In the last newsletter, we asked for volunteers to form an Archives Advisory Board. We are happy to announce that several Sandians responded and the Archives Advisory Board has been established. This year's members are Carl S. Smith, Electrical and Mechanical Design (9784); John Duncan, Stockpile Surveillance (12303); Rose Cordova, Customer Projects (7833); Bob Alexander, Security Requirements and Planning (7432); and retirees Harold Rarrick, who has experience in nuclear components, health physics, and development test; and Ben Benjamin, who has experience in development test and photometrics. These individuals provide expertise in a variety of areas. John Duncan and Harold Rarrick have already started reviewing some of the hundreds of boxes kept in Records Storage by the Corporate Archives. Our plan is to better identify the materials and evaluate them according to established retention schedules. The improved descriptive information is being updated on the inactive records database, Versatile, and will allow us to better respond to reference questions. Carl S. Smith, and co-worker Ron Haid, Mechanical CAD/CAE (9783) were interviewed in March regarding the history of Sandia's drafting department.

Invasion of the Microgear-Snatchers? This is just one example of the recently indexed images on C-Quest. - A dust mite, no bigger to the human eye than a tiny dot, crawls over one of Sandia's micromachines. The machine turns gears, each smaller in diameter than a human hair and one-hundredth the weight of the dust mite, at hundreds of thousands of revolutions per minute.

Archives Assistant Shirley Morris has been indexing some of the most recent Lab News photos on the C-Quest Database maintained by the Creative Arts Department. To date, Shirley has completed scanning selected 1997 Lab News photos, most of 1998, Area II photos, and photos from the 1997 General History Book. These photos can be accessed by anyone who has downloaded the C-Quest data base. If you have questions about downloading C-Quest, call Russell Smith at 844-9139. Once accessed, these photos can be downloaded into Word, Power Point, and Excel.

CORPORATE ARCHIVES IS LOOKING FOR ARTIFACTS!

Artifacts provide an important way of representing Sandia's history and culture. Many Sandia commemorative materials include the Thunderbird, chosen in a 1955 contest for the design of 5- and 10-year service pins. All employees were invited to submit entries and the best four were printed in the Lab News. Employees voted on the designs, choosing H.C. "Clyde" Walker's submission, which netted him a $75.00 U.S. Savings Bond. The original Thunderbird design had three distinct tailfeathers and made a very attractive logo. Pins were presented to Sandians who had over five years service; in 1956, this was more than 75 percent of the employees on roll. Recently, Harold Rarrick, a retiree consultant, donated his five-year pin to the Corporate Archives as well as a bolo tie (also incorporating the Thunderbird) that he received to commemorate another Sandia anniversary. In addition, Harold donated certificates he received for many of the nuclear tests he worked on at the Nevada Test Site (see the illustration).

Corporate Archives would like to obtain more artifacts like these for our collection and to exhibit. We are looking for every type of Thunderbird logo item, patches of all kinds, pins, certificates commemorating special events, family day memorabilia, and any other Sandia-related materials that employees have collected through the years. If you would like to donate artifacts to the Corporate Archives or know a retiree who would be interested, please contact Myra O'Canna at 844-6315.

Recorded Information Management Department 15102
Mail Stop 0612
Fax: 844-2621 and 284-2782

Manager: Anna Nusbaum, 845-9440, e-mail: awnusba@sandia.gov
Corporate Historian: Carl J. Mora, 844-8011, e-mail: cjmora@sandia.gov
Archives Coordinator: Myra O'Canna, 844-6315, e-mail: mlocann@sandia.gov
Archives and Still Photo Clerk: Shirley Morris, 844-7404, e-mail: samorris@sandia.gov

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