Stuart John Stebbins ’38

Jack Stebbins died at his home in Hanover, N.H., June 9, 1997, nearly a year after suffering a stroke that cut short his brilliant career.

He prepared at Exeter, joined Cannon Club, rowed on our lightweight crew, and became cadet-major of our ROTC unit. After earning a law degree from Yale, he served in the Army Ordnance Division during WWII and was discharged as a captain. After the war, he worked as a partner with Norris Cotton and Charlie Tesreau, and then as senior partner of what is now Stebbins Bradley Wood and Harvey in Hanover. He was the force behind the creation of Dresden School District, the country's first interstate school district; on the board of trustees of several banks; board president of Hitchcock Memorial Hospital; and for 25 years was a justice of the Hanover Municipal and District Courts. For his support of community works, Jack received, in 1973, the Class of '38's Distinguished Service Award.

Jack loved skiing, sailing, and rowing. Yet his greatest enthusiasms were mountain climbing and biking, often accompanied by classmates Doc Kelley, Jerry Barzaghi, and Charlie Toll, as well as his wife, Phoebe, whom he married in 1941. He biked to work well into his seventies.

Phoebe survives him, as well as his children, Ann Cioffi, Martha Moore, David, and John, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. His classmates join them in the sadness of losing a splendid, gentle man.

The Class of 1938