Josiah Stevenson IV ’57

Josiah Stevenson IV ’57 passed away on December 4, 2020. Joe graduated from Valley Stream (New York) Central High School. At Dartmouth he majored in economics, managed the soccer team, was president of Kappa Sigma, and was a member of Sphinx, the Dormitory Committee, the DOC, and Air Force ROTC. He earned an M.B.A. from Tuck School. Joe was in the Air Force from 1958 to 1961, stationed in Japan. His career was half in the profit sector and half in the nonprofit sector. He began in marketing and advertising at Chesebrough-Ponds. Joe found selling consumer products “exciting, stimulating, and challenging” but not serving a greater good and so switched to nonprofits. In 1977 Joe returned to Hanover to work as director of development for Dartmouth. In 1984 he accepted a position as director of development for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1995 he joined the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia as vice president of development. In 2003 he began independent consulting and moved to Pinehurst, North Carolina. Class president Tom Macy said, “Joe was a giant among our classmates and among all Dartmouth alumni. He lived and breathed the Big Green.” Joe served as class president from 1967 to 1971, Alumni Council president from 1973 to 1974, and for years was a key person in alumni giving. When he lived in Norwich, Vermont, he and his wife, Jane, shared their home at many Homecomings. Joe is survived by Jane, and sons Josiah ’80 and Todd, Tu’90.