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in the SLAC CommunityMay 2002, Volume 13, No. 4

Persis Drell Joins SLAC

"OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES, AND INFECTIOUSenthusiasm" are the words Persis Drell uses to characterizethe impressions she has gathered during her first weeks atSLAC.

"Guiding and managing the research program at SLACis both an opportunity and a challenge," says Drell, thenew Associate Director for the Research Division. "As amajor center for physics in the US, we have to strike a carefulbalance between maintaining a healthy lab able to sustainthe physics now being done, and investing intellectualenergy, physical resources, and our leadership on future-potentially risky, but potentially rewarding-new scientificinitiatives. It is the challenge of striking the right balancethat I find so exciting about coming to SLAC. As I learnmore about the Division and have the opportunity to reallymeet the SLAC staff, I am struck by how enthusiastically Ihave been welcomed into the SLAC community." Sheobserves that people here really care about what they doand really enjoy working together to further SLAC'sscientific contributions.

Drell's new role is built on a broad career involvingexperience in atomic, particle and astroparticle physics,teaching, and management. After graduating from WellesleyCollege, she completed her PhD in atomic physics at Berkeleyin 1983. Drell then switched to particle physics and workedas a postdoctoral student with LBNL on the Mark II

experiment at SLAC. In 1988 she and her family moved toCornell where they have been for the past 14 years.

Most recently, Drell was the Deputy Director ofCornell's Laboratory of Nuclear Studies. In that capacity,she also served as the chair of Cornell's SynchrotronRadiation Policy Committee. Her research at Cornell focusedon studies of charm and bottom quarks to measure thefundamental parameters of the weak interaction. Asabbatical in astrophysics exploring the use of supernovaeas cosmological distance markers gave her first-handexperience with the research needs in this field, knowledgethat will be put to good use as she works with JonathanDorfan and others to plan and develop the Chen Institute.

Her committee service enabled her to develop a solidunderstanding not only of SLAC's research program, butalso of the research needs of the US particle physicscommunity. She served for three years on the SLACExperimental Program Advisory Committee and, untilrecently, served as chair of the Scientific Policy Committee.In addition, she served as a member of the 2001 DOE HEPAPSubpanel on Long Range Planning.

The choice to come to SLAC was a hard one, accordingto Drell. She and her family, which includes her husbandJim Welch (LCLS) and their three children, Cornelia (age 15),Joseph (age 11), and Rose (age 7), treasured the communityof science, family, and friends they had built at Cornell. Aspart of her decision-making, she solicited advice from trustedcolleagues. What impressed her most in those discussionswas the view she was given of the SLAC staff. As onefriend put it, after discussing the plusses and minuses ofmoving to SLAC: "...and then there is the wonderful SLACstaff. The history of SLAC is a collection of miracles drivenby the wits of the people who work there."

Drell is joined at SLAC by her husband, Jim Welch,who is an accelerator physicist in the LCLS program. Whilethey miss their friends and family in Ithaca, they and theirchildren are looking forward to the increased opportunity tospend more time with family and friends in the Bay Area.Drell and her family enjoy doing outdoor activities together,including hiking and camping.

Drell is no stranger to SLAC. "At five years old, Iremember hearing Pief talking in my living room about 'theMonster', which was what SLAC was called in those days."It seems appropriate that she should be here now, taking amajor role in managing that monster.

-Pat Kreitz

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by Jonathan Dorfan

Annual HEP Program Review-Congratulations To All!

ONE OF THE KEY elements inestablishing and maintainingstandards in research is theprocess of "peer review." The

foundation of peer review is its use of experts-who arepeers-to evaluate and pass judgment in areas for whichthey have special knowledge and experience. Peer reviewhas proven to be the most enduring and successful wayto maintain standards for discovery-driven research.

The highest level of peer review used by the DOEto judge our scientific goals, progress andaccomplishments goes by the name "Annual ProgramReview." Six consultants with expertise in particlephysics experimentation, theory and accelerators cameto SLAC last month for a three-day review of theLaboratory's high energy physics (HEP) program. Theyare: Thomas Appelquist (Yale University), Drew Baden(University of Maryland), Edward Blucher (Universityof Chicago), Patrick O'Shea (University of Maryland),Richard Temkin (MIT), and Edward Thorndike(University of Rochester). The consultants wereaccompanied by a team from the DOE Program Office inWashington which included Peter Rosen (AssociateDirector, High Energy & Nuclear Physics), John O'Fallon(Director, High Energy Physics Division), as well asMichael Procario, David Sutter and Glen Crawford.

After an intense two and a half days of pre-sentations on the theoretical, experimental andaccelerator programs, the consultants were unanimousin their high praise for the Laboratory's outstandingachievements of the past year. All areas of the currentHEP program were acknowledged for their excellentquality and recent successes. It is my great pleasure topass on to you, the Laboratory staff, this most positiveoutcome-after all, it is your work that the Committeehas reviewed so positively. My heartiest congratulationsand deep appreciation for your continued dedication toexcellence in all that we do at SLAC.

40th Anniversary CountdownThis Month in SLAC History:

43 years ago:May 14, 1959. President Eisenhower endorses the Stanfordlinear accelerator proposal in a radio broadcast speech to ameeting of leading scientists and industrialists in New York.36 years ago:May 21, 1966 (6:31 a.m.). First beam travels the full lengthof the two-mile accelerator to the beam-switchyard area. Itsmeasured energy is 10 BeV. See congratulatory note fromthen-SLAC Director, WK.H. Panofsky, to staff (below).28 years ago:May 1974. The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Project(SSRP) begins operations-eight months ahead ofschedule-with 5 experimental stations sharing onebeamline.26 years ago:May 1976. Charmed mesons discovered at SPEAR by SLAC-LBL group (SPEAR Experiment SP-17). A second beam linewith 4 additional synchrotron radiation experimental stationsbegins operating at SPEAR.10 years ago:May 1, 1992. The first Z's are created at SLAC from collisionsof polarized electrons with positrons.8 years ago:May 17, 1994. With assistance from SLAC, Beijing'sInstitute for High-Energy Physics (IHEP) becomes the firstChinese institution to have a fully operational world-widenetworking connection to the internet.5 years ago:May 10, 1997 (3:00 a.m.). First beam is injected into the BFactory.

-Jean Deken

Got Photos?The SLAC 40th Anniversary Picture Book Project is lookingfor good photographs of SLAC people, places and eventsto include in a book to be published as part of the SLACAnniversary celebration. If you have photographs youwould like to lend, please send them to Jean Deken at MS82. Include your name and mail stop, as well as anyinformation you can provide about the people and eventsportrayed. Originals will be returned promptly, and allphotos used for the project will be credited.

A major goal was reached with our achieving our firstull length beam this month. This superb performance could

never have been accomplished without the dedication and hardwork of every member of the staff. I want to express mysincerest personal thanks for your part Gin ou achievement.

Warmly,

Wolfgang K. H. PanofskyDirector

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THE RESEARCH OFFICE BUILDING (ROB, aka Bldg. 048)was officially dedicated on April 2, 2002. During a briefceremony Jonathan Dorfan (SLAC Director), Stew Smith(spokesperson for BABAR), and Peter Rosen (DOE, AssociateDirector, High Energy and Nuclear Physics) spoke beforethey proceeded to simultaneously cut the red ribbon.

The BABAR group is thrilled that SLAC and the DOEhave provided such a great destination for theircollaborators. The Users point out that the break roomsprovide a casual spot where ideas can be easily exchangedin comfort. SLAC as a whole certainly appreciates thebeautiful new meeting rooms that were so desperatelyneeded.

The DOE provided funding for the new building.Dorfan thanked the people who worked especially hard toensure the building was on time and on budget. Althoughthere isn't space here to thank everyone who was involvedin this project, the following people worked hard to makethe project look easy.

Applause at the dramatic ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Burl Skaggs (SEM) was the project manager and workedit through the DOE/Congressional system starting in 1998to get funding approved. Jerry Jobe (BSD) established thebaseline scope. Hieu Dao (SEM) came on board as projectengineer, with Kingston Chan (SEM) as UTR. Deehpa Dhardid a great job as architect. Frank Brenkus (SEM)coordinated the 12kV substation purchase and installation.Hanley Lee was excellent as a DOE project manager andkept the problems to a minimum. Ruth Todd (StanfordUniversity) was helpful in getting all of the campusarchitectural approvals. W.L. Butler was an excellentsubcontractor.

Barbara Barrera (BABAR) provided splendid work andrecommendations on the very touchy issue of spaceallocation, and handled all the logistics and stress of themove. She was instrumental in getting the use of the buildingoff to a great start, and helped people from other parts ofthe lab learn how to schedule the conference rooms.

Some other people who deserve honorable mention are:SE&M: Irene Flick, cost tracking; Harry Shin, back-up UTR;Pete Gallego, fire system; Forrest Brown, electrical feed; JillKnapp and David Saenz, interior design and installation;Robbie Robinson, labor to assist in move and set up.DOE Site Office: Dave Osugi, Safety.Contractor: Bill Butler, principal; Tom Rehme,superintendent.Others at SLAC: Stew Smith, customer; Rick Yeager,security; Ginger Byam and Ben Goodman, purchasing; FredHooker, telecom; Bob Reek, fire system review; Jack Fry,code/safety inspection; Mike DiSalvo, Burhan Haile, andRay Lo, SLAC Computing Services; and many others...

Everyone at SLAC deserves thanks for their patienceduring the construction period. Go take a look at our newaddition! This building should be an asset for all of us.

-Roz Pennacchi

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The Interaction Point ( 2002, is published by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Editor-in-chief, Janice Dabney; Production Editor,

Vickee Flynn. Deadline for articles is the tenth of every month. Items are published on a space-available basis and are subject to edit.

Submissions may be sent electronically to tip@slac.stanford.edu or by SLAC ID mail to TIP, MS 20. Phone (650) 926-4208.3

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TWO SLAC SCIENTISTS ARE teaming up with scientistsfrom the former Soviet Union. James Clendenin (AD), andPeter Bosted (University of Massachusetts), will do researchwith physicists in Russia and Armenia respectively, thanksto two-year grants from the Civilian Research andDevelopment Fund (CRDF). These grants were establishedto help support scientists of the former Soviet Union, butClendenin and Bosted agree that they benefit everyone.

The grants were set up in 1995 to help supportexceptional peer-reviewed research projects that offerscientists and engineers alternatives to emigration and helpprevent the dissolution of the scientific and technologicalinfrastructure of the countries of the former Soviet Union.Ninety percent of the grant money is used for laboratoryequipment, supplies and salaries for the former Sovietscientists, with ten percent allotted for travel. StanleyBrodsky (Theory), and Russian physicist Boris Ioffe won aCRDF grant in 2000. Several scientists from StanfordUniversity have also been awarded grants in recent years.

Clendenin and Yuri Mamaev (State TechnicalUniversity in St. Petersburg, Russia), were jointly awarded$65,000 to study polarized photocathodes. This is thesecond time the pair has won the grant; the first was in1997.

Clendenin is part of the polarized photocathoderesearch group at SLAC and Mamaev is the principalinvestigator for a similar group at the State TechnicalUniversity. Since the mid 1980s, Mamaev's group has studiedthe properties of gallium arsenide crystals in polarizedphotocathodes. The crystals are grown at the Ioffe Institute,a state-run lab just across the street from the university inSt. Petersburg that used to do research for the Sovietmilitary. "The lab is still there and it's still state-run," saidClendenin. "They can grow the crystals quickly andinexpensively, so we can get a lot of material from them."

Photocathodes are used at SLAC to make the electronsthat are accelerated down the two-mile-long linearaccelerator. When physicists shine light particles from a laseronto a photocathode, the photocathode turns the light intoelectrons. The photocathodes used now generate electronsthat are about 80% polarized, but the Next Linear Colliderwill require electrons that are at least 90% polarized.Clendenin hopes that collaborating with Mamaev will leadto this improvement in the quality of the photocathodes.

Clendenin says he plans to spend two weeks in St.Petersburg sometime this summer and will send another SLACphysicist after he returns. Next year, Mamaev will spend amonth at SLAC near the end of the two-year grant, and hewill also send a graduate student to SLAC for four months.

Peter Bosted and Robert Avagyan (Yerevan PhysicsInstitute in Armenia) were jointly awarded a $60,000 CRDFgrant. Bosted, a SLAC user who also teaches physics at theUniversity of Massachusetts in Amherst, says that Avagyanis an expert with photon beams. Like other scientists fundedby the Soviet military, Avagyan lost nearly all of his fundingafter the fall of the Soviet Union.

Photon beams were last used for research at SLAC in1979. "We like to say we're resurrecting the photon beamhere," joked Bosted. Recently, they have become useful astools for understanding charm quark behavior. WhenAvagyan and his group come to SLAC, they'll bring diamondcrystals for making the photon beams and equipment tomeasure the beam's polarization and brightness. "For me,the biggest benefit is getting a large group of very talentedpeople to make a big contribution to the experiment thatthey wouldn't have been able to otherwise," said Bosted.

Bosted will do research in Armenia for several weeksthis summer, and Avagyan, who has worked with SLACbefore, will return to SLAC after Bosted's trip.

-Desiree Scorcia

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Energy Management Update

WE HAVE GOOD NEWS in the field of energy management:DOE Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP)administration approved $330.5K funding for SLAC toimplement Phase 1 of the Klystron Gallery Lighting Upgradeproject. In addition, we secured a California EnergyCommission grant of $92.7K for this project. The projectentails replacement of 1,580 incandescent lamps and 275energy inefficient fluorescent lighting fixtures in the KlystronGallery with new, energy efficient, fluorescent lights. Theprojected saving is 3.7 GWH per year. Yes, you read theamount correctly - it is indeed 3.7 Giga Watt Hours peryear, or enough yearly power for about 500 homes! Ourrecently completed pilot installation in Sector 12 receivedthe approval of Klystron Gallery Building Managers Al Bakerand Tom Graul as exceeding the existing standards forillumination.

This is the first major step toward implementation of a

Site-wide Lighting Upgrade Program. Many areas at SLACpresent opportunities to improve energy efficiency. Lack of

on-demand lighting controls and inefficient lighting is

disappointing to some at SLAC who would like to see usmove faster. However, these energy conservation projectsrequire capital investments and, even with good saving-to-investment ratios and short payback periods, the funding issomewhat difficult to obtain. We at SE&M are continuallyworking on development and submission of proposals forprocurement of funds for energy conservation projects.

The Central Chilled Water Plant Upgrade is anotherproject with good energy savings potential. The project is

being funded out of the SLAC General Plant Project budgetand will be in full operation by the end of May 2002. It is

currently under construction and is being managed byKingston Chan (SE&M). The scope of work includesreplacement of three old, inefficient chillers with new energy-

efficient machines and improving the chilled water pumpingsystem for energy efficiency. The expected energy savingfor this project is 2.3 GWH per year!

The summer period, featuring high electrical demands,is coming upon us again. Please continue implementingsimple, no-cost or low-cost energy conservation measures.For energy conservation tips and other energy relatedinformation visit our Energy Management website atwww.slac.stanford.edu/slac/energy/.

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THE SLAC RADIATION PHYSICS Department hosted the6th International Workshop on Shielding Aspects of Accel-erators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF-6). SayedRokni was Chairman of the Workshop, held at SLAC in April.Fifty-five radiation physicists from laboratories, companies,universities and medical centers from 10 countries and twointernational organizations participated in the 2-1/2 dayworkshop. For a complete program, see http://www-

project.slac.stanford.edu/satif6/.

The activities of the Task Force on SATIF are spon-sored by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-opera-tion and Development) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) andits Nuclear Science Committee (NSC). The main objectivesof the SATIF Meetings are:

* to promote the exchange of information among experts

in the field of accelerator shielding and related topics;

*to identify areas where international co-operation can be

fruitful; and*to carry on a program of work in order to achieve progress

in specific priority areas.

SATIF is jointly organized by the OECD's NEA; theRadiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC);and the Shielding Working Group of the Reactor PhysicsCommittee of Japan.

SLAC's Radiation Physics Department has been ac-tive in SATIF from its beginning. Recently, to better pre-pare for the NLC design, it hasaligned part of its research goalswith that of SATIF. Members ofthe department have been in-volved in joint collaborative ef-forts with radiation physicistsfrom Japan and CERN and havemade extensive use of the SLACTest Beam Program. RadiationPhysics was well represented atSATIF-6 with three papers on re-sults of recent collaborative ef- (Tohoku University) and

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

MARK SEPTEMBER 14 ON YOUR calendar for our FamilyDay celebration at SLAC. This year will be a special eventbecause we are combining our bi-annual Family Day picnicwith a celebration of SLAC's 40th anniversary. All SLACemployees/retirees and their families are invited to attend.

The theme of Family Day is "Celebrating 40 Years ofAccelerating!" The Family Day Committee is hard at workplanning activities such as: an vintage car show; arts, craftsand hobbies show; picnic and carnival games for "kids" ofall ages; a celebrity dunk tank; face painting and caricatures;live music; a volleyball tournament; ping pong; giant slide,obstacle course and other "inflatable" games; and, of course,wonderful food.

In addition to attending Family Day, you can be aparticipant in these activities. The committee will be lookingfor SLAC employees who want to enter their cars in the carshow or who want to display and/or sell their wares in thearts, crafts and hobbies show. We'll also be looking forvolunteers to be clowns, tell stories, do magic tricks andwork at the popcorn, cotton candy and ice cone stands.

Save the date now and watch for the flyers announcinghow you can volunteer and become a participant in theactivities.

REFERRALS PAY OFF

"WORLD CLASS PEOPLE" TEND to have World Classfriends and associates. This has proven to be true at SLAC,where the SLAC Employee Referral Program has broughttop talent to the Laboratory and has created a winningsituation for all involved.

A recent success story involved a manager who neededto fill a critical physicist opening and a SLAC employee whoreferred a previous co-worker and friend for the position.The result was a great match of skills and enthusiasm, witha brilliant new hire returning to the science she loves, andthe referring employee receiving a $250 referral bonus andthe chance to once again work with a colleague. The hiringmanager declared, "SLAC won big on this one!"

SLAC wins big every time there is a successful hire.You can win too, by referring one of your World Classfriends. Visit http: //www-group.slac. stanford.edu/hr/referral .htm for complete Employee Referral Programinformation and http: //www. slac. stanford. edu/cgi-bin/spiface/find/j obreq/default for a list of currentjob openings.

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The women in Human Resources walked the Linac toraise money for UNIFEM, a United Nationsorganization providing funds for the education ofwomen in Afghanistan. Walkers included. [front rowfrom left] Erin Smith, Claudia Ransom, SharonHaynes, [back row] Karen Lawrence, Ute Hayes,Barbara Mason, Toni Campos and Carol Bechtel.[Not pictured: Linda Ahlf]

Tips from TIPWeight Watchers pledges to help you achieve yourweight-management goals in a safe and effective way.Help us bring Weight Watchers back to SLAC. CallDianne Jenkins for questions at x2215.Host families are needed for the local minor leaguebaseball team, the San Jose Giants. Cathy Knotts (SSRL)and her husband have been a host family for the pastthree years. The team is always in need of more hostfamilies. If anyone has a spare bedroom and is interestedin helping out these aspiring young baseball players,please contact Linda Pereira at (408) 297-1435. Besidesthe warm feeling from helping someone get started, hostfamilies also get a season pass to the San Jose Giantsand invitations to special events to meet team playersand managers.HR and the Operating Safety Committee are sponsoringa "Bike to Work Faire" on May 10 from 11:00 - 2:00 onthe Green in front of the Cafeteria. This is for bicyclists,budding bicyclists and others with an interest inalternate transportation and bicycle safety. In additionto information on bicycle safety and alternatetransportation, local bicycle shops will display varioussafety products. Bring your bicycle to get a free safetycheck. Steve Schmidt, Mayor of Menlo Park, will speakto us on "Bike Safety in the Sand Hill Corridor" at 12:15.Best of all, there will be a raffle with prizes and bicyclegoodie giveaways! Everyone is invited to attend.

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Work Safe, Work SmartAn injury involving days away from work occurred on2/21/02 according to Sharon Haynes, Worker's Compen-sation Coordinator. The number of calendar days be-tween then and the last injury of 1/30/02 is 22 days.SLAC's record number of days between claims involv-ing days away from work remains at 184 days.

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aBar Has World's Largest Database!ON MARCH 27, THE BABAR experiment's database stored

its 500,000th Gigabyte, a milestone that makes it the largest

known database in the world. BABAR mass-produces huge

quantities of scientific data with industrial efficiency,

sending up to 500 Gigabytes of data daily to the experiment'sdatabase.

Printed out, the 500 Terabytes of data in the BABAR

database would fill one billion books. That's nearly 60 times

the number of books in the Library of Congress, the largest

library in the world. "The need to store the avalanche of

information coming from the experiment and then efficiently

search and retrieve specific data samples has driven

physicists and computer experts to create innovativetechnology," said Jonathan Dorfan. "Governments,

commercial corporations and institutes will face similar

needs in the near future and the knowledge and experience

we have gained will be passed on."In 1996, while work was beginning on the construction

of the experimental apparatus, researchers at SLAC and the

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) began the

arduous task of constructing an efficient and convenient

way of storing and retrieving the enormous output of

information expected from the experiment. Working closely

with physicists from the BABAR project, as well as researchersat other physics laboratories, the development team chose

to base the system on a new object-oriented database

technology. Objectivity/DB, a product of Objectivity, Inc.

based in nearby Mountain View in the heart of Silicon Valley,

was chosen to meet the demands of the BABAR data.The SLAC and LBNL team worked over two years to

customize the core database software to provide the

scientists with the initial features they needed for this

immense project. SLAC and LBNL researchers wrote more

than half a million lines of software code to provide the

physicists access to their data in a simple and reliable

fashion. "We liked the challenge," said Jacek Becla, the

BABAR Database group manager. "We bet on a promising,

but somewhat unproven, object-oriented databasetechnology back in 1996."

In May 1999, the experiment began taking data and the

database was put to the test. It was not at all clear that the

technology could keep up with the vast flow of information

coming from the experiment. Bottlenecks were found, but

one by one these problems were eliminated and the database

began to hit its stride. The database is now capable of

recording data at speeds no one dared dream of in 1999.

More than a Terabyte of data can be stored every day.

"This milestone of 500 Terabytes is a vindication of

the potential of object databases that we anticipated when

we embarked on this project," said LBNL's David Quarrie, a

chief architect of the system. "A lot of credit should go to

the members of the BABAR Database group and to Objectivity

who have collaborated well with us. This is a great example

of how research scientists can collaborate with high-tech

industry to create new systems that in the near future can

benefit all kinds of fields."

(l-r) Richard Mount, Andrew Hanusnevscy, imuonPatton, AdeyemiAdesanya, Adil Hasan, Artem Trunov,

and Jacek Becla congratulate each other on

reaching 500,000 Gigabytes in the World's LargestDatabase.

"We have to stay on the cutting edge in order to use

our resources in the most efficient way," said Richard Mount,

SLAC's head of computing. "The database is the biggest

not because we want it to be but because we need it. And it

looks like we have a lot more scaling to do in the next few

years as the amount of data along with the number of data

analysis jobs grows.For more information about the BABAR database please

visit http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/

Public/Computing/Databases/index.shtml.-Neil Calder

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NEXT TIME YOU SHOW your badgeat the Entrance Gates, try smiling-it'lldo you good, and it'll make a bigdifference to the guard viewing yourID. This behavior may come naturally,but not to everyone. Rick Yeager,Safeguards & Security Manager,reports rudeness by some as a resultof the more stringent security checks

put in place after September 11. The security checks are aDOE mandate and the guards are enforcing it to provide theleast inconvenience while adhering to the mandate.

Within a recent two week period, three persons "ranthe gate" at speeds from 10 to 25 mph. Responses to PatrolOfficers included "I was late," "That's a stupid requirement,"and "I didn't see the Stop Sign." The latter was from a 20-

year SLAC employee. As Yeager observed, "There havebeen, and continue to be, almost daily incidents of sarcasticcomments directed at the Gate Officers as people are

passing...This attitude is somewhat difficult for me tounderstand when I see the names of the people making thecomments."

Remember, SLAC's Respectful Workplace Policy startsas soon as you cross the SLAC property line. While eachone of us contributes different skills to the mission of the

Lab, we have in common at least two things: we want SLACto be safe, and we're all human beings. Why not go thatextra distance and transform "human" to "humane" the nexttime you arrive at work.

-Janice Dabney, Chairnnperatinr Safetv Committee

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APPOINTMENTSWilliams, Steve, RD, promoted to Deputy ResearchDivision Director, 4/17/02Weisend, John, EFD, promoted to Experimental FacilitiesDepartment Head, 4/25/02

AWARDSHubbard, Jean, "Trailblazer Leadership Award 2002," formaking a difference in the business, community and theenvironment, from American Transitech, Inc., 3/02

SERVICE AWARDSMount, Richard, SCS, 5 years, 05/01/02Wermelskirchen Clemens, ASD, 5 years, 05/02/02O'Grady, Christopher, BABAR, 5 years, 05/12/02Cohen, Aina, ESRD, 5 years, 05/27/02Pickrom, Sandra, Purchasing, 15 years, 05/01/02Bloom, Elliott, Experimental Group K, 35 years, 5/19/02Candia, Arthur, EFD Cryogenics, 35 years, 5/22/02

RETIREDBeach, John, ESD, 4/30/02

DECEASEDPeregoy, Fred, left SLAC in 1985; died 4/9/02 at age 80Seavers, Charles H., SSRL Beam Line Development, died4/10/02 at age 45

Email milestones to tip@slac.stanford.edu. For expandedinformation see: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/

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