WCVB-TV spotlights Captain Wallace Patillo Reed '42, a “meteorologist whose barrier-breaking work allowed pilots to land and dreams to take off.” Reed, who is believed to be the first Black meteorologist in the U.S. armed services, earned a degree in meteorology at MIT before being assigned as the Tuskegee Arm Air Field base weather officer. “You can’t underestimate the importance of a role model,” said Dr. William Ryan, a former professor of climate change at the University of Maryland and Pennsylvania State University, of the significance of Reed’s work.