Al Webber turns 100

The oldest IOTA member is still going strong in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

New: 2007 Oct. 31, 20h UT

Al Webber was just days before his 99th birthday when he drove by 
himself from his home in Chadds Ford, Penn. to Mt. Cuba Observatory 
in nearby northern Delaware to attend the 2006 IOTA meeting).
Richard Nugent took this picture of Al with Cliff Bader at the 
meeting.  Al has timed lunar occultations since at least the mid-
1960's when he participated in several of the early grazing 
occultation expeditions organized by the U. S. Naval Observatory, 
but he had not formally joined IOTA until the 2006 meeting.  He had 
to leave the IOTA meeting shortly before it ended "so he could get 
home in time to fix dinner for his 70-year-old sons". 

Now it's a year later, and earlier this month, Al celebrated his 
100th birthday.  A surprize party was held 5 days before the big day 
at lunch at a nearby restaurant; soon here will be a picture of 
surprized Al at that event, and Cliff Bader also provided the 
following 3-megabyte scanned image of the local newspaper article 
about the event. 
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