Sidney Chandler Hayward '26

The death on May 29 of theSecretary of the College deprived Dartmouth of the dedicated man who for 35 yearshad been the chief officer andguiding spirit of her uniquelysuccessful alumni program

THE fabric of a college, it has been written, is woven of the threads that are the lives of the men and women who have served it long and faithfully.

In the fabric of Dartmouth College, one sturdy thread contributing to both its strength and bright pattern is the life of Sidney Chandler Hayward '26, Secretary of the College for a 35-year period from 1930 to 1965. That life came to an end on May 29 after a courageous battle of some months against cancer.

Sid Hayward's entire postgraduate life was devoted to Dartmouth College. Upon his graduation from the College in 1926 he became assistant to President Ernest Martin Hopkins and two years later he also assumed the duties of Director of the News Service. In 1930 he was named Secretary of the College, succeeding Eugene F. Clark '01, who died in February of that year. Along with the responsibilities of Secretary he also assumed the editorship of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE and filled that position with distinction for thirteen years.

As Secretary of the College, Sid Hayward was the executive head of Dartmouth's complex, globe-circling alumni program, always accorded a preeminent place in this field of college and university endeavor, and he also had responsibility for the College's public relations and for large public events such as Commencement and academic convocations. For 35 years he was the secretary and driving force of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, the General Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College, and the Dartmouth Secretaries Association.

The success with which he directed and developed Dartmouth's alumni affairs was well described in the citation that accompanied a tomahawk award from the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Long Island in May 1959: "The growth and accomplishments of the Dartmouth alumni program since Sid assumed direction nearly thirty years ago have been phenomenal and have kept the College at the head of the national parade in that essential field. Absorbing the philosophy of President Hopkins, with whom he worked in close daily association for 19 years, Sid has that vital concept of Dartmouth as a college nurtured and carried forward by the understanding support of her alumni; and greater than can possibly be told is the strength that has been built into modern Dartmouth by the alumni organizations and activities that he has directed and helped to develop into new and more effective forms."

Sid's national eminence as a director. and philosopher of the alumni's role in higher education was recognized in honors from the American Alumni Council, and last December the Alumni Federation of Columbia University, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, saluted him with its gold medal for distinguished service to education through alumni work.

SIDNEY CHANDLER HAYWARD was born in Pomfret, Conn., on December 17, 1904, the son of Louis S. and Alice (Hibbard) Hayward. He prepared for Dartmouth at Putnam High School, where he was class president in sophomore and junior years. At Dartmouth he was a member of Green Key, Sphinx, and Sigma Chi. In senior year he was manager of the hockey team, president of the Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Association, and secretary-treasurer of Bait and Bullet, an interest that was the precursor of his lifelong activity as a hunter and fisherman. A fraternity brother and close friend on the hockey team was Douglas N. Everett '26, whose sister Barbara, a graduate of Wellesley, became Sid's wife on June 28, 1930.

Appointment to the administrative staff of the College in 1926 brought Sid Hayward into intimate, daily touch with President Hopkins, whose alumni and liberal arts philosophies he absorbed and whose trust and affectionate regard he held to the very end of Mr. Hopkins' life. In a 1961 letter to his class newsletter editor, Sid wrote: "I got my training in administrative work for twenty years in daily association with Ernest Martin Hopkins. Those years were so much fun that it was hard to tell the pleasure from the work. Whatever I learned, and whatever my usefulness to the College, comes from that long and truly wonderful association and experience."

A short four years after Sid began his apprenticeship under President Hopkins he was Secretary of the College with major administrative responsibilities. The extent and diversity of the duties he carried out, as the Secretary's regular load and on special assignment from the President, defy recounting. One of his major tasks was the editing of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, which ranked high among such publications when he took over in 1930 but which had become the winner of the Robert Sibley Award as the country's best alumni magazine in 1943 when he relinquished the editorship because of the pressure of his work as liaison officer in charge of Dartmouth's operation of the largest Navy V-12 training unit in the country. Earlier American Alumni Council awards for excellence went to his magazine in 1933, 1935, 1938, 1939, and 1940.

Sid Hayward made some of his most significant contributions as chairman or a member of committees studying various aspects of the life of the College. He was secretary of a committee established by President Hopkins in 1936 to survey social life at Dartmouth. This study resulted in the construction of Thayer Hall as a student dining center and the appointment of a college officer to advise fraternities. From 1937 to 1946 he was chairman of the planning committee for a Dartmouth Center, which twice got to the design stage, and after World War II he became secretary of the Hopkins Center Committee named by President Dickey. Later he headed the special committee whose work resulted in revised plans and actual construction of the present Hopkins Center. He was chairman of a student-faculty study group whose recom- mendations led to the creation of the Undergraduate Council, and other studies he headed were concerned with the Outing Club, the Dartmouth Christian Union, Winter Carnival, and the postwar revival of student organizations.

Sid had become chairman of the Dartmouth Public Relations Council in 1947 and Director of the Dartmouth Development Council in 1949, both established in conjunction with the Alumni Council. In 1950 President Dickey asked him to direct a study of Dartmouth's public relations and this resulted in the creation of the revised and expanded Public Relations Council of the present time, with a coordinate advisory committee from the Alumni Council. At the same time public relations, with a full-time director and staff for the News Service, came under Sid's supervision as Secretary of the College.

One of the most important assignments of all was to serve as executive secretary of a 14-man committee named by the Trustees in 1956 to make an exhaustive study of all aspects of Dartmouth's alumni program. This Committee on Alumni Relations (CAR) presented its findings two years later in six volumes of thorough discussion of alumni affairs, with recommendations for strengthening the whole program. This remarkable survey, still studied by other institutions, won for Dartmouth the 1958 Alumni Service Award given annually by the American Alumni Council.

More American Alumni Council honors went to Sid Hayward in 1962 when TheBulletin, his mimeographed newsletter from the Hanover home front to alumni workers, won first place for direct-mail communication with volunteer alumni leaders. In The Bulletin, edited by him since 1957, Sid in his own personal style reported on Dartmouth happenings and conveyed his love of the College and the North Country. The Bulletin had an appreciative readership and it was with difficulty that its circulation was held down to the 5000 or more who received it. A special issue of this publication, written by former editor George Colton '35, conveyed the news of Sid's death to the thousands of alumni leaders and workers who had such admiration and affection for him.

Among the alumni who received the shocking news of Sid's death (knowledge of his fight against cancer was not widespread) were many who had worked with him during the whole thirty years of his secretaryship. With him they had experienced the doubling of the Dartmouth alumni body to its present size of 30,000. They knew of his central role in every major advance sponsored by the Alumni Council - the pioneer plan for producing and distributing Dartmouth movies to alumni clubs, the class group subscription plan responsible for getting the ALUMNI MAGAZINE regularly into the hands of more than 90% of the entire alumni body, the formation of a bequest and estate planning program, the phenomenal growth of the worldwide network of Dartmouth alumni clubs, club scholarship programs, the development of the class newsletters, class memorial funds, class memorial book programs to benefit Baker Library, regional alumni conferences based on the pattern of the first one held in Denver in 1950, manuals covering virtually every phase of class and club alumni work, and the organization of associations of class presidents, treasurers, class agents, bequest chairmen, newsletter editors, and club officers to augment the historic association of class secretaries. Much has been omitted from this impressive list of Dartmouth alumni developments that Sid Hayward either originated or brought to fruition through his friendly, unassuming gift for getting other Dartmouth men to join him in the most intense kind of work for the College.

When Sid was able to get away from the press of College duties he was to be found, more likely than not, enjoying outdoor sports, to which he was devoted only a little less than to Dartmouth College. He was a noted fisherman and bird hunter, and wrote many articles about these favorite hobbies for Field andStream, Sports Afield, Atlantic Monthly, and the Ford Times. His frequent companion afield was Paul Sample, who illustrated some of these articles. Together they made a number of trips to the North — Newfoundland, Labrador, Iceland, and the nearer Canadian provinces. Exploration as well as salmon and trout fishing was the objective of some of these trips, and much mapping of uncharted areas was done for the Canadian government, which hoped to open up the area for travel and sporting activities.

When President Eisenhower came to Dartmouth in 1953 to receive an honorary degree, Sid Hayward headed the committee planning his visit. A year later, when the President made a fishing trip to the Dartmouth Grant, the two men had a fine time preparing lunch for a group of Senators, Congressmen and Governors by broiling wilderness trout over an open fire.

The interests of the Secretary of the College were not confined to Dartmouth and outdoor life. He was a past director of the New England Council; a trustee of Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, N. H., from its founding in 1945; and a charter member of the Lebanon Region Airport Authority, of which he was chairman at the time of his death. As long as he had the strength to carry on this spring, he had worked for the further development of this busiest airport in the state. In 1944-45 he had gone to New York to be director of organization for Americans United for World Organization, which was then working for this country's acceptance of the United Nations Charter; and in 1951 General Lucius D. Clay named him New Hampshire chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, a campaign to support Radio Free Europe.

Sid Hayward's family in Hanover consisted of his wife Barbara and two daughters, Nancy and Mary Ann, the former now Mrs. James M. Mitchell Jr. ('51) of Chatham, N. J., and the latter now Mrs. Edward D. Harris Jr. ('58) of Bethesda, Md. They are survivors, together with four grandsons, a sister, Miss Elizabeth S. Hayward of Woodstock, Conn., and an uncle, William H. Hayward of Providence, R. I.

Funeral services in Rollins Chapel on the afternoon of June 1 were attended by hundreds of College, town and alumni friends, including a large delegation from the Class of 1926. The Rev. Fred Berthold Jr. '45 officiated at the chapel services and at the interment at Pine Knolls Cemetery, Hanover. Bearers were Robert L. Allen '45, Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36, Richard Fowler '54, J. Michael McGean '49, Frank Smallwood '50, and Gilbert R. Tanis '38. Fifteen administrative colleagues and two student government officers, Lawrence Hannah '65 and David Weber '65, served as ushers.

In lieu of flowers a considerable number of contributions were made to Dartmouth College in memory of Sid Hayward. Proposals for some form of lasting memorial, possibly in connection with the outdoor life he enjoyed so much, have already been made. The College, desirous of making the most appropriate decision, has deferred action until a later time.

Sid Hayward and artist Peter Gish '49shown with the oil portrait commissionedby a group of Dartmouth friends andpresented to the College in March 1963.