Deaths
This is a list 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.
Roy George Metcalf'19 • Dec. 21,1995 Walter F. Boone '21 • March 19,1995 Gerald Eugene Cutler '21 • Oct. 18, 1995 Nathaniel Palmer Harmon '23 • Jan. 16 Paul Freese McKown '23 • Nov. 3, 1995 David Clifford Reed '23 • April 23,1995 Francis Brown '25 • Nov. 17, 1995 Everett Fuller Learnard '25 • Nov. 14, 1995 Kenneth Floyd Montgomery '25 • Jan. 14 Robert Morgan Stopford '26 • Dec. 23, 1995 Thomas Joseph Anglem '27 • Nov. 26,1995 Stephen Dow Mills '27 • Dec. 24,1995 John Diedrich Thees '27 • Sept. 30,1995 Kenneth John Yeaton '27 • July 31, 1995 Bradford Waldo Brown '28 • Aug. 1,1995 George Ilsley Davis '28 • Jan. 7 Edwin Hall Lyman '28 • Nov. 23, 1995 Robert Lee Collins '29 • Aug. 6, 1995 Charles Knickerbocker Faye '30 • Nov. 12, 1995 Clifford John Vogt '30 • Oct. 20,1995 Wilder Precival Montgomery '31 • Nov. 1,1995 Abraham Edward Weinberg '32 • Dec. 18, 1995 William Lorenzo Gaynor '33 • Aug. 31,1995 Edward Siebert Hansis '33 • Dec. 19, 1995 John Clinton Manchester '33 • Dec. 29, 1995 Edward Harry Bishop '34 • Dec. 10. 1995 George Hayden Goss '34 • Dec. 13,1995 Hugh Adair Logan '34 • Nov. 14,1995 Thomas MacPherson Thomas '34 • Nov. 26,1995 James Gilchrist Alfring '35 • Nov. 17,1995 Alvin George Dodd '35 • Nov. 30, 1995 Alex Dougal Chisholm '36 • Dec. 13,1995 Theodore William Dearborn '36 • Nov. 7, 1995 Winslow Heg '36 • Aug. 23,1995 Stanley W.J. Ogush '36 • Dec. 14, 1995 James Knox Tindle '36 • Nov. 10,1995 Peter Craig Wright '36 • Sept. 5, 1995 Douglas Ellsworth Butman '37 • Dec. 27, 1995 Louis Albert Valier '37 • Nov. 4, 1995 James Harold Biake '38 • Nov. 25, 1995 Onslow Allen Gordon '38 • Dec. 14,1995 Robert James Bryant '39 • Jan. 7 Richard Tread well Clark '39 • Nov. 4,1995 James Dunne Gordon '39 • Nov. 7, 1995 Cecil Wright Moore '40 • Sept. 28, 1995 Raymond Alan Unangst '40 • Nov. 29, 1995 Werner Leonard Neudorf '41 • Dec. 5, 1994 Myron Frank Pollack '41 • Aug. 26, 1995 Dona d Clark Gates '42 • Dec. 21,1995 George Turell VanPetten '43 • Dec. 21, 1995 James Alan Lang '44 • Sept. 15, 1995 Lowry Craig Macbeth '44 • Dec. 8,1995 Harold Allison Breen '45 • Nov. 19,1995 John Lawrence Carroll '45 • Feb. 15, 1995 John Kingsbury Conant '46 • June 24,1995 John Crawford Koeniger '46 • Nov. 8, 1995 William Birmingham Reeve '47 • Nov. 15, 1995 Richmond W. Landon '48 • Dec. 20,1995 George Irving Oliver '49 • Nov. 13, 1995 Joseph Cornelius Sullivan '49 • Dec. 29, 1995 William Sidney Stone '50 • Dec. 23, 1995 Amos W. Gile '51 • Nov. 30,1995 Robert J. Peters '52 • Dec. 6,1995 Charles Richard Myserian '54 • Nov. 16,1995 Norris William Howard '55 • Nov. 13,1995 Peter Redfield Weed '56 • July 27,1995 Paul Bowman Bragdon '58 • Sept. 15, 1995 Christopher Crittenden Swansen '61 • Dec. 4, 1995 Brian Douglas McMahon '64 • Dec. 1995 William Dando Harper '65 • Nov. 17, 1995 George Hendrick Bullock '73 • Feb. 15, 1993 Steven E. Poulsen '75 • Jan. 24, 1995 Anthony Lawrence Lightfoot '92 • Jan. 11 Amy Sara Naparstek '95 • Dec. 30, 1995
1925
Charles Lane Carpenter Goss died September 20, 1995, in Portsmouth, N.H., near his birthplace and longtime home in Dover, N.H., where he went to high school. At Dartmouth Lane's interests included the Christian Union and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He graduated from Tuckin 1926. After graduation he attended Oxford University, worked at Bankers Trust in Paris, and then assisted the president of the Dartmouth National Bank.
In 1928 he married Constance Woodworth, who predeceased him. Lane's banking career in Worcester, Mass., included being VP of the Worcester County National Bank and then chairman and CEO of the Worcester County Institution tor Savings from 1946 to 1968, when he retired.
He leaves daughter Georgia Drew; son Lane Woodworth '55; four grandchildren, Holly Armitage, Edward W. T'86, Charles Lane II '84, and Philip J. '89; and three great-grandchildren.
1928
John Wayne Van Orman died April 17, 1995, at Walpole, Mass., of complications from a stroke. Van prepared for Dartmouth at the Rutherford (N.J.) High School. At the end of his sophomore year he transferred to Columbia, where he graduated in 1928. He studied law at Fordham and, later, maintained his own law office in New York while living in Short Hills, N.J. Before that he had been an associate in the law firm of DeCoppet & Doremus in New York and assistant to the president of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1956 he received an alumni medal and citation for "conspicuous alumni service" as president of the Columbia College Alumni Association. He was active in the New York Bar Association and commander of the Stag Harbor Yacht Club, Chatham, Mass. In retirement he lived in Boston, Mass.
Van is survived by his wife, Jean, a son, a daughter, and a sister. A brother Francis '25, predeceased him.
1930
Adolph Post Raab died on July 25,1995. At the time he lived at 650 Park Ave. in New York City. He was a graduate of Columbia Medical School. Adie was president of the medical board of Jewish Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn from 1964 to 1966 and took graduate study at Beth Israel Hospital from 1933-1934. He married Edith Kraus in 1936. They have two daughters Judy and Ellen, and two grandsons. Adie traveled widely in Europe and South America.
Stephen Avery Raube died on October 9, 1995. He lived in Florham Park, N.J., and died of lung disease. Among his activities he was cheer leader and played baseball. He was vice president of the Conference Inc. from 1942 to 1970 and was awarded the Fred A. H wland Award as outstanding head agent from 1941-1960. He was secretary of the Ernest Martin Hopkins Corp., designed to "promote and encourage informed and open discussion and debate on important public issues at Dartmouth College." He retired a vice president of the National Conference Board and superintendent and assistant manager of Abraham and Straus. Stephen married Elizabeth B. Stone. They have two daughters, Sally and Betsy.
1933
Leland Howard Shaw Jr. died in the Veterans Administration Medical Center at Casde Point, Port St. Lucie, Fla., on September 7, 1995. He prepared for Dartmouth at Mercersburg Academy, was a member of Sigma Nu, and majored in sociology. He received a J.D. from Fordham in 1938, was a member of the New York Bar, engaged in private practice in Poughkeepsie, and served as an attorney with the N.Y. State Department of Insurance. He later acted as legal advisor and assistant secretary at IBM. In WWII Lee served as second lieutenant with the 2nd Cavalry Group of the 3rd Army. He lost both legs in combat near Nantes in France in an aggressive action which won him the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. He returned to New York to become director of the Duchess County Office of Veterans Affairs, where he served until his retirement in 1973.
His wife, Erma, died in 1986 and he is survived by his daughter, Nancy O'Shea.
1936
Dr. Alfred Charles Meyer Jr. of Rockford, I11., died on June 3, 1995, while playing tennis with friends. He left Dartmouth to attend Northwestern University Medical School. He was an intern and resident in surgery at Mchael Reese Hospital in Chicago, 1939-41. After service in the U.S. Army, he was a fellow in surgery at Mayo Clinic. In 1948 he began to practice surgery in Rockford, which he continued until 1984.
A1 and a colleague, Dr. Simmons Smith, were among ten people who founded Rockford Clinic in 1952. As a team they received world recognition in 1977 for their research into breast cancer. A 1 was a respected surgeon and researcher and, as Dr. Smith put it, he was "the one doctors would go to."
He is survived by five children, Ann M. Rothschild, Alfred C. Meyer III, Martha M. Koreisha, Thomas E. Meyer, and Jennifer Meyer.
James Arthur Pearson Jr. of Scottsdale, Ariz., died August 27,1995. He came to Hanover from Gardner (Mass.) High and Phillips Exeter. At Dartmouth his major was economics-political science. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and was an associate editor of the Aegis. He also was a member of the Glee Club and the varsity track team.
After graduation Jim attended Carnegie Tech from 1937 to 1939, taking courses in metalurgy. He spent his entire career in the wholesale steel business, working for several different companies until 1969, when he established his own firm, J.A. Pearson Cos. During WWII he was in the U.S. Naval Reserves (Bureau of Aeronautics) and was discharged in 1946 as a full lieutenant.
Jim was a former president of the Dartmouth Club in Scottsdale, and was a member of the Rotary Club and the Samaritan Foundation.
He is survived by his wife, Myra Ann; daughters Ann Jorgenson, Jane Evans, and Nancy Rodolph; sonjohn; brother Nathan W. '32; ten grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
