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These four women contributed much to SLAC. Come renew friendships and acquaintances. Hear:
Mary Byrne worked in the electronics industry for ten years; then left to get a bachelor's degree in physics. This achievement provided entry to SLAC where she worked for four years on RF systems, adding to her knowledge of electronics and physics. In 1996, she left SLAC to pursue leadership roles, obtaining a position at Space Systems Loral. There she served as the technical leader of a program to test satellites recently launched into orbit. The work has entailed travel to interesting places such as Hong Kong, the Philippines, Uruguay, and Colorado. As if these efforts have not kept her busy enough, Mary delivered a daughter on Labor Day! Mary is currently an R&D Engineer at Loral designing a satellite test system. She looks forward to continued growth in both her private life and her career. Janet Dixon-Dickens came to work at SLAC in 1984. Subsequently, she moved up to Telecommunications Manager. In 1991 Valerie Phillips and Janet founded the Women's Interchange at SLAC. While working at the Lab, she earned her doctorate in 1993 in Education, Leadership and Technology from the University of San Francisco. She also became the mother of a son and a daughter. In 1997 she moved on to become Director of Telecommunications & Network Services for Blue Shield of California in San Francisco. There she has responsibility for all voice, call center, intranet, video conferencing, desktop, and network technology services. Janet has several publications on motivational factors for using on-line services in the home environment, the most recent being Predicting Seniors' Use of Cyberspace (1997). Since 1991, she has served as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco and College of Notre Dame. She has developed telecommunications and web curricula and will be teaching a web course at UC Extension. Joan Minor graduated from Wichita State University in 1971 with a major in English and a minor in French. Moving from Kansas to Los Angeles, she was waylaid, ending up at Stanford University in the School of Education as a secretary. Two years later she was hired into the University's Central Compensation Office as a trainee. Thus began her multi-decade career in human resources. For over fifteen years she pursued this work at SLAC in the Human Resources Office. Joan is currently the Assistant Dean of Human Resources for the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford. In 1979 she completed her Master's in Staff Development and Training at San Francisco University. She is an active member of the African-American community, a single mother of two sons, and a jazz singer. In November Joan plans another career change: she is retiring from Stanford. She is looking forward to sharing ideas developed over her long career and thoughts about what life will be like after Stanford. Mary Hall Ross worked at SLAC from 1990 until early 1997, mostly in the Environment, Safety and Health Division. She is perhaps best remembered for her role as a "tiger tamer." Her years at SLAC represent almost half of a seventeen-year career devoted to administration in support of research. Prior to joining SLAC, she was a grants and contracts manager at the Northern California Cancer Center. After the birth of her child in 1997, she returned to the world of medical research as the business manager for two divisions in Stanford's School of Medicine. Mary has a bachelor's degree in Urban Studies from San Francisco State University and a Master's in Public Administration from Golden Gate University. Having worked closely for many years with physicians and physicists, she has a very definite opinion on which have the biggest egos. Anybody care to guess? All four ladies contributed with diligence to the Laboratory, not only through their professional work but also through the Women's Interchange at SLAC--except Joan, who left for Campus before WIS existed. :-) Come welcome them back for the day. Hear what they've been up to and their thoughts about the evolution of their careers and lives. Bring your lunch and a friend. Hope to see you all there! |
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