Tobias ("Toby") Owen passed away on March 4. Toby was one of the very early graduate students in LPL; he received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1965, with Gerard Kuiper as his thesis advisor. He spent his career at IIT Research Institute, SUNY-Stony Brook, and the University of Hawai'i. In 2009, he received the DPS Gerard P. Kuiper Prize in recognition of his work. More information about Toby's life and career is available in the AAS obituary by Dale Cruikshank.

This photo by Dale Cruikshank captures Tobias Owen (R) and Gerard Kuiper (L) at a radio telescope in Texas circa 1970.