The Department of Astronomy of the University of Western Ontario announces with great sadness the sudden death of Professor Emeritus William H Wehlau on February 24.
Bill was in Cape Town, South Africa, with his wife Amelia, attending the meeting on Astronomical Applications of Stellar Pulsations, when he suffered a stroke. He went into a coma from which he never recovered.
Bill started the Department of Astronomy at Western, and obtained the funding for our 1.2- m telescope at Elginfield. He was Department Head for almost a quarter of a century, until his retirement in 1991. He was a well-liked professor who taught both introductory and advanced classes well.
He was always active in research, both as an observer and as an organizer of collaborative projects. He was a regular visitor at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, and was in fact scheduled to observe in March 1995.
He gave a great deal of his time and energy to service of the larger astronomical community. He was at various times a member of the NRC Associate Committee on Astronomy, and of both the Scientific Advisory Council and Board of Directors of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation. Most recently, he was Chair of the CASCA Awards Committee.
He is survived by his wife Amelia and by his four children, Ruth, Jeanne, Alice, and David, and by two grandchildren.
He will be greatly missed by all of his family and by his many friends.
As an expression of sympathy, donations to the William H. Wehlau Scholarship Fund may be sent to:-
Department of Astronomy,
213 Physics and Astronomy Building,
The University of Western Ontario,
London,
Ontario, N6A 3K7.
Tax receipts will be issued.
John Landstreet (jlandstr@phobos.astro.uwo.ca)
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