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News Briefs: July 17, 2009

(Download Image) From left to right: Felicia Anaro of Strategic Human Resources Management and Phil Arzino of Health Services.

Labs see fit to compete in ‘Active for Life’

The third annual Lab "Active For Life" (AFL) campaign celebrated another successful finish line event Tuesday. Team members gathered at the employee picnic area for a healthy lunch and heard results of the 10-week competition that inspired many employees to exercise regularly, eat more sensibly and find positive ways to reduce stress.

Phil Arzino, the Lab’s Health Promotion manager, reported that more than 1,600 individuals from five of the national labs joined the AFL challenge this year. Sandia Livermore emerged as the fittest Laboratory, averaging almost 45 minutes per person per day of exercise. Lawrence Berkeley Lab came in second, and LLNL came in third, just ahead of Los Alamos and Idaho national labs.

Arzino added that LLNL had the largest number of participants — more than 600 employees at LLNL exercised, on average, more than 36 minutes per day per employee during the entire 10 weeks.

For the first time in the inter-Lab challenge, three labs took on the challenge to see who had the fittest senior management team. The LLNL team of Bruce Warner (captain), Frank Russo, Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Dona Crawford, John Doesburg, Monya Lane and Art Wong called themselves the "Self-Congratulatory Upper Management" (SCUM) team. They not only met their goal of more than one hour of exercise per person per day, they shattered it, averaging 74 minutes per person per day, thus earning the first ever ‘Active for Life’ title as the fittest senior management team.

Influential senate staffer Proctor Jones dies

Proctor Jones, an influential staffer on the Senate Appropriations Committee for many years and an energy lobbyist, died July 7 at age 68.

Jones served as staff director of the Senate’s Energy and Water Development Appropriations subcommittee from 1978 until his retirement in 1997. He played an important role in issues related to nuclear weapons development and cleanup as well as scientific research and energy. After leaving the Senate, Jones worked as a government adviser at a public affairs consulting firm.

 

 

July 17, 2009