Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:15:17 -0400 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tom=E1s_Soler?= Subject: [IGSMAIL-5946]: [Fwd: Bill Strange] To: IGSMail@igscb.jpl.nasa.gov Message-id: <4A09A095.7050008@noaa.gov> Organization: NOAA/NOS Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Sender: owner-igsmail Precedence: bulk ****************************************************************************** IGS Electronic Mail 12 May 09:15:41 PDT 2009 Message Number 5946 ****************************************************************************** Author: Tom Soler -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Bill Strange Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:59 -0400 From: Juliana.Blackwell To: _NOS NGS Program Office Dear NGS Colleagues, With great sadness I report that Bill Strange passed away Sunday evening, May 10. Bill, known as the "Father of CORS," will be remembered for his insight and vision of a nationwide system of GPS stations which established the CORS network we know today. Bill retired from his position as Chief Geodesist in 1998 and remained active in the online geodetic community. Visitation will be held at 1:00 p.m. and service to follow at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, May 18 at the Episcopal Church in Charles Town, WV. For more information please refer to the obituary to appear tomorrow, May 13, at http://www.journal-news.net/page/category.detail/nav/5007/Obituaries.html . Juliana Blackwell -- Juliana P. Blackwell Director NOAA, National Geodetic Survey 1315 East West Highway, N/NGS Silver Spring, MD 20910 Office: 301-713-3222 Cell: 240-997-1290 Juliana.Blackwell@noaa.gov www.ngs.noaa.gov Return-path: Received: from mmp3.nems.noaa.gov ([140.90.121.158]) by mail.nos.noaa.gov (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) id <0KJJ00I01B964G00@mail.nos.noaa.gov> (original mail from Juliana.Blackwell@noaa.gov); Tue, 12 May 2009 12:03:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mmp3.nems.noaa.gov ([140.90.121.158]) by mail.nos.noaa.gov (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0KJJ005QPGKZ8940@mail.nos.noaa.gov> for ngs.staff@noaa.gov; Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.72.10.80] by mmp3.nems.noaa.gov (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTPSA id <0KJJ00NJTGKZI940@mmp3.nems.noaa.gov> for ngs.staff@noaa.gov (ORCPT ngs.staff@noaa.gov); Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:59 -0400 From: "Juliana.Blackwell" Subject: Bill Strange To: _NOS NGS Program Office Message-id: <4A099DB3.5090502@noaa.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 1.01d X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain Dear NGS Colleagues, With great sadness I report that Bill Strange passed away Sunday evening, May 10. Bill, known as the "Father of CORS," will be remembered for his insight and vision of a nationwide system of GPS stations which established the CORS network we know today. Bill retired from his position as Chief Geodesist in 1998 and remained active in the online geodetic community. Visitation will be held at 1:00 p.m. and service to follow at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, May 18 at the Episcopal Church in Charles Town, WV. For more information please refer to the obituary to appear tomorrow, May 13, at http://www.journal-news.net/page/category.detail/nav/5007/Obituaries.html . Juliana Blackwell -- Juliana P. Blackwell Director NOAA, National Geodetic Survey 1315 East West Highway, N/NGS Silver Spring, MD 20910 Office: 301-713-3222 Cell: 240-997-1290 Juliana.Blackwell@noaa.gov www.ngs.noaa.gov