Class of 1898
Denis Crowley sends this about our 40th Reunion "Thee notices of the Reunion have already produced results, andthe indications are that this Reunion willbe the largest and best one yet held.Word has been received that there will beprese?it some classmates who have neverbefore been back for one. If you havenot already made up your mind to be atthe Reunion, it is not too late to do so,and to so inform the member of the committee in your district of the country.Come back, but notify us, so that we maybe sure you will have quarters for yourself and family in Hanover."
Guy Gary has loaned about fifty photographs of college days to the class for the Reunion. I have seen them and feel certain they will be exceedingly interesting to every member of '98.
Bill Hewes is actively at work in his section of the country rounding up '98ers for the Reunion.
Ted Leggett writes that Mush Jones, as usual, has sent in his check before he got Ted's letter. Mush was at that time looking forward to seeing Ich and Mary Crane on their way to Honolulu and also on their return trip. Mush is spending the winter at Long Beach, Calif., as is his custom.
Fred Lord recently gave an address at the Flushing High School in New York City, at the midyear graduating exercises of the school. There was an audience of about 1000, and the subject of his discourse was "Toleration."
The Secretary and his wife spent a happy time at Atlantic City during the convention of the National Education Association from February 26 to March 3.
It made pleasant reading in the Patey family to see recently in a letter from Robert C. Strong, dean of freshmen at Dartmouth, that their son Robert received marks for the first semester that place him in the upper ten per cent of his class. If he will only make the swimming team and the baseball team, he will please his dad again.
On Saturday evening, February 26, the Secretary and his wife went to see the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and it is one of the most worthwhile things we have ever seen in New York. I advise everyone to visit it when in New York. As I was leaving the Planetarium I bought there the little magazine entitled "The Sky," which is the bulletin of the Hayden planetarium, published monthly. In that I read an article entitled "Cosmic Fog Penetrated," in which reference was often made to our classmate "Pete" Adams. For instance, at the annual exhibit of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, "Pete," who is director of Mount Wilson Observatory, which has the world's most powerful telescope, spoke of the projection of invisible light penetrating into the cosmic fog. He also reported on new "yardsticks into space" and on the recent advantage taken of the increased penetrating power of red rays. Red-sensitive plates have been exposed at the Mount Wilson Observatory with its 100-inch telescope on heavily obscured regions in the direction of the center of our galactic system. These photographs have revealed not only millions of stars not previously recorded but also some new globular clusters of stars which were so deeply embedded in distant cosmic haze that they left no trace on ordinary photographs. "Pete" also reported on the different types of investigation at Mount Wilson converging on the problem of determining what lies in the vast open spaces between the stars. What a wonderful world our classmate is continually investigating!
Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave. Newtonville, Mass.
