Katy Dickinson

SEED and PreSEED Application Update

We are in the midst of two Sun worldwide Engineering mentoring program application periods. The first is a SEED term for Global Sales & Service (see my October 22, 2008 entry, all material is due 12 November), and the second is for PreSEED (see my October 31, 2008 entry, all material is due 14 November). I am sending out daily summary reports in email to the applicants and their managers. Tanya Jankot and I are receiving many questions, corrections, and updates. SEED and PreSEED will accept a maximum of fifty participants per term (no minimum number).

Status?
So far, we have 66 GSS applications (23 complete) and 64 PreSEED applications (42 complete). The applicants for these terms are very diverse geographically, working in:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK

USA: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia

More?
More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program is available at http://research.sun.com/SEED/

Posted at 01:20PM Nov 10, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

Caboose Art Tour

I am still decorating the inside of WP668, our backyard caboose. The last big piece of furniture, the Victorian fainting couch, is still not finished. Below are pictures of some of the art currently inside. Two of the artists are in my family: Eleanor Creekmore Dickinson is my Mother, and Evelyn Van Gilder Creekmore was my Grandmother. Elkmont is where our family cabin was in the Great Smoky Mountains, near Knoxville, Tennessee. Some of the furniture in WP668 was hand carved by my Great-Grandmother, Ellen Bolli Van Gilder.

"Gay Street, Knoxville" with Eleanor Dickinson 1951

"Gay Street, Knoxville" by Eleanor Dickinson 1951

Victorian Etchings - Shakespeare's Heroines: Katharine and Cassandra circa 1900

Dream of Evelyn V. Creekmore, Elkmont by Eleanor Creekmore Dickinson 1970

Elkmont, Tennessee, Creek Paintings by Evelyn Van Gilder Creekmore circa 1980

Inside WP668

Inside WP668

2008 WP668 Caboose drawing by Eleanor Dickinson

WP668 Caboose today

Images Copyright 2008 Katy Dickinson

Posted at 01:10PM Nov 10, 2008 by katysblog in Caboose Project and Other Trains  | 

Paul's Glass

My 16-year-old son Paul is taking Ceramics class at Paly (Palo Alto High School). He has recently started to work with glass as well as clay. Paul is looking forward to taking a full year of glass blowing next year. For now, he is enjoying learning to work with rod glass. Each piece has to cool for 24 hours; sometimes the colors change unexpectedly during cooling. I have a feeling we are all getting small glass flowers, leaves, and mushrooms for Christmas presents this year.

Paul's first glass flower

Paul's second flowers

Paul's leaves

Images Copyright 2008 Katy Dickinson

Posted at 09:28AM Nov 10, 2008 by katysblog in Home & Family  | 

Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real

My husband John and I are both delegates from our home parish of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Saratoga, California) to the Convention of the Diocese of El Camino Real. This weekend was our annual meeting and the first after the ordination of our new Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves. There were many references to the Year of Wonder declared by Bishop Mary during our last convention. A Baldachino or hanging of the word WONDER was a feature of the stage during the entire convention.

Convention takes place over a day - from late afternoon Friday through late afternoon Saturday. The last few years, we have met in Salinas. Our Central Coast diocese is very long and thin - running from Palo Alto in the north to Nipomo in the south. Salinas is more-or-less convenient (or equally inconvenient) for most delegates. There were presentations, dignitaries, music and dancing, much prayerful discussion, knitting by delegates, and extensive debate over the difference between majority and plurality voting. We passed the budget in record time as well as passing resolutions on conservation, gang violence, the Millennium Development Goals, Marriage Rites in Civil Jurisdictions that Permit Same-Sex Marriages, Consents to Episcopal Elections, and matters of pay and governance. Full texts are on the Diocesan Convention 2008 web page.

WONDER Baldachino

Bishop Mary

Mariachi Eucharist

Anthony Guillen

Fiero Nuevo Folklorico

Fiero Nuevo Folklorico

Santa Maria Urban Ministry display

Lambeth Conference Report

Garza Family Delegates

Giraffe Presentation

Bishop and Giraffe

Holy Child Delegates

Rev. Vincent Raj speaks

Jennifer Ezell speaks

John Plocher speaks

Images Copyright 2008 Katy Dickinson

Posted at 09:01AM Nov 10, 2008 by katysblog in Church  |