"JIM" HAGGE.RTY, '93—'24 DIED JANUARY 10

James B. Haggerty, known to thousands of Dartmouth alumni throughout the country, died of pneumonia recently at the home of his brother-in-law, Frank J. Bowen of Hopedale, Mass. He is survived by three sisters.

"Jim," as he was known to Dartmouth men for the 30 years in which he made Hanover his place of business, was identified with the restaurant business in the village. He arrived in Hanover in 1893 and managed the Littlefield restaurant in the old Tavern building. Four years later he opened his own restaurant in the space now occupied by the Allen Drug Company.

Always interested in athletics, Jim attracted to his eating house most of the Dartmouth letter men and sport enthusiasts. His kitchen was the scene of daily "leagues" in which the affairs of all sportdom were settled by local sages. Jim himself acted as umpire at many college baseball games and at contests between town teams near Hanover.

He maintained his place of business until 1903 when the College called him to act as manager of the Grill in the basement of College Hall. There he held forth for 15 years and the eating place was again the center of undergraduate meetings and sport discussions. Through it all Jim Haggerty stored up a fund of information on Dartmouth's athletic history which made him a veritable encyclopedia of facts and figures.

With the opening of the Students Army Training Corps period at Dartmouth in the fall of 1918, Jim managed the canteen opened by the College in the room now occupied by the Hanover Inn Coffee room. He continued as manager of the coffee room until October, 1921, when he retired from business.

The College, undergraduates, alumni and faculty alike, mourned his departure from Hanover as the passing of a familiar figure in the history of Dartmouth and Hanover. TheDartmouth of October 29, 1921, carried the following editorial: "Every Dartmouth man loses a true friend today when Jim Haggerty packs up his belongings and returns to his home in Massachusetts. For 30 years, Jim, a familiar figure in Hanover, has enjoyed the friendship and confidence of Dartmouth men. First in business for himself, then as manager of the Grill, and later of the Coffee room he made himself almost indispensable to the life of the town."

Upon leaving Hanover Jim stayed for some time in Burlington, Vt., visiting "Tom" Keady '06, his closest friend and one of Dartmouth's best known athletes who is now coaching the Vermont football and baseball teams. He then returned to his home in Milford, Mass., which he occupied until this fall when he moved to the Bowen residence.

In an obituary editorial following his death The Dartmouth said:

"One afternoon in the fall of 1921 an energetic managerial heeler was directing from the Memorial Field gridiron all persons not directly connected with the secret practice then in session. He noticed a quiet-looking man of middle age who was following the signal drill with more than usual interest. The heeler was about to request the man to leave the field when one of the assistant coaches halted him with the words, 'Don't bother Jim Haggerty. He owns the College'

"Jim Haggerty may not have owned the College, but he did own the friendship and confidence of Dartmouth men for thirty years. Faculty, alumni, townspeople, and those undergraduates fortunate enough to have known him mourn the passing of one of Dartmouth's most human figures."