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.
Joshua F. Dunbar Jr. '16 • Nov. 28 Everett H. Parker Sr. '16 • Nov. 16 George D. Weare '1B • Oct. 12 Elmer J. Palmer '19 • Jan. 1, 1987 Philip M. Morse '24 • Oct. 8 Richard G. Heydt '25 • Aug. 4 Scott K. Lowry '25 • Oct. 18 Robert C. Reynolds '25 • Sept. 26 Lawrence S. Kennison '26 • Dec. 2 Frank H. Gonnell '28 • Nov. 15 Edwin F. Lilley Jr. '28 • Oct. 15 Nelson S. Bell '29 • Nov. 1 Shu Hsien Chang '29 • Jan. 31,1990 Edwin P. Felch Jr. '29 • Nov. 17 Lloyd W. Kent '29 • Dec. 5 Charles W. King '29 • Nov. 5 Henry L. Birge '30 • Oct. 24 Arthur G. Boardman Jr. '31 • Nov. 5 Edmund M. Campbell '31 • Nov. 4 Robert E. Lee Jr. '31 • Nov. 9 Dryden M. Snow '32 • Oct. 17 Richard P. True '32 • Oct. 9 Clarence F. Willey '32 • Oct. 15 Carleton P. Burrill '33 • Nov. 11 Francis H. Hoge '33 • 1983 Rogers Bayles '36 • Nov. 3 Norman H. Eriksen '36 • Feb. 9,1985 Clason F. Lambert '36 • May 1990 Robert M. Prentice '36 • Oct. 31 Gerald C. Robbins '36 • Nov. 26 Roger E. Watson '36 • March 25 Robert H. Areson '37 • Oct. 12 John O. Barrows '38 • Oct. 24 Albert J. Feeley '40 • Nov. 19 Kenton S. Donaldson '41 • Dec. 1 Denman K. Holmes '42 • March 11 Frederic R. Coldwell '43 • Oct. 4 Earl H. Gallup Jr. '45 • Oct. 9 Robert O. Grunditz '45 • Nov. 29 David M. Narva '46 • Oct. 8 George W. Walley '46 • Oct. 23 Leonard D. Hall '47 • Oct. 26 Milton J. Hofflin Jr. '47 • Nov. 29 Wayland J. Holley '50 • Nov. 16 Arthur A. Lee '50 • July 20 Reynold P. Marvin '50 • Nov. 15 James L. Moir '5l ® Sept. 17 Victor M. Cannon Jr. '53 • Nov. 24 Charles S. Fleet '53 • Nov. 12 Frederic Alpert '54 • Nov. 19 Charles H. Gruning 54 • July 20, 1989 Frank C. Ewing '55 • Nov. 24 George Roumanis '57 • Nov. 18 Charles G. Winters '57 • Oct. 25 Stephen D. Rubin '60 • Oct. 31 Henry W. Weiss '60 • Nov. 3 Paul C. Armstrong '62 • Nov. 18 John A. Matzke '65 • Nov. 8 Joel D. Meyers '66 • Oct. 27 John F. Brennan '80 • Oct. 28
1918
Edwin Ferguson died August 28 after a brief illness. At Dartmouth, Fergie was a member of Theta Delta Chi and of the varsity baseball team. After graduation he served in the navy as a radio operator. He became a real-estate developer in the thirties and forties with a residential community in Needham Heights, Mass. As a class agent, he was active in the Alumni Fund for ten years. He was also a deacon in his church. Fergie is survived by his wife, Katherine, his son, Bennett '50, a sister, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
1919
Nichol M. Sandoe died in Boston September 28 after an illness of about one month. He was brought up in Washington, D.C., and was active in College affairs. He enlisted in the navy during WW I and later returned to the College and graduated with the class.
After graduation he took a job in Washington in the patent office and went to George Washington Law School at night. He made a career of patent law and became one of the best-known patent lawyers in the country while practising in New York City.
Nick served for a time as president of the Dartmouth Club of New York and for many years as president of his class. On the Alumni Council he chaired the committee that inaugurated the bequest program. He was also the instigator of the Alumni Awards program.
He is survived by his wife, Mary, two sons, Nichol Jr. '45 and Robert M. '46, both of whom live in Hanover, six grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
1922
Ralph Kirk Spotts retired Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist, died on November 20, 1990, after falling and breaking his hip. He had been in failing health for some time.
Ralph entered Dartmouth from St. George's School in Newport, R.I. He served in noted Company I of the SATC, was production assistant with the Players, majored in chemistry, and was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
Following graduation he worked a few years in New York before going to Los Angeles, where he was one of the first acoustic scientist in die movie industry. At the outbreak of WW II he moved to Cambridge to work at the MIT radiation lab. Post war he worked in New York on the development of recordings for CBS. He later settled in New Mexico and worked for 20 years at the Los Alamos Laboratory. In Los Alamos he was also director of a learning center for retarded people.
Marie, Ralph's wife for 54 years, died in 1978. Ralph is survived by his daughter, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
1924
Ralph P. Newell died in Vancouver, Canada, on July 7. Red spent his entire working career in foreign service with First National City Bank (now Citicorp). He retired in June 1966. During his service he represented the bank in Manchuria, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He was manager of the operations in Hong Kong and Singapore.
After retirement in 1966, he typed 450 pages of a diary he kept from September 1924—1935 and organized his massive collective of clippings and other memorabilia covering all the years of his career.
Red and his wife, Clara, lived in the San Francisco area until Clara's death in 1984. Red stayed on in San Francisco with his daughter Emily until October of 1988 when he moved to Vancouver.
In addition to Emily, he is survived by his son, Ralph Jr., and by two grandchildren.
Arlan H. Schoonmaker of Ware, Mass., died on July 17. His wife and both of his children predeceased him. In our 40-year History Schoon said he'd had "Just an ordinary small-town life." Ordinary, if you don't count three years in the navy, more than two-thirds of it in Alaska and the Aleutians; or being a specialist in handling extra-high-voltage electricity for a utility; or flying a plane whose propeller stopped and landing in a cemetery without hitting a gravestone, but unfortunately cracking his head.
Unconnected with the plane crash, he had surgery removing half of a lung on one occasion and amputating a leg on another. He ran a business or two in Ware and held many prestigious town offices. He was a director of both banks for many years. He remained an honorary director in both institutions until his death.
1925
Richard G. Heydt died in his home in Aurora, Ohio, on August 4* after a long illness. He was chairman and retired chief executive of the former First National Bank of Toledo and a force in Toledo commerce for 27 years. He developed the bank's branch system, and when he retired in 1974, First National had 20 branches, more than any other area bank. He held every top office in the bank and was president of the chamber of commerce, a member of the Toledo Hospital board, and served on the board of Seaway-Food Town Inc. He is survived by his wife, Anita, two sons, two grandsons, and three sisters.
1926
Walter Priest Brockway died May 10 in Dubuque, lowa. He was with the class freshman year, having come from Phillips Exeter Academy, and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. Walter graduated from Harvard in 1929 and then from Harvard Divinity School, and he served as pastor in a number of churches chiefly in New England.
His wife, Eleanor, predeceased him, and he is survived by his four children.
Graham Bruce Ford died August 5 of a heart attack at Bayview Nursing Home, Beaufort, S.C. Formany years he had lived in Mountain Lakes, N.J., and Manhattan. Graham was with the class freshman year and was a member of Zeta Psi, there after contributing to the Alumni Fund annually for 42 years. He apparently continued his education elsewhere, as in 193 Bit was reported that he served on the faculty of New York University. For 31 years he owned and published a weekly real-estate business newspaper in New York.
He is survived by a daughter, a son, nine grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
1928
Alfred James Fowler died on March 5 of unknown causes. Al prepared for Dartmouth at the Lakewood High School in Lakewood, Ohio. At Dartmouth he was advertising manager of the Daily Dartmouth and majored in history. He joined Psi Upsilon, Dragon, and Alpha Delta Sigma. After graduation he was employed by the Ohio Bell Telephone Company in Cleveland. He is survived by his wife, Janet, and three children.
1929
Walter Edward Wilson died July 8 in Greenwich, Conn., of a heart attack. Walt came from Skowhegan (Maine) High School, belonged to Alpha Tau Omega, and majored at Tuck School.
He spent his life in sales and administration in the building industry, much of it with Hope Windows Company in Boston and New York.
In later years he spent summers in Skowhegan and stopped at '29 mini-reunions on his way back to Scarsdale, N.Y.
He leaves his wife, Marion, a daughter, and two grandsons.
1934
Jacob Kibbe Edwards died suddenly October 5 at his home in Key Biscayne, Fla., where he had enjoyed retirement since 1968 after serving 20 years as president of Southbridge Coal and Oil Co. Southbridge, Mass., was his home, and he came to Dartmouth as a graduate of Worcester Academy.
Jake was an outstanding athlete, playing varsity basketball and varsity baseball, for which he was centerfielder and a spirited captain with a .417 batting average. He was a member of Deke and Green Key, and his major was education. During WW II he had navy transport duty; and during working years in Southbridge he was active in Rotary, YMCA, fund drives, and as founder and coach of Southbridge Litde League.
Jake is survived by Shirley, his wife of 45 years, by two sons, a daughter, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
1935
Edward C. Dyer died suddenly April 6 in Weston, Mass., where he had made his home.
Ed graduated from Harvard Medical School and became a leading pediatrician in the Boston area, serving at the Children's Hospital, Massachusetts General, M.I.T. Health Center and in semi-retirement as school doctor for the city of Newton.
During WW II Ed served with the 10th Mountain Division in Italy and received the Silver Star for gallantry in action.
Ed's first wife died in 1985, and in 1990 he married Molly, who survives him along with two sons and three grandsons.
Merwin K. Mcintosh died May 9 in Dunedin, Fla. Merwin attended schools in Burlington, Vt., and the Holderness School in Plymouth, N.H., before entering Dartmouth. For a time he owned and operated a Texaco station in South Burlington. Little else is known about him.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret, two sons, and eight grandchildren.
Emil Petke died April 10 in a Bristol, Conn., hospital after a brief illness. Emil attended Perryville (Conn.) high school. After Dartmouth he graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
During WW II he served in the army. Emil held the position of Judge of Probate for the town of Plymouth, and at the time of his death he was a magistrate for Litchfield and Hartford counties. He was active in various civic organizations including the Connecticut Bar Association, American Legion, and Elks Club.
He is survived by four brothers, including Walter '35, and three sisters.
Edward J. Skillin died of cancer August 10 at his home in La Jolla, Calif., where he had lived since 1968.
Ed entered Dartmouth from Deerfield Academy. He served as a class agent and was a member of Theta Delta Chi. During WWII he served in the navy as an air wing administrative officer in the European theater. He retired from the Naval Reserve in 1972 as a captain. He was a former member of the Republican National Committee and was an active supporter of the arts and community enterprises.
Ed is survived by his wife, Hazel, a son, five step-children, and four grandchildren.
1938
M. John Clarke died on March 18, 1991, at his home in Nogales, Ariz. He came from Nichols prep school in Buffalo, N.Y., majored in psychology, and was a brother in Delta Upsilon.
Jack got his medical degree from the University of Buffalo and served as a captain in the army medical corps in both Italy and the Philippines. After the war he returned to Buffalo and practiced surgery for 35 years as a member of the Buffalo Medical Group.
He was a . trustee of his daughter's school, the Buffalo Seminary. After his move to Nogales in 1983, he was a dedicated volunteer at the Pimena Alta Historical Society, an international museum dealing with the history of Arizona and Sonora, Mex.
He is survived by his wife, Jane, two sons, a daughter, a brother, four grandchildren, and his stepmother.
Arthur Knight King died April 25 at his son's home in Shaftsbury, Vt. Art, or "Cab", joined us from Hyde Park High in Massachusetts. He was a chemistry major and a member of Chi Phi, the band, the University Club Orchestra, and the Handel Society.
After Dartmouth Cab enrolled at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he met and married Betty Rounsefell. During the war he was sent to Perm State to study mechanical engineering. This led to service with the Corps of Engineers eventually at the Los Alamos Laboratories and then with the Fellows Gear Shaper Cos. He opened the Village Music Studio in which he and Betty taught and sold musical merchandise from 1955-67. He returned to engineering with the Dufresne-Henry Co. in Springfield until moving to Groveland, Fla., and a citrus grove later on.
Cab was active in local Dartmouth clubs and civic and service organizations. Betty died in 1981, and Cab married Monica, whom the class remembers well from the concerts she and Cab performed at our 50th and at the mini-reunions since. He is survived by Monica, four sons, and six grandchildren.
John Donne Meachem died February 11, 1991. Meach prepared at Deerfield Academy. He roomed at Chi Phi, majored in economics and played freshman lacrosse.
Before Pearl Harbor he joined the army air corps and spent the next five years at ten airfields in this country and Cuba, becoming a captain in a B-29 group. While in the service he married Tex Amanda Brown.
Following his wife's footsteps first to Syracuse University, where they both got master's degrees, and then into teaching, he retired as a math teacher after 19 years at Westhill High School in Manlius, N.Y. They moved to Mt. Dora, Fla., in 1980.
He was a vestryman and usher at Christ Church, Manlius, and a lay reader and officer of the Men's Club at St. Edwards in Mt. Dora. In Florida he joined the Rotary Club, various sport clubs, and the Dartmouth Club of Central Florida.
John is survived by his wife, three daughters, and five grandchildren.
J.R.S. Jr. '38
1940
Keith S. Benson died at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital, where he was being treated for a heart ailment, on July 6. Keith played on the golf team and was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, attended the Tuck School senior year, and graduated from Dartmouth summa cum laude.
His study at Yale Law School was interrupted by WW II. He entered military service as a private and was discharged as a major after a year. He then attained his law degree at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland.
He rose from young attorney to chairman and CEO of Pickands Mather and Cos., an iron ore, coal, and Great Lakes shipping firm. He retired in 1981 as executive vice president of Oglebay Norton Co. Keith also had been a partner in the law firm of Arter and Hadden. He served as director of Sherman Williams Cos., Society National Bank of Cleveland, Parker Hanifan Corp., Interlake Corp, and Oglebay Norton Corp.
He was a generous contributor to the Alumni Fund and to the Tuck School. Surviving are his wife Jean, two daughters, a sister, and five grandchildren.
1941
Stanley R. Yarnall Jr. died on January 17,1990, in Rusk, Texas, leaving his wife, Betsy, two sons, and a brother. Stanley spent a year at Dartmouth, coming from Germantown Friends School, Penn., where his father was headmaster. He served in WWII as a conscientious objector, moving to Phoenix, Ariz., with his family after the war and then relocating to Texas in his retirement.
1951
John R. Burnett Jr. died onjune 3 of a heart attack. At 17 Jack left high school to enlist in the navy. He served in the European and Asiatic Theaters of operation and returned to Seton Hall to graduate.
At Dartmouth Jack won his numerals in swimming. He became advertising manager of The Dartmouth and was a member of Green Key and Delta Upsilon. He attended Tuck and Thayer and continued in business/engineering during his career with various manufacturing companies. At retirement Jack was vice president of manufacturing at a multiplematerials packaging company.
vice president of manufacturing at a multiple-materials packaging company. His civic interests included volunteer activities for the Los Angeles Grand Jury. He participated with the International Executive Service Corps, most recently completing a three-month project in the Dominican Republic. Jack's principal hobbies involved the outdoors, and he was an avid freshwater fisherman. He is survived by his wife, Eloise, two daughters, and two grandchildren.
G. William Lamade '51
1954
Reed M. Baird died at home in East Lansing, Mich., on June 9 after a long battle with brain cancer. Reed came to Dartmouth from St. James School in Maryland, and went on after graduation to serve as a first lieutenant in the air force. In 1966 he earned a Ph.D. in American civilization at the University of Michigan. Reed joined the faculty at Michigan State University in 1978 and was a professor in the Department of American Thought and Language. He is survived by his wife, Hilke, and his two sons.
David B. Guthrie died of natural causes on January 9, 1991, in Cincinnati. After graduation, David served in the army in Germany. He has not been in contact with the College since our 25th Reunion and nothing is known of his recent activities. David left no known next of kin.
Hilary G. Lynch died at home in Pittsburgh, Penn., from a heart attack on June IS. After Dartmouth Hilary graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He went on to become an attorney and tax specialist who pioneered the law of professional corporations. He was an avid skier who won numerous local and state slalom and downhill titles. Hilary's father and two of his three brothers graduated from Dartmouth. He is survived by his wife, Marian, two children, and a grandson.
1955
Richard Alan Dwyer died on August 29 of complications following gall bladder surgery at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dick was an international relations major at Dartmouth and served as secretary of the International Relations Club. He held the Class of 1923 Fellowship and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
In 1957 he received a master's in public administration from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and then joined the Foreign Service. During the course of his 2 7-year career he held posts in Syria, Egypt, Bulgaria, Chad, and Guyana. While in Guyana, Dickwas given the State Department's Award for Valor for his actions during the 1978 Jonestown massacre. At the time of his retirement in 1984 he was consul general for the French Caribbean in Martinique. For the past several years Dick was an investment advisor in Washington and a director of the Metropolitan Washington Council of the National Association of Investors Corporation.
He is survived by his wife, Sara, and two children.
R. Nelson Jones died on August 20 in Sarasota, Fla. Nels entered Dartmouth from the Hartford High School in White River Junction and was a sociology major. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and served as house president during his senior year.
A member of the AFROTC, Nels served as an air force pilot for three years following graduation. He then joined tie Connecticut General Insurance Cos. of Hartford, now called CIGNA, where he had a distinguished management career both at the home office and in various regional offices including Oakland, Calif., and Springfield, Mass. He retired in 1985 as regional vice president of the Denver area, then moved to Sarasota, where he continued to serve as a consultant to CIGNA. Nels was active in alumni groups, as well as in community and professional organizations. He was a member and past president of Sarasota Keys Rotary Club and served on the boards of the Caledonian Club Foundation and the Red Cross.
Nels leaves his wife, Diana, four sons, and four grandchildren.
1956
William E. Buchanan Jr. died of cancer at Delray Beach Community Hospital on June 3, 1991. He and his family had moved to Boca Raton, Fla., fromNeenah, Wise., six months earlier.
A philosophy major and member of Alpha Delta Phi, Bill was on the Dormitory Committee at Dartmouth, played hockey, and earned six letters in track. His Dartmouth family included his father, class of '24, brother, C.B. '53, brother R.C., Tuck '67, and cousin James P. Lenfestey '66.
Bill worked for Appleton Wire until the mid-seventies and for the family-owned Fox Valley Corp. He is survived by his wife, Betty Ann, their two daughters, six stepchildren, his brothers, and his parents.
