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He was survived by his wife, the former Margaret Miller Woessner, whom he married in 1933, and three children: John Kappeler, Jr., Marion Scott and David Phillips. Arnold's brother, Frederic Kappeler Arnold, is a member of Harvard '29.
LAURENCE JUSTIN BARNES
Laurence Justin Barnes died July 13, 1957, at East Sebago, Maine. He was born September 20, 1901, at Barre, Vermont, the son of Arnold Robert and Lila Inez (Ball) Barnes. He prepared at Worcester Academy and spent four years at Harvard with our Class. After college he went into the field of rehabilitation and continued in that work until 1944 when he became a representative of the International Association of Lions Clubs and traveled through- out New England organizing and servicing Lions Clubs.
He served as secretary and president of the Department on Employment and Industrial Conditions, Boston Council of Social Agencies; deputy district governor and district governor, Massachu- setts Lions Clubs; international counselor, International Association of Lions Clubs; president, Westwood Taxpayers Association; mem- ber, Westwood Town Finance Committee.
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During World War II, he was a member of the Westwood Civilian Defense Organization.
In 1929 he married Frances Kathryn Peterson and they had two children: Jocelyn Lee (Mrs. Robert Tripp) and Meredith Guilford (Mrs. Alan Gifford).
RICHARD CARRINGTON BARRETT
Richard Carrington Barrett died January 26, 1957, at Hartford, Connecticut. The son of William Lawrence and Minnie Pearl (Pardee) Barrett, he was born December 6, 1902, at Bristol, Connecticut. He prepared at the local high school and graduated with our Class. He was president of the William L. Barrett Com- pany, manufacturers of metal products, with whom he had been associated since graduation.
He was chairman of the Board of Finance in Bristol, Connec- ticut, and had served as secretary of the town committee for many years. In 1931 he formed the Bristol Taxpayers League and served as its president. He also served as a member of the Board of Tax Relief and the Library Board. He was a member of the First Con- gregational Church, Chippanee Country Club, Jacklin Rod & Gun Club and the Harvard Club of Connecticut.
He was survived by his wife, the former Ethel Benton, whom he married in 1926, and three children: Holly June (Mrs. David Lee Harris), Ethel Warner (Mrs. Malcolm Graham) and Donald William. A brother, Robert Walker Barrett, '30, also survived.
WILLIAM EDWIN BARTEL
William Edwin Bartel died December 17, 1958, at Weston, Massachusetts. The son of William Philip and Julia (O'Donnell) Bartel, he was born September 12, 1903, at Waltham, Massachu- setts. He prepared at the local high school and graduated with our Class. He was a retired president and treasurer of the Judson L. Thomson Company of Waltham, metal products manufacturers, and president and director of Thomson (Canada ) Rivet Company. During 1934-35, he served as a Waltham City Councilman. He was president of the Weston Parent-Teachers Association; director, Waltham Citizens National Bank; trustee, Meadowbrook School of Weston (since 1949); treasurer, Troop 51, Boy Scouts of America. He was a member of Monitor Lodge, A.F. & A.M. of Waltham,
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Weston Golf Club, Duxbury Yacht Club, Harvard Club of Boston and Skating Club of Boston.
He was survived by his wife, the former Mary E. Vahey, whom he married in 1938, and four children: Julia, Jonathan P., Anne and Christopher.
ALLAN WILLSON BOOTH
Allan Willson Booth died July 3, 1955, at New Bedford, Massa- chusetts. He was born January 3, 1903, at Kingsland, New Jersey, the son of Allan Starr and Louise (Willson) Booth. He prepared at St. Paul's School, Garden City, New York, and received an A.B. at Harvard in 1926, as of our Class. After graduation he worked as an engineer for Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, Inc., and Mitchell Woodbury of Boston, and with the Cornell Dubilier Electric Corpo- ration in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As the time of our Thirtieth Anniversary Report, he wrote that he was an expediter for the Aerovox Corporation, manufacturer of capacitors, in New Bedford. He was a member of the Masons.
In 1928 he married Flora Virginia Morris, from whom he was divorced in 1939. They had one child, Allan Willson, Jr.
CHARLES GOODWIN CARTER
Charles Goodwin Carter died January 18, 1960, at Boston. He was born October 7, 1903, at Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Edwin Albert and Nina Noble (Goodwin) Carter. He prepared at the Hackley School and spent two years at Harvard with our Class.
He was a prominent industrialist and civic leader. For fourteen years he had been associated with the brokerage firm of Tiffts Bros., becoming a partner in the firm. In 1937, he became a director of Chapman Valve Company, joined the executive staff in 1941, became treasurer in 1954 and president in 1956, resigning in November, 1959, because of ill health.
Active in charitable affairs of Springfield, he was chairman of the 1953 United Fund-Red Cross campaign, former president of the United Fund of Springfield and of Springfield Hospital. He was a corporator of the Springfield Institution of Savings and West- ern New England College and a director of Union Trust Company,
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Western Massachusetts Electric Company, Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company and Wico Electric Company.
His memberships included: Longmeadow Country Club, Colony Club, Tunxis Club of Tolland, Oakland Club of St. Stephens, South Carolina and the Masonic Order.
In 1928, he married Louise Powers and they had three children: Edwin Albert, Nancy P. (Mrs. Carnochan) and Linda Lawrence. Carter was survived by his wife, the former Mary E. Reid, and his three children.
LEON JOSEPH DAUBIN
Leon Joseph Daubin died November 15, 1958, at San Salvador, El Salvador. He was born March 16, 1901, at Nantes, France, the son of Victor and Marie Josephine (Albert) Daubin. He spent one year at Harvard with our Class. For our Thirtieth Anniversary Report, he wrote that he was engaged in coffee growing and the electrical equipment business. He was survived by a son.
WILLIAM DE RHAM
William de Rham died February 26, 1957, in New York City. The son of Henry Casimir de Rham, '04, and Georgiana ( Berry- man) de Rham, he was born September 27, 1901, at Newport, Rhode Island. He attended St. Mark's School before coming to Harvard where he spent two years with our Class. He conducted the William de Rham Dancing Classes in New York City, where he was a dancing master and manners teacher to children of socially prominent East Coast families.
After leaving college he spent a number of years in the insurance field and six years with the Chrysler Corporation. During World War II he worked for the Consolidated Vultee Airplane Corpora- tion and as an orderly in a hospital. He was a member of the Asso- ciation of Ex-Members of Squadron A, Racquet & Tennis Club, Everglades Club and the Tuxedo Club.
His marriage to Ruth Ledyard in 1930 ended in divorce. They had a son, William, Jr. In 1954 de Rham married Vera Chapin, who, with his son and a daughter, Georgiana Berryman de Rham, survived him. He was also survived by two brothers, Casimir de Rham, '18, and Stephen Whitney de Rham, '27.
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EDGAR DURBIN
Edgar Durbin died March 21, 1955, at Denver, Colorado, where he was born May 14, 1903, the son of Charles Kinlin and Jessie (Edgar) Durbin. He attended East Side High School in Denver, before coming to Harvard where he received an A.B. in 1926, as of our Class, and an M.D. in 1929. He interned at St. Luke's Hos- pital in Denver and since then had been practising medicine in Denver, where he was a specialist in diseases of the heart. He was a staff member of virtually all of Denver's major hospitals and a consultant in cardiology to the Veterans Administration in Denver, St. Louis and Cheyenne. He was a former president of the Denver County Medical Society and the Colorado Heart Association, direc- tor of the American Heart Association and clinical professor of medicine at the University of Colorado. He was chairman of the Medical Affairs Committee of the Denver Chamber of Commerce.
His professional memberships included: American and Colorado Medical Associations, American College of Physicians (fellow), American Board of Internal Medicine ( diplomate), Denver Heart Club, Denver Society of Internal Medicine and Denver Medical Club. He was also a member of the Osler Society, Denver Country Club and the Cactus Club. He had written many articles on heart disease for medical journals.
For many years he held a commission in the National Guard and during World War II, served in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army and held the rank of colonel. He was also a member of Medi- cal Advisory Board No. 1 in Denver.
He was survived by his wife, the former Ann Pate, whom he married in 1929, and their three children: Peter, '53, Mary and Edgar, Jr.
ROBERT EMERSON
Robert Emerson died February 3, 1959, in New York City, where he was born November 4, 1903, the son of Haven and Grace (Par- rish) Emerson. He prepared at the Ethical Culture School in New York City and received an A.B., cum laude, with our Class. In 1927 he received the degree of Dr. Phil. at the University of Berlin and returned to Harvard on a two-year National Research Fellow- ship and spent the following year as an instructor in general phy-
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siology at Harvard. The next sixteen years were spent in research at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University. Since 1946 he had been at the University of Illinois where he was research professor of botany and physiology. He was an inter- nationally known authority on photosynthesis and published articles on the subject in the magazine Nature.
In 1954 he attended the Eighth International Congress of Botany in Paris and spent six months at Cambridge, England, on a Ful- bright Fellowship. He was a member of the Chaos Club, American Society of Plant Physiologists and the American Botanical Society. He was a great grand-nephew of the famed New England essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In 1929 he married Claire Garrison and they had four children: Kenneth, '53, Stephen, David and Ruth. Emerson was on his way to attend a meeting at Harvard University when he was killed in a plane crash. He was survived by his wife, children, and a brother, Ralph Emerson, '33.
DAVID WENDELL EVANS
David Wendell Evans died February 4, 1955, at San Francisco. He was born December 12, 1904, in Buffalo, New York, the son of Owen David Evans, '00, and Annie Leora (Jackson) Evans. He prepared at Brighton (Mass.) High School and graduated, cum laude, with our Class. At the time of his death he was construction equipment supervisor for the James L. Treadwell Company in San Francisco, with whom he had been associated since 1953. After graduation he joined the Bucyrus-Erie Company, working suc- cessively in Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York City and San Francisco. From 1943 to 1953 he was associated with Ken Royce, Inc., and during that time he spent a number of years on the islands in the Pacific buying heavy construction equipment.
Evans met a tragic death by fire in San Francisco. He was survived by his wife, the former Jean Edith Wilkinson, whom he married in 1931, and two children: Allan David and Michael Jack- son. A brother, Alan Somers Evans, Harvard '39, also survived him.
ROBERT MARK EVANS
Robert Mark Evans died February 10, 1957, in Boston. He was born August 23, 1903, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of
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Joseph Nicholas and Caroline May (Geldard ) Evans. He prepared at Lawrence High School and received an A.B., cum laude, in 1925, and an A.M. in 1927, at Harvard. Since 1951 he had been master of the Department of Modern Languages at English High School in Boston. He had previously taught at the University of Pitts- burgh, New York University and The Portsmouth Priory School. He had published book reviews in the Modern Language Journal, and occasional newspaper articles. He was a member of the Har- vard Club of Boston, Essex Institute, Charitable Irish Society and Modern Language Association. He never married.
LUCIEN HUMPHREY FOWLER
Lucien Humphrey Fowler died October 21, 1957, at San Antonio, Texas. He was born February 11, 1895, at Dubuque, Iowa, the son of John Willis and Elizabeth (Merriam) Fowler. He prepared at the local high school and received an S.B. with our Class. He was security analyst for the National Bank of Commerce in San Antonio where he had been residing since 1950. He had formerly been associated with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cleveland Loan Agency and with Otis & Company in Cleveland.
He was survived by his wife, the former Dorothy Converse, whom he married in 1926.
JOHN JACOB GLESSNER, II
John Jacob Glessner died December 27, 1956, at Ipswich, Massa- chusetts. The son of John George Macbeth Glessner, '94, and Alice Mary (Hamlin) Glessner, he was born April 27, 1902, in Chicago. He attended St. Paul's School before coming to Harvard where he received an A.B. in 1925, an A.M. in 1930, and a Ph.D. in 1936. While working for his doctorate, he was an instructor in English and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages at Harvard. From 1936 to 1940 he was an instructor and assistant professor of English at the University of Iowa.
During World War II, he spent a year with the British Air Com- mission in Washington, working on aircraft maintenance and sup- ply. In 1942 he was commissioned a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve and spent the next six years in the Navy. He served in the Bureau of Aeronautics and the Transport Division. He was
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promoted to commander in 1945 and served six months as assistant personnel officer in the Materiel Division of the Office of the Assist- ant Secretary of the Navy in Washington. He was released to in- active duty in July, 1946, and since then had been farming in Ipswich, Massachusetts, as owner of the Argilla Farm.
He was a member of the American Guernsey Cattle Club and the Myopia Hunt Club.
He was survived by his wife, the former Martha Greenfield Sluder, whom he married in 1930, and their three children: John Jacob, 3d ( Harvard '53), Ellen Cochran and Virginia Sluder.
MILTON GLODT
Milton Glodt died August 14, 1959, at Nantucket, Massachu- setts. He was born November 22, 1902, at Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Myer and Ida (Sisson) Glodt. He prepared at Boston English High School and received an A.B. at Harvard in 1925, and an M.D. at the University of Basel in Switzerland in 1936. He studied dermatology at the Skin and Cancer Unit of Columbia University and since 1938 had been practising medicine, with offi- ces in Roxbury and Beverly. He was a member of the American Medical Association.
He was survived by his wife, the former Eleanore Galumbuk, whom he married in 1946, and their two children, Susan Lou and Mischelle Deborah.
MEYER GOLDBERG
Meyer Goldberg died January 7, 1958, in Washington, D.C. The son of Jacob and Rebecca (Miller ) Goldberg, he was born April 28, 1903, in New York City. He prepared at Lynn Classical High School and spent four years at Harvard with our Class. He was the owner of the Chesapeake Plate & Window Glass Company, glass and glazing contractors, and had formerly been treasurer of the Washington Plate & Window Glass Company.
He had served as treasurer of Southern Builders, Inc., vice- president of Magnolia Gardens, Inc., and president of Sixteenth Road, Inc. He was a member of the Harvard Club of Washington, Sixteen Club, Inc., and Washington Building Congress.
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In 1926 he married Frances Hollis and they had one child, Stanley Mason.
ALLAN HERBERT WEBSTER HIGGINS
Allan Herbert Webster Higgins died July 19, 1959, at Brookline, Massachusetts. The son of Herbert Franklin and Etta Garfield (Smith) Higgins, he was born August 15, 1904, at Dedham, Massa- chusetts. He prepared at Dedham High School and received an A.B., cum laude, and an LL.B. at Harvard. He held honorary degrees from Suffolk University and Emerson College.
He was a partner in the law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, with whom he had been associated since graduation from the Law School. He was a specialist in corporate and tax law and was chair- man of the American Bar Association Committee on Equalization between Community Property and Common Law States. He was a member of the board of governors and chairman of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association and chairman of the building committee of the American Bar Foundation for American Bar Center.
He was a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and former chairman of its executive committee. He was a member of the Massachusetts, Boston and Essex Bar Associations, American Law Institute and the Tax Advisory Committee; director of the Federal Tax Institute of New England and the Tax and Fiscal Policy Com- mittee of the New England Council.
He was a former school committee member in Marblehead, a member of the National Affairs Committee of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and for the past seven years served as chairman of the board of trustees of Emerson College.
Active in Harvard alumni affairs, he was chairman of our Fifteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-fifth Reunions, former president of the Harvard Class of 1925 Association of Boston and a member of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association and the Harvard Law School Fund Committee.
His club memberships included: Harvard Clubs of Boston and New York, University Club and Metropolitan Club in Washington, D.C., Algonquin Club, Brae Burn Country Club, Kittansett Club in Marion, Boston Yacht Club and the Kona Kai Club in San Diego, California. He was a vestryman of All Saints Church in Brookline.
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His marriage to Mildred L. Bradshaw ended in divorce. They had two children: Richard A., and Audrey (Mrs. J. Gordon Rich). Higgins was survived by his second wife, the former Lou C. John- ston, whom he married in 1942, and his children.
WILLIAM WHITE INGRAHAM
William White Ingraham died August 24, 1957, at Westport, Massachusetts. He was born June 8, 1904, at Oakland, Rhode Island, the son of Arthur Ingraham, '96, and Elizabeth Williams (White) Ingraham. He prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Harvard with our Class. After leaving college he entered the insurance field and in 1927 became associated with John C. Cosseboom in the real estate and insurance business in Woon- socket, Rhode Island. Later he became sole owner of the agency known as the John C. Cosseboom Insurance Agency. He was first vice-president of the Woonsocket Public Health Nursing Associa- tion and Rhode Island delegate to N.E.L.T.A. He was a member of the Agawam Hunt Club.
In 1927 he married Barbara Bosworth and they had one child: William White, Jr. This marriage ended in divorce. Ingraham was survived by his second wife, the former Florence Goff, and two brothers, Arthur Ingraham, Jr., '30, and Andrew Clark Ingraham, '31.
GEORGE ARTHUR JONES
George Arthur Jones died July 12, 1959, at Dedham, Massachu- setts. The son of Arthur Bacon and Helen (Durant) Jones, he was born September 13, 1903, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He pre- pared at Watertown (Mass.) High School and spent two years with our Class. He was the owner and operator of a fountain concession at Moseley's Ballroom in Dedham. He had formerly been asso- ciated with Loew's Theatres for many years and had acted as mana- ger of theatres in Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Delaware and Richmond, Virginia.
In 1926 he married Jean Anderson from whom he was later divorced. They had two children: Lillian Alice (Mrs. Thomas Dolan) and George Arthur, Jr. In 1933 Jones married Agnes Crosby who survived him. They had one child, Anne Catherine.
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CHARLES J. KALINAUSKAS
Charles J. Kalinauskas died September 5, 1956, at Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was born February 29, 1904, in South Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Anthony Michael and Elizabeth (Vasi- lauskas) Kalinauskas. He prepared at Boston Latin School and received an A.B. and an LL.B. at Harvard. Since graduation from the Law School he had been in private practice, with law offices in Boston and South Boston. For seven years he served as Assistant U.S. District Attorney, District of Massachusetts, and during World War II, he was an attorney for the Alien Property Custodian in Boston. He was former chairman of the South Boston Red Cross Drive and past president of the United Lithuanian Citizens' Club of Massachusetts, Dorchester American-Lithuanian Citizens' Club and the South Boston Lithuanian Citizens' Association. Since 1952 he had been national president of the Lithuanian Alliance of America.
He was a member of the American, Federal and Massachusetts Bar Associations, Boston Latin School Association, Harvard Law School Association and the Catholic Alumni Sodality.
In 1937 he married Anna R. Gabrunas, who, with their three children: Charles Joseph, Philip and Elizabeth, survived him.
JOHN JAY HICKS KERR
John Jay Hicks Kerr died February 20, 1957, in New York City. He was born June 18, 1902, in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of Guy Manning and Bertha (Thompson) Kerr. He prepared at St. Mark's School and received an A.B. at Harvard with our Class. After graduation he worked successively in the cotton goods field, with a stock brokerage firm and in the travel business. For ten years he was sports director and promoter for the Homestead Hotel in Hot Springs, Virginia. As the time of our Twenty-fifth Anniversary Re- port, he wrote that he had retired and was living in Antigua, British West Indies.
He was a member of the Racquet and Tennis Club, New York, and the New Club and Gambles' Golf Club in Antigua.
His marriage to Helen Olivia Clark ended in divorce. In 1930 he married Lily McCabe from whom he was later divorced. In 1946 he married Elizabeth Baxter Keene who survived him. Kerr was
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also survived by two children: Joan Hicks (Mrs. Eickner) and Frances Rachel Urquhart (Mrs. Francis Howland).
FRANK SHEDD LALLY
Frank Shedd Lally died July 19, 1959, at Easton, Maryland. He was born September 10, 1896, in Boston, the son of John James and Cecelia Ann (Shedd) Lally. He prepared at Boston English High School and received an S.B. in 1924, as of our Class. During World War I, he served a year as a flying cadet in the U.S. Army Flying Corps, and a year as a student flight officer in the U.S. Navy Flying Corps.
He was district representative of the Aluminum Foil Division of the Aluminum Company of America, with whom he had been asso- ciated since graduation. At the time of our Thirtieth Anniversary Report he wrote that he had retired.
He was a member of the Merion Golf Club, Baltimore Country Club and the Country Club of Virginia. He was survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Helen Hale, whom he married in 1925.
RUSSELL CARPENTER LARCOM
Russell Carpenter Larcom died March 27, 1959, at Birmingham, Alabama. He was born July 7, 1903, at Beverly, Massachusetts, the son of George Francis and Sarah (Jones ) Larcom. He prepared at Newton (Mass.) High School and received an A.B. and an M.B.A. at Harvard. In 1937 he received a Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity. He was professor of finance in the University of Alabama School of Commerce and Business Administration, having come to the university in 1942, and was named a full professor in 1947. He had previously taught at Lake Forest College, Kenyon College, University of Massachusetts and John B. Stetson University.
His professional affiliations included: Southern Economics Asso- ciation, American Finance Association, Beta Gamma Sigma (com- merce honorary), Pi Gamma Mu (scholastic honorary) and Alpha Kappa Pi (professional commerce fraternity). He was the author of: The Delaware Corporation, Johns Hopkins Press, 1937, The Financial Effects of Taxation, University of Alabama Press, 1946, and had published numerous articles.
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He was survived by his wife, the former Ruth A. King, whom he married in 1934, and a daughter, Victoria A. Larcom.
MAYNARD LOCKE LAWRENCE
Maynard Locke Lawrence died October 2, 1957, at Trumbull, Connecticut. He was born December 21, 1903, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Frank Maynard and Florence Adeline (Locke) Lawrence. He attended Cambridge High and Latin School before coming to Harvard where he received an A.B. in 1926, as of our Class. Since graduation he had worked successively as an effi- ciency engineer with the Otis Company, in mills in western Massa- chusetts and New Hampshire, with Collins & Aikman Corporation in Bristol, Rhode Island, and Philadelphia and with MacDonald Brothers, production engineers in Bristol, Connecticut. At the time of our Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report he was textile superinten- dent for Cheney Brothers in Manchester, Connecticut. He was a member of the Society for the Advancement of Management.
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