There are three images on this page. First is a group photo from the High School Honors Science Institute held at Michigan State University in summer 1961. Albert Holm attended this during the summer between his junior and senior year in high school. At the end of the session, he wrote, “My major interests are astronomy, math, and political science. This summer I gave a long and boring talk on quadratic residuals in Dr. Frame’s math class. That is all I am going to say about myself.”
Of course, he experienced a lot more than that. This was the first time he had spent any amount of time away from home. He met a lot of bright students. He tried his hand at writing a program for the Michigan State’s room-sized, vacuum-tube computer MISTIC. He heard Dave Brubeck’s Time Out and Joseph Hayden’s Trumpet Concerto for the first time.
Albert is in the back row, 7th from the right side. This image shows him.
Here is an identification sheet for all the participants, students as well as instructors.
Dust and/or other blemishes have not been removed from these images.