Charlene Bell Dietz, a retired educator, taught kindergarten through high school, served as a school administrator, and became an adjunct instructor for the College of Santa Fe. Af...view moreCharlene Bell Dietz, a retired educator, taught kindergarten through high school, served as a school administrator, and became an adjunct instructor for the College of Santa Fe. After retirement, she traveled the United States as an educational consultant. During her leisure time she assisted the paleontologists of the New Mexico Museum of Natural Science and History in the search for and excavation of dinosaurs and worked in their fossil collection laboratory. She also founded the New Mexico Friends of Paleontology. Because of her passion for science, she contributed over twenty-five years as the community lay person on Loveless Respiratory Institute's Animal Care and Use Committee at Sandia National Laboratories. She now lives in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains in central New Mexico where she finds night skies dark, wildlife abundant, and the silence abounds.view less