recognition

Congratulations and thank you to the following AAVSO members for having been members for over 50 years, as of the AAVSO's 103rd Annual Meeting in November 2014 or later!  We greatly appreciate your lasting support.

In recognition of his invaluable contributions to the AAVSO through his service as Council member 2000-2002, Second Vice President 2002-2003, First Vice President 2003-2005, and Chair of the AAVSO Director Search Committee during the process in 2004 of choosing candidates for Director of the AAVSO to succeed Janet A. Mattei and in 2014 to succeed Arne A. Henden; his wisdom and guidance and his support, particularly during 2003-2004; and his ongoing support of the AAVSO as he serves as Executive Director of the American Astronomical Society,

In recognition of his contributions to variable star astronomy and faithfulness to the AAVSO through his devoted and meticulous leadership of the AAVSO Photoelectric Photometry program 1975-2001: as Committee Chair; PEP data reducer and Database Archivist; developer of PEP reduction protocols and author of second PEP Manual; advisor, helper, mentor to amateur and professional astronomers in the complexity of PEP observing; and contributor of 1,675 PEP observations to the AAVSO International Database,

this is to certify that

AAVSO 103rd Spring Meeting, Ontario, California, June 12-14, 2014

Variable Star Observer Awards recognizing milestones through September 2013

Award/Recipient     Affiliation* Country/State     Interval    Total

AAVSO 102nd Spring Meeting, Boone, North Carolina, May 16–18, 2013
 

Variable Star Observer Awards recognizing milestones through September 2012
 

AAVSO 83rd Spring Meeting, Houston, Texas, May 21, 1994

AAVSO 84th Spring Meeting, Stamford, Connecticut, May 13,1995

AAVSO 85th Spring Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 13, 1996

AAVSO 86th Spring Meeting, Sion and St. Luc, Switzerland, May 28, 1997

AAVSO 88th Spring Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 1–5, 1999