1971. He was president of the Boston Rotary Club, Tower School in Marblehead, North Shore Dartmouth Club, and New England Business College Association. An avid skier from college days, he continued downhill skiing until a year before his death. His other sport was yachting, having owned several boats which he used for cruising along the New England coast and for ocean racing to Bermuda and to Halifax. He was a member of the Eastern Yacht Club, Marblehead Rotary Club, and Society of Colonial Wars. In retirement, he built a weathervane business, making distinctive vanes in his garage. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, a son Patten, daughters Terri Stevens and Carol Farrell, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
1927
Oren Clive Herwitz died January 16 of cancer in his home on Treasure Island, Fla. He was 81. Bom in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oren attended the Erasmus High School in New York City. At DArtmouth he was a Rufus Choate Scholar and a member of Pi Lambda Phi. After graduation he entered the Columbia University Law School, where he received his LL.B. in 1930.
Oren then began a long and interesting practice of law almost all of which centered in New York City. From 1930-32 he served as a member of the Seabury Commission which investigated Jimmy Walker, then mayor of New York. He was assistant corporation counsel from 1934 to 1939 and assistant deputy commissioner of public works in the 19405.
During the World War II years he served with the U.S. Corps of Engineers as chief counsel of the Caribbean Division and held the rank of major when he was released from the service in 1945. He rejoined the Department of Public Works but resigned shortly to enter private law practice. From 1952 to 1954 he was asked to reenter public service as special assistant attorney general of the State of New York.
He was the author of many law articles and papers, but despite his intense devotion to the Taw he had many other interests, including bridge, golf, classical music, and especially boating. He loved to take cruises and was always happy when on the water. He leaves his wife, Mary, and a sister.
William Vroman Mason of Barre, Vt., died there on January 31 at the age of 82 after a long illness. Born in Chicago, Bill was at Dartmouth for only his senior year and was a Psi Upsilon. His first two years were at the University of Wisconsin, his junior year at Amherst.
After College, Bill went to work in Bristol, Pa., for Keystone Aircraft Cos., until it went out of business in 1932. At that time he and his family moved to Waterbury, Vt., where Bill joined Derby and Ball, a familyowned maker of scythe snaths. In a few years he and his wife bought out the business. Under their management the firm expanded into manufacturing skiis and wooden furniture as well.
An ardent skier, as might be expected, Bill was an early skier at Mount Mansfield and one of the founders of the Mount Mansfield operations in Stowe. He was also one of the original members of the National Ski Patrol. Another great enthusiasm was flying and during World War II he was active in the Civil Air Patrol as a full colonel.
He is survived by sons Benjamin and Peter, daughters Joan Pelton and Ann juouise Courchaine, and several grandchildren.
Donald Fenton McCall died February 26 in Sarasota, Fla., at the age of 83. A native of Muskegon, Mich., Don's four years in College were active. He was a four-year member of the track team and captain his senior year. He specialized in the 220- and 440-yard dashes, and won many medals and trophies. He was also a member of Green Key, Casque & Gauntlet, Palaeopitus, and Phi Gamma Delta.
Don had a long and impressive career in the paper business. He started in 1928 as a sales manager for Racquette River Paper Company in Pottsdam, N.Y., advancing to vice president in 1951. He moved a few years later to Simpson Paper company in Everett, Wash., as general manager. In 1958 he joined International Paper Company in New York City and was made vice president in 1964. He retired in 1976. During World War II Don was a sl-a-year member of the War Production Board.
Don's first wife, Betty, died in 1975. He leaves his second wife, Dorothy, two daughters by his first marriage, Mary Armstrong and Patricia McCall, a stepson, a stepdaughter, nine grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and five step-grandchildren.
Bradford Winchester Stone died of heart failure February 14 in the Alexandria (Va.) Hospital. He was 83, a native of Washington, D.C., and grew up in Chevy Chase, Ma.
In College, Brick, as he was called, was a Zeta Psi and earned his D with the water polo team, During the subsequent 60 years he was one of the most faithful supporters of 1927, the College, and the Alumni Fund.
Upon graduating, he joined the merchant marine and went to sea for two years with the American Export Lines. In 1929 he went to work in the assembly plant of General Motors Overseas Division in Antwerp, Belgium, where he met and married Paulina De Cubas, who died in 1981. Later transfers found him in Spain, Cuba, and South America, where he was in charge of General Motors assembly plants. He returned to the U.S. in 1954, settling in Englewood, N.J., as vice president of General Motors Overseas Division's South American operations.
Brick held many voluntary community positions and served as president of the American Chamber of Commerce in several South American countries. During retirement he researched his family geneology and in 1978 produced "A Stone Geneology 1285-1973" and in 1988 "A Line of Bradfords 1480-1988."
He is surviyed by his wife, Edith, whom he married in 1982; his daughters Josephine Salmon, Mary Cover, and Susan Ferrer; six grandchildren; and his brother George.
Miles Alexander Turpin died February 27 after a long illness. He was 85. Originally from St. Louis, Mo., he spent his early years in Detroit, Mich., ™ere he attended the Northern High school. At Dartmouth he was a member of Dragon and Phi Gamma Delta.
After College, he entered the newspaper usmess with the Chicago Tribune. There e niet his first wife, Ruth, and they both worked at the Tribune until the late thirties.
Miles then joined Sawyer, Ferguson, alker, the largest newspaper representave firm in the United States. Rath left the Tribune to care for their two children. After World War II Miles was transferred to Calornia where he was named general manager of the western offices of Sawyer, Ferguson, Walker. He retired in 1965 after Ruth's death. Later he remarried Virginia Sheffield and they moved to Arizona.
He leaves Virginia, sons Miles and Anthony, six grandsons, two great-granddaughters, a stepson and a stepdaughter.
1928
James Ford Blickley died February 28 at his retirement home in Orange City, Fla. The cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia following an abdominal operation. Ford was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., and prepared for Dartmouth at Grand Rapids High. After Dartmouth, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma, he was employed by the Grand Rapids Store Equipment Corporation, followed by a stint with the Emergency Relief Administration. In 1936 he joined the Central Paper Company of Muskegon, Mich. He became the senior salesman in charge of their Rochester office in 1946. He married Nellie Elizabeth Borden in 1949. She died in 1969.
In 1966 Ford earned a Master of Science degree in education at Northern Illinois University after attending the Summer School of Foreign Languages at Colby College in 1962. He then became an instructor in French and Spanish at Northern Illinois University. At his retirement he was a full professor with tenure and director of the university's foreign language laboratory.
Ford enjoyed yachting. In the 1940s he and classmate Ben Heftier were on rival boats in the 285-mile race from Port Huron to Mackinaw Island. In another event on Lake St. Clair he raced against classmate Dick Foote. He also enjoyed choral singing and participated with a number of groups over the years. He is survived by his daughter Nancy Woodward of Deltona, Fla.
Thomas Patterson Ellis died February 17 of kidney and heart failure at the Toms River Medical Center, N.J. Tom was born in Philadelphia and prepared for Dartmouth at the Peddie School. In College he was a member of Psi Upsilon, Casque & Gauntlet, and Green Key. He played varsity basketball beginning as a freshman and was a member of the 1927 basketball team that won the first Ivy League championship.
After graduation Tom was employed by the Union Carbide Corporation of New York as a statistician and remained with them until his retirement in 1964. He lived most of his life in Westfield, N.J., moving to Pine Beach in 1969. His wife, the former Ann Ricketts, died in 1979. He is survived by a son, a daughter, and six grandchildren.
John Collier Weeks died January 11 of a stroke suffered earlier at his home in Port Washington, N.Y. Collie came to Dartmouth from Amityville High in Seaford, Long Island, at an early age. He must have been the youngest member of our class as he was only 19 at graduation. After Dartmouth, where he majored in economics and joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon, he earned an LL.B. at Columbia Law in 1931 at the age of 22. First employed by the law firm of White and Case, he was with Cadwalader and Wickersham from 1933-39. He then became secretary of Coats and Clark, a leading manufacturer of thread, 0yarn, zippers, etc., advancing to vice president. In 1966 he became executive vice president of HP A, Inc., a New York executive recruiting firm.
Collie was married to Dorothy Scott in April, 1942. He joined the army in June of that year and did not leave the service until 1945, with most of his duty in Iceland. His chief recreation was golf at which he excelled, winning several club championships and other competitions. He and his son Robert won the father-and-son championship on Long Island in 1972. He is survived by Dorothy and Robert.
1929
Carl Elton Burton after a short illness, died on February 18 at the Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, N.H.
Carl was born in Maiden, Mass., and entered Dartmouth from Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Mass. He attended Tuck, and was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha.
After graduation he joined the Massachusetts State Employment Service as personnel director, but shortly after accepted a position with Lever Brothers Company in Baltimore as industrial relations manager. In 1962 he took early retirement and moved to New Hampshire, which he d'early loved.
In 1935 Carl married Isabel L. MacKenzie. She survives, with their daughter Caryl Wright and four granddaughters.
William Theodore Palmer died on January 28 in California City, Calif. Ted grew up in Arlington and Bedford, Mass., and went to Lexington High School and Huntington School. He belonged to Chi Phi.
He worked in the building material business until 1938, then in Merrimack Mills in Lowell, and for American Hardware in New Britain, Conn. He had a grand year managing Stove Pipe Wells Hotel in Death Valley, was an engineer for Bates Mfg. Cos. in Lewiston, Maine, then worked for Yale & Towne Mfg. Cos. in Salem, Va. He was a member of the American Society of Tool Engineers.
In 1955 he moved to Los Angeles and became production manager and treasurer of Parthenon Pictures with his brother Cap Palmer '23, until retiring in 1974.
He leaves his widow, Helen, and son William. A younger son was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.
1930
James Sydney Cullyford died on February 18. He was living in Denver, Colo., where he was born in 1906.
Jim went to the University of Colorado after Dartmouth for his medical degree, then earned a certificate in public health in 1937 from the University of Minnesota. He then held a series of jobs in this field. For four years he was chief of preventive medicine and rural health administration for Colorado's Department of Health; then he was chief medical officer in the Veterans Regional Office in Denver; and from 1954 he was chief of out-patient service in Denver's VA Hospital.
Some of this was interrupted, beginning in 1941, for military service with the Twelfth Army in Europe. Lt. Col. Cullyford was decorated many times including the Bronze Star. He participated in the medical care and evacuation of the Netherlands political prisoners from the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau, for which he received the Order of Orange Nassau from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
Jim married Alice Troxell in 1933. She survives, as do several nieces and nephews.
James Barrett Irwin 81, died March 18 at home in Naples, Fla. from cancer. Jim came to Dartmouth from Great Falls (Mont.) High School. An outdoorsman, he was a member of Psi Upsilon and Dragon.
After Dartmouth Jim trained at Johns Hopkins Medical School to be a neurosurgeon. He was forced to change his medical career when he contracted turberculosis among the poor fishermen of Newfoundland, where he had worked summers as a volunteer. His new training was in radiology at Charity Hospital, New Orleans. After his residency there he completed fellowships at the University of California, Stanford, and the University of Chicago before moving to San Diego to begin private practice in 1945.
Dr. Irwin was the prime mover in creating The Radiology Group of San Diego, where he was a founding partner. He served as the chief of the Radiology Department of Mercy Hospital for many years. He was a member of the American College of Radiology, and the Southern California Academy of Radiology of which he was a past president. He was a member of the American Medical Association, and the San Diego County Medical Society.
Married for 44 years to Lois (Aertker), a native of Louisiana, he learned cooking from her and became a real gourmet cook. She passed away in 1984. He later married Elva Smith of Naples. Jim is survived by Elva, sons Dave and Dan, daughter Susan, four grandchildren, and his sister Elizabeth Ann Carnes.
L.L. Callaway Jr. '30
Bruce Alexander Mackey who was born in 1908, died in October 1988. He had been living at his home in Waukegan, 111.
Bruce dropped out of Dartmouth early in his junior year. After an initial period of development and research he founded his own company with Alex Hughes of Chicago, a culmination of other companies he had formed in industrial design. This was known'as Time Saver Tools and Industrial Carbide Corp. He met with much success in this field, since the drilling tools he manufactured proved valuable in contracts with the drilling of Kevlar, an extremely hard plastic favored by the defense industry.
In 1933 Bruce married Elizabeth Hughes, who predeceased him by several years. They had three children.
Theodore Day McDonald died on March 17. At the time his home was in Castle Rock, Wash. ,
Shortly after graduation Ted entered the oil business, a field he pursued through yarious connections for his entire businesses career. In 1952 he became vice president and manager of Socony distributor McCall and McDonald of Longview, Wash., an organization he operated for the rest of his life.
Ted married Elizabeth Robbins in 1934. She died in 1983. There are two sons who attended Yale.
1931
Frank Wilson Hays of Palos Verdes, Calif., died on February 7. Will came to Dartmouth from Montclair (N. J.) High School. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Dragon, and his major was economics.
He emerged from the Depression in 1937 when he began a 40-year career as a professional photographer including free-lance photography, six years during WW II as chief of the photography department of the California Shipbuilding Corporation, and finally as a specialist in industrial photography.
Will had been active in the Dartmouth Club of Southern California and in screening applicants for admission. He is survived by his wife, Gloria, and by their daughter, Peggy Kingman.
John Butlin Martin Jr. died of Parkinson's disease on March 1 in Sherbrook Nursing Home at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Johnny came to Dartmouth from Central High in Grand Rapids and Phillips Academy. He had an outstanding four years, majoring in English, being editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth, president of Palaeopitus, and president and secretary of the class. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Green Key, Casque & Gauntlet, and of the boxing team. He received a senior fellowship, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship, receiving a B.Litt. from Oxford in 1933. His law degree was from Michigan in 1936.
He practiced law in Columbus and Cleveland, and worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Office of Civil Defense before being commissioned in the navy where he attained the grade of lieutenant commander. Following WW II he was on the prosecutor's staff at the Nuremberg trials.
Politics and civic affairs in Michigan began in 1948 when he was elected to the Michigan Senate, then to state auditor general in 1950. He practiced law in Michigan and served as the state's Republican National Committeeman for 11 years. Meanwhile he helped draft Michigan's new constitution, and served on the governor's commission on crime, delinquency, and administration of criminal justice.
He was appointed U.S. Commissioner of Agmg and special advisor for aging to the resident in 1969, and was legislative counsel to until retirement in 1982.
Surviving are wife, Helen; son Richdaughters Judith Hartig and Gillian Sorensen; six grandchildren; and his brother
j- j _ Joseph George Rushton Da%r a l°ng illness on February 26 at tster A 4 Ster et^o^st Hospital in Roch-
Joe came to Dartmouth from Red Oak (Iowa) High School and majored at the Medical School. He was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma and of Cabin and Trail.
He received his M.D. from Rush in 1935, and interned at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. He joined the Mayo Clinic as a fellow in 1936, and received a master of science from the University of Minnesota in 1940. He returned to Mayo in 1942 to continue his fellowship in neurology, but from 1944 to 1947 he served with the Army Medical Corps, attaining the grade of ma- jor. From 1947 to 1949 he was again in private practice in Los Angeles.
Joe returned again to Rochester in 1949 as a consultant in neurology at Mayo. In 1967 he became senior consultant. He was appointed an instructor in neurology at the Mayo Graduate School in 1950, advanced to assistant professor in 1959, and to asso- ciate professor of clinical neurology in 1965 before retiring in 197 6. A specialist in head- ache and facial pain, he was general editor of "Clinical Examinations in Neurology," and a member of many medical associations.
Survivors include his wife, Vivian; sons James, Joseph Jr., and Charles; daughter Diane; three grandchildren; and his brother George '42.
Joseph Cannon Watson died on February 2 of a heart attack at Fairfax Hospital in Virginia.
Joe's father, a senator from Indiana and former majority leader, named Joe after the famous speaker of the House of Representatives who was commander of the Old Guard Republicans of that era. Joe was an apostle of conservatism, and it is safe to say that the late speaker would have approved of his namesake's political philosophy.
Joe transferred to Dartmouth from DePauw University, which he had entered from Central High in Washington, D.C. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and of Dragon. He majored in economics.
After studying law at Northwestern Joe served in administrative posts in the navy in WW II, reaching the grade of lieutenant commander. He was the State Department's air attache for the Far East until 1953 when he joined the Civil Aeronautics Board in which he was director of its Bureau of International Affairs before retiring in 1971. He consulted for Swissair from 1973-81.
Joe's wife predeceased him in 1987. He is survived by daughters Deborah Watson, Katharine Kearney, and Judith Watson, son David, sister Kathryn Gross, and three grandchildren.
1938
Harry Sargent Connor died January 25 in Naples, Fla., of a heart attack, due to problems of many years' duration, and was buried in Manchester, Mass. Harry came to Dartmouth from Worcester Academy and majored in sociology. He was a Deke and a member of Sphinx, and was on the Cabin and Trail Council.
Upon graduation Harry became branch manager for Dunlop Tire & Rubber in Worcester, Mass., then joined the marines in 1940. He was stationed at Quantico, Guantanamo Bay, Camp Lejeune, and Annacostia. Overseas he won a Silver Star in the retaking of Guadalcanal with the First Marine Brigade and First Marine Division. He was discharged as a major and promoted to colonel in the reserve in 1959.
In 1945 he began his career in the malleable iron casting industry, first with the Albany Castings Co. in New York, then in 1954 as sales manager for Arcade Malleable Iron Co. in Worcester, Mass., and later in the same capacity for Dayton Malleable Iron Co. in Ohio. He retired from Amcast Industries Corp. as executive vice president in 1979 and moved first to Cape Cod then to Florida. Harry was active in the Dayton Dartmouth Club and the Cape Cod Dartmouth Club. He enjoyed golf and gardening, and was a tutor with the Literacy Volunteers of America.
Harry is survived by his wife, Barbara, and his sons and daughters-in-law: Jeffrey and Linda, Lawrence and Christine, ana Mathew and Diane; five grandchildren; and his brother David. Harry and Barbara were with us at our 50th Reunion.
J.R.S. Jr.
Lyle Albert Devlin Jr. died on January 30 at his home in Columbus Ohio. Bud prepared for Dartmouth at the Detroit University School. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Green Key, circulation manager of Jacko, and was awarded his degree "with distinction" in sociology.
Bud joined Gulf as a fuel oil salesman in Detroit after graduation. WW II found him with the navy Seabees in Alaska and the Aleutians, then engaged in ship salvage and underwater demolition in Guam, Saipan, and Tinian. After 42 months in the service he married Ann Finkenstaedt of Grosse Point, Mich. He returned to Gulf Oil and was posted to Pittsburgh as national sales supervisor. Later he joined the headquarters staff in Houston as merchandising specialist in the oil heating market.
Bud retired from Gulf in 1975. He is survived by his wife, his daughters Cornelia and Dela, and one grandchild.
Lyle Devlin was a pacesetter in our 50th Reunion memorial gifts campaign. He made the largest single gift in honor of his roommate, Carl vonPechmann.
Harry Howard Ham Jr. died December 1, 1988, in the Massachusetts General Hospital of a heart attack. Harry, who prepared for Dartmouth at Newton High and Tabor Academy, won his numerals in freshman hockey, majored in sociology, and was a Beta. His father was in the class of 1905.
After graduation Hariy studied law at Boston University, got his LL.B. in 1941, and married Jean Stowell of Colby Junior College. During WW II he entered the Coast Guard Academy and moved up to lieutenant while serving in the U.S. and on the U.S.S. Storis and the destroyer escort U.S.S. Joyce, winning three area ribbons.
After the war he joined his father in the law firm of Ganz ana Ham in Boston, where he continued his practice until his death. While living in Newton he was a member of the board of aldermen from 1954-00. After moving to Sherborn he served on their planning board and was a member or the board of assessors at the time of his death. Harry was also a vice president of the Natic Trust Co. and a director for 35 years.
He is survived by his four daughters, Elizabeth Kunz, Louise Rogers, Martha Kabacoff, and Kathryn Dinneen; eight grandchildren; and his sister Elizabeth Nichols.
Conrad Michael Karras died October 30, 1988, inNewJersey. Connie entered Dartmouth from Mt. Hermon and later attended Temple University. During the war he was in the Army Air Corps, First Bomber Command, Radio Section, at Mitchel Field. That is the extent of the information about him in his Alumni Records folder. His sister, Jean Latchis, widow of John Latchis '37, responded to my letter to her about our classmate.
"He married Viola Korell in May of 1944. Just before the war Conrad started Michael Wood Products in Garfield, N.J. His whole life revolved around his plant. He was constandy facing new challenges and adventures of distribution. He became concerned with ecological problems and was working on solutions right up to the end of his life.
"As a very small child Conrad was fascinated by the design of automobiles and his fascination became his hobby. He was active in the Bentley Drivers Club and went to many classic Bentley and Rolls-Royce Tours through Japan, South Africa, Greece, Italy, Norway, and the British Isles."
He is survived by his wife, Viola.
C. Edward Sherman died on February 23, 1988, in St. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., of a massive stroke suffered after a fall in his home. Ed, as he was known in College, prepared at Quincy High in Massachusetts then at Mt. Hermon.
Suffolk University Law School granted him its degree in commercial law in 1940 and he married Eileen Taylor that September. During WW II he worked for the War Department at the Watertown Arsenal. When peace came he joined the Kellogg cereal company as an institutional salesman in and around Boston. In 1959 he moved his family to Jacksonville and founded Sherman Realty Trust, which owned and operated commercial property in that city- His son Ted became president of that family enterprise when Ed retired from day-to-day responsibilities in 1981.
Ed was active in the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston during his years in Massachusetts. He leaves his wife, Eileen, his son Edward, and his daughter Elaine.
1939
Albert Church Blunt III of East Falmouth, Mass., died of cancer TAD visiting a son in San Diego on January 26. Bud came to Dartmouth from Newton He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, and the Dormitory Committee, was manager of the track team, and on the business board of the Pictorial. He majored in economics and went to Tuck School. He was commissioned an ensign in e navy during WW II and rose to the rank lieutenant commander.
After the war, Bud joined the Melville Shoe Corp., where he worked for 20 years, eventually becoming president and trustee of a division, the Melville Realty Cos. He later became president of the Shepard and Meyers Retail Division of the Hanover Shoe Corp. Of Hanover, Pa. He retired in 1982 and moved to Cape Cod where he was active in the Dartmouth Club.
Bud served for a number of years as a trustee of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, and as a deacon of Congregational churches in the areas in which he lived. He was a member of the Menauhaut Yacht Club and the Woods Hole Golf Club at the time of his death.
Bud leaves his wife, Norma, and three sons, Albert IV, Kenneth '66, and Richard '69, and three grandchildren.
Andrew Bennitt Eckerson of Mitchellville, Md., died on February 22 at 71. Ben entered Dartmouth from Hackensack (N.J.) High School, where he was active in dramatics, was on the glee club, student court, athletic council, student paper, and honor society. A member of Sigma Phi Epsilon at Dartmouth, he majored in psychology, was a Glee Club member and on the Interfraternity Council.
Ben added a master's degree in psychology at Columbia after leaving Dartmouth. From 1942-46 Ben was with Wright Aero Corporation, and followed this as a vocational counselor at Stevens Institute of Technology until 1951 when he joined the U.S. Labor Department as an analyst and computer systems designer. He initiated and developed the classification structure of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, and developed the external designs and occupational languages for experimental computerized job-matching systems. He served until his retirement in 1973 except during 1953-59 when he was a personnel evaluation officer for the U.S. Air Force.
Ben's retirement was hastened by a diabetic ulcer in his foot which eventually led to gangrene and other complications, to a point where it was recommended that the leg be removed surgically. Ben fought this suggestion and managed to cure himself through a gigantic amount of willpower. He was later to succumb to blindness, but continued to enjoy a fulfilling life despite his handicaps.
He is survived by his wife, Louise, three daughters—Judith, Gale, and Andrea—his first wife, Elizabeth, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
1945
William Ralph Maclntyre died of a heart attack in Wilmington, Del., on September 7, 1987. He grew up in that city, entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1941 where he played intercollegiate football and was a member of Chi Phi. In September 1943 he entered the army, achieving the rank of staff sargeant. He, graduated from the University or Pennsylvania in 1948.
Bill worked for Joseph Bancroft Sons & Co. Inc., textile finishers, and became vice president and general manager in 1955. His widow, Sheila, died recently, but he is survived by two daughters and two sons.
Edward B. Smith '45
Simon Christian Nielsen Jr. died of cancer on August 15, 1988, at his home in Indian Hill, a suburb of Cincinnati, at the age of 65. He was born and raised in Mount Lookout, attending local schools un- til he entered Dartmouth College, where he majored in English and was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
Si left Dartmouth in January 1943 to join the air force. During his service he was able to attend the University of Virginia for a full year, so on discharge in 1946 he enrolled at the University of Cincinnati, earning a B.A. degree in 1947.
After a few years of other business endeavors, he joined the family business, Nielson Lithographing, where he worked for the balance of his career, serving as president for the last 13 years. He was on the boards of Twin Towers Methodist Home and the Community Limited Care Dialysis Center, was president of the Drake Road Elementary School PTA Board, and volunteered for the General Protestant Orphan's Home and Armstrong Chapel United Methodist Church.
In addition to his wife, Betty Jane, he is survived by his son, S. Christian III, daughters Pamela Schilt, Nancy Woerner, and Molly Lucien, his brother Eric, and nine grandchildren.
1952
Joseph K. Dobos of Hillsborough, Calif., died January 30 of lymphoma at his home where he had lived for more than 20 years.
Joe came to Dartmouth from Denver after graduation from East High School. He was a member of the ski team and of Sigma Nu. Joe started at the Harvard Medical School in what would have been his senior year, but graduated with his Dartmouth class.
After graduation from Harvard Medical School in 1956 he interned at Roosevelt Hospital in New York' and then served with the Marine Corps as a flying officer and flight surgeon, attaining the rank of major. Joe began his practice in internal medicine in San Francisco in 1961. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were also doctors. He built a fine practice, was the doctor for a great many other doctors in the Bay Area, and was greatly respected for his accurate diagnoses. He was an associate professor at the University of California and the San Francisco School of Medicine, and a member of the medical staff at Children's Hospital.
He is survived by his wife, Patsy, whom he married in 1965, and by sons Matthew and Ted. The undersigned was both his classmate and brother-in-law.
Fred Carleton '52
1953
Richard David Lombard died of cancer on February 10 in New York City, and Dartmouth has lost a son nationally respected for personifying those Dickey-exhorted qualities of "competence and conscience." Dick was not only the first '53 to become a Trustee of the College, but also the classmate who brought to everything he did a unique and enviable combination of intelligence, honesty, gentility, good fellowship, and sensitivity to others.
Dick came to Dartmouth from Phillips Andover. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Dragon. In 1954, after receiving his M.B.A. from Tuck, he married Jane Kettering, sister of classmate and fraternity brother, Chuck Kettering.
After service in Japan as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Dick entered the investment business with Stone and Webster Securities. In 1961, he founded the firm of Lombard, Vitalis & Paganucci, Inc., along with classmates Bill Vitalis and Paul Paganucci. Dick served as chairman and became widely known for his thorough research and portfolio management skills. After the sale of the business in 1973 Dick continued to manage investments for private clients while devoting increasing energy to a variety of interests.
As a Dartmouth Trustee from 1971-81, Dick chaired the investment committee and served on the executive, budget, development, and other key committees. He was a founding member and chairman of the board of overseers of the Hopkins Center-Hood Museum, an overseer of Dartmouth Medical School, a member of the Alumni Council, major gifts chairman for the Campaign for Dartmouth, and the Alumni Fund Chairman in 1969-70. In 1985 he was honored with the Dartmouth Alumni Award. He and Jane were also active in the Dartmouth Conferences, one of many endeavors to further U.S.-Soviet relations.
Dick also served as president of the board of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and vice chairman and a trustee of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He was a trustee of Phillips Andover Academy and of Radcliffe College. He was a director of Warburg, Pincus Capital Partners.
Withal, Dick remained an unassuming, caring man whose loves were the world of ideas, his family, his friends, and his Coll ege. Thoughts from the "least of his brethren" were welcomed with the same delight and respect as those from the moguls.
At our 25th Reunion, Dick Lombard cited his trusteeship of Dartmouth College as his most rewarding and challenging experience. His accomplishments are an outstanding legacy to his classmates and his family. He is survived by his wife, Jane, his daughter Sarah, and his son Richard '88.
P.D. Paganucci '53, T.D. Bloomer '53
1955
R. Thomas Maurey Jr. a resident of Laguna Niguel, Calif., died suddenly on January 21. Tom came to Dartmouth from Bradford, Pa., and Kimball Union Academy. He majored in history and played tackle on the varsity football teams of the early fifties. In that era of good fellowship he stood out as most congenial to his brothers in DKE. ,
Tom's air force ROTC training resulted in a commission and active duty after graduation. His business career was in the insurance industry, and when he died he was a vice president of Johnson & Higgins in their Orange County, Calif., office. Always an avid skier, he enjoyed skiing with his tamily in recent years at Sun Valley. .
He leaves his wife, Joan, daughter Susie> and sons Tom, John, and Bruce, his mother, sister, and brother.
