Wow Marjorie!  I will be certain to visit your lab between basking in the
Palm Springs sun while attending the California meeting next month. :)

Good job!

Don

                                              
                                             
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Hospital Pathology, Box 356100                     MEDICAL CENTER
1995 NE Pacific St.                                
Seattle Washington, 98195                  ~Where Knowledge Comes To Life~ 
(206) 598-6401 Fax: (206) 598-4928         
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On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Hagerty, Marjorie A. wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> In case you are interested, I have been planning our Lab Week celebrations
> for a few years. This year we are doing the following:
> 1. I took pictures of lab employee's eyes who were willing. Out of 120
> employees, I accumulated pictures of 107 sets of employees eyes. They are
> all numbered and placed on a very exciting board. The idea is to match the
> correct pair of eyes to the co-worker. There are lots of people right now
> gathered around the board and laughing. Everyone seems so interested in just
> looking. I also put up a mystery set of eyes to guess, someone who is not a
> lab employee. Staff also vote for their favorite set of eyes. Prizes are
> given for all these contests.
> 2. We are having lunch provided everyday by generous vendors. Pizza, El
> Pollo Loco, Olive Garden, etc. Also we are having a chili cookoff and 1st
> prize is a $100 gift certificate. Last year there was enough chili to feed
> the entire lab for lunch. Staff loved this event. We give everyone who
> participates a prize and also a special prize for 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
> 3. We have a raffle after one of the lunches and we usually have 40 or more
> prizes to raffle off. Everyone's name is put in the raffle. Our vendors have
> been very generous!
> 4. We obtained a "Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition" for the
> laboratory from our representative, Mary Bono.
> It is very impressive looking and we made a beautiful display for it in the
> cafeteria. 
> 5. We hid 80 lab week magnets around the lab and satellite labs and whoever
> finds them gets to keep the magnet and also get a prize! This usually takes
> all week. 
> 6. We gave each lab employee a small gift. This year it is post-it notes.
> They have the hospital logo on them and at the bottom they say: ...from a
> valued member of the EMC Laboratory Services team!
> 
> As you can see, we treat this as more of a celebration, although we do put
> lab week posters throughout the hospital.
> 
> Sure is a fun week around here. It is a good way to get people from
> different lab areas together. The staff gets very excited and are very
> appreciative.
> 
> Marg
> Marjorie Hagerty, H.T. (ASCP) H.T.L., Q IHC
> Supervisor, Anatomic Pathology
> Eisenhower Medical Center
> 39000 Bob Hope Drive
> Rancho Mirage, California 92270
> 760.773.2013
> FAX:760.773.1587
> mhagerty@emc.org
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	D. Hammer [SMTP:hammerd@u.washington.edu]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, April 13, 1999 6:43 AM
> > To:	Histonet
> > Subject:	National Laboratory Week
> > 
> > Histoneters:
> > 
> > Artists, Scientists, and Artists/Scientists combined, this is the week to
> > celebrate ourselves as it's "National Laboratory Week". No doubt there are
> > alot of interesting ideas out there of how your celebrating and advancing
> > knowledge of the profession to your Institutions.  
> > 
> > It may be a good time to share your activities with the group so they can
> > be stored for ideas to use next year. At any rate, it would make
> > interesting reading to see how creative you all are. :)  I'll follow this
> > message with our invite to the week's ativities here at the University of
> > Washington Medical Center Anatomic Pathology Department to get the
> > exchange started.
> > 
> > Hoping you all have a fantastic week and your buttons pop with pride.
> > This is my 37th and last year in the profession.....it has been good to
> > me :)
> > 
> > Don
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> > Don Hammer, Administrative Director            UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 
> > Hospital Pathology, Box 356100                     MEDICAL CENTER
> > 1995 NE Pacific St.                                
> > Seattle Washington, 98195                  ~Where Knowledge Comes To Life~
> > 
> > (206) 598-6401 Fax: (206) 598-4928         
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> > 
> > 
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