In the past year the Research office has nearly doubled in size. At one point we were down to almost just five staff people, and now we have 9/10 (but now only two - instead of four - are guys - plus now Becki's son Jonathan (obscured in the bottom picture)). Last winter as we contemplated three new staffpeople one of the managers commented that with all of the new people - eventually in the future - the office would be different. And perhaps it is. (We're certainly very glad they've all joined us.) Because of the large number of people, because 1 1/2 years ago we moved away from the office with the de facto conference room of our own, and because we now include administrative assistants in our weekly staff meetings, we've had to move many of these events out of our other manager's office - where they'd been ever since we moved down to the 1st floor - to one of two conference rooms (one or both at least nominally controlled by other offices). Last Thursday we gathered in the Prebyterian Investment & Loan Program conference room to celebrate the 29th birthday of the AA who started soon before me, now our senior AA - Christy (pictured in the top left in the lower picture above). A couple of weeks before we both welcomed our new colleague Hilary and celebrated her birthday in the other confernce room. Among those pictured above are all of the colleagues new to us during the past year: Susan, Becki, Joelle, and Hillary (plus old-timers Deborah and Ida).
-- Perry
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