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Contact sheet of nine photographs of Julius Adams Stratton, Avery Allen Ashdown, John T. Blake, Lawrence J. Heidt, Henry A. Hill Arnet L. Powell, and Joseph J. Snyder standing in a line and as Stratton presents Ashdown with some form of award.

Original caption: "Jeff: Here is the caption material for the Avery Allen Ashdown presentation. Professor Ashdown will call in story material to you at 10 a.m. Monday. Left to right, Joseph J. Snyder, vice president and treasurer, M.I.T.; Prof. Robert A. Shepard, chairman of the Chemistry Department, Northeastern University, and chairman, Northeast Section, American Chemical Society; L. J. Heidt, associate professor of physical chemistry, M.I.T. and past chairman, Northeast Section, American Chemical Society; Dr. Julius A. Stratton, president of M.I.T.; Avery Allen Ashdown, retired chemistry professor, M.I.T.; Dr. Henry A. Hill, president, Rverside Research Laboratory, Inc., Haverhill, Mass. and past chairman, Northeast Section, American Chemical Society; John T. Blake, senior vice president, Simplex Wire and Cable Co., Cambridge, Mass., past chairman, Northeast Section, American Chemical Society, and chairman of the Board of Trustees, Northeast Section, American Chemical Society; Dr. Arnet L. Powell, chief scientist, Office of Naval Research, Boston, and past chairman, Northeast Section, American Chemical Society."