Deaths

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

Kenneth Paul McDonough '25 • May 24 John Hopkins Chamberlin '31 'March23 Charles William Dwyer'31 • April 1 Peter Albert Cygan '32 • Feb. 12 Henry Huntington Douglass '32 • April 16 Amos Dublin '32 . April John Frederick Weinseimer'32 'March 29 Webster Edwin Blanchard '33 • April 13 Howell DrescherChickering'34 'May 15 Irvin Henry Hartman Jr.'34 'April 12 Richard Henry Houck'34 'May 14 Frederick Sanborn '34 'April 26 Frank Leonard Bryant '35 • March31 Charles Redman Moon '35 • April 17 William Rauschal Jr. '35 • March 15 Matthew Joshua Marks '36 • May 1 John Nevin Wiley '36 • March 16 William Wallace Bowler' 37 • Feb. 28 Danforth Steere Mitchell '37 'April 10 James Corbett Otis '37 May 12 Thomas Clifford Veling'37 • April 1 Dana Thurlow Lowell '38 • April 7 Charles Roy Silvernail Jr. '38 • March 14 Stanley Jules Beskind '39 • March 21 James Edward Kuhns '40 • May 19 Warner Bader Bishop '41 • Feb. 22 James Leslie Davis '41 • May 12 Harry David McKinney '41 • Aug. 20,1983 Donald John Egan '42 • April 4 Stanley Lester Neisloss '43 • May 20 Ira Jerome Brody'44 • May 16 George Saunders Peak '44 • April 11 Edward Sheldon Spicer Jr. '44 • Dec. 28, 2000 Robert Fulton Collins'45 • April 9 Alvin Charles Gluek Jr. '45 • May 19 John Elden Hartshorn '45 'April 13 Winthrop Carter Lockwood '45 • Feb. 27 Robert Dickson Mateer'45 • April 4 Robert Ezra Canning '46 • April 11 John W. Eichelberger'53 • April 21 Kenneth Maurice Pulley's 4 • April 25 Lloyd John Kay'56 • May 22, 1999 Larry Lurton Smith '57 • March 14 Thomas Francis Morgan '59 • March 27 Ellwood Manning Fisher'60 • May20 John Graham Edwards '61 • May 24 John Eugene Kirklin '67 • April 6, 2000

1931

John Hopkins Chamberlin died on March 23. He had come to Dartmouth from Central High School of Syracuse, New York, to major in English. His activities at the College were many. As a member of Chi Phi and Green Key, he was manager of the water polo and varsity swimming teams. He obtained his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1933, then was employed by a firm in Syracuse that manufactured office equipment. In the latter period he served as president of the Dartmouth Club in Central New York State. His employment in the '30s and '40s pre-computer age was with Chicago Title and Trust, Talon Inc., and Sperry Gyroscope, doing early development work on productive use of micro images in business and government records. He retired from the firm Hall and McChesney in the '70s. He is survived by wife Ellen, sons Stephen and John '63 and daughter Gail.

1932

Peter Albert Cygan died on February 12 at New Horizons Assisted Living Center in Marlborough, Massachusetts, where he had lived the last two years. He came to Dartmouth from the King School in Stamford, Connecticut, long his home. At college he was a member of Sigma Nu and played football. Pete was with Cities Service Refining, 1932-37; became a state police officer, 193 8-43; and turned to social work, first for Connecticut Juvenile Court of Fairfield County and then from 1948 for Stamford public schools, specializing in psychiatry. After his retirement in 1971 he traveled in the United States, settling in San Angelo, Texas. Pete was an avid golfer. His wife, Grace, predeceased him in 1995 after 60 years of marriage. He is survived by two sons, four grandsons and two great-grandchildren.

Henry Huntington Douglass, called "Hank" and Grubby," came from Brookline, Massachusetts and Newton Country Day School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Chi. He started his teaching career at Landon School for Boys in Washington, D.C., but in 1937 joined the faculty of Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, teaching French and mathematics and coaching football and hockey, where he stayed until 1972. During WWII he taught survival skills to naval cadets at Kimball Union. At retirement he and his wife, Barbara, settled in South Freeport, Maine. He loved sailing, deleloping a youth program and helping establish the Harraseeket Yacht Club in the 19405, which he served as commodore in 1953-54. He perfected a dinghy designed for rowing, sailing and as a tender, affectionately known as Grubs Tub. After Barbaras death in 1994 he moved to Moscow, Idaho, to live with his daughter Deborah. He died April 16 at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. He leaves two daughters, four grandsons and five great-grandchildren.

Charles Lewis "Pete" Knight Jr. died March 13. He joined us from West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Roxbury Latin School. He belonged to Alpha Sigma Chi and Cabin & Trail and was president of Ledyard Canoe Club. He earned a master of landscape architecture at Harvard, which granted him a traveling fellowship in 1938 to study famous gardens in Europe. When war came, he worked on the Pentagon and then with the Federal Public Housing Authority, planning sites for 55,000 dwellingunits at war industries and military bases. Postwar he was landscape architect for the City of Cleveland 1946-50, then vice president of Richard H. Cutting & Associates 1950-55, responsible for military base design in Labrador, Newfoundland, Greenland and Europe. He then founded Knight & Stolar, retiring in 1987. The American Society of Landscape Architects gave Pete its highest award, the Chapter Medal. He and his wife, "Rusty," are survived by a daughter, three sons and 10 grandchildren. The sons and five grandchildren attended Dartmouth.

1934

Irvin Henry Hartman died on April 12; place and cause unavailable. "Buz" came to Dartmouth from Harvard Prep and at college was a member of the varsity track team, the Junto and Le Cercle Francais. His major was English and his fraternity was Sigma Nu. Postgraduate study was done at the University of Wisconsin in law and commerce. He served in Army Ordnance from September 1941 through November 1945 going up in rank from second lieutenant to major. He worked for and in 1957 became president of Leath and Cos., a Midwestern-based furniture chain of 46 retail stores. In 1980 he retired as chairman of the board. He divided his time between Wilmette, Illinois; Green Lake, Wisconsin; and Rancho Mirage, California, where he was from mid-November to early May. Survivors include his wife, Barbara; daughters Martha, Kathleen and Barbara; sons John and Bruce; and grandchildren.

Frederick Sanborn died on April 26 after a long battle with cancer. Fred came to Dartmouth from Winchester, Massachusetts, High School and at college was a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa, Zeta Alpha Phi and Studenten Verbindung Germania. In 1935 he graduated from the Dartmouth Medical School and received his doctors degree from Harvard Medical School in 1937. He was a Navy veteran of WW 11, serving in China and New Zealand as a lieutenant commander in the Medical Corps. After his discharge in 1946 he worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and retired in 1969 after working many years at Barnstable County Hospital in Pocasset, Massachusetts, as resident staff physician. He and his wife moved to their home in South Royalton, Vermont, in 1972. He was predeceased by his wife. Survivors include son Robert, daughter Carolyn Sanborn, three grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

1936

Lawrence Goldthwait died March 20,2000. Can you imagine yourself speed-skating at age 87? No, but "Pug" could and did, only this time he sped right off the rink and on up to the Pearly Gates. Mt. Washington, which he climbed 80 times, wasn't high enough for him. He was great at skiing, bike trips and rowing, but when it was time to be serious he taught science, geology and earth science at Colby, Hill, University of Maine, St. George and other centers of learning, meanwhile putting out books and treatises amplifying his various views. His was a notable career, combining athletics, academia, community service and a rewarding family and home life. As our classmate he was an outstanding role model whose widow and progeny deserve our sympathies and, for his accomplishments, our thanks.

1937

James C. Otis died at his South Portland, Maine, home on May 12. He is survived by a son, a daughter and three grandchildren. He was the brother of Donald Otis '37. Notice of Jims passing comes from Dons wife, Ramona. Jim was a Marine dive bomber in WW II. For 19 years he was a science teacher at Lincoln Junior High School in Portland. He was a 50-year member of the First Congregational Church. At Dartmouth he was a member of Theta Chi and active with crew and track.

1938

Roy Bullard "Tiger" Chamberlin Jr., son of Dean Chamberlin, died of cardiac arrest in New Berlin, New York, on January 22. He had suffered a stroke in December 2000. Although living in Hanover, he entered college from the Taft School, majoring in English and belonging to Phi Gamma Delta, Cabin & Trail, the Dartmouth Union, Handel Society Symphony Orchestra, Junto, and the ski team. Tiger received a D.D. from Yale Divinity School and served as a Navy chaplain with the Seabees during WW II. His pastoral duties took him to New Hampshire, New York, Illinois and Maine. He spent several years at the Chicago The ological Institute. In 1950 he took a sabbatical leave from the ministry to work in various assignments for Addressograph of Cleveland, Cleveland Public Utility Cos. and Scott and Fetzer. He retired in 1982 as pastor of the United Church of Christ. He is predeceased by his wife, Cynthia, and survived by one daughter, five sons, six grandchildren, and his brother, Fred '45.

Dana Thurlow Lowell died on April 7 in the Newton Wellesley Hospital. A native of Wellesley, Massachusetts, he entered college from Cushing Academy, but did not graduate. Dana was a selfemployed designer and builder of homes in the Wellesley and surrounding areas for many years as the owner and operator of the Dana T. Lowell Designer and Building Cos., retiring in 1988. He served in the U.S. Army during WW II as a first lieutenant with the 101 st Engineers division in Guadalcanal. He is survived by his wife, Betty; his father was a member of the class of 1914.

Charles Roy Silvernail Jr., a long-time resident of western Massachusetts, died on March 14 in Lenox, Massachusetts. He entered Dartmouth from Dalton High School, but left college early to join his family's drug business. After serving three years with the U.S. Army during WW 11, Charlie founded a soft drink company in 1948, but later joined the Roosevelt Paper Cos. His wife, Christine, daughters Ellen and Jean and one grandchild survive him.

1939

Stanley J. Beskind died on March 21 of Huntington disease. He came to Dartmouth from Madison High School in New York. He was a student director with The Players and a member of Pi Lamda Phi. A sociology major, he earned highest distinction. Following Dartmouth he attended Columbia, where he got an M.A. before joining the Army Air Force during WWII. Following the war Stan organized the Speedmaster Packing Corp., of which he was president and CEO for more than 40 years. The company pioneered cellophane, polyethylene and flexographic printing and pressure-sensitive products. Stan was active in Reform Judaism, United Way and other charities. He was an avid catamaran sailor, something of a world traveler and an art collector. His wife Connie, son Donald, daughter Andrea and three grandchildren survive him.

John L. Steele died on June 13 of cardiovascular and pulmonary failure at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. A veteran journalist, John retired from Time Inc. in the mid-1980s as vice president for governmental affairs. He began his career in native Chicago as a police reporter with the United Press. He was assigned to the Washington bureau in 1941 to cover the Senate. He joined the Time-Life News Service in 1953, and was bureau chief from 1958 to 1969. He covered the administrations of presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson. In 1970 he was named senior correspondent for the newsmagazine to cover major events in the United States and abroad. He appeared often on news programs broadcast by NBC and CBS and was a commentator for the British and Canadian broadcasting services. At Dartmouth he was president of the International Relations Club and The Dartmouth news board and served on the executive committee of the DOC. He is survived by Louise, his wife of 60 years, daughter Deborah, sons John Jr. and Scott and a granddaughter.

1941

Harry David McKinney Jr. died on August 20,1983, according to information provided by his son David in June 2001. Dave succumbed to heart problems while living in California. At Dartmouth he worked on the Jack-o,was a member of Sigma Chi and participated in freshman track. Dave had a career in the printing and graphic arts business, working for the Rossotti Lithograph Corp. in North Bergen, New Jersey, in the '6os and as a freelance consultant in the printing field.

1943

Dixon Hall Daniels died April 17 at North Adams, Massachusetts, Regional Hospital. Dixie attended Adams High prior to entering Dartmouth, where he received his A.B. degree as a history major. He was a member of Deke and Dragon Society and lettered in baseball. AWW II veteran, he served as a Marine in the Pacific and was wounded at Peleliu, receiving the Purple Heart. Discharged as a first lieutenant, he entered the family paper business, L.L. Brown Paper Cos., then became a senior official of Arnold Print Works and later was self employed. Acivic leader, he was chairman of the Adams personnel board and past president of the Adams Lions Club and of the Northern Berkshire Council of Boy Scouts. A fine golfer, he won numerous area championships. Dixie leaves his wife of 51 years, the former Margarett "Peggy" Head, daughters Deborah and Pamela, son Dixon "Skip," brother R.Wellington, sister Virginia, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Stanley L. Neisloss died Sunday, May 20, of causes related to Alzheimer's disease at a hospital in Manhattan. Stan grew up on Long Island, attending Jamaica High prior to entering Dartmouth. A Tuck major, he received his A.B. degree in 1943. Stan was a navigator in WW II, flying more than 50 missions in the ETO. Following in his fathers footsteps in a career spanning more than 50 years, he built thousands of single-familyhouses and rental apartments on Long Island. He and a partner founded Heatherwood Properties in 1950, building GI housing for veterans that sold for less than $8,OOO. His son James is currently in the residential building field. Stan is survived by his wife of 53 years, Irma, daughters Susan Neisloss and Kathy Leventhal, son James, brother Melvin and seven grandchildren.

1944

Thomas Carroll Green Jr. died of cardiac arrest on April 9 at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland. Tom came to Dartmouth from Great Neck, New York and departed in 1942 to enlist in the Army Air Corps. In October 1943, as a crew member of the B-17 bomber Blackjack, he was shot down over Schweinfurt on one of the first daylight raids over Germany. He parachuted safely into the French countryside but was captured and imprisoned for two years before being freed by Patton's 5 th Army. Tom returned to complete his degree at Yale and attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1953 he joined the International Bank, serving in executive positions in Monrovia, Liberia, New York and Washington, as well as with several other of the banks subsidiaries. He retired in 1986. Tom was an active Democrat and loved golf and sailing. He was predeceased by his first wife, Patricia Flood. He is survived by his second wife, Alice Lee, son Thomas III, daughter Victoria, stepdaughter Lisa, grandson Christopher and brother Robert.

Jerome Brody died on May 15 of lung disease at his home in Miami. Jerry left Dartmouth in 1942 and joined the Army Air Force, becoming a flight instructor. Following the war he joined his father-in-law's coffee business. Starting with a chain of ordinary lunch counters and cafeterias, he began a long and illustrious career in the restaurant business. He is credited with creating the elegant "theme" restaurant trend in New York City, establishing and operating such famous watering holes as The Forum of the Twelve Caesars, La Fonda de Sole and the Four Seasons. In 1964 he took over management of the once-fabulous Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center returning it to its former glory. He also saved two other troubled landmarks, Gallaghers Steak House and the Oyster Bar at Grand Central Station. Jerry served as chairman of the board of overseers of the Hanover Inn. He is survived by his wife, the former Marlene Heider-Gray, son Scott, daughter Kathy, sister Ellie, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

1947

Benjamin Joseph Bartlett died on November 17, 1998 at home in Bound Brook, near Bridgewater, New Jersey. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on December 16,1942, and went to Parris Island, South Carolina. He was stationed all over the Caribbean as well as the Middle East. He entered the Marine V-12 Program at Dartmouth in March 1944, and attended Thayer School, majoring in chemical engineering. Later he attended Rutgers University, where he majored in business administration. Benjamin started work in the New York area with Irving Trust and National City Bank and then worked for 23 years for Slingman Industries. In 1973 he went to work for Argo International Corp. as a sales engineer. He was a trustee of the Dartmouth club in Newjersey. He was married first to Charlotte Stewart, with whom he had children Benjamin Jr., Catherine and William, who survive him. He is also survived by his second wife, Dorothy "Cindy," two other children (names unknown) from his second family and five grandchildren.

James Malcolm Holway died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, on June 21, 1999, following a stroke. Jim was in the Dartmouth Navy V-12 Program and was a member of the Engineering Club. He graduated from the Thayer School in 1948. He received a masters in business from Johns Hopkins University in 1960. He served 20 years active and reserve duty with the Navy, retiring in 1978 as a commander. In his 36 years with Westinghouse he worked in its defense systems center as a program manager in their electronic counter-measures department, primarily for the Air Force (bomber defense systems, Polaris Program and software management), retiring in 1985. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Harriette, children Karen and James and a grandson. He had an uncle, James Kenneth Somerville, who graduated Dartmouth in 1926.

Vincent Harvey Prendeville died on May 29, 1999, in Albany, New York, of a heart attack. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a graduate of the Upper Darby High School. He attended Dartmouth for three years under the Navy V-12 Program, ending up as an ensign. At Dartmouth he was active in track. He received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1950. He served in the Army Dental Corp during the Korean War, 1950-53, and was also associated with the Rockefeller Foundation in the early 19505. After practicing for a couple of years in Glens Falls, New York, he moved to Albany and set up his own dental practice, retiring in 1996. Vince was involved in ski patrol in Glen Ellen and Sugarbush North for 18 years. He was predeceased by his first wife, Harriette Whipple. He is survived by his wife, Mary Van Vranken; son Mark; daughters Sharon Flanagan and Darcy Lawes '79 and her husband, Dan '76; and six grandchildren.

Arthur Richard Wilson died on July 23, 1999, presumably in Roxbury, Connecticut, cause unknown. Art was raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended the Boston High School of Commerce. He entered Dartmouth with the Marine V-12 unit and served in the Marine Corps in WW 11. While at Dartmouth he was active on the Jack-O-Lantern, Dartmouth Outing Club as well as the Winter Carnival Council. He was a brother of Psi Upsilon. He graduated Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa in economics. After the war he went on to be a founder of the DR Group, where he became a recognized leader in the direct marketing industry. In 1977 he was the executive vice president of this company. He was on the Advertising Research Business Council and was on the Direct Mail Marketing Association Board. Among his outside interests was the Metropolitan Opera Council. He was unmarried.

1949

O. Peter Schumacher, known as "Otto" during our undergraduate days, died on March 1. He came to Dartmouth from Stockton, New Jersey, majored in pre-medicine, was captain of the Rowing Club and played freshman football. He then went on to serve in the Navy and earn his M.D. at Johns Hopkins and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He was a long-time medical director at Campo Ho Mita Koda for diabetic children, chairman of the department of endocrinology at the Cleveland Clinic and a Clinician of the Year for the American Diabetes Association. He saw his last patient just five days before his death. Petes wife, Margaret, predeceased him; he is survived by daughters Cynthia, Elizabeth and Donna.

1959

Thomas F. Morgan died March 27, 2001 at his home in Kensington, California, after a long illness. While at Dartmouth Tom earned a ROTC commission in the U.S. Navy and served in a number of commands at sea. Tom also served as White House Naval Aide in the Johnson administration and as commanding officer of the presidential yacht, USSSequoia. After the Navy, Tom received a graduate degree from Tufts and a degree in Photography from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston. This led to a 30- year career in retail. Tom is suivived by his longtime partner, Edward Mack, and his brother, William O. Morgan of Plattsburgh, N.Y.

1960

Ellwood M. Fisher died on May 20 in Seattle of prostate cancer. During our 40th reunion last year he spoke emotionally of the radiation treatments that allowed him to attend. For manyyears he managed a Dartmouth internship fund named after his father, E11 wood H. Fisher '21. His economics and geography majors in Hanover led to a career in the marketing of specialty packaging and labels in Europe and the Far East. He operated plants in Ohio and West Virginia, while living in Hudson, Ohio, a replica of an earlyAmerican New England town. He is survived by daughters Linda and Pamela, son Stephen and two grandchildren. He wrote for his reunion publication: "Hardly a day goes by that my Dartmouth association with classmates and experiences does not enter and affect my life in a positive way."

1973

Robert Andrew Ariel died on February 7 at St. Vincent s Hospital in New York City. He majored in chemistry and was a member of Phi Chi and Heorot. As a Marshall Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, he received an M.A. in physics and philosophy. Bob earned doctorates in finance at M.I.T. and in philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He was an assistant professor of economics and finance at Baruch College, City University of New York, where he taught since 1986. Bob's research focused on identifying seasonal patterns in stock prices. He was a longtime member of the Baruch Faculty Senate and an expert on the college and university budget. His interests ranged from science to music. He is survived by his mother, Josephine VirnigStannard, stepfather Raymond Stannard, stepmouth Ingegard Angerer Ariel, two sisters and a stepbrother.

1983

Chrisandra Simmons "Chris" Presley died of breast cancer September 6,2000, in Fort Ogelthorpe, Georgia. After graduating from Dartmouth she received her masters degree in educational ministries from Wheaton College. She worked in a U.N. refugee camp in the Philippines, as a social worker in West Virginia and as a live-in counselor at a children's home in Wy the ville, Virginia. Chris was most recently employed by Presbyterians for Renewal of Youth Ministry in Chattanooga, Tnnessee. A member of the women's varsity cross country and track teams while at Dartmouth, Chris held six school records when we graduated. She continued her running with the Chattanooga Track Club, and was its Runner of the Year in 1996. She had been serving as a race director for the Susan B. Komen Foundation Race for the Cure, which raises funds to fight breast cancer. Chris leaves her husband, David, parents Danny and Isabell Simmons, brother Danny, sisters Susan and Tracy and grandparents, Harold and Clara Bell Looney.

1988

Maia Hansen died June 21. After being diagnosed with uterine sarcoma two years ago, Maia and her husband, Clark Youmans, orchestrated their Orcas Island, Washington, wedding; honeymooned in Peru and Bolivia; and traveled with family to Tahiti, Palau and Australia. Maia edited two novels by Jeff Greenwald and various Lonely Planet travel guides. During her illness she maintained a full life, singing in a choir, playing soccer, leadingyoga classes, scuba diving, instigating games and gatherings and concocting delicious jams with her husband. Two weeks before her final hospital stay, Maia participated in a work weekend at Camp Norwester on John's Island, Washington. Maias heartbreakingly short life was characterized by this embracing of every moment. She leaves behind Clark; mother Jennifer Hopkins; father Jorgen Hansen; brothers Thayer, Soren, Leif and James; sister Jennifer; beloved aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and inlaws; and a multitude of friends who have been touched and inspired by her vibrancy, courage and determination.