Katy Dickinson

Jeanie Treichel

I have enjoyed knowing Jeanie Treichel for at least fifteen years. Until recently, Jeanie was in charge of most of the characteristic amenities of life at Sun Labs in Menlo Park, California. Among her many activities, Jeanie ran the weekly party ("The Bash"), the intern program, the lab reports and technical publications, the Noosphere and its library, and she was the resident historian. In my favorite quotes page, I have the following from Jeanie (told me on 9 October 2000):

A local guide told Jeanie when she rested once too often when hiking up
the Ruwenzori range ("Mountains of the Moon") in Africa in 1956:
"Memsahib: to arrive, you must go!"

Jeanie worked for Xerox PARC, then Sutherland, Sproull, and Associates before becoming one of the founding members of Sun Labs in 1990.

At Jeanie's going away party (and Ladies Lunch), she was presented with an album of photos from her 19 years with Sun Labs, including photos with some of the great leaders and innovators of the Silicon Valley: Scott McNealy, Jim Mitchell, Greg Papadopoulos, Wayne Rosing, Eric Schmidt, Bob Sproull, Bert Sutherland, and Ivan Sutherland.

You can see some of Jeanie's work in her publications:

• Sun Labs-The First Five Years: The First Fifty Technical Reports. A Commemorative Issue By: Ching-Chih Chang, Amy Hall and Jeanie Treichel, Sun Labs Report Number: TR-98-51, Sep 1, 1998
• Sun Labs: The 3rd 50 Tech Reports - Commemorative By: Jeanie Treichel, Sun Labs Report Number: TR-2008-150, May 12, 2008

Jeanie ended her last email to Sun Labs with this quote:

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly---and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Edward FitzGerald 1809-1883

Jeanie Treichel

Sun Labs Ladies Lunch

Jeanie Treichel in her office

Jeanie's photos

Jeanie Treichel in Africa 1956

Jeanie's office giraffe collection

Images Copyright 2009 by Katy Dickinson

Posted at 05:25PM Mar 13, 2009 by katysblog in News & Reviews  | 

Making a Window Seat

In between job hunting, my husband John Plocher, has been designing and creating a window seat for WP668, our 1916 backyard caboose. WP668 is a bay window caboose with my desk in one bay, facing the house across the garden. The other bay features a lovely custom three piece stained glass window created for us by Vince Taylor. The red linoleum flooring and stained glass were both installed in May 2008. Everything was designed around the planned window seat. The window seat is deep enough so that the space below can hold the window screen inserts John made last year. The seat top is done and John is working on the front. It will be painted white and have a leather cushion when complete. Photos of the project so far:

WP668 in March 2009

Floor installed May 2008

Glass installed May 2008

Window Seat and Template

John and window seat top

Window seat top installed

Images Copyright 2008-2009 by Katy Dickinson and John Plocher

Posted at 12:40PM Mar 13, 2009 by katysblog in Caboose Project and Other Trains  |  Comments[2]

Starting SEED Mentor Matching Cycle

We started the mentor matching cycle on 11 March for the new SEED worldwide Engineering Established Staff term. Already, eight executives and senior Engineers have accepted match requests. Two pairs came into the program with prior understandings that they would work together. 39 participants are still in the process of being matched with mentors. All participants will be matched, most within the next three weeks.

Metrics

The eight newly matched mentors include three Distinguished Engineer/Directors, one Distinguished Engineer/Vice President, one Fellow/Vice President, one Vice President, one Principal Engineer/Director and a Senior Staff Engineer. The geographical pairings so far include:

• Itasca, IL USA with Burlington, MA USA
• Menlo Park, CA USA with Houston, TX USA
• Menlo Park, CA USA with Santa Clara, CA USA two pairs
• Montbonnot Saint Martin, France with Prague, Czech Republic
• Santa Clara, CA USA with Burlington, MA USA
• Seattle, WA USA with Santa Clara, CA USA
• Somerset, NJ USA with Universal City, CA USA

Next Terms

SEED runs seven terms a year. The next terms will be for PreSEED and GSS SEED. Applications for PreSEED and GSS SEED will be accepted starting at the end of March 2009 - the terms will run June-December 2009. Those terms will be followed by an Established Staff term plus the year-long term for Recent Hires (applications in June, terms to start in September 2009).

Posted at 11:42AM Mar 13, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |