Walking With AAVSO Giants--a Personal Journey (1960s)

Volume 40 number 1 (2012)

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Roger S. Kolman

279 South Milton Avenue, Glen Ellyn, IL, 60137; rskolman@sbcglobal.net

Mike Simonsen

AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; mikesimonsen@aavso.org

Abstract

Through pictures, anecdotes, and remembrances, the authors recount the inspiration, friendship, and camaraderie Roger S. Kolman shared with such legendary AAVSO figures as Leslie Peltier, Clinton B. Ford, Carolyn Hurless, Thomas A. Cragg, Margaret Mayall, and others during the decade of the 1960s that led to his fifty years as an AAVSO member and observer, and a career as a physicist, astronomer, and educator.