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Harvard will today act as host to the man who was first to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air, Lieutenant-Commander Albert C. Rcad. Members of the University will have an opportunity to hear personally from Commander Read of his experiences, when he will speak at the meeting in the Living Room of the Union at 8'clock. Preceding the meeting there will be a small dinner given in his honor in the Trophy Room of the Union at 7 o'clock. commander Reads talk tonight is the first one of a series which the Graduate Manager of the Union...
Commander Read was appointed to the Naval Academy from Massachusetts in 1903, graduating-with honors in 1907. On June 30, 1915, he was detailed by the Navy Department to receive flying in struction and on June 5, 1917, he was sent to the Naval Air Station at Bay Shore, Long Island, where be acted as Commanding Officer. Later he went to Washington where he ably filled various responsible positions in the Department of Operations, Aviation...
...Commander Read speaks in Union...
Lieutenant-Commander Albert C. Read, commanding officer of the famous NC4, first plane to successfully complete a trans-atlantic flight, will be the guest of honor at a small informal dinner in the Trophy Room of the Union. Monday evening at 7 o'clock. He will later make an address at a meeting open to all members of the University in the Living Room of the Club. He will be accompanied by the crew of the NC4 and by three officers from the "mother ship", the U. S. S. Isobel. After the dinner Professor R. B. Merriman '96 will introduce...
...Monday evening Commander Read and the crew of the NC-4 will be brought from Boston in automobiles at 6.30 and met at the Union by a committee composed of Deans C. N. Greenough '98, K. B. Murdock '16, and E. R. Gay '19, and E. A. Whitney '17. Members of the Faculty and all students in the University are invited to attend the meeting...