"When Professor O.H. Richardson returned after presiding at the twenty-second annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association at Stanford University, his colleagues in the History Department, University of Washington, prepared a banquet at the Wilsonian Hotel where they might receive an account of his year's stewardship. On ascertaining that December 10, 1926, was the sixtieth anniversary of his birth, that date was chosen in order to double the honors of the occasion."
