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ARTICLES (continued) GLPA Newsletter Winter Solstice, 2010
2010, October - 2011, January: Surveying of General Membership for interested parties, experiences and desired content.
2011, January - Spring: Committee redraft based on results of membership survey.
2011, Spring: Presentation of draft booklet to state organizations and Executive Committee.
2011, Summer: Committee redraft based on feedback from state organizations and Executive Committee. Development
of final booklet.
2011, October: Presentation of final booklet to Executive Committee for approval. Paper presentation on booklet. FSIG
discussion on implementation strategy.
2011, October – Summer, 2012: FSIG should work to make availability of the booklet known, work actively in GLPA
membership to keep appraised of domes that are upgrading and send them the booklet, provide a resource of experienced
planetarians to assist and advise those upgrading.
Fall 2012: Booklet should be formally published by the October 2012 meeting.
Onwards: FSIG should actively work to keep the booklet a living document, regularly updated to reflect changes in the
industry.
GLPA HISTORY UPDATE
Garry Beckstrom, Historian garrybeckstrom@delta.edu
The Great Lakes Planetarium Association has a long and rich history. David DeBruyn, one of the organization’s
“founding fathers” and a Past President, has done a wonderful job of documenting our history for the past 45 years. Thank
you Dave! Dave and a number of others have now passed those records on to me.
I would like to eventually see all our historical materials
(photos and documents) made available electronically by way of our
website and accessible to our members. It’s an ambitious undertaking,
but I think worthwhile and doable over the long haul.
We’re already moving in that direction. Dale Smith has been
assembling an electronic archive of conference group photos. However,
he still needs group photos for four conferences: 1966, 1968, 1970 and
1972. If you have any of these, please contact Dale at
dsmith@newton.bgsu.edu to make arrangements for having them
scanned. We also need a key of names and faces for the following conferences:
1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1983,
besides the four years we don’t have photos for. If you have any of
these, also contact Dale.
Chris Janssen has done a great job scanning and archiving candid
conference photos for the years 1986 – 2009. Within that timeframe,
however, we are missing candid photos for 1990, 1992, 1999,
2000 and 2002. If you’re aware of any candid photos from these and
previous conferences, I’d sure like to know about it.
At this year’s conference at Notre Dame, I was surprised when
Jon Marshall (a charter member) produced a folder of documents from
Dennis Sunal (another of the “founding fathers”). The folder contains
early organization documents and I almost had to sign in blood to take
the folder home to scan the contents. Almost . . . thanks Jon!
When I returned home from Notre Dame I was contacted by
Richard Walker who donated two symposium proceedings from the
library of the Robert T. Longway Planetarium in Flint. These symposi-
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