Sad news indeed. My best goes out to his family.
Greg Catterton www.wanderingstarmeteorites.com On Ebay: http://stores.shop.ebay.com/wanderingstarmeteorites On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WanderingStarMeteorites ________________________________ From: karmaka <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ron Hartman WHAT A LIFE ! WHAT A LOSS ! My sincere condolences to his family and friends! Martin (who also loves astronomy and teaching) -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] Gesendet: 11.09.2011 07:51:53 An: [email protected] Betreff: [meteorite-list] Ron Hartman >Hello Everybody > >Tonight I have the very sad mission to inform you all that Ron Hartman, one >of the "inventors" of the IMCA has passed away. > >Please read the note that I received from his son Jim: > >Ronald N. Hartman passed away on August 30, 2011, after a brief illness. He >was a Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Planetarium at Mt. San >Antonio College in Walnut, California for 38 years and was well-known in the >community of meteorite collectors and hunters. His passion for meteorites was >kindled when he studied astronomy at the University of California, Los >Angeles under the renowned meteoriticist Frederick C. Leonard, a founder of the >Meteoritical Society. He worked at Griffith Observatory giving public >lectures in the 1960s and began investigating California dry lakes for the >presence >of meteorites. He discovered the Lucerne Dry Lake strewn field in 1963 and >returned to that site in 1999 to find more of the illusive little black >rocks from space. Throughout his career he continued to hunt for meteorites, >first at Meteor Crater, Arizona (when it was legal) and Odessa, Texas. He >found, traded, bought, cut and sold meteorites as well as tektites and shatter >cones and built up a large collection, part of which is displayed at the Mt. >San Antonio College Planetarium and library. In 2005 he founded R. N. >Hartman, Inc., a company that manufactures, assembles and distributes membrane >suspension boxes worldwide. > >He held a B.A. in Astronomy and a B.A. in Cinematography from the >University of California, Los Angeles and an M.A. in Education from California >State >University at Los Angeles. Ron loved astronomy, he loved teaching and he >loved sharing the wonders of the night sky with his students at star parties. >He continued teaching even after he retired in 2005. He was fascinated by >archeoastronomy and traveled to Egypt to study astronomical alignments in >ancient monuments. He was active in the Pacific Planetarium Association and the >International Planetarium Society. He served as an editor of the Planetarian >Magazine from 1978 – 1981. In 1984 he received the ISP Service Award, the ISP >’s most prestigious honor. > >Ron was the oldest son of Albert and Evelyn Hartman. He was born in >Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 23, 1935, and moved to California at the age of >10. In >1965 he married Petrea Nelson of Reno, Nevada. He is survived by his wife >and two sons, James and Rick Hartman, his brother Chris Hartman, a nephew >Christopher Hartman and niece Laurel Meable. > >If you would like to know more about Ron, please go read the Field Report >he wrote for us several years ago: >_http://imca.cc/old_site/metinfo/metadventures/LDL.html_ >(http://imca.cc/old_site/metinfo/metadventures/LDL.html) > >And I am sure we will talk a lot more about Ron in the coming weeks. >Goodnight. > >Anne M. Black >http://www.impactika.com/ >[email protected] >President, I.M.C.A. Inc. >http://www.imca.cc/ >______________________________________________ >Visit the Archives at >http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >Meteorite-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
