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Transforming Medicine Campaign

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is
not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
—Helen Keller

Annual appreciation

By Barbra Alan

More than 200 friends, patients, and community members joined senior executives and faculty members of Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School on the evening of September 28 for the annual Benefactors Appreciation Reception.

A tradition for over two decades, the event gives Medical Center and Medical School supporters an opportunity to come together with DHMC and DMS leaders and learn how their generosity improves the lives of those in the community and beyond.

Among the evening's highlights was a moving keynote address by Dr. Ira Byock, director of the DHMC Palliative Medicine Program. In his remarks, titled "Precious Possessions," (click here to play video) Byock drew on inspiring stories of patients and families whose lives have touched his over the years.

Other highlights included announcements of the latest Campaign achievement and of plans for a new translational and clinical research facility.To be constructed on the south side of DHMC's Lebanon campus, the facility will include homes for Dartmouth's translational research programs and for its world-renowned Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences—both of which will be linked to DHMC by the LeBaron Commons. In his remarks, Brian Lally, vice president for development and alumni relations, explained that the facility will be named in honor of Dr.C. Everett Koop—former U.S. surgeon general and a member of the Dartmouth College Class of 1937—whose lifetime of service to medicine and the nation set a new standard for health-care advocacy in behalf of patients.

The reception also included recognition—by Nancy Formella, acting president of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital—of J. Brian Quinn as this year's recipient of the

Among the more than 200 DMS-DHMC donors who attended the evening's festivities were, from the left, Linda Roesch, Mary Barnes, and Rick Roesch.

Over 21,000 donors throughout northern New England and the nation made gifts totaling more than $27 million in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, making it a record-breaking fund-raising year for DMS and DHMC.

Outstanding Community Ambassador Award. He has served DHMC in many roles, including as the chair of the 500- plus-member Dartmouth- Hitchcock Assembly of Overseers, as a member of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center Working Group for the Transforming Medicine Campaign, and as a generous longtime donor."We are indeed grateful for his many actions, which have considerably enriched Dartmouth medicine," Formella said."For everything he has given to us,we thank him and celebrate him tonight." Quinn, an emeritus professor of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, was unable to attend the reception and received the award at a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Overseers' meeting a few weeks later.

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Ira Byock, left, the keynote speaker at the 2006 Benefactors Appreciation Reception, converses with another of the event's honorees, C. Everett Koop. For more images of this event, see here.

Over 21,000 donors throughout northern New England and the nation made gifts totaling more than $27 million in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, making it a record-breaking fund-raising year for DMS and DHMC.

"We are here tonight to say thank you," concluded Lally. "And we believe the best way to thank you is to spend your gift wisely."


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Barbra Alan is assistant director of development communications for the Medical School and Medical Center.

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