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Edward Tuck ‘62 (that’s the Class of 1862) did more in his life than endow the Amos Tuck School of Business — which he asked be named in honor of his father, a member of the Class of 1835 and a Dartmouth Trustee. He was a pioneering philanthropist at a time when giving usually meant leaving money as a bequest in a will, rather than carefully vetting requests during one’s lifetime and donating money to worthy causes. Tuck made major donations to Dartmouth, the town of Exeter, and numerous other organizations in New Hampshire, and he supervised the use of his money closely. At the College, he also built and furnished the President’s mansion. In France, where Tuck lived for the last five decades of his life, he endowed a hospital, “adopted” 15,000 wounded French soldiers during WWI, and donated porcelains, furniture, paintings, tapestries and other works of art worth $5 million to Paris’ elegant Petit Palais museum in 1930. For his generosity, the French state gave him numerous awards, and named a street leading to the Petit Palais after him. He died in 1938 at the age of 96, and he is buried alongside his wife Julia Stell (who is recalled in the erstwhile Stell Hall dining room at Tuck) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, west of Paris.

Addendum: The Tuck School was located in what we now call McNutt Hall from 1904-1929, until its Tuck Mall facility was built in 1930.