by Judy Jackson, Office of Public AffairsAs he described for a Laboratory

audience the tasks confronting Fermilab inthe coming decade, Fermilab DirectorJohn Peoples showed a transparency enti-tled “Conceptual Plans for the Future.” Itlisted new particle accelerators and detec-tors that might someday be built at theLaboratory. When a fly landed on thesecond entry, “Muon Collider,” Peoplesswatted it away.

“Ah!” quipped a member of the audience. “The first collision at a muoncollider at Fermilab.”

The Laboratory has much to accom-plish before any further collisions can occurat a muon collider—or at any Fermilab col-lider, including the Tevatron in ColliderRun II. And last week, in a series of meet-ings with members of the Fermilab com-munity, the Laboratory director describedplans to create “a better alignment of ourorganizational structure with the work onour plate.”

The reorganization plan, which willtake effect on January 1, 1997, grew fromsix weeks of collaborative effort by thedirector and the heads and heads-to-be offour new scientific and technical divisions:the Beams Division, the ComputingDivision, the Particle Physics Division andthe Technical Division. The organization ofadministrative sections of the Laboratorywill remain largely unchanged.

Volume 19 Friday, October 18, 1996 Number 20

INSIDE2 New UEC

3 Barbara LachDedication

4 Painless Physics:Fixed-Target PhysicsPart II

5 Profiles in Particle Physics:Marilyn Smith

6 Prairie Harvest

f Fermilab Reorganizes to Get the Work Done

continued on page 8

Fermilab Director John Peoples enumerated themajor tasks the Laboratory must accomplish, as hedescribed a new organizational structure to helpget them done.

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Accelerator DivisionHead Dave Finley (left, below) will headthe new Beams Division.CDF Department HeadJohn Cooper (middle),assisted by DeputyStephen Pordes, willlead the Particle Physics Division.

by Donald Sena, Office of Public AffairsFermilab’s Users Executive Committee

seated its newest members and selected offi-cers for 1996–97 at the Sept. 21 meeting. Thegroup elected Patricia McBride from Fermilabas chairperson and Maury Goodman, fromArgonne National Laboratory, for a secondterm as secretary.

McBride succeeds Al Goshaw, from DukeUniversity, as chair; Goshaw, however, remainson the committee for his third term. Thegroup also added six new members, all fromdifferent universities from around the country.McBride said the committee serves as a stronglink between the scientists who use Fermilabfor research and the Lab itself.

The UEC “takes care of several issues,”said McBride. “One is to support and main-tain the strength of the scientific function ofthe Lab, and to make sure it’s a creative envi-ronment, so experimentalists can come herefrom outside institutions and do science” atthe energy frontier.

The UEC, through subcommittees and asa whole, plans to tackle many issues in its cur-rent term. For example, McBride said thecommittee wants to study how users canbecome more active in outreach programs tobridge the gap between scientists and thepublic, whose tax dollars support research atFermilab.

Another area of attention is the relation-ship between scientists and the people whocontrol the taxpayers’ money. McBride envi-sions the UEC acting as an “educational

interface between the usersand folks in Washington”during this time ofshrinking budgets for par-ticle physics in the U.S.She said the UEC’s annualtrip to the nation’s capitalto meet with officials atthe Universities ResearchAssociation, Departmentof Energy employees andmembers of Congress isone of the more important tasks of the committee.

The UEC has also established its committee network for the coming term. The group created committees focusing onyounger physicists, continuing education andthe job market; the quality of life of users andfacility upkeep; outreach programs; the annualtrip to Washington; funding and science educa-tion; computing issues and the Users’ AnnualMeeting, which included an address bySecretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary at the lastgathering of users.

McBride said the UEC was very active lastyear and she hopes to continue their successthis year.

“This year’s committee members are veryenergetic. I am looking forward to workingwith them,” said McBride.

Information about the UEC and otheruser activities can be found on a new WorldWide Web page located at http://www.fnal.gov/orgs/fermilab_users_org/uec.html ■

New Users Executive Committee

The following peoplemake up the new UEC(an asterisk indicates acontinuing member):■ Al Goshaw*,

Duke University (ex–chair)

■ Maury Goodman*, Argonne National Laboratory (secretary)

■ Jay Hauser*, University of California, Los Angeles

■ Patricia McBride*,Fermilab (chair)

■ Richard Partridge*, Brown University

■ Juliana Whitmore*, Fermilab

■ John Yoh*, Fermilab

■ Mary Anne Cummings, University of Hawaii

■ David Gerdes, Johns Hopkins University

■ Richard Gustafson, University of Michigan

■ Tacy Joffe–Minor, Northwestern University

■ Young–Kee Kim, University of California, Berkeley

■ Naomi Makins, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign

The new UEC. Seated left to right, front row: Young–Kee Kim, Naomi Makins, Patricia McBride, Tacy Joffe–Minor, Juliana Whitmore, Jay Hauser. Back row: Al Goshaw, Richard Partridge, Maury Goodman, David Gerdes, Richard Gustafson, John Yoh, Mary Anne Cummings.

Fermilab physicistPatricia McBride, new chair of UEC.

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LaboratoryDedicatesLach Theater

Recalling her many contributions toFermilab communication, Director JohnPeoples dedicated the Laboratory’s 15th floorvisitors’ theater in honor of Barbara Ryan Lach,director of Public Information at Fermilab from1990 until her death from cancer in 1995.More than a hundred guests, including Lach’shusband, Joseph Lach, and the couple’s chil-dren, Michael and Elizabeth, joined thedirector and members of the Board ofOverseers in recalling Lach and her lastinginfluence on the Laboratory. The director citedespecially her partnership with physicist ErnestMalamud in planning the refurbishing ofWilson Hall’s 15th-floor visitor area.

“People, physics and Fermilab were whatmattered to Barbara—in that order,” her hus-band told the group. “She cared about physicsand she cared about Fermilab, but she alwaysput people first.”

Peoples unveiled a plaque at the entranceto the visitors’ theater and read from it a quota-

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tion from Lach on the value of the 15th floorcenter: “Fermi National Accelerator Laboratoryhas an obligation to communicate its mission tothe general public. The visitors’ area, with itsspectacular vistas and wide hours of availability,is an excellent vehicle for communication.”

The Barbara Ryan Lach theater occupiesabout 750 sq. ft. and can accommodate 40people. Visitors can view a selection of Fermilabvideotapes explaining the Laboratory and itsmission of high-energy physics research. ■

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~Joe Lach, of his wife, the late Barbara Lach

The Barbara Ryan Lach theater.

by Peter Garbincius, Physics Section, andLeila Belkora, Office of Public Affairs

As a pasta machine makes dough intolong strands of spaghetti, pillows ofravioli, or curly mounds of rigatoni,depending on the attachments, so fixed-target experiments take a stream of pro-tons and produce particle beams of what-ever kind they need, using specialized tar-gets and selection devices. At Fermilab,where nine fixed-target experiments arecurrently running, the menu includesbeams of particles such as hyperons, neu-tral kaons, and the dieter’s delight—thecalorie-free neutrinos.

Primary protons from the Tevatron—the basic ingredient of all but two of thefixed-target experiments—hit targets toproduce secondary beams. Some experi-ments use the secondary beams directly,while some require another stage to studyparticles that decay from them. In eithercase, the first choice experimenters makeis what type of target to use.

The optimum target is one that favorsproducing the particles of interest, butdoes not absorb them. E872 needs neu-trinos, elementary particles that react withmatter so little that they can travelthrough the earth itself without being significantly absorbed. That experiment’starget consists of a thick block of tung-sten, in which pions materialize and decayinto neutrinos. The rest of the beamline ismostly absorbent shielding, to take every-thing but the neutrinos out of the beam.E831, on the other hand, needs a beamof photons that would be completelyabsorbed by a metal target. Experimentersthere chose liquid deuterium for theirtarget because compared to metals it has a more favorable balance of charge andmass. The charge in the target particleabsorbs and reconverts photons (bad forbeam intensity), while a high mass favorsproducing photons (good for beam intensity).

Experimenters focus the primaryproton beam down to a narrow spot illu-minating their target. Again, they make

trade-offs. The smallest spots give themost intense beams, but focusing thebeams too strongly could melt the target.

Directly downstream from the target,experimenters select for the particlesthey’re interested in. KTeV, for example,selects for the subatomic particles calledneutral kaons. A magnetic field sweepscharged particles out of the way. The neu-tral kaons are not affected by magneticfields, and emerge in all directions.Experimenters could position a detectorin the straight-ahead direction to get themaximum number of kaons, butunwanted neutrons are also mostnumerous there, so they move to an anglewhere they get enough kaons, but not toomany neutrons. At a wider angle theycould get fewer neutrons—a smaller back-ground to the signal—but they’d also getfewer kaons.

Experimenters make trade-offs inselecting a target, focusing the primarybeam onto the target, and purifying thesecondary beam, always seeking thestrategy that will yield high signal and lowbackground. They don’t have as muchchoice, however, in where they positionthe detectors. The physical length of afixed-target beamline is determined by thelifetime of the chosen particle. Somefixed-target experiments stretch over akilometer or more. The Sigma-minusesused in E781 have a lifetime of 1.5 x 10-10

seconds, and travel about seven metersbefore decaying, so the experimentaldetectors are close to the target. Thepions in E815 have a lifetime over a hun-dred times longer than that of the Sigma-minuses, and travel correspondingly far-ther before decaying.

The fixed-target experiments lookvery different from one another, andrequire specialized beams to achieve theirphysics goals. It’s the technique forforming the beam that’s the same. As oneexperimenter put it, you focus, you target,you make a selection, and you do some-thing about your background.

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by Leila Belkora, Office of Public Affairs

Visitors and coworkersknow Marilyn Smith for herserene and cordial manner,but in the Directoratewhere she works, Smith isalso known as formidable—when it comes to usingcomputers. Her colleaguesview her as a local authorityon the Macintosh. Amember of the ComputingDivision once admitted thathe reads the manualsexplaining whatever newequipment Marilyn has;otherwise she’ll be one step ahead.

Smith, who grew up in Chicago, formed aninterest in computers inhigh school. She continuedto learn programming languages such as BASICand Fortran in college,where she minored in Computer Science. Forher major, however, she chose Political Science,reflecting her ability to work with people. “Myfirst job was with my father, who was a localunion president of United Auto Workers at thetime. I worked in his office, helping with griev-ances and just doing general office work.... Mymajor was related to my work with my dad,and the things he was going through in his life.At one point he was going to run for some-thing and needed a campaign manager, so itmight as well be me. I thought along thoselines when I was going to school,” said Smith.

Smith’s primary responsibility is to assistDeputy Director Ken Stanfield. She maintainshis appointment calendar, makes travel arrange-ments, drafts letters, prepares transparencies forlectures, and answers the phone, among otherthings. She has a clear notion of how her workfurthers the mission of the lab. “By trou-bleshooting situations that don’t necessarily callfor the director or his associates or deputy torespond to, and being knowledgeable enoughto answer those questions or direct them else-where, I free them up for the things that aremost important to them—that is, to keep theLab going, to keep the funding coming, and tomake sure the physics does what it needs todo,” she says.

Stanfield, who describes Smith as an excel-lent assistant, appreciates her willingness to“pitch in and do whatever is necessary.” Smithtakes particular pride in a special job she tookon to help Fermilab reach out to physics

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teachers. Over 130 teachers gathered atFermilab for a weekend conference on teachingmodern physics. Smith typed “constantly” forthree days in a row so that participants couldtake the proceedings home with them. Directoremeritus Leon Lederman, who organized theconference, wrote, “The typing of the volumi-nous handwritten materials produced by 135conference participants was a monumentaltask.... The 150-page document that the participants were able to take back permitsimmediate testing in their schools. This wouldnot have happened but for your dedication and skills.”

Smith loves working at Fermilab. She says,“There’s so much available at your fingertips.Just looking out the window and seeing thetrees change...just the atmosphere itself. There’sso much available to get the public involved.My kids, living here and working here, haveaccess to so much they might not have had ifwe stayed in Chicago.” Two of Smith’s sonsworked at Fermilab this past summer, and one,who wants to go into engineering, participatedin the Target program for high-school students.

“I do like the sense of community here,”Smith says. “The Directorate itself has beenvery good to me since I’ve been here. All thepeople in the Directorate are very good peopleto work with and I’ve enjoyed it and I’velearned, and I think there’s more to learn. And I’ll be here ’til they tell me not to come in.” ■

Mike Becker, of Roads and Grounds,leads volunteers to their harvest site.

Scenes From a Prairie HarvestFermilab held its most popular harvest ever in late September.

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Fermilab’s prairie keepers held their mostsuccessful prairie harvest in 20 years onSeptember 28, as more than 200 people helpedclip tall-grass flowers during the annual fallevent.

Lab employees, families, boy scouts, girlscouts, high school nature clubs and numerousindividuals from all over northern Illinoishelped gather barrels of seed, which Fermilab’senvironmental team will plant on the campus inthe spring or share with other prairie restora-tion projects around the Midwest. Mike Becker,of Roads and Grounds, said there were morepeople clipping flower heads in the first 45minutes of the harvest then he had seen in anentire single day since the mid–1970s.

“We got more seed at the harvest than everbefore; we got barrel-fulls of certain species thatwe needed,” said Bob Lootens of the Roads

and Grounds Department and one ofFermilab’s resident prairie specialists.

Lootens added that many of the species thevolunteers collected are the ones the natureteam needs to enrich other prairie sites on theLaboratory grounds. They include theObedient Plant, Sweet Black-Eyed Susan andFalse Sunflowers.

These species “are in the areas that, histori-cally, we don’t ‘combine,’ or they are too lowto the ground” to gather mechanically, saidLootens.

Volunteers included current and retiredLab employees; students from numerousIllinois schools, including the Illinois Math andScience Academy; members of the Batavia HighSchool Tree Club; Boy and Girl Scouts; TigerScouts and many neighbors from the sur-rounding communities planning to get theirhands dirty and spend some time with theirfamilies.

Two of those neighbors included John Reaand his son Nathaniel from Batavia. The elder

Girl scouts from Ashton, IL made the trip toFermilab to visit the native grasslands.

John Rea with his son Nathaniel, from Batavia,enjoy the prairie on the cool fall day.

More volunteers add their seeds to the group’s effort.

Rea said he enjoys the open spaces Fermilab provides, allowinghim and his son to experience a bit of nature—not to mentionhistory—with the harvest. When told of desires by outsideentities to put new roads and railroads on the grounds, he saidthat would be a big mistake, because it would take away one ofthe few remaining open natural areas, as the suburbs continuetheir westward crawl.

Lura Meisch and her mother Jeri, fromBatavia, work as a team to gather seeds.

Danny Liechti, a cub scout from pack 153in Batavia, adds to the day’s bounty.

Lab employees volunteered some of their Saturday at theharvest to show people what to look for in the grasslands,help demonstrate the proper clipping technique, organize thebounty as the volunteers returned and serve lunch.

Fermilab will hold another harvest on November 2.Contact the Office of Public Affairs (x3351) or the Roadsand Grounds crew (x3303) with any questions. ■

“We got more seed at the harvest than ever before; we got barrelfuls of certain species that we needed.”

Bob Lootens of the Roads and Grounds Department

IN MEMORY: GEORGE MICHAILMembers of the Laboratory community mourned the

tragic death on Saturday, October 5, of George Michail, aHarvard graduate student and CDF collaborator. Michail’scar was struck by a vehicle going the wrong way on a one-way street in Chicago on September 28.

The accident that claimed Michail’s life also severely injuredhis wife of one year, Tina Douki. She is expected to recover.

Michail was born on June 15, 1968 in Athens, Greece,where he graduated from Athens University in 1990. Hecame from Greece to Harvard to continue with graduatestudies in physics, joining CDF in 1993.

He continued to take a particular interest in helping otherGreek students studying in the U.S. “Young students fromGreece who wanted to come to America for studies alwaysfound the advice they sought in George,” said a CDF colleague, Maria Spiropolu.

Michail’s advisor, Harvard physicist Melissa Franklin, said she would remember two things about him: “The first is howmuch he loved physics and was dedicated to doing it brilliantly,and the second is how gentle and sweet a person he was. Thework he leaves behind on b quark mixing and the incrediblenumber of friends he had shows this most clearly.” ■

Senior Safety Officers TJ Sarlina, of the Research Division, and Howard Casebolt,of the Accelerator Division, stayed behind after a briefing to discuss implica-tions of Laboratory reorganization.

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provide leadership, support and resources fordata acquisition, storage, access and analysis;and for general, scientific, technical andadministrative computing and networking.

While some of the new divisions havenearly completed the definitions of the func-tions of the individual departments, othershave just begun. Peoples said he expectsthese internal changes to be defined by theend of November, for implementation in thenew calendar year. “I want us to go into theChristmas shutdown with one organizationand come out with another,” he said.

Reorganizationcontinued from page 1

“The reorganization has two goals,”Peoples told Laboratory managers at anOctober 7 meeting. “It will allow us to fulfillour current commitments and it will let usplan for the future. The new divisions willbring the Laboratory organization into align-ment with the work the Laboratory mustaccomplish over the next three years.”

Peoples said the realignment will benefitthe completion of the Main Injector projectand the job of getting CDF and DZero readyfor Run II in 1999. He added that it willallow the Laboratory to work on magnets forCERN’s Large Hadron Collider and on CMS,one of the LHC’s detectors; and that it willbenefit work for NuMI. “And very signifi-cantly,” he added, “it will free up about fivepercent of the staff to work on conceptualplanning for the future. Five percent maysound modest to you, but that’s 50 morepeople who can think about and plan ourfuture.”

Noting that “the common core compe-tence that binds the technical staff together isexpertise in experimental particle physics,”Peoples described the distinct mission andcore competences of each new division. TheAccelerator Division and the activities associ-ated with the external proton beams, primarytarget stations, secondary and tertiary beams,and the radiation interlock systems for thesebeams and target stations, all presently in theResearch Division, will be merged into theBeams Division, under the leadership of cur-rent Accelerator Division Head Dave Finley.The Research Division—less the beams activi-ties—and the Physics Section will merge toform the Particle Physics Division, with JohnCooper, now CDF Department leader, at thehead. The division’s mission includes pro-viding management and technical resourcesfor construction and operation of experiments.

The current Technical Support Sectionwill become the new Technical Division,under the continuing leadership of PeterLimon, with the mission to “develop, design,fabricate, procure, and test accelerator anddetector components required to carry outFermilab’s mission.” The ComputingDivision, with Division Head Joel Butler, will

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Fermilab began the FY1997 fiscalyear on October 1 with a budgetslightly smaller than last year’s alloca-tion. This year’s operating and equip-ment budget of $204.1 million com-pares to $205.6 million in FY1996.Adjusting for inflation brings thefunding level to $198.2 million in 1996dollars. Main Injector constructionfunds stayed the same, at $52 million,or an inflation-adjusted $50.5 million.

At the same time, Laboratory oper-ating expenses will be higher inFY1997, because of approximately $6million in increased electric power costsassociated with fixed-target experi-ments, which use more power than thecollider program. Other increased oper-ating costs for FY1997 leave Fermilabwith a $12 million budget “challenge”in the coming year.

The Laboratory will use the bud-getary flexibility accorded by Congressto move about $6 million in resources

from the equipment budget to helpcover operating expenses, saidDeputy Director Kenneth Stanfield.Much labwide equipment spendingwill be deferred in FY1997 in orderto maintain the CDF and DZerodetector upgrades at a funding levelcomparable to last year’s. The twocollaborations are rebuilding theirdetectors to prepare for Collider RunII with the new Main Injector in 1999.

Stanfield said the remaining $6 million in savings must come fromdecreases in Laboratory staff, andelsewhere. “I expect the Fermilabstaff will be smaller by roughly 100by the end of the fiscal year,” hesaid. Recently announced reorganiza-tion plans will also yield some efficiencies of operation, and anenhanced ability to accomplish whatDirector John Peoples described as“the work on our plate,” in the faceof declining budgets. ■

FermilabBudgetOverviewFY1997

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FERMILAB FUNDING HISTORY: FY1989 - FY1997

Fermilab Base Budget: Operating, Equipment and Other Plant Funds

Line item Construction

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ACCELERATORThe weekend of Sept. 27 to the early morning hours

of Sept. 30 saw 54.5 hours of high–energy physics out ofa possible 72. During that time, a sporadic problem withthe Main Ring beam caused injection aborts in theTevatron; these were eventually traced to a damper.

October 7 began the scheduled shutdown of theaccelerator for the construction of a shielding wall atDZero, and the Accelerator Division took advantage ofthe time to perform some maintenance and repairs inother areas. Major jobs included adding shielding to thetransfer hall, searching for an aperture restriction in theMain Ring and repairing two low-conductivity-waterleaks—one outside the Central Utilities Building and theother just west of CDF.

During this maintenance period, experiments in theAntiproton Source took data until early morning on Oct. 9, when the Accelerator Division workers made a supervised access to the Antiproton ring for air conditioning repairs.

The maintenance period ended in the late afternoonof Oct. 9 and beam came up shortly after.

FIXED-TARGETCollaborators provided this update on fixed-targetexperiments.

E835 Charmonium Rosanna Cester, spokes-woman for E835, said the collaboration has alreadydetected the psi prime, which is one of their collabora-tion’s resonances. She added that the pbar crew is settingup the deceleration that E835 requires.

“After that, we are ready to do some real physics,”said Cester.

E799 / E832 KTeV “We continue to evaluate thenew data buffer chips recently installed on the CsIcalorimeter, and during the recent shutdown weimproved the efficiency of the drift chamber system andtested the vacuum system,” said Herman White ofFermilab.

E866 NuSea “E866 continues to take data at ourstandard setting. Our progress toward a statistically-pre-cise and systematics-free measurement is limited at themoment by the lack of stable beam from the accelerator,”said Chuck Brown.

E862 Antihydrogen “We’re still eagerly awaitingour first antihydrogen event. There is beam in theAccumulator now, and, if we’re lucky, we’ll have our firstevent before the beam is dumped [on Oct. 10] to allowE835 to fix an air conditioner. If not, we’ll have to waitanother week or so. One way or another, we’re veryclose,” said Dave Christian.

E815 NuTeV “NuTeV is continuing to accumulatedata. Our continuous calibration test beam is now oper-ating and we are measuring the detector response tohadrons and muons as a function of position and time,”said Bob Bernstein.

E872 Donut “We’re still shooting for the end ofnext week for completion of the beam. That’s big news,”said Byron Lundberg on Oct. 9. “We’re going to power-test one of the new magnets soon and test the secondone next week. All other major components areinstalled.”

E781 SELEX “SELEX is continuing to accumulatecharm data while finishing the final installation phase.Software development is a major focus. We have goodpeaks for strong-decay states like the phi, to confirm ourmomentum scale and resolution. Now, on towardcharm,” said Jim Russ.

E831 FOCUS “In the past two weeks, we’ve writtenover 200 million events on tape, and we’re under-standing the nature of our photon beam at high inten-sity,” said Will Johns, a collaborator from the Universityof South Carolina. “This will allow us to write moreevents with more intensity when we get it.”

E871 HyperCP Kam–Biu Luk reports that E871 isin the final phase of installing the spectrometer for theirexperiment.

Updates September 27—October 9

As Accelerator Division Head Dave Finley passed through theWilson Hall atrium on a recent Sunday afternoon, he heardthe familiar voice of AD Run Coordinator Craig Moorecoming from the VIDEONEWS kiosk. He stopped to watch,joining a man and woman who stood listening as Moore

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explained the complex workings of the Fermilab acceleratorsystem. As the tape ended, the man turned to Finley and said,“Wow! Can you imagine what it would be like to run thatthing?” Finley agreed that it must be quite challenging.

WednesdayLunch

October 23

Cheese Fondue

Mixed Garden

Greens with

Mustard Vinaigrette

Baked Apples with

Calvados Cream

Thursday Dinner

October 24

Chestnut Soup

Rack of Venison

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Potato and

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L A B N O T E S1997 RECREATION MEMBERSHIPRecreation Facility memberships for 1997 wenton sale September 2 in the Recreation Office,WH15W. Sale hours are 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.,Monday through Friday. Regular membershipsare $60 and student memberships are $30. Onlyrenewal memberships may be purchased throughFermilab internal mail, MS 126. Please enclosecompleted application form and check. Applications are on the Web under the Benefits/ Recreation page. All 1996 membershipsexpired October 1. For more information, call Jean x2548.

CAREER WORKSHOP Fermilab and Universities Research Associations,Inc. will sponsor a two-day Career AssessmentWorkshop for graduate students and postdocswho intend to make the transition into non-acad-emic employment. The workshop will be held onMonday and Tuesday, October 28-29, 1996 from9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. in Wilson Hall 15SW confer-ence room. The seminar will be run by JaroszAssociates, Career Continuation Consultants, andwill cover topics such as networking, interviewingskills and resume preparation. The seminar is co-sponsored by Fermilab and URA and will be heldfree of charge.

WORK/LIFE AGENDAYou are invited to an interactive video conferenceof the American Management Association’s 5thAnnual Conference for Working Women. Topicsto be discussed include the clash between workand private life, flex time, telecommuting, jobsharing and extended families and care-giving foraging parents. The Laboratory has arranged forthis program to be broadcast on Wednesday,October 23 from noon to 2 p.m. in the One WestConference Room, Wilson Hall. Call JeanelleSmith, x4366 or Rosie Navar, x3415 to confirmyour attendance.

WINTER BASKETBALL LEAGUE The Winter Basketball League begins Thursday,October 24. Games are held on Thursdays begin-ning at 5:30 p.m. in the Gymnasium. Team ros-ters are due at this time. New teams or individualplayers welcome. For more information contactDenise Bumbar, league representative, x8277, the Recreation Office, x2548, x5427, orjeanm@fnal.gov.

CHARITY CONTRIBUTIONS Fermilab employees can voluntarily contribute tocharities through payroll deduction. Participantscan choose from over 150 charities. Approvedcharities by the Internal Revenue Service are taxdeductible. For more information contact RubyCoiley at x8365.

A reminder from the Fermilab Fire Department.More Americans have smoke alarms than everbefore, but nearly half don’t work. Without aworking smoke alarm as an early warning device,fire can spread unnoticed through the house,blocking escape routes and filling rooms withdeadly smoke. Start a lifesaving habit this October 27. When you change your clock, change the batteries in your smoke alarms.

~ Captain Steve Lusted

I’m delighted with my new subscription toFermiNews. Add a cartoon or two, and I’ll cancelmy subscription to The New Yorker.

~ Kate MetropolisGoleta, CA

Hello. I do Oak Ridge National Laboratory’snewsletter, Lab Notes, and I want to drop you anote to say that the Aug. 2 issue of FermiNews’flood coverage has assumed a place of honor in myfile of employee communications. I don’t knowhow the powers around here would react to photosof water pouring out of capital equipment, but Ithought it was a fabulous job. We’re on highground here; I’m waiting on a pipe to bust.

~ Bill Cabage

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

WINTER VOLLEYBALL LEAGUEThe Coed Winter Volleyball League beginsOctober 21. Games are held in the gymnasium onMonday evenings. Contact Mark Mattson, LeagueRepresentative at x4943 or mattson@fnal.gov orJean Guyer, jeanm@fnal.gov. Must be a currentRecreation Facility member.

OPEN ENROLLMENT, HEALTHCARE REIMBURSEMENT PLANReimbursement accounts offered as part ofFermilab’s Flexible Benefits Plan can helpemployees reduce health care costs.Reimbursement accounts allow employees to withdraw tax-free dollars that they set aside (up to$2,000) through salary reduction to pay for eli-gible health care and dependent care expenses.Using before-tax dollars to pay these expenseseffectively lowers their actual cost. An open enroll-ment period for these accounts will be in effectduring the month of November. Employees cur-rently enrolled will receive new forms; all otheremployees should contact the Benefits Office,15WHSW, M.S. 126, x3395, for enrollment formsor information. Completed forms must be returnedto the Benefits Office by the close of businessNovember 27, 1996 for coverage to be effective onJanuary 1, 1997.

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M I L E S T O N E SBORNValentina Nicole on September 1, 1996 to DonatellaTorretta (Computing Division) and Robert Gardner.

RETIREDRonald Norton, on October 4, 1996, He started atFermilab on March 9, 1970. Norton worked forAD-Cryogenics Systems as a Technical Specialist.

C L A S S I F I E D SOCTOBER 18The Graduate Student Association sponsors a seminar titled “Science in the Business World” byspeaker Dr. Fady A. Harfoush, First Chicago NBD,Capital Markets Systems Business Systems Specialist,Assistant VP. From Fermilab to Sangamon Tradingand now First Chicago Bank, the speaker shares hisexperiences and views about science and work inWall Street and how it can relate to your experienceat Fermilab. The talk will end with the speaker’s personal comments, current trends, and answers tomost frequently asked questions that you’re too hesitant to raise in the presence of your boss and colleagues. The talk begins at 2 p.m. in One West.

OCTOBER 19Fermilab Art Series presents, Brentano StringQuartet, performing music of Schubert, Berg andBrahms. Ramsey Auditorium, 8 p.m. $15. Call 840-ARTS for information and reservations.

OCTOBER 22The Graduate Student Association sponsors a seminar titled “Financial Markets for Scientists” by speaker Dr. John Bilson, Director, Financial Markets and Trading Program, Illinois Institute ofTechnology. “Rocket scientists” are widely employedin financial markets to price complicated derivativeproducts and to analyze the risk of portfolios ofsecurities with complex payoff functions. TheFinancial Markets and Trading program at theIllinois Institute of Technology has been a popularprogram for those wishing to cross over from thephysical sciences to the finanical world. John Bilson,the director of the FM&T program, will discuss theopportunities for scientists in financial markets andthe FM&T program of study. There will also beshort presentations by individuals who have madethe transition. The talk begins at 6 p.m. in One West.

NOVEMBER 1NALWO potluck supper in the Village Barn, 5:30 - 8 p.m. Please bring a dish to serve 6 or 8 orcontribute $3 to cover costs. We will also collect $1 from those adults drinking alcoholic beverages.

NOVEMBER 5Immunization Clinic for Flu, Pneumovax, andTetanus by Visiting Nurses Association of Fox Valley.In the One West Conference Room, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

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