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...noted traveller and director of the New England Museum of Natural History, Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, will speak on his explorations of Mount St. Agnes and Mount Sanford, Alaska, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...required to deliver a five minute selection that he had committed to memory. The sixteen selected for the finals were: Stanley O. Beren '41, Howard C. Blackwell, Jr. '39, John B. Fisher '41, Edward G. Greenberg '41, Ralph Harris, Jr. '39 Harry R. Harwood, Jr. '39, Leou Lipson '41, Sanford M. Marshall '41, Jonas M. Muller '40, Howard Nemeror '41, David Park '41, James J. Faitee Jr. '41, Bernard Rivin '40, Robert H. Ryan '41, John R. Whittler '39, and Dowey K. Ziegler...
...around raising $350 expense money. He told his hard-working mother (whom he calls "Bimble") that he felt as though he had "landed a whale on a trout hook." At last, this week, came the great day. Voit Gilmore rode over from Chapel Hill to the railroad station at Sanford, N. C. with Governor Hoey to receive the President of the United States...
...Mount Sanford trip penetrated into a region, which cartographers have never even attempted to map and which is in the form of a strip of land 40 miles wide and extending for 125 miles along the Pacific coast. Located in the center of the Chugach Range about 50 miles from the Pacific Ocean. Saint Agnes pierces the clouds to a height of 13,250 feet above sea level...
...Mount Sanford, a huge volcanic mass 16,200 feet high, was the next object of the group, who had the generous backing of the National Geographic Society. Under comparatively favorable weather conditions, the party slowly wended its way through one of the severest storm centers in the entire world and reached the summit at 9:30 on the evening of July...