Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:15:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Percy <jpercy
To: "Pamela L. Gay" <pamela
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	<20060412213040.GI26450

Hi!

As the supposed chair of the E&O committee, I somehow missed out on the
fact that there was an imminent Futures session at the spring meeting.  I
was also somewhat overwhelmed by the messages, in that they implied that
the committee should be involved in a much wider range of activities than
I thought.  For instance: educating our members and observers about
variable stars is already being done well, in several ways.  And I'm not
clear whether educating new observers is our duty, or part of the

We can certainly contribute to science and astronomy literacy and
education, in a variety of incremental ways.  Given the effort that we put
into HOA, we should give priority to getting that going again (thanks,
Donna!), and then exploiting it.

There are many things that we can do in partnership with groups like ASP
it's Girl Scouts there).  We can't impose variable stars on their badges,
but we can use it in both their astronomy and scientist badges (aasuming
have had a lot of experience working with Girl Guides.

The motivation here may be to recruit a few younger member/observers.

I would like to see us encourage papers on E&O at meetings and in the
Journal.  I would like to see a workshop on E&O every now and then.  We
should be represented at the ASP's conference in September, in Baltimore,

We should concentrate on the niche which we are best qualified to fill.

John

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John R. Percy, PhD
Professor: Astronomy & Astrophysics             jpercy
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