Deaths
This is a listing of deaths of which word has been received since the previous issue. Full notices, usually written by the class secretary, may appear in this issue or a later one.
Roger Flagg Evans '16 • Dec. 22 Van Vleck H. Vosburgh '22 • Jan. 9 George Harold Mason '23 • Dec. 5 David Bennett Dyche '24 • Jan. 7 James William Taylor Jr. '24 • Nov. 16 Duncan Griswold Upton '25 • Nov. 20 Frederick Hurd '26 • Jan. 10 Walter Joseph Brownstone '28 • Jan. 11 Bartlett Bradford Bradley '29 • Nov. 15 George Alexander Lord '30 • Dec. 30 Ralph Osgood Nims '3l • Nov. 27 Edward William Pastore '31 • Nov. 16 Frederick Arthur Mayes '32 • Dec. 15 Edward Bowman Halligan '33 • Nov. 29 Frederic Theodore Huston '34 • Oct. 30 Chester Pierce Jordan '34 • Nov. 19 Lloyd Richard Maxwell '35 • Dec. 9 Charles John Holmquist '36 • Dec. 5 Arthur Edward Koeppel Jr. '38 • Nov. 30 John Herbert McKeever Jr. '39 • Nov. 21 Robert R. Van Slambrouck '39 • Nov. 25 Richard Varey '39 • Dec. 7 Harvey Felix Yorke '39 • Dec. 20 Edward McDonel Fritz '40 • Nov. 1989 Ernest Rudolph Lendler '40 • Nov. 22 Robert Gordon Varney '40 • Dec. 20 J. Allen Van Wie Jr. '41 • Nov. 22 Richard Sawyer Whittier '41 • Dec. 10 Stewart Franklin Asimus '42 • Dec. 4 H. Rodney Bolin '42 • April 16 Thompson Wallace Close '44 • Dec.31 Charles Dana Waterman '45 • 0ct.22 John Milton Alden '46 • Dec. 13 Ralph Bertram Hersey '46 • Nov. 20 Thomas William Kerley '46 • fall of 1989 Maurice Readey Jr. '46 • 1987 Philip Thomas Kelly '48 • Sept. 5 John Glenn Gammie '50 • Dec. 26 Peter William Krehbiel '51 • Dec. 27 Marvin Alan Klein '53 • Dec. 22 William French Daley '54 • Dec. 15 Neal Joseph Farrell '54 •Jan. 8 Neil Alexander Hendry '54 • Nov. 4 Matthew T. Lorimer '56 • Nov. 21 Raymond Leo Dolan, Jr. '62 • Dec. 10 John Carver Reinertsen '63 • Nov. 4 Christopher Alan Light '67 • Dec. 13 Bruce Jay Heim '74 • Jan. 4 Jill Goodman '93 • Nov. 22
Faculty
John Vance Neale a member of the faculty for 41 years until his retirement in 1975 and chairman of the speech department for several terms, died November 15 in Hanover. A graduate of the University of Missouri in 1930, he earned a master's from Cornell in 1939.
Professor Neale joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1934 and became a full professor in 1948. His publications included a booklet on the Knapp-White murder case, which had been prosecuted by Daniel Webster. This case was the basis for one of Professor Neale's best known courses.
He was active in Hanover affairs, including serving as a selectman, overseer of welfare, and chairman of the planning board. His first wife, Genevieve, died in 1974. He is survived by his wife, Else, whom he married in 1975; three sons; two stepdaughters; a stepson; and many grandchildren.
1915
Henry Isa Monheimer of Chicago died November 12 at the age of 96. A stockbroker most of his life, Hank served as a lieutenant in the chemical warfare service during WW I. He was married in 1927, though subsequently divorced. His son Henry Jr. predeceased him and there are no known survivors.
1923
John J. McGrath a graduate of Boston College and an honorary member of the class of '23, died in October. John spent his life in Boston, in law and real estate.. He was president and treasurer of his own firm. John and his late wife, Mary, had four children.
1924
James William Taylor Jr. a lifelong resident of South Bend, Ind., died on November 16 at the Meridan Nursing Center-Cardinal. Jim, after starting in the lumber business, spent most of his working life in the advertising business with the Jones & Taylor Advertising Agency. He had also served as secretary of Indiana Lumber & Manufacturing Company. In addition to business, he also engaged in a variety of civic activities and did extensive work as an artist, both as a painter and as a cartoonist. He started his career with the Jack-O-Lantern and subsequently sold cartoons to many humor magazines. If you will look at your copy of our Forty-Year History, the small cartoon figure at the top of each page was done by Jim.
Jim was married to Rachel Davis in 1924. She died in 1976. He subsequently married Janet Kochanowski, who survives, along with his daughter Rachel Taylor, and his brother Joseph.
1925
Paul F. Pearson died October 12 suddenly at his home in West Roxbury, Mass. He was Phi Beta Kappa and a Rufus Choate Scholar. He then earned his master's degree in history at Harvard and did graduate work also at Boston University. He was a Fulbright teacher at the Rossall School in England and then a high school teacher in Keene, N.H., and Dedham, Mass. He was assistant headmaster at Charlestown High School before serving for 20 years as head of the history department at Boston Latin School. He was active in The Appalachian Mountain Club, West Roxbury Congregational Church, New England History Teacher's Association, and was chairman of the history curriculum committee of the Boston school system.
He is survived by his wife, Alice (Richards), and two grandchildren.
1929
Bartlett Bradford Bradley died at Duxbury, Mass., on November 15. Coming from Duxbury High School, he belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Omega Gamma, and Dragon, and majored in economics. He was business manager of the Jack-O-Lantern.
After two years in New York City with Valspar Company, he spent the rest of his business career with Plymouth Cordage Company in San Francisco and New Yonc, and finally at Plymouth, Mass., as vice president of sales.
He served as a lieutenant in the navy on assault transport vessels in the South Pacific. He was town moderator of Duxbury for 16 years and served as trustee and officer in several town organizations.
He leaves his wife, Ora May (Moseley), two daughters, and a granddaughter.
1930
William Hunter Fieldcamp died on October 15. He had been living in Houston, Tex.
Bill, born in Chicago, was, throughout most of his career, with Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation, out of Houston, occupying several positions in sales and management. Bill was married three times. His widow, Jane, survives, along with a son and two daughters.
1931
Edward William Pastore died on November 16 in St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn.
Ed was an English major at Dartmouth, and had prepared for the College at Hillhouse High in New Haven and at Mount Hermon. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, and participated in The Players, in freshman track, and in the Glee Club.
His career with the Boys' Clubs of America, of which he became the director of personnel and training service, and with associated organizations, began in the New Haven Boys Club even before he entered Dartmouth. Along the way he picked up his master's in sociology from Yale, and received an honorary doctor of humanities degree from Springfield College. He was on the faculty of NYU, and trained teaching groups in California. The recipients of the scholarships under his direction studied at more than 15 different colleges and universities.
Writing was Ed's hobby, and he was the author of many books and professional texts including the official Boys Club Manual.
Ed is survived by his widow, Emma; by sons Richard, William, and Thomas; and by two grandchildren.
1935
Morris Lewis Heller died on June 10 at his home in Lyme, N.H., after a long illness. We regret that due to an error at the magazine there was a delay in reporting this.
Born in Claremont, he spent his professional life at the Mary Hitchcock Medical Center. A true son of the Valley, he returned more than he took.
Moriy got his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1940, interned at New York's Harlem Hospital, served overseas with an Air Force hospital, then joined the Hitchcock Clinic, where he soon became staff anesthesiologist. He was also a professor at Dartmouth Medical School until his retirement in 1979.
The Valley News said he was a "modest, kind and warm man with a delightful sense of humor." He also loved tennis.
Morry's wife, Rose, predeceased him. He leaves two daughters, Dona Heller and Sara MacLurg, three brothers, and four grandsons.
Malcolm Lewis Morehouse died of a heart attack in Laredo, Tex., on June 9, according to word just received.
Mac came to us from Glens Falls, N.Y., majored in economics, and then went to Harvard Business School. Aside from his service in the Army Signal Corps from 1941 to 1946 he seems to have spent his career with Sinclair Refining Company in Fort Worth, Tex., finally as personnel director.
He is survived by two sons, Thomas and Stephen.
John Price Williams died of a heart attack on May 13 at home in Lakeland, Fla.
J.P. came to Hanover from the Utica (N.Y.) Free Academy, joined Sigma Phi Epsilon, and majored in history. He enjoyed history throughout his life.
His specialty was cost estimating, which he did for General Electric, for the last 20 years in Daytona, Fla.
His family tells of his great sense of humor which he used "to teach us more about ourselves and the world around us." He spent much time in volunteering for church work and youth basketball.
J.P. leaves his wife, Anna; two sons, Richard '65 and Roger; three granddaughters; and a grandson.
1937
John Harvey Dingle Jr. who died on October 24, was born in Highland Park, Ill., and started kindergarten with me. He attended Lake Forest Academy with future Dartmouth classmates Fred Asher, Park Johnston, Don O'Brien, John Ward, and Kane Zelle.
John's father, who was Dartmouth '10, persuaded me to forget Yale and apply to Dartmouth. Known as Abe to us, he was a staunch member of Zeta Psi and a devoted member of Sphinx. He was an outstanding member of the Dartmouth varsity basketball team in 1935 and 1936.
Abe spent his entire business career at the DuPont Company and was financial control auditor in the general service department when he retired
He died at his home in Wilmington, Del., after a brief illness. His is survived by his wife, Harriet, and a brother, Thomas. Abe was a loyal Dartmouth son and joined with us at our Golden Jubilee Reunion.
S. Parker Johnston Jr. '37
Ralph Leigh Griffith Jr. died on October 16, the result of a coronary heart attack.
Ralph came to Dartmouth from Berkshire High in Providence, R.I. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta. His business career was in manufacturing and selling jewelry. From 1941 to 1945 he served in the U.S. Army. Ralph interviewed candidates for Dartmouth and served as a class agent and was on our 50th Reunion Giving Committee. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. J. Whitney Mac Donald, and three children, Ralph III, Clifford, and Whitney.
1939
John H. McKeever Jr. of Anchorage, Alaska, died in his home on November 21 of acute pneumonitis. Mac was a petroleum geologist and worked in Alaska during its early days of oil exploration.
Born in Aberdeen, S.D., Mac came to Hanover from the local high school where he participated in basketball and track, was a student counselor, and advertising manager of its publication.
Mac left Dartmouth for the Colorado School of Mines but in 1940 he enlisted in the Signal Corps. For a portion of his service in WW II he was in Adak Island in the Aleutians. Following the war he returned to Colorado School of Mines where he earned a degree and went to work for Stanolind Co., which later became Pan American Petroleum Corp. and is now Amoco Production Co.
He was a member of innumerable industry organizations among which were the Alaska Geophysical Society, which he founded, and the Alaska Geological Society, which he served as president for many terms. He was president of the Petroleum Club and chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association. He retired in 1982.
He is survived by Elizabeth, his wife of 45 years, three Dartmouth sons, Peter '70, Timothy '72, and Stephen '75, a daughter Margaret, and six grandchildren.
1942
Herbert Rodney Bolin died in Chicago, Ill., of lung cancer last April 16.
Rod came to Dartmouth from Wilmette, Ill. He was at Dartmouth only for his freshman year, later studying at Grinnell College and Northwestern.
He was associated with the Automatic Spring Coiling Company in Chicago and at the time of 1942's 25 th Reunion in 1967 he was president of the firm.
He married Muriel Kirkman in 1940. She survives, along with their sons, Rodney and Herbert, and daughters Carol and Susan.
Reed Ogden Griffith following a stroke, died on October 31 in Fresno, Calif.
Reed came to Dartmouth from Akron, Ohio, where he had graduated from Buchtel High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Theta Delta Chi and an active member of the Dartmouth Players. He directed and produced Eugene O'Neil's "Bound East for Cardiff," with which Theta Delt won the interfraternity play competition in
After graduation and three years in the navy, much of it on a minesweeper in the Pacific, Reed joined the sales division of General Tire and Rubber Company, living in Florida, New York, and Michigan before moving to California in 1961. He retired as manager of General Tire's original equipment sales on the West Coast.
Reed married Shirley Hoffman in 1961. She, daughter Hawley, and sons Reed Jr. and Peter survive him.
Charles Francis Kingsley died on October 8 at his home in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y., of heart failure.
Chuck grew up in Port Washington on Long Island. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and active in musical circles the Marching Band, the Green Collegians, the Baker Tower Brass Octet, and in several "pit" orchestras under Professor Longhurst for musicals and undergraduate shows. He also taught trombone at Hanover High School while an undergraduate.
He left Dartmouth after the end of his junior year to join the Naval Air Corps. Much of the war he was a flight instructor in Oklahoma and Florida, but he was assigned to the USS Enterprise in 1945 after training a squadron in night fighting.
He joined Eastern Airlines as a pilot in 1946 and stayed with Eastern until his retirement in 1965. An avid sailor, he won the national championship in the Raven Class in 1958. Photography, particularly aerial photography, was another interest.
Chuck is survived by his son Neil, a daughter Karen, and two grandchildren.
Herbert Lloyd Osborne died at his home in Omaha, Neb., on November 21 after a bout with cancer.
Herb came to Dartmouth from Omaha where he had graduated from Central High School. While at Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi arid served as advertising manager for The Dartmouth.
Herb was in the Air Force during World War II, seeing duty as a pilot in the 8th Air Force. He retired a first lieutenant.
Following service he returned to Omaha where he joined his father's real estate firm and began a career that won him regional and national recognition in the real estate business. He started his own firm, H. L. Osborne and Associates, in 1962. He was Nebraska Realtor of the Year in 1972 and a regional vice president of the National Association of Realtors.
Herb was a past president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Plains.
Herb married Ann Hyatt Weaver in 1942. She died in 1971. In 1979 he married Marilyn Woods. She survives him, along with his daughters Nancy, Adelaide, and Mary, a son Herbert Jr., eight grandchildren, and brothers Melvin and David.
1945
Charles Dana Waterman Jr. died of colon cancer on October 22, 1989, at St. Luke's Hospital in Davenport, lowa, at the age of 66. He was born and raised in Davenport, and, after attending the local schools, graduated from the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., before entering Dartmouth. He left Dartmouth in 1943 to enlist in the service where, as a Marine Corps pilot, he spent the last year of his service as instrument instructor at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, Calif., as a captain. Upon returning to Dartmouth he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in philosophy honors in February 1947. He went on to Harvard Law School, graduating in June 1949, and entered the law firm of Lane & Waterman in Davenport where he spent his career, rising to senior partner specializing in corpprate, tax, and securities law.
His civic activities included the Civic Music Board, Davenport Public Library trustee, church vestryman, and board member of various clubs.
In 1944 Dinny married Sibyl Dougherty, who survives, along with their son C. Dana III '68, daughters Sibyl Haley, Sally Owen, and Glenna Gardner '82, his brother Robert '50, and eight grandchildren.
1947
Roy E. Chenderlin passed on in Oldsmar, Fla., on May 12, at home with his family, after a 12-year struggle with cancer.
Roy enlisted in the Coast Guard on the day after Pearl Harbor, and entered the Navy V-12 program. He was trained at Yale and then Dartmouth College, where he graduated in the class of '47 with a degree in civil engineering from Thayer School.
He joined U.S. Plywood as a sales manager, in Tampa, Fla., and transferred to Dayton, Ohio, as area manager for the firm, now Champion Building Products. He was promoted in 1970 to the Cincinnati home office, where he worked until medical retirement in 1981.
His love was golf, and he was inspirational to friends and family for his refusal to let his medical problems keep him from winning the Florida State Handicap Championship in 1987. Also in 1987, he won first flight in his home club championship play at Innisbrook.
He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Ginnie, a son Michael, two granddaughters, and his brother John.
1948
Charles Haig Zoolalian died on March 8, 1989, from a massive heart attack in the Intercommunity Presbyterian Hospital of Whittier, Calif.
The son of immigrant Armenian parents from Turkey, Chuck grew up in Newburyport, Mass., where in 1942 he graduated from Newburyport High and spent the following year at Governor Dummer Academy. He joined the Marine Corps in July 1943 and went to Dartmouth in the V-12 for 16 months before further training at Parris Island and Quantico. Chuck met Kay Keosian in Hollywood just before he shipped out to the Pacific in September 1945. He spent the next year repatriating Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans in LSTs.
Chuck returned in August 1946, married Kay, and moved back to Hanover where the next two happy years were spent in Wigwam Circle. Majoring in history, he practiced teaching at Lebanon High, graduated in 1948, and taught for a year in North Attleboro before moving to California.
After he obtained his Master of Education at UCLA, Chuck and Kay settled in Whittier, where Chuck taught and counseled for the next 35 years in the local school system, and served many church and civic organizations. After retiring in 1985, he continued consulting and guidance work in education, and led in the relief work by California for Soviet Armenia after the devastating Russian earthquake in December 1988.
Chuck is survived Kay, daughter Christine, three grandchildren, and brothers Harold and Edward.
1956
Matthew Thornton Lorimer died at sea November 21 off the Marquesas Keys while on a boating vacation in Florida.
After completing his work at Vermont Academy and Dartmouth, he graduated from the Columbia University School of International Affairs and joined the United States Foreign Service in 1961. After attending the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, he began a diplomatic career that took him to Kampala, Uganda; Hamburg, Germany; Lusaka, Zambia; Helsinki, Finland; Copenhagen, Denmark; Kingston, Jamaica; and Washington, D.C.
Upon retirement, he took up residence in Woodstock, Vt., with his wife, Lois, who survives him. He also leaves two daughters, Anne and Sara, and his sister Sally.
1962
Jerome H. Bentley III died accidentally last April 5 when the single-engine plane he was piloting crashed in high winds and heavy snow just below the summit of Hagues Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo.
Terry, as he was known to everyone, came to Dartmouth on an NROTC scholarship from Westfield, N.J. He was one of the most active and accomplished members of our class—captain of the freshman and varsity swimming teams and a member of Beta Theta Pi, Casque & Gauntlet, Green Key, UGC Judiciary Committee, the DCAC, and the Dartmouth Outing Club.
Best known as an outstanding swimmer, Terry set College records in the 100 and 200-yard butterfly, the 200-yard individual medley, the 400-yard medley relay team, and the 200-yard breaststroke. In four years of 100 races in dual meets, he took first place 83 percent of the time. He won the John Glover Award as the outstanding Dartmouth swimmer in his sophomore and senior years, and received the Alfred Watson Trophy in 1962 as Dartmouth's outstanding athlete.
Terry majored in economics and graduated from Tuck School in 1963. He served in Vietnam as a pilot for the U.S. Marine Corps and flew commercially for Pan Am in both the U.S. and Europe. In addition, he settled with his wife, Meg, in Steamboat Springs where he ran Steamboat Aviation, taught flying, flew charter hops, and was active in the Rotary Club.
Terry is survived by Meg, his son Ryan and daughter Erin, his mother Mrs. Janet G. Bentley, and two sisters, Zilpha Ellis and Janet Bell.
1969
Peter Wesley Kitson 42, passed away on November 22, 1989, after a short illness. Pete graduated from Phillips Academy and while at Dartmouth played football and lacrosse, and was a member of Phi Sigma Psi. Pete earned his law degree from Boston University in 1972 and at the time of his death was a director for Aetna Life and Casualty. He is survived by his wife, Cheryl, and children Nicole and Jeffrey.
1993
Jill C. Goodman who had matriculated at the College only last fall, died of lupus on November 22. She is survived by her parents, Stephen and Susan Goodman of Mt. Kisco, N.Y. A graduate last June of Horace Greeley High School, Jill had been active in volunteer froups in her school and the community, he was an officer in Youth Arc (Association of Retarded Citizens) and SHARE, and won the Stanley Marcus Humanitarian Award for her school and county. She was also an editor of her school yearbook.
