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...students of Dr. Frances W. Wright's astronomy course, annual get-togethers have become a big event. The 91 year-old Wright, who taught a class on celestial navigation for 45 years, was toasted by 25 of her former students at a reunion Wednesday. Many of the alumni said they had applied what they learned in Wright's course to their work as professional astronomers and for a few, to transglobal ocean voyages...
Steven McKenna, the keynote speaker at the reunion and a former student of Wright's, told the gathering about a 3200-mile sailing trip he had made from Massachusetts to Portugal in 1986 on which he applied the principles taught to him by Wright...
Several of Wright's students have sailed orflown around the world using the techniques theylearned in Astronomy 2 or 9lr. One of them. JavierF. Araujo '85, came to Wednesday's reunion tovisit Wright, whom he says helped inspire him tomake a trans-Atlantic flight...
Whitney told the audience at the reunion, whichwas held at the Harvard Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics, that although he began teachingAstronomy 2 this semester, Wright "still comes toall the classes...
...pamphlet of senior events distributed by our marshals, the authors were careful to note that at both the Reunion at the Union and at the Senior Party at the Links Club, proper ID was required. Says the pamphlet: "Anyone who shows their College ID with the appropriate birthdate will be accepted at Senior events as legal. If there is any question as to your eligibility...you are encouraged to carry your College ID or your driver's license as long as it has your picture and the necessary birthdate...