Passing od Bob Sandy

To my astronomy student of the last eight years:

Within the last week, I shared with you images of Jupiter and Saturn
taken by Bob Sandy. I have forwarded many of Bob's astro photos to
you (the students that have taken astronomy from me and other interested
friends) over the last few years. Bob's Web Site of Astro photos is
  http://vtso.geol.vt.edu/vesr/astpho/astrophoto.html

This sad news was forwarded to me this morning....

  From: Robert Sandy <bsandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date: April 15, 2005 11:08:21 PM CDT
  Subject: News About Bob...

  Dear Friends of Bob,

  This is from Carmen, his fiancee. I don't know many of you, but I am
  emailing everyone in Bob's address book.

  Wednesday night at dinner Bob said he felt dizzy. He passed out...he
  felt nothing after that. Medical people were eating dinner at the
  restaurant and came over. They began to give him CPR. He was rushed
  to the hospital and doctors worked on him for an hour & a half. They
  did everything they could. He had a massive heart attack and passed
  away.

  I am so sorry to get this to you so late, but much has been going on
  here. Most of us are still in shock and totally destroyed.

  His service is at the Oakey's Funeral Home in Salem [Virginia] on
  Saturday, April 16th at 7pm...viewing afterward.

  --Carmen

>
> "Seeing In The Dark" by Timothy Ferris
>   Pages 286-287
>
>  Perhaps the key to dying well--or living well--is to have laid in a
>  stock of worthy memories. To that end, when darkness is falling for
>  good, it is well to have in mind, in addition to memories of human love
>  and loss and of the natural splendors of this world--of birdsong at
>  dawn, the roaring spray of the surf, the sweet smell of the air in the
>  eye of a hurricane, the workings of bees in the throats of
>  wildflowers--a few memories of the other worlds as well. If you have
>  seen plasma arches rising off the edge of the Sun, yellow dust storms
>  raging on Mars, angry red Io emerging from the shadow of Jupiter, the
>  golden rings of Saturn, the green dot of Uranus, and the blue dot of
>  Neptune, the glittering star fields of Sagittarius and the delicate
>  tendrils connecting interacting galaxies, have watched auroras and
>  meteors writing silent signatures in the sky--if, in short, you have
>  seen not only this world but something of the other worlds, too--well,
>  you have lived.


-Sam

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