Bill Duncan has resigned from ROE to take up a position as a Product Manager at Oxford Instruments. Bill was Project Scientist for UKT14 and after the construction at ROE was shipped off to Hawaii to oversee its operation on the UKIRT. Once the JCMT snapped UKT14 for its own continuum purpose Bill became a `JCMT person' and remained a Support Scientist until his return to ROE in 1992. Since then he has been working with the SCUBA team and is a member of the JCMT Instrumentation Programme Management Group.

Rob Ivison has joined the ROE Astronomy Division in a position shared between the UKIRT and JCMT Support Groups. At the moment Rob is working on setting up a World Wide Web home page at ROE to provide users with information for both telescope.

Simon Craig has transferred to RGO to take up a position as a Project Engineer. Simon has been Mechanical Engineer at the JAC for nearly 8 years and was heavily involved with the UKIRT dome refurbishment work and with all aspects of the commissioning and mechanical improvements to the JCMT antenna and carousel.

Rob Millenaar has now completed his one year period of providing support for the DAS in addition to other engineering duties. Rob has now returned to NFRA, Dwingeloo.

Events

Congratulations to Alex McLachlan on being awarded an MBE in the Queen's birthday honour's list.

Congratulations also to Frea and Adrian Webster on their marriage on 19th August.