Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Professor of Applied Astronomy George B. Field said that because of Wright's extraordinary dedication to undergraduates, she had been allowed to teach her astronomy course even after reaching mandatory retirement...
Until last year, Field was listed in the course catalog as the official professor of the course, Astronomy 2, although it was actually Wright who taught the course. Wright was listed in the catalog as conducting laboratory sessions...
From then on, Harvard scored at will. Princeton switched goalies, replacing John Wright--who had played an excellent first half and had 12 saves--with back-up Mike Millner. But, this switch didn't prove to be a problem for the Crimson's offense...