Advancing Variable Star Astronomy Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I PIONEERS IN VARIABLE STAR ASTRONOMY PRIOR TO 1909
- PART II THE FOUNDING OF THE AAVSO – THE WILLIAM TYLER OLCOTT ERA
- PART III RECORDING AND CLASSIFICATION – THE LEON CAMPBELL ERA
- PART IV THE SERVICE BUREAU – THE MARGARET MAYALL ERA
- 10 Learning about independence
- 11 Eviction from Harvard College Observatory
- 12 Actions and reactions
- 13 In search of a home
- 14 Survival on Brattle Street
- 15 AAVSO achievements
- 16 Breathing room on Concord Avenue
- PART V ANALYSIS AND SCIENCE – THE JANET MATTEI ERA
- PART VI ACCELERATING OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCE – THE ARNE HENDEN ERA
- Appendix A AAVSO historiographic notes
- Appendix B Top AAVSO observer totals
- Appendix C Variable star observing groups represented in the AAVSO International Database
- Appendix D AAVSO Awards
- Appendix E Officers of the AAVSO
- Appendix F AAVSO Council members
- Appendix G AAVSO Scientific committee, section, division, and program chairs
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - Survival on Brattle Street
from PART IV - THE SERVICE BUREAU – THE MARGARET MAYALL ERA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I PIONEERS IN VARIABLE STAR ASTRONOMY PRIOR TO 1909
- PART II THE FOUNDING OF THE AAVSO – THE WILLIAM TYLER OLCOTT ERA
- PART III RECORDING AND CLASSIFICATION – THE LEON CAMPBELL ERA
- PART IV THE SERVICE BUREAU – THE MARGARET MAYALL ERA
- 10 Learning about independence
- 11 Eviction from Harvard College Observatory
- 12 Actions and reactions
- 13 In search of a home
- 14 Survival on Brattle Street
- 15 AAVSO achievements
- 16 Breathing room on Concord Avenue
- PART V ANALYSIS AND SCIENCE – THE JANET MATTEI ERA
- PART VI ACCELERATING OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCE – THE ARNE HENDEN ERA
- Appendix A AAVSO historiographic notes
- Appendix B Top AAVSO observer totals
- Appendix C Variable star observing groups represented in the AAVSO International Database
- Appendix D AAVSO Awards
- Appendix E Officers of the AAVSO
- Appendix F AAVSO Council members
- Appendix G AAVSO Scientific committee, section, division, and program chairs
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
One thing I can promise you, and that is if we are penniless I will not close the door and walk out!
– Margaret W. Mayall, 1954For the next decade, the American Association of Variable Star Observers, now without its Harvard Observatory support, found itself facing deficits in its operations and struggling to raise its own Endowment Fund with which to fund its operations.
Survival in this period must be credited to the continued tenacity and optimism of Director Margaret Mayall and many other officers and friends. Although there were “low” spots, she was also being encouraged by the responses from grant associations who were taking an interest in her initiatives in observing programs and publications. Yet, at the same time she was trying to make the Association's operations more efficient.
This chapter traces some of the ups and downs for the Association during the next 9 critical years of operations.
MOVE TO BRATTLE STREET
A small group of AAVSO members and friends gathered on a Saturday, January 2, 1954, to assist with the move to the new headquarters on Brattle Street. Among the helpers were Jackie Sweeney Kloss, Jean McCroskey, Virginia McKibben Nail, and Dorrit Hoffleit, all from the HCO scientific staff; and Franklin Marsh, Percy Witherell, Helen Stephansky, Newton Mayall, and Margaret Mayall of the AAVSO.
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- Advancing Variable Star AstronomyThe Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, pp. 194 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011