Tuesday, May 6, 1997
The Inside Story:
Good safety practices and environmental responsibility are good business
The Department of Energy sent a clear message about the importance of environment, health and safety with its recent decision to relieve Associated Universities Inc. of its operating duties at Brookhaven National Laboratory. And that message was not lost on Laboratory Director Sig Hecker. In his Inside Story, the director discusses how the situation at Brookhaven underscores the urgency of Los Alamos continuing to implement its own Integrated Safety Management program. go to
Asian-Pacific Heritage Month display up for the month
Lori Tamura, left, of Communication Arts and Services (CIC-1) installs a panel as part of the Asian-Pacific Heritage Month display in the Otowi Building. At right is Kien-Yin Lee of High Explosive Science and Technology (DX-2). The display will remain up through the end of the month.
The Asian American Diversity Working Group is sponsoring Asian-Pacific Heritage Month at the Lab. Activities continue today with an Asian Career Development workshop in the Jemez Room on the second floor of the Study Center. Diversity specialist and trainer Sally Huang-Nissen will lead the workshop. After the workshop, there is an open reception in the Santa Clara Gallery of the Study Center featuring a national costume display. Photo by James E. Rickman
Walterscheid named acting for Laboratory Counsel
Ed Walterscheid is the new acting laboratory counsel, while
a search committee continues looking for a permanent replacement for Reggie
Hughes, who retired last month.
Walterscheid has been in associate status since January when he retired from the Lab. Walterscheid joined the Lab in 1969. He has a bachelor's degree in chemistry and his juris doctorate degree from the University of New Mexico.
Walterscheid's appointment was announced at a Laboratory Leadership Council meeting by Lab Deputy Director Jim Jackson.
Walterscheid said Laboratory Counsel (LC) recently reorganized into three groups: general law, litigation and employment law, and business and patent law.
James E. Mitchell is group leader for general law; Frank Dickson is group leader for litigation and employment law, and William Eklund is group leader for business and patent law.
A search team from the University of California General Counsel to the UC Board of Regents and the Lab are jointly seeking a replacement for Hughes.
--Steve Sandoval
Department of Energy Secretary Federico Peña recently spoke at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's colloquium on Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. He noted that since coming to DOE he has come to appreciate that DOE's role in the overall federal science and technology effort is considerably greater than what the general public and some in the scientific community understand, and he said one of his top goals will be to promote the importance of DOE as an important federal science and technology agency. go to |
Rae Ridlon, right, of Machine Science Technology (DX-6) explains a prehistoric double pot to his son, Dan Ridlon, Thursday at the Laboratory Archives Center. The pot was returned Thursday to the Ridlons. Dan Ridlon found the pot in 1978 in White Rock Canyon, and it was displayed for nearly a dozen years at the Bradbury Science Museum. San Ildefonso Pueblo sued the Lab and the Ridlons in 1993, claiming the double pot was sacred and asking that it be returned. The pueblo recently decided to let the Ridlons have the pot, voluntarily dismissing its claims to the pot. Photo by James E. Rickman |
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Peña goal to promote DOE as an important
science agency
Prehistoric pot returned to Ridlons