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.

Blaine Heston Miller Jr. ’31 • March 10 William Hart Judd Jr. ’34 • May 29 Joseph Edward Marceau ’34 • April 7 Frank Cash Stockman ’35 • April 16 Robert Emmett Foley ’38 • May 1 Carl Allen Raymond Jr. ’38 • April 19 Richard Weed Rooker ’38 • May 4 James Montgomery Sutcliffe ’38 • June 13 William Edgar Hotaling ’41 • April 23 Jason Howard Woodward ’41 • April 18 Michael Jacques de Sherbinin ’42 • April 4 Ralph Falk II ’42 • May 29 Harry Craden Bishop ’43 • May 4 L. William Seidman ’43 • May 13 Henry Redman Dutcher ’45 • April 16 Frederick Raphael Williamson Jr. ’45 • April 7 R. Charles Fortunato ’46 • April 20 William C. Ivins Jr. ’48 • May 2 Maurice Noel Levy Jr. ’48 • May 1 David Stevens Gifford ’49 • May 1 Nestor Philip Lord ’49 • May 19 Helmut Richard Wallace ’49 • Jan. 25 Richard Merrill Gowen ’50 • April 7 James Gregg ’50 • March 25 Kingsley Albright Jarvis ’50 • April 10 John Gregory Gannon ’51 • April 17 Edward Connery Lathem ’51 • May 15 Richard Stryker Reed ’51 • Oct. 5, 2007 Samuel Ranken Roberts ’51 • June 11 Dwight Skinner Jacobsen ’52 • April 2 Herbert R. Nubel ’52 • Jan. 16 Carl H. Stephan ’52 • April 28 Louis Aylesbury Zehner Jr. ’52 • May 9 Burt N. Dorsett ’53 • April 26 William Reynold Johnson ’53 • May 30 David V. Siddall ’53 • Dec. 2008 John Davis Musa ’54 • April 25 Gerald David Kleinman ’55 • April 6 Peter Herbert Shipman ’56 • May 4 James Lawrence Davidow ’58 • May 26 Raymond Henry Marcotte Jr. ’58 • March 27 Einar Kloster ’59 • March 29 Michael Kevin Fitzgerald ’60 • May 6 Thomas John Machura ’60 • June 12 George William Lampl Jr. ’61 • April 18 Lawrence Ellison Hazard ’62 • May 23 Leonard Curt Ferguson ’66 • April 21 David Albert Sinclair ’67 • Oct. 22, 2008 Charles Duane Smith ’70 • Dec. 1, 2008 Allister Hanna McCree Jr. ’73 • April 16 David Wood Thrasher ’74 • May 20 Philip L. Meyercord ’75 • Feb. 21 Andrew Nicholas Swanson ’95 • June 11

1934

William Hart Judd Jr. died on May 29 at his home in New Britain, Connecticut. After Dartmouth he graduated from Harvard Law School and then returned to New Britain to work as a lawyer in private practice. Later he held the position of corporate secretary and vice president of North and Judd Manufacturing Co. until his retirement in 1973. Bill and his wife, Margaret, who predeceased him, had enjoyed camping trips for many years and had a summer home in Maine. Bill’s diverse and numerous hobbies, plus his involvement in many community affairs, kept him busy to the end. He is survived by their five children, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was a valuable member of the class of 1934 as chairman of gift planning from 1993 to 2009, for which he received a citation from the College in 2006.

1936

George Richmond Brister died December 1, 2008. At Dartmouth he was an English major and a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Green Key and varsity track. His 13-foot-3-inch pole vault in 1934 was a record unbeaten for many years. Shortly after graduating he gave in to a compulsion to write fiction and by 1950 he had contributed some 400 sports, detective and western stories to pulp magazines. When television eclipsed the pulps, he wrote western novels such as The Kansan and The Shoot-Out at Sentinel Peak under the name Richard Brister. In 1981 he turned from fiction writing to cartooning, which he pursued successfully late into his seventies. Dick served in the Coast Guard during World War II and later settled with his wife, Kay, in Abington, Pennsylvania, where their daughter Barbara was born in 1949. Kay predeceased him in 2003, and he is survived by Barbara and her husband, Jim.

1940

Thomas Wardell Braden of Denver, Colorado, died at home April 3. At Dartmouth Tom majored in sociology; was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Green Key, Dartmouth Players and Casque & Gauntlet; editor of The Dartmouth; and class secretary. He enlisted in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in the British Army. Later Tom joined the U.S. Army’s Office of Strategic Services and parachuted into France several times on espionage missions. He returned to Dartmouth as a professor of English and assistant to President Hopkins. In 1951 Tom joined the CIA as assistant to the director, Allen Dulles. His varied career included co-host of TV’s Crossfire with Pat Buchanan. He was a trustee of Dartmouth from 1964 to 1974. The author of Eight Is Enough, Tom was predeceased by his wife, Joan Ridley, and son Thomas. His surviving children are David, Mary, Susan ’77, Joan, Nancy, Elizabeth and Nicholas.

1941

William Edgar Hotaling passed away on April 23 after a short illness. Bill’s spouse, Jean, predeceased him. He is survived by children Andrew ’68, Peter and Thomas ’73. After Dartmouth he secured a sales job with Bethlehem Steel Corp., where his civilian career was interrupted by two-year service in the Army as an infantry officer. Bill retired in 1983 and moved the whole family from Cleveland, Ohio, to Hanover. He became very active in Dartmouth affairs, serving as club president, alumni councilor, reunion chair, club liaison and class agent. Jean and Bill both devoted many hours in the regional hospital. They will be difficult to replace.

Jason Howard Woodward passed away on April 18. His last address was in Monument, Colorado. Jay was predeceased by his wife, Janet. He is survived by children Ann, Dana, Mark ’72 and Eric. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Theta Chi. He attended Thayer but did not graduate.

1942

Rome H. Brown died March 24. Rome did not graduate from Dartmouth but received a B.S. in engineering from West Virginia University. He was a fighter pilot in WWII. He is survived by his wife, Lillian.

Wilmer C. “Bud” Dutton Jr. died February 28 at his home in Maryland. As an undergrad Bud was involved in almost all of the outdoortype clubs. Bud spent his career as an urban planning consultant. In November 2008 Bud was inducted into the Maryland Senior Citizens Hall of Fame for his extraordinary humanitarian community service. He is survived by his wife, Frances, and four children.

Frederich W. Schaefer Jr. died April 3 of heart failure. “Dutch” was one of the most loyal of Dartmouth men. At every reunion he would go to the football game—rain or shine. Sometimes he would come back dripping wet! In WWII Dutch was a lead navigator in a B-24 squadron. After the war he founded a chemical business with his brother Larry ’49. Dutch is survived by his wife, Dorothy, three children and three grandchildren.

1943

Harry Craden Bishop, M.D., died May 4 in Haverford, Pennsylvania. After his B.A. and two years of Dartmouth Medical School, Harry graduated from Harvard Medical School. Following an internship at N.Y. HospitalCornell Medical Center, Harry served in the Army Medical Corps in Wyoming and Kansas. After WW II, when he was chief resident in pediatric surgery at Children’s Hospital in Boston, Harry was recruited by C. Everett Koop to join Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he established the second pediatric surgery center in the country. He estimated he operated on 9,000 children as he developed surgical techniques used internationally. A professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, Harry lectured extensively and authored some 78 scientific publications. He served Dartmouth on the DMS Alumni Council (1997) and Dean’s Council (2001-09). He was predeceased by his first wife, Katherine, and is survived by his second wife, Deborah, four children, three stepchildren and four grandchildren.

L. William Seidman died May 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bill received his B.A. in economics, a law degree from Harvard in 1948 and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1949. As an ensign in the Pacific theater Bill earned a Bronze Star and 11 battle stars, then joined the family accounting firm. President Gerald Ford named him director of the U.S. Economic Policy Board in 1974 and in 1983 President Ronald Reagan named him chairman of the Productivity Commission, then chief of the FDIC in 1985. Bill jokingly claimed the latter had “all the best aspects of an undertaker, an IRS agent and a garbage collector.” In 1991, after clearing up the national savings-andloans headache, Bill left the FDIC and became a commentator on CNBC. He served Dartmouth as president of the Alumni Association from 1967 to 1968. Bill is survived by his wife, Sarah “Sally”; six children, including Tom ’71; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Holden Nelson Waterbury died February 23 in Bend, Oregon. “Wat” graduated from Kent in 1939 and received his A.B. from Dartmouth. He was a member of the DOC, Tri Kap and the cross country/track and field team. Wat was an officer in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific, primarily coding and decoding messages. After the war he returned to Dartmouth, graduated from Thayer as a structural engineer and went on to work for Turner Construction on important projects such as the new Air Force Academy and retrofits to the Hoover Dam. He later worked for the Air Force Strategic Air Command at Randolph Air Force Base. His wife, Olga, predeceased him. Wat is survived by five children, nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. His father, Louis C. Waterbury, was Dartmouth class of 1912.

1945

Henry Redman Dutcher Jr. of Port Charlotte, Florida, formerly of Rochester, New York, passed away April 16. He came to Dartmouth from East Irondequit High School in Rochester and went on to a law degree at Cornell after his Dartmouth graduation and his service in the Marines during WWII. He was very proud of his service in the Marines. He was Rochester city manager in 1962, chairman of the city planning commission and president of the Parkridge Hospital and Monroe Community Hospital. He was also active in many other civic affairs, including as a founder of Seneca Zoo Society and with Rotary, American Legion and Circus Saints and Sinners. He is survived by his wife of 16 years, Lucinda, and children Deirdre, James and Daniel.

John Edward Reeves died at his home of congestive heart failure on February 21. The last thing he read was his treasured Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, which he had received that day. He graduated in 1949 with a degree in zoology and chemistry after serving in the Army as a first lieutenant and rifle instructor from 1943 to 1946. While at Dartmouth he was an active member of the Outing Club. After graduation Jack received an M.S. in education and zoology from the University of Chicago. He taught high school biology for 28 years in Hinsdale, Illinois, and retired in 1983. He married Ruth James in 1955. In retirement he sailed on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin; worked as an environmentalist to preserve the Lake Geneva watershed; and developed and maintained a native Wisconsin prairie and wildflower garden with Ruth at their retirement home at Lake Geneva. He lived his final years in Crestone, Colorado. He is survived by Ruth; children Art, Bruce ’80 and John; and six grandchildren.

John Miller VanBuren, M.D., died December 26, 2008, at Potomac Falls, Virginia. He came to Dartmouth from Bradford Academy in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Following premed work at Dartmouth and basic training the Army returned him to Dartmouth Medical School and then to finish at Columbia in 1947. During that last year he married Shirley M. Marsh, after which he entered eight more years of training in neurosurgery and allied fields. He held a variety of positions before settling as a professor in 1978 at the Miami School of Medicine in Coral Gables. He had a cottage on the Rhode Island beach near Westerly to which he could take his family and enjoy some woodworking. After his first wife died he married Ellen Deloach in 2003. He is survived by Ellen and children Michael ’74, Derek and Elizabeth.

Frederick Raphael Williamson Jr. died at his home in Riverside, Connecticut, on April 7. He was born in New York City and graduated from Montclair Academy before entering Dartmouth. During WWII he enlisted in the Army in February 1943 and was sent into combat with the 10th Armored Division of Patton’s 3rd Army. As a medic he was in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Bronze Star crossing the Neckar River near Heidelberg. After graduation from Dartmouth he spent 11 years with Macy’s, becoming the first American buyer to do business with Japan. He married Sue Ellen Loucks in 1949. They settled in New Jersey before moving to Connecticut, where they founded the Copper Lantern, a successful interior design business, and then Williams Documentary Fabrics. Fred was known for his dynamic use of colors in design. He is survived by Sue, his wife of 60 years, six sons, two daughters and 16 grandchildren.

1947

Louis Cohen died in Bethesda, Maryland, on January 8. He was born in New York City and grew up in Washington, D.C., where he graduated from Central High School. He joined the class in the Naval V-12 unit, graduated and attended Thayer School. In 1950 he founded Knollwood Development Corp. in Largo, Maryland, which was involved in the development of residential and industrial real estate in Maryland and Delaware. He served as chief executive officer and was active in running the company at the time of his death. He was a past president of the Homebuilders Association of Maryland and of the Maryland-National Capital Building Industry Association. Sarah, his wife of 61 years, passed away on March 12. He is survived by four children.

1948

William Clifford Ivins Jr. died in Salem, South Carolina, on May 2. He came to campus in July 1944 from Westtown School and served in the Navy before returning to graduate in 1949 with a premed major. He lettered in soccer during all his undergrad years and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Casque & Gauntlet. Bill moved on to Dartmouth Medical School and completed his M.D. at Harvard in 1953. He returned to campus as an intern at Mary Hitchcock Hospital before specializing in pediatrics for 37 years at North Shore Medical Group in Huntington on Long Island. He continued to do some volunteer work in the Blue Ridge foothill community where he had retired. Always an active sportsman, he remembered his seven years in Hanover very fondly. He is survived by wife Cathy and daughters Deborah, Hannah and Sarah.

Maurice Noel Levy Jr., M.D., died in Amarillo, Texas on May 1 after a long struggle with complications of diabetes. He came to Dartmouth from Cheshire Academy and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After two years at Dartmouth Medical School he continued to Harvard, receiving his M.D. in 1949. He married Joan Saltman, a Wellesley grad, in Boston while an intern at Boston City Hospital in 1950. He served two years in the Navy before returning to complete his surgical training and setting up in practice in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1956. Two years later they moved to Amarillo, where he joined the staff of the Veterans Affairs hospital and entered private practice. He became interested in flying and achieved flight instructor status, later becoming a Federal Aviation Administration medical examiner. He also remained in the naval reserve until retirement as a lieutenant commander. He is survived by Joan and children Maurice III, Elizabeth and Andrew.

1949

David Stevens Gifford died May 1 in Galloway, Ohio, after a nine-year struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. A native of Glens Falls, New York, David came to Dartmouth from Flushing (New York) High School. He was a WWII Army veteran and had fought in the Battle of the Bulge. A member of Zeta Psi, Glee Club and German Club, Dave earned a degree in chemistry. After receiving a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Connecticut he was employed as a document analyst with Chemical Abstracts Service and retired after 33 years of service. He attended First Community Church and was an avid supporter of the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony and Opera Columbus. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Dorothy Kohl Gifford; children Karin, Martha, Steven and Donna; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Dave’s father, J. Erwin Gifford, was a member of the class of 1916 at Dartmouth.

N. Philip “Pete” Lord died May 19 at his home with his family at hand. He enlisted in the Army and served in the 399th Infantry, 100th Division, in the European theater. Discharged in 1945 with a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, he came to Dartmouth, where he majored in economics and was a member of Theta Chi. Pete spent most of his career as general sales manager for the Noble and Westbrook division of the Bristol Brass Corp. in Connecticut. In 1977 he established his own company, selling machine tools and accessories around New England. He also served on the board of PAR Systems Corp. of St. Paul, Minnesota. Pete served as a volunteer fireman, on the town planning and zoning commission and town council and as mayor of Windsor. He was predeceased by his wife of 58 years, Ann, and is survived by children Ann, John ’76, David, Thomas and Mary and their spouses and nine grandchildren.

1950

James Gregg died on March 25. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Dragon. A member of the varsity ice hockey team, he coached hockey at Vermont Academy after graduation and later, along with fellow teammate Hugh Brower ’50, helped organize youth hockey in the Chicago area. Jim played hockey, himself, into his sixties until ailing knees forced him off the ice. He spent 15 years with U.S. Gypsum in Chicago then, at age 43, resigned and began selling life insurance. While in Chicago he married Caro, who bore him children James ’83, Virginia and William. Jim numbered genealogy and stone wall building among his favorite hobbies. He retired to Scottsdale, Arizona, where he did part-time tax work for H&R Block. He and Caro spent summers in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he owned a house dating back to circa 1720.

Kingsley Albright Jarvis died on April 10. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Forensic Union and manager of the tennis team. Following graduation he attended Harvard Law School, From which he graduated in 1953. King founded his law practice in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1955 following two years in the Army. In 1959 he married Maureen Connolly, who died in 1995. He is survived by Marie (Hutchman), to whom he was married in 1998. He joined a law firm in Norristown in 1960, and in 1967 opened his own law practice. He taught criminal law from 1964 to 1985 and wrote the textbook Pennsylvania Criminal Code and Criminal Law, published in 1974 and again in 1987. He served with distinction on many boards and commissions in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He enjoyed golf and was a life master at bridge. He is also survived by children Christopher and Diana and granddaughter Caroline.

1951

Edward Connery Lathem died May 15 at his desk in the Bryant Room in Webster Hall on Dartmouth campus, where he collapsed. Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, he was raised in Longmeadow and Springfield, Massachusetts, graduating from Springfield Technical High School. He served two years in the Army before matriculating with our class. He was a Senior Fellow and spent the next year at Columbia pursuing his master’s degree in library service. He obtained his Ph.D. from Oxford in 1961 while on leave several times from Dartmouth. He became head librarian in 1968, serving 10 years before moving on to major assignments as counselor to presidents Kemeny, McLaughlin, Freedman and Wright. He was a close personal friend of Robert Frost and edited or co-edited many of the poet’s volumes. Indeed, Frost was Ed’s best man in 1957 when he married Dr. Elizabeth French, who died in 1992.

Samuel Ranken Roberts died on June 11 of complications from multiple myeloma at Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) Hospital. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Wynnewood, he graduated from the Haverford School, pledged Theta Chi and majored in English. As he later wrote, “the DOC claimed my time and soul.” After graduation he married Nancy Horlacher, served three years as a Navy officer and then joined his father’s brokerage firm, ultimately becoming president. After merging with Newbold he turned to asset management with the new firm before retiring in 2005. An elder in the Presbyterian Church, a board member of the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, New Jersey (his vacation home), he was honored with a Spirit of ’51 Award for his loyalty and service to his class, the College and his community. Surviving Sam besides Nancy are children John, Samuel, Joan, Gina and Sally and 11 grandchildren.

1952

Dwight S. Jacobsen, M.D., passed away on April 2 at home. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, where he graduated from high school. At Dartmouth he became a premed student and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and of the 150-pound crew. During junior year he enlisted in the Air Force, was discharged in 1955 and reentered Dartmouth, graduating in 1956. He then entered medical school at the University of Rochester, receiving his M.D. in 1960. Following a six-year postgraduate course at Rochester, he engaged in practice in Michigan and Arizona. The last 14 years were with the Cigna Health Plan of Arizona, retiring in 1999. He moved to McCall, Idaho, in 2001, where he was a member of the Community Congregational Church. His wife, Carol Jeanne, seven children, two stepchildren, 17 grandchildren and one great-grandchild survive him. Herbert Randolph Nubel passed away January

Herbert Randolph Nubel passed away January 16 in Wilmington, North Carolina, after a long battle with cancer. He was born in Bay Shore, New York, and graduated from Garden City (New York) High School, Dartmouth in 1952 with a degree in art history and Yale University in 1956 with a master’s in graphic arts. He served in the Army in Korea. In June 1960 he married Jonilu Swearingen, who predeceased him in 1985. Herb worked as a graphic designer for Ciba Pharmaceuticals and Sterling Drug in N.Y.C. He later joined the Peace Corps, serving in Slovakia, and participated in various marketing projects in Eastern Europe and Egypt with the International Retired Executives Corp. He loved sailing with friends, especially Mattie Mosher, at home, in the Caribbean and on the Maine coast. One sister and two nieces survive him.

Vinton L. Rathburn died of cancer on March 20 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was born in Bangor, Maine, attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Dartmouth in 1952. He was an active member of Zeta Psi and majored in geology. He then enlisted in the Army and began a 27-year career with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. He furthered his education by attending several military schools, culminating with the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He completed overseas assignments in Germany, Korea, Turkey and Vietnam. He ended his Army career as a full colonel with many decorations. In the private sector he worked as a professional engineer on the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project, rebuilding the passenger railroad between Washington, D.C., and Boston. His wife, Pat, children Geri, V.J. and Tom, their spouses and nine grandchildren survive him.

1953

Dickinson Buell died December 3, 2008, in Medford, Oregon. He was the son of Harold Clark Buell ’23. Dick prepared at Deerfield Academy, where he was active in dramatics and debating. After entering Dartmouth he joined the brotherhood of Phi Kappa Psi. Sometime later he left Dartmouth and spent 10 years as a naval aviator, after which he took a master’s in electrical engineering from Purdue University. In 1978 Dick founded a computer company in San Francisco from which he retired in 2004 and thereafter moved to Oregon. Redheaded Dick was multitalented with broad interests in music, fly fishing, skiing, flying, sailing, dancing and singing. He is survived by his brother, two sons and two daughters. It has been written that he will be missed by everyone except the local fish population. We will miss him for his wonderful enthusiasm and his friendship that goes back some 60 years.

Burt N. Dorsett died April 26. A member of Alpha Delta Phi, he majored in mathematics, was a member of Sphinx and played freshman baseball and varsity football. Following an M.B.A. from Harvard he launched a career in financial investing. Education was one of his major interests, as he held important investment positions at the University of Rochester and particularly in TIAA-CREF. After serving as president of Westinghouse Pension Investments he co-founded Dorsett McCabe Capital Management Inc. Following semi-retirement, including serving on many important boards, he was honored by the founding of the Dorsett-Cottrell Fellowship at Dartmouth to encourage undergraduates to study and confront ethical dilemmas. He was especially generous to charitable organizations, including Convalescent Hospital for Children, the Hillside Children’s Home, Keuka College and the American Psychological Association. Burt is survived by his wife, Trixie, with whom he raised three children. We miss him.

David Vinal Siddall died December 2008 in Scotland. At Dartmouth Dave majored in English, which predicted a direction for his life. Following Dartmouth he spent three years in the Navy as an operations and intelligence officer. After grabbing an M.A. from Columbia he bought his own sloop and spent a year cruising through France to the Greek Islands, where he met Anglo/lrish Valerie Trouton, who became his wife. Armed with a Ph.D. from Indiana University he began a teaching career at the University of New Hampshire, where he lectured on his beloved Wordsworth and Coleridge. Early retirement was preceded by another cruise, this time from Portsmouth, England, to Corsica and Sardinia and a second one from Maine to the Bahamas. Then there was the move to Scotland, where he and Val purchased their own island. Dave’s advice to us was “The world is best observed at speeds of less than five knots.” He proved it!

1954

John Davis Musa of Morristown, New Jersey, died in Florida on April 25. He grew up on Long Island, New York, and received his A.B. (summa cum laude) and then his M.S. from Thayer. He served as a naval officer and then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories. John was a pioneer in creating the field of software reliability engineering. He wrote a definitive book, Software Reliability, which became a bestseller and was selected as “one of the 60 most important computing books of all time.” He was internationally recognized in his field and was elected an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow in 1986. After taking early retirement from AT&T in 1996 John formed his own international technology transfer and consulting firm and became heavily involved in disseminating software reliability engineering technology and practice throughout the world. He authored numerous texts and papers. John is survived by Marilyn, his wife of 49 years.

1956

Peter H. Shipman died on May 4 at his home in Naples, Florida, following a long battle with cancer. Born in London, Ontario, Canada, Peter graduated from Millburn High School in Short Hills, New Jersey. Following graduation from Dartmouth he served proudly in the Marine Corps and then entered a wonderfully complex business career that included Wall Street, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and ownership of both a minor league baseball team and a minor league hockey team. Peter’s life was defined by his loyalty to family, unwavering determination and generosity to all. His passion for the financial markets was outweighed only by his passion for family and Dartmouth baseball. He is survived by his best friend and wife of 47 years, Joan; daughter Julie and her son Caleb; son Jim, his wife, Julie, and their sons Peter, Hank and Jack; son Jerry; and several nieces and nephews.

1957

Wayne W. Kakela of Steamboat, Colorado, died on January 10 of natural causes. At Dartmouth Wayne majored in geography, played tackle on the football team and was a member of the rugby club, Beta Theta Pi and Sphinx. He is survived by his wife, Linda, and daughters Anne ’92 and Kate. Wayne converted a barn on his ranch into a ski lodge, The Barn, which played host to travelers, family and friends for almost 50 years. Wayne loved the outdoors, skiing, organizing river running trips, motorcycle races and community sculpture projects. He served on the board of the Lowell Whiteman School and was a highly respected and loved citizen of his community.

1958

Robert Angus French died at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Boston on June 7, 2007, of renal failure. He had resided in Belmont, Massachusetts, for 23 years and was active in real estate sales and management, although semi-retired. As a youth he contracted juvenile diabetes while attending a Boy Scout jamboree in Austria and coped with its effects the rest of his life. After Dartmouth he had a successful marketing career with several well-known retail chains, including Lord & Taylor; De Pinna; Georg Jensen; Ohrbach’s and Burberrys. This last position brought him to Boston in 1984 and he retired five years later. Bob is remembered well by fellow Dartmouth Motor Sports Club members as a sports car enthusiast, aficionado of fine cars and owner of a beautiful MG TC. He leaves his second wife.

John Charles Jones III of Grand Rapids, Michigan, died there on May 31 of prostate cancer. John will be remembered by classmates as a superb basketball player on the Doggie Julian teams of our era. He captained the football and basketball teams at East Grand Rapids High School, was a Tuck-Thayer major and member of Beta Theta Pi and Casque & Gauntlet at Dartmouth. After Navy service following graduation, John returned to a successful law career in Michigan before retiring 10 years ago. In retirement his athletic passions were golf, tennis and pickle ball. He developed an especially aggressive form of prostate cancer, outlived the normal expectancy for it and had joined an experimental treatment program when the disease finally took him. He is survived by Dianne, his wife of 37 years, four children, four grandchildren, and his twin brother Thomas.

1961

George W. Lampl Jr. passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack on April 18. He earned an A.B. from Dartmouth in 1961 and a master’s in economics from Brown in 1968. George was only 16 years old when he matriculated into Dartmouth, an outstanding achievement. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon/ Sigma Theta Epsilon. George is survived by children Jennifer Wornat ’87 and George III; grandchildren Maxwell, Margaret and W. Kael; mother Carmela Sorrentino Lampl; brother John; and many other relatives.

1965

Paul A. Eldridge of Fairview, Pennsylvania, passed away after a brief illness on February 24. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and came to Dartmouth after graduating from Cleveland Heights High School. Paul earned a Ph.D. from Wharton School of Business. He taught at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and later worked for the Hartford Insurance. He spent the majority of his working years at Erie Insurance in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was a member of St. Marks Episcopal Church and served on the vestry. He was an avid Cleveland sports fan. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Sheryl; his mother; and children Mathew and Julia.

1966

L. Curt Ferguson died on April 12 at a hospice in Burlington, North Carolina, from lung cancer that had metastasized to his brain. For the last several years he resided with his wife, Gail, in McLeansville, North Carolina, where he worked for Overhead Door Co. A graduate of Hatboro-Horsham High in Pennsylvania and a member of the National Honor Society, at Dartmouth Curt was a brother in Phi Delt, where he served as house manager. After graduation he moved to New Hampshire with his first wife, Cheri, divorced, then settled in southern California, where he had his own business as a carpenter/contractor. He returned to Pennsylvania in the 1970s and moved to North Carolina in the 1980s. Besides Cheri and Gail he is survived by two other former wives and son Sean.

Roger C. Kline died in his sleep on March 18 while in London on business for McKinsey and Co. He had joined the firm in 1976 and was part of the team that built the banking and securities practice, which he headed from 1996 to 2004. Elected a director in 1986, Roger cofounded McKinsey’s investment office and was a member of the firm’s board and of the office of the managing partner. At the College he was a brother in Delta Upsilon, business manager of The Dartmouth and president of the International Association of Students in Economics and Business. He earned J.D. and M.B.A. degrees and a certificate in international relations from Columbia University. Roger remained an active member of the class, serving as our first class president, newsletter editor, member of the class executive committee and as an agent for the DCF. He is survived by his wife, Susan, son Matthew and brother Gil.

John W. Peterson, a naval officer for 30 years, died unexpectedly at his home in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 9. He was a member of Chi Phi, for which he served as rush chairman, the DOC and Dragon and graduated with a degree in economics. He then obtained master’s in international relations from Salve Regina College and the Naval War College. John enjoyed a 30-year Navy career as a carrier pilot. As the commanding officer of VFA 106, he helped train the Blue Angels. Other postings included executive officer of the USS Saratoga, commanding officer of the USS St. Louis and group commander of Amphibious Group Three, during which time he coordinated and participated in the Navy landings in Somalia. After retirement from the Navy John became director of system engineering and operations at University of Wisconsin-Madison division of information technology. John is survived by his wife, Kristen, children Eric, Jeffrey, Meredith and Alex and grandchildren Graham, Ellen and Abigail.

Eric L. Treisman, lawyer, political activist, author and adventurer, died on April 3 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after being removed from life support after suffering a massive heart attack four days earlier. A government major and member of Casque & Gauntlet at Dartmouth, Eric graduated from Stanford Law and launched his legal career as attorney for Navaho Legal Services in New Mexico. His early career took him to Yap in Micronesia and Alaska before he settled in Santa Fe in 1980. Eric was a mountain climber, adventurer and writer whose articles have been published in Harper’s, where he was a contributing editor, and other publications. Eric was an ardent supporter of Tibetan independence, helping hundreds of Tibetan refugees obtain visas and organizing a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President George H.W. Bush. In addition to his mother, Doris, survivors include children Zack, Alex and Aaron and his first wife’s son, Sean Macrae ’08.

1967

David Albert Sinclair of De Funiak Springs, Florida, died October 22, 2008. Dave came to College from Davison, Michigan. He played freshman football, was a brother of Tabard and was noted as a writer; he won the Sidney Cox prize for poetry. He ran for Ann Arbor, Michigan, city council in 1973 and served as the White Panthers’ chief of staff and as finance officer for the Rainbow People’s Party. He moved with wife Elizabeth to California, where they lived for 20 years before moving to De Funiak Springs. In Florida they operated a bookstore. Dave was active raising money for the American Cancer Society through Relay for Life. His allegiance was to those close to him and to the language of poetry. Dave’s life revolved around his family, books and art. Sincerest regrets to Elizabeth at her loss.

1968

Jeffrey W. Spencer died on February 11 at home in Quincy, Massachusetts. At Dartmouth Jeff was a thrower on the track team for four years, brother in Phoenix and member of Dragon. Jeff worked in advertising in New York City for several years and then moved back to the South Shore. In the early 1970s Jeff picked up a guitar for the first time and began teaching himself to sing and play. It was a turning point in his life. In 1978 Jeff was one of the founders of the Memphis Rockabilly Band, which soon had hardcore fans up and down the East Coast and a rabid following in Europe. Jeff wrote and sang clever, memorable songs powered by his clear and melodic voice. According to his bandmates, “Jeff was the engine, compass and rudder that propelled our ship.” Jeff is survived by his daughter Audrey, former wife Terri, companion Barbara and several siblings.

1973

Allister Hanna McCree Jr. of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, died on April 16. “Sandy” came to the College from Cinnaminson (New Jersey) High School. He was a member of Alpha Theta and involved in Tucker Fellowship activities. After a two-year leave of absence to serve as a Volunteers in Service to America volunteer, Sandy returned to Hanover to graduate in 1976. An avid cyclist, he rode annually in the American Cancer Society Bike-a-thon in Philadelphia. At the time of his death Sandy was employed by IKON Office Solutions of Malvern, Pennsylvania, as a retirement plans advisor. He is survived by his mother, a brother and a sister.

1976

Paul J. Gill Jr. passed away on June 16 after a long illness. “P.J.” left Dartmouth prior to graduation, but had many friends within the class. P.J. came to Dartmouth from Hingham (Massachusetts) High School, where he had been an outstanding South Shore high school athlete. At Dartmouth he played freshman football. At the time of his death he was residing in Duxbury, Massachusetts. He was an avid sports enthusiast and enjoyed the outdoors, especially cross-country skiing in Wompatuck State Park. He loved spending time with family and is survived by several brothers and sisters and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.

1993

Jason Christopher Williams died September 9, 2008, in Atlanta, Georgia. Born in Philadelphia, Jason graduated from the Bodine (Pennsylvania) High School for International Affairs. A member of Panarchy, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1994 with a degree in film studies. He established himself as a trailblazer in the world of public relations in technology marketing, working at Hamilton & Sweeney in Washington, D.C., and the William Mills Agency in Atlanta. After earning a citation as one of the “Top 30 Under 30” from PR Week, he cofounded Gelignite Communications and the BusinessLore Group. He was also highly active within the 100 Black Men of Atlanta organization. He is survived by his mother, Rosemary, and sister Lauren.

2002

Susan Tucker passed away in Alexandria, Virginia, on January 26. At Dartmouth Susan was a philosophy and studio art double-major. She was an active member of the Marching Band and worked in the drama department’s costume shop. During her junior year Susan studied philosophy on the FSP to Scotland. After graduating Susan worked first as a costume creator at the Olney Theater in Olney, Maryland, and later as an administrative assistant at the Rand Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Susan is survived by her parents, Raymond and Marilyn Tucker, her ex-husband and friend Christopher Bowen and many friends from all walks of life.

Philip Edouard d’Aquin died August 2, 2008, as a result of a car accident in Montana. Philip was an Oklahoma native and graduated from Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa. At Dartmouth he was active in La Alianza Latina. Philip was pursuing a graduate degree from the University of Montana. Philip is survived by his father, Gerard ’65, and his grandmother, Daisy