1966
John H. Turco
John “Jack” Turco came to Andover from Melrose (Mass.) High School as a postgraduate. He played quarterback for the Big Blue football team, center for the undefeated hockey team, and catcher for the baseball team. At graduation, he was awarded the Yale Bowl for academic and athletic excellence and the Press Club Award. At Harvard College, Turco played football, hockey, and baseball as a freshman, then hockey and baseball his remaining three years. His Crimson hockey team competed in the 1969 “Frozen Four” NCAA National 14
Championships. The baseball team, which Turco captained his senior year, played in the 1968 College World Series (NCAA Championship). In 1974, Turco earned an MD degree from The College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and moved to Hanover, N.H., to complete an internal medicine residency followed by an endocrinology fellowship at DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center (DHMC). For the next 30-plus years, Turco was a clinician, educator, and director of college health services (including sports medicine) at Dartmouth College; an
endocrinologist at DHMC; and professor of medicine at Geisel (Dartmouth) Medical School. A national expert in transgender medicine, he received the Gold Humanism Award for his work with patients and students, including leading Dartmouth medical brigades to rural Nicaragua. Despite his busy schedule, Turco coached many successful youth hockey and baseball teams. Turco and his wife, Mary, are the parents of Mark ’95, Scott ’96, and Molly ’00, all excellent multisport athletes at Andover and beyond.