Memorandum

Date:	November 4, 1996
To:	Wayne Eyre, Editor, On Campus News
From:	Dr. David P. Steele
Re:	NITEOWL soars!

Dear Wayne:

I am pleased with the cover story on NITEOWL that appeared last Friday
in On Campus News. However, I would like to give credit where credit is
due.

Contrary to the photograph caption, it is the entire NITEOWL team, with
the graduate students in the fore, who are preparing the proposal for
the Canadian Space Agency. The team comprises (in alphabetical order by
department) Dr. Henry Caplan, Matthias Huber, Dr. Sasha Koustov, Dr. Ted
Llewellyn, Dan Lowe, Eugene McDougall, Jay Offiong, Dr. Andrei
Smolyakov, Dr. David Steele, and Megan White of the Department of
Physics and Engineering Physics, Dr. Ron Bolton, James Giesbrecht, Myles
Stocki, and Dr. Hugh Wood of the Department of Electrical Engineering,
Dr. Jim Bugg, Dr. Allan Dolovich, and John Steele of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Chris Soteros and Dr. Raj Srinivasan of the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Jacky Chan and Dave Harris
of the College of Commerce MBA program.

Sasha Koustov, Ted Llewellyn and I are members of the Institute of Space
and Atmospheric Studies, and Matthias Huber, Eugene McDougall, Jay
Offiong and Megan White are studying with Institute professors. The
Institute has for nearly four decades been a leading Canadian center for
space science, and many who received their graduate training here have
become leaders internationally in both science and industry.

Finally, the Canadian Space Agency's Small Payloads Program exists in
part because of the encouragement and guidance provided to the CSA's
Space Science Program by the Solar Terrestrial Relations Advisory
Committee, of which the Institute chair, Dr. Alan Manson, is a member.

Thank you for the opportunity to recognize these important contributors
to the proposal.

With best regards, I am

Yours sincerely,



David P. Steele, Ph.D.