January 10 Issue - Employee Monthly Magazine

Notebook

Area school children to get new shoes

School children from throughout Northern New Mexico are being fitted for new shoes next month thanks to the LANL Laces program.

The program provides a new pair of shoes for area elementary school students in need. Laboratory employees and UGS Washington Group make financial contributions to a shoe-purchase fund.

Contact Tim Martinez of the Community Programs Office at 5-4400 or timothy@lanl.gov by e-mail, or http://community.lanl.gov/source/orgs/cpo/community_giving/laces.shtml for more information about the LANL Laces program.

Report lost, damaged, destroyed, or stolen property

Lab workers must immediately report lost, destroyed, damaged, or stolen property. Initial reports may be made to loststolen@lanl.gov by e-mail, or by phone to the Security Inquiry Team at 5-3505. Or page the Physical Security Division Office at 949-0156, if after hours. Failure to report may result in disciplinary actions.

Students’ transcripts due soon

The annual transcript review process requires that current Laboratory students submit official transcripts by February 28. The annual student transcript review process enables the Education and Postdoc Program Office to monitor students’ program eligibility and ensure academic progression.

Official transcripts should be sent to Brenda Montoya in the Education and Postdoc Program Office at Mail Stop M709 through interoffice mail or P.O. Box 1663 (MS M709), Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545 if outside the Laboratory.

For more information, contact Montoya at 7-4866 or bmontoya@lanl.gov by e-mail.

Random vehicle inspections expanded starting this month

Beginning this month, protective force officers and explosive detection dog teams will conduct random inspections of all vehicles entering and exiting the Laboratory. Employees are expected to follow the directions of the protective force officers during these searches.

The inspections are part of a continuous analysis of key facilities to determine the potential for adversaries to introduce explosives for destructive purposes.

LANL Foundation student scholarship applications due

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation is accepting applications through January 19 for Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund scholarships.

The Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund allows Lab employees, subcontract personnel, retirees, and the business community to donate to a fund that awards college scholarships to Northern New Mexico area students. Since the scholarship program started in 1998, more than 500 Northern New Mexico students have received more than $1.5 million in scholarship assistance through the program.

Students can learn more about the program and apply for a scholarship by going to the LANL Foundation Web page at https://www.lanlfoundation.org/ online. Scholarship recipients will be named in April.

January service anniversaries

Find the January service anniversaries online at http://www.lanl.gov/news/currents/2010/jan/anniversaries.shtml.

In memoriam

• George Balog, 81, died October 22
• Roger Salles, 58, died October 30
• Betty L. Hicks, 82, died November 1
• Tommy Leo Crisler, 81, died November 4
• Bruce J. Dropesky, 85, died November 10
• Keith Boyer, 94, died November 11
• Matthew J. O’Keefe, 93, died November 14
• Arthur Daniel Schelberg, 88, died November 16
• Donald Dodder, 85, died November 19
• James R. Bradberry, 73, died November 26
• Talmadge Ray England, 79, died December 3
• Glenn Lemon, 75, died December 6
• Herman P. Deinken, 90, died December 7

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