Obituaries | 1930-1939

FREDERIC G. HYDE, 93, a journalist and professor, died Feb. 25, 2005. A member of Delta Tau Delta, he received master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught after serving on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer for many years. He retired as a professor of English and journalism at Bucks County Community College. Predeceased by his wife, Floyda Needham Hyde, he is survived by four children, seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

OVIDE G. HOGABOOM, former chief metallurgist and head of the laboratory at the New Britain Machine Division of Litton Industries, died Dec. 19, 2007, at age 97. His wife, Helen Armstrong Hogaboom, died in 2002; among those who survive are four nieces and one nephew.

WEBB CHAMBERLIN, M.D., a retired Cleveland ophthalmologist who was a former governor of the American College of Surgeons and past vice president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, died Feb. 16, 2003. He was 92. A member of Alpha Delta Phi, he received his degree with honors. He received a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and a doctorate in medical science from Columbia University. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army. A specialist in pediatric eye muscle disorders and surgery, he was internationally recognized for his research, his teaching, and his work, and was named professor emeritus of ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve. He was also a former trustee of Hiram College and of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. His wife, Elizabeth Newell Chamberlin, five children, and one grandchild survive.

EVERETT I.L. BAKER, who retired as president of Norwalk (Conn.) Community College, died Dec. 7, 2005. He was 95. A member of Phi Sigma Kappa, he received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Columbia University. Among those who survive are his wife, Shirley Treat Baker.

DONALD A. ELDRIDGE, 94, former director of Admission and dean of students at Wesleyan, died May 24, 2004. He was a member of Alpha Chi Rho and had served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. At Wesleyan, he had also served as the assistant to the president and as a trustee. He had been the president of Bennett College in Millbrook, N.Y., and the director of the American Council on Education. Predeceased by his wife, Emley, he is survived by a son, a daughter, four grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

ARTHUR H. BOWMAN JR., a retired vice president of the First Bank and Trust Company of Boca Raton, Fla., died Nov. 1, 2003 at age 95. A member of Psi Upsilon, he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was predeceased by his wife, Harriet Bowman

SAMUEL SUSSELMAN, M.D., a well-known San Francisco child psychiatrist, died Nov. 16, 2003. He was 97. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Sigma Xi, he received his degree with honors and with distinction in chemistry. He received a master’s degree from Wesleyan, where he was an assistant in the chemistry department, and then a medical degree from Albany Medical College. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army. In addition to a private practice, he was affiliated with several teaching institutions in the San Francisco area, and he published numerous papers on his research and experiences. His wife of 70 years, Cora Susselman, predeceased him by six months.

OSCEOLA CURRIER McEWEN, M.D., former dean of New York University School of Medicine, world-renowned rheumatologist, and international award-winning hybridizer of Siberian and Japanese irises, died June 23, 2003 at age 101. A member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, he received his degree with honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a medical degree from New York University School of Medicine; he also received honorary degrees from Wesleyan and from Marietta (Ohio) College. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army, establishing hospitals for wounded Allied soldiers and serving as chief consultant in medicine for the European Theater of Operations. Initially a researcher at the Rockefeller Institute, he joined the faculty at the New York University School of Medicine in 1932 and served in both clinical and administrative posts. During this time he established the Rheumatic Disease Study Group at the school, a pioneering interdisciplinary research effort that helped to usher in the era of modern rheumatology. He not only served as dean of the medical school, but also as director of NYU’s University Hospital and of Bellevue Hospital. After his retirement as professor of medicine in 1970, he continued to see patients pro bono in various parts of Maine. During one of his trips to northern Maine, his wife, Kay Cogswell McEwen, was killed in a tragic automobile accident. In Maine he did most of his hybridizing and maintained his flower gardens, developing registered new varieties. Until his late nineties, he continued to make cross-hybridizations in his garden, as well as to write books and journal articles, both about medicine and about Japanese and Siberian irises. Among those who survive are his wife, Elisabeth Fulkerson McEwen, three daughters, a son, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren