[meteorite-list] Ron Hartman

[karmaka]

WHAT A LIFE !

WHAT A LOSS !

My sincere condolences to his family and friends!

Martin

(who also loves astronomy and teaching)


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Impactika at aol.com
Gesendet: 11.09.2011 07:51:53
An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
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/
>IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
>http://www.imca.cc/
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