2 The Post NEWS Sunday, June 6, 2004 Carrie (continued from page 1) “It’s kind of a family trait,” Cadwalader said. Then, about six years ago, Carrie decided to tackle draft horses, mammoth animals that stand more than six feet tall at the withers and weigh upwards of 2,000 pounds. As she had when taking on other chal- lenges, Carrie quickly rose to the top of the heap, winning the state 4-H draft horse driv- ing championship on her first try, and the three other times she entered the competition. As far as her family knows, Carrie is the only person ever to win four state titles. On Tuesday, a pair of Percherons pulled a hitch wag- on bearing the once buoyant young woman's casket from the church to the cemetery that mark the limits of Idetown. She had driven one of the horses, “Mark,” to the 2002 state cham- pionship. The procession passed the home of Carrie’s grandparents, then went by the intersection with 42nd Street, where she grew up. To be sure Carrie had faults, but none of them were the evi- dence of malice. “She was always three hours Carrie Martin won the 2002 Pennsylvania Draft Horse Competition driving “Mark,” one of the horses that pulled the wagon bearing her casket last week. Christy Harrison, the horse’s owner, stood with them for the presentation. and 24 minutes late,” said her mother, alluding to Carrie's birth. When Carrie was still in high school, Butch Grey would get a call many mornings after she had missed the bus; “Poppy, can you take me to school?” Grey would comply, and scold her as they drove to West Side Vo-Tech, where Carrie was studying Law Enforcement Po- lice Science. But halfway there, “she would break out in a song, and your heart would melt,” he said. Wendy Cadwalader takes comfort in the assurances pro- vided by Carrie’s pastor, Glen Spencer Jr. of the Vernon Bap- tist Church. “The instant she died she was in heaven,” he said. Rev. Spencer drew much of the inspiration for his remarks at Carrie’s funeral from the dog- “Her personality was as bright and radiant as the day. And she was always like that.” : Rev. Glen Spencer Jr. Vernon Baptist Church eared Bible. “She had a good portion of it underlined,” he. said, and he is certain she was prepared to meet the Lord. His family was especially close to Carrie, who often rode with the Spencers to and from church, and who sometimes stayed over at their house with a daughter. * Like others who knew her, Rev. Spencer was struck by her disposition. “Her personality was as bright and radiant as the day,” he said. “And she was al- ways like that.” There were other accom- plishments; Luzerne County Fair Queen, prize-winning artist and queen of the state draft horse association. But mostly, her family and friends remember the girl who was willing to help anyone in need while expecting nothing in re- turn. “She did all she could in the Carrie Martin posed with her baby sister, Katie-Jo, who is now 3. amount of time she had,” said Linda Pineno, her music: teacher at Vo-Tech, and coach” for yet another adventure,’ when Carrie played one of the: lead roles in the school drama ; club’s first production. Dallas grad is tracking the cosmos By M.B. GILLIGAN ost Correspondent Adam Nolan Morgan, a 2003 graduate of Dallas High School, has just completed his part of a three-week simulation of the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Ex- plorer, a NASA space observa- tory. The simulation took place at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Swift is a satellite that hous- es three telescopes. Swift's main purpose is to study the origin and effects of mysterious and distant celestial events that astronomers call gamma-ray bursts, which are extremely in- tense and extremely brief flash- es of light created by powerful, violent explosions,” said Mor- gan. “These bursts are difficult to study because the flashes last only a fraction of a second. Swift is all about speed.” Morgan has completed his sophomore year as an astrono- my/ astrophysics student in the Schreyer Honors College at Penn States Main Campus. “They encourage us to find some research work, so I volun- teered to help John Nousek on the Swift project,” said Adam. He is working on a special scheduling software program, called TAKO, or task-assembler keyword-oriented, that will be used to schedule activities of the telescopes on the Swift satellite when it is in orbit. “TAKO was written by a team of professional software engineers, but using it and get- ting it to create schedules that meet our needs requires a com- plex grasp of the constraints of an orbiting satellite and a thor- ough understanding of astrono- my and astrophysics,” said Nousek, professor of Astrono- my and Astrophysics and head of the Swift Project at Penn St. “Adam has demonstrated such a complete and flexible grasp of the program that he has be- come our team’s leading expert in creating scientific schedules for Swift.” The recent simulation of the satellite involved all phases of the launch and nearly 200 sci- entists and engineers. “It was pretty neat. I had to be on call to make new sched- ules for TAKO,” said Morgan. “Once the satellite is in orbit, every morning the scientists will review what needs to be done and what needs to be tar- geted, and they will enter that information into TAKO, so the satellite will know what its ob- jectives are.” The Swift program is based at Penn State through a con- tract with NASA. When the satellite is launched, tentatively scheduled for September 2004, Swift operations will be self-au- tomated according to settings controlled by scientists at Mis- sion Operations at the Universi- ty Park campus. Morgan, who spent his sen- ior year of high school as a full- time student at Penn State, is a recipient of the Schreyer Hon- ors College Academic Excel lence Scholarship. He just re- ceived the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, which recognizes outstanding students in the fields of mathematics, the natu- ral sciences, and engineering. 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