Dean Dexter Story Archive
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RIT Reporter Magazine 1968-1971

Selected Articles

• Dirty N. H. (Political) Laundry
• The Old Man is Gone. Get Over It.
• It's Blue Skies for Democrats in New Hampshire
• N.H. Poltical Dynasties
• Another Generation, Another War
• Tip of the Hat to a Veteran Reporter
• Families of the N.H. 94th Send Message
• Madame Chiang Kai-shek's New Hampshire Connection
• Governor Hugh Gregg 1917-2003: Tireless Booster of All Things New Hampshire
• Polly Chertok: A Life Well Lived
• A Rare Scene at the State House
• Another Indian Bites the Dust
• The Treaty of Portsmouth and the Russo-Japanese War
• Not the Father's Son -- Sergei Khrushchev Becomes an  American
• Honoring the Lincoln Brigade is Inappropriate
• General John Stark--Hero of the Battle of Bennington (NH Magazine website)
• Bill Will Enhance Family Rights
• Gregg Will Answer for "No Child Left Behind"
• Karl Rove Comments on the N.H. Primary
• Sale of N. H. State Park Is Bad Idea
• Determined Youth Builds Business (Senator Humphrey's NH Spyglass website)
• The Day a Penumbra Covered N.H.
• Killing Babies is a Bad Choice
• Granite State Annals of Infamy (from the September, 2000 NH Magazine)
• A Cold Warrior Thaws Out
  (from the March, 1993 Home Office Computing Magazine)
• Don't Rock the Boat, Governor (from the January, 2005 New Hampshire Magazine)
• Abbot-Spalding House: Historic Nashua Home Profiled
  (from the January, 2006 New Hampshire Magazine)
• Memorial Day 2006                    (from the May, 2006 New Hampshire Magazine)
• All in the Name                                        (from the October, 2006 New Hampshire Magazine)
• Letters: Belknap Delegation Making Outrageous Mistake

From the popular New Hampshire Magazine Series...

• Manchester Century
• Concord Century
• Portsmouth Century
• Lakes Region Century
• NH West Century
• Nashua Century
• N.H. The Primary State

Book reviews

• Franklin Pierce, NH's Native Son
• Three New Books Give Balanced View of the New Hampshire Primary
• Styles Bridges Yankee Senator
• One Hundred Famous Founders
• Birth of the Republican Party
• It's Never Too Late With God!

Selected Archives

• Third Party Fantasies

• Profit Above Principles

• Berkley Prof Mad at Dexter Editorial

• They Call Conservatives Intolerant

• Democratic Leader Needs a Little Help

• In Support of Parent Notification Bill

• Belknap Delegation Making A Sad Mistake

More stories coming..

Dean Dexter Photo Gallery

Contributions include...

• Home Office Computing Magazine
• Self Employed Professional Magazine
• Interim Editorial Page Editor, the Union Leader, Manchester, N.H.
• Editorial and OpEd pages of the Union Leader, The Laconia Citizen, the Portsmouth Herald, and others
• Lead Editor, N.H Magazine's New Hampshire Legacy and Destination New Hampshire series
• Contributing Editor, New Hampshire Century Series
• Contributing Editor, New Hampshire Magazine
• Free-lance writer, editor, and editorial consultant.

Political Posters

• For Congress
• For County Commissioner
• For County Commissioner-Re-elect
• County Commissioner Bumper Sticker

Photo by Robert St. Louis

Photo by Abigail Dexter, October 2007

The Dexter Family, Dean, Marie, Abigail Bridget, Elizabeth Helen, and Charles Aaron, Lima, Peru, Fall 1995

The Lamb's Theater, 130 West 44th Street, Manhattan, July 1999

Lyzz, Seacoast Masters Commission, Portsmouth, N.H. October 2007

Charles with then-U.S. Senator, later U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, Manchester, N.H. June 1998

Syndicated columnist Bob Novak and Dean Dexter discuss the late New Hampshire governor and long-time U.S. Senator Styles Bridges, who Novak knew well. Novak was in New Hampshire attending a  reception upon the publication of the Bridges biography by Dr. James J. Kiepper April 27, 2001. Novak, who wrote the foreword for the book, announced his retirement as a syndicated columnist on August 4, 2008 after being diagnosed with brain tumor. Roland Young Photo.

Interviewing Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan, who told an amusing Nixon story, hosting (12 years) MediaOne's "Your Government," Manchester, N.H., January 1992

Pat Buchanan and Dean Dexter, Manchester, N.H. 1998

Campaigning with a couple of the Big Dogs, Marie and Dean Dexter with Congressman, later U.S. Senator Bob Smith, left, and U.S. Senator Gordon Humphrey, August 1990

Politics, politics, with Marie and former State Rep. Dennis Bolduc Fall 1990. "You can tell she hates every bit of this..."

Raising Cain on the State House steps, Concord, New Hampshire, 1990.

Executive Chambers, N.H. Statehouse, with Governor John H. Sununu, from left, State Sen. (later senate president) Edward Dupont, State Rep. Ada Mace, State Rep. Dean Dexter, State Rep. Kathleen Ward, Attorney General (later governor) Stephen Merrill, bill signing creating the N.H. Department of Justice, Concord, N.H., June 1985

Belknap County Commissioner, county courthouse, Laconia, N.H., July 1976

Christmas carols at the embassy residence, with James and Graham Hill, and U.S. Ambassador Robert C. Hill, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 1975. Dean Dexter at far left. -- Dean Dexter collection

• Guardian Story  

• Story by Martin Edward Anderson

• National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 133

• George Washington University National Security Archive

• John Dinges on Hill/Kissinger Argentine Human Rights Rift

• New York Times -- October 1, 2004

• Ambassador Hill's Time Magazine Death Notice

• Dartmouth papers, Ambassador Robert Hill

Hill's fifth, and last Ambassadorship

Robert C. Hill of Littleton, New Hampshire, formerly Assistant Secretary of Defense, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, Ambassador to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, and Spain, being sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, his wife Cecelia Gordon Bowdoin Hill, looking on. Administering the oath in the U.S. State Department formal rooms is U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Judge George Mackinnon, February, 1974. -- U.S. State Department photo, Dean Dexter collection.

U.S. Ambassador Robert C. Hill's formal study, embassy residence, Buenos Aires, 1975. Dean Dexter Collection (all rights reserved).

Dean Dexter, second from right, flanked by Embassy security personnel and J. B. Hill (kneeling), Buenos Aires, 1975. Photo by W. Graham Hill

Dean Dexter, center, with J. B. Hill and William Graham Bowdoin Hill, Mar Del Plata, Argentina, December 19, 1975

President Gerald Ford and then-County Commissioner Dean Dexter, Nashua (N.H.) High School. Ford would later win the N.H. Primary, defeating Ronald Reagan by just under 1,500 votes. Ford Remembered in N.H.

  New Hampshire State House, 1980s

George H.W. Bush, with Dean Dexter and former Gov. Hugh Gregg, Laconia, N. H. June 1979.

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Dean Dexter and Neil Shapiro, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester New York, Winter 1970. Offices of Reporter Magazine.

With the late WOR Radio legend Jean Shepherd (1921-1999) at the microphone, WITR studios, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, Fall 1968. Dean Dexter seated center. "He really was an incredible personality. Everything you read about him is true. And he liked young people. It's because no matter how old he got, he was always young..." See this  LINK

"Cherub Choir," Laconia (N.H.) Congregational Church, 1956: Front Row: Diane ("Di-Di") Graves, Ann Walker, Gail Simmons, Greg Lemay, David Enos, Penny Curtis, Heather Jones. Second Row: Lynn Buckley, Jean Halfman, Mary Jane McAllister, Emily Vincent, Alona Alcorn, Dana Beane, Dean Dexter. Third Row: Greg Pitman, Patricia Kinsman, Helen Jessup, Perry Craver, Kathy Ware. Fourth Row: Adrian ("Jay") Lay, Bradley Stevenson, Richard Ackerman, Jane Stucker, Daniel Keller. Note: Four piece outfit: black (waist to floor-length) skirt, white top (over the head), thick starched collar attached w/ safety pins, huge hand-tied bow. Rehearsals were like something out of the "Little Rascals" movies.

Getting to know Mom and Dad while celebrating my first holiday...Thanksgiving, of course!