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.
Edwin Leslie McFalls '16 • May 8 Hollis Winsor Nickerson '16 • Apr. 30 Karl Leavitt Thielscher '17 • May 5 Harry Thomas Worthington '17 • Mar. 4 Frank Harold Reuling '18 • Mar. 6 Alfred Burton Closson '19 • July 17 Theodore Simons Cart '20 • Mar. 25 John William Embree '21 • Feb. 26 Corydon Karr Litchard '21 • Mar. 6 Samuel Walter Plumb '21 • Feb. 2 Norman Tompkins Crane '22 • Apr. 5 James Webster Martin '22 • Apr. 1Philip Henry Leighton '23 • June 30 Greenough Abbe '24 • Jan. 14 Irving Hill Ittner '24 • Jan. 25 Alvin Fordyce Buchanan '25 • Dec. 1989 Philip Cornelius O'Connell '25 • Apr. 25 Courtney Conrades Brown '26 • Apr. 28 Russell Watson Clark '26 • Feb. 27 Donald Laverack Dimick '26 • Jan. 9 Gordon McClure Opdyke '26 • Feb. 28 Bennett Dußois Bell '27 • Mar. 18 Hargreaves Heap Jr. '27 • Jan. 30 Lyman Francis Milliken '27 • Mar. 19 James Burland Willing '27 • Mar. 18 John William Herpel '28 • April 1990 Francis Champlin Webster '28 • Mar. 17 Allen Richardson Floyd '29 • Mar. 5 Jack Disbrow Gunther '29 • Mar. 23 Mathias Rock '29 • Mar. 7 Shepard Arthur Stone '29 • May 4 John Roger Turnbull '29 • Apr. 8 Alexander M. Harroun '30 • Feb. 1990 Daniel Denham '31 • Jan. 30 George Ettleson '31 • Mar. 16 Oliver Stoddard Hayward '31 • Jan. 25 George C. Nickum '31 • Apr. 22 William Frederick Kuhn II '32 • Aug. 24 Milton William Lamproplos '32 • Feb. 8 Gordon C. Mackenzie '32 • Mar. 13 Frederick Arthur Post '32 • May 1990 Arthur Benjamin Hull '33 • Jan. 12 William Henry Lang '33 • Mar. 14 Robert R. Singleton '34 • Feb. 13 John Brooke Gregory '35 • May 3 Donald E. Richardson '35 • Apr. 27 Thomas Browne Allen '36 • Mar. 19 Frederick Evoy Kneip '36 • Feb. 6 Harold Gilman Palmer '36 • Jan. 7 Douglas H. Robertson '36 • Apr. 20 Joseph Walker Whitney '36 • Apr. 19 Myron Wright '37 • Mar. 29 Richard F. Anderson '38 • Dec. 26 Russell Beckwith Spang '38 • 1988 Daniel Lamborn Dyer '39 • Apr. 1 Alexander W. Fraser '39 • Feb. 27, 1980 Paul Merriman Jones '39 • Nov. 1989 Alfred William Steffen '39 • Mar. 10 Duncan Lee Bassett '40 • Mar. 1990 Southgate Freeman Jr. '40 • Sept. 1989 Louis Birkenfeld Schlivek '40 • Apr. 8 William Merritt Belding '41 • Jan. 6 Peter C. T. Glenn '41 • Mar. 4 Roger Sands Jr. '41 • Apr. 17 John Stephenson Tate '41 • Apr. 4 John James Danhof Jr. '43 • Mar. 1990 Henry Thomas Douglas III '44 • Mar. 17 Winslow Martin '44 • Mar. 13 Carl Frederick Spaeth Jr. '44 • May 15 James Algernon Brown '45 • Apr. 27 Horace Gabriel Hedges Jr. '45 • Mar. 24 Charles Spiro Bishara '46 • Feb. 14 Leo John Lelledid '46 • Feb. 4 Jose Antonio Suarez '48 • Jan. 14 Kenneth Myatt McClain '49 • May 2 Michael Patrick Noonan '55 • Feb. 21 Alan Robert Weiner '58 • Mar. 1990 Naison Kerd Mawande '65 • July 3, 1989 Frederick Wayne Byrd '69 • Mar. 19 Anthony Serge Beliajeff '69 • May 25 Gordon Leigh White '83 • Jan. 18 Nancy Hart '85 • 1987
Faculty
Christopher Reed whose search for a potentially life-saving bone marrow transplant was earlier reported in this magazine, died of cancer on January 11 in Seattle, Wash. He was 38. An associate professor of biology at the College since 1982, Prof. Reed earned his B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard from 1980-82. His specialty was developmental biology of marine invertebrates and he spent several summers at the Woods Hole Marine Biology Labratory. He is survived by his wife, Paula, his mother and stepfather, three brothers, and a sister.
1921
Frank Lester Lambert known to his many friends as Les, died of pneumonia on January 9 at the Fairview Baptist Home in Downers Grove, I11., which he had enter a month earlier after a stroke.
Born in Fall River, Mass., in 1900, Les was one of the youngest members of our class, yet became one of its leading scholars, earning a Phi Beta Kappa key. Upon graduation he joined the A&P grocery chain in Springfield, Mass., rising rapidly through the ranks as the local manager, auditor of the New England area, VP of the Western New York area, then Pennsylvania, and finally VP of the Central Division.
Les lost his wife, Coralie, in 1983. Surviving are their two sons, William '50 and Robert '53, plus several grandchildren throughout the classes of 1979 to 1987, and four great-grandchildren.
O.H.H.
1922
VanVleck Hempstead Vosburgh a retired investment broker, died January 9 at age 91 in a Hartford, Conn., hospital.
He began his business career with Harris Forbes & Co. in New York. In 1933, he and his family moved to Hartford where he became a highly respected investment manager. He became vice president of Union Securities which later became Eastman, Dillon Inc. More recently he affiliated with Advest Inc., from which her retired at age 75.
Living in West Hartford, he was chairman of the local board of finance, president of the Hartford University Club, and a board member of Watkinson School and Kingswood-Oxford School. He was a vestryman at St. John's Episcopal Church.
Duke served as president of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford and was a member of the '22 team of Alumni Fund agents.
He and Frances Beach Cate were married in Bridgeport, Conn., 62 years ago. She survives, along with their son Peter '52, daughter Helen V. McCully, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
1924
Greenough Abbe died January 14 at Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Mass. He lived in S quantum for the last 55 years. His entire working career was with Filing Equipment Bureau, Inc. Greenough was a life member of the Appalachian Mountain Club and a ski pioneer of the early 1920s who opened up early ski trails and led skiing trips. He ana his wife, Dorothy, celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary last October. In addition to Dorothy, he is survived by a son Fred, a daughter Susan Yates, and four grandchildren.
Henry Alfred Stevenson Jr. of Lakehurst, N.J., died at Jackson Health Care Center on January 9. He had been a manager at New Jersey Bell Telephone Company for 39 years before retiring in 1967. He previously lived in Red Bank, N.J., before moving to Lakehurst in 1989. He served as class agent from 1986 to 1989. He is survived by his wife, Edith, and a son David.
1925
Alvin F. Buchanan died December 18, 1989, of emphysema at Northern Westchester Hospital Center in Mount Kisco, N.Y. After Dartmouth, Al graduated from Columbia University School of Business and went to work for United States Rubber Company, where he remained as an advertising executive until his retirement in 1961. He then served as city assessor in Peekskill, N.Y., and later as civil defense director. He is survived by five daughters, Brenda Bergman, Diana Dwyer, Lorna Zaia, Patricia Moynahan, and Sharan Perlman, two sons, William and Jeffrey, 21 grandchildren, and two great-grandchil-dren.
A son, Alvin Jr., died earlier, as did Al's wife, Florence (Dorsey).
1926
Donald Laverack Dimick died January 9 in Granville, Ohio, his family home for a number of years. He was born in Buffalo, N.Y., graduated from Masten Park High School there, and was with the class during freshman year. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and was quarterback on the freshman football team. Bud later attended Bethany College. He was in the furniture manufacturing business for 30 years. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, his son David, and his daughter Martha.
Miles Tischer Hoerner died on January 9 at Lincoln Park Manor, Dayton, Ohio. He lived all his life in Dayton, graduating from Steele High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, was on The Daily Dartmouth and the swimming team.
He completed the two-year course at Dartmouth Medical School and then took his M.B. and M.D. degrees at the University of Cincinnati.
Tish had a long distinguished career in surgery. After interning he took a residency in pathology, followed by five years at the Mayo Clinic as a fellow in surgery. While there he earned a Ph.D. in surgery at the University of Minnesota. He then joined the staff of the Kettering Institute of Medicine. In World War II he joined the Army Air Force and served as a colonel in the medical corps.
After retiring from surgical practice in 1982 Tish ana his wife, Margaret, spent summers on Lake Leelanau in northern Michigan and in winter they maintained their long-time residence in Dayton, where he retained his position since 1975 as associate clinical professor of surgery in the medical school at Wright State University.
Besides his wife he is survived by his daughter Mary, his son Thomas, and four grandchildren.
Fred Hurd died of a stroke January 10 at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York. Born in Boston, Fred graduated from the Roxbury Latin School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Palaeopitus, The Arts, Press Club, Forensic Union, and Debating Team. He was president of the Dartmouth Christian Association and was class treasurer for three undergraduate years. He earned his M.A. at University of Chicago and M.B.A. at Harvard Business School.
Fred was a partner with Brundage, Story and Rose, investment counsels, retiring in 1978 after 37 years service. He was a trustee of The Children's Aid Society, serving for more than 50 years. He was a member of the Norwalk Yacht Club, the Corinthians, and the Tokeneke Club.
Fred and his wife, Kay, were active in class activities reunions, football weekends, and other gatherings. Fred took part in reunion committees and was a regional head agent and a leadership giving chairman at the 50th Reunion for the Alumni Fund. He was a member of the class executive committee from 1981-90.
Besides his wife he is survived by his four stepchildren Nancy, Susan, Geoffrey, and John his brother Christopher, and his nephew Michael Hurd '59.
1927
Merle Eugene Brush died at Williamsport, Pa., January 15, from diabetes and renal failure. He was born in 1903 at Moreland Station, N.Y., and prepared for college at Cook Academy, Montour Falls, N.Y. At Dartmouth, he was a member of the Ledyard Canoe Club and Pictorial Board Review. His business career was spent in Williamsport, Pa., where he was president of Servall Machinery and Supply Cos. He was active in the Central Baptist Church and a member of the Christian Business Mens Association. In 1930 he married Florence Burt, who died in 1983. Surviving are daughter Beverly Syverson, and son Richard.
Lester Renshaw Eaton died January 10, at Chesire Medical Center in Keene, N.H., after a massive stroke. He was 87, a native of Bridgeport, Conn., and attended Suffield (Mass.) Academy. He had lived in Keene since 1944.
After graduating from Dartmouth in 1927, where he belonged to Gamma Delta Epsilon, Les worked for a few years for General Electric Company as an employment interviewer before going to work for the New Hampshire Department of Employment Security in the same capacity.
He leaves his wife, Barbara (Wilkinson).
1928
Walter Joseph Brownstone died at his home on Park Avenue in New York City on January 11 after a long illness. A native New Yorker, he prepared for Dartmouth at Horace Mann School in that city.
He is survived by his wife, Sylvia, sons Clyde and Gilbert, and four grandchildren.
1930
Burton Thompson Sherwood died on January 13. He lived in Norfolk, Va., and was a native of Spring Valley, N.Y.
Burt spent his career in banking and insurance, retiring after 15 years as vice president of the United Virginia Bank in Norfolk. During his previous years he was with the New York Edison Co., 1932-46, then six years with Penn Mutual Life, then associate general agent for National Life Insurance of Vermont., then Life Insurance Co. of Virginia. He was past president of the Norfolk chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters.
Burt was active in the Outing Club and Cabin & Trail. He had worked for the Alumni Fund and was Dartmouth Club president in Virginia.
He is survived by his wife, Marjorie; a daughter Gail, a son Thomas, and by his brothers Walter '29 and Malcolm '33.
1933
Arthur B. Hull Jr. died in Southampton, N.Y., on January 12. He had resided there for 31 years. He was born in Brooklyn and came to Dartmouth from Tabor Academy. He left Hanover after two years to marry and go to work, but maintained an interest in the College.
He and his wife, Virginia, who died in 1982, were the parents of three children and he prospered as the proprietor of the Hull Chevrolet-Olds agency in Southampton.
Above all, he was an outstanding mover and innovator in community affairs. He was a founder and director of the Bay Shore Little League, of the Bay Shore Community Basketball League, and the Bay Shore Quarterbackers. He was named Bay Shore Man of the Year in 1964. He was a past director of the Southampton Hospital Association, a member of the village Improvement Society and Town Recreation Committee, and past-president of the local Rotary Club. He was a founding member of the executive council at Southampton College, director of the Suffolk County Alcoholic Halfway House, and a director of the Bank of the Hamptons. He received the Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award in 1986.
Art is survived by two sons, Ben and Gary, and a daughter, Gail Healy.
William Haller Smythe died January 15 at his residence in Huntington, W. Va., where he had been a life-long resident. He was a retired executive of West Virginia Steel and had been in deteriorating health for some years.
Bill was an excellent student, having been valedictorian of his class at Huntington High School and graduating cum laude with 1933. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and moved to Tuck School for his senior year. In that elite society, his sometimes blunt exterior was known to conceal a warm and friendly personality which endeared him to his fellow business buffs. In Chase Hall and environs, he was considered a master of accountancy with a unique ability to transmit his knowledge. He was also famed as a golfer and as a bridge player of marked ability. He also spent a graduate year of 1933-34 at Tuck School.
Bill is survived by his widow, Mary Jane Shoffstall Smythe, his son James, two grandchildren, and a brother, T.P. Smythe.
1934
Robert Emmett Sweeney Jr. died January 19 at his retirement home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He had come to Dartmouth from Indianapolis and returned there for a distinguished banking career. He became president of Merchants National Bank in 1966 and then chairman of the board before his retirement. He was a leader in many civic activities, especially the Boy Scouts, Travelers Aid Society, and Indiana's Servicemen Center. He served with the U.S. Navy during WW II.
At Dartmouth, Bob was on the varsity football and lacrosse teams, a member of Chi Phi and C & G, and an economics major. At the time of our 25th he was on the Dartmouth Alumni Council. Bob is survived by his wife, Becky, his sons Robert and Michael, and four grandchildren.
1938
Arthur Edmund French Jr. died January 9 in the Northside Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. He had been in failing health since a heart attack in 1987. Art entered Dartmouth from Holyoke (Mass.) High and was a history major, a member of Theta Delta Chi, and on the Interfraternity Treasurers Council. Art went on to Tuck and joined Wyeth in sales before the war.
He and Muriel Richardson were married in June of 1941. Then it was into the Army Air Force, with service in the U.S., England, France, Belgium, Holland, and as a radio operator with the first fighter control squadron to operate from German soil.
After the war Art worked in sales for Wyeth and for Paul Revere Life Insurance. In 1949 he joined E.R. Squibb & Sons in sales retiring eight years ago. Art and his family made their home in New Castle, Pa., and spent summers on the Maine coast.
Art leaves his wife, Muriel, sons Arthur III and Mark, and three grandchildren. Art's father was Dartmouth '12.
1939
Charles Robinson Swan 73, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., died on December 29, 1989, at the Scripts Memorial Hospital, La jolla, Calif.
Charlie entered Dartmouth from the Berkshire School. He did not spend four years at Dartmouth and we have little information on Charlie, other than the fact that he was an analytical engineer, and that before moving to California in the 1970s he had lived in the Philadelphia area.
1940
Farris Campbell Jr. died on January 20. He was 72. At Dartmouth he was a member of the tennis team, the ski team, and Phi Gamma Delta. After graduation, he joined the Dallas National Bank in Dallas, Tex., leaving that company during World War II to join the U.S. Army. He served as chief of the audit branch in the finance office in Frankfurt.
After WW II, Farris returned to banking and to Dallas, working with the First National Bank of Dallas.
He is survived by his wife, Betty, and a daughter Beverly.
Southgate Bowne Freeman Jr. died on October 7, 1989, in Cody, Wyo., after a long battle with cancer. He was 72.
"Sox" Freeman came to Dartmouth from the Taft School. While at Dartmouth, he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
He served in the U.S. Navy before and during WW II. He was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and at Tokyo Bay on VJ-Day and left the service as a lieutenant commander.
He returned to Cody, where he worked with his father in the family lumber business. After the business was closed in 1967, he became a real estate broker, working in that career until his retirement in 1981. He was a member of the Elks, Rotary, and the American Legion.
He is survived by two sons, Southgate III and Edward, and four grandchildren.
1941
William Merritt Belding succumbed to a heart attack on January 6 in Laguna Hills, Calif., where he made his home with his wife, Jean, who survives him together with their children, William Jr. and Barbara Norton. Bill came to Dartmouth from New Trier High, Winnetka, I11., remained but one year, and took his B.S. from Northwestern.
During World War II he commanded a mine sweeper in the Atlantic and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. In the business of retailing, he was associated for many years with the Broad-wav-Hale Stores. Predeceasing Bill were his father, Hiram Hurlburt Beldingjr. '18, and his brother, Hiram III '40.
1944
James Averell Clark Jr. a highly decorated World War II fighter pilot who led a varied career in business after the war, died of a stroke January 11 at his home in New York City. He was 69.
Ave, who was credited with destroying 16 German planes during the war, worked as a stockbroker in Manhattan from 1946 to 1950. He then returned to the air force as commander of a fighter training group.
Ave played freshman football and lacrosse, but left college in 1941, before Pearl Harbor, to join the R.A.F.'s Eagle Squadron, made up of American fighter pilots volunteering for service with the British. That squadron became the Fourth Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps in September 1942 and subsequently established an astounding record of more than one thousand German planes destroyed. He was made a lieutenant colonel at 23, and his picture was on the cover of Life.
He is survived by his wife, Armeme, two children, and two grandchildren.
1949
Jay Stuart Haft died of leukemia on January 15. At that time he was operating the Jay Stuart Haft Company, a marine supplier-dealer in Bradenton, Fla.
While at Dartmouth, Jay was a member of the DOC, German Clud, Bait & Bullet, Camera Club, and the Ecological Society. He gained advanced degrees from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the New Jersey College of Medicine.
He was a professor of anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin from 1967-76 when he retired to devote time to the marine supply business.
Jay is survived by his wife, Ellen, his mother, and a son James.
Harvey Walter Nolan died in Red Bank, N.J., on January 4 after a long illness.
Harve entered Dartmouth after service in the Marine Corps from 1943-45 and following graduation was called back to the Corps for duty in Korea, where he won the Silver Star for heroism.
Following service he held various positions with McCarthy Dry Good Company in Woonsocket, R.I., and left his position as president and general manager in 1973 to establish his own travel agency.
While at Dartmouth Harve was president of the Interdormitoiy Council, a member of the Undergraduate Council, Paleopitus, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. His father was Walter Nolan '13. He is survived by his wife, Jan, and sons Charles and Alan.
1953
Walter Jason Bass died on December 8, 1988, from a heart attack.
Wally entered Dartmouth from Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass. While at Andover, he was a member of the student government, served as business manager of the Year Book, was a student deacon in the academy church, and ran varsity track.
At Dartmouth, he was a member of the Undergraduate Council, Interfraternity Treasurers Council, Athletic Council, and Green Key.
Following Dartmouth Wally went to OCS and served in the Atlantic as a lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy. After the war he worked for AT&T and then became a telecommunications consultant. He was written up in a national magazine for commuting every day from Cooperstown, N.Y., to N.Y.C. by air.
Wally is survived by his wife, Peggy, and four children.
Don Goss '53
Marvin A. Klein died after a brief illness on December 22, 1989. Marv came to Dartmouth from Cheltenham High School in Elkins Park, Pa., and lived most of his life there. After graduation from Tuck in 1954 he served with the U.S. Army Audit Agency.
After working in the textile business for seven years, Marv began his career in auto parts. He was vice president with two auto parts manufacturers, and then became a representative for Shapiro and Boehm, an auto parts manufacturer's rep organization, for the last eight years. He was director and secretary of the Automotive Parts and Accessories Association (APPA) in 1976-77.
Marv is survived by Ann, his wife of 27 years, a son Jeffrey, a daughter Diane, and his mother.
1954
Robert A. McShane a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, died suddenly on December 16 from a perforated duodenal ulcer. Bob and Jeanie settled into Tucson, Ariz., before his retirement from the air force in 1979. He earned his commission through the Air Force ROTC at Dartmouth and went on pilot training and tours of duty all over the world, including service in Vietnam. Later in his career, Bob flew B-52 bombers and assumed a number of command positions. Besides Jeanie, Bob is survived by his three children, David, Susan, and Steven.
1955
David Glasser of Baltimore, Md., died of cancer at Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, on July 17, 1989. David, who was a physician and assistant commissioner in charge of the Division of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology of the Baltimore City Health Department, graduated from NYU in 1957. He received his M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's in public health from Johns Hopkins.
After moving to Baltimore in 1972, he served a residency with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, then joined the Baltimore City Health Department. He also taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and at the University of Maryland Medical School. David recently had conducted research on AIDS.
He is survived by his wife, the former Gail Williams, a daughter Melissa, two brothers, and his parents.
1958
John Charles Durkin Jr. passed away on December 30, 1989, after a short illness. He prepared for Dartmouth at Gilmour Academy in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and lived most of his life in Syracuse, N.Y.
John majored in history at Dartmouth and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
Following graduation he pursued a career in transportation management. He served as president of Transportation Consultants for more than 25 years, a holding company.
He was a leader in both the Syracuse community and the transportation industry, and contributed to many charitable causes. He served on the board of the Gyro Club of Syracuse, and was a member of the Onondaga Golf and Country Club, and the Dartmouth Club of Central New York.
John is survived by his wife, Mary, a daughter Tracy, sons Charles and Michael, and a brother Fred.
1969
Richard Felmeister 42, died January 4 at his home in Houston. Rick was vice president of the western region of Oxford and Associates, temporary personnel contracting services in Houston, where he worked for 20 years.
At Dartmouth, Rick was captain of the freshman basketball team and a member of Green Key and Phi Delta Alpha. He is survived by his father and stepmother, Ralph and Judith Felmeister, his brother Stephen, and sister Nancy DiCello.
