As
1998 rapidly draws to an end, the History/Archives
staff can look back with a sense of accomplishment
on a fruitful, one might say even historic, year.
Corporate
Historian Carl Mora takes a respite from dodging
Parisian traffic to pose in front of the Palais
de Congres, site of the PATRAM conference in May
1998. The Palais, which consists of a convention
center, shops, restaurants, and theaters, was
undergoing extensive renovation at the time. |
In May, Corporate Historian Carl Mora attended
the 12th International Conference on the Packaging and
Transportation of Radioactive Materials (PATRAM) in
Paris to present a paper and poster session on the history
of packaging at Sandia titled " 'We Crash, Burn,
and Crush': A History of Packaging at Sandia National
Laboratories, 1978- 1997." Carl also has completed
a draft of Sandia's role in the WIPP project. The
draft is now undergoing reviews and has an anticipated
date of publication for summer 1999. On
November 14, Carl and Research Historian Rebecca Ullrich
taught a one-day class on Sandia's history to the interns
of John Hogan's (5507) Weapons Course. Rebecca
also attended the History of Science in Society meeting
in Kansas City, October 22-25, 1998.
Corporate Archivist Myra O'Canna
has been admitted to the Academy of Certified Archivists
after passing the exam given at the Society of American
Archivists September annual meeting in Orlando. Myra
also was invited to speak on Sandia's institutional
culture and history to Professor Merry Stubblefield's
Introduction to Management class at UNM's Anderson
School of Management on November 24.
Research and writing continue
on Volume 2 of the technical/administrative history
of Sandia, which is a sequel to Necah Furman's Sandia
National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade,
published in 1990. The second volume will cover the
years 1956 to 1974, when the Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC) was abolished and replaced by the Environmental
Resources Development Administration (ERDA).
In FY 1998, the Corporate Archives/History
Program answered 218 reference questions/calls received
by phone and email. |