Baxter Carpenter Prescott ’39

Baxter Carpenter Prescott ’39 died April 16 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center exactly one month before his 93rd birthday. At Dartmouth Baxter majored in democratic institutions, was manager of varsity soccer and belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon. Baxter’s 37-year career was with Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. (part of the Bell System), first in Washington, D.C., and after 1947, in West Virginia. In Washington he met and married (in January 1945) Eloise Collingwood. The family moved several times in West Virginia before settling in Charleston for 20 years. Baxter and Ellie retired to Hanover in 1977. In retirement Baxter maintained close ties with Dartmouth, attending home football games and judging at track meets. He was active in class events, serving on reunion committees and chairing our 65th reunion in 2004. He and Ellie also served on the committee for our recent 70th. Baxter built his dream home in Hanover and loved the outdoors, growing vegetables and fruit and maple-sugaring, before he and Ellie downsized to a Lebanon, New Hampshire, condominium. In addition to Ellie, he is survived by children Susan, Deborah, Patricia, Laura ’80, Sarah and Thomas and six grandchildren.