Sustaining the American spirit theme of Women’s History Month at the Lab

“Women Sustaining the American Spirit” is the theme for Women’s History Month activities in March at the Laboratory. The Women’s Diversity Working Group is sponsoring several events beginning with a panel discussion Tuesday (March 5) in the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center at Technical Area 3.

The Diversity (DVO) Office is cosponsoring Women’s History Month at the Laboratory.

The panel discussion features women Laboratory staff members who have served or are currently serving in the military, explained Maria Rightley of Primary Design and Assessment (X-4) and chairperson of the working group.

The panel discussion begins at 10 a.m. in the Jemez and Cochiti rooms of the Study Center and is free and open to all Lab workers. Scheduled panelists include Juanita Cordova of Design Engineering (ESA-DE), Donna Vigil of Accounting (BUS-1), Pia Griego of Procurement (BUS-5) and Lorraine Segura of Facility Risk Management (ESH-3).

At 10 a.m., March 13 in the Physics Building Auditorium at TA-3, former Navy pilot Missy Cummings will talk about her military experiences. Cummings is in Los Alamos as part of the Laboratory’s Expanding Your Horizons program for school-age girls. (See the Feb. 13 Daily Newsbulletin).

Also as part of Women’s History Month, the Women’s Diversity Working Group and Los Alamos Women in Science are cosponsoring a poster contest for children in grades one through 12. The contest is open to school children in the area; students are asked to design a poster that incorporates this year’s Women’s History Month theme, said Rightley.

Posters will be on display from March 20 through 29 in the Otowi Building second floor lobby near the entrance to the Human Resources (HR) Division also at TA-3.

Other scheduled events include a talk at 10:30 a.m. March 25 by Col. Regina Aune of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.

Since last September, Aune has been commander of the 377th Medical Group at Kirtland Air Force Base. She has served in the U.S. Air Force since 1972.

To read an Air Force Association magazine article on Aune while she was stationed in Saigon in the mid 1980s, click here.

Other events may be added in March and announced on the Women’s Diversity Working Group Web page at http://www.lanl.gov/WDWG online.

--Steve Sandoval

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