Retirees' Update, April 4, 2008 edition
Retirees' update
Lou and Joan (Engineering 2003) Gigliati recently returned after a five-week cross-country road trip with stops in Florida, Georgia and the Texas Gulf coast. On the way east, they drove along the Mississippi coast and found that Hurricane Katrina repairs are well under way but there is still a lot to be done. Visiting family and friends in Florida took up most of the time with some time spent fishing as well. They're next off to Puerto Penasco, Mexico for three more weeks of sun, fun and fishing.
Tom Barlow has been elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). His one-year term will begin in June, 2008. The ASME has some 127,000 members worldwide. Tom and Sandy retired from the Laboratory in 1997 and currently live in Lincoln, Calif.
The April retiree luncheon is Wednesday, April 16, at the Elks Lodge in Livermore, 940 Larkspur Drive. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., lunch served at noon; cost $10 each payable at the door. You must sign up by Friday, April 11, on the Web. Our speaker is John Ziagos of LLNL, who will talk on global and U.S. energy. How much energy do we have? How fast are we using it? Will we run out? What about the environmental consequences? What role is LLNL playing in all this? John will answer these questions including the future use of nuclear energy, which is currently an important energy source in Europe and Japan.
Our next event: On Wednesday, June 18, we will hold our annual retiree summer picnic from 11a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Ravenswood Historical Site, 2647 Arroyo Road in Livermore. The cost also will be $10 per person. More information will be available later on our Website. All retiree functions are open to LLNL retiree organization members and their guests.
The venue has changed for the LLNL retirees travel group. From now on the meeting will be held in the Community Room at the Livermore Library, right next door to the police dtation. The April program will be April 22 at 2 p.m. and the program is entitled: "Waterfalls and Old Forests in the Oregon Cascades," by Bob and Juanita Berlo.
Send any input to AugustO [at] aol.com ( Gus ) and JaneRubert [at] aol.com ( Jane Olson. ) Snail mail address: 493 Joyce St., Livermore, CA 94550.
