Sky & Telescope's News Bulletin - Nov 21

"Stuart Goldman" ROBERT E. FRIED (1930-2003)

Robert E. Fried, an active variable-star observer and founder of Braeside
Observatory, died last November 13th when the private airplane he was
piloting
crashed about 40 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. He was 72 years old....

http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1112_1.asp

Sad news about Bob Fried. My deepest condolences to his family. I
first met Bob at the Fall 1981, IAPPP Symposium held at the home of Howard
Louth in Sedro Wooley, Wa. He had demonstrated his newly built computer
controlled photometer at the meeting. A very fine gentleman that will be
sadly missed in the astronomical community.

Ed Majden
Cortenay, B.C.