03/22/2025
Super proud to have presented this award. There is no one more deserving. Don Cline is a legend.
Last night, the Greensboro Astronomy Club presented Donald Cline with a Lifetime Appreciation award. Over the past 30 years, Cline, a former local business owner, has crafted a legendary reputation the arena of public astronomy outreach.
His contributions and efforts include:
* Cline Observatory on the main campus of GTCC in Jamestown
* Guilford College Cline Observatory in Greensboro
* The Jo and Don Cline Visitor Center at Dark Sky Observatory on the campus of Appalachian Sate.
* The annual Jo Cline Memorial Astronomy Day Lecture (honoring his late wife), on the campus of GTCC. The lecture features a prominent researcher in astronomy, astrophysics, or planetary science.
* The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute on the site of a former NASA satellite tracking station near Rosman, NC, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. PARI serves a multitude of audiences, providing educational camps to youth, research opportunities to college students, archival of thousands of meteorites and the world's second-largest collection of astronomical glass plates (almost 600k, preserving night sky observations going back nearly 150 years).
In addition, he has provided support to Three College Observatory, the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, and many others across the state and he has presented at the American Astronomical Society and numerous other professional conferences.
For all that you have done, and all that you continue to do ...
THANK YOU DON CLINE!
