Death

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

Ernest L. Rushmer '2IA • Aug. 8,1993 Raymond Pervere Atwood '22 • Sept. 4 Major Bird '23 • Oct. 25 George Sherman Avery '24 • Aug. 5 John Kendall Joy '26 • Oct. 8 Frank Campbell Clokey '27 • Nov. 14 Earl Eugene Rrogstad '27 • Oct. 7 Edward Leo Boyle '28 • Nov. 6 George Caleb French '28 • Dec. 18,1993 Bruce Mosher Lewis '28 • Oct. 20 George Hoffman McKean '29 • Nov. 28 Charles Leonard Fisher '30 • Nov. 18 Jesse Stanley Lichter '30 • Nov. 8 James William Mitchell '30 • Nov. 10 Alden Waters Smith '30 • Oct. 28 Parker Carpenter '31 • Dec. 1 Richard Morris Henry '31 • Nov. 5 David Steel Loveland '31 • Dec. 9 Edward Cyril Picken '31 • Nov. 17 William Francis Thornley '31 • Nov. 17 Francis Brown '32 • Dec. 16 Charles Atkins Mayo '32 • Oct. 11 David Randell '32 • Nov. 7 Henry W. Hardy '33 • Oct. 22 John Jacob Schneider '33 • Oct. 19 Harrison Frederick Gonnerman '36 • Oct. 25 Daniel John Holland '36 • Nov. 11 George Frederick Kane '36 • Nov. 5 Ferris Chester Mack '36 • Oct. 13 Stanley Goddard Walker '36 • Nov. 22 James E. Whipkey '36 • Feb. 5,1994 William Augustus Leonard '37 • Oct. 23 William Homer Timbers '37 • Nov. 26 Paul Fleming Bauder '3B • Nov. 23 Howard Pillsbury Dunbar '38 • Dec. 30, 1993 Richard Charles Woodman '38 • Nov. 13 Orval Clinton Hatch '39 • Oct. 17 Martin Henry Howell '39 • Nov. 13 Lindsley Palmer Baldwin '40 • Oct. 23 Richard Crawford Campbell '40 • Oct. 4 Paul Edward Hurley '40 • Oct. 19 Richard Thompson Mitchell '40 • Nov. 30 Lyle Merton Richardson '40 • Dec. 4,1982 Maurice Allen Williamson '40 • July 28 John Roger Nearing '41 • Nov. 20 Daniel Freeman Seacord '42 • Nov. 5 Robert Porteous Wilson '42 • Nov. 19 James Armand Doucette '43 • Oct. 27 Charles Ephraim Fox '44 • Sept. 3 Edward Clarence Pirie '45 • Oct. 12 William Frederick Thayer '45 •July 2, 1993 William Martin Cooper '46 • May 8 John Endicott Porter '46 • April 9, 1994 Donald L. Baisley '47 • Nov. 11 John Arthur Childs '47 • Oct. 2 William Frank Holin '47 • Jan. 31, 1994 Chester Neil Jorgensen '47 • Sept. 10 Thomas Greenlaw Wonson '47 • May 15 William R. Wright '48 • Oct. 14 William Sterling Dunford '50 • Aug. 17 William J. DeVaux '51 • Nov. 30 Everett Humphrey Johnson '55 • Sept. 24 Edward Cyril Picken Jr. '55 • April 4, 1994 Melville Higbey Tatsapaugh '55 • Dec. 3,1992 Robert Lincoln Posnak '60 • Oct. 27 Joseph Harold Navach '61 • Nov. 13 Stephen J. Kiely '72 • Aug. 26 Adam Keith Shumaker '92 • Nov. 30

1922

Raymond Pervere Atwood

died September 4 after a short illness at the Newton- Wellesley hospital. A well-known Boston business man, he and his wife, Doris, had retired to New London, N.H., about 15 years ago. They were active members of the nearby Dartmouth Alumni group.

Ray majored in economics, was a forward on the hockey team, and belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon. As an alumnus he served his class in many capacities and contributed to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund annually for 71 consecutive years.

In business he was associated for 50 years with the Thomas V. Cleveland Realty Co. of Newton. Before retirement he was vice president of the company. He was also a trustee of the West Newton Savings Bank and of a substantial local fund. He was a deacon in the Second Church U.C.C. in West Newton.

Ray and Doris were married in 1932. She, their two daughters, and three grandchildren are his survivors.

1924

Charles Frederick Amelung

died on August 29 of Alzheimer's disease in his hometown of Heightstown, N.J. He had lived in Montclair for more than 50 years before moving to a treatment center in Heightstown. He was very active in community affairs, serving as chairman of the Morristown chapter of Red Cross, as president of the Morristown Adult School, the Morristown Council of Social Agencies, and the Morristown Senior Citizens Housing Corp., and as a deacon of the First Congregational at Morristown. His career was with New Jersey Bell Telephone, where he was general personnel supervisor when he retired in the sixties.

Charlie is survived by his wife, Marion, and two daughters.

1924

George Sherman Avery

died on November 10 at the Green Tree Manor Convalescent Center in Quaker Hill, Conn. George spent two years at Dartmouth and then switched to Tulane University, from which he graduated in 1924. He then returned to Dartmouth for a master's degree in 1926. He earned his doctorate in botany from the University of Wisconsin. He held various faculty appointments and headed the Connecticut Arboretum in New London before entering his distinguished career at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which he headed from 1944 to 1970. He continued in an emeritus capacity thereafter. He received honorary degrees from the University of British Columbia and also from Long Island University. He is survived by his wife, Marion, daughter Mary Virginia Craig, and six grandchildren.

1927

Earl Eugene Krogstad

died of cardiac disease November 14 in Tyler, Texas. Kroggie entered Dartmouth from Winona, Minn., High School. He was an economics major, played varsity soccer, and was a member of Cabin & Trail, TriKappa fraternity, and Dragon Senior Society. After graduation he joined the motor-truck sales and service department of International Harvester Co., serving in the Chicago area then in Oklahoma and Texas. He was president of the Dartmouth Clubs in Tulsa and Oklahoma City in the forties and fifties and recendy a class agent for the Alumni Fund.

Kroggie was inducted into the navy at Dartmouth in the summer of 1942 in the ROTC unit there as a lieutenant and was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant commander. He served in Cape Henry, Va., Fort Dawes, Md., Trinidad, and Washington, D.C. He was an ardent golfer until his vision failed in recent years.

He is survived by his wife, Gertrude, a son, and a daughter.

1928

Neal Dow

died August 19. The place and cause of death were not reported. Neal prepared for Dartmouth at Phillips Exeter Academy. He did not finish with his class but transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1938. He was an instructor at Phillips Exeter 1928-30 and at the University of Pennsylvania 1930-32. He became a professor of romance languages at Duke University and wrote several Frenchlanguage textbooks.

Neal is survived by his wife, Marie-Therese, whom he married in 1932.

Frank Hamilton Hankins

died August 10 in Fort Pierce, Fla., after a 3 0-year struggle with Parkinson's disease. Ham prepared for Dartmouth at Northampton (Mass.) High School. He majored in physics and joined Sigma Alpha, Delta Omicron Gamma, and the Radio and Press clubs. He served on The Dartmouth for four years, ending as news editor. After graduation he earned a B.S. in engineering in 1930 and a M.S.in 1933,b0th at MIT. He joined the navy in 1931 as an ensign, won his wings at Pensacola, and served at various ports until July 1932.

He joined Pan Am as an apprentice pilot in Miami and rose to operations manager there and in New York. He was vice president of Wright Aeronautical Division of Curtis-Wright in the fifties and in 1961 was appointed technical service manager of Lockheed Aircraft Service, New York. Along the way Ham's interest in local affairs resulted in his election as mayor of Franklin Lakes, Fla., in 1959. He was a staunch Republican.

Ham is survived by his wife, Anne, whom he married in 1936, a daughter, and sons Timothy '61 and Frank '64.

Eino Algot Johnson

died July 28. Eino prepared for Dartmouth at the Amesbury (Mass.) High School and majored in psychology. He earned a M.S. at Trinity College in 1933 and a Ph.D. in education at Yale in 1941.Between 1928 and 1948, in addition to his studies, he taught in three Connecticut high schools and was an instructor in physics at Trinity and in mathematics and physics at the University of Connecticut. In 1948 he went to Mexico at the invitation of the Celanese Corp. of America and the Mexican government and became headmaster of a school there, then in 1949-50 chaired the Department of Education at Mexico City College. In 1951 he became associate professor of science and education, East New Mexico University, later professor. In 1959 he was made representative for the New England states for the U.S. Commission of Education. He was the director of the Burma American Institute (USIA) in Rangoon 1956-58.

In 1928 Eino married Heloise Buck, who predeceased him. He is survived by two daughters, Marilyn and Paula.

1931

Chester Ellsworth Johnson

died July 1 at the Jupiter Hospital in Jupiter, Fla. After just getting started at the College, where he was a member of Beta Thea Pi, Chet left to begin his business career with the family firm, J.W. Johnson Co., a manufacturer of canvas products, in Bellwood, 111. He became chairman of the board of that firm and held that position until he recendy retired.

He is survived by his widow, Dorothy. His brother Ralph '41 predeceased him.

1932

Charles A. Mayo

died October 11 after a long illness at his home in Provincetown, Mass., 200 feet from his birthplace. In college his major was English, and he was an editor of the Dart literary magazine and was on the water polo team. During WW II he was with the Inter-American Agency as a consultant on PT-boat hull construction. Charley, a charter-boat fisherman, spent most of his life chasing, catching, and studying tuna fish. He collected data for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He originated rod-and-reel tuna fishing in Cape Cod Bay and won the Governor's Cup eight times for catching the largest tuna. He also spent winters exploring and guiding in the Florida Keys and the Bahamas. A conservationist, he fought avidly for the Cape Cod National Seashore and just as eagerly against the construction of a new marina, which he felt would spoil Provincetown's waterfront.

Surviving Charley are his son Charles '65 and two grandsons.

Bruno M. Saia

died August 7 of a brain tumor in San Leandro, Calif. After receiving his B.A. at Dartmouth, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, he obtained his M.C.S. from Tuck. He was an assistant buyer for R.H. Macy from 1933 to 1936, and by 1937 he was managing the Hanover Inn.

During the war he was a lieutenant commander in the navy. Afterwards he settled in California, where he managed retail stores for Broadway-Hale and others.

Bruno was unmarried. The next of kin are M.J. Saia and Bruno's nephew Robert J. Saia '55.

Adrian A. Walser

died August 22 of leukemia in Hollywood, Fls. "Whip" got his nickname from a boyhood dog and went on to whip around the world ever since. Born in France, he came to the U.S. at age nine. At Dartmouth he majored in sociology, was a member of Chi Phi, and was active in swimming, cross-country, and water polo. After college he was a seaman on freighters, then a cruisetourist guide. In 1944 he was a naval officer guiding marines ashore in the Philippines and Okinawa. In 1948 he founded and became owner and chairman of a manufacturing company with international markets. After retirement in 1992 he served on private and government commissions in Central America and Africa.

Whip only missed one reunion in 60 years. He served the College as president and secretary of his class and clubs, class agent, reunion chairman, and Alumni Council member. In 1992 he received the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Surviving Whip are his widow, Adeline, and three children including Eric '70.

1933

Charles Louis Hall

died at a hospice in Dayton, Ohio, on July 1. He attended Steele High School in Dayton and was in Theta Delta Chi at Dartmouth. He studied in Hanover for two years, then transferred to the University of Michigan and later to New York University, where he received a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1935.

Charlie joined the air force as a civilian aeronautical engineer and in 1948 received a commendation for meritorious service for his role in developing the SF-60 jet fighter. In 1950 he moved to Bell Aircraft to become assistant secretary, and in 1960 he joined Itek Corp. as manager of the Dayton office. He also worked for Fairchild Republic.

He was a twin brother of Tom Hall '33, who survives him, as do his widow, Cecilia, and a son and daughter.

Henry Ardeen Miller

died in Rockville, Md., on August 16 of complications from a stroke. Hank prepared for Dartmouth at John Burroughs School in St. Louis and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He left Hanover after two years and in 1936 received his A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis. He was also earned a B.S. in education there in 1944.

Hank worked briefly for Sears, Roebuck and Mercantile Commerce Bank & Trust of St. Louis and subsequendy taught history and social studies at high schools in Shelbyville, 111., and Rockville, Md. He was with the LT.S. Public Health Service until 1953 when he became associated with the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, where he was a supervisor of tabulating equipment in liaison with the National Security Agency. He retired in 1978.

Hank's widow, Rose, died three weeks after him, on September 4, as a result of a fall. They are survived by their daughter Anne Nydegger.

William Rommel Quinn

died on September 25 in Canton, Ohio, from chronic lung disease. He prepared for Dartmouth at Exeter and was a regular on the golf team. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx and majored in political science. He received his LL.B. degree from Western Reserve University in 1936.

Bill returned to Canton and joined his father in the private practice of law, specializing in estate planning. He participated actively in political and community affairs and became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, on which bench he served for 18 years until his retirement in 1985.

He is survived by his wife, Peg, and by his daughters Patricia and Deborah.

John Jacob Schneider

died in Scarsdale, N.Y., on October 19 after a two-year batde with cancer. Johnny came to Dartmouth from Barnard, played soccer, was on the varsity baseball squad, and was a member of Zeta Psi and Dragon. He majored in sociology. He attended Columbia and NYU after graduation.

Johnny spent his business career in advertising and worked for several agencies before joining Lennen & Newell as an officer and management-account supervisor. He served from 1942 to 1945 in the anti-aircraft branch of the Coast Guard, where he rose to be senior aide to the theater commander and commander of the Caribbean Defense Command.

He is survived by his wife, Carol, a daughter, and his brother Charles '31.

1934

Robert Searles Davis

died October 10 of prostate cancer in a Leesburg, Fla., nursing home. He came to Dartmouth from Plymouth, Mass., as a graduate of Philips Exeter. Carpentry was his career, and as a hobby he was a master maker of wood-backed jigsaw puzzles. He was an active golfer, litde-league coach, town representative and local historian, and past president of Plymouth's Old Colony Club. Bob is survived by Carolyn, his wife of 54 years, and by two sons including Robert '63, a daughter, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. His father was in the class of '00.

Morton Brett Foster

died October 16 at a hospital in Augusta, Maine. He came to Dartmouth from Leominster, Mass., after graduating from Shattuck School in Minnesota. He majored in Spanish and Italian. Mort returned to Minnesota and operated grocery stores there before navy service in the Pacific during WW II. He then came back east to Pordand, Maine, for 20 years, and then to East Winthrop. Throughout those years he worked for the Maine Department of Agriculture as a marketing specialist until retirement in 1972. He enjoyed collecting matchbook covers while traveling.

Mort is survived by Evelyn, whom he married in Minnesota in 1936, their son and daughter, and his brother and sister.

1936

Harrison Frederick Gonnerman Jr.

of Laconia, N.H., died on October 25 after a brief illness. Fred entered Dartmouth from Oak Park (Ill.) High School and was a Tuck major. He was a member of the band and graduated cum laude.

He joined Sunbeam Corp. until World War II, during which he worked with the War Production Board in its Small Tool Division. After the war he spent ten years with a hand-tool manufacturers' trade association in New York. In 1956 he returned to Washington, D.C., where he had his own business representing tool manufacturers to the government.

In 1983 he retired to Laconia, where he maintained his strong interest in Dartmouth, especially the athletic and band programs.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, four children including Michael '65, his sister, six grandchildren, and a great-grandson.

James Edwards Whipkey

of Virginia Beach died February 5, 1994. He came to Hanover from Connellsville High in Pittsburgh. He majored in history, was a member of Kappa Sigma, and was VP of Boot & Saddle.

Jim attended the University of Pittsburgh Law School, then in 1937 joined Sylvania Electric. In 1942 he entered the navy and served with the air wing, Adantic fleet, with the rank of lieutenant (s.g.) USNRAVS.

From 1945 to 1958 Jim worked for the Diamond T Motor Truck Co., becoming general manager, and from 1958 to 1962 he was with Clark Equipment Cos. as district sales manager. For the next 20 years he was involved in trade-show and trade-association management.

Jim is survived by his son Robert.

1937

Carl H. Anion Jr.

died September 14 at Winchester (Mass.) Hospital after suffering a heart attack. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx. He received his LL.B. from Harvard in 1940.

"Monk" became associated with the law firm of Hale and Dorr in Boston, where he was a member of the firm's litigation department. He became a senior partner in 1952 and retired in 1988 after 48 years with the firm.

He joined the board of trustees at the Belmont Hill School in 1960 and served for 32 years, 21 of them as president of the board.

In his home town of Reading, Mass., he was chairman of the finance committee, town counsel, and a Town Meeting member.

He is survived by his son Carl H. III '65 and granddaughter Lindsay 194.

Bancroft Dwinell

died of heart failure on May 22, 1994. He was a lifelong resident of Montpelier, Vt. In 1945 he began a 39-year career with Rock of Ages quarry and served in many capacities for the company, including as president of the Sprague Electric Division and vice president of international sales of Rockof Ages Corp. Upon retirement he became president of the Washington County Railroad.

Bandy was a trustee of the Kellogg Hubbard Library for 47 years, 33 of those as president. He served both as trustee and president of the Lake Morey Protective Association, having a summer home on the lake.

He loved Dartmouth, and he was treasurer of the Central Vermont Dartmouth Club and a class agent. At Dartmouth he was a member of Delta Tau Delta.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret, of 54 years, two sons, a daughter, and six grandchildren.

Robert Porteous Kenney

died in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 4. Bob joined the BF Goodrich Co. in 1944 as manager of international service, having been chief of the vinyl resins unit of the War Production Board between 1941 and 1944. In 1958 he became director of international sales and licensing and was responsible for administering all BFG Chemical activities involving overseas-manufacturing companies. His position caused him to travel in many foreign countries. He retired in 1978 as vice president of international operations for B.F. Goodrich Chemical Co.

At Dartmouth he majored in chemistry and played in the band. He was a graduate of the Harvard Business School of Advanced Management.

His wife, Dorothy, predeceased him. He is survived by his son Scott, daughter Noreen, and sister Barbara Sawyer.

Patrick O'Sheel

died on July 23 after a long illness with lung cancer, emphysema, and melanoma. He had been a decorated Marine Corps captain, a foreign service officer, a Life magazine editor, a contributor of poetry to The New Yorker, and class poet.

As a marine combat correspondent, he received the Purple Heart for wounds received on Bougainville November 7, 1943, and the Bronze Star for rescuing other wounded during a night bombing. He edited the book Semper Fide lis: The U.S. Marines in the Pacific1942-45:

Pat served as consul general in Kaduna, Nigeria, and as political officer in South Africa. After retiring from the State Department in 1971, he spent two years as special assistant to the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

He is survived by his wife, Virginia, son Michael, and daughter Margaret Ellen. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.

Luciano Victor Sclafani

died March 25, 1991, at Greenwich Hospital. A lifelong resident of Stamford, Conn., Lu was president of Gus Sclafani Corp., an Italian food-importing company operating in Stamford for 80 years. He majored in philosophy at Dartmouth and was a member of Sigma Kappa.

Lu became an aviation cadet in 1942 and during the war served with the 8th Air Force in Europe as an electronics officer.

The Stamford Advocate described the Sclafani family as an old-fashioned success story. His mother moved to Stamford when her blacksmith father arrived to help build the Brooklyn Bridge. His father moved from Sicily in 1902 and started hawking fish in tenements along Pacific Streets. Lu's ambition was to attend an Ivy League college. He became a loyal member of the class of' 37 and served on the 50th Reunion Giving Committee. In 1977 he was elected a director of the Connecticut National Bank.

He is survived by his wife, Eleanor, and by five children.

John Lester Williams

died on March 28,1992, at the Lakeland, Fla. Regional Medical Center.

Jack came to Dartmouth from Bellows Falls (Vt.) High School, majored in economics, and was in Sigma Chi. He operated a dairy farm in Vernon, Vt.

A guard on the football team, he was one of the unsung heroes of the 1936 great football line against which only 17 first downs were scored during the entire season.

Jack is survived by his widow, Dorothy, and four children.

Richard R. Woods

died on April 8, 1991, in Corpus Christi, Texas. He prepared for Dartmouth at Deerfield Academy and was a member of Delta Tau Delta. Dick earned his medical degree at the University of Rochester and took postsurgical training at Vanderbilt University.

Dick retired in 1980 as director of surgery at Memorial Medical Center in Corpus Christi. His wife, Helen, had been practicing in pediatrics until then. Dick suffered from a chronic illness in retirement, but he and Helen were able to attend the 50th Reunion. Helen survives along with their four children.

1938

Harry Dowries Heyboer

died August 23 in the Carol Woods Retirement Community in Chapel Hill, N.C. Harry joined '38 from Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J. He was a member of the Glee Club and Spanish Club, and a brother in Delta Upsilon. He won a fellowship for graduate study at Yale, where he received an M. A. in English in 1940.

Harry became a second lieutenant in the army and landed in Normandy one week after D-Day. He served in the Rhineland, Ardennes, Paris, and central Germany, winning Bronze Service Stars. Following the war he taught English literature at the University of Manitoba, and then for several years at the University of Cincinnati. He pursued farther graduate studies at Columbia and later joined the Equitable Life Assurance Society, specializing in group-insurance policy forms. Harry retired in 1984 as a manager of product development and moved from Maplewood to Chapel Hill.

In 1964 he lost his first wife, Dr. Linde Ahrens Heyboer, mother of his two children, Mary and Harry, and a professor of philosophy.

His second wife, Margaret Weber Heyboer, survives him, as do his children and four grandchildren.

Robert L. Stix

died on October 9 following a long illness. After Dartmouth he attended the Harvard Business School and graduated with distinction in 1940. In 1941 he joined the Naval Air Corps. He served in the Pacific Theater and was initially based in Guadalcanal. He retired as a lieutenant in 1945.

Bob spent his career largely in business. He served as sales manager of the Salmon Canning Co. of Seattle, Wash., president of the North American Office for Foreign Shippers of Fishing Products, and president of the American Seaport Distributors Association, following which he was self-employed.

At Dartmouth he was active in the Canoe Club and DOC, served on the Winter Carnival Council, and enjoyed camping at the Second College Grant in northem New Hampshire. An ongoing interest was an endowment established by his father, the late Edgar R. Stix '10, for the purchase of books for Baker Library.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia Castle, three children, and five grandchildren.

1939

James H. Barr Jr.

died in Nashville, Tenn., of cancer on September 27. Jim came to Dartmouth from Shore High School in Cleveland, Ohio, majored in economics, and was a member of Theta Chi fraternity.

Jim spent most of his life in Pittsburgh, where he practiced internal medicine after medical school at Western Reserve University, his residency, and army service as a captain from 1946 to 1948. Rheumatology as a sub-specialty. He was associated with H.M. Margolis, M.D. & Associates.

From 1962 to 1993 he was an active board member and the medical director of the Western Pennsylvania chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. He and his wife had recently retired to Nashville, Tenn.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret, a daughter, and two grandchildren. Jim and Peg had established a scholarship at Dartmouth in memory of their son James Barr III '68, and the scholarship has recently been increased in memory of Jim.

George B. Boswell

died at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on October 19. He had not been in good health for some time, and suffered considerably in the years before his death.

George was born in Switzerland and was educated at Le Rosey Rolle Switzerland. At Dartmouth he majored in international relations, was president of Le Cercle Franfais, chairman of the Peace Council, and a member of the ski team and Gamma Delta Chi. He was a lieutenant in the 10th Mountain Infantry Division of the army during WW II, serving in the Aleutians and Italy.

He obtained his Ph.D. in French civilization from Princeton and taught French at Smith College. In 1953 he moved to Paris, where he worked as a business consultant and freelance journalist. In 1979 he and his wife moved to West Lebanon, N.H. He taught French parttime at Dartmouth for several years, returning to France on two occasions in conjunction with Dartmouth's study-abroad program.

He is survived by his wife, Bridget, a daughter, two sons, and four grandchildren.

1940

John A. Bertrand

died on July 25 of a raptured aorta. Bert was a graduate of Flemington High School in New Jersey. He was a member of Kappa Sigma and attended the Tuck School. Soon after graduation he married Ethel Janiak, a nurse at Dick's House. After three years with the air force in the South Pacific,"he joined the American Cyanamid Co. and marketed pharmaceuticals for 33 years. Part of that time was spent in Montreal, where he developed his enthusiasm for the sport of curling. Recently Bert had been living in Whitehouse Station, N.J. He is survived by his two sons, his wife having predeceased him.

Colin E. Campbell

died on October 3 at Memorial Hospital, Mount Holly, N.D. "Bud" came to Dartmouth from the Classical High School, Springfield, Mass. He was a member of Tri-Kap fraternity, the Glee Club, and the track team. In September 1940 he joined the troopcarrier group of the air force as a private and rose in a series of steps to major in June 1944. Among his decorations he was awarded a Bronze Star Medal and six Campaign Stars. After the war he studied at Cornell, where he received an M.S. in chemistry in 1948. Bud was recalled to serve in the Korean War. As a chemical marketing executive for the Celanese International Corp. he lived overseas in Tokyo and in Brussels. He is survived by three children, his wife, Carol, and a brother, Donald Campbell '44.

Donald R. Glaze

died on September 11 in Fairport, N.Y. Don came to the College from Niagara Falls High School and left us after one semester because of illness. He was a lieutenant in the army in WWII. Following his service he attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His subsequent activities are not known to us. He is survived by his widow, Mildred.

Paul E. Hurley

died October 19 at Saint Vincent's Hospital in New York City. Paul entered Dartmouth from Quincy (Mass.) High School. He was an excellent tennis player and a member of Phi Gamma Delta. After leaving college at the end of his junior year he went into the insurance business and started his own firm in Quincy before WW II. When the war came he became a gunnery officer aboard the U.S.S. Converse in the South Pacific. He received the Bronze Star Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, and a Presidential Unit Citation. After the war he built his insurance agency to 20 employees before he sold it in 1991. Among many community awards he received the Distinguished Service Award from the South Shore Chamber of Commerce in 1984. He is survived by his wife, Constance, a son, and a daughter.

James P. McElroy

died on July 29. He had been living in Switzerland for many years. Jim was born in Winthrop Harbor, Ill., and graduated from Lower Merion High School. He was a member of Green Key and Psi Upsilon and was a varsity skater. Jim served in the air force from 1943 to 1945 as a staff sergeant. In 1946 he established an export-import firm in Brussels. He married Elise Bodart, a native of Belgium. Later, while living in Lausanne, he was a board member of the Lausanne Municipal Swimming Pool and president of the Lausanne Hockey Club. In his retirement Jim owned nine sport shops in Switzerland. He is survived by his two children.

Maurice A. Williamson Jr.

died of coronary thrombosis on July 28. Will entered Dartmouth from the Mercersburg Academy. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the Interfraternity Council, and the Glee Club. During WW II he was a captain in field artillery, training troops in die U.S. Will had a long career in the advertising-sales business, beginning with McGraw Hill Publishing Co. In his retirement he was living in Rhinebeck, N.Y., with his wife, Elma. He is survived by her and his four children. 1941

George K. Dreher

died October 18 in Mystic, Conn., where he had served as pastor of the Mystic Congregational Church from 1964 to 1984. George got his AM. at Oberlin Graduate School of Theology in 1942 and his B.D. at Yale Divinity School in 1946. Early in his career he served in churches in Idaho, California, and Kansas and also taught philosophy and religion at the University of Wichita from 1961 to 1964. In his later years George was active in the Mystic Valley Improvement Association, and after his retirement in 1964 he served as a chaplain in several Connecticut hospitals. Married in 1947 to Kathryn Rice, George is survived by her and their three sons and three daughters. He will be long remembered by the many people he served in his life of devotion to a higher calling.

1942

Herbert Charles Englert

died at his home in New London, N.H., on October 9 after a long illness. Bert entered Dartmouth from Verona (N.J.) High School and was a member of Delta Tau Delta and the Glee Club. He earned an M.C.S. degree from Tuck School. He joined the navy in 1942, served as a lieutenant in the Pacific Theater, and was discharged in 1945.

A past club president in northern New Jersey, Bert was active for more than 30 years in enrollment service for the College and served as treasurer for 1942's 50th Reunion.

Herb spent most of his career with the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation of Newark, N.J., a philanthropy that helps hospitals fund equipment and research on cancer and heart disease. He started as assistant treasurer and was president from 1983 until retirement in 1989. The Herbert C. Englert Cell Analysis Laboratory, made possible by a $275,000 equipment grant from the foundation, was dedicated at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center earlier this year.

Bert is survived by his wife, Jean, their son Peter '75 and daughter Joyce, and four grandchildren.

John Park Kelsey

died September 5 at the Bryn Mawr (Pa.) Nursing Home. Jack entered Dartmouth from Mercerburg Academy. He majored in mathematics, played JV football, and was a member of the Dartmouth Players. He later did graduate study at Georgetown Law School (1944) and New York University (1956-57).

Jack entered the U.S. Naval Academy in September 1942 and was commissioned four months later. He served tours on a minesweeper in the Adantic and at the Bureau of Ships (Washington, D.C.) and was discharged as a lieutenant in 1945.

Jack was a CPA with Price Waterhouse in Pittsburgh 1945-51; assistant treasurer of Sharon Steel Corp 1951-53; vice president of Marco MFD Co. (Weatland, Pa.) 1953-54; senior account manager with Price Waterhouse in New York City from 1954 to 1958, and then partner in charge of the tax department for the same firm in Philadelphia from 1958 until his retirement in 1981. He is survived by his wife, Meriel, and daughters Susan and Nancy.

Daniel Freeman Seacord

died November 5 in Milford-Whitinsville Regional Hospital, Mass. Dan entered Dartmouth from Darien (Conn.) High School, majored in physics, and was active in the DOC's Cabin & Trail. He left: the College in June 1941 for naval duty, participating in the invasion of North Africa in 1942 and the invasion of Italy in 1943. He was detached to Harvard and MIT in 1944 for training in sonar and radar technology, and he retired from the Naval Reserve in 1963 with the rank of commander.

Dan returned to Dartmouth to complete his A.B. and M.A and continued as a teaching fellow in physics 1948-50. As a staff physicist at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (1950-55) and then director of analysis for Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, he analyzed data from nuclear-weapons tests conducted in Nevada and in the Pacific, respectively. In his 17 years with EG&G he also developed photometric measuring systems for the Apollo space program.

Dan is survived by his wife, Marietta, and four daughters.

1943

David Adrian Cooper

died October 8. Dave lived in Coco Creek, Fla., since his retirement A graduate of Rutherford (N.J.) High School, at Dartmouth he majored in psychology and was a member of Chi Phi.

Serving with the 88th Infantry Division in WW II Dave, was wounded in action in Italy. In 1946 he joined The Travelers Insurance Companies and was subsequendy appointed secretary of group underwriting. He retired in 1984.

Surviving Dave are his wife, Grace, a son, and a daughter.

Charles John Gray II

died August 27 of prostate cancer in Wichita, Kans. Charlie graduated from Gloucester (Mass.) High School with highest honors. After graduation from Dartmouth and from Tuck he joined the public accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse. Later he returned to Gloucester to become general manager of Charles J. Gray & Sons Inc., a retail hardware business established by his grandfather in the 19th century. In 1955 Charlie was elected president of the Gloucester Chamber of Commerce. He continued to operate the family business until 1970, when he retired to Lakeland, Fla.

His brother Albert '37, Tuck '38 predeceased him. Charlie is survived by his sons James and Donald, his daughter Nancy, and six grandchildren.

1944

Robert Hayes Gurley

died September 14 in Phoenix, Ariz. Almost nothing is known about Bob; his last contact with the College was in 1959 when he lived in Highland Park, Ill, and was listed as president of Transquip Corp.

He came to Dartmouth from Evanston, Ill., and attended the Hill School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and he served in the Army Air Force.

1945

Sherman Johnston Crough

of Cohasset, Mass., died on August 13 of cancer. He was born in Norwood, Mass., and attended Newton High School before entering Dartmouth.

During WW II he served as an army paratrooper in North Africa, France, and China. He was awarded the Purple Heart for action in Vanosc, Southern France, on August 12, 1944. He was discharged in 1945.

Sherm was a wool trader in Boston associated with Bentley & Sons for more than 25 years, retiring in 1989. He was a member of the American Legion.

He is survived by a daughter, Candice Murphy, sons Willard and Peter, and four grandchildren.

Edward Clarence Pirie

of cancer at home in Barre, Vt., on October 12 after a year-long illness. He graduated from Spaulding High School in Barre and was a brother in Theta Delta Chi at Dartmouth. He served in the Army Air Corps January 1943 to February 1946 and returned to Dartmouth to graduate with a major in economics in 1948. In 1950 he married Doris Jackson in Barre.

Ed worked for the family-owned quarry, the J.K. Pirie Estate, from 1950 to 1956, then spent four years with Douglas Aircraft Co. in Long Beach, Calif. He returned to Vermont and worked for the Department of Social Welfare in Montpelier as a researcher and statistician for many years. More recently, he administered the state's food-stamp program.

He belonged to many fraternal and professional organizations and was the oldest player in the state employees' Softball league, playing his last game last spring.

Ed was a member of tie '45 class executive committee from 1975 on and a member of the 25th Reunion committee in 1970.

He is survived by his wife, Doris, two sons, three daughters, six grandchildren, and a brother and sister.

William Frederick Thayer

of Jupiter, Fla., died on July 2, 1993. He attended Holderness School in Plymouth, N.H., and at Dartmouth was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. During WW II he was with the Seventh Army in North Africa and later in France. He returned to Dartmouth, graduating in 1947 with an A.B. in history. He later received his M.A. in 1956 from the University of New Hampshire.

Bill was an independent-school history and geography teacher for 27 years, the last 15 at the Palm Beach (Fla.) Day School. He was chairman of the History Department and served 10 years as director of athletics.

He is survived by his wife, Sheila, and five children.

1947

John A. Childs

of Osterville, Mass., died October 2. John entered Dartmouth from Holderness School as a civilian in 1943. He served in the Pacific Theater with the U.S. Navy in WW II. John was an athlete, especially active in skiing and tennis. He founded The Ski Shop, later known as Ski 'n' Tennis, in Manchester, N.H. He also worked in the ski department of Puritan Clothing in Hyannis and Falmouth, Mass.

He is survived by his wife, Catherine, and by two sons and a daughter.

Paul Twohey

of Phillipston, Mass., died at home on September 2. He served in the Marine Corps in WWII and remained in the reserves for many years. After Dartmouth he received a master's degree in education from Fitchburg State College. He taught high school in Leicester, Mass., and Athol. In the Athol school district he went from high school to junior high to elementary schools, becoming a principal and finally supervisor of the elementary system until his retirement in 1985.

In 1983 Paul won the prestigious Torchlighter Award from the Athol Teachers Association. He was also active in town politics.

His wife, June, and two sons predeceased him. He is survived by three sons and a daughter.

1949

William R. Buettner

of Ocean Pines, Md., died at home of respiratory arrest July 25. Bill is survived by his wife of 39 years, Barbara, two daughters, two sons, a granddaughter, and a halfbrother. After Dartmouth, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma, Bill earned his master's from George Washington University. For 30 years, until he retired in 1986, he was a computer specialist with the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington, working in data processing, scheduling, and control. Bill, whose father was a member of the class of 1924, had never missed a contribution to the Alumni Fund since his graduation.

Fred Springer-Miller

died on October 22 in Greenville S.C., following a long illness. He leaves his sons Frank, John, and Joseph. Fred, who studied language at the University of Zurich and at the Sorbonne, received an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A skier at Dartmouth, Fred was for five years an editor at Ski Magazine when it was located in Hanover. Subsequendy he was an importer of ski equipment, then a senior systems engineer with IBM World Trade Corp. It was at IBM that he created the first fully computerized Olympics in Innsbruck in 1964, as well as later systems for the Olympics in Tokyo and Mexico City.

Ernest W. P. Yesey

died on September 21 in Bermuda. Education minister of Bermuda from 1972 to 1982, and a deputy speaker of the House, Ernie was also a partner with the law firm of Appleby, Spurling & Kempe and a director of the Bank of Butterfield. Ernie came to Dartmouth from the Loomis School and went on to the London School of Economics for his law degree. At Dartmouth Ernie was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a sociology major. First elected to Bermuda's Parliament in 1963, he resigned his house seat in 1987, saying it was time to make room for a younger man. Ernie, who never married, is survived by his father, the Hon. Sir Henry Vesey, and his brother Henry.

1950

Phillip H. Dunbar

died unexpectedly at his home in Granby, Conn., on September 12. He came to Dartmouth from Rudand, Mass., after graduating from Classical High School and spending three years with the army serving in the South Pacific. Phil majored in art history and was a member of the German Club, the DOC, and the Ecological Society. After Dartmouth he earned a master's degree at Yale. Phil's career was in research and museum curatorial activities at institutions such as Yale, Winterthur, Old Sturbridge Village, Williamsburg, and the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. Phil leaves his wife, Gladys.

Richard D. Ziesing

died at his home in Berwyn, Pa., on October 6. After a stint in the navy during WW II, he came to Dartmouth from Gladwyne, Pa., having graduated from the Haverford School. Dick was a member of Phi Sigma Psi and left school to go into business after his junior year. He had a long career in sales as a broker and manufacturers' representative, and started his own firm as an agent for paper mills. His avocation was thoroughbred horses, and he had a 40-acre farm in the country west of Philadelphia.

Dick is survived by his children Richard, Janet, Amy, Hunter, Muffin, and Heather.

1952

Lester E. Bauer Jr.

died on June 1. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College and went on to Dartmouth Medical School and Harvard for his medical degree. After a residency in Ann Arbor, Mich., he moved to Wenatchee, Wash., where he joined a group practice in internal medicine. He enjoyed outdoor activity in the Cascades, and he and his wife, Doris, loved to travel. He is survived by his wife and their children, as well as his brother Robert.

Edwin Lawrence Greenberger

succumbed to Alzheimer's disease on October 17 in Woodland Hills, Calif., after living with the disease for 17 years. In Hanover Ed was an editor of The Dartmouth, The Quarterly, and the Jack-O-Lantern. He conducted enrollment interviews for Dartmouth for ten years while living in Jericho, N.Y.

After graduation Ed served in the army, then entered Columbia University, where he earned an M.B.A. He then joined IBM as a trainer in its data-processing division and later became a district manager in finance. Ed left IBM after 12 years and eventually became vice president for the data-processing division of Western Bancorp in California.

Ed is survived by his wife Joan, two sons, a daughter, two grandchildren, and his brother Albert.

1953

Charles W. Stone Jr.

died of a stroke on January 7, 1994, in Minneapolis. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. In 1955 Chuck and his wife, Nancy, both natives of Minneapolis, went to the library to look for the highest hill around, purchased it, and began Buck Hill Ski Area. Ten years later this corporation bought Powder Ridge Ski Area in nearby Kimball, Minn. Chuck, a ski-racing enthusiast, developed a ski-racing club which became recognized as one of the top programs in the country. In addition to his fulltime job at Stone Machinery Inc., he devoted two or three days a week to developing his ski areas into the most popular in the Twin Cities. He was also a co-founder of the Midwest Ski Area Association.

Chuckis survived by his wife, Nancy, a son, and three daughters.

1958

Joseph A. Carter

died suddenly on August 10 in Bernardsville, N.J. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and three grown sons.

At Dartmouth Joe was an officer of the Newman Club, a member of the Outing Club and Tri-Kap, and was active in intramural athletics. He earned his M.B.A. in the field of personnel management in 1960 at Cornell. Throughout his business career he worked in personnel and human-resource functions at companies such as Warner-Lambert, Western Union, and Johnson & Johnson. Most recendy he was senior vice president at Manchester Inc., a company specializing in careerdevelopment counseling, assessment testing, and corporate outplacement.

Joe was a director of the Somerset Hills YMCA and his church parish council. His love of Dartmouth was exhibited in his work as an enrollment officer, specialgifts volunteer, and class agent.

1960

Robert Lincoln Posnak

died of lung cancer in New York City on October 27. As an author, speaker, and accountant, he was a leading expert on life insurance and a longtime partner of the accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

He came to Dartmouth from Miami and majored in English. In 1967 Bob received the highest grade nationally in the CPA exam, and in 1974, after six years of writing and research, his prize-winning book, GAAPFor Stock Life Companies, was published. He ended his career as the vice chairman and a director of the Delphi Financial Group, which controlled Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co.

He leaves Diane, his wife of 27 years, and his 13- year-old daughter, Christy.

1963

John C. McElwaine

died of cancer September 12 at his home in Vienna, Va. He was an executive with Bell Atlantic.

Born in Cleveland, John played left guard on Dartmouth's 1962 Ivy League-champion football team. He also interned with Ohio Bell as an undergraduate, launching a telecommunications career that would last more than 30 years.

John joined the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Cos. in Washington, D.C., in 1963 to serve as a traffic engineer and staff supervisor, eventually becoming the youngest vice president ever named in his division. After the 1984 breakup of the Bell system, McElwaine worked on the network-services staff, retiring in 1991 as custom business-services director of Bell Atlantic. He spent a year afterward as a contracts consultant with Computer Data Systems in Rockville, Md.

John is survived by his wife, Melissa, two children, and two brothers.

Contributions may be made to the Library Fund, McLean Presbyterian Church, 1020 Falls Mill Road, McLean, VA 22101.

1997

Adam N. Brown

died of lung cancer at his home in Los Gatos, Calif., on September 27. He had contracted pneumonia during the summer while leading camping trips for children, but was not diagnosed with cancer until shordy before his death. A graduate of Los Gatos High School, he was a fencer and active member of the Programming Board, and he was planning to major in geography. He is survived by his parents Dr. Jeffrey Brown '66 and Claudia Harris Brown, his sister Amy, and a grandfather.