A Posthumous Alumni Award
On the day that Sid Hayward died, after an unexpectedly sudden turn for the worse, there arrived in Hanover an engraved silver bowl and a printed citation that were to be presented to him as symbols of the Dartmouth Alumni Council's highest tribute - a Dartmouth Alumni Award. The special presentation ceremony that never took place was held instead, posthumously, at the Council's annual dinner in Hanover on June 16.
The Alumni Award was accepted by Sid Hayward's classmate and brother-in-law, Douglas N. Everett '26. Present for the ceremony were Sid's wife, Mrs. Barbara E. Hayward, and his daughter Mary Ann, Mrs. Edward D. Harris Jr. ('58). In making the award, James D. Landauer '23, president of the Alumni Council, read the following citation:
SIDNEY CHANDLER HAYWARD '26
Not long ago some of your friends presented to Dartmouth College a handsome portrait resembling of all things in this age yourself!
Before the unveiling a colleague selected for the honor of representing all your friends offered brief remarks in question form. "Who can match these Hayward Years in dedication to Dartmouth, or in warmth, or in resourcefulness, or in vigor, or in imagination, or in honor, or in numbers too?" You were never more embarrassed, unless this occasion should top it, and we hope it will.
The Hayward Years began at your graduation in 1926. They have seen you manage at one time or another top administrative posts in an ever-expanding, dynamic, and now world-famous program of alumni activities. First as an Assistant to the President, then Director of the News Service, you got your feet wet early and became Secretary of the College at the ripe old age of 25. In that capacity you also served as Editor of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, judged best of all college magazines in North America in 1943. You wrote a six-volume report on Alumni and Public Relations to win another national award in 1958. You were instrumental in early planning and administration of development activities at Dartmouth, one example being your founding of the Bequest and Estate Planning Program in the '40s which has grown to produce two million dollars annually in the '60s.
For 35 years you have been Secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Council whose founder and first Secretary was long your mentor, Ernest Martin Hopkins '01. One of the most widely quoted statements of any Dartmouth President was that of Dr. Hop kins when he said in 1945: "One of the best things I ever did was to form the Alumni Council." We would add that the Council's crowning achievement in a half century of existence has been its 35 consecutive elections of you as its Secretary.
As a peerless writer of the Dartmouth scene and outdoor enthusiast known to tens of thousands as their personal link with Hanover, your Bulletin, reports, and talks to alumni groups have delighted and inspired generation after generation of Dartmouth men. When last December the Columbia University Alumni Federation honored you with its medal for distinguished service to higher education, the Awards Committee and your beloved Alumni Council could no longer hold back their wishes, nor those of 30,000 constituents, to express their own highest tribute.
It is, therefore, with an overwhelming sense of affection and gratitude for an unparalleled record of service to Dartmouth men that we salute the son who produced the Hayward Years with the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
The late Sidney C. Hayward '26 in thefamiliar role of giving his secretary's report at the annual June alumni meeting.
