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[Tom T]

From member Moggi1964:

On August 7th 2010, MJ "Morg" Staley (Marc), known to us as "Tombstone Sky" passed away. He died of cancer.

Before his death he had become good friends with Prof. Alex Filippenko and created the Marc J. Staley Graduate Fellowship, mindful of the fact he had not long to live and wanting to leave something behind for the astronomers to follow.

I contacted Marc after reading one of his posts that hinted at his impending death (it was to be a few months later) and we shared frank and, often humorous PM's and email.

His legacy will live on for a time and as part of my deal with Marc and Alex, I promised to donate an amount to it from the sale of one of my shirts. It won't be much I'm afraid but every bit helps I hope.

[csa/montana]

He will be missed. He was a true gentleman.