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 in a later one.

Edward R. Noyes '18 • Feb. 19 Thomas A. Sturgess '18 • Feb. 14 John W. McCrillis '19 • Feb. 26 George A. Fiske '20 • Sept. 28, 1986 Julius A. Rippel '23 • Dec. 30 Henry B. Barker '24 • Dec. 24 William A. Gardner '24 • March 3 Arthur N. Blair '25 • March 5 William B. Sleigh '25 • April 5 Victor S. Welch '21 • Feb. 2 Kern Folkers '27 • March 30, 1989 Gaylord Freeman '31 • March 7 Maurice Fox '33 • May 9,1990 Charles A. Tallberg '33 • March 18, 1988 Robert S. Turner '33 • March 19 Charles P. Sutton '34 • March 7 Roger C. Sheets '35 • Dec. 19 Richard K. Montgomery '35 • March 2 Robert U. Blades '36 • Nov. 25 Thomas S. Hart '36 • Feb. 9 George Peck '36 • March 14 William P. Reed '36 • Nov. 16 William B. McKnight '37 • March 2 Kendall Stearns '37 • March 6 Edward D. Wynot '37 • Feb. 15 Sherman H. Brown '39 • Feb. 1991 Harry A. Kersey Jr. '39 • Jan. 12, 1991 Charles W. Campbell '40 • Oct. 14 John J. Trant '41 • Jan. 12 James Wallace Jr. '41 • Feb. 12 Ivar-Julius Brandt '42 • Jan. 9 Edward C. Newman '42 • Sept. 22, 1986 Thomas W.R. Gerber '43 • Feb. 22 Hayward C. Becker '45 • Nov. 9 Robert N. Loomis '45 • Jan. 31 Wallis E. Howe '48 • 1991 Robert J. MacKay '48 • Feb. 22 Robert C. Tracy '48 • Sept. 25 Fenwick H. Salter '56 • Dec. 25 Thomas C. Towse '58 • Feb. 19 Randall L. Stallings Jr. '72 • Feb. 17 James C. Hodgdon 'BO • Feb. 10

1922

Roy Francis Bunting died November 19 at Manchester (Conn.) Hospital. He lived in East Hartford for fortythree years.

Roy came to Dartmouth with seven other boys from Naugatuck, Conn. He served in the Student Army Training Corps and was a member of Cosmos, Kappa Phi Kappa and Sigma Tau Omega.

After graduation, Roy worked for 23 years in the Aetna Hartford headquarters. Upon retirement in 1965 he was superintendent of the payroll department. He was also a former member and secretary of the East Hartford Board of Education and a Grand Knight in the Knights of Columbus.

Roy and Ann Hughes were married 59 years ago in Naugatuck. She, a son, a daughter, three grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter are his survivors.

Joseph Stanley Perkins died November 10 at Beverly Hospital. He had lived for many years at Elm Farm, East Boxford, Mass.

Joe majored in economics at Dartmouth and was an avid outdoorsman. He chaired Cabin and Trail, instructed and competed on the Ski Team, and was active in the Ledyard Canoe Club. He belonged to Theta Chi. He was a life-long contributor tot he Alumni Fund.

Joe attended M.I.T. for a year. In the 1930s he was proprietor of the Southern House, a popular dining place in Brookline. Prior to retirement in 1969 he was affiliated with Danvers State Hospital for 31 years. He was also acclaimed as a leading square dance instructor and caller.

Joe and Betty were married September 5, 1925, in Salem. She survives him with their three daughters, a son, 19 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren, Joe's brother Henry J. Perkins '23, and two sisters.

1926

Charles Henry Hornburg Jr. died December 9 in Santa Monica, Calif, of pneumonia, a complication of the Alzheimer's disease from which he suffered for 11 years. He and Gwen, his wife for 40 years, had their home in Los Angeles, and she is his only survivor.

Born in Minnesota, Chuck graduated from Central High School and from Western Military Academy, and at Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, was business manager and a board manager of The Dartmouth, and was secretary/treasurer of Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association.

In 1948 he was the first importer of jaguar automobiles to the United States, and his dealership remains one of the largest Jaguar dealers in America.

1927

Norman Fred Page of Pike, N.H., died December 20 after a short illness. At Dartmouth he was Sigma Alpha.

After college Fred went to New York City, where he worked for American Express Company for 38 years, retiring in 1965 as a senior vice-president and director.

Fred had an intense interestin antique cars, especially Model A Fords. After retirement he traveled to many foreign countries, searching for Model A's and bringing them back to the U.S. He opened the Page Model A Garage in Pike, where he remodeled, repaired and restored old Fords.

He was also a collector of rare books and owned a large collection of unusual items, many of which he donated to Baker Library. Among these were some 2,000 volumes of Don Quixote and other items of special significance.

He was a ten-year member of the Class Executive Committee and a long-time member of the executive committee of the Friends of the Dartmouth Library.

He leaves his second wife, Helen, and two sons, John and Ridler '60.

1939

Rickard M. Falck of Sanford, N.C., died on March 20,1990, at Central Carolina Hospital.

Bud graduated from William H. Hall High School in Hartford, Conn. At Dartmouth he was a brother of Phi Gamma Delta and majored in Economics.

He was a navy veteran of World War 11, was president of Patco Company, and was executive vice president of the Payne-Jones Company during the course of his career.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara, who was his date through his four undergraduate years in Hanover, a son, a daughter, and one grandchild.

1967

Willim Bradley Brooks died suddenly after a misdiagnosis of appendicitis while on a business trip to Alaska in July. A member of the 1964 Ivy championship soccer team and a tennis player while at Dartmouth, Bill went on to service in Vietnam in the Naval Reserve. An attorney specializing in civil litigation, Bill was a partner in his Norristown, Penn. firm. Active in the Republican party, Bar Associations, and many community activities, Bill was known to his friends as the consummate family man. From coaching Litde League to daily "quality time," Bill's four children were the center of his life. He is survived also by his wife, Wallis.

1973

Max Lewis Epstein died of AIDS on December 14 in Manhattan. Max came to Dartmouth from Bay City, Tex., was active in IDC and Green Key, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He will be remembered most for the gift of music which he bropght to Dartmouth and to the world. Max, who had an upright piano in his dorm room, was a musical director and pianist for the Dartmouth Players and student conductor of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra. Acknowledging his contribution to music at Dartmouth, the College awarded him the James B. Reynolds Scholarship and a MacDonald-Smith Music Prize.

The Reynolds Scholarship supported his study of orchestral conducting in Vienna after graduation. He later conducted symphonies and operas throughout Europe, including six years at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. In 1984 Max joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he was a conductor at the time of his death.

A memorial fund supporting education in the arts has been established: The Max Epstein Trust, P.O. Box 1473, Bay City, TX 77404-1473.

Max is survived by his parents, Melvyn and Renee Epstein, two sisters, and a brother.