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Blast from the Past: The AAVSO in 1966
These pictures were taken by Walter Scott Housten at the 55th Annual Meeting of the AAVSO held at the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, MA. Thank you to Matthew Templeton for digitizing the pictures.

Art Stokes, foreground, facing camera
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Casper Hossfield (L) and Herbert Luft (R)
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?, Barbara Welther, Art Stokes, Susan Hess
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Mrs. Good, Mrs. Emily Fernald, Williams, ?
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?, Newton Mayall, Williams, Dorrit Hoffleit (back to camera), ?
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Dick Davis (speaker)
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James English, David Dunham, Elmer Wright, ?, Henry Specht
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Owen Gingerich (speaking)
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Clint Ford, ?, ?
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Ed Oravec, Clint Ford, Margaret Mayall, Diane Lucas(?)
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Cyrus Fernald, Ed Oravec, ?
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John Ruiz, Ralph Buckstaff, Percy Witherell, (George Diedrich?)
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Dick Davis, Owen Gingerich (back), Cap Hossfield
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Michael Mattei, Bill Shawcross
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Art Stokes, R. Newton Mayall (center), Margaret Snow Houston (long hair)
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Richard Davis (L), Herbert Luft (R)
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foreground: Luft, R. N. Mayall, ?, Henry Specht (Dorrit in back)
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Hossfield (L), Ford (R)
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Robert Adams (L), John Bortle (R)
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Owen Gingerich (L), Barbara Welther (C), Dorrit Hoffleit (R)
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?, Susan Hess, Robert Adams, R. N. Mayall
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David Dunham (cut), Bill Shawcross
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Florence Bibber
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Ralph Buckstaff
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Richard Davis(L), Herbert Luft(C), Casper Hossfield (R, behind
pillar)
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Ralph Buckstaff
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fore: DeKinder, P. Bibber, Hoffleit, F. C. Bibber,
back: N. Mayall?, M. Mayall?
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Herbert Luft, ?
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C. Hossfield, ?, ?
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Miriam, Kay, and Margaret Houston
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