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...MacMillan Cup Regatta at Annapolis, the team finished fourth behind Babson, Coast Guard, and Dartmouth, but ahead of defending champion Yale. The Crimson entry, skippered by senior Dave Stookey, finished second, seventh, and sixth in the three individual races...
Strangely, the Academy keeps inviting the Crimson back, and this year's squad led by Dave Stookey, ex-commodore of the Harvard Yacht Club, is determined to do better...
Chemist S. Donald Stookey of Corning Glass Works explained that the strange "photochromic" glass, which he had invented along with Dr. William H. Armistead, contains submicroscopic crystals of silver halide, 128 million billion of them per cubic inch. They do not affect its color or transparency, but strong visible or ultraviolet light turns the crystals to metallic silver, which absorbs light and makes the glass look grey. The same thing happens to the silver halide particles in photographic film, but their darkening is permanent. The silver atoms in the glass are held so tightly that they cannot move away from...
...committee consists of Stookey, David A. Gants '64, James A. Rousmaniere '40, chairman of the Harvard College Fund, Leonard M. Fowle '30, graduate secretary of the New England Intercolleginte Sailing Association, Barrett Wendell, Jr. '37, and Timothy M. Brown '54. They hope to get financial support for the project from the Friends of Harvard Sailing, an alumni group of which Rousmanlere is chairman. No University funds will be used for the project, according to Stookey...
...Stookey said that the Yacht Club "deserves" the new facility in view of its large membership and consistently outstanding racing teams. The pavilion would be run by a full-time professional sailing master with his salary paid by a Friends endowment, and it would provide the University with as complete a sailing program as any college in the country, according to Stookey...