gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) (01/15/85)
[feed me to the nearest black hole]
In the most recent issue of Mercury (vol XIII, number 6, November-December
1984), the Astronomical Society of the Pacific announced the granting
of the Klumpke-Roberts Award for outstanding contributions to public
education in astronomy. The recipient this year was "the Stardate (sic)
radio program and ... Deborah Byrd, its chief writer and producer".
The article included a picture of the StarDate team [Deborah Byrd,
Dr Harlan Smith, Patty Brumleve, Jeff Brown, Joel Block, and Diana Hadley].
I'd reproduce the picture, but my USENET camera is broken.
The article stated "The A.S.P. is delighted to recognize the hard work
and dedication required to produce a _daily_ radio program by giving
Stardate (sic) the 1984 Klumpke-Roberts Award". I am delighted also,
and I hope you are too.
I enjoy getting Mercury, self-described as the Journal of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific; let me plug the ASP. It is a society of professional,
amateur, and armchair astronomers which publishes the small but well-done
Mercury, as well as the Publications of the ASP, a professional journal.
Being an armchair type myself, I can't often understand the articles in the
PASP, but I CAN amaze my friends with the titles. The ASP's self-stated
main goal involves public education in astronomy.
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
1920 24th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
Annual membership in the US $21, including 1 year (6 issues) of Mercury.
Foreign add $7, PASP add $17.
--
Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)
Extend USENET to omicron Ceti.abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) (01/18/85)
CONGRATULATIONS to StarDate for receiving the Klumpke-Roberts Award. I, for one, appreciate the "oiling" that daily doses of StarDate give to my rusty knowledge of Astronomy. Brint