OAK RIDGE OBSERVATORY RECEIVES NEW TELESCOPE

A refracting Clark telescope, 6 1-2 inches in diameter, and other astronomical equipment of the late Dr. Edward Drake Roe, Jr. '85, professor of Astronomy at Syracuse University, has been received by the Harvard College Observatory as the gift of Mrs. Roe and her daughter, Mrs. E. H. Gaggin. It will be used as the only visual telescope among a large number of instruments for photographic work, at the new Oak Ridge Station of the Observatory, to be opened next summer at the town of Harvard, Massachusetts.

Mrs. Roe purchased the telescope and equipment from the estate, presenting it to Harvard College in the name of her daughter and herself, as a memorial to her husband. They are also making a generous contribution toward the expense of a building to house the telescope. The building or the pier of the telescope will bear an appropriate bronze memorial tablet. The gift includes some valuable accessories: clocks, timers, spectroscope, and a micrometer.

Dr. Roe taught at Harvard, Boston University, Oberlin College, and finally at Syracuse where he held the John Raymond French professorship in Mathematics from 1901 to his death.

Mrs. Roe is herself a scientist, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Master of Arts from Dartmouth College, graduate of Oberlin and Ph. D. from Syracuse. She has held the position of dean of Berce College, Kentucky, and has been an associate professor at Syracuse University.