| - DECEMBER 2004 - |
December 18, 2004-
January 2, 2005 |
Crew 31 arrived at the
Mars Desert Research Station in Utah
for a two week mission in a full-simulation. |
| December 17, 2004 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE
NIGHT -- "ARMITAGE: DUAL MATRIX" (2001) |
| December 10, 2004 | The minutes
of our December 2004 meeting. |
| December 1, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event. |
| December 1-31, 2004 | TMS-SD member
Shannon Rupert Robles headed up the Remote Science Team (RST)
as part of Mission Support Services to the
Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS)
in Utah. |
| - NOVEMBER 2004 - |
| November 26-30, 2004 | TMS-SD member
Shannon Rupert Robles headed up the Remote Science Team (RST)
as part of Mission Support Services to the
Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS)
in Utah. |
November 26-
December 12, 2004 | Expedition Alpha --
MDRS
Crew 30, a Mars Society Canada operation, arrived in the Utah desert
Mars Desert Research Station for two
weeks of Mars simulation -- the first Crew of MDRS Season 4. |
| November 22, 2004 |
San Diego Mission
Valley Library hosted a lecture: "MARS 2004 EXPLORATION UPDATE":
A year in review from the Red Planet exploration robots, plus what's in store for 2005 and
beyond. |
| November 20, 2004 | TMS-SD was invited
to participate in the "SALLY
RIDE SCIENCE FESTIVAL" at the University of California-Irvine campus. We set up our
Display Table, ran our Mars Rover, and operated our Mars Suit for the young ladies (and
others) in attendance. |
| November 19, 2004 | TMS-SD
MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "SPECIES II" (1998). |
| November 13, 2004 | TMS-SD was
invited to set up our display table and run our Mars Rover for FAMILY
DAYS at the San
Diego Aerospace Museum in Balboa Park. |
| November 12, 2004 | The minutes
of our November 2004 meeting. |
| November 10, 2004 | The San Diego Yacht
Club hosted a lecture, "Invasion from Earth", by members of
TM-SD at a noon luncheon. |
| November 5, 2004 |
Sage Canyon
Elementary's Family Night Program featured an evening with TMS-SD,
featuring a "What's Up On Mars" lecture, our
Interactive Display
Table, the San Diego Mars
Rover and our Analog
Mars Suit from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. |
| November 3, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event.
|
| - OCTOBER 2004 - |
| October 28, 2004 | The UCSD Center for the Humanities presented a
lecture by award-winning science fiction author and UCSD alum, Kim
Stanley Robinson. |
| October 25, 2004 |
San Diego Mission
Valley Library hostied "PRIVATIZATION OF SPACEFLIGHT" by
THE MARS SOCIETY - SAN DIEGO in the Library's auditorium. |
October 22, 2004
| TMS-SD MARS MOVIE
NIGHT -- "THE WAR OF THE WORLDS" (1953). |
October 20, 2004
| The San
Diego Science Alliance invited us to attend their Fall Community Event at
The Elementary Institute of Science with our
display table. |
| October 8, 2004 | The minutes
of our October 2004 meeting. |
| October 6, 2004 | Sadly, Jeff Berkwits
will be leaving San Diego and TMS-SD for Seattle at the end of this year. Not so sadly,
Jeff has been appointed to the position of Editor-in-Chief of
Amazing Stories
magazine. |
| October 6, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event. |
| October 1-3, 2004 | CONJECTURE
3 Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention offered TMS-SD members
particiapting in display, programming events and activities.
|
| - SEPTEMBER 2004 - |
| September 30, 2004 | The
WESTERN ALLIANCE OF PLANETARIUMS CONFERENCE at the
Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park,
TMS-SD participated with a display booth featuring the
San Diego Mars Rover
from 7:30pm to 11:00pm. |
| September 20, 2004 | San
Diego Mission Valley Library hosted a lecture, "Mars Analog Research
Stations / Meet a Mars Commander" and discussed the adventures of Shannon Rupert
Robles, who has crewed on three of the four Mars Simulations. |
Wednesday
September 29, 2004
|
SpaceShipOne makde the first of three X-Prize attempts in the Mojave desert
north of Los Angeles. Several TMS-SD members witnessed
this event live. |
| September 17, 2004 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT
-- Outer Limits Twilight Zone and Tales of Tomorrow "TV Episodes from the 1960s".
(1960-1969). |
| September 11, 2004 | TMS-SD was
invited to set up our display table for FAMILY DAYS at the
San Diego Aerospace
Museum. We ran the San
Diego Mars Rover from noon to 3:00pm there. |
| September 10, 2004 | The minutes
of our September 2004 meeting - COMING SOON!. |
| September 1, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event.
|
| - AUGUST 2004 - |
| August 27, 2004 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT
-- silliness from outer space, "My Favorite Martian" (1999). |
| August 23, 2004 | TMS-SD gave a
"What's Up On Mars?" lecture to the residence of the
La Costa Glenn retirement community. |
| August 16, 2004 | San
Diego Mission Valley Library hosted a lecture, "MARS IN
THE MOVIES" by the creator of "The Mars Movie
Guide". |
| August 14, 2004 | TMS-SD
participated in the PROJECT ASTRO annual
Teacher/Astronomer Training Workshop. We demonstrated both our
San Diego Mars Rover as
well as our new TMS-SD
Mars Spacesuit. |
| August 13, 2004 | The next REGULAR MONTHLY
MEETING of TMS-SD was another Summer Potluck Barbeque.
The minutes of our August 2004 meeting - COMING
SOON!. |
| August 4, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event.
|
| - JULY 2004 - |
| July 29, 2004 | The San
Diego Aerospace Museum presented "Roving the Big Red Planet:
Results from the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Missions" by Dr. Jim
Bell, Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. TMS-SD
and the San Diego Mars Rover
were there. |
July 21-25, 2004
| Comic-Con
International: San Diego provided TMS-SD a display table in
the main Exhibit Hall, as well as two programs: What's Up on
Mars? with special guest Greg Bear ("Moving Mars"),
Dr. Michael Caplinger (MSSS's Mars Global Surveyor/Mars Orbital
Camera project), and Jason Willis (JPL Mars Rover Flight
Director); and Mars Analog Research Stations-2004. We also
premiered our new TMS-SD
Mars Spacesuit, designed by Tim Sommer. |
| July 19, 2004 | San
Diego Mission Valley Library hosted a lecture on "THE CASE FOR MARS
- THE PLAN TO SETTLE THE RED PLANET AND WHY WE MUST" by The Mars
Society-San Diego. |
| July 16, 2004 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT
-- The PBS/NOVA documentary, "Mars: Dead or Alive" (2004). |
| July 13, 2004 | TMS-SD cosponsored an
advance screening of 20th Century Fox's I, ROBOT at AMC
Mission Valley Theaters. |
| July 10, 2004 | TMS-SD was invited to
set up our display table for FAMILY DAYS at the
San Diego Aerospace
Museum. We ran the San
Diego Mars Rover from noon to 5:00pm there. |
| July 9, 2004 | The minutes
of our July 2004 meeting. |
| July 8, 2004 | TMS-SD and our
San Diego Mars Rover
participated in the "SALLY RIDE TOY CHALLENGE" at
the San Diego Aerospace
Museum in Balboa Park from 10:00am to 4:30pm. |
| July 7, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event.
|
| - JUNE 2004 - |
| June 21, 2004 |
San Diego Mission
Valley Library hosted a lecture, "WHAT'S UP ON MARS?" by
The Mars Society-San Diego. This was the first of a four-part
monthly lecture series. |
June 18, 2004
| TMS-SD MARS MOVIE
NIGHT-- a very special collection of "1950's TV MARS
EPISODES". |
| June 17, 2004 | Check out the San
Diego Reader magazine this week for an article on TMS-SD's
monthly Mars Movie Night, and the "Mars
Movie Guide" called,
PLANET CELLULOID - Mars Movie Night. |
| June 16, 2004 | TMS-SD was invited to
give two presentations to the students of the Elementary
Institute of Science from 1:00 to 3:30pm. The
San Diego Mars Rover was
also there. |
| June 11, 2004 | The minutes
of our June 2004 meeting. |
| June 10-13, 2004 | "OUT OF THIS WORLD" --
Sesame Street Live hit the
San Diego Sports Arena to answer the question, "What happens when Martians land on Sesame
Street?" |
| June 4, 2004 | The Olive Elementary
School in Vista invited TMS-SD members, along with the
San Diego Mars Rover for a
special Mars Rover event. |
| June 2, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event. |
| June 1, 2004 | The San Diego
County Office of Education in Linda Vista invited TMS-SD
members, along with the San
Diego Mars Roverfor a special event for 300 8th Grade students from Poway.
|
| - MAY 2004 - |
May 28, 2004
| TMS-SD
MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "TOTAL RECALL" (1990). |
May 21-23, 2004
| The Mars Society's
MDRS - Mars Desert Research Station
hosted an off-season Work Party team from TMS-SD, who assisted
in cleaning and maintaining the Habitat and facilities. |
May 15-16, 2004
| JPL, the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, opened its doors to the public during its annual
JPL OPEN HOUSE. |
May 15, 2004
| TMS-SD sponsored
"MEET A MARS CREW COMMANDER" at the
Weekend Talks
lecture at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. Shannon
Rupert-Robles has been to the Mars
Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah three times as a crew member (twice as the Crew
Commander) where she conducted scientific research in simulated Mars-like conditions to learn
the techniques necessary to explore he red planet. She also worked with a NASA team project
discovering how astronauts, robots and computers can work together with scientists here on
Earth to explore most efficiently. TMS-SD members were
there, along with the San Diego
Mars Rover. |
| May 14, 2004 | The REGULAR MONTHLY
MEETING of TMS-SD was a special pot luck barbeque evening. Check out the
minutes of our May 2004 meeting. |
| May 14, 2004 | TMS-SD participated
in a "Mars Outpost Event" at the
Hillsdale Middle School in
El Cajon, CA, along with the San
Diego Mars Rover. Students built Mars rovers and an entire full-sized inflated Martian
City and studied the science and engineering aspects of living on Mars. |
| May 13, 2004 | "WHAT'S UP ON MARS"
was the topic of a lecture by TMS-SD members at
The San Diego OASIS Institute along
with the San Diego Mars Rover
|
May 10, 2004
| In January,
Long John Silver's offered to
give America free Giant Shrimp if NASA found conclusive evidence of an ocean on Mars.
TMS-SD members were at the Long John Silver's restaurant
in El Cajon, CA for public outreach activities from 2:00pm to 5:00pm, along with the
San Diego Mars Rover.
|
| May 8, 2004 | "Six Minutes of Mars
Landing" was discussed by JPL chief engineer Wayne
Lee during the Taiwanese American Heritage Week celebrations. |
| May 8, 2004 | TMS-SD
participated in FAMILY DAYS / SPACE DAY at
the San Diego
Aerospace Museum. |
| May 7, 2004 |
CalSpace-California Space Institute presented the
James R. Arnold Lectureship series, featuring
"Exploring Mars With Spaceships And
Paintbrush (What We've Learned About The Red Planet And Why)", with artist, author
and scientist William K. Hartmann on the UCSD campus.
TMS-SD was there with the
San Diego Mars Rover.
|
| May 5, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event.
|
| - APRIL 2004 - |
April 29, 2004
| Nagin Cox, the
Deputy Team Chief of the Spacecraft/Rover Engineering Flight Team on the JPL Mars 2003
Exploration Rover Mission, discussed the latest developments in robotic exploration
of Mars at the
San Diego Aerospace Museum at 7:30pm. |
April 17, 2004
| TMS-SD sponsored
"EXPLORING FOR EVIDENCE OF LIFE ON MARS", one of the
Weekend Talks lectures
at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center with Dr. Jeffrey Bada from
NSCORT-NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training in Exobiology at UCSD. |
April 16, 2004
| TMS-SD MARS MOVIE
NIGHT --"THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT"(1962). |
April 15, 2004
| TMS-SD was
invited to speak at the IEEE-Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc. section meeting. |
| April 10, 2004 | TMS-SD set up a
display table for FAMILY DAYS at the
San Diego Aerospace
Museum from Noon to 3:00pm. We also ran the
San Diego Mars Rover there.
|
| April 9, 2004 | The minutes
of our April 2004 meeting. |
| April 7, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event. |
| April 2, 2004 | The Rancho Santa Fe
Elementary School held their Science Discovery Day for its students (Grades K-8),
where the entire day is devoted to hands-on science exhibits and interesting science speakers
from 10:00am to 2:00pm. TMS-SD members was there along with the
San Diego Mars Rover.
|
| - MARCH 2004 - |
| March 28, 2004 | TMS-SD ran the San
Diego Mars Rover at the San Diego Aerospace
Museum from Noon to 4:00pm in conjunction with "Engineering Day:
Women in Engineering - Building a Future". |
| March 27, 2004 | DART - San
Diego's Model Rocketry Club held a Model and High-Powered Rocket launch at Fiesta Island
in Mission Bay. TMS-SD members were there for public outreach
activities from 9:00am to Noon, along with the San Diego Mars Rover. |
| March 23, 2004 | The Mars Society - San
Diego was featured in a news segment in conjunction with NASA's announcement of the
Rover Opportunity confirming the past existence of water on Mars on
XETV Fox
Channel 6 at 10:00pm. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 1.6-MB in
size). |
March 20, 2004
| TMS-SD sponsored
"WHAT'S UP ON MARS?", one of the
Weekend Talks lecttres at
the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center: Dr. Michael Caplinger from
Malin Space Science Systems was featured in a special
presentation of the best images from the surface and from orbit, and fascinating analysis of
what they mean. All of the recent missions - American, European and Japanese - were covered,
with the highlights of each featured. |
March 19, 2004
| TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT
-- "ATTACK FROM MARS" (originally released as the
"Midnight Movie Massacre"). |
| March 12, 2004 | The minutes
of our March 2004 meeting. |
| March 12-13, 2004 | San
Diego Science Educators' 19th Annual Conference features an interactive display booth
from TMS-SD along with the
San Diego Mars Rover. |
| March 6, 2004 | "The Art of
Writing" with Ray Bradbury, offered through
The Learning Annex. |
| March 5, 2004 | The Collaborative Visualization Lab in the
Geological Sciences department at SDSU hosted a special webcast,
"Ask A Mars Question".
TMS-SD members were there for public outreach activities from
10:00am to 12:00pm, along with the
San Diego Mars Rover.
|
| March 3, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event. Our San Diego Mars Rover made its 3rd public appearance.
|
| - FEBRUARY 2004 - |
February 28, 2004
| TMS-SD members
participated in the Community INscience
Event at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. |
February 27-29, 2004
| San Diego's longest-running Science
Fiction and Fantasy Convention, ConDor XI.
TMS-SD members were there for public outreach activities and
The Mars Society Presents: San Diego Contributions to Mars
Exploration with Jeff Berkwits, Dave Rankin, Gerry Williams. |
February 14-28, 2004
| The Mars Society's
Mars Analog Research Station project, the
MDRS - Mars Desert Research Stationrotated to Crew 24. Every two weeks, a crew of 6
enters the simulation to learn how to live and work on the Red Planet. |
February 21, 2004
| Voyage to Mars
with the Public Challenger
Learning Center Missions at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.
TMS-SD members was there for public outreach activities from
1:00pm to 4:00pm, along with the
San Diego Mars Rover.
|
February 20, 2004
| TMS-SD MOVIE
NIGHT -- "ROCKETMAN" - (1997). |
February 19, 2004
|
CalSpace - The California Space
Institute featured Saina Ghandchi (Sequence Adaptation Engineer) and Nagin Cox (Deputy
Spacecraft Team Chief) from the NASA/JPL Mars 2003 Rovers
project. |
| February 17, 2004 | Black
Family Technology Awareness Week - Technology Day featured TMS-SD
members providing public outreach activities from 2:00pm to 5:00pm, along with the
SAN DIEGO MARS ROVER.
|
| February 14, 2004 | TMS-SD was
running the San Diego Mars
Rover at the San Diego
Aerospace Museum's from Noon to 3:00pm. |
January 31-
February 14, 2004
| The
Mars Society's Mars Analog Research Station project, the
MDRS - Mars Desert Research Station
rotates to Crew 23. Every two weeks, a crew of 6 enters the simulation to learn how to live
and work on the Red Planet. |
| February 13, 2004 | The minutes
of our February 2004 meeting. |
| February 8, 2004 | TMS-SD's SECOND ANNUAL
BANQUET at Killer Pizza From Mars
in Oceanside, CA -- "Martian of the Year" Award was won by
Dave Rankin for contributing the most in time and efforts to our
San Diego Chapter. |
| February 8, 2004 | DART -
San Diego's Model Rocketry Club held a Model and High-Powered Rocket launch at Fiesta
Island . TMS-SD members were there for public outreach
activities. NBC 7/39 covered the event in their
7:00am
Newscast for 8 minutes. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 11-MB
in size). |
| February 4, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event. Our San Diego Mars Rover made its 3rd oublic appearance. |
| February 3, 2004 | THE MARS SOCIETY - SAN
DEIGO embarks upon its fourth year as an active organization.
|
| - JANUARY 2004 - |
Saturday
January 31, 2004
| TMS-SD's
San Diego Mars Rover
replica operated outside of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center from Noon to 3:00pm, in
Balboa Park. Four television crews videotaped the event: XETV Fox 6 on the
10pm News;
NBC 7/39 in both the
6:00pm and the
11:00pm
News; KFMB 8
5:00pm News; and KUSI 9/51
10:00pm
News. (NOTE: videos require
QuickTime Player). -- MORE MEDIA COMING SOON. |
January 17-31, 2004
| The Mars Society's
Mars Analog Research Station project, the
MDRS - Mars Desert Research Station
rotated to Crew 22. Every two weeks, a crew of 6 enters the simulation to learn how to live
and work on the Red Planet. |
January 27, 2004
| TMS-SD member Gerry
Williams was interviewed about our
SAN DIEGO MARS ROVER replica
for about 3.5 minutes on the
"My Mornings
with Jagger and Kristi" show on 94.1 FM - Listen to the
MP3. |
| January 24, 2004 | Four members of TMS-SD
were invited to view the Mars Exploration Rover
"Opportunity" landing at Malin
Space Science Systems, operators of the Mars Global Surveyor-Mars Orbital Camera, which
was being used as a communications relay from the Martian surface. XETV Fox Channel 6
covered the landing on their 11:00pm news. |
| January 24, 2004 | The NASA/JPL
Mars Exploration Rover named
"Opportunity" landed successfuly at Meridiani near the
Martian equator (on the opposite side of Mars than the "Spirit" rover, a site that shows a
powerful a chemical signature of past liquid water in the form of the mineral hematite.
|
January 23, 2004
| TMS-SD
MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "DESTINATION MARS!"
(2002). |
January 17, 2004
| TMS-SD members
and their radio-controlled Mars Exploration Rover replica were
featured on KFMB-TV Local 8 in the
6:00pm News. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 2.5-MB in size). |
| January 17, 2004 | ROBOTIC EYES! at
the Weekend Talk Series
at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. TMS-SD members were there for public
outreach activities from Noon to 3:00pm and we premiered our radio-controlled
Mars Exploration Rover replica, designed and constructed by
Patrick Purcell. |
January 17, 2004
| The Mars Society -
San Diego chapter wraped up four weeks of MDRS Mission
Support, having supported MDRS Crews 20 & 21 of the
MDRS - Mars Desert Research Station
project. |
| January 16, 2004 | The minutes
of our January 2004 meeting. |
| January 16, 2004 | TMS-SD member
Gerry Williams and Michael Ravine (Advanced Projects Manager at
Malin Space Science Systems) discussed Martian photography
from orbital spacecraft, from the Mars Exploration
Rovers, and at the Mars Society's Mars
Desert Research Station in Utah on Shutterbug Magazine Radio
with wsRadio.com's The Foto Guys, Jack and Howard.
This internet radio show can be heard at
Segment 2 and in
Segment 3 of the
show. NOTE: Requires
Windows Media Player. |
| January 10, 2004 | The Mars Society - San
Diego was featured in a special news segment,
"A VISION OF THE
FUTURE" on XETV Fox Channel 6 at 10:00pm. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 5-MB in
size). |
| January 7, 2004 | Members of TMS-SD
were featured in a
10:00pm News segment on XETV Fox 6. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 2.7-MB in
size). |
| January 7, 2004 | The San Diego Astronomy Association's
"STARS IN THE PARK"
telescope event. |
January 5, 2004
| TMS-SD's MDRS Mission
Support was featured in a live broadcast interview by Geni Cavitt for the KGTV-TV
Channel 10 on the
6:30pm News. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 6.8-MB in size). |
January 5, 2004
| KGTV-TV Channel 10 News website posted
Local Science
Society Simulates Living On Mars, based on the TV news report they taped at our MDRS
Mission Support facility earlier in the day. |
January 5, 2004
| TMS-SD member
Dave Rankin was featured in studio at KFMB-TV Local 8 News on
the 7:00am
Morning News. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 5.1-MB in size). |
January 3-17, 2004
| The Mars
Society's Mars Analog Research Station project, the
MDRS - Mars Desert Research Station
rotated to Crew 21. Every two weeks, a crew of 6 enters the simulation to learn how to live
and work on the Red Planet. TMS-SD member
Shannon Rupert-Robles took on the duties of Crew 21 Commander.
TMS-SD operated as MDRS Mission Support for this Crew. |
January 3, 2004
| TMS-SD members
were featured on KFMB-TV Local 8 in the
11:00pm
News. (NOTE: requires QuickTime
Player, and is 4.0-MB in size). |
January 3, 2004
| TMS-SD members
were featured on KFMB-TV Local 8 in the
6:00pm News.
(NOTE: requires QuickTime Player,
and is 4.4-MB in size). |
January 3, 2004
| TMS-SD members
were featured on KFMB-TV Local 8 in the
5:00pm News.
(NOTE: requires QuickTime Player,
and is 4.6-MB in size). |
| January 3, 2004 | The NASA/JPL
Mars Exploration Rover named
"Spirit" landed successfully at Gusev Crater near the
Martian equator, a site that shows powerful evidence of past liquid water -- Gusev may have
once been a lake. |
January 1-2, 2004
| The Mars Society's
Mars Analog Research Station project, the
MDRS - Mars Desert Research Station
began its Third Season with Crew 20 -- every two weeks, a crew of 6 enters the simulation to
learn how to live and work on the Red Planet. TMS-SD wrapped up
MDRS Mission Support duties for Crew 20, and began them for Crew
21. |
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| HISTORY & NEWS ARCHIVES: 2003
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| HISTORY & NEWS ARCHIVES: 2002
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| HISTORY & NEWS ARCHIVES: 2001
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CALENDAR /
UPCOMING EVENTS: 2004
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