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Profiles in the Law

Aiming for the Stars:
Martin Alvey Finds Satisfaction in Looking Up
By Cliff Collins

As a standout left tackle on Marshfield High School’s football team in Coos Bay, Martin L. Alvey probably saw stars at one time or another — or more likely, his opponents did after sustaining his fierce hits.

But in in OMSI’s parking lot, the stars Alvey saw changed his life.

He had taken his sons, then ages 6 and 4, to a Rose City Astronomers star party at the museum, thinking they might find it entertaining. Someone let him peer at the planet Saturn through a giant telescope, and Alvey was astonished. The image was so large and clear that he thought it was a photograph. From that moment on, Alvey was hooked.

In many of his off hours from his Portland law practice, Alvey devotes time to his avocation of amateur astronomy, affectionately dubbed stargazing. He attends Rose City Astronomers star parties sever