To: All 3.5m Astronomers, Engineers and Support Staff Karen Loomis has retired from APO to enjoy a more home- and daytime-centered lifestyle. Karen helped us grow the 3.5-m telescope and instruments these past five years, and we would like to present her with a photo of APO's site with signatures of those astromers, students, and staff from the 3.5-m community who worked with Karen. We are sending the framing matte for this photo out to the institutions for signatures and good wishes. Your institution's 3.5-m scheduler will receive the matte sometime during the next 2 months and will make it available for your signatures. Please closely follow the instructions on the matte. If you are not currently at an ARC member institution but would like to send along your good wishes to Karen, please forward them either by e-mail (gretchen@apo.nmsu.edu), or postal mail (APO, POB 59, Sunspot, NM 88349), and they will be placed in a keepsake binder and presented to Karen. Here is an ordered list of schedulers, contacts and dates to find and sign Karen's gift: WSU: J. Brown/J. Brown/ March 15 - March 20 UW: D. Brownlee/Nicole Ragg/ March 22 - March 28 UC Campus: D. York/Sandy Heinz/ March 30 - April 5 PU: E. Turner/M. Strauss/ April 7 - April 13 JHU: R. Wyse/R. Wyse/ April 17 - April 23 NMSU: J. Holtzman, R. Walterbos/Cheryl Beer/ April 25 - May 2 FNL: S. Kent/Luann O'Boyle/ May 4 - May 10 UC/Yerkes: A. Harper/Cindy Sutherland/ May 12 - 18 We hope to have a retirement party for Karen sometime late May (we'll send out an announcement) and will make the presentations at that time. Thank you for participating in this effort. Ed Turner and Bruce Gillespie APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 422 in the apo35-general archive. You can find APO the archive on http://www.astro.princeton.edu/APO/apo35-general/INDEX.html APO To join/leave the list, send mail to apo35-request@astro.princeton.edu APO To post a message, mail it to apo35-general@astro.princeton.edu APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO