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Searchlites Vol SearchLites Vol. 8 No. 1, Winter 2002 The Quarterly Newsletter of The SETI League, Inc. Offices: 433 Liberty Street SETI League is Served Up Dozens of Dishes PO Box 555 Little Ferry NJ Six years ago The SETI League, Inc., grassroots leader in the privatized Search for 07643 USA Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, pioneered the conversion of satellite TV antennas into re- search-grade radio telescopes. A surprise gift of 47 dish antennas, feed assemblies, and Phone: (201) 641-1770 antenna mounts has now brought us one step closer to realizing our long-planned phased Facsimile: array telescope design. The donation, from father-and-son computer dealers Lionel and (201) 641-1771 Jason Lumaghini of Rockland, MA, and their respective companies (JCM Computers Email: LLC and Micro Technology), gives SETI League engineers enough commercial-grade [email protected] antennas and support hardware to test design concepts and eventually to assemble their Web: www.setileague.org Array2k antenna project announced in 1999. “I’m glad to hear President: that the dishes will Richard Factor Registered Agent: work well for your Marc Arnold, Esq. project,” donor Jason Secretary: Lumaghini told SETI A. Heather Wood League executive di- Treasurer: Martin Schreiber, CPA rector Dr. H. Paul Executive Director: Shuch. “They look a H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D. lot nicer set up than Trustees: they did sitting in my Richard Factor warehouse.” Marc Arnold “These dishes are Martin Schreiber somewhat smaller than Advisory Board: the ones initially envi- Anthony Agnello sioned for this pro- Sir Arthur C. Clarke ject,” replied Shuch, Robert S. Dixon, Ph.D. “but the price is cer- Frank D. Drake, Ph.D. Malcolm I. Raff, Ph.D. tainly right! What Clifford Stoll, Ph.D. we’re saving in an- tenna costs can be ap- SearchLites, ISSN 1096-5599, is the Quarterly Newsletter of plied to developing The SETI League, Inc., a superior electronic cir- membership-supported, non- cuitry.” The younger Lumaghini had previously donated hardware to the University of profit [501(c)(3)], educational California’s SETI@home distributed-computing experiment. and scientific corporation, dedicated to the electromag- The Array2k design combines a large number of standard satellite TV antennas into netic Search for Extra- a single, powerful radio telescope. The SETI League, Inc. demonstrated collaborative Terrestrial Intelligence. SETI use of multiple backyard satellite TV dishes for SETI research with the launch in 1996 of League, Dr. SETI, and the its Project Argus all-sky survey. The concept has been embraced by other scientific or- above logo are all registered ganizations, including the prestigious SETI Institute in California, which last year an- service marks of The SETI League, Inc. Entire contents nounced its considerably more ambitious Allen Telescope Array, to combine 600 such copyright © 2002 by The SETI dishes into a grand SETI instrument. League, Inc. Permission is The SETI League's more modest design will support the individual efforts of its hereby granted for reproduction 1,280 members worldwide as a follow-up detection device to help confirm their observa- in whole or in part, provided credit is given. All opinions tions. It will also be used for direct astronomical research, and serve as a test-bed for expressed are those of the SETI League engineers to develop the technologies which will someday allow them to individual contributors. unite thousands of members' small, backyard telescopes into a huge, planetary array. v Page 1 SearchLites Volume 8, Number 1 -- Winter 2002 Announcing: Remembering The SETI League's Co-Founder The Orville N. Greene Service Award If Orville N. Greene were alive today, he'd have just three The SETI League, Inc. has established a Service Award words for you: plastics, computers, SETI. honoring the memory of SETI League supporter and co- Orville Greene was born to one of the last romantics who sought gold in California, in the city of gold, Oroville founder, Orville N. Greene. The Orville N. Greene Service Award will be presented annually to a person or persons mak- (from which birthplace Orville’s first name was derived). ing unusual volunteer contributions or providing extraordinary When Orville first went to Washington, D.C., to work as a pat- ent examiner in the US Patent Office, after receiving a degree service to The SETI League, Inc. The award shall consist of an appropriately crafted plaque or trophy, to be known as an OG. in Chemistry at Lehigh University, computers were nonexis- .SETI League members in good standing are invited to tent, and the only plastics that existed were hard bakelite and soft celluloid. Today we all accept the existence of the com- nominate deserving individuals for receipt of an OG. Nominees must be members in good standing of The SETI League, Inc. puter and the various useful and beautiful plastics that are ever Employees, officers, and trustees of The SETI League, Inc. present in our lives. During Orville's tenure as a patent examiner, there was a shall be deemed ineligible for receipt of an OG during their terms of such service to The SETI League, Inc. vast explosion of new plastic concepts, and the world suddenly Nominating petitions should detail the extraordinary con- had vinyls (Naugahyde), clear acrylics (Lucite), and butyrals (the present transparent windshield safety-glass sandwich). In tributions or significant volunteer service of the nominee. For consideration, petitions must be received by January 1st of each his role as a patent examiner Orville, impressed by the potential year. They may be addressed to Orville N. Greene Memorial use and value of these new plastic concepts, passed many of these applications to issue as patents. Also during this time, Service Award, SETI League, PO Box 555, Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA, or submitted electronically using the Nominating Orville earned a law degree, attending George Washington Petition provided on our Website. Law School at night. From his position as a patent examiner, Orville gained ex- Nominating petitions will be evaluated by a committee of judges appointed by the Trustees of The SETI League, Inc. In perience in patent, trademark and copyright law, and then en- selecting among nominees for the Orville N. Greene Service tered private practice as a patent attorney in New York, where he started his own patent law firm. Award, the judges will give preferential consideration to the efforts and accomplishments of dedicated amateurs. Orville developed patents on certain inventions of a gifted, Nominating petitions not resulting in awards will be held ceramic scientist rushed out of East Germany, just in front of for future consideration. Decision of the judges is final. The the Russians' advance. These inventions resulted in a brand- Trustees reserve the right to present no award in any given new product: the ferrite memory cores which made the first year. The Trustees reserve the right to present more than one (and consequently all modern-day) computers possible. The award in any given year. computer, of course, is largely responsible for the massive Awards shall be presented at The SETI League's annual wave of scientific advances in recent years. membership meeting or such other SETI forum as the Trustees In 1979, together with his law partner, Frank L. Durr, Or- may dictate. ville co-authored with John Bereseth The Practical Inventor's All decisions of the Board of Trustees of The SETI Handbook, the first work of its kind to discuss frankly the op- League, Inc., with respect to interpretation of the rules pre- portunities and pitfalls in developing an invention. sented herein or subsequently amended, shall be final. In the early 1970s, Orville entered the music business, These rules and regulations shall have the force and effect when he and a partner acquired a recording studio in New York of Bylaws of The SETI League, Inc. They may be amended as City, and a rhythm and blues recording company. Along with necessary from time to time by the Board of Trustees. Amend- another partner (highly skilled audio and electronics expert ments or revisions shall become effective as of the date of their Richard Factor) this music business led, in turn, to the forma- posting to the World Wide Web site of The SETI League, Inc. tion of a new company for the manufacture of professional v audio equipment. Their company achieved worldwide recogni- tion and fame as the manufacturer of digital sound special ef- fects equipment. Today, Eventide Inc. is a leading manufac- turer of audio and broadcast products, as well as logging re- corders and avionics. It was Factor (who now serves as SETI League President) with whom Orville co-founded The SETI League, Inc. in 1994. In 1955, Orville was appointed by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to the Board of Visitors of the Otisville State Training School for Boys (a New York State reforma- tory). He served as a member, and later president, of that Board until 1970. From 1974 until his death in 1997, Orville served as a member, and then vice president, of the Board of Visitors of the Manhattan Psychiatric Center (New York Department of Mental Hygiene), having been appointed by New York Gover- Orville N. Greene, circa 1974 nor Malcolm Wilson. Page 2 SearchLites Volume 8, Number 1 -- Winter 2002 As an enthusiast in the search for extraterrestrial intelli- gence and to fulfill his dream of the time when we will achieve Event Horizon contact, it was Orville, with his extremely generous donations January 18 – 20, 2002: Arisia ’02, Boston MA. to The SETI League, who helped give it its start. To ensure its February 14 - 19, 2002: AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston MA. future, he has also generously and substantially provided ongo- March 1 - 3, 2002: Contact Conference, Santa Clara CA.
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