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[[note in left margin, underlined]]  April 11 [[/note in left margin, underline]] 
[[underline]] Sunday. [[/underline]]
Left at 9:00 AM. for Chapel Hill. Only one Pullman car until Jacksonville. Pleasant weather
[[underline]] April 12. [[/underline]]
Arrive [[black and red underline]] Raleigh [[/black and red underline]] 6 AM. Found a student there with motor car to take me to Chapel-Hill. Celine [[strikethrough]] pro [[/strikethrough]] continuing for New York. Found a good room [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] at the Carolina Inn. 
[[note in right margin in red, underlined]] Chapel Hill meeting [[/note in right margin in red, underlined]]
Many of the chemists had already arrived. About 2000 will participate. Pretty village well kept with University Bdgs and Fraternity houses near by. Many dear old friends there. Everything well planned in program
[[underline]] April 12. [[/underline]] Dr. Williamson of Gainesville (U. of Florida) is well presented on Tung-oil free culture, and applications. [[red underline]] Dr. Langmuir, [[/red underline]] Nobel Prize there. [[red underline]] Lamb, [[/red underline]] and endless others. [[red underline]] Hixson [[/red underline]] promises me to replace me at the evening when Scroll of [[strikethrough]] Citi [[/strikethrough]] good citizenship is to be given for me in New York on April 22. At Cafeteria sat next to [[black and red underline]] Dr. Cassel [[black and red underline]] who worked under Verschoffelt at Ghent University. 
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Dr. Hans M. Cassel Ph.D. 195 Park Boulevard, Palo Alto, Cal
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Excellent lectures by [[red underline]] Kendall Hudson [[/red underline]] & others. [[red underline]] Mrs. Kendal [[/red underline]]  also here, looks just as healthy and cheerful as ever.
[[note in left margin in red]] Kendal [[/note in left margin in red]]
Long talk with [[red underline]] Kendal. [[/red underline]] Tells me that on July 2 [[strikethrough]] But [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Nicholas Butler and another whose [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] nam [[/strikethrough]] name begins with B are to receive the [[red underline]] Honorary degree of L.L.D at Edinburg. 
[[note in right margin in red]] Hon L.LD Edinburgh [[/note in right margin in red]][[/red underline]]
[[note in left margin in red]] Kendal [[/note in left margin in red]]
 But as my first name Leo begins with an L, I stand ahead of the list

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[[note in left margin in red]] Kendal [[/note in left margin in red]]
Tells me only after the Ceremony of honorary degrees begins the event of the [[red underline]] Coronation of King George in Edinburg. [[/red underline]] So I shall leave there before. Asked him to engage 2 rooms for me and Celine at the hotel which we shall leave before [[red underline]] Coronation [[/red underline]] begins.
Evening a [[red underline]] "Barbecue" [[red underline]] on the Athletic field in open air with some boys playing Hill-Billy monotonous music.
[[note in left margin in red]] Mr. Kent [[/note in left margin in red]]
Met [[red underline]] Mr. Kent there [[/red underline]] and his son in law Mr. Platt and his daughter. Both he had his daughter [[red underline]] expressing effusive thanks for being stockholders in Bakelite. Was highly impressed by their attitude. [[red underline]] Then back to hotel where I met [[red underline]] Langmuir [[/red underline]] and kept talking till 10:30 before going to bed
[[underline]] April 14. [[/underline]] Up early. 
[[note in left margin in red]] Dr. Reese [[/note in left margin in red]]
Met [[red underline]] Dr. Reese his wife [[/red underline]] and his son. Long talk of old times, [[red underline]] Dupont [[/red underline]] etc. 
At noon time photographed with other living past presidents of A.C.S. Then invited to be at honored guests table of our fraternity between [[red underline]] Kendal and Bogert [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] both of us, all of us [[/strikethrough]] each of our three making a short speech. Have wired to Andrew that I shall arrive Miami early Saturday. Dr. [[red underline]] Charles Reese, [[/red underline]] Mrs. R and their son here. Reese has recovered