Milwaukee
Rensselaer Alumni Chapter
Welcome to the Milwaukee Chapter Web page!
Regional Coordinator: Brian Geery '91, '93
bcgeary@uwm.edu
(414) 962-0375
Upcoming Alumni Events
Alumni Tour of Yerkes Observatory
Saturday, October 21, at 11 a.m.
Please join the Chicago and Milwaukee Alumni Chapters for a tour of the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, WI. Programs last about forty-five minutes. While there is no charge, there is a suggested donation of five dollars per person.
During the tours, the tour guide provides a brief talk on the history of Yerkes, astronomical research, and our amazing Universe. He will also take visitors into the 90-foot dome, one of the largest of its kind ever built. Here, visitors look at the famed 40-inch Refractor, the world's biggest lens-type telescope, and its impressive 73-foot diameter elevator floor. Note that the dome interior is unheated, and during late fall and winter temperatures inside are as chilly as out doors. Please dress appropriately.
Before or after the tour, visitors may look at a Timeline display on the main floor that covers Yerkes Observatory's early history and is adorned with dozens of photographs from the 1890s. Other hall displays concentrate on comets, galaxies, nebulae, and the death of stars. A gift shop offers authentic meteorites, VCR tapes, color postcards, T-shirts, sweatshirts, scientific kits, books, guides to the stars and planets, and many other science and astronomy-related items. For further information, please see the web site: http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/.
After the tour, we are planning an optional lunch at 1:00 p.m. at Houlihan's in downtown Lake Geneva. Houlihan's is close to both the Lake Geneva Cruise Line docks and Main Street shopping, for those who are interested after lunch.
Please see the Lake Geneva Chamber of Commerce website (www.lakegenevawi.com) for more information.
For more information about the event, please contact Lon Blumenthal '70 at lblumenthal@earthlink.net.
For a complete listing of upcoming Rensselaer events, please visit our events calendar.
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