1938

The year has just ended as I compose these notes and while it is not the custom of this column to designate a "Man of The Year" I feel it is an appropriate time to write about a classmate who has made outstanding contributions to Dartmouth College, The Class of 1938, and to his profession.

John R. Scotford Jr., known as "Scotty" in his undergraduate years, roomed in Crosby Hall and had as roommates Frank Doane and Bob Chickering. He was an Art major and a member of Pat Kaney's varsity gym team.

After graduate work at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., he entered the advertising business as a layout artist, becoming Art Director for such firms as Denhard and Stewart, Donohue and Coe, Moss Associates and, for five years, The Franklin Spier Agency.

Scotty returned to Hanover in 1956 to become special assistant in the Development Office to assist in raising funds for Hopkins Center, then in the planning stages. He also served as secretary to the building committee for the Center which was completed in 1962.

As assistant director of Hopkins Center for seven years, Scotty was in charge of its promotional material design and responsible for more than sixty exhibits a year in the rotunda, lounges, and halls.

He distinguished himself by developing a type face which was named an award winner in the National Type Face Design Competition sponsored by the Visual Graphics Corporation in 1965 and the following year he was honored by the New York Art Directors Club. In addition to designs for Winter Carnivals, Capital Gift Campaigns and other significant college events he was the designer of Dartmouth's Bicentennial symbol and of the recently issued Daniel Webster postage stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Dartmouth College Case.

His latest honor, just recently announced by Dartmouth College Provost Leonard M.Rieser, is the appointment to the newly created position of College Designer. In this position he will provide design services for all areas of Dartmouth including the professional schools of medicine, engineering, and business administration.

In addition to these professional achievements he found time to serve as assistant class agent, 1944-1953 and as head class agent, 1953-1957. The Class of 1938 won the Green Derby for its record in the Alumni Fund in 1954 and in 1959 he was given the Harvey Hood Award as Class Agent of the Year. Since his return to Hanover he has served as faculty advisor to the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club and to the Winter Carnival Board.

Additional honors in the academic world have also come to Richard F. Niebling on the occasion of his appointment as the first Lamont Professor of English at Phillips Exeter Academy. Dick received his M.A. at Yale in 1943, served a stint in the Army then went back to Yale on the GI bill to complete his thesis for a Doctorate in 1947.

In the entering freshman Class of 1973 there were sons of the following '38 fathers: Richard F. Anderson, David L. Berliner, James A. Briggs, Irving E. Brown Jr., Paul H. Feakins, and William J. Roby.

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