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Victor Blanco Retires (1Jun93)
(from CTIO, NOAO Newsletter No. 34, 1 June 1993)

Victor Blanco is retiring from the CTIO staff, on which he had served since
1967. For the first fourteen of these years, he served as Director and
was instrumental in building up CTIO from an obscure field station in the
Chilean Andes into a world-class observatory. Betty Blanco also played a
key role in the development of the observatory, in various capacities. For
those of us who worked for Victor as Director or with him as a scientific
colleague, or who had the Blancos as "padrinos," their departure represents
the end of an era. The following remarks by Bob Williams, delivered on the
occasion of Victor and Betty Blanco's farewell party, reflect the feelings of
all of the staff.

Jay Elias

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