Dec. 8, 1997 -- Some of this week's stories
Holiday shutdown to affect lab services
The holiday break at both Argonne-East and Argonne-West begins Wednesday, Dec. 24
and continues through Sunday, Jan. 4.
Only employees required to properly maintain the laboratory's facilities will be
scheduled to work.
* Paychecks: Bi-weekly paid employees will receive their normal payroll check/deposit
on Friday, Dec. 19, for the pay period ending Sunday, Dec. 21. The check/deposit for the
two weeks ending Sunday, Jan. 4, will be paid for projected hours during that period and will
be available or deposited by Tuesday, Dec. 23. These wages will be included on the 1997
W-2 form.
Overtime, premium and shift premium pay for the period of Dec. 8 through Dec. 21 will
be paid on Monday, Jan. 5, provided timecards are received by the deadline date. Deadline
for timecards at Argonne-East is Friday, Dec. 19. Timecards must be hand-carried to the
Payroll Office in Building 201 at the end of the shift.
At Argonne-West, time cards must be hand-carried to Shelley Wray's office in Building 710
no later than 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 18.
Payroll for the hours worked by STAs, CO-OPs and temporary service personnel
during the pay period of Dec. 8 through Dec. 21 will
be paid on Monday, Jan. 5, provided time cards are received by the deadlines.
Monthly paid checks will be distributed or deposited on Tuesday, Dec. 23.
* Site access at Argonne-East: Northgate will be open 24 hours a day through the
holiday break. Westgate will be closed on Dec. 25
and Jan. 1 but will otherwise operate on its
normal schedule -- 6:15 a.m. to 7:10 p.m. on
weekdays. Eastgate will be closed Wednesday, Dec.
24 through Sunday, Jan. 4.
The Argonne Information Center (AIC) will be closed through the period. Visitors
expected during the break can be put on the
site-access list by calling the AIC at ext. 2-5755 by
Tuesday, Dec. 23.
To register a visitor, employees can call the protective force at ext. 2-5730. Foreign
nationals from sensitive countries will not be
allowed on site unless they have been registered at
the AIC before the holiday break.
* Deliveries, shipments: No deliveries can be accepted at the laboratory during the
holiday break. Commercial package delivery
companies will hold all shipments until Monday, Jan. 5.
Employees expecting shipments to arrive during the break should make arrangements
to have the items delivered off-site. Federal Express will collect items in on-site drop
boxes once a day, except for Christmas Day and New Year's Day when there will be no pick-up.
For more information, call ext. 2-2934.
* The travel office will be closed. Business travelers with trips scheduled during the
holiday break, or immediately after the laboratory reopens, should pick up their tickets,
money and travel papers before 5 p.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 23.
To make or change travel arrangements during the holiday break, business travelers
should call American Express at (847) 437-8012,
ext. 6050, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and ask for Billie.
On weekends, Christmas Day, Friday, Dec. 26, New Year's Day, and Friday, Jan. 2,
and after 5 p.m., call 1-800-847-0242. Employees should identify themselves as Argonne
business travelers and give the laboratory's code: "S2SX0."
Authorizations for trips starting on Dec. 24 through Jan. 7 should be submitted to
the Travel Office by noon on Monday, Dec. 22. "Walk-throughs" should be avoided on
Tuesday, Dec. 23.
* The Argonne Credit Union will be closed Wednesday, Dec. 24, Thursday, Dec.
25, Wednesday, Dec. 31, and Thursday, Jan. 1.
* There will be no on-site mail service during the holiday break. Service will
resume Monday, Jan. 5.
* Argonne-East's Building 213 Cafeteria and the Argonne-West Cafeteria will be
closed Wednesday, Dec. 24 through Sunday, Jan. 4.
Return to Index
Essling receives 1997 Jensen Award
Chemist Alice M. Essling (CMT-AC) received the Kenneth J. Jensen Award
of the Chemical Technology Division's Analytical Chemistry Laboratory.
"Our recipient is someone whose record of quality is almost legendary," said
Don Graczyk (CMT-AC), Essling's supervisor. "Someone who can be counted on to do
every job as well as it can be done, whether it's small and invisible or large and high-profile."
Essling specializes in inorganic chemistry, high-precision determinations,
isotope dilution techniques, dissolutions and separations. She takes on challenging
assignments in preparing samples, develops new methods or applications and performs
exacting measurements. Essling recently developed inorganic preparation methods
to characterize high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter waste to satisfy
acceptance criteria for DOE's Hanford Site.
The Jensen Award, established in 1996, honors one of the charter
members of Argonne's Analytical Chemistry Laboratory. It recognizes outstanding work
by current Argonne employees.
Jensen led the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory's chemical analysis
group from 1975 until his retirement, and continued to perform consulting work
with the laboratory until his death in 1994 -- after 50 years of service.
Return to Index
Hobbes to head Argonne Group-West
Tammy L. Hobbes has been named the new group leader
of Argonne Group West for DOE Chicago Operations.
Prior to joining the Argonne Group West, Tammy was
senior resident at the DOE's Idaho EH Resident Office,
with major responsibility for oversight of the DOE-Idaho
Operations Office and the M&O contractor's safety programs.
Previously, she worked for the Westinghouse Corp.,
operating a land-based naval nuclear reactor prototype used for training U.S.
Navy personnel. During this time, Tammy completed shift supervisor
qualification at the A1WUSS Enterprise prototype, managed an operating crew
of about 70 for a year and a half, qualified as a shift supervisor at the
S5G Narwhal prototype and managed the installation of the multi-million
dollar computer simulator for the S5G submarine control room.
Return to Index
Herzenberg named 'Centennial Speaker'
Caroline Herzenberg (DIS) will be an American Physical Society
"Centennial Speaker," and will visit universities and
colleges to present lectures on physics during the society's
100th anniversary year, 1999.
Herzenberg is one of 200 lecturers to be nominated
by colleagues and invited by the society to become a
Centennial Speaker.
Herzenberg is a physicist and emergency/energy
systems engineer. Her work at Argonne focuses on the development and implementation
of emergency preparedness programs, including radiological emergency preparedness
and response, and activities supporting both the Federal Emergency Management Agency
and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Prior to her work at Argonne, Herzenberg was a physics lecturer at California
State University, Fresno, and a visiting associate professor of physics at the University of
Illinois Medical Center.
Herzenberg was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989.
She has authored nearly 100 publications, including journal articles, book chapters
and a book.
She received a bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and has a master's degree and a Ph.D. in physics, both from the
University of Chicago.
Return to Index
Guest house to celebrate 1997 Beaujolais
The Argonne Guest House Restaurant will hold a "Beaujolais nouveau" dinner
celebration on Tuesday, Dec. 9, and Wednesday, Dec. 10.
The red wine, made from Gamay grapes, is produced in the southern part of France's
Burgundy region. Each year's new batch is released, with much fanfare, fresh from the
cellars on the third Thursday of November.
This year's vintage was described by New York
Times "Wine Talk" columnist Frank
Prial as "light and fruity," with "a festive
air." Beaujolais Nouveau will be available by
the bottle or glass.
Chef Chris Kaminsky will prepare a special French menu on those two evenings; dinner
will be served from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The special menu will include main courses like Frisée salad with poached egg and
pancetta, sea scallops with fennel, duck leg confit
with warm lentil salad and pork tenderloin with apple and onions. Desserts will range
from créme brulee to goat cheese cake.
Reservations are accepted, but not necessary; call ext. 5-2008 or 739-6000.
Return to Index
College fair to host reps from 20 institutions
A college fair, with counselors from 20 colleges, will be held at Argonne-East
Tuesday, Dec. 9, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the
Advanced Photon Source Gallery, Building 401.
Institutions represented range from community colleges through graduate schools.
A list of participating schools will be posted on Argonne bulletin boards by Dec. 5.
Employees whose schedules permit are invited to talk with these college
representatives about course enrollments, prerequisites
and degree programs.
A representative from Human Resources' Performance Development Department will
be available to explain processes for tuition support and to provide information about the
CLEP program (college credit for work experiences).
If you have questions about this event, contact Karen Kroczek (PFS) at ext. 2-8764
or John Hyzer (HR) at ext. 2-3503.
Return to Index
Marriott plans 2-day
'Book Fair USA'
at ANL-E cafeteria
Marriott will sponsor "Book Fair USA"
on Wednesday, Dec. 17, and Thursday, Dec. 18, in Argonne-East's Building 213 Cafeteria.
More than 250 titles will be available for purchase at discount prices, including
general interest, sports, culinary and children's books.
Cash, checks, Mastercard, Visa and Discover will be accepted.
Employees can preview a sample selection of books in the cafeteria on Monday, Dec. 15.
Return to Index
Choral group to sing Dec. 10
The Argonne Choral Group marks its 16th season
with two performances at Argonne-East on
Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Under the direction of Harry Bell (PFS), the group will sing holiday favorites in
the Building 213 Cafeteria at noon and in the lobby of Building 201 at 2 p.m.
Return to Index
News to take a break;
Web will be updated
The next issue of Argonne News, Dec. 15, will be the last published in 1997.
Publication will resume on Jan. 12, 1998; deadline for all materials for that issue will
be Monday, Jan. 5, at 5 p.m.
The Argonne News World Wide Web site, including news, seminar listings and
classified ads, will be updated on Monday, Dec.
22, and again on Monday, Jan. 5, 1998.
New, easier address
The Argonne News home page now has a simpler address:
http://www.anl.gov/news.html.
The Web page has links to news, seminars, classified ads, cafeteria menus, a
calendar and a searchable database of back issues
in both text and Adobe Acrobat versions. Check it often for late-breaking news and
seminar updates.
Weight Watchers
plan meeting
A Weight Watchers information meeting will be held at Argonne-East on Tuesday, Jan. 6,
at 11:30 a.m. in Building 200, Room J183.
For more information, call ext. 2-2813.
Return to Index
Go to Seminars
Go to Classified Ads
This page has been accessed times since Sept. 25, 1996.