LPL 50th Anniversary

08/21/1978, Monday. Looking North from the Space Imagery Center, LPL, on John Spencer's first visit.

08/25/1980, Monday. LPL from the Mall.

08/25/1980, Monday. Alex Woronow playing croquet outside LPL at lunchtime.

08/25/1980, Monday. Charles Hostetler and Joe MacFarland playing croquet outside LPL at lunchtime.

08/25/1980, Monday. John Spencer's new office, Rm. 429, LPL.

10/18/1980, Saturday. Jayne Aubele and Larry Crumpler's field mapping tent in the White Mountains. Gordy Bjoraker, John Wacker, Nancy Becker, Phil Maloney, and Doug Hilton.

10/18/1980, Saturday. Doug Hilton, Nick Schneider, Nancy Becker, John Wacker, Phil Maloney, Gordy Bjoraker, Jayne Aubele, and John Spencer, in the White Mountains.

12/08/1980, Monday. John Spencer working on term paper for "Jovian Planets", in his office at LPL. Photo by Nick Schneider.

12/08/1980, Monday. Nick Schneider in his office at LPL.

12/08/1980, Monday. LPL Space Imagery Center, entrance, decorated with images from the Voyager 1 Saturn encounter.

01/18/1981, Sunday. Phil Maloney, Marc Buie, Joan Buie, and Gordy Bjoraker, inspecting a barrel cactus on the Wasson Peak Trail, Tucson Mountains.

02/14/1981, Saturday. Gordy Bjoraker, Nick Schneider, Marc Buie, Joan Buie, Phil, Cindy Cunningham, John Spencer at head of South Kaibab trail, Grand Canyon.

02/15/1981, Sunday. Breakfast at Mather Campground Grand Canyon: Phil, Nick Schneider, Cindy Cunningham, Gordy Bjoraker, Marc Buie, Joan Buie.

02/22/1981, Sunday. Bob Brown and Cindy Cunningham at the MMT, Mt. Hopkins, at sunset.

02/22/1981, Sunday. Tucson at dusk, from the summit of Mt. Hopkins.

03/06/1981, Friday. Snow on the Catalinas, from LPL.

03/08/1981, Sunday. Western summit cliff of Mt. Wrightson, on a snowy ascent of the mountain with Marc Buie & David Smith.

05/02/1981, Saturday. "Model Airplane Fly-In" at Alex Woronow's place: Marc Buie with multiple aircraft.

05/02/1981, Saturday. Gil McGloughlin and space shuttle seconds before launch at the "Model Airplane Fly-In" at Alex Woronow's.

05/02/1981, Saturday. Nick Gautier powering up an aircraft, aided by Marc Buie and Nick Schneider, at the "Model Airplane Fly-In" at Alex Woronow's.

05/02/1981, Saturday. Powered flight contest in progress- Charles Hostetler adjudicating. Alex Woronow's Model Airplane Fly-In.

05/02/1981, Saturday. Marc Buie and David Smith launching a glider at the end of Alex Woronow's Model Airplane Fly-in.

05/23/1981, Saturday. 60" & 24" reflector domes on Mt. Hopkins, with summit jeep.

05/24/1981, Sunday. Nick Schneider and Cindy Cunningham watching a comparison spectrum coming in warm room, 60" Mt. Hopkins telescope during Io torus observations.

05/25/1981, Monday. Nick Schneider, Cindy Cunningham, and Joan and Marc Buie (with Rubik's cube) in kitchen/lounge at Wikieup dormitory, Mt. Hopkins.

05/26/1981, Tuesday. U of A Mall from Campbell Ave. (3rd St. traffic lights).

01/09/1982, Saturday. Gordy Bjoraker, Aruna Thirunagari, John Spencer, Pat Hartigan, and Grace Wolf at the Desert Museum - photo by Andrew Spencer.

05/22/1982, Saturday. Gordy Bjoraker, Marc Buie, and Phil Maloney photographing the sunset behind Kitt Peak, from Mt. Hopkins ridge, on the way to the summit of Mt. Hopkins for a star party.

05/23/1982, Sunday. Aftermath of Star Party, at dawn, Mt. Hopkins.

06/04/1982, Friday. Mike Drake performing at water-volley ball, Jack Berkley farewell party (also Bob Strom, Joe Macfarlane, John Jones, Jack Berkely, Marc Buie, Humerto Campins).

06/04/1982, Friday. We won't have Jack Berkley to kick around anymore" party at Mike Drake's place: Ed Ciaccio (l), Selena Dearing (r).

07/04/1982, Sunday. Unearthing roast pig (after 24 hrs in the ground) at Mike Drake's 4th July Pig Roast.

07/04/1982, Sunday. Mike Drake at his 4th July Pig Roast.

11/13/1982, Saturday. Cold star partyers in morning, south of Sonoita. Marc Buie, Phong Ngyuen, Bill ?? Aruna Thirunagari, Mike DiSanti, David Grinspoon.

02/27/1983, Sunday. Dan Lynch cooking Huevos Rancheros at Red Cone Camp, Pinacates ( and Alan Treiman).

07/??/1983, Arrival of the VICOM image processing system at LPL, with Joe Gotobed.

07/??/1983, Arrival of the VICOM image processing system at LPL, with Joe Gotobed.

07/27/1983, Wednesday. John Spencer in his LPL office.

07/27/1983, Wednesday. Mary Olszewski in her LPL office.

07/27/1983, Wednesday. John Spencer in Mary Olszewski's office.

07/1983, Jeri Ferguson in her LPL office.

07/1983, Vicky Adams at a party at Chuck Sonnett's (where John Spencer was housesitting).

09/08/1983, Thursday. Doug Hilton and prototype Mars Ball in Rm. 329, LPL.

09/11/1983, Sunday. Gene Eplee, Bob Marcialis, Doug Hilton, constructing envelope for prototype Mars Ball.

09/11/1983, Sunday. Doug Hilton, Tom Jones, Gene Epleee working on prototype Mars Ball envelope.

09/11/1983, Sunday. Doug Hilton, Tom Jones, Bob Marcialis, working on prototype Mars Ball envelope in LPL Rm. 329.

09/11/1983, Sunday. Tom Jones, Steve Jensen, Doug Hilton, and Gene Eplee, with completed prototype Mars Ball envelope.

09/11/1983, Sunday. Doug Hilton, Gene Eplee, and Bob Marcialis sewing prototype Mars Ball envelope.

09/11/1983, Sunday. Steve Jensen, Gene Eplee, Tom Jones, and Shelly Pope inserting hub in the prototype Mars Ball envelope.

09/11/1983, Sunday. Tom Jones and Doug Hilton: Mars Ball inflation the hard way.

09/11/1983, Sunday. First inflation of prototype Mars Ball - Tom Jones, Bob Marcialis, Mark Sykes, Gene Eplee, Shelly Pope, Steve Jensen.

09/11/1983, Sunday. Tom Jones, Gene Eplee, and Bob Marcialis: Prototype Mars Ball inflation.

12/1983, Farewell party for Aruna Thirunagari at LPL: Mark Sykes, Aruna, and Connie Walker.

12/1983, Farewell party for Aruna Thirunagari at LPL: Aruna, Linda Berens, and Nadine Barlow.

12/17/1983, Saturday. Liz and Tom Jones at Tucson airport, about to take a light plane tour of the area with John Spencer and Mary Olszewski.

12/17/1983, Saturday. Aerial view down the Mall, University of Arizona Campus, from light plane piloted by Tom Jones.

02/03/1984, Friday. John Spencer at the VICOM image processing console, LPL computer room (photo by Mary Olszewski).

02/1984. Ewen Whittaker and Godfrey Sill inspecting an old Spanish document, in Godfrey's office at LPL.

02/1984. Bill Hubbard with the occultation system Celestron 14 and photometer on the roof of LPL, practicing for an upcoming Callisto occultation.

02/1984. The LPL Celestron 14 occultation photometer system in the garden of Hawthorne House, after John Spencer had spent a night practicing for an upcoming Callisto occultation.

05/28/1984, Monday. Alan Hlidebrand, Dave Tholen, and Gordy Bjoraker at Nogales train station, at the start of the "Senor Gordy" Guadalajara eclipse expedition.

05/30/1984, Wednesday. Alan Hildebrand, Gordy Bjoraker, and Dave Tholen observing the annular solar eclipse, just south of Guadalajara, Mexico.

07/28/1984, Saturday. John Spencer on top of the 90" telescope, Kitt Peak.

10/13/1984, Saturday. David Grinspoon, with a Don Hunten 60th birthday T-shirt, by the roots of a banyan tree in Kailua/Kona, during the DPS meeting.

10/13/1984, Saturday. David Grinspoon, Humberto Campins, Marc Buie, and Mauna Loa, from Volcano House, Kilauea.

10/13/1984, Saturday. John Spencer on the rim of Mauna Ulu crater, looking towards Mauna Loa, after the Kona DPS meeting.

10/16/1984, Tuesday. David Grinspoon and Nick Schneider on the Na Pali coast trail, approaching Hanakapiai, after the Kona DPS meeting.

02/1985. Bob Marcialis, Jeri Ferguson, John Spencer, Mary Olzsewski, Nick Schneider, and Erica Ellingson outside Hawthorne House.

03/24/1985, Sunday. Leigh Broadhurst during a water stop on the Esperero Trail, in the Catalinas.

03/30/1985, Saturday. Nick Schneider and Erica Ellingson making baklava for the annual Bacchanal, at Hawthorne House.

03/30/1985, Saturday. Steve and Shelley Pearce, & Pat Hartigan, at the 5th Annual Hawthorne House Bacchanal.

05/04/1985, Saturday. Ann Vickery and baby, Jay Melosh, Dan Malvin, Gene Shoemaker, Leigh Broadhurst, Alan Hildebrand, Ann Sprague, Ginny Gulick, Bob Marcialis, Tom Jones, and Shelly Pope on the rim of Meteor Crater, during the first annual LPL geology field trip.

05/04/1985, Saturday. Members of the LPL Meteor Crater field trip, at lunch stop at northeast corner of rim. Bob Marcialis, ??, Mark Marley, Tom Jones, Alan Hildebrand, ??, Ginny Gulick, Leigh Broadhurst, Dan Malvin.

01/24/1986, Friday. Voyager Uranus encounter, JPL: LPL students and others in the JPL cafeteria. Bob Strom, Jeff Kargel, Bob Marcialis, Nadine Barlow, Buck Janes, Melinda Hutson, Lori Stiles, Alex Ruzicka.

01/24/1986, Friday. Voyager Uranus encounter, JPL: Lori Stiles, U.A. communications person, at the JPL cafeteria.

02/02/1986, Sunday. Nick Schneider watering at summit of Saguaro Natl. Mon East loop road, on bicycle outing.

02/23/1986, Sunday. Nick Scheider and Erica Ellingon at a picnic dinner at East Speedway Trailhead, picking up John Spencer after a hike over Tanque Verde Peak.

03/1986. David Grinspoon, Alan Hildebrand, and Lisa McFarlane painting the Mars Ball, Sunday afternoon.

03/1986. Doug Hilton and Buck Janes working on the Mars Ball, Sunday afternoon.

03/1986. Nick Schneider on Steve Croft's phone in their office.

03/1986. Larry Lebofsky in his office.

03/18/1986, Tuesday. Bashar Rizk in the LPL library.

03/19/1986, Wednesday. Halley's Comet viewing expedition before dawn, Saguaro East. Back: Doreen Piano, Phil Maloney, Steve Ampter, Nick Schneider, Bashar Rizk, David Grinspoon, Erich Karkoschka. Front: Adam Klein, John Spencer, Bob Marcialis.

03/19/1986, Wednesday. Halley's Comet viewing expedition before dawn, Saguaro East. Doreen Piano, John Spencer, Steve Ampter, Phil Maloney, Bob Marcialis, David Grinspoon, Bashar Rizk, Adam Klein, Nick Schneider, Alan Hildebrand, Erich Karkoshka

03/22/1986, Saturday. Nick Schneider and Erica Ellingson at shrimp fest, (shrimp brought back from LPSC, Houston), at Hawthorne House.

04/12/1986, Saturday. Mars Ball crane test outside LPL on a Saturday morning, with Lisa McFarlane.

04/20/1986, Sunday. Bashar Rizk and David Grinspoon on the Hermit Trail, on a backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon.

04/21/1986, Monday. John Spencer at Tapeats Sandstone/Vishnu Schist unconformity, Hermit Creek, Grand Canyon.

04/21/1986, Monday. John Spencer, Martie Fiske and David Grinspoon cooking dinner at Hermit Creek Campground, Grand Canyon.

05/22/1986, Thursday. Mars Ball test East of LPL: Tom Jones and Mark Marley behind, Lisa McFarlane and Bashar Rizk in front.

06/14/1986, Saturday. Steve Pearce and The Window, Catalina Front Range.

08/08/1986, Friday. Alan Hildebrand at Ventana Canyon Resort golf course, during the 1986 Mercury Conference.

10/05/1986, Sunday. David Grinspoon and Jane Burgess (now Jane Spencer, digitzer of most of these images) at Reid Park.

11/05/1986, Wednesday. Nick Schneider, David Grinspoon, and Jennifer Beigel in a Paris cafe, DPS 1986.

05/05/1987, Tuesday. Erica Ellingson, Nick Schneider, and Jane Burgess at a farewell picnic for John Spencer and Jane Burgess before their departure to Hawaii. Collosal Cave picnic grounds.

03/05/1988, Saturday. David Grinspoon, John Spencer, and Nick Schneider in Pima Canyon (photo by Steffi Engel): John back in town for the "Asteroids II" conference.