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Farewell to Pat Osmer (1Sep93)
(from the Director's Office, NOAO Newsletter No. 35, 1 September 1993)

Patrick Osmer is leaving NOAO to assume the chairmanship of the
astronomy department at the Ohio State University as of 1 October. Pat
has served NOAO for 24 years in many important capacities. He came to
CTIO as a research associate in 1969 and became an assistant astronomer
the following year.  In 1981, he was chosen Director for a five-year
term.  Upon its completion, he moved to Tucson to join the KPNO
scientific staff. With only a brief interval of opportunity to pursue
his research, Pat took on the task of leading the preparation of the
NOAO proposal to build two 8-m telescopes, as Deputy Director of NOAO.
When US participation in the Gemini Project partnership began, Pat
acted as its first Project Scientist, bringing international consensus
to the goals of the project as embodied in the Science Requirements
Document.

Pat Osmer commands the respect of the astronomical community for his
productive research collaborations on the population of high-redshift
quasars, for his maintenance of high standards of research and service
critical to the unique role of CTIO in US astronomy, and for his
leadership in defining and bringing to fruition the international
scientific partnership of Gemini.

We treasure Pat's wisdom, patience, good humor, and diplomacy as a
scientific and management colleague. All of us at NOAO wish Pat and his
family success and fulfillment in this new stage of life and career.

Richard F. Green, Sidney C. Wolff

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