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  |