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At the Explorers Club, uptown, the American Geographical Society, founded in 1851, celebrated its hundred-and-seventy-fifth year one recent evening by observing its most sacred ritual: a ceremonial globe signing. The society’s Fliers & Explorers Globe, donated in 1929 by the Times editor and A. G. S. president John Finley, was signed by many of his era’s most renowned explorers, including Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Sir Edmund Hillary. “Finley interviewed people who came in from their expeditions, and he’d get them to sign it,” Jerome Dobson, an A. G. S. president emeritus, said. His necktie had an antique-map print. Later, the globe was signed by John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 8 crew, and others. That night, it would be signed by the oceanographer, former Navy captain, and retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan—the first person to both walk in outer space and visit the deepest point of the ocean, in the Mariana Trench. During cocktail hour, a spiffily dressed group of eminent geographers gathered in the library bar around a Fliers & Explorers replica—a party globe, perhaps. “This is the globe you can touch,” Marie Price, the current A. G. S. president, said.
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