... This oral history is being conducted with Fred Gregory for the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. ... We appreciate you taking time from your schedule to visit with us. ... Laughs] So she was either very patient or in fact had those same kinds of motivations. ... My mom tells me that he spent a lot of time just knocking on people?s doors, but I think that kind of goes back to this if he had had an opportunity, he may have done this as a teenager. ... We just kind of lived down there. ...

Rep ort by the ESA-ESO Working Group on Galactic p opulations, chemistry and dynamics Abstract Between the early 40s, when Baade showed the first evidence for the existence of two distinct stellar populations, and today, with our Galaxy surprising us with new substructures discovered almost on a monthly basis, it is clear that a remarkable progress has been achieved in our understanding of the Galaxy, of its structure and stellar populations, and of its chemical and dynamical signatures. Yet, some questions