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IV. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to record my deep gratitude to the memory of Kenneth Boulding
for his profound, and moving, spoken ministry over many years in the
Boulder Meeting of Friends, and for encouraging me to write about the
matters discussed in this essay. I also wish to express my deepest
thanks to Anne and Gilbert White for their concern and caring about me
during my 1986/87 crisis; it made all the difference. In addition I
thank all my Friends, too numerous to name here, in the Boulder Meeting
for teaching me so much over the years, and for opening me to the
Light. And with deepest gratitude I thank Rod MacLeod for working with
me on the process of healing; his insights gave my life new strength
and direction.
On the medical side, I can say that I literally owe my life to Drs.
Kay Grace and Steven Dubovsky; without their effective medical and
psychiatric intervention I surely would have killed myself before the
end of 1986. In addition, I owe my life again to Dr. Kathleen Johnson
of Memorial Hospital in Albuquerque for guiding my transition from a
failing tricyclic to an effective SSRI in 1997. Alas, I don't know who
to thank for supervising my transition from lithium to Depakote in 1997.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dimitri Mihalas was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1939. He
majored in astronomy, mathematics, and physics at UCLA, receiving his
B. A. with highest honors in 1959. He received his Ph.~D. in astronomy
and physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1963.
He first attended Quaker Meeting in Boulder, Colorado in 1974. By
1976 he became a convinced Friend, and joined the Boulder Monthly
Meeting, which is still his home meeting despite the fact that he now
lives in northern New Mexico.
He
has taught and done reserach at Princeton University, the University of
Chicago, the University of Colorado, and the University of Illinois,
where he was the George C. McVittie Professor of Astronomy for 13
years. He worked for many years as a Senior Scientist at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and was an
Astronomer at the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New
Mexico. Currently he is a physicist with the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in New Mexico.
He is the author or coauthor of over 150 technical papers, 7 books
on physics and astrophysics, coeditor of 4 volumes on astrophysics, and
7 chapbooks of poetry. He is a member of the American Astronomical
Society (a recipient of the Helen B. Warner Prize, and currently
serving on the Council) and the International Astronomical Union
(formerly President of Commission 36, ``Theory of Stellar
Atmospheres"). He was elected to the U. S. National Academy of Sciences
in 1981, and belongs to the sections on Astronomy and Physics.
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