In September, the University began disassembling the FitzRandolph Observatory to make way for the new Roberts Stadium near Jadwin Gym. The building hosted generations of stargazers, including these visitors at a November 1954 open house: Pictured (l-r) are: Walter Rothschild 1913, Chandler Cudlipp 1919, Professor Lyman Spitzer *38, Charles K. Wallace 1918, Horace Platt 1912 (in back), and Penn Harvey 1908.