ACP History – A Whimsical Tour

Celebrating the 20 year anniversary of the

opening of the American Center for Physics.

Bernie Khoury With assistance from Liz Dart Caron

22 October 2013

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ACP Exec Officers looking at a potential property. From the left: Bernie Khoury, AAPT Executive Officer Richard Werthamer, APS Executive Secretary Ken Ford, AIP Exectuvie Director

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Society leaders touring potential property location.

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AAPT: Reuben Alley (former president); Jack Hehn (Assoc Exec Officer); John Layman (former president)

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Closing of Property Purchase: Dan Colton & Dennis Laskin (developers), Bernie Khoury (AAPT Executive Officer)

Groundbreaking June 1992

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Staff at groundbreaking sign in table: Lydia Quijada (AIP); Delores Mason (AAPT); Candi Magwick (AAPT)

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Groundbreaking from the left: Unknown female, Arthur Bent (AIP Treasurer), Jim Stith (hidden – AAPT president), Ken Ford (AIP Exec Dir), Richard Werthamer (APS Exec Sec), Nico Blombergen (former president of APS), Louis Goldstein (Maryland Comptroller); Bob Sears (AAPT Treasurer), Brit Kirwan (president of the UMD College Park), Bernie Khoury (Exec Officer AAPT)

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Groundbreaking officials – Louis Goldstein (Maryland Comptroller); Anne Healey (MD state delegate), Anne Ferguson (mayor of Riverdale, MD), Ken Ford (hidden - AIP Exec Dir), Paulene Menis (MD State delegate); Richard Werthamer (APS Exec Secretary); Jim Rosapepe (MD state delegate); Arthur Dorman (MD State Senator); Jim Stith (AAPT president), Bernie Khoury (Exec Officer AAPT)

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AAPT staff at ACP Groundbreaking

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Louis Goldstein (Maryland Comptroller)

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From the left: Bernie Khoury (AAPT Exec Officer), Jim Stith (AAPT president), Ken Ford (AIP Exec Director), Tim Kachinski (development officer of AIP)

Architectural Design

Richard Giegengack, Principal Architect

Skidmore Owings and Merrill

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Bob Sears (AAPT treasurer); Richard Giegengack (principal architect, Skidmore Owings and Merrill)

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Ken Ford (AIP Exec Dir), Richard Werthamer (APS Exec Sec), Arthur Bent (AIP Treasurer); Richard Giegengack (principal architect, Skidmore Owings and Merrill); Steve Kuhn (Oliver Carr Co); Tom Yockey (Oliver Car Co); Unknown (Skidmore Owings and Merrill)

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Graphic Designer shows draft logos for the ACP Ellipse From the left: Unknown (Graphic Designer); Unknown (tie), Ken Ford (AIP Exec Dir), Richard Werthamer (APS Exec Sec), Bernie Khoury (Exec Officer AAPT)

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Early master plan for ACP ellipse

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Unknown and Richard Giegengack (principal architect, Skidmore Owings and Merrill) showing pre-ellipse circle and other possible master plans

Construction Omni Construction Company

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ACP Rotunda under construction

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AAPT Exec Board tours the building structure

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Maria Elena Khoury of AAPT in the ACP exercise room

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Daycare center playground

Early at ACP

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ACP early days – in line at the cafeteria Judith Cabrera (AIP stats), Marc Brodksy (AIP new Exec Dir), Ken Ford (AIP outgoing Exec Dir), Phil Schewe (AIP Media), Greg Stafford (APS IT)

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Unknown (side ponytail); Gloria Lubkin (PT editor); Graham Collins (PT editor); Steve Benka (PT editor-in-chief)

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ACP early days AIP staff - Sandy Daniels (accounting), Lisa Anderson Hines (payroll), Marc Brodsky (new AIP Exec Director), Brandon Ford (AIP Accounting)

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ACP early days AIP Staff – Judith Cabrera (Mulvey) (statistics) , Steve Williams (PT), Patrick Mulvey (statistics)

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ACP early days AIP staff - Ray Chu (statistics), Judith Cabrerra (Mulvey) (statistics), Steve Williams (PT)

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ACP early days Jeff Schmidt (AIP staff); Ed Goldin (AIP Career Services)

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Steve Kibby (ACP IT director), Maryellen O’Conner (AIP Finance), Jeff Kobilinisky (ACP IT)

ACP Dedication April 1994

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Preparations for the Grand Opening

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ACP management refused to cut down trees to accommodate the tent erected for the grand opening. The tent had to be constructed around them.

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Grand Opening - Bernie Khoury (Exec Officer AAPT)

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ACP Grand Opening - MD Governor William Donald Schaeffer

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ACP Grand Opening – Keynote Speaker – Mary Rita Cooke Greenwood (Associate Director for Science at OSTP during the Clinton Administration)

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ACP Grand Opening - Judy R. Franz (new APS Exec Officer; former AAPT president)

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ACP Grand Opening - Brit Kirwan (president of the UMD College Park)

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ACP Grand Opening - Neal Lane (NSF Director)

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ACP Grand Opening – Marc Brodsky (new AIP Exec Dir)

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ACP Grand Opening - Brit Kirwan (president of the UMD College Park) and MD Governor William Donald Schaeffer

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Ken McNaughton (Physics Today), Lou Slack (back - head of AIP Physics Programs) Roland Schmidt (AIP Board Chair); Norman Ramsey (former chair AIP GB)

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Katharine Gebbi (NIST) and John Toll (Chancellor UMD system)

Today

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(Oct 2013) Twenty years later, several AIP staff members are still with us! Those who made the move from New York were (faces from the left): Starr Nicholson (inset), Jeff Kobilinsky, Ray Chu, Patrick and Judith Mulvey, Margaret Wiley, Julius Dollison, Terri Braun, Ben Stein, Bonnie Feldman, Bert Schwarzschild, and Roman Czujko. Two made the move to ACP from the Washington, DC, offices (the last two shown on the right): Lydia Quijada and Dick Jones. Two were hired concurrent with the opening of ACP (inset right): Karin Heineman and Eva Adams. Joe Anderson and Steve Benka (not pictured) were hired within weeks of ACP’s opening.

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(October 2013) APS staff who were around when ACP opened - Arlene Knowles, Jackie Beamon-Keane, Joe Ignacio, Trish Lettieri, Maria Inch

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(October 2013) AAPT and AAPM staff who were around when ACP opened. Janet Lane (AAPT); Angela Keyser (AAPM), Lisa Rose (AAPM)

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Niels Bohr Library & Archives “cube” ; front of the ACP building.

Thank You For a narrative, read “AIP celebrates twenty years at ACP,” AIP Matters, October 21, 2013. Also see: “Impressions: ACP’s Opening Days,” Inside AIP, November/December 1993, Vol XXXI, No.7.