Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Van Allen—Halsey


Southampton Press
Friday, Aug. 31, 1945

The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Halsey of Chicago and Southampton , Long Island, formerly of Cincinnati, announce the engagement of their daughter, Abigail Fithian, to James Alfred Van Allen, Lt., U.S.N.R., son of Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Van Allen of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

Miss Halsey is a graduate of the Lotspeich and Hillsdale Schools of Cincinnati and of Mt. Holyoke College. For the past year she has contributed to the war efforts thought the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Springs, Md.

Lt. Van Allen is a graduate of the Iowa Wesleyan University. After acquiring his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Iowa, he was awarded a Carnegie Institute Fellowship in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C. Following sixteen months active service in the Pacific he is now stationed in Washington. The wedding will take place early in October at the First Presbyterian Church in Southampton.

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