Katy Dickinson

Bishop Election Tomorrow

The election for the 3rd Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real (ECR) is tomorrow, Saturday, 16 June. Email evaluations of the 5 candidates have been passing between the congregation members and the lay delegates and clergy of my home parish, All Saints' (Palo Alto) all week. I feel blessed to receive so much prayerful and wise advice.

I have been reading The Book of Common Prayer on the Ordination of a Bishop. It is the people of the diocese who present the bishop-elect to the Presiding Bishop for ordination saying: "...the clergy and people of the Diocese of name, trusting in the guidance of the Holy Spirit, have chosen name to be a bishop and chief pastor. We therefore ask you to lay your hands upon him and in the power of the Holy Spirit to consecrate him a bishop in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church."

Tomorrow, we choose. There is an Ballot Results ECR web page to check since electronic communication from the convention floor is forbidden by the "Rules of Order in the Convention".

Posted at 10:07PM Jun 15, 2007 by katysblog in Church  | 

69 New SEEDs Selected

On Wednesday, the SEED Engineering mentoring program Selection Committees picked 69 new participants:

• 25 September 2007-September 2008 Recent Hires (12 month term)
• 44 September 2007-March 2008 Established Staff (6 month term)

The participants are putting together their Mentor Wish Lists now; those are due on 9 July. This group was unusual in several ways: fewer applicants, lower percentage of managers and women, broader geographic spread. SEED has its first participants working in Chile, Brazil, and Turkey this term. We are looking into why there are these differences. Here is some information about our new folks:

19% of those selected had previously applied to the program.

About the 25 new Recent Hire Participants:

	 59 Recent Hire Applications	
	 43 Completed Applications (73%)
	 25 Selected (58% of completed, 42% of total)
	
	Location of Participants
             1 Canada, 4%
	     3 China, 12%
	     2 Czech Republic, 8%
	     5 India, 20%
	     1 Russia, 4%
	    13 USA, 52%
		3 Central USA, 12%
		1 Eastern USA,  4%
	        9 Western USA, 36%

	Division of Participants
	     1 CTO/Sun Labs, 4%
	     3 Microelectronics, 12%
             1 Sales, 4%
	    11 Software Group, 44%
	     3 Storage Group, 12%
	     5 Systems Group, 20%
	     1 Worldwide Operations, 4%

	Gender of Participants
	     5 Female, 20%
	    20 Male, 80%

	1 Manager, 4%

About the 44 new Established Staff Participants:

		
	    109 Applications
	     88 Completed (81%)
	     44 Selected (50% of completed, 40% of total)
	
	Location of Participants
            1 Brazil, 2%
	    2 China, 5%
            1 Chile, 2%
	    1 Czech Republic, 2%
	    2 Germany, 5%
	    2 India, 5%
            2 Ireland, 5%
            1 Russia, 2%
            1 Turkey, 2%
	   31 USA, 70%
	    	6 Central USA, 14%
	    	6 Eastern USA, 14%
	       19 Western USA, 43%
	
	Division of Participants
	     1 CTO/Sun Labs, 2%
	     2 Microelectronics, 5%
             3 Sales, 7%
             5 Services, 11%
	    21 Software Group, 48%
	     2 Storage Group, 5%
	     9 Systems Group, 20%
	     1 Worldwide Operations, 2%

	Gender of Participants
	     6 Female, 14%
	    38 Male, 86%

        4 Managers, 9%

Tanya and I think we exchanged about 1,500 emails during the last week with program applicants and their managers. Good to be on to the next phase...

Posted at 07:46AM Jun 15, 2007 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |