Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL President: Christopher Pottle Vice-President: Whitman A. Richards Secretary: Alden D. Hinckley Adviser: Mr. Hogg As the governing body of the Scientific Society, the Council was mainly concerned this year with the writing of a new consti- tution. Work proceeded smoothly, and the new constitution was soon approved by the Council and the Scientific Society. Under its terms lower dues are collected, and the whole Society meets as a body every two weeks. The Council hopes that its new constitution will prove more workable than its impractical predecessor. AERONAUTICS GROUP President: Norman j. Hart Adviser: Mr. Hogg The Aeronautics Group was very active during I948-49. For the benefit of new , . SOCIETY members the club built a trainer and worked on a radio-controlled model plane. Throughout the year the group featured all types of model flying, including that of speed, stunt, and novelty airplanes: and even before the last snow had melted, the Plimpton Playing Fields had again become the site of many test runs. ASTRONOMY GROUP President: Daniel W. Seitz Adviser: Mr. Brinckerhoff The Astronomy Group, started only a year ago, has become the second largest Group in the Scientific Society. The meet- ings have consisted of a series of lectures given by members of the group which covered subjects of interest relating to the entire'Universe. Several projects have been started this year, among them the grinding of telescope lenses, and a careful study of the Milky Way. SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY COUNCIL Front Row: Keim, Field, C. Pottle, A. Hinckley, Seitz. Back Row: Ogden, N. Hart, Hunt, Woodward, lvlr. Hogg. l

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LES CABOTINS First Row: Craw, Gray, C. French, Huck, Mason, Seitz, MacKinney, Lachelier, Hyde. Second Row: R. Woodward, Morris, Irvine, Boorsch, D. Baker, H. Ross, Sweeney, Highet, P. Smith. Third Row: Mr. Thomas, Reckford, Springer, Farnsworth, C. Wight, Wolverton, Israel, Rogers, Peck, Goldman. LES CABOTINS President: james W. Mason Vice-President: Charles H. Huck Secretary: Daniel W. Seitz Adviser: Mr. Thomas This year, Les Cabotins boasted its largest enrollment in many years. At its first meet- ing Messrs. Meras and Thomas presented an hilarious skit in which an American tries to explain football to a bewildered Frenchman. At the next two meetings the members of the club played charades and were shown two interesting movies, One of these, supposedly on mountain-climbing, turned out to be L'Amour Maternal Chez Les Animauxf' Then the club settled down to a rather serious meeting at which Mr. Roncalez gave a very informative talk on his trip to France during the previous sum- mer. For the final meeting, the annual Boite de Nuitf' the Little Theatre was turned into a night-club, and a continuous floor show of siren-singing, Comedy, intense drama f La Mort de Rolandul, and of pro- fessional harmonica-playing brought an ac- tive year to a successful close. iw

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This year BIOLOGY GROUP President: Adviser: Suffering membership, activities to and a few Richard S. Field lvlr. Mayo-Smith from the indifference of its the Biology Group confined its a lecture by Mr. Mayo-Smith minor projects. These latter included the dissection of a pig and a study of the feeding habits of garter snakes, CHEMISTRY GROUP President: Whitman A. Richards Adviser: Mr. Dunnell lvlr. Dunnell gave a course on Organic Chemistry to the members of the Group. The course was highlighted by a series of lectures and several collateral ex- periments. Another activity of the Group was the investigation of alkali metals. LECTURE GROUP President: Michael Ogden Adviser: Mr. Hogg This year the Lecture Group inaugurated the practice of having students give scien- tific lectures. Two of these were a lecture on glass-blowing by Augustus Fabens and one on astronomy by Daniel Seitz. lt is hoped that by having students give the lec- tures, rather than by listening to outside lecturers, more interest in the sciences will be stimulated. METEOROLOGY GROUP President: Michael Ogden Adviser: Mr. Gross Mark Twain once said of New England weather, lf you don't like it, wait a min- ute. Throughout the year the Meteoro- logy Group has continued to observe and