Memo

To: Daniel Altschuler

From: Edgar I. Castro

Date: July 14, 1999

Subject: Donna Kubik

Donna Kubik was hired as a Maintenance Engineer. While she has been making progress in her job, I see that she is much more interested in the day-to-day scientific operations of the observatory. When we first interviewed her, she was applying to be a telescope operator. She was turned down for that position because she did not know Spanish. Since that time, she has studied Spanish intensively and her interest in the scientific operations have, if anything, become even stronger.

Since there is now an open position in telescope operations, I recommend that Donna be transferred to that department where she can apply her interest to the maximum and where her engineering training (MSEE) will allow her to become an especially knowledgeable operator and very likely a frequent collaborator in radio astronomy experiments.