RIP: Dr. Richard Hackney; astronomer, professor of astronmy and physics, ham radio op, general all-round good guy

HACKNEY, DR. RICHARD LYNN - age 62 of Bowling Green, KY, formerly of
Knoxville, died Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at St. Thomas Hospital in
Nashville. He was a member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Bowling
Green.

Richard completed his B.S. degree in Engineering Physics at the University
of Tennessee in 1966, his M.S. in Physics at U.T. in 1966, and his Ph.D in
Astronomy at the University of Florida in 1972. He received the Douglas V.
Roseberry Award as Outstanding Senior Physics Major while at U.T.

He had been a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at
Western Kentucky University since 1972, Director of NASA Kentucky Space
Grant Consortium since 1992, and Director of Kentucky NASA EPSCOR Program
since 1994. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of the National
Council of Space Grant Directors and Board of Directors of the National
Space Grant Foundation.

Originally licensed in 1958 as K4WOE; held N1ASA for several years before
his death; active on HF, VHF, and satellite.

He was preceded in death by: his father, Charles Richard Hackney. His
survivors include: his wife, Karen Hunt Hackney; son, Andrew Elwyn Hackney;
mother, Anna Lynn Hackney; sister, Charlotte Jellicorse and husband, Tom;
brother, Larry Hackney and wife, Marcie; nephews, Rick Hackney and Gary
Milton; and niece, Pamela Milton.


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