Marcia Mitzman Gaven 1985. Gaven starred in the New York City Opera's Broadway revival of "Brigadoon", in which she played Meg Brockie, at New York State Theater in 1986. The story is about a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years, and Meg is one of the villagers. According to Sy Syna of the magazine "The World & I", Gaven was "a huge crowd pleaser" in the role. She was also cast in the New York City Opera's spring 1987 revival of "South Pacific" as the female lead character Nellie Forbush, a U.S. Navy nurse who works on
Scott Forbush to organize and coordinate both national and international efforts in the observation of cosmic ray intensity world-wide using neutron monitors developed by John A. Simpson. The bulk of his research was pertaining to geophysical and solar activity, as he contributed a reliable foundation for fundamental cosmic ray effects and also made discoveries of his own. Such effects include the 22-year cycle in the amplitude of the diurnal variation, the 11-year cyclic variation of intensity and its anticorrelation with the solar activity cycle by use of measuring sunspot numbers, worldwide impulsive decreases (which were termed Forbush decreases after himself) of intensity