Burton Lincoln Wales Jr. ’41
Burton Lincoln Wales Jr. ’41 died on September 20, 2011, in Northfield, Minnesota. At Dartmouth Linc served as crew and hut-master of the Mount Moosilauke Summit House in the White Mountains. He also helped manage the Dartmouth ski team. After receiving his M.D. from Cornell Medical School, Linc served in the U.S. Navy as lieutenant assigned as medical officer on destroyers based in Norfolk,Virginia, and San Diego. He also served on the USS Aylwin. His duty included six months at a Navy hospital in Trinidad. During the Korean War he served once again as a staff doctor at the Newport, Rhode Island, Naval Hospital. In 1943 he married Gretchen Heald, whom he had met at Mount Mooselauke. After interning at Boston City Hospital he completed his residency training at Central Maine General Hospital in Lewiston, specializing in internal medicine. He then practiced privately in New Bedford, Massachusetts, later becoming medical director of the Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Co. In 1972 Linc joined the medical staff of the Veterans Administration Health Center in Togus, Maine, retiring in 1985 to the family base in Northfield, Minnesota. He is survived by Gretchen, children Cynthia and Eric and grandchildren Karsten and Hannah.
