Ex-Dean Shoots Self With Antique Weapon

Clutching an antique early American revolver from his historical collection, Lawrence S. Mayo '10, 59-year-old former assciate dean of the graduate school of Arts and Sciences, was found dead by his own hand last Wednesday at his summer home in Wolfeboro, N. H.

Powder burns around the single shot in the temple clearly indicated suicide, according to Francis Dube, Carroll County medical examiner. Police said that Mayo's self destruction marked the first anniversary of the death of his mother.

Immediately after his graduation hero in 1910, Mayo became an assistant in History, and he held the post of assistant dean from 1916 to 1919 and again from 1924 to 1927. In 1927, he was appointed associate dean in the graduate school.