Deaths

This is a listing of deaths that have been reported to us since we prepared the previous issue. Full notices, usually written by the class secretaries, may appear in this issue or a later one.

Harold J. Morse '19 • March 2 John R. Bailey '22 • Oct. 18, 1986 Lawrence A. Waite '22 • Feb. 7 Joseph G. Pollard '23 • Feb. 25 Douglas F. Weymouth '23 • Jan. 29 Charles J. Zimmerman '23 • Feb. 24 Weston Blake '24 • Feb. 15 Joseph V. Falcon '24 'Jan. 18 Charles E. Clifton '25 • Sept. 3 Birger E. Jacobson '25 • Feb. 23 Walter R. VomLehn '25 • Feb. 5 Ellis A. Waring '25 • Feb. 9 Maximilian C. Shaw '27 • July 6 John W. Irving '29 • Sept. 5 Robert S. Monahan '29 • Feb. 27 Allen G. Miller '29 • Aug. 11, 1991 Bronson H. Purdy '29 • Nov. 29, 1992 Arthur Ryan '29 • Sept. 19 Edmund B. Downey '30 • Jan. 22 Milton W. Fleischman '30 • Jan. 5 Alex J. McFarland '30 • Feb. 8 Charles E. Rauch '30 • March 3 Richard B. Zeigler '30 • Feb. 15 John H. Hase '31 • March 19 George C. Howard '31 • Feb. 18 Howard F. Mason '31 • Feb. 8 Henry J. McCarthy '31 • March 13 Francis M. Pope '31 • Dec. 10 Dwight E. Rand '31 • Feb. 27 John O. Rogers '31 • Dec. 31 Laurence W. Collins '32 • Oct. 27 William H. Davis '32 • Feb. 6 Calvin G. Ireys '32 • Aug. 17 Howard P. Wile '32 • Dec. 8 Atwood Levensaler '33 • Feb. 6 Donald O. Lincoln '33 • Feb. 1 Robert W. White '33 • March 5 Irving M. Cohen '34 • Jan. 27 Daniel C. Colesworthy '34 • Feb. 11 Donald W. Crowther '34 • March 3 Siegfried Stern '34 • March 30 Earl K. Arthurs '35 • March 12 George A. Cook '35 • Feb. 21 Mercer E. Curtis '35 • March 19 George E. Goodman '35 • Dec. 20 Edward J. Henriquez '35 • Feb. 3 Wallace R. Hodges '35 • Dec. 10 Donald K. Saunders '35 • Jan. 12 Albert E. Gonti '36 • Jan. 29 Henry B. Holmes '36 • Dec. 17 William B. Towne '36 • Feb. 17 Paul L. Zens '36 • Nov. 20 George S. Galdes '37 • March 8 Robert M. DeVarney '37 • Jan. 7 Rollin L. Kent '37 • July 10 Arthur C. Kenyon '37 • Dec. 18 Richard L. Thirlby '37 • Feb. 16 Charles E. Blumenauer '3B • Feb. 16 Whitney Cushing '39 • Dec. 27 Ernest F. Fetske '39 • Jan. 14 Frederick B. Fiigon '39 • Nov. 9 Hugh McLaren '39 • Feb. 16 John C. Sinclair '39 • March 18 Roy B. White '39 • Dec. 25 Robert C. Clunie '40 • Dec. 21 Charles C. Mackinney '40 • Jan. 22 Charles E. Wilde '40 • Feb. 7 Charles Guy Bolte '41 • March 7 Richard W. DeCou '41 • Feb. 23 Hugh Kenworthy '41 • Feb. 19 Glenn E. Behringer '43 • March 10 Marshall Lowman '43 •Jan. 13 Marion A. Carter '46 • May 1992 John C. Fairbanks '46 • March 27 Richard H. Rogers '46 • July 9 Lawrence K. Coachman '47 • Nov. 12 Arthur T. Flynn '47 • Feb. 8 Edward Jacobs '47 • Jan. 8 Howard S. Luckenbach '47 'Jan. 12 Frederick G. Loomis '48 • Feb. 9 Robert W. Castle '49 • Jan 17 Robert A. Priester '49 • Jan. 4 Richard E. Kirkwood '50 • Dec. 23 G. William Lamade '51 • March 16 James G. Gardner '52 • Nov. 13 William G. Kay '52 • Feb. 5 William V. Murphy '52 • Sept. 16 Herbert R. Pickett '52 • Nov. 26 Stephen H. Foster '53 • Dec. 18 Charles W. Stone '53 • Jan. 7 James B. Swift '53 • Jan. 24 Paul J. Miller '54 • Jan. 18 Daniel C. Murphy '54 • March 17 Peter G. Sarty '55 • March 7 George S. Grant '56 • Dec. 22 Andrew S. Merrels '56 'Jan. 20 Richard Sandreuter '61 • Jan. 6 Alan W. Bryant '62 • Jan. 9 Scott W. Sanborn '62 • Feb. 26 William A. Coates '63 • Jan. 16 Maurice G. Friedman '63 • Feb. 7 Gerald E. Varty '63 • Feb. 12 Jonathan B. Breen '67 • Feb. 8 Richard A. Lyczak '67 • Jan. 22 Timothy L. Coffin '70 • March 6 Robert S. Smith '70 • Jan. 11 Paul M. Wychules '71 • Feb. 23 Brian J. O'Hanlon '74 • Feb. 25 Grace A. Williams '77 • Aug. 2 Arvo J. Oopik '78 • Feb. 24 Barbara M. Harper '90 • Feb. 27

1918

Richard P. White died October 9 in Williamsburg, Va. Dick was CEO of the American Association of Nurseiymen, founder of the Horticultural Research Institute, and author of A Century of Progress:A History of the Nursery Associations of the United States. He was president or chair of many horticultural associations and societies and a member of the Washington Rotary Club.

At Dartmouth Dick was Phi Beta Kappa and a Rufus Choate Scholar. After graduating magna cum laude with honors in biology and chemistry, he served in the Coast Artillery Corps and then entered Cornell, where he received his Ph.D. He taught at Kansas State University and at Rutgers, where he conducted pioneer research on the diseases of floricultural and nursery crops. He served on the Alumni Council, was president of the Washington, D.C., Alumni Club, memorial fund chairman, chairman of the class bequest committee, and was named Bequest Chairman of the Year in 1971. In 1991 he received the college's Presidential Award for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement. He received many awards during his career.

Dick is survived by a daughter, Beatrice Vradenburg, a son, Richard P. White Jr., six grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.

1923

died July 22,1993. He was the founder of PayLess Drug Stores, which now has 550 stores in eight states. He also pioneered the management concept of profit-sharing, using it as an incentive program at his stores. Peyton Hawes

He married Ruth Elizabeth Tuthill of Portland in 1935. She died in 1983. Peyt is survived by his daughters Judith Holmes and Susan Swindells.

Charles J. Zimmerman died in Hartford, Conn., on February 24. He was one of Dartmouth's most outstanding volunteer leaders, and his marks on the College are many. He led Dartmouth's first major gifts campaign in 1958, which funded the construction of the Hopkins Center. He was a Trustee for 20 years, and he chaired the Board through the deliberations that brought coeducation and year-round operation to the College. The citation for his 1973 Dartmouth Alumni Award said, "You guided the College through a time of great change with what Mark Twain called 'the calm confidence of a Christian holding four aces.'

"Only occasionally does a man come along whose entire life sums up tie ideal of great service to society and to the College."

As one longtime friend said, "Charlie could bring sides together on any issue because he was respected by everyone." Aresidential hall and the lounge in Blunt Alumni Center are named in his honor.

Charlie came to Dartmouth from New Rochelle, N.Y., where he was valedictorian at the high school and later returned to enter the life-insurance business in 1924. Most of his career was spent with Connecticut Mutual Life. He became president in 1956 and chairman in 1968. He retired in 1972. His wife, Opal Marie, predeceased him in 1985.

1929

James Ellsworth Cavanagh died October 19 at his Amherst, Mass., home after a long illness. Ellie came from Plattsburgh (N.Y.) High School, belonged to Psi Upsilon and Dragon, majored in economics,

and was managing editor of The Dartmouth. After four years in banking he returned to Dartmouth for a year of post-graduate study and two years of medical school. He received his M.D. from Columbia in 1938, spent four years in the Air Force Medical Corps, then established a practice in Northampton, Mass.

He was a Founding Fellow of the American Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a leader in many civic and church affairs. He was once '29 class president and a class agent.

He leaves his sons Dr. James Cavanagh Jr. '51 (the class baby) and John '55, and a daughter, Julie Kaneta.

Archibald Warren Diack died on August 23, 1993. He came from Ann Arbor (Mich.) High School, majored in chemistry, and belonged to Zeta Psi, Alpha Chi Sigma, and the Ledyard Canoe Club.

Archie earned his M.D. at Michigan and interned for three years at Peter Bent Brigham hospital in Boston, then established a general practice in Portland where he belonged to many medical associations.

From 1942 through 1945 he served as a surgeon in Africa and France with the University of Oregon-affiliated army medical unit. On his return to Oregon, he practiced general surgery. He was intensely active with the Nature Conservancy and the Oregon Parks Foundation, and with his wife, Frances, established a scholarship at Reed College for biological study in the Sandy River Gorge. After retirement he spent nine years developing an automatic cardiac resuscitator.

He leaves his wife and two daughters.

Earl Spencer Liberty of Charleston, S.C., died October 19. Earl came from Northbridge High School in Whitinsville, Mass. He belonged to Green Key, played baseball, and majored in economics. He attended Harvard Business School and spent much of his career with Utica and Mohawk Cotton Mils, where he became treasurer. After retirement he worked in the business office of Clemson University and became city clerk of the city of Clemson.

He was president of the Dartmouth Club of the Mohawk Valley and a class agent. He leaves his wife, Alice, and four sons.

Robert Scott Monahan died February 27 after a long illness. Bob came from Pawtucket High School in Rhode Island and belonged to Phi Kappa Psi, Gamma Delta Chi, and Palaeopitus. He was captain of the cross-country team, director of Ledyard Canoe Club, councilor of Cabin & Trail, on the Winter Sports team, active on the Pictorial, and majored in political science. He earned his master's in forestry at Yale and served in the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico, California, Washington, D.C., Idaho, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Maine.

His book, Mount Washington Reoccupied, describes his reopening of the Mt. Washington Observatory. In 1947 he became college forester at Dartmouth, in charge of the College Grant and outing properties. He belonged to the New Hampshire legislature and became leader of its senate. His political interest never stopped.

His wife, Alice, died in 1989. He leaves his sons Robert E. '59 and Daniel, his daughter Linda Dresch, and six grandchildren including Daniel G. '87.

1932

Wilbur Templin Jr. died August 19 in Mishawaka, Ind., after a long illness. "Bud" was a past president and board chairman of Templin's Inc., a music business in Elkhart. He was very active in civic affairs in the Elkhart area.

At Dartmouth he was on the Jack-O-Lantern staff and a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. He was a lieutenant commander in the navy in World War II. He is survived by his widow, Karma, two sons, a daughter, a stepson, 11 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and a sister.

1933

Chester Levenson Thomson died at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y., October 31. He was diabetic and had been ailing for some time. Chet came to Dartmouth from Columbia Preparatory School in New York, majored in sociology, and was a member of Pi Lambda Phi.

Chet's career was in advertising and sales. He began with the Calvert Distillers organization and then for many years was president of Thomson-Leeds Company, an organization which he founded in 1957 and which produced displays for America's leading advertisers. Much of his life, however, was devoted to charitable enterprises, including work with hospitals and organizations devoted to child guidance and family mental health. He was president of Westchester Jewish Community Services and a member of the Non-partisan Committee of Scarsdale. A devoted alumnus, he served as class agent for many years as well as head agent in 1973-76. His first wife, Alice, predeceased him. He is survived by his second wife, Sally, three daughters, and his cousin Sid Stoneman '33.

1934

Richard Lane Emerson died November 9 at his retirement home in Hanover after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease. He was a graduate of Manchester High School and was quite active on Dartmouth's Winter Sports team. He was a member of Theta Chi, and Tuck School was his major. Dick served in WW II as a lieutenant in the navy.

Dick's primary business was life insurance. He was with Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Cos. for 36 years, becoming associate manager at their Boston agency. He was active in sales there and in his home areas of Winchester, Mass. In 1961 he retired to New London, N.H., where he continued to be active in golf, tennis, and especially skiing. He helped build the ski jump in Sutton, N.H., and helped maintain conservation areas.

He is survived by Mary, his wife of 56 years, his brother Howard '23, five sons including William '62 and John '71, and eight grandchildren.

1936

Channel T. Libbey died October 23 in Bozeman, Mont., after a long illness. He was born in Lewiston, Maine, and entered Dartmouth from Lewiston High School.

Chan left Dartmouth after about a year and a half. In June 1934 he married Mary O'Neil, and in October of that year they moved to Montana and bought a ranch. He was in the army serving in the ETO with the 257th Field Artillery Battalion. In 1949 Chan sold his ranch, and in the fifties he acquired several beer franchises which are still in the family. Over the years Chan was president of the Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, and Montana Beer Wholesalers Association, and was a board member of Community Memorial Hospital. He retired from business in 1980.

Chan is survived by his wife, a daughter, two sons, ten grandchildren, and six greatgrandchildren.

Edwards Clay Whitmore died August 24 in Longwood, Fla. Ted entered Dartmouth from Montclair (N.J.) High School. He majored in English, was on the business board of The Dartmouth, and was a member of the Players and the Glee Club. His fraternity was Zeta Psi. After graduation he went on to Harvard Business School, receiving his degree in 1938.

Ted served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps and General Staff from 1939 to 1945 and was discharged with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Following the war he held executive positions with Textron, Indian Head, and Wallace Murray. After retiring he moved to central Florida in 1978.

Survivors include his wife, Betty, a daughter, a son, and two granddaughters.

1939

Arthur M. Adler Jr. died July 17 in Highland Park, Ill., where he had resided for many years. Known as "Bud," he came to Dartmouth from Hyde Park High School in Chicago. He was a member of the speed-skating team for three years and captained it in his junior year. Bud was also active in the Outing Club. At the end of his junior year he transferred to the medical school of Northwestern University, where he received his B.S. degree in 1939.

He entered the business community and some years later became president and a director of Helene Curtis Inc. of Chicago. After a long career with that company he retired and formed Arthur M. Adler & Co., chemical specialty representatives. He served with the Coast Guard Reserve in WW II.

Bud was very active in community affairs, serving as a president and life trustee of the Highland Park Hospital Foundation and a chairman of the budget committee of The Community Fund of Metropolitan Chicago. He also served for many years as a trustee of Bennington College.

Bud is survived by Joan, his wife of 53 years, three children, and four grandchildren.

1943

Charles Stoneham Feeney suffered a fatal heart attack in San Francisco on January 10. At Dartmouth "Chub" was a member of the Players, Green Key, and Casque & Gauntlet, and was manager of baseball and undergraduate representative to the Athletic Council. A devoted alumnus who, with Margaret Ann, regularly attended class reunions, Chub served on the class executive committee and Alumni Council and was class bequest chair.

Following WW II navy service, he attend- ed Fordham Law School. He began his career in baseball with the New York Giants and rose to general manager and. vice president. At first reluctant to move with the team to San Francisco, Chub fell in love with the city.

In 1969 he was elected president of the National League, where he earned a reputation as an astute, fairminded, competitive, yet fun-loving leader. Retiring in 1986, he became general manager of the San Diego Padres until 1988.

A board member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, he will be memorialized in a service there in Cooperstown, N.Y., on July 29. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Ann, five children including John '74, a brother, two sisters, and three grandchildren.

1944

Seymour Schutz died October 13 at New York University Medical Center. He was diagnosed with lymphoma two years ago. A native of New York City, Sy came to Dartmouth from James Monroe Fligh School. He was a member of the band, the Handel Society, and Pi Lambda Phi. Fie played squash and majored in psychology.

In WW II he served in the medical corps for three years under General Patton, surviving the Battle of the Bulge and other assignments in France, Germany, and Austria.

He earned an M.A. degree at Columbia University after the war and taught gifted children for 11 years before becoming an assistant school principal. In the early sixties he founded a construction company and built affordable housing in East Hampton, L.I., until his retirement. A new affordable-housing complex in East Hampton is scheduled to be named after Sy.

Sy and his wife, Ethel, were active world travelers and Sy was an avid photographer. He served on the board of trustees of the Hampton Jewish Center for 26 years. He is survived by his wife and two children.

1945

John Gifford Ghanalis of Rancho Mirago, Calif., died on July 8. He attended Newark (N.J.) Academy and George School, Newtown, Pa., before entering Dartmouth Dartmouth in 1941. He left to serve in the Army Air Corps as a sergeant from 1943 to 1945. Later he took courses at Columbia University and the Sorbonne. He belonged to the Dartmouth Clubs of New York City and Northern and Southern California.

He was head of the Rare Books Department at Newbegin's Books in San Francisco until 1967, when he suffered an arterial occlusion which subsequently required eight major surgeries and eventually caused him to retire.

Edward Garcia Washburn of Pompano Beach, Fla., died of cancer July 19. He was born in San Francisco. At Dartmouth Ed was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He left the College to serve in the navy from 1943 to 1946, but returned to complete his studies, went on to Dartmouth Medical School, and received his M.D. from UC-San Francisco in 1953. He served his internship and joined the staff at Southern Pacific General Hospital, where his father, Dr. William W. Washburn' 14, was chief surgeon. He was also in private practice with his father and was a member of the staff of St. Francis Memorial Hospital.

From 1964 to '68 Ed, a gourmet, took a sabbatical in Brighton, England, where he established the Bedlam, a popular restaurant. He returned to the U.S. and practiced medicine in L.A. until his retirement in 1991.

He had a lifelong interest in history and geography and was a collector and dealer in fine porcelains and other objects of art. An accomplished seaman, he recently completed a three-year around-the-world cruise aboard his 5 8-foot yacht. He is survived by his brother Bradford and sister Mary Elena Straub.

1947

Joseph M. Flounders died of cancer August 30, 1992, in Sarasota, Fla. Joe joined the marines in July 1942 and came to Hanover with the V-12 Marine program. He served in the Pacific Theater and in China before returning to finish at Dartmouth. He majored in history and was a member of SAE and the band. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and was a Rufus Choate Scholar.

After graduation Joe joined the Schuykill Paper Cos. in Philadelphia, where he became general manager, VP, and president. He was president of Lindenmeyr Paper Corp., also in Philadelphia, 1962-66, then served in various leadership positions in its New York branch until retirement in 1969.

Joe was very active in Dartmouth Club activities in Philadelphia and in Sarasota. He was also a class agent. He is survived by his brother Burtis '52, son Joseph W. Flounders '77, and his wife of 41 years, Lila May.

1950

Howard Bruce Parker Jr. died on October 23 at the Cape Cod Hospital of complications following surgery. He lived in Chatham, Mass., having moved there from Weston. Bruce came to Dartmouth from Philips Academy, Andover. He was a member of the business board of The Dartmouth, and majored in psychology. Following graduation he had a career in real estate sales, management, and development. His father was a member of the class of 1916. Bruce was divorced and is survived by his daughters Elizabeth and Susan.

1952

Marshall T. Meyer died on December 29 after a long battle with cancer. A widely renowned human-rights activist, he was senior rabbi of the Congregation of B'nai Jeshurun in Manhattan.

At Dartmouth Marsh was a Rufus Choate Scholar. After post-grad study at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Columbia, and Union Theological Seminary, he was ordained in 1958.

A longtime resident of Argentina, he founded Latin America's first rabbinical seminary in Buenos Aires, founded and led a synagogue, and had more than 70 Jewish works translated into Spanish. During the years of military dictatorship he defied harrassment and death threats as he visited and worked to save political prisoners.

Marsh received many tributes, including an honorary degree from Dartmouth in 1982, yet he never lost his kinship with his classmates. He is survived by two daughters and his wife, Naomi. The New York Times reported that he said to his wife, "If I can't show my family and my congregation how to face death, what kind of rabbi am I?"

1969

Robert M. Tyler Jr. died September 15 while on a mountaineering and wildlife-observation trip in British Columbia. At Dartmouth Bob was a member of the Tabard. He received his law degree from George Washington University and served a two-year clerkship at the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. In 1975 he joined the firm of Elam and Burke and became a partner in 1980, serving as the senior council of the firm's appellate section.

Bob was active in the Dartmouth Club of Southern Idaho and served as secretary and president. He was a gentle man who had a great love for the outdoors. He is survived by his wife, Felisa, a stepson, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tyler '36.

1970

Robert W. Eckel died of cancer in Washington, D.C., on August 30. He had been a neurologist with Kaiser Permanente Community Health Plan since 1983 and was on the clinical faculty at Georgetown University Medical School. His specialty was electromyography, the testing of muscles for degrees of weakness.

Bob came to Dartmouth from Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He was in the band and Glee Club and was an intern with the Tucker Foundation Jersey City Project as a teaching assistant in an inner-city school. He received his M.D. from Case Western in 1976.

Bob played clarinet and sax and was a member of the Monday Night Musicales, a group which supports young musical talent. He taught Sunday school at St. Albans Episcopal Church in Washington and had a special interest in Greek and Roman history.

Bob married Russell Gibson in 1982, and she survives with their two children. Also surviving are Bob's parents, Doris and Dr. Robert E. Eckel '38 of Cleveland Heights, and two brothers, Peter and Christopher.