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.
Kenneth P. Emory '20 • Jan. 2 John H. Jennings '23 • Apr. 4, 1988 Earl J. Carmody '24 • Nov. 1979 Edward J. Willi '24 • Dec. 27 Frederick E. Wood '24 • Oct. 30 John E. Woodbridge '24 • Dec. 27 Carl Bridenbaugh '25 • Jan. 6 Wallace S. Jordan '25 • Oct. 20, 1988 George E. Douglas '26 • Dec. 28 Bruce W. Eaken '26 • Oct. 30 Gilbert H. Robinson '26 • Jan. 1 Arthur B. Seibold Jr. '26 • Sept. 30 Lawrence W. Jones '27 • Dec. 12 Roy A. Wesselman '27 • Jan. 2 Kenneth F. Graf'28 • Dec. 19 James I. Loeb '29 • Jan. 10 William B. Minehan '31 • Nov. 30 Harold G. Chinlund '32 • Dec. 12 John H. O'Brion '32 • Nov. 30 Irving S. Rosenblum '32 • Nov. 26 Leo E. Bernache '33 • Nov. 13 Christopher F. Curtis '33 • Nov. 30 Kent Rhodes '33 • Dec. 20 Stewart F. Alexander '34 • Dec. 6 Robert C. Smith '34 • Nov. 11 Frank Hermes Jr. '35 • Dec. 17 Claude T. Huck '35 • Feb. 24, 1991 Richard L. Kenney '34 • Dec. 30 Robert F. Rackliff '35 • Nov. 6 Thomas B. Coughlin '36 • Apr. 6, 1991 William D. Davis '36 • Dec. 1 John H. Mallory '36 • Dec. 15 Richard W. Stowell '36 • Dec. 5 Charles M. Thompson '36 • Dec. 13 James Bush Jr. '37 • Mar. 6, 1991 George G. Cook '37 • Dec. 4 Richard N. Moore '37 • Nov. 23 William M. Holman '40 • Oct. 8 Percy C. Mclntire '40 • Dec. 12 Paul R. Badger '41 • Nov. 19 Sanford R. Courter '41 • Dec. 17 Matthew W. Rapf '42 • Dec. 11 Thomas E. Candler '45 • Dec. 12 Frederick W. Maloney '4B • Dec. 30 David O. Cowles '49 • Dec. 28 Peter L.H. Irving '50 • Sept. 5 William D. Wallace '50 • Dec. 13 Warren D. Mulloy '51 • Jan. 14 Arthur D. Williams III '53 • Dec. 17 Richard M. Kidde '55 • Aug. 15, 1990 Brian B. Rodner '5B • Dec. 10 George J. Stambolian '60 • Dec. 22 David J. Norden '69 • Nov. 8 Donald J. Brown '74 • Jan. 13 Foster M. Vail '78 • Dec. 7
1926
Paul Alfred Dillingham died September 6 of Alzheimer's disease at a health center injohnson City, N.Y. Paul came to Dartmouth from Auburn High School, was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Dragon, Players' orchestra, and was well known in our days as "sweetest sax" in the Barbary Coast Orchestra.
He worked as a manufacturer's agent in the Binghamton, N.Y., area in the field of build- ing materials. Paul was a former president of the local Rotary Club.
Elizabeth, his wife of 63 years, died in 1990, and he is survived by his son, Paul Jr. '53, a daughter, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Richard Randall died suddenly August 1 at his home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. At Dartmouth Dick lived in Reed Hall, then a dormitory. He contributed 62 years to the Alumni Fund.
He was 47 years with National City Bank in Cleveland and was vice president when he retired in 1968. Dick and his wife, Mildred, enjoyed considerable travel during his retirement, and then they planned on living in a retirement community in Hudson, Ohio, just before Dick died, and since then Mildred has carried out these plans.
Besides his wife he is survived by a daughter, a son, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Ross Strickler Welch died August 27 of bone cancer, his home for many years being Kenilworth, Ill. Ross was a member of Delta Tau Delta and was active in the Outing Club. After graduation he spent six months in France taking courses at the Sorbonne, then earned a J.D. at Northwestern Law School in 1930. He practiced six days a week for 55 years, and he served and chaired a number of committees of the Chicago Bar Association. His antidote for the law was being a weekend farmer, and in winter a parttime skier with his wife and two daughters.
Ross is survived by Mary, his wife of 50 years, his two daughters, and his brothers, Albert '29 and Walter '34.
William Bradley Willard died August 20 of a heart attack at a Springfield, Vt., hospital, not far from the Stephen Rowe Bradley House, his historic family summer home in Walpole, N.H. Coming to Dartmouth from Westminster School, Bill was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Green Key, and Dragon. He was a generous 65-year donor to the Alumni Fund and a member of the 1926 executive committee.
Bill was a fourth-generation Washingtonian, being grandson of Henry Augustus Willard, founder of the hotel bearing his name and co-founder of National Savings & Trust Cos. Bill was a member of the board, and 50 years chairman of the executive committee of the bank.
He served in the navy in the Pacific in WW II, organizing a Guam bank for military personnel. As commander he was awarded a bronze medal, and he served 18 years in the naval reserves, retiring as captain.
He served in many civic, church, and charitable organizations. Bill is survived by his wife, Florence, two daughters, a son, a brother, ten grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
1929
Frederick Perley Armstrong died September 14 at Cape Elizabeth (Maine) Hospital after a heart attack. Freddie came from the Nichol School in Buffalo, N.Y., and majored in economics. He was the service manager for the Dartmouth and belonged to the Round Table.
He worked for Western Electric Company and earned his law degree at Fordham University in 193 3. He worked on claims for Continental Casualty in New York, then moved to Cape Elizabeth, where he represented Great American Indemnity and practiced law.
He was a selectman and member of the town council and belonged to the Cumberland County and Maine State Bar associations and the Lions Club. After retirement he lived in Marco island, Fla., in the winter.
He leaves his wife Jane, two sons, and a daughter.
John Jacob Yellin of Kings Point, N.Y., died on August 31 .Jack came from Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. He took part in theatrical activities and tennis and majored in economics.
He earned his LL.B. at New York School at night while working at his family's plastic business. In 1954 he began the full-time practice of law and specialized in federal taxation.
He leaves his wife Sheila, whom he married in 1966, and a daughter, Nancy.
1930
Manuel Glass died September 5 after a short illness. At the time, he was living in West Hartford, Conn.
Manny became active in life insurance in Hartford, joining the Glass Agency as agent after taking his M.S. degree at Yale, and he was sole agent for the agency when his father died. Manny was a member of and a trustee of the West Hartford Public Library and the Hartford Conservatory, president of the Hartford chapter of the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters, and chairman of the board of the Chartered Life Underwriters Institute. He taught courses designed by the American College of Life Underwriters and was a guests lecturer at Purdue and the University of Connecticut and a member of the board of Jewish Social Service.
He is survived by his wife, Henrietta, whom he married in 1941, and by two daughters.
1933
Robert Guggenheim Jr. died in California September 20. He had been suffering from chronic pulmonary disease.
Bob came to Dartmouth from William Penn Charter School and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, sang in the Glee Club, and took part in Dartmouth Players producdied tions. He was a lieutenant in the navy during WW II. His business career began with the family's American Smelting & Refining business, and he then worked with 20th Century Fox, CBS, and NBC as a film director, and McManus John & Adams. He retired in 1958.
He had been a 1933 class agent and vicepresident of the Southern California Dartmouth Association. He also served a broad spectrum of other eleemosynary institutions, including Big Brothers, Chapman College, Children's Hospital, Newport Harbor Art Museum, National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Foundation.
His widow, Shirlee, a son, and a daughter survive him.
Charles Benjamin Hinds Jr. died of natural causes at his home in Bend, Ore., on October 8. He was a graduate of Hebron Academy and at Dartmouth majored in anatomy and was a member of Alpha Chi Rho. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and received his M.D. from Harvard. His specialty was anesthesiology and he was chief of that service at Memorial Hospital in Worcester, Mass., and at St. Charles Memorial in Bend. He retired in 1975.
During WWII, he served in the army medical corps in this country, the Philippines, and Japan and attained the rank of captain.
Chuck was very active in community affairs in Bend, where he was a member of the Elks and Rotary clubs and the Masonic Lodge. He served on the school district board and the Bend city commission and was mayor of the municipality for one year. He was also an avid ham radio operator.
Chuck's wife, Bernada, predeceased him. He is survived by four children,a foster son, 12 grand- children, and seven great-grandchildren.
1934
Curtiss Howard died on September 18 of cancer at Monadnock Hospital in Peterborough, N.H. He had moved to nearby Greenfield after retiring in 1975. He came to Dartmouth from Hastings, N.Y., and the Hackley School, majored in English, and was a member of the Glee Club and Beta Theta Pi. His family had meanwhile moved to Cleveland, which became his hometown. He worked there as sales promotion manager and industrial advertising executive for Clevite Corporation.
Curt's WW II duty as a lieutenant in the Coast Guard included a highly publicized event: the capture of a German weather ship off Greenland. He piloted it to Boston, the first captured enemy vessel to be brought to a U.S. port since 1812.
He enjoyed sailing, painting, and Town Board service. His wife, Dorothy, survives, as do a son, a daughter, and four grandchildren.
Sewall Henry Newman August 23 at his home in Ormond Beach, Fla. Henry (most of us called him Ike) came from Winchester, Mass., and worked in Massachusetts until 1952 when he retired to Ormond Beach. He was active and in good health until this past year. Family, golf, and particularly cruise travel occupied his retirement from a career as a carpenter, builder, draftsman, and home designer. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Ruth, their son and daughter, and four grandchildren.
Joseph Leggett Swensson died October 11 at his home in Manchester, Conn., after an extended illness. He came to Hanover from Troy, N.Y. He majored at luck School, and he was in Phi Sigma Kappa and active in the Outing Club. He served as class agent and was an alumni interviewer.
For 37 years, until retirement in 1972, Joe had numerous sales jobs with the Norton Cos., manufacturer of abrasives, and had been very active in his community. He was head of the local Red Cross, president of Home Health Services, and a member of Masons, Shrine, and Historic District Commission. Rotary gave him its Fellowship Award.
Joe saw WW II service in the Navy as an ensign. His wife of 40 years, Elsie (Biz), a Connecticut legislator, survives him, as do two sons, a daughter, and eight grandchildren.
1935
Selden J. Hannah died suddenly on August 31 at his home in Franconia, N.H. At Dartmouth Sel was a member of the ski team, of which he was captain in his senior year. Later he was selected to represent the U.S. in the 1940 Olympics, and he later was elected to the Ski Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the Outing Club, Cabin and Trail, Bait and Bullet, Green Key Society, and Phi Gamma Delta.
In addition to operating his farm in Franconia, Sel founded Sno-Engineering, which aided in the planning and development of over 2 50 potential ski areas throughout the U.S. and Canada. His love of skiing and the mountains continued throughout his life.
Sel's brother, Frank, and two of Sel's sons, Frank and Selden, also graduated from Dartmouth, as did his granddaughter, Eva Pfosi. Sel is survived by his widow, Pauline, his brother Frank, a daughter, two sons, and eight grandchildren.
1938
Alexander Galder Jr. died September 18 in Montclair, N.J. "Sox played freshman baseball, was an economics major, and a brother in Phi Kappa Psi. He got his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1940.
He married Becky Holmes of Akron that year and began his career with Union Bag & Paper Cos. Sox took time out to join the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare before serving with the Pacific Fleet as an officer.
He returned to Union Bag and, as president, was instrumental in merging it with the Camp Cos., which made white paper. The Wall Street Transcript named him outstanding CEO in the paper industry, and he received awards for public service in the interest of conservation from the Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy for setting the pace among corporations in making land donations.
He served on 14 boards, including the LPGA. An enthusiastic golfer, he started an annual golf tournament with the proceeds going to Mountainside Hospital.
Sox is survived by his wife, two children, five grandchildren, and his brothers Stanley '43 and Fred'48. -J.R.S.Jr.>38
1940
Charles Kimball Flint Jr. died on September 15 at the hospital in Longview, Texas. Kim grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and attended Phillips Exeter Academy. At the College he was a member of the freshman track team and of Psi Upsilon fraternity. He went to work for the Eastman Kodak Company directly from college. During WW II he was at the Kodak atom bomb facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn: The rest of his professional life was at the Texas Eastman plant in Longview. He was a very involved member there in the Trinity Episcopal Church. His wife predeceased him, and he is survived by a son and a daughter.
William Mitchell Holman died on October 8 in Bellevue, Wash., after a long fight with prostate cancer. Bill came to our class from the Garfield High School in Seattle. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta. After Dartmouth he received his M.B.A. degree from Harvard and served in the Ordnance Section of the navy 1943-1946. In 1948 he received his J.D. from Harvard and then had a successful law practice in Seattle. The Dartmouth Club of Western Washington elected him secretary and then president. He is survived by his wife, Emily and two brothers including Colin '39.
Fremont Pershing Koch died on September 27 in Ventura, Calif. "Bud" entered Dartmouth from the San Diego Army-Navy Academy. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Marching Band, the Intercollegians Dance Band, Chi Phi fraternity, and Phi Beta Kappa. He also participated in the Rural Preachers Bureau. In 1943 he was awarded an M.D. from Washington University. Following war service as a surgeon in the Pacific area, he beg;an his career as a pediatrician. He was especially proud of his commitment to making house calls. After retiring from his private practice in 1970, he became unit physician at the Camarillo State Hospital, where he remained until 1983. He is survived by his wife, Eunice, and five children, including Stephen '77.
1941
Edward N. Marlette died unexpectedly on August 7 in the Cleveland Clinic. Ed grew up in the Buffalo, N.Y., area and returned there after graduation from Tuck School in 1942 to join a family metalplating business. Under his leadership, the Marlette National Corporation grew to be one of the ten largest metal finishing companies in the country. Ed was long active in Buffalo civic affairs, serving as an officer of the Millard Fillmore Hospital, Nichols School, Private Industry Council, "Visiting Nurses Association, Chamber of Commerce, Automobile Club, and the Country Club of Buffalo.
At Dartmouth, Ed played basketball and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Green Key, and Sphinx. He later held numerous offices in the Dartmouth Club of Buffalo and sent three sons to Hanover: Edward Jr. '68, Michael '75, and Peter '80. Also surviving are Norma, his wife of 49 years, two daughters, and 17 grandchildren.
