SANDIA HISTORY PROGRAM

NEWSLETTER

Unlimited Distribution  Sand98-0905

April 1998

The Sandia Team which produced the award-winning history of Sandia: John Taylor (5335), Myra O'Canna (15102), Jan Gaunce (12620), Rebecca Ullrich and Carl Mora (both 15102). Missing from the group is author Leland Johnson who finished the first draft of the book in 1996 and now resides in Tennessee.

The Society for Technical Communication, New Mexico Kachina Chapter presented two of its prestigious awards to the Sandia History Team for their work on the book, Sandia National Laboratories: A History of Exceptional Service in the National Interest. The two awards were Best of Show and the Talavai Award of Distinguished Technical Communication in Technical Publications. The team consisted of artistic designer Jan Gaunce; editors Carl Mora, John Taylor, and Rebecca Ullrich; and photo editor Myra O'Canna. Jan also won two individual international awards: an Award of Merit in Technical Publications, Book category; and an Award of Achievement in Technical Art, Manual Book Design category.

March was Women's History Month and the Sandia History Program was involved in two exhibits celebrating women's achievements. We provided several older photos for the National Atomic Museum's exhibit focusing on women in science and technology. Shelley Renee and Tom Salazar of the Museum organized the exhibit, which was up until the end of March. They will be producing a new, and probably larger, exhibit for Women's History Month next year. If you are interested in contributing to that effort in any way (ideas, photographs, funding, etc.), please contact Tom Salazar at the Museum at 284-3228.

The History Program's exhibit, "A Woman's Place is Where She Wants to Be: A History of Women at Sandia," is on display at the new west side branch of the Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union. It was up in time for Women's History Month and the branch's grand opening; it may be viewed until the end of April. The exhibit contains photographs of women in a variety of jobs at Sandia over the years. If you have any questions or suggestions pertaining to this exhibit, please contact Rebecca Ullrich at 844-1483.

Corporate Historian Carl J. Mora will present a poster exhibit and paper entitled "We Crash, Burn, and Crush: A History of Packaging at Sandia National Laboratories, 1978-1997", coauthored by Paul E. McConnell (6805), at the 12th International Conference on the Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials (PATRAM) to be held in Paris, France on May 10-15, 1998. Carl's article, "Bridging the Cold War and the 21st Century: Chronicling the History of Sandia National Laboratories," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Government Information.