Speakers

Time: Friday, July 20
Location: Valentine High School Auditorium

TIME	SPEAKER	TOPIC
11:00	Francis Cutt & Dwayne Hollow Horn Bear	Native American Sky Legends
11:45	John Johnson	A Brief History of Calendars and Time
12:30	Lunch	Pizza and Door Prizes
1:30	Wayne & Carole Lainof	The Zimbabwe Eclipse
2:15	Brenda Culbertson	Reasons and Methods of Observing Through the Ages: From the Ancients to the Beginning of the Telescope

More Speakers

Twilight Sunday (at resort)	Lorrie May	The ever famous Constellation talk
After Ice Cream Monday (at shelter)	Lt Col Doug Good	Military Celestial Navigation in the B-52

Children's Activities (Friday)

11:00	Carol Osborne	Skylab
12:00	Steve Walker	Kite Making
1:00	Carol Osborne	Skylab
2:00	Dan Glomski	Model Rocketry
3:00	Carol Osborne	Skylab
4:00	Carol Osborne	Skylab

SPEAKER PROFILES

Lorri May

Lorri is currently living in Madison, South Dakota where she is attending school to get an Associate of Science in Application Programming degree. Every year since 1996 Lorri has attended the Nebraska Star Party. This year she will again be giving the Constellation Tour of the Skies on public viewing night and will also be helping with NASA’s Jr. Stargazers Mentor Program.

Lt Colonel Doug Good

Doug Good has been an active duty officer in the Air Force for 22 years. For many of those years he was a B52 navigator and bombardier. Presently he is Chief of Office Engagement for the Air Force … dealing with military exchanges with Russia and other Allies. He is married to Carlene and they have Three children, Kelly, Kyle, and Kerry. He is a selectee for Colonel.

Carol Osborne

Carol is the team leader of the Star Lab Planetarium program at Giffore Farm Education Center in Bellevue, Nebraska. She assists beginning stargazers to better comprehend stars, planets, asteroids, light speed, light years and the concept of space. Carol lived and taught school in Minnesota for over 26 years before moving to Omaha in 1966.

Dan Glomski

Since 1987 Dan has directed the J.M. McDonald Planetarium in Hastings, Nebraska. He has taught several model rocket workshops for beginners. For this special NSP workshop, young participants will build and launch a simple model rocket and learn some basic rocketry principles.

Steve Walker

Steve has been a 7th grade Earth Science teacher in Grand Island School system for the past 12 years. He has been interested in astronomy for 10 years and has pursued it as a serious avocation for the past two. He is married to another teacher, Beth and they have three boys, Seth, Bryce, and Simon.

Nancy Williams

Nancy has enjoyed the night sky around the world and now enjoys teaching children to understand and to explore the wonders of the night sky as a Starlab\Planetarium Facilitator for Gifford Farm Educational Center. She is a military spouse who has traveled the world for many years.

Dee Ryan

Dee has many stories that make the stars and planets come alive for young observers. As a facilitator for the Starlab\planetarium program at Gifford Farm she has helped many become real stargazers. Dee is a mother on three and has her own telescope with which to enjoy the night skies.

Francis Cutt and Dwayne Hollow Horn Bear

Both Francis and Dwayne are instructors at Sainte Gleska University in Mission on the Rosebud Reservation. Steeped in traditional Lakota values and the Lakota language, they teach Lakota history, culture and oral history. They have been guest lecturers on many college campuses in the US and Dwayne has also spoken on the international college circuit. Both Francis and Dwayne are very interested in compiling oral information on Lakota Star Knowledge.

John Johnson

John Johnson has been an active amateur astronomer for over 35 years His first telescope was a 3-inch Edmund Scientific reflector, which he received for his 12th birthday. John attended the University of Nebraska, receiving a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1972. Upon graduation, he was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy and served four years on active duty with the Navy. He is currently employed by the Omaha Public Power District as an engineer at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station.

John has served as an officer and active member of several astronomy organizations, including the Prairie Astronomy Club in Lincoln, NE, the Pontchartrain Astronomical Society in New Orleans, LA and the Omaha Astronomical Society. John has also attended numerous Astronomical League conventions, both regional and national over the years. He has been an active member of the Nebraska Star Party planning committee since 1995.

Wayne and Carole Lainof

The Zimbabwe solar eclipse is the fourth eclipse the Lainofs have witnessed. They saw the 1970 East Coast eclipse at Fort Monroe, Virginia; the Caribbean eclipse aboard ship off the coast of Curacao, and the European eclipse in a German vineyard. Wayne, the more serious astronomer is an Urgent Care Physician in Bellevue, Nebraska. Carole teaches Community Health Nursing.

Brenda Culbertson