On June 29, 26 employees received Employee Performance Recognition Awards. After a gourmet luncheon at Chez Leon, Fermilab Director Michael Witherell handed out the awards. "It's employees like these, who give so much more than their job requires, that make the lab what it is," Witherell said.

The following employees received awards:

• Terry Anderson and Lucy Nobrega for their contributions to significant vacuum improvements in the Recycler Ring.
• David Augustine, for leading over 100 technicians to complete an enormous amount of work in the 2003 shutdown.
• Jim Volk, for his outstanding coordination efforts during the 2003 shutdown that led to the successful alignment of the Tevatron and decreased coupling.
• Jerry Annala, for his heroic efforts (both technical and administrative) in helping the Tevatron to go through six startup periods fast and efficiently.
• Jim Morgan, for his outstanding work as Run Coordinator in the Accelerator Division.
• Bill Pellico, for contributions that led to substantial improvements in Booster intensity with a record number of protons delivered for stacking.
• Mike Syphers, for discovering the sagging of the Tevatron Dipole cold mass.
• Brian Hendricks, for the extraordinary level of support he provided to control system applications, and his maintenance of the core CLIB libraries that are critical to all VMS programs.
• Connee Trimby, for her preparation of financial data for the recent DOE Operations Review.
• Joe Klemencic, for his contributions to Fermilab's computer security program.
• Frank Chlebana, for his role in managing the online systems at CDF for Collider Run II.
• PPD's Alignment and Metrology Group, including Craig Bradford, Gary Crutcher, John Kyle, Mike O'Boyle, Anthony Rodriguez, Charles Wilson, Jean Wilson, Randy Wyatt, Glenda Adkins, Gary Teafoe, Jim Wish, John Greenwood, Terry Sager, and George Wojcick. They all played large roles in aligning various parts of the accelerator complex during the last accelerator shutdown.