I have enjoyed knowing
Jeanie Treichel
for at least fifteen years. Until recently, Jeanie
was in charge of most of the characteristic amenities of life at
Sun Labs in Menlo Park, California.
Among her many activities, Jeanie ran the weekly party (“The Bash”),
the intern program, the lab reports and technical publications, the
Noosphere and its library, and she was the resident historian. In my
favorite quotes page, I have the following from Jeanie (told me on
9 October 2000):
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A local guide told Jeanie when she rested once too often when hiking up
the Ruwenzori range (“Mountains of the Moon”) in Africa in 1956:
“Memsahib: to arrive, you must go!”
Jeanie worked for Xerox PARC, then Sutherland, Sproull, and Associates
before becoming one of the founding members of Sun Labs in 1990.
At Jeanie’s going away party (and Ladies Lunch), she was presented with
an album of photos from her 19 years with Sun Labs, including photos with
some of the great leaders and innovators of the Silicon Valley:
Scott McNealy,
Jim Mitchell,
Greg Papadopoulos,
Wayne Rosing,
Eric Schmidt,
Bob Sproull,
Bert Sutherland,
and
Ivan Sutherland.
You can see some of Jeanie’s work in her publications:
Sun Labs-The First Five Years: The First Fifty Technical Reports. A Commemorative Issue
By: Ching-Chih Chang, Amy Hall and Jeanie Treichel,
Sun Labs Report Number: TR-98-51, Sep 1, 1998
Sun Labs: The 3rd 50 Tech Reports – Commemorative
By: Jeanie Treichel, Sun Labs Report Number: TR-2008-150, May 12, 2008
Jeanie ended her last email to Sun Labs with this quote:
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Edward FitzGerald 1809-1883
Jeanie Treichel
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Sun Labs Ladies Lunch
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Jeanie Treichel in her office
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Jeanie’s photos
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Jeanie Treichel in Africa 1956
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Jeanie’s office giraffe collection
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