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Twenty-eight men in formal attire sit and stand around one end of a large table strewn with flowers at a dinner honoring Orville Wright.

Original caption: "Notable among the festivities connected with the Institute's removal to its Cambridge quarters 27 years ago was a dinner in honor of Orville Wright, given at the Engineers Club in Boston on June 12, 1916. The plane which Dr. Wright and his brother Wilbur had used in their conquest of the air 40 years ago this month was exhibited when the Institute's new home was opened. This photograph was made available to The Review by Lester D. Gardener, 1898, President of the aeronautical archives of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences. Those present, with the positions they then occupied in the world of science and engineering, were as follows:

Seated, left to right: (1) John Ritchie, Jr., M.I.T., publicity; (2) C.P.Gage, Van Blerck Motor Company; (3) Arthur E. Kennelley, Professor of Electrical Engineering, M.I.T.; (4) Edwin B. Wilson, Professor of Mathematics, M.I.T.; (5) Philip J. Roosevelt of New York; (6) James P. Munroe, 1882, Secretary of the Corporation, M.I.T.; (7) Godfrey L. Cabot, 1881, President, Aero Club of New England; (8) Paul W. Litchfield, 1896, President, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; (9) William E. Byerly, Professor of Mathematics, Harvard; (10) Rear Admiral Washington Lee Capps, chief constructor, United States, Navy; (11) Orville Wright; (12) Cecil H. Peabody, 1877, Head of the Department of Naval Architectureand Marine Engineering, M.I.T.; (13) Alexander Graham Bell; and (14) Edward M. Hagar, 1893, President, Wright Company.

Standing, left to right: (1) J.H. Barbazette, Wright Company; (2) Lester D. Gardner, 1898, publisher, Aviation; (3) A. Roy Knabenshue, pioneer airship pilot; (4) Joseph C. Riley, 1898, Associate Professor of Heat Engineering, M.I.T.; (5) Raymond Ware, Thomas Motor Car Company; (6) Thomas H. Huff, 1915, instructor in aeronautical engineering, M.I.T.; (7) Alan R. Hawley, President, Aero Club of America; (8) Glenn L. Martin, Glenn L. Martin Company; (9) Oscar Brindley, holder of the Curtiss Marine Flying Trophy; (10) Robert W. Wilson, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard; (11) Arthur G. Webster, Professor of Physics, Clark; (12) Jerome C. Hunsaker, 1912, assistant naval constructor, United States Navy; (13) James Means, publisher, 'Aeronautical Annual,' 1896-1899; (14) Alexander Klemin, 1916, instructor in aeronatical engineering, M.I.T."