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Julius A. Stratton, left, greets Irving White Wilson as Gilbert Morgan Roddy looks on during the MIT Alumni Association Regional Conference in Pittsburgh.

Original caption 1: "A few of the many Alumni who payed prominent roles in the Regional Conference held at Pittsburgh on December 7 are shown on this page. At the left, the Institute's Acting President J.A. Stratton, 1923 (left), congratulates Irving W. Wilson, 1911 (center), who received citation from Alumni Association President Gilbert M. Roddy, 1931 (right). Right-hand illustration shows Edward J. Hanley, 1924, General Co-Chairman of the conference (left), William J. Sherry, 1921, who arranged last year's (February 2) conference in Tulsa (center), and J. Robert Ferguson, Jr., 1937 of Pittsburgh."

Original caption 2: "Regional Conferences in cities remote from M.I.T. have grown in importance and popularity since they were initiated in Chicago in 1951. At the Regional Conference in Pittsburgh on December 7, 1957, J.A. Stratton, 1923 (left), congratulates Irving W. Wilson, 1911, who received a citation from Gilbert M. Roddy, 1931, (right), President of the Alumni Association."

Original credit line: Associated Photographers.

Used in: Technology Review, February 1958 p. 194, January 1959 p. 145.