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Joe Romig holds a Ph.D. in Astrogeophysics. He worked in the private sector and taught Astronomy in at CU Boulder for thirty-four years. He was also an exceptional football player for the , elected to the in 1973 and the in 1984. Joe moved to Boulder with his mom when he was four, some seventy-six years ago. Of his involvement with the museum, Joe notes: 鈥淲e lived two houses or so from Hugo Rodeck who was the Director of the Museum. I went there frequently then and now. My wife Barbara has worked at the Museum for forty years. We both have had a long-term interest in the CU Museum.鈥