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...Glee Club manager competitions which began with the opening of College have just finished with the appointment of John Sedgwick Barss '22, of Windsor, Conn., as assistant manager, and Edwin Day Sage Jr. '23, of Cambridge, Mass., and John King Watson '23, of Rockaway, N. J., as second assistant managers. Next year Barss will automatically become manager, while Sage and Watson compete for assistant managership...
Little more than a month has passed since three naval officers left the air station at Rockaway in a balloon. But in that month their flight, ostensibly made on experimental purposes, has aroused throughout the country a degree of interest in naval aeronautics that is surpassed only by the transatlantic trip of the four "NC" biplanes. Besides the desire to know the reasons for a flight which so nearly ended in disaster, there is also a justifiable curiosity concerning the reports of the journey--reports that contradict each other at almost every turn. The days of melodrama for melodrama...
Griswold and Daugherty will assist in assembling the machine and testing it today and tomorrow. The first leg of their journey Sunday will be south along the Delaware to Cape May, where they will arrive at noon. In the afternoon they will fly to Rockaway, L. I., and spend the night there. Monday they will stop at New London, Narragansett Pier, and Chatham on Cape Cod, arriving at Marblehead in the late afternoon...
...strength of this record that he was assigned to the "NC" type of plane at Rockaway, where he was appointed in charge of the NC-4. It was in this capacity that he flew the NC-4 to victory over her sister planes in May, 1919, thus giving the United States the honor of being the first nation to successfully complete a transatlantic fight with a heavier-than-air machine...
...Raymond Schaeffer 3G., of Olney, Ill.; Townsend Scholarships: William Harder Cole 2G., of Angelica, N. Y.; Charles Drechsler 2G., of Butternut, Wis.; Forrest Hamilton Murray, of Mazon, Ill.; Andrew Thomson, of Dobbinton, Ont.; Percival Wilcox Whittlesey 2G., of Middletown, Conn.; George and Martha Derby Scholarship: Pierson Muir Tuttle, of Rockaway, N. J.; Austin Scholarships; Ralph Philip Boas, of Walla Walla, Wash.; Edward Maurice Briggs, of Lawrence, Kan.; Edward Everett Dale, of Norman, Okla.; John Dillingham Dodson, A.M. '08, of Pella, Ia.; Lloyd Clement Emmons, of East Lansing, Mich.; George Howard Gelsinger, A.M. '14, of Carthage, Ill.; Daniel S. Gerig...