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 subsequent issue.

Stewart Holmes Anthony '26 • Jan. 27 William Goss Dodge '29 March 29 Samuel Austin Groves '31 • Jan. 7 William Richmond Bradshaw '33 • June 2006 Gilbert Foster Fernandez '33 • Feb. 18 John Snodgrass Lyle '34 'March 20 John Stone Randall '34 • Jan. 9 Charles Lee Martin Jr. '35 'March 14 John Robert Ross '35 • Jan. 15 Albert Lincoln Washburn '35 • Jan. 30 Allen Francis Flouton '36 • June 20, 2006 Malcolm Wilmarth Rowell '36 'March 10, 2006 Joseph M. Wool '36 • Feb. 22 Robert Helmboldt Dunham '37 • Feb. 24, 2005 William Kebern Spears '37 • Feb. 14 William Walter Tongue '37 • March 7 Edward James Butler '38 March 13 Graver Harvey Fox '38 • March 9 John Fielding Mercer'38 • 0ct. 2, 2006 William Johnson Roby '38 • Dec.4,2006 Laurence Metcalf Symmes Jr. '38 • Dec. 31, 2006 J. Moreau Brown III '39 • Feb. 10 Clement Foster Burnap '39 • Feb. 3 Robert Hamilton Howe '39 • Feb. 18 David Hinds Reid '39 • Dec. 5, 2006 Joseph Marston Bird '40 • Feb. 25 Roland Alexander Hillas Jr. '40 'March 20 William Edward Sides '40 • Feb. 16 Melvin Sumner Wax '40 'March 29 William Charles Webster Jr. '40 • Feb. 25 Robert Hearn Baker '41 • March 10, 2006 Robert Alton Rock '41 • Jan.27 Paul William Speier '41 'Feb. 18 Granville Montgomery Winship '41 • April 1 Thomas Shipman Blankley '42 • April 2 Henry James Coleman '42 • Jan. 13 William Page Harris '42 'March 15 Scott Libbey '42 • Jan. 25 John William Williamson '42 'April 2 James Lawrence Gilfillan '43 • Feb. 19 George Arthur Graham Jr. '43 • March 10 Gail G. Grant' 43 • Feb. 16 Thomas Lawrence McManus '43 'March 15 George Derr Mitchell '43 • Feb. 6 John Langdon Muchemore '43 • 0ct. 9, 2006 Robert Emil Ott '43 • March 8 John W. Strohbehn '43 • Feb. 22 Robert Edward Callan '44 • Feb. 27 Richard Smith Ostberg '44 • March 1 Paul Fisher Cover '45 • Jan. 29 Peter Felix Held '45 • Dec. 26, 2003 Chadwick Donald Ramsdell '45 'March 21 Thomas Franklin Blake '46 • Nov.3,2006 Neal Harlan Brunner '46 • Julyi, 2001 Julian Cohen '46 • Feb. 8 Robert M. Goldman '46 • Feb. 23 Newton Scott Miler '46 • Feb. 24 Paul Roy Wilbur '46 • Feb.5,2006 Richard Hills Benner '47 'April 11, 2006 Victor C. Brum '47 • March 4 Harold Edmund Clayton Jr. '47 • Oct. 11, 2006 George Owen Fellers '47 • Nov. 6, 2006 Robert Reynolds Huffman '47 • April 7 Robert Edwin Motlong '47 'March 13 David Gaylord Wright '47 • Feb. 2 Austin Ruddock Knight '48 • Jan. 31 Louis Kraff Jr. '48 • Feb. 2 Russell C. Palmer '48 • 'March 16 Russell Thorn Blackwood '49 • Jan. 12 J. Harold Autenreith '50 • March 16 John Donald Brodie '50 • Feb.21 William Duncan Ferguson '50 • Aug. 23, 2006 Benjamin Harris Maeck Jr. '50 • Jan. 22 Richard Stokes Ribble '50 • March 2 Thomas Farrel Sheridan '50 • Nov. 17, 2005 Edward J. Walsh '51 • Feb. 25 F. Mason Weare '51 • March 14 Thomas M. Fowler '53 • Nov.3, 2006 Donald P. Hansen '53 • Feb. 15 Richard Elliot Brown '55 • Feb. 23 William Bradford Norton '56 • Feb. 12 Anthony Bradfield Richter '56 • Feb. 8 Donald B. Rosenthal '56 • April 7 Theodore Wadleigh '56 • Feb. 17 Ludwig John Landgraf '57 • Feb. 24 Athol Bruce Carlson '58 'March 18 Michael White Coffield '62 • March 27 Scott Ellsworth Little '63 • March 23, 2005 Robert Peter Rosier '63 • March 15 Herbert Funk Goodrich Jr. '64 • March 16 Bruce Thomas Cameron '69 • March 20 William Michael Layton III '74 • March 29 Richard MacPherson Crosen '75 • April 13, 2006 James A. Groves '75 • Feb. 5 Russell Akers '76 • March 3, 2006 Carrie DeValk Chorzempa '90 • April 3

1929

William Goss Dodge died on March 29 in Exeter, New Hampshire, after a brief illness. He came to Dartmouth from Newport, New Hampshire, High School and belonged to Alpha Chi Rho and Alpha Chi Epsilon. He majored in chemistry. He was active in Cabin & Trail and the Winter Carnival committee. He was a member of the 1929 executive committee. He worked for International Paper Cos. in Quebec, Canada, and at one time raised short-horned cattle. He was secretary and president of the Quebec Club. He retired to River Woods in Exeter, New Hampshire. His brother Richard S. Dodge '36 died before him. He leaves children Jane Neff, William, Elinor and Marion.

1932

Herbert Calvin Fisher died July 13,2006. Coming from Denver's East High, he belonged to Delta Tau Delta, now Bones Gate. After Dartmouth Medical School he earned a masters degree in science at Cornell and a fellowship in surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He served in the Army Medical Corps 1940-1946, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Cal practiced medicine in Denver and was active in medical affairs there, including being president of the Denver Academy of Surgeons in 1956. He retired in 1971 and he and his wife, Patsy, moved to their second home in Lake City, Colorado, where he served as a judge in Hinsdale County Court from 1978 to 1982. He and Patsy then moved to Colorado Springs, where she died of cancer. In 1989 he married Yvonne Jellad, who survives him. In addition to a daughter, he had three Dartmouth sons, two Dartmouth granddaughters and a brother-in-law, Moorhead Tukey 32.

William Thomsen Wyman of Rosemont, New Jersey, died July 13,2006, from a fall suffered a few days previously. At Dartmouth he majored in English, was a member of Psi Upsilon and the Canoe Club and was operating manager of Jack-O-Lcmtem and the Freshman Book. Alter graduation he worked for Aetna Casualty and Surety Cos. as a special agent. During the war he served in the Pacific on New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands with the rank of first lieutenant. He returned to Aetna until 1949, when he purchased Appleby & Wyman Insurance Agency, retiring 37 years later. He and his wife, Anna, also founded Appleby & Wyman Travel Agency. During Bill's retirement he acted as class agent and was a member of the reunion giving committee in 1986. He is survived by Anna; Lisa and Sarah, children of a previous marriage; and son William Jr.

1934

John Stone Randall died January 9. John came to Dartmouth from Central High School in Omaha, Nebraska, and at college he was manager of freshman baseball, a member of Dragon and Phi Delta Theta and received his M.C.S. from Tuck School. After graduation he worked for Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator Cos. for 12 years, then Superior Separator Cos. for three years, then Frank Hough Cos. for one year before entering his manufacturing business. He was vice president of Industrial Paper Products, A.O. Smith Corp. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His hobbies were hunting, fishing, golf and gardening. He loved winter resort vacations chasing the warm weather. He was very active in church and community affairs. His wife, Dorothy, predeceased him; surviving are daughters Diana Lee Jones and Judith Randall.

1936

Allen Francis Flouton died at his home in Newtown, Connecticut, on June 20,2006. At Dartmouth he majored in economics and was a member of Gamma Delta Chi, Forensic Union, German Club and Yacht Club and participated in freshman and varsity track. He graduated from Tuck School in 1937 and became employed by Compton Advertising Inc., working in New York, Chicago, London and other European branches until 1942, when he entered the Army as a draftee, emerging in 1946 as a captain. He returned to his former employment with Compton, where he remained until 1965, ending as vice chairman. He headed a sawmill and cedar products company as president and then Marketing Lab Inc., a market research and advertising company where he continued as president into the 1980s and retirement. He is survived by daughter Nancy Jane and friend Gloria Barry. He was predeceased by his wife, Ella, son David and brother Robert.

William Andrew Murray Jr. died June 12,2006, at his home in Milford, Massachusetts. At Dartmouth he majored in economics and political science, was a member of Phi Gamma Delta/Delta Upsilon and played freshman baseball. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1940 and was admitted to the Massachusetts and federal bars that same year. After two years in his fathers Boston law office he returned to Milford, where he opened the Murray Law Office, eventually working with two of his sons and retiring in 2002. In 1945 he was appointed by Governor Maurice Tobin as clerk of the Third District Court of Southern Worcester, a position he filled with distinction for 32 years. Known as an outstanding trial lawyer, Bill's work helped in the development of the law of tort in Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife, Arleen; children Brian, Peter, William, Sharon and Carlotta; a brother; 13 grandchildren; and a great-grandson.

1938

Charles Edwin Ervin Jr., who entered Dartmouth from Webster Groves (Missouri) High School, passed away on September 8,2006, in Sun City, Arizona. Charles was predeceased by his wife, Harriet, and is survived by son Charles, daughter Heidi, four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Upon their marriage in 1941 Charles and Harriet settled in Birmingham, Michigan. He studied engineering at the University of Michigan and went to work at the Detroit diesel division of General Motors in Detroit. After 37 years he retired, and the Ervin family moved to Sun City. He was a member of Winter Carnival, Cabin & Trail and Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a Thayer graduate.

Charles Thomas Main II passed away on November 10, 2006, in Falls Church, Virginia. Charlie came to Dartmouth from Tabor Academy and attended Thayer School of Engineering. While at Dartmouth he was a member of the famous Marching Band and Heorot/Chi Pi. Charlie retired in 1975 from Charles T. Main Inc. His service to Dartmouth includes helping to organize the Boston area group of Thayer alumni and serving as director of Chi Phi during the 19505. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Marjorie, daughters Nancy and Linda and five grandchildren. Several members of Charlies family attended Dartmouth: His father was a member of the class of 1906, brother Sam (deceased) was also a member of the class of 1938, and cousin Frederic was a member of the class of 1942.

Eugene Blair Warner died on June 14,2006, in South Bend, Indiana, where he lived. Blair had been ill with Parkinsons disease for the last 15 years. He is survived by his wife, Jane, and children James, John, Arthur and Katherine. Blair came to Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire; was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Dartmouth Outing Club and Phi Beta Kappa Society; and received his master's in commercial science from Tuck School. After college and during his working years, Blair was also chairman of the committee to interview prospective candidates for Dartmouth. Blair served in the Army Finance Department during WWII and the Korean War. From 1939 to 1941 he was employed by CPA firm Haskins & Sells. Upon completion of his military service Blair was engaged in the management of family real estate and other investments. He was director of the Ist Source Bank from 1956 to 1988 and of Ist Source Corp., its holding company, from 1971 until its reorganization in 1989.

1939

James Moreau Brown III died February 10 at John Muir Hospital, Walnut Creek, California. At Dartmouth Moreau was president of Beta Theta Pi; a member of Casque & Gauntlet, Green Key Society and Interfraternity Council; managing editor of The Dartmouth; and lacrosse team captain. From 1945 to 1954 Moreau worked in college admissions, first at St. Lawrence University, then at NYU. In 1954 he joined General Electric as administrator of educational support, where he became a pioneer on corporate matching gift programs. In 1972 he joined the Council for Financial Aid to Education, continuing to work on corporate support of education. In 1977 Moreau moved to San Francisco, where he lived for 27 years as a consultant on philanthropy. He was predeceased by four wives, a half-brother and his son, Moreau. He is survived by daughters Christine Adams, Pamela Floquet, Mallory Downer (with whom Moreau lived in Walnut Creek since 2004), four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Clement Foster Burnap died February 3, just a few weeks after the death of his wife and lifetime companion, Elaine. Coming to Dartmouth from Phillips Exeter, Clem was on The Dartmouth business board and manager of varsity swimming. He went to Thayer School and then to MIT for a masters in naval architecture and a master of science. In the Navy during WWII, he was involved with ship repair in the Pacific theater. After the war Clem was engaged in a number of large industrial projects that took him and Elaine around the world. He retired from Kaiser Engineers in 1987 and continued as a business and engineering consultant and academic fundraiser, principally for Exeter and Thayer School. Clem is survived by numerous nephews, nieces and other relatives.

David Hinds Reid, M.D., died December 5, 2006, in Idyllwild, California. A zoology major and member of Chi Phi at Dartmouth, Dave received his M.D. degree from Tufts Medical School. In WWII he served in the Navy, landing on Utah Beach on D-Day and running an aid station on the beach for a month. Dave was a much beloved, caring and respected family practitioner in Weston, Massachusetts, 1948-1979, and then in Idyllwild until 1996. In his children's words, he was "a healer to countless patients, a dear friend to many people (of all generations), a respected colleague of all whom he worked with and a much-loved husband and father to his family." Dave's first wife Janice, died in 1977. He is survived by his second wife, Jean; children David, Elizabeth, Robert, William and Jean; and Jeans four children.

1940

Dewitt Lane Jones of Charlotte, North Carolina, died January 29. "De" came to Dartmouth from NewTrier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, majored in national problems and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Dragon,Aegis (photographic editor), Dartmouth Radio Association and varsity track. During WWII he was commissioned a second lieutenant pilot assigned to Mac Dill Field in Florida. He became an instructor in B-26 transition, later assigned to operations of the 55th Bomb Wing to take B-24 groups to Italy. The 55th wing flew missions in southern Europe. De returned to the United States as a major in 1945. He joined advertising firm Leo Burnett Co., was elected to the board of directors in 1963 and retired as senior vice president. He was predeceased by his wife, Barbara White Jones, and is survived by sons Dewitt III '65 and Terrell.

William Edward Sides of Lenox, Massachusetts, died February 16 at Providence Care Center in Lenox. Bill came to Dartmouth from Hudson (Massachusetts) High School and attended Dartmouth 1936 to 1939, graduating from Clark University in 1941. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. Bill joined Bridgeport Brass Co. as an industrial engineer, retiring as vice president of manufacturing in 1980 after 39 years of service. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Elsie Gates Sides, and their children Lynne Roming, David, Thomas and Nancy Trew Sugden. Bill had five Dartmouth relatives dating back to 1833.

1941

Robert Hearn Baker, a resident of Columbus, Maryland, died on March 10, 2006. Bob was a member of Theta Delta Chi and was captain of the lacrosse team.He served in the Navy in WWII and then went to work for American Overseas Airlines and later for American World Airlines at many overseas posts. He and his family lived in Africa, India, Turkey, Germany, Newfoundland, Accra and Ghana. Upon their return to New York City after 25 years, they were able to purchase a sailboat and engage in yacht racing. Retiring in 1980, Bob moved to Recondo Beach, California, and worked as vice president of a company manufacturing equipment. His third boat was trucked across the United States, making three trips to Florida and back to the East Coast. Bobs wife, Selma, predeceased him. Their daughters Carol Curtis and Elvira Kisteneff survive.

Robert Alton Rock passed away on January 27, a longtime resident of Rome, Georgia. At Dartmouth Bob was active in the Outing Club, Interfraternity Council and Gamma Delta Chi. He also was a speed ice skater. After graduation he served four years as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He then joined an international manufacturer of paper, spending his entire career with the same company and being a vice president before retiring. Bob met his wife at Dartmouth and they had three daughters: Pamela Pope, Sharon Rugg and Brenda West. His wife, Mary Jane Rock, predeceased him in 1991.

Paul William Speier, a longtime resident of Boynton Beach, Florida, passed away on February 18. Paul was a member of Pi Lambda Chi and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He entered the Navy shortly after graduation and served as a lieutenant in amphibious ships in Sicily, Italy, Burma and Normandy. Fie returned to the family laundry business in Lincoln, Nebraska, and then moved to New York City in 1947. Paul worked in a small trade publication and then opened his own business in 1951. He published the Air Service Directory and was a director of Contemporary Arts Inc. He was a bachelor.

1942

Henry James Coleman died on January 13 at the Shawnee Manor Nursing Home in Lima, Ohio. He was a Navy veteran of World War II, having joined the Naval Reserve after our graduation. He served in the Pacific theater in Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa and received a naval commendation. He was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant. Before going overseas he married Kathryn Ketchum. Following the war he joined Standard Oil Cos. (Ohio) as staff assistant market research, moving on to advertising manager then sales manager of Sohio Chemical Co. where he became vice president and manager in 1962. In 1964 he became director of Solar Nitrogen Chemicals, then president. He retired in 1971 as vice president of Standard Oil of Ohio, spending most of his time at Vistron Corp. in Lima. He is survived by his wife, Kathryn; children Henry Jr., Patricia and Kathryn; brother John; grandchildren Christopher and Steven; and two great-grandchildren.

William Nye Holway, a consulting engineer who was instrumental in the development of Tulsa, Oklahoma's water-supply system, died on January 25. He attended Dartmouth before transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a bachelors degree in civil engineering in 1943. He married Polly Pollock in 1942. He was a founding partner and one-time president of the engineering firm W.R. Holway and Associates. He worked with the Grand River Dam Authority on such projects as the Markham Ferry hydroelectric project. His father had been involved in the first Spavinaw water project, which brought clean water to Tulsa, and William was in charge of a second Spavinaw project. He is survived by his wife, Polly; daughters Marcia Schaefer and Shirley Adams; son William Hamilton-Holway; brother Donal; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

Henry Frederick Kramer Jr., M.D., died at his home in Holden, Massachusetts, January 23 of gastrointestinal bleeding. After graduation he got his medical degree at Columbia Medical School by way of Dartmouth Medical School in 1945 and then served his internship and surgical residency at New York Hospital, Cornell' Medical Center. It is there that he met and married Luella. He then went into private practice in Brooklyn and New York City until called by the Navy for two years with the Marines, mostly at Parris Island until 1955. He then practiced for several years in Caribou, Maine, before moving to Holden, where he practiced general surgery until his retirement. He then joined the Paul Revere Insurance Co. as associate medical director from 1973 to 1990. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Luella; sons and daughters-in-law Frederick and Susan and Steven and Sharon; grandchildren Lauren and Jeffrey; and many nieces and nephews.

1943

Richard M. Foley died February 4 at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Foley had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma last September. Born in Alpena, Michigan, Dick, following graduation, received his medical degree from Marquette University School of Medicine. He practiced medicine for nearly 50 years in Rogers City in Michigan's Lower Peninsula. An avid world traveler, Dick's first love was the state of Michigan and the many patients and neighbors he befriended. He and his first wife of 38 years, Margaret (Krebs) Foley, had five children. Following her death Dick married Sylvia (Allen) Foley, who, after 26 years of marriage, preceded him in death last September. Dr. Foley is survived by daughters Sandra (Aquino), Margaret (Ware) and Christine (Johnson); sons E. Lee and Richard; 17 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

James L. Gilfillan died February 19 from complications following cardiac surgeiy in Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey. Born in Staten Island, Jim attended the Perkiomon School in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, prior to entering Dartmouth. Following early graduation in December 1942 he was accepted into the U.S. Naval Reserve Midshipman School at Notre Dame. After receiving his commission Jim served as a gunnery officer in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, retiring with the rank of lieutenant. Following WWII Jim worked first for Squibb, then White Chemical before joining Merck, where his research involved both animal and human health and the discovery of the compound Zocor. Jim retired 40 years later as a research biochemist in 1988. His first wife, Elizabeth "Betty" Wurtz Gilfillan, died in 1980. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Evemarie Celozzi Gilfillan, sisters-inlaw, several cousins, nieces and nephews.

Gail Graver Grant died February 16 in Lighthouse Point, Florida. Born in Painesville, Ohio, Gail attended and graduated from Western Reserve Academy prior to entering Dartmouth. A Tucmajor, he graduated like most of our class in December 1942. He entered the U.S. Navy as an ensign, was sent to Harvard Business School and trained as a paymaster. During WWII he served a number of assignments and resigned with the rank of lieutenant. He then returned to Tuck for his M.B.A. Gail's business career included management of retail stores, real estate broker and development of commercial properties in Boca Raton, Florida, as well as Europe. He was passionate about fishing and loved to travel. Gail is survived by his wife of 35 years, Elizabeth, children Lorna and Gail, two granddaughters, a grandson, a stepdaughter and a stepgranddaughter.

George Derr Mitchell died February 6 at Wheelock Terrace in Hanover, where he had resided for five years. He attended grade school in Yakima, Washington, and St. Rose of Lima High School in New Jersey before attending Dartmouth. During WWII he served in the 15 th Army Air Corps as a B-17 radioman/gunner. Shot down during a mission over Austria and captured by the Gestapo, he was a POW for 18 months. George returned to Dartmouth after the war, graduated and then taught at Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island for two years before obtaining a masters from Columbia. He then taught English at Collegiate School in New York for 29 years. Following retirement he moved to the Hanover area, where he was devoted to the Howe Library and Dartmouth, "the most beautiful campus in the world." He is survived by many cousins.

1944

Robert Edward Callan of Peabody, Massachusetts, died February 27 at Lahey Clinic in Peabody. He graduated from South High School in Worcester, Massachusetts, then received a degree in business administration from Dartmouth. Bob was a member of Alpha Delta/Alpha Delta Phi, Sphinx and the freshman baseball team, with three years as varsity shortstop. From 1945 to 1950 he was a professional baseball pitcher with the international league, southern association. He also taught high school in Bradenton, Florida, and Whitman High School. He was an executive at New England Telephone Co. for 31 years. During his career he enjoyed playing lots of golf and had many memories of the matches won and lost. He is survived by his wife, Rita; children Robert Jr. and Nancy, a grandson and a sister- and brother-in-law. Siblings John Jr. and Marjorie predeceased him.

Richard Smith Ostberg died at his home in Ipswich, Massachusetts, on March i. He attended Scarsdale High School, entered Dartmouth, accelerated, and graduated in 1943. He was a member of the Tabard/Sigma Chi, Glee Club, crew and lacrosse. After Pearl Harbor Dick joined the Naval Reserves and was commissioned after graduating from USNR Midshipmen's School at Columbia University. He then served aboard ships in the Atlantic and Pacific that were training for the invasion of Japan. In 1946 he started his career as director of human resources for GTE Sylvania and Kimberly Clark. He loved the sea and all of nature, plus woodworking, where he created unusual items such as totem poles and gnomes. He married Barbara Fife in 1946 and she survives him, along with children Richard '70, Karin, Kristin and Karol and their families; nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters; an uncle; and many nieces and nephews.

1947

Robert Bouree Bach died in Groton, Connecticut, on January 24. He attended Fourty Fort (Pennsylvania) High School and received a scholarship to the University of Chicago. He joined the Navy, attended midshipman school at Columbia University and served in the Pacific. He came to Dartmouth and graduated with a degree in economics. In college he was outstanding as coach and captain of the wrestling team. He did graduate work at Penn and Temple and taught math and science in the Philadelphia area for two years while also serving as wrestling coach at Swarthmore and later at Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, New Jersey, where he taught until retirement in 1988. He was inducted into the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Officials Hall of Fame. He was active in class activities, both in his local Dartmouth club and as a class agent and member of the class executive committee. He is survived by two children.

Alan Noyes Bagni of Naples, Florida, died on December 1,2006. He grewup in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and joined the class in the Marine V-12 unit. He was commissioned in 1945 and served for two years. He worked as a general agent for Union Mutual Insurance Cos. of Andover, Massachusetts, and later for Massachusetts Mutual as a CLU. In retirement in Florida he trained and then worked teaching golf. He was a past president of the Haverhill Country Club and a member of the Pelican Bay Country Club in Naples. He is survived by his wife and two children.

George Owen Fellers of Sandy Spring, Maryland, died on November 6,2006. He joined the class in the Naval V-12 unit from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. He completed a degree in civil engineering from Thayer School and continued to earn an M.S. in engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1948. Until retirement he worked in engineering management for the Department of the Army in Washington, D.C. He is survived by his wife and one of two daughters.

Donald George Ruegg died at Duke University Medical Center on October 22,2006. He grew up in La Junta, Colorado, and joined the class in the Naval V-12 unit. He served in the Navy from 1943 to 1946 and returned to obtain his degree in economics, cum laude, in 1947. He attended Tuck School for one year and went on to obtain an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1972. He worked for several railway companies, served as assistant vice president of the Santa Fe Railway in Chicago and retired in 1986 as executive vice president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. In 1993 he moved to Durham, North Carolina, where his interests were travel and photography. He and his first wife had five sons and a daughter. He is survived by his second wife of 43 years, his children and 35 grandchildren.

1948

Austin Ruddock Knight of Hyannis, Massachusetts, died there on January. He prepped at Kimball Union Academy before entering the Marine V12 unit at Duke University in 1943 and joining the 5th Marines in the South Pacific. Audie came on campus in 1946 and became a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Casque & Gauntlet. He lettered in lacrosse and was named All-American in that sport in 1947. Following graduation he joined the family retail fuel and lumber business on Bostons North Shore and led it until it was sold. He was a Rotarian and past president of Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association. He served as president of the North Shore Dartmouth Club. On retirement he and his wife moved to Cape Cod, where he honed his golfing, gardening and woodworking skills. He and Nancy Keiver were married in 1950. She survives, as do daughters Laurie, Cynthia, Katherine and Elizabeth '81.

Louis Kraff Jr. died in Santa Rosa, California, on February 2 of pneumonia after a long struggle with Alzheimer's. He came to Dartmouth in 1946 after three year's service as a Navy radar and sonar technician in the Pacific theater. His major was in physics and mathematics and he moved to Thayer School, where he earned an M.S.E.E. in 1949. He then worked at the high-altitude research laboratory in the geophysics research directorate of the Cambridge Research Center in Bedford, Massachusetts, where he was chief of the vehicle instrumentation division; at MIT Lincoln Laboratory providing systems engineering and technical support for the Air Force; and as chief of the systems engineering division of the Air Force western test range at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. In 1981 he received theAir Forces Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service. His family of six children, five grandchildren and wife, Edie, survive him.

Russell Cleaves Palmer died in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, on March 16. He came to Hanover with the Marine V-12 unit in 1943, moving on to receive a U.S. Marine Corps commission, serving three years before returning to campus. A government major and member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, he got an advanced degree at Boston University in political science in 1950. He joined Aetna Life and Casualty Co. in Hartford, Connecticut, and spent 35 years in field management in the employee benefits division. Although he claimed stardom in intramural hockey at Dartmouth, his real love was golf, and he served in several key positions in the Connecticut and U.S. golf associations. By our 50th reunion he had attended the Masters tournament for 35 years. Russ served as president of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford and on its interviewing committee for many years. He is survived by his wife, Patricia, and children Gib '75, Curtis 'BO, Elizabeth, Jane and Anne.

1949

Russell T. Blackwood, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at Hamilton College, died January 12. Blackwood went to Hamilton in 1952 and taught there for nearly 50 years. At Dartmouth he was active in the Marching Band, track and the Dartmouth Christian Union and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his masters and Ph.D. from Columbia. Although he had been "retired" more than a dozen years, Blackwood continued to teach at least one course each year, including a class last fall on Islamic thought. He enjoyed teaching and was considered an outstanding teacher at Hamilton. As the co-editor of several books and numerous articles, Blackwood focused on the philosophy of religion. Married in 1950 to Elizabeth Hamilton, who predeceased him in 2002, they had daughters Cynthia and Rebecca, graduates of Colgate and Arizona State, respectively.

1950

Larry Huntley died of unknown causes on Januarys. While at Dartmouth Larry was a member of the Dartmouth Outing Club and the Dartmouth Christian Union and worked at radio station WDCR. Following graduation he spent four years at the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, Massachusetts, while laboring part time at the Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Cos. From 1955 through 1958, he served as pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Wilton, New Hampshire. There followed a two-year course in Sacred Theology resulting in a masters then doctorate from the Boston University School of Theology. For the next 12 years he occupied various positions before winding up in what he called "the most joyful and rewarding ministry of them all," as chaplain of Sunland Training Center for the disabled in Gainesville, Florida. He is survived by his sister Martha Huntley.

Paul Joseph Lena of Concord, New Hampshire, and Biddeford, Maine, died January 30 surrounded by his family. Following graduation Paul attended Harvard Medical School, receiving his degree in 1955. He was a resident in internal medicine at Mary Hitchcock Hospital and served as a captain in the U.S. Army at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He practiced medicine in Concord for 30 years, taught at the Dartmouth family practice residency program and, after his retirement, volunteered as a physician at the Biddeford Free Clinic. A governor of the New Hampshire chapter of the American College of Physicians from 1986 to 1990, he received that groups Laureate Award in 1994. An avid sailor, skier, fisherman and outdoorsman, he lived his life with passion, kindness and conviction and will be greatly missed. He leaves his wife Joan; sons Mark '78, DMS'82, Jay, Timothy and Patrick; seven grandchildren; and brothers Hugh and Richard.

Benjamin H. Maeck Jr., M.D., died at home on January 22. A premed student at Dartmouth, Ben was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and earned his "D" as a member of the crew. In 1954 he graduated from the University of Vermont s medical school and went on to New York for two years of general surgery at St. Lukes Hospital. Tours of duty in London and again in New York eventually led him to San Francisco where, after entering private practice, he married Charlotte Durkee in May of 19 61. Charlotte and children John, Benjamin III, William and Elizabeth survive him. An avid dry fly fisherman, Ben was a life member of the Flyfishers' Club, London. His family will long remember their annual August hike in the High Sierra and their time together at Vogelsang High Camp; time for fishing, philosophy, literature and poetry.

1951

John Christopher Hatch died on March 27 in North Hill Skilled Nursing Facility in Needham, Massachusetts, of Alzheimer's disease. After graduating from Marshfield (Massachusetts) High School in 1943 and serving in the U.S. Navy he matriculated with our class. He withdrew from the College after three terms but returned to graduate with the class of 1953, majoring in sociology. John spent his entire business career in the insurance industry, where he founded Hatch, Anderson, O'Donnell in Arlington, Massachusetts. John married Sherry Howell in 1956 and had two sons and a daughter. He served as our head class agent in 1965 and chaired the Form 6 committee in the greater Needham community. His interests were many and varied, from a Needham selectman to director and chairman of Bostons Animal Rescue League. Surviving John are his wife, Sherry, children Christopher, Mark '80 and Melissa and 10 grandchildren.

Edward James Walsh died on February 25 of a heart attack at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua. He was born and raised in Lincoln, New Hampshire, and prepared for Dartmouth at Tilton Academy. He majored in history, pledged Sigma Chi and played freshman baseball. After service in the U.S. Army he entered the insurance industry as a licensed adjuster working for a number of companies during a 40-year career. He married Betty Holley in 1958 and they raised three children in Merrimack, New Hampshire. Surviving are Betty, children Michael, Patrick and Maureen and two grandchildren.

Fred Mason Weare died on March 14 of Alzheimer s at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California. Raised in Kenilworth, Illinois, he was one of eight New Trier classmates to matriculate with outclass. Mace pledged Sigma Alpha Epsilon, majored in sociology and was a member of Dragon. He entered the shoe business with Florsheim in Chicago, married in 1955, had one daughter and divorced in 1970. He then moved to California, married Patti in 1971, settled in Palos Verdes Estates and resumed his shoe business career with Harbor Footwear, a shoe importer. Afriend of Bill W. for more than 30 years, he retired in 199.8 to a life of travel, golf, duplicate bridge and reading. Surviving Mace are his wife, Patti; her daughters Bambi, Brook and Kelly; and his daughter Robin. Maces father was John S. Weare '22.

1955

Richard E. Brown died on February 23 of lung cancer. Dick came to Dartmouth from the New Hampton School in New Hampshire. While at Dartmouth he majored in English and was an active and loyal member of Theta Delta Chi and Dragon. Following college Dick spent three years in the Navy and then went on to a successful career in banking, retiring as a senior vice president of the U.S. Trust Cos. in Boston. His wife, Ann, and daughters Julie Brown and Sarah Moran survive.

1956

Anthony Bradfield Richter died February 8 in an automobile accident in Arizona. Following Dartmouth he worked as a trainee in the actuarial program at Met Life in New York before going into the Army for two years. After returning to civilian life, he worked for New York Life for all but three of the next 35 years, the last eight years as chief financial officer for the disability income profit center. He retired in 1995. He volunteered for the Mt. Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry for 10 years and gave time and effort to the Katonah Community Center and Meals on Wheels. When wintering in Arizona he participated in the work of the Samaritans, a humanitarian aid group dedicated to helping migrants. For eight years he was the leader of the Westport Singles Hiking Group, where he met his future wife, Diana. She survives, with children David and Susan, five grandchildren, four stepchildren and four step-grandchildren.

Donald "Bud" Rosenthal died April 7 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He was an IBM executive for 40 years and after retirement was active on the board of the New Canaan, Connecticut, Get-About. He also volunteered at Waveny Care Center in New Canaan, running a weekly current events discussion for Alzheimer's patients. He moved to New Canaan in 1965 after his military service and seven years in New York City. There he was a member of the Country Club of New Canaan. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Sheila, and children Kerry, Bud and Ted Grace.

Theodore Wadleigh died in Naples, Florida, February 17 after a brief illness, surrounded by his wife, Karlene, and daughters Martha, Ellen and Sarah. After graduating from Dartmouth and the University of Michigan's Law School he passed the bar and practiced in Manchester, New Hampshire, as a partner in the firm Wadleigh, Starr and Peters. He was identified by Manchester Magazine in 1993 as one of the"Most Brilliant Legal Minds of New Hampshire." He served on many boards and represented the Wadleigh Scholarship, established in 1988 in memory of his father, Winthrop Wadleigh, Esq., a trustee of the Chester College of New England. The scholarship is awarded to a student who can demonstrate that he has helped earn part of the funds needed for a college education.

1957

Ludwig J. Landgraf of Las Animas, Colorado, died on February 24. Lud, or "Lou," majored in physics at Dartmouth, played football, was on the track team and a Sigma Nu. He earned a masters in physics at the University of Colorado and did cutting-edge research in microwaves, lasers and computers. Lud joined Western Food Products Cos., rising to the position of warehouse manager. His first love was teaching, and he returned to it, saying he would never stop. Lud taught algebra, calculus, physics and chemistiy. He was a mentor to many of his students, including several science fair winners. At his death, Las Animas High School closed for a day in his honor. Classmate Jay Greene said teaching is "often uncelebrated, but one of the greatest contributions anyone can make." Lud leaves behind daughter Mary Margaret, stepsons, grandchildren and many students who have been inspired and challenged by him.

1960

Robert H.McManus died January 21 after a long illness. A lawyer and restaurant owner in the San Francisco Bay Area, he lived in Oakland, California, and traveled widely, skiing and playing golf and attending concerts. He came to Dartmouth from Berkeley, California, but left the school and graduated from UC Berkeley and the University of Miami School of Law. Also he served as an enlisted man in Army Intelligence, in which he served in Germany with Poland as his expertise. Later he worked for the district attorney in Boulder, Colorado, before returning to the Bay Area to work in his fathers law firm. His restaurant was in Emeryville, California. He is survived by his second wife, Addie Cassity McManus, and brothers Tom and Jim and their families. Contributions in his memory maybe made to the American Cancer Society.

1962

Michael W. Coffield died of a heart attack on March 27 at his law office in Chicago. Michael was very active in undergraduate activities, including the presidency of Casque & Gauntlet and chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee. "Mike was a great leader of our class and beloved by all who knew him," writes Fred Cook '62. "He was bigger than life and taught us all to be human and better than we otherwise were in our work-a-day lives. I can't say enough about what his friendship meant to me and many others over the long years since 1958-62." Longtime friend Larry Dunlap recalls, "Each of us remembers Michael in one of the numerous roles that he played during his life: warm and loving husband, generous and supportive father, exacting and patient mentor, creative and compassionate lawyer." Surviving Michael are his wife of 45 years, Heath, daughters Katherine Aiello and Heather Barefield, two brothers, one sister and three grandsons.

1963

William Lee Cleveland, distinguished scholar and professor of modern Middle Eastern history for 38 years at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, died September 28,2006. Born in Des Moines, lowa, Cleveland majored in history and was a member of Casque & Gauntlet and Kappa Sigma at Dartmouth. He earned his doctorate in 1968 from Princeton. Cleveland served as chairman of history at Simon Fraser. He received the university's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001 and the Middle East Studies Association of North America's Mentoring Award in 2006 after his death. Cleveland authored biographies of early Arab nationalists, numerous articles and the seminal A History of the Modern Middle East, now in its third edition. Cleveland enjoyed golf, gardening and the company of friends. He is survived by his wife, Gretchen.

1967

John Butter field Gormly of Canandaigua, New York, died October 23,2006. He was raised in Fredonia, New Hampshire. John was a philosophy major and member of The Tabard/Sigma Chi and Dartmouth Players. After College he enlisted in the Navy and served as a photographer. In 1971 he joined Fisher Yates Communications Inc., an audiovisual company, where he rose to president. He was a former member of the Wood Library board of directors. John was an avid movie collector, reader and accomplished pianist. Most of all, he loved spending time with his grandchildren. John is survived by his wife of 30 years, Deborah Yates Gormly; children Elisabeth Yates Pickney '85, Richard and Virginia Vigh.

1969

and woodcarving. Bruces first love was his family, and he is survived by his wife, Rebecca, children Ross and Lisa and brother David, Tu'66. Bruce Thomas Cameron of Brattleboro, Vermont, died at home on March 20 after a long struggle with lung cancer. Bruce grew up in Hanover, the son of Donald W. Cameron '35, who worked for many years at the College, and Elizabeth Cameron. He attended Hanover schools and entered Dartmouth as a sophomore. Bruce majored in religion and graduated cum laude. He was a member of Kappa Sigma and the Newman Club. After graduation he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany and was also awarded a James B. Reynolds Scholarship to study Christian social ethics at the University of Tubingen. Bruce moved to Brattleboro in 1970 and worked for many years at the Brattleboro Retreat. His interests included skiing, golf, songwriting

1981

Gerald "Chris" Sanders died February3,2004. Chris came to Dartmouth from Brooklyn, New York, via Phillips Academy, Andover. At Dartmouth he majored in psychology, played football and managed the basketball team. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. Chris began his career after Dartmouth with U.S. Trust Cos. and subsequently worked for a number of investment firms during his career. He leaves his ex-wife, Valerie Sanders, and children Marissa Blair and Jordan Christopher. Daniel Black '82, one of Chris' closest friends, describes him as someone who "was generous, loyal and loving to his family and friends. Chris was loved by everyone who was close to him. I miss him so much, and I know he laughs as loud now as when I would screw up when we were together at Dartmouth." Winnifred Levy '81 also recalls Chris as "a tough guy with a soft heart."

1987

Ruben Edmundo Montes Jr., M.D., died in his sleep January 15 at his home in San Francisco. He was a neurologist and director of the Stoke Center at Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.S. in micro- and neurobiology. He was accepted to the M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of California at San Francisco and completed his residency in neurology at Stanford University. He completed a one-year fellowship in neurology through Harvard University at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Montes was an avid figure skater since age 10. He competed through college and later in adult senior pairs and singles, winning gold medals. Following a back injury, he became a skating judge at the national and international levels. He is survived by his life partner of 12 years, David Lewis, parents Ruben Sr. and Mary Montes and sister Marisa Montes.

2003

Robert J. Reeves IV of Garden City, New York, died on November 12,2006. Bob came to Dartmouth from Garden City High School. He will always be remembered for his quick wit, intellect, charisma and his sense of humor. He was the first of three siblings to be awarded funniest member of his graduating class. Bob was an unforgettable character in every life he touched. An English major at Dartmouth, Bob was known for his love of classic literature and classic rock. He was a fouryear starter for the football team, earning Honorable Mention All Ivy recognition and the Hard Nose Award. He was also an officer in Gamma Delta Chi. After graduation Bob spent two years playing professional football before working as a foreign currencies broker in New York City. Bob is survived by grandparents Marie Lustenring and Catherine and Robert J. Reeves 11, parents Robert and Pat and siblings MariCate, Conor and Patrick.