Donald Brief, a 1955 graduate of Dartmouth Medical School, has always preferred looking forward, not back, but some of the stories from his years at the school bear retelling. Near the top of the list is the day Ed Horton wasn’t in class.

Since 2003, Carla Manley-Russock has been a fairy godmother of sorts to the Face of a Child program at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Health (CHaD), helping the program get off the ground and meeting the needs of patients and families through her generous donations. 

In the mid-1970s, Marilyn Bedell, a new assistant nurse for the oncology unit at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (MHMH), added an unusual task to her Christmas to-do list: write a thank-you note to a man named Will Flatow.

The world opened up to Quyen Chu when he was accepted to Dartmouth College and later to medical school. Now, he’s made plans to help future students through a bequest intention to the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth College.

Imagine this situation: An 81-year-old man with a complex medical history, including congestive heart failure, dementia, and end-stage lung disease, has been admitted to the intensive care unit due to pneumonia.