Gil and Sieglinde “Sissi” Shattuck seem to be in the prime of their layered careers. Gil came to Dartmouth in 1944, spent some time in the Navy and came back to Hanover in 1946, securing an A.B. in 1949 and an M.B.A. from Tuck in 1950. Initially in management accounting, he became more involved in information technology and had senior responsibilities at Warnaco, Collins & Aikman, Liberty Fabrics, Charbert Inc. and Dan River Corp. Gil entered politics 15 years ago and was recently elected to his fourth term in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. His continuing work since 2002 cataloging some 150,000 portrait and landscape negatives of a defunct photo studio in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, was honored with an award from the American Society for State and Local History. This collection includes every type of negative, from wet glass plates of the 1860s to modern times. In 2009 he was Hillsboro’s “Citizen of the Year.” Gil and Sissi met in 1959 in Austria and were married the next year in Klosterneuburg, just outside of Vienna, in a 12th-century late baroque-icized monastery that houses the famous Bruckner organ, the largest and most important church concert organ of the 17th century in central Europe. Sissi studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where she earned a certificate for art education and a master’s in graphics and painting. She paints in oil, pastel and graphic media with commissions for portraits and landscapes in the Unites States and abroad, where her work has been shown, collected and honored. Her well-illustrated website can be found by googling “Sissi Shattuck.” After receiving his A.B. from Dartmouth Stan Churchill went to the University of New Hampshire to strengthen his sciences and then completed a four-year program at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, earning his D.V.M. He started practice in the village of Orleans in northern Vermont, where he only recently retired. His two sons live in the area. One thought about becoming a veterinarian, but told his dad it was too much work.


—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY, 13323; (315) 853-3582; djkurr@verizon.net