1898*

When Bill Cunningham confers an accolade in his column it is always worth reading. When he confers one on a member of the class it is well that all members of the class have the opportunity of reading it. When Phil Patey was retiring from Ginn & Company, Bill published the following in his column:

Superlatives are dangerous and the years have been many, but probably the best baseball pitcher ever to wear a Dartmouth uniform was a trim young Englishman named Phil Patey, who blazed them across for the Green 40 odd years ago. Old timers say his like has never strolled the Hanover campus since. Well, last week over at the big Ginn & Cos. plant in Cambridge they held a mighty banquet and general to-do. The guest of honor was this same Hedley Philip Patey-his English mother named him Hedley after Captain Hedley Vickers, of Crimean war fame—the occasion being a twin celebration of his 65th birthday and his 40th anniversary as a representative of that famed publishing firm.

RIGHT SORT OF ATHLETE The executives did him honor. They presented him with things. They sang songs especially written for the occasion and featuring his name. Hale, healthy and still full of affection for baseball, he's retiring to a life of ease on Jan. 1. He says he wants to read the Bible, watch the Red Sox and catch up on his European geography, not to mention a little hunting and fishing arid some especial attention to his roses. That, lads, is the way the story ends for the right sort of athlete and the right sort of man. This world will get straightened out again in time, and the Pateys will be here long after the Hitlers have been socked off the stage. If they aren't, there's no point in trying to keep it in motion.

Phil Patey became sixty-five on December 15, 1939, and thus having reached the age when he might begin to draw his Social Security benefits he decided that forty years had been long enough to be associated with any one company, and so he announced his retirement from Ginn & Company to be effective January 1, 1940. In years of service Phil was the oldest publishing house representative in New England. His work with the company must have been very satisfactory, first, because he was retained through all those years and then upon his retirement the company gave him a party which was attended by almost all of his associates in the firm, as well as the partners, to the number of above 150.

During his forty years service with the company Phil has travelled throughout New England and through him and his efforts the schools of New England have been kept supplied with school books. Because of this fact many men who have later attended Dartmouth are indebted to the efforts of Phil in having his books introduced into the schools.

Now that Phil has retired from active duties he plans to use his time in fishing and hunting and keeping in closer contact with the men of '98 who all wish that he will continue in this latter line of work for another forty years at least.

HENRY D. CROWLEY.

Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.

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