1953–54 Volume 78 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for September, 1953 57
of his death was president of the DuBose-Egleston
agency. A student of Southern history, he was a past
president and director of the Atlanta Historical
Society.
DONALD PERLEE STERNBERG, Iowa State '35, executive
adviser at North American Aviation, Inc. and
one of that company's top officials, died suddenly
during the summer, 1953, at St. John's Hospital,
Santa Monica, Calif. Brother Sternberg joined North
American in 1941 and before that was with the Pacific
Co. of California. He recently had joined the
Masonic Lodge.
LT. COL. THEODORE PARKER, Denison '21, who was
serving his third term as mayor of Barberton, Ohio,
died in Barberton, July 10, 1953.
Brother Parker saw service in World Wars I and
II and with the National Guard between wars. He
was commanding officer of the 2d Battalion of the
14th Infantry in Ohio's 37th Division. He saw action
in the South Pacific and had numerous decorations
before he was invalided out of service. He was a
Mason, and a member and past commander of
Helen Theasing Post, American Legion.
WILLIAM DODD ANDERSON, Mercer '33, died in a
hospital at Macon, Ga., June 26, 1953. He had made
his home in Macon for 25 years and taught English
at Lanier high school for boys for many years, in
spite of an almost lifelong crippled condition.
Among the survivors is a brother. Dice Anderson,
Jr., Randolph-Macon '25, Atlanta, Ga.
CHARLES FRANCIS HIRST, Penn State '08, died in Scottdale,
Pa., where he made his home, Jan. 10, 1953.
He was a professional engineer and land surveyor
and had been employed by the U. S. Steel Co.
ERNEST GRANGER HAPGOOD, Brown '01, died at New
ton Highlands, Mass., April 3, 1953. Brother Hapgood
was a member of 4> B K and headmaster of
Girls Latin School at Boston. Active in civic and
educational affairs he was a former alderman-atlarge
of Newton.
NEIL C. HALLOCK, Wisconsin '16, died suddenly in
Wilmette, 111., his home. May 14, 1953. An engineering
graduate of Wisconsin, Brother Hallock served
as a first lieutenant of artillery in World War I,
and was with the British-French-American expedition
which spent 16 months in the neighborhood of
Archangel, Russia, in 1917-18.
WALTER E. E. KOEPLER, Westminster '06, died from
aftereffects of pneumonia at his home in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., May 13, 1953. He was for years
secretary of the Soft Coal Association with headquarters
at Bluefield, W.Va. Brother Koepler retired
in December, 1950, after 33 years of service
to the coal industry.
OUN A. WAKEMAN, Northwestern '05, died in Miami,
Fla., Dec. 16, 1952.
JAMES G. GURNEY, Westminster '20, died Feb. 21,
1953, while on a vacation in Cuba. For thirty years
Brother Gurnev had been in the ^ool business in
Chicago, 111.
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ROBERT LEROY REILEY, Knox '97, Des Moines, la.,
died Nov. 21, 1952.
MERVIN WALLACE ALLEN, Lombard '98, died in
Eureka, Kan., Oct. 25, 1952.
REV. SroNEY LEWIS MCCARTY, D.D., Westminster '95,
died recently at his home in Thomasville, Ga.
RICHARD MORGAN MCKNIGHT, Dartmouth '35, died in
Evanston, 111., where he was a real estate broker
with Hokanson & Jenks, May 6, 1952. Among the
survivors is a brother, William B. McKnight, Dartmouth
'37.
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RUSSELL SANFORD PETERMAN, Westminster '25, a
prominent attorney at Chaffee, Mo., died there in
September, 1952.
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IN COELO QUIES EST
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