Remembering:
Heather Wood, a US citizen originally from Britain, was living proof of the existence of intelligent aliens. She came on board at The SETI League's very beginning as the volunteer administrative assistant to our Executive Director, a post she held for two years before being appointed Secretary. A few years later, she took on additional responsibility as Keeper of the Budget. If you ever received a hardcopy of SearchLites, The SETI League's quarterly newsletter, it is because it was folded, stapled, and mutilated personally by Heather. If your newsletter didn't arrive, you have only Heather and the Postal Service to blame.
The image at left shows her reading the minutes at one of our earliest SETI League membership meetings. Like most of her fellow Mensans, Heather hadn't quite figured what she wanted to be when she grew up. She burst upon the folk music scene quite successfully in the 'Sixties, as one third of the vocal group Young Tradition (their collected works have long ago been re-issued on CD), but soon discovered that playing clubs at nine pounds a gig was not the best way to support oneself in royal style. There followed a succession of careers in food service, military service, writing, publishing, music recording, computers, electronics manufacturing, and banking. Which made her eminently qualified for the multi-disciplinary aspects of SETI.
Being by nature anentropic, Heather brought to The SETI League offices a wonderful sense of order. Any piece of documentation which you might have received in a timely and efficient manner came from Heather's desk. All lost forms, as well as any inaccuracies contained therein, were the Executive Director's doing.
Heather was much loved by The SETI League's leadership team and membership. She died suddenly on 15 July 2024 at the age of 79, leaving a void which can never be filled.
You can read all about Heather's checkered past on her personal website, for as long as it remains online. A remembrance of her by SETI League founder and President Richard Factor may be found here
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