Smyrna times., 1962-11-15
Six Medals
To Hon or
DIR. Cannon
By Wesley

Six gold medals honoring the
late DR.. Annie Jump Cannon,
world-famous astronomer, will
be presented to outstanding A
merican women in the arts
and sciences In Dover next year.
Announcement of the pro-
jected awards was made at a
luncheon meeting of the Annie
Jump Cannon Centennial Com
mirtee in Dover, by william
A. Hughes, Centennial Direc-
tor for Wesley College. Wesley
will sponsor a convocation hon
oring the career of its most
famous alunna on December
IL, 1868.
The centennial conVocation
committee, made up of IS prom
inent Delaware women, is head
ed by Mrs. Henry B. dupont,
Wilmington, for New Castle
County, Mrs. Cummins E.
Speakman, Smyrna, for Kent,
and Mrs. John ]. Williams,
Millsboro, for Sussex County.
The Annie Jump Cannon Cen
tennial Medal will be presented
to women voted as outstanding
in science, literature, the per-
forming arts, medicine, and the
fine arts. Anominating commit
tee will be announced shortly,
and balloting by members of the
committee and the college fac
ulty and trustees will take place
in the late spring.
DR.. Cannon, Kent County
native was cited during her life
time as one of the worlds
greatest astronomers. A pio-
neer in spectroscopic astron-
omy, she compiled a catalogue
of over 100000 stellar bodies
at the Harvard Observatory,
where she was curator of as
Economical photographs. She
was the first woman to be
given an honorary degree by
Oxford University, England and
one Of TWO honorary fellows of
the Royal Astronomical Soci-
ety. A graduate of the class Of
1880 at Wesley, then the Will
mington Conference Academy,
DR.. Cannon received honorary
degrees from Harvard, Mt.
Holyoke, Oglethorpe, the Uni
versity Of Delaware, and Gron-
ingen University In Holland.
Members of the Annie Jump
Cannon Centennial Committee
are:
New Castle County;Mrs. Har-
ny Clark Boden, Newark; Mrs.
William N. Cam, Wilmington;
Mrs. Reynolds dupont, Green
vile, Mrs. F. !. dupont, VIII
mington; Mrs. w. S. Carpen-
ter Ill Greenville; Mrs. Eleu-
there |. dupont, Wilmington;
Mrs. George II. Henry, New
ark; Sen. Evelyn Lord, vii
mington; Mrs. Barton Mackey,
Newark; Mrs. Rosemary Riley,
Newport; Mrs. Bayard Sharp,
Centreville; Mrs. Charlotte
Shedd, Arden, Mrs. Frank 6.
Tallman, Wilmington; Mrs. An
drew Wyeth, Chadd's Ford, Pa;
Mrs. Philip B. Weymouth, VIII
mington'.
Kent County: Mrs. W. E.
Barnard, Mrs. Don Concilio,
Mrs. ]. Allan Frear, Jr., Mrs.
Cecil Fulton, Mrs. Edward S.
Hodgson, Mrs. A. w. Holmes,
Mrs. Harold Horsey, Mrs. Har-
ry R. Jackson, Mrs. John Lof-
land, Mrs. Howard E. Lynch,
Jr., Mrs. Hughett Mcdaniel,
Mrs. William P. Richardson,
Mrs. William j. Storey, Mrs.
Charles Terry, Mrs. N. Max
son Terry, Mrs. Mayer Thigh
man, Mrs. Arthur B. B.Edgeworth,
Mrs. Melville Warren,M Mrs. M. !
Hayes Wilson, Sr., Mrs. M.
Hayes Wilson, Jr., Mrs. Ralph
c. Wilson, all of Dover; Mrs.
Frank Greenwell, Mrs. John
Lofland, Mrs. Henry Price,
Mrs. Warner Price, Mrs. Hen
ny c. Webb, Mrs. ]. E. Wilson,
Ill, and Mrs. George w. Wright,
all of Smyrna.
Sussex County: Mrs. Henry
P. Cannon, II, and Mrs. Ralph
Scott, Bridgeville; Mrs. How
ard Bramhall and Mrs. Hous-
ton Wilson, Georgetown; Mrs.
Herbert Calhoun and Mrs. Mil
ton Meyer, Dagsboro, Mrs. |
Robert Marvil and Mrs. William |
R. Money, Laurel; Mrs. Frank
Grier and Mrs. Don Holzmuel-
ler, Milford; Mrs. Jesse Al
len and Mrs. Carl Zoller, Re-
Mrs. Irwin F. Seimes, |
Millsboro; Miss Elizabeth Ell
liott, Seaford; Mrs. ]. Conn
Scott, Selbyville.
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