GEORGE A. CHAMPINE

I found the Champine's through their leaving their contact information in Batavia, IL. Ceorge's maternal Gr-gr grandfather settled in MN and was the brother of my ancestor. He had done a beautiful ad thorough work of genealogy and sent me a notebook of his research. I am so grateful for his work, because he interviewed people and did real detective work, (also much "leg work") to find how our line of Bassetts went back to the first to arrive at Plymouth.

I am the luckiest daughter-in-law to have had this quiet, gentle, intelligent, but very modest man, as the grandfather of my children, and the father of my husband. He lived a great life and he taught through example. He loved his family, especially the grandkids. I think of him often and miss his kind smile.

George was my very best friend in our high school years and I treasure every memory -- taking each others' graduation pictures and the continuous nonsense we inflicted on other folks, including wonderful Barbara. There was a romance I watched grow and flourish. A genius without doubt.

George was an extraordinary human being. I enjoyed his ability to listen and to engage others.
As family of Lori Champine, we were together at many family events over the years.

As an MIT grad myself, I would occasionally pass info to him that I thought might interest him.
Through some of these exchanges I learned about the Athena Project from George.

I was amazed. to learn that MIT's Open Courseware was based on work done earlier by George in the Athena Project.

Please accept my condolences Barbara, Renee, Lisa, Mark & Lori and all of his grandchildren. George was an extraordinary man and he will be missed.

I nominated him as board member at PHSNE. He accepted and won. George was a wonderful participant in the activities at PHSNE. He'll be missed!

I was so surprised to hear of George's passing. As a former DEC employee ,I had the privilege of working with George for over 5 years. He was truly a remarkable man. His visions and knowledge of It / computing were far ahead of our times back in the early 1990's. He was a good friend and mentor to me. we all had the utmost respect for George and all he had accomplished for Digital. I will never forget him. My thoughts and prayers are with George and all of his loved ones. With my deepest sympathy, John Pacy

Quail Run lost a great friend with the passing of George. We will all miss him. I personally was proud to call him a friend and spent many wonderful hours discussing our various ideas together. He fought a valiant battle for over 2 years with great courage and determination. I will miss him greatly.

Will always remember his as the uncle who gave us the cool gifts at Christmas (ok so that was really Auntie Barb), who tried to foster in us a love of photography and science, and who listened patiently, taught enthusiastically, and always always made us feel welcome and loved.

I am so sorry for the loss of your loved one. Please find peace and comfort in Psalms 65:2.

George was a very active member of our organization (the photographic historical society of New England) and he will be greatly missed!

On behalf of our DASCH project and the Harvard College Observatory, I want to express my deepest sympathies to Barbara and Lisa and the family. We at HCO and the CfA will miss George's enthusiasm and energy which contributed so much to DASCH. Not just the remarkable 80,000 images of the telescope logbook pages that he photographed and now provide a database for entry of metadata for the Harvard plates, but also his learned advice on our data storage and computation needs. We'll miss his presence at the weekly CfA colloquia, where George was a frequent attendee. I am relieved to have seen him and had the chance for a brief chat in what seems like just a few weeks ago but may have been slightly longer. Thank you, again, George for all you did; the celestial world you moved within cares deeply.

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