Well Done

On March 11, Frederic Hamilton (Ted) Leggett '9B, treasurer of Western Electric Cos., Inc., cleaned out his desk, said his goodbys and went home to stay after almost forty-three years of serving the same company. The tale goes that he graduated from Dartmouth on a fine June Tuesday in 1898, packed his diploma on Wednesday, traveled to New York on Thursday, applied for a job at Western Electric on Friday, was accepted on Saturday and started work on Monday and has been on the job ever since.

However, Mr. Leggett has not suffered from job-boredom. His varied duties during the years have seen to that. They took him around the world once, across the Atlantic many times, and all over the United States and Canada. At one period of working for Western Electric, he was never more than three years in any city. While on the other side of the world, he acted as secretary-manager of the Nippon Electric Company, Tokyo, Japan, from 1903 to 1906. He married Mrs. Leggett in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1909 while manager of the Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company there.

In 1933, they stopped his wanderings by making him treasurer of Western Electric and clinched the matter by electing him a director of the company in 1934.

Meanwhile, in the Alumni Fund Report in this issue, Dartmouth gets in its hearty pat on the back for his outstandingaccomplishment as agent of his class, a role in which he was unsurpassed and from which he retired this year. Mr. Leggett is a former president of the Alumni Council and chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee.