1921

After Millard Newcomb died in 1975, his widow Pearl, also an attorney, established a scholarship in the law at Case Western Reserve University to commemorate Newc's loyalty to the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and his high regard for excellence in the legal profession.

In March 1977, Pearl established another scholarship, for an outstanding student at Dartmouth who is majoring in the French language and who will study at the University of Toulouse. Roxana Wolosenko '83 of Astoria, N.Y., was chosen this past year to receive this honor.

Our own Ralph Steiner, who is one of America's best-known living photographers, was initiated into the College's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at its annual meeting last June 12.

The citation accompanying his induction into this prestigious scholastic society praised "his photographs, movies, and books as brilliant evidence of an inquiring, playful, and searching mind, bringing a keen aesthetic sense to a modern medium."

Also recently, Ralph was kind enough, at my request, to pen the following tribute to one of the great professors of our time on campus "Doc" Griggs.

"How long ago it seems like Pleistocene times-when we watched the polar ice cap slowly receding from Hanover, and sat in 'A' Dartmouth to hear 'Doc' Griggs introduce us to the Outing Club.

"With the face of a round-face baby, about to burst into tears, he told us stories which left us holding our sides with laughter. I have never heard since any funnier stand-up comic. His dismally cheerless expression made his completely fraudulent stories of the great New Hampshire outdoors the more hilarious.

"Doc lived in a house overlooking Mink Brook, behind which was his private zoo, inhabited by the animals who were the subjects of his highly artistic photographs. He had a magic way with animals; he'd walk Main Street of Hanover with a tame crow sitting on his shoulder, shrieking at the passers-by. (It was the crow, not Doc Griggs, that shrieked. Doc was an unusually silent person.)

"At the end of our junior year, Doc suggested that the College might let him run a course in photography in the autumn of 1920. About five students signed up, and our weekly sessions at Doc's house were made gladsome by his serving us his famous, six-inch-high strawberry shortcakes. He never undertook to lecture; we'd just sit around looking at each other's photographs.

"In the second half of our senior year the rest of the class dropped out, and I remained his only student. He had given me a 'D' both semesters in freshman biology, but he gave me a much needed 'A' in Photography I and II. I have the feeling that in our day there were a few too many staid and standard teachers, but Doc Griggs was not one of them. In his quiet way, he was as unusual and colorful as David Lambeth with his wide-brimmed white hat, white suit, and white Packard. I treasure whatever of the good Doc rubbed off on me, and is part of who I am."

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