Calico's Well-Chosen Path At INL
Submitted by Ken Hughes
Sho-Ban News Online
On January 30, Cheryl Calico, Shoshone-Bannock Tribal member retired from the Idaho National Laboratory site.
She was employed at the site for 34 and a half years. Her mother Lillie also retired from the site that makes Cheryl a second-generation retiree in the family. Her mother, Lillie and father, Lee Broncho raised Cheryl and siblings on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. Cheryl graduated from Blackfoot High School in 1967
In 1971 she was hired with the company, Aerojet Nuclear Corporation. This corporation had the contract for research and development of nuclear energy at the DOE National Reactor Testing Station (Atomic Energy Commission-AEC) located on the desert west of Blackfoot and Idaho Falls.
The DOE primary contractor company's that Cheryl worked for during her career; Aerojet Nuclear Corporation (ANC), Allied Chemical Corporation, Exxon Nuclear Idaho Company (ENICO) Westinghouse Idaho Nuclear Corporation (WINCO), Lockheed Martin, Bechtel BBWXT, and Ch2MHill Washington Group. During her tenure Cheryl worked in the purchasing field as a purchasing analyst and a buyer. As a buyer Cheryl was responsible for the acquisition of chemicals, vehicles, and lab supplies.
She also interfaced daily with the Department of Energy and other contractors and businesses as duties entailed. The site itself went through some mission and name changes, it started initially as the Naval Proving Grounds, then to the National Reactor Testing Station, Energy and Research Development Area, the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and later adding another "E" to address environmental issues and now currently the Idaho National Laboratory. The current mission is too clean up past missions with the reactor research and research into the New Generation IV Reactor Energy program.
Cheryl also was very vital and instrumental in developing, assisting and implementing various programs with the community and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. She belonged to a community awareness program needy family program, ambassador program, NativeAmerican Heritage Club, Junior Achievement Company, Community Ambassadors, United Way, the Provide a Trusting Hand (PATH) Program and other worthwhile programs that benefited either the communities, Tribes, or ethnic populations. Cheryl also provided assistance as well as being involved with the annual cultural heritage days that the contractor held annually.
In her position with Westinghouse she was an honored recipient during the first annual Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Women's Recognition Week. Lew Town her supervisor gave her the award and stated that in the capacity of Cheryl's position "She had direct responsibility to interface several million dollars worth of procurement activities between EG&G and Allied Chemical." He also had stated that Cheryl had the signature authority to commit WINCO in the amount of $1 million to procurement actions. Cheryl has also taken college courses and job related classes that have enhanced her job knowledge.
During her years of service to the "site" which is now the Idaho National Laboratory, she traveled the road from Fort Hall to the site during all types of adverse conditions. During the winter there was always the threat of the possibility of having to stay at the site due to closure of roads to and from Blackfoot or Idaho Falls. Who knows how many miles were logged while she was employed at the site?
Cheryl is now enjoying the fact that she will never have to ride a "site" bus or drive between Idaho Falls and Blackfoot. Cheryl will now be able to spend more time with her family, friends and her grandchildren whom she enjoys spending time with. As for her retirement she stated, "I will not miss the rat race but I will miss the rats." She has met a lot of wonderful people during her tenure at the site and will miss them.
American Indian Journalism Institute Accepting Nominations
VERMILLION, S.D. — The Freedom Forum is accepting nominations for the sixth annual American Indian Journalism Institute (AIJI) — the nation’s premier training program for Native American journalism students. The application deadline is March 31. In its first five years, AIJI graduated 127 Native American students.
AIJI will take place at the Freedom Forum’s Al Neuharth Media Center and the University of South Dakota in Vermillion June 4-23. Any Native American college student with an interest in becoming a newspaper journalist may apply.
Once accepted into the program, AIJI participants will be placed in one of four courses according to their interests and experience. Courses offered in 2006 will include “Basic News Reporting,” “Advanced News Reporting,” “News Editing” and “Photojournalism.” Each course path will feature its own instructor.
“We’re expanding and improving the curriculum this year to help prepare more Native Americans for journalism careers,” said Jack Marsh, AIJI director and executive director of the Al Neuharth Media Center. “Students will be able to return to AIJI a second or third year and take different courses.”
The Freedom Forum will facilitate and fund the program. Tuition, fees, books, room and board are provided free to enrollees. To be eligible, Native students must have completed at least one year of college. Applications for the program will be accepted from new participants and from returning AIJI students seeking specialized instruction.
Program graduates will earn four hours of college credit from the University of South Dakota that students may transfer to their current school. In addition, graduates will receive a $500 stipend/scholarship from the Freedom Forum, paid when the student resumes full-time classes in the fall.
Top AIJI graduates will receive paid internships as reporters, copy editors and photographers at daily newspapers and with The Associated Press for up to six weeks this summer. Last summer, more than two dozen AIJI graduates worked in paid news internships.
Graduates also will have the opportunity to join the staff of reznetnews.org — the online Native American college newspaper — as paid journalists when they return to school. With only a few exceptions, reznetnews.org staff members are AIJI graduates.
AIJI administrators prefer that students be nominated by educators, mentors, elders or other interested parties. Students may nominate themselves. However, it is recommended that at least one letter from a teacher, counselor or elder accompany each completed application.
Nominations should explain why the student should be accepted into the program and how the student can be contacted. Nominations should be sent to Jack Marsh, executive director, Al Neuharth Media Center, 555 Dakota St., Vermillion, SD 57069.
Nominations also may be sent via e-mail to jharris@freedomforum.org. (For further information about the nomination process, call Janine Harris, assistant to the executive director, at 605/677-5424.)
Each nominee will be sent additional application forms and materials about the program. The application also is online at freedomforum.org/diversity.
Students must be able to provide their own transportation to and from Vermillion, S.D., and must attend the full program beginning Sunday, June 4 and ending Friday, June 23. Each student will have a single room in a dormitory. Meals will be provided on campus.
AIJI forbids the use of alcohol, other intoxicants and illegal drugs at any time during the program. Violators will be dismissed from the institute.
The American Indian Journalism Institute is part of the Freedom Forum’s commitment to increase employment diversity at daily newspapers.
“Having even one Native American working in a newsroom makes that newspaper more aware of Indians in its community, and more sensitive and intelligent in reporting stories about them,” Marsh said. “American Indians are by far the most underrepresented people of color in the news media, and this often results in stereotypical and erroneous newspaper coverage of Indian issues and Indian people.”
An annual census of newspaper newsrooms shows that of some 54,000 journalists nationwide, only about 300 are of Native American descent.
In addition to journalism diversity programs at the University of South Dakota, the Freedom Forum funds and co-directs the Native American Journalism Career Conference at Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The workshop, April 18-20, 2006, introduces Native high school and tribal-college students to the possibilities of a journalism career. For more information about this program, contact Janine Harris at 605/677-5424 or by e-mail at jharris@freedomforum.org.
The Freedom Forum, based in Arlington, Va., is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three main priorities: newsroom diversity, the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and First Amendment issues.
NATIVE UNITY - A place for Native American Peoples to solidify their tribes to make a positive impact on the cultural, social, economic and political fabric of American society and a place for non-Natives to better understand the ways of the American Indian.
Sho-Ban News Online
On January 30, Cheryl Calico, Shoshone-Bannock Tribal member retired from the Idaho National Laboratory site.
She was employed at the site for 34 and a half years. Her mother Lillie also retired from the site that makes Cheryl a second-generation retiree in the family. Her mother, Lillie and father, Lee Broncho raised Cheryl and siblings on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. Cheryl graduated from Blackfoot High School in 1967
In 1971 she was hired with the company, Aerojet Nuclear Corporation. This corporation had the contract for research and development of nuclear energy at the DOE National Reactor Testing Station (Atomic Energy Commission-AEC) located on the desert west of Blackfoot and Idaho Falls.
The DOE primary contractor company's that Cheryl worked for during her career; Aerojet Nuclear Corporation (ANC), Allied Chemical Corporation, Exxon Nuclear Idaho Company (ENICO) Westinghouse Idaho Nuclear Corporation (WINCO), Lockheed Martin, Bechtel BBWXT, and Ch2MHill Washington Group. During her tenure Cheryl worked in the purchasing field as a purchasing analyst and a buyer. As a buyer Cheryl was responsible for the acquisition of chemicals, vehicles, and lab supplies.
She also interfaced daily with the Department of Energy and other contractors and businesses as duties entailed. The site itself went through some mission and name changes, it started initially as the Naval Proving Grounds, then to the National Reactor Testing Station, Energy and Research Development Area, the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and later adding another "E" to address environmental issues and now currently the Idaho National Laboratory. The current mission is too clean up past missions with the reactor research and research into the New Generation IV Reactor Energy program.
Cheryl also was very vital and instrumental in developing, assisting and implementing various programs with the community and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. She belonged to a community awareness program needy family program, ambassador program, NativeAmerican Heritage Club, Junior Achievement Company, Community Ambassadors, United Way, the Provide a Trusting Hand (PATH) Program and other worthwhile programs that benefited either the communities, Tribes, or ethnic populations. Cheryl also provided assistance as well as being involved with the annual cultural heritage days that the contractor held annually.
In her position with Westinghouse she was an honored recipient during the first annual Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Women's Recognition Week. Lew Town her supervisor gave her the award and stated that in the capacity of Cheryl's position "She had direct responsibility to interface several million dollars worth of procurement activities between EG&G and Allied Chemical." He also had stated that Cheryl had the signature authority to commit WINCO in the amount of $1 million to procurement actions. Cheryl has also taken college courses and job related classes that have enhanced her job knowledge.
During her years of service to the "site" which is now the Idaho National Laboratory, she traveled the road from Fort Hall to the site during all types of adverse conditions. During the winter there was always the threat of the possibility of having to stay at the site due to closure of roads to and from Blackfoot or Idaho Falls. Who knows how many miles were logged while she was employed at the site?
Cheryl is now enjoying the fact that she will never have to ride a "site" bus or drive between Idaho Falls and Blackfoot. Cheryl will now be able to spend more time with her family, friends and her grandchildren whom she enjoys spending time with. As for her retirement she stated, "I will not miss the rat race but I will miss the rats." She has met a lot of wonderful people during her tenure at the site and will miss them.
American Indian Journalism Institute Accepting Nominations
VERMILLION, S.D. — The Freedom Forum is accepting nominations for the sixth annual American Indian Journalism Institute (AIJI) — the nation’s premier training program for Native American journalism students. The application deadline is March 31. In its first five years, AIJI graduated 127 Native American students.
AIJI will take place at the Freedom Forum’s Al Neuharth Media Center and the University of South Dakota in Vermillion June 4-23. Any Native American college student with an interest in becoming a newspaper journalist may apply.
Once accepted into the program, AIJI participants will be placed in one of four courses according to their interests and experience. Courses offered in 2006 will include “Basic News Reporting,” “Advanced News Reporting,” “News Editing” and “Photojournalism.” Each course path will feature its own instructor.
“We’re expanding and improving the curriculum this year to help prepare more Native Americans for journalism careers,” said Jack Marsh, AIJI director and executive director of the Al Neuharth Media Center. “Students will be able to return to AIJI a second or third year and take different courses.”
The Freedom Forum will facilitate and fund the program. Tuition, fees, books, room and board are provided free to enrollees. To be eligible, Native students must have completed at least one year of college. Applications for the program will be accepted from new participants and from returning AIJI students seeking specialized instruction.
Program graduates will earn four hours of college credit from the University of South Dakota that students may transfer to their current school. In addition, graduates will receive a $500 stipend/scholarship from the Freedom Forum, paid when the student resumes full-time classes in the fall.
Top AIJI graduates will receive paid internships as reporters, copy editors and photographers at daily newspapers and with The Associated Press for up to six weeks this summer. Last summer, more than two dozen AIJI graduates worked in paid news internships.
Graduates also will have the opportunity to join the staff of reznetnews.org — the online Native American college newspaper — as paid journalists when they return to school. With only a few exceptions, reznetnews.org staff members are AIJI graduates.
AIJI administrators prefer that students be nominated by educators, mentors, elders or other interested parties. Students may nominate themselves. However, it is recommended that at least one letter from a teacher, counselor or elder accompany each completed application.
Nominations should explain why the student should be accepted into the program and how the student can be contacted. Nominations should be sent to Jack Marsh, executive director, Al Neuharth Media Center, 555 Dakota St., Vermillion, SD 57069.
Nominations also may be sent via e-mail to jharris@freedomforum.org. (For further information about the nomination process, call Janine Harris, assistant to the executive director, at 605/677-5424.)
Each nominee will be sent additional application forms and materials about the program. The application also is online at freedomforum.org/diversity.
Students must be able to provide their own transportation to and from Vermillion, S.D., and must attend the full program beginning Sunday, June 4 and ending Friday, June 23. Each student will have a single room in a dormitory. Meals will be provided on campus.
AIJI forbids the use of alcohol, other intoxicants and illegal drugs at any time during the program. Violators will be dismissed from the institute.
The American Indian Journalism Institute is part of the Freedom Forum’s commitment to increase employment diversity at daily newspapers.
“Having even one Native American working in a newsroom makes that newspaper more aware of Indians in its community, and more sensitive and intelligent in reporting stories about them,” Marsh said. “American Indians are by far the most underrepresented people of color in the news media, and this often results in stereotypical and erroneous newspaper coverage of Indian issues and Indian people.”
An annual census of newspaper newsrooms shows that of some 54,000 journalists nationwide, only about 300 are of Native American descent.
In addition to journalism diversity programs at the University of South Dakota, the Freedom Forum funds and co-directs the Native American Journalism Career Conference at Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The workshop, April 18-20, 2006, introduces Native high school and tribal-college students to the possibilities of a journalism career. For more information about this program, contact Janine Harris at 605/677-5424 or by e-mail at jharris@freedomforum.org.
The Freedom Forum, based in Arlington, Va., is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three main priorities: newsroom diversity, the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and First Amendment issues.
NATIVE UNITY - A place for Native American Peoples to solidify their tribes to make a positive impact on the cultural, social, economic and political fabric of American society and a place for non-Natives to better understand the ways of the American Indian.
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