Dave Taylor sent me THE email we were waiting for yesterday morning: with word of the exact time NASA set up for our ARISS contact out here in Jurupa Valley, California. On an emotional high, and as I was sending out our updated media alert to several recipients, I received the AMSAT-BB digest of messages - with its several-message-long thread simply entitled, "Dee ... "

I couldn't bring myself to read it until late last night. No thread with that simple of a title and so many instant replies could have been good news.

I regret never got to personally shake Dee's hand in appreciation. Quietly and "behind the scenes," Dee assisted me with many an inquiry and the explanation of concepts.

What a wonderful reference person we have lost.

Clint Bradford