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...Intercollegiate Flying Association has decided to hold its annual intercollegiate meet on Friday, May 13, at Mineola, L. I. E. H. Kelton 2E.S. represented Harvard at the meeting last week at the Aero Club in New York. The government is to supply planes for the meet and about ten colleges are expected to compete. All contestants must hold reserve pilots commissions, as the War Department authorizes the meet only on the basis of a reserve training event. The filers will be allowed to practice as often as possible before the meet as the second and third events consist of stunting...
Late in the spring, another aviation meet under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Flying Association will be held at Mineola, Long Island. This association, which was organized by L. E. Thomas '20, secretary of the Harvard Aeronautical Society in 1919-20, includes such colleges as Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Williams and the University...
...Conrad J. Surbeck, a graduate of the Springfield Y. M. C. A. College. He has had considerable experience as physical director of the playgrounds at New London and as a member of the War Work Department of the Y. M. C. A. He was fist stationed at the Mineola Avlation Field, then at St. Nazaire, and was finally appointed supervisor of the recreation activities of the soldiers at all the French ports of entry...
...reasons why the University Aeronautical Society failed to score in the air meet at Mineola Friday was that only three of the six men entered were able to fly. E. H. Kelton, Occ., D. Gregg, 4 E.S., and R. Tuckerman '20 took no part in the flights. L. T. Lanman '20 and J. B. Garver, 1L., entered the race, but an inferior machine kept them far in the rear over the entire course. R. B. Varnum, Occ., placed fourth in the acrobatics but did not score...
Kelton and Gregg, who had flown from Framingham Friday morning, were obliged to land in an uninhabited part of Long Island because their gasoline had given out; before they could get the right kind of fuel and cover the remaining distance to Mineola it was already past 7 o'clock. Incidentally, because no report of their arrival came through to Boston until the Crimson telegraphed to Colonel Moose, commanding officer at Mitchell Field, the next day, considerable anxiety was caused in Cambridge over their non-arrival. Tuckerman, who had been saved for the altitude event, did not compete because this...