Hi Ann: For a while, I was the editor & illustrator for the Scope Jocky's Journal. Dr. Strangelove was the inspiration for that sketch. I believe John Mosley's MG Midget was the inspiration for the sport's car. (John was staff astronomer at Hansen Planetarium at the time, and founder of the earliest incarnation of a planetarium-associated astronomical society. He's now at Griffith.) I can't recall any other illustrations I may have done for the club's publications at the moment though I'm sure there were others. That was such a long time ago! I do recall some pencil drawings of various club members as historical (and pre-historical) astronomers- shown on slides at one of our Christmas parties in the '70's. No idea of their whereabouts today. On 9/10/07, Ann Blanchard <a.blanchard@ugs.utah.edu> wrote:
Hi Chuck, This e-mail manages to blend the sports car with SLAS history.
I've been (slowly) going through the old meeting minutes, etc. to try to pull together a history of SLAS (in late fall/winter, I hope to get groups of long-time members together and have them reminisce and fill in some of the gaps and liven things up with their stories). In doing this, I see you were the cover illustrator for the Scope Jockey's (sp?) journal. There is a guy waving his hat and riding a scope in the air (looks a bit like the bomb scene from Dr. Strangelove) but, in the corner there appears to be . . . . a sports car! So, what was your inspiration? And, while I'm asking, did you do the drawing for the first SLAS logo, the earth moon? Thanks!