1909

Men around our time are familiar with the career of Sid Hazelton as an undergrad, when he was an active participant in baseball, playing on class teams and as a regular pitcher on the varsity - secretary-treasurer of the freshman class - a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, the Dragon senior society, and Paleopitus. His long, lanky - was a familiar figure around the campus.

Although Sid has been known to thousands of undergraduates during his association of almost 40 years with the college, until his recent retirement, it's a good gamble that not many of us old birds are familiar with his many accomplishments.

To keep the record straight, Sid has been assistant professor and professor of Physical Education; French instructor; freshman football coach; varsity football coach; freshman baseball coach; has conducted classes in physical education; chairman of Physical Education; substitute teacher. Dartmouth College has awarded him an honorary M.A. degree (1944). At the time of his retirement in 1957, Eric Kelley '06 eulogized him in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE as being a man of high attainment who turned down tempting offers from other institutions to remain at Dartmouth. His loyalty to the college has never wavered.

To further his education, Sid attended summer school at Northwestern University (1929) and at Albion and Springfield College (1930). He has written a number of books on physical education and aquatics, and has authored resolutions on the deaths of Harry Hillman, Jeff Tesreau, Jess Hawley, and Patrick J. Kaney.

During summer vacations, this active man has played on the Milton town baseball team; traveled for Worcester Academy; captained and managed a Stetson Shoe baseball team; taught English at a Maine camp; was waterfront director in a New Hampshire camp (these activities prior to coming to Hanover in 1920). During the summers, 1923-1928, Sid traveled in Europe. Since 1935 he has been instructor in Camp Kiwanee and a director of Storrs Pond in Hanover. He has been Director of Athletics of the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl game since 1954.

If you check Sid's civic duties, you'll find that he has been assistant chief of the Hanover Fire Department since 1938; chairman FA and WS chapter since 1935; past president of the Hanover P. T. A.; past president of the Graduate Club. He's a member of the Lions Club, a Shrine Mason, a Republican, attends the Unitarian and Congregational churches. This guy even goes in for music, being a member of the Lebanon Community Band and the Symphony Orchestra, and the Handel Society. He's listed in "Who's Who in the East" and among "New Hampshire Notables."

I had heard that Sid had been awarded the Commodore Longfellow certificate and I wondered what that was. It seems that Commodore Longfellow was the first person in the United States to receive a life saving certificate. He worked for the Red Cross during much of his life, and did a great deal to make people all over the world watersafety conscious. He also emphasized the many advantages of learning how to swim and to enjoy the water.

At the time of Sid's award, this appeared in a local paper:

On Father's Day, at Camp Kiwanee (1957), South Hanson, Mass., at a ceremony held during the Red Cross National Aquatic School, Hazelton was made an honorary member of the Hawaiian Red Cross Instructors Club - and has a fancy Hawaiian shirt to show for it. At the same meeting he was awarded the highest honor of the Commodore Longfellow Society (which honors the memory of the first life saver in the U. S.). Hazelton is the first person in the U. S. to receive the society's scroll, awarded him "for his outstanding contribution to humanity in the fields of aquatics and life saving — the International Order of the Golden Whale, and inducting him into the society's Life Saving Hall of Fame.

Dartmouth's Sidney Hazelton is one of three men in the school's Hall of Fame, placed there for his outstanding contribution to the saving of lives through water safety education. Sid, who has aught hundreds of Hanover youngsters and adults to be at home in the water and to respect it, started the Red Cross program in Hanover back in the years thirties, and for a substantial number of years conducted classes at Lake Mascoma.

This year, at Aquatic School, an oil painting of Sid was presented to the school to take its place beside the other two members in the school's Hall of Frme. The Panting, which was done by Al Spittal, a member of the First Aid teaching staff of the Boston Chapter, is considered an excellent likeness of Sid, in the opinion an expert and lay viewers. He may have it in his Hanover home during the year, but it must be hung at the Aquatic School while it's in session.

You minght wonder how Sid ever found time to get married, but he did. In 1910, he and Marion Langlands Gould joined forces. Five children have graced the union, and three of the married offspring have presented their parents with 11 grandchildren.

After a guy is dead and buried, encomiums of the multitude or a cartload of flowers mean nothing to him. He can't hear 'em. He can't smell 'em. In light of this situation, I m happy to toss these bouquets to our classmate, Sidney Channing Hazelton, who merits any amount of praise that may be heaped on that bald noggin of his.

May you have many more years of good health ahead, Sid, so you may continue in the field to which you have contributed so much.

Sidney C. Hazelton '09 of Hanover, subjectof a profile in this month's class column.

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