The Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England was first called together by the superintendent of schools in Boston, E. P. Seaver, in 1903. A committee consisting of professors from Harvard University, Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and five teachers in secondary schools announced a meeting to be held in the Boston Latin School on April 18, 1903. By a singular chance that date came again on a Saturday fifty years later, when the semicentennial of the Association was celebrated by a dinner, a history, and a festspiel.