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. Please contact Alumni Records at (603) 646-2253 to report an alumnus death.

Vance Dickerman ’31 • May 15 Edmund Max Hanauer ’31 • July 8 Robert George Newman ’34 • April 26 Robert Gordon Pumphrey ’36 • Feb. 27 Budd Wilson Schulberg ’36 • Aug. 5 John Woodcock Armour ’38 • Jan. 26 Jerome Jay Hochberg ’38 • June 14 Clemens Harold Sandresky ’38 • June 25 Eugene Leland Weeks ’39 • July 5 David Hall Fish ’40 • July 21 Carl William Maier ’40 • March 31 Jay Nathan Weinberg ’40 • June 18 Richmond Griswold Fisher ’41 • July 25 Rowland Barnes French ’41 • July 31 Mills Ten Eyck Jr. ’41 • June 25 Joseph Burns Miskell Jr. ’43 • June 19 John Gilbert Baker ’44 • July 12 Melvin Anton Friberg ’44 • May 15 Charles Hand Geer ’44 • Dec. 7, 2008 David Henry Merrill ’44 • March 19 James Elliott Rudnick ’44 • March 7 Raymond Charles Snell Jr. ’44 • May 5 John Wesley Tope III ’44 • Aug. 14 Edward Jenkins Martin ’45 • Oct. 7, 2008 Stanley Lloyd Rice ’45 • May 1 Leland Johnson Stacy Jr.’45 • July 3 Timothy Vincent Hartnett Jr. ’46 • June 18 John Burke Lane ’47 • June 10 Robert Healey Cormack ’48 • May 27 Milton Herbert Kurtz ’48 • Aug. 6 Charles Russell Neale Jr. ’50 • May 22 Robert Leon Wilson ’50 • May 6 Angus Macdonald Russell ’52 • July 30 Robert Alan Derzon ’53 • June 16 Henry Griswold Willard III ’54 • June 10 Joel Haskell Levy ’57 • April 3 Harold Marshall Trusler Jr. ’57 • April 11 R. Harcourt Dodds ’58 • July 12 John William Heyde ’61 • June 3 Anthony Read Wight ’61 • July 3 James F. Connaughton Jr. ’62 • Dec. 23, 2006 Thomas Heath Brownell ’63 • May 2 Robert Johnson Finney Jr. ’63 • July 25 James Mack Pool ’66 • June 8 John Herbert A. Wilkinson ’66 • Feb. 24 Paul Conger Lowe ’70 • June 25 Laura Woodberry Jessiman ’80 • June 24 Debra Thatcher Gilcrest ’85 • June 16 Leah Kay Horowitz ’02 • May 23 James Preston Russell Jr. ’05 • Aug. 2

1931

Edmund M. Hanauer died on July 8 at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Upon graduating from Dartmouth Ed attended Harvard Business School and shortly thereafter entered the family wholesale jobbing business in Boston. Eventually he and a partner started their own business selling imported foods and candies, from which he retired in 1973. In 1977 Ed and his wife, Sara, who died in 1998, moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, and then later to Rancho Santa Fe. Ed was an enthusiastic alumnus, contributing generously to the College for many years and, while living in Boston, attending numerous Big Green football games. Ed traveled extensively throughout the world, including such places as Iran, Thailand and China as well as his favorite city, Vienna. He was a great lover of Shakespeare, classical music and opera and an inveterate sports fan with a passion for baseball. Ed is survived by his son Peter ’61, daughter-in-law Renate (widow of son Ned ’60) and grandchildren Elly and Andy ’04.

1936

James M. Bayles died July 10 at The Place in Stuart, Florida. Born in Port Jefferson, New York, he resided in Stuart for more than 30 years, after coming from Arlington, Virginia. A graduate of Dartmouth, he received his J.D. from George Washington University. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, serving as a sergeant in the J.A.G. office. After World War II he became an attorney for the Veterans Administration, U.S. Civil Service. After retiring from the Veterans Administration he moved to Stuart and summered in Beulah, Michigan, by the shores of Crystal Lake. He was a member of Stuart Congregational Church. Survivors include nephews and nieces Richard ’66, Chivvis, Donald, Barbara, James ’74, Anne, Elizabeth and Wendy; godchild Barbara; and their families. He was predeceased by his wife, Eleanor, and brothers Rogers ’36 and Donald.

1939

Eugene Leland Weeks died July 5 in his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. Gene left Dartmouth in 1938 and entered the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. Commissioned lieutenant in the Army Signal Corps in 1942, he spent the duration of WWII in North Africa and Italy. After the war Gene served in many posts in this country and abroad, earned an M.B.A. in 1949 at Harvard Business School and attended all the required military colleges as he moved up the ladder to full colonel, his rank at retirement in 1968. In our 50th reunion book Gene wrote that he had lived in six foreign countries and had visited all 50 states, living in 12 of them. Gene is survived by his wife, Mildred; children John, William, Louise and Deborah; and nine grandchildren. His oldest son, James, was killed in Korea in 1968.

1941

Richmond Griswold Fisher passed away on July 25. Rich had a lifelong love of writing and was a reporter for the Hartford (Connecticut) Courant before enlisting in the service during WWII. After four years in the Navy he joined the Herbert F. Fisher Insurance Agency, which thrived under his leadership. He retired as president at the age of 86. Rich resided in Hartford’s West End for 73 years. Rich and his wife, Marilyn, moved to Meadow Hill in Glastonbury and then more recently lived in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Marilyn predeceased Rich, and he is survived by children John ’74, Carol and Peter.

Mills Ten Eyck died June 25 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. At Dartmouth he was active in The Players and wrote many short stories for the Dartmouth Undergraduate Magazine. He served his country as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy intelligence department while being stationed in Southport, Connecticut. He spent 25 years there until his Emerich Antiques partner passed away. Survivors include a sister and brother.

1942

Michael J. de Sherbinin died April 4. He served in the Air Force in WWII. His career was in the newspaper business in New England. He was also active in the peace and justice movement throughout the world.

1943

Joseph B. Miskell Jr. died June 19 in Falmouth, Massachusetts. After earning his B.A. and a Tuck M.B.A. “Bud” received his Air Force training with the Dartmouth Squadron. Later he was stationed in England as a navigator in the 490th Bomb Group USAAF. Bud owned Wood Lumber Co. in Falmouth, working there until son Dana took over in 1986. Bud continued to work at the company until he was 80. Always a tennis lover on the freshman tennis team at Dartmouth Bud won many tournaments in the Falmouth area. Later he became a great biker, a passion he enjoyed into his late 80s. He was a past commander of AmVets, a past president of the Falmouth Rotary and a board member of Falmouth’s Cooperative Bank. He served his class as a class agent and leadership agent. He is survived by his wife, Betty, children Deborah, David ’71 and Dana ’75 and four grandchildren.

1944

Charles Hand Geer of Rockland, Maine, died December 7, 2008. While at Dartmouth he was a member of Tabard/Sigma Chi. Other family members who also attended Dartmouth were brother Howard ’43 (deceased), nieces Charlotte ’80 and Julia ’75 and nephew Bartlett ’77. In 1942 he entered the Navy and served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theaters as a torpedo man, third class, until 1945. He attended and graduated in 1947 from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He then became a freelance illustrator of children’s books. He wrote and illustrated Dexter and the Deer Lake Mystery (W.W. Norton, 1965). He is survived by his wife, Mary, and four children.

David Henry Merrill, M.D., of Goleta, California, died at his seaside home in Santa Barbara on March 19. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth and a member of the Navy V12, Alpha Delta/Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx. He attended medical school at New York University and went on to intern and serve as a resident at Los Angeles County Hospital. He then went into private practice and was at the Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California, from 1952 to 1991. His father, Richard Merrill, class of 1908, predeceased him, as did brother John ’37. His grandniece Emily Schoonmaker is an ’01. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Elizabeth, children John, Joan and Laura and five stepchildren.

1945

Stanley Lloyd Rice died May 1 in Santa Cruz, California. He came to Dartmouth from Hanover. He was in the Merchant Marines and then went on to graduate from the School of Fine Arts at Harvard in 1947. He was an art director at Harcourt, Brace & World Inc. in New York City and also manager of the design department of McGraw-Hill Book Co. He is survived by his second son, Leslie Read.

Leland Johnson Stacy Jr. died July 3 in Hanover from complications from a fall. He came to Dartmouth from Caldwell (New Jersey) High School. “Stace” spent eight years in the Air Force, rising to the rank of major. He was a fighter pilot in the Pacific and European theaters and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Seven Oak Leaf Clusters. He graduated in 1953, after which he became a vice president with Dartmouth Skis Inc. and then sales manager for True Temper. He lived most of his adult life in the Upper Valley and was self-employed in real estate. He leaves his wife of 62 years, Ilia, children Leland “Bud” and Ilia and one granddaughter. He will be remembered by many friends for his humor, intellect, integrity and kindness.

1947

Irving Chorney died in Boynton Beach, Florida, on May 22. He grew up in Cranston, Rhode Island, and graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School in Providence, Rhode Island. In college he majored in economics. He served as president of ALGA Plastics Corp. in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, before retiring to Florida. He is survived by his wife and two children.

Edward Paul Scully of Belleair, Florida, died on May 10. He joined the class as a civilian from Bennett High School in Winchester, Massachusetts. He majored in psychology and served as co-manager for football and manager for hockey and track. He served on the class executive committee and as a class agent. He rose to become vice president of Corliss Realtors in Del Rey, California, and in 1971 he was named Realtor of the Year. He is survived by his wife and two

1948

Robert Healy Cormack died at Summerhill Assisted Living in Peterborough, New Hampshire, on May 27. He joined the class from Ludlow (Massachusetts) High School and, like many others, joined the naval service before returning to complete his Dartmouth degree. He majored in history and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Sphinx. From 1949 to 1955 he was a banker with time out for the Korean War. He joined IBM’s marketing department in 1955 with emphasis on banking applications. Retiring from IBM in 1973 he moved to Peterborough and real estate brokerage. He was involved in Rotary and many other community organizations. He and Mary Corkum were married in 1951. Their later years were divided between Peterborough and Vero Beach, Florida. Mary died in 2007. He is survived by a sister, Joan.

1950

Richard Gowan died on April 7 at his home in Plymouth, New Hampshire. While at the College he earned his “D” on the football field and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. Following graduation he spent a year as assistant line coach under Tuss McLaughry. For the next 16 years he worked with John McLaughry as assistant football coach, first at Amherst, then for eight years at Brown. Subsequent enterprises included ownership of Rowentown Boys Camp and Lookaway Lodge in Wentworth, New Hampshire, where he served for five years as a town selectman. The lodge was a favorite meeting place for snowmobilers, a sport Dick loved. During the 1970s his company built vacation homes. The 1980s found him acting as manufacturer’s rep for building products, and in the 1990s he became a real estate broker. At age 59 Dick, still single, married Carol Burke, who survives him.

Robert Leon Wilson died on May 6 at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers, Massachusetts. He entered Dartmouth following his tour with the U.S. Navy during World War II. While at the College he was a member of Gamma Delta Chi. He earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and graduated from Tuck. In 1960 he married Jeannette Fortin, who survives him. Their only daughter, Pamela, predeceased Robert. In his own words: “After 10 years of dabbling in such occupations as purchasing agent, college instructor, sales-man, product manager and consultant I spent over 30 extremely satisfying years as sales manager, marketing manager and director of sales and marketing for the resinite division of Borden Inc.”

1951

John Gregory Gannon died of cancer on April 17 at the Hospice of the Golden Isles in Brunswick, Georgia. Jack was born in Milwaukee and graduated from Wellesley (Massachusetts) High School. He joined Kappa Sigma, lettered in crew, graduated cum laude and then graduated from Tuck in 1952 and rose to lieutenant, j.g., during three years in the U.S. Navy. In 1964 he married Terry Carroll and they had a son and daughter. After employment with several companies he enjoyed a 19-year career with Cameo Curtains in New Bedford, Massachusetts, retiring as treasurer and vice president in 1986. He then joined Terry’s business, Toy Box toy stores, for 11 more years until 1999. For Dartmouth he served as an assistant class agent and was the 15th reunion chairman. He served two terms on the Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, school committee. Besides Terry, Jack is survived by children John ’87 and Julie and four grandchildren.

Richard Stryker Reed died on October 5, 2007, of cancer. Born in Tientsin, China, he spent the war years in the United States and prepared for Dartmouth at the Haverford School. Dick majored in sociology and was a member of SAE. As a U.S. Marine platoon leader he saw combat duty in Korea, was decorated for valor and received two Purple Hearts. His first marriage produced two sons. In the 1950s he worked for Olin Corp in New Haven, Connecticut, before and after obtaining an M.B.A. from Yale. His specialty was international personnel, first with American Express in London and later with two other listed companies. He enjoyed a temporary assignment with the Department of Defense in 1972 besides maintaining his reserve status as a colonel. He married Edith “Edie” Mathison in 1980. Besides Edie he is survived by sons Timothy and Christopher, stepdaughter Tia and eight grandchildren.

1952

Carl Hill Stephan died April 28 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, raised in Gardner and Concord, Massachusetts, and graduated from high school in Reading, Massachusetts. He graduated cum laude from Dartmouth in 1952 with a major in botany. He was a member of Kappa Sigma, sang with the Glee Club and was active in the Dartmouth Outing Club. He graduated from the Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, and served on active duty for three years. His business career was with the Exxon Corp., retiring in 1992 after 35 years of service, mostly in New England. He was a member of the Springfield Ski Club, the Longmeadow First Church of Christ (where he sang with the choir for 45 years) and the Wilbraham Men’s Chorus. Susie, his wife of 56 years, three daughters, their husbands and five grandchildren survive him.

Louis A. Zehner Jr. passed away on May 9 at West Chester, Pennsylvania, of Alzheimer’s disease. He is survived by his wife, Anne, and sons Jon ’79, Mark ’81, Kent ’87 and Scott. He is also survived by 11 grandchildren, including three who are currently attending Dartmouth, and by his first wife, Margaret “Mardie.” Lou was an active alum, serving as class treasurer, class vice president and, most recently, as treasurer for his 50th reunion. He was a Tuck major and a member of Delta Upsilon. Following service in the U.S. Army he had a most successful business career with his own company, Radnor Associates, a leasing company specializing in the railroad industry. In retirement he and Anne spent their winters at Harbour Ridge in Palm City, Florida. He was also involved in community affairs, such as the school board and several nonprofit organizations.

1953

William Reynold Johnson died unexpectedly May 30. The Hon. Justice Johnson was a two-sport varsity athlete, history major and member of Beta Theta Pi, Casque & Gauntlet and Phi Beta Kappa. After finishing the Army and Harvard Law School and a career started in a Hanover law firm, he plunged into politics, moving quickly from the New Hampshire House to the New Hampshire Senate (majority leader). After a very narrowly unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate he chaired the N.H. Republican Party. His appointment to the N.H. Superior Court led to the bench of the N.H. Supreme Court, where he served with great distinction as a justice for 14 years. Bill and his wife, Nancy, raised two daughters who are both professiona1 athletes. We have lost one of the great athletes and profound intellectuals of our class.

1955

Richard Hubbard Hart Jr. died April 16, 2008, of pancreatic cancer. Richard came to Dartmouth from Morgan Park High School in Chicago. He was an economics major, and a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and the college band. Richard enlisted in the Air Force ROTC and made a career of the Air Force. His father, Richard, was also a graduate of the College, class of 1921. He married Cynthia Sheffert in 1955 and is survived by her and children Deborah, Theodore and David.

Henry Frederic Neuberger died on September 23, 2008. Hank lived in Baltimore and attended McDonough School prior to moving to Hanover. He majored in economics and was a member of the swim team and executive manager of the Dartmouth Dart. For two years he was active with the Air Force ROTC. Most of his career was spent in corporate real estate, acquisition and disposition and he became vice president at Security Pacific Bank in California. After retirement he moved to Maryland. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis, and children Matthew, Katherine and Thomas.

1957

Joel H. Levy of Chevy Chase, Maryland, died unexpectedly April 3 of a cerebral hemorrhage. At Dartmouth Joel served as president of Tau Epsilon and went on to obtain his J.D. from Harvard Law School. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, he met Felicia, whom he later married and with whom he had children David, Elizabeth and Seth ’85. In his legal career Joel became a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Cohn & Marks, specializing in federal communications law. Joel always spoke fondly of his Dartmouth experience. In the 1990s Joel served as a class agent and fraternity/sorority agent. To all who knew him Joel was a gentle, loyal, warm friend whose wit and wisdom were captured in his very moving 50th reunion remembrance dedicated to two fellow classmates, both named George, who taught him invaluable lessons of humility a quality that Joel embraced all his life.

1958

James L. Davidow, a pioneer in automotive finance, died on May 26 after a long battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at his home in Colleyville, Texas. He grew up in Huntington Woods, Michigan, attended the nearby Cranbrook School and majored in political science at Dartmouth. Coming from an automotive background his father was a founder of the United Auto Workers and general counsel under Walter Reuther Jim held a series of positions in automotive finance before founding First Lease Inc., a subsidiary of the First National Bank of Chicago, in 1973. As president and CEO he introduced initial leasing programs for foreign carmakers Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen, Porsche, Fiat and Jaguar. Jim’s Michigan roots remained strong, and he was an avid fan of the Detroit Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons. He rarely missed a University of Michigan football game during 50 years, according to son Stephen. His brother is Robert ’59.

1961

John W. Heyde of Irving, Texas, died June 3 of cancer, which he had begun battling in 1982. At Dartmouth Jack was a member of the Glee Club, Undergraduate Council and Bones Gate/Delta Tau Delta. He also played baseball. After a long and varied career Jack retired from Siplast Inc. in 2002. Just prior to his death Jack wrote a letter to his friends and family, saying he “can take no issue with the timing of making this trip that I could easily have made 27 years ago. I make it with the feeling of gratitude for all of the extra time that was given to me and the joy and rewards that accompanied it. I’m sure that I have been booked first class and that the destination will exceed my human expectation.” Jack is survived by his wife, Barbara, and children Margaret, Elizabeth, Brad and Andrea.

Anthony Read Wight of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, passed away in his home on July 3 from prostate cancer. After graduation from Dartmouth Tony enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he become fluent in Serbo-Croatian and served in Europe. After discharge Tony began a long and rewarding career in advertising, as an executive at Foote, Cone and Belding; Papert, Koenig; Lois Ketcham, MacLeod and Grove; and Needham and Grohman. Tony’s first wife, Catherine, died in 1998. He is survived by their daughter, Alison, his wife, Susan, and his sister, Judith. During his later years Tony became very active in the Teatown Nature Center, to which he was dedicated and where he devoted many hours as a volunteer. At Dartmouth Tony was a member of Gamma Delta Chi. His passion was music, especially jazz, and he was an active member of the Sultans and the Barbary Coast, for which he played the drums.

1962

James F. Connaughton Jr., M.D., passed away in Lewes, Delaware, on December 23, 2006. At Dartmouth Jim majored in biology and was a brother of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Following graduation he attended Indiana University Medical School and went on to complete his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also taught as an assistant professor of medicine. Jim served in the Navy in 1968 and 1969, including a tour at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Da Nang, Vietnam. In 1976 he went into private practice in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where he lived until his retirement. He is survived by his partner, Curtis Gillis, and siblings Thomas, Stephen and Jane.

1963

Thomas Heath Brownell, retired professor of languages and literature at Ferris State University and writer on automobiles and trucks, died May 2 in Whitehall, Michigan, of complications arising from multiple systems atrophy. Tom was born in Syracuse, New York. At Dartmouth he majored in government, was a Phi Tau brother and member of the Dartmouth Outing Club and Motor Sports Club. After graduation he served as regional Dartmouth Club president, development/career advisor and continuing education officer. Tom earned an M.A. in liberal studies at Ohio University. He was a technical writer for Pan American World Airways and NCR Corp. and taught English at St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont. Tom is survived by his wife, Joyce, sons Nathan and Anthony, sister Ann and four grandchildren.

1974

Ronald Lloyd Bishop died on August 14, 2008, at St. Mary’s hospital in Lewiston, Maine, from complications following a brain injury. Ron graduated from Dartmouth cum laude with high distinction in his English major. He was a member of the track and cross-country teams. After earning a law degree from the University of Southern Maine School of Law Ron established his own practice. He also provided legal counsel for injured workers as an employee of the State of Maine. Ron always considered himself a defender of working class and lower-income Americans. His chief hobby was racing his late model stock car at tracks throughout Maine, but he also enjoyed running, cross-country skiing, camping, reading and spending time with his family. Ron is survived by sons Sean and Seth; their mother, Judy Coombs; siblings Roxanne, Lois and Carl and their spouses; and many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and other relatives.

1995

Andrew N. Swanson, M.D., died June 11 in a mountain climbing accident on Denali in Alaska. At Dartmouth Andrew majored in biology, rowed heavyweight crew and was president of the Mountaineering Club. He graduated magna cum laude. After Dartmouth Andrew attended medical school at the University of Chicago. He did his residency in orthopedic surgery at the prestigious Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and then joined his father and brother in practice at the Orthopedic and Fracture Clinic in Mankato, Minnesota. Andrew volunteered his time for several weeks each year, performing spine surgery on children in Ghana. He was an adoring uncle, an avid cyclist, accomplished mountaineer, excellent pilot and superb cook. He is survived by his parents, three siblings, two brothers-in-law and seven nieces and nephews. Further tribute to Andrew can be found at www. synoptek.com/andrew.

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2002

Leah K. Horowitz died following a multi-fatality car accident west of Accra, Ghana, on May 23. She had worked for the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C., since 2006, and was sent to Ghana to research women and governance for the World Bank in winter 2008; she became head of programs for the institute there last October. Leah grew up outside Philadelphia and attended Cheltenham High. At Dartmouth she studied geography, interned and lived at the organic farm, took the FSP to Botswana and South Africa, traveled solo around sustainable farms in Australia and researched community-supported agriculture. After graduating Leah worked for National Geographic, was a VISTA volunteer in rural Oregon, got a master’s in food policy and economics at Tufts and worked on nutrition policy in Boston and on Capitol Hill. Leah is survived by her father, David, mother Sandee, stepfather Jeff, brother Scotty and many loving friends.