President/Editor
Harry Treece
2019-07-12-04 – SIU Star Party
One of the first year members of AASI and the club’s coordinator with the NASA Night Sky Network. Harry has a Celestron C11 and a Meade ETX125. Harry also was the club’s first webmaster.
Vice President
Walter Jaehning
Walter has been one of our directors for a few years and has now taken on the office of Vice President. Walter has helped at many of our events over the years and will be great help as VP.
Secretary
Sharon Smaga is a long time member and can be found at many of our public events. She has helped at large events such as the 2015 lunar eclipse at Saluki Stadium to our smaller viewings at Giant City. Hopefully she can get out more with her telescope now that she has retired.
Treasurer and Membership
Pat Arey
Pat is a long time member and has helped at many public viewings. She also helps with the private viewings we do for the Giant City Park’s Becoming and Outdoor Woman program.
Member at Large
Bob Baer
Bob does the astronomy outreach for the College of Physics at Southern Illinois University. Bob was the Illinois coordinator of the Citizen CATE Experiment and trained Fred Isberner on the equipment for the Faroe Island eclipse in 2015. He also the co-chaired the SIU 2017 Eclipse Steering Committee and was instrumental in getting NASA Edge, Mat Kaplan of Planetary Radio, Adler Planetarium of Chicago, the LSU High Altitude balloon team and others to partner with the university for the 2017 eclipse event.