It’s been a great year for the Bozeman Canfields – this winter started off with the snowiest November on record!

Chelsea started her senior year taking some electives that she is enjoying very much, including anatomy and physiology (in which she is dissecting a cat!), AP psychology, and business law. Her fellow seniors chose her as “the most fun to be with.” After playing the field for several years, she now has a more or less steady beau (though she would protest that terminology). She continues a full menu of outside activities, including cheerleading and peer education through Bridger Clinic. She likes to take advantage of the Montana outdoors with her friends– hiking and snowshoeing are their favorites. She’s planning to go to college here in Montana next year, probably at the University of Montana in Missoula, since she is not really sure what she wants to study. Dick and Deb are looking forward to an empty nest with ambivalence.

Deb’s enthusiasm for tennis continues to grow, as her level of play improves. She is a board member of the Bozeman Tennis Association. Last summer she was captain of the “Volley Girls”, whose success at a tournament in nearby Idaho Falls led to a trophy she could hardly lift! Thanks to the tennis bubble at MSU, she can (and does) play all year around. She can hardly find time to ski!

Dick had a great year at work. He’s proud to have joined the lecture circuit, including talks in the “Distinguished Leaders in Science” series at the National Academy of Science and Engineering in Washington and the “Favorite Faculty” series at MSU’s parents weekend. He also won the MSU Foundation’s Wiley Prize for Meritorious Research. MSU solar physics colleagues whom he nominated outdid him by a mile, however – they won a MSU Foundation /Chamber of Commerce award, the American Astronomical Society’s Hale Prize, and even traveled to the White House for a Presidential Early Career Award in Science Engineering. Heady company!

If you’ve got the bandwidth, you can check us out in living color at http://solar.physics.montana.edu/canfield/family.html