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.

George Lewis Thomas ’34 • Dec. 17, 2008 George Richmond Brister ’36 • Dec. 1, 2008 Colin Baker Holman ’39 • Nov. 13, 2008 Robert Byron Giles Jr. ’42 • Dec. 21, 2008 William Walter Stegner ’42 • May 31, 2008 Stephen Horner ’44 • Nov. 12, 2008 Paul Victor Morgan Jr. ’44 • June 11, 2008 Milton Simon Yondorf ’44 • Aug. 18, 2008 Carl Hanline Loewenson ’45 • Dec. 24, 2008 Carlton Henry Bremer Jr. ’46 • Jan. 16 Robert Bernard Hodes ’46 • Jan. 15 Eugene F. Houlihan Jr. ’46 • Nov. 19, 2008 Thomas Montgomery Jr. ’46 • Dec. 20, 2008 Maynard Wallace Poole III ’46 • Dec. 8, 2008 John Richard Hodgens ’49 • Dec. 20, 2008 John Arthur Conners ’50 • Dec. 18, 2008 George David Blanpied ’52 • Nov. 4, 2007 Charles Henry Jones Jr. ’52 • Dec. 15, 2008 Leonard Bert Beller ’54 • Nov. 15, 2008 Robert David Leffert ’55 • Dec. 7, 2008 Stephen Crystal Brand ’56 • Jan. 4 Howard Philip Goldberg ’61 • Jan. 7 De Witt Talmadge Beall ’62 • March 31, 2006 Brooks Wheeler ’64 • Dec. 26, 2008 William Randolph Adams Jr. ’66 • Jan. 14 Abbott C. Combes IV ’66 • Dec. 26, 2008 Marion McCoy Mustard ’76 • Dec. 17, 2008 James Albert Grubbs ’81 • 2008 Maureen Therese Buletti ’00 • Nov. 3, 2008 James Joseph Kaplan ’02 • Dec. 24, 2008

1933

Vincent Nichols Merrill, a longtime Boston landscape architect, died January 11 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Vincent graduated from Dartmouth College in 1933 with a BA in Comparative Literature. At Dartmouth Vincent majored in comparative literature, was a member of Phi Sigma Epsilon and participated in Outing Club. He then attended Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he earned a master’s in landscape architecture. He worked in the office of noted landscape architect Arthur A. Shurcliff and subsequently became a partner in the firm, which was renamed Shurcliff and Merrill. Vincent’s practice encompassed not only private gardens and landscape restorations, but also the planning of public parks, college campuses and other public facilities, including the Boston Public Gardens. Vincent was predeceased by his first wife, Anna; second wife, Natalie; and brother John ’32. He is survived by nephews John ’64, Robert and Richard ’71 Merrill and numerous other nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews and stepchildren.

1934

Charles William Mills, M.D., died on October 22, 2008, at Cristwood Retirement Community in Shoreline, Washington. After Dartmouth Charlie received his M.D. in 1938 from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He served in the Army’s Medical Unit from 1941 to 1945. In 1943 he received the Legion of Merit by monitoring aid stations in close proximity to the front lines in Italy. After finishing his obstetrics training in 1948 he moved his family to Oregon, where he practiced until 1971. From 1972 to 1977 he was gynecologist at Hall Health Center at the University of Washington. He retired to the San Juan Islands, where he pursued his lifelong love of flying, having received his pilot license in 1940. He leaves his wife, Margaret, two daughters and a son and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

George Lewis Thomas died on December 17, 2008, at his home in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His wife, Katharine, predeceased him. “Shorty” is survived by daughters Deborah, who accompanied her parents to Hanover for many minireunions in earlier days; Susan and her husband, Brian; and Wendy and her husband, Ken; as well as many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Most of his life was spent in Connecticut; he was born in Waterbury and after graduating from Dartmouth in 1934 returned there. He was president and general manager of both Electric Motor and Repair Co. and Tubecraft Inc. Later he taught school in Wolcott, Connecticut, and after retirement from there was a substitute teacher at Cheshire (Connecticut) High School from 1982 until 2006. He was so beloved by the students at this school that the class of 2006 dedicated its yearbook to him. He was very active in the community.

1939

Colin Baker Holman of Mercer Island, Washington, died November 13, 2008, after a long illness. At Dartmouth Collie majored in chemistry-zoology and was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Zeta Alpha Phi. He earned his M.D. in 1943 at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and spent the next two years in the Army Medical Corps as a radiologist in the 116th General Hospital in the European theater. After the war he received an M.S. in radiology at the University of Minnesota and served on the staff of the Mayo Clinic and as professor of radiology at the Mayo Medical School until retirement in 1981. He and wife Kathryn then moved to the Pacific Northwest and enjoyed an active retirement until the onset of Collie’s illness. He is survived by Kathryn; children Eloise, Ann and Colin; three grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.

Gordon Post King died January 24 at the Homewood at Plum Creek Nursing Center in Hanover, Pennsylvania. At Dartmouth Gordy belonged to Kappa Kappa Kappa and earned his M.B.A. at Tuck in 1940. In WWII he served as a Seabee in the Navy (lieutenant, s.g.) during the Pacific island-hopping actions. Gordy joined Hanover Shoe Inc. after the war, moving up to president and CEO. He was involved with the company’s postwar growth, its purchase of the Bostonian shoe brand and eventual sale of Hanover Shoe to a British company. He was a director of a number of business organizations, the Hanover General Hospital and United Way of York County. Gordy’s first wife, Charlotte, died in 2000. He is survived by second wife Esther; sons Richard ’66, Robert ’70 and Alan ’74; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.

1940

Herbert Heaton of Peoria, Illinois, died November 30, 2008. Herb came to Dartmouth from Jefferson High School in Elizabeth, New Jersey, received a B.S. and M.S. from Columbia and a Ph.D. from Union Institute & University. He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, achieving the rank of lieutenant commander. A certified public accountant, Herb served as partner in accounting firms before becoming comptroller of the Rockefeller Foundation and later a research professor at Skidmore College. A Tucson, Arizona, resident since 1995, he and his wife were actively involved in education issues and were co-founders of Willowemoc Land Conservancy and of Support Services Alliance. He was predeceased by his wife of 61 years, Olga. Herb is survived by daughters Paulene, Frances and Clare and four grandchildren.

1943

Anthony Gordon Rud died November 19, 2008, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Tony graduated from Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, and won honors in his philosophy major. A member of Sigma Nu, he was active in the Jack-O-Lantern and the radio station. In later years he was a class agent as well as a leadership agent and a regional agent. As a Navy lieutenant in WWII he took part in the Normandy invasion at Omaha Beach. Later he worked at The Berkshire Eagle, starting as a reporter, then becoming an editorial writer. Later he was editor of Mart Magazine. Tony co-founded the Berkshire Learning Center with his wife and worked there after his retirement in 1980. He is survived by his wife, Marianne; two sons, including Anthony ’75; and two grandchildren.

1944

Paul Victor Morgan Jr. of San Diego, California, died June 11, 2008. Paul graduated from San Diego High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Bones Gate/Delta Tau Delta and men’s tennis and squash. He attained the academic honor of Phi Beta Kappa. He received an M.A. at the University of Chicago in 1947 and studied for two years at the University of Paris. During WWII he served in Navy aviation intelligence and supply in the Pacific. Most of his life was spent with the U.S. Office of Southeast Asian Affairs. He was predeceased by his wife, Sicily.

Milton Simon Yondorf of Chicago died August 18, 2008. He was a graduate of Dartmouth and attended Tuck School. During World War II he was a corporal in the Army from 1943 to 1946. He later became a lawyer in the Chicago area.

1945

Andrew Paul Carstensen Jr. died June 7, 2008, in Danville, Pennsylvania, after a brief illness. Andy came to Dartmouth from the University School of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1942 he joined the Naval Air Corps and served in the Pacific as a lieutenant, j.g., piloting a Navy Mariner. After the war he returned to Dartmouth, was on the basketball team and a member of Beta Theta Pi and Sphinx and graduated in 1947. In Cleveland he held a succession of senior sales positions with a variety of companies, including the Flood Co., Glore Forgan, JC Bradford and McDonald & Co. He was an active member of the Garfield Memorial Church, the Cleveland Racquet Club and the Dartmouth Alumni Association. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, sons Andrew ’72 and David ’74 and two grandchildren.

John Campbell Loper died at his home in Walnut Creek, California, on June 26, 2008. John entered Dartmouth in 1941 from Berkeley (California) High School, and on the advent of WWII returned to California and entered the University of California, Berkeley, where he enlisted in the Naval ROTC program and subsequently served as a navigator on a ship in the Pacific. At the end of the war he returned to graduate from Boalt School of Law at Berkeley in 1949. John became deputy district attorney in Alameda County and then joined the firm of Hardin, Cook, Loper and Martin, where he practiced until retirement in 1999, primarily in trial and probate law. Dolores (“Del”), his wife of 54 years, died in 2000, and he is survived by children Sue, Laurie and Bruce ’72.

1946

Walter G. Koontz died November 29, 2008, in Derry, New Hampshire. Walter was in the Navy during WWII while attending Dartmouth, from which he graduated in 1946. He worked in advertising sales for several magazines in New York and Atlanta. He was a former resident of Newburyport, Massachusetts; Wilton, Connecticut; Atlanta and New York City before moving to Windham, New Hampshire, five years ago. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Jane; daughter Cindy and her husband, Ken; daughter Margaret; daughter Elizabeth and her husband, Shepard; son Walter Jr. and his wife, Linda; grandchildren Jay, Leslie and Abigail; and several nieces and nephews.

1947

Charles Richman Way died on September 28, 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Oil City High School and joined the class in the Naval V-12. He graduated from Thayer in 1948. After service he retired from the Navy as a lieutenant, j.g. In 1948 he joined Pittsburgh-based Richardson Consulting Engineers, from which he retired in 1987 in charge of the transportation division engaged in highway design in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In Pittsburgh he served as president of three engineering societies. He was active in the Boy Scout program and in retirement was a mathematics classroom mentor for 15 years in three junior high schools in Mesa, Arizona. His hobbies included hunting and fishing. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

1948

Truman Thwing Metzel Jr. died June 6, 2008. He joined the class from Highland Park, Illinois, high school and spent time in the service before graduation. On campus he was heavily involved with WDBS and majored in economics. Further studies gained him an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1954. He taught school in Wyoming for many years before returning to Evanston, Illinois, to become proprietor of Great Expectations Bookstore before retiring in 1995. Northwestern University gave him its Service to Society award in 1991. He was an enthusiastic class member and regular reunion attendee. His father, Truman ’23, preceded him at Dartmouth and his daughter Suzanne ’75 followed him. She survives him, as do his wife, Dorothy, and son Truman III.

1949

Charles Kilham Dodge Jr. died of emphysema September 14, 2008, in New Milford, Connecticut. A native of Sherman, Connecticut, he came to Dartmouth from Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire. His major was music and he was active as an undergraduate organist of Rollins Chapel. He served during the war in the Army Air Corps. His career was with Allen Organ Sales, where he served in White Plains, New York; Hartford, Connecticut; and Framingham, Massachusetts. He was president and CEO of this company before retirement. Charlie never married. Two cousins were Dartmouth graduates: Michael ’66 and Peter ’65 Kilham.

Emmanuel Wolpert Metz died of cancer in New York City on August 6, 2008. A philosophy major at Dartmouth, “Mike” received law degrees from Harvard and New York University. A five-decade Wall Street veteran, he joined Oppenheimer in 1969 and held the chief strategist position since 1990. Mike was one of the few voices on Wall Street warning of future problems, including a fall in stock prices earlier this year. He was one of the first analysts to raise red flags about the deteriorating housing and credit markets, and predicted the U.S. economy would be in recession in 2008 and 2009. He was often featured in major publications and regularly appeared on television. Mike is survived by his wife, Janine, whom he married in 1964. He served Dartmouth as leadership agent, class agent and member of the reunion giving committee.

1950

John A. Densmore died on October 1, 2008, at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Although he matriculated at Dartmouth with the class of 1950, he did not graduate. He earned his degree from the University of Vermont in 1951. From 1951 through 1953 he served in the U.S. Army, following which he graduated from the Cornell Business School. He worked, as an accountant, for several businesses in Vermont.

1951

George Weimer Goldthorpe died on November 5, 2008, of cancer at home in Northstar, California. Born in Chicago, he graduated from Charleston (West Virginia) High School and at Dartmouth majored in history, pledged SAE and earned a letter in wrestling. His medical career began at the University of Virginia Medical School and continued in the Navy for five years as a flight surgeon. After marrying Cecelia and beginning a family of three girls, he opened his family practice in Half Moon Bay, California, in 1961, eventually founding an extended care facility and an acute hospital. During the next 37 years he became involved in his community as a school board member and in Rotary and the chamber of commerce. After 1998 he retired to Lake Tahoe, sailed in San Francisco Bay for years and was a regular at the opera. He is survived by Cecelia, daughters Amy, Penny and Wendy and four grandchildren.

1952

George David Blanpied passed away after a long illness on November 4, 2007, in Chestertown, Maryland. Dave was a native of New Jersey and came to Dartmouth from Ridgewood High School. At Dartmouth he majored in botany and was a member of Chi Phi (president), and then served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for three years. Following service he earned an M.S. from Cornell and a Ph.D. at Michigan State University. He spent the next 38 years as a distinguished professor of pomology at Cornell School of Agriculture. Following retirement he and his wife settled in Chestertown on the Maryland shore. In 1952 he married his wife, Eloise, who survives him with children G. David Jr., Peter and Elizabeth. Dave’s father was Dartmouth, class of 1919.

1953

Kisuk Cheung died October 2, 2008. Raised in Seoul, Korea, at Dartmouth he joined Beta Theta Pi, Casque & Gauntlet and the Foreign Students’ Club and played soccer and lacrosse. He graduated from Thayer in 1954 with an M.S. in civil engineering and recognition as one of our most popular classmates. After service in the U.S. Army he began an extraordinary civilian career as a brilliant civil engineer for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. His design, construction and engineering activities included huge worldwide civilian and military projects costing many billions. Kisuk was named chief of the engineering division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He three times received the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Service Executive, the highest award a civilian can receive from the Corps. Thayer School recognized him with the coveted Robert Fletcher Award. He was named a ’53 Classmate of the Year in 1998.

1954

Leonard B. Beller, M.D., died of colon cancer on November 15, 2008, at his home in Los Angeles. At Dartmouth Lenny majored in zoology, graduated with high honors and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. He grew up in New York City and attended the Dwight School. He started medical school in Kansas City, Missouri, before receiving his medical degree from UC Irvine. Lenny maintained a family practice for 46 years. Besides his passion for medicine, Lenny’s devotion to his family resulted in the development of volumes upon volumes of family photo albums. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Sheila, three children and eight grandchildren.

1956

Stephen Crystal Brand died peacefully on January 4 in New Braunfels, Texas. After graduating from Dartmouth, where he had been involved in the DOC, the ski team and patrol and the Dartmouth Players, Steve served in the Army at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. It was during this time he met and later married Georgia on May 31, 1958. His service took him to Greenland with the Army Corp of Engineers. With his service duties done Steve worked for various firms in sales for close to 40 years before investing his last 10 years in the insurance industry. His community involvement included serving as a councilor for the Village of Corrales, New Mexico, as a board member and officer for the Ridgefield (Connecticut) Symphony Orchestra and as vice chairman of the New Mexico Municipal League. He is survived by his wife, Jo; children Tony ’81, Jessica and Suzie; and five grandchildren.

Samuel Edwin Fry Jr. died peacefully on December 14, 2008, in Olympia, Washington, of liver cancer. At Dartmouth Sam served as president of the Interdormitory Council and belonged to Delta Upsilon and Palaeopitus. After graduation and a stint in the military Sam earned his M.A. in political science at the University of Massachusetts and joined the Foreign Service in 1961. He spent most of his career as a Foreign Service officer in Moscow or on the periphery of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Assignments in Norway and Finland created a strong interest in the Arctic. Upon retirement he undertook projects in Alaska that stimulated his fascination for archeology, wildlife preservation and environmental science. He and his wife, Louise, restored a lovely waterfront home on Puget Sound and built a wildlife habitat in the area surrounding their home. He also indulged his passion for railroading and visiting his many friends throughout the country.

1961

Jack Allen Charter passed away on November 9, 2008, in Nashua, New Hampshire. Jack was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, and attended Dartmouth after graduation from Manchester High School. While at Dartmouth Jack majored in engineering science and mathematics and participated in men’s squash and tennis. Jack’s 30-plus-year career in information technology included positions at Honeywell, Sanders Associates and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. He was an avid tennis player, automobile enthusiast and bowler. Jack was predeceased by his first wife, Sheila. He is survived by his wife, Christine; sons Adam and Gareth; stepdaughter Emma; and grandchildren Ryan, Kathryn and Lily.

Thomas Carter Halliday died September 21, 2008, in Amarillo, Texas, where he lived with Debra, his wife of 27 years. After leaving Dartmouth Tom graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College with a degree in chemistry. He was a past master of the New England Masonic Lodge in Columbus, Ohio. Tom worked for Battelle in Columbus and later at Pantex Plant in Amarillo, retiring after 37 years. He then became the director of the Dan Harrington Discovery Center. Tom had been retired for several years. While living in Amarillo for 15 years he was active in many civic organizations and participated in several productions at the Amarillo Little Theatre. Later in life Tom attended Amarillo College, where he studied the trumpet. While at Dartmouth Tom was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Tom is survived by Debra; children Tim, Jennifer, Alison and Trevor; eight grandchildren; and sisters Nancy and Martha.

1962

David Collins Downie died of degenerative post-polio syndrome on December 29, 2008, at his home in San Rafael, California. He grew up in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from the Mercersburg Academy in 1958. Intelligent, charismatic and fun-loving, Dave majored in psychology at Dartmouth and was an active member of Bones Gate/Delta Tau Delta. After graduation he attended Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received an M.B.A. in finance. Self-employed, Dave was senior advisor of Downie & Associates, focusing on personal support services in the field of education. He retired in 2003. He is survived by sons David Jr. ’88 and Christopher ’91 and brothers Robert and Richard.

1964

Brooks Wheeler of Holland, Michigan, died at Meijer Heart Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on December 26, 2008. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth, received another bachelor’s degree, in classical studies, from Harvard University in 1965 and earned an M.A. in teaching from the University of Michigan, where he also completed coursework toward a Ph.D. in classics. He taught classics at Hope College from 1968 until 1977, when he began a career with the Internal Revenue Service as office manager, district director, systems analyst and trainer, retiring in November 2008. For 20 years the Wheelers led the Catholic Services Appeal campaign at Our Lady of the Lake Church in Holland. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and sister and brother-in-law Shirley and Carl.

1965

Thomas Jackson Barnett III died on November 9, 2008. He had been living in Portland, Oregon. He came to Dartmouth after graduating from New Trier Township (Illinois) High School. After graduation from Dartmouth he earned an M.B.A. from University of California, Santa Clara, and a law degree from Northwestern University. Following law school he worked in the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office, where one of his first cases was the Charles Manson case. Tom moved in 1973 to Portland, where he was an attorney specializing in labor-management issues. He enjoyed golfing, fly-fishing and cross-country skiing. Survivors include his sister Jane and a niece and nephew.

1976

Marion McCoy Mustard, beloved classmate, daughter of Barbara Mustard and the late Robert Mustard Sr. ’43, and sister of Robert Jr. ’71 and Lee Sargent, died in her home on December 17, 2008, of multiple sclerosis. Her long illness did not define her life; rather she will be remembered by the many friends, family, and helpers who were buoyed by her presence. Born and raised in Wellesley, Marion graduated from the Dana Hall School and in the first coeducational four-year class of Dartmouth. “For her 177 female classmates Marion was a bonding force—a symbol of loyalty to our college years and to each other that continues unabated,” says Sara Hoagland Hunter ’76. As recently as October she gathered her friends, including freshman year roommate and close pal Julie Shepherd ’76, for a bedside Halloween celebration, complete with costumes.