Samuel B. Bartlett ’57

Samuel B. Bartlett ’57 died in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on March 31. Sam came to Dartmouth from Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. He majored in international relations, belonged to Phi Gamma Delta, played hockey, and was a member of the Dartmouth Outing Club. He served in the National Guard before entering Harvard Law School and practicing at the family law firm. Sam joined the foreign service in 1965 and was assigned to Paris, The Hague, Cebu, Ottawa, San Salvador, Belfast, and the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. He was a consummate diplomat with a biting wit and the ability to get along with people from all walks of life. An enthusiastic sailor, both on his own boats and on those of friends, he sailed in the Fastnet Race in the United Kingdom on a Dutch boat and in the Hong Kong to Manila race. Tennis was a constant. In each country he got together a foursome. Sam retired from the State Department in 1986 and became corporate secretary of the Amoskeag Co. in Boston. He later launched his fourth career by working for the Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Abuse. Sam leaves Joan, his wife of 61 years, three children, and eight grandchildren. All loved and joked with their father and grandfather, who arranged family hikes hut to hut in the White Mountains and lobstering and fishing expeditions in the cove in front of their house in Plymouth.