Charles E. Breed ’51

Charles E. Breed ’51 died peacefully in Hanover on October 2, 2016, while attending his class’s 65th reunion. Charlie had lived in Hanover for 18 years in the 1960s and 1970s while serving as executive director of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. He was well known and much admired in town as the public address announcer for Dartmouth football games at Memorial Stadium and as saxophone player in his local jazz band, the Mink Brook Five. His home was the regular site of class of ’51 reunion gatherings. Charlie’s professional career was in fundraising. Following his years at Dartmouth he was a fundraising consultant and development officer for Harvard Business School and Templeton College at Oxford University. Among other assignments he assisted the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, as a capital campaign consultant. He was a geology major as an undergraduate and later earned a master’s in the subject from the University of Colorado. At Dartmouth he was a member of Theta Chi and the Interfraternity Council. He served his class as editor of its newsletter and as Alumni Fund class agent. He and his wife, Sarah, lived for many years in Carefree, Arizona, where they were active in book discussion groups and shared interests in the outdoors. They had recently moved to a retirement community in Duxbury, Massachusetts.