Scenes from Family Day 2002

Meet Picasso

Lynne Cash, daughter of Tim Cash of Experimental and Diagnostic Design (DX-5) and Michelle Cash, of Weapons Emergency Response (ESA-WER), gets up close and personal with Picasso, a five-year old iguana, near the Otowi Building. Ecology (RRES-ECO) group brought Picasso to Family Day as part of its effort to introduce people to a variety of wildlife and wildlife conservation. The three-foot long lizard, handled by Sherri Frybarger of RRES-ECO, patiently spent the day getting acquainted with hundreds of kids.

Dr. Skateboard

Bill Robertson, a.k.a. Dr. Skateboard, of Enterprise Support and Computer Education (IM-2) enthralls a crowd of about 90 Lab employees and their families with his skill at the “reverse wheelie” and some lively skateboarding banter. Robertson demonstrated the “physics of skateboarding” as part of the Lab’s Family Day in front of the Otowi Building at Technical Area 3. A skateboarder for 26 years, he does about a dozen demonstrations a year, mostly at fairs and festivals.

M-60

Manning a Humvee’s turret-mounted M-60 machine gun is Adam Hahn, whose dad Thad Hahn works in Chemistry and Metallurgy Research, Facility Management (NMT-13). The Humvee was set up, along with other weaponry, at the Protection Technology Los Alamos (PTLA) firing range at TA-72, to demonstrate PTLA’s physical security capabilities. PTLA personnel also carried out live-fire demonstrations and gave visitors hands-on experience with their “shoot-don’t-shoot” simulator. Photos by Kevin N. Roark, Public Affairs