This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3867 Message Board Post: The following obit originated with the Concord Monitor, in Concord, N.H. The Monitor does not guarantee the accuracy of original content that now resides off its web site. Stuart W. Russell, HANOVER Wednesday, March 6, 2002 HANOVER-Dr. Stuart Wells Russell, 87, died Feb. 27 at Kendal at Hanover of respiratory failure due to pneumonia and emphysema. He was born in Hillsdale, Mich., the son of Lawrence and Kathrine (Stuart) Russell. He moved to Kalamazoo, Mich, in 1923. He graduated from Western State High School where he was a member of the National Honor Society in 1932, earned a bachelor's degree from Western State Teachers College in 1937 and a doctorate degree in medicine from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1941, where he completed his internship. He served with the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a first lieutenant and was discharged in 1946 as major. Russell worked in orthopaedic Surgery at Mayo General Hospital in Galesburg, Ill., for two years; as chief resident and instructor in bone and joint surgery at the University of Michigan Hospital; at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital; at Dartmouth Medical School; as consultant at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River! Junction, Vt., retiring in 1978. He was a member of Hanover Conservation Commission for three years; the Board of Registration in Medicine; the American Federation of State Medical Boards, where he served until 1986; the board of directors of the Hitchcock Clinic for eight years; the Grafton County Medical Society, where he was secretary for many years and president in the 1960s; and the board of directors of New Hampshire/Vermont Blue Shield, where he was an executive committee member. He was chairman of the section of orthopaedic surgery from 1972 to 1976; diplomat of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons; fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; founding member of Dartmouth Sailing Club; served on the Hanover School Board for two terms, where he was chairman for the last two years, as moderator of the Hanover School District and as Hanover town moderator; was active with New Hampshire Medical Society in Concord, where he served in the house of deleg! ates for 35 years; received the A.H. Robins Award in 1975; on the committee that merged Blue Cross and Blue Shield; appointed to the Board of Registration in Medicine, where he served as president of the board for 13 years; and received the John H. Clark, Leadership Award in 1992. Survivors include his second wife, Doris Russell of Kendal at Hanover; two sons, Stuart Russell of Concord and John Russell of Dover; a daughter, Margaret Russell of Lebanon; three stepchildren; two brothers; seven grandchildren; and seven stepgrandchildren. His first wife Ruth Schneider, died in 1992. Memorial donations may be made to The Howe Library, 13 E. South Sr., Hanover 03755. Note: I am of no relation, but my sympathies go out to those of you who are.