Frank M. Hutchins ’45

Frank M. Hutchins ’45, a prominent figure in Rochester, New York, civic life for more than five decades, died of congestive heart failure at Highland Hospital there on December 20, 2012. Frank came to Dartmouth from Philips Exeter Academy. As for so many, his graduation was delayed by World War II, and after serving in the infantry in North Africa and completing officer training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he returned to Dartmouth to complete his A.B. and earn an M.B.A. from Tuck School in 1948. He then returned to Rochester and joined the Hutchins Advertising Co. As president and CEO he grew the company to national stature, particularly in telephone directory advertising. Frank’s life was a six-decade history of the evolution of the great civic organizations in Monroe County, New York. He had a particularly deep attachment to Rochester Institute of Technology, where he was a trustee and board chairman, and to St. Paul’s Church, where he was a vestry member and warden. He received the Dartmouth Alumni Award in 1979. His civic involvement included service as a trustee for 33 years of Paul Smith’s College and with the Adirondack Park Visitors lnterpretive Center and as founding director of the park’s institute. He earned the Alexis de Tocqueville Award from the United Way of Greater Rochester and the Civic Medal for Community Service from the Rochester Museum and Science Center. He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Jeanne; sister Barbara; daughters Katharine, Virginia, Patricia and Constance; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.