obituaries education was interrupted by service in the Navy Construction Battalions (Seabees) on Okinawa and in China during the closing days of World War II. He served to yeoman second class. After completing college, he joined the advertising agency of N. W. Ayers, where his Seabee experience landed him on the Caterpillar Tractor account. He later moved to Foote, Cone and Belding to work on the International Harvester account before accepting the position as publisher of Constructioneer, a regional publication serving the heavy construction industry. In 1969 he bought California Builder & Engineer magazine. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Barbara Benedict Woods; two daughters, Wendrea Woods How and Suzanne Woods Fisher; two sons, David and Thomas Woods; two grandchildren; and one great-grandson. He was the brother of Edward F. Woods ’43 and Carlton M. Woods Jr. ’45.
of Zeta Psi fraternity, served one year in the Navy Air Corps during World War II, and attended Berkeley Baptist Divinity School. He worked for many years as an American Baptist and then a Congregational minister on the West Coast and in Connecticut. After leaving the ministry, he worked for the National Cash Register Corporation in sales and research in New York City. He later worked as a cab driver in the city. He loved books, museums, art, and music, and was a prodigious writer of stories and letters. He is survived by three daughters, Christine R. Mickler, Paula R. Backes, and Kelly R. Tausanovitch; and nine grandchildren.
Dr. Clifford E. Wilson Jr. ’48 died April 24, 2012, in Groton, Conn., of cancer. He was born on December 18, 1923, in Norwich, Conn., and prepared for college at Norwich Free Academy. He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. He graduated from the University of Maryland School of David A. Dickson ’48 died Medicine in 1950. He completed his November 26, 2011, in Franklin, Va. internship and residency at Waterbury He was born in Washington, D.C., (Conn.) Hospital then began his on July 21, 1925, and prepared for internal medicine and cardiology college at St. Albans School. He was practice in Norwichtown, where he president of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. lived and worked for the next 40 He worked for several years as an years. He served as senior attending advertising copywriter and retired from physician, chief of internal medicine the printing and graphics department and president of the medical staff of George Washington University. He at the William W. Backus Hospital was a member of Franklin Presbyterian in Norwich. He also served as vice Church. He is survived by two speaker of the House of Delegates and daughters, Angela Wichendahl and councilor to the Connecticut Medical Jenny Rankin; a son, Paul Dickson; Society. He served as president and and one grandson. He was predeceased vice president for the New London by his wife, Rene Bolz Dickson. Medical Association and served as secretary/treasurer on the board of William C. Rogers ’48 died March trustees. He was chairman of the 11, 2012, in West Lebanon, N.H. He Medical Advisory Committee of Blue was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., on March Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut 14, 1927, and prepared for college from 1969 to 1993 and served on the at Radnor High School and Mount board of directors and a member of Hermon School. He was a member the pension fund. He also worked as
a medical consultant for Blue Cross & Blue Shield in New Haven for five years, until he retired at the age of 80. He was a member of the American Medical Association and the American College of Physicians for more than 50 years and was a delegate to the New Jersey Medical Society. He served as medical examiner for New London County. He was past president and board member of the Rotary Club of Norwich and a delegate to the world convention in St. Louis of Rotary International. He was honored with the Rotarian Paul Harris Fellow award. He was past president of the Norwich Heart Association and the Board of the Connecticut Association, past president of the Norwich Cancer Society, and was on the board of trustees of the Connecticut Cancer Society. His other club memberships included: Westbrook Fish & Game Club, Groton Long Point Yacht Club, Ram Island Yacht Club, Off Soundings Yacht Club, Thames Club, and the Mystic Seaport. He was a member and deacon of the Park Congregational Church in Norwich for more than 50 years and a member of the Mystic Congregational Church. He loved sailing and won the Tartan Regatta at Plymouth, Mass., in his sloop Minstrel, which also won him many silver trophies in the yachting circuit. He made summer tours with his Grand Banks Trawler, Gemini, to the many islands off the New England coast. He is survived by two daughters, Stephanie Wilson Ablondi and Gwendolyn Wilson Gundlach; two sons, Clifford Edward Wilson III and Christopher Gilbert Wilson; six grandchildren; two sisters, Phyllis Coldwell and Camilla Dahl; two stepdaughters, Lynn O’Donnell and Jane Tyler; a stepson, Todd O’Donnell; eight step-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren; and his companion, Elsie Johnson. He
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