Columbia Honors Service to Alumni

Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College, was one of 22 college and university officers directing alumni programs who were honored December 30 by the Alumni Federation of Columbia University at its 50th anniversary convocation in New York. He received the Federation's medal and citation for his contributions to education through organized alumni activity.

Mrs. Charlotte Ford Morrison, Alumni Recorder Emeritus and wife of Prof. HughMorrison '26, and Charles E. Widmayer 30, editor of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, were also award recipients.

Following are the citations for the two members of the 1926 family:

SIDNEY C. HAYWARD

Within the office of the Secretary of your Alma Mater there has been official and voluntary responsibility for multifold duties, many of which are not listed in the definition of your position. As the head of that office you have characteristically taken on and fulfilled a host of projects and assignments, on campus and away from Hanover. It may be correct to say that, of all Dartmouth men, you are the most thoroughly informed about every conceivable part and feature of the college's administrational, academic, student, and alumni life. It has been to the abundant advantage of yourself and the institution that you have grown up with the college, starting in the year you graduated, when you became assistant to the president and director of the news service. In 1930 you were appointed to your present all-inclusive post, and became editor of the alumni magazine. The highest award of the American Alumni Council was received by this excellent publication in the latter part of your 13-year editorship.

You have served with distinction over the years on explorations of various aspects of the life of the college: a study of provisions and facilities relating to the social living of the student body, plans for the distinguished Hopkins Center, an expanded system of student government, problems of the traditional midwinter student festivities, and, of especial significance and of immeasurable value to sister institutions, a study leading to the establishment of the public relations council, and a survey of the organization, the program, and the activity of the alumni body. Numerous other worthwhile services and institutional support plans have been brought to fruition through your most excellent leadership.

In the American Alumni Council you have been a source of strength and a deeply interested advisor to the members who, time and again, have returned enlightened to their campuses from conferences where you have considerately and without stint shared with them your extensive knowledge and broad experience.

The Federation, in the name of the alumni of Columbia University, is privileged to pay honor to you.

CHARLOTTE FORD MORRISON

In the beginning was the record, the current record of the name and address. As in all too many schools, colleges, and universities, it was not always so at the college you served so ably for nearly forty years. No mere supervisor ot operations were you, no silent tender of machines. You were a keystone in Dartmouth s administrational structure, the guardian and provider of indispensable information without which the two-way relationship between institution and alumni cannot be traversed. As a former president of the American Alumni Council has said, "Records of sufficient detail to be of maximum help and of increasing accuracy are a necessity. For good basic records are the very foundation of every activity in the alumni program." oii.mni rprorHpr in 1925. and the

You became alumni recorder m 1925, and tne efficient system and procedures which came into being attest to the imagination, the thoroughness, the painstaking care through which you made the picture come alive. It has been a picture of the engendering of warm and stimulating relations with the Dartmouth family, which came about so largely because of your personal approach to the task. You were a gracious, conscientious, and prolific correspondent, ana this gives point to your having remarked that "I don't think any other woman ever has been blessed with 30,000 men friends."

In the meetings of the American Alumni Council for many years you have been recognized as the "dean of recorders, and the list is long of those who have attended your classes and learned about the ways and means of making the multifold records data of invaluable use to the entire administration and the alumni of the institution.

Your own record of service as a citizen is likewise outstanding. In the town of Hanover and in the State of New Hampshire you continue to support and give strength to a most impressive number of good causes, to which is added your services as a member of alumnae association committees of Simmons College, of which you are a former trustee.

The Federation, in the name of the alumni 01 Columbia University, is privileged to pay honor to you.