Washington Dodge Jr. (S&B 1929)
Finance. Journalism. Yale University. Skull and Bones.
Broker, VP, Clark, Dodge & Co, Inc, (NYC).[2]
1958, he joined several other Titanic survivors for a special screening of A Night to Remember in New York.[4]
1941 to 1944 - Member, NY Stock Exchange.[2]
7 May 1941 to his Death - Married Helen Manning Brown (Died 1993).
1937 - Patner, Arthur Wiesenberger & Co.[2]
1933 to 1937 - Public Relations, Barret & Co.[2]
Director, AG Spaulding & Bros, Inc.[2]
10 Aug 1932 to prior 1940 (div) - Married Helen Kent Hubbard (Died 1987) ;
Roberts & Co; [2]
Editorial assignments, Fortune.[2]
1929 to 1933 - Financial Editor, Time Magazine.[2][4]
1929 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch
In 1912, Washington and his parents left for France to treat his father’s blood disease. After treatment the Dodge family returned on board RMS Titanic; the family boarded at Cherbourg, travelling as first class passengers and occupying cabin A-4 (ticket number 33638 which cost £81, 17s, 2d). On the night of the sinking, his father helped his wife and son into lifeboat 5 before escaping in lifeboat 13.
In an interview taken shortly after the sinking, a young Master Washington told how his father escorted he and his mother to their lifeboat and bid him goodbye with a kiss. He also described witnessing the ship settle into the water before she “busted in two” before disappearing, lamenting how alongside all the people that went down also, he lost all of his toys. Upon reaching the Carpathia he was hauled up aboard in a sack, an experience he described as “lovely.”[4]
The Dodges returned to San Francisco where his father was the city assessor. In 1919 his father was found shot in the elevator of their apartment building and he died nine days later on 30 June 1919. He, his mother and half-sister went to New York to live on Park Avenue.[4]
Died 3 Dec 1974, from Heart Failure. Age 67. [4]
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[4] - Encyclopedia Titanica.org - Master Washington Dodge jr
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