John C. Locke ’40 died August 8, 2007, in Lake Worth, Fla.
Obituaries : Class of 1940
Linwood Manning Rowe ’40
Linwood Manning Rowe ’40 died on December 27, 2007, in Rumford, Maine.
Richard Newton Abbott ’40
Richard Newton Abbott ’40 died on January 26, 2007, in Tilton, N.H.
Robert W. Armstrong Jr. ’40
Robert W. Armstrong Jr. ’40 died May 4, 2009, at Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport. Continue reading
Harry Heath Baldwin III ’40
Harry Heath Baldwin III ’40 died on January 7, 2005, in Lexington, MA.
Robert Ness Bass ’40
Robert Ness Bass ’40 died on October 27, 2006, in Falmouth.
William Antcliffe Bellamy, Jr. ’40
William Antcliffe Bellamy, Jr. ’40 died on July 14, 2006, in Mansfield, Mass.
James Wallace Blunt, Jr. ’40
James Wallace Blunt, Jr. ’40 died on December 14, 2003, in Williamsburg, VA.
Charles Theodore Brown ’40
Charles Theodore Brown ’40 died on March 13, 2005, in Freeport.
Matthew W. Bullock Jr. ’40
Matthew W. Bullock Jr. ’40 died July 7, 2013. He was born on April 4, 1920, in Boston and graduated from Boston Latin High School. He graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Masque and Gown, and the Afro-American Society. Continue reading
Stephen L. Carbone Jr. ’40
Stephen L. Carbone Jr. ’40 died July 7, 2010, at his home in Norwood, Mass.
Jacob J. Cinamon ’40
Jacob J. Cinamon ’40 died on November 22, 2016, in Portland, Maine. Continue reading
Robert Warren Coombs ’40
Robert Warren Coombs ’40 died on August 6, 2005 in Ventura, CA.
Fred J. Dambrie Sr. ’40
Fred J. Dambrie Sr. ’40 died February 27, 2014, at his home in Portland. He was born on May 9, 1918, in Portland, and he graduated from Portland High, where he was president of his class and recipient of the Brown Medal. At Bowdoin, where he was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity, he served as an instructor in foreign languages, teaching French, Spanish, and Italian. Continue reading
Richard Edward Doyle ’40
Richard Edward Doyle ’40 died on June 3, 2005, in Portland.
Edward Foster Everett ’40
Edward Foster Everett ’40 died on October 17, 2005, in Cave Creek, AZ.
Fred M. Fernald Sr. ’40
Fred M. Fernald Sr. ’40 died November 2, 2012, in Winchester, Va. He was born on March 20, 1917, in Lewiston, the son of Clarence J. Fernald, Class of 1907, and prepared for college at Roosevelt High School and Devitt Preparatory School. Continue reading
Elvin Jeffrey Gilman ’40
Elvin Jeffrey Gilman ’40, who established Bowdoin’s Dean Paul Nixon “Pat on the Back” fund and initiated the revitalization of Portland’s Old Port, died February 25, 2010, at his South Portland home.
Joseph Hoyt Griffith ’40
Joseph Hoyt Griffith ’40 died on May 24, 2005, in Stuart, FL.
Paul Hamilton Hermann ’40
Paul Hamilton Hermann ’40 died on August 26, 2004, in Rutland, VT.
Harry Waldemar Hultgren, Jr. ’40
Harry Waldemar Hultgren, Jr. ’40 died July 7, 2009, in West Hartford, Conn., after a brief illness. Continue reading
Payson B. Jacobson ’40
Payson B. Jacobson ’40, an opthalmologist for more than 50 years in Portland, Biddeford, and Bath, died January 5, 2011, in Portland.
Philip Mackey Johnson ’40
Philip Mackey Johnson ’40 died on December 1, 2006, in Waldwick, NJ.
Thomas U. Lineham Jr. ’40
Thomas U. Lineham Jr. ’40 died on April 22, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. Continue reading
George T. Little ’40
George T. Little ’40 died December 18, 2014, in Shelburne, Vermont. Continue reading
Walter C. Loeman ’40
Walter C. Loeman ’40 died January 6, 2010, in Scarborough, Maine.
Gordon Hosmer MacDougall ’40
Gordon Hosmer MacDougall ’40 died on October 25, 2007, in Berryville, Va.
Charles Hutchins MacMahon, Jr. ’40
Charles Hutchins MacMahon, Jr. ’40 died on February 10, 2006, in Orange City, FL.
William French Mitchell ’40
William French Mitchell ’40 of Sun City Center, FL, died on October 18, 2005, in Tampa following a succession of heart attacks over a period of several months.
John Clayton Nettleton ’40
John Clayton Nettleton ’40 died on November 24, 2007, in New York City.
Edward John Platz ’40
Edward John Platz ’40 died on January 25, 2005, in Wallingford, CT.
Jay C. Pratt ’40
Jay C. Pratt ’40 died November 7, 2011, in Pilesgrove, N.J. He was born on July 29, 1918, in Groveton, N.H., and graduated from Farmington (Maine) High School. At Bowdoin, he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He had worked for four months as a graduate assistant at Boston University when he was recruited by DuPont to work in the Carney’s Point Works, Plant I Ballistics Lab. Continue reading
James C. Richdale Jr. ’40
James C. Richdale Jr. ’40 died December 2, 2008, in Santa Fe, N.M.
Truman G. Schnabel Jr. ’40
Truman G. Schnabel Jr. ’40 died March 10, 2009, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was born on January 5, 1919, in Philadelphia, and prepared for college at William Penn Charter School, where he was captain of the tennis team and lettered in three other sports. Continue reading
Eugene Daniel Sexton ’40
Eugene Daniel Sexton ’40 died on February 21, 2005, in Augusta.
Amos W. Shepard Jr. ’40
Amos W. Shepard Jr. ’40, an antiquarian who specialized in English lighting fixtures, died on August 31, 2009, after a prolonged illness. Continue reading
Kirby Russell Thwing ’40
Kirby Russell Thwing ’40 died on November 13, 2007, in Buckland, Mass., as the result of a single-car accident.
Joseph Tuccio ’40
Joseph Tuccio ’40 died July 31, 2008, in Ridgefield, Conn.The oldest of five children, he was born on May 17, 1017, in Campo, Calabria.
Arthur Woods Wang ’40
Arthur Woods Wang ’40 died on October 14, 2005, in Wellesley, MA.
Henry Adams Wheeler ’40
Henry Adams Wheeler ’40 died on December 10, 2003, in Clinton Corners, NY.
Guilbert S. Winchell ’40
Guilbert S. Winchell ’40 died November 25, 2013, in Lincoln, Mass. He was born in Cambridge, Mass., on June 14, 1918, and prepared for college at Concord (Mass.) High School. He studied mechanical engineering and graduated from both Bowdoin and MIT in 1941, a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Continue reading
Philip Cleland Young ’40
Philip Cleland Young ’40 died on November 14, 2004, in New Orleans, LA.