Reporting for SpaceWatchtower
A memorial service for a long-time
supporter of Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of
Popular Science, John W. McCarter who passed-away August 8 at age 81,
will be held this Saturday (2013 October 5) at 10:30 a.m. EDT at the
First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh, which is located at 605 Morewood
Avenue in the Oakland section of the City of Pittsburgh. A reception at
the church follows the memorial service.
John,
who lived most of his life in Pittsburgh and Dormont, was a music
teacher in the Pittsburgh Public Schools, teaching in several city
schools including Thadeus Stephens and John Morrow schools. He graduated
from Oliver High School and studied music education at Indiana
University at Bloomington.
John was
born in Pittsburgh on 1931 October 24. Exactly eight years later, on 1939 October 24,
came the dedication of Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and
Institute of Popular Science, where he gained a life-long interest in
Astronomy and the sciences during his youth. He eventually built his own
telescope and used it to share his interest in stargazing with others.
John
was a member of Friends of the Zeiss, a non-profit organization which
provides informal Astronomy and Science education to the public, as well
as promoting the history of Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and
Institute of Popular Science.
John
brought his 4-inch refractor telescope to the Mount Lebanon Public Library, on
the evening of 2012 June 5, to assist with safe public viewing of the
very rare Transit of the Planet Venus across the image of the Sun.
Unfortunately, this public observing session, co-sponsored by Friends
of the Zeiss and the Mount Lebanon Public Library, was preempted by
clouds. However, the public was still able to observe the event via a
NASA web-cast in a library meeting room.
In 2004, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh shut-down their very successful
Three Rivers Free-Net (TRFN), which had provided free Internet web
sites to Pittsburgh-area non-profit organizations. Anticipating this
shut-down, immediately after the last day of operation of TRFN, David Tessitor and John McCarter co-founded the PittsburghFree.net. The
PittsburghFree.net, which provides a very similar service as did TRFN,
was completely financed by John McCarter.
The new free-of-charge,
non-profit organization web site hosting service began with 40 web sites from TRFN. Today, the PittsburghFree.net hosts approximately 150 web sites of community-oriented groups and individuals.
More detailed obituary:
Link >>> http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/bio/mccarterjw.html
Source: Glenn A. Walsh Reporting for SpaceWatchtower, a project of Friends of the Zeiss.
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* Adler Planetarium, Chicago:
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* Astronomer, Educator, Optician John A. Brashear:
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* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries:
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* Civil War Museum of Andrew Carnegie Free Library:
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* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh:
< http://inclinedplane.tripod.
* Public Transit:
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