Memories of former students at MRS conferences

 

Havard Bridge [364.4 smoot] - Smoot measure of length

In 1958, members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at MIT measured the bridge's eastern sidewalk by carrying or dragging the shortest pledge that year, Oliver Smoot, end over end. To implement his use as a measuring stick, Oliver Smoot repeatedly lay down on the bridge, let his companions mark his new position in chalk or paint, and then got up again. Eventually, he tired from all this exercise and was thereafter carried by the fraternity brothers to each new position. Crossing pedestrians are reminded by length markers painted at 10-smoot intervals that the bridge is 364.4 smoots long, plus or minus one ear.

 

 

1990 - CIRCA NanoLab Team

 

1999 - MRS Boston - Visit to MIT

Robert Chi + Don + AJS + Jason

 

 

2002 - MRS Boston - NanoLab Reunion

First Prize for Best Poster - John Wang ~ ! !

 

 

 

Race for the Sheep - 2008 dec 19

From UC to Eden Park - Krohn Conservatory

Overlook over Ohio River~!!