... He became interested in astronomy when his parents took him out into the night to show him auroras, Echo balloon satellites, lunareclipses, and other night time phenomena. ...
... years 1962-1974, and leading a group of undergraduate and graduate students to the solar eclipse in Canada in 1972 and another group including Mark Trueblood and mutual friend and Wesleyan graduate Andy Tomer to the solar eclipse in North Dakota in 1979 ...