Class Note 1944
Issue
Jul - Aug 2017
Earth has tipped forward
The white wing of winter lifts
We are spring-loaded.
Charles Martin Secor died on January 23. Born in Yonkers, New York, he grew up in California and returned to the East to attend Dartmouth. The U.S. Navy sent Chuck to Stanford Medical School, and he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in the Korean War as well. During these years he and his first wife, Pauline, raised four children. Chuck began his private practice in orthopedic surgery in 1953 in Marin County, eventually retiring in 2006. Chuck loved the out-of-doors; he spent much of his free time backpacking in the Sierras, beekeeping, raising greenhouse orchids, fishing, and photographing nature. He was an early member of the Squaw Valley ski patrol and sailed his Cal 2-30 to Hawaii with his two sons and a grandson. Long before it was fashionable, Chuck commuted to his medical office and hospital by bicycle. He took up flying, obtaining pilots’ licenses in both glider and power aircraft. He knitted sweaters for all of his family, studied French and read The New Yorker. Upon retirement he took up golf and bridge and with wife Sally delivered Meals on Wheels and managed a menagerie of pets. Sally and four children survive him.
Robert Eugene Rice died February 12 in Houston. Robert came to Dartmouth from Montana. He volunteered for service in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942, finishing his studies after his service and graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He attended law school at the University of Michigan and was admitted to the bar in Oklahoma. Robert and his new wife, Mary, moved to Duncan, where he opened his law office. He served as county attorney in Stephens County and then joined the legal department of Halliburton Oil Well Co., now Halliburton Co., where he became vice president of legal services, retiring in 1987. He and Mary moved to Houston, where they lived at the Forum at Memorial Woods. Robert is survived by his wife of 69 years as well as two sons.
We extend our condolences to their families.
—Betty Munson, 23 Linscott Road No, York, ME 03909; elizmunson1944@gmail.com
The white wing of winter lifts
We are spring-loaded.
Charles Martin Secor died on January 23. Born in Yonkers, New York, he grew up in California and returned to the East to attend Dartmouth. The U.S. Navy sent Chuck to Stanford Medical School, and he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in the Korean War as well. During these years he and his first wife, Pauline, raised four children. Chuck began his private practice in orthopedic surgery in 1953 in Marin County, eventually retiring in 2006. Chuck loved the out-of-doors; he spent much of his free time backpacking in the Sierras, beekeeping, raising greenhouse orchids, fishing, and photographing nature. He was an early member of the Squaw Valley ski patrol and sailed his Cal 2-30 to Hawaii with his two sons and a grandson. Long before it was fashionable, Chuck commuted to his medical office and hospital by bicycle. He took up flying, obtaining pilots’ licenses in both glider and power aircraft. He knitted sweaters for all of his family, studied French and read The New Yorker. Upon retirement he took up golf and bridge and with wife Sally delivered Meals on Wheels and managed a menagerie of pets. Sally and four children survive him.
Robert Eugene Rice died February 12 in Houston. Robert came to Dartmouth from Montana. He volunteered for service in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942, finishing his studies after his service and graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He attended law school at the University of Michigan and was admitted to the bar in Oklahoma. Robert and his new wife, Mary, moved to Duncan, where he opened his law office. He served as county attorney in Stephens County and then joined the legal department of Halliburton Oil Well Co., now Halliburton Co., where he became vice president of legal services, retiring in 1987. He and Mary moved to Houston, where they lived at the Forum at Memorial Woods. Robert is survived by his wife of 69 years as well as two sons.
We extend our condolences to their families.
—Betty Munson, 23 Linscott Road No, York, ME 03909; elizmunson1944@gmail.com