6 March 2014 sky & telescopeRobert Naeye
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Skies, Night Sky, SkyWeek, and ESSCO.during the Great Depression, my father, Dr.
Richard L. Naeye, was old school. I vividly remember visiting my par-
ents’ house in Hershey, Pennsylvania in the late 1990s, just when Google
was starting to take off. My mother wanted me to show him how Google
worked, so I asked him to name any topic he wanted to search. He spelled
out pneumoconiosis, the medical term for black lung disease. After he
started reading one of the pages that popped up, he retorted, “This isn’t
right. This Google of yours is
no good!” That may have been
the last Google search of his
life, which ended on Decem-
ber 10, 2013 at age 84.
My dad wasn’t always keen
on the latest technology, but
until he retired in 2008 he
was always interested in the
latest medical research. As my
family reviewed his C.V. a few
weeks ago while editing his
obituary for the local newspa-
per, I was astonished to learn
that he published at least 270
papers in medical journals,
including the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. And as the
founding chairman of the Penn State University medical school’s depart-
ment of pathology, he built up a world-class organization from scratch.
Almost everything my father did was motivated by his deep Quaker
faith. I have never met anyone who better exemplifi ed the values of
patience, frugality, and the desire to serve others. During his career as a
medical researcher, he made numerous trips to underdeveloped nations
such as Ethiopia and South Africa to improve pregnancy outcomes and
reduce infant mortality. As a workaholic, one of his few hobbies was nature
photography. He probably could have made a lot of money by selling his
pictures , but he was only interested in giving away framed prints for free
to family, friends, and local institutions.
Both he and I shared a passion for science, but our specifi c interests
never really converged. He developed only a peripheral interest in astron-
omy. I fully respected the social importance of his research, but from an
early age something from inside me drew me much more strongly to the
physical sciences. But my father’s infl uence can be felt in my work at S&T
in his old-school values of commitment to substance, integrity, and the
desire to make the world a better place for others. ✦Having grown up
Old-School Values
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