Deaths

The following 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.

Maurice Eleazar Cate '24 • May 12 William Elgin Jones '24 • April 10 Edward Albert Raisbeck '26 • July 28 William Carr Brister'32 • July 24 Edward Francis Marshall '34 • July 8 Harry Clay Deckert '35• June 24 Alexander Schnee '35 • July2003 Thomas Gordon Swift '35 • July 9 Donald Lamont Ballantyne '36 • April 22 Stuart Phelps Barden '36 'March 4 Frank Gardner Schirmer '36 • April 12, 2001 James Donald Tracy'36 • July 22 Roger Irving Pettee '37 • June 14 Philip Francis Leach '38 • June 19 William Waldemar Olmstead '38 • July 19 John Joseph Slattery '38 • May 4 Frank Cline '39 • June 20 Donald Rankin Gray' 39 • June 3 Herbert Ernest Hirschland '39 • June 9 Arthur Wheaton lde'39 • June 26 Richard Julius Goulder '40 • June 13 John Curtis Richardson '41 • July 17 Charles Perrin Brown '42 • June 27 Joseph Richard Wilder' 42 • July 1 Richard Leroy Noble '43 • May 22 William Joseph Regan '43 • Feb 20 James Doring Wells' 43 • July 6 Blanton Culver Wiggin '43 • Feb 2 William Francis Benoist '44 'April25 Alan Rush Brown '44 • April 17 George Jacoby Hunsicker '45 • June 9 Frank Lawrence Mace '45 • July 6 Ralph Brooks Fifield '46 • July 11 Frank Leo Lagay '46 • June 30 David Edward Nassif '46 • July 21 Reginald Franklin Pierce' 46 'August 8 Howard David Samuel '46 • June 19 Harry Spiro '46 • Dec. 18, 2001 William Parks Wallis '46 • June 1 Richard 0. Russell '48 • July 23 Rollin Henry Sontag '48 'August4 Donald Dudley Bursch '49 • June 11 Robert Gilbert Horr '49 • Dec 4, 1999 Edward Hays McAlister '49 • Oct 6, 2002 William Hayden Perkins '49 'May31 William Wallace Broadbent '50 • June 22 Per-Jan Ranhoff '50 • May 2 Calvin Coolidge Solem '50 • Feb. 28, 2002 Paul V. Harvey '51 • July 14 Edmond A. Sullivan '52 • Aug 4 Ward R. Hamm '53 • July 19 Kent C. Robinson '53 • June 30 Frank Robert DeBruyn '55 • May 1 Alvin Hugo Pianca '55 'May4 Robert Paul Schneider '55 • June 6 John Edward Brandow '57 • June 16 Charles William Nichols '57 • July 18 John David Armstrong '58 • July 22 Fred Louis '58 • June 20 Gary Bithell Ewing '59 • July 4 William Roger Carlson '61 • July 25 Gerald Lathen Thompson '73 • July 25 John Sevier Sheldon '74 • July 22

1936

LaForrest H. Thompson, who left us in May of this year, was a member of one of those families that rally around the Dartmouth idea and some day will gather on the campus "up there," so to speak, in happy numbers.Tommy leaves two sons of the class of' 92, two other relatives in the class of '92, and a long list of Dartmouth activities, including the class executive committee, class agent, regional agent, treasurer and the National Research Development program. On our earthly campus he belonged to The Tabard and Sigma Chi. An economics major, he graduated from Tuck in 1937, and had a fruitful career as a CPA. Our sympathies are extended to his family and especially to his wife, Gwynneth.

1938

Donald Briggs Badger, advertising manager for Boston Gear Works, retiring in 1974, died on June 7 at the Queen Ann Nursing Home in Hingham, Massachusetts. Don came to Dartmouth from Phillips Andover Academy, and he majored in psychology and was a member of Sigma Chi. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1947. He served in military intelligence for six years with the Navy in WW II and the Korean War. With Boston Gear he was responsible for marketing research, advertising, promotion and sales training. He was a member of the American Marketing Association. Husband of the late Geraldine Badger, he is survived by two sons and four grandchildren.

Ferrien Stanford "Dave" Davis died October 30, 2001, of complications from lung disease in Menlo Park, California. At Dartmouth he was a member of Theta Chi and business manager for the Aegis. Following graduation he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lived in Menlo Park and Atherton for the rest of his life. After serving as an officer in the Army Air Corps in World War II, Dave worked for Hills Brothers Coffee in San Francisco, where he was a marketing and advertising executive. He later designed and opened the Red Rabbit, the country's first automated fast food restaurant. For 14 years Dave served a traffic manager of Hewlett-Packard in Santa Clara, California, before retiring in 1993. He is survived by his sons Alan '64 and Scott; daughters Linda and Catherine; nine grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter. Judy, his wife of 60 years, died in August 2002.

1939

Wentworth Brown of Skowhegan, Maine, died December 27,2002. He spent many years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a professor of English and literature. He was granted the Fischback Faculty Travel Grant on May 21,1982, which permitted him to participate in international meetings as a representative of RPI. He is survived by two sons, Steven and Frank, and a daughter, Karen.

Robert Frederic MacLeod died January 13 in Malibu, California. Mac came to Dartmouth from Glenband High School in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and at Dartmouth he was one of the Colleges last consensus All-American football player. He captained the football team his senior year, played varsity basketball for four years, ran track and was a member of the Vigilance Committee, Alpha Delt, Sphinx, Paleopitus and Green Key. Amember of the College Hall of Fame, he played for the Chicago Bears for one year before flying fighters for the Marines in WW II. Highlights of his ensuing career in magazine publishing include serving as advertising director of 13 Hearst publications such as Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics and Harper's Bazaar; publishing Seventeen Magazine; and editing TeenMagazine. He is survived by his wife, Louise, three sons, a daughter and 10 grandchildren.

Harold Scott Taylor died December 25, 2002. At Dartmouth he earned a degree in economics and was active in winter sports and Cabin & Trail. He went to Cornell to study pomology. He joined the Navy in 1940 and was a lieutenant when the war ended. He married Ercil on May 17,1941; their marriage lasted 57 years. They had five children and six grandchildren. He was a State Farm Insurance agent at retirement in 1993 at age 78.

1940

Richard Julius Goulder died June 13 in Cleveland, Ohio. Dick came to Dartmouth from University School along with others from the same school. He was a member of Pi Lambia Phi and served as class agent, class executive committee and class secretary. Was in A.A.F. from June 1942 to December 1945. After WWII he joined his brother in a plastics molding business in Cleveland. He was secretary at the Montefiore Home for Aged, board member of Temple and board member of his area Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is survived by wife Zelda, daughters Kathleen, Janie and Lynn and son Robert.

1943

Robert George Clark died May 12,2001, in Wayland, Massachusetts. His college undergraduate activities included Glee Club, football and Sigma Chi. In 1969 he and wife Dorothy moved to Bermuda, where Bob established International Capital Equipment Ltd. in 1974. An avid golfer as well as pilot, Bob wrote in 1993 how he flew "a single engine 'Mooney' down to Peru in 92 and keep it on the East Coast to get around when not in Bermuda." Married to Dorothy (Matthews) in 1943, Bob is survived by her and two children, Dorothy Gould and Peter Clark, as well as five grandchildren and several greatgrandchildren.

Raymond Augustus Schroth died May 2 at his home in Buffalo, Wyoming. Ray came to Dartmouth from Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He left college to join the American Field Service, first under British command and then the U.S. Army. He returned to Dartmouth to complete his degree. After a brief stint with the Dodge division of Chrysler, Ray joined the Pawling Rubber Cos. in the 19505. He was co-founder of Presray Corp. and served as president until retirement in 1989. Other activities included Pawling Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, lector at St. John the Evangelist Church and president of Akin Hall Association. In 1950 Ray married Margaret Maty (Klersy) of Toronto, who predeceased him. He is survived by four children, Margaret Mary Schroth, Thomas William Schroth, Carolyn Ann Schroth and Nancy Schroth Johnson; eight grandchildren; twin brother Thomas; and brother Frank Jr.

1945

George Jacoby Hunsicker died of cancer June 9 at his home in Maple Glen, Pennsylvania. As a Navy tail gunner in WWII, George was on his first mission in the Solomon Islands when his plane was shot down, leading to rescue after 18 hours on a life raft. He returned to Dartmouth to graduate in 1948 and then joined his brother, Anthony '39, in the food brokerage business in Philadelphia. He married in 1954 and sired four daughters in the next five years. After 40 successful years he and his brother sold the business in 1998, and George retired to a life of travel, golf and community service at his winter home in Florida. He is survived by his wife, Doris; daughters Susan, Emily, Betsy and Nancy; and five grandchildren.

Frank Lawrence Mace died of a heart attack July 6 at his home in Somers, New York. AV-12 transfer from N.Y.C. College, Frank earned his master's degree at Tuck in 1948 after postwar graduation from Dartmouth. He served six years in the U.S. Marine Corps during WWII and the Korean War, and retired with the rank of major in 1952. After early sales experience in the industrial and publishing fields, he led a successful career in the securities industry. A lifelong athlete and champion squash player, he maintained homes in Somers and Boca Raton, Florida. Fie is survived by his wife, Valerie, son Frank Jr., daughters Sarah and Christine and one granddaughter. He was predeceased by his son, Kent, in 1995.

Martin Aloysius McGetrick died August 4, 2001. A lifelong resident of Danbury, Connecticut, where he was president of his high school class, Marty was a member of Dragon Society at Dartmouth. During WW II he served three years in the Navy and attained the rank of lieutenant. Following graduation he took a postgraduate year at Columbia and soon went into business for himself as a manufacturers representative in the textile field. In 1953 he married the former Mary Durkin and they had three sons, Mark, David and James.

1946

Reginald F. Pierce Jr. died on August 8 after suffering two strokes at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Reg was probably the best-known name in the class, and also, quite possibly, the man actually known by more classmates than any other. Born in New York City, Reg graduated from Dartmouth in 1946 and from the Tuck School in 1948. He was a naval officer during WWII. Between 1948 and 1971 he was a senior account manager at several New York City advertising agencies. At Compton Advertising, he was a seniorvice president and a member of the board of directors. In 1971 he and Nancy changed careers, moved north from Greenwich, Connecticut, and purchased Keene's Lodge in Etna. Reg left New York City to pursue a dream to create a family business that he and Nancy could run together. He died with their dream fulfilled, having managed a very successful inn that also hosted numerous reunions of their family of seven children, their spouses and 21 grandchildren.

1947

Roy Wesley Murray of Lake Placid, Florida, died on March 3. He joined the class in the Navy V-12 program. After college he worked as an electronics engineer and rose to become vice president for marketing for a supplier of electronic systems for government space and defense programs. He later served as a consultant in this field. He is survived by his wife and four children.

1958

Fred Louis III died June 20 after a battle with cancer. Skip came to Dartmouth from Harlan High School in Harlan, lowa. An economics major, he was a member of SAE, Casque & Gauntlet, NROTC and the freshman and varsity Glee Clubs. Upon completion of his Navy obligation, he entered Yale Law School and received his LL.B. in 1964. After working for a major law firm in Chicago, he opened his own law office, Grabill and Louis, in downtown Chicago in 1980. From graduation throughout his life he was devoted to Dart- mouth and the class. He served two terms as class secretary and was class president from the 35th through the 40th reunion. In the 25th reunion book Skip wrote: "Dartmouth has been central to my life in a very positive way." He is survived by his wife, Lona, and daughters Amy and Beth. Statement of ownership, management and circulation (required by 39 U.S.C. 3685).

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