from the August 31, 1994 issue of The Country Chronicle
Hanover, NH – Dr. Allan Charles Hirsch, 59, of Lyme Road, was pronounced dead Sunday, August 21, 1994 at New London Hospital following a boating accident on Lake Sunapee.
He was born in Newport, June 29, 1935, the son of Joshua and Sally D. (Perelman) Hirsch and had resided in Hanover for 22 years.
Dr. Hirsch graduated from Towle High School in Newport in 1953 and received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College in New York in 1957. He graduated as a doctor of dental medicine from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 1960 and interned in oral surgery at Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. from 1960 to 1961. He attended one year of postgraduate study in oral surgery at Boston University School of Medicine, Division of Postdoctoral Training, Department of Stomatology, from 1961 to 1962. He then completed a one-year residency in oral surgery at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center.
Dr. Hirsch was an instructor of oral surgery at Cumberland Hospital and Albert Einstein Medical School, an adjunct professor of oral surgery at Dartmouth Medical School and clinical instructor in oral surgery at Harvard Dental School.
Ethics in Dental Practice, co-authored by Dr. Hirsch and Bernard Gert of Dartmouth College, is used as a text in dental colleges. Dr. Hirsch held fellowships in the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology in 1974 and the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 1980.
He was a self-employed oral and maxillofacial surgeon from 1962-1991. At different times he was affiliated with Alice Peck Day Hospital, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, the Veterans Administration Hospital and Valley Regional Hospital.
He was a member if the American Dental Association, New Hampshire Dental Society, New Hampshire Society of Oral Surgeons, American Dental Society of Anesthesiology, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and International Congress of Oral Implantologists.
Dr. Hirsch was a founding member of the Hanover Chapter of B’nai B’rith, a founding member of the Upper Valley Jewish Community and very active in the Lebanon Rotary Club.
He belonged to a poker group for 20 years and loved chess, skiing, and sailing. He was a wine connoisseur and had a joke for every occasion.
Survivors include three daughters: Lisa Hirsch of Sedona, Ariz.; Audrey Hirsch of Watertown, Mass.; and Susan Hirsch of Brookline, Mass.; one brother, Dr. David I. Hirsch of Hattiesburg, Miss.; one sister, Judith P. Liss of Toronto, Canada; aunts, nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Rollins Chapel in Hanover with Rabbi Daniel Siegel officiating. Burial followed in Meyer-David Cemetery in Claremont.
The family suggested that memorial donations be made to the Lake Sunapee Cruising Fleet c/o David J. Edwards, RFD 2 Box 1153, Warner, NH 03278 or the New England Handicapped Sportsmen’s Assoc., 26 McFarlan Rd., Chelmsford, Mass 01824 or the Columbia College in New York City or Vermont Public Radio in Burlington or the Upper Valley Jewish Community.