Peter Hill ’50

Peter Hill ’50 died on August 12, 2019, with his wife, Sally, at his side. He was born on August 9, 1928, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and came to Dartmouth from Sidwell Friends School. At the College he majored in English and premed, and went on to earn an M.B.A. at Harvard in 1952. He joined the Navy, was in charge of supplies in Kittery, Maine, and was honorably discharged in 1956. He then went to Pendle Hill, a Quaker study, retreat, and conference center outside of Philadelphia. Peter then pursued a long career in the selling and restoring of fine antiques. In the 1970s he moved to East Lempster, New Hampshire, where he built a home to include his studio and gallery. In the late 1990s he moved to Keene, New Hampshire, and bought an 1868 house of Italian Renaissance design and began restoring the house and its carriage house to period magnificence. He engaged in months of research about the house to register it on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2004 he opened the first Healing Room of New Hampshire, under the International Association of Healing Rooms, and trained teams to minister healing. In 2007 he married Sally, who survives him along with his children, AnnMarie, Thomas, and Karen; Sally’s daughters, Eleanor and Ninoa; grandchildren Nese and Baris; and great-grandson Ellis. He was predeceased by daughter Lisa.