Tag: Hanover

Elizabeth L. Orcutt

From the March 20, 2000 issue of The Country Chronicle

Hanover, NH–Elizabeth (Betty) Orcutt died March 4, 2000 after a long and satisfying life. She was in her 90th year.

Betty came to Hanover in 1932 from Berlin, NH, after studying elementary education at Keene Normal School.

She married her husband Stan in 1935 and had a son, William S. Orcutt of Manchester, NH; and a daughter, Sally Page of Hanover, NH; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Betty taught first grade in Hanover for 42 years and touched the lives of well over 1200 children. She was particularly renowned for easing out those first loose teeth of her students.

Betty was a lifelong lover of the ocean and became known as “Betty Beach” by her friends in Ogunquit, ME where she and Stan spent their summers.

A memorial service will be held for Betty at St. Thomas Church, Wheelock St., Hanover, NH on Saturday March 25th at 2 pm.

Contributions in her memory may be made to the Visiting Nurse Alliance of VT and NH, Old Court House, Main St., White River Junction, VT 05001.

Charles E. Pusey

From the January 8, 2001 issue of The Country Chronicle

PA & VT–Charles E. Pusey, 93, died at Hanover Terrace Healthcare, in Hanover, NH, following a lengthy illness. He was born June 14, 1907 in Lima, PA, the son of Arthur Warren & Grace Evans Pusey. In 1928, he married Jane Downing of Downingtown, PA. He was predeceased by his wife, to whom he was devoted, and by his siblings, Arthur Warren, Jr., Marjorie Schmidt and Eleanor Copp.

Born and raised in Chester County, PA, Mr. Pusey attended Friends Select School in PA; was in the class of 1925 at Westtown School; and attended Lafayette College. He established a family real estate business and was well known in Southeastern PA, both as a realtor and as a designer/builder of custom period homes under the name, The Pusey’s of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Pusey was a gifted gardener and used those talents to enhance the community at Hazen Meadows in Norwich, VT to which he moved in 1981. For his efforts, he received much praise. He also continued to be active in Christian beliefs and found a new home of friends in The Church of the Open Bible in Ascutney, VT, where he served as an elder ans missionary.

Survivors include two sons, Richard of Canaan, NH and Charles, Jr. of Berwyn, PA; a daughter, Jane Keys of Burke, VA; nine grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren as well as devoted nieces and nephews.

There will be no calling hours. A memorial service was held Saturday, January 5 at 3 pm in the Church of the Open Bible in Ascutney, VT. Memorial contributes in memory of Mr. Pusey may be made to: The Church of the Open Bible, Ascutney, VT 05030 or to: The Visiting Nurse Alliance of VT & NH (VNA/VNH), 20 Main St., White River Jct., VT 05001.

The Ricker Funeral Home of Lebanon is in charge of arrangements.

Lane Dwinell

from the April 2, 1997 issue of The Country Chronicle

Hanover, NH–Lane Dwinell, 90, of Hanover, the only person in New Hampshire history to hold the offices of House Speaker, Senate President and Governor in successive terms, died Thursday, March 27th, 1997, in his home at Kendal at Hanover.

He was born Nov. 14, 1906 in Newport, VT, the son of Dean and Ruth (Lane) Dwinell. He attended schools in Newport and Pasadena, CA before moving to Lebanon for his senior year in high school. He graduated from Lebanon High School in 1924, from Dartmouth College in 1928 and from Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1929.

In 1932 he married Elizabeth Cushman of Lebanon, and they lived for a time in New York City where Gov. Dwinell was employed in the Treasurer’s office of General Motors Corp. from 1929 to 1936. They returned to Lebanon in 1936 when Mr. Dwinell joined his father in Carter & Churchill Co., the family-owned clothing manufacturer that was later known as Profile Skiwear. He was actively involved in that business for 31 years, most of them as Chief Executive Officer and it grew to become a nationally recognized maker of skiing apparel.

In 1946 and 1947 he was president of the New Hampshire Manufacturer’s Association. He was also involved over the years as a director of the Northern Railroad, Granite State Electric Co., Currier & Co. in Lebanon, the Lebanon Industrial Development Authority, the New England Council Vermont Motor Inns, and the New Hampshire Business Development Corporation. He was a longtime trustee of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, and also served as a trustee of Colby-Sawyer College in New London, Dartmouth College, and the University of New Hampshire. He was given honorary degrees from the later two, as well as Suffolk University and New England College.

He was associated with the National Bank of Lebanon (now Citizens Bank) for more than 30 years beginning in 1947, when he was elected to the Board of Directors. He was chairman of the board from 1968 to 1979, during which time the bank became the first in the state to open a branch office.

He became active in local affairs shortly after his return to Lebanon, winning election to the town budget committee and serving as a Special Justice of the Lebanon Municipal Court.

His entry into state politics came when he was elected to represent Lebanon at the 1948 Constitutional Convention. He was also elected to the legislature that year, by which time he had already served four years on the state Board of Education.

He chaired the House of Ways and Means Committee in his first term, and in his second he was elected Speaker. Following that term, he was elected in 1952 to the stat Senate, where he was chosen President. He followed up that two-year stint by winning the Governor’s office in November 1954, and was re-elected in 1956.

During his gubernatorial tenure he applied private sector principles to state government by tightening accounting procedures and gave state employees healthy raises to diminish excessive turnover. He also signed a bill that provided state aid for school construction, and another that allowed groups of school districts to band together to form cooperative districts. Under that bill, districts that banded together were given extra money for school construction.

The state’s interstate highway system also was laid out during his tenure, and he also hosted President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which set the stage for the next phase of his career.

After leaving state government in 1959, Gov. Dwinell was appointed by President Eisenhower to be Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, overseeing the department’s budget, personnel, and embassy operations, a job that took him and Mrs. Dwinell to U.S. embassies around the world.

He left that post in 1961 and returned to Carter & Churchill, but re-entered the federal government in 1969, when President Richard M. Nixon appointed him an administrator of the Agency for International Development. That job also entailed much foreign travel, and he held it until 1971. He also was appointed by Nixon in 1971 to the Board of Foreign Scholarships, and reappointed in 1974 by President Ford.

In 1972 he was chairman of President Nixon’s re-election campaign in New Hampshire, and Nixon’s official announcement of his intention to seek a second term was made in the form of a personal letter to Gov. Dwinell, which he was authorized to make public.

He also served as chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s New Hampshire campaigns in 1980 and 1984.

His involvement in politics at the state and federal levels led to his attending seven Republican National Conventions from 1952 to 1988. He chaired the New Hampshire delegation to those conventions in 1956, 1968, 1972, 1980 and 1984.

He and Mrs. Dwinell underwrote many community causes during their more than 60 years in Lebanon, including a wing of the Lebanon Library, the pool at the Carter-Witherall Center, and the publishing of a new Lebanon history in 1994.

He was a member of the Lebanon Rotary Club, Theta Delta Chi Fraternity, Sons of American Revolution, Sons of Colonial Wars, Moose and Grange.

He was predeceased by a sister, Eleanor Boreilla, and his wife Elizabeth C. Dwinell, who died on Oct.29, 1996. He is survived by nieces and nephews.

Memorial services following a private burial will be held on Monday, March 31, at 11 am in the First Congregational Church of Lebanon. The Rev. Richard N. Slater will officiate. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: The Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, 10 Alice Peck Day Drive , Lebanon, NH 03766. Arrangements are under the direction of the Ricker Funeral Home of Lebanon, NH.

Henry W. Ehrmann

from the January 4, 1995 issue of The Country Chronicle

Hanover, NH–Jurist, professor, author and journalist Henry W. Ehrmann died of heart failure December 25 at Scripps Clinic and Greens Hospital in LaJolla, CA.  He was 86.

Professor Ehrmann was born in Berlin in 1908 and studied at the famed French gymnasium in Berlin before earning a degree in law from the University of Freiburg and a doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Berlin in 1929.  He had already become a jurist in Berlin when the Nazis came to power in 1933.  Arrested by the Gestapo shortly after, Ehrmann was imprisoned in a concentration camp.  With the help of friends and bribery he escaped to the Czech border where he skied over the Sudeten Mountains to freedom.

He worked as a journalist and scholar in France until it fell to the Germans in 1940.  Active in helping others escape Hitler, Ehrmann and his wife were the first to use the escape route over the Pyreness Mountains into Spain en route to the United States.  After teaching at the New School for Social Research, he directed education programs for German prisoners of war (1943-1947) before joining the faculty of the University of Colorado.  In 1961 he joined the Department of Government of Dartmouth College, where he held the Joel Parker Professorship of Law and Political Science and, from 1963-1966, served as the department’s chair.  He also taught at the McGill University and held visiting professorships at the universities of Paris, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Mannheim, Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton and the University of California at Berkeley and at San Diego, where he taught once a year until 1990.

Ehrmann is perhaps best known for his book Politics in France, which in five printings became an academic best seller and was subsequently published in German.  He considered his 1957 Organized Business in France (French translation in 1969) to be his major work because, as he said in a 1980 interview at Dartmouth, “in all modesty, it was a new thing and raised new questions.”

The Ehrmanns’ escape to Spain was featured in the recent PBS special The Exiles. As a foreign scholar, he had the unusual distinction of teaching French politics at the Sorbonne.  In 1985, Ehrmann was one of three foreign scholars to receive the first honorary doctorates ever awarded by their prestigious Institute D’Etudes Politques in Paris.  He also holds honorary degrees from the universities of Mannheim and Hartford.  He has donated his extensive scholarly library to Wesleyan University.

He married the former Claire U. Sachs in 1939.  He is survived by his wife, of Hanover, and two sons, Michael M. of McLean, VA and Paul L. of Santa Monica, as well as four grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held in the spring at the University of California at San Diego and at Dartmouth.  Any memorial gifts should be sent to Amnesty International in New York or The Southern Poverty Law Center in Atlanta.

George R. Stibitz

from the February 8, 1995 issue of The Country Chronicle

Hanover, NH–George Robert Stibitz, 90, professor emeritus at Dartmouth Medical School known internationally as “father of the modern digital computer,” died January 31, 1995 at his home in Hanover Center, NH.

While a research mathematician at AT & T Bell Laboratories in the 1930’s, Stibitz designed a binary adder, then developed several increasingly powerful digital computers, several of which were used in the World War II military effort.

In 1954, as a private consultant in Burlington, VT, he developed an inexpensive electronic digital computer that was a prototype of today’s minicomputers.

After joining the Dartmouth Medical School faculty in 1964, Stibitz was a pioneer in what is now known as biomedicine, applying computer science to such projects as the motion of oxygen in the lungs, renal exchange, brain cell anatomy, a mathematical model of capillary transport, myocardial cellular cellular electrophysiology and radiation dosimetry.

Stibitz received honors from several professional associations and honorary degrees from his alma mater, Denison University and from Keene (NH) State College and Dartmouth College.

Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Dorothea Lamson Stibitz; daughters, Mary (Mrs. Leon) Pacifici of Waterford, CT and Martha (Mrs. Sikhar) Stibitz Banerjee of New London, NH; a granddaughter, Monica Banerjee; a brother, E, Earle Stibitz of Carbondale, IL; sisters, Mildred T, Stibitz and Eleanor (Mrs David) Billmyer of Albany, NY; and several nieces and nephews.

Stibitz recalled his career in a 1993 memoir, The Zeroth Generation, so titled because his machines preceded  the first generation of computers.  In his book, Stibitz recounts how, in 1937, he built a primitive binary adder in his kitchen from dry cell batteries, metal strips from a tobacco can and flashlight bulbs soldered to wires from two telephone relays.  A replica is in the Smithsonian Institution.

Working with a Bell engineer, Samuel Williams, Stibitz expanded the adder into the Model I Complex Calculator, which went into routine operation in January 1940.  The Model I solved problems faster than 100 human computists with desk calculators, and its connection to Teletypes in other Bell offices was an early predecessor of a timesharing system.

Later in 1940, Stubitz demonstrated his computer at a joint meeting of three mathematical societies at Dartmouth.  In what is believed to be the first remote computer operation, he sent problems through a Teletype hookup from Dartmouth to a Bell Labs computer in New York City which returned numerical answers to Hanover in seconds.

The American Federation of Information Processing Societies presented him with its Harry Goode Award for his innovative computer work in 1965.  Other awards were the Emanuel R. Piore Award (1977) and the Computer Pioneer Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (1982).

Stibitz was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 and to the Inventors Hall of Fame in 1983.  Later this year Denison University plans to announce an endowed chair, the George R. Stibitz distinguished Professor in Mathematics.

Besides patents for his inventions assigned to Bell Labs, Stibitz held 38 of his own.

Stibitz was born on April 30, 1904, in York, PA,  the son of a man in the (German) Reformed Church in the United States.  When Stibitz was a young child, the family moved to Dayton, OH, where his father taught ancient languages at Central Theological Seminary.

After graduating from Moraine Park School, an experimental progressive school, Stibitz received a full scholarship to Denison University.  He graduated from Denison in 1926, and earned a master’s degree in physics from Union College in 1927 and a doctorate from Cornell University in 1930.

A memorial service will be arranged at a later date.

Allan Charles Hirsch

from the August 31, 1994 issue of The Country Chronicle

Hanover, NH – Dr. Allan Charles Hirsch, 59, of Lyme Road, was pronounced dead Sunday, August 21, 1994 at New London Hospital following a boating accident on Lake Sunapee.

He was born in Newport, June 29, 1935, the son of Joshua and Sally D. (Perelman) Hirsch and had resided in Hanover for 22 years.

Dr. Hirsch graduated from Towle High School in Newport in 1953 and received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College in New York in 1957.  He graduated as a doctor of dental medicine from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 1960 and interned in oral surgery at Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. from 1960 to 1961.  He attended one year of postgraduate study in oral surgery at Boston University School of Medicine, Division of Postdoctoral Training, Department of Stomatology, from 1961 to 1962.  He then completed a one-year residency in oral surgery at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center.

Dr. Hirsch was an instructor of oral surgery at Cumberland Hospital and Albert Einstein Medical School, an adjunct professor of oral surgery at Dartmouth Medical School and clinical instructor in oral surgery at Harvard Dental School.

Ethics in Dental Practice, co-authored by Dr. Hirsch and Bernard Gert of Dartmouth College, is used as a text in dental colleges.  Dr. Hirsch held fellowships in the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology in 1974 and the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 1980.

He was a self-employed oral and maxillofacial surgeon from 1962-1991.  At different times he was affiliated with Alice Peck Day Hospital, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, the Veterans Administration Hospital and Valley Regional Hospital.

He was a member if the American Dental Association, New Hampshire Dental Society, New Hampshire Society of Oral Surgeons, American Dental Society of Anesthesiology, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and International Congress of Oral Implantologists.

Dr. Hirsch was a founding member of the Hanover Chapter of B’nai B’rith, a founding member of the Upper Valley Jewish Community and very active in the Lebanon Rotary Club.

He belonged to a poker group for 20 years and loved chess, skiing, and sailing.  He was a wine connoisseur and had a joke for every occasion.

Survivors include three daughters: Lisa Hirsch of Sedona, Ariz.; Audrey Hirsch of Watertown, Mass.; and Susan Hirsch of Brookline, Mass.; one brother, Dr. David I. Hirsch of Hattiesburg, Miss.; one sister, Judith P. Liss of Toronto, Canada; aunts, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Rollins Chapel in Hanover with Rabbi Daniel Siegel officiating.  Burial followed in Meyer-David Cemetery in Claremont.

The family suggested that memorial donations be made to the Lake Sunapee Cruising Fleet c/o David J. Edwards, RFD 2 Box 1153, Warner, NH 03278 or the New England Handicapped Sportsmen’s Assoc., 26 McFarlan Rd., Chelmsford, Mass 01824 or the Columbia College in New York City or Vermont Public Radio in Burlington or the Upper Valley Jewish Community.

Connie E. Naitove

from the August 17, 1994 issue of The Country Chronicle

Hanover, N.H. – Connie E. Naitove, a multi-arts therapist, author, lecturer, and artist, died Saturday, August 6, at her home after a long illness.  She was 66.

After receiving a master’s degree from the MALS program at Dartmouth College in the early 19702, she began working as a multi-arts therapist and psychotherapist.

Mrs. Naitove was the founder and president of the National Educational Council of Creative Therapies, a registered art therapist, a registered drama therapist, and a certified poetry therapist.  She was a professional member of the American Dance Therapy Association, National Horticulture Therapy Association, National Parks and Recreation Association, American Mental Health Counselors Association, British Association of Art Therapists, and the Drama Therapy Association of Great Britain.

She was a diplomat of the American Board of Psychotherapy and a consultant on child sexual molestation to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Mrs. Naitove was a well-known author and lecturer with more than 40 published articles and chapters in professional publications throughout the world.

As a sculptor, her works have been reviewed and exhibitied on several continents and are in collections around the world.

Locally, Mrs. Naitove served as president of the League of Women Voters, was a member of the board of the Hanover Co-op, and a contributor to the educational programs of the Hanover schools.  She worked as a director and producer of numerous children’s theater productions at the Bema and in the schools.

Mrs. Naitove helped local Cub Scout troops and was recently appointed a guardian ad litem in the Vermont Family Court system.

She was the Halloween Witch as the Rip Road Haunted House for Many years.

She was born Dec. 7, 1927, in New York City, the daughter of Ethel and Henry Epstein.  She began her education as an artist at the New York University School for Gifted Children and later studied privately with William McNulty and Kurt Seligmann.

She married Dr. Arthur Naitove in 1946 and they came to Hanover in 1955.

Survivors include her husband; four sons, Matthew of New York, N.Y., Noah of Brighton, Mass., Peter of Keene, and Benjamin of Philadelphia, Pa.; a daughter, Abby of Needham, Mass.; six grandchildren; two brothers, Alan Emory of Falls Church, Va., and Eric Emory of Katonah, N.Y.

There were no calling hours.  A memorial service was held on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Rollins Chapel in Hanover.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the charity of one’s choice.

The Rand-Wilson Funeral Home of Hanover was in charge of arrangements.

Paul R. “Dick” Shafer

from the April 20, 1994 issue of The Country Chronicle

Hanover, N.H. – Paul R. “Dick” Shafer, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Dartmouth who lived in Enfield, died Wednesday of cardiac arrest at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  An organic chemist who specialized in nuclear magnetic resonance, Shafer was a member of the Dartmouth faculty from 1952 ton1988.  He served as chair of the division of sciences, 1961-64; chair of the chemistry department, 1967-69; and associate dean for the sciences, 1969-1973.  Shafer, who spent 1959-1960 as a National Science Foundation fellow at the California Institute of Technology, was responsible for the establishment of a nuclear magnetic resonance laboratory at Dartmouth in the mid-1960s.  He also served on the college’s science center building committee during the construction of the Sherman Fairchild Physical Sciences Center in the 1970s.

An avid outdoorsman, Shafer enjoyed backpacking, rock climbing, sailing and skiing.  In the 1970s, he taught rock climbing to numerous Dartmouth students and was an adviser to the student mountaineering cub.  During a leave of absence in 1973-74, Shafer led a four vehicle safari on a 25,000 mile trip which nearly circumnavigated Africa from Tunisia to Ethiopia.  His three sons were among those accompanying him on the journey.

Shafer was born June 17, 1923, in Springfield, Ohio.  He completed his undergraduate work at Oberlin College in 1947 and earned a doctor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1951.  He served as pilot for the U.S. Air Force in World War II and was later a captain in the Wisconsin Air National Guard.

He is survived by a brother, Bill of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, a sister, Sue Keebler of Kirtland, Ohio, three sons, Michael of Highland Park, N.J.; Timothy of Townsend, VT; and Andrew of Enfield; and seven grandchildren.

There will be no funeral nor visiting hours.  A memorial service will be scheduled later this spring.