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May 2009 Service Anniversaries Dept. Name Dept. Name Dept. Name Dept. Name 40 Years 40 Morse, Edward Winslow 35 Years 07 Dubois, Denis Gerald 11 Hyson, Richard Dana 15 Dubois, Fernand Gerard 17 Dersham, Alvin Clifton 17 Patrick, Chandler Arthur 20 Newman, Jeffrey Condon 32 Bilodeau Jr, Raymond Dominique 40 Benner, Larry Michael 43 Hiscock, Ronald Ellery 50 Picard, Raymond Marcel 81 Brewer, Bruce Wayne 81 Kramarz, Gary Stanley 81 Perkins, Harold Andrew 86 Sprague, Stephen Robert 93 Wood, Keith Wayne 30 Years 10 Blair, Alric Charles 11 Barrett, Paul Anthony 15 Bickford, Keith Michael 15 Pelletier, Donald P 17 Dickey, Michael Alan 19 Beedy, Scott Roger 19 Burk, Gary Robert 20 Brodeur, Cindy Lou 20 Hutchinson, Janis 20 Norton, Michael Allan 20 Peavey, Elizabeth Anne 20 Stufflebeam, Michael Dwayne 20 Welch, Kevin Robert 20 Williams, Timothy Carl 26 Call Jr, Lawrence Melvin 26 Winslow, Jerry Lee 29 Wheeler, Michael Carlton 32 Labbe, David Joseph 40 Snell, Gary Alan 45 Feltis, Timothy Lewis 66 Donohue Jr, Joseph Patrick 81 Nichols, Clay Arnold 87 Dunton, William Alfred 91 Cloutier, Leo Theophile 25 Years 86 Murphy, Anne Elizabeth 87 Gosselin, Richard Jean 20 Years 06 Jacobs, Phil Royce 10 Bouffard, Norman Roger 15 Baum, Robert Francis 15 Belanger III, Joseph 15 Hall, Lee Alan 15 Loranger, Gerard Norman 15 Potter, Bryan Lee 15 Stevenson Jr, Vernon Arthur 17 Dubois, Charles 19 Cassidy, Steven James 19 Cote, Rodney Roland 19 Rumney, Jeffrey William 19 Schafer Jr, Donald William 19 Wheeler, Christopher Chase 19 Yannayon, Neil Robert 20 Combs, Stacey Lee 20 Dostie, James Dean 20 Hendron, George Elmer 27 Buma, Diane Lea 27 Darling, Joseph William 27 Jacques, Terry Michael 27 McBride, Mark Stephen 27 Morin, Dwayne Albert 27 Nadeau, Normand Richard 27 Nichols, Wayne Elmer 27 Rines, Douglas Alfred 27 Smiley Jr, Selden Clarence 30 Frost, Terry William 30 Oliver, Christopher Douglas 30 Vallee, Steven Roy 30 Whitmore, Eric Edward 32 Lemont, Daren John 40 Blanchette, Steven Roger 40 Clavette, Daniel William 40 Hartzell, Richard William 40 Merrill, Clinton Parker 40 Poitras, Mark Stephen 40 Sheldon, Timothy Merle 45 Small, Elaine Gail 50 Kaler, Clinton Dana 50 Lepage, Douglas Jason 50 Marquis, Roger Cyrille 66 Evans, Timothy Wayne 81 Heikkinen, Robert Glenn 84 Cantara, Jeffrey Charles 86 Chamberlain, Thomas Merrill 86 Goodine, Michael James 86 Sweeney, Gary Lynn 87 Cavers II, William James 87 Neron, Coreen Rebecca 15 Years 13 Dickinson, Vincent 10 Years 40 Dunham-Fitzmaurice, Anne Alicia 40 Howard, Murray Allen 40 Record, Scott Karl 86 Colombraro, John Vincent Lunch for a Cause On May 21, 2009, truly a picnicworthy day, most of North Stores emptied out for a Red Sox and hot dog-themed lunch which benefitted the work of the Good Shepherd Food Bank in Lewiston (serving hunger prevention programs throughout Maine). This was the latest of a series of D40 North Stores lunch events designed for participants to have fun while creating non-traditional working groups across their four disciplines of hull, electrical, mechanical and systems integration. Led by Christie Kelley (D40),each group decides on a theme, identifies a charity and executes the event. Christie said, “Lunches are an easy draw because socializing around food is very appealing.” The D40 program is several years old and generates an activity about three times a year. Christie decided to create a crossdepartment management group for the May 10 | June 2009 | BIW NEWS event and they, in turn, decided to invite everyone who works in the building, including Engineering, Procurement, the DDG 1000 program and CSC. The organizers decided that with spring officially here, a baseball theme would be fun. They also selected a charitable group to benefit from the event. In addition to some mighty tasty dogs, there were raffles for a variety of baseballrelated items, from player cards to homemade apple pie. There were a few carnivaltype events, such as Velocity, where Dan Cote (D26) borrowed a radar gun from the <strong>Bath</strong> Police and Russ Hoffman (D40) clocked some fast, fast balls. Russ said, “After careful analysis, we decided that it was better to time the speed from behind the pitcher rather than facing the ball. That settled, we were very impressed with the pitching abilities of some of our engineering Chow line duty included Russ Hoffman (center) and Laurie Murphy (back to camera). staff.” Elliot Cumming (D46) organized a trivia game called the Manager’s Challenge which quizzed contestants on their beloved Red Sox players. How is the program going overall? “Very well,” said Christie. “It has proven an effective way for our people to work together and we have raised money for some very good local charities. This last event generated a sizeable donation to Good Shepherd after expenses and people especially like that part.”
Summer Interns Today’s Summer Intern Program is the result of some focused thinking about the purpose of a short term professional job experience. More than a summer job program, the structured Summer Intern Program began several years ago by targeting the types of students that we are interested in hiring longer-term. BIW promotes the Summer Intern Program when recruiting at on-campus job fairs during the school year but it is not the only means of advertisement. All interested individuals are directed to apply online and are evaluated equally for the program. Initially, only a handful of internships were offered, but last summer, about twenty interns worked in engineering, procurement and labor relations. The 35-member 2009 intern group arrived in May and has disbursed to assignments in 12 different areas of the shipyard. They came to BIW from Maine colleges and universities as well as schools in Utah, Virginia, Georgia, Michigan, New York and New England. All are either college seniors or returning for graduate study this fall. Interns attended both regular orientation and an enhanced Intern Open House where they were greeted by their direct supervisors, heard about BIW from a few members of our senior staff, toured the shipyard and became acquainted with one another. The next day, they reported to a work site that many had previewed the day before and to a boss that they had spoken with several times by then. According to Mike Ross, HR Employment Manager, “By Day 3 we hope that we eased each intern into their job without any first day jitters.” Building on previous areas of success, weekly education sessions are planned where different aspects of the business are explained. This year, the interns are invited to several social events organized to provide opportunities for learning and networking outside work. For example, in mid-June, the group had lunch at Spinney’s in Phippsburg and watched Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) pass Fort Popham in transit to sea trials. The program concludes in August with a program where each intern presents an overview of their summer job, their accomplishments and observations. Also new this year is a mentoring program where a group of employees are asked to meet with several interns at least twice during the summer to chat, answer questions and offer an example of what contributed to their (the mentor’s) success within the company. By design, the mentor comes from a different background than the intern and a manufacturing employee, for example, might be paired with a finance intern to offer yet another viewpoint of the shipyard. A good program evolves over time. For example, Mike mentioned that, “This year, we asked BIW employees if they had available rooms or apartments that students might rent for the summer. We got the word out late, yet several interns connected with housing because of it. Another year, we’ll identify those options earlier.” At the end of the summer, some interns may receive job offers for the following year. These offers are subject to availability of work and basically subject to either party changing their mind. However, “It has proven valuable,” said Mike, “because if a mutual, longer-term employment interest has taken place between BIW and the student over the summer, our offer demonstrates that interest more compellingly than our parting words might and the intern returns to their last year of school ahead of the curve in terms of determining what they will do upon graduation.” Mike continued, “The program gives both the company and the intern what amounts to a summer-long job interview. These offers are not confining— a student has a chance to change their mind and so do we, yet many of these end-of-summer offers result in successful hires.” The summer interns who arrived in May are listed in the Welcome area below with a double asterisk. Others include Bridget Buehrle, Andrew Crouse, David Gross and Mark Malo (all D40), Alan Shirfan (D52) and Sarah Vakiner (D84). Note: See photo on back cover. Welcome The following employees joined BIW during May 2009. Please welcome them. Name Dept. Name Dept. Name Dept. Bailey, Stephen Wade ** 4000 Bernard, Edward Reed ** 0200 Berube, Travis Reeves ** 2400 Blackman, Andrew Michael ** 4000 Brosnan, Daniel Francis ** 4000 Conner, Jason Michael ** 9500 Doll, Brian David ** 4000 Dorr, Luke Everett 8400 Dunn Jr, Marshall Aubrey * 5000 Dyer, Hailey Alice ** 8200 Evans, Nicholas James 0600 Goldis, Jason Shimon ** 8400 Hiler, Jonathan Douglas ** 5400 Hiles, Brenda Lucille * 1100 Jensen, Brian Scott ** 9000 Kim, Jay Hyun ** 8600 Kruse, Diane Mary ** 8400 Larkin, Jo-Ellen 4505 Leffler, Cathryn Leigh ** 4000 Lemont, Michael Richard ** 0200 London, Scott Kenneth ** 4900 MacKellar, Andrew D. * 4000 Mackin, Conor Francis ** 4000 Marshall, Andrew Sankey ** 8700 McKenney, Thomas Abbott ** 4000 Miller, Joshua Aaron ** 8600 Moskevitz, Andrew Philip ** 4000 Parker, William Joseph4000 Pratt, Curtis Austin ** 5200 Pratt, Susan Ann 4505 Roy, Jane Leigh 4505 Smith Jr, Richard L * 4000 Stewart, Patrick Crumley 2400 StPierre, Jade Renee ** 8700 Strandbygaard, Thomas J. ** 4000 Terry, Roger Dennis ** 4000 Trottier, Timothy Glenn ** 8400 Warsame, Mohamed O. ** 4000 Worster, Alison Anne ** 5100 York, Bryan William ** 2400 * Returning Employee ** Summer Intern BIW NEWS | June 2009 | 11
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