1985 Post Dispatch feature on U.S. Naval Observatory astronomer

31 Dec 1985, St. Louis Post-Dispatch page A1 feature on a St. Louis native and photographing Halley's Comet

In the article Michael is briefly mentioned as mentor, circa 1965:

Although McBride [High School] offered no courses in astronomy, it provided physics and math—and the encouragement of a physics teacher. With the teacher's backing, [Richard] Schmidt and a cousin, Donald Pearson, cajoled Michael W. Friedlander, a professor of physics at Washington University, into letting them use the college's telescope.

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