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Service Awards Celebrate Decades of SLAC Service

The service awards dinner took place at the Stanford Faculty Club. (Photo by Brad Plummer.)

SLAC Director Persis Drell (right) congratulates Jim McDonald on his 40 years at SLAC.
(Photo by Brad Plummer.)
 

Awardees (from left): Hector Prado, John Azevedo, Len Moss, Jim McDonald, Jeff Olsen, Joe Stieber, Mike Saleski, Teresa Juarez, Eric Bong, Alan Fisher, Dian Yeremian, Mattie Pace, Chris Adolphsen, Jim Simpson, Joe Olszewski, Ric Claus, Robert Conley. Kneeling: Boni Cordova-Grimaldi and Michelle Smith-Strand. (Photo by Brad Plummer.)

Attendees enjoy a 3-D slideshow at the service award celebration.
(Photo by Brad Plummer.)
 

On Wednesday, March 30, SLAC celebrated the milestones of 42 employees reaching 20, 30 and 40 years of service at a lively dinner at the Stanford Faculty Club. The euphonic tones of Leonard Webb's Jazz Duo played in the background as recipients dined with lab Director Persis Drell, senior staff members and invited guests. Uwe Bergmann from the Linac Coherent Light Source gave an entertaining and enlightening presentation chronicling his personal journey to being a SLAC physicist. Donning 3-D glasses, attendees viewed slides of Archimedes' writing on parchment by way of X-ray fluorescence imaging achieved at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. Bergmann showed examples of detailed X-ray images from SSRL of dino-bird Archaeopteryx all the way down to the shape of its feathers. He also spoke on the special structures of water.

Human Resources Department Director Larry Young offered the following remarks to the awardees:

So, I hope you all pause and celebrate this moment, this step in the journey of your life. It is an achievement in and of itself, whether tonight is twenty, thirty, forty years of contribution and commitment to the advancement of human knowledge.
 
Truly, few pursuits could be considered nobler than that.

Persis distributed the awards. The honorees were:

—Lauren Barbieri
  SLAC Today, April 6, 2011