People & Events

Roxana Myers joined the JAC in February 1995 as a temporary Admin. Clerk. Her position was made permanent in late July. Visitors to the JAC will meet a smiling and cheerful Roxana in the front office on their arrival.

Carol Jennings started on August 1st 1995 as a receptionist for the JAC. Once Carol has mastered the strange collection of staff names she will field the incoming telephone calls.

Chris Purton retired as Scheduler after a three year period of trying to put JCMT applications into order and maintaining an observing schedule. He has now been relocated at DRAO where he continues in a scheduling kind of position but with much less stress than previously suffered at the JAC.

Joseph Fletcher has completed a tour of duty from the HIA. His achievements at the JAC are highlighted by his work with diagnosing and improving the power and grounding systems at the JCMT. Joseph has now decided to take retirement and returned to Canada.

Bill McCutcheon will complete his sabbatical year at the JAC and returned to Canada armed with boxes full of new JCMT data.

David Belton has returned to Canada after a 4-month study period at the JAC.

Jason Stevens has been assigned to the JAC for approximately six month, replacing Wayne Holland who is back at ROE working on SCUBA. Jason has already spent some time working on the blazar monitoring programmes at the JCMT and will now find himself landed with a few more staff support duties.

Michael Heyd has spent a four month period at the JAC working on a variety of software projects. Michael is a Canadian co-op student out to gain work experience.

Graeme Watt has transferred from ROE out to the JAC to begin a third (!) tour of duty in Hawaii. He restarted his duties as JCMT Scheduler on 17th July 1995. With Graeme's transfer there is now in effect no JCMT home end at ROE. Editing and production of the JCMT Newsletter and Annual Report will now been done from the JAC.

Congratulations to Jane Greaves and Wayne Holland on their marriage on 9th April 1995.

Congratulations also to Joanne Davidson and Jamie Scobbie on the birth of Kieran Kimo Davidson who arrived on 24th May 1995.

Congratulations to several RCUH staff who have been in service for a considerable (some might say enormous!) number of years: Sidney Arakaki, Manuel Martinez & Kent Tsutsui have attained more than 15 years each; Tom Geballe and Mark Horita have attained 10 years each.