From jjd at ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov Thu May 24 07:23:48 2001 From: jjd at ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov (John Degnan) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:23:48 -0400 Subject: [IGSMAIL-3346]: John Bosworth's Retirement Dinner Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20010524095802.009ef8d0@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov> ****************************************************************************** IGS Electronic Mail 24 May 09:21:39 PDT 2001 Message Number 3346 ****************************************************************************** Author: John Degnan I am using three email exploders which may have overlapping entries so please forgive me if you receive more than one copy of this announcement. As many of you may have already heard, Mr. John Bosworth will be retiring from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center after nearly 40 years of government service to work in private industry. John has had a long and successful career at Goddard, but most of you know him through the work he has done on behalf of space geodesy - first as Deputy Manager under Bob Coates, and then later as Manager, of NASA's Crustal Dynamics Project. Following the termination of CDP, he retained primary responsibility for the management of NASA's SLR and VLBI networks and has served as head of the CSTG Sites Subcommission and as Director of the ILRS Central Bureau. There will be a retirement party for John at a restaurant near GSFC on the evening of Tuesday, June 12 at 5pm . A flyer about the party can be accessed as a PDF file via the Web at: http://cddisa.gsfc.nasa.gov/jmbpty.pdf If you happen to be in the Washington DC metropolitan area and would like to attend, please call one of the numbers on the flyer to reserve your place. Please indicate when you call whether you wish to say a few words concerning John's career and contributions. If you cannot attend (because of schedule, geography, or whatever) but would like to have a few words said on your behalf at the retirement dinner, please send them to me at this email address. Please be brief. A paragraph is sufficient. John has worked hard over the last 20 years to build and maintain a viable space geodetic network in support of a multitude of Earth science applications. We wish him well in his retirement. Dr. John J. Degnan Head, Geoscience Technology Office, Code 920.3 Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA Phone: 1-301-614-5860 Fax: 1-301-614-5970 Email: jjd at ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov Thought for the Day: It is well documented that for every mile that you jog, you add one minute to your life. This enables you, at age 85, to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5,000 per month.