| RETIREES CORNER
July 2004 |
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Tom (Electronics) and Joan Lincicome (Telecommunications, 1990) recently took the Copper Canyon trip in Mexico. The Copper Canyon is much larger than our Grand Canyon. They spent two nights at a hotel on the rim of the canyon, a beautiful view, especially early in the morning. They celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary at a lovely restaurant in the middle of an apple orchard in Mexico. It was really an interesting trip.
Fred Kovar (B Division and NAI, 1993) and his wife Peg just returned from a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit old haunts and old friends. Fred was on the staff of the ATSD (Atomic Energy) in the Pentagon from 1984 to 1986. The ATSD was Rich Wagner for the first year, then Bob Barker for the second year. While in D.C., Fred and Peg visited the new World War II Memorial and many galleries and museums. They finished their trip with visits to Chancellorsville, Williamsburg and Jamestown, Virginia Retirees Dick Rufer and Camille Minichino (both Electronics Engineering, 1990) had a reunion recently with Liz (Yucca Mountain, 1993) and Don Campbell (Electronicsl Engineering, 1996) in the Campbells' beautiful Auburn home. Rumor has it that some ancient tube technology changed hands. New publications from Camille include The Carbon Murder, released March 1, and the paperback edition of The Boric Acid Murder, released June 1, and an article in Reunions magazine, also in June. The Nitrogen Murder is complete and scheduled for release in early 2005. Camille will be teaching a writing workshop on Saturday, July 10 through the Pleasant Hill Recreation and Park District. Details about this and other classes at http://www.mnichino.com/. The Livermore Amateur Radio Klub (LARK) membership voted to give Frank Rogue (Electronics Engineering, 1990) a life-time membership in their club to take back to his new North Carolina home. Regina and Fritz Frick sent a post-card from Ulm, Germany with greetings to all retirees. They are enjoying their stay and the food and beer. Chuck Woods (Engineering, 1998) and Chris Bach (Property Management, 1998) continued their sojourn north on May 5th. They are traveling through Canada and into Alaska on their trawler, Lucretia Belle. Chuck and Chris are fishing and crabbing their way towards Sitka where they hope to moor their boat in October. Their plans are to work at the Sitka Raptor Center through the Alaskan winter. July's Retiree luncheon will be held at Cattleman's' restaurant at noon on July 21st. Click here to make reservations. Dr. Richard Post will be the speaker. The title of his talk is "The Iductrack, a Home-Grown Maglev System for our Nation" and describes a new approach for magnetic levitation of trains, a spin-off from earlier work on magnetic bearings for flywheel energy-storage systems. Note: the pasta dish price is now $21 because it is not a regular menu item. Please send any news or input (please include the date and department from which you retired) to Jane or Gus Olson. E-Mail: Jane@LLNLRetirees.org or Gus@LLNLRetirees.org. . This article appears in the July 2nd or July 9th issue of Newsline. |