Evening star., 1939-07-30
THE WASHINGTON c. JULY 3d. 1ese-pART ONE
{. Phelps Dodge
Rites 10 Be Held in
Denver Tomorrow
Former Chest President
Had Been in Poor
Health for Year

Funeral services for Clarence
Phelps Dodge, 81, former president
of the Washington Community
Chest, who died yesterday in
Denver, Colo, will be held Monday
in the family home there. The body
will be cremated.
Mr.. Dodge had been in Denver
since June, when he had suffered
an attack of pneumonia while vaca-
tioning in California He had been
in poor health more than year.
He took up residence in WASH
ington in 1890 after disposing of
his interests in Colorado Springs.
After first serving as vice chairman
of it's Budget Committee, he was
elected president of the Community
Chest in 1884 and served until 1888.
Mr.. Dodge was trustee and
member of the Executive Committee
of the Brookings Institution,
member of the Board of Trade and
was active in many other civic en-
terprises. His Washington clubs in
cluded the Burning Tree Country
Club and the Cosmos Club.
Headed Committees.
He also served as chairman of the
National Committee for Social Edu-
cation and was director of the
George Washington Memorial Park
way fund. He held the chairman
ship of the Committee on Housing
in Washington and also headed
committee on memorial monu-
ment for Theodore Roosevelt Is
land. President Roosevelt appoint
ed him member of the Washing
ton-Lincoln Gettysburg Memorial
Boulevard Association.
Active in church work here. Mr..
Dodge served as vestryman of st.
Johns Church in Georgetown and
founded and served as chairman of
the Social Welfare Committee of the
Washington Federation of Churches.
After leaving Washington last
year. Mr.. Dodge spent several
months at his summer home near
Mount Evans, 40 miles west of Den
yer. He wintered at Warner Springs
in San Diego County, Calf, with his
family.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Regina Lunt, daughter of
the late. Judge and Mrs. Horace Gray
Hunt of Colorado Springs; daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles w. Eliot, I'd. wife of
the executive officer of the National
Resources Board. Washington, and
son, Clarence Phelps Dodge, jr. A
nephew, Stuart Phelps Dodge, re-
sides in Colorado Springs.
Native of Honolulu.
Mr.. Dodge was born in Honolulu.
July 26, 1877, the son of the late
David Stuart Dodge and Ellen Ada
Phelps) Dodge of Simsbury. Conn.
He was a grandson of William E.
Dodge, distinguished New York
philanthropist and merchant, found
er of the Phelps Dodge Co.
He received his early education at
the Westminster School, Connecti-
cut, and Phillips Academy at And
over, Mass, and was graduated from
Yale University in 1899.
Later Mr.. Dodge entered the real
estate business in Colorado Springs,
but soon turned his attention to
journalism. After several years as
reporter, he became owner of the
Evening Telegraph. Subsequently he
purchased the Colorado Springs
Gazette.
During the war Mr.. Dodge was
member of the National War Work
Council and also of the Interna-
tional Committee of the Y. M. c. A.
He was captain in the Officers
Reserve Corps.
In Colorado Springs, Mr.. Dodge
was president of the Community
Chest from 1925 to 1928, chairman
of the Y. M. C. A. and president of
the "Y" there. He was president
of the Colorado Springs Labor Col
lege in 1929-30.