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.

Irving Isadore Green '17 • 1990 Norman Frank Godbe '19 • 1990 Eugene Blauner '23 • 1991 Lloyd Larkin Parker '24 • Jan. 13 Jerome Paul Sutten '24 • Jan. 24 James Shelp Wheaton '24 • Feb. 9 Francis Emile Tissot '25 1994 Reginald Foster French '27 • Feb. 10 Henry Victor Hartjens '28 • Jan. 30 Charles Nancrede Proctor '28 • Feb. 1 Ranald Purcell Hobbs '30 • Feb. 4 Randolph Knowlton Martin '30 • Feb. 9 Theodore Roosevelt Seidman '30 • Jan. 20 Baxter Fen ton Ball '31 • Jan. 20 Lincoln Ridler Page '31 • Jan. 14 Lee Berkman '32 unknown Paul Wales Cook '32 • March 10, 1995 Samuel Heagan Bayles '33 • Jan. 30 Francis Woodman Cleaves '33 • Dec. 31, 1995 William Theodore Okie '33 • Feb. 9 David Eugene Warden '33 • Jan. 25 Russell Cook Smart '34 • Jan. 13 John Marsh Howe '35 • Dec. 27,1995 Harold Pailet '35 • March 12,1995 Perry Wachtel '35 • Feb. 9 A. Heaton Underhill '36 • Dec. 21,1995 Norman Duffield Peschko '37 • March 23, 1994 R. Hugh Uhlmann '37 • Feb. 7 Frederick Clovis LeComte '38 • Jan. 14 Cyrus Leland MacKinnon '38 • Feb. 10 Henry Conkle '39 • Jan. 14 Edwin Porter Bartlett '40 • Dec. 10, 1995 Rushton Marot Williamson '40 • Aug. 14, 1995 Juerg Albert Meier '41 • March 24,1994 Peter Francis Scott '41 • Jan. 27 Richard Alton Braman '42 • Jan. 26 Richard Winston Lippman '42 • Jan. 13 Roy Coningswood '43 • Feb. 3 Henry Welty Coulter '43 • Feb. 12 Maurice Elwood Park '44 • Dec. 21, 1995 Stephen Francis Hartigan '50 • Jan. 19 Thomas O. Grabien '53 • Jan. 3 Christian Martin Weber '57 • Feb. 10 John Robinson Fisk '58 • Nov. 17,1995 Richard Sidney Walker '58 • July 16, 1994 Robert L'J Gillispie '63 • July 5, 1995 Daniel Bennett Gould '67 • Dec. 21,1995 Richard Hamilton Weeks '68 • Dec. 8, 1995 James Lee Lemke '70 • Feb. 16, 1995 Dennis Lee Mirus '71 • July 20, 1995 Daniel Anthony Norton '80 • Dec. 16, 1995 Thomas J. Biamonte '81 • Oct. 31,1995 Joseph Brodsky '89H • Jan. 28 Daniel Caesar Martone '95 • unknown

1922

Edward Graham Bates died on October 18, 1995, in Hockessin, Del. As an undergraduate he worked for The Dartmouth. He belonged to Alpha Chi Roe fraternity.

As an alumus he was an active class agent for many years. In later life he was a member of a firm which won national recognition as a provider of insurance and award-winning emissary of insurance policies. He was also a bank director. He was predeceased by his wife, Dorothy, and is survived by his son, Alan G. Bates.

1923

Nathaniel Palmer Harmon died January 16 at the Good Shepherd Nursing Home in Phoenix, Ariz. After graduating, Nat received his M.B.A. from Tuck in 1924. He then became a professor at Albany (N.Y.) Business College. He was a resident of Manchester, N.H., and Dedham and North Easton, Mass., and for the past decade lived in Phoenix. Nat worked as a comptroller and accountant, and was a business professor at Curry College in Milton, Mass., and Bryant Stratton College in Boston. He last taught at Randolph (Mass.) High School in Randolph, Mass., until retiring from the Massachusetts State Teachers in 1965. He was a life member of the Fraternal Order of Masons of Manchester, N.H.

Nat is survived by sons William, Nathaniel, David, Hobart, and Christopher; daughters Holly Chick and Wendy MacDonald; and 18 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

1929

Robert Lee Collins of Wheaton, I11., died on August 6, 1995.

Bob came from Sheboygan (Wisc.) High School and Lake Forest Academy. He belonged to Delta Tau Delta and majored in history. He lived in Westfield, N.H., and was an attorney for Guarantee Trust in New York and also for the War Department in WWII. His latest address was in Wheaton, I11.

He leaves his wife, Elizabeth, and four children.

Daniel Marx Jr. died at his home in Menlo Park, Calif., on December 23, 1995. He came from Lowell High School in San Francisco and transferred to Dartmouth in 1927 from the University of California.

Dan majored in economics and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1946. After eight years in the shipping business he taught economics at Dartmouth and Tuck School until he retired. His honors and achievements were worldwide.

He leaves his wife, Jeanne (Levy), daughters Constance Angove and Nancy Ellsworth, and sons Daniel, Tuck '71, and Richard.

1933

James Ross Gamble an adopted member of the class, died in Hanover on November 11, 1995. He was a graduate of George Washington University and of its law school. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard in WWII and thereafter was one of the group who organized the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. In 1950 he moved to Hanover, where he was the college director of development. He later served as an officer of the Dartmouth National Bank. His wife, Margaret, predeceased him. He is survived by his daughter, Margaret, and his son, J.R. Peter.

William Lorenza Gaynor died in Orlando, Fla., on August 31,1995. He came to Dartmouth from Hebron Academy, was a member of Zeta Psi, and majored in romance languages. He was on the freshman and varsity football squads.

He was employed originally by the Boston Better Business Bureau, was a technical sergeant in WWII, and thereafter operated the W. L. Gaynor Claim Service in Lake Charles, La., prior to his move to Florida. He was predeceased by his wife, Leola.

Alexandre Alexandrovich Selivanoff died in Spokane, Wash., on October 31,1995. He came to Dartmouth from Raymond Riordan High School in New York City, but did not remain to graduate with the class. Mike had been born in Kazan, Russia, and at the time of the 1917 Revolution had escaped with his mother to Japan via Siberia and finally reached New York. His business career was in insurance, where he was president of his own brokerage firm until his retirement in 1972. Subsequently, he created and marketed a work search puzzle, published as "Criss-Cross."

He is survived by his wife, Leona, and daughters Sandra, Nikki, Nancy, and Nina.

1934

Edward H. Bishop, M.D. died on December 10,1995, in Chapel Hill, N.C. after a short illness. Ed was born in Bethlehem, N.H., came to Dartmouth from New Hampton School, and at the College was a member of ATQ, Zeta Alpha Phi, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Interfraternity Council, and The Players. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed his training in obstetrics and gynecology at the Methodist Hospital in Philadelphia. Overcoming crippling polio, he maintained a private practice in Philadelphia as well as teaching and research positions, advancing to professor of obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1972 he accepted a position as professor of obstetrics and chief of perinatology in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, retiring in 1983.

Ed is survived by his wife of 56 years, Betts; three children and their spouses, David and Lynn Bishop, Peter and Sue Landman, and Nancy and Eric Smith; and 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

George H. Goss a resident of Sneads Ferry, N.C., since 1975, died December 13, 1995, at the Craven Regional Medical Center in New Bern, N.C.

"Goose" came to Dartmouth from White Plains (N.Y.) High School and at Dartmouth was a member of the varsity basketball team, the band, the Bema, and the Commons Orchestra. After graduating with a degree in economics, he worked three years with General Motors and then for the Reconstruction Finance Agency. In 1942 he joined the U.S. Marine Corps as a captain with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Le-Jeune. He saw action at Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa and participated in the occupation of Japan. He worked for the U.S. Army Audit Agency until his retirement in 1973. He is survived by two sons, Thomas and Robert, and a grandson, Trevor.

1935

James Gilchrist Alfring died November 17,1995, at Delray Beach Hospital in Florida. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ella, children, Dessa Virginia, and James, and four cousins who attended Dartmouth. His fraternity was Zeta Psi.

Philip Augustus Conathan died October 7,1995, at the Medical Center in Sebring, Fla.

He is survived by daughters Kathrine and Janet, his wife, Phyllis, having predeceased him. Phil played football and baseball at Dartmouth DKE/Storrs House fraternity and Sphinx Senior Society.

Adolph Weil Jr. died December 12,1995, of injuries from a traffic accident in Montgomery, Ala.

Bucks served as president of Weil Brothers Cotton Inc. from 1958. A philanthropist and art collector, he served as president and board member of many organizations in Montgomery.

He graduated from Culver Military Academy and after Dartmouth he attended Harvard Law School. He served in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps, during WW II and completed his service as a captain.

Bucks is survived by his wife, Jean, two daughters, one son, and five grandchildren. His brother Robert was a member of the class of 1940.

1936

G. Walter Dittmar Jr. of Northbrook, Ill., died October 20, 1995. He was a graduate of St. George High in Chicago, and at Dartmouth was a zoology major and a member of Phi Delta Theta.

In 1936 Wally entered the College of Dentistry of the University of Illinois and received his D.D.S. in 1940. He then joined his father in the practice of dentistry in Chicago and taught parttime at the University of Illinois. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the U.S. Army Dental Corps., holding the rank of captain.

After the war he resumed his teaching and dental practice. He left the university in 1952 to devote full time to his practice until his retirement in 1976. He was a past president of the Odontographic Society of Chicago.

Wally was predeceased by his wife, Mary. He is survived by a sister, Katherine Allan, and three nieces and three nephews.

George B. Fraser Jr. died at home in Norman, Okla., on September 19,1995. He came to Hanover from Western High in Washington, D.C., and was circulation manager of The Dartmouth and a member of Delta Tau Delta.

George received his LL.B. from Harvard in 1939 and an LL.M. from George Washington University in 1941. That same year he joined the navy as a line officer and served in the Mediterranean and the Pacific until his discharge in 1945 as a lieutenant commander.

George taught at the University of Idaho Law School and at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where he continued until retiring in 1984. He received the Golden Gavel Award from the Oklahoma Bar Association.

He was predeceased by his wife of 24 years, Elizabeth, two brothers, and a sister. He is survived by a brother, Stanley, and a stepdaughter, Judy Allwein.

Charles Franklin Venrick of Roswell, N.M., died at home of leukemia on September 29, 1995. He came to Dartmouth from New Trier High in Chicago. He majored in English and was a member of Phi Delta Theta and Dragon.

He joined the American Locomotive Co. in 1936 and was sales manager, western region, when he left in 1956 to join ACF Industries. At ACF he was director of marketing until his retirement in 1968 to pursue his interest in photography. Chuck participated in many group photography shows and wrote numerous articles about art. From 1977 to 1983 he was active in the Santa Fe Center for Photography—a nationally known non-profit organization as director, manager, fundraiser, and financial supporter. In 1984 he had a one-man show at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, and his photographs have appeared in a variety of publications.

He is survived by his daughter, Elizabeth.

1937

R. Hugh "Pat" Uhlmann died February 7, 1996. He entered Dartmouth from Pembroke School of Kansas City. He spent his life in the grain and flour milling business, retiring as chairman of the board of The Uhlmann Co. in 1989. He was a 50-year member of the Kansas City and the Chicago boards of trade. He was active in many civic, industry, educational and cultural activities. In 1938 he married Helen Jane Weil from Montgomery, Ala., the sister of Adolph ("Bucks") Weil '35 and Robert Weil '40. All together there were 12 Dartmouth men in the family. He was an avid golfer, fisherman, horseman, gardener, cook, reader, and award-winning artist. Humorous, gregarious, and opinionated, he was a radio commentator, newspaper columnist, and frequent correspondent to the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

He is survived by his wife, daughter Patricia Rich, sons John '63 and Robert '71, brother Paul Uhlmann Jr. '42, and seven grandchildren.

1938

James Harold Blake died on November 25,1995, in the Mountainside Hospital in Glenn Ridge, N.J., of an acute cardiac infarction.

Born in Fairfield, Me., he lived in Verona, N.J., for 44 years. He taught mathematics at Newark Academy in Livingston,N.J.,for 40 years,retiring in 1987 as head of the mathematics department. He received a Presidential Honors Award for excellence in science and mathematics teaching. Jim came to Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter Academy, where his father, class of '07, taught French and German. In College he majored in German and was a member of Germania. In 1962 he received a master's in mathematics from Boston College. He served in the Seventh Air Force of the Army Air Corps in the Pacific theater during WWII.

He is survived by his wife, Pixie, daughter Nancy (who married a son of a member of the class of '33), sister Margaret, and two grandchildren.

Elmer W. "Whitey" Leyrer died on October 3,1995, after a long fight with bone cancer. Coming to Dartmouth from Central High in Philadelphia, he left college after his freshman year and went on to Michigan State University to earn his B.S. in English. He served four years in the navy, mostly in the Pacific Theater.

He worked in educational sales at the McMillan Co., then became associated with Stanfield Associates, working with audio-visual programs until his retirement in 1978.

"Whitey" was a member of the YMCA Volleyball Commission and a member of the All-American Volleyball Masters Team. He and wife Marion were world travelers during his later years. In a 1994 letter he included this quote from Loren Eisley, "We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would see or learn all that we hunger to know."

He is survived by his wife, son Bill, daughter Libby, and six grandchildren.

1939

Frederick R. McBrien died in Marin County, Calif., from heart and lung complications on February 18, 1995. Fred came to Hanover from Niagara Falls High School, where he excelled in tennis. At College he was manager of the cross-country team. Fred graduated from the Yale Law School in 1946 and was a prominent attorney in the area of taxation in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California. Before entering law school, he served in the Army Air Force. His photos and diary, written in Scotland and England during WW II, are being kept at the archives of Baker Library for the benefit of future history students.

Fred acted as a legal mentor to his lawyer daughters, Catherine and Constance, with whom he was residing at the time of his death, and also provided pro bono legal services to the local residents in San Francisco County. Fred also leaves a son, Frederick Jr., and a grandson.

died on September 7,1995, in his native Denver, Colo. Richard Harding Shaw

Dick came to Dartmouth from Northwood Prep. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Forensic Union, The Players (where he not only acted but was a student director), the news board of The Dartmouth, and the Press Club. He played freshman football and was a brother in Beta Theta Pi and Dragon. And who can forget his Sachem oration at graduation, delivered astride a pony, and dressed in loincloth and war paint? Dick was a special agent with the FBI before joining the Air Force and Office of Strategic Services during WW II, where he earned the rank of captain.

During his 50-year practice Dick participated in more than 85 criminal trials and more than 300 civil trials in courts of various levels. He is survived by five children, including Richard Jr. '72. Dick also leaves eight grandchildren and a great grandchild.

1940

Edwin Porter Bartlett died December 10,1995, in the Newfane (N.Y.) Inter-Community Hospital. "Gov" was a long-time resident of Lewiston, N.Y., and a member of a large Dartmouth family. He was the son of Edwin R. 'O4, grandson of Professor Edwin J. '82, and great-grandson of President Samuel C. Bartlett '36. Gov attended Ridley College and graduated from DeVeaux School in Niagara Falls before attending Dartmouth. During WW II he served in North Africa and Italy with an anti-aircraft battalion.

Gov then joined Hooker Chemical in Niagara Falls as purchasing agent, later becoming personnel director for Occidental Chemical. He retired in 1977 after 36 years and pursued his interest in aviation as a flyer and avid model builder. Gov donated his time as a volunteer worker at the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.

Survivors include his wife, Margaret (Cortellini), daughters Sarah Sheets and Elizabeth Cairns, son Edwin P. II, brother John A. '52, and four grandsons.

Richard Frederick Mather died January 23, 1996, in hospital in Albuquerque, N.M. Dick had been on oxygen for the past five years but was not confined to the hospital until early January with critical lung problems. Dick came to Dartmouth from Niagara Falls High School. After graduation he served in the navy with two tours in the South Pacific and was discharged as a lieutenant commander. In 1946 he was flight instructor and fixed base operator in Niagara Falls. Then he was a mink rancher before moving to Albuquerque in 1953 where he was employed by Creamland Dairies Inc. for 15 years as president and general manager. Dick served New Mexico and Albuquerque as state representative, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, regent for the New Mexico Military Institute, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and member of the City Council.

He is survived by his wife, M. Virginia Giese Mather, and two sons, Richard '71 and Charles.

John Gage Moody died October 26, 1995, in Chambersburg, Penn., of cancer and pneumonia.

Jack was born in Derry, N.H., and came to Dartmouth from Pinkerton Academy. He was a member of Chi Phi, Green Key, and the Interdormitory Council, and served as band manager and assistant editor of the Freshman Handbook. His name was inscribed on the Schniebs-McCrillis Trophy as the best non-ski team student skier in the College.

After graduation from Tuck, he joined Frank L. Willis Co. of Montpelier, Vt, and in 1945 established his own accounting firm. He later was comptroller of the Vermont Marble Cos., financial officer of Vermont State College, and financial officer and business teacher of Southern Vermont College in Bennington, Vt.

Jack was a life master in bridge and a teacher of the game. Just prior to his death he planned to play in a tournament, but low energy kept him from playing.

Surviving him is wife Lois, daughter Sara Allen, and sons Howard Moody and John S. Moody '71.

1943

Samuel Carey Bullock died October 11,1995, of lung cancer in Philadelphia.

Sam entered Dartmouth from the Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. At Dartmouth he was premed and went on to earn a M.D. degree from the New York University School of Medicine.

He served a residency in internal medicine at Howard University Hospital and a second in psychiatry at the Philadelphia VA Hospital, then served as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Japan during the Korean War.

During his career he served as chairman and professor of the department of psychiatry at Howard University Medical School, deputy chairman of the department of mental health sciences at Hannemann University, and associate dean of student affairs at Hannemann, a post he held until retirement in 1987.

He was the author of technical treatises on community psychotherapy, mental health in jails, and adolescent group treatment. He conducted pioneering research on perceptions of racism by black medical students.

In his retirement he spent several days each week at Graterford Prison with people he regarded as disenfranchised.

Sam is survived by his wife, Gloria, son Wallace, daughter Anne, granddaughter Arielle, and brother Joseph B. Bullock's 2.

Paul Emil Enz died November 1,1995,of Alzheimer's disease at aretirement home in the Tucson area.

Paul entered Dartmouth from the Nutley (N.J.) High School in Nutley. At Dartmouth he majored in geology and was a member of the German Club.

Upon graduation Paul enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, was commissioned, and assigned to carrier duty. He served on the USS Charger and the USS Wasp, operating in the Pacific area.

Paul then joined the Graham Paper Co., beginning a career in the wholesale paper and mill agency business in the Tucson area. He ultimately retired from the Jim Walter Co.'s paper subsidiary.

Paul was active in Tucson's Grace Episcopal Church as a member of the choir, lay reader, and vestryman. He was a member of Toastmasters, and wrote eloquently of his travels through the western United States in our 25 th Reunion Book.

Paul leaves his wife, Riginette, son David, daughter Jean Martin, and five grandchildren.

Robert Henry Tenney died after a short illness on September 1, 1995.

Bob entered Dartmouth from the Evanston (I11.) High School. At Dartmouth he majored in economics and served on the Interdormitory Council. Following graduation Bob joined the army and won a commission as second lieutenant of the infantry.

After the war he chose a career in sales with Lentheric Inc. which he pursued for 30 years. In 1988 he retired to Boonsboro, Md., where his home on the west slope of Southern Mountain overlooks the Cumberland Valley.

Bob is survived by Opal, his wife of 51 years, their son Robert, daughter Gail, and two grandchildren.

1944

Albert Henry Faber a retired chartered financial analyst, died of cancer October 24, 1995.

A resident of Greenwich, Conn., since 1982, he was a partner with Faulkner, Dawkins and Sullivan, a national institutional research firm in Manhattan, from 1962 to 1974. He was a former longtime resident of Pelham, N.H.

Al came to Dartmouth from Forest Hills, N.Y. He majored in economics and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. During WWII he served three years in the U.S. Navy Air Corps as a lieutenant and divebomber pilot in the Pacific theater.

He is survived by his wife, Betty, two sons, John and James '75, and two grandchildren.

Lowry Craig Macbeth a retired family physician, died December 8,1995, at his home in Tucson, Ariz., after a lengthy illness.

Craig came to Dartmouth from South Orange, N.J., where he attended Mercersburg Academy. He was a member of the Dartmouth band, Christian Union, DOC, and the Ledyard Canoe Club.

He served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during WW II, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1949.

Craig practiced family medicine in South Orange from 1951 to 1971, when the family moved to Tucson. He was forced to retire in 1975 when he suffered a heart attack.

He was an active member of the Rotary Club and Elks in Tucson, and served on the board of directors of the American Red Cross.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara, five children, and nine grandchildren.

Maurice "Bud" Elwood Park died of cancer December 21, 1995, in Naples, Fla.

An attorney and author, Bud was a native of Springfield and Longmeadow, Mass., where he was schooled and lived until his retirement to Florida 14 years ago.

Bud was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and served three years in the air force during World War II as a first lieutenant and with service in Europe. After the war, he received his law degree, cum laude, from Boston University School of Law.

He and his wife, Dorcas, practiced law together in Springfield, specializing in real estate and probate matters, and they co-authored two books for the Massachusetts Practice Series on those subjects. He was president of the Dartmouth Club of Springfield.

Dorcas predeceased Bud in 1985 and he subsequendy married Jane Den Herder in Florida. He is survived by her, three daughters, and three step-daughters.

Richard Norman Tarlow died of cancer October 19, 1995, at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Dick came to Dartmouth from Brockton, Mass., and lived there until his retirement to Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

He graduated from Tuck School during the war and taught there as an assistant instructor in 1943-44. He then joined the family shoe business in Brockton, and he and his brother Bill founded Foot-Joy, which in 1956 became the manufacturer of golf shoes and gloves.

Golf was Dick's great love, and he was the creator of the National Assistants Professional Golf Championship. He was chosen Man of the Year by the New England Professional Golfers Association in 1978, and was active in Brockton and Palm Gardens in golf and other philanthropic enterprises.

He is survived by his wife, Norma, two children, and two grandchildren.

1945

Harold Allison Breen Jr. of Lawrenceville, N.J., died suddenly at home on November 19,1995. He attended high school in Caldwell, N.J., before entering Dartmouth, where he was a member of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity. His education was interrupted during WWII when he served as a lieuenant navy combat dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific theater. He was awarded the Air Medal with two gold stars, and the Asiatic-Pacific Medal with one star.

Returning to Dartmouth, he graduated in June 1947 and went on to earn his M.L.A. degree from Harvard University School of Design in May 1951. He was a professor of landscape architecture at Michigan State University from 1954 to 1957. From 1957 to 1994 he was a founding member and partner of Zion & Breen Associates and Site Planners of New York City and Imlaystown, N.J. The firm won many awards and served as landscape architectural consultants to Princeton and Yale universities and Trinity College.

He is survived by his wife, Agness, son Stephen, sister Margaret Miller, and several nieces and nephews.

Richard Corey Johnson of Woburn, Mass., died on October 19,1995. He was a direct descendant of Captain Edward Johnson, one of the original settlers of Woburn. He came to Dartmouth from Vermont Academy. At the College he was a member of Phi Tau. In 1943 he left the College to serve as an infantry private, seeing action in Germany and Austria, for which he received the Combat Infantry Badge and a Bronze Star. He returned to Dartmouth in 1946 and graduated with honors. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1950.

Dick joined the law firm of Johnson and Johnson, specializing in real estate and probate matters, and was director of both the Woburn National Bank and the Woburn Co-operative Bank. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn; sons Paul C. and Richard L.; daughters Christine P., Elizabeth L., and Nancy R. Paris; nine grandchildren; and a nephew, James A. Bell '63.

John Jay Kirby of Missoula, Mont., died at the Community Medical Center on October 8, 1995. He graduated from Butte (Mont.) High School before entering Dartmouth, where he majored in mathematics and was a member of Gamma Delta Chi fraternity. He went on to M.I.T. and then graduated from West Point with a degree in mathematical engineering. On June 7,1947 Jack married Betsy Jane Franklin. He served in the air force, retiring with the rank of captain. He then moved his family back to Butte where he became involved in the family business, Treasure State Gas and Electric Co., and later expanded into a wholesale/retail business. In 1981 Jack and Betsy moved to Missoula, where he founded Treasure State Marketing Inc.

He is survived by Betsy, sons Paul and Jay, daughters Jane Micklus and Carol Shaffner, mother Lillian Kirby, sister Joyce Larsen, and 10 grandchildren.

Francis Lewis Steenken Jr. of Malden-on-Hudson, N.Y., died at home of cancer October 1,1995. He came to Dartmouth from Loomis School, but left before graduating. During his career, he was a partner with Albritten & Steenken, builders, a chemist and metallurgist with various aluminum product companies, a salesman for Dictaphone Corp., and a superintendent of Silver Lane Pickle Co.

He is survived by a daughter, Kathleen S. Fleming.

1947

William Reeve passed away November 15,1995, in Old Tappan, N.J.

Bill was a member of the V-12 unit at Dartmouth. After graduation he was employed in the insurance industry, and the last 22 years were with Connecticut Mutual Life in Manhattan.

Bill and his wife, Kathleen, raised their family of three daughters while residing in Old Tappan, where he served on the town council and as a member of the planning board. He was an avid sailor, belonging to the Nyack Boat Club, where he served as rear commodore, vice commodore, and commodore. In 1993 he was honored by being elected to life membership. He sailed in Tappan Zee, in Chesapeake, in Long Island Sound, and in New England waters. He also chartered in the waters of Nova Scotia and Scotland.

He is survived by Kathleen, by their daughters Audrey Tyler, Sandra Girouard, and Kate Reeve, and by two grandchildren.

Leonard V. Sommer died November 24,1995, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, N.H. He had made his home in Weathersfield, Vt., for the past seven years, after residing in New Canaan, Conn. Lennie grew up and attended local public schools in Missouri before arriving in Hanover with the Navy V-12 unit. He graduated in 1947 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Len's primary employment was with Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Manhattan, N.Y. He was an active participant in class events as an alumni, attending all reunions. He was a playing member of the Crown Point Country Club and served on its board of directors.

He married Elizabeth Lyman in White River Jet., Vt., in 1948 and they were blessed with three children. Betsy survives him, as do their children, Leonard II, Timothy, and Lois, and eight grandchildren.

1948

John Edward Gingrich Jr. died of cancer in Adanta, Ga., on November 9, 1992.

Ed entered Dartmouth out of Winthrop High in Massachusetts. On Dartmouth's football team in 1944, he left Hanover for the navy late in the year, returning after his discharge two years later to play. Ed was a member of Sphinx, president of Phi Kappa Psi, and majored in psychology prior to his degree in 1949.

Ed spent his career with General Adhesives & Chemicals in Atlanta, rising to regional sales manager before he retired in the late 1980s. He was active in the Dartmouth Club of Georgia along with close friends Carlton Evans '48 and Norman Laird '48. He was club treasurer in the 1960s and was also '48 class agent.

When he became aware of his terminal health condition he became a volunteer for experimental research at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda.

Ed and Ella met in Atlanta, were married in 1956, and their daughter, Joan, survives them.

Stephen Allen Morrill died of congestive heart failure at his home in Derwood, Md., on September 26, 1993.

Steve grew up in Arlington, Mass., graduated from Arlington High, and entered the navy V-12 program at Dartmouth. He played football that fall before further training prior to commanding amphibious landing craft in the western pacific in WWII. He returned to Dartmouth a married man in early 1947 and majored in economics.

He later was recalled for Korea. Steve was always fascinated by railroading, and most of his working life involved that subject, first briefly with the old "Pennsy," then the Federal Railroad Administration of the Department of Transportation, and later the Association of American Railroads.

Steve is survived by second wife Barbara, children Mark; Robert, and Mrs. Mchael Paislin, and stepson Michael. Among his many Dartmouth friends were George MacGillivray '48 and Paul Mower '48.

James Ellis Wellington longtime professor of English at the University of Miami, died of emphysema in Doctors Hospital, Coral Gables, Fla., on November 8,1991, after a brief illness. Jim arrived at Dartmouth out of Boston Public Latin School. Originally in the Class of 1943, after two years in Hanover he enlisted in the Navy five months before Pearl Harbor in 1941. He remained on active duty for 54 months, seeing combat action in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Borneo prior to several months in Japan. Back at Dartmouth in 1946 Jim joined Delta Upsilon, participated in the Glee Club, was active in foreign language clubs, and majored in English.

Jim then began his long career as a professional in the study and teaching of English. In 1968 he became a full professor at the University of Miami, where he spent the remainder of his career until his death. Jim authored numerous scholarly books and papers.

Jim Wellington is survived by his second wife, Patricia, daughters Georgia Gurren and Anne Lane, and two grandchildren.

1950

Ronald L. Bohle died in September 1995. He graduated from Deerfield Academy, and at Dartmouth he majored in English and was active in WDBS radio station. In his early career Ron worked in the plumbing and heating supply and contracting businesses, and he was active in local politics and chambers of commerce. Ron leaves his wife, Elaine Attn, and children Carol, Donna and Mark. His brother, Henri Bohle, was in the class of 1942, and two cousins and an uncle also attended Dartmouth.

William S. Stone passed away after radical surgery for lung cancer on December 23,1995, in New York City, where he had lived for more than 40 years.

Bill was brought up in Massachusetts and graduated from the Hingham High School. At Dartmouth he was an English major and an active member of the Camera Club. After graduation, he spent two years as a photographer with the Army Signal Corps in Germany.

During a career in advertising he became a principal writer, creative director, and an executive of BBDO, Omnicom and Doremus, before retiring in 1994. He also wrote six books on cars and auto racing.

Bill and his wife, Marion, coedited Zeiss Historica, the journal of the Zeiss Historica Society, an international organization of camera enthusiasts. Another favorite pastime was working on and taking jaunts on his BMW motorcycle. Dolph Cramer '50 credits Bill for being at least partly responsible for the vintage Model T Ford which often appears at reunions.

He leaves his wife and two sons, Michael and David.

1954

Charles M. Mysarian died on November 19,1995. Chuck entered Dartmouth four years after graduation from Revere (Mass.) High School. During those four years he served in the army overseas in Japan, graduated first in his class from Coyne Electrical & Technical School in Boston, and operated his own business. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

After graduation Chuck worked for Cities Service Oil Co. in Boston. In 1956 he entered the insurance business, later founding his own insurance agency. He was a member of the Independent Insurance Agencies of Massachusetts and the National Association of Life Underwriters, which honored him with its National Quality Award in 1960. Chuck was an avid sailor, winning numerous boating awards with his sloop, Good Time. He was a member of the Marblehead Boston and Cottage Park Yacht clubs. Chuck is survived by his wife, Meredith, daughters Susan M. Tomich and Joan M.

1955

Gene Gerard died July 20, 1995. He passed away beside the Damarascota River he and Georgette had grown to love.

After Hanover Gene received his M.B.A. from Northwestern in 1957, served Uncle Sam in France, and was upwardly mobile throughout his career. In 1994 he retired from ITT, where he had been senior vice president, treasurer, and CEO. He then became deeply involved in the economy of his Down East community, even creating strong ties with the lobster fishery, which is rare for someone from "away."

Gene served the College in many roles. He was a member of the Alumni Council from 1968-72, had many positions in enrollment, was class agent in 1987, and was area vice chairman for the St. Louis region for The Campaign for Dartmouth. He and Georgette were married in 1960 and have three daughters Jennifer, Lisa, and Kathleen, and three grandchildren.

Gene served the St. Louis community as a member of the board of directors of the Missouri Baptist Hospital, founded and was first chairman of the American Financial Service Association, and was active in the Habitat for Humanity.

He was an adjunct professor at the Business School at Washington University.

1965

William Dando Harper died November 17,1995, in Winston-Salem, N.C., following a two-week illness.

Bill was a native of Beaver, Pa., and came to Dartmouth from Mercersburg Academy. At Dartmouth he was an English major, president of Gamma Delta Chi, and a member of Casque & Gauntlet and Green Key. He also was active in the Winter Carnival Council of the DOC.

Following Dartmouth Bill received a law degree from the University of Miami law school. Bill went to work at the Wachovia Bank. He subsequently went into private practice and for the past ten years was with the firm of Bell, Davis & Pitt, where he specialized in estate planning and probate.

Bill's interests included his family, work, sailing and hiking, the outdoors, friends, and his faith. Bill is survived by his wife, Martha, and their sons Will, Dan, and Ted, his mother, two sisters, and a brother.